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Party City invests $4 million in Punchbowl, which now powers its digital invites platform

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Party City, the party goods supplier and retail chain, has taken a minority stake in digital invitations platform Punchbowl, the companies announced today. The deal sees Punchbowl’s technology now being used to power an online invitation platform on [...]

Faraday Future answers mounting challenges with high-profile CTO hire

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Faraday Future is an electric car company with a very uncertain future, following news that it would be ending its effort to build an assembly plant for its vehicles in Nevada. The company’s primary backer, China’s LeEco, is [...]

Blue Apron is having another awful day and its shares are crashing

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Since going public last month, things have not gone particularly well for Blue Apron thanks to the specter of Amazon and its $13.7 billion acquisition bid for Whole Foods. The bad news, again, continues to roll in as [...]

Google responds to academic funding controversy — with a GIF

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Last week, an advocacy group called Campaign for Accountability (CfA) released a list of academics and policy experts who had received funding from Google in the last few years. That created quite a stir, especially because many of [...]

Rajeeb Dey’s new career platform Learnerbly secures £1.6M led by Frontline Ventures

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Professional development is one of the hot areas for big corporates grappling with their millennials influx who are hungry to learn, so it makes sense that new platforms are now appearing to service this need. Today, Learnerbly, a [...]

How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for Linux (and [...]

Trademarks show Amazon has sights on meal-kits, “single cow burgers” and other fast food options

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon has made no secret of its ambitions to expand into more fresh food services, from its own, homegrown efforts like AmazonFresh for groceries (first launched in 2013) and Amazon Restaurants for restaurant delivery (first launched in 2014), [...]

PayPal to become a payment option in Samsung Pay, including in-app, online and in-store

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Samsung users will be able to choose PayPal as their preferred method of payment in-app, online and in retail stores through the Samsung Pay mobile payments platform, the companies announced today. The strategic partnership will initially be available [...]

Apple shows off some of its new emoji on World Emoji Day

July 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple has revealed a few of the emoji it’ll be releasing on iOS, watchOS and macOS later this year, a little gift just in time for World Emoji Day. The new expressive icons include a T-Rex and an [...]