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Marbl launches a social network and travel tool for the millennial jet set

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Marbl Media wants to be the mobile app that a new, millennial generation of jet setters goes to flip the script on how to share tips and plan trips. Starting with an Instagram platform for content distribution and [...]

Sphero spinoff Misty Robotics gets $11.5 million to create a mainstream robot for the home

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hardware startup Misty Robotics has a daunting task ahead of it. The Boulder-based company is working on a robot aimed at mainstream consumers for employment in the home and office. But Misty certainly has a solid foundation, as [...]

Instant bank transfers are coming to PayPal and Venmo

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

PayPal announced this morning a plan to speed up money transfers between its service, Venmo and users’ bank accounts for those with supported MasterCard and Visa debit cards. This new “instant transfers” service will be available at a [...]

HTT signs on South Korea to build a full scale Hyperloop system

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has found a few new licensee clients for its Hyperloop technology, a group of South Korean entities including the government and two of its educational institutions, who will use HTT’s research and tech to construct [...]

Mozilla brings its private web browser Firefox Focus to Android

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Late last year, Firefox introduced a new, private web browser for iPhone, called Firefox Focus. The browser by default blocks ad trackers and can erase your browsing history, including passwords and cookies. Now, over a half year later, [...]

Meditation app Headspace hires a new chief business officer

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

One of the first times Ross Hoffman met Headspace CEO Rich Pierson when talking about a role running the company’s business, Pierson was not talking a lot about business. Instead, he was peppering Hoffman with questions about himself, [...]

Announcing the TechCrunch Tel Aviv Meetup + Pitch-off agenda

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s happening! TechCrunch is coming to Israel for the TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off in Tel Aviv on the evening of Wednesday June 28. It’s going to be an awesome event. TechCrunch doesn’t come to Tel Aviv often enough, [...]

Tally wants to automate your financial life, with managing credit cards as its first step

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s not easy to get out of credit card debt, but a startup called Tally wants to do just that, as its first step in helping to automate their personal finance. That company is launching a mobile app [...]

Global risk analysis gets an artificial intelligence upgrade with GeoQuant

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The global risk analysis used by big banks, hedge funds, and governments to inform their decision-making around everything from foreign currency investment to foreign aid is getting the machine learning treatment with the launch of the new startup [...]