April 2015 ~ Tech Support

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Biddulph And Coates Launch Thington, A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT Startup

Smart Lock Pioneer UniKey Raises $10m And Looks Outside The Home For GrowthEvery day there are more appliances and devices coming out that have network components. For instance, by 2017, “all Samsung televisions will be IoT devices, and in five years, all Samsung hardware will be IoT devices”. That’s...

By: Unknown On 07:13

Dormi Turns Android Smartphones Or Tablets Into A Video Baby Monitor

Biddulph And Coates Launch Thington, A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT StartupA number of companies today leverage the ubiquity of smartphones in order to offer parents “connected” baby monitoring systems that can be accessed from anywhere. Often, as with devices like NapTime or Evoz, these include a monitor and camera of some...

By: Unknown On 06:58

Home Automation System Seed Labs Launches Silvair Control To Make Your Lightbulbs Smart

Dormi Turns Android Smartphones Or Tablets Into A Video Baby MonitorAs our homes becoming increasingly wired (or unwired) it’s important for our teakettles to talk to our fridges and, potentially, for both to gang up on our vacuums. But how? They can now use something called the Silvair Control...

By: Unknown On 06:43

Wikipedia’s New iOS App Sees An Improved Design, Adds Social Features With Shareable “Fact Cards”

Home Automation System Seed Labs Launches Silvair Control To Make Your Lightbulbs SmartThe Wikimedia Foundation has been steadily rolling out updates to the Wikipedia mobile experience in recent months, and today that trend continues as the organization rolls out a brand-new iOS app. This release is focused on improvements to the...

By: Unknown On 06:28

On-Demand Food Delivery Service Sprig Has Raised $45 Million

Wikipedia’s New iOS App Sees An Improved Design, Adds Social Features With Shareable “Fact Cards”Sprig, a food delivery service that specializes in healthy on-demand meals in San Francisco, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Social+Capital and Greylock Partners. The company plans to expand to the...

By: Unknown On 06:13

As Mozilla Prepares Firefox Fightback, President Li Gong And Mobile VP Rick Fant Leave

Boomerang Commerce Launches A/B Testing Platform For PricingMozilla and its Firefox browser have been hurting badly in the stakes for browser market against Google Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari, and now the company is preparing a bigger restructuring as it looks to tackle this. TechSupport has learned, and confirmed,...

By: Unknown On 05:43

The Rise Of Micro Startup Acquisitions

As Mozilla Prepares Firefox Fightback, President Li Gong And Mobile VP Rick Fant LeaveEditor’s note: Amit Paka is a co-founder at Parable, a Creative Photo Network for iOS. Previously, he founded Flockish (bought by StubHub-eBay), led Product for Mobile Payments at PayPal and held Product Development roles at Microsoft. Recent...

By: Unknown On 05:28

Netflix Adds 4.9M New Members In Q1, Sending Shares Up More Than 10%

The Rise Of Micro Startup AcquisitionsFollowing the bell today, Netflix reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $1.57 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $0.77, with GAAP profit per share of $0.38. The market had expected the company to earn and $0.69 per share on revenue of...

By: Unknown On 05:13

Google Launches Handwriting Input For Text And Emoji On Android

Netflix Adds 4.9M New Members In Q1, Sending Shares Up More Than 10%Google Research today launched its latest project: Google Handwriting Input. Besides their voice and favorite keyboards, Android users using Android 4.0.3 and up can now also simply use good old-fashioned handwriting to input text into any Android...

By: Unknown On 04:58

Nestdrop Goes Back To Delivering Weed, Adding 9 Locations Along The West Coast

Google Launches Handwriting Input For Text And Emoji On AndroidMarijuana delivery startup Nestdrop is back in operation today, this time in 9 cities spread across the entire West Coast, including in Seattle, Portland, and 7 California locations. This now makes Nestdrop the only weed delivery service currently operating across multiple states. But things were...

By: Unknown On 04:43

WeWork’s Adam Neumann To Join Us At Disrupt NY In May

Nestdrop Goes Back To Delivering Weed, Adding 9 Locations Along The West CoastWeWork is just about five years old, and in five years has grown to be one of the biggest real estate companies in the world, with a valuation north of $5 billion. Given the tremendous growth of...

