Lenovo has admitted that it has failed to build on its acquisition of Motorola. The Chinese firm acquired the phone-maker from Google for $2.91 billion in late 2014 and, in its end-of-year earnings report published today, it said the post-deal performance “did not meet expectations.” That admission underscores why Lenovo plans to phase out the Motorola […]
Steve McCurry has responded to the recent hoopla surrounding his Photoshopped photos. The famed photographer explains that he’s now a “visual storyteller” rather than a photojournalist, but says he will “rein in his use of Photoshop” going forward to remove any confusion. As the world’s fastest land animal, the cheetah’s body is designed for speeds […]
Force touch may be a feature exclusive to the latest iPhones, but something like it is now possible on pretty much any phone out there, thanks to research from engineers at the University of Michigan. It works not by polling sensors in the touchscreen, but through ultrasound. The phone’s speaker emits a sound covering the […]
ARM Executive Vice President Rene Haas (left) and Vice President of Marketing Nandan Nayampally at ARM’s Computex 2016 press conference. The numbers show that smartphones sales are slowing down. But ARM, the semiconductor firm that develops the technology behind nearly all of the world’s 3 billion phones, believes there is still plenty of room for […]
Jared Feldman Crunch Network Contributor Jared Feldman is the founder and CEO of Canvs, a platform that measures and interprets emotions. How to join the network Branded content was already becoming more attractive to many marketers and publishers trying to navigate the shoals of the online media ecosystem. Now, thanks to Facebook, it’s set to […]
Google was caught by surprise. Last week, nearly 100 employees of France’s equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des Finances) raided Google’s office in Paris for a tax non-compliance investigation. French financial prosecutor Éliane Houlette told Europe 1 that her team had been secretly working on this raid for nearly a year. Google may be […]
In January, Twitter revealed that several of its key executives were leaving the company. We learned that former product head Kevin Weil landed at Instagram, and now Brian “Skip” Schipper, the former vice president of human resources at Twitter, is joining Yext, the fast-growing location data management company. Schipper will serve as Chief People Officer, […]
Matt Beane Crunch Network Contributor Matt Beane is a doctoral student in his final year at the Sloan School of Management and is the Chief Human-Robot Interaction Officer at Humatics. How to join the network In the popular media, we talk a lot about robots stealing jobs. But when we stop speculating and actually look […]
A San Francisco startup whose technology can turn any video game into a tournament played for cash prizes, Skillz, has a new Chief Product Officer, ex-Electronic Arts’ mobile vice president Bill Mooney. Skillz quietly brought Mooney on in February this year. Earlier, at EA Mobile, he managed teams that were responsible for games in the Simpsons […]
The new iOS and Android app Wyper brings the swipe left-swipe right matchmaking magic of Tinder to car shopping. When I spoke with creator Aaron Rosenthal, the app had only been out of beta and available nationwide for about a week and a half, and there had already been more than 100,000 swipes. “We had […]