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August 19, 2014
Mailbox, the ultra-awesome email client owned by Dropbox, is making its way onto the desktop. By doing so, it’ll be coming full circle and providing a seamless user…
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Chartio, a business intelligence service that lets you explore your data from a wide variety of sources, is launching a new service today that should make getting started…
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About.me has always been about helping users to create a personalized profile page that shows them off in the best light. Today the company is launching a new…
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Nowadays, most studios building games for mobile, PC, or consoles are actually building services: there are servers where gamers play together, leaderboards, in-app purchases to process, inventories to…
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Canadian startup Vantage Analytics is announcing that it has raised $1.1 million in its first round of funding. Co-founder and President Aran Hamilton told me that the company…
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Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs has begun shipping the production version of its hardware to pre-order customers already, and now the company is gearing up for its full-scale enterprise play…
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In the 1980s, Silicon Valley’s hardware elite began outsourcing much of the semiconductor and hardware manufacturing work that gave the region its name to Asia. But now that…
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From middle school girls’ sleepovers to more codified groups like the “Ladies’ Four O’Clock Club,” women have known for ages that there’s something special about the conversational dynamic…
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We’ve all been there. You’ve been out all day and suddenly that low battery alert pops up on your phone. If you’re lucky, the bar you’re at might…
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A new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The…
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