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Sentons launches SurfaceWave, a processor and tech to create software-defined surfaces that supercharge touch and gesture
As handset makers continue to work on ways of making smartphones more streamlined and sleek, while at the same time introducing new features that will get people buying more devices, a startup that is
Evervault raises $3.2M from Sequoia, Kleiner for an API to build apps with privacy baked in
Data privacy for apps is typically part of the purview of compliance teams — a model that isn’t always perfect, judging by the number of breaches and the extensive regulation that’s
LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with around 650 million users, is known best as a place where people connect with each other online either to build work connections,
Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others
Algolia, one of the group of startups that provides search as a service for websites and apps as an alternative to Google and other search engines, is announcing a major round of funding today to fuel
Level Home emerges from stealth with $71M from Walmart and Lennar and a new take on the smart lock
As companies like Google, Amazon and Apple hone their strategies to build the brain that helps you use the smart home of the future, where a new wave of internet-enabled appliances, climate and securi
GoFundMe launches free platform for nonprofits and charities, rolls out button to donate anywhere
GoFundMe has made its name primarily as a platform for individuals to create fundraisers for personal causes — a service that has seen hundreds of campaigns go viral through social media to rais
Confirmed: Nike has picked up Russell Wilson’s Tally/TraceMe in a rare acquisition
Nike has long been synonymous with premium sneakers and other sports gear, but now the company could be extending its brand into another area — digital media — thanks to the rumored acquis
Descartes Labs snaps up $20M more for its AI-based geospatial imagery analytics platform
Satellite imagery holds a wealth of information that could be useful for industries, science and humanitarian causes, but one big and persistent challenge with it has been a lack of effective ways to
Grammarly raises $90M at over $1B+ valuation for its AI-based grammar and writing tools
While attention continues to be focused on the rise and growing sophistication of voice-based interfaces, a startup that is using artificial intelligence to improve how we communicate through the writ
Sources: Lilium is looking to raise up to $500M for its electric flying taxis
“Flying cars” — airborne vehicles designed for urban and other short-distance commutes to replace conventional private automobiles — are (at best) still years away from being a
Facebook’s Workplace hits 3M paying users, launches Portal app in a wider push for video
The rapid rise of Slack — which has recently broken the 100,000 mark for paying businesses using its service — has ushered in a rush of competition from other companies across the worlds o
Forward Networks raises $35M to help enterprises map, track and predict their networks’ behavior
Security breaches and other activities that cause network surges and outages are all on the rise in the enterprise, and today, a startup called Forward Networks, which has built a clever way to help b
With a possible Apple tag waiting in the wings, Tile unveils Sticker, an adhesive device for tracking objects
We are still waiting to see if Apple officially unveils a new spin on the business of tracking tags — the small devices that you put on “dumb” objects like keys, wallets and other ob
Berlin’s Tier Mobility scoops up $60M as its scooter-based transportation service passes 10M rides
On the heels of Bird closing a $275 million round to help put itself in pole position in the electric scooter market, a smaller European rival has also raised some money to grow its own business. Tier
PayPal is the first company to drop out of the Facebook-led Libra Association
PayPal has become the first company to walk away officially from Facebook’s Libra, a cryptocurrency and related association that it announced earlier this year with a chain of nearly 30 big nam
Zola, the $650M wedding portal, taps the travel market with an expansion into honeymoons
The wedding industry is estimated to be worth some $100 billion in the U.S. alone, and now one of the fastest-growing companies in that space — the wedding planning site Zola — is making a
IronSource, a mobile adtech startup, confirms $400M+ raise at $1B+ valuation
On the same day that two Israeli-founded adtech startups, Taboola and Outbrain, announced a merger to create a $2 billion company, another Israel-founded company focusing on advertising and marketing
Publisher adtech startups Taboola and Outbrain merge in $850M deal to take on Google and Facebook
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of advertising. Taboola and Outbrain, rivals that both operate advertising-based content recommendation engines for publishers — which typically appear i
Snaplogic raises $72M more for its enterprise data integration platform
Cloud services and the adoption of apps that rely on them continue to grow in popularity, but a persistent theme in enterprise technology has been that a lot of organizations still continue to use leg
Bad news: Facebook leads in news consumption among social feeds, but most don’t trust it, says Pew
As Facebook prepares to launch a “news tab” this month featuring news stories curated by humans to complement the headlines that appear in your social feed generated by your friends’