Dennis Crowley, who also is a co-founder of the check-in and local search app, noted that Foursquare "doesn't talk about growth numbers that much," but the company pays attention to the number of active users, signups, check-ins, people using search and other metrics. All are rising, he said.
"There's a little perception we're not growing, which is false," Crowley said … Read more
Quick-serve restaurants could start benefiting from Square's mobile payments service thanks to an update to its Square Register service.
According to Square, the update is aimed at helping restaurant managers better serve customers -- and process orders more quickly and efficiently -- with a set of tools created just for them. Square said that the new features allow for quickly customizing orders with order modifiers, even as a line keeps moving. And the service helps with more accurate recording or orders, as well as easier communication between servers and the kitchen, the San Francisco startup said.
Among the new … Read more
"You scratch my back and I won't lacerate yours."
Saturday night, politicians and the media gathered for the White House Correspondents' Dinner and made a lot of jokes about the truth, in order to make themselves feel temporarily better about their tortured selves.
Netflix, meanwhile, smiled in a manner not unlike Kevin Spacey at his most snake-like.
For in the midst of all the fun, somehow a fine ad for the company's "House Of Cards" played to a very receptive world.
It was called "House Of Nerds." This dinner is, after all, … Read more
Having faith in other people is often as sensible as having faith that your bus will arrive on time.
People are, by their very nature, mercurial. The current world of supposed sharing often makes them more selfish, as they must spend more time considering how to present themselves publicly at all periods of the day.
It's somewhat surprising, then, that Apple still enjoys the loyalty that it does.
Wander past any Apple store and there always seems to be half the neighborhood in there.
And whenever surveys of brand loyalty are performed, Apple so very often seems to be … Read more
So you've had a couple of beers.
You meet a nice person of your target sex. Well, they seem nice, given that you've had a couple of beers.
At some point, one of you raises your beer cup to clink cups with the other.
The minute the cups clink, you are indelibly linked. At least you are if you're using Budweiser's special Facebook-friending cups.… Read more
If a man in a bar offers you a laptop for $70, you know it's probably stolen.
Yes, he might be wearing glasses and look a little like Bill Gates, but, please think, it's probably stolen.
Similarly, if someone tries to sell you an iPhone for a radically reduced amount, suspicion should surely be your guide.
Police in San Francisco are now using a slightly suspicious method to test your suspicions to the full.
Officers in plain clothes (which presumably means plaid shirts and 7 For Mankind jeans) are wandering around areas known to be popular for stolen … Read more
Some people drive high.
They shouldn't, but they're high, so they don't really know what's good for them and what isn't.
Should they get stopped by police, the long nose of the law can sometimes sniff the presence of marijuana in their car.
Should they happen to have nosed their way into some cocaine, there might be traces of white powder around their nostrils.
As yet, though, there hasn't been a machine that can detect the presence of such drugs on one's breath, as there is for alcohol.
Scientists in Sweden, however, believe they have made some progress in creating such a device.… Read more
The information network may already be testing such a tool for local discovery. The company reportedly wants to surface the most relevant tweets nearby, as determined by spikes in related activity. Twitter even piloted the feature in Boston around the time of the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, according to AllThingsD.
The Boston example, though … Read more
The first post on the White House's official new Tumblr boldly tackles a topic sure to inspire as much debate in certain circles as immigration reform, tax cuts, and gun control -- the pronunciation of "GIF."
I, being the softie that I am, have always pronounced the acronym for Graphical Interchange Format "jif" (it sounds more French), but the White House informs me I am wrong and may be declared an enemy of the state. "Hard G," it declares on a graphic (or is that jraffic?) previewing the kinds of content we should expect to see on the new Tumblr -- everything from behind-the-scenes photos to updates on policy and First Dog Bo (and, presumably, Bo's take on policy updates).
And because a Tumblr without them wouldn't be worth its weight in dancing cats, "yes, of course there will be GIFs," it says. … Read more
You know those people who wave their iPhones about everywhere they go, in a desperate need to record every moment of their lives?
You're one of them, aren't you?
At least there's a very good chance you might be, if Apple's new iPhone ad is to be believed.
For, in an attempt to re-pluck your emotive twang-elements, the company claims that every day more people take pictures with an iPhone than with any other camera.
I am not sure how the company knows that, say, my engineer friend George doesn't take 65,000 pictures on … Read more
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