Gowalla is being resurrected as an augmented reality social app
Gowalla is coming back.
The startup, which longtime technewss readers will likely recall, was an ambitious consumer social app that excited Silicon Valley investors but ultimately floundered in its quest to take on Foursquare before an eventual $3 million acqui-hire in 2011 brought the company
Robin.io launches a free version of its cloud-native Kubernetes storage solution
Robin.io, a cloud-native application and data management solution with enterprise customers like USAA, Sabre, SAP, Palo Alto Networks and Rakuten Mobe, today announced the launch of its new free(-mium) version of its service, in addition to a major update to the core of its tool.
Robin.io promises
Genies updates its software development kit and partners with Gucci, Giphy
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Genies, has updated its software development kit and added Giphy and Gucci as new partners to enable their users to create personalized Genie avatars.
The company released the first version of its SDK in 2018 when it raised $10 mlion to directly challenge Snap and Apple
Security testing firm NSS Labs ceases operations, citing coronavirus
Security testing company NSS Labs “ceased operations” last week, the company said in a notice on its website, citing impacts related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Austin, Texas-based company was quietly acquired by private equity firm Consecutive last October. But last week,
Stotles secures funding for platform which brings transparency to government tenders, contracts
The public sector usually publishes its business opportunities in the form of “tenders,” to increase transparency to the public. However, this data is scattered, and larger businesses have access to more information, giving them opportunities to grab contracts before official tenders ar
Venn, a network hoping to be gaming’s answer to MTV, raises $26 million
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">Venn, the streaming network hoping to be gaming culture’s answer to MTV, has raised $26 million to bring its mix of video game-themed entertainment and streaming celebrity features to the masses.
The financing came from previous investor Bitkraft,
The Justice Department has filed its antitrust lawsuit against Google
After investigating Google for more than a year, the Justice Department has finally issued its antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, alleging that the company is “unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text ad
DJI’s Pocket 2 gimbal is an extremely fun way to grab impressive smartphone shots
The Pocket 2 is the kind of device that makes me wish I got out a bit more. I've been testing it out for a few days, and, while it's done a reasonably good job making my life look a bit more interesting, there's only so much such a little device can do during this lockdown. That's n
Review: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, two gems, one jewel
There's an odd tension in only being able to review half of the new iPhone lineup. Though this review is focused on breaking down the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, we all know that the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max are sitting out there in the wings.
Fortunately, we can extrapolate
Apple, Opera and Yandex fix browser address bar spoofing bugs, but millions more still left vulnerable
Year after year, phishing remains one of the most popular and effective ways for attackers to steal your passwords. As users, we’re mostly trained to spot the telltale signs of a phishing site, but most of us rely on carefully examining the web address in the browser’s address bar to ma
Adobe Photoshop gets new AI smarts with neural filters, sky replacement and more
Adobe is betting big on its Sensei AI platform, and so it’s probably no surprise that the company also continues to build more AI-powered features into its flagship Photoshop applications. At its MAX conference, Adobe today announced a handful of new AI features for Photoshop, with Sky Replac
Adobe Illustrator launches on iPad and Adobe Fresco comes to the iPhone
Adobe today launched the first public version of its Illustrator vector graphics app on the iPad. That’s no surprise, given that it was already available for pre-order and as a private beta, but a lot of Illustrator users were looking forward to this day.
In addition, the company also today a
Jam raises $3.5 million to Figma-tize product collaboration
The web of collaboration apps invading remote work toolkits have led to plenty of messy workflows for teams that communicate in a language of desktop screenshots and DMs. Tracing a suggestion or flagging a bug in a company’s website forces engineers or designers to make sense of the mess them
Microsoft debuts Azure Space to cater to the space industry, partners with SpaceX for Starlink data center broadband
Microsoft is taking its Azure cloud computing platform to the final frontier — space. It now has a dedicated business unit called Azure Space for that purpose, made up of industry heavyweights and engineers who are focused on space-sector services, including simulation of space missions, gath