Ember

Ember’s first Indiegogo campaign drew sideways glances when it launched in 2015. Would anyone actually buy a $129 heated coffee mug? Nearly a decade later, however, it’s clear that the ini

A Scottish company building one of the U.K.’s first all-electric intercity bus networks has raised $14 million (£11 million) in a Series A round as it looks to expand across the entire country.

Ember has been a fascinating company to watch. The Los Angeles-based startup entered the scene with a self-heating mug, only to leverage its temperature tech learnings to enter the cold chain space, w

Ember’s a bit of a weird one. The Southern California firm has two distinct — though not wholly unrelated — arms. There’s the smart mug side of the business that launched the startup and the m

Ember’s first decade has been a journey. The Southern Californian startup first hit our (and most folks’) radar as a mug company. The company captured a fair bit of press attention with its high-e

Last year, Ember outlined one of the more fascinating expansions of recent vintage we’ve seen in the hardware space. Primarily known for its smart mugs designed to keep their contents hot, the firm

Back in February, Ember’s new consumer CEO, ex-Dyson exec Jim Rowan, outlined for TechCrunch the company’s plans to expand beyond the temperature-controlled smart mugs that bear its name. At the t

Ember today announced that founder Clay Alexander will transition to Group CEO effective February 16. In his place, the Los Angeles-based smart mug company is bringing on Jim Rowan as Consumer CEO. Th

One of the world’s most static technologies may be the humble mug, but startup Ember decided it was time for a change when they introduced their temperature-controlled smart mug to the market in

Two years ago, Ember launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to build a mug that keeps hot drinks hot and iced drinks cool. Contributors gave the company nearly $362,000. Fast-forward and the

Last year, Ember Technologies, Inc. ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to build a mug that keeps hot drinks at the perfect sipping temperature. By now, it’s sold 4,000 of these devices. An

RealMac Software’s digital scrapbook app Ember, which arrived on iOS late last year, has today updated its mobile application with a series of annotations tools that will bring the software clo

Digital scrapbook <a target="_blank" href="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/ember">Ember</a> from RealMac Software, makers of the popular, gesture-based to-do list app Clear, has made its way to <a t

<strong>Editor's note:</strong> <em>Marc Gayle is a Rails developer and founder of <a target="_blank" href="http://5kmvp.com/">5KMVP</a>, where he builds Minimum Viable Products for just $5K. Follow