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Lyft launches two premium ride hailing options, Lux and Lux SUV

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Lyft is getting into the higher-end ride hailing game with Lyft Lux and Lyft Lux SUV. These are black car offerings similar to the service that rival Uber originally launched with, and they’ll be available beginning in 20 [...]

Twilio Functions lets developers build communications apps without having to worry about servers

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Twilio is getting into the serverless game today with the beta launch of Twilio Functions. Like other so-called “serverless” platforms, Functions abstracts away all of the tiresome server and infrastructure management and scaling and allows developers to focus [...]

Rackspace acquires TriCore, adds enterprise applications to cloud management mix

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Rackspace announced today it was purchasing TriCore, giving it an enterprise applications management play to go along with its cloud management services. The announcement comes just one day after the company announced it was bringing a new CEO [...]

Atlantic.Net brings Windows Container support to its cloud hosting platform

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Atlantic.Net, the Florida-based hosting provider, today announced that its users can now use Windows Server Containers on its platform to bring their existing Windows workloads into the cloud. While many of the larger cloud providers like AWS and [...]

Spin raises $8 million as bike-sharing battle heats up in the US

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Bike sharing has taken a turn in the U.S., following trends in China. The new mode is “dockless,” where companies distribute bikes around a city or campus to be rented per trip instead of dispensing them from one [...]

Mogees picks up seed funding to put audio-based gesture recognition tech into new devices

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Mogees, the London startup behind the Mogees Pro and Mogees Play contact microphone and machine learning-based music and gaming devices, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding — capital it plans to use to embed its “gestural recognition [...]

Facebook’s Instant Articles platform to support Google AMP, Apple News

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

One of the problems publishers face today in making their content more readable on mobile devices is that there are multiple, competing formats available for this purpose. Facebook has Instant Articles, Google is spearheading the AMP (Accelerated Mobile [...]

Career coaching service Paragon One gets $1.9 million seed funding from investors including Y Combinator

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

College is supposed to be a life-defining experience–but that doesn’t mean students always graduate with all the skills they need to build their lives. Paragon One, an online career coaching service and mentor marketplace, wants to fill in [...]

Readdle adds a clever drag-and-drop feature for moving files between its iPad productivity apps

May 25th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Productivity app maker Readdle is rolling out a new feature across its line of iOS applications that takes advantage of the iPad’s support for split screen viewing to make it easier to move files between apps. The move [...]