There’s probably a song or some film that would serve as a perfect analogy to Travis Kalanick and the unmistakably fast […]
Uber, Cleaning House And Hiring Fresh
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
Legends describe unicorns as these mythical creatures with magical powers that are notoriously difficult to find and capture. Nonetheless, we […]
