May 22, 2018
Email client Spark becomes collaborative
Readdle, the company behind popular email client Spark, is releasing a major new version of Spark on iOS and macOS. Spark is expanding beyond a personal email client.…
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May 22, 2018
Razer’s new external graphics enclosure is compatible with Macs
A couple of gaming hardware announcements just dropped from team Razer. What makes the Core X graphics enclosure arguably the most notable of the bunch is the inclusion…
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Epic Games will pump $100 million into Fortnite esports competitions
Epic Games doesn’t want the party to stop. The gaming company announced today that it plans to funnel $100 million into Fortnite esports competitions for the “2018-2019 season,”…
Read articleMay 21, 2018
Uizard raises funds for its AI that turns design mockups into source code
When you’re trying to build apps, there is a very tedious point where you have to stare at a wireframe and then laboriously turn it into code. Actually,…
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Instagram says ‘you’re all caught up’ in first time-well-spent feature
Without a chronological feed, it can be tough to tell if you’ve seen all the posts Instagram will show you. That can lead to more of the compulsive,…
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TheSkimm closes its $12M Series C with big names Shonda Rhimes and Tyra Banks on board
In March, the female-led media company and newsletter provider theSkimm reported it was raising a $12 million Series C from Google Ventures and Spanx founder Sara Blakely, along with several…
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Facebook and Qualcomm will bring fast WiFi to cities in mid-2019
Facebook’s been talking Terragraph since way back during its 2016 F8 keynote. The social media giant’s ambitious plan to bring fast Wifi to cities is taking another key…
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OpenStack spins out its Zuul open source CI/CD platform
There are few open-source projects as complex as OpenStack, which essentially provides large companies with all the tools to run the equivalent of the core AWS services in…
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Cryptocurrency and a stock market boom pushes TradingView to $37 million in new funding
Fueled by last year’s greed-inducing visions of a cryptocurrency boom and a stock market largely untethered from classical economics, TradingView, a developer of social networking and data analysis…
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HMD raises $100 million to bring even more Nokia phones to market
HMD Global has been one of the mobile world’s biggest surprise hits in recent years. Founded by former Nokia execs, the Finnish company has made a name for…
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