QR codes—those odd black-and-white checkered boxes that smart-phone users can scan for more information—are being threatened with obsolescence by a gang of ambitious new startups armed with flashier image-scanning technology. At…
Attention gents. Cosmo for Guys wants you to know that you can be objectified, too. Earlier this year, Levi's proved the obvious—that some men stare at women passersby—by catching them in…
Dmitri Potapoff, a “Professional Russian” YouTube persona, has a gamer’s dream gig: getting paid to shoot guns. Big guns. The man pulling the trigger—reportedly an American named Kyle Myers—declined to be…
Players in the online ad industry do their best to protect clients from embarrassing media placements. But sometimes, their best is not enough. No brand or publisher is totally safe…
Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing startup known for its tiny staff and huge number of users, is adding one more member to its ranks. And in a surprise, it's not…
Beck’s beer fancies itself a patron of the arts. Eager to associate itself with what it sees as the cool crowd—or in the words of the import brand, “independent thinkers”—Beck’s has…
Dumbo, already a booming digital scene, is getting a boost from local government. New York's Economic Development Corporation has committed $250,000 to fund an incubator for technology startups in the Brooklyn…
Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood, home to an estimated 85 digital companies, on Thursday became the first in the five boroughs to offer free outdoor wireless access—boosting its profile as the center…
If you walk away, Bono will follow, and so will the new iPhone app from the U2 frontman’s ONE foundation, which is aiming to punch up its efforts to organize…
As you probably know by now, Bing isn't just a search engine. It's a social search engine. It doesn't spit out a string of results from some abstract, alien algorithm…
