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Streetwear marketplace Bump raises $7.5M
Bump, the Y Combinator-backed marketplace for streetwear, is announcing that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. Bump’s Jack Ryder told me that even before starting the company, he a
Daily Crunch: Meet the new CEO of Google Cloud
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Restaurant website builder BentoBox raises $16.4M
BentoBox, which helps restaurant owners build mobile-friendly websites, has raised $16.4 million in Series B funding. This might not seem like the biggest opportunity, particularly because consumers a
Daily Crunch: China considers Bitcoin mining ban
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Dote raises $12M and introduces live-streamed Shopping Parties
Mobile shopping startup Dote is announcing $12 million in new funding, as well as a new feature called Shopping Party. Founder and CEO Lauren Farleigh said her initial goal was to create “a trul
Daily Crunch: Pinterest sets IPO range
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Gizmodo Media Group acquired by private equity firm Great Hill Partners
Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion have a new owner — private equity firm Great Hill Partners. As part of the deal, digital media executive Jim Spanfeller is becoming CEO of (and an investor in) the
VSCO sues PicsArt over photo filters that were allegedly reverse engineered
Photo-editing app-maker VSCO has filed a lawsuit against competitor PicsArt. The suit focuses on 19 PicsArt filters that were supposedly “reverse engineered from VSCO’s filters,” with VS
Daily Crunch: The corporate fallout of the Bezos divorce
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Lotame pitches an ‘unstacked’ approach to selling data tools
Lotame is unveiling what it says is a new approach to the data management business, with what it calls an “unstacked” strategy. Adam Solomon, a former Time Inc. and Viacom executive who r
Mayor Bill de Blasio weighs in on BuzzFeed union dispute
An apparent breakdown in talks between BuzzFeed management and the company’s newsroom union spurred expressions of solidarity from other unions — and even from New York City Mayor Bill de Blas
John Cho will lead Netflix’s live-action version of ‘Cowboy Bebop’
A live-action version of the anime series “Cowboy Bebop” has been in and out of development for years, but it looks like Netflix is actually going to make it a reality. The streaming servi
Daily Crunch: Apple cuts HomePod prices
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Daily Crunch: The lonely death of Google+
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Scribd kicks off its original content initiative with a book about Robert Mueller
Scribd is moving into the original content business with the release of “Mueller’s War,” a book by journalist Garrett Graff looking at the prosecutor’s time as a marine in the
BuzzFeed teams up with Eko to create interactive recipes and other videos
BuzzFeed and Eko have been working together to create a wide range of interactive videos, which they began launching in the past week or so — starting with this Tasty potato recipe that allows you t
DOJ reportedly warns Academy about changing Oscar rules to exclude streaming
It seems that the Department of Justice has thoughts on whether Netflix movies should be eligible for Oscars. Variety reports that the DOJ has sent the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences a le
Daily Crunch: Walmart partners with Google (again)
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Original Content podcast: ‘The Inventor’ offers a compelling overview of the Theranos saga
The story of how blood testing company Theranos rose to prominence, then collapsed following accusations of fraud, is getting told and retold in many forms: There’s reporter John Carreyrou̵
Daily Crunch: Lyft debuts on Nasdaq
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