AdMob Founder’s Churn Labs To Shut Down, Team Lured Away By New Startups

The end is in sight for Churn Labs, the startup generator created by AdMob founder Omar Hamoui and AdMob’s first engineer Mike Rowehl. Two new companies will be spinning out in mid-July, Hamoui tells me, and they’ll be taking the Churn team with them.

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UK Gets Its First Intel-Powered Smartphone

Europe will be getting its first Intel-powered smartphone next month — in the form of a handset named San Diego.
Originally codenamed San…

Big Data For Higher Ed: With $4.1M From First Round, Floodgate, Former Kaplan Exec Launches Civitas Learning

To improve academic outcomes and keep students in school, teachers, learners and administrators need access to insight in realtime. Big data, predictive analytics, machine learning and recommendation engines are transforming the way we buy products, play games and watch movies, and Civitas Learning believes

Panasonic’s UN-W700 runs Android, streams Blu-ray video, takes Skype calls, isn’t a tablet

We’ve seen Android used for home theater purposes before, but it’s been rare that a company has wanted Google’s OS used almost exclusively with that purpose in mind. Panasonic is gambling that its UN-W700 can use Android (2.3, unfortunately) for an all-singing, all-dancing compact video device. The 7-inch,

Meet Buyou, A One-Stop Shopping Mall for iPads

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Netflix iPhone app update offers WiFi-only option

There’s no question that Netflix can be a bit of a data hog. That’s not something you really worry about when you about at home because chances are you don’t have a data limit or the limit is so huge you’re never concerned with eclipsing it. But it becomes a very real issue if

MotoCzysz aims to refashion TAC Motors’ Stark into an eco-friendly off-roader

Imagine barreling through the Amazonian rainforest with machetes flailing from the windows of your off-road rig, and just as you’re about to kick the vehicle into low gear, you pause to consider the impact of your vehicle’s exhaust (among other things) on the delicate ecosystem around. Fortunately for

Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Auto-Sharing Spam With “10-Second Rule”

If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you’re in luck. Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline. That should drastically reduce the amount of crappy click-bait articles and video clips you see in the news

How Instagram Is Taking Over Major League Baseball

Instagram and baseball have a few things in common — they both invite reflection and facilitate nostalgia, for example.
Now it seems they go to…