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Today, there are a number of ways to shop from your mobile phone ranging from big companies like Amazon and eBay down to individual e-commerce retailers. But a new application called Reissued,…
Google Gets New Requests To Be ‘Forgotten’ Following Ruling, Plans Request Mechanism For Germany
6:39 am PDT • May 15, 2014
Google has already started to see a stream of new requests to be digitally “forgotten,” following a ruling by the European Court of Justice on a complaint by a Spanish…
Startups
OhMiBod’s New Remote App Will Let You Pleasure Your Partner No Matter The Distance
6:38 am PDT • May 15, 2014
Long-distance is where it’s at for sex toy makers, and though OhMiBod was one of the first in the industry to deliver app-compatible vibrators, the implementation didn’t allow truly long-distance…
In the age of social media and endless baby photos clogging up your Facebook feed, Dutch startup Famatic is another attempt at a hardware/software combination to help seniors — or…
A Mash Note To George Lucas’ Museum, Signed By M.C. Hammer (And Tech Leaders, Too)
6:00 am PDT • May 15, 2014
In an effort to keep the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum in San Francisco (and out of Chicago), advocacy group sf.citi (San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation) will publish…
BillGuard Launches Its Personal Finance App On Android And Adds Data Breach Alerts
6:00 am PDT • May 15, 2014
BillGuard is expanding its reach with the launch of an Android app, and also adding a new feature that will alert users when their cards have been affected by a…
Media & Entertainment
Apple Patents Photo Backgrounds To Help You Remember Who You’re Texting With
5:33 am PDT • May 15, 2014
Apple has a new patent application published by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) that makes it easier to remember who you’re texting. This could help alleviate the incredibly painful SMS fails…
Hardware
Hey First World Folk, Kangaroo Light Wants To Help You Find Stuff In Your Bag
5:33 am PDT • May 15, 2014
Meet the Kangeroo Light, the latest Kickstarter project from the off-the-wall design studio that created the Ostrich Pillow. This time around they’re cooking up a portable, rechargeable, touch-sensitive gizmo to…
G2 Crowd Raises $2.3 Million To Challenge Gartner
5:30 am PDT • May 15, 2014
With an eye on capturing some of Gartner’s $6.28 billion market cap, the crowd sourced software review service G2 Crowd has raised $2.3 million in its first institutional round of…
Photos Of NSA’s Bug-Injecting Workshop Show The Banality Of Surveillance
5:28 am PDT • May 15, 2014
The photo above, released to coincide with Glenn Greenwald’s new book No Place To Hide, depicts the TOA – the Tailored Access Operations – division at the NSA where busy…
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Netskope Brings In $35 Million More As Cloud Security Competition Heats Up
5:00 am PDT • May 15, 2014
When it comes to understanding the profusion of applications employees are using to conduct business, IT departments are increasingly lost in the cloud. Over the past several years a number…
Pantheon Raises $21.5M Series B Round To Expand Its Website Platform
4:30 am PDT • May 15, 2014
Pantheonwp_front_promo, which currently offers a professional hosting solution for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it has raised a $21.5 million Series B funding round led by Rory O’Driscoll…
HTC is making good on its pledge to expand its range of mid-tier smartphones with the launch today of a new handset called the HTC One Mini 2. It’s the strategy…
Hardware
China’s Fast-Growing Android Phone Maker, Xiaomi, Launches An iPad Mini Competitor
2:00 am PDT • May 15, 2014
China’s Xiaomi has announced its first tablet, expanding a device portfolio that has been focused on selling lots of smartphones running its MIUI Android firmware. The announcement confirms earlier rumours…
Hardware
Google Glass Aims To Entice Travelers With New TripIt, Foursquare, And OpenTable Integrations
9:01 pm PDT • May 14, 2014
A day after Google announced that it will sell Google Glass to anyone in the United States, the company is unveiling some new “Glassware” (basically, Google Glass apps) that’s supposed…
OpenDNS Raises $35M From Cisco For Its Cloud-Based Enterprise Network Security As A Service
9:00 pm PDT • May 14, 2014
Cloud-based enterprise network security company OpenDNS has raised $35 million in Series C funding from Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Glynn Capital, Cisco, Evolution Equity, Lumia Capital, Mohr…
Media & Entertainment
Now Processing $2B Annually, Swipely Adds Support For Multi-Location Businesses
9:00 pm PDT • May 14, 2014
Swipely, a company that helps physical merchants collect credit card payments and market to their customers, now processes $2 billion in annual sales for its customers, it told TechCrunch. The…
Startups
Monk’s Hill Ventures Launches $80M Early-Stage Fund For Asian Startups
6:00 pm PDT • May 14, 2014
Though there are many promising startup ecosystems in Asia, founders there have to cope with a lack of venture capital funding and mentorship. Monk’s Hill Ventures hopes to address those…
There’s An Upcoming TV Show Called Selfie And I Hate Everything About It
5:37 pm PDT • May 14, 2014
Aspiring TV Showrunner: So, have you heard about these things called “selfies”? ABC Executive: What? No. Showrunner: Didn’t you watch the Oscars? Executive: Are you kidding me? That thing’s like…
Comcast Wants To Put Data Caps On All Customers Within 5 Years
4:22 pm PDT • May 14, 2014
If you’re a Comcast customer living in one of the many states where they’ve imposed no real limits on bandwidth usage for the last few years… enjoy it while it…
