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Justin Kan’s video Q&A app Whale gets Tinder-style swipes in major redesign

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Whale, the Q&A app backed by Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, has got a major update and refreshed design that makes it easier to discover video content on the service. The iOS-only app launched in October 2016, pivoting from [...]

Flip gets $2.2 million to grow its marketplace for long-term sublets

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

For anyone who’s ever wanted to break a lease, but felt trapped by their contract, Flip has the service for you. The company, which allows users to sign over their lease agreements to new tenants legally, has just [...]

Visa takes a strategic stake in Klarna, the finance startup out of Sweden

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Klarna, the $2 billion+ startup out of Sweden that works with some 70,000 e-commerce sites to enable payments and provide flexible financing to make purchases, is adding one more key investor to help take its next steps into [...]

Sumo Logic lands $75 million Series F, on path to IPO

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Sumo Logic, the cloud-based log analysis platform, announced a $75 million round today, as the seven year old company could be entering the home stretch before an IPO. While CEO Ramin Sayar was not ready or willing to [...]

ChargePoint takes over GE charging stations

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

ChargePoint announced that it will become the exclusive operator of all of GE‘s electric charging stations, which means nearly 10,000 places to plug in will be transferred to the new company’s management. That total adds 1,800 commercial charging [...]

Rumors of the demise of augmented reality developers have been greatly exaggerated

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

With the announcement of Apple’s ARKit, I’ve been bombarded with questions about what ARKit means for Augmented Reality (AR) developers, specifically ones building hard mobile AR technologies. We, along with our friends at Modsy, were even called out [...]

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro announces $100M startup fund

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Security firm Trend Micro is the latest corporate to jump into the startup investment world after it unveiled a $100 million corporate fund today. It is predominantly looking at opportunities in the internet-of-things (IoT) space, but the exact [...]

Google fined €2.42BN for EU antitrust violations over shopping searches

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The European Commission has fined Google a record-breaking €2.42 billion for antitrust violations pertaining to its Google’s Shopping search comparison service — in what is widely considered the most significant antitrust ruling in Europe since the 2004 Microsoft [...]

Monese, the mobile current account banking app, expands to Europe

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

You wait all day for a multi-currency account and three come along at once. Give or take a month or so, that’s appears to be the case with news that Monese, the London fintech that offers a mobile [...]