August 12, 2015
Link-Sharing Site This. Raises $610,000 Seed Round
Who may be on first and What may be on second but This. is on its first seed round. The media company, incubated inside of Atlantic Media, is…
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August 11, 2015
This Natural Language Interface Aims To Let Anyone Make Animations Jump
UK-based animation tech and post-production effects studio iKinema has been demoing a natural language interface for controlling animations which CEO Alexandre Pechev reckons could prove its worth in…
Read articleAugust 10, 2015
Meet Alphabet, Google’s New Corporate Boss As Sundar Pichai Takes Over The Search Company
Google just rocked the world with some light news on a Monday. It has restructured the company and everything will now report up to “Alphabet Inc.” a new…
Read articleAugust 9, 2015
This Is My Jam Shuts Down Without Screwing Users
“We’re deleting everything in a week because we got acquired/ran out of money”. This is a familiar scene when a startup shuts down. It’s why I’ve wondered if…
Read articleAugust 6, 2015
Femsplain Rolls Out A Community Platform For Feminists
Femsplain bills itself as a “community-driven publisher,” and it’s looking to build that community with a new initiative called Femsplain Beta. The feminist site was launched last year,…
Read articleAugust 6, 2015
Blockfeed App Surfaces Hyper Local News
This New York city-based startup is aggregating local news sources, from small blogs to established newspapers, geolocating relevant news stories to a hyper local location — such as…
Read articleAugust 6, 2015
U.K. Web Users Now Prefer To Do It With Smartphones
U.K. web users now see their smartphone as the most important device for getting online, overtaking the previous most popular device, the laptop, according to a study of…
Read articleAugust 5, 2015
‘Watching People Do Stuff’ Is A Business Model And Sywork Is The Twitch For Illustrators
Watching people play video games. Check. Watching people play with apps. Check. Watching people do earnings. Check. Watching people draw things? Check. Now, anyways. Today, a company called…
Read articleAugust 5, 2015
Samsung Pay Heads To Samsung’s Smart TVs
Last March Samsung announced Samsung Pay — a mobile payment offering which it hopes will go head to head with Apple Pay. The service has still not rolled…
Read articleJuly 29, 2015
Apple Music’s Strategy Is No-Paywall Premieres, Not Exclusives
The idea of Apple Music struck fear in the hearts of listeners like me. The company had enough money to buy exclusives that could fracture and balkanize the world’s…
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