Liz Gannes

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Putting the Self in Self-Expression: Rupal Patel Creates Personalized Prosthetic Voices

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 11, 2013 at 6:30 am PT

Got Downtime? Learn Something on Your Phone.

Doctor On Demand App Gives $40 Medical Consultations From the Comfort of Your Smartphone

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, December 10, 2013 at 10:00 am PT

Strava CEO Steps Down, and Former CEO Returns, but Not for the Usual Reasons

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 10, 2013 at 9:00 am PT

StarMaker Gets $4M for Karaoke Apps

Balaji Srinivasan Joins Andreessen Horowitz as General Partner

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 9, 2013 at 10:00 am PT

HealthLoop Raises $10M for Online Doctor Follow-Ups

Practice Fusion Grabs Another $15M for Electronic Health

Posted by Liz Gannes in Enterprise, December 9, 2013 at 4:30 am PT

“Hour of Code” Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (And the Republicans, Too!)

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 8, 2013 at 9:00 pm PT

Meet Dava Newman, the World’s Universe’s Leading Space Fashion Designer

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 6, 2013 at 11:19 am PT

To Comply With FDA, 23andMe Won’t Give New Customers Genetic Analysis

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 5, 2013 at 7:00 pm PT

Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself

Posted by Liz Gannes in Product News, December 5, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

Job-Review Site Glassdoor Hints at IPO Aspirations While Raising $50M More

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 5, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

Homejoy Raises $38M to Bring $20/Hour Home Cleaning to the Masses

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 5, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Pinterest Loses Head of Engineering Jon Jenkins

Filling Out Its Executive Team, Airbnb Hires Operations and HR Heads

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, December 4, 2013 at 5:03 pm PT

Uber Confirms Revenue Estimates, but Bristles Over Source of Valleywag Report

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, December 4, 2013 at 3:08 pm PT

Uber Will Deliver Christmas Trees to Your Door for $135

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, December 4, 2013 at 9:00 am PT

During Drones’ Big Week, Drone-Maker 3D Robotics Discloses Some More Funding

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 4, 2013 at 4:30 am PT

Misfit Wearables Raises $15.2M on Back of Shine, Even as Founder Dismisses Activity Trackers

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 4, 2013 at 4:00 am PT

Google Acquired Seven Robotics Companies for Andy Rubin

Yahoo Snags DreamWorks-Incubated Mobile Video App Ptch

The $99 Kid’s Computer Kit Kano Is About to Hit $1M on Kickstarter

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 3, 2013 at 10:46 am PT

Norad Santa-Tracker Is Now 3-D, Touch-Enabled and Claymationized, Courtesy of Microsoft

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 3, 2013 at 8:35 am PT

Europe’s BlaBlaCar Has Created the Purest Version of the Sharing Economy So Far — And It’s Working

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 2, 2013 at 9:27 am PT

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald