If you use a set of external speakers with your Mac, you may notice that the chime you hear as your Mac starts up comes not from the external speakers but from your Mac’s internal speakers. If you’d like to adjust the volume of this startup chime — or mute it altogether (not recommended) — …
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A symbol of the dot-com bust is back. Is it time to panic? San Diego-based Wrapify recruits drivers and swathes their cars in vinyl advertisements, often for companies not much older than the 5-month-old startup. For the last few months, everyday commuters rolled along the streets of San Diego and San Francisco promoting young companies like security-camera firm Butterfleye, in-home …
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As college students, Marc Lore and his childhood friend Lakshman “Lax” Chandra toted a good-luck charm when they bet on horses at the Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Their amulet: a laptop computer. The pair would check which betting pools other spectators were putting their money into and fed that data into software Lore had designed to help …
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A Hong Kong-based startup aims to pick up where the creator of the Firefox OS left off. Nonprofit software maker Mozilla, best known for its Firefox browser, said earlier this week that it had dropped its efforts to team up with carriers for a smartphone operating system designed to challenge the dominance of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Firefox OS …
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Brendan Eich is back in business. A year and a half after resigning as Mozilla’s chief executive following an uproar over his anti-gay-marriage stance, Eich is spinning up a new company called Brave Software. With nine employees and $2.5 million in early funding from angel investors, the San Francisco startup has begun work on software that promises to make the …
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MENLO PARK, California — The future of photography is arriving here with a steady drip, drip, drip. At least that’s the plan for InVisage Technologies, a 75-person startup that hopes its exotic new material known as quantum dots will dramatically improve smartphone cameras when it arrives in devices in the first quarter of 2016. “It’s revolutionary on a number of …
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Mobile-payments company Square on Wednesday revealed its plans to go public, putting in motion what should be one of the biggest and most-anticipated tech initial public offerings of the year. The 6-year-old maker of credit-card reading devices was expected to make such a move for months. Reports came out over the summer that the San Francisco-based company filed confidential paperwork …
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Deliv, a 3-year-old startup, is among a handful of players working to speed up online deliveries. Deliv Soon you’ll have no reason to leave home. Deliv, a startup that offers same-day deliveries from brick-and-mortar stores, announced a big expansion Monday, more than doubling the number of markets it reaches. The 3-year-old Menlo Park, California, company added the New York City …
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Amazon Launchpad includes electronics, kitchen and beauty products from dozens of startups. Amazon In its push to become the everything store for everybody, Amazon on Tuesday unveiled yet another specialized storefront within its website, offering up a new page focused on showcasing startups’ products. The new Amazon Launchpad page includes about 200 products from startups, including the Sphero remote-controlled robotic …
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Chinese smartphone company OnePlus is announcing its new phone Monday. OnePlus You’ve heard of Apple, Samsung, Motorola and Google. Now, a Chinese startup called OnePlus hopes you’ll think of it too. When the company last year unveiled the OnePlus One, the newest entrant into an already crowded smartphone market, it was sleek, affordable and well-reviewed. It was also only sold …
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