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Trends That Will Revolutionize The Retail Industry
In retail, innovation is the name of the game. Increasingly, retailers are staying ahead through unique in-store experiences that inspire shoppers through social lifestyles. Take a look at STORY, a Manhattan retailer that continually changes everything in store, from products to fittings to events based upon different themes like “Love” or “Made in America.” They… Read More
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Former Space X Employee Arrested For Alleged Silk Road 2.0 Involvement
The alleged operator of the Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, has been arrested by the FBI in San Francisco after federal agents shut down the site on Wednesday. The site was a copy of the original Silk Road, a secure black market site allegedly run by Ross Ulbricht. The FBI announced the arrest on its New York Twitter feed. Read More
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Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Steve Jobs From 1985-2000
It was 1985. Apple had just forced Steve Jobs out. He was starting to build the NeXT computer, the same desktop station that Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau would use to build the first web server software. Little did anyone know back then we were on the precipice of the digital revolution. Read More
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Motorola Starts Selling Moto 360s with Metal Bands For $50-$80 More
If the only thing keeping you from picking up a Moto 360 was that your only choice for the watch-band material was leather (and not that Android Wear is still a bit wonky) — good news! After quite a few leaks suggesting as much, Motorola is now officially selling the Moto 360 with metal bands. One thing to note: the metal bands hike the price up a bit, up to $300 from the $250 price that… Read More
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Odysee Automatically Saves Your Mobile Photos And Videos To Your Home PC
A new application launching today called Odysee offers a different way for consumers to back up photos and videos from their smartphones. Instead of backing up to the cloud, which can be both pricey and sometimes even insecure, with Odysee, content is backed up to your home computer. For free! Well, it’s free until next year when the $5/year pricing plan kicks in. It’s like… Read More
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Former Lyft Exec Denies Taking Confidential Data With Him To Uber
Uber executive Travis VanderZanden says allegations that he stole confidential documents from former employer Lyft are “ridiculous.” In a series of tweets posted this morning, the ex-COO of Lyft denied taking any confidential data with him to rival Uber and claims to have deleted all files he was accused of having in his possession. Read More
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Let’s Call The Amazon Echo What It Is
This morning, Amazon announced a new device called Echo. With a built-in, cloud connected, “always on” microphone, the Echo can listen for your voice “from across the room.” You can ask it about the weather. You can tell it to set an alarm. It’s a personal assistant in a tube! But lets be clear here on what this thing is beyond that – or what it will be. Read More
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Why Are My Facebook Page’s Posts Getting Bundled Together?
It’s your fault. You’ve “liked” too many pages, and now Facebook has to do something about it. Sure you might be following 50+ pages on Facebook, but do you really interact with all of them? You don’t. And Facebook knows it. Read More
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CloudScreener Helps You Decide Which Cloud To Use, Raises 600,000 Euros
What cloud should you host your applications on? That question is getting harder and harder to answer as more players join the fray and as existing companies continually add new features and change their prices. CloudScreener wants to help you by asking you a couple of basic questions about your needs. It then combines that with the performance data it gathers from all of the different services… Read More
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Vainglory Launches On iPhone And iPad Later This Month
Vainglory, the multiplayer online battle arena shown off on-stage at this year’s iPhone announcement, just got solid release dates in every region but China, Japan and Korea. Read More
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Droid Turbo Review: Motorola’s Amped-Up Moto X Excels Where It Counts
Motorola barely let the 2014 Moto X sink in before announcing essentially a beefed-up version of the same. The Verizon-exclusive Droid Turbo is a Moto X with a better battery and a better camera, but in a package that’s hard to describe as an “improvement” on the original. Where the Verizon phone excels, however, it really excels, which makes it a tempting proposition for… Read More
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Feet-On With Boosted Boards’ New Faster And Cheaper Electric Skateboards
If you want to ride a magic carpet, the Boosted Board is the closest you’ll get until they make that hoverboard run on asphalt. And now there’s an even more powerful model for climbing epic hills or hitting 22mph, and a stripped down model for casual boarders on a budget. Y Combinator-incubated Boosted Boards launched it Kickstarter back in November 2012 and finally shipped its… Read More
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SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since Halloween Night
Dan Ha, an iOS developer at a San Francisco startup called Metromile, has been missing for almost a week. According to the CEO of the company, Dan Preston, who reached out to TechCrunch to help find his employee, Ha went home sick on Thursday afternoon and no one has seen or heard from him since Friday night, October 31, at 8pm. Read More
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Benchmark Backs Real-Time Data Processing Startup Confluent
Companies nowadays are creating huge amounts of data, but harnessing it and making it useful still remains a problem for many businesses. A new company called Confluent, which was founded by members of LinkedIn’s data infrastructure team, hopes to solve that problem by building commercial tools around some open source software they developed. Read More
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Just In Time For The Car-less Generation, Bus And Train Ticket Aggregator Wanderu Raises $5.6M Series A
Boston-based travel startup Wanderu, which aims to become something of a Kayak.com for booking bus and train tickets – a market which doesn’t yet have a leading aggregation site – has now raised $5.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Metamorphic Ventures, and was said to be over-subscribed. Also participating were Alta Ventures, Craig Lentzsch (former… Read More
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Lisbon’s Codacy Wins The Web Summit Pitch Competition
Dublin’s Web Summit has accelerated into SXSW territory this year, scaling to over 22,000 attendees. Unlike other tech conferences, which put the startups centre stage, Web Summit has gone for scale, with side stages where 200 companies pitched over the three days of the conference. Portuguese company Codacy won the ‘BETA award’ for its platform, which automatically… Read More
