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andy@bgr.comA pair of ex-Googlers is bringing another player to the news app space today with their launch of Spotter, an app that crawls hundreds of news sites to try to bring users information …
Welcome to the great Atari reboot
Fred Chesnais has plenty of ideas about how to rebuild a once-great video game company. Among the most important to the chairman and CEO of Atari – the gaming brand whose cartridges, consoles …
Amazon’s roadmap for 2015: Move fast, launch as much as possible
From the expansion of its one-hour delivery service to new cities to the testing of product deliveries directly to customer car trunks and the expansion of its ecosystem of apps and streaming content …
Sony’s Crackle is about to make its big move to win cord cutters’ hearts
If the shift to Internet TV can be said to represent something of a modern-day Gold Rush, the wave of prospectors scrambling to strike it rich includes companies like Crackle, Sony Picture Television’s Web TV …
Life after Obama: Why the president’s 2012 campaign CTO left politics
For the next chapter of their careers, two prominent technologists from the Obama 2012 re-election campaign decided to trade politics for the startup life, building some of their experiences and insights from the …
Interview: Inside OK Go’s latest music video, which isn’t really a music video at all
OK Go’s newest music video, filmed in Shanghai, is as much fun to watch as any of the band’s previous video projects. That’s because, no surprise, the alt-pop quartet has once again produced …
Interview: Hip hop pioneers De La Soul change the game again with crowd-funded album
When groundbreaking hip-hop trio De La Soul decided it was time to make the group’s eighth album “And the Anonymous Nobody” – its first release in 11 years – the pioneering rappers had …
‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ review: Pulling back the curtain on Apple’s iconic founder
Some of Apple’s highest-ranking executives, including CEO Tim Cook and senior vice president Eddy Cue, among others, have been lavishing praise on “Becoming Steve Jobs” in the run-up to the release today of …
Inside a content revolution five years in the making
For some context about how far the content consumption platform Flipboard has come in its now five-year history, start with a number: 15 million. That’s how many “magazines” – collections of content ranging …
