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Zoopla Shares Up After London IPO, Founder And Atlas Ventures Cash In
6:22 am PDT • June 19, 2014
The IPO on the London Stock Market yesterday of property portal Zoopla – effectively the Zillow of the UK – yesterday attracted blue-chip investors to its £900m / $1.53m floatation…
Startups
Twitter Acquires SnappyTV To Expand Offerings For Live Media Partners
6:16 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Twitter announced today that it is acquiring SnappyTV, the service for clipping, editing and sharing clips from live broadcasts in near real-time. Already, Twitter says that it works with SnappyTV…
Hardware
Apple Explores Ways To Automate Notifications And Alarms Based On Feedback From Wearables
6:10 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Apple had some new patent applications related to wearables published today (via AppleInsider) and they all deal with a system in which the iPhone acts as a hub that collects…
Media & Entertainment
LinkedIn Launches Its First Standalone Job Search App, Privacy Guaranteed
5:59 am PDT • June 19, 2014
LinkedIn says that today 40% of its 300 million users access the site on mobile devices, so its bid to tap into the wave of users accessing the site via smartphones…
Streethub Launches Its Click And Collect iOS App For London Boutiques
5:48 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Previewed last year, a new app hopes to entice people out of their homes to local stores in London, starting off with boutique fashion and gift stores. StreetHub’s iOS app…
Hardware
Apple Literally Brings Some Muscle To Mobile Camera Lens Design In New Patent
5:41 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Apple has a new patent (via AppleInsider) that describes something somewhat far-fetched sounding – an actuator for an iPhone camera lens (the part that controls autofocus) that uses artificial muscle…
Media & Entertainment
Double-Exposure Photo-Sharing App Dubble Makes Its First Monetizing Moves
5:16 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Dubble, a photo-sharing iOS app with a twist — the twist being that it turns standard photos into random double exposures by combining two users’ shots to make a new…
ForgeRock Raises $30M For Its Open Source Identity Platform For Enterprise
5:08 am PDT • June 19, 2014
ForgeRock, a company with European roots (UK and Nordics) but now global operations, has become a player in what has become known as – tortuously – “IRM” (identity relationship management).…
Codecademy Partners With Google And DonorsChoose To Boost Girls’ Interest In Computer Science
5:02 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Programming education startup Codecademy is announcing a new initiative with a stated goal “to double the number of high school girls studying Computer Science.” Co-founder and CEO Zach Sims (pictured…
Startups
Puppet Labs Raises $40M More To Take Its IT Automation Business Global
4:47 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Puppet Labs, whose IT automation software is used by the likes of Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T among 18,000 others, is today announcing another $40 million in venture backing, money that it…
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Facebook Goes Down In Global Outage. Update: It’s Back!
1:18 am PDT • June 19, 2014
Facebook appears to be a suffering a major international outage this morning, with the site unavailable in multiple regions around the world, including on web and mobile, and Facebook social…
GoGoVan, an app that connects van drivers and users, wants to make last-mile deliveries easier for users throughout Asia. The Hong Kong based startup was founded in summer 2013 and…
T-Mobile Stops Counting Data Used With Spotify, Pandora, And Certain Other Music Services
7:02 pm PDT • June 18, 2014
T-Mobile pulled something of a “One More Thing!” this evening, with a bit of a surprise announcement tacked onto the end of their Uncarrier 5.0 event. T-Mobile will no longer…
T-Mobile Will Give Potential Subscribers A Free One Week “Test Drive” On An iPhone 5S
6:20 pm PDT • June 18, 2014
This evening at Seattle’s Paramount Theater, T-Mobile announced another change in the way they’ll do things moving forward. Their latest move? Free trials, meant to convince potential subscribers that T-Mobile’s…
Court Rules That Non-Relevant Files Seized Under A Warrant Cannot Be Held Indefinitely
5:47 pm PDT • June 18, 2014
Say the government gets a warrant for some of your data. They come to your house, image your computers, and then hold that data — even the data that isn’t…
After today’s Fire Phone announcement, we got the chance to go hands-on with Amazon’s first foray into smartphone hardware.
Hands-On With The Amazon Fire Phone
5:23 pm PDT • June 18, 2014
After today’s Fire Phone announcement, we got the chance to go hands-on with Amazon’s first foray into smartphone hardware.
A mysterious video released on Harley-Davidson’s YouTube channel today shows a much quieter motorcycle zooming down Route 66, fueling speculation that this bike is electric.
Media & Entertainment
This 21-Year-Old Dropped Out Of College To Test Our Knowledge Of Rap
4:46 pm PDT • June 18, 2014
Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye: Think you could name their songs in just a few seconds of audio? Twenty-one-year-old Danny Friday knows them by heart. He started coding when he was 12…
Media & Entertainment
Here Is The Full Video Of Amazon’s Fire Phone Launch Event
4:39 pm PDT • June 18, 2014
As you probably know, Amazon launched its Fire Phone today. Sadly, the company didn’t make a live stream available, so you had to make do with our live blog. But…
