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Sneak Peek At Flipboard’s Apple Watch App
Among the many new applications designed for Apple Watch, there are still a few big names who had yet to reveal how their apps will look and operate. One of those names is Flipboard, the social magazine app which is currently available on iOS, Android, Windows, and more recently, the web. The company offered a preview of their forthcoming Apple Watch app, which they’ll cover in more… Read More
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Rocket Internet Ups Stake In Foodpanda And Delivery Hero As ‘Global Online Takeaway Group’ Gets Fatter
Rocket Internet, the publicly-listed German ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth, has increased its stake in Foodpanda, and rival Delivery Hero, as part of a strategy to build out its Global Online Takeaway Group, a roll up of all its take-out and food delivery companies. Read More
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Google, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian Donate $1.75M To Tech Training Non-Profit Coalition For Queens
The truism about tech’s lack of diversity is that it’s a “pipeline” problem. At least that’s what tech leaders and companies often say when questioned about why their ranks aren’t inclusive enough. Is it an honest answer? Kind of. Does it also shove responsibility for fixing the problem onto everyone else? Yes. How do you fix it? It’s not easy… Read More
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Amazon’s New “Exclusives” Shop Showcases Up-And-Coming Brands And “Shark Tank” Products
Amazon this morning rolled out a new store called Amazon Exclusives which will introduce “up-and-coming” brands and other new inventions across a variety of categories, including products that have been previously featured on the TV show Shark Tank. The idea here is that Amazon wants to capitalize on the attention these new products receive when they hit the market (or the TV… Read More
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The App Store, iTunes Store And iTunes Connect Are Experiencing Lengthy Outages
Apple’s digital content stores, as well as the iTunes Connect developer portal, are currently experience issues around the world, as customers in various countries have been unable to complete purchases, run updates or login for multiple hours now. Apple’s service status dashboard still shows a green status indicator across the board. We’ve been able to replicate the error… Read More
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Disrupt NY Returns To The Historic Manhattan Center
In just six short weeks, thousands of the technology industry’s elite will descend on New York City for Disrupt NY 2015. For the third year in a row, the show will be held at the Manhattan Center, one of New York City’s most renowned performance venues. Originally constructed in 1906, the Manhattan Center was built by Oscar Hammerstein as a competitor to the Metropolitan Opera… Read More
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After A 15 Month Hiatus, Nokia’s Here Mapping App Finds Its Way Back To iOS
Nokia — now independent of the handset division that it sold to Windows Phone maker Microsoft last year — is today passing a milestone in getting remaining services to work across multiple platforms. The company has finally brought Here, its mapping app, back into the iOS store after removing it in late 2013. Competing against the likes of Google Maps, Apple’s own… Read More
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Google Launches Cloud Storage Nearline, A Low-Cost Storage Service For Cold Data
Google is launching a new cloud storage service today that has the potential to change how many companies, ranging from startups to enterprise, view online storage. With Google Cloud Storage Nearline, businesses can store the data they or their customers don’t frequently need to access (think backups, log files or older photos), for $0.01 per gigabyte. Cold storage isn’t a new concept. Read More
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Apple Pegged To Bring Force Touch Pressure-Sensitive Input To Next iPhones
Apple’s Force Touch tech, which it built into both the new 12-inch MacBook and the new Apple Watch, is also headed to the next iPhone, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Frankly, after trying the tech out in person, I’d be more surprised it wasn’t using Force Touch across all of its upcoming products. The pressure-sensitive input method allows for a… Read More
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Looker Raises Another $30M For Its New Approach To Business Intelligence
As more enterprises become increasingly confident in using software as a service and continue to try to get smarter about how they handle all the data they are amassing, startups offering innovative SaaS solutions to address this are seeing their stars continue to rise. Looker, a business intelligence startup founded by early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps Lloyd Tabb, has raised… Read More
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Zuora $115M Investment Round Validates Subscription Approach
Zuora, the company that helps customers manage their subscription models, today announced a massive $115M funding round involving not just Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but also public market investors. Those public market names include Wellington Management Company LLP and Blackrock Inc, as well as Premji and Passport Capital. Existing investors Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners… Read More
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Apple’s New MacBook’s Trackpad Does Not Move
If you’ve been scouring the coverage of Apple’s new MacBook, you’ll probably already know this. But I did an informal poll and a lot of folks did not, so I thought I’d mention it. The new trackpad does not move, at all. When you ‘click’ it, it ‘clicks’, but it doesn’t actually click. There is an audible ‘click’ sound… Read More
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Subscription Billing Startup ChargeBee Raises $5M Series B Led By Tiger Global
ChargeBee, a Chennai-based startup that helps companies manage their billing and subscription needs, is the latest investment for Tiger Global in India. Read More
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Lingua.ly, Which Turns The Internet Into A Language Textbook, Raises $1M
