In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.
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Canva has made its biggest acquisition till date and acquired Affinity suite of creative software products, providing stiff competition to market leader Adobe for its creative suite.
Third-party Windows search tool, EverythingToolbar's latest release fixes a post-Windows 11 installation bug. There is also a new setup assistant, a fix for Windows 7 crashing, and more.
Healthcare startup Cerebral announced this week that it shared the sensitive data of more than 3.1 million users in the U.S. with advertisers and social media companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok.
The UK government has announced nearly £2 million worth for tech startups focused to make better transport systems such as AI based camera technology, 5G drones, magnetic rail traction, and more.
Here's a simple tip to disable Microsoft Teams from automatically launching itself on PC startup. It can also help in freeing up your computer's memory for other tasks. Find out how it is done!
Alter, previously known as Facemoji, has now been acquired by Google for $100 million according to an insider. The acquisition happened around 2 months ago without any official announcements.
Microsoft has announced Founders Hub, a dedicated platform for entrepreneurs. Those who enroll will receive Azure credits, 1:1 mentorship, and access to the latest development tools and technologies.
Microsoft has announced another acquisition, this time by the way of Clipchamp, a startup from 2013 that offers browser-based video-editing capabilities. Its pricing currently goes up to $39/month.
The European Commission has announced the first startups it will invest in as a shareholder, with a total of €178 million being granted to up-and-coming businesses through a new innovation fund.
Basis, meant to help people cope with anxiety and depression through guided conversations via chat or video, is emerging from stealth today developed by former Uber exec Andrew Chapin.
Google acquired Redux Labs in August but managed to keep the deal very quiet. It could mean that future Google devices will produce audio via their displays allowing for the removal of the speaker.
Capable of wirelessly charging up to four devices within a one foot radius, the Pi is based upon the same technology found in the Qi standard and will boast compatibility with existing devices.
In an attempt to change how people approach their healthcare, a startup from San Francisco is offering mostly preventive medicine in a subscription form, with unlimited access to doctors.
Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi, has revealed that it won't be releasing sales numbers as it continuously missed estimates and could not manage to maintain its initial growth rate.
AlomWare Reset: Why wait for your PC to reboot? Quickly reset in 10 seconds instead!
Microsoft has once again bought out a small startup company. This time in the form of LiveLoop, which allows users to share their PowerPoint presentations without having to download addition software.
Since Windows Vista, Microsoft added in a start-up delay for apps, and it's pretty noticeable in Windows 8 and 10. However, this can be disabled, which results in apps starting quicker on boot.
Yahoo is reportedly closing a deal to invest in instant messaging service Snapchat, in a move that will net Snapchat millions of dollars and which values the company at $10 billion.
Microsoft is apparently in talks with Israeli cybersecurity startup Aorato, which was founded by veterans of the IDF with a focus on Active Directory, for close to $200 million in the next two months.
DuckDuckGo is a small startup search engine which offers fair and unrecorded results to anyone. Neowin has interviewed Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, on Google, Bing and more.
DailyBooth, one of the original photoblogging websites, has announced to its users via email that the service is to close and they have up until December 31st to download their pictures.
A startup called Chamtech took to Google's 'Solve for X' event to show off their awesome new invention, a super efficient organic canned antenna that you can spray onto almost any surface.
Another day and another startup has been acquired by Google. This time Google purchased Agnilux for an undisclosed amount of money. Little is known about the company but many believe that they may...
Startup Radiospire has thrown its hat into the world of wireless content transmission with its own cable-replacement technology for HDTVs. According to Paul Powers, the company's chief executive officer, the company has signed up...
360Desktop is a startup that reorganizes the standard Windows desktop into a panoramic, revolving pane of glass thousands of pixels long. 360Desktop is due to debut Wednesday at the DemoFall 2007 show in San Diego....
PC Tools Startup Explorer allows a user to customise the startup behaviour of their PC. Items that can be controlled include: * Startup Programs * Systems Services * Scheduled tasks...
Google Incorporated co-founder Sergey Brin and biotechnology entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki are married, not only religiously, but now in business too. Google has invested $3.9 million to obtain a minority stake in Wojcicki's biotech startup, 23andMe...
With the help of one of the world's best-known hackers, a little-known Austin startup hopes to give Internet service providers and enterprises a way to tell if their networking hardware is living up to its...
A small startup has patented a way of extracting the hydrogen in water to supliment or replace gasoline in automobiles. The inventor was working on a way to replace the dangerous fuels in cutting...
A startup funded by the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ready to emerge from stealth mode with hardware- and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious rootkits. Komoku, of College...
Anti-virus security specialist McAfee has wasted no time gobbling up SiteAdvisor, a 1-year-old startup that rates the Web to determine if a site's content includes spyware, spam, viruses, browser-based exploits or online scams. McAfee announced...
Continuing to bet heavily on open source software, IBM later on Tuesday will announce it is buying Gluecode Software, a small startup that figures to give Big Blue a presence in the lower end of...
The tech giant announced yesterday that it has acquired the company Lookout Software LLC. According to eWeek this company offered "add-on to Microsoft Outlook that indexes and searches e-mail as well as desktop files."...
Innovative Startup Firewall protects your computer from programs that insert themselves into the Windows startup in order to start automatically when you start your computer. Having many programs start automatically increases your computer boot time...
Precision I/O is working on software to improve performance of the Ethernet link between server and network -- without requiring hardware upgrades or special devices and protocols, extra baggage Estrin says goes with InfiniBand. ...
Four year-old startup Matrix Semiconductor Inc. today said Nintendo has invested $15 million in the company, bringing the total funding raised by Matrix to $95 million. Matrix claims to be the first company...
A start-up, Butterfly.net Inc., and computing giant IBM IBM.N , have created a global network for online video games capable of supporting a million players or more that will be rented to major game publishers,...
Thanks to Max for sending this info to us. When Windows starts up, it automatically launches a number of programs for you. Advanced StartUp Manager is program that allows you to control what...
Tweak3D has posted a Windows XP / 2000 startup tweak guide It's been a couple months since you last installed Windows. Hopefully longer if you have some system stability. Everything was zippy...
