President Obama learns about Travis Dougherty's startup DeafTV at 1776 (photo: Facebook) Obama 1776 Startup When Evan Burfield and Donna Harris first began to work on their idea for a startup hub, incubation, corworking space and accelerator in the heart of the nation's capital, they specifically wanted to bring startups close to the [...]
Mario Kart 8 Happy Meal The Nintendo marketing machine is in overdrive right now. Mario Kart 8 seems to be the title that's driving record sales numbers to the Wii U which had fallen hopelessly behind when the Xbox One and Playstation 4 were released. Nintendo has now inked the highly coveted partnership with McDonalds [...]
Orkut Closing If you're saying to yourself right now, "what in the world is Orkut", that's exactly why Google is shutting down it's first foray into the social networking space. Orkut was actually released 10 years ago, during the heyday of Myspace and before Facebook was available to everyone in the world. The social network [...]
Android Wear Lyft Need a Lyft? Well if you have a new Android Wear smart watch your next Lyft can be ordered up right from your wrist. Forget having to take the extra step to pull your Android smarpthone out of your pocket, just turn your wrist a quarter turn, call up the new Lyft [...]
iWatch Imminent With TAG Heuer Hire Apple's dip into the world of wearables and smart watches has been rumored for the past two and a half years. The rumors have really heated up in the last 12 months or so with tons of mock up photos, "leaks" and analysts chiming in. Tim Cook has even [...]
The latest iteration of Google Chrome OS devices are coming in the form of "Chrome boxes". The initial Chrome boxes were released two years ago as Google was still trying to navigate the Chrome ship. Now Chrome as an OS is starting to catch on, most significantly in edTech. Both ASUS and HP have released [...]
Google Acquires Songza On Tuesday, Google announced that it had acquired Songza. Songza, if you haven't heard of them, offer a unique take on music streaming. Rather than using algorithms and similar artist mash-ups, Songza offers human curated playlists, based on various factors like time of the day, or mood, or location. It is a [...]
Apple iCup Barista If you've got what it takes to deliver the best customer service and the best brewed coffee, espresso and other caffeinated beverages Apple may be looking for you. Do you love being a Barista but you're striving for a new challenge? Apple has posted an employment ad for an iCup technician. No [...]
Where were you Friday morning around lunch time when Facebook had gone down for the count? There's no way of telling exactly how large it was but Facebook experienced a global outage Friday morning between 11am and 12 noon eastern time. Millions flocked to Twitter mocking their own addiction to the world's largest social network. [...]
T-Mobile FTC Cramming T-Mobile has really made strides in digging itself out from a hole that came about when they were supposed to be purchased by AT&T in 2011. They've added millions of customers, dropped long term contracts, early termination fees and they're even offering free music. All of this is under the direction of [...]