Lingua.ly, which saves language students from the tedium of traditional textbooks, has raised $1 million. Participants in the round include Udi Netzer (a returning investor), Shai Rephaeli, Yochy Investments, and Seed Fund 1776. Read More
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TC AppleCast 8: Our Video Recap Of The Apple Event
On Monday, Apple held a special event focused on the all-new 12-inch MacBook with a Retina display, and the Apple Watch, providing us a deeper look at the smartwatch’s software. The special event merits a special podcast, so we got Matthew Panzarino, Darrell Etherington and Kyle Russell together to capture the magic on video. And there’s an audio version, too, so pick your… Read More
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YC-Backed Notable Labs Provides Personalized Medical Testing For Brain Cancer Patients
Matt de Silva was working as a hedge fund manager with Thiel Capital in the fall of 2013 when he got the news that his dad had brain cancer — specifically, a Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which is an aggressive form of brain cancer. There are very few treatment options for this type of cancer. de Silva’s father was told he had about 3-6 months to live without chemo and… Read More
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Skype, Get Your Shit Together
Skype is part of TechCrunch’s newsroom workflow. It’s the standard way that individual authors converse, share, collaborate and the like. We use other software to work as a team, but for one-on-one chats, Skype is our jam. The downside is that it just doesn’t work very well. It’s become a running joke in the office: Skype’d it to you — So, you’ll get… Read More
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Apple’s Latest Betrayal
“Seriously, fuck them,” read the tweet. The person was speaking about Apple and the new MacBook the company recently announced. There are countless other tweets and comments with the same sentiment. Right now there’s visceral hate directed at the company. A swath of consumers feel betrayed by the stark design of the new MacBook. Our original post on the topic was shared… Read More
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Building A Data-Driven White House
Working in government IT doesn’t mean what it used to. In the past, computers were only used to carry out simple office work or as a substitute for pens and paper. Fast-forward to 2015 however and the White House is naming Dr. DJ Patil as the nation’s first Chief Data Scientist, unveiled at the big dataconference Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose in mid February following a… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Groupon India
- $20M Venture
- HQ: New Delhi
- Categories: Internet Service Providers
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Spaceflight
- $19M Venture
- HQ: Tukwila, WA
- Categories: Health Care, Aerospace
- Investors: Not available
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Joinem
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: Dallas, TX
- Categories: E-Commerce, Online Shopping, Retail, Group Buying
- Investors: Not available
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Joinem
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: Dallas, TX
- Categories: Retail, Group Buying, E-Commerce, Online Shopping
- Investors: Not available
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DineMob
- $25K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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fuboTV
- $725K Convertible Note
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Subscription Service, Sports, Television
- Investors: Not available
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Home Bancorp
- $16M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Lafayette, LA
- Categories: Finance
- Investors: Not available
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Familonet
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Hamburg
- Categories: Location Based Services, Startups, Internet
- Investors: Not available
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Pager
- $10M Venture
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Technology, Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Collegium Pharmaceutical
- $50M Venture
- HQ: Cumberland, RI
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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ShapeShift
- 525K GBP Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Online Shopping
- Investors: Not available
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MysteryVibe
- $105K Angel
- HQ: London
- Categories: Wearables, Women, Biotechnology, Electronics, Design, Manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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Speakwell Enterprises
- $10M Venture
- HQ: Mumbai
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Renga
- $3.0M Series B
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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E8 Security
- $9.8M Series A
- HQ: Redwood City, CA
- Categories: Security, Intelligent Systems, Analytics, Network Security
- Investors: Not available
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Oracle Fund
- Not available undisclosed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Finance, Hedge Funds, FinTech
- Investors: Not available
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HealthMyne
- $4.5M Series A
- HQ: Madison, WI
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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HappyFresh
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Jakarta Pusat
- Categories: Food Processing
- Investors: Not available
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Apollo Endosurgery
- $50M Debt Financing
- HQ: Austin, TX
- Categories: Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Indotrading
- $1.5M Series A
- HQ: Jakarta
- Categories: E-Commerce, Trading, Sales and Marketing
- Investors: Not available
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Prevoty
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Los Angeles, CA
- Categories: Web Tools, Security, Information Technology, Data Security, IT and ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Worksfire
- $600K Seed
- HQ: Murrieta, CA
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Ensilo
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Information Security
- Investors: Not available
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Zuora
- $115M Series F
- HQ: Foster City, CA
- Categories: SaaS, Software, Billing
- Investors: Not available
















