Tagged: android

August 30, 2013 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve all been there. The big moment is happening right in front of your eyes, so you pull out your smartphone to take a picture. By the time you can get through the lock screen, open the app and hit the button, the moment is… Read More

August 2, 2013 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

HOT smartwatch adds itself to the growing list of successfully crowdfunded smartwatches. Beats goal in first 30 hours. More validation of the pent up demand for wearable tech in the form of a “smartwatch”,  Hot Watch easily surpassed their initial crowdfunding goal of $150,000 in… Read More

July 22, 2013 @ 10:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to recent data from video game industry analyst NPD, Ouya sold 13,000 to 19,000 units via retail sales channels in the month of June. That does not include any units sold on their website or the units shipped to Kickstarter backers. 19,000 units isn’t… Read More

July 16, 2013 @ 8:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on SeedInvest Groups, a product aimed at angel groups and other investor networks. Recently the STAR Angel Network leveraged SeedInvest groups to close a round for Cincinnati-based mobile app startup LISNR. It’s a somewhat ridiculous event: hop on a bus to SXSW,… Read More

July 12, 2013 @ 8:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

You may have heard Peter Sunde‘s name before. He is one of the men behind The Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer file sharing and torrent web site. He is also a co-founder of Flattr, the pseudo-crowdfunding service where users set a monthly budget that is divvied… Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 11:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Production problems have forced delays in delivery of the GameStick to backers of their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. The GameStick is a highly portable Android-powered gaming system that raised just short of $650,000 from over 5,500 backers after receiving press mentions from TNW, Engadget, VentureBeat and… Read More

May 11, 2013 @ 11:26 am By Slashgear  |  

Carmageddon for Android has been released, hitting phones and tablets today having raised more than $625,000 in a Kickstarter campaign last year. The classic game – which requires players drive roughshod across the tracks, mowing down pedestrians and colliding with fellow drivers as they go – was a notorious… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 7:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google has launched a crowdfunding app called “One Today” that adds a philanthropic crowdfunding layer on top of their Google Plus social network. I recently had a chance to try the app. Every day I get a notification on my phone for the day’s cause…. Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 8:20 am By The Escapist  |  

The one hundred dollar Android console now has more than 10,000 developers working on games worldwide. It can be easy to be a bit skeptical of Ouya. While it impressed many when its Kickstarter campaign raised nearly 9 million dollars, it hasn’t been all sunshine and flowers… Read More

March 26, 2013 @ 5:05 pm By Jason Evangelho  |  

When we think about Google‘s Android OS, traditional home PCs are probably the last item in that thought process. San Mateo,California-based ZeroDesktop, Inc. (headed up by eMachines co-founder Young Song) are out to alter our perceptions of what a family computer can be with the $99… Read More

February 7, 2013 @ 7:52 pm By Pitchfork  |  

Björk‘s Kickstarter has been canceled. The Awl points out (via Spin) that the campaign launched to fund the Android/Windows versions of her Biophilia app is no longer. It’s not so much that it fell short of its funding goal; rather, it was cancelled. The project stalled nearly three weeks before its February 27 complete… Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 5:09 pm By ReadWrite  |  

Remember the humble Ouya game console? Maybe it was never that humble, but considering its indie roots, the Kickstarted experiment in Android-powered gaming just scored some surprisingly huge distribution partnerships for its release later this year. Founder and CEO Julie Uhrman tells The Wall Street Journal that the console will be available through… Read More