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Opera Adds Free Apps To Its Android Data Savings App Opera Max

Feb 24, 8:56AM

14692097377_70ca426cad_k Last year mobile browser company Opera launched Opera Max, a data-compressing Android app that let users save money on their mobile data. Now, to drive more usage of the product, Opera is adding another feature to Max: apps that you can use free. App Pass, as the service is called, is aimed squarely at users in emerging markets, where smartphone adoption is booming, but the average… Read More



India's HomeLane Raises $4.5M Series A Led By Sequoia Capital

Feb 24, 8:25AM

HomeLane After several years of stagnant growth, India’s housing market is set for a recovery that may create new opportunities for startups. One of those companies is HomeLane, which just raised a $4.5 million series A led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Aarin Capital. Read More



Viber Faces Ban In Korea As SK Telecom Wins Potentially Wide-Ranging Patent Suit

Feb 24, 8:08AM

Viber_Chats_02 Free calling and messaging service Viber could be banned in South Korea, after the company lost a patent suit to domestic operator SK Telecom. Read More



Google Bans Sexually Explicit Content From Websites Hosted On Blogger

Feb 24, 5:59AM

blogger google Google is banning adult content from websites hosted on Blogger from next month, after the company updated regulations governing the use of media on its blogging service. Read More



Artemis Is Leasing Spectrum From Dish Network To Test Fiber-Like LTE

Feb 24, 5:40AM

Artemis pCell Last summer, Dish Network filed with the FCC to allocate enough spectrum in the Bay Area to roll out some kind of service. Today, Artemis CEO Steve Perlman confirmed the startup is leasing spectrum from Dish for two years in order to “beta test” pCell technology in the real world. Read More



Twitter's "While You Were Away" Feature Launches On Android

Feb 24, 3:33AM

twitter rainbow One month after launching on iOS, Twitter’s “While You Were Away” feature is finally available for Android users. Read More



NVBOTS Wants To Make 3D Printers As Easy As Toasters

Feb 24, 12:35AM

Screen Shot 2015-02-23 at 7.32.04 PM Right now 3D printing curriculums, if they exist, are fairly sparse. Putting a two thousand dollar machine in front of a grade schooler usually ends up in a lot of 3D printed Yoda heads and not much education while the learning curve for most 3D design tools is steep. That’s what the founders of NVBOTS, AJ Perez, Forrest Pieper, Christopher Haid, and Mateo Peña Doll, are looking to… Read More



Google Is Making A New Chromebook Pixel "Soon"

Feb 24, 12:04AM

chromebook pixel Were you a fan of Google’s Chromebook Pixel? The Chromebook with the super high-res touch screen built-in, meant largely to show what a Chromebook could be if it cost $1,300 instead of two or three hundred bucks? Good news! It looks like Google is making a sequel. Read More



Snowden Does Reddit

Feb 23, 11:52PM

Screen Shot 2015-02-23 at 3.27.19 PM Edward Snowden, who you might have heard of by now, took to Reddit today along with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Poitras won an Oscar last night for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Poitras’ winning film, CITIZENFOUR, covers when Greenwald, the filmmaker, and Snowden were together in Hong Kong, right before the documents were leaked and the world changed. Read More



First Look At Beatport's Free Dance Music Streaming Service

Feb 23, 11:00PM

Beatport Streaming Beatport is where the world’s DJs buy their music, but they could only listen to two-minute samples. Now Beatport hopes that by giving away free unlimited streaming, it can drum up more sales. Today Beatport sent out private beta invites for its new dance music streaming service, and we’ve got the first look. Founded way back in 2003, Beatport’s store provides… Read More



The Untapped Industry Of Vehicle History Checks

Feb 23, 11:00PM

oldcars Carwow recently received £4.6m in series A for flipping the car-buying experience on its head, and JustPark received a large amount last year. More recently we’ve seen the UK government give “hands-free” cars the go-ahead. The automative industry is undoubtedly flaring up with some awesome tech innovations, but there is still one sector to tackle: vehicle history checks, a… Read More



