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Julie Desk, an ‘AI virtual assistant’ that helps you schedule meetings and more, scores €2.5M funding

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Julie Desk, a French startup that’s developed an AI-driven “virtual assistant” to automate the scheduling of meetings, appointments, and more, has picked up €2.5 million in new funding — money it plans to use to further develop the [...]

Hubble, a ‘digital platform’ to help businesses find flexible office space, raises £1.2M

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hubble, a London-headquartered a startup founded in 2014 to ride the coattails of the trend towards flexible office space, has picked up £1.2 million in new funding. Read More on Tech Crunch

Facing exclusion with data

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

What does Automattic – a technology company, MIT Center for Civic Media – a research powerhouse, and The Mash-Up Americans – my media firm, have in common? We’re all working together to have honest conversations, build empathy, and [...]

The best Meeker 2017 Internet Trends slides and what they mean

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Here are the must-read stats about what’s happening with internet adoption, smartphones, ads, e-commerce, entertainment, gaming, enterprise healthcare, China, India and startups. We’ve picked the most important slides from legendary Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s massive 355-page 2017 [...]

Box looks to woo Wall Street with its positive cash flow story

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Like Box’s last quarterly check-in, the company once again touted that it had free cash flow in the first quarter this year as part of its Q1 earnings report today — a signal that Wall Street may be [...]

Essential is trying to build Android for the smart home

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Andy Rubin’s appearance at the Code Conference last night went a ways toward answering some lingering questions about his new company, Essential. But the conversation primarily centered around the startup’s upcoming phone — Rubin left the dialogue around [...]

Hillary Clinton says the DNC has really, really bad data

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In an interview that quickly turned into an election post-mortem, Hillary Clinton slammed the Democratic National Committee’s poor data for playing a role in her lost bid for the U.S. presidency. Read More on Tech Crunch

Clinton: ‘Email account was turned into the biggest scandal since Lord knows when’

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hillary Clinton appeared onstage at Code Conference on Wednesday in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. and reflected on why she lost the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Unsurprisingly, the widespread coverage of her unsecured email usage was a sour point. [...]

Occipital launches low-cost AR/VR tracking platform for all-in-one headsets

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Some of the most annoying parts of today’s virtual reality hardware are all the wires and the sensors needed to accurately track the headset. With all-in-ones, all of that hardware has to find its way into the headset [...]