Elance-oDesk Launches In Australia To Compete With Freelancer.com

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.elance.com/">Elance-oDesk </a>launched today in Australia with a new country manager and two city managers based in Melbourne and Sydney. The company also said it

Box Might Put Its IPO Back In The Box

Box was rumored to have filed to go public on January 31. On March 24, its S-1 dropped, showing the world quick revenue growth but stubborn and expanding losses. Today the Wall Street Journal repor

Farfetch, An Online Marketplace For Designer Fashion Boutiques, Raises $66M

Farfetch, an online marketplace for independent fashion boutiques, has raised $66 million led by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, with existing investors Condé Nast International and Advent Ve

Facebook Will Soon Open-Source More Of The Core Technology Behind Its Paper App

At its F8 developer conference Facebook today announced that it will soon open-source more of the technology behind its Paper mobile app for iOS. In a few weeks, the company will upload the code for D

Selling Your Company? Prioritize Dollars Over Prestige

Right after Adobe acquired EchoSign, I ran into a friend whose company had recently been acquired for several hundred million dollars after having raised very little capital. It was a great outcome. T

Visible Measures Launches Fabric, A Self-Serve Ad-Buying Platform For Content Marketers

Ad company <a target="_blank" href="http://www.visiblemeasures.com">Visible Measures</a> is launching a new ad-buying platform called Fabric, which the company says is "the first of its kind to focus

PunchTab Raises $6.25M To Turn Loyalty Programs Into An Enterprise Data Business

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.punchtab.com">PunchTab</a>, the startup led by YouSendIt (<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/10/yousendit-name-change-hightail/">now known as Hightail</a>) fou

Google Takes On Microsoft For Productivity Dominance Of Apple’s Mobile Platform

Earlier today Google released Docs and Sheets, two productivity applications for iOS. The unified apps work across iPhone and iPad devices. The new apps are just picking up their first ratings and

Facebook’s New APIs Let Media Outlets Visualize Trending Topics And Hashtags

TV news and other media sources now have a way to show off what’s popular on Facebook and with whom. Today Facebook launched the Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs.

Netshow.me, Brazil’s Answer To StageIt, Raises Seed Round

Tired of ticket fees, sweaty seething masses of teeming humanity, clubs that smell of body odor and stale beer, and concerts that sell out before you can even take out your credit card? Well, if yo

Waggl Raises $1.1 Million With A New Take On Enterprise Messaging And Polling

A new San Francisco-based startup has raised $1.1 million in seed financing with a new take on messaging and polling for businesses. The company takes its name from the informative dance that bees in

Payment Innovation Is Not Enough For Retail

Once a key differentiator, mobile payments are fast becoming a commodity and are widely used by retailers. Yankee Group found that 61 percent of large merchants already use a mobile checkout or plan t

Oracle Announces Its Cross-Platform Marketing Cloud

Oracle today announced the launch of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eloqua.com/featured-content/marketing-cloud.html">the Oracle Marketing Cloud</a>, a platform that combines technology from a nu

Internet.org Lets f8 Developers Test Apps On A Simulated Low-Bandwidth Network

Until now, Internet.org has been a lot of talk about connecting the world without much to touch. But today at f8, Facebook and Ericsson gave Internet.org its first physical incarnation with a hands-on

Google Will Also Stop Scanning Google Apps Inboxes For Ads

Earlier this morning, Google announced that it would stop scanning students' Apps for Education accounts to target ads at them. What was somewhat lost in that announcement was that Google will also ma

Ambri Raises $35 Million For A New Approach To Grid-Scale Power Storage

The use of renewable energy is growing in the U.S., but its adoption has put pressure on old, overtaxed power grids. The intermittency of wind and solar power means that transmission systems need to f

Yelp Drops 6% Despite Posting Better-Than-Expected Q1 Revenue Of $76.4M, EPS Of -$0.04 [Update: Now +5%]

After the closing of regular trading today, Yelp reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $76.4 million, and earnings per share of -$0.04. The market had expected the com

SV Angel’s David Lee And Brian Pokorny Will School Disrupt NY On What’s Broken In Startup Land

There are few venture capital funds as close to the street as SV Angel. That's why we're bringing <a target="_blank" href="http://svangel.com/team/">SV Angel co-founders and managing partners David Le

Facebook Rolls Out Billing Info “Autofill” For Simpler Checkout To 450K Ecwid E-Commerce Merchants

Facebook today announced a partnership with ecommerce site platform Ecwid to let its merchants easily integrate Autofill With Facebook, a feature that lets customers pull in credit card, billing, and

Facebook’s Stock Picks Up Momentum After Announcing Its Mobile Ad Network

On the back of an analyst upgrade based on optimism about the future of its ad products, Facebook today picked up nearly 2.5 percent in the public markets. After starting the day at a deficit, Faceboo
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