John Saddington has launched a Instagram rival, iPhone app and wordPress plugin called Pressgram with the help of a Kickstarter campaign. The free app gives users the ability to snap photos, add filters and effects, and then share your photos with your social network and follow your friends. Pressgram mimics...

Vancouver-based ambient video startup, Perch, launches a live video communications mobile app to bridge the gap between remote offices through an always-on video conference via wall-mounted iPads or iPhones. Offices simply install the Perch app on a dedicated iPad  and hung the iPad to the wall. Then they connect it...

Not all leaks and rumors in the tech world are true, but Xiaomi, one of China's hottest technology companies, has officially gone beyond smartphones and launches an Android-based 47-inch 3D-capable smart TV. The 47-inch 3D-capable Xiaomi TV is assembled by Wistron and will cost just CN¥2,999 (US$490). What was interesting...

The social search engine, Topsy, now allows you to scan the entire history of your public Twitter messages (every tweets) to its real-time data platform --- since the dawn of the real-time social network Twitter. Social analytics platform indexes every public tweet ever published on Twitter for search and analysis,...

In a surprise move, software giant Microsoft struck a 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion) deal to acquire Nokia's smartphone and cellular handset business. The move is one of the boldest yet by CEO Steve Ballmer. However, Microsoft is paying $5 billion to buy Nokia's Devices & Services unit and an...

I honestly can't remember the last time I found such a useful tool. Acronis, a leading provider of physical, virtual, and cloud backup solutions, has launched a tool to automatically back up the VMware vCloud. You'll have the ability to integrate backups so workloads are not lost. In a blog...

Raj Singh is a mobile industry veteran having worked across the space over the past 13 years. Raj is the Founder and CEO of Tempo AI focused on developing a smart calendar. Tempo AI was spun-out of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) where Raj served as an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)....

For founders by founders venture fund, Global Founders Capital (The Samwer brothers $200m investment fund) has finally announced its first 3 investments: Lingoda, Videdressing, and GirlMeetsDress. Oliver and Marc Samwer — founders of the Rocket Internet startup have teamed up with Fabian Siegel, the founder and architect of online food...

Fantastic update, one of the most popular iOS email app "Mailbox" (owned by Dropbox) has been updated with "cloud search" --- you can now quickly search all of your Gmail messages in the cloud and locally on your device. Previously, search was limited to messages that had been downloaded and...