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Chromebooks Could Soon Be Unlocked Automatically When Your Smartphone Is Near
Passwords, geez those things suck. You may not need them to login to your computer in the future, and Chromebooks might be the first PC device to offer that feature natively, according to some hints found in the developer preview channel of Chrome OS by Android Police (via 9to5Google). Early code included in the latest build suggests there will one day be a way to unlock your Chromebook just by… Read More
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Weibo Spikes 19.06% In Its Debut
This morning Weibo went public, offering fewer shares than previously expected, though the bloc was priced at $17, in line with yesterday's reporting. Read More
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Zola Debuts Its iPhone App To Allow Couples To Manage Their Wedding Registries On The Go
Zola, the new wedding registry startup emerging from Gilt And AlleyCorp founder Kevin Ryan, has launched an iPhone app to allow couples to create and manage their Zola registries from anywhere. Zola, led by former Gilt employees Shan-Lyn Ma and Nobu Nakaguchi, is trying to reimagine the wedding registry for couples. It's part content, part Pinterest-like inspiration sharing, and part wish… Read More
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Sonos Wants To Ditch Its Only Annoying Shortcoming
Sonos has often been praised for its minimalist setup. Power up a couple speakers in different rooms, open the smartphone app, and boom — wireless sound around your house... right? Mostly. There's one tiny asterisk in there that tends to get forgotten: one of the speakers needs to be wired into your router to act as the brain of the operations. Now Sonos wants to drop that requirement. Read More
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Is Winter Coming? Hear More From Our All-Star Investor Panel At Disrupt NY
VC money in the U.S is at its highest level since 2001, and valuations are soaring. The question on everyone's mind is, are we in a bubble? Read More
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Six Months After Acquisition, Magnify Rebrands And Relaunches As Waywire
Last fall, Magnify acquired Waywire in an effort to create more efficiency around video curation. The idea behind the acquisition was to combine the former's enterprise video curation business with the latter's content deals and consumer-facing technology. Read More
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Putting The Many Pieces Back Together After The Death Of Your Co-Founder
Sébastien Métrot shared a tough story today at FailCon France at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance — he co-founded Yasound in 2011 with CEO Jean-Marc Plueger, who died in a scooter accident in 2012. But It wasn’t just an accident, Métrot said Plueger’s terrible work/life balance was a contributing factor. Today’s interview was Métrot’s tribute to his… Read More
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Behold, Murdoculous Rift
Pics of moguls wearing Oculus Rift headsets are the new pics of moguls with rappers. And who better to start the trend than media mogul and avid tweeter Rupert Murdoch? According to the fantastic Tumblr "Murdoch Here," Murdoch spent yesterday at NY computer graphics studio Framestore with pals Paul Cheesbrough, former NYC Chancellor of Education Joel Klein and 21st Century Fox chief of staff… Read More
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TaxiForSure.com
- Size $10M
- Round B
- Investors Bessemer Venture Partners
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Wellcentive
- Size $12M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Summit Partners
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Turbina Energy AG
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors eCapital Advisors
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EngTechNow
- Size $3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Tokyo Otaku Mode
- Size $2.6M
- Round A
- Investors 500 Startups, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Itochu Technology Ventures, GaiaX ... See More
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Inbenta
- Size $2M
- Round A
- Investors Not available
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IHS Holding
- Size $130M
- Round Private_equity
- Investors Goldman Sachs
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Lezhin Entertainment
- Size $4.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors NcSoft
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ColdLight Solutions
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Intel Capital
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Inbenta Semantic Search
- Size $2M
- Round A
- Investors Amu00e9rigo Chile Early Stage and Growth
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One Medical Group
- Size $40M
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SpringCM
- Size $18M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Foundation Capital, Square 1 Bank, Goff Capital
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Miret Surgical
- Size $664K
- Round A
- Investors Not available
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Intelligent InSites
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Health Insight Capital
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Dub Labs
- Size $55K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Work4
- Size $7M
- Round B
- Investors Serena Capital, Matrix Partners
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Citymapper Limited
- Size $10M
- Round A
- Investors Balderton Capital, Connect Ventures, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners
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Beckon, Inc.
