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Smartsheet Raises $26 million in Funding to Revolutionize the Spreadsheet
1By: Kevin Green | December 4th, 2012 | Business, News
Today’s business environment requires employees from different areas of any business to collaborate on projects and other work related tasks. Business applications that help make collaboration between employees smoother and easier are very popular with corporations and as a result, investors. Some examples include Box, SalesForce, Jive and Google Docs. These either utilize the cloud, are part of...
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World’s First 3D Photobooth Makes An Appearance In Tokyo Thanks To Party
By: Kevin Green | December 4th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, News
Party is “a creative lab that marries entertainment, product development, technology, and advertising” and the group has installed the world’s first 3D photobooth in the Harajuku area of Tokyo, Japan. The reservation only booth can be accessed from December 3rd to January 14, 2013. Party’s setup includes a 3-D scanner and a 3D print...
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CodeWars Lets Developers Battle it out for Code Supremacy
By: Kevin Green | December 4th, 2012 | Business, News
Developers have always thought of themselves as a special club that stand out from the crowd. Coders usually rank themselves based on skill set and how well they can perform difficult tasks. That is why hackers garner respect in the developer communthey'd use to their ability to do what most others think is impossible. Some developers take pride in the fact that they work on very difficult progr...
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Mobile Medical Monitor Developer Scanadu Plans To Launch Three New Products Within Year
By: Kevin Green | December 4th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Health, Living, Mobile Apps, News
Scanadu got its start in January 2011 with seed funding of $2 million to revolutionize health monitoring. Their idea was a health monitoring device that connected to smartphones to transmit and analyze health related data constantly. The body’s vital signs are an essential indicator of how well everything is working and up until now, peop...
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Vancouver Becomes Home To Microsoft Game Studio Black Tusk
By: Talha Bhatti | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, Games, News, O Canada
Microsoft announced late last week that it would be opening a new game stuio in Vancouver. The awesomely named Black Tusk will be located in downtown and will help in recovering jobs and talent that have seen better days as studios have closed down or moved away from the Canadian city. The studio has actually been active for a year in the Yal...
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Evernote Cashes Out Early Investors and Employees Following $85 Million Funding Round
By: Talha Bhatti | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, News
Popular online note-taking service, Evernote, has been building an incredible reputation and user base since 2007. The success of the startup has led many IPO rumors to hit the markets but no such move has been made by the company’s head honchos. Evernote CEO, Phil Libin, claims that he wants to keep...
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Fashion Startup Rent The Runway Secures $20 Million in Funding, Adding Condé Nast Publications to Board of Directors
By: Jeff Stewart | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, News
Rent The Runway is a fashion startup that provides designer clothes, jewellery and accessories to women on rent at pretty affordable prices. Recently, this sartorial startup concluded a funding round in which the firm raised $20 million. Condé Nast
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Research Reveals Sales of Microsoft Windows 8 are Underwhelming
By: Ali Raza | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, News, Tablets
Observers and analysts had their doubts that Microsoft’s first tablet, the Surface would do well, but very few of them thought that the giant software maker’s bread and butter system Windows 8 would be a flop. The latest research study from NPD reveal...
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Research Firm Claims Apple May Launch iRadio Streaming Service in 2013
By: Talha Bhatti | December 3rd, 2012 | Apple, Business, iOS, News
Apple has dominated digital music with its iTunes service and devices like the iPod. However, the technology giant is feeling the pinch of competition as new services like Pandora offer online music streaming. This has led to many rumours that the California based iPhone maker will be releasi...
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Kngine Aims To Answers Any Question With a Natural Language Interface
By: Talha Bhatti | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Kngine is a natural language mobile app whose purpose is to answer any question the user may have. If that sounds a lot like Apple’s personal concierge Siri, it is not by accident. Kngine’s co-founder and CEO Haytham ElFadeel is quite happy to make the comparison. Kngine does differ in that the Knowledge Engine’s goal is not the same as S...
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