Coffee Meets Bagel, an online dating site that provides a friend-of-a-friend match every day, is now making matches nationwide. Launched in New York City in 2012, the startup is also today releasing its iOS app, which includes the same features as the free web service. Co-founder Dawoon Kang says that with the new iOS app, Coffee Meets Bagel is looking for […]
When it comes to getting good deals on staples, it’s hard to beat going to big club retailers like Sam’s Club or Costco or whatever other retailers there are where you can buy a 64-pack of bathroom tissue for a highly discounted rate. But you know, not everyone has one of those stores just a few miles[…]
Apple AAPLAug 22 09:19AM 505.32 Change +2.96 % Change +0.59% Apple has poached away a senior executive from clothing company Levi Strauss to serve as director of sales in the U.S., Mark Gurman 9to5Mac first reported. The exec’s name is Enrique Atienza and he’ll be in charge of retail operations on the west coast. However, Apple still[…]
Nara, a Cambridge, Mass.-based recommendation service, today announced that it is expanding its service from restaurant recommendations to also include hotels in about 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada. Nara, which calls itself a “computational neuroscience company that analyzes and personalizes Web data,” always had the ambition to be much more than just a restaurant recommendation[…]
These days it seems like mobile gaming is entering a sort of golden age — developers are getting ambitious about the experiences they want to create, and hardware has grown powerful enough to help bring those lofty visions to life in your pocket. And all the while, a YC-backed startup called Kamcord has been working to help[…]
REUTERS/Mike Segar Job seekers speak with recruiters from retailer Abercrombie and Fitch at a career fair at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 6, 2011. Teen clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch just reported second quarter earnings this morning, and shares are already down 18% in pre-market trading. The company reported earnings of $0.16 per share[…]
In a new patent filing published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), Apple describes a system for setting essentially an “Away/Available/Busy” style status for receiving phone calls on a smartphone device, but one that updates said status intelligently and automatically using data gathered about the device and its settings. So the basic premise is this: Just like[…]
Jimdo, a Hamburg-headquartered company offering easy-to-use tools for building websites, already seems pretty mobile friendly. Jimdo-powered sites can also be viewed in mobile-optimized layouts, and earlier this year the company announced a “mobile express” format, where businesses create a landing page that highlights their most important information. What’s left? Well, actually creating and editing sites from a[…]
Google has added a half-dozen new travel and entertainment features to its personalised search app Google Now. With the additions, the company is aiming to capture the attention of the real-world consumer, such as a sports fan watching an NCAA football game, or the recently landed tourist trying to find their rental car. Like Twitter, Google is[…]
The German startup behind the Tadaa iOS photo-sharing and editing app, which has built up a three million-strong user-base, have launched a new flavour of photo app: Tadaa 3D lets you add 3D layers to your photos before sharing them to a dedicated network where everyone can appreciate each others’ wobbly handiwork. Browsing the Tadaa 3D photo-sharing network feels a[…]
HTC, the one-time king of the Android phone makers, is on a downward course with few options left to correct itself. Last November, Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson wrote that HTC was the biggest tech business disaster in 2012. Things have only gotten worse for the company since then. This past quarter, net income was down 83% from[…]
Courtesy of Prince Fahad Prince Fahad bin Faisal Al Saud Royals have been making a splash in the news lately, but there’s one prince who’s stayed out of the spotlight.Prince Fahad bin Faisal Al Saud is a grandson of the brother of the Saudi Arabian king. He could easily be living the high life at home in Saudi[…]
IMDB / CBS The Big Bang Theory On Friday afternoon, CBS went dark for 2.9 million Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. This came after the network and cable provider were unable to agree on retransmission fee terms. While this appears to be a lose-lose in the near-term, UBS analyst John Janedis[…]
Toptal Argentinian developer Florencia Antara in a rejected Toptal ad. Toptal, a small developer networking platform, is accusing LinkedIn of perpetuating “extreme sexism within the tech community.”Why? The tech giant started rejecting Toptal’s ads for female engineers because “many LinkedIn members complained about the women images [it was] using.” Toptal was told that if it planned to continue[…]