On Wednesday, April 23, Amazon launched a new service aimed at competing directly with Sams Club, Costco, and other wholesales. The new service, Amazon Prime Pantry, allows Prime members to shop for popular household items in a wide range of categories. This new service has been long rumored. The new service offers Prime members, "exclusive access [...]
There has been a huge push to expose more students to coding and development. One of the biggest contributors to the gender gap in Silicon Valley and in the tech space across the country, is education. Seattle based code.org continues to find ways to help teach as many people to code as possible. You may [...]
Do you remember Zynga? The gigantic social gaming company that couldn't get it's Facebook hits Farmville and Cityville to mobile fast enough? Yes the same company is now behind What's The Phrase and Words With Friends oh yeah, and Draw Something. But none of those bets could help them on Wall Street, and Wednesday we [...]
Is your child ready for kindergarten? As the school year starts to wind down, parents everywhere are preparing their 4 year olds for their last summer at home, and hopefully it's off to kindergarten. Since there's no mandate on pre-k, nursery school or preschool, kindergarteners come into school with a variety of educational backgrounds. Some [...]
If you're hip enough to be walking down your city streets with a Samsung Galaxy Gear 2, Gear Neo or even Galaxy Gear, and you have a Paypal account, then you're in for a treat. Paypal is testing a new payment method on their campus that links together Bluetooth low energy beacons and Samsung Galaxy [...]
The world is still brimming with big ideas, many of which will be fully realized in our lifetime. There is more than enough reason to be optimistic and excited about the near future. However, big ideas require small tools and ground-level construction. Before rockets are launched into space, a lot of this has to take [...]
We were just forwarded some information on a new Indiegogo campaign that kicked off today. This is the Daisy.si - Smart plant waterer. The Daisy.si Smart plant waterer is unique in a lot of ways. The Smart plant warterer is somewhat similar to the Parrot Flower Power, but it has a lot more functionality than Parrot's [...]
Recently, we have been digging into a ton of crowdfunding campaigns. There are a lot of really good ones, and a lot of really bad ones. However, we just came across the The World Speed Project which can really only be described as, well, strange. The fellow on the left, Ryan Beitz, is on a mission to [...]
Patent trolls and patent reform are currently buzz words. Patent reform is hitting the headlines hard, as Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Senate are all tackling bills and lawsuits stemming from recent litigation and patent abuses by patent trolls – aka: Patent Assertion Entities (PAE). By now, you’re likely asking yourself, “How does this [...]
We come across tons of Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns on a daily basis. Some good, some not so good, as evidenced by the 43.56% success rate of Kickstarter Campaigns.Kickstarter publishes a ton of data about campaigns, backers, money raised, and more. They have a top-level stats page that updates once a day. The 43.56% success rate [...]
