Uber, the car hailing app company that just raised a round of funding at a whopping $17 billion (or $5.9 billion depending on what you read) valuation, is known for their fun promotions. During the 2013 inauguration Uber users in DC got to experience riding in a presidential motorcade. The company has also delivered ice [...]
We have been coveing a ton of great education startups over the past several months. However, most of these companies are involved with the standard classroom education. However, we just came across Great Parents Academy. Great Parents Academy provides students and teachers of grades K-5 with high quality supplemental math curricula for these students. We had [...]
3DLT was recently invited to present at The Dark Horse Competition. The event took place last Friday at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley. Attendees heard keynotes from prominent Chinese and US investors, and pitches from twelve Chinese startups, who were there to compete against twelve American startups, including 3DLT. While Dark [...]
Back in April we reported that Nest, the now Google owned company that makes the Nest thermostat, pulled it's smoke/carbon monoxide detector, Nest Protect, off the market. They made this decision after they internally uncovered a flaw that could have been dangerous with the product. Although no accidents were reported, engineers at Nest discovered that [...]
As EdTech, online learning, collaborative classrooms, flipped classrrooms, and elearning continue to take off, the need for content monitoring has increased. Long are the days when a teacher or administrator can go to town with a free ip address blocker and call it a day. As more and more students start school, who basically grew [...]
By most accounts Nintendo has had a bad year. Once next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony were released it was almost like the Wii U had been written off. The Japanese manufacturer, that paved the way to the living room console, even lowered the price for the Wii U by $50 to try and stay [...]
There is no shortage of video in the world. According to YouTube, there is more that 100 hours of video uploaded to the platform ever single minute. With this huge amount of video out there, it seems like this would be an excellent source for educators. However, the huge amount of video is both a huge [...]
If you're into technology or basketball you definitely know the name Mark Cuban. Cuban is the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks who built his empire by starting a computer sales company, before he even owned a computer. From there he built Broadcast.com which he sold to Yahoo in the thick of the dot com [...]
Being a news website, we are no stranger to ads. That said, most are pretty bland and intrusive. However, the need not be. We just came across Imonomy, a pretty unique ad platform. We had a chance to speak with the team and learn a bit more about the platform: Imonomy What is Imonomy? [...]
We've seen the Kindle Fire, The Kindle Fire HDX and Fire TV, now it's time for Amazon to unveil it's smartphone in the Kindle Fire line. The phone has been a few years in the making, with rumors starting back in 2011 that Amazon may make it's own smart phone to supply customers, already in [...]
