MOBILE CONTENT ECOSYSTEM: ODM MUST EVOLVE OR DISSSOVE
ello dear friends, and welcome back to another episode of mobile content ecosystem kinda-weekly bitcoin podcast. This time around the Skype booth, main host John Biggs and myself dug into the Winklevoss twins’ love of bitcoin, consumer interest in the cryptocurrency itself, and something technical that we probably got around half right. he creator of SimCity, Will […]
MOBILE KIOSK AVAILABLE AT FITNESS CENTER FROM TODAY
ocket Internet, the German ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth, is de-cloaking its latest venture today. Founded by two ex-McKinsey management consultants, Peter Baumgart and Maximilian Vollenbroich, Carspring is a marketplace for pre-owned cars. Aliyun, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba, announced today that it has signed a joint-venture agreement with Dubai-based holding company Meraas to bring […]
APOGEE GROOVE IMPROVES HEADPHONE AUDIO FOR A PRICE
’m not sure about you, but most of my friends in real life — aka people I didn’t meet through the internet or work — don’t actually use Twitter. It makes sense, therefore, that Periscope — the super-shiny-new-fangled-live-streaming-service that Twitter bought and is pushing hard right now. After nearly three years delivering anything you want on-demand […]
MESSAGING APPS IS GROWING MORE POPULAR EVERYDAY
he time has come, my friends. This time next week, we’ll have chosen around 20 amazing companies to participate in the TechCrunch Pitch-Offs in Austin and Seattle. Applications close on Friday, June 5. In other words, now is the time to apply if you haven’t done so. Selected entrepreneurs will have exactly sixty seconds to […]
SQUARE WILL LAUNCH AN APPLE PAY-READY NFC CHIP READER
pple today announced a new partnership for Apple Pay with Square, which will release a new card reader designed to allow small businesses to take Apple Pay payments as well as credit card chip payments, but not card swipes. But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain […]
SWITCH BETWEEN FRONT AND REAR CAMERAS FOR VIDEOS
n mobile app just introduced an update that will let you switch between the front-facing camera and rear-facing camera while recording a snap. Users have long been able to switch between the front- and rear-facing cameras for still photos, but switching mid-video was impossible. Instead users had to turn the phone around to film themselves or […]