- Size $8M
- Round A
- Investors Canaan Partners, August Capital, El Dorado Ventures
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Lending Club
- Size $65M
- Round Private_equity
- Investors T. Rowe Price, Wellington Managment, BlackRock, Sands Capital Ventures
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Lending Club
- Size $50M
- Round Debt_round
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Enplug
- Size $2.5M
- Round Seed
- Investors Oaktree Capital Management, Rasoul Oskouy, Hossein Eslambolchi, Justin ... See More
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Urgent.ly
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors CIT GAP Funds
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Zafgen
- Size $20M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors MidCap Financial, Oxford Finance Corporation
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N12 Technologies
- Size $5.3M
- Round Unattributed
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Hashplex
- Size $270K
- Round Partial
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StudioNow
- Size $1M
- Round Partial
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TorqBak
- Size $227.3K
- Round Unattributed
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Squawka
- Size $3M
- Round Angel
- Investors Neil Hutchinson, Tom Teichman
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Scutum
- Size $2.6M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Caixa Capital Risc, Repsol Energy Ventures, CDTI
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Exo Labs
- Size $342.7K
- Round Debt_round
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Snowden Asks Putin About Surveillance On Russian TV, Everyone Promptly Loses Their Minds
Earlier today on a call-in program on Russian television, infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden questioned the country’s President Vladimir Putin about his government’s surveillance activities. Snowden, after the United States revoked his passport, kept house in a Russian airport for weeks until he was granted temporary asylum in the country where he currently resides. It’s… Read More
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Google Launches Home Try-On Program For Glass
Interested in owning Google Glass, but not sure how it will look on your face? Google now has an in-home try-on program that lets prospective buyers try all four colors of Glass and the entire Titanium Collection in different colors, for free. Read More
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Dropbox Acquires Cloud Photos Startup Loom And Document Collaboration Service Hackpad
Only days after revealing its first dedicated photo management and sharing application Carousel, Dropbox is announcing it has acquired cloud photo storage and sync service Loom, a favorite among iOS users. The company, which currently offers apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, as well as an online experience, says it will no longer be enrolling new users and will work to transition existing customers… Read More
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Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends” With Opt-In Real-Time Location Sharing To Help You Meet Up
Today Facebook begins rolling out a new opt-in feature called Nearby Friends. It lets friends see approximately how far away you are from them, and you can share your exact, on-going location with them for a limited time. While it's sure to stir privacy concerns, Nearby Friends could get people spending more time with friends in the real-world instead of online as it hits iOS and Android. Read More
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Digital Display Startup Enplug Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round
Digital signage is increasingly being used by businesses as a way to promote new products, engage with customers, and serve up ads. Los Angeles-based Enplug thinks it has a better way to do digital displays, with a software-driven offering that allows businesses to download and customize a wide range of social apps that customers can interact with. Read More
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Linode Invests $45M To Switch To SSDs, Double RAM
Thanks to new entrants like DigitalOcean, the competition in the hosting space has been heating up for the last few months and for the most part, it's the users who are reaping the benefits of this. In what is surely a reaction to pressure from its competitors, Linode, the established cloud VPS provider, today announced that it has invested $45 million to improve the hardware and networking… Read More
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A Million Little Facebook Pieces
Facebook, massive and successful as it is, is no longer a company that defines new social experiences. It either copies them outright or it just buys them. (See also: $19 billion for WhatsApp). Read More
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Data Analytics Startup Beckon Raises $8M As Marketers Look Beyond Generic Tools
Beckon, a California-based startup that helps marketers track their spend using data analytics, has raised $8 million in Series A funding from August Capital and Canaan Partners. The latest funding brings total capital raised by Beckon to $10 million to date (including $2 million seed round from August). As we wrote earlier this year, Beckon helps marketers consolidate all data and insights… Read More
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