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Yext passes its first test as a publicly traded company

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Yext’s first earnings report as a publicly traded company seems to be a boringly pleasant one — but that’s a good thing for a company that needs to show strong performance out of the gate. Read More on [...]

Meal ingredient delivery service Blue Apron is the next big consumer IPO

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amidst an array of enterprise companies that have jumped on the IPO bandwagon following Snap’s successful IPO (aside from its more recent whiff of an earnings report), Blue Apron appears to be the next major consumer IPO. That’s [...]

Draper’s DragonflEye cyber-bug takes flight

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Back in January we heard about Draper’s efforts to outfit a living dragonfly with a sort of solar-powered mind control backpack. This project, known as DragonflEye, is cruising right along, and the R&D firm just released a video [...]

Voiceitt lets people with speech impairments use voice-controlled technology

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Voice-controlled technology like Amazon Echo, Siri or hands-free features in Google Maps are things we’re starting to take for granted. But as Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report noted, voice controls are changing computer-human interfaces, and industries, broadly. [...]

The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

I recently had a meeting with a well-known Israeli startup investor. The talk somehow pivoted from my seed-seeking startup into talking about the macro view of venture capital and how it doesn’t actually make sense. “Ninety-five percent of [...]

Bumble is opening a physical space in New York for dates to meet up

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

What do popular dating apps and brick-and-mortar storefronts have in common? Until now, nothing. But that’s about to change, as Bumble, the popular female-led dating app is opening a pop-up location in New York City. Read More on [...]

The DJI Spark is fun, but not the mainstream drone we were promised

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The Spark is, at once, an impressive feat of engineering and a reminder that drones are a ways from being true mainstream devices. It’s DJI’s smallest and cheapest drone by far, and the company also has tossed in [...]

US approves social media background checks for visa applicants

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The U.S. is buttressing its paperwork walls with new requirements for social media disclosures as part of revised visa applications. Reported by Reuters earlier today, the decision from the U.S. government’s Office of Management and Budget was made [...]

OneLogin admits recent breach is pretty dang serious

June 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

OneLogin, a major access management service (think corporate-level password manager) alerted its users yesterday of “unauthorized access” to the data of its US-based users. That kind of thing isn’t always serious… but it turns out this one sure [...]