uBeam’s on the brink of ship its wi-fi telephone chargers, so its 26-yr previous CEO Meredith Perry has employed some hardware business veterans to whip the enterprise into form. Former Apple and Palm finance chief Monica Hushen can be Ubeam‘s new CFO, and Cisco, Palm, and Nokia
We’ve heard from sources that Mobcrush, which streams mobile video video games rather a lot within the equivalent strategy Twitch is known for streaming widespread eSports desktop video video games, has raised spherical $10 million in new financing, though the amount may need gone previous that.
HTC is planning to launch its extraordinarily nicely-acquired digital actuality headset Vive to shoppers later this yr, probably in November. Within the meantime, the Taiwanese firm is busy constructing out its VR ecosystem. HTC disclosed that it spent virtually $10 million for a 15 % stake in
FreedomPop, the U.S. wi-fi service startup that has been constructing a enterprise based mostly on utterly free voice and knowledge providers, has raised one other $10 million in funding from two strategic buyers, the pan-Asian cellular service Axiata and an unnamed tech investor based mostly within the
Oculus immediately introduced its Rift headset will ship with an Xbox One controller. To be sure to’ll have one thing to play with it, Oculus labored with EVE On-line developer CCP Video games to make EVE Valkyrie, a spaceship shooter, Gunfire Video games to make
Means again within the yr 2011 Phil Dumas’ firm UniKey Applied sciences debuted its product on Shark Tank. It was a lock that used your smartphone as a key. Disruption! On the time sensible locks have been not likely a factor but UniKey plowed but
Second.me began life as an app that permit customers create albums aggregated from footage and different media posted on social networks, earlier than shifting away from that final yr to launch a brand new service constructing cellular web sites for occasions and one other advertising software
Whereas common websites like Fb, Twitter and Google stake their claims as information portals, apps targeted squarely on studying information proceed to duke it out. The newest improvement comes from SmartNews, a well-liked app based in Japan that competes towards the likes of Flipboard and Nuzzel within the information
It seems to be like including Bluetooth four.zero was simply the trick for taking the Pebble smartwatch over the sting — and by over the sting, we imply to an insane degree of Kickstarter success. The watch not solely crossed the $10 million fundraising mark
Picsart, a mobile photograph modifying app and group that claims 60 million month-to-month clients, has closed $10 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. That’s the main outdoor funding that Picsart has taken, having bootstrapped itself to profitability after being based mostly in Armenia, an Japanese European nation
