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Amazon expands Amazon Channels to UK, Germany, taking aim at pay-TV users

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The race to control the TV is on, and today comes some news out of Europe underscores Amazon’s ambitions in that department. The e-commerce giant announced the launch of Amazon Channels in the UK and Germany — its [...]

Chinese trio carve up a quarter of global smartphone sales in Q1: Gartner

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The global smartphone market grew 9.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to Gartner’s latest stats, and growth is being driven by a trio of Chinese device makers. Read More on Tech Crunch

Apple and Nokia bury patent hatchet

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Well that didn’t last long. A fresh patent spat between Nokia and Apple which fired up at the back end of last year when Cupertino accused the former world number one mobile maker of making like a patent [...]

TransferWise launches ‘Borderless’ account for businesses, sole traders and freelancers

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Having already taken a significant chunk of the international money transfer market away from the major banks, London-headquartered TransferWise has its sights set on the bank account itself. Read More on Tech Crunch

Quora just launched a self-serve ad platform

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

While Quora has been around for almost seven years, it’s been a little slow when it comes to monetization through advertising. The question-and-answer site first launched ads last year in April 2016, but since then it’s only existed [...]

Frichti grabs $33.7 million for its meal delivery service

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Food startups are apparently still steaming hot as French startup Frichti just raised a whopping $33.7 million (€30 million). Frichti is currently available in Paris and nearby cities. It handles everything in-house — from cooking to orders and [...]

Let’s meet next week in Reykjavik

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

I’ll be in Reykjavik next week and you know what that means… I want to meet you! So we’ll be holding an small meetup (not really a pitchoff but feel free to pitch me while I’m there) at [...]

Instagram deters deletion with reversible “archive” option

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

When Instagrammers don’t get enough likes or think their posts look boring, they sometimes impetously delete them. But they can later regret this common emergent behavior which also deprives Instagram of monetizable content and your history in images [...]

MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis buys electronics milling machine maker Other Machine

May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Entrepreneur Bre Pettis and Berkeley-based Other Machine seem like a match made in heaven. The MakerBot founder has been through the ringer once already, leaving the company he co-founded and ran after selling it to 3D printing colossus, [...]