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Yahoo To Cop Tumblr For $1 Billion?

Yahoo is reportedly undergoing negotiations to purchase the popular social networking site Tumblr, Daily Beast reports. The deal would include a $1 billion buyout by the search engine giant and could take place as soon as this weekend. Yahoo would acquire the blogging haven for its young, 18-24 year-old artsy crowd. Source In its sixth [...]

Google Wallet Lets You Send Money Through Gmail

Attaching documents and photo files is so 2012. Now, sending currency via e-mail can have anyone feeling like a modern-day G, all thanks to Google Wallet. The funky new finance feature allows users to send bread through the web with just a couple clicks. Transactions are free for users who link their bank accounts directly [...]

Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace

Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than anyone imagined. In just 30 days, the largest school system in the U.S. began offering credit for online courses, a major university began awarding degrees without any class [...]

Pluto moon names to be selected by public voting (Video)

P4 and P5 aren’t the sorts of names that impart the manner of excitement space exploration companies and organizations are looking to inspire in the next generation of enthusiasts (nor the customers, philanthropists and tax payers destined to fund those explorations). The SETI Institute, a private non-profit, best known for its ties to the eponymous [...]

Cyberdyne’s robotic HAL suit marches into Japan hospital trials

While climbing mountains and helping disabled tourists are fine pursuits, Cyberdyne’s HAL robot suit has found an even nobler occupation: helping patients rehabilitate from debilitating nerve and muscle illnesses. According to The Asahi Shimbun, ten hospitals in Japan will start the first clinical trials of the lower-body suit version we saw last year, designed expressly [...]

Nexus 7 problems from what users complain about most

A lot of Nexus 7 owners reported serious problems after updating the tablet to Android 4.2. Some people encountered general lag or sluggish performance.

HTC One SV review by Engadget (Images & Video)

HTC’s One SV has arrived, and joins a plethora of above-average-spec handsets vying for your money. Available on Cricket in the US and EE in the UK, the 4.3-inch, LTE-ready device fits into the One series between the low-end V and, you guessed it, the better-equipped S. It’s a curious release for HTC, given the [...]

ASUS TAICHI 21 review: are two screens better than one?

It’s tough to forget the ASUS TAICHI: out of all the Windows 8 convertibles we’ve seen (and we’ve seen a lot) this is the only one with two screens on board. In particular, it’s got one on the inside, which you’d use in regular notebook mode, along with a touchscreen on the outside that allows [...]

Check For appFigures Brings App Metrics And Sales Data To The iPhone

App development firm Lemon Labs just released a new iOS application aimed at mobile developers in need of tracking their app downloads and other metrics while on the go. The tool, which uses the appFigures API, offers an alternative to services like App Annie, Distimo or even appFigures‘ own website – none of which today offer their own native mobile experiences. AppFigures, for those [...]

Spotify beta now available on Windows Phone 8

It’s true, folks: Spotify is finally available as a free download on Windows Phone 8, which should come as a happy surprise for users who have been sorely missing the perks of the music streaming service on their brand new devices. Until now, the app was only available for legacy Windows Phone users, but it’s [...]

KeepSafe Crosses 1B Hidden Photos, 3M Active Users

Usually, when an entrepreneur pitches me something about the need for a more “private” or “intimate” social network because Facebook has gotten too cavalier about privacy settings, I kind of roll my eyes. Not only have there been numerous casualties and acq-hires as a result of this strategy (like YC’s The Fridge, Drop.io or take a look at Path’s [...]

Jelly Bean update planned for BlackBerry 10 Android runtime

It’s official: BlackBerry 10′s Android runtime layer will be updated to Jelly Bean. Reports of the announcement, which should please users looking to shore up the platform’s app selection, surfaced this morning, apparently stemming from the company’s developer-focused BB Jam Europe event in Amsterdam. We’ve since reached out and received confirmation that it is indeed [...]