What started as a $5k side-project turned into more than English film-producer Bertie Stephens had originally bargained for. Two months after a misunderstanding during a chance meeting with a stranger, Stephens’ startup was sitting on a $1m investment and a $4m valuation. Here’s the story ofFlubit. What is Flubit? Flubit is a platform that will attempt to change the face of buying online. It plans to empower the consumer to bring down prices, and its sole goal is to “provide online shoppers with a platform that will enable them to seek out the best possible price on an item they wish to purchase....

Nearly a month ago to the day, FLUD, a fantastic, free, iOS news consumption appreceived several super updates, but if you own an Android device you may have felt left out. At the time of the iOS updates we noted, “For Android users, FLUD has released its Android app for private beta testing and will be releasing the app to the public this month.” True to their word, the team at FLUD has launched an Android version of their app with the same splendid features of its iOS brethren:...

One category of apps for iOS devices not in short supply are news readers. There are too many to list, with a scant few that truly stand out as great from those that are garbage. FLUD(free), a news reader for the iPad and iPhone, is one such app which can be described as great, and in the coming weeks is set to get even better. FLUDwas mentioned by apple as the top 3 news apps of 2010 along with Flipboard and Pulse, in addition to winning UI Design of the year byFast Company....

FLUD, the splendid free news reader for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, followingtheir last major updatein February, has returned with a slough of new features certain to please the mobile news reading connoisseur. After receiving more than $1 million in seed funding to further their goal of becoming “a true mobile news ecosystem,” FLUD version 1.1.5 moves the app multiple steps forward towards realizing this vision. One aspect users will instantly notice when launching FLUD is speed enhancements....

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Flux Slider has to be worth a few thousand at least. Flux Slider lets users create impressive 2D & 3D image slideshows. The tool itself is an HTML5/CSS3 based JavaScript library that is open source and can be used by anyone. You can access the source onGitHub, along with instructions on how to install it. And for not-so-techie WordPress users, there’s acommercial pluginwhich, along with the slider, offers an optimised, user-friendly interface that makes it really easy to create and configure slideshows on a blog....