New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital , Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures , and Village Ventures , along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park (Amy Nauiokas and Sean Parker), and . But it did not disclose how much it raised.
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Some of the best posts and ideas at Lifehacker come from you, the readers, and we’re always looking to improve the ways you guys can contribute to the site. Today, we’re introducing a new way you can flex your specialties: Expert Pages.
If you’re a photography student, formally or informally, learning about lighting schemes is one of the trickier and more time consuming aspects of study. Strobox pairs user-submitted photographs with lighting diagrams to help you learn how lighting schemes impact the final photo.
Been wondering how much T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ phone will set you back? Why, it’s that most generic of all smartphone prices: $199 with a two-year commitment or $499 without. To be fair to T-Mo, the G2 was one phone that it could plausibly have upmarked to, say $249, as Sprint has done with the Epic 4G , but nope, it’s landing squarely in the middle of the well beaten path to smartphone sales
One of the big announcements at Apple’s event today was Ping , the music social network that Apple has baked into iTunes. But it’s not just on iTunes for the computer, it’s also a part of iTunes on the iPhone and iPod touch. This will be a part of the new iOS 4.1 release which is going out to developers right now, and should be out for consumers next week
Get your very own working Vader mechno-arm Man or machine? Be a little more like your favorite Sith Lord with this robotic arm that you can build from 45 snap-together parts. Learn to control the robotic arm so it can turn, extend, and even grip and pick up small objects.
120 puzzle challenges that you solve with an abacus - how old school is that? Before graphing calculators, there were regular calculators. Before regular calculators, there was your brain and a pencil.
If you have a lot of windows open at once, you may find yourself doing a lot of rearranging. If you want to keep an eye on your frontmost window, though, you can move windows without focusing them.