Hear about investing in African tech at Disrupt SF with Marieme Diop, Wale Ayeni and Sheel Mohnot
If you’re a VC or founder in London, Bangalore or San Francisco, you’ll likely interact with some part of Africa’s tech landscape for the first time...
Facebook wants to build a mind-reading wristband
Facebook wants to know what you’re going to do before you do it, and the company is well on its way toward making that (admittedly creepy)...
Only Trump’s Unyielding Love for Modi Could Get Him to the UN Climate Summit
Donald Trump loves few things more than he loves amassing friendships with hard right nationalist world leaders. His new best pal is Indian Prime Minster Narendra...
Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband
Facebook is buying CTRL-labs, a NY-based startup building an armband that translates movement and the wearer’s neural impulses into digital input signals, a company spokesperson tells...
Gotham’s Next Commissioner Gordon May Be Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright
Matt Reeves’ The Batman found its Caped Crusader several months ago, but now we’ve got another name potentially joining Robert Pattinson in the cast. You can’t...
Netflix Turns Negative
Counter to the standard tech ethos—move fast, break stuff, crowbar stodgy old industry players up by their comfortable roots—the fight to control Americans’ streaming-TV dollars has...
Engage:BDR raises $26.25M to fund its NetZero publisher payments
Engage:BDR announced today that it has raised $23.25 million in new funding. CEO Ted Dhanik told me that this includes both debt and equity funding, and will...
RomUniverse Aims to Crowdfund Legal ‘Piracy’ Battle With Nintendo
Two weeks ago, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the game download portal RomUniverse. The website, which also allows users to download movies and books, stands accused...
Leaker Claims Alexa-Powered Earbuds Are Amazon’s Next Big Device
Amazon has a product launch scheduled for later this week on Wednesday, and alongside a bunch of updated Echo speakers, recent leaks claim Amazon’s next big...
Social radio startup Stationhead moves beyond live broadcasts
Stationhead, the mobile app that turns its users into streaming radio DJs, got a big upgrade today. Where Stationhead DJs were previously limited to broadcasting live,...
