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Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention
Oct 17, 8:45PM
Many entrepreneurs assume that an invention carries intrinsic value, but that assumption is a fallacy.
Silicon Valley hoped the Khashoggi story would go away; instead, it may end an era
Oct 17, 8:36PM
It’s amazing how quickly things can change. Exactly a week ago, we wondered if Saudi Arabia’s money might finally become radioactive in light of the disappearance of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Almost no one we reached for comment wanted to participate in the story, though behind the scenes, we heard the same […]
Gillette partners with Formlabs to 3D print razor handles
Oct 17, 8:06PM
3D printing for manufacturing is one of those things that gets talked about a lot, but we've yet to see a lot of truly mainstream applications for the technology. A new partnership between Gillette and MIT-born startup Formlabs offers an interesting potential peek into such a future. Granted, customized razor handles is probably more of […]
Why IGTV should go premium
Oct 17, 8:00PM
It's been four months since Facebook launched IGTV, with the goal of creating a destination for longer-form Instagram videos. Is it shaping up to be a high-profile flop, or could this be the company’s next multi-billion-dollar business? IGTV, which features videos up to 60 minutes versus Instagram’s normal 60-second limit, hasn't made much of a […]
Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get Instant Games
Oct 17, 8:00PM
HTML5 almost ruined Facebook when baking in the mobile web standard to speed up development slowed down the performance of the social network’s main iOS and Android apps. For a brief moment in 2011, Facebook even tried to build an HTML5 gaming platform codenamed Sparta to escape the taxes of Apple and Google’s mobile operating […]
PwC staves off disruption with immersive emerging tech training
Oct 17, 7:55PM
The big accounting firms are under pressure from digital disruption just like every industry these days, but PwC is trying a proactive approach with a digital accelerator program designed to train employees for the next generation of jobs. To do this, PwC is not just providing some additional training resources and calling it a day. […]
Postmates launches food delivery in 134 additional US cities
Oct 17, 7:53PM
Homebodies across the U.S. have reason to celebrate. Postmates — the on-demand food delivery service so popular in major cities that it’s a verb now — just launched in 134 new markets. Those 134 additional cities mean that Postmates has a presence in 550 cities total across the U.S, including places like Lubbock, Texas; Athens, […]
Investors see an opportunity framed in Lensabl's prescription lens fulfillment business
Oct 17, 7:35PM
Lensabl, the company that has built a business putting prescription lenses into any style of glasses frame, has raised $3.7 million in a new round of funding. Lensabl makes it easy to put new lenses in a favorite pair of shades or glasses Based in Los Angeles, Lensabl already has an agreement inked with the […]
Essential lays off nearly one-third of its staff
Oct 17, 6:54PM
Layoffs are never an easy pill to swallow, but for Essential, it seems the writing was on the wall for a while with this one. After months of reports highlighting its struggles, the Andy Rubin-led smartphone startup has announced some major layoffs. All told, the company will be losing around 30 percent of its staff. […]
Tesla inks deal for Gigafactory 3 in China
Oct 17, 6:47PM
Tesla has secured the rights to about 210 acres of land in Lingang, Shanghai, the site of the electric automaker's planned factory and its first outside of the U.S.
This 3D-printed prosthetic hand combines speed and strength with simplicity
Oct 17, 6:35PM
Prosthetic limbs have come a long way from the heavy, solid hands and legs of yesteryear, but it's still difficult to pack a range of motion into them without complex or bulky machinery. But new research out of Cornell uses a cleverly designed 3D-printed mechanism to achieve speed and strength with simple construction — and it costs a lot less, too.
Next 10 Ventures is launching an incubator for YouTube personalities
Oct 17, 5:56PM
The EduCreator Incubator will seed 25 to 40 "emerging video creators" with $25,000 to $75,000 in seed funding.
Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans
Oct 17, 5:36PM
At what point do we just give up and admit we're living in exactly the dystopian nightmare speculative fiction warned us about? It probably ought to be these horse blinders for people, which look like something straight out of a Terry Gilliam movie. Panasonic design studio Future Life Factory designed the things, but open space […]
Health insurance startup Alan covers meditation app subscription
Oct 17, 5:14PM
French startup Alan wants to be a bit better than your good old health insurance. That's why the company is trying something new and now covers part of your Petit Bambou subscription. Petit Bambou is a popular meditation app. It's a sort of Headspace, but with French content. You download an app, put your earphones, […]
Stripe hires Niels Provos away from Google to be its new head of security
Oct 17, 5:03PM
On the heels of raising new funding on a $20 billion valuation, payments and financial services startup Stripe is making a key hire to reinforce its message to the world that it’s taking security of its cloud-based services seriously. Today the company is announcing that it has hired Niels Provos as its new head of […]
Skully AR motorcycle helmet returns from the dead under new ownership
Oct 17, 5:01PM
It’s been a long, bumpy road for the Skully augmented reality motorcycle helmet brand. But under the leadership of Ivan Contreras, who acquired the assets of Skully in 2017, the helmet is finally shipping to its early backers. That means anyone who paid $1,800 as part of the original Skully crowdfunding campaign will finally receive their […]
Twilio launches Autopilot to help developers build better bots
Oct 17, 5:00PM
Bots went through the hype cycle faster than a speeding roller coaster, as the promise of chatting with a computer quickly turned sour. Now, Twilio wants to take another stab at this market with the launch of Autopilot, a new developer service for building omnichannel bot experiences. “Omnichannel” is a word only a marketer could […]
Twilio makes it easier to take payments over the phone
Oct 17, 5:00PM
Making a payment over the phone, maybe because you are trying to change an airline ticket or to pay a last-minute bill, still feels like an antiquated process. You read your credit card number to an agent, then your expiration date and your security code. In the process, some number will inevitably get mixed up […]
New York on Tech is helping under-resourced students become future tech leaders
Oct 17, 5:00PM
Jessica Santana and Evin Robinson were riding the subway home from a college leadership conference when they realized they were getting off at the same stop. It turned out, they had grown up in the same neighborhood, no more than 5 blocks apart. Years later, both Santana and Robinson were working six-figure jobs in the tech […]
After raising $25M in XRP, Omni lets you earn it renting stuff out
Oct 17, 4:50PM
“I think any company scaling today has to have a crypto strategy. This is the start of ours,” Omni founder and CEO Tom McLeod tells me. His on-demand property storage and rental marketplace raised $25 million in XRP coins back in January in what some saw as an opportunist move to capitalize on the cryptocurrency […]
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