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Jelly’s Novelty Wears Off, But Long-Term Potential For A Mobile #Lazyweb Remains
Let's get this out of the way up front: I was prepared to dislike Jelly after its reveal. After all, when Twitter co-founder Biz Stone described the new startup as experiment designed to "make the world a more empathetic place," - yes, a mobile Q&A service - it's hard not to roll your eyes. And if you look at some of the usage in Jelly's first days, it's at least equal parts enlightening and… Read More
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Get Your Crunchies Tickets Now
The 7th Annual Crunchies Awards is almost here and some tickets are still available. They start at $80 which grants the holder to a night of laughs, drinks and nerds as far as the eye can see. This is the biggest night of the year for the technology scene. Get dressed up and come party with us. Read More
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Facebook Hints At Mobile Ad Network Ambitions By Testing Its Ads In Third-Party Apps
Facebook said in a blog post today that it has started testing Facebook ads in third-party mobile apps. The post doesn't have too many details about the program, like what kinds of data will be used for the ad targeting and what those ads will actually look like. (I've asked Facebook PR about those points and will update if I hear back.) It describes the test as "extending Facebook's rich… Read More
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Google Glass User Detained By Feds Talks About Ordeal
While some businesses are banning the high-tech wearable device Google Glass, a theatre owner in Hilliard, Ohio, saw enough of a threat to call the Department of Homeland Security. The manager called in unnamed Homeland Security agents to remove a Balkan programmer who was wearing Google Glass connected to his prescription lenses. The agents and mall police interrogated the Glass-wearer for hours. Read More
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Mobile A/B Testing Startup Apptimize Raises $2.1M, Launches A Tool For Non-Developers
Y Combinator-incubated Apptimize is launching a new "Visual Apptimizer" that's aimed at making A/B testing for mobile apps faster and easier — in fact, co-founder and CEO Nancy Hua suggested that it should make this kind of testing accessible to non-developers. The company is also announcing that it has raised $2.1 million in seed funding from a number of big-name investors. Read More
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Teachers From Facebook And Salesforce Fill Udacity’s New Data Science Program
The Internet is full of lucrative data and businesses are eager for statisticians who can mine it for golden digital nuggets. Responding to the White House's call for more data scientists, Massively Open Online Course provider, Udacity, has officially launched its paid statistics training program. Read More
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Zenefits Adds $15M From Andreessen Horowitz To Become The All-In-One Solution For Startup HR
The thought of managing HR, benefits and payroll is enough to make most entrepreneurs grimace. However, time consuming and frustrating as it may be, it’s a part of the job description and something every startup and small business has to address sooner or later. Having dealt with the paperwork and administrative headaches at startups before, Parker Conrad and Laks Srini launched Zenefits… Read More
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HootSuite Buys UberVU To Expand Analytics On Its Social Media Management Platform
HootSuite -- a platform for enterprises to manage their presence on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and many more -- is ramping up its product offering with more big data. Today it announced that it has acquired London-based uberVu, a social analytics platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but we're trying to find out. Read More
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Apple Wins Big Against Samsung In Court
This is the song that never ends. Judge Lucy Koh of the Norther District of California, presiding over two separate patent cases between Apple and Samsung, yesterday issued a summary ruling against Samsung. The ruling declared that Samsung was infringing on one of Apple's patents involving autocomplete on a keyboard. Namely, Apple holds the rights to showing both the word that has been… Read More
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After WaPo Sale, Graham Holdings Relaunches Its Flipboard Competitor Trove
A few years back, the Labs group of The Washington Post Co. debuted Trove, a personalized, social news site and aggregator that relied heavily on Facebook for curation. But of course, the company's flagship newspaper WaPo was sold to Jeff Bezos last year, and the Labs group was absorbed into the new Washington Post Co., which is now Graham Holdings. Today, Graham Holdings is relaunching Trove as a… Read More
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MySmartPrice
- Size $1M
- Round A
- Investors Accel Partners, Helion Venture Partners
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LiveOnDemand
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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Binary Fountain
- Size $5.7M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Pioneer Ventures Associates
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MemSQL
- Size $35M
- Round B
- Investors Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, First Round Capital, Data Collective
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Zepp Labs, Inc.