By: Unknown On 04:28

In Latest Deals Brazilian Investor Kaszek Ventures Doubles Down On Women Entrepreneurs

Announcing The Agenda For Disrupt NY 2015Editor’s note: Julie Ruvolo is a freelance writer and editor of RedLightR.io and RioChromatic.com. Latin American powerhouse investors Kaszek Ventures have kicked off 2015 with back-to-back investments in startups founded and run by Brazilian women — Dress & Go, a luxury apparel rental site,...

By: Unknown On 03:58

Jawbone’s New $200 UP4 Doubles As An American Express Card

In Latest Deals Brazilian Investor Kaszek Ventures Doubles Down On Women Entrepreneurs After a few delays, Jawbone’s UP3 fitness tracker is finally set to hit the delivery trucks early next week. And yet… it already has a successor, of sorts. Meet the UP4. It does everything the UP3 does,...

By: Unknown On 03:43

Jawbone Replaces The UP24 With The $100 UP2

Jawbone’s New $200 UP4 Doubles As An American Express Card First came the Jawbone Up. Then the UP24. Then the UP3. And now… the UP2. Because numbering things in the order they came out is for schmucks! We found out back in November of last year that Jawbone was...

By: Unknown On 03:28

Ola, Uber’s Big Rival In India, Raises $400M To Grow To 200 Cities This Year

Jawbone Replaces The UP24 With The $100 UP2Ola, the largest rival to Uber in India, has announced that it has raised a $400 million Series E round to fuel further expansion in India. The company, which was found to have raised $310 million last week according to filings, is...

By: Unknown On 03:13

Number26 Grabs $10.6 Million To Bring Its Bank Of The Future To Everyone

Ola, Uber’s Big Rival In India, Raises $400M To Grow To 200 Cities This YearIt feels like Number26 opened its doors yesterday, but the young startup just raised a $10.6 million Series A round (€10 million) from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, with Daniel S. Aegerter and existing investors Earlybird...

By: Unknown On 02:58

Rocket Internet Acquires Restaurant Delivery Service Volo

Number26 Grabs $10.6 Million To Bring Its Bank Of The Future To EveryoneWell, what do we have here. Just a couple of days after participating in European restaurant delivery service Take Eat Easy’s €6 million Series A funding round, ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth Rocket Internet has acquired Germany’s Volo,...

By: Unknown On 02:43

Gaming Startup Code Kingdoms Exits Beta On A Quest To Get Kids Coding

Rocket Internet Acquires Restaurant Delivery Service VoloChanges to the computing curriculum in England, which arrived last September requiring schools to teach bona fide programming skills to kids as young as five, are shaking out into increased opportunities for edtech startups in the U.K. Making learning to code accessible, fun and engaging is the...

By: Unknown On 02:28

Sunday, 12 April 2015

Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 6: HBO Goes Over-The-Top)

Breaking Media, Publisher Of Above The Law And Fashionista, Raises $1.5MHBO’s “Game of Thrones” is the world’s most pirated show, according to new data from anti-piracy solutions provider Irdeto out today. So it’s not surprising that the network has now moved to make watching its content more easily accessible...

By: Unknown On 03:48

Ex Machina’s Stars Talk About Cinematic Robots And “Bro Billionaires”

Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 6: HBO Goes Over-The-Top)FacebookLinkedInEx Machina Is a Modern Sci-Fi Take on Consciousness A new science fiction movie called Ex Machina opens today in limited release — it’s a tense, thought-provoking story, and one that should be particularly interesting to TechCrunch readers...

By: Unknown On 03:33

PSA: Sorry, Those Apple Watch Band Swapping Sites Aren’t Going To Work Like You Thought

Ex Machina’s Stars Talk About Cinematic Robots And “Bro Billionaires”Sorry to disappoint you, recent Apple Watch buyers, but you’re not going to be able to use one of those brand new Apple Watch strap trading sites to get a whole new, extra watchband when your Apple Watch arrives. In...

By: Unknown On 03:18

A Guided Tour Of The Apple Watch Retail Experience

Play VideoMicrosoft Surface 3 Design & FeaturesMore Related Videos Advertisement PreviousNext I went to the Apple Store in downtown Toronto’s Eaton Centre today to try on the Apple Watch with a retail specialist. It’s a new way of shopping for Apple, and one that will clearly take some getting...

By: Unknown On 02:48

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