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Funderbuilt Crowdfunding Crowfdunging is exploding not just in the United States but across the globe. Even a man making potato salad has raised tens of thousands of dollars on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Many people have challenged the potato salad kickstarter project but Kickstarter is not complaining, it's within their terms of service and the more [...]
While it may seem like a good idea, using a white board for a projector is actually really bad on the eyes. The glare that comes from most white boards. When white boards are used for projection screens there are often spots that are sometimes referred to as "sun spots" that appear in the middle [...]
Are you a diehard sports fan? Are you a pop culture or celebrity junkie? Are you keeping up with a fantasy sports team? Sure there are hundreds of ways to keep up with your favorite stars, athletes and celebrities. Sure you can use a news reader, Facebook updates, or even Twitter, but when it comes [...]
First off if you're not listening to the 500 startups weekly podcast you're doing it wrong. Each week 500 Startups Resident Marketing Manager and Baker, Mark Saldana sits down with 500 startups founders, mentors, investors and others in their network for a 1:1 look at the important things about starting up. In episode 22 Saldana [...]
The Experiment Fund is already breaking down some of the traditional barriers between venture capital and the university system. In a little more than a year and a half of operation, the startups in Xfund's portfolio have raised a total of more than $10 million. It is hard to imagine that this trend from a University in Boston, well outside of Boston, does anything but continue to build momentum.
When Facebook originally went from a private college social network to the mainstream it was clear, you had to b 13 years old to have your own account. That was circumvented by many tweens throughout the years, some saying they were 103 rather than saying they were under 13. Over the last few years there [...]
The Canonical CEO told The Inquirer that the device "will come out in the mid-higher edge, so $200 to $400. We're going with the higher end because we want people who are looking for a very sharp, beautiful experience and because our ambition is to be selling the future PC, the future personal computing engine."
In more Apple news, it appears the Cupertino company is gearing up to release a new model of Apple TV. There are a lot of conflicting reports as to various content partnerships that may or may not be in the works, but there is a near universal agreement on what the hardware itself may be capable of.
Netflix was on the brink there for a little bit. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had an "oops" moment when he tried to rebrand their in-home streaming service. It looked like things may implode for the company for a while. And then, they had a great idea, produce their own content. The company's "House of Cards" [...]
We first got to experience the 3Doodler back in January at CES 2014. At IFA the company behind the world's first 3D Printing Pen had some great news to share with the world. 3Doodler now has over 100,000 users. 3D writing has taken off. The pen, which retailed globally this year, allows people to 3D [...]
Bootstrap Themes Bootstrap Bay With all the different tools and frameworks available to developers and non-developers alike, it has become incredibly easy to build a website; not necessarily a quality site, but a site nonetheless. As platforms like WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, and others have become more mature, you can pretty much get a website up [...]
Day one of Google I/O is in the books. The Mountain View company made some major announcements during the first day of their annual developers conference. Taken as a whole, you can see some trends starting to emerge. One of these trends is uniformity. Google has altered its thinking as far as devices. Rather than [...]
Apple's CEO, and the most influential Auburn University alum in the world, Tim Cook, took to the stage on Monday morning to kick off the World Wide Developers Conference. The WWDC, now in it's 25th year is an annual gathering of developers working on Apple platforms. Cook was quick to point out that the first [...]
The big news this week was that Apple finally officially announced the acquisition of Beats Music and the Beats By Dre headphone line. Just about anyone who keeps up with tech news can tell you without batting an eye that Apple is paying $3 billion for the company founded by "Gin N Juice" star Dr. [...]
You may know Levar Burton from his days as Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. You may remember him from his role in Roots or if you're like me, you learned to read watching countless hours of Burton on Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow had an incredible run on PBS for 21 years. [...]
There has been a big push in recent months and years to get kids into coding. This is no easy task. One of the hardest things, when starting out, is actually seeing and visualizing any sort of results. This is where Trinket - formerly Coursefork - comes in. Trinket is an incredibly unique product, and we recently [...]
Back in April a report using device data aggregated from Twitter told a story that not many wanted to hear. Business Insider and others posulated that the chart proved that Android was for poor people, or rather more people than iPhone is for. Apple has for years, stayed within it's pricing structure basically since the [...]
Bucquistador is a social networking and crowdfunding website centered on user bucket lists. users create a listing of their life goals, the system matches their goals to those of their friends, and then allows them to schedule events and even collect group payments or crowdfund particular bucket list items.
Whether you're a teacher enjoying your summer off, or a parent looking for the latest in edtech, we've been all over the place scouting out the best of the best and bringing it to you here at Techfaster. Check out these 8 EdTech apps and platforms to check out this summer. Grammaropolis Whether you're a [...]
Google I/O kicked off on Wednesday morning. There is a lot to get to, so we will just jump right in. Google dropped some major bombs during the keynote address. The most important of which was the announcement of a new mobile OS, or Android L, as the company called it. This new version of [...]
