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Cronofy, The Calendar API Helping Businesses Keep Customer And Staff Diaries In Sync, Scores $1.6M
Cronofy, the U.K. startup that offers a calendar API to help businesses and their customers synchronise calendars, has raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Firestartr alongside Amsterdam-based venture capital firm henQ. Read More
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Asia Tech Media Startup E27 Lays Off Half Of Team In Restructuring Move
The first major news from Asia’s growing spectrum of tech media companies is in, after Singapore-based tech blog E27 instituted restructuring that has resulted in half of its 20 employees leaving the company. Read More
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Windows Phone Is An Ex-Platform
Microsoft announced its Q2 2016 results yesterday, reporting strong performance for its cloud business and leading to a stock bump in the wake of the news. Its Surface tablet hardware business also performed well. However it’s an entirely different story for the unloved phone-making business — that albatross around Satya Nadella’s neck… Read More
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Singapore’s RedMart Is Raising $100M To Expand Its Online Grocery Service In Asia
Singapore-based online grocery company RedMart is close to raising a massive $100 million Series C round to expand its service across Asia. Two sources with knowledge of the deal confirmed to TechCrunch that the new funding is expected to close in the next one or two months. Read More
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Sony Posts $1B Profit For Q3 2015 But Feels Pinch From Slowing Mobile Market
Another quarter of promise for Sony. The Japanese tech giant just released its Q3 2015 financial results, posting net income of 120.1 billion JPY ($1 billion) on total revenue 2,580.8 billion JPY ($21.5 billion) — those figures are up 33.5 percent and 0.5 percent year-on-year. Operating income came in at 202.1 billion JPY ($1.7 billion), an 11 percent rise on a year previous. Read More
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Crunch Network
The App Ecosystem’s New Status Quo
Americans spent more time using smartphone and tablet applications in 2014 than they did mobile and desktop web combined. With nearly four billion smartphones projected to be in use by 2020, the platform shift to mobile is well underway. Read More
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NASA Rover Designed To Last 90 Days Celebrates 12 Year Anniversary
This week NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover celebrated its 12 year anniversary on the red planet. What’s truly remarkable about this is the fact that the rover was only designed to operate for about 90 days. Due to helpful unforeseen surface conditions and few creative software changes, NASA has been able to keep Opportunity alive and operational to this day. After a 6 and a half… Read More
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Paul Allen’s Yacht Blamed For Destroying Coral Reef
Vulcan, the investment firm of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, features a practice area that aims to “reduce our impact on the environment, particularly local watershed and ocean habitats.” So you can imagine it more than a little embarrassing when Allen’s 300-foot yacht, Tatoosh, was accused yesterday of destroying a coral reef in the Cayman Islands that has been in… Read More
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Susa Ventures Looks to Raise $50 Million Second Fund
Susa Ventures, a 2.5-year-old, seed-stage firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. , is looking to raise up to $50 million for a second fund, two years after raising a $25 million debut fund. The SEC filing is here. Read More
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Lockscreen App Slidejoy Gets A Newsy New Feature
Slidejoy, a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading experience. Co-founder Sanghoon Kwak led the development of the new Trends feature, and he said that previously, if you were reading news on Slidejoy, you saw one article at a time, and they came from about a dozen publishers. Read More
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Facebook Shutters Its Parse Developer Platform
Here’s a surprise: Facebook is closing its Parse developer platform. After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a reported $85 million in 2013, Facebook turned Parse into one of its key developer services. Read More
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Apple Pay Is Coming To ATMs From Bank Of America And Wells Fargo
Both Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are working on integrating Apple Pay into their ATMs, according to a source familiar with the teams on the projects. Engineers at both companies have been placed on multi-month assignments to build the Apple Pay options. I’ve confirmed the identity of at least one engineer who publicly lists themselves as a Bank Of America employee. Wells… Read More
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Nigerian Fintech Company Interswitch Could Become Africa’s First Public Startup Unicorn
Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Read More
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Amazon Tanks 13% After Reporting Q4 Miss With $1.00 EPS, $35.7B Net Sales
Despite posting the best quarterly profit in its history, Amazon plummeted as much as 13% after-hours after missing on net sales and earnings per share. This came after the stock had soared to end up nearly 9% in the hours preceding the earnings release. The Seattle-based retail company reported net sales of $35.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2015, up 22% from $29.3 billion in… Read More
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Microsoft Beats On Strong Cloud Revenue With $25.7B Revenue, $0.78 EPS
Microsoft today reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2016 (I know, that’s weird, but Microsoft’s financial year ends in June). The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $25.7 billion for the last quarter and $0.78 of adjusted per-share profit. Wall Street expected Microsoft to deliver an EPS of $0.71 on revenue of $25.26 billion. In the year-ago quarter, the… Read More
