Android Wear Needs To Be More Thoughtful About Bugging You

 Upon picking up the Samsung Gear Live from Google’s I/O developer event recently, I immediately thought that I’d be making a permanent switch from the Basis, my current watch. It’s thinner, has a step counter, and a sensor for getting your resting heart rate — not quite as advanced as what the Basis is packing, but I’m not a fitness nut. Read More

PayPal Makes Good On Its Braintree Acquisition With Launch Of New Developer Tools, The Braintree v.zero SDK

 Payments gateway Braintree is making its first significant product announcement since its acquisition by PayPal last year, with the launch of a jointly developed Braintree SDK (software development kit) for developers. The new toolset is being called the “Braintree v.zero SDK” to indicate how it’s been rebuilt from the ground up, and is said to be easier and quicker to… Read More

Tribune Digital Ventures Acquires Indian Electronic Program Guide Provider What’s On

 Tribune Digital Ventures has acquired electronic program guide provider What’s-ON to help it expand in developing markets like India and the Middle East. The $27 million acquisition will also help Tribune bring more data about foreign programming to its existing markets. Read More

Burned

 It’s hard to write a story without a protagonist, but here goes. In the past week, Tinder’s former VP of Marketing Whitney Wolfe filed a complaint with the California courts claiming that she was sexually harassed and discriminated against at work, stripped of her co-founder title, and pushed out of the company unfairly. The challenge in telling this story, as is very common… Read More

Microsoft Tweaks Office 365 For Smaller Businesses

 Microsoft today announced a raft of new Office 365 plans for smaller businesses. The new offerings will eventually supplant its extant offerings. The company is lowering the price of its most expensive smaller business offering — from $15 per seat per month to $12.50 — and raising the employee cap in some cases to 300 from 25. Microsoft has preserved a $5 per seat per month Office… Read More

DigitalOcean Closes $10M Equipment Lease From CapX Partners

 DigitalOcean today announced that it has secured $10 million in equipment financing from CapX Partners. CapX previously invested in DigitalOcean’s $3.2 million seed round in 2013. The announcement comes on the heels of its huge $37.2 million funding round earlier this year led by Andreessen Horowitz to fuel its fast growth. Read More

MOBA Games Come Of Age On The iPad With Hammer & Chisel’s Fates Forever

 It seems obvious. Tablets should hold the future of immersive, dedicated gaming. But it’s taken several years for both the caliber of mobile gaming startups and tablet penetration to hit that inflection point. 2014 may be the year. There are a few notable contenders vying to make the tablet’s definitive MOBA, or multiplayer online battle arena game. You know, like those… Read More