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Every now and then, something so simple comes along that just blows our minds. Dosing Dials is definitely one of those things. The number of accidental overdoses amongst children is at an all time high. While many of these cases involve self-ingestion of medicines - a child taking drugs on their own - there is [...]
Pledge Your Bets is a Tampa, Florida based company with two founders, Michael Lindemuth and Ken Klatt. Their goal with Pledge Your Bets is to help non-profits engage with young donors by making the giving process a fun process. Charities already host challenges and casino nights for more effective, engaging fundraising events. When donors are [...]
We all know that Dong Nguyen was onto something with his hit game Flappy Bird. Many sites have estimated that the game is pulling in $50,000 a day in ad revenue. It's an addictive little game where the user tries to get the bird through as many pipes as possible without running into them. There [...]
Were you one of the tens of millions of customers that shopped at your local Target store over the Black Friday shopping weekend? Well if you were, you may want to read this and then immediately check your online banking. Reuters reported late Wednesday evening that "track data" from at least 1 million payment cards [...]
Via Pete Cashmore As part of Google's major push to become device agnostic, the company announced that there is now one Android SDK that covers all form factors - phones, tablets, and TVs. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the TV part. AndroidTV is a long-time coming. Google TV [...]
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Facebook announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the mobile messaging service WhatsApp. The terms of the deal, as noted in Facebook's Newsroom, amount to WhatsApp receiving: "[A] total of approximately $16 billion, including $4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares."
“I think of this app as a 21st century record album.” that's what Michael Epstein told The Wall Street Journal about the app he directed with digital artist Mark Thompson. That app, "John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes" was built around four hours worth of demo recordings, interviews, and interactive features all surrounding a trip that Lennon [...]
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For the whole of 2013 the Greater Boston, MA area - and really Massachusetts as a whole - has been one of the top destinations for VC money. California and New York are oft considered the technology hubs of the US - rightly so - Boston has emerged as a major player, and is in-fact outpacing New York in many ways. Though it is clear that Boston relies heavily on the Ed-Tech and healthcare niches, the Superpedestrian and Sqrrl rounds display the cities growing technology diversity. It is a given that Massachusetts will not catch up to California anytime soon, but it is quite clear that Boston is thriving.
This may come as a big surprise to many but Apple, often looked at as the shining diamond of retail operations has been wading through a slight decline in sales. AppleInsider reports that same store sales were down 5% in March after a 3% uptick in December of 2013. The decline Apple is seeing on [...]
The internet was abuzz Monday with news that Google had doubled down on robotics, specifically in the drone variety. Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar powered drones that can fly 65,000 feet above sea level without needing to land, reports TechCrunch. The company was reportedly in talks to be acquired by Facebook [...]
We're on the ground at OneSpark the World's Crowdfunding Festival in Jacksonville Florida soaking up the rays with at least 100,000 attendees at this event bringing Indiegogo, Kickstarter and your local startup accelerator pitch day to life in one off-line, online hybrid mashup. Check out more of our OneSpark coverage here. One of our coverage [...]
As it become more and more clear that streaming services will win out, it makes a lot of sense for Apple to launch iTunes Radio as a standalone product. It seems that the streaming space will be getting more competitive in the coming months and years. Samsung just announced their own streaming service, Samsung Milk, Beats Music just launched, and Pandora and iHeartRadio are not going anywhere anytime soon.
In the latest iPhone 6 news, it looks like the new device will roll out in two different sizes. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), Apple will offer the iPhone 6 with both a 4.7 inch and 5.5 inch screen size.
On Wednesday, HTC held a launch event. It was widely assumed that this event would mark the release of a new HTC smartwatch. According to Re/code, the wearable was not ready, and thus the launch of the watch was pushed back. HTC Americas head Jason Mackenzie told Re/code: We had originally planned to have a wearable [...]
On Thursday, May 29, General Motors acknowledged the threat that Google poses to traditional automakers. According to Mark Reuss, product-development chief at GM, "Google could become a “serious competitive threat” to the auto industry if it continues to push its self-driving cars."Tim Higgins, Bloomberg Tech, "GM Executive Says Google Could Be ‘Competitive Threat’," 29 May 2014 This comes [...]
New to V2 of the Kinect is a SDK (Software development kit). With this SDK, "developers will be able to start creating Windows Store apps with Kinect for the first time. The ability to build such apps has been a frequent request from the developer community. We are delighted that it’s now on the immediate horizon."
(photo: ESPN) So we are 100% confident we know where Apple's Tim Cook will be on January 6th and it's not the International CES in Las Vegas. Tim Cook, an alumni of Auburn University, is a very active Auburn Tigers fan, he even has a home in Auburn that he uses for game [...]
Three months ago during Facebook's Q2 earnings call CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg assured investors that they didn't have a problem with youth and teenagers. During their Q3 earnings call earlier this week Facebook CFO David Ebersam admitted that the social networking giant is in fact losing teenagers. In July Zuckerberg told investors and reporters: "There [...]
If you were wondering why Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook coffers ponied up $2 billion dollars for Oculus Rift, companies like Marriott may be the key. The flagship brand for one of the largest hotelier's in the world has announced a new marketing campaign that involves AR/VR technology provided by Oculus Rift. While it may [...]
