India has never paid much for software, but that may be changing, according to a new Gartner report.With the Indian software economy growing at a hearty 10% clip, there are signs that indicate India is growing out of the rampant software piracy that has long characterized the market. The question...
Few TV products tell the story of connected television like the latest devices from Roku and Logitech. On the surface, Roku’s tiny streaming stick and Logitech’s massive Harmony remote don't share much in common, at least beyond the fact that both were just refreshed today. But together they offer a...
FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world and it takes place this feb into BXL belgium. Note this event, is free and...
At a startup, it can be hard to avoid conflict: hours are long, space and money are usually tight, and people are opinionated. Maybe you can't avoid them entirely, but you can certainly be prepared to deal with them gracefully.To find out how, we asked 11 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur...
King.com’s Candy Crush Saga was the top free game—and top grossing game—in Apple’s App Store in 2013, so it makes sense for the company to protect its investment. Too bad it's descended to the legal equivalent of bullying.King filed a claim to the word “candy” as it pertains to video games...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Real companies making real products that real people, you know, spend real money on. That's what ReadWrite predicted would be the hottest of hot startups in 2013 and, for the most part, we were right.2013...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Talk to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli, and you get the sense of a man who knows exactly how lucky he is. The son of immigrant parents, Holocaust survivors, the current chairman and chief technology officer grew up...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably used Disqus. (If you’ve ever commented on a ReadWrite story, you’ve definitely used it. It’s the system we use here on our site.) According to Daniel Ha, 27,...
There was something odd in the latest issue of Wired magazine: eight full-page ads (totaling nearly 4% of the magazine) were taken out by traditional non-smartwatch companies like Rolex, Tudor, Seiko and Burberry.It seems bizarre that a magazine dedicated to exploring emerging technologies would dedicate so much space to a...
This article is part of ReadWrite Future Tech, an annual series where we explore how technologies that will shape our lives in the years and decades to come are grounded in the innovation and research of today.In 1991, the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the research arm of...
Life just got more complicated in startup land. While the U.S. Congress last year voted in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act to ease New Deal-era regulations on startups, the SEC has since loaded up the Act with even more regulations.While these changes are unlikely to prevent the next great...
You worked long, sometimes fruitless hours to make your startup a reality. Endless meetings, pitches and late-night work sessions later, it's hard to imagine walking away. Or is it?We asked nine successful entrepreneurs from YEC what exactly it would take for them to walk away from their startups. Here's what...
Guest author Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.Your startup's office environment isn't just the physical space you inhabit. Small, large or shared, it's what you do within that space that can influence everything from overall employee happiness to daily output.We asked 11 successful founders, all members...
Rather than take on activist investor fund ValueAct Capital in a nasty proxy fight so soon after the announced departure of CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft has opted to allow ValueAct regular access to Microsoft management and directors, and even the option for ValueAct president Mason Morfit to join the Microsoft...
You've seen it before. Someone raises a bazillion dollars and Twitter lights up with congratulations, as if the ability to raise money is synonymous with success. While it's true that sometimes venture money does signal something positive is happening at a company, the best indicator of long-term success is a...
Change is scary, and as an Instagram devotee, I obviously hate it. (Aren't you still reeling from the Vinestagram update?) But change is what's around the corner Instagram fans—change spelled A-D-S. Mark Zuckerberg says so.Brace yourself.We Get It—Instagram Is A BusinessAs of July, Facebook well is on track with its milestones. It poured...
Last year, I couldn't wait to give the bigger iPhone 5 a whirl. Now I can't wait to give it up.Although I loved the way the 4-inch screen made reading, gameplay and video-viewing feel more immersive, over time that love turned to hate. Fighting to cram it into my small go-bag...
Apple has said little and shown even less regarding its future plans for streaming content to your television, and that's precisely why they've got a competitive advantage in the space. Where Google faltered by putting the tech before the content, Apple knows the tech is worthless without the content.Cable operators'...
Since at least the 1990s, when personal computers first became commonplace, public policy experts have worried the ill effects of a Digital Divide. That is, a learning, socialization and economic gap across socio-economic status, race and gender caused by unequal access to computing resources.No need. The Digital Divide has now...
The unofficial leaders of the streaming-music market, Rdio and Spotify, are both awfully good services. But neither is close to perfect, which led me to wonder just how you'd create the ultimate online music service.The answer isn't hard: Just merge Spotify and Rdio. Alternatively, the two sites should just copiously...
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