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Apple’s Tim Cook: No-one Wants An iPad-Mac Hybrid
Apple CEO Tim Cook has told the The Irish Independent he has no plans to converge Cupertino’s lovingly crafted iPad and Macbook hardware lines into a hybrid tablet-plus-laptop device — arguing that melding the two device types would undermine the user experience. Read More
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Zenefits Launches Its Own Payroll Platform
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad danced around a question about building out payroll services at Disrupt SF 2015. “I can’t announce anything about new products specifically, but you know payroll’s a very important spoke,” Conrad said at the time. But the cloud-based HR unicorn has built a payroll product, launching out of beta today. As Conrad tells it, a select group of… Read More
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Facebook Ups Its Sticker Game As The First Paid Packs Arrive For Messenger
In a move that may seem trivial, but could be indicative of the future, you can now buy paid-for stickers inside Facebook Messenger. Facebook itself isn’t leading offering stickers directly, but it is working closely with a third-party — Singapore startup PicoCandy — to offer a selection of new emoji and sticker packs, some of which will cost $0.99 or $1.99. Read More
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CashKaro Raises $3.8M Series A To Become The Ebates Of Southeast Asia
CashKaro, which claims to be India’s largest cashback and coupon site, is planning to expand into new countries after raising a $3.8 million Series A from Kalaari Capital. Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Swati and Rohan Bhargava, CashKaro works with more than 1,000 e-commerce sites and makes money through their affiliate programs. Swati Bhargava told TechCrunch that… Read More
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Docker Puts Focus On Container Security
Docker today announced three new security tools and features for containers at its DockerCon Europe conference in Barcelona. These tools are meant to make using containers safer without interrupting the usual developer workflow. They include support for hardware signing with a Yubico hardware key, and user namespaces support so Docker containers don’t need to have root access anymore. Read More
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Bitnami’s New Stacksmith Service Makes It Easier For Developer To Build Custom App Containers
Bitnami is probably best known for making it easy to deploy web apps, services and development environments with just a few clicks. As developers start moving to containers, Bitnami, too, has to change to keep up with this trend. The company today launched the first beta of Stacksmith at Docker’s developer conference in Barcelona. Stacksmith gives developers a set of… Read More
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Crunch Network
Information Sharing Is Key To Avoiding A Cyberattack
President Obama’s recent extraction of a pledge from Chinese leader Xi Jinping that neither government would conduct or continue economic espionage in cyberspace, while important, still comes up far short of addressing the significant and growing global concerns about the potential for a 9/11-style cyberattack on critical financial sectors. Now more than ever, dramatically increased… Read More
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Apple Confirms It Will Open A Retail Store In Singapore, Its First In Southeast Asia
Apple has confirmed that it will open its first retail store in Southeast Asia, located in Singapore, as the U.S. phone maker begins to increase its efforts in the region’s fast-growing smartphone market. Read More
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Crunch Network
What Technology Will Look Like In Five Years
As a driver of technical innovation for a software company, a huge part of my job depends on forecasting how current tech trends will play out, merge, dissipate or expand. Here are some of my predictions of what the world will look like in 2020. Read More
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POCIT: 6 Latina Founders To Watch
Welcome to the second edition of POCIT! Consider this: 87 percent of VC-backed founders are white and 83 percent of the founding teams of those startups are all white, according to a 2010 CB Insights report. This week, we’re taking a look at some stellar Latina entrepreneurs in tech. Who do you want to see highlighted next week? Keep sending me your nominations and suggestions at… Read More
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Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Approaches $15 Million Target For Second Fund
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a three-year-old, seed-stage venture firm led by its founder and sole general partner, Charlie O’Donnell, is about to close its second fund with $15 million, up from an $8.3 million debut fund closed last year. It’s a meaningful milestone for O’Donnell, who got his start in venture capital as an analyst at Union Square Ventures and later worked as… Read More
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Paris Attacks Highlight Tech’s Elevated Role In Disaster Relief
As terror attacks put France into a national state of emergency on Friday, AirBnB, Facebook, Google, Skype, Twitter and Uber launched into disaster response mode. AirBnB contacted all hosts in Paris asking if they could take in those stranded in the city. Facebook let users alert their friends they were safe. Google offered free calls to Paris via Hangouts, as did Skype, Verizon and Sprint. Read More
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How Much Technology Is Too Much Technology?
