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The Future Of Work In The Sharing Economy With Esther Dyson, Ron Conway and John Hennessy
We share our cars, homes, even our genetics these days but what does this all mean for workers and micro-entrepreneurs? Bloomberg’s The Next Big Thing Conference kicked off at Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, Calif., this morning with Ron Conway, Esther Dyson and John Hennessy discussing just that — the impact that companies like Uber and Airbnb could have on the global… Read More -
Microsoft’s Xbox One E3 Keynote Tells Console Owners That Yes, The Games Are Coming
Microsoft just spend a solid hour and a half answering the main complaint of every Xbox One owner, namely that there’s nothing for them to play: It showed game demo after game demo, and in fact barely mentioned the console itself (and noticeably avoided the subject of the Kinect, which it’s unbundling from the core console). The result was not thrilling live video for anyone… Read More -
Secret Is Taking Its Anonymous Networking App To Schools, Workplaces With New “Secret Dens” Feature
Anonymous social networking app Secret, a popular watercooler for Silicon Valley gossip, and now, much more thanks to recent expansions, has just announced a new feature called “Secret Dens,” which is focused on anonymous sharing in the workplace or in schools. The idea, explains the company via blog post, is to “share anything you’re thinking — kept within the… Read More -
Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4 Coming To Xbox One As “The Master Chief Collection”
It’s a fanboy’s dream come true! After weeks of rumors suggesting as much, Microsoft has just announced that the four mainstay titles of the Halo series (Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, 3, and 4) are coming to the Xbox One in one big ol’ release called “Halo: The Master Chief Collection“. Barring any surprise delays, it’ll hit the shelves on November 11th… Read More -
The Market Welcomes Apple’s 7-1 Split
Apple’s 7-for-1 split went live today, and its share price dipped under the $100 mark as the technology company greatly increased its share count. The market is up today, but Apple has picked up more than twice the bounce that the NASDAQ has received, climbing north of 1 percent. It’s not a massive rally, but no one anticipated more. Apple’s split is noteworthy given its… Read More -
On-Demand Laundry Startup Washio Raises $10.5 Million Led By Canaan Partners
On-demand laundry service Washio wants to be available in all the major cities throughout the U.S. With that in mind, the company has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding, led by Canaan Partners. Founded a little more than a year ago, Washio has developed a service that enables users to schedule pickup and dropoff of their laundry and dry cleaning through a mobile app. It launched… Read More -
The Strange Promise Of Everyday AI
In addition to the promise of flying cars and jetpacks, science fiction has taught us that we should have artificial intelligence by now. Sadly, the best we can do is a virtual 13-year-old that was able to fool a number of high-profile researchers (and Robert Llewellyn who played a robot on Red Dwarf) in the Turing Test. Where are our virtual assistants with superhuman powers of discernment? Read More -
Apple Begins Rejecting Apps That Offer Rewards For Video Views, Social Sharing
Apple has begun to crack down on tools that app developers use to monetize and grow their applications, including incentivized video viewing and rewarded social sharing, as well as discovery tools that allow users to find apps inside the games they’re already playing. The move will have a significant impact on the app industry as a whole, and will serve as something of a… Read More
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Docker, Open Source Application Container Platform, Has 1.0 Coming Out Party At Dockercon14
Docker, Inc, the commercial entity developed around the Docker platform, made a couple of announcements today as part of their dockercon14 conference including the release of 1.0 of the project and an official marketplace for “Dockerized” products. CEO Ben Golub said the announcements at the conference are the culmination of 15 months of frenzied work for the startup. Golub… Read More -
Enquire Is A Lightweight Q&A App To Explore Your Neighborhood
Meet Enquire, yet another Q&A app. But this time, it’s all about creating a simple experience to discover new things in your neighborhood. You don’t have to share images like on Jelly, you can’t ask non-location-based questions like on Quest. It’s all about tuning into your neighborhood and reading and participating with the public feed of questions and… Read More -
Pegasystems Acquires Co-Browsing Tool Firefly, The First Investment By First Round’s Dorm Room Fund
Pegasystems, a publicly traded Cambridge, Mass.-based company with 2,700 employees, just acquired co-browsing tool Firefly. They were a two-person startup built by recent University of Pennsylvania grads Dan Shipper and Justin Meltzer and that was funded by First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund. The pair built a way for any website to insert a snippet of JavaScript so that it can be… Read More -
Apple Makes It Harder For In-Store Marketers To Track You In iOS 8
Apple has enabled MAC address randomization in iOS 8 (from Frederic Jacobs via HackerNews), which means it’s harder for marketers to keep track of your comings and goings in or around public Wi-Fi networks. In the updated software, while your iPhone is scanning for Wi-Fi networks, it assigns a “random, locally administered” MAC address, which is typically a constant… Read More -
VCs Say “Ni Hao” To Chinese Startups
Venture capital investment in Chinese startup companies is surging again. After several years of a moribund market, investment in Chinese technology startups is en vogue again thanks in part to the soaring stock price of established players like Tencent, and the imminent listing of what could be the largest public offering in U.S. history when shares of Alibaba finally start trading. Last… Read More -
Netflix Gives “Orange Is The New Black” Its Own Mobile App
Netflix has just introduced a new standalone mobile application called “OITNA” (or “Orange is the New App,” ha ha) which, if you haven’t guessed it, is an effort to promote the network’s original show “Orange is the New Black,” now available in a binge-worthy Season 2. OITNA is essentially a photo-sharing application, which lets you customize… Read More -
Move Loot Raises A $2.8M Seed Round To Expand Its Online Furniture Consignment Store
When you think of e-commerce ventures, chances are few of the ones that come to mind deal with furniture. After all, shipping huge crates full of beds around isn’t exactly something that lends itself to a lean startup business given the logistics involved. Move Loot, a Y Combinator alum from the last Winter batch, however, is doing exactly that with its online furniture consignment store. Read More -
Amazon To Launch Subscription-Based Billing And Recurring Payments Service
Amazon is introducing a new payments service today, which the company hopes will soon be adopted by startup companies and others offering subscription-based or recurring payments, according to a report from Reuters out this morning, and Amazon now confirms. The service will allow these businesses to tap into Amazon’s over 240 million monthly active users who currently store their credit… Read More -
Minecraft Creator’s New Game: A Horse And Ball Simulator You Can Buy With Dogecoin
Minecraft began from humble origins, but if the next game from that title’s creator Notch (aka Markus Persson) manages to become a multiplatform, multimillion-dollar enterprise, well that’ll be a horse of a different color. Notch’s new game is called Cliffhorse, you see, and it’s a game in which you control a horse roving a green hilly landscape, occasionally pushing… Read More -
Watch Microsoft’s Xbox One E3 2014 Press Conference Here
It’s safe to say that Microsoft is once again the underdog in the gaming world. The PS4 is handily outselling the Xbox One and Microsoft just retreated on its stance about the Kinect by releasing an Xbox One version minus the motion controller. A lot is riding on this year’s E3 press conference. Tune in on Monday, June 9 at 9:30 am PDT to watch Microsoft’s E3 press conference. Read More
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