/Gizmo News

Mrs. Wordsmith raises £2M to scale its innovative edtech platform

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Something appears to have gone wrong. In our race to create newsfeeds full of angst and bile about Brexit and Trump, or photos full of pouting-teens against which ads can be sold, we’ve forgotten something. Namely, the power [...]

In LA, some investors wish they all could live in an esports world

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

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

Thriva raises £1.5M from angels, Seedcamp, 500 and LCIF to scale blood testing

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

When I gingerly held the little spring-loaded plastic device which would shortly be hurtling an extremely sharp needle towards my finger at a rate of knots, I wondered momentarily about Theranos. Here was a company led by a [...]

Android Pay now used for international P2P transfers, courtesy of WorldRemit

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

AndroidPay, Google’s wallet for Android devices, is getting a boost in its global profile and functionality today: WorldRemit, the $500 million remittance startup connected to around 120 million mobile money accounts globally, which lets residents in one country [...]

Equal Justice Initiative, backed by Google.org, launches ‘Lynching in America’

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Thanks in part to funding by Google.org, Equal Justice Initiative has launched an online platform to explore the history of lynching in America. The goal with Lynching in America is to enable people to confront the history of [...]

Clutter raises $64 million to store what won’t fit in your closet

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

If you heard venture investors were pouring tens of millions into storage, you might think it was cloud storage or flash storage. But that’s not the kind of storage we’re talking about with Clutter. The Los Angeles-based startup, [...]

UK and France to jointly pressure tech firms over extremist content

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The leader of the UK’s new minority government, Theresa May, is in France today for talks with her French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, and the pair are slated to launch a joint crack down on online extremism. Read More [...]

Man in Pakistan sentenced to death for blasphemous Facebook comments

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

There’s disturbing news from Pakistan, where a man has been handed the death sentence for allegedly making blasphemous comments on Facebook. The Guardian reports that Taimoor Raza was founded guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad by a court [...]

Revolut launches business accounts in U.K. and Europe

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Revolut, the London fintech startup that offers a card and current account features, coupled with low currency exchange, is launching a new product aimed at businesses — upping the ante against competing services, such as TransferWise’s recently launched [...]