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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick takes leave of absence

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amidst a tough time for Uber, CEO Travis Kalanick’s parents were in a tragic boating accident last month that took the life of his mother. Now to grieve and clear his head before enacting changes at Uber, Travis [...]

The “Instagram for doctors” just raised a fresh $10 million

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Figure 1 isn’t for the squeamish, but investors apparently love it. The company, a kind of social network where more than a million healthcare professionals can view rare conditions, learn about novel treatments and even teach cases, has [...]

Twitter chatbots can now include buttons that push you to tweet, follow, click & more

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Twitter today is rolling out a new feature that will allow businesses to prompt their followers to take an action beyond a simple fav or retweet. The company is introducing the ability for businesses to add buttons inside [...]

LA offers a fertile playing field for esports investments

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Los Angeles is now the undisputed esports startup headquarters in America. Read More on Tech Crunch

Google Maps updates its Local Guides program with a new points system and more levels

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Local Guides in Google Maps, Google’s gamified program for getting its users to update data in Google Maps and upload photos of local venues, is getting a bit of an overhaul today. Most importantly, Google is changing how [...]

Apple undercuts Facebook in the augmented reality platform war

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook may be the world’s most powerful app, but it’s still just an app on Apple’s operating system. Facebook’s grand vision for augmented reality was that it would make it easy for any developer to build and distribute [...]

Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns [Memo]

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s now official. After Yahoo shareholder approval last week, Verizon today announced that it has finally closed its acquisition of Yahoo, which it plans to combine with its AOL assets into a subsidiary called Oath, covering some 50 [...]

Watch the Nintendo E3 Showcase live right here

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The Nintendo Switch has invigorated the gaming community, so it goes without saying that the Nintendo Digital Showcase today is one of the more hotly anticipated events of E3 2017. Unlike some of the other press conferences at [...]

What does the future hold for Arabic entrepreneurs in Israel?

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Israel has been a key flash-point for tensions in the Middle East between Jewish and Muslim people, and while politicians continue to work on (and fight over) the route to a peaceful future, some of the most interesting [...]