Liz Gannes

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Putting the Self in Self-Expression: Rupal Patel Creates Personalized Prosthetic Voices

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 11, 2013 at 6:30 am PT

Got Downtime? Learn Something on Your Phone.

Doctor On Demand App Gives $40 Medical Consultations From the Comfort of Your Smartphone

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, December 10, 2013 at 10:00 am PT

Strava CEO Steps Down, and Former CEO Returns, but Not for the Usual Reasons

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 10, 2013 at 9:00 am PT

StarMaker Gets $4M for Karaoke Apps

Balaji Srinivasan Joins Andreessen Horowitz as General Partner

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 9, 2013 at 10:00 am PT

HealthLoop Raises $10M for Online Doctor Follow-Ups

Practice Fusion Grabs Another $15M for Electronic Health

Posted by Liz Gannes in Enterprise, December 9, 2013 at 4:30 am PT

“Hour of Code” Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (And the Republicans, Too!)

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 8, 2013 at 9:00 pm PT

Meet Dava Newman, the World’s Universe’s Leading Space Fashion Designer

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 6, 2013 at 11:19 am PT

To Comply With FDA, 23andMe Won’t Give New Customers Genetic Analysis

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 5, 2013 at 7:00 pm PT

Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself

Posted by Liz Gannes in Product News, December 5, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

Job-Review Site Glassdoor Hints at IPO Aspirations While Raising $50M More

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 5, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

Homejoy Raises $38M to Bring $20/Hour Home Cleaning to the Masses

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 5, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Pinterest Loses Head of Engineering Jon Jenkins

Filling Out Its Executive Team, Airbnb Hires Operations and HR Heads

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, December 4, 2013 at 5:03 pm PT

Uber Confirms Revenue Estimates, but Bristles Over Source of Valleywag Report

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, December 4, 2013 at 3:08 pm PT

Uber Will Deliver Christmas Trees to Your Door for $135

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, December 4, 2013 at 9:00 am PT

During Drones’ Big Week, Drone-Maker 3D Robotics Discloses Some More Funding

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 4, 2013 at 4:30 am PT

Misfit Wearables Raises $15.2M on Back of Shine, Even as Founder Dismisses Activity Trackers

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 4, 2013 at 4:00 am PT

Google Acquired Seven Robotics Companies for Andy Rubin

Yahoo Snags DreamWorks-Incubated Mobile Video App Ptch

The $99 Kid’s Computer Kit Kano Is About to Hit $1M on Kickstarter

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 3, 2013 at 10:46 am PT

Norad Santa-Tracker Is Now 3-D, Touch-Enabled and Claymationized, Courtesy of Microsoft

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 3, 2013 at 8:35 am PT

Europe’s BlaBlaCar Has Created the Purest Version of the Sharing Economy So Far — And It’s Working

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 2, 2013 at 9:27 am PT

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik