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Christie Street Launches a Kickstarter for Products

Still waiting on that Kickstarter product you backed? Christie Street says it has a better solution.

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December 6, 2012 at 4:00 am PT

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A Look at the 472 Private Tech Companies Currently Worth $100M or More (Slides)

Liz Gannes in News on December 5 at 9:01 pm PT

Palantir, SurveyMonkey, GitHub, Square, ZocDoc, Zulily, LegalZoom, Twitter, Warby Parker and others made the list.

LeWeb’s “Internet of Things” Makes for a Shopping List Full of Smart Gadgets

Liz Gannes in Product News on December 5 at 10:33 am PT

It’s an expensive group of stocking stuffers, to be sure.

Here’s the Strict New Timetable for the EU’s Investigation of Google: “One Day, I Don’t Know When”

Liz Gannes in News on December 5 at 8:41 am PT

On both sides of the Atlantic, the government agencies that have conducted antitrust examinations of Google over the past two years seem to have trouble keeping their own timetables.

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Former LinkedIn VP Adam Nash Joins Personal Finance Start-Up Wealthfront

Liz Gannes in News on December 4 at 6:31 am PT

Adam Nash, who previously was VP of product management at LinkedIn, and was for the past year an executive in residence at Greylock Partners, will join the start-up Wealthfront, citing his long-standing interest in personal finance. Wealthfront said Nash will direct its product, engineering and marketing teams, with the title of chief operating officer.

What Comes After Cut the Rope? Pudding Monsters.

Liz Gannes in Product News on December 4 at 6:14 am PT

Always trust a man in an enormous red velcro pudding-blob suit.

News Byte

Last.fm Founders Are Back to Help Find Interesting Web Content

Liz Gannes in News on December 4 at 3:00 am PT

Last.fm co-founders Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel famously made it easy to passively share what songs you’re playing so you can also track them, and get recommendations. Now they are back with a new start-up called Lumi, which passively records each Web site you visit. The twist is that Lumi is a personal service, built to be anonymous and secure (we can only hope!), for the purpose of finding new content based on previous experiences.

SmartThings, a Kickstarter Hit, Raises $3M More From VCs and Angels

Liz Gannes in News on December 4 at 2:39 am PT

SmartThings says it will help programmers and non-programmers alike “hack the physical graph.”

Dropbox Picks Dublin for Its Second Office

Liz Gannes in News on December 3 at 10:00 pm PT

Dropbox, the San Francisco online syncing and storage provider, is establishing an international presence to better serve a global clientele.

No, Facebook’s Not Buying WhatsApp (But Keep an Eye on It)

Liz Gannes in Mobile on December 3 at 12:26 pm PT

Facebook and Google have both been very interested in buying WhatsApp in the past, but the company is fiercely independent.

Directly Is a TaskRabbit for Online Customer Service

Liz Gannes in Commerce on December 3 at 3:00 am PT

Directly wants to be an alternative to tweeting out into the ether or scanning the dead ends of online forum discussions to find the occasional relevant comment.