SkreensTV – the Future of TV

SkreensTV – the Future of TV

No, you (probably) haven’t heard of it before, but even if you weren’t reading this article right now, I’d wager it wouldn’t be long until you heard about it elsewhere. You most likely have experienced the problems that SkreensTV proposes to...
FireChat and GreenStone

FireChat and GreenStone

FireChat is living up to its name—and is blazing a trail in the app world for people who want to communicate off the grid.  It has more than 3 million users, partly thanks to SXSW exposure, and partially due to world wide social unrest in places such as Iraq and...
Top 10 WordPress Themes of 2015

Top 10 WordPress Themes of 2015

Web design is getting more and more complicated these days, which is making it more difficult for the less technically savvy user to get started.  Thankfully there are plenty of tools out there such as WordPress that allows users who aren’t website gurus to create a...
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...
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...