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Kickstarter launches tools for creators, because hardware is hard

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Kickstarter and its crowdfunding brethren have played a pivot role in the hardware revolution of the past decade. But even now that developers have a wide range of democratizing tools at their disposal, hardware is, as ever, hard. [...]

In the car with Android in the Car

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

One of the areas that Google talked up regarding Android beyond phones at I/O this year was in vehicles, and Android in the Car was the main way it’s expanding its in-car presence. The expansion of its Android [...]

Twitter hires a new GM of revenue products

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Meanwhile, at Twitter HQ, the leadership revolving door at the entrance stops spinning clockwise for just a moment as a new face enters the building… Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey today that the company has hired Bruce Falck, previously [...]

ATAP goes AWOL at Google I/O

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

For the last few years, Google’s skunkworks ATAP unit always held its own keynote at I/O, Google’s flagship developer conference. Often, this was where Google would show off its most experimental and interesting projects — and sometimes, this [...]

Facebook and MLB partner to bring live-streamed games to the social network

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook and the MLB announced today a new live-streaming partnership that will bring 20 live, regular season games to the social network. The games will air weekly on Facebook, with the first — Rockies at Reds — showing [...]

Profiting socially on nickels and dimes

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As the #DeleteUber count increases, Lyft has cleverly seized the opportunity to distinguish itself as a beacon of goodwill. In its most recent attempts to gain public favor, Lyft will soon be taking a stand by pledging fixed [...]

Google’s AMP now powers 2B+ mobile pages and 900K domains, loads 2x faster

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As Google looks for ways to keep people using its own mobile search to discover content — in competition with apps and other services like Facebook’s Instant Articles — the company is announcing some updates to AMP, its [...]

Facebook and MLB partner to bring live streamed games to the social network

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook and the MLB announced today a new live streaming partnership that will bring 20 live, regular season games to the social network. The games will air weekly on Facebook, with the first – Rockies at Reds – [...]

Facebook, Messenger and Instagram unite with cross-app notifications

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook’s family of apps are moving in together. Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are each testing a feature that shows notification counters from the other apps and lets you instantly switch between them. Read More on Tech Crunch