Category: Tech news

ZIP, a startup program based in Croatia, has decided to dump the idea of raising a fund via Limited Partners and has turned instead to equity crowdfunding. And it’s poised to hit its target (here) of £50,000, raised through the UK-based Seedrs platform. ZIP is co-founded by entrepreneurs and angels Ivo Spigel, Mihovil Barancic and Sasa Cvetojevic and Damir Sabol, who successfully… Read More

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Facebook.com/GillmorGang Read More

 As a watch fan I’ve seen them all: the Fossils, the Rolexes, the Omegas, and now the Kairosii. Created by a team of engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs, these watches feature a standard automatic mechanical watch (the kind you wind) behind a tinted crystal that can show notifications right on the surface. How does it work? The mechanical portion is a standard Miyota Japan 82S7… Read More

 Farmeron, a SaaSstartup aimed at the agriculture industry (run your dairy farm in the cloud instead of grappling with Excel etc), has raised an additional $2.65 million in funding from agricultural investors Matt Swanson, Andrew Murphy, SoftTech VC and NextView Ventures. The funding will be used to go after enterprise sales. Farmeron focuses on the data-complex dairy industry where you need… Read More

 Editor’s note: Mark DiPaola is chairman and co-founder of inMarket. From concert venues to your neighborhood grocery store, beacons are ushering in an age of touchless, context-based mobile experiences for savvy consumers. There have been plenty of exciting announcements touting beacons in 2014, and enormous interest in the field. However, there is also confusion about how to actually… Read More

 It’s been a wild week in the land of gadgets.
Microsoft unveiled its latest and greatest generation of the Surface Windows-powered tablet, while Matt discovered a fun new toy to help him conquer summer bugs in the house. Meanwhile, Darrell takes a closer look at the OnePlusOne smartphone, which offers premium Android specs at an affordable price.
We discuss all this and more on this… Read More

 In a surprising amount of futuristic visions of how hacking will work in the future, the experience is immersive, rather than something done hunched over a computer looking at lines of code scroll by. DARPA appears to agree with the full-body submersion vision of hacking’s future, as it’s working on an Oculus Rift-based interface for use by U.S. military hackers, one part of its Plan… Read More

 Surprising a grand total of zero people, Microsoft confirmed the existence of Windows with Bing today, and its post on the matter is deliciously vague. The core bit, in keeping to earlier reports, is that Windows with Bing will ship on low-cost devices — Paul Thurrott reported that devices under $250 will be eligible — bringing Windows 8.1′s cost profile better in line… Read More

 A company called Stash wants to take the hassle out of shopping for beauty and personal care items, while also scouring the web to find the lowest prices and best products, as recommended by experts, including fashion and beauty magazines, websites and blogs. The company has been quietly testing its iOS application over the past year with a couple thousand beta testers, and is now ready… Read More

 Google’s letting YouTube creators know they’re special and important with a new Creator Preview series of videos (via 9to5Google) to keep the updated on new developments, and the first one reveals some of the upcoming YouTube-focused features the search giant is working on. Among the new developments are a creator-focused YouTube management app, new revenue options via direct… Read More

 Fancy Hands, the New York City based startup that lets you book a remote personal assistant to complete tasks for a flat fee, has hired a new CEO to focus on business partnerships and growth, founder Ted Roden tells TechCrunch.
Roden has handed over the CEO role to Joshua Boltuch, who was previously a founder of Amie Street, the online music store and social sharing service which became Songza. Read More

 Google today announced that CoreOS, a specialized Linux distribution for computing at the scale of companies like Google and Facebook, is now officially available on its Compute Engine. This puts the Y Combinator alum right next to industry heavyweights like Debian, RedHat and Suse, which are among the default choices in Compute Engine’s control panel today. This is clearly a major win… Read More

The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 can probably replace your laptop. The big question is: Are you willing to pay the price and make some compromises in order to let it?

If you need a keyboard case for your iPad Air, this is the one you want.

 Facebook was recently reported to be working on a new ‘ephemeral messaging’ app similar to Snapchat, allowing users to send short video messages very easily. Dubbed Slingshot, the app is understood to resemble TapTalk, the video-messaging app from Berlin-based Wit Dot Media. In TapTalk, users tap or hold a contact’s profile picture to instantly send a photo or short video.… Read More