The Digital Hug App

The Digital Hug App

It’s not the same as physical, human contact, but the new HUG app is an interactive mobile application that sends your loved ones hugs from a distance, anywhere in the world. The idea came from brothers and former Google employees, Petter and Kaspar Prinz who...
Katch, for Meerkat, for Twitter

Katch, for Meerkat, for Twitter

Katch is the newest app that’s exploded on the scene since Meerkat kit the big leagues at this month’s SXSW festival. What is Meerkat? Meerkat is a live-streaming app that allows you to create and broadcast video footage from a live Twitter feed. Those...
Drone Journalism Review: Ethics

Drone Journalism Review: Ethics

Welcome to Drone Journalism Review, a blog series about all the issues surrounding drone technology. Today we’re going to be looking at the overall ethics when it comes to drone journalism specifically in relation to concerns of privacy and surveillance....
Startup Timeline: Twitter

Startup Timeline: Twitter

Welcome to the inaugural Powered Labs’ Startup Timeline series. Every week we will be profiling a company and seeing how they survived and achieved success in the tech world. This week it was Twitter’s 9th birthday so we decided to take a minute to be...
How Apps Evolve

How Apps Evolve

Have you considered how apps evolve? Have you looked at all the apps you love, on your phone, and have you thought about all the ways it changed over the years? Let’s take a look at all the ways that Facebook, one of the most popular and recognizable apps of all...