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Hong Kong Police Raid Uber Offices, Arrest Drivers
Uber’s worldwide expansion plans have hit yet another legal bump. Five Uber drivers were arrested in Hong Kong yesterday, allegedly for operating without a hire car permit and driving without proper insurance. Two of Uber’s local offices were also raided and three staff members detained, according to the the South China Morning Post. Read More
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Looking Glass Founders See Their L3D Cube As A New Type Of Display
Earlier this year, Looking Glass successfully raised $252,000 on Kickstarter for its 3D LED cube, dubbed the L3D Cube. Now the startup actually is shipping cubes — or, rather, kits for assembling your cube — and co-founders Alex Hornstein and Shawn Frayne are getting settled into a new office in Brooklyn. (Frayne is splitting his time between Brooklyn and Hong Kong.) So we stopped… Read More
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Patreon Makes Space To Create | TC Cribs
In today’s episode of Cribs, we visit Patreon, a subscription-based funding platform for artists. Patreon is all about creative. Giant murals deck the walls alongside the productions of writers and artists on the site. Employees gather for jam sessions, utilizing the many musical instruments available in the office. Tune in to see Patreon’s art-filled office and my first go at… Read More
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Square Has Both The Hardware And Software To Help Businesses Of All Sizes
Last week, I visited payments company Square and sat down with its Hardware Lead, Jesse Dorogusker, about much more than hardware. Dorogusker, a former director of engineering at Apple, discussed with me how the company has evolved to much more than a dongle that accepts payments. Read More
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Top VCs Are Chasing Digital Companies In Latin America
It has been difficult to attract investors to the digital startup space in Latin America. This is because of a variety of reasons, including the lack of a track record of established VC firms in Latin America, the immaturity of the new generation of entrepreneurs and the scarcity of exit strategies in the region. Read More
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Your Edgy Startup Idea Is Stupid
First it was glitter and dicks. Then it was on-demand everything. Then it was breasts. Startups, please: stop.
2015 has been the year of the awful idea. It began early on this year with a number of services that wanted to send your enemies glitter and cardboard penises. They had all the trappings of a traditional startup – media blitzes, wild founders, and wacky ideas about social… Read More
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Sketchfab Adds Animations To Its 3D Model Sharing Platform
3D model repository Sketchfab just added a nifty little feature that should appeal to 3D animators. You can now upload animated models to Sketchfab, and the website will endlessly loop the animation. Currently, the startup supports FBX files, such as files generated by Mixamo. Read More
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Makerbase Is An IMDb Of Who Made Your Favorite Apps And Websites
A new service called Makerbase wants to make it easier for anyone to discover who built some of the most popular websites and apps people use every day. The idea, which is described as an “IMDb” for people who make software, is the latest project from ThinkUp’s founders – Lifehacker founding editor Gina Trapani and early blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash.… Read More
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Y Combinator, Tim Cook Back Nebia, A Shower That Uses 70% Less Water
As a health spa owner in Mexico City, Carlos Gomez Andonaegui often fretted about the cost of water. Mexico’s capital city, with more than 20 million people in the metropolitan region, sits at an altitude of more than 7,000 feet in the heart of the country where it is near no major natural water sources. Two enormous systems dating back to the 1940s and 1970s elevate water by more than… Read More
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Wildcard Debuts A News-Reading App Designed For The Mobile Age
Besides messaging, snapping photos, and checking the weather, news reading has become one of the top activities done on mobile phones. It’s so popular, in fact, that Apple is introducing its own native News app in iOS 9, due out this fall. But not without some competition in the marketplace. The latest contender to enter the arena is Wildcard, a news app with a unique look and feel… Read More
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