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…
On-Demand Darwinism: Survival Of The Fastest
When it comes to evolution, many focus on those special specimens that survive, known as the “fittest.” But what about…
Museum Collections Enter VR With The Launch Of The Woofbert VR App For Samsung Gear
“What museums are excited about — among other things — is access. Pretty soon a kid with the smart phone…
The 20 Highest Paying Startup Unicorns
We pulled together all 153 unicorns currently listed on the Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard and then matched them up with data…
Behind The +1: Meet The New Google+(Plus)
Google+ has always been a project for Google, regardless of what you’ve read in the media. With projects, come changes…and…