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The RealReal’s Latest App RealBook Will Tell You What Your Designer Goods Are Actually Worth
Luxury consignment marketplace The RealReal is expanding its mobile footprint today with the launch of a new app called RealBook, which lets both potential buyers and sellers better understand the value of luxury items, including fashion and apparel, fine jewelry and watches. RealBook now joins the company’s previously launched smartphone apps, The RealReal’s mobile shop and Consign. Read More
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Twitter Rolls Out App Install And Engagement Ads, And New Click Pricing, Globally
Social networking platform Twitter says its MoPub ad network now reaches more than 1 billion iOS and Android users every month, and so today it is making its latest move to build out that mobile advertising business with more products.
Twitter is kicking off the global rollout of mobile app promotion ads — units that either take users to app downloads, or to the apps themselves if… Read More
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Reading Rainbow Has More Backers Than Any Kickstarter Campaign Ever
Ever since Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006, LeVar Burton has been working to bring it back. In 2012, he launched a tablet app program, and just recently, he launched a Kickstarter campaign asking for $1 million to develop Reading Rainbow programming across all platforms, which will be provided to classrooms for free. Flash forward to today, and the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter… Read More
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Mail Digitization Startup Outbox Relaunches As Able, A Collaborative Small Business Loan Provider
In January, the intriguing but ultimately unsuccessful startup Outbox announced it was shutting down its service that digitized U.S. postal mail. However, the team said at time that they weren’t done yet – having raised a $5 million Series A round just last summer, the founders were going to focus their efforts on a new product, they explained. Now we know what that new product… Read More
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Mobile, Social News Startup NowThisNews Acquires Video Distribution Platform Cliptamatic
New York-based NowThisNews, a startup looking to reinvent video journalism for the mobile and social era, has acquired a company in a similar space, Cliptamatic, a platform which helps premium content owners distribute video to social media in real-time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition was for equity.
Cliptamatic had raised north of $2 million a few years… Read More
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Apple iTunes U Update Lets Teachers Create Class Content On The iPad
Apple is continuing to build out its educational tools with a view to expanding the utility of iPads in the classroom. Today it’s announced updates to its iTunes U educational app that aim to make it easier for educators to create and manage course content directly on an iPad. Read More
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Pro-Privacy Blackphone Now Shipping
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone that focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user, has started shipping to its first wave of buyers. Blackphone is a partnership between Spanish mobile maker Geeksphone and security company Silent Circle. The phone, which uses a “security-oriented” Android build called… Read More
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The Numinous Veil Of Ignorance
In watching the latest drama unfold over Facebook and its experimentation with users, I’m moved to argue that sometimes you can be too honest. For game makers especially sometimes it’s better for users not to know, for you to hint and inspire but never reveal the inner secrets. To preserve the numinous magic, it’s often better not to show the man behind the curtain. Read More
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#Love: Pride
I’ve been gay since I was… well, born. At seven years old, I knew something was different when I felt an overwhelming affection for my 19-year-old basketball coach, Cathy. By the time I figured out how sex worked, I had also learned that my Southern Baptist private school and religious community weren’t cool with the whole “gay” thing. At 13, despite truly… Read More
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Startups And The Un-Banking Of America
Historically, when looking for opportunity in the financial industry where technology can have the greatest impact — for investors and entrepreneurs — the best place to start has been with one of our oldest institutions: banks. However, while critical to our economy, banks are generally inefficient, have high fixed costs and don’t exactly elicit happy thoughts from the… Read More
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