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Genomics startup NanoString files for IPO in spite of consistent losses

Genomics startup NanoString files for IPO in spite of consistent losses

May 20, 2013 1:37 pm by | 0 Comments

NanoString, a genomics company with special technology for helping cancer researchers, has just filed an S-1, declaring to the SEC (and the reading world) its intention to go public. The ... Read more
Square is tracking where you buy to predict what you’ll buy next

Square is tracking where you buy to predict what you’ll buy next

May 4, 2013 1:22 pm by | 0 Comments

The promise of social checkins has always been that they’ll make money by revealing to marketers where you are and when you want to buy stuff. Payments startup Square thinks ... Read more
Google has just posted more source code for Glass

Google has just posted more source code for Glass

April 29, 2013 4:52 pm by | 0 Comments

Google has just posted the kernel source for Glass. This is just the GPL-licensed Linux code, not the Apache-licensed Android code, for the company’s mysterious visor-like hardware project. This code ... Read more
Test your multitasking skills with this interactive brain-bender

Test your multitasking skills with this interactive brain-bender

April 7, 2013 11:13 am by | 0 Comments

Working in the online world is all about multitasking. Whether you’re a developer, an entrepreneur, a marketer, or a biz dev hustler, you always have about five tasks and a ... Read more

Microsoft makes parts of its Kinect code as open source

Microsoft makes parts of its Kinect code as open source

March 12, 2013 3:07 am by | 0 Comments

Microsoft has open-sourced some of the code for Kinect for Windows, its motion-sensing gestural control device for the desktop. A total of 22 code samples have been posted to CodePlex, ... Read more
A pretty, elegant iPad app for…wait, spreadsheets? Seriously?

A pretty, elegant iPad app for…wait, spreadsheets? Seriously?

February 27, 2013 3:46 pm by | 0 Comments

Spreadsheets are the awkward, unpopular Mary Katherine Gallaghers of software. A new app, Permanent, turns them into superstars.

Permanent is a tablet app for spreadsheets. In a world where more ... Read more

You’re gonna need a warrant for that: Google pushes back on gov’t requests for your data

You’re gonna need a warrant for that: Google pushes back on gov’t requests for your data

January 23, 2013 12:38 pm by | 0 Comments

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In its latest transparency report, Google showed that in spite of governments’ increased requests for information on citizens, the company is actually turning over less user ... Read more

Nike teams with TechStars for a sports-themed startup accelerator in Portland

Nike teams with TechStars for a sports-themed startup accelerator in Portland

December 10, 2012 3:33 pm by | 0 Comments

The Nike+ Accelerator program was announced today; it uses the TechStars infrastructure to lure more developers to the Nike+ platform. ... Read more
Sequoia Capital is raising funds again

Sequoia Capital is raising funds again

December 4, 2012 1:59 pm by | 0 Comments

Sequoia Capital is fixin’ to raise a chunk of change for a new seed fund, according to an SEC filing this morning.In a Form D disclosing its fundraising plans, we ... Read more
Could this make mobile health app development easier than ever?

Could this make mobile health app development easier than ever?

October 9, 2012 10:00 am by | 1 Comments

Sometimes, there are moments in your life as a mobile developer when you actually don’t want or need your app to blow up ’ for example, when you’re building an ... Read more
Lark has you covered 24/7 with new daytime wristband to track diet and exercise

Lark has you covered 24/7 with new daytime wristband to track diet and exercise

October 8, 2012 9:00 am by | 0 Comments

Lark, the startup that makes those nifty sleep-tracking, insomnia-curing wristbands, has just taken its product a step farther. Today, the company launched a new wristband that brings diet and exercise ... Read more
How one researcher is using tech to make science & medicine better & faster

How one researcher is using tech to make science & medicine better & faster

October 3, 2012 7:11 pm by | 0 Comments

Robert Arauz didn’t intend to become an entrepreneur. He’s actually a scientist by profession and training. Starting a company is just the best way he’s found to solve some of ... Read more
Google shifts strategy from fighting the patent system to changing it

Google shifts strategy from fighting the patent system to changing it

August 20, 2012 5:15 pm by | 0 Comments

After fighting the patent battle of the decade in court with Oracle, Googlers are getting publicly fed up with software patents as a whole. Conceptually, they just don’t jive with ... Read more
Facebook hackathon (Developer World HACK 2012) goes global

Facebook hackathon (Developer World HACK 2012) goes global

August 8, 2012 3:44 pm by | 0 Comments

Today, Facebook is announcing Developer World HACK 2012, a two-month series of hackathon events for software devs.Given the world’s rabid interest in events like f8, the company’s developer conference, and ... Read more
Start figuring out now how you’ll use Google’s Knowledge Graph

Start figuring out now how you’ll use Google’s Knowledge Graph

August 8, 2012 1:25 pm by | 0 Comments

Amit Singhal and I have something in common. He heads up Google’s web search technology, and I am a lowly blogger, but we are united in our deep love for ... Read more