A curated collection of news and features about US President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba last month has become a hit on El Paquete, the island’s illegal but tolerated digital media magazine better known…
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Turn Any Potted Plant into a Geodesic Crystal Terrarium With Halona’s Plant Toppers!
Brooklyn-based Halona Glass has created a series of beautiful glass enclosures that can transform any potted plant into a beautiful geodesic terrarium! The crystalline toppers fit snugly inside standard flower pots, and they reflect and…
Vail Design at Altitude column: Designing with principle
SmallerLarger Create a distinct sitting area that is well proportioned and with visually interesting patterns, colors and textures. If you’ve tried to design a home, or a room, you know there are a lot of…
IBM, Oracle Say Keen to Work With Andhra Pradesh to Promote Startups
Top software companies, including IBM and Oracle, and University of California, Berkeley (UCB) have shown interest in working with the Andhra Pradesh government to promote the startup ecosystem and also in setting up their development…
Daimler Confirms Here in Talks With Amazon, Microsoft
Amazon and Microsoft are in talks about taking a minority stake in Here, a digital mapping business controlled by Germany’s luxury carmakers to help develop self-driving cars, Daimler said on Wednesday. Germany’s luxury carmakers including…
Microsoft wants to make the stylus cool again with Windows Ink
No company has tried to make the stylus the Next Big Thing as much as Microsoft, and it’s pushing harder than ever with the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update. And though it’ll be a little while…
Getting your garden furniture right with rattan
Havana modular seating collection by Gloster (frontgate.com) Elfreda Pownall 30 MARCH 2016 • 11:59AM Rattan furniture and accessories are fashionable right now, with designer shops and lifestyle websites showing Fifties and Sixties-style rattan sunburst mirrors…
SoundCloud Expands Into Mainstream With Ad-Free Music Subscription Service
SoundCloud is entering paid music streaming, hoping to turn its huge community of cover singers, dubstep remixers and wannabe stars into a bigger source of revenue. Since its launch in 2007, the Berlin-based online music…
Samsung Follows Apple Into China With Its Own Mobile Payment Service
South Korea’s Samsung Tuesday announced the launch of its mobile payment service in China, where it is likely to struggle in an already crowded market that arch-rival Apple entered nearly six weeks ago. The world’s…
Microsoft Reportedly Meets With Private Equity Over Yahoo Deal
Microsoft Corp executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc investors about contributing to financing to buy the troubled Internet company, a person familiar with the situation said. The talks are preliminary, the person…