A few months ago, CoreOS launched the preview of Tectonic, a container platform based on the Google-incubated Kubernetes container management and orchestration tool. Starting today, CoreOS considers Tectonic to be out of beta. As CoreOS CEO and co-founder Alex Polvi told me, the team worked with hundreds of customers during the beta and found (and fixed) all kinds of issues. Now, however, the… Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
There's been a big push from startups promising to help marketers and publishers take advantage of all the user-generated content that's posted to social media, but Livefyre CEO Jordan Kretchmer suggested that one area has been relatively neglected — pushing UGC to a brand's own website. Kretchmer is announcing a new product today called the Livefyre Engagement…
Omni is trying to find a solution for the problem of shrinking apartments and rising rent in urban areas. The company launched their iOS app in the Apple App Store today, the first full release of a product that has been in the works for a while. Omni has been operating in the San Francisco area for several months now, working with a limited user base and distributing its mobile product on a…
The not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, makers of the wildly popular $35 Raspberry Pi microprocessor, and the U.K.-based volunteer-led charitable organization Code Club, which runs after school programs to get kids coding, are merging — with the grand aim of getting a coding club in every community in the world.
Right off the launch of Lumo Run, Lumo Bodytech, a smart sensors and software platform, has raised $10 million in Series B financing. Lumo came onto the scene a few years back with Lumo Lift, a wearable device that buzzed users when they slouched to help them improve posture. It since branched out with Lumo Back, for lower back posture improvement. The startup launched its first fitness…
German startup ByeBuy, which offers a pay-as-you-go and on-demand alternative to gadget ownership, has raised a €1 million seed round.
Earlier this year, Opera's former CEO Jon von Tetzchner launched Vivaldi, a new desktop browser for power users (and those who were unhappy with Opera's direction after that company's switch to Google's rendering engine after von Tetzchner left). Vivaldi has now been downloaded more than 2 million times during its technical preview and the team believes it's now…