Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma, known best as the startup that offers free, no-strings-attached credit scores, has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired the makers of the mobile application Snowball, with plans to leverage the team’s expertise in mobile notifications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the Snowball app will be pulled from… Read More

Patch.com

Massey Attends New Mayor School at Harvard Patch.com Topics in sessions, led by current and former mayors, academics, policy analysts and others, including improving infrastructure, policing and public safety, and real-time crisis communication. “This specially-targeted seminar at Harvard's Institute of ...

Clinkle imploded after employees quit en masse in May, protesting how its young CEO Lucas Duplan was mismanaging the $30 million-funded payments startup. But Duplan won’t quit. TechCrunch has attained emails showing Duplan is pivoting Clinkle away from its former ultrasound payments and loyalty debit card products. Now Clinkle is an SDK called Treats that other apps can integrate to… Read More

The invention of guns took warfare to a whole new level. Later, airplanes radically changed it again. Now, experts say another big shift is coming, led by energy weapons, including lasers.

The Nation Newspaper

Events that shaped Nigeria's politics in 2015 The Nation Newspaper The following month, the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) announced that some of the Boko Haram terrorists have started making contacts with the Centre to help initiate a dialogue process with the Federal Government on their behalf. Executive ... and more »

Galveston.com & Company (press release) (blog)

Less Than Two Weeks Remain to See Moody Gardens ICE LAND Sculptures and ... Galveston.com & Company (press release) (blog) A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), he specializes in travel, feature and business writing and is the author (main contributor) of the Dorling Kindersley EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE TO PHILADELPHIA AND THE PENNSYLVANIA ...