SoFi has applied for a bank charter

by | Jun 13, 2017 | Technology

In May, SoFi CEO Michael Cagney told TechCrunch the company would be applying for a bank charter “in the next month.” Well, it’s about a month later, and — surprise! — the company has actually done so.On June 6, SoFi applied for a de novo (or “new”) bank charter,...

The HTC U11 is a good phone with a dumb gimmick

by | Jun 13, 2017 | Technology

Squeezable sides are a very bad reason to buy a phone. Especially now, when the U11’s Edge Sense doesn’t do a whole hell of a lot. Who knows, perhaps one day it will do much more than simply launching favorite apps. But even then, squeezable sides will be a very bad...

Watch Sony’s E3 press conference right here

by | Jun 13, 2017 | Technology

Whether or not it has new hardware, Sony always finds a way to surprise us at E3.Expect loads of new games, and then there’s always the gold Playstation 4, which is on sale for $249 at the event. There’s a slight chance that Playstation will make a few price cuts to...

Inflect makes buying internet infrastructure easier

by | Jun 13, 2017 | Technology

Once your company gets to the point where you decide to move out of the comforting safety of a public cloud like AWS and set up your own infrastructure, things get rather complicated. You have to choose a data center (or two) and your network and exchange providers,...