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Google Glass is back with hardware focused on the enterprise

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google Glass arguably always only made sense as an enterprise-focused product, but now it’s officially back and customized for those applications, with Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE). The wearable head-mounted display has long had a place in the [...]

UK’s digital-only Starling Bank adds Apple Pay support

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Digital-only UK “challenger” bank, Starling Bank, has added support for Apple Pay — meaning its customers can now add their Starling debit card to their Apple Wallet and make contactless payments drawing from funds in their Starling account [...]

Sizmek acquires Rocket Fuel for adtech consolidation

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After a rocky few years as a public company, Rocket Fuel is going private again. Adtech company Sizmek announced this morning that it’s acquiring Rocket Fuel for $2.60 per share, in a deal that values the company at [...]

N26 and Lydia announce Apple Pay support in France, but major banks are still missing

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple Pay hasn’t really been a major success in France so far. France’s biggest banks still don’t plan to support Apple’s payment service. But two companies announced today that they were going to add Apple Pay support before [...]

Google’s Transfer Appliance helps businesses ship their data to the Google Cloud by FedEx

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google today announced the launch of its Transfer Appliance, a new hardware appliance and service for moving large amounts of data from corporate data centers to its cloud via FedEx. While Google already offered its users the ability [...]

Workflow automation startup Workato announces $10m Series A

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s a big day for Workato as the startup announced a $10 million Series A, and the latest release of its workflow automation platform dubbed ‘Turing.’ The round was led by Storm Ventures with participation from strategic investors [...]

Rackspace partners with Pivotal to launch managed services for Cloud Foundry

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Rackspace, which strongly focuses on managed services these days, today announced a partnership with Pivotal, the company behind the open source Cloud Foundry platform as a service project. Rackspace already offers managed services for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google [...]

Taavet Hinrikus hands over CEO reins at TransferWise to cofounder Kristo Kaarmann

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A changing of the guard at TransferWise, the unicorn startup based out of London that specialises in providing money-transfer services, typically with better rates than banks and other incumbent providers. The company’s CEO and co-founder Taavet Hinrikus announced [...]

Amazon is already selling some prepared ‘Amazon Meal Kits’

July 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Based just on trademark filings and reported plans, Amazon’s potential entry into the prepared meal kit market has had a significant impact on freshly-IPO’d Blue Apron’s stock price. Now, however, we know that Amazon is actually already testing [...]