There are many visions of what our hyper-connected future might look like. We’re packaged countless variants on the shiny-techie-future vision theme every day as marketing departments lay it on thick to try to put gloss on their latest product and restless grease on the wheels of consumption… Read More
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Crunch Network
STEM Education, Meet The New Manufacturing
STEM education and the maker movement have flooded our nation’s schools, making project-based learning much easier to mark off of the instructional “must do” checklist toward meeting new criterion and readying students for a career. Our school districts are feeling the pressure to be innovative and find new ways to engage students with technology while adhering to the… Read More
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Crunch Network
If You Want Tech Freedom, Congress Needs To Change A Law
Freedom is critical to the economic engine of Silicon Valley, but laws are not often written to preserve it. A federal decision in October let consumers unlock cell phones, tinker with their tablets and hack into some aspects of their connected vehicles’ software — as long as they don’t break other laws. Unfortunately, this decision has to be renewed every three years, through… Read More
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Facebook Says It Will Enable Safety Check During More Human Disasters, Following Criticism
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to turning on Safety Check in more human disasters going forward, responding to criticism that the company turned on its safety feature for Paris but not for Beirut and other bombings. Zuckerberg explained that the Paris terror attacks marked the first time the company has enabled Safety Check for a human disaster, not a natural disaster like an… Read More
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Crunch Network
America’s Whitest City Explodes With A Fusion Of Inclusion
It’s tough to see at first glance that diversity matters in Portland, Oregon. After all, Portlandia is widely known as the “whitest city in America.” But hidden within this environmentally friendly rain-soaked scenic city, there are intentional efforts ongoing in economic gardening across multiple community sectors to cultivate the growth of a diverse landscape of job creators. Read More
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Inside, Robot
Before the robots replace us we will make love to them. This point is becoming increasingly clear as I wander through the odd world of teledildonics and marvel at the leaps and bounds by which the technology – once in the realm of fantasy – has become a mundane reality. If you are skittish or squeamish about human sexuality I beseech you to click out right now or visit another… Read More
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Crunch Network
Civic Tech Brings Power And Positivity To The People
People have long had a complicated relationship with their governments — a tension that is often exacerbated by government policies and processes that cannot keep pace with today’s on-demand culture. It doesn’t have to be like this. The tech community — especially those working in civic tech — know this to be true. From enabling crowdfunding campaigns to… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Digg
- $4.0M Series A
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Web Tools, Technology, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Design, News
- Investors: Not available
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ALPHAEON Corporation
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Irvine, California
- Categories: Social Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Avedro
- $32M Series E
- HQ: Waltham, Massachusetts
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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GetYourGuide
- $50M Series C
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Tourism, Travel, Internet, Marketplaces, Online Travel
- Investors: Not available
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Watchwith
- $2.0M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Social Television, Television, SaaS, Advertising Platforms, Social Media ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Kypha
- $2.1M Debt Financing
- HQ: Saint Louis, Missouri
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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PlaceSpeak
- 500K CAD Angel
- HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Categories: Information Technology, Government Innovation, Social Media
- Investors: Not available
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Avenida
- $30M Series C
- HQ: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal
- Categories: Online Shopping, E-Commerce, Retail
- Investors: Not available
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Jetzy
- $650K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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MediCope
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Herzliya, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Consumer Internet
- Investors: Not available
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NeuroGenetic Pharmaceuticals
- $2.5M Grant
- HQ: Del Mar, California
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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GoQuo
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur
- Categories: E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Mavrck
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Advertising, Digital Media, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Tappx
- 20K EUR Convertible Note
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: Mobile, Apps, Communities
- Investors: Not available
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Sailing Technologies
- 90K EUR Debt Financing
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: Boating Industry, Sporting Goods, Specialty Chemicals, Startups
- Investors: Not available
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Varentec
- $13M Series C
- HQ: San Jose, California
- Categories: Clean Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Stary
- $740K Product Crowdfunding
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: Sporting Goods
- Investors: Not available
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Cardax Pharma
- $1.6M Venture
- HQ: Honolulu, Hawaii
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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CareMonkey
- 650K EUR Venture
- HQ: Richmond, Victoria
- Categories: Electronic Health Records, Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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PriceMDs.com Inc.
- $1.0M Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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LanguaTravel
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Language Learning, Travel, Education
- Investors: Not available
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Modern Movement
- $65K Convertible Note
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: Android, Software Compliance, Software
- Investors: Not available
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NOYSI
- $110K Angel
- HQ: Madrid, Madrid
- Categories: Communities, Unifed Communications, Web Tools
- Investors: Not available
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Flash Door
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Services, Professional Services, Internet
- Investors: Not available
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Panamplify
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Dallas, Texas
- Categories: Sales and Marketing, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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SOKO Insight
- $12K Seed
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: Market Research, B2B, Emerging Markets, Business Intelligence
- Investors: Not available
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Forkyoo
- $57K Venture
- HQ: Miller Place, New York
- Categories: Restaurants, Cooking, E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Flyability
- 2.5M CHF Seed
- HQ: Lausanne, Vaud
- Categories: Security, Consumer Electronics, Drones, Robotics
- Investors: Not available
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City Bakery
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Prishtinë, Vojvodina
- Categories: Food Processing
- Investors: Not available
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N3mE - Next 3motional mobile Education
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: EdTech
- Investors: Not available