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Some former Twitter engineers have managed to raise $1.35 million in funding for their new San Francisco-based startup called Pushd. Not much is known about the startup except that it’s working on an application called Sense. What Sense does and what the company’s goals are remain unknow
There are many industries where 3D printing could prove revolutionary but few more so than the biomedical industry. People are dying every day while they wait for organ transplants that never come. 3D printing could cchange that. While 3D printed organs are still being plagued by a multitude of prob
QuizUp is a trivia app for the iPhone that has managed to rack up over 5 million downloads in the five weeks that it’s been on the App Store. Plain Vanilla Games, the studio behind the app, has already managed to raise $22 million in funding in order to assure that the app won’t be just
Having managed to sell over 400 item every second and reaching over 20 million Amazon Prime members, it’s safe to say that this was a great holiday season for Amazon. According to the company, the 2013 holiday season was its best ever. The growth of Amazon Prime is particularly important to th
Now that Twitter has gone public, the company needs to prove to its shareholders that it can generate money. As it stands, only about half of marketers using Twitter are satisfied with the service. One web strategist, Tim Jensen, even went so far as to advise his clients against using it because of
The British government is considering allowing bank customers to take pictures of checks with their smartphone and cash them in y sending them to their bank instead of going there in person. Banks are claiming that this new method of cashing checks would not only be much faster and more convenient,
Taipei-based startup Gogolook, known for its caller ID app that has 1.2 million monthly users, confirmed today that is has been acquired by Naver, the owner of Line. Gogolook’s flagship product, Whoscall, has over 600 million numbers in its database. This data could prove extremely useful for
The ease-of-use that tablets have means that even young children can navigate and control them. Because of this, many parents who don’t have the time to keep their children constantly entertained simply give them a tablet so that they can entertain themselves. While many parents try and provid
Just a few short months ago, two brothers launched a website called Code.org in an effort to increase participation in STEM education. Two weeks ago, the website began a nationwide campaign called the “Hour of Code” which aimed to to change the perception of Computer Science in the American educatio
LG was recently rumored to have a smartwatch in the works. When asked about these rumors, the South Korean refused to confirm that a smartwatch was in the works but did confirm that it was working on an unspecified wearable product. Whether this wearable product is a smartwatch or some other device
It was only yesterday that LG announced its new smart appliances that can be controlled by SMS. Now, less than a day later, its South Korean rival Samsung has announced plans to let developers build Smart TV apps that can control home appliances. LG just revealed plans to let you control household a
Re.mu is a new fashion-based social network created by Alvin Woon that is targeted at style lovers. Woon, who also founded Plurk, says that he wanted to create a site that would attract users who are already showing off their daily outfits on other apps. While Re.mu’s community is still relatively s
