A former president at musical.ly (now known as TikTok), Alex Hofmann has already done something that seems impossible: He helped build an app that could compete with social giants like Meta, YouTube o
Falcon Heavy launch is set for November, i.am+ acquires Wink and Stitch Fix has confidentially filed for an IPO. All this on Cruch Report.
Wink — the smart home hub and platform originally incubated inside the failed connected object maker Quirky, and then acquired by Flextronics (now known as Flex) as part-payment for Quirky̵
August’s Smart Lock gets a bit more useful today, thanks to newfound integration with connected home app, Wink. The app is already compatible with a number of third-party smart home devices, includi
If the Amazon Echo is the face of home automation, a smart home hub is the brains. It sits silently, stuffed under a couch or on a bookshelf, connecting all the smart devices around a person’s home.
The smart home has come a long way in the two-plus years since the original Wink Hub was launched as a spinoff of New York-based hardware crowdsourcer, Quirky. Among other things, a number of major pl
Quirky, the long-suffering startup that was once held up as a model for bridging the maker movement and corporate world, has filed for bankruptcy.
Hey, who here gets excited about smart lightbulbs? Probably four of you raised your hands, and two of them were me. GE has taken a different approach to selling its new Link connected bulbs, eschewing
Everyone's gunning to be the platform for your smart home, including Apple and Google, but Quirky spin-off startup Wink has its range in stores as of today at The Home Depot, giving it access to a mar
New York-based “invention machine” Quirky, a company which turns crowdsourced ideas into real-world products you can buy like this popular flexible power strip, these connected milk jugs
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.evertale.com/">Evertale</a>, a Copenhagen-based startup <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/24/evertale-a-social-network-for-the-less-proactive-gets-seed-fundi
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/13-215x86.png" width="215" height="86" />Just a few months after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/13/shutterfly-buys-tiny-pictures-for-
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/wink_glasses_01.jpg" alt="wink_glasses_01" title="wink_glasses_01" />Matt wrote about <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/30/hint-
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wink.jpg">I'm guessing most of us have experienced the sensation of our eyes glossing over and and losing the ability to focus on the com
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When <a href="http://www.reunion.com/">Reunion.com</a> and <a href="http://www.wink.com/">Wink</a> <a href="https://t
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Google may be good at many things, but people search is not one of them. For that you'll have to use a more specialized s
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People-search engine <a href="http://www.wink.com">Wink</a> has joined forces with <a href="http://www.re
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<a href="http://www.wink.com">Wink</a>, the search engine that lets you search user profiles across many
Having a page put up about you in Wikipedia is difficult, mostly because of the Notability requirement for inclusion – and you aren’t “notable” unless you’ve received sig
New comer to the people search game 123people.com is a Austrian based startup that is looking to provide a new take on the competitive people search market with a European focus. There’s no shor
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