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Checkr Snags $9 Million From Accel To Provide An API For Background Checks
4:30 am PDT • October 14, 2014
Checkr offers a service that simplifies the mostly manual process of requesting background checks and makes it easy to integrate into a company’s existing onboarding workflow. The company has raised…
Startups
Drop Gets Its First $2 Million In Seed To Prep For More Products To Come
4:00 am PDT • October 14, 2014
Drop, the startup that hopes to turn anyone into the perfect chef using an iPad-connected digital baking scale, has raised $2 million in cash. The round, led by Frontline Ventures…
Security
[Updated] Anonabox Delivers Plug-And-Play Privacy For All Your Web Traffic
3:34 am PDT • October 14, 2014
Anonabox is an open source plug and play hardware router designed to encrypt and route all the users’ web traffic via the Tor anonymizing network, so their browsing and location…
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Wearable World, best known as the San Francisco-based conference and media site, is to launch what it claims is the first ever purely wearable technology accelerator and incubator programme in…
Security
Dropbox Confirms Compromised Account Details But Says Its Servers Weren’t Hacked
12:57 am PDT • October 14, 2014
After last week’s Snapchat photo hack, it’s cloud storage provider Dropbox’s turn in the unsavory insecurity spotlight. An anonymous Pastebin user has claimed to have compromised almost seven million Dropbox…
Three years ago, a few months after the Arab Spring demonstrations forced a collapse in the Egyptian government, twenty-year-old Marwan Roushdy spontaneously entered a Startup Weekend competition in Cairo and…
US Government Says No Single Entity Or Nation Will Control The Internet
5:51 pm PDT • October 13, 2014
The U.S. reiterated its stance in favor of a multistakeholder model for Internet governance today. Speaking before the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), U.S. Secretary of Commerce…
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, the man Newsweek claimed was the mysterious founder of Bitcoin, has created a web page asking for donations in his fight to sue the magazine after he…
Media & Entertainment
Popcorn Time Finds A New Home After The EURid Pulled Its Domain
5:03 pm PDT • October 13, 2014
When your product streams pirated content, it’s safe to expect some complications along the way. The Time4Popcorn fork of the popular Popcorn Time project recently had to find a new…
Good news! Anki Drive works with Android. Bad news! It only works with a few Android devices. This update comes just in time for the holiday shopping season. Since its…
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai Urges Girls To Participate In Code.org’s Hour Of Code
2:31 pm PDT • October 13, 2014
Young Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has thrown in her support for Code.org’s Hour of Code program to get young women and girls into computer science.
Flickr Now Lets You Turn Your Photos Into Wall Art
1:09 pm PDT • October 13, 2014
Flickr as of late has been making moves to compete with newer startups, like 500px for example, which cater to professional photographers. This summer, it announced a licensing program to…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook Stickers Are Now Available In Comments On Timelines, Groups And Events
12:41 pm PDT • October 13, 2014
Facebook Stickers – the cute, cartoonish images Facebook Messenger users take advantage of to spice up their conversations – are now rolling out to a wider audience. Facebook announced today…
Enterprise
Microsoft And Salesforce Promise Windows, Office And OneDrive Integration
12:30 pm PDT • October 13, 2014
It turns out that Microsoft and Salesforce were serious when the two firms detailed a plan to integrate their products earlier this year. Today at the Dreamforce conference, the companies…
Hardware
Flight Attendants Union Sues The FAA Over Use Of Electronics In Flight
12:10 pm PDT • October 13, 2014
About a year ago, the FAA gloriously adjusted their guidance regarding the use of portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing. For the first time in years, travelers could boldly…
Startups
Former Millennial Media Exec Marcus Startzel Is The New CEO At Ad Attribution Startup MediaGlu
11:56 am PDT • October 13, 2014
Marcus Startzel has held some big roles at big companies — he was most recently the chief revenue officer at Millennial Media, a mobile advertising company that went public a…
Media & Entertainment
For Two New Apps Called “Push” And “Drop,” The Push Notification Is The App
11:32 am PDT • October 13, 2014
Two new applications, Drop and Push, want to save you from having to download multiple news apps or browse dozens of websites just to keep up with the topics that…
We’ve Got Questions For Tim Armstrong At Disrupt Europe
11:16 am PDT • October 13, 2014
Yes, we’ve invited our boss to our conference, but he has a lot to say for himself. I mean, we too want to know if Aol, and by transitive property…
Microsoft announced this morning that it crossed the 1 million tester mark for the technical preview of its Windows 10 operating system. I had expected a higher number would opt…
Apple has a second big event planned for this fall, and it’s happening this Thursday, Oct. 16 at its own Town Hall theater in Cupertino. The event promises to deliver…
