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Nextdoor, now in 160,000 neighborhoods globally, expands to Germany

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Nextdoor, the social network that connects you with people in your neighborhood, is taking another step up in its global growth, after launching in the Netherlands and the UK last year. Today, the company is opening for business [...]

Kik CEO explains why they’re doing an ICO instead of venture fundraising

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Ted Livingston, CEO of messaging app Kik, spoke on stage at TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen, China on Tuesday. Moderator Jon Russell asked him about why the company is doing an initial coin offering (ICO), a newly popularized method [...]

Simply Wall St raises $1.8 million from its own customers to build out investment advisory services

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Financial services apps are all the rage these days and one of the latest to capitalize on the trend is Simply Wall St. which closed a $1.8 million round (2.4 million Australian dollars) in its latest round of [...]

European MEPs want to ban states from backdooring encryption

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The European parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has put forward a proposal that would amend the EU’s charter of fundamental rights to extend privacy rights to the digital realm and prevent governments of [...]

Hike beats WhatsApp to launching messenger app payments in India

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

India-focused mobile messaging service Hike landed funding from Tencent last year, and today it took a major step to emulating the Chinese firm’s WeChat app with the introduction of mobile payments. The launch of Hike Pay not only [...]

‘All roads do lead back to Shenzhen,’ according to Indiegogo’s Sandy Diao

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Shenzhen has been called China’s Silicon Valley (or at least one of its Silicon Valleys). A panel on hardware startups at TechCrunch Shenzhen took a stab at explaining why. “There’s a new startup model coming out of Shenzhen,” [...]

Kik CEO claims an ICO is better than venture fundraising

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Ted Livingston, CEO of messaging app Kik, spoke on stage at TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen, China on Tuesday. Moderator Jon Russell asked him about why the company is doing an initial coin offering (ICO), a newly popularized method [...]

Google launches its AI-powered jobs search engine

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Looking for a new job is getting easier. Google today launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search for jobs across virtually all of the major online job boards like [...]

Withings is now Nokia

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Nokia announced at Mobile World Congress back in February that it would be sunsetting the Withings brand this summer. After giving fans of the French connected health device maker sufficient time to mourn, the brand name is finally [...]