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Amazon Echo Is A $199 Connected Speaker Packing An Always-On Siri-Style Assistant
Amazon has a new product that doesn’t really have any current equivalent form any other tech company – a connected speaker called Echo that’s always-on, listening for commands that its virtual assistant can then respond to with information or by triggering a task. The cylindrical device has room-filling sound, and seven microphones on top, which use beam-forming tech to… Read More
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Mobile Social Network Parenthoods Raises $1.32 Million
A San Francisco-based social network called Parenthoods has raised a $1.32 million seed round for its modern mobile platform designed to connect millennial parents who are used to apps like Instagram and Snapchat with others locally. In the Parenthoods iOS app, moms and dads chat with fellow parents in order to swap advice, offer support, arrange playdates, and more. The company, which… Read More
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Randstad’s VC Fund Has $60M To Invest In HR Tech Startups Showing Early Traction
A strategic corporate VC fund set up this April by global HR services giant Randstad is looking to invest in startups working on the hard problem of matching people to jobs, and jobs to people, as well as coming up with more effective ways for employers to communicate with and motivate their existing workforce. Read More
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Please And Carrots Debuts Subscription-Based Toys, Expert Advice For New Parents
Busy parents who don’t have the time to shop for the best developmentally-appropriate and educationally-focused toys for their little ones now have a new option. A company called Please and Carrots is today launching a subscription-based toy company that sends a quarterly box of toys to parents of children from 0 to 3 years old, which includes only those items that have been curated… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Splashscore
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Boston, MA
- Categories: Advertising Platforms, Digital Media, Social Media Marketing, Brand ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Fit Body Club, Co.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Washington
- Categories: Health and Wellness, Fitness, Nutrition
- Investors: Not available
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cortical.io
- $1.2M Venture
- HQ: Vienna
- Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Search, Natural Language Processing, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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indico data solutions
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Needham, MA
- Categories: Developer Tools, Machine Learning, Cloud Data Services
- Investors: Not available
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Spitfire Athlete
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Fitness
- Investors: Not available
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Codeanywhere
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA
- Categories: Web Development, Software, File Sharing, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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HashCube
- $684K Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Social Games, Games, Internet
- Investors: Not available
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STREAMROOT
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Paris
- Categories: Video, Content Delivery, Video Streaming, Peer-to-Peer
- Investors: Not available
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Colatris
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Emerging Markets, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Mobile Software Tools, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Edtrips
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Providence, RI
- Categories: Travel, Education
- Investors: Not available
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Vicarious
- $12M Series C
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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CoolChip Technologies
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Somerville, MA
- Categories: Console Gaming, PC Gaming, Energy Efficiency, Clean Technology, Data ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Showpad
- $8.5M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Mobile, SaaS, Sales and Marketing, iOS
- Investors: Not available
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ROCKI
- $118K Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Consumer Electronics, Audio, Music Services, Music
- Investors: Not available
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First Wave Technologies
- $395K Venture
- HQ: Batavia, NY
- Categories: Consulting
- Investors: Not available
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Hello Block
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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DreamQii
- $460K Venture
- HQ: Toronto, ON
- Categories: Drones, Robotics
- Investors: Not available
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Polyglotte, Inc.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Headtalk
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Cambridge, MA
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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FabTask
- 80K EUR Seed
- HQ: Copenhagen
- Categories: Internet, Task Management
- Investors: Not available
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Prositions
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: Urbandale, IA
- Categories: Human Resources
- Investors: Not available
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FORTIFIED Bicycle
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Boston, MA
- Categories: Sporting Goods
- Investors: Not available
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Exploration Labs
- $118K Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: B2B, Sales and Marketing
- Investors: Not available
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TrueFacet
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Jewelry, E-Commerce, Marketplaces
- Investors: Not available
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TouchBase Inc.
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Seattle, WA
- Categories: Mobile, Sales and Marketing, Mobile Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Stand In
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Portland, OR
- Categories: SaaS, Mobile, Design
- Investors: Not available
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Crowsnest Labs
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Syracuse, NY
- Categories: Smart Building, Home Automation, Developer APIs
- Investors: Not available
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Garmentory
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Bellevue, WA
- Categories: Retail, E-Commerce, Online Shopping, Fashion
- Investors: Not available
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LiveStories
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Seattle, WA
- Categories: Big Data, Data Mining, Data Visualization
- Investors: Not available
