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Can the security community grow up?
As the times change, the security community needs to adapt. We live in an imperfect world, as Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer of Facebook pointed out in his recent BlackHat 2017 keynote address. Instead of trying to punish each other, hackers and innovators need to work closely to ensure a higher order. Other security thought leaders have echoed similar sentiments. Amit… Read More
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Ripcord’s $40 million Series B will pay for more file digitizing robots and human jobs
Bay Area startup Ripcord just scored a $40 million Series B, following its successful launch earlier this year. By all accounts, the company has apparently hit the ground running with its decidedly unsexy goal of using robots to digitize paper records for large corporations and organizations. According to CEO Alex Fielding, Ripcord already has a number of Fortune 100 companies on board… Read More
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Teen bitcoin millionaire Erik Finman is launching Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ into space
Erik Finman made headlines earlier this summer for becoming a bitcoin millionaire at the tender age of 18. He now tells TechCrunch he’s working on a project with NASA to launch a mini satellite into space with the recordings of regular folks, tech leaders and top artists — including pop idol Taylor Swift. The launch is in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Carl… Read More
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Skype’s much-debated redesign hits the desktop
In June, Microsoft introduced a completely revamped version of its Skype app, designed with a heavier focus on media-sharing, and other social expression tools, like emoji, reactions, and even a Snapchat-like stories feature. Now that new experience is rolling out to desktop users, but in a more limited fashion, Microsoft announced this morning. The new desktop app introduces an updated… Read More
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Amazon opens up access to developer tools for adding Alexa to commercial products
Amazon wants to make its virtual assistant Alexa available on more devices, instead of just its own hardware. To that end, the company today is broadly opening up access to developer tools that will allow commercial device makers to build products powered by Alexa. With the launch of the Alexa Voice Service Device SDK toolset, companies can add a fully functional version of Alexa to their… Read More
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Essential Phone now available to order, ships soon to pre-sale customers
The Essential Phone has arrived, a bit later than originally announced. The first smartphone from the new company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin is now available to order, via Essential’s own site, Best Buy, and Sprint. The phone is still listed as a pre-order in all three spots, with shipping information to be conveyed later, but this is the closest people have been able to get… Read More
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Applications for betaworks’ newest accelerator, Visioncamp, open September 6
On the heels of formally announcing betaworks ventures, the startup shop is today introducing its third ‘camp’. betaworks Visioncamp is the latest accelerator-style program out of betaworks, and will focus on ‘camera-first’ applications and services, including augmented reality and computer vision. The program will include mentorship from the leadership at betaworks… Read More
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CoreOS’s Tectonic container platform gets full support for Microsoft Azure
CoreOS today announced the general availability of Microsoft Azure support for its Kubernetes-based Tectonic container management platform. It previously only fully supported container deployments on bare metal servers and AWS. Beta support for Azure launched in March and with this new release, Tectonic now offers hybrid support for multi-cloud deployments across its three supported… Read More
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Alibaba leads $1.1B investment in Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Tokopedia
Alibaba has continued its push into Southeast Asia after it led a $1.1 billion investment in Tokopedia, an e-commerce firm based in Indonesia. A valuation for the deal was not announced, but the companies did say that Alibaba has become a minority shareholder. Tokopedia, which was founded in 2009, operates a marketplace that allows small retailers and large brands to sell to consumers in… Read More
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Codacy, a platform that helps developers check the quality of their code, raises $5.1M
Codacy, a startup based in Lisbon, Portugal that offers what it calls an “automated code review platform,” has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. EQT Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Faber, Caixa Capital, Join Capital, and Seedcamp. Read More
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Alibaba’s profit doubles to $2.1B after another huge quarter of business
Alibaba had another blockbuster quarter of business as its profits almost doubled. The Chinese e-commerce giant reported net profit of 14 billion RMB ($2.1 billion) for its recent quarter that finished June 30 — that’s up 96 percent year-on-year. Total revenue grew 56 percent to reach 50.2 billion CNY ($7.4 billion), easily exceeding estimates, with the firm reporting 466… Read More
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Android newbie HMD’s Nokia 8 flagship lets you livestream ‘frontbacks’
Rebooting the venerable Nokia smartphone brand has not been a rush job for HMD Global, the Foxconn-backed company set up for the purpose of licensing the Nokia name to try to revive the brand’s fortunes on smartphones. But after starting with basic and mid-tier phones, it’s finally outted a flagship Android handset. Read More
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Google is testing a data-friendly version of its Search app
Google might soon release a data-friendly version of its search app for mobile. That’s because the company is currently piloting such an app in Indonesia, as the eagle-eyed team at Android Police first spotted. “Search Lite” — which TechCrunch understands is not the name of the app, but it is certainly an accurate description of it — is essentially a modified… Read More
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Digi.me and Personal merge to put you in control of the nascent ‘personal data ecosystem’
Digi.me and Personal, two companies that broadly play in the personal data space by offering apps to securely store and share various data about yourself, are announcing a merger. Terms of deal remain undisclosed. Read More
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Nielsen announces new division to measure esports sponsorships