- Size $15M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors GGV Capital, Legend Capital, Cherubic Ventures
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Beat My Waste Quote
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors The North West Fund
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XCOR Aerospace
- Size $14.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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AIRTAME
- Size $1.3M
- Round Crowd
- Investors Not available
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Chartio
- Size $2.2M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Avalon Ventures
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Sharethrough
- Size $10M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Intercom
- Size $23M
- Round B
- Investors Bessemer Venture Partners, The Social+Capital Partnership
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Sharethrough
- Size $7M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Elevation Partners, Silver Creek Ventures, Patrick Keane, North Bridge ... See More
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StyleSeat
- Size $10.2M
- Round A
- Investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital
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Eyelation
- Size $1.3M
- Round Seed
- Investors IrishAngels
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Change Collective
- Size $1.4M
- Round Seed
- Investors NextView Ventures, Founder Collective, Eniac Ventures
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WealthTouch
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Kitano Investments, Allen u0026 Company, Anthony Bloom
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QFPay
- Size $16.5M
- Round B
- Investors Sequoia Capital
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Beem
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors GGM Capital
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Cohera Medical
- Size $9.3M
- Round D
- Investors Not available
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Kensho Technologies
- Size $10M
- Round Seed
- Investors General Catalyst Partners, NEA Venture Capital, Accel Partners, Google ... See More
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tok tok tok
- Size $2M
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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Apptimize
- Size $2.1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Start Fund, Maverick Capital ... See More
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Zenefits
- Size $15M
- Round A
- Investors Maveron, Maverick Capital, Venrock
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Harry's
- Size $122.5M
- Round Seed
- Investors Tiger Global Management, Thrive Capital, Highland Capital Partners, SV ... See More
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BookingBug
- Size $1M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Deep Ventures
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Nexmo
- Size $18M
- Round C
- Investors Sorenson Capital, Intel Capital
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Qubell
- Size $1.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Benhamou Global Ventures, Icon Venture Partners
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Orthodata
- Size $1.6M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Acceleration Loan Fund
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Knome
- Size $13M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Designers Delay Duck’s Death With 3D-Printed Limb
In the future, no duck will have to die because of missing legs. In fact, they will live forever if us nerds have anything to do about it. To wit: a designer named Terence Loring in Sicamous, British Columbia is busy building a fancy leg for a duckling named Dudley who, and this is true, lost his leg in an aggressive chicken fight. Loring own's a 3D design company called 3D Pillar. Read More
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Microsoft Wants You To Rethink Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer has long suffered from the bad reputation it inflicted upon itself, and Microsoft is painfully aware of this. Ever since IE9, though, it’s been a pretty good browser and the latest versions have embraced open web standards, added a very fast JavaScript engine and new features like touch support. Still, even for Microsoft, IE remains the “browser you love(d) to… Read More
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Somewhere Between Coke And Nintendo, Rovio Wants To Be A Super Brand
Being a successful gaming company is hard. Not only is the competitive landscape vastly overcrowded, but the winds of change pull people from one gaming hit to another faster than you can water your Farmville strawberries. But for the past four years, one gaming company has miraculously stayed relevant: Rovio. Read More
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Groupon Adds 20,000 Hotels To Its Getaways Marketplace, Preps Blink Integration Next
Another move from Groupon today to build up one of its new vertical marketplaces: today the company said it would add 20,000 more hotels to its Groupon Getaways travel portal. This is one step in a series, Groupon tells me: the next will be to integrate last-minute bookings from Blink, the HotelTonight competitor that Groupon acquired last year. Read More
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Ford Partners With MIT And Stanford To Research Autonomous Cars
Ford today announced that it is partnering with MIT and Stanford to research a number of technical challenges surrounding automated driving. A team at MIT will look into how a car can best predict the actions of pedestrians and other cars around it, while another team at Stanford plans to look into ways for cars to see around obstructions. The teams will use Ford’s recently unveiled Fusion… Read More
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Tok Tok Tok, The European Local Delivery Platform Similar To Postmates, Raises $2M To Expand To London
Tok Tok Tok, a French startup that's tackling a similar problem to U.S.-based Postmates -- having somebody shop on your behalf and deliver the item within the same day or even hour -- has raised its first round of funding. It's taken $2 million in investment from undisclosed, mainly European, angel investors; money the company plans to use to expand beyond Paris where it first launched last April… Read More
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Charlie O’Donnell’s Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Raises $8.3M To Back NYC Startups
VC Charlie O’Donnell, who has worked at both First Round Capital and Union Square Ventures, is announcing the second raise, of $8.25 million, for his New York City-based, early-stage VC fund Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. Read More
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10-Month-Old Harry’s Lands $122.5M, Buys 93-Year-Old Factory To Go Toe-To-Toe With Gillette And Schick
Not every 10-month old startup can say that it has crossed a handful of oceans and international borders to purchase a 93-year-old factory -- or raised $122.5 million to do so. Yet, not every Internet startup is trying to make waves in the prosaic world of shaving, where 85 percent of the market is controlled by a couple of weathered giants like Gillette and Schick. What's more, while adopting a… Read More
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StyleSeat, An Online Marketplace For Stylists & Beauty Pros, Raises $10.2M Series A From Lightspeed
As hinted at last month, salon-booking service StyleSeat has now closed on its Series A round of funding. Led by Lightspeed Ventures, the company has raised an additional $10.2 million in outside investment, bringing its total raise to date to $14 million. The funding will be used to both grow the platform and the now 35-person StyleSeat team, which will double in 2014. Existing investor Lowercase… Read More
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Intercom Raises Another $23M For Its New, More Social Approach To CRM
Intercom, a platform for companies to provide personalised customer responses online, is today announcing that it has raised another $23 million -- funding that it will use to continue to develop its product, particularly in mobile, and expand its marketing to compete against bigger players like Oracle, SAP and Salesforce (the behemoth that even uses 'CRM' as its stock ticker on the NYSE). Read More