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The Huawei Watch Brings Serious Style To Android Wear
A somewhat unlikely suspect might just have revealed the best-looking Android Wear-powered device: The Huawei Watch, from the gadget-maker of the same name, made its official debut on stage today at Mobile World Congress, and it’s easily one of the best looking devices ever to sport Google’s wearable software platform. The Huawei watch has a 286 PPI 1.4-inch AMOLED display, with a… Read More
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Bargain Hunt For Tech Amid The Wreck Of Russia’s Economy
Editor’s Note: Jeni Mayorskaya is an entrepreneur working in product management and business development with tech companies in the USA, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Russia and Europe; Kirill Belov is an angel investor, mentor and managing partner in Impulse VC based in Moscow. Over the last 6 months, Russia’s image as a lucrative investment target has been wrecked along… Read More
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Toward Our 3D Future
If the past couple of years have been about one theme for me investment-wise, they have been about exploring the bridge between bits and atoms with a series of bets aimed to make a path between the digital world and the physical one we populate. And no, I am not talking about ordering a pizza from my smartphone or getting a maid-on-demand to come clean my house within an hour, but rather… Read More
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Tinder Plus Will Launch On Monday
Tinder Plus, the dating app’s first step into the wonderful world of freemium monetization, will launch on Monday for $9.99, according to sources familiar with the matter. Tinder Plus includes at least one highly requested feature and a few others that are meant to add broader functionality to the service, which essentially boils down the usual online dating experience into a simple… Read More
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A Brief History Of Yik Yak
Yik Yak, launched back in fall of 2013, isn’t even two years old. And still, the anonymous, location-based messaging app is available on almost any campus in the United States and has raised more than $73 million to date. But how did they go from two college guys in South Carolina to being the tech sweetheart of the South? Read More
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TC Makers: We Sample The Goods At The Dogfish Head Brewery
Beer is my favorite food. That means I was especially excited to be able to visit the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, DE, a palace dedicated to the production of some of the nicest beers around. Sam Calagione, founder of the company, wanted to make weird beers at his restaurant on the beach. As he got better – and bolder – he began experimenting with all sorts of amazing… Read More
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The WebRTC Race Begins Today
As recently as 2012, it seemed that Web Real-Time Communication, or WebRTC, was so clandestine that the technology was a skunk works project, hidden in a back office somewhere in Silicon Valley. It is now an emerging standard of web communication which makes high definition, high resolution, low bandwidth video, audio, chat and peer to peer data transfer as simple as a single browser link. Read More
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Gillmor Gang: Temporary Filling
The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include Microsoft squeezing Facebook and Google messaging out, or did they says John Taschek? Also Google making everything but money on Android; does it all add up to the new Search? And the chat room fears House of Cards will Eat your Weekend. Plus, the latest G3. @stevegillmor, @jtaschek, @kteare… Read More
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Trying To Hire A Diverse Team Of Engineers? It’s Not Just A Pipeline Issue
Recently, there have been a flurry of articles discussing the lack of diversity in tech. Many reference “pipeline” issues as justification for the low numbers. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, blacks and Hispanics collectively make up approximately 18 percent of U.S. computer science graduates, yet Facebook, Yahoo, and LinkedIn are between 8 to 11… Read More
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Why Greece Should Not Switch To Bitcoin
In some discussions about Greece exiting the euro, it has been suggested that Greece should swap the euro for bitcoin. At first glance, bitcoin may appear to be the cure. But if the euro is the problem, switching to Bitcoin would be like trying to cure a headache with a bullet to the brain. Read More
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Beware The Pretty People
The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked; needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again. People who existed a little apart from society’s established hierarchy … and often saw that hierarchy as another machine to be deconstructed and improved. Read More
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White House Drops ‘Consumer Privacy Bill Of Rights Act’ Draft
In a late-Friday release, the White House published a draft of its proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. You can read the full text here. The bill sets out to, in its own words, “establish baseline protections for individual privacy in the commercial arena and to foster timely, flexible implementations of these protections through enforceable codes of conduct developed by diverse… Read More
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Airbnb Is Raising A Monster Round At A $20B Valuation
Airbnb — the platform that lets travellers book private spare rooms and entire homes as an alternative to traditional hotels — is doing some booking of its own. Airbnb is in the process of raising another round of funding that will value it at $20 billion, according to sources familiar with the situation. Read More
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Early YC Alums Rethink The College Summer Internship With New Program For Students
The summer internship isn’t about grabbing coffee anymore. A handful of early Y Combinator alums are testing a new type of summer program where they will give $10,000 to four or five teams this summer to build products. Called the Summer Founders program, its first site is at Pennsylvania State University, where Xobni and Sincerely founder Matt Brezina got his undergraduate degree. About… Read More
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No, Magic Can’t Deliver A Tiger
