May 31, 2017
Smartphone screens find their size sweet spot
The joke in the smartphone space in years past was how screens just kept getting bigger — stretching palms and making you look ridiculous when held up to…
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May 31, 2017
Peer-to-peer travel agency TRVL raises $2.7m to crowd-ify travel planning
Through Lyft and Uber, the sharing economy has taken a charge at cabs. Airbnb is making hotels palpitate in their pants. If TRVL has its way, it’s the…
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Twitter tests rounded buttons and thumbnails…because that’s the problem?
Twitter is testing a new interface for its mobile applications on iOS and Android, which involves rounded profile images, buttons and other features. It’s unclear what advantage going…
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How to price your IPO
If pops are hard to vet, and IPO pricing remains an art-science hybrid, what measuring stick can we use to decide when an IPO did well, versus gains…
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Epic! raises $8 million to keep kids reading in a digital age
The makers of Epic!, one of many apps jockeying to become a “Netflix for books,” have raised $8 million in a round led by Reach Capital, the education-specialized…
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Ex-Apple designer & former Twitter engineer launch Halide, a premium iPhone camera app
An ex-Apple designer and former Twitter engineer have teamed up for a new take on iPhone photography, with today’s launch of their iOS camera app called Halide. The idea is…
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CrowdJustice, the crowdfunding platform for public interest litigation, raises $2M and heads to U.S.
CrowdJustice, a startup that brings crowdfunding to “public interest” litigation, has raised $2 million in seed funding for U.S. expansion. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
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Nice phone, Essential, but why is there a hole in the screen?
Andy Rubin’s Essential smartphone has made its splashy, highly saturated debut, and the phone looks like a pretty stunning piece of kit in press images (most things in…
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Android creator Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone looks stunning and will cost $699
There’s been much speculation around the new project from Andy Rubin, the man responsible for developing Android, and now we have the answer. Well, part of the answer,…
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NYU’s Sarah Kaufman talks about the shape of cities to come
On this week’s episode of Technotopia we talk to Sarah Kaufman, the Assistant Director at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. Kaufman is working to create…
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