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Shypmate Pays Travelers To Bring Products To Ghana And Nigeria
Shypmate, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a quick, low-cost international shipping solution that relies on everyday people to transport items from the U.S. to Ghana and Nigeria. Why Ghana and Nigeria? Well, the founding team (pictured above) has members from both Ghana and Nigeria — two African markets they’re familiar with and have a need for this kind… Read More
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Crunch Network
Security And Privacy Standards Are Critical To The Success Of Connected Cars
The automotive industry is rapidly evolving to transform the car from a simple mode of transport to a personalized information hub: There will be an estimated 220 million connected cars on the road globally by 2020. Each of those cars will be equipped with more than 200 sensors, more than double the number of sensors in connected cars on the road today. Read More
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Pindrop
- $75M Series C
- HQ: Atlanta, Georgia
- Categories: Risk Management, Security, Fraud Detection, Audio, Mobile, Customer Service ... See More
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NewVoiceMedia
- $30M Series F
- HQ: Basingstoke, Hampshire
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Sales and Marketing, Customer Service
- Investors: Not available
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Bigfoot Biomedical
- $2.4M Debt Financing
- HQ: Milpitas, California
- Categories: Medical Devices, Healthcare Services, Mobile Health
- Investors: Not available
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Next Games
- $10M Series B
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: Graphics, Mobile Games, Entertainment, Games
- Investors: Not available
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BitGiving
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Delhi, Delhi
- Categories: Charity, Curated Web
- Investors: Not available
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Waterline Data Science
- $4.0M Series B
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: Data Centers
- Investors: Not available
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Moneytis
- Not available Convertible Note
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Bitcoin, Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges, P2P Money ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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ArtPlace America
- $4.0M Venture
- HQ: Brooklyn, New York
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Wonolo
- $5.7M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Marketplaces, Temporary Staffing
- Investors: Not available
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Insurify
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Apps
- Investors: Not available
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Booster Fuels
- $9.0M Series A
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Transportation
- Investors: Not available
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centrose
- $1.4M Convertible Note
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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High Purity Quartz Materials
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Renewable Energies, Solar, Semiconductors
- Investors: Not available
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Truebil
- $5.1M Series A
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: Automotive
- Investors: Not available
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nuTonomy
- $3.6M Seed
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Automotive
- Investors: Not available
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Wercker
- $4.5M Series A
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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Locus Health
- $4.0M Series B
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Hospitals
- Investors: Not available
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StackAdapt
- 1.0M CAD Series A
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: Internet Marketing, Advertising Networks, Ad Targeting, Advertising, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Naritiv
- $3.0M Series A
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: Video, Digital Media, Social Media Marketing, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Ecovative Design
- $4.0M Venture
- HQ: Troy, New York
- Categories: Clean Technology, Sustainability
- Investors: Not available
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eNaturr
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast'
- Categories: Information Technology, Services, Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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The Helper Bees
- $20K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Birch
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Gainesville, Florida
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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SENSU
- $700K Angel
- HQ: Tokyo, Tokyo
- Categories: Creative, E-Commerce, Online Shopping
- Investors: Not available
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Farmer's Edge Laboratories
- $41M Series C
- HQ: Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Categories: Data Integration, Farming, Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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LeafLink
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Supply Chain Management, B2B, Application Platforms
- Investors: Not available
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BirdEye
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: Natural Language Processing, Market Research, Analytics, Reputation, Brand ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Savari
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Automotive, Communications Infrastructure, Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