Earlier this week, as Re/Code’s Jason Del Rey was trying to procure a chicken parmesan via text, we were trying to procure a tiger via text. “You want a tiger delivered? Just text the details and Magic’s got you covered,” read the lede of the VentureBeat article about nascent on-demand startup Magic. Read More
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NSA Bulk Telephony Metadata Program Reupped Until Parts Of The Patriot Act Potentially Sunset
In a post on its official Tumblr, the United States’ Office of the Director of National Intelligence noted that it sought and received a reauthorization of its telephony metadata program, authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The reauthorization lasts until June 1, 2015. Read More
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Uber Database Breach Exposed Information Of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms
Uber announced today that its database was breached by an unauthorized third party last year. The company confirmed the breach in a company blog post published this afternoon, authored by Uber’s managing counsel of data private Katherine Tassi. The breach, which occurred on May 13 2014, revealed the names and license plate numbers of approximately 50,000 drivers across various states. Read More
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Startup Lessons From My Screenwriter Life, Part 2: Movie Sets
This is the second post in a two-part series on the lessons I learned as a filmmaker that have value in my life as a startup founder and CEO at Vsnap. In the first post, I covered stuff that comes up before you go into production. In this post, I will discuss how a few of my lessons learned on sets apply to startup life. Read More
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LoveCrafts
- $7.5M Series A
- HQ: London
- Categories: E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Quo Nightlife App
- $165K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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TryLately
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: SaaS, Brand Marketing, Project Management, DIY
- Investors: Not available
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Silent Circle
- $50M Venture
- HQ: National Harbor, MD
- Categories: Security
- Investors: Not available
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Sqore
- $3.5M Venture
- HQ: Stockholm
- Categories: EdTech, Skill Assessment, Certification Test, College Recruiting, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Bondora
- 4.5M EUR Series A
- HQ: Tallinn
- Categories: Consumer Lending, Finance
- Investors: Not available
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Sols
- $11M Series B
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Curated Web, Fashion, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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Pasiv
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Glowforge
- $1.3M Seed
- HQ: Seattle, WA
- Categories: Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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BeaconsInSpace
- $190K Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Marketplaces, Internet of Things
- Investors: Not available
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DataStreamX
- $368K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Marketplaces, Real Time, Data Visualization
- Investors: Not available
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Nfoshare
- Not available Angel
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Human Resources
- Investors: Not available
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Neumob
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
- Categories: Software, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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Bionic Labs
- $6.2M Venture
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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YesGraph
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA
- Categories: Analytics, Developer APIs, Enterprise Software, Social Recruiting, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Volt
- Not available Grant
- HQ: Istanbul
- Categories: Consumer Internet, Transportation, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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9Lenses
- $3.1M Series A
- HQ: Sterling, VA
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Business Analytics, Software, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
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Headway Workforce Solutions
- $1.5M Venture
- HQ: Raleigh
- Categories: Staffing Firms
- Investors: Not available
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ChartSpan Medical Technologies
- $1.7M Series A
- HQ: Greenville, SC
- Categories: Mobile Health, Health Care, Doctors, Software
- Investors: Not available
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tibdit
- Not available Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Southwark
- Categories: Finance, Incentives, Publishing, Monetization
- Investors: Not available
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MICE Industries Inc.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Wooster, OH
- Categories: Business Development
- Investors: Not available
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Construct-Ed, Inc.
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Quakertown, PA
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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BioRestorative Therapies
- $4.3M Venture
- HQ: Jupiter, FL
- Categories: Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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Transcend Medical
- $29M Series C
- HQ: Menlo Park, CA
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Retrotope
- $10M Venture
- HQ: Los Altos Hills, CA
- Categories: Health Care, Health Care Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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BlueVox
- $410K Seed
- HQ: Henderson, NV
- Categories: Telecommunications, Information Services, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Kobalt
- $60M Series C
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Independent Music Labels, Technology, Music Services, Digital Rights ... See More
- Investors: Google Ventures, Michael Dell
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Nasty Gal
- $16M Series C
- HQ: Los Angeles, CA
- Categories: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
- Investors: Index Ventures, Ron Johnson
