Millennials Love Venmo
Known for their tech-savvy ways, Millennials have found a way to forgo hard cash in turn for mobile payments amongst themselves. Ebay’s mobile-payment app, Venmo allows users to wire money back and...
View ArticleDom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll Discuss Vine
Before June 2012, video’s had the ability to be endless and last forever. With unlimited time, there was an unlimited amount of unnecessary information. When Vine was created in New York by Dom...
View ArticleRooster Teeth (Achievement Unlocked)
If you’re a gamer, than you’ve probably heard of Rooster Teeth. With the 8th largest viewed YouTube channel in the world, over 5 million subscribers and 2.2 billion views Rooster Teeth provides...
View ArticleGet to Know Blue Apron: The Delicious Startup Revolutionizing How We Cook
It’s hard for any novice, urbanite independent to get into the swing of cooking easy, inexpensive (let alone healthy) meals for themselves. From overcrowded city supermarkets, to getting home way past...
View ArticleThe Poncho Weather App
It’s a cold morning. Your head pops out from under the covers just enough to determine how cold it is before you shutter back under the safety of your covers. Remember, covers can protect you from...
View ArticleHow Startups Take Over: The World of Uber
Consider this: it’s raining on a Saturday “night” at three a.m., and you’re alone (and possibly tired/wasted/lost/cold etc. You could try to catch a cab (‘try’ being the operative word here), but the...
View ArticleGet Rewarded for Shopping: Shopkick Shows You How
Imagine walking into your favorite store (from Macy’s to Target), and getting rewarded just for walking inside. It sounds like one of those despised too-good-to-be-true scenarios, right? Well, over 7.5...
View ArticleApple and Google Approve Marijuana User’s “Tinder” App
An new app for “chill people” created by Todd Mitchem called High There! is receiving Apple and Google’s approval.The app is being accessed worldwide on both the Apple store and Google Play connecting...
View ArticleShhh…The Secret’s Out, of Business – Secret App Shuts Down
Shortly over a year after its launch, the Secret app is shutting down.Secret is based in the Silicon Valley, and is an anonymous sharing app where users could share their secrets without being...
View ArticleApple Acquires Company to Improve GPS Capabilities
Apple has acquired Coherent Navigation, a small Silicon Valley startup. This is the perfect archetype of an Apple purchase; small, well-respected and cutting edge. Coherent Navigation will be a great...
View Article“The Hang New York”: What’s Happening in the City
Even though the supply of information is never ending, there are still not too many platforms informing the younger, educating crowd based in New York of what’s going on in their areas and most...
View ArticleUnilever Acquires Dollar Shave Club for $1 Billion
On Tuesday, Unilever announced its plan of joining the razor business by purchasing Dollar Shave Club. Dollar Shave Club is a razor start-up that sells disposable razors and grooming utensils for $1 a...
View ArticleAspire Heads to NYC; Creativity, Achievements and Education to be Highlighted
Whether it be food, business, or fashion New York City has well-earned it reputation as the greatest city in the world. New York City is also known for its diverse creativity. In February, it hosts an...
View ArticleGoPro Cuts 200 Jobs
The inventors of the innovative, wearable camera known as GoPro announced Wednesday that the company will be cutting over fifteen percent of its workforce which is equivalent to two hundred jobs. This,...
View ArticleAmazon’s New Store Has a Few Critics
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) isn’t too happy about the prospect of Amazon’s new store that presents the aspect of having no cashier. The new Amazon store will run...
View ArticleTrump Claims Victory Over Sprint’s 5,000 New Jobs
Sprint says it will “create or bring back” nearly 5,000 customer care and sales jobs for Americans. Another company called OneWeb also plans to create around 3,000 jobs for Americans. President-elect...
View ArticleTheranos Cut in Half, Lays off Over 100 Employees
Theranos is continuing its descent into the new year as it makes plans to lay off 40 percent of its workforce and struggles to overcome past compliance issues. The blood-testing company describes its...
View ArticleAmazon Discreetly Acquires Start-up Company Harvest.ai
Amazon’s cloud services group recently, and discreetly, acquired AI security firm harvest.ai in their ongoing campaign of acquiring start-ups. A tipster told TechCrunch that the acquisition was a $19...
View ArticleMicrosoft Acquires an A.I. Start-Up
Microsoft announced on a blog post from Friday morning that it has acquired Maluuba, a start-up based out of Toronto that focuses on using deep machine learning for natural language processing. Deep...
View ArticleAmazon’s Plan for a Robotic Supermarket
Some estimate that in the future Amazon could be the first to utilize the robotic technology that continues to develop over the years. Amazon’s new high-tech supermarket might possibly be operated by...
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