Last week, I had the great honor to speak with three very awesome people in a Google+ Hangout: Christian Vogler, director of the Technology Access Program at Gallaudet, Andrew Phillips, policy counsel at the NAD and Willie King, the director of product management at ZVRS. These three folks have one thing in common –...
First, the good news: a growing class of mobile health apps are helping people do everything from lose weight to manage diabetes to chat and talk with doctors in real time. Investment in the sector is expected to increase by 25 percent for the next five years and, according to Chilmark Research, it could...
It was perhaps a very badly kept secret, but Huawei has officially confirmed it will be the latest vendor to build T-Mobile USA’s MyTouch smartphones. This summer T-Mobile will begin selling two Huawei Android Gingerbread devices, one — the MyTouch Q – with a qwerty keyboard and one without. Huawei will be the latest...
By now, we’ve gotten used to bubbly tales of startups raising gobs of money at sky-high valuations. The latest is online payment provider Stripe, a company that launched its service less than ten months ago and is now said to be worth up to half a billion dollars after a new funding round of...
PrePlay, a New York-based predictive sports game startup, has raised $3.1 million in Series A funding. The company says it will use the funding to expand its staff and develop new apps for baseball and “other entertainment related content.” The funding round was led by social media entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, RSE Ventures’ CEO Matt...
Some members of the press might be preparing for a trial or big-dollar settlement in Ellen Pao’s sexual harassment case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, but her lawyers probably aren’t sleeping easy just yet. The general consensus after a ruling today by trial judge Harold Kahn is that Kleiner Perkins’ move...
Zendesk has a new feature out today, that lets customers send private Facebook messages that automatically go to agents as Zendesk customer service tickets. What this means? It’s getting easier than ever to get your questions answered or customer service issues resolved. It also points to the blurring lines between work apps and personal ones. And...
Starbucks, the ubiquitous coffee chain is launching its payment app for Android users in the UK. The iPhone app arrived earlier this year and caffeine fans can make use of the app in 700 stores around Britain. The free app is linked to customer loyalty cards and it enables users to make their purchase...
Ask the average person to describe Windows Phone, and watch what happens. They’ll either admit ignorance, make something up, or just stare at you. Microsoft’s mobile platform has a mindshare problem – people don’t know that it exists, or if they do, how it’s different from other platforms. According to Windows Phone’s Thom Gruhler,...
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