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This Robot Falls Like A Cat
Our future robot overlords could have feline cunning and cat-like reflexes thanks in part to research being conducted at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing Studies. Read More
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Mobile Game Firm Gumi Announces December 18 IPO In Japan At A $900M Valuation
Japanese mobile game-maker Gumi has announced that it will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange next month, ending months of speculation over its future. Read More
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U.S. Authorities Are Reportedly Gathering Phone Data Using Fake Celltowers On Planes
the Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that the The U.S. Justice Department is “snagging a large number of innocent Americans’” mobile phone data as part of technology that can identify criminals and suspects when they are on planes. Read More
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Peach Is A Flash Sales App With An Auction-Based Twist
There are already a gabazillion flash sale sites and apps available, but the Berkeley, California-based founders of Peach App believe that there is still room for innovation in the world of online impulse buying. Instead of just offering discounted goods, Peach lets customers name a price for its merchandise, most of which is women’s clothing and accessories from luxury brands. The catch… Read More
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Mind Candy Reports Losses As Moshi Fades And It Pins Hopes On Warriors
As was widely predicted after Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters smash-hit game failed to make the shift from Web to mobile in any meaningful way — apart from a few cursory apps — its financial results looked dismal. The company has announced that it lurched from a net loss of £2.2 million ($3.5 million) in 2013, after making an £8 million profit in 2012. Kids have clearly left… Read More
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Say Media Is Selling Off Its Content Sites, Including ReadWrite and xoJane
Say Media owns sites like xoJane, ReadWrite, and Fashionista — but the company doesn’t plan to own them for much longer. CEO Matt Sanchez told Digiday that the company will be selling off all of its owned properties so that it can focus on selling ads for other publishers, and on its content management system Tempest. The vision, he said, was to build “the modern media company… Read More
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SXSW Wants More Control Over Downtown Austin And Permit Limits On Unofficial Events
The free alcohol may not flow so abundantly at SXSW 2015. Event organizers have asked the city of Austin to cut down on the amount of permits it hands out to unofficial meet-ups, sessions and parties that run in tandem with the main festival. It cites overcrowding and too much free booze from parallel events as safety issues. What started as a small music festival with 700 attendees back in… Read More
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Sintratec Is Going To Build The First Sintering Desktop 3D Printer
A Swiss company called Sintratec is planning to release the world’s first sintering 3D printer for the desktop. Sintering, which is the process of building a 3D object by shooting lasers at a layer of nylon powder, is one of the best ways to make high resolution objects that are completely solid. The company is planning to launch the product on Indiegogo soon and will charge $4,000 for… Read More
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The Prynt Case Turns Your Smartphone Into A Polaroid Camera
Hot off of their Haxlr8r demo day presentation last week, hardware startup Prynt was nice enough to drop by TechCrunch HQ to show off the latest prototypes of their smartphones cases, which contain built-in printers so you can instantly get a copy of that selfie with your best friends. Read More
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Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare Review
With Advanced Warfare, Activision is taking the extremely successful Call of Duty mostly to places it’s already been, which is to say this is a game about war, shooting, explosions and guns. But it’s also taking a stab at some realistic futurism with the ‘Exo’ suits your character gets to wear, which augment your ability to navigate your environment and deal damage to… Read More
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TubeMogul Soars 14% After Reporting Strong Q3 Revenue Of $27.4M, Smaller-Than-Expected Loss
Rising nearly 6 percent in regular trading, TubeMogul spiked 16 percent in after-hours trading after reporting better-than-expected revenue, profit and guidance. Read More
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NSA Surveillance Faces Senate Test
The United States Senate could vote on the USA FREEDOM Act as soon as next week, pushing the surveillance reform bill ahead this year. That would buck prior conventional wisdom that the Act was not a legislative priority, likely ending up shelved until the next Congress. There is still some fight in this Congress after all. Read More
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Reddit CEO Resigns, Alexis Ohanian Returns As Chairman
If there’s one constant in life, it’s change, and the fourth quarter of 2014 has brought quite a bit of change for Reddit, the massively popular aggregation site that could. So here’s some more news: Reddit CEO Yishan Wong has resigned, COO Ellen Pao has become interim CEO and co-founder Alexis Ohanian has returned to the company he founded in 2005 to fill the full-time… Read More
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Kanvas Debuts An iOS Keyboard That Lets You Send Decorated Photos, Stickers And GIFs…Or Even Just Text
Kanvas, a photo-editing app that lets users add text, stickers, drawings and music to images as well as stitch together photos, GIFs and videos, is now bringing its set of creative tools to a new application for iOS users: Kanvas Keyboard. As you may guess by its name, the new app is an iOS 8-compatible keyboard app that lets you quickly add text to your photos or colored backgrounds, draw… Read More
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Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service
Amazon Web Services announced a new service today called Lambda, a stateless event-driven compute service for dynamic applications that doesn’t require provisioning of any compute infrastructure. As AWS’s CTO Werner Vogels pointed out, this will enable programmers to reduce their overall development effort. You simply write the code and define the event triggers, and it will run… Read More
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BBM Meetings Turns The Messenger Into A Cross-Platform Virtual Conference Service
BlackBerry is rolling out a number of new enterprise-focused features and partnerships today, which is a sign that CEO John Chen is on the right track when it comes to effecting a workable turnaround for the beleaguered Canadian tech firm. Part of that is a new feature for BBM which should prove popular with enterprise users of the mobile messaging solution: BBM Meetings. The Meetings feature… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Vero Analytics
- $550K Seed
- HQ: Vienna
- Categories: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Big Data
- Investors: Not available
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FormProf
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Saint Petersburg
- Categories: Not available
- 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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ROCKI
- $118K Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Music, Consumer Electronics, Audio, Music Services
- Investors: Not available
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nContact Surgical
- $20M Debt Financing
- HQ: Morrisville, NC
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Eventbase
- $2.0M Series A
- HQ: Vancouver, BC
- Categories: Event Management, Events, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Montefiore Medical Center
- $3.5M Grant
- HQ: Bronx
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Little Labs
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Mobile, Mobile Games, Messaging
- Investors: Not available
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Blowhorn
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Bangalore
- Categories: Marketplaces
- 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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Finexkap
- $7.5M Secondary Market
- HQ: Paris
- Categories: Finance, Small and Medium Businesses, Financial Services
- Investors: Not available
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SheerID
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: Eugene, OR
- Categories: Technology, Developer APIs, Security, Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Vonjour
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Colatris
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Mobile, Mobile Software Tools, Translation, SaaS, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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GetSmily
- 500K EUR Seed
- HQ: Louvain-la-neuve
- Categories: Analytics
- Investors: Not available
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Spitfire Athlete
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Fitness
- Investors: Not available
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Infocyte, Inc.
- $500K Seed
- HQ: San Antonio, TX
- Categories: Network Security, Cyber Security
- Investors: Not available
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Ryckman Creek Resources
- $110M Private Equity
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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FORTIFIED Bicycle
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Boston, MA
- Categories: Sporting Goods
- Investors: Not available
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Velano Vascular
- $700K Seed
- HQ: Philadelphia, PA
- Categories: Medical Devices
- Investors: Not available
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4:33 Creative Lab
- $100M Private Equity
- HQ: Seoul
- Categories: Mobile Games, Design, Game
- Investors: Not available
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Hello Block
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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FabTask
- 80K EUR Seed
- HQ: Copenhagen
- Categories: Internet, Task Management, Peer-to-Peer, Curated Web, Collaborative ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Headtalk
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Cambridge, MA
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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Aperiomics
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Diagnostics, Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available