NextGenVest, a startup out of New York, is setting out to become a new kind of trustworthy financial entity. And to do that, it’s tackling a big problem. Every year in the US a staggering $2.9 billion goes unclaimed in students grants because the financial aid process has become tortuously complex. Furthermore, the ratio of guidance counselors to students is 500 to 1 nationally, with 20%… Read More
Google announced today a couple of updates to the commenting features in its Google Apps productivity suite. These include the launch of mobile commenting in the iOS and Android apps for Slides and Sheets. Thanks to this, the commenting experience in Google’s apps is now (almost) the same across all of its apps — whether on the web or on mobile. I’m not sure why Google… Read More
Announced today, Google will begin licensing the Myriad 2 family of VPU chips from Movidius. This tiny chip, complete with 12 cores, specializes in enabling low power, advanced computer vision processing, which will no doubt be a valuable component to “mobilizing” to Google’s growing list of products that utilize machine learning. Read More
One of the problems in the early days of the mobile app era is that it wasn’t possible to link to the pages within apps the same way you could link to pages on the open web. But technology has adapted to solve that problem over the years, both on the part of the mobile OS platform makers themselves, as well as via third parties who today provide smarter links to the content within apps… Read More
Gallop Labs, a startup that helps mobile publishers identify and make money from valuable users, has been acquired by one of its customers, Big Viking Games. In the press release announcing the acquisition, Big Viking CEO Albert Lai (previously co-founder of Kontagent and also an investor in Gallop) said the team’s “proven track record of turning data into actionable audience… Read More
Art doesn’t have to be an end product. Thanks to Oculus’ new internal creation tool Quill, illustrators can draw in virtual reality and let audiences see their creation come to life stroke by stroke around them. Quill works much like Tilt Brush, the VR painting app Google acquired. Using Oculus’ Touch controllers and motion cameras, Quill users can select different brushes… Read More
Microsoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built into iOS 9. Called “News Pro,” Microsoft’s app aims to offer readers a personalized experience by connecting them to articles that match their current interests, while also uncovering… Read More
Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? We’ve asked the question before (more than once, in fact), and it looks like it may be in order again: 5miles, an app developed in China but being rolled out in the U.S. as a quick way for people to list and buy items locally, has raised $30 million in funding, bringing the total raised by the company to over $50… Read More
In case there was any doubt that Snapchat wants to be the mobile generation’s mass media, it’s just added Cosmopolitan Editor-In-Chief Joanna Coles to its board of directors. She joins Snapchat investor Benchmark Capital’s Mitchell Lasky, Sony’s Michael Lynton, and founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy. Cosmo and the startup were already connected as the… Read More
Waze, the popular Google-owned navigation app that excels in helping drivers route around traffic and be alerted to other road hazards in real-time, is today announcing partnerships with half a dozen companies in the on-demand and transportation space worldwide, including Lyft, who will integrate Waze software into their own applications to provide routing and guidance. This, in turn will… Read More
In the game of thrones that is the Android OEM space, Chinese smartphone maker Oppo’s star is rising. It said today it sold 50 million smartphones in the full year 2015 — a growth rate of 67 per cent, year over year. Read More
Chelsea Handler’s new mobile application Gotta Go! has hit the App Store. The humorous, but also potentially practical app, is designed to get you out of awkward situations – like bad dates or boring meetings, for example. The launch coincides with the debut of Handler’s new Netflix series, Chelsea Does, which began streaming over the weekend. The app’s creation and… Read More
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