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Microsoft’s CEO Dares Google, Amazon Execs In Ice Bucket Challenge
The current meme of dumping really cold water on your head to raise awareness for ALS is spreading quickly. Today, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella allowed the winning team from his company’s internal hackathon to pour a large amount of chilly dihydrogen monoxide onto his expecting pate. Read More -
Spiral Hopes To Nail Location-Based Communities
A new app called Spiral could change the way we connect with the people and places around us. The idea is pretty straightforward: users see a newsfeed of posts near them, and can add their own updates, and comment on other people’s posts. Users can adjust their geographic filters to see posts from a larger or smaller radius. Read More -
Backpack Connects You With Travelers So You Can Purchase Items In Other Countries
Imagine a certain type of medication you needed wasn’t available in your country and was expensive to ship or acquire. Many people rely on friends or relatives traveling to these countries to bring back items that cannot be purchased in their country, whether it’s medicine or an iPhone. Backpack connects users with travelers who can bring desired products back at discounted prices. Read More -
Fresh Off Of Raising $30M, BitPay Staffs Up In San Francisco With Visa, PayPal Alums
Three months after raising a staggering $30 million Series A round of capital, BitPay has staffed up its San Francisco contingent with a few hires that are worth noting. Currently, BitPay has 40,000 merchants signed onto its service, which helps companies of all stripes accept payment for their goods and services in bitcoin. Read More -
Yep, Activision Is Bringing Back Sierra (And Kings Quest!)
Just a quick update for everyone who geeked out with us last week at the idea of Activision bringing back the legendary gaming brand that is Sierra: it’s happening. Read More -
Dash’s Smart Driving App Arrives On iPhone
The Dash smart driving assistant that made its debut earlier this year on Android has launched on iPhone answering one of the most frequently heard requests from its users. The Dash app, which is backed by Techstars New York, connects to any ODB-II dongle that you can get for your car (most cars made since 1996 should have one that’s easily accessible) providing feedback about your… Read More -
WeedMaps Partners With Uber So You Don’t 420BlazeIt And Drive
Dude, where’s my car? Back in the garage because you took an Uber rather than driving high. At least that’s the idea behind leading “Yelp for marijuana” service WeedMaps and Colorado pot shop The Clinic partnering with Uber. Each time a new rider enters the promo code “clinicms”, Uber will donate $5 to multiple sclerosis research though the end of year. Read More
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YC-Backed VizeraLabs Projects New Materials Onto Any Surface
At stores with Y Combinator-backed VizeraLabs’s projector installed, you can see what every fabric looks like on a display model instantly. The company wants to replace the books full of different fabrics you can look through at furniture retailers with a projector and pretty much any device that can connect to its growing database of materials and patterns in the cloud. Read More -
Greenhouse Raises $7.5M To Engineer How Startups Recruit…Engineers
Uber, Pinterest, Snapchat, and BuzzFeed all share a not-so-secret weapon in the talent wars: Greenhouse. The recruitment optimization SAAS turns hiring into a science, and guides them through where to source job candidates, what to ask interviews, how to score responses. Now Greenhouse has raised a $7.5 million series A led by Social+Capital Partnership to sell the answers to those questions… Read More -
Amazon Launches Local Register, A Square Competitor With Lower Transaction Rates
Amazon has launched a Square and PayPal Here competitor called Local Register, which provides users with a free app and a $10 card reader, and charges merchants and anyone selling services who use it just 1.75 percent per swipe on both credit and debit transactions, so long as users sign up before October 31. That’s a special rate, and is a full percentage point lower than… Read More -
Samsung’s Metal-Edged Galaxy Alpha Is Its Most iPhone-A-Like Handset Ever
Samsung has announced a new metal-edged flagship smartphone that takes its design language a step closer to the iPhone — and gives it something to fend off competition from surefooted Android startup Xiaomi. Read More -
BuzzFeed’s Future Depends On Convincing Us Ads Aren’t Ads
BuzzFeed makes the majority of its money on ads that pretend to be content, but can it keep up this charade? Or, is the Starbucks-sponsored “10 Summer Emojis That Should Definitely Exist” no charade at all, but actually the future of media that we should just smile and accept? These are the questions that popped out to me from the news that Andreessen Horowitz invested $50 million… Read More -
Uber Is About To Launch An API
Uber wins when you hit the “Request A Ride” button, so shouldn’t it try to put that button everywhere? It seemed like a smart plan, so I did some digging and now sources confirm to me that Uber plans to launch an API soon. Google Maps was just the start. While it’s not clear what the exact functionality will be, the Uber API could potentially let partnered developers… Read More -
Google Opens Classroom, Its Learning Management Tool, To All Teachers
Back in May, Google announced the limited preview of Classroom, a tool that aims to make it easier for teachers to stay in touch with their students and to give them assignments and feedback. Google says more than 100,000 educators from 45 countries signed up to try it since then. Today, it is throwing the doors wide open, and anyone with a Google Apps for Education account can now use the… Read More -
Disney Conquers Physics, Uses 3D Printing To Create Impossible Spinning Tops
Have you ever been sitting around bored and found yourself trying to get some random household object — a battery, a pen, whatever — to spin around like a top? Disney has taken that idea to a pretty grand extreme. Combining the power of 3D printing and some damned clever physics work, they’ve worked out a way to make just about any shape spin for ages. The idea: if you… Read More -
Hangouts Now Works Without Google+ Account, Becomes Part Of Google Apps For Business And Gets SLA
Say what you want about Google+, but it incubated two great products at Google: Hangouts for video meetings and Google+ Photos. While Photos is still deeply integrated with Google+, Hangouts is starting to grow up and it’s shedding some of its Google+ past today. Until now, for example, you had to have a Google+ account to use Hangouts. Starting today, that requirement is gone. Anybody… Read More
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