Daily Archives: December 16, 2015


china-bubble On the heels of reports that Apple Pay is gearing up for a February launch of Apple Pay in China, the country’s biggest credit card company has entered into a JV with a mobile payments startup out of the UK to take its own steps into smartphone-based transactions. UnionPay, the state-run company that controls debit and credit card payments processing in China, has inked a 10-year… Read More

China’s UnionPay Steps Into Mobile Payments In JV With UK ...


25b7ae3d131bba43de5a08635766b024_original If you’re a maker, getting people excited about what you’re doing can be difficult — no matter what it is you’re making. One guy, Max Temkin, has been “lucky” enough to strike gold with his project Cards Against Humanity. His next act? A game called “Secret Hitler.” In case you haven’t heard about it, it’s a card game for 5-10 players… Read More

CAH’s Max Temkin On ‘Secret Hitler’ And Making Fun Games ...



Turn That Frown Upside Down Facebook broke some hearts in 2014 when its algorithmically-selected Your Year In Review photosets accidentally included depressing photos of people’s exes, blocked friends, and deceased loved ones. To avoid the same bad feels, Facebook “applied a unique set of filters” to prevent these people from showing up in this year’s stylized vertical card of 10 photos. If… Read More

Facebook Filters Out Sadness And Adds Editing To Your Year ...


Woman-Holding-Hit-Miss-App Amber Reyngoudt and Dave Peck want to figure out how to perfect the mobile shopping experience — and they thinks it’s flipping through fewer products, not more. Skull Ninja Labs’ first product is Hit or Miss — a tinder-like interface where users can swipe through a curated set of products and quickly build a profile of the things they like. But the catch is that the… Read More

Hit Or Miss, A Tinder-Like Curated Fashion Shopping App, Looks ...



samsung-vr Whether you can find a Samsung Gear VR in time for the holidays or not, the company behind the mobile virtual reality accessory keeps releasing ads that follow a very important narrative for the future of VR. The ad is extremely well done, and focuses on games this time. As I’ve noted, most of the questions that people ask about VR is “can I do this?” or “can I do… Read More

The Latest Gear VR Ad Follows A Very Important, And ...





Afero Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for Microsoft of course, but Danger co-founder Joe Britt is doing just fine. In fact he’s uncloaking his new startup today — one he’s presumably been ploughing some of his unspent Danger money into. Read More

Afero Is An IoT Dev Platform Play Built By Danger ...



Afero Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for Microsoft of course, but Danger co-founder Joe Britt is doing just fine. In fact he’s uncloaking his new startup today — one he’s presumably been ploughing some of his unspent Danger money into. Read More

Afero Is An IoT Dev Platform Play Built By Danger ...