Edcetera expands its footprint in engineering education with the acquisition of exam prep solution PrepFE.

Buried within the tZero Offering Memorandum for its ongoing initial coin offering were several interesting items of note. The first was the fact the SEC was in the process of reviewing the offering. Another interesting bit of information was the fact tZero has acquired a majority stake in VerifyInvestor.

Independent contractors have always had issues keeping track of their expenses, and DTLA-based Levee has built a platform to help solve that. The team of five, like the other startups, have found their business habits creep into their personal lives.

Making Taxes Easy & Maybe Even Fun

And that’s because Apple, for whatever reason, doesn’t allow native animations to take place on the wearable...However, the clever team over at We Make Apps has put together Pitch Out, the best workaround I’ve seen yet.

To help the shared economy community handle their business, Davis developed the Tabby app with his technical co-founder, Damien Sutevski.

Another anonymous mobile chat app: Poundcake lets you create your own rooms to talk with your friends. No signup is required, be in a room in 1 second. It's that fast. Everytime you enter a room, you are assigned a random icon. You can also join rooms for colleges and trending hashtags on Twitter.

Well to make this process easy and swift there is a new mobile app in town called Poundcake. This app is out on a mission to make communication super fast. With this app you can now join or start exclusive conversations with folks on any hashtag or topic you wish to know or discuss about.

Filing a tax return can be a daunting experience for an independent contractor. There’s the obligation to keep an accurate log of business expenses. There’s the dread of navigating a morass of potential deductions. There’s the need to save throughout the year to pay the government back.

We Did It - You Can Too!

My friend Damien Sutevski and I tried to game Warren Buffett’s 2014 March Madness bet with the public. Kinda goofy but it attracted 21,000 signups and a mention on Nate Silver’s blog, fivethirtyeight. The biggest challenge of this project was designing a bracket visualization system that was responsive down to tablet and mobile.

Damien Sutevski is trying to boost those collective odds. Sutevski, a graduate student at UCLA who studies fusion engineering, created the website Take Buffett’s Billion to coordinate entries. People who sign up are assigned brackets that are likely without ever being duplicative. They agree to donate any winnings to charities (the Immunity Project and Habitat for Humanity).