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Gruveo Brings Anonymous Video Calls To The iPhone And iPad
Gruveo, a service that launched last year to allow for fast, anonymous video calling via the web, is now coming to mobile, starting with today’s debut of an iOS application. On the iPhone and iPad, the new app is less focused on anonymity, and more on being able to quickly call another person without having to go through a sign-up process or adding people to your contacts. Read More
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Former Millennial Media Exec Marcus Startzel Is The New CEO At Ad Attribution Startup MediaGlu
Marcus Startzel has held some big roles at big companies — he was most recently the chief revenue officer at Millennial Media, a mobile advertising company that went public a couple of years ago, and before that, vice president of sales at AOL Advertising. Now he’s taking the reins at a startup that’s a bit smaller. In fact, that’s the entire six-person team in the… Read More
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For Two New Apps Called “Push” And “Drop,” The Push Notification Is The App
Two new applications, Drop and Push, want to save you from having to download multiple news apps or browse dozens of websites just to keep up with the topics that interest you. But what makes these two apps different, when compared with news aggregators or other mobile news readers (aka RSS readers), is that they primarily function via push notifications. Read More
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Lyve’s New App Lets You Access All Your Photos And Videos From Any Device You Own
Accessing your entire photo and video collection from any device can still be a challenge today, especially if you have your media spread out across a variety of local hard drives as well as various cloud services where you have to pay for storage – potentially limiting how much of your collection is hosted online at any given time. Lyve Minds, which launched its first product –… Read More
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Skylable Secures Investment From Sunstone For Open Source Storage
In the rarified world of ‘private data clouds’ a handful of companies dominate. On the open source side, Red Hat acquired Ceph for $175m and Gluster for $136m. Then there was EMC, which acquired ScaleIO for $200m.
Now a UK company thinks it has come up with a new kind of open source storage technology designed to build private data clouds.
Skylable Sx claims it has had 110,000+… Read More
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Snapchat and Spiegel’s Interesting Call on the Hong Kong Demonstrations
I don’t mean to pile onto Snapchat in the middle of the #Snappening. But I thought there was something interesting that went missed in CEO Evan Spiegel’s multi-generational chat with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week at the Vanity Fair Summit. During the Hong Kong demonstrations that blew up this month, he and his team briefly discussed turning the protests… Read More
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Glimpse Pivots To Privacy-Focused Group Messaging For Teens
Security-focused ephemeral messaging app Glimpse is going through some major restructuring, with one co-founder departing as the startup shifts gears from general-purpose photo and video messaging to focus on groups and teens in particular. This Is Withings’ Vision For The Future Of The Home
Slowly but surely, Withings has been building up its product portfolio to provide a truly holistic approach to gadgets and digital services. Recently, the French company brought over its latest products, outfitted a snazzy New York city hotel room, and gave us a sweet little tour of what the perfectly connected Withings home looks like. Read More
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Moonfrye Debuts Its Latest App, A Party Planning Mobile Shop Called P.S. XO
Moonfrye, the family oriented startup best known as the company co-founded by former child star Soleil Moon Frye (aka TV’s “Punky Brewster”) has officially launched its second product, P.S. XO. Now available on the iPhone and iPad, the P.S. XO app allows consumers to take care of party planning activities directly from their mobile phone or tablet, including things like… Read More
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Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap
Today at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hit the skids after Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd — an institution known for its prominence in STEM fields — asked him how young women should ask for a raise. Nadella replied that not asking for a raise can in fact be “one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don’t… Read More
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