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Looks Like Microsoft Just Leaked Its Own Fitness Band
Whoops! Before Microsoft even got a chance to announce that they’re making a fitness tracking band (a la Jawbone Up, Fitbit Force, etc.), the device’s companion syncing app has found its way onto the Mac App Store. Spotted first by 9to5Mac, the app spills lots and lots of details about the unannounced wearable. Here’s what we know so far: It appears to have a color screen… Read More
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MPAA Bans Google Glass And Other Wearable Cameras From Movie Theaters Because Duh
Under the new rules, theater owners will ask anyone with wearable recording devices to turn’em off and put them away. Fail to do that, and they’ll give you the boot. If they have any reason to think you’re recording in the theater, meanwhile, they’ll call the cops. Read More
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Verizon Ventures Seeks To Double Portfolio And Investment Capital
Verizon Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Internet, phone, and wireless networking services company, will look to double its portfolio and the capital it invests in startup companies, TechCrunch has learned. Speaking ahead of his participation in the Made In NY Media Center Demo Day, Verizon Ventures associate director of corporate strategy and development, Tom Constabile, said that… Read More
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Even With The Novel Sprout, HP Just Can’t Win
By all accounts HP announced something truly innovative today. The Sprout by HP is a mind-blowing mash-up of desktop computer, 3D scanner and touchscreen. It effectively pushes the desktop medium forward more so than anything produced in recent memory. But the Sprout is from HP. Imagine if Apple had announced the Sprout. The media would be going bonkers. Word about it would be on every… Read More
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Made In NY Media Center Members Demo New Tech
With $3 million in support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, the New York Economic Development Corp., and the Independent Filmmaker Project, and private partners like Verizon, Hearst Corp., and Illy caffe, the Made In NY Media Center has put together a second cohort of companies for its latest Demo Day. Read More
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Microsoft Fires Another Set Of Employees, Continuing Its Announced Layoff Strategy
Microsoft took an axe to another slice of its employees today, cutting around 3,000 jobs according to Mary Jo Foley. TechCrunch heard through a separate source that the layoffs were imminent, but was not able to confirm their size. The company released a short statement indicating that it has nearly wrapped “all [of] the 18,000 reductions announced [it] in July.” Today’s… Read More
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Baidu Posts Mixed Q3 Earnings, Sending Its Shares Sideways
Today Baidu reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $2.203 billion and GAAP earnings per share of $1.79. The market had expected the Chinese company to earn $1.69 per share on revenue of $2.22 billion. Excluding the costs of share-based compensation, Baidu earned $1.90 per share (non-GAAP). The company, which fell nearly 2 percent in regular trading, is off… Read More
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Steve Ballmer’s Fergalicious Clippers Future
Steve Ballmer showed up in all his glory for the close of the Wall Street Journal Digital conference today. It all started out kinda just like the GIF you see above. And then before things really got going, the newly christened owner of the Los Angeles Clippers delightfully announced that Fergie had recorded a song just for the team. Naturally, Ballmer then belted out the lyrics to the song. Read More
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Trulia Falls 6% After Reporting Disappointing Q3 Revenue Of $67.1M
Trulia’s shares are down in after-hours trading following the company’s third quarter earnings report that included in-line losses, and a revenue disappointment. The company lost $0.08 per share on a non-GAAP basis in the period from revenue of $67.1 million. Investors had expected the $0.08 per-share loss, which works out to a deficit of $2.8 million but had expected revenue… Read More
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MobileIron Spikes 5% After Reporting Better Than Expected FQ3 Revenue, Lower Than Expected Loss
MobileIron is having a strong after-hours session, after it reported its fiscal third quarter financial performance, including non-GAAP revenue of $33.7 million, GAAP losses per share of $0.20, and non-GAAP losses per share of a more modest $0.15. The market had expected the mobile device management company to lose $0.25 per share. The company’s results were a beat on that metric. Why… Read More
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Joker Lets You Instantly Stream Perfectly Legal And Legitimate Torrent Files
