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The secret of content marketing: Avoid high bounce rates
Aug 13, 6:12PM
Advice on content marketing always talks about getting people to your blog. But, what about once they're there — how do you get them to then buy from you?
The ClockworkPi GameShell is a super fun DIY spin on portable gaming
Aug 13, 5:38PM
Portable consoles are hardly new, and thanks to the Switch, they’re basically the most popular gaming devices in the world. But ClockworkPi’s GameShell is something totally unique, and entirely refreshing when it comes to gaming on the go. This clever DIY console kit provides everything you need to assemble your own pocket gaming machine at […]
Aluminum packaging is coming for your water as Coca-Cola's Dasani brand takes the plunge
Aug 13, 5:28PM
Coca-Cola’s Dasani brand is the latest company pitching bottled water to go the aluminum can route. It’s part of a broader rejiggering of the water brand’s plans to use mostly recycled material for their water bottles by 2030. The company is debuting a hybrid bottle that’s made from half renewable and recycled PET plastic in […]
Facebook is losing its last Oculus co-founder
Aug 13, 5:03PM
Facebook spent billions on Oculus in 2014, and in the years since the organization has been absorbed deeper into Facebook while the startup’s co-founders have stepped back in prominence. Today, the final Oculus co-founder remaining at Facebook, Nate Mitchell, announced in an internal memo sent to employees that he was leaving the company. The news […]
Domino's launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash
Aug 13, 5:02PM
Domino’s will start using custom electric bikes for pizza delivery through a partnership with Rad Power Bikes, as it aims to become more competitive with on-demand apps like DoorDash, GrubHub and UberEats. Hundreds of e-bikes will be deployed across corporate-owned stores later this year in Baltimore, Houston, Miami and Salt Lake City, the company said Tuesday. […]
$600M Cray supercomputer will tower above the rest — to build better nukes
Aug 13, 4:12PM
Cray has been commissioned by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to create a supercomputer head and shoulders above all the rest, with the contract valued at some $600 million. Disappointingly, El Capitan, as the system will be called, will be more or less solely dedicated to redesigning our nuclear armament.
Google Docs, Sheets and Slides get a new font for faster reading
Aug 13, 4:08PM
Google today announced that it is bringing a new font to Docs, Sheets and Slides that was explicitly designed to improve reading speeds. The new font, Lexend, was developed by Thomas Jockin, who is probably best known for his Quicksand font. While Google stresses how this will benefit students, most of us could probably benefit […]
Allbirds is now selling socks
Aug 13, 4:06PM
Allbirds is now selling socks. The shoe brand that’s de rigueur for investors, entrepreneurs and aspirants in Silicon Valley has been bitten by the sock bug. But, because this is Allbirds (and Silicon Valley), the company didn’t just launch a new line of socks. They’re using a “brand new material” called Trino that uses a […]
Oregon joins lawsuit opposing T-Mobile/Sprint merger
Aug 13, 4:03PM
Oregon this week became the 15th state (plus the District of Columbia) to sign onto a lawsuit seeking to stop a T-Mobile/Sprint merger. The suit, co-signed by 16 attorneys general, argues that a merger between the country's third and fourth largest carriers would greatly reduce competition in the wireless industry. "It's important that Oregon join […]
How even the best marketplace startups get paralyzed
Aug 13, 4:03PM
Over the past 15 years, I've seen a pernicious disease infect a number of marketplace startups. I call it Marketplace Paralysis. The root cause of the disease is quite innocent and seemingly harmless.
Darren Bechtel (yes, of those Bechtels) has raised $97.5 million for his firm, Brick & Mortar Ventures
Aug 13, 4:00PM
Brick & Mortar Ventures, a young, San Francisco-based venture firm that’s focused on startups innovating in or around architecture, engineering, construction and facilities management, has closed with $97.2 million in capital commitments. The fund is one in a sea of debut funds that have swung open their doors in recent years, though it’s also interesting […]
Facebook's AR dev toolkit exits closed beta on Instagram
Aug 13, 4:00PM
Not one to let Face App and Snapchat steal its spotlight, Facebook announced today that it’s opening its closed beta of Spark AR on Instagram, letting any developer build and share an augmented reality filter on the platform. The company announced this change was coming at its F8 keynote earlier this year. Phone-based AR isn’t […]
Apple brings contactless student IDs to a dozen more universities
Aug 13, 3:43PM
Ahead of the upcoming school year, Apple this morning announced it’s bringing contactless student IDs in Apple Wallet to several more U.S. universities. The expansion will allow more than 100,000 additional college students to carry their student ID on their iPhone or Apple Watch, where it can be used for a variety of tasks, including […]
Walmart tops US online grocery market, with 62% more customers than next nearest rival
Aug 13, 2:58PM
Walmart is dominating the U.S. online grocery market, according to new research out this week from the analysts at Second Measure. The nationwide retailer today offers grocery pickup and delivery in nearly every U.S. state, and had 62% more customers in June than its next nearest rival. And no, in this case, that rival is […]
Phones, laptops and game consoles get tariff reprieve until December
Aug 13, 2:58PM
Update: Trump confirmed to reporters that the delay is due to timing for the holiday shopping season. "We're doing this for the Christmas season," he said. "Just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers." Electronics manufacturers are no doubt breathing a collective sigh of relief this morning at the […]
Spotify's podcast dashboard comes out of beta
Aug 13, 2:13PM
Over the last couple of years, Spotify has made a big push into podcasts. The tip of the spear has been major investments, including acquisitions of companies like Gimlet and Anchor. It's all part of the company's attempt to harness a massively growing category and build an audience beyond music. The other great thing about […]
Roku expands its free, live TV selection with 5 more channels, including fubo's Sports Network
Aug 13, 1:54PM
The Roku Channel continues to expand beyond ad-supported movies and premium subscriptions with today’s announcement of the addition of several more live TV channels available to anyone with a Roku streaming device or Roku TV. The company says today it’s adding five free live TV channels to this offering, including, most notably, fubo’s Sports Network. […]
Clumio raises $51M to bring enterprise backup into the 21st century
Aug 13, 1:30PM
Creating backups for massive enterprise deployments may feel like a solved problem, but for the most part, we’re still talking about complex hardware and software setups. Clumio, which is coming out of stealth today, wants to modernize enterprise data protection by eliminating the on-premise hardware in favor of a flexible, SaaS-style cloud-based backup solution. For […]
MasterClass founder launches Outlier, offering online courses for college credit
Aug 13, 1:29PM
Aaron Rasmussen, co-founder and former creative director of MasterClass, has a new startup called Outlier.org. Like MasterClass, Outlier is bringing education online, but with a key difference — these are college classes offering real college credit. The startup is launching a pilot version of its first two courses, Calculus I and Introduction to Psychology, for the […]
Samsung's Note 10 game streaming arrives in early September
Aug 13, 1:11PM
PlayGalaxy Link got fleetingly little stage time at last week's Unpacked event. It's true that Samsung had a lot of information to jam into the hour-long press conference, but the offering was glazed over during a brief segment on mobile gaming — a surprising choice given how big of an industry the category has become. […]
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