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Ektron President Fesses Up To Selling The Company To Accel-KKR
After denying to TechCrunch that Ektron had been sold, company president Tim McKinnon admitted in a later phone conversation that a sale had in fact happened, after a document confirming the deal began circulating online. Earlier this week we published a story about the rumor that Ektron had been sold to an unnamed private equity firm. The firm was presumably Accel-KKR, which had invested in… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Uber’s Massive Raise, The IPO Market And What The Hell We Listened To This Year
Another Friday, another turn ’round the CrunchWeek table. This week, Sarah Buhr, Kyle Russell and myself chewed on Uber’s latest funding round, the IPO market and, yes, Spotify’s end-of-year data. Read More
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Twitter’s Former Head Of Product, Daniel Graf, Has Left The Company
Daniel Graf, who was just recently bumped from his role as the head of Twitter’s product team, has parted ways with the company altogether. Read More
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Instacart Is Raising North Of $100 Million At A $2 Billion Valuation
Instacart, the home grocery delivery service that launched back in 2012, is close to raising a massive Series C round of funding north of $100 million, according to sources. The raise will value the startup at $2 billion, or more than quadruple the $400 million valuation of its Series B financing from June. Including this round, Instacart has raised a total of $154.8 million with other… Read More
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Separating The Opportunities From The Obstacles In Open-Source Networking
Open standards have driven the networking market since the earliest days of the Internet. While the use of open source for networking is a more recent phenomenon, it is no less important. A major industry transition to open source for software-defined networking (SDN) is under way, and users and vendors stand to benefit. Some expectations, however, may need to change. Read More
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Zazzle Buys Boundless Network As It Battles Teespring For Democratized E-Commerce
Want to sell T-shirts with your face on them, or get your employees shirts with your company name? Zazzle is fighting newcomer Teespring for your business, and it just got some more ammunition. Yesterday, personalized product maker and marketplace Zazzle acquired Boundless Network, a startup that lets companies save money on big branded product orders. Read More
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.05.14
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1pm Pacific; 4pm Eastern. Gillmor Gang on Facebook LIVE Friendfeed chat during show live broadcast Our sister show G3 on Facebook Read More
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Early Uber Investors Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford Raising $250M For SherpaEverest Fund
Early Uber investors Scott Stanford and Shervin Pishevar are looking to raise another big fund, presumably to do follow-on investments in growth companies they had previously invested in. According to an SEC filing, they are seeking $250 million for the SherpaEverest Fund. Read More
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Bitsbox Debuts Monthly Coding Projects That Teach Kids To Build Simple Apps
When Bitsbox co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a TRS-80 color computer his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that came with the computer. Now a dad himself, Lininger wanted to offer his daughter the opportunity to experience learning to code much in the same way he did, but couldn’t find a service… Read More
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Hands On With Sony’s PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition Console
Sony has a new version of its PlayStation 4 console going on sale soon, which is limited to only 12,300 units globally, and which comes in the original gray color of the first PlayStation hardware. The anniversary edition will retail for $500, which seems steep, but it also includes a stand for vertical mounting and a PlayStation 4 Camera in the box, neither of which are included in any of… Read More
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Microsoft Releases Cortana In 4 New Countries
If you live in Germany, Italy, France or Spain, you can now get your Cortana on. Microsoft today announced that it has rolled out its virtual, digital assistant to those four new European countries for users that are part of its Windows Phone Developer Preview Program. Read More
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: CarPlay, Google Glass + Intel, And Star Wars
Friday is a beautiful thing, and this morning’s podcast celebrates that. Pioneer released a new version of its in-car AppRadio system that integrates CarPlay, and the WSJ reported that Intel would replace TI under the hood of the next version of Google Glass. Meanwhile, the tech world is salivating over the new Star Wars trailer. Read More
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Microsoft Rolls Out Support For Video Calling Between Skype And Lync Users
Last year, Microsoft announced that its consumer-facing Skype communications service and its enterprise-focused counterpart would begin to interoperate, first with IM and audio, and later expanding to support video. Today, the company says, the video integration is complete. Skype users can now video call contacts on Lync, and vice versa, Microsoft announced this morning. The change follows… Read More
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Recruitment Platform Intern Avenue To Roll Out Across Europe With Vodafone
Intern Avenue is a startup which matches college undergraduates/graduates searching for paid internships with employers by using a data-based scoring system. To date, around 2,000 employers and 40,000 intern applicants have registered with the service in the UK. But it’s now secured a major distribution deal with Vodafone Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the telecoms giant, to expand… Read More
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SwiftGate And The Future Of Music
At last the dust is settling around SwiftGate. For those of you who missed (or avoided) the saga, it all began in early November when Taylor Swift pulled all of her music off Spotify. Spotify lightheartedly conceded, but battle lines were drawn in the press as music experts stunned by her move began questioning the company’s future. Read More
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Torque, Microsoft’s Alternative To “OK Google,” Now Works On Android Smartphones
