We're all familiar with the bill shock associated with roaming abroad with our cellphones. There are plenty of players that allow you to swap out your SIM card and use cheaper traffic, including Cubic Telecom. However, that process is tedious. So Cub...

Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering. The company's shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million...

AngelPad, the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googlers, held its sixth demo day yesterday. I wasn't there (I know, it's super-embarrassing), but I did get to meet with founding partners Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas today to talk...

Adly, a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional funding. The new funding came from previous backer GRP Partners and new investor Siemer Venture...

It's almost impossible for the average computer to mine Bitcoins in any efficient way, hence the rise of Bitcoin mining machines so tuned to their specific purpose that they barely resemble PCs. To wit: the Cryonic Bitcoin FrostBit machine is a PC in...

No longer just an oddly flavored potato chip, the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called Minna. The company is looking for backers for its "couples' vibrator", which just so happens to look like a pink lime-lemon hybrid. Howeve...

Toshiba isn't exactly known for churning out attractive, high-end notebooks, which is why the company's new Kirabook is such an oddity. It's a handsome little thing if you're into very (and I mean very) understated designs, though I imagine at least ...

Bloomberg today reports that Google could face a new U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust probe into its display advertising business. As Bloomberg's Brian Womack and Sara Forden note, the FCC is looking into whether Google used its strong p...

As great as the web is, I still haven't been able to kick my habit for buying fashion and lifestyle magazines off the newsstand. One of the things I love the most about monthly glossies are features like Vanity Fair's My Stuff and Us Weekly's What's ...

Convertibles were all the rage back in the 1950s (thanks to tailfins and the Corvette) and in the early 2000s (thanks to Microsoft and Sony). In the 2000s, however, we saw convertibles in the form of laptops that could twist and turn themselves into ...

Postmates is looking to expand its business and make mobile, on-demand deliveries a widespread thing throughout cities around the country -- that we already know. The company has been operating in San Francisco for a while, and launched in Seattle ab...

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After being acquired by Facebook, the mobile back-end service Parse has been busy integrating itself into the company, as well as launching new services like web hosting for developers. The service has built tools to help developers focus on the fro...

Google almost completely revamped the Google+ photo experience last week, but somehow the company didn't get around to announce one of the coolest photo-related features in its repertoire: Google now uses computer vision and machine learning to let y...

A new bulletin from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns that lethal, undetectable 3D-printed firearms may be "impossible" to contain. After a Texas law student designed and released digital blueprints for the world's first fully printable ...

Score one for technology: Doctors 3D-printed an emergency airway tube that saved a 20-month old baby boy's life. After imaging the boy's faulty windpipe, doctors at the C.S. Mot Children's Hospital printed 100 tiny tubes and laser-stitched them toget...

This isn't exactly the launch of Google Now for the desktop, which many of us have been patiently waiting for, but Google today announced that it is bringing a richer notifications experience to Chrome, starting with the latest beta. This definitely ...

After just a year with the company, Badoo COO Ben Ling is leaving the social networking site to join Khosla Ventures. Ling, who has formerly held senior executive roles at companies like Google, YouTube, and Facebook, will join a growing team at Vino...

It was just two weeks ago that fast-growing enterprise cloud storage company, Box, went out and acquired document embedding service and Y Combinator grad, Crocodoc. Apparently Aaron Levie sees what Yahoo is doing and he wants to show that Box is read...