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A public relations-tracking startup called TrendKite has raised $3.2 million

Jun 6, 2014

Public relations-tracking platform TrendKite has secured a $3.2 million round of funding, the startup announced today. TrendKite offers a service...

MotionSavvy is a new app that can read American Sign Language

Jun 6, 2014

If you're fluent in American Sign Language, congratulations: you know one more language than most of the people reading this...

Amazon’s Kindle Phone will utilize Omron face-tracking technology

Jun 6, 2014

Amazon's June 18th event is still mostly shrouded in mystery, but general consensus is that the e-commerce giant is releasing a phone...

Michigan is building a fake city to test automated cars

Jun 6, 2014

The University of Michigan will be truly ahead of the pack this fall as it opens up a new automated...

Tinder is taking on Snapchat with the new “Moments” feature

Jun 6, 2014

Tinder became one of the most popular apps around by offering one simple service, but now the company is hoping to...

Twitter has acquired a native ad specialist called Namo Media

Jun 5, 2014

We already know that Twitter is preparing tons of different new ads that it plans to implement into its service. The social...

All 12 World Cup stadiums are now viewable through Google Street View

Jun 5, 2014

The World Cup begins next week, and ahead of the the first match, Google's put out full Street View imagery...

An Israeli security startup called CyberX has raised $2 million in funding

Jun 5, 2014

CyberX, a security startup with tentacles in Israel and focused on what it calls the Internet’s industrial domain, raised $2 million in...

Apple has hinted that it might begin allowing Bitcoin-transaction apps

Jun 3, 2014

Apple made a small but significant change without announcing it onstage today at its World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco: It...

After nine years, MOG has officially shut down

Jun 1, 2014

MOG is officially gone. The service was once one of the largest streaming music options available, behind competitors like Spotify...

Justin.tv will be removing its built-in video archiving system

Jun 1, 2014

Live video broadcasting site Justin.tv is freeing up space. Lots of it. The site announced today that it will be...

The Lomo’Instant Camera has raised over $500k on Kickstarter

May 31, 2014

Setting out to bring the next generation of cameras to the market, California-based  Lomography launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for the Lomo’Instant Camera....