ut I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself,…
e can all agree that email is the worst thing that’s ever happened to any of us. Sure, it made the postal service obsolete and it speeds up the rate of textual transmission by a factor of 200,000 or so, but that doesn’t mean that most of us aren’t drowning in promotions and newsletters. In a…
f you look across the space of consumer Internet services and physical sensors, people are producing more data than ever before, which is being used to make all kinds of insurance more granular and accurate according to individual risk. Zendrive, a company backed by First Round Capital, BMW i Ventures and Bill Ford’s Fontinalis Partners…
f you’ve ever wanted to contribute photos or videos to your local newscast, you might get your chance soon, thanks to a new startup called Fresco News. There have been lots of other experiments in crowdsourced journalism, but CEO John Meyer (pictured above) said Fresco has some key differences. Nor again is there anyone who loves…
s the global battle for online food delivery heats up, Bangalore-based Swiggy has raised $16.5 million in additional funding to make a play for the Indian market. Swiggy launched in Bangalore in August last year with a curated takeout delivery service targeting young, working professionals. While many food delivery apps rely on restaurant employees for…
Bloglovin’ has brought on Giordano Bruno Contestabile as its new CEO. With a background in video games (he was executive producer of PopCap Games’ Bejeweled franchise), Contestabile isn’t the most obvious choice for a fashion- and lifestyle-focused blog aggregator. However, he said he was looking to get out of the gaming business, and he was…
