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Apple is opening new stores in Downtown Miami, Cologne and Nanjing
While Apple’s retail team is currently remodeling all its stores, the company is also opening brand new stores around the world. Apple is opening a flagship store in Downtown Miami, a new store in a historic building in Cologne and a third store in Nanjing. Last weekend, Apple reopened the 35th remodeled store across 18 states. “Almost 50 percent of the stores in the U.S. were… Read More
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Announcing the judges for the D.C. and Miami Pitch-offs
The TC Meetup + Pitch-off is headed to D.C. and Miami next week, and it’s finally time to introduce you to our esteemed judges. The pitch-off will consist of 60-second presentations from 10 startups in each locale. These pitches will aim to win over the audience and the judges, which include local VCs and TechCrunch editors. Read More
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Unpacking the innards of Theranos’s new Zika-detection box
Theranos has had a long 10 months. The company, beset with regulation issues, has faced a Congressional inquiry, possible criminal charges, lawsuits, a recall of test results from the past two years, its main partner Walgreens severing ties, Forbes downgrading its worth from $9 billion to now just under $800 million, and its founder Elizabeth Holmes was formally banned from operating her… Read More
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MLB All-Star Ivan Rodriguez is joining a VC fund
Baseball legend Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, who is now up for nomination for the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame, is joining a venture capital fund. Pudge is joining z9 Capital, a $25M fund based out of South Florida that focuses on making seed investments between $250k – $4M. He will be taking a VP spot, and focus on both looking for new investments, as well as using things he… Read More
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The Miami Tech Scene Is Heating Up
Miami is a city of many traits. Historically recognized for the sun, beach and tourists of South Beach, it has now become much more than that. With one of the most diverse populations in the country, Miami is the strategic capital of the Americas, binding Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America to the U.S. market. Read More
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Shyp Confirms $50M Raise, Launches Beta Service In Los Angeles
On-demand shipping service Shyp is rolling out its service in Los Angeles today, its fourth city. Read More
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Shyp CEO Kevin Gibbon Will Be At Disrupt NY To Chat About Shipping And Returns
In just a few weeks, Shyp co-founder and CEO Kevin Gibbon will join us at Disrupt to chat about the evolution of on-demand services and the impact easier returns could have on e-commerce as a whole. Read More
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Amazon Expands ‘Prime Now’ One-Hour Delivery Service To Dallas, Now Covers 4 Metros
One more step ahead for e-commerce giant Amazon in building up its logistics and delivery network, and another for developing services to keep customers coming back for more. This morning the company announced that Dallas is the latest city to get Amazon Prime Now, its one-hour delivery service of “daily essentials” like household items, toys and books. This brings the… Read More
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Video: The Energy Dance Floor converts the energy you waste while dancing to wonderful lights
Fun fact: Richard Nixon didn’t like dancing. Cool, huh? Useless trivia aside, this video is actually tremendous. (So many videos out there are rubbish .) It helps to explain the Energy Dance Floor, which converts the leftover energy associated with dancing, and uses it to light all these lights. Bonus: the video is subtitled in both English and Spanish, so you can learn how to say… Read More
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Sony goes crazy for foam in Miami
Somehow this got lost in the shuffle yesterday and I failed to post it. I don’t know what’s going on here, but all I can think about are those foam parties I went to in Rosarito that one spring break way back when. Good times. Read More
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Miami to have police drones patrol its skies
Sometimes, bordering on always, I wish I had a drone to do all my [dirty] work. Something to blog for me, read and analyze exit polls from post-Maasticht Eastern Europe, grind to level 70, etc. Now, police officers in Miami will have drones patrol the skies for them provided the FAA gives its blessing. The little robotic drones (see a patriotic video of them in action here) will fight bad guys… Read More
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