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Uber Suspends Its Uber Pop Ride-Sharing Service In Spain Following A Court Ruling

Dec 31, 5:50AM

uber Uber has suspended its Uber Pop ride-sharing service in Spain, the company confirmed today, after a court ruling that has followed months of sustained pressure from authorities in the country. Read More



In 2015, Software Eats The Wearable World

Dec 31, 2:00AM

7069578953_e59184709b_o Editor’s Note: Elliot Loh is a founder and partner at the San Francisco startup studio The Giant Pixel Corp. Kunal Agarwal is an entrepreneur in residence at Giant Pixel.  2014 will be remembered as the year that wearables leapt into the Silicon Valley mainstream.  Tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm have taken notice and poured money and resources into… Read More



Matter And Form's 3D Scanner Is Inexpensive And Promising

Dec 30, 11:08PM

Matter and Form Gargoyle Closeup At $600, the Matter and Form 3D Scanner is probably the cheapest 3D laser scanner on the market. While the system does require some tweaking to get great scans, I was quite pleased with the scanning results and, more important, thing this thing can stand up to the big boys in 3D scanning. Most 3D scanners use a turntable to rotate and scan objects. Like the impressive Makerbot Digitizer the… Read More



Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Raises $210 Million More

Dec 30, 8:07PM

instacart Grocery delivery startup Instacart has raised an additional $210 million, according to an SEC filing on Monday. The filing confirms a Series C funding round reported earlier this month, which values the company at more than $2 billion. Read More



Manufacturing Reboots Talent Engine In A New Age Of Digital Disruption

Dec 30, 8:00PM

skills In the context of winning in today’s marketplace, businesses can either disrupt or be disrupted. But how can a business disrupt the market when its talent engine has stalled? Whether a company makes clothing, household cleaning products, cars, healthcare or nearly anything else, they need people with the right skills. Like other businesses, today’s manufacturers are going… Read More



In Cybercrime, What's Old Is New Again

Dec 30, 8:00PM

stringphone Like most cases, this one started with a frantic call from a restaurant owner. The panic and uncertainty bled through the phone. He had just been notified his business suffered a payment card data breach and his acquiring bank mandated he hire an investigator to determine what happened. The on-site setup was typical for a small, medium-sized restaurant – a few point of sale (POS)… Read More



The Kairos T-Band Turns Your Dumb Watch Into A Smart Watch

Dec 30, 7:53PM

20141118234309-indigogotband Another day, another wearable design. This time it’s something called the Kairos T-Band, a watch band that connects to your normal watch and enables all sorts of exciting things like step tracking and notifications. I’ve seen a few of these sorts of things over the past year – one company hid everything inside a nice leather band and didn’t include a screen – and… Read More



Ten One Design's Mountie Clip Is Perfect For Duet's iPad Display App

Dec 30, 7:05PM

pd_mountie_foot_desk Your mobile two-screen setup just got a lot more perfect: Ten One Design has launched the Mountie, a two-sided clip that securely mounts an iPad, iPhone or any other mobile device to your MacBook or iMac’s bezel, while remaining small enough to slip into a jacket pocket or laptop case accessory compartment. The Mountie isn’t the first gadget to do what it does, but it does appear to… Read More



Moment Brings Back Family Dinner Time By Sounding Alerts If You Pick Up Your Phone At The Table

Dec 30, 6:18PM

over-the-shoulder-by-mandy-fierens If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to limit screen time around the family dinner table, the mobile application Moment can now help. The app, which previously focused on alerting smartphone owners to how much time they’ve spent staring at their phone, has introduced an update that turns Moment into more of a family application. Family members can track each others’… Read More



What The Hell Is A Startup Anyway?

