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SimplyCook Is A Recipe-Kit Startup That Avoids Being In The Fresh Food Delivery Business

Apr 28, 8:30AM

SC3_LowRes U.K. startup SimplyCook is another recipe kit service. However, unlike competitors HelloFresh, Gousto, Marley Spoon, and Shuttlecook, the company doesn’t send you all of the fresh ingredients required to turn its recipes into food on your table. Read More



Tencent Introduces An Operating System For Smart Devices And Wearables

Apr 28, 8:21AM

tencent os Tencent today unveiled an operating system for smartwatches, TVs and other internet-connected devices today. The system, which was first discussed last year, leverages Tencent’s hugely population social services, which includes QQ and mobile messaging app WeChat. Read More



Ticket Booking Startup Beijing Weiying Raises $105M From Investors Including Tencent

Apr 28, 6:11AM

movie theater Beijing Weiying Technology, the maker of a movie ticket booking platform that is embedded in WeChat, China’s largest messaging app, has raised a $105 million series B. Investors include WeChat owner Tencent and Wanda Group, one of China’s largest movie theater operators. Read More



Vivaldi Browser Now Features Improved Support For Large Screens, Mouse Gestures And More

Apr 28, 6:00AM

vivaldi_browser_teaser_page Vivaldi, the browser project headed by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, continues on its march toward its 1.0 release. Today, the company is launching its third technical preview since the browser launched in January. The browser, which is aimed at power users, has come a long way since its first release. Over the last few months, the team has added many features that were missing in the… Read More



2C2P Raises $7M To Bridge The Payment Gap In Southeast Asia

Apr 28, 5:50AM

wallet Payments continue to be a huge issue in many parts of Asia and emerging markets. That’s why 2C2P, a Singapore-headquartered startup, has closed a $7 million Series C round to help solve the complexities across Southeast Asia. Read More



Singapore's DocDoc Lands $8.6M Series A To Help People Find Medical Specialists

Apr 28, 4:03AM

doctor healthcare hospital DocDoc, a startup that helps people find doctors in Southeast Asia, announced today that it has raised a $11.5 million SGD (about $8.6 million) series A. The funding will be used to expand DocDoc’s presence in the eight countries it already operates in (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, South Korea, and India), as well as tackle new markets. Read More



Refinery29 Raises $50 Million In Series D

Apr 28, 4:00AM

refinery-29 Refinery29, the five-year-old media site that caters specifically to the young female reader, has today announced the close of a $50 million Series D financing, led by Scripps Networks Interactive and WPP. Co-founders and co-CEOs Justin Stefano and Philippe Von Borries said that Refinery29 exceeded its own expectations last year in terms of profitability, but knew that there were a few… Read More



Maritime Data Startup Windward Raises $10.8M To Track The Oceans

Apr 27, 11:00PM

ocean Windward, which provides maritime data and analytics, has raised $10.8 million in funding led by Horizons Ventures, with participation from returning investor Aleph. This brings the company’s total raised so far to $15.8 million. The startup’s products currently include MARINT, which tracks vessel traffic using commercial satellites and alerts law enforcement and intelligence… Read More



Conductor Helps Customers Figure Out If They're Ready For Google's "Mobile Friendly" Update

Apr 27, 10:19PM

google mobile friendly Last week, Google updated its search algorithm to favor mobile-friendly pages in mobile search results — a move that could affect 40 percent of Fortune 500 websites. If you’re worried about the update, Conductor has built a new tool to help. The company says Mobile Visibility can help businesses understand which content is mobile friendly and which is not and how that affects… Read More



Apple Boasts Over 3,500 Apple Watch Apps Already Available

Apr 27, 9:38PM

apple-watch-apps Apple CEO Tim Cook said on today’s company earnings call that there are over 3,500 apps available at launch for the Apple Watch, which is better than the 1,000 total that were ready for iPad when that device launched in April of 2010, and 7 times the 500 apps available when the iPhone’s App Store first debuted in July 2008. Read More



Best Buy Will Accept Apple Pay In All U.S. Stores Later This Year

Apr 27, 9:35PM

apple pay Back when Apple Pay was first launched, Best Buy wanted none of it. As a part of the MCX consortium, they were a part of an effort among retailers to build a mobile payments system of their own: CurrentC. It seems Best Buy has changed its mind. 6 months later, Best Buy is jumping on the Apple Pay train. Read More



