It's no secret that the growth of publicly available data, or open data, is more prevalent than ever. From government databases, such as those aggregated by Data.gov, to data made available via tools such as Google Places API — the public has access to an overwhelming amount of information. Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
About a year ago, Michael Lopp joined Pinterest as the company's head of engineering — filling in the leadership of the engineering side next to co-founder Evan Sharp and CEO Ben Silbermann. Much of his role, since joining, has been to help teams at Pinterest, which consist of units of engineers, designers and product managers, mesh and work well together. Lopp comes from both…
Meet MyTape, a brand new social app for iOS centered around video. On MyTape, you follow people, shoot videos and watch stuff around you. It's a sort of mash-up between Periscope and Frontback, and it will be interesting to see whether this new social app can find its audience.
Susan Kare, an early Apple designer behind some of the company's early typefaces and icons, has joined Pinterest. She'll be part of Pinterest's creative team as a product design lead, according to the company. Kare designed many of Apple's famous original icons, like the Lasso and Paint Bucket, and worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT as creative director. She's…
Google said "non." In a blog post, Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer explained why Google wouldn't comply with the French data protection watchdog demands. The CNIL wanted the American company to widen its implementation of the so-called European 'right to be forgotten.' In its current implementation, Google only delists results from the Google.fr subdomain,…
In rural West Africa, 150 million people are currently living without electricity. Oolu, a Y Combinator company launching today, aims to reduce this number by delivering affordable solar energy to West Africa's off-grid population, beginning in Senegal. Despite the surge of innovation in solar storage and panel technology, Oolu founder Daniel Rosa says that many people living in…
Klarismo, which takes existing MRIs and other kinds of body scans to build a 3D model of a person, has raised $2.1 million and launched out of Y Combinator. Klarismo is an online service where users are able to take a much deeper look at their body's internal structure. It takes MRI scans and other kinds of scans that people are getting already and then uses that to build a 3D model of…