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Arguably the most important skill for young children to learn is reading. Needless to say, this is a difficult task. It takes hours and hours to learn to read. We just came across a company that has built a platform that helps PreK- 2nd Grade children learn to read: Smarty Ants. We had a [...]
Dashcams are becoming more and more popular in the United States. While law enforcement, taxi drivers and even fleet management companies have been using dash cams for years, the public use of dashcams became more and more popular overseas over the last few years. Now dashcams are making their way to the United States. Obviously [...]
We just came across a Kickstarter Campaign that has already raised well past $1 million - as of writing the campaign has raised a total of $1,208,011. Above is the The Micro, "The First Truly Consumer 3D Printer."
The public response to the news that Facebook would be acquiring Oculus for $2 billion has been, overwhelmingly, negative. So negative, in-fact, that many members of the Oculus team have been receiving death threats over the acquisition. This broadness of the negative sentiment came as a surprise to the Oculus team. In an interview with GameInformer, Oculus Vice President of Product Nate Mitchell noted that the company expected their existing user base to be upset, but not the general public.
T-Mobile was the first American carrier to implement the installment payment on devices. Now, both AT&T and Verizon have followed suit, but not nearly as good as the T-Mobile deals. "Well qualified" customers can pay a monthly payment (often under $29 a month) towards their device for 24 months. At anytime during the "financing" period [...]
Apple has always been a big supporter of the Red movement and World AIDS day. The Cupertino based company has always been a strong supporter of their gay employees as well. Apple CEO, and Auburn alum Tim Cook is an openly gay man. Apple also coined the phrase "there's an app for that". With World [...]
Black Friday ads are going to start surfacing everywhere over the next few days. Toys R Us has already leaked some of their specials as have JC Penney and now Target. Target is targeting as many shoppers as possible but this year they've made their tech/electronics deals swimmingly good. In addition to the deals they [...]
First off this is not a joke and it is a very realistic possibility that the Xbox One could be the last of the Microsoft gaming consoles. Many reliable sources, including Bloomberg, are reporting that Stephen Elop is a front runner for the CEO position at Microsoft. Before running Nokia into the ground Elop was [...]
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.
The Braven 705 is a portable bluetooth speaker that can fit many audio needs without breaking your wallet. This speaker looks good and includes helpful features not seen in some other speakers. It has vibrant color options: yellow, purple, blue, gray and a few other to fit your style. Although the Braven 705 costs [...]
Although there are a ton of great camera apps out there, there is one feature that has been missing. There is not a camera app on any of the app stores that allow users to change and add filters to video and images in real time. No longer. Today, Looksery launched a crowdfunding campaign on [...]
There is no question that the internet of things, or connected home, or whatever you want to call it, has the potential to drastacly change the world. The problem, however, is that of cost. For many of these setups or connected things, the cost is ofetn quite prohibitive. However, we are beginning to see some [...]
It seems the original instant/daily deals app is back and going for a shot at standing on it's own two feet. Ben Tyson, the founder of Five & Fifty, is a serial entrepreneur, an adventurer and the youngest ever inductee into the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship for his work on Google Earth, so he has some [...]
It seems that many of the grand promises of 3D printing were just proved. According to a recent Extreme Tech report: "Surgeons in Louisville, Kentucky have successfully used a 3D-printed model of a heart to study the heart defect of a 14 month-old boy and save his life."
Shippo has built an API that makes shipping easy and affordable for small businesses that are not eligible for bulk discounts. The Shippo team answered a few questions for us.
Appnation V is just around the corner. The annual mega-app conference that represents every aspect of the app world, or more appropriately the appnation, kicks off December 2nd at the Moscone West center in San Francisco. For two days, anyone involved in apps in anyway will enjoy keynotes, breakout sessions and more from app leaders [...]
From the day I first heard about HP’s plan of enter the 3D printing market, I wondered where they might focus their energies. The consumer market or high volume production? As time went on and more details became public, their intentions became more clear. HP announced that it would focus on the production or “enterprise” [...]
One of the hardest things for companies to do, especially smaller companies, is convert leads on their website. There are a ton of reasons why this is, but it boils down to a simple time vs. cost equation. We just came across one company, Connecto, that aims to help business convert at a much higher [...]
Pro2 Fitness Data Believe it or not there's a lot of important information you can get from simply breathing. Of course breathing is one of the most important life functions for any species, but did you know your breathing can actually tell you a lot? Pro2 is an early stage startup company and a spinoff [...]
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. [...]
