Online Banking Service Simple Just Made Bank Transfers Faster
Simple, the online banking service acquired by BBVA earlier this year, had an overall goal of addressing the various pain points found at traditional banks, like minimum balance requirements, fees, overdraft charges, and more. Today, the company is making another improvement as it’s introducing a way to speed up bank transfers between Simple and accounts you hold at other… Read More-
Facebook Saves Developing World’s Data Plans With 65% Smaller, 50% More Efficient Android App
Data is expensive and phones have low storage in developing nations like those in Africa, so over the last year, Facebook quietly undertook a massive engineering overhaul of its Android app to make it easier to use around the world. It now starts up 50 percent faster than six months ago, uses 50 percent less data than a year ago, and the download itself is 65 percent smaller since the start… Read More -
Hands On With The Galaxy Tab S, Coming To The U.S. June 27
Samsung has a new tablet, and the company is framing this as their new flagship slate line. The Galaxy Tab S was unveiled at an event last week, and brings an ultra-thin design and a super high-resolution display to Samsung’s Android-powered tablets. In both 8.4 and 10.5-inch flavors, these tablets promise dynamic screens that change their settings depending on content types. The Tab S… Read More -
Apple’s Activation Lock Brings Down iPhone Theft In Major Cities
Apple’s introduction of iOS 7 Activation Lock has actually led to a decrease in iPhone-related theft in New York, London, and San Francisco, according to NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. “The introduction of kill switches has clearly had an effect on the conduct of smartphone thieves,” said Schneiderman in an interview with the New York Times. “If these can… Read More -
eShares Shows Startup Employees All Their Stock And Options In One Place
In today’s startup environment, it’s become standard operating procedure for stock options to be counted as part of an employee’s overall compensation. And yet, most startup employees are totally in the dark about how many stock options they have, how many of those options have vested, and how much converting those options into stock will cost. eShares wants to change that… Read More -
Bottlenose Updates Its Trend-Finding Tools With Automation, Emotion Detection, And An API
Bottlenose co-founder and CEO Nova Spivack told me that with the latest version of its Nerve Center (Bottlenose’s trend detection product for large enterprises), the company is “giving brands and marketers a virtual analyst in the cloud.” Data, particularly real-time data, has become a buzzword in the marketing industry (heck, I got roped into moderating a panel on that topic… Read More -
Nokia Has Just Epically Trolled Microsoft By Making An Android Launcher
Nokia completed the multi-billion dollar sale of its phone-making business to Microsoft back in April. But that doesn’t mean it’s done with phones entirely. Oh no. The company that transferred some 32,000 of its staff to Redmond in exchange for more than $7.2 billion has just released a launcher (aka an alternative homescreen) — for Android smartphones. Read More
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An App That Detects STDs In The Privacy Of Your Own Home
First Derm is an app that lets you snap a picture of whatever is going on with your skin and submit it to a doctor for anonymous diagnoses. First Derm launched in Sweden as an STD triage app in 2009, it now works with a slew of dermatologists to allow people to upload any rash, bump, wart or weird-looking mole. The First Derm team rebranded the app to detect more than STDs when they realized… Read More -
The BlackBerry Passport Is A Phablet With A Hardware Keyboard That Makes No Sense Whatsoever
Just when you think you might have figured out what BlackBerry is up to (a strong push in enterprise services and emerging markets like the Internet of Things) they go and do something like the BlackBerry Passport. The device broke cover today (via MobileSyrup) during the Canadian smartphone maker’s earnings call, and it’s set to be launched in September this year, following an… Read More -
A Sneak Peek Into Android’s Future
Google is giving its apps and platforms, including Android, a big redesign, according to a recent report posted on Android Police, which backs up some things we had been hearing as well, but hadn’t fleshed out until now. According to the new report, Google is working on a new design language focused on giving all Google apps a more unified look-and-feel across the web, Android… Read More -
Disney’s Star Wars Scene Maker For iPad Lets Users Build Their Own Animated Fanfic
Disney has a new mobile app that uses its recently-acquired Star Wars IP out today: Star Wars Scene Maker is now on the App Store, and it lets kids of all ages build their own Star Wars stories using 3D-rendered graphics and animations, along with the option to record your own voice over for dialog and built-in music for epic soundtracks. The app is the ultimate fanfiction tool, short of hiring… Read More -
Amazon’s Road To Retail Domination
If you haven’t noticed, Amazon is about to eat retail. It’s been working hard at changing the way we shop for years and is now poised to change the way we interact with products thanks to the Fire Phone. It’s been a long, weird road and here are a few milestones. Read More -
Venture Investors Begin To Drill In To Oil Deals
The oil and gas business is technologically challenging, data-heavy, and traditionally ignored by venture capitalists. But a few firms are looking to change that with a new concentration on software and services that would help improve economics and bring visibility to an industry that technology investors have long overlooked. During the “clean technology” investment boom… Read More -
Algolia Raises Another $1.2 Million For Its Real-Time Search API
French startup Algolia raised $1.2 million as an extension of the company’s existing seed round to turbocharge your website’s search engine. It brings the total funding of the startup to $2.8 million. The round extension was led by Storm Ventures, with angels coming from Box, Eventbrite, Google, Microsoft and Stripe. Chrisoph Janz of Point Nine Capital is also joining the… Read More -
Fitness App Usage Is Growing 87% Faster Than The Overall App Market
A new report from Flurry Analytics shows that health and fitness apps are growing at a faster rate than the overall app market so far in 2014. The analytics firm looked at data from more than 6,800 apps in the category on the iPhone and iPad and found that usage (measured in sessions) is up 62% in the last six months compared to 33% growth for the entire market, an 87% faster pace. Read More -
Gone Will Sell Your Old Crap For You
In an age when consumerism is almost the only path to survival, it’s pretty easy to accumulate a lot of stuff. And then you get more stuff, and wind up startlingly close to a hoarder’s lifestyle before deciding to sell a bunch of it. At first, the idea feels brilliant, until you start tabulating the time, effort and resources involved in selling off a bunch of old crap. Is it worth… Read More
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