Microsoft this morning has released an app for Android smartphone users called Torque that allows you to shake your phone in order to perform a voice search, similar to Google’s “OK Google.” The difference is that instead of waking up the app with a standard keyword command, it’s the shaking motion that instead does the trick. Also like Google, Torque will provide a… Read More
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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Review
Nintendo’s hit holiday season continues with an unlikely hero: Captain Toad, the toadstool-esque stock supporting character from Super Mario games, who takes the helm for a full-fledged puzzler based on mini games from Super Mario 3D World. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker takes unique advantage of the Wii U’s capabilities, in addition to being just generally super fun, and while… Read More
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Facebook 202X: How It Becomes The Multitool For The Modern Totalitarian, Part 1
Maybe it is naive, but I’d always hoped that Facebook would evolve into the internet’s humanizing, unifying force—the one that stretched across geographical, national, religious, and racial boundaries to show us that we are the same… that even when we disagree about the tactics, we all want the same things for ourselves and our children: to be safe, to be at peace, to have… Read More
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Retailer Bebe Confirms Payment Card Data Breach
Another day, another payment card data breach. In what’s now becoming routine news, this morning retailer Bebe is confirming a security incident that took place over the busy holiday shopping period in November which saw attackers stealing customer’s names, account numbers, expiration dates and verification codes from cards swiped in stores. The breach occurred during the dates… Read More
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DUBS Bring Down The Noise In Night Clubs
Last night, I stepped into Marquee night club in New York City. David Guetta was on the set list. People were dressed their best, lights were flashing, and I had a fresh glass full of booze in hand. I should have been excited, but instead my head just hurt. Am I getting old? Are clubs just getting louder? In either case, Dubs solved my problems. Read More
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Altaeros Energies
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- HQ: Boston
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Vonjour
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Enterprise Software
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Cartonomy
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: E-Commerce, Social Commerce
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ARAZOO
- $1.1M Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Construction, Interior Design, Marketplaces, Search, B2B
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August
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Newport Beach, CA
- Categories: Social Media, Digital Media
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WiFiBanlv
- $9.8M Series A
- HQ: Not available
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Arena Online
- $750K Seed
- HQ: Houston, TX
- Categories: Online Gaming, Social Games, Application Platforms
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ParcelBright
- $1.0M Venture
- HQ: Not available
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MyPrepApp
- Not available Venture
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BitGold Inc.
- 800K CAD Seed
- HQ: Toronto, ON
- Categories: Internet
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Recommendo
- Not available Private Equity
- HQ: Neustadt An Der Weinstraße
- Categories: Reviews and Recommendations, Social Commerce, Social Media, Curated Web, ... See More
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Tappr
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Brisbane
- Categories: Mobile, Mobile Payments, Payments
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Logovers
- $12K Seed
- HQ: Hermosillo
- Categories: Designers, Startups, Entrepreneur, Incubators
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Uber
- $1.2B Series E
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Transportation, Limousines, Public Transportation, Design, SEO, Automotive ... See More
- Investors: Valiant Capital Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, Lone Pine Capital ... See More
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Maxwell Health
- $26M Series B
- HQ: Boston, MA
- Categories: SaaS, Technology, Mobile, Health Care, Health and Insurance, Employer ... See More
- Investors: Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, ... See More
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WedPics
- $4.2M Series B
- HQ: Raleigh, NC
- Categories: Weddings, Photo Sharing, Apps, Photography, iPhone, iOS, Android
- Investors: Great Oaks Venture Capital, Western Technology Investment, Venture51, OCA ... See More
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SpeedConnect
- $18M Venture
- HQ: Frankenmuth
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: NewSpring Capital, Kemper Corporation
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LockerDome
- $10M Series B
- HQ: St Louis, MO
- Categories: Social Media
- Investors: Cultivation Capital, Undisclosed Parties
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CloudOne
- $4.5M Series D
- HQ: Indianapolis, IN
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Elevate Ventures, Plymouth Ventures, HKS Capital Advisors
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Ring
- $4.5M Series A
- HQ: Santa Monica, CA
- Categories: Software, Communities
- Investors: True Ventures
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TinyOwl Technology
- $3.0M Venture
- HQ: Mumbai
- Categories: Mobile, Specialty Foods, Apps
- Investors: Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners
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Viewbix
- $3.0M Venture
- HQ: Beit-shemesh
- Categories: Network Security, Internet Marketing, Music, Photo Sharing, Messaging, ... See More
- Investors: Canaan Partners
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Prong
- $1.6M Series A
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Mobile
- Investors: Oak Investment Partners
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AvantCredit
- $300M Debt Financing
- HQ: Chicago, IL
- Categories: Finance Technology, Financial Services, Analytics, Machine Learning, ... See More
- Investors: Victory Park Capital