All eyes are on New York, where along with a massive incoming storm, Uber is rolling out its emergency surge pricing cap. On Monday, there was a flurry of coverage by media outlets from Bloomberg… Read more »
Two new Fitbit fitness trackers went on sale in the United States and Canada on Tuesday. Fitbit will start shipping its first smartwatch, Surge, which costs $249.95, and has built-in GPS for… Read more »
A few weeks before New Year’s, I received a pitch from Flywheel that I’ve been waiting for since I started using the service in 2013. It said, “Flywheel Battles Uber with… Read more »
Five-year-old Spanish startup Optimitive has raised a $1.9 million Series A round from European venture capital fund GGM Venture Capital to boost sales of its artificial intelligence software. The company, which… Read more »
Silk, the browser for Amazon’s new Kindle Fire, utilizes Amazon’s cloud. But don’t think AWS is the Kindle Fire’s only cloud connection. In a post on Tuesday, Pulse’s Greg Bayer explained… Read more »
Building at scale doesn’t just require new tools, it requires a new mindset, said Google’s CIO Ben Fried, who spoke at the Surge conference in Baltimore today. That mindset is more… Read more »
A new Y Combinator–style incubator that will focus solely on the intersection of energy and information technology is launching in Houston, the founder of the group, Kirk Brand Coburn, told me… Read more »