Goodbox Gets $2.5M To Bring India’s Small Brick-And-Mortar Stores Online
Goodbox, a startup based in Bengaluru, wants to give small retailers a chance to take part in India’s e-commerce boom…
NY Attorney General Adds Yahoo To FanDuel & DraftKings Investigation, Preliminary Hearing Next Week
Another day, another development in the wild world of daily fantasy sports. While DraftKings and FanDuel await their day in…
Machine Learning Versus Machine Discovery
Machine learning is hot. Where it applies, it heatedly enables data-rich and knowledge-lean automation of valuable tasks of perception, classification…
Lyft’s $1B Gross Run Rate In Context
Today, Lyft’s president John Zimmer announced that the ridesharing company reached an annualized gross revenue run rate of $1 billion in…
Regalii, A Startup In NYC’s Washington Heights, Uncovers Where Immigrants’ Remittances Really Go
It’s not a converted industrial warehouse in Brooklyn. Or a stately, century-old building in the Flatiron. But YC-backed Regalii’s atypical office…
Twitter’s Former News Manager Talks About His Current Project “Today In #BlackTwitter”
When Mark S. Luckie joined Twitter in 2012, he felt excited by the opportunity to explore the intersection of technology…
DOMDocument and UTF-8 Problem
A few weeks back I shared how I used PHP DOMDocument to reliably update all image URLs from standard HTTP to…
To Go After Local Neighborhood News And Marketplaces, Hoodline Raises $1.6M
There have been many attempts, most famously and disastrously with AOL’s Patch effort, and there are some very promising platforms…
Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.17.15
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Josh Elman, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 2pmPT/5pmET. Our LIVE…
Instagram Kills Off Feed Reading Apps
Only a tiny fraction of Instagram feed reading happens in third-party apps, so Instagram is shutting down its feed API…