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Every year, Google goes all out for April Fools’ Day. The company not only pulls together more jokes than all the other tech giants, but the company makes a point to outdo itself too. It honestly gets difficult to keep track of everything Google thinks up, so like last year we’re putting together a roundup. Continue Reading →

The WSJ is reporting that Facebook’s upcoming Android event will be a home screen—as in the first screen you see when you flip on your phone—dedicated to Facebook. It will “display content from users’ Facebook accounts on a smartphone’s home screen.” Facebook is expected to first offer this feature to an HTC phone but hopes Continue Reading →

While the U.S. may not be quite ready to formally decide constitutional issues à la Iceland (Overcoming a Meltdown with Social Media), it is becoming apparent that social media plays an ever increasing role in shaping U.S. policy, governmental agendas, and even the outcomes of elections. This week, in preparation for the Supreme Court review Continue Reading →

Defensive walls have been built around cities since before Joshua fought the battle of Jericho. For literally thousands of years, if you wanted to protect a collection of assets (people, livestock, intellectual property, real estate, etc.), you put them in a city and built a fortified wall. If you were really serious about protecting your Continue Reading →

Facebook’s modus operandi is that it tests all kinds of things all the time just to see what sticks. So, don’t be too alarmed about this notification feature which Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, tweeted about this week. A Facebook rep says that the feature is in a “small test we’re running.” Continue Reading →

eBay is in the middle of its Analyst Day, and just a little while ago it announced plans for some significant expansions for eBay Now, its same-day delivery service, with Chicago and Dallas deliveries coming this summer, and integration of the service into its “core experience” as it gears up for competition with Amazon and Continue Reading →

If you are a Dropbox user, you are acutely aware of the number of content links that your friends, family, and coworkers will send you. It can become confusing. Happily,Dropbox has released a new feature today that will track what content you have visited via shared links. Now, you can keep close tabs on just Continue Reading →

Many of the campaigns to stop texting and driving have been aimed at hyper-connected teens, but a new survey from AT&T shows adults are more likely to be driving distracted. Nearly half of adults surveyed, 49 percent, said they text and drive — even though nearly all of them say they know the habit is Continue Reading →

eBay Inc’s President and CEO John Donahoe predicted on Thursday that his company would enable $300 billion in global commerce by 2015. Announced during a company-held meeting, while the company will continue to drive growth in its Marketplaces, PayPal, and GSI Commerce businesses, the e-commerce giant’s head believes that mobile will continue to have a Continue Reading →

Think you use your phone to look at Facebook a lot? Unless you’re doing it at least 14 times a day, you’re actually below average. That’s just one of the surprising revelations in a research report by IDC released Wednesday. The study tapped 7,446 iPhone and Android users in the U.S. between 18 and 44 Continue Reading →