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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...

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Dom 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...

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Rooster 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...

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Get 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...

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The 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...

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How 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...

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Get 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...

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Apple 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...

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Shhh…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...

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Apple 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...

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“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...

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Unilever 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...

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Aspire 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...

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GoPro 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,...

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Amazon’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...

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Trump 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...

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Theranos 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...

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Amazon 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...

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Microsoft 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...

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Amazon’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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