June 16, 2015
Mobile Apps Will Decide Your Product’s Success
My home theater system recently stopped working and I found myself in the market for a specific piece of relatively complex consumer technology: a new receiver. A new…
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June 16, 2015
Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel Explains Snapchat In A Dimly Lit Room
Inexplicably, Snapchat has posted a video to its official YouTube page in which CEO and cofounder Evan Spiegel describes how the app works – four years after it…
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Jason Kilar’s Subscription Video Service Vessel Expands To Android
Vessel’s video subscription service, headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and CTO Richard Tom, has today expanded to Android. The app is initially offered as an open…
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Kleiner Perkins Creates A New Seed Stage Initiative That Will Give Founders New Software To Grow
Kleiner Perkins has launched a new, small seed stage investment initiative within its latest fund to invest in technology like virtual reality and drones that will offer founders a suite of…
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Apple Taps MobileIron To Help It Deploy iPad Apps Into The Enterprise
Apple is working with mobile device management shop MobileIron to help deploy applications into the enterprise. The collaborative effort is part of a larger enterprise push by Apple…
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Portal Lets You Quickly Transfer Big Files From PC To Phone
Pushbullet, the company that makes a handy utility that moves notifications, links and files between devices, is out today with a new app called Portal, which focuses on file transfer…
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BloomThat Grows Beyond Flower Delivery To Gifts With $5.5M
BloomThat wants to be the “Make someone happy” button. Open its app, choose between a few curated bouquets, and a beautiful flower arrangement is delivered to someone you…
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says Alibaba Spinoff Is Still On Track Despite Potential Tax Risks
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco today that potential changes in the way its Alibaba spinoff could be taxed would not…
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Dick Costolo Dances Around The Question Of Who Will Lead Twitter Next
Dick Costolo stepped down as Twitter’s CEO last week, and since then theories about who will lead Twitter next have flown throughout the Internet. Costolo, on stage at…
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Twitter Now Autoplays Video And GIFs
Twitter has introduced auto-playing video and animated GIFs to its official timelines in both the iOS application and on the web, with support for the feature coming to…
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