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We’ve pretty much all been there: you hand your phone to a friend to show them a picture. They look at the photo, they chuckle… and then they casually swipe to the next photo in your camera roll like it ain’t no thing. NO. BAD FRIEND! BAD! This app slaps their wrist in a mostly harmless way: by snapping a surprise selfie of your friend’s nosy-ass face when they try… Read More... →

Six months after the deal giving Twitter access to Google's "firehose" of data generated by Tweets, Tweets have started to appear in search results.... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Fyber raises $169M in convertible bond to expand mobile advertising business Fyber has raised as much as 150 million euros, or $169 million, in a convertible bond to continue the company’s expansion into the […]... →

Холдинг Mail.Ru Group, Агентство инновационного развития Республики Мордовия и Мордовский государственный университет имени Н. П. Огарева откроют в Саранске IT-школу.  Обучение в школе бесплатное, ориентировано на получение практических навыков дополнительного образования в области мобильной разработки. Курс продлится  полтора года. В программу обучения войдут веб- и мобильная разработка, системы управления базами данных, тестирование, Java и ряд других дисциплин. Также курс будет включать тренинги по разви... →

Inspirational women. A surreal theme park. And a third-party candidate we can all get behind. This week had a little of everything"read on for a look at the top topics on Google Search. Top tabs Lieutenant Shaye Haver and Lieutenant Kristen Griest are the first women to break a major gender barrier and graduate from the rigorous Army Ranger School this week. The course is known for its tough physical challenges and a high dropout rate ,... →

Welcome back friends, we are here to cap off the week, taking a look at the biggest stories in the process. This time ’round, our coterie was helmed by none other than TechCrunch’s own Sarah Lane. Megan Rose Dickey and myself rounded out the quorum. On the docket today is Amazon’s controversial corporate culture, the massive Ashley Madison hacks, and news that Uber will… Read More... →

Don’t say we never did anything for you. We’re offering an extension on the early-bird pricing for a limited time. You have just one more week to get your Disrupt SF (September 21-23) tickets and save $1,000. Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: You have to watch what you say at a party. A conversation at shindig at the recent Casual Connect game conference has led Machine Zone, the maker of the top-grossing Game of War: Fire Age mobile game, to file a trade secret theft lawsuit against mobile gaming rival Kabam. The parties dispute what happened at […]... →

The second startup participating in the New York Daily News’ Innovation Lab began at the Daily News itself. Optimera was founded by Keith Candiotti (pictured above), the ad operations manager at the Daily News.  Candiotti joined the newspaper last year, where his team has been working to implement new ad technologies like real-time bidding and programmatic buying. Read More... →

The U.K.'s data privacy watchdog has ordered Google to remove search links to news articles about Right to be Forgotten link removals.... →

Dropbox is perhaps one of the companies in the toughest position in Silicon Valley right now. The company has been a darling in the eyes of the tech industry, rising to a $10 billion valuation as of last year. But since then, the company has found its online storage business under attack from all sides from giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft. There are dozens of questions for… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Dropbox has released the source code for its Hackpad collaborative note-taking application under an open-source license. Dropbox acquired Hackpad in April 2014. About a year later the team behind Hackpad informed users that the code would become available under an open-source license “in the next few weeks.” When that didn’t happen right away, some people […]... →

The U.K.'s data privacy watchdog has ordered Google to remove search links to news articles about Right to be Forgotten link removals.... →

This fall, Bing will become the first search engine to publicly share its knowledge graph, helping developers improve their apps by allowing people to search without leaving them.... →

Back in May, Google and Twitter partnered to bring tweets into mobile search results. It was, and is, a pretty big deal for both companies. The relationship is apparently going well, as Google announced in a short update on its original blog post that it’d be including tweets within search results on desktop: Update, 8/21/2015: We’ve extended this to desktop now too, and in… Read More... →

This fall, Bing will become the first search engine to publicly share its knowledge graph, helping developers improve their apps by allowing people to search without leaving them.... →

The global app industry has grown dramatically in recent years. Creative developers, enabled by harmonized platforms that incorporate inexpensive feature-rich devices and extraordinary software tools, have powered this growth. But for developers and millions of consumers, the opportunity could significantly diminish if governments reverse technological progress that has been so critical to… Read More... →

Giving out samples on the street is kind of silly. Taking a little cup of urine-colored sports drink or a nasty bag of chips offers little in the way of customer generation and it usually ends up in a messy sidewalk and tired sample givers. But what if you could give away urine-colored sports drinks over the Internet? Now you’re cooking with gas! Marie Chevrier at Sampler wants to make… Read More... →

The walls of text that make up the majority of end-user license agreements (EULA) are often difficult to parse, and this is leading to some confusion around Windows 10 and pirated games. Last week, eagle-eyed Windows 10 users noticed a line in the EULA for Microsoft services that many claimed would enable the company to […]... →