January 15, 2015
Dudr Gamifies Group Photo Sharing
While smartphone users continue to be obsessed with snapping photos of everything around them/every angle of their person, developers will continue to come up with new ways to…
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January 15, 2015
Skydio Makes Drones Smart So Pilots Can Be Dumb With $3M From Andreessen
“In five years, the notion of a drone crashing will be a weird, foreign thing” says Adam Bry, co-founder of drone auto-pilot startup Skydio and founding member of Google’s Project Wing…
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Timeline Launches News App To Give You The Context Behind The Day’s Headlines
One big complaint about current news coverage is that there’s not enough context — an article or TV report might tell you what happened today, but it gives…
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Sulon’s Cortex Developer Hardware Impresses With A Blend Of AR And VR
The virtual reality space is pretty much Oculus Rift, and then everyone else. Even Sony’s Morpheus VR project was conspicuously absent from CES 2015, but one startup stood…
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Xpire, Now On Android, Brings “Disappearing” Posts To Twitter
Disappearing messages, like those on popular apps like Snapchat, give users a sense of greater privacy when compared to larger, more public social networks like Facebook or Twitter.…
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ClosetSpace Brings Fashion Inspiration And Recommendations To Your Smartphone
A new application called ClosetSpace from fashion analytics company Stylitics wants to put a digital closet in your pocket, while also feeding you daily inspirations, outfit suggestions, and more,…
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Video Chat App Rounds Raises $12M In New Funding Led By Sequoia
Rounds, a video chat company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, is announcing that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding. The company was founded back in…
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The SocialRank Index Shows Companies How They Stack Up On Social Media
Social media analytics startup SocialRank released a new tool earlier today called the SocialRank Index — aimed at tracking and aggregating the performance the biggest brands in the…
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BlaBlaCar Expands Beyond Europe
After raising a massive $100 million round last summer, BlaBlaCar is opening its first market outside of Europe with India — if you count Turkey and Russia as…
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The Hovertrax Is Like Two Dumb Little Segways For Your Feet
If laziness was a sport, the equipment would be the Hovertrax. You step up onto the foot pads, tip your feet forward, and two motorized wheels carry you around…
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