Appointments is the latest app from Google’s internal incubator, Area 120

 Google’s internal startup incubator, Area 120, unveiled last year, has to date led to the creation…

Personalized travel planner Google Trips gets better at handling your reservations

 Google last fall introduced its own travel planning application, Google Trips, a competitor to TripIt and…

Token, with $2.5 million in funding, wants to help you find the perfect gift

 There is nothing better than giving someone the perfect gift. So it’s only natural that giving…

Paktor, a major rival to Tinder in Asia, moves into live-streaming via merger deal

 Dating app Paktor, often dubbed ‘The Tinder of Southeast Asia,’ just sealed up its move into…

Aspiration can now tell you the ‘social impact’ of your monthly spending

 Looking for some insight into the societal cost of buying a cup of coffee, a double cheeseburger,…

Instagram hits 700 million users, accelerating from 600M in December

 Instagram has doubled its user base to 700 million monthly actives in two years, fueled by…

Twitter shares spike 10% after it delivers a much-needed earnings beat

 Twitter delivered a surprising and much-needed positive quarterly earnings report this morning — and its finally…

Twitter desperately needed a hit first-quarter and somehow managed to deliver

 In an very un-Twitter move, the company completely beat out the increasing decline of its business that…