Flutter has been acquired by Google, announced on Flutter’s website.  The YC W12 company makes a popular Mac app that enables Kinect-like control by gestures at the webcam.  Flutter was included by Apple on its 2012 Mac App Store “Best Mac Apps of the Year”.  This past February, Flutter added support for Google Chrome.

Flutter has released an update on the Apple Mac AppStore.  This new version adds support for Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Chrome, through an extension.  Flutter’s Chrome extension enables support for YouTube, Pandora, Grooveshark, and NetFlix.  Flutter’s latest release also includes a new option for “Preferred App” selection, 1-Click Camera control, and performance improvements.  Flutter has […]

Flutter has been included by Apple in its annual “Best Apps of the Year” section of the Mac App Store.  Flutter is described by its developers as “Kinect for Mac”.  You simply wave gestures at your Mac’s webcam to perform actions in other programs.  Flutter currently works with iTunes, Spotify, rdio, Quicktime, VLC, and Keynote.  Flutter […]

Y Combinator Universe published more than a hundred blog posts in 2013.   Topics covered everything from relationship apps for couples to in-memory relational databases.  I wrote about fashion startups and wearable devices.  The acquisition of a dozen companies were mentioned.  And Demo Day for two new batches were detailed, YC W13 and YC S13.  Here’s a […]

If your startup idea is so great, then why would you sell 7% of your startup for $20,000 dollars and some advice?  You probably wouldn’t.  Y Combinator has obviously thought of this question.  That’s why their first advice after investing is to avoid anyone else’s “lowball offers”.  That advice seems to be working so far: Valuations […]