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Uber to roll out cheaper ride-sharing service

by Faith Merino, April 12, 2013 | Comments

While it faces regulatory hurdles in the livery industry, the ride-sharing industry grows

As much as I love the idea of ride-sharing, I will never, ever, ever use one of those services. Why, you ask? Because I read newspapers. I’ve read enough stories about women being abducted by totally normal-looking creepers to have a healthy fear of unsafe situations. My God, hasn’t anyone read that viral notice that rapists are now putting recordings ...

Apple's iRadio almost a reality?

by Faith Merino, April 12, 2013 | Comments

Apple is rumored to be signing with Universal Music Group next week to license music

Gird your loins, Pandora. Apple’s iRadio may be inching closer to becoming a reality, according to rumors that the tech giant is expected to sign its first licensing agreement with Universal Music Group as early as next week. Along with Universal Music Group, Warner Music is also expected to sign with Apple, according to sources who spoke to The Verge. ...

Relay Foods raises $8.25M for online grocery shopping

by Faith Merino, April 12, 2013 | Comments

The startup aims to bring farm fresh food to your doorstep. Can they pull it off?

Grocery shopping sucks. Unless I’m going to Whole Foods to scope out some hot stay-at-home dads carrying babies, I’m bummed about the whole prospect. E-commerce for groceries has been a slow process, with a few large chains offering online orders for pick-up or delivery, but if you want high-quality, artisanal, and farm fresh foods, you’re shit-outta-luck most of the time. ...

Foursquare raises $41M in debt to buy time

by Faith Merino, April 11, 2013 | Comments

The app's popularity has been waning; Foursquare takes on debt to beef up tools and services

As the novelty of checking in has worn off, Foursquare has had to find new ways to stay relevant. The company introduced a new iOS redesign Wednesday that emphasizes search, but they’ve got a ways to go if they’re serious about competing with Yelp. Now it looks like the company is, indeed, knuckling down. The company announced Thursday that it ...

IPhone maker Hon Hai sees annual revenue drop 19%

by Faith Merino, April 10, 2013 | Comments

Foxconn parent Hon Hai posts revenue drop, fingers pointing at poor iPhone sales

Apple hasn’t had a great year, missing estimates every quarter since Tim Cook took the helm. Analysts are now warning that Apple will be announcing an even more dismal earnings report later this month—one so bleak that it will even miss Apple’s traditionally conservative guidance. That has ripple effects on Apple’s partners. One such partner—Hon Hai Precision, AKA Foxconn—reported a ...

WellTok raises $18.7M for social health platform

by Faith Merino, April 10, 2013 | Comments

WellTok is best known for its social health network CafeWell

Getting healthy is all about accountability. That’s why you start off strong on apps like MyFitnessPal and MapMyFitness, and then you slowly fade into the mists as you lose motivation. And then poof—it’s like you were never there… One social health and fitness network is getting some impressive traction. WellTok, creator of the CafeWell social health platform, announced Wednesday that ...

Plain Vanilla raises $2.4M for social trivia platform

by Faith Merino, April 9, 2013 | Comments

	The company gets support from Greycroft Ventures and others There’s no easier way to feel smarter than everyone else in the room than winning a trivia game. You know as well as everyone that your victory is literally trivial, but still. It makes you feel like a big man—a rock star. Like you could take home any lady in the room. Like you could open any pickle jar in ...
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BarkBox raises $5M, rebrands to Bark & Co

by Faith Merino, April 9, 2013 | Comments

The monthly box of toys and treats wins the hearts and souls of dog parents everywhere

In true mom fashion, I’m wracked with guilt. I used to be a more doting mom to my fur-babies—my two badly trained, ill-behaved Queensland Heelers. And then I had an actual, human baby, and now my dogs are like Harry Potter shoved into the cupboard under the stairs. They get far fewer treats and toys, and they don’t get birthday ...

Treehouse raises $7M from Kaplan for tech education

by Faith Merino, April 9, 2013 | Comments

The site's 26,000 students are learning everything from Web design to Ruby on Rails coding

Technology is upending education as we know it, but one of the key ways students are benefitting is through accessibility. Pure and simple, the Web makes it possible to learn from the comfort of your own kitchen table. This is particularly good news for those areas that aren’t commonly taught in school, like Web design and app development. For that, ...

What women want: Subscription commerce for your period

by Faith Merino, April 8, 2013 | Comments

Juniper and other companies are launching services to deliver tampons and treats to your doorstep

When Lynn Tao told a male friend and former Y Combinator alum about her business idea, he thought it was a joke. When Tao informed him that it wasn’t a joke, his response was visceral. “That’s gross,” he said. Tao is the founder and CEO of Juniper, a monthly subscription commerce startup for tampons. The company launched in October 2012 ...

Apple makes surprise gains in mobile market in February

by Faith Merino, April 5, 2013 | Comments

Despite talk of slowing iPhone sales, report shows iPhone is still seeing strong growth

There’s been a lot of doom-and-gloom talk around Apple these days. After a disappointing holiday season and rumors that the company will come in below its own guidance this quarter—which would be the first time like, ever, since Apple has a reputation for low-balling its guidance—some are questioning whether the hardware giant has hit its peak and its sales are ...

Secret-sharing app Whisper raises $3M

by Faith Merino, April 5, 2013 | Comments

The confessional app gets support from Lightspeed Venture Partners and others

One of the reasons we all fell in love with the Internet back in the 90s was the ability to interact with others completely anonymously. Remember chat rooms? There’s something beautiful about being able to speak freely without having to face any kind of real world repercussions. Maybe that’s we’re now dealing with a pandemic of trolls... There have been ...

What Facebook Home means for Google and Apple

by Faith Merino, April 4, 2013 | Comments

Facebook unveils Facebook Home, but how will it impact Google and Apple?

So that whole Facebook phone thing, right? To sum up: not a phone, not an OS—it’s a launcher. Mark Zuckerberg and pals demo’d the launcher at the much-anticipated event Thursday and showed off all the bells and whistles. You can see notifications and pics from your home screen without even unlocking your phone. And Chat Heads allows you to respond ...

Netflix reveals Arrested Development available May 26

by Faith Merino, April 4, 2013 | Comments

	And the Netflix story turns a new leaf... Confession time: I don’t have Netflix. I canceled my account years ago, made a few attempts at reconciling with it, and then gave up. I love the company the way you love the little kid in that movie Simon Birch because you know he’s going to die. You can’t get too attached. Only—uh oh—the dying Netflix kid is making a ...
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Let's get all the phones

by Faith Merino, April 3, 2013 | Comments

Apple, Amazon, and Facebook: a phone rumor round-up

This week in phones: did you hear that Amazon might be building its own phone? And Facebook? And Apple? Because gadgets and doodads. As high-end smartphones are reaching a saturation level, cheap phones are set to soar, particularly in developing countries. So it makes sense that Apple is reportedly working on a cheap iPhone that could be unveiled as early ...

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