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Argentina’s government is wooing entrepreneurs with a new law

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Despite years of economic uncertainties and the lack of a proper legal framework to help promising startups obtain capital, Argentine entrepreneurs are building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. The country is home to many of Latin America’s biggest startup [...]

Adobe acquires Mettle’s SkyBox tools to expand its VR video portfolio

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Adobe today announced that it has acquired all of Mettle‘s SkyBox technologies and plug-ins for building transitions, titles and effects in VR applications and 360 degree videos. Mettle had already made a name for itself over the last [...]

Regulation could stifle growing China-US venture activity

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Let’s step back from politics and look at some cold, hard numbers to assess the current state of cross-border investment and other transactional activity between the U.S. and China. We’ll look at one type of transaction that could [...]

Facebook open sources its IT management tool for distributing Adobe’s Creative Cloud tools to employees

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

At Facebook, the IT organization isn’t called “IT.” Instead, it’s referred to as the “enterprise engineering organization.” As Facebook client platform engineer Nick McSpadden told me, that’s because at a company that operates at the scale of Facebook, [...]

Ticketmaster’s chatbot for Facebook is actually not terrible

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A lot of chatbots have launched on Facebook in recent months, but the Ticketmaster bot launching today is among the best that I’ve been forced to work with. Normally I avoid reaching out to businesses through Facebook (it [...]

The Baggizmo Wiseward is more than a wallet

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In a hole in your pants there lived a wallet. Not a nasty, dirty, wet wallet, filled with the receipts and cigarette papers and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, boring wallet that fit nothing and [...]

RE2 tapped by U.S. Air Force to build robot pilots to fly traditional aircraft

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Autonomous flight systems and aircraft are already in testing by the U.S. Air Force and other defense agencies, and now RE2 Robotics has been picked by the USAF to build a retrofit robot pilot that can easily take [...]

Snapchat launches location sharing feature Snap Map

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Snapchat’s next big feature wants to get you to meet up with friends in real-life rather than just watching each other’s lives on your phones. Snap Map lets you share your current location, which appears to friends on [...]

With $13.5M in new funds, Pillow partners with building owners to make rentals Airbnb-friendly

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Short-term rental management startup Pillow has raised $13.5 million in new funding, and is launching a new product to provide more transparency to apartment owners when renters make their apartments available on platforms like Airbnb. A few years [...]