Looking for a transistor or a relay? Or possibly an oscilloscope? More than likely you’ll end up at Octopart, a vintage Y Combinator startup that launched in 2007. The company is a search engine for electronic parts, allowing users to navigate through a taxonomy of structured stuff, or just do a plain old parts...
The photo-sharing space continues to heat up, and continues to leave dominant player Flickr in the dust innovation-wise. If one thing’s becoming clear, it’s that it must be really painful to work at Yahoo and have any sort of passion for good product design. The latest example of this pain point comes from Flickr designer...
Shopkick founder and CEO Cyriac Roeding See Also: RIM Hasn’t Sold This Few BlackBerry Models At U.S. Carriers Since Mid-2007 Guess How Many Times Angry Birds Has Been Downloaded Mobile Ad Network Millennial Talking To Banks About IPO Shopkick, the shopping app for smartphones, has always had impressive deals with retail partners, including Best...
Such is the case with the Atlanta-based startup TripLingo, which offers several language-learning apps for between $4.99 and $9.99. We reviewed the apps a couple of weeks ago when they launched, and even better than media coverage, the startup found TripLingo featured app in the App Store. The app is quite innovative, offering language...
Such is the case with the Atlanta-based startup TripLingo, which offers several language-learning apps for between $4.99 and $9.99. We reviewed the apps a couple of weeks ago when they launched, and even better than media coverage, the startup found TripLingo featured app in the App Store. The app is quite innovative, offering language...
With regard to their cloud music offering, it looks like Apple is now just about ready to rock and roll. It would seem that this is now coming together even faster than they anticipated. And that may be thanks to two unlikely sources: Google and Amazon. CNet’s Greg Sandoval is reporting tonight that Apple...
Popular mobile app Instapaper isn’t just a great way to catch up on reading when you’re spending time offline. It’s also a little bit of magic that blends the quiet of time disconnected with the buzz of the social web. It looks like that may become all the more true with the addition of...
Popular mobile app Instapaper isn’t just a great way to catch up on reading when you’re spending time offline. It’s also a little bit of magic that blends the quiet of time disconnected with the buzz of the social web. It looks like that may become all the more true with the addition of...
Google Places just announced a new feature that lets you import the places you’ve checked-in to on Foursquare into Google to rate and review. It’s as simple as finding the feed from your Foursquare profile, copying its link and pasting it into the search box in Places. It’s really easy! Places is fast becoming...
Google Places just announced a new feature that lets you import the places you’ve checked-in to on Foursquare into Google to rate and review. It’s as simple as finding the feed from your Foursquare profile, copying its link and pasting it into the search box in Places. It’s really easy! Places is fast becoming...