Bird has already established itself as a big player in the escooter industry, and is now joining the bikesharing market with its specially made Bird Bike. It’s cool, it’s blue, and it can take you places. Yesterday, the companyannouncedits “New Smart Bikeshare Program,” which it plans to roll out incities across North America and Europe. Bird’s ebikecan hit a top speed of 25 kilometers per hour and has a range of up to 90km on a single charge....

Celebrityscumbagsbillionaires like Musk, Bezos, and Branson may feel they own space, but they have an unexpected rival: Porsche. Yep, the car makeris investing in German rocket start-up Isar Aerospace in an attempt to ensure access to new space-based technologies, theFinancial Timesreports. The company is joining a group of new investors, HV Capital and Lombard Odier, by putting down $75 million, which brings the totalSeries B funding roundto $165 million. Isar’s vision Despite its low profile, Isar aims to compete withElon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin by offering (relatively) inexpensive low-earth orbit satellite launch services....

A Twitter scam app which claims it help you see the people accessing your profile is proliferating across Twitter today, with users being duped into granting access to their Twitter accounts to spread the scam even wider. The app, named “See Wh0 Viewed Y0ur Pr0file” requests access to a users’ Twitter account via OAuth (an authentication platform that won’t share your sensitive information), sending out two tweets once it has been approved:...

Bey2ollakis one of two Egyptian start-ups which are US bound, following their participation in the NexGen IT EntrepreneursBoot Camplast month. Hearing the news that American and Danish entrepreneurs were flying in to Cairo, to host a seminar especially for Egypt’s up-and-coming start-ups, one of Bey2ollak’s five co-founders, Mohamed Rafea snagged a spot at the table. Bey2ollak is the brainchild of five cousins. Aly Rafea, Mohamed Rafea and Gamal Sadek, all computer science graduates, were responsible for development....

Last night at the MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce revealed that she was 5 months pregnant, flashing her baby bump on the red carpet, then again onstage. It looks like a lot of people must not have watched the red carpet though because a record number of Tweets per second shared on Twitter was hit right around the time that she finished up performing. The news was reported by Twitter from the@twitterglobalpraccount just a few minutes ago:...