Magic Is A Startup That Promises To Bring You Anything — If You're Willing To Pay For It

Feb 23, 10:24PM

giphy Get sushi on a boat, a tiger at your door, or make your parking ticket vanish into thin air. An ambitious new startup says it will let you text for anything you want (and they do mean anything) as long as it’s legal, and it will magically come to you. Just text 408-596-5017 and Magic, a texting service that seems to have blown up over the weekend, promises to deliver. Read More



This Adorable Robot Sits On Your Shoulders And Feeds You Tomatoes While You Run

Feb 23, 10:17PM

tomatan goooo Robots. They’re eating our jobs one occupation at a time, some say. They’ll pour your drinks without expecting tips. They’ll write up the news without demands for exclusives or the penchant for whisky. And now… they’ll sit on your shoulders and feed you tomatoes while you run. Shoulder-sitting-tomato-feeders of the world, beware: you’re now obsolete. Read More



Egnyte's CEO Vineet Jain Talks Storage Wars And The IPO Market

Feb 23, 8:45PM

vineet jain The IPO window is open, which means that companies of all sorts are hitting go and launching their firms into the arms of the public. Among the most interesting companies likely to go public inside the next two years is Egnyte, which I have been covering for a few years now. Egnyte has been willing to share more of its plans and financial performance than most companies, making it something… Read More



Gmail's Autocomplete Is Suggesting The Wrong Addresses

Feb 23, 8:40PM

Gmail autocomplete bug Over the last few days, a number of venture capital and startup folk have come forward with complaints ranging from mild frustration to furious anger regarding an autocomplete bug in Gmail’s recipient field. Read More



Porsche Will Put A Bluetooth Navigation System In Your Classic 911

Feb 23, 8:21PM

y8wqpyiendjiraqg9xez Classic cars are great. The look, the feel, the repair bills. But they often lack the modern safety and convenience features found on modern cars. Porsche has a solution with a radio and navigation system that blends today’s technology with the style found in its classic cars. Unless, of course, you’re driving a classic Porsche to escape modern society. The radio unit can be… Read More



Facebook's Data Protection Practices Under Fresh Fire In Europe

Feb 23, 7:55PM

facebook Facebook is facing fresh criticism in Europe over data protection and the myriad smoke-and-mirrors methods it uses to obfuscate its gathering and processing of user data. A report commissioned by Belgium’s data protection authority has found Facebook’s revised privacy policy, last updated in January, violates European consumer protection law in a number of ways. Read More



Two Companies Are Adding "Smarts" To The Classic Jump Rope

Feb 23, 7:54PM

jumping With all the excitement around wearables and fitness trackers, it seems inevitable that something like this would occur: there are now two separate companies running Kickstarter campaigns aimed at improving the classic jump rope by adding smart technology to the product. The “smart ropes,” as they’re being called, are designed more for those who use a jump rope during their… Read More



Here's A Video Of An iPhone Working With An Android Wear Watch, No Jailbreak Required

Feb 23, 7:38PM

Screen Shot 2015-02-23 at 11.36.28 AM Have an iPhone, but want to use an Android Wear watch? Too bad! Google and Apple are focusing their smartwatch efforts on their own platforms for now, with all signs pointing to them avoiding cross-platform friendliness for as long as possible. Fortunately, the world has talented modders who can make things right. Here’s a video of the world’s first iPhone-to-Android-Wear… Read More



Apple's Latest Betas Bring More Diversity To Emoji

Feb 23, 7:32PM

emoji-ios-ox-x-beta Apple is adding more diverse emoji options to both iOS and OS X, new developer preview builds reveal. These includes various skin color options for emojis featuring people, faces, hands and other exposed skin, as well as new country flags that add to the rather limited original set. The new skin tone options are available as alternates when a user clicks (or taps) and holds on any of the… Read More




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