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SwiftKey Eyes The Far East With Beta Launch Of Chinese On Android
6:00 am PST • November 13, 2014
Predictive keyboard maker SwiftKey, which is backed by investors including Index and Accel, has finally launched a Chinese beta of its software on the Android platform. This follows the launch of SwiftKey…
Samsung either plays it entirely safe – see most of the Galaxy Tab line – or entirely gonzo. Whether it’s the chimerical Galaxy K Zoom or their curved TV, it’s…
Scopely, a Los Angeles startup that’s built a platform for distributing and monetizing mobile games, is announcing that it has raised $35 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO…
EyeFocus Accelerator Launches In Berlin To Focus On Eye-care Startups
4:30 am PST • November 13, 2014
A new startup accelerator launch in Berlin this week. But while there are accelerators dotted all over Berlin, this one will be ‘laser-focused’ on startups in the area of the…
Online Labs Designed Its Own ARM Servers To Take On AWS, DigitalOcean
4:10 am PST • November 13, 2014
A couple of years ago, the team behind Online Labs started a long ambitious project — instead of building a virtual cloud hosting infrastructure that competes directly with Amazon Web…
Media & Entertainment
Line And Tencent Pour $110M Into Korea’s 4:33 Creative Lab Games Studio
3:50 am PST • November 13, 2014
Line, the Japanese messaging app with 500 million registered users, and China’s Tencent, maker of the 600-million user WeChat messaging app, are teaming up to invest in getting more content on…
Startups
E-Commerce Aggregator Thefashion.com Raises $1.7M For Further European Expansion
2:00 am PST • November 13, 2014
Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Kasper Vardrup — who also co-founded accelerator Startupbootcamp, amongst many other companies — Thefashion.com is another startup operating in the fashion discovery and shopping space. The site aggregates…
Warner Music Group And Tencent Strike Deal To Distribute Songs In Mainland China
1:47 am PST • November 13, 2014
Warner Music Group and Tencent have agreed to a distribution partnership in mainland China. This means that Tencent, one of China’s largest Internet companies and the maker of messaging app…
Media & Entertainment
Spotify Axes App Finder, Kills Soundrop And Its Listening Rooms
12:00 am PST • November 13, 2014
Music streaming service Spotify quietly announced in October that it would be removing the App Finder and no longer supporting apps in its desktop client, and today comes news of a significant casualty…
Google Is Driving A Bus Across Bangladesh To Help 500,000 Students Learn About The Internet
11:37 pm PST • November 12, 2014
Google is literally hitting the road to promote the potential of the internet in Bangladesh. The company today launched ‘Google Bus Bangladesh’, an educational program aimed at teaching key digital…
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Steve Ballmer’s Harvard Donation Will Allow It To Add 12 New Computer Science PROFESSORS PROFESSORS PROFESSORS
11:04 pm PST • November 12, 2014
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made a massive gift to his alma mater, Harvard, that will enable its computer science faculty to grow 50 percent by adding 12 new…
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Sony Is Launching Its Own Internet TV Service, PlayStation Vue, In Early 2015
10:52 pm PST • November 12, 2014
Sony is the latest contender to enter the content streaming game after it announced plans to launch PlayStation Vue, a cloud-based service that includes programming from 75 channels, for owners…
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Korean Internet Giant Daum Kakao Launches Its Own Mobile Payment Platform
10:04 pm PST • November 12, 2014
Daum Kakao, one of the largest Internet companies in South Korea, has launched a mobile payment platform called BankWalletKakao as it addresses concerns about its ability to grow in international…
Uber Launches Wallet-Based Payment System In India To Comply With New Regulations
8:47 pm PST • November 12, 2014
Uber has introduced a wallet-style payment system in India in responsible to recent regulations that require all online transactions to pass through the domestic banking system.
A Quick Look At Google Inbox
8:17 pm PST • November 12, 2014
A few weeks ago I managed to get my hands on Google’s new app, Inbox. So far I love it, but it is not quite ready to be my go-to…
DJI is the leader in drones and the company just introduced a radical new model. The Inspire 1 builds upon the success of the Phantom and integrates some of the…
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Viddsee Launches An iOS App To Bring Short Films From Asia To Your Phone
5:08 pm PST • November 12, 2014
If you’re ever caught with a little free time to fill, perhaps during your commute or while lazing around on the sofa at home, Viddsee wants to help you fill…
Startups
Gogobot Gets $20 Million In Strategic Investment Led By HomeAway
4:45 pm PST • November 12, 2014
To expand its business, Gogobot has raised $20 million in Series C financing led by HomeAway, and the vacation rental company’s CEO Brian Sharples will be joining Gogobot’s board of…
Samsung’s Gear VR Headset Will Cost $200, Ship In Early December
3:39 pm PST • November 12, 2014
Remember the Gear VR, Samsung’s Oculus-inspired virtual reality headset? Rather than plugging the headset into a computer or console, you’d slip a phone (just the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, for…
Oculus VR has been working with Samsung to make mobile virtual reality a reality, and just today Samsung detailed launch information for the Gear VR Innovator Edition for its Galaxy…
