October 14, 2014
Uber-For-Weed Startup Meadow Lights Up In San Francisco
You can really see where David Hua’s food blogger cred shines with his new medical marijuana startup Meadow. In the app, there is just close-up after close-up of…
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October 14, 2014
Teen Social Network Let Raises $600K
Let, a teen social networking app with a focus on gamification, is announcing that it has raised $600,000 in seed funding. That’s not a huge amount of money,…
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Social Commerce App CardBlanc Puts A Shopping Mall On Your Phone
CardBlanc, a new e-commerce application targeting millennial spenders officially launched today, introducing a financial platform for easier mobile checkout combined with social activity similar to what you’d see…
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Gruveo Brings Anonymous Video Calls To The iPhone And iPad
Gruveo, a service that launched last year to allow for fast, anonymous video calling via the web, is now coming to mobile, starting with today’s debut of an…
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The iPhone 6 Plus Gets A One-Handed Keyboard App, And It’s Glorious
While I came around to the iPhone 6 Plus and its unique allure, as told in a post from a couple of days ago, Apple’s big smartphone still…
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Skype Launches A New Video Messaging App For The Mobile-First Era, Skype Qik
If Skype was invented today, what would it look like? This morning, a small team within Skype is attempting to answer that question with the launch of a new…
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For Two New Apps Called “Push” And “Drop,” The Push Notification Is The App
Two new applications, Drop and Push, want to save you from having to download multiple news apps or browse dozens of websites just to keep up with the…
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Lyve’s New App Lets You Access All Your Photos And Videos From Any Device You Own
Accessing your entire photo and video collection from any device can still be a challenge today, especially if you have your media spread out across a variety of…
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Facebook’s Internet.org Works With Carriers To Speed Up Networks, Indonesia First
Facebook has long been promoting the the idea of free, zero-rated mobile services in emerging countries to drive more Facebook (and wider mobile data) usage. Now, its Internet.org initiative has crafted another way to…
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Snapchat and Spiegel’s Interesting Call on the Hong Kong Demonstrations
I don’t mean to pile onto Snapchat in the middle of the #Snappening. But I thought there was something interesting that went missed in CEO Evan Spiegel’s multi-generational chat…
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