Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise

 Quora just became the unicorn of subjective human knowledge. After eight years carefully cultivating an ntelligent…

The augmented reality gold rush is afoot

 Who will be the Pixar of AR? Someone oughta be rounding up Hollywood special effects engineers…

Uber allows more time for sexism probe, expects report by end of May

 Uber’s management is expecting an external investigation of its workplace culture to report by the end…

Ambient noise could be your next multi-factor authentication token

 We’re all pretty used to two-factor authentication now, and it isn’t much of an inconvenience to…

Shopify Pay aims to complete the picture for online checkout

 Shopify introduced a new product at its developer conference today that will reduce friction during online…

Amazon’s new Alexa developer policy now bans all ads except in music and flash briefings

 Amazon has quietly introduced a change to its Alexa Skills Developer agreement aimed at further restricting…

Pinterest’s Tim Kendall will talk the future of advertising at Disrupt NY 2017

 Snap has finally gone public and it’s worth more than $20 billion. Facebook continues to be…

Don’t get played by this spammy app like I did

 At my birthday party last week, my friend Ebby walked over and asked a group of…