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There are lots of companies, including Google and Apple, that would like to replace your wallet with a digital version, but a startup has a somewhat less ambitious goal — replace your handful of credit cards with one super card. Coin , a credit-card-like device, is set for a summer 2014 launch. As the video below explains, Coin swipes like an ordinary card. The difference is, the card holds up to eight credit cards, debit cards or gift cards. Coin provides a dongle device to users that connects to their phone and an app  that lets you download the card info. The device will cost $100, but the company is charging $50 for early adopters that preorder now. Founded by former PayPal developer Kanishk Parashar, Coin uses a patent-pending magnetic strip. The reader device employs Bluetooth Low Energy and Coin's battery lasts two years, according to the company. With so much energy spent towards turning smartphones into digital wallets, Coin's idea seems a bit like a throwbac...

he Launchpad  is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details  here . Name :  theSkimm One-Liner Pitch : A daily dose of headlines for busy professionals curated by professional journalists. Why It's Taking Off : theSkimm is looking to build out a better news experience for busy professionals, particularly millennial women. Just more than a year ago, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg quit their comfortable jobs as news producers at NBC and settled into a new office: their apartment. The two roommates decided to take their journalism experience and use it to curate an easily digestible daily newsletter for busy professionals called  theSkimm  — a risky move, but a decision inspired by their friends. SEE ALSO:  11 Startups Reshaping NYC’s Fashion Industry "We saw that our friends — primarily our girlfriends — would come to us and sa...

Google’s new London office, scheduled to open in 2016, will have an open-air swimming pool, an indoor football pitch, a climbing wall and a roof garden from which to watch trains glide out of Kings Cross station toward Cambridge or  Hogwarts . Googlers can cycle right into the building and to the cycle store room, which is equipped with showers and lockers. Somewhere in the interstices, there will also be desks to work at. View of St Pancras. INK/Allford Hall Monaghan Morris The 1-million-sqare-foot office will sit on 2.4 acres of land between Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations. When the deal was announced in January, it was  one of the biggest  commercial property acquisitions in Britain.  Reuters  reports  Google will spend £650 million  ($1.05 billion) to buy and develop the site, with an eventual worth of £1 billion. The 2.4 acre site sits between Kings Cross station (top), St Pancras Station (bottom) and Central Saint Mar...

Twitter has hired a  Google  advertising executive to be head of retail, as the company ramps up hiring and works to expand its business ahead of an initial public offering. J.J. Hirschle, who directed media and entertainment advertising at Google, will be responsible for the team selling advertising products to retail companies, Will Stickney, a spokesman for Twitter, said Wednesday. He starts Oct. 28. The hire comes as Twitter builds its advertising business by reaching out to retailers, among others. The San Francisco-based company, which is preparing to go public in the most-anticipated U.S. technology offering since  Facebook  last year, has disclosed in its S-1 prospectus that it is growing revenue from advertising, even as it remains unprofitable. Twitter has been hiring quickly to beef up its workforce and expand its business. In a filing this week, the company said it added 300 employees in the third quarter, for a total of 2,300. Twitter has been ...