TechCrunch is without any doubts one of the most popular tech news sites technology blogs,  founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington & Keith Teare as a tech blog, and sold to AOL in 2010 for  $25 million.   Michael Arrington considered himself a blogger, he never claimed being a journalist, which makes some behavior acceptable, even-though it’s unprofessional. He was and probably still is one of the most influential people in the world in general, and [...]

A couple of months ago, Mark Zuckerberg donated $500 million in stocks to a nonprofit Silicon Valley Community Foundation.   Then we discover that for 2012, Mark have to pay $1.1 billion, minus the sum donated to the charity! So was the charity donation motivated by good will or was it a way to be praised while deducting the donation from the taxes?   The day that Facebook’s went public, Mark Zuckerberg exercised a stock [...]

2 weeks ago i got my account blocked on Quora, so i decided to write something mean about them, you know, like what TC writers do, but then i said to myself i’m better than that … >> Quora is a website founded in 2009 by by two former Facebook employees, Adam D’Angelo (owns 0.8% of Facebook stock valued at $400 million) and Charlie Cheever. So far the company have raised $61 million in funds [...]

When we first heard about Google Glass, we were very exited, so the project’s effect on privacy didn’t really cross our minds, but a recent preemptive ban on Google Glass in a Seattle bar, opened our eyes to the reality of the matter, Google Glass is a privacy threat!   Google smart glasses are not a smartphone you can keep in your pocket till you need it!  The smart glasses are wearable on your head, [...]

Tech News for this week:   Every week, we present a quick summary of the most important events and news in the Tech industry, below you’ll find the main news for this week: Mobile: Apple update will neutralize EvasiOn Jailbreak. Sony will have Firefox OS operated mobiles next year. A second iPhone bypass code bug found. Google testing data compression proxy feature for Android to speed up browsing, feature similar to by Opera Turbo and [...]

The Google Samsung relation is probably one of the most complicated partnerships between any 2 tech companies, Google developed Android , a mobile Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices. Samsung is the mobile handset manufacturer that is taking advantage the most of the Android OS, 200 million + devices more than any other Android using Handset company. Google pay Samsung more than 10% of  mobile ads revenue generated by Samsung devices. Google [...]

Tech news of the week We try each week to have a roundup of the latest Tech News & Events, it is still a messy unorganized process but we are trying to make it more organized, we will publish the tech news of the week every Sunday or Monday. Software: Windows 8 upgrade will be available this summer under the name of windows blue, will have Microsoft explorer 11 included, MS might be pushing  for [...]