Let’s say there’s a torrent online you would like to view. After all, torrents themselves are perfectly legal. Instead of downloading the torrent, paste the link to the torrent in Joker.org and watch the content instantly. Watch out, Popcorn Time. The Joker is here. Using Joker.org to watch a torrent is stupid easy. Grab a Torrent magnet link — the more seeds the better… Read More
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Here’s What Google’s LEGO-Style Phone, Project Ara, Looks Like Right Now
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve heard much about Project Ara, Google’s efforts to build a phone out of components that can be swapped out, piece-by-piece. Google showed off the device a bit back at I/O — alas, things got a bit… crashy during the presentation. In a new video released today, the Phonebloks team shows the Ara prototype in its most recent form… Read More
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MCX Says QR Payments App Will Pivot To NFC If Necessary, Won’t Fine Retailers Who Break Exclusivity
In a virtual press conference today, MCX‘s CEO Dekkers Davidson said “We’re agnostic about technology. We started with QR code-based technology that allows us to go to market broadly. If we need, we can pivot to NFC.” That means if retailers strongly prefer the NFC system used by Apple Pay to MCX’s mobile payment app CurrentC’s QR code system, CurrentC… Read More
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An Interview With Alex Blumberg, Public Radio Journalist Turned Entrepreneur
If you’ve listened to public radio at all in the past decade you’ll recognize the voice of Alex Blumberg. Part of the adenoidal-voice-amazing-stories class of broadcasters, Blumberg worked on This American Life and the amazing Planet Money where he explained complex topics in succinct ways. Now he’s an entrepreneur trying to build his own podcasting empire by changing the… Read More
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Comcast Agrees To $50M Settlement In Overcharging Case
Comcast has agreed to a $50 million settlement to a case regarding customers in the Philadelphia area. The lawsuit was filed more than a decade ago. Comcast continues to deny the allegations. The original case failed before the Supreme Court, leading to a reduction in its scale. The $50 million includes a $16.7 million cash amount, and $33.3 million in “Settlement Credits” that… Read More
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Twitter Partners With IBM To Bring Social Data To The Enterprise
Twitter and IBM announced a significant partnership today that will involve Twitter sharing its data with IBM for integration into IBM’s enterprise solutions, including the Watson cloud platform. The deal means IBM will gain access to the Twitter “firehose,” allowing businesses to incorporate insights gained from the social network into their decision-making… Read More
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MCX Invites Us Into Their Startling Vision Of Future Credit Card Fee Avoidance
Merchants don’t like credit cards. The fees associated are onerous and wildly convoluted. For example, I challenge you to find a single source of information one the Internet regarding these fees that isn’t a spam-laden lead generation engine. Merchants take these lumps as the cost of doing business. That’s why MCX and its associated system, CurrentC, exists. And, like… Read More
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Personal Capital
- $50M Series D
- HQ: Redwood City, CA
- Categories: Finance
- Investors: Venrock, Crosslink Capital, BBVA Ventures, USAA, Corsair Capital
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Seedling
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- HQ: Irvine, CA
- Categories: DIY
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Abacus Labs
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- Categories: SaaS, Software
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SponDoolies-Tech
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- Categories: Hardware, Virtual Currency
- Investors: Genesis Partners, BRM Group, VC firms Agile Wings, Eden Shochat, Olivier ... See More
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Peraso Technologies
- $20M Series C
- HQ: Toronto, ON
- Categories: Semiconductors
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ScoreBig
- $18M Series D
- HQ: Los Angeles, CA
- Categories: E-Commerce
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QualiSystems
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Whistle Network
- $7.0M Series B
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Entertainment, Video Streaming, Sports
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Fleksy
- $2.0M Series B
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- Categories: Mobile
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Seen
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- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Curated Web
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Bright.md
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