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Ahead Of Its Public Debut Wednesday, Wix Prices IPO At $16.50 Per Share, With Valuation Near $800M
Twitter isn't the only company joining the list of public companies tomorrow. Israeli-American website creation platform, Wix, will also be vying for its share of media attention tomorrow, as the company announced this afternoon that it will be setting its opening price at $16.50 per share -- the high end of its expected $14.50 to $16.50 price range. Read More
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Twitter Book Offers Singular, But Fascinating Narrative Of Invention
The distillation of one human life into a few hundred pages is a task herculean enough to trip up even seasoned biographers. Expanding that to include four co-founders and a company with as explosive a history as Twitter’s is begging for disaster. A new book called Hatching Twitter: A True Story Of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal, from New York Times reporter Nick Bilton attempts to do… Read More
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In Legal Dispute With People+, CrunchBase Admits It May Need To Learn More About Creative Commons
Our colleagues at CrunchBase found themselves in the spotlight this morning when Wired published a story about their legal dispute with a startup called Pro Populi over its app People+. Now the CrunchBase team has responded in a post of its own, making the case for why it was going after People+ and also acknowledging that it may have more to learn about how it can and can't control CrunchBase… Read More
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TV Discovery Startup i.TV Acquires GetGlue In Second-Screen App Mashup
Provo, Utah-based video discovery startup i.TV has acquired GetGlue, we've learned, as consolidation in the market for second-screen or companion TV apps continues. The deal, which is expected to be announced soon, marks an inglorious exit for GetGlue, which had a $70 million deal fall through earlier this year. Read More
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Inside Jobs: How Pinterest’s Top Engineering Exec Really Works
We in the tech press are great at covering what it's like to be a startup founder. But the world does not live by entrepreneurs alone. One big reason that companies are so keen to tout venture capital fundraising is because the new money enables them to hire more staff -- the kind of people who actually build stuff, who really make the tech industry tick. Ideally, that flashy funding can help… Read More
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New API Commons Platform Allows Developers To Share APIs Under Creative Commons Licenses
3Scale Founder Steven Willmott and API Evangelist Kin Lane have launched a non-commercial service today called API Commons, a mechanism for the copyright-free sharing and collaborative design of API specifications, interfaces and data models. Read More
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Apple Employs ‘Warrant Canary’ To Warn Users Of Future Compliance With Patriot Act Info Requests
Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act is one of the most controversial of an already hot-button portion of US law. Section 215 of the act allows for court orders, which can be made secret, to allow the government to collect data that may be relevant to a government investigation. The big exception most take to the section is that it provides a much lower threshold for data gathering than a… Read More
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Founder Stories: 10gen’s Dwight Merriman On His Own Style Of Serial Entrepreneurship
There are founders, and then there are founders. Dwight Merriman is a rare breed of founder. A serial entrepreneur who has helped co-found and lead companies such as DoubleClick, BusinessInsider, Gilt Groupe, and Panther Express. And, as if that weren't enough, his latest endeavor could be just as big, if not bigger, than the ones before it. Merriman is one of the main brains behind MongoDB and… Read More
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Neitui
- Size $400K
- Round Angel
- Investors Innovation Works
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Analyze Re
- Size $1.4M
- Round Seed
- Investors BDC Venture Capital
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Garantia Data
- Size $9M
- Round A
- Investors Bain Capital Ventures, Carmel Ventures
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Joules Clothing
- Size $33.3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors LDC
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Biocartis
- Size $38.6M
- Round E
- Investors Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Rudi Marïen
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Midatech
- Size $15.2M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Ippon Capital
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BugBuster
- Size $1.1M
- Round A
- Investors Polytech Ventures
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CyPhy Works
- Size $7M
- Round A
- Investors Lux Capital
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Gridle.in
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Indian Angel Network
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EnTouch Controls
- Size $8.3M
- Round B
- Investors SJF Ventures, NRG Energy, Trailblazer Capital
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Zola
- Size $3.3M
- Round A
- Investors Thrive Capital
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Seeq
- Size $6M
- Round A
- Investors Second Avenue Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Clear Fir Partners
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LiveQoS
- Size $4M
- Round C
- Investors Miralta Capital
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Internet Identity
- Size $8M
- Round A
- Investors Bessemer Venture Partners
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Coho Data
- Size $25M
- Round B
- Investors Ignition Partners, Andreessen Horowitz
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Linio
- Size $50M
- Round Private_equity
- Investors Latin Idea Ventures, Investment AB Kinnevik, Tengelmann Ventures, Summit ... See More
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Zoomingo