Dec 30, 6:02PM

Saplings on stack of coins representing growth against black background If you regularly read technology media, and I honestly can’t recommend it, you will run into occasional references to “startups.” Many consider startups to be small companies determined to grow quickly in the hopes of becoming the next passé giant whose corporate campus costs so much to maintain that it eventually has to stop serving chilled sake by robot on Thursdays. Read More



United And Orbitz Sue "Hidden Cities" Flight Search Engine Skiplagged

Dec 30, 5:18PM

skiplagged United Airlines and Orbitz are suing Skiplagged, a small startup founded by Aktarer Zaman that helps travelers hack the airlines’ opaque pricing schemes to get better deals by finding so-called “hidden city” fares. Airline pricing is incredibly complex and one of its many oddities is that when you are looking for a good price, it’s often cheaper to buy a ticket from,… Read More



Actually, Our Greatest Hopes Lie With Techies

Dec 30, 4:50PM

13924217074_76d78b0010_o For all the stories of 2014, few got the attention of the press like the tension between San Francisco residents and the rising tide of engineers and startup founders who started calling the city their home. Accused of driving up rents for apartments as well as blocking bus stops, these techies have been under constant criticism from locals who see these newcomers enjoying the city without… Read More



SwipeRadio Is A Faster Way To Listen To Terrestrial Radio On Your iPhone

Dec 30, 4:48PM

old radio On-demand music streaming services like Beats and Spotify continue to grow, but terrestrial radio also remains a popular way to listen to music on mobile via top-ranked apps like iHeartRadio (#8 in free Music apps on iTunes) and TuneIn Radio (#13). Now, newcomer SwipeRadio has launched its own minimalistic take on radio apps with a music app that lets users quickly access their favorite… Read More



You Could Fill Up At The Pump With Apple Pay Starting Next Year

Dec 30, 4:38PM

Apple Pay Apple is working to expand the reach of Apple Pay, and its next major destination might be the gas pumps. Chevron’s official Twitter account revealed yesterday (via Business Insider) that the gas company is working to make Apple Pay available at its fill-up stations in the U.S. Pump payments are a key ingredient to making Apple Pay truly a convenient, complete replacement for… Read More



Access To Gmail Partially Restored In China

Dec 30, 3:38PM

gmail Gmail access is partially restored in China, according to some reports as well as Google’s own real-time traffic charts. The bump in traffic follows a multi-day outage that began just after Christmas, which saw Gmail users blocked from using a workaround that allowed them to download their messages through third-party apps like Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook which use POP, SMAP and IMAP. Read More



There's A Connected Gaming Toothbrush At CES This Year, And I Don't Want To Go

Dec 30, 3:28PM

main_img Sometimes a vacation is more curse then blessing – I’ve been largely away from email and Twitter for about five days now, and returning is less a breath a fresh air and more a deep inhalation of whatever was in that ancient looking Tupperware container found at the back of the fridge behind the pickled artichoke hearts and other infrequently touched items. Not to center anyone out,… Read More



Mobile App Download Volumes Hit Record High In November

Dec 30, 3:14PM

appstore Downtime from work and other responsibilities over the Thanksgiving break here in the U.S. saw consumers downloading applications in record numbers, according to a new report out this morning from mobile marketers Fiksu. The firm says its “App Store Competitive Index,” which tracks the aggregate average daily download volume of the top 200 free iOS apps, reached 8.1 million… Read More



Samsung Launches Milk VR Video Service For Gear VR

Dec 30, 3:00PM

Gear_VR_Still_2 Now that it’s got a consumer-grade virtual reality headset on the market, Samsung is launching a service of its own to provide 360-degree video content so users have a reason to slip on the Gear VR on a regular basis. Read More



Ford And Life360 Partner On App To Curb Distracted Driving

Dec 30, 3:00PM

7270434562_998e890306_k Texting or talking on the phone while driving is one of the leading causes of motor vehicle accidents in the U.S., according to recent data. Now Ford is partnering with the family location services startup Life360 on a new tool which could help  reduce distractions on the road. Ford is the first automaker to offer in-car use of Life360 and its new “Drive Mode” feature, which… Read More



The Payments Tipping Point Will Be In 2015

Dec 30, 2:30PM

549277847_8b294e9db9_o Payments are finally cool. And the more than 1,500 payments startups on Angel List that believe they have cracked the code to solve a piece of the payments puzzle attest to this. Given all the noise in the tech community this year with the introduction of technologies like One Touch payments and Apple Pay, you would think that digital payments have taken over the wo Read More




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