Apple 'Working Hard' To Catch Up With Apple Watch Demand

Apr 27, 9:21PM

applewatch-7 Apple is “working very, very hard” to meet the strong demand for Apple Watch, Apple CFO Luca Maestri told Bloomberg Businessweek in the wake of the company’s earnings call today. Apple is facing demand that it hopes to largely catch up with by the end of June, according to the executive. “It’s been really great to see the reaction of customers since their… Read More



Apple Now Has $194 Billion In Cash

Apr 27, 9:21PM

apple-earnings-green Apple, the word’s most valuable corporation, has a new cash tally: $194 billion. That’s to say that if you add up its cash, cash equivalents, short-term marketable securities, and long-term marketable securities, it totals $194 billion. Cash is a loose term that is usually employed at the corporate scale to include accreted value that remains functionally liquid. Read More



Identified Technologies' Drones Will Automatically Map Your Job Site So You Don't Have To

Apr 27, 9:10PM

Identified Technologies Vertical Construction Mapping a job site – be it a construction site, oil field, or giant human battery pod factory – is a tough job. That’s why Identified Technologies’ Dick Zhang wants you to send in the drones. His company, which is funded to the tune of $2 million, allows you to send a quadcopter around your job site to create a topographical map of the situation. It is completely… Read More



Apple Revenues In China Soar 71% In Q2

Apr 27, 9:00PM

China Apple Store Apple is tearing it up in China. During its second quarter, the company saw 71 percent revenue growth in the locale, and the company is widely thought to have sold more iPhones there than in the United States. Notably, the company’s Chinese revenue came in second place to Europe’s during the first quarter, losing $17.2 billion to $16.1 billion. In the most recent quarter, the second… Read More



Apple Mac Sales Up 10% YoY Despite Global Decline In PC Shipments

Apr 27, 8:34PM

macbook-name Apple sold approximately 4.6 million Macs this quarter, according to the company’s Q2 2015 earnings report, released today. This represents year-over-year growth of 10 percent, with 4.1 million Macs sold in the same quarter last year. Last quarter, over the holidays, Apple sold 5.5 million Macs, meaning that Apple Mac sales declined by 17 percent quarterly. Read More



Apple's 61M iPhone Sales Lead Q2 2015 Hardware Performance

Apr 27, 8:32PM

iphone-6-6-plus-5s-side Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus continue their hit parade, building on a massive first quarter of 2015 with a very strong second quarter total of 61.2 million handsets sold. This isn’t an all-time quarterly record, but it’s normal to see a slight decrease quarter-over-quarter coming out of a launch sales period, and this is a huge increase year-over-year compared to the 43.7… Read More



Apple Beats In Q2 2015 With $58B Revenue, $13.6B Profit And $2.33 EPS

Apr 27, 8:32PM

apple-earnings-green Apple has just released its fiscal Q2 2015 earnings, reporting $58 billion in revenue, $13.6 billion in net profit representing $2.33 per share. Compared to the year-ago quarter, it corresponds to a growth of 27.2 percent in revenue, and an impressive 40.4 percent jump in EPS (adjusted for the 7-for-1 split). Expectations were pretty high following Apple’s blockbuster quarter three… Read More



Lexus RC 350 F Sport Review

Apr 27, 7:45PM

Lexus RC 350 F Sport The Lexus RC 350 F Sport combines a stylish body and just over 300 horsepower to deliver a luxury ride that won’t bore you on your commute. If you’re familiar with Lexus’s attempts at making their lines a bit sportier, the RC 350 F Sport borrows the same V6 engine that powered last year’s IS 350 F Sport. It’s got plenty of kick, but Lexus wraps it in a heavy… Read More



SwiftKey Debuts "Clarity," An Experimental Keyboard Featuring Multi-Word Autocorrect

Apr 27, 7:43PM

Clarity-BLOG-1024x569 SwiftKey, the makers of one of the more popular third-party keyboard applications for Android, and more recently, iOS, is out today with a new product – an “experimental” mobile keyboard app it’s calling Clarity. While SwiftKey’s flagship product is a predictive keyboard that adapts to the way you type in order to smartly suggest words you can select with a tap,… Read More




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