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Dev Job Platform Honeypot Wants To Be Berlin’s Answer To Hired

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:34:58 +0000

Another recruitment startup is launching today, with a specific focus on developer jobs. Honeypot is based in Berlin and follows a similar model to Hired, flipping the traditional recruitment modus operandi by having companies apply to software engineers, rather than vice versa. Read More

On-Demand Moving App Dolly Raises $8M Series A, Expands Services To Seattle

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:30:30 +0000

When it comes to transporting that new couch you bought from the store room to your living room, Dolly wants you to stop mooching off your friend with the truck. Dolly is basically an Uber for furniture and other large items. The service isn’t meant to help you move all of your stuff into a new place, loads are pretty much confined to a few items that can be transported in a single… Read More

Half Of U.S. Freelancers Wouldn’t Take A Job No Matter What

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:30:00 +0000

Venture-backed Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk) and the labor organization Freelancers Union just commissioned a study by the global research firm Edelman Berland, and it’s chock-full of fascinating information about the state of freelancing in the U.S. You can check out the whole thing – which involved more than 7,000 people and was weighted to ensure demographic representation in… Read More

Starbucks’ Mobile Pre-Ordering Goes International With London Launch

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:27:18 +0000

Starbucks has expanded its Mobile Order & Pay (MOP) feature outside the U.S. for the first time, with a launch in London. The in-app pre-ordering option is available in 150 stores in the U.K. capital, the company said today. Read More

LuckyTrip Lets You Find Your Next Trip In One Tap

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:30:17 +0000

I’m a sucker for apps that, on the surface at least, appear incredibly simple and reduce cognitive load considerably. LuckyTrip is one of those apps. Available for iOS, it lets you find a trip in just one tap. Read More

KashFlow Founder Duane Jackson Launches Supdate To Let Startups Keep Investors Updated

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:00:13 +0000

“What’s more boring than accounting software? Business progress reporting!” says Duane Jackson, who previously founded and sold online accounting software startup KashFlow. His latest venture, Supdate, aims to solve another pain-point faced by startups: how to provide investors with regular updates in a way that is useful to them but also reduces the time taken and cognitive… Read More

Tinder’s Super Like Rolls Out Globally

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:01:54 +0000

Tinder, the digital equivalent of making flirty eyes at someone across a bar, is today globally launching the Super Like, the digital equivalent of walking up to someone in a bar and saying “Um, I really like you.” The company originally launched Super Like as a beta in Australia back in early September, and has since seen those users have 3x the likelihood of finding a match… Read More

Happn Attracts $14 Million For Its Dating App Powered By Real Life Interactions

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:00:48 +0000

French dating app Happn just raised a $14 million Series B round from Idinvest with participation from Alven Capital, DN Capital, Raine Ventures and business angels, such as Fabrice Grinda, David Wolfson and Gil Penchina. Previously, the company had raised an $8 million Series A round. Read More

Online Lender SoFi Seems To Push Back IPO Plans, Raising $1 Billion

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:33:21 +0000

Back in May, Mike Cagney, the CEO of online lender Social Finance, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that his company was “profitable and as any private company we want to be opportunistic about when we go public,” adding that, “realistically in the next 12 months, it will happen.” That plan might have just changed. This morning, SoFi, as the company is… Read More

How To Keep IoT Hunters And Poachers Out Of Your Food And Farms

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:29 +0000

A drone equipped to “sniff” Zigbee flew over an Austin neighborhood in early August and found almost 1,600 devices. It’s a sign of how ubiquitous these technologies have become, and how we use them every day — despite their vulnerabilities. As we connect more devices to our lives, I can’t help but wonder, can hackers hurt, hunt or poach our local food… Read More

Knomi App Uses iBeacons And Push To Drive Footfall To Fashion Boutiques

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:01:40 +0000

Spare a thought for high end fashion boutiques. The rarefied aura of prestige and privilege they spend so long cultivating to reflect the premium brands they stock means they can’t use something as crudely effective as discounts to lure customers in store. So how do they acquire new customers? Read More

Australia’s Biggest Tech VC Firm On What’s Happening Right Now

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:22:38 +0000

Earlier this month, a three-year-old venture firm that’s focused on Australian entrepreneurs, Blackbird Ventures, raised an impressive $200 million for its second fund. That’s nearly seven times the $30 million it raised for its debut fund. It also makes Blackbird the biggest tech-focused venture firm in Australia, even while its biggest bets, including the graphic design… Read More

Culture Clash: Coding, Software And Writing For Humans

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:00:45 +0000

There’s a lot of bad code out there. And it’s causing major problems for companies that are looking to build a more mobile-centric, transformational architecture. Specifically, bad code causes projects to take more time, more money and more resources (aka Software Crisis) — which is repeated over and over and over unless a company revisits and updates the long-standing… Read More

Palo Alto Networks And Preserving Culture From 15 People to $15B

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:00:11 +0000

Companies experiencing hyper growth also have a unique challenge: Maintaining the culture and energy that made them so disruptive in the first place. “One of the things that small companies excel at is innovation— having a culture of innovation. But what they don’t think about later is, when you get big, how do you keep that?” notes Palo Alto Networks CEO and Chairman… Read More

Asana Debuts New Version Of Its Collab Software, Claims 140K Companies Use Its Service

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:59:31 +0000

This morning at Asana’s San Francisco headquarters, the startup announced a new version of its product, a new brand — logo — and, happily, some metrics about its growth. As you will recall, the startup picked up a new Head of Business from Google on Monday, announcing at the same time that it has expanded its revenue by 230 percent over the past year. Growth Asana announced… Read More

The eJaculator Is A VR-Based Pleasure Machine For The Lads

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:33:26 +0000

If your girlfriend is in a coma or, at the very least, indisposed, I think we have something you might like. It’s called the eJaculator VR and it consists of a thinger that goes on your whozit and a VR mask that allows you to watch someone, somewhere in 3D and then find pleasure using the rubber thinger with some motors in it. In your life, why should you give valuable time to this thing? Read More

As Automation In Technical Recruiting Gathers Speed, Lytmus Raises $7.2M From NEA, Accel

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:27:48 +0000

As tech companies compete more ferociously for hires across Silicon Valley, a layer of third-party technical recruiting companies is emerging to help startups quickly sift through qualified candidates without spending lots of time on interviewing. One of them, Lytmus, has been in the works for more than two years and has raised $7.2 million from NEA and Accel. Read More

Here’s How To Cancel Your Apple Music Subscription

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:20:50 +0000

Apple Music launched. We signed up and used it. The three month trial period is over (depending on the actual date that you signed up), though. You were signed up to auto-renew by default but maybe you want to turn that off like I did. Personally? I’m sticking with Spotify and just didn’t use Apple Music enough. You can renew manually if you like. Here’s how to change your… Read More

‘Back To The Future’ Trilogy Is Free For Amazon Prime Members In October

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:13:14 +0000

Hold on to your 1.21 gigawatts. Amazon is offering the Back to the Future trilogy for free to Prime members for the whole month of October. This year marks the 30th anniversary for BTTF. Super fans may recall October 21, 2015, is also the date Marty McFly heads into the future to see what can be done about his kids. Read More

Netflix-Style Magazine App Next Issue Relaunches As Texture

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:08:37 +0000

Next Issue, the publisher-backed subscription service offering unlimited access to 160 magazines, is launching a revamped app with new features and a new name — Texture. A joint venture from publishers Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp. and Time Inc., Next Issue launched more than three years ago. It raised $50 million from KKR at the end of 2014, and CEO John Loughlin said… Read More