There’s probably a song or some film that would serve as a perfect analogy to Travis Kalanick and the unmistakably fast […]
Travis Kalanick Resigns Amidst Utter F****ing Chaos
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Uber, Cleaning House And Hiring Fresh
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To say that Uber’s needed a dramatic facelift these past few months is a dramatic understatement. The rideshare startup turned […]
Uber’s New Uber Freight App Matches Shippers and Carriers On Demand
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Despite all their recent controversy Uber continues growing and broadening their brand. The company just launched Uber Freight, the service that necessitated the blog. […]
Video: An Ultralight Personal Flying Vehicle from Kitty Hawk
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Airplanes exist. Based on the many hours I spend in traffic every morning, cars definitely exist. So it’s only natural […]
Awesome Alert: Lilium’s Bringing The “Friendly” Back To The Skies With An Air Taxi
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There are some very interesting things happening in the skies right now, and we’re not referring to the latest news […]
“In Fairness, I Just Recently Learned What a ‘Woman’ Is”, by Travis Kalanick CEO of Uber
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Despite some rigorous complications we at SnapMunk managed to speak with Travis Kalanick, one of the most controversial figures in […]
Cloudflare’s Data Leak And What Tech Experts Say We Should Learn From It
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I gave myself the annoying task of changing the passwords for practically half the apps on my iPhone last week, […]
Identifying Strains in Marijuana Startups: Which Weed Business is Right for You?
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A little over a year ago, I shared my keen insights and vapor-fueled predictions on the future of marijuana startups […]
Retrofit Any Pair of Glasses into Voice-Controlled Smart Glasses with Kai
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One way to create smart eyewear is to manufacture the hardware yourself and control not just functionality, but also the […]
Trump’s Immigration Phobia Won’t Do Diddly To Tech
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Tech CEOs have been making all sorts of headlines in these first long weeks of President Trump’s administration. At the […]
Leaked: Donald Trump’s Meeting With His Business Advisory Council
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This month, Donald Trump met with the seventeen executives appointed to his Business Advisory Council. Industry figures like PepsiCo’s Indra […]
6 Of The Tech World’s Most Charitable Responses to Trump’s Muslim Ban
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We aren’t a political news site, so the large list of failings of the current president, Donald Trump typically doesn’t […]
Airbus Says They’ll Have A Flying Car By Year’s End
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It’s interesting to see various major companies zero in on similar ideas. We previously talked about Arconic’s Jetsons plan, which listed […]
SnapMunk’s Wishlist for Santa (and whoever he hires for Hanukkah)
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Straight up, 2016 was fucked. You know it, we know it, and Miss Cleo knew it before any of us. What […]
SnapMunk WTF: Amazon Black Friday, Uber App Update, Slack vs Microsoft
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Want rundowns and rantings about the week’s biggest tech news? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to SnapMunk WTF, easily the […]
Finally Someone Patented A 100 Passenger Plane With Helicopter Take-Off
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File this one under, “It’s about bloody time” (and then file that comment under “As if we just criticized a […]
Lyft Plans To Be Mostly Electric Self-Driving Cars in Five Years
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This has been a big month for transportation. We saw a solar car, an electric bus, and now, a detailed article from Lyft […]
The Tao of Being a TaskRabbit: 5 Things Learned From Assembling IKEA for Racists & Other Experiences
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According to a Time Magazine poll, 22% of American adults have offered some kind of good or service through the […]
Dude I Need A Truck Is On-Demand Truck Rental That Comes With Its Dude (or Dudette)
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Dude, where’s my truck? Even if you don’t need one right now, you’re likely going to need one in the near […]
Elizabeth Warren: Digital Fairness Czar
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Recently, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren leveled some heavy criticisms against Silicon Valley. “Google, Apple, and Amazon have created disruptive technologies […]
How Much Can InsurTech Startups Really Disrupt Insurance?
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Sometime in the 1300s a merchant in Genoa figured out he could make money by betting on cargo being lost […]
Bar Roulette Is a ‘Surprise Me’ App for Bar Hopping
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Sometimes, venturing away from your preferred watering hole to uncharted tippling territory can be an uncomfortable exercise. It can also result […]
Launch of Tech: NYC Lobbying Group Signals Industry Adulthood
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There’s hardly a major company around that doesn’t have an office in New York City, and the giants of the […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know May 2-6
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know April 25-29
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
4 of My Favorite “Uber for ________” Services
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There’s on-demand healthcare, healthy food delivered to your door, hovering video cameras for hire, and cheap deals on last-minute hotel rooms. With this plethora of apps and startups focused on the on-demand, sharing economy, It’s good to be alive in the age of Ubers.
Paqqy Uses Random People as Couriers to Shake Up The Package Delivery Industry
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Over the last 20 years, peer-to-peer networks have disrupted industries dominated by big players. It began with Napster, who rocked […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Feb 7 – Feb 12
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Know Your 2016 Crunchies Winners (Most You Already Do)
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Last night, at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, TechCrunch hosted the 9th Annual Crunchies, also known to some […]
WaiveCar Puts Ads On Shared Cars So You Can Drive for Free
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To businesses, it’s an opportunity to make their outdoor advertising campaigns smarter and easier to track. For the rest of […]
20 Highs and Lows of CES 2016
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As most of you know, last week was CES 2016 in Las Vegas; the world’s most prolific consumer electronics show. […]
Zify Incentivizes Carpooling by Matching Like-Minded Individuals
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Another carpooling app? *Yawn* Or maybe not… The team behind Zify, a carpooling application that intelligently matches work commuters with people […]
Airbnb Is Fighting Its Own Deflategate and The Struggle Is Real
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Airbnb, the popular short-term rental website with over 2 million listings in 34,000 cities, was relatively unheard of five years […]
Everything Is a Remix – Startup Edition
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Apparently Hollywood is all out of ideas — most new movies are either a remake with better VFX than the […]
What Karhoo Has Going for It Against Alpha Unicorn Uber
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As Uber made rapid headway in the taxi industry, it didn’t just leave conventional taxi services behind; it threatened their […]
As the ‘Shazaam of Places’, Phind Lets Travelers Discover A City by Taking Pictures of It
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We take it for granted now, but do you remember how astonishing Shazaam (the app, not the Shaquille O’Neal movie) […]
Will Self-Driving Cars Disrupt Uber?
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last couple of years, you probably know what Uber is. You also […]
Three Hot Silicon Valley Unicorns
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Legends describe unicorns as these mythical creatures with magical powers that are notoriously difficult to find and capture. Nonetheless, we […]
