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Mailbox Finally Brings Its Email Client To The Desktop, Adds Drafts And Syncing Between Devices
Mailbox, the ultra-awesome email client owned by Dropbox, is making its way onto the desktop. By doing so, it’ll be coming full circle and providing a seamless user experience on all the devices you’d want to view and respond to email on. Chartio’s New Data Pipeline Makes Analyzing And Visualizing Data Easier
Chartio, a business intelligence service that lets you explore your data from a wide variety of sources, is launching a new service today that should make getting started with data analysis and visualization quite a bit easier. The About.me Backstory Reimagines The Resume For A New Generation Of Users
About.me has always been about helping users to create a personalized profile page that shows them off in the best light. Today the company is launching a new feature, called Backstory, that will allow them to share their professional and educational background. PlayFab Raises $2.5M For Its Gaming Backend Service
Nowadays, most studios building games for mobile, PC, or consoles are actually building services: there are servers where gamers play together, leaderboards, in-app purchases to process, inventories to manage, character stats to keep track of, and more. While extremely helpful, most game engines don’t help you implement this side of things Read More
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Vantage Analytics Raises $1.1M To Make Analytics Data More Usable For Small Businesses
Canadian startup Vantage Analytics is announcing that it has raised $1.1 million in its first round of funding.
Co-founder and President Aran Hamilton told me that the company currently integrates with Shopify’s e-commerce platform, aiming to help Shopify businesses understand and act on their data. Read More
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Thalmic Reveals Its Enterprise Play For the Myo Armband, Including Google Glass Integration
Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs has begun shipping the production version of its hardware to pre-order customers already, and now the company is gearing up for its full-scale enterprise play with the help of some partner companies and with development efforts aimed at specific devices, including Google Glass. Myo’s potential for the enterprise could be much greater than its initial appeal… Read More
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Lean Hardware Strategy Lets Kickstarter Breakout Nomiku ‘In-Shore’ Manufacturing Back To The U.S.
In the 1980s, Silicon Valley’s hardware elite began outsourcing much of the semiconductor and hardware manufacturing work that gave the region its name to Asia.
But now that the economics of hardware startups have fundamentally changed with new ways to test consumer interest and get feedback through platforms like Kickstarter, some startups are finding that it’s easier to build… Read More
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Women.com Is A Place Where Women Can Engage In Real Talk Online — No Men Allowed
From middle school girls’ sleepovers to more codified groups like the “Ladies’ Four O’Clock Club,” women have known for ages that there’s something special about the conversational dynamic that happens when a group of females get together. When women are with other women that they trust, they often can be completely honest and comfortable in a way that they… Read More
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Y Combinator’s Doblet Plans To Be Everywhere Your Phone Charger Isn’t
We’ve all been there. You’ve been out all day and suddenly that low battery alert pops up on your phone. If you’re lucky, the bar you’re at might have the right charger for your phone behind the counter. If you’re not, you’re walking or taking the bus instead of calling a car service. But with Y Combinator-backed Doblet, you might be able to get a charge… Read More
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Looksee Debuts A Tinder-Meets-Instagram For Connecting Around Shared Photos
A new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The idea is that when two users mutually like one another’s photos, their identities will then be revealed to each other, allowing them to make a personal connection and begin… Read More
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