Category: Technology

By Sarah Buhr Continuing on its acquisition roll this year, Intuit has added cloud payroll service PaySuite to its roster. Intuit added Check and Lettuce Apps in May. It also pulled in India startup Invitco this July. The merger was jointly announced on both the Intuit and PaySuite blogs today as well as in a…

By Jonathan Shieber Four years after its launch, iCracked is taking its wildly successful iPhone trade-in and services business worldwide with plans to open offices in London and Berlin in the next few months. The company has been on a tear since AJ Forsythe launched the business with his high school friend, Anthony Martin, and…

By Darrell Etherington Apple isn’t wasting time putting the Beats brand to good use after its acquisition of the streaming music and audio hardware maker officially closed last week – the Mac maker now has a dedicated section of its online store, both on the web and via its iOS app, that’s all about Beats…

By Alex Wilhelm In late July, Wikipedia announced that it would accept donations in bitcoin. In its first week of accepting bitcoin, Wikipedia racked up $140,000 in new funds, according to Coinbase, the service that powers its cryptocurrency influx. CoinDesk, a publication that tracks bitcoin and other alternative, digital currencies heralds the news as suggesting…

By Frederic Lardinois Earlier this year, at its IO developer conference, Google announced Fit, its service for bringing health and fitness tracking to the Android ecosystem. It’s essentially Google’s version of Apple’s HealthKit service and will launch with the release of Android L later this year. Today, however, the company announced the Preview SDK for…