Estonian startup Cleveron is looking to one-up Amazon’s Lockers with a more advanced solution, and today the company’s PackRobot makes its public debut in its home country. Read More
Eager to throw its product development into high gear, Postmates snagged the team from Hey, Inc. The latter is best known for its ludicrously viral game Stolen, which was shut down and later reborn as Famous. “The Hey team was introduced to us by an investor,” Postmates’ CTO and co-founder Sean Plaice said. “He brought to our attention that the Hey team might be looking… Read More
Every toy and electronics maker wants to get on the edutainment train. And understandably so. After all, who wouldn’t want to make the toy that kickstarts the lifelong fascination of the next Nikola Tesla or Ada Lovelace? But such a glut of products highlights a consistent issue with the space: Educational toys are easy to do, but hard to do well.
As the first entry in its planned… Read More
Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn’t make it? The internet certainly offers plenty of ways for you to unload the tickets… but how much should you charge? Ticketing startup SeatGeek has launched a new way to help you figure it out. In a way, SeatGeek has been offering this since last fall, when… Read More
Its core assets are worth $5 billion (we think?)
It owns a bunch of Alibaba
The audio fidelity of the earnings calls is really good
Yahoo Finance
Fantasy sports
(See also: Yahoo’s latest disappointing quarter pretty much sums up the past few years) Read More
aCommerce, a Bangkok-based startup that helps e-commerce companies in Southeast Asia run their businesses, has landed $10 million in new funding ahead of a planned Series B raise later this year. Read More
The Republican National Convention is underway in Cleveland, where the GOP is expected to finalize its nomination of Donald Trump. The entire Trump clan is attending, plus Donald backers like investor Peter Thiel and UFC president Dana White. The convention runs through Thursday, with most of the events occurring in the evening. The RNC is sure to make for interesting viewing, so here are… Read More
Star Wars engineering experts have tipped their hand regarding one of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets: Exactly how BB-8 works in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While film-makers behind the movie have given some clues as to how the droid works, and people have engineered backwards from Sphero’s toy version of the rolling droid, this is the first time we’ve been told in no… Read More
Google today released the fifth and last preview Android Nougat before the scheduled final release later this summer. According to the company, this preview includes the latest version of the Android Nougat emulator to do apps final testing, the final N APIs, the latest system behaviors and UI and the latest bug fixes and optimizations across the system and pre-installed apps. As far as… Read More
Not-so-breaking news from the world of celebrity gossip: Kimye and T-Swift are at it again! And with this particular stage of the celebrity feud, we are given an amazing opportunity to look at how social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat can be used as weapons. As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, Kim whipped out the big guns this weekend, posting a Snapchat Story of… Read More
Here’s an interesting milestone to talk up around the water cooler: Researchers in the Netherlands have created a microscopic storage system that encodes every bit with a single atom — allowing them to fit a kilobyte in a space under 100 nanometers across. Read More
In launching its Charge Force wireless charging accessories last month, Mophie wanted to convince you that wireless charging was the future of everything that was lovely and good. On paper, it sounded like the perfect solution for people who can’t stand plugging in their phones every three seconds — but I decided to take a closer look to see whether it lived up to its hype. Read More
Yahoo missed its earnings expectations by just a hair, and the company once again wrote down Tumblr. The stock went nowhere. That is pretty much the story of Yahoo for the past few years. Yahoo’s core business has been in decline for some time. Even before Marissa Mayer‘s takeover in 2012 the company was on a pretty clear march south. Mayer’s hiring sparked some hope in… Read More
You’d be hard-pressed to meet someone who loves garbage more than Jason Gates, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based startup Compology.
But Gates isn’t concerned with the residential trash that you put in front of your home on collection day. Instead, he basks in the massive commercial and industrial waste heaped into dumpsters behind restaurants, offices and construction sites. Read More
Netflix reported earnings after the bell on Monday, seeing its shares quickly tumble 15 percent in after-hours trading after missing the mark on subscriber growth. In the second quarter of the year, the digital entertainment company added just 1.7 million members, beneath the company’s own forecast of 2.5 million new customers. This is also significantly below the 3.3 million members… Read More
IT giant IBM has just posted its second quarter earnings, with revenues coming in at $20.24 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share at $2.95. The figures beat analysts’ estimates of $20.03 billion in revenue and non-GAAP EPS of $2.89 per share.
However, non-GAAP net income is $2.8 billion, down 25 percent from a year ago (GAAP net income was $2.5 billion, now 29 percent). And… Read More
ZTE threw a fairly intimate party for itself today in Manhattan to announce the launch of its latest budget handset, a little under two months after announcing the $200 Grand X Max 2. Once again, the killer spec here is the price — the six-inch ZMAX PRO phablet runs an attractive $99, after rebate. The sub-$100 price tag actually brings with it some decent-looking specs, including a… Read More
Finally there’s a better way to gain followers on Snapchat. The app refuses to tell you who to watch. There are no suggested user lists, no leaderboards, no little buttons everywhere begging you to add someone new. You’ve had to go out and find your own people to follow. Until now. Alongside the recent launch of Memories, Snapchat quietly added a new feature it didn’t… Read More
Welcome to rumorland, where we look at smoke from afar to figur out if there’s any fire. This time, signs point to a new iPhone 7 Pro. In addition to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the Pro model would feature a dual-camera system as well as a smart connector at the back. Two photos spotted by Nowhere Else shows the three models side by side. The iPhone 7 Plus looks like a bigger version… Read More
As of 2018, all new passenger vehicles will be required by NHTSA to have rear visibility technology. This only applies to shiny new cars rolling off the assembly line, but that doesn’t mean vehicles made before the mandate are doomed to run over forgotten bikes and recycle bins. There are plenty of aftermarket rearview cameras available, including one from the guys who brought you… Read More