Another sign that e-sports are turning into a big business: Nielsen is launching a new division focused providing research and consulting to the industry. The measurement firm already has a unit focused on gaming — in fact, Nicole Pike, Nielsen’s vice president of gaming, said Nielsen Esports was created in response to growing interest from the firm’s gaming clients. One of… Read More
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Uber’s new head of Asia is a former Goldman exec who once climbed Mount Everest
Regular run-ins with government regulators and battles with well-funded local rivals have made Asia challenging terrain for Uber. The challenge is such that it’s fitting that the U.S. ride-sharing giant has hired a man who once scaled the summit of Mount Everest to lead its business in the region. Brooks Entwistle, a former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia, was announced today… Read More
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Tim Cook ‘disagrees’ with Donald Trump’s response to Charlottesville violence
Apple CEO Tim Cook has criticized U.S. President Trump’s reaction to the violent events that took place over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one woman dead. “I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights. Equating the two… Read More
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Startup initiatives from Down Under may offer inspiration to the failing US Postal Service
Earlier this week, the US Postal Service reported another dismal quarter of financial results. It’s the latest in a string of bad news for a national service that has been in slow decline since private carriers began emerging to challenge its dominance in the marketplace, and email rendered the written letter all but obsolete. According to a report from ABC News the Postal Service last… Read More
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Crunch Report | Apple Spending $1 Billion on Original Content
Apple is spending $1 billion to acquire original content, Workday acquires Pattern, Google Home now lets you make free phone calls and Andrew Ng is starting an AI fund. All this on Crunch Report! Read More
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Atlas Venture
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- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: pharmaceutical, biotechnology, health care
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Investcorp
- $0K
- HQ: Manama, Al Manamah
- Categories: financial services
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Color Genomics
- $52M
- HQ: Burlingame, California
- Categories: genetics, product design, machine learning, biotechnology
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VividCortex
- $8.5M
- HQ: Charlottesville, Virginia
- Categories: it management, analytics, enterprise software, application performance ... See More
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Kingo
- $8.0M
- HQ: Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Categories: energy efficiency, solar, renewable energy
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Codacy
- $5.1M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: developer tools, saas, software, b2b
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SafeTrek
- $2.5M
- HQ: St Louis, Missouri
- Categories: apps, mobile, security
- Investors: Not available
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Takeout Kit
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- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: e-commerce, food and beverage, food delivery
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Atreca
- $35M
- HQ: San Carlos, California
- Categories: biotechnology, health care, therapeutics
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DuPage Medical Group
- $1.4B
- HQ: Downers Grove, Illinois
- Categories: medical, hospital, health care
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Artemis Health
- $16M
- HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah
- Categories: analytics, data visualization, health care
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BotsAndUs Ltd
- 100K GBP
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: robotics, machine learning, retail technology, retail, artificial ... See More
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Electric Jukebox
- $14M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: music streaming, consumer electronics, music
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MedAware
- $8.0M
- HQ: Ra'anana, HaMerkaz
- Categories: analytics, health care, big data
- Investors: Not available
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Intec Pharma
- $58M
- HQ: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim
- Categories: biotechnology
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Tailored.to
- $900K
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: digital marketing, digital media, advertising platforms
- Investors: Not available
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Kiadis Pharma
- 15M EUR
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: biopharma, biotechnology, pharmaceutical
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Options Technology
- $100M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: financial services
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seedtag
- 2.0M EUR
- HQ: Madrid, Madrid
- Categories: paas, photo sharing, advertising
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Silentmode Sdn. Bhd.
- $582K
- HQ: Selangor, Selangor
- Categories: software, food and beverage
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Axol Bioscience Ltd.
- 2.5M GBP
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: biotechnology, medical, biopharma
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Simpl
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- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: fintech, payments
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Phil, Inc.
- $10M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: health care, medical, medical device
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RescueDose
- $2.5M
- HQ: Haifa, Hefa
- Categories: health care, robotics, medical device
- Investors: Not available
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Respond Software
- $12M
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: cyber security, information technology, software
- Investors: Not available
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for; to (do) Centers
- Not available
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: customer service, cloud computing, shipping, logistics
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Resolve
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- HQ: Melbourne, Victoria
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SQand
- $500K
- HQ: Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Netology Group
- $20M
- HQ: Moscow, Moscow City
- Categories: career planning, education, internet
- Investors: Not available
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Unisound
- 300M CNY
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: cloud data services, natural language processing, speech recognition
- Investors: Not available
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