Liz Gannes

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Dieting App MyFitnessPal Aims for Global Growth

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, October 14, 2013 at 11:45 am PT

South Koreans Love Phablets, and Spend Lots on Mobile Games

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, October 14, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

Google Turns On Social Advertising, but Holds Back on Larger Personalization Play

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 11, 2013 at 11:09 am PT

Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works

Posted by Liz Gannes in Enterprise, October 10, 2013 at 12:00 pm PT

Lookout Gets $55M More for Mobile Security

Telefónica Will Push Pinterest to New Users in Latin America and Europe

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, October 10, 2013 at 6:59 am PT

Dropcam Pro Upgrades Quality, Adds Bluetooth LE, Sounds Awfully Like Dave Eggers’s Dystopian Future

Posted by Liz Gannes in Product News, October 10, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Money Meter App Level Launches With $5M From Kleiner Perkins

Posted by Liz Gannes in Product News, October 10, 2013 at 5:00 am PT

Prominent Dropbox Executive Ruchi Sanghvi Is Leaving the Company

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 9, 2013 at 4:35 pm PT

Airbnb Files Objection to New York User Data Subpoena

Udacity Beefs Up Product and Engineering Team

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 9, 2013 at 11:00 am PT

Here’s What a Pinterest Ad Looks Like

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, October 9, 2013 at 8:42 am PT

A Morbid Carpe Diem: Tikker Watch Counts Down Wearer’s Life Expectancy

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, October 8, 2013 at 10:20 am PT

Socratic Is Creating a Textbook for the World, One Teacher Video at a Time

Basis Band Starts Shipping to Everyone, as Health-Tracking Company Adds Another $11.75M

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 8, 2013 at 4:30 am PT

Kik and BlackBerry Settle Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Oscar Insurance Founders Bring a Techie Take to Obamacare (Interview)

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 7, 2013 at 11:56 am PT

Airbnb Fights New York Subpoena of User Data

The Coding Class Blitz: More Than 100 Programs Have Launched in the Past Three Years

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 7, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Sina CEO Charles Chao on How Weibo Is Changing China

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, October 4, 2013 at 10:00 am PT

How Tencent Became a $100B Company With a Portfolio of Apps

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, October 3, 2013 at 10:42 am PT

Narrative — Formerly Known as Memoto — Launches Life-Logging Camera, Raises $3M

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 3, 2013 at 5:00 am PT

Google Acquires Webcam Gesture Recognition Startup Flutter

U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 2, 2013 at 10:01 am PT

Silicon Valley Big-Data Startup Bought for $1B by … Monsanto?

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, October 2, 2013 at 9:15 am PT

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus