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Swift creator departs Tesla after just six months

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Chris Lattner has built a solid reputation after working for 11 years at Apple on low-level software technologies. In particular, he developed Apple’s most recent programming language, Swift. In January, Tesla announced that it had recruited Lattner as [...]

Textio raises $20 million to help companies do English good

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As it looks to expand beyond recruiting and job postings, Textio has raised $20 million in new funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Bloomberg Beta, Cowboy Ventures, Emergence Capital, and Upside Partnership. Read [...]

Oscar Health is headed back to New Jersey and branching out to Ohio and Tennessee

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Oscar Health seems to be expanding rather than shrinking in the next year. Despite worries that the Affordable Care Act wasn’t working out for health insurance companies, Oscar has filed to expand in 2018, adding the states of [...]

TrueLayer raises $3M Series A to provide fintech companies with easy access to bank APIs

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

TrueLayer, a London startup that’s built a developer platform to make it easy for fintech companies to access bank APIs — and ride the PSD2 gravy train — has raised $3 million in Series A funding. Read More [...]

Twist is Slack without the annoying distractions

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

When Slack implemented threaded conversations, it seemed like the holy grail for internal communications. Slack finally lets you talk about multiple things in separate conversations. But Slack remains a real-time messaging service at heart, so threads don’t feel [...]

Spotify now lets you build playlists with friends inside Messenger

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Earlier this year, Spotify introduced a new Messenger bot that let users share song clips with friends. Today, the company is expanding on that bot’s functionality to now allow a group of friends to build a playlist together [...]

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Uber’s embattled CEO Travis Kalanick is resigning from the ride-sharing company he helped found in 2009 following a “shareholder revolt” led by some of Uber’s most prominent investors, the New York Times reports. An Uber spokesperson confirmed to [...]

Language learning startup Lingokids scores $4M funding and partners with Oxford University Press

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Madrid, Spain-based (and U.S. incorporated) edtech startup Lingokids is on a mission to get young kids learning a second language. The company, previously known as Monkimun, offers language lessons in the form of interactive games for children aged [...]

China’s Mobike plans move into services and aggressive international expansion

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Mobike, the Chinese bike-sharing company that raised $600 million last week, has lifted the lid on its plans to expand beyond rides and move into services. The Beijing-based company announced last week that it plans to expand to [...]