- Size $1.3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Benaroya Capital, Naya Ventures, Rudy Gadre
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Seriously
- Size $2.4M
- Round Seed
- Investors Upfront Ventures, Sunstone Capital
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Hinge
- Size $4M
- Round A
- Investors Great Oaks Venture Capital, The Social+Capital Partnership, Red Swan, 500 ... See More
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MediaSpike
- Size $5.2M
- Round A
- Investors CMEA Capital, 500 Startups, Google Ventures, Raptor Ventures, Andreessen ... See More
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Shenandoah Studios
- Size $150K
- Round Seed
- Investors Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners
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Affinion Group
- Size $1.5M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Build Ventures
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Continuum Rehabilitation
- Size Not available
- Round A
- Investors Colchester Capital
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Blucarat
- Size $1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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Bambeco
- Size $4.5M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New Atlantic Ventures, Maryland Venture fund
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Exagen Diagnostics
- Size $25M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Capital Royalty, Tullis Health Investors, Sun Mountain Capital, EPIC ... See More
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Blackberry
- Size $1B
- Round Post_ipo_equity
- Investors Fairfax Financial Holdings
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CallMiner
- Size $2M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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The Skimm
- Size $1.1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Homebrew, RRE Ventures, Troy Carter, Gordon Crawford, Richard Greenfield ... See More
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Atrum Coal
- Size $18.5M
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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Apple Files With U.S. Government For More Information Request Transparency As It Releases First Report
Today, Apple has released its first ever report on government information requests, detailing exact numbers of account information and data requests internationally. The report highlights how restrictive the rules are for Apple in the US, as only ranges of 1,000 are represented there. In conjunction with this report, Apple has joined other companies like Dropbox, LinkedIn and Yahoo in filing an… Read More
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Corporate Venture Investors Starting To Look A Lot More Like Private VCs
Corporate venture capital has always been dubiously titled ‘dumb money’, supposedly less interested in financial performance and only willing to make bets on strategically aligned startups. CVC investing, however, has grown significantly over the past few years and many leading tech companies are diversifying their investments by operating autonomous VC funds that look more and more… Read More
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Digg Gives Videos Prime Placement With New Digg Video Site
Digg, a service devoted to helping users find and share the most interesting content around the web, has now more formally expanded into video, the company announced today. With the launch of Digg Video, Digg will break out the most popular video content found online, giving it its own high-level section on Digg.com. On the new site, you can browse trending videos, share videos to Facebook or… Read More
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Don’t Compare The Brazilian Spying Case To The NSA’s Mass Surveillance Efforts
Earlier today a Brazilian newspaper broke the story that ABIN, the top intelligence agency in that country, has employed low-tech spying techniques on foreign diplomats. This is sticky for the country as it has been intensely critical of the NSA and its practices of mass surveillance the world around. If the NSA is spying, and ABIN is spying, do we come to a wash, all walking away simply saying… Read More
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New App Lets You Unlock Your Mac By Knocking On Your iPhone
Can your mobile phone become a replacement for manually typing in a password? That's the promise of a new application called Knock, launching today, which uses an iPhone paired with a Mac desktop or laptop computer to log you in to your locked machine. The system takes advantage of the newer low-energy Bluetooth technology to enable the connection between the two devices, allowing you to literally… Read More
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FoxNews.com Seemingly Hacked (Or Someone Just Screwed Up Big Time)
Whoops! Looks like someone found their way into FoxNews.com’s CMS (or an intern pushed an old test page live.) While it’s still not 100% clear what happened here, our tips inbox just went ablaze as people rushed to point out that something… strange was going on over at FoxNews.com. “Weeeeeeeee,” pronounced the headline on the front page’s top story. “STUFF… Read More
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Google+ Adds Restricted Communities In An Effort To Court Business Users
Many businesses have now adopted tools like Yammer or Podio, but Google+ also wants a piece of this social enterprise action. While Google's social network started courting enterprise users more than a year ago by adding restricted posts and a number of other business features, it's going a step further today by launching restricted communities. This adds an extra layer of security on top of the… Read More
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At Square, Meeting Notes And Board Slide Decks Are Shared With All
Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey took to the stage at GigaOm Roadmap today and, as Twitter was apparently an off-limits topic*, he took the opportunity to sound off on Square. Dorsey championed the mobile payments company as an "analytics" company, allowing store owners to query for things like "total # of biscotti sold" versus the complete lack of data and analysis involved in many… Read More