Today Nestio, the same service that helps you sort through and organize rental listings in the hunt for a new apartment, has today announced a brand new initiative to help improve the accuracy of listings across all of the web by offering a comprehensive service for brokers, landlords, and the end-user.

In the rough, and quite crowded world of NYC rental listings, TechStars-backed Nestio made a name for itself by taking all the various rental listing services on the web and compiling them in one place. But the service has been quiet of late, working on solving yet another problem for its users.

Despite the fact that Nestio offers a huge volume of listings, the service had little to no control over the accuracy of those listings. But to fix it, the company had to start all the way at the bottom of the food chain, with the landlords.

Tartu, Estonia-based startup Velodroom leverages tech to solve a problem any bike commuter can sympathize with – how to add lights to your ride that are convenient to use and require absolutely nothing from the rider besides a simple installation. The Velodroom light borrows some tricks from tech available in any smartphone to give the Velodroom a mind of its own, with some very useful consequences.

The Velodroom’s tricks are mostly about automating repetitive actions that are normally done manually on most bike lights, including powering on and off, activating brake lights and adapting brightness to current lighting conditions. It does all that while conserving battery via an auto shut-off mechanism that activates the light only when motion is detected, and it has an internal battery with 4x the energy capacity of two AAA batteries, which is rechargeable via USB.

Essentially this makes Velodroom a more-or-less fix and forget solution to bike lighting woes, with the added benefit that it actually flares when you start braking, the same way a car’s rear lights do, which is bound to increase safety and visibility at night, especially for riders negotiating traffic in busy urban locations. Plus the variable light levels based on sensors should ensure the battery lasts as long as possible: Velodroom is targeting three months usage on average, or over 100 hours of continuous power when turned on at full brightness.

Velodroom is the product of a team that includes Sven Sellik, Andri Laidre, Indrek Rebane, Tavvi Hein and Mihkel Heidelberg, who between them combine extensive experience in product design, electronics, programming and the science of sensors. The startup team wants to eventually reinvent more types of bike accessories, and move the market in general to more hassle-free products and designs, but is starting with the bike light since it’s a near-perfect demonstration of how readily available tech can improve a biker’s life right now.

Last Summer, Turner announced that it was creating a startup incubator focused just on young companies that were creating products for media businesses. The incubator, called Turner Media Camp, would leverage the conglomerate’s vast expertise in video and publishing to find companies with innovative ideas and help them find customers.

With networks like TBS, TNT, CNN, and Adult Swim in its portfolio of businesses, the idea was that Turner would be able to provide startups that pass through Media Camp with introductions to key decision makers within its organization and others. In addition to connecting those startups with potential customers, the incubator would also help them refine their products to make them more useful for those media companies based on their feedback.

Well it’s a year later, and Turner Media Camp is just starting its second attempt at the program in San Francisco. It’s picked five companies with different products and business ideas to take part in the incubator, which starts today. The five companies are as follows:

Pindrop Security, a startup that aims to prevent and protect against phone-based fraud, has raised $11 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Citi Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Redpoint and Felicis Ventures participating. The startup previously raised $1 million in seed funding from A16Z and others.

Pindrop has developed a caller-ID product that helps detect, report and mitigate phone fraud by identifying key attributes of any phone call including the device used (based on audio analysis), ID, call path, and geographic point of origin. Pindrop says that its technology essentially creates a “fingerprint” that helps clients, such as banks, identify and avoid fraud.

Pindrop also offers threat intelligence service that includes a detailed database of fraudulent callers in the world as well as analysis and predictive tools to track phone number reputation as well as a technology that analyzes phone calls to identify fraud by determining the true geographic origin and phone type.

It’s a given that startup life will often involve putting out fires, but as a founder you least expect one to be started in the board room. That appears to be what’s happened in the case of mobile commerce startup MobiCart. In a tweet earlier today the UK-based company’s founder Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine announced his resignation as CEO and with it his seat on the board.

When contacted for comment, however, Baranoff-Rossine wouldn’t be drawn on the reasons why, except to issue the following statement:

It is with deep regret that I must announce my resignation from MobiCart. It’s been an incredible journey but one I feel I can no longer be part of.

There is no shortage of startups attacking the virtual keyboard space, as you’d expect with so much scope to improve the experience of touchscreen typing. Yesterday Toronto-based Whirlscape launched a beta version of its Qwerty-squashing Minuum software keyboard, for instance. Today it’s SnapKeys‘ turn. The New York based startup is readying the full launch of its Si Evolution invisible keyboard, which we last covered at its December beta launch, due to land on Google Play in the next day or so.

SnapKeys says it’s racked up between 50,000 and 100,000 beta testers (i.e. app downloads) since then. Its Android keyboard software disrupts the traditional Qwerty layout by grouping letters into four islands, with more commonly used letters appearing larger than others. This arrangement leaves the majority of the screen empty to display whatever is underneath.

Indeed, even SnapKeys’ four key-carrying islands can be made invisible once the user is comfortable they know where they need to tap. An entirely invisible keyboard is clearly one better than the translucency Apple has added to its native keyboard in iOS 7, allowing content like photos to be viewed in full at the same time as typing. 

A changing of the guard at UK carrier BT: the company has announced that it will be appointing Gavin Patterson as its new CEO effective September, to replace Ian Livingston, who is taking up a role in the UK government as the Minister of State for Trade and Investment.

Like Livingston, this is an internal appointment, and like Livingston, Patterson is being picked from the company’s consumer-facing division, BT Retail — which is also its biggest and most visible operation, alongside a wholesale fixed-line service, business services and its Openreach broadband network.

Patterson has been with the company since 2008, and comes as Livingston has seen BT through strong performance, with stock up over 57% in the last year. In the year ended 31 March 2013, BT said that group revenue was £18,017 million, with profit before taxation of £2,501 million.

Tred, which hopes to provide a service that’s like “Uber for car test drives,” is finally launching its service to the public. The company, which hopes to streamline the process of buying a car by bringing on-demand test drives to your home or office, will first become available in Seattle.

The service allows prospective car buyers to order a test drive for a flat fee, with the automobile of their choice being delivered to the location of their choice. Cars are brought to customers by Tred Auto Experts, who are trained to answer any questions about the car in question, and walk potential buyers through an hour-long evaluation and test drive.

Cars are delivered for a flat fee of $19 a piece, and customers can have up to two delivered at a time. That gives them the ability to evaluate similar models of cars without having to visit multiple show rooms. Once the test drive is over, Tred’s Auto Experts leave users with a packet of resources to help walk them through the purchasing process.