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What venture capitalists think of Trump

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos took to the stage at Disrupt NY today with Stuart Ellman from RRE Ventures, Maha Ibrahim from Canaan Partners and Amish Jani of FirstMark Capital to talk about Trump, the economy and Uber. Apart from [...]

Snapchat rolls out a trio of new ad products using its lenses and geofilters

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In an effort to further differentiate itself from rival Facebook, Snapchat this morning expanded its ad offerings lineup with three new products that take advantage of its already popular lenses and geofilters. The company is debuting a handful [...]

Judge rules Uber can continue self-driving work but Levandowski barred from LiDAR

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A judge has ruled in the matter of a preliminary injunction related to Uber’s use of autonomous tech, finding that Google employee and Otto founder Anthony Levandowski can no longer work on any projects that involve LiDAR technology. [...]

Teleretail built a delivery robot to make on-demand logistics easy for small businesses

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Delivery robots are seen as novelties, job-killers and a gimmicky way for restaurants to reach nearby customers. The newest entrant in this segment of logistics is a Swiss startup called Teleretail AG. The company has put a twist [...]

Google Material Design Lead shares origin story of the company’s design vision

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Rich Fulcher is the head of Material Design UX and Engineering at Google. In our fourteenth episode, we talk about how Material Design was built, how to create your own design language within your company, and why strong [...]

After acquisition by Juniper, cloud optimization service AppFormix adds support for VMware

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Last December, Juniper acquired the cloud operations management and optimization startup AppFormix and said that it planned to integrate it with its own Contrail product line. That integration is moving swiftly, but under the aegis of Juniper, it’s [...]

Derek Jeter on why he started The Players’ Tribune

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 Derek Jeter and Jaymee Messler, founders of The Players’ Tribune, sat down with TechCrunch Editor in Chief Matthew Panzarino. The conversation started with the thesis behind the startup, which was founded shortly [...]

Nintendo is planning a Legend of Zelda mobile game

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Following up on the massive success of Pokémon GO and the less massive success of Super Mario Run, Nintendo is reportedly planning a Legend of Zelda for smartphones for release later this year. Read More on Tech Crunch

Volvo and Audi turn to Android for next-gen connected cars

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Volvo and Audi are looking to do more with Android in its forthcoming connected vehicles, the companies announced on Monday ahead of this week’s Google I/O developer conference. The companies will be showing off the fruits of this [...]