July 2014
Nosto Bags $5.5M To Help Smaller Online Stores Fight Ecommerce’s Amazons
Nosto, a customer recommendation marketing engine designed to help the smaller fish in the ecommerce pool make a bigger splash by improving their online stores with more tailored product recommendations…
Product Guy Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues
If there’s one guy in the world who knows whether or not he wants to cancel his Comcast service, it’s Ryan Block. The former head of Engadget, founder of GDGT,…
The Fate of The 98-Year-Old At The Heart of SF’s Anti-Eviction, Tech Protests Is Still In Doubt
Mary Elizabeth Phillips, the 98-year-old woman who has been at the heart of San Francisco’s ongoing anti-eviction and tech protests, still faces an uncertain future. After living just a few…
Snowden Document Exposes Extensive List of British Spying Tools
The intelligence agency Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) — Britain’s National Security Agency (NSA) equivalent — commands a wide-ranging set of tools that enable it to hack into popular social media…
Oculus Spots People Selling Rift Pre-Orders, Cancels Their Shipments
The second version of the Oculus Rift VR headset is expected to start arriving this week, but actually getting your hands on one is going to be tough. Over 45,000…
The Ink and Slide are Adobe’s first foray into the hardware world, comprising a special stylus and a digital ruler. Paired with the Adobe Line app, users can draw and…
Autobutler Raises €5.8M To Vet Garages For European Car-Owners
Over the last few years we’ve seen a number of startups appear that would like to bring the market power of the Internet to bear on a traditionally tough market:…
Lexalytics Acquires Semantria To Bring Sentiment Analysis To The Masses
Lexalytics is looking to bring sentiment analysis to smaller firms around the globe with the acquisition of Semantria, whose Excel-based sentiment analysis tool offers an easy, affordable way to find…
Y Combinator Calls For Strict Net Neutrality Rules, Reclassification Of Broadband Under Title II
Early this afternoon Y Combinator released a letter, written by its own Alexis Ohanian, calling on the FCC to abandon its current plan to pursue net neutrality regulation under Section…
Do You Feel Pressure Or Do You Apply Pressure?
One obvious yet under-appreciated law of business physics is: For any given company, the larger the company becomes, the more opportunities emerge to screw it up. Another obvious but not…
Squink Lets You Print A Circuit Board For The Price Of A Cup Of Coffee
3D printing has changed the way engineers test products, allowing them to cut down on time and costs. But what about 3D printing the components that go into most of…
Real Cheese From A Lab, No Cow Necessary
Vegans who miss the creamy taste of real cheese, rejoice! A group of biohackers from Counter Culture Labs in Oakland, Calif., and BioCurious in Sunnyvale, Calif., are using baker’s yeast…
Toonimo, a startup that says it can make websites more engaging and lucrative by adding custom animations, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in funding. The idea is…
ScribbleLive Acquires CoveritLive, Will Still Operate Both Brands
Once bitter rivals, ScribbleLive and CoveritLive are now family. Scribble Technologies is today announcing the acquisition of CoveritLive from Demand Media, effectively bringing two of the largest live content creation…
Floret Is A Gamified Dating App For Virtual Romance
There’s surely no shortage of dating apps out there, but for those of us who wish to arm ourselves with every weapon in the potential arsenal, might I introduce Floret.…
Google, Other Leading Internet Companies Support Net Neutrality, Call For Extension To Mobile Providers
As the initial comment period regarding the FCC’s currently proposed net neutrality rules comes to a close, the Internet Association, a technology industry consortium, today released a strongly worded treatise…
I hate email. But there’s one thing I hate even more: people selling my email address. Currently trending at the top of Product Hunt, Pressfarm is an email database for…
This morning at its Windows Partner Conference, Microsoft made a lengthy pitch to its assembled clients that the cloud isn’t the future, but rather the present. The company presented its…
Anonymish App Secret Has Raised Another $25M, Adds Facebook Login And Collections
Secret, the app that lets users share notes with others without revealing their identity, has attracted a lot of controversy (or celebration, depending on who you are) for how it…
Gamers looking for a new way to spend time waiting in line or on a commute should go check out Timberman, the latest indie game to take the App Store…
Google Brings Ingress Location-Based Game To iPhone And iPad
Google has brought its Ingress game to iOS, with a launch of the app for iPhone and iPad released late yesterday. The app has been available for two years now,…
With $1 Million In Funding, Sr.Pago Is Ready To Serve Mexico’s Unbanked
A startup called SrPago wants to serve unbanked residents of Mexico with a mobile point-of-sale system that includes a Square-like card reader, mobile apps for managing payments they receive, and…
Wiper Launches Its Secure Messaging App With $2.5 Million In Seed Funding
Privacy concerns over who’s listening, collating and collecting our phone calls, emails, and web history have reached levels that would make for a great Thomas Pynchon novel, if truth weren’t…
You can’t swing a dead cat around without hitting a new wearable fitness tracker, and the latest to join the herd is called the LifeTip. Recently launched on Indiegogo, the…
Researchers Create A Flying Drone That Can Light Your Snapshots
Is there anything flying quadcopters can’t do (besides give birth to human babies… yet?) Researchers at MIT and Cornell have created a flying flash rig that connects a light meter,…
Upside Raises $1.1M To Help Investment Advisers Compete Against Wealthfront, Betterment And Co.
In the world of personal finance, robo-advisers like Betterment, Wealthfront and FutureAdvisor are all the rage now. They invest your money in low-fee index funds for you and reshuffle your portfolio…
MIT Is Working On T-1000 Style State Shifting Robots With Google’s Robot Company
Robots of the near future could resemble T-1000, rather than the early Arnold Schwarzenegger T-800 Model 101: A team at MIT has developed a phase-changing material built out of the…
Google Glass Creator Heads To Amazon
Where do you go after leading projects at Google’s top-secret skunkworks, Google[X]? NASA? DARPA? The secret underground bunker where they’re keeping the hoverboards, jet packs, and flying cars? Nope. The…
Now That Charles River Ventures Has Closed Its 16th Fund, It Wants To Be Called CRV
Earlier this month we reported that the firm had closed its 16th fund, which was worth close to $400 million according to SEC documents. Well, the firm has confirmed that…
Home Depot is redefining the term DIY now that MakerBot printers and scanners are available in some retail locations. As part of a pilot program (pdf link), the 3D printers…
