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Social Media Curation For Media Firms Crowdynews Raises €2.5M Series A
3:00 am PST • January 12, 2015
Crowdynews, a social media curation platform aimed at media companies that want to integrate social feeds into their output, has raised €2.5 million in funding in a Series A round…
Media & Entertainment
The Message Is The Product: Solving Mobile Gaming’s Price Problem
10:00 pm PST • January 11, 2015
The medium is the message, says Marshall McLuhan. If so the message is the product too. In considering the problem of paid games on mobile (conventional wisdom says people won’t…
Last year, Amazon wasn’t even included in the Golden Globes. Netflix took home one of five nominations with the help of Robin Wright from House Of Cards. This year, both…
Media & Entertainment
Samsung Packs An 8-Core Processor Into Its New 5.5-Inch Galaxy A7 Smartphone
7:20 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Last year Samsung released an eight-core version of the Galaxy S5, and now it has outed a dedicated octocore smartphone in its own right: the Galaxy A7.
Semantic Analysis Of Startup L. Jackson Points To Dustin Curtis
7:19 pm PST • January 11, 2015
With over 26k followers, Twitter persona Startup L. Jackson is a shining star in Silicon Valley’s Twitter constellation. He (she?) often tweets out pithy commentary on investor inside information, tech…
Alibaba’s First Movie Production Will Be Produced By Wong Kar-wai
7:09 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Alibaba Group is best known for e-commerce, but it does much more than just run online marketplaces. The Chinese tech giant announced today that it will produce its first movie…
Lyrics Annotation Site Genius Poaches Longtime New Yorker Music Critic Sasha Frere-Jones
6:28 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Genius, the startup formerly known as RapGenius that began as a place for crowdsourced rap lyrics and now provides a platform for people to annotate everything from songs to historical…
Kevin Jonas On His Startup Flashopp
6:01 PM PST • January 11, 2015
Recorded on January 12, 2015. Kevin Jonas talks Snapchat and his new corporate dashboard Flashopp.
In Search Of Bitcoin At CES
5:55 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Bitstamp, the well-known bitcoin exchange that saw the equivalent of $5 million in the cryptocurrency disappear after a breach by malicious hackers, was notably absent during last week’s CES show —…
From A Rebuilt ’60s Motel In Vegas, OrderWithMe Tackles Big E-Commerce Challenges
5:10 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Everyone who comes to live in Vegas has a story about how they got there. But while some of those tales may be prosaic, there are a few that stand out. OrderWithMe — a startup that…
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Get Somewhere with Hovertrax
4:54 PM PST • January 11, 2015
Recorded on January 8, 2015. Josh Constine takes the Solowheel Hovertrax for a spin.
Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions And Key Clients
4:37 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Since its founding in 2004, Palantir has managed to grow into a billion dollar company while being very surreptitious about what it does exactly. Conjecture abounds. The vague facts dredged up…
Rumors Swirl That Adam Bain Will Be The Next Twitter CEO, But Costolo’s Not Going Anywhere Yet
2:50 pm PST • January 11, 2015
The new year always brings new speculative tech predictions. Some of the most common predictions this year are that neither Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer will make it through 2015…
3D Robotics Talks Drones and the IRIS+
1:30 PM PST • January 11, 2015
Recorded on January 8, 2015. A talk with the co-Founder of 3D Robotics Chris Anderson who went from a job as Editor-in-Chief at Wired to…
Talking Drones With 3D Robotics CEO Chris Anderson
1:30 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Drones were one of the hot topics coming into CES, but the show itself didn’t actually feature any standout products. Many of the new drones we saw were little more…
GoPro’s HERO4 Will Learn A Few New Tricks With A Free Update In February
1:17 pm PST • January 11, 2015
It’s been about 3 months since the launch of GoPro’s HERO4 – but outside of a small patch that shipped just after launch, the HERO4’s software is pretty much the…
Hardware
Yota Devices Talks A Future Of E-Ink Devices Beyond The YotaPhone At CES 2015
12:39 pm PST • January 11, 2015
E-ink continues to expand its presence at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and one of the best advocates for the tech has been Yota Devices. The Russian company created the…
Hardware
Gannett’s Next Oculus Rift Experiment Takes You Onto The Ski Slopes Of Vail
12:00 pm PST • January 11, 2015
Last fall, Gannett unveiled its first attempt at journalism for the Oculus Rift — Harvest of Change, a series of stories in the Des Moines Register. Specifically, the series used…
Standing is better than sitting. Most of the time. Sometimes your body needs a rest and that’s where the Humanscale OfficeIQ powered by Tome comes to play. Tome’s Jack Sigal stopped…
Karolina Boladz is the COO of Zortrax, a 3D printer company in Poland. Her company grew out of a Kickstarter project that ballooned and is now in the running to…
