Uber’s Instant Pay has cashed out $1.3B to drivers in just one year

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Instacart VP of operations Mike Swartz has left the company

 TechCrunch has learned that Mike Swartz, an operations veteran from Amazon who joined Instacart in February…

Apple Music on Android catches up with iOS, but bugs remain

 Apple’s subscription streaming service, Apple Music, rolled out a major (ver. 2.0) release to Android users…

Feedly’s reader app now caters to knowledge workers with launch of boards, notes & annotations

 Following the death of Google Reader several years ago, there was a brief renewed interest in…

Spotify trades free tier album delays for smaller royalties

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Microsoft launches Sprinkles, a silly camera app powered by machine learning

 Microsoft is getting into the “fun camera app” game with a new iOS application called Sprinkles,…

SureFlap has an app-controlled pet door in the pipeline

 Finally coming to the pet tech space this summer: an app-controlled cat door that will tell…

Blackstorm Labs and Rakuten launch R Games to build high-fidelity HTML5 games

 Blackstorm Labs, a startup that’s working to build technology that brings developers tools to get out…