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Jeff Bezos beats out Bill Gates to become world’s richest person
Ahead of its earnings later today, Amazon stock hit an all-time high during intraday trading and with it CEO Jeff Bezos’ estimated wealth hit $90.9 billion, Bloomberg reports. This number pushes the net worth of the Amazon founder past that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, still sitting pretty with $90.7 billion, earning Bezos the title of world’s richest person. Bezos ending the… Read More
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Hear dispatches from the frontiers of security and privacy at Disrupt SF 2017
Your data is in demand: just about everyone, from hackers and scammers to multinationals and governments wants it. How can you keep it safe? How can we set limits on tracking, advertising, and the fast-advancing field of data-sucking AIs? And what does the situation look like from the side of the companies and adversaries? Those are questions we aim to tackle in September at Disrupt SF. Read More
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Twitter is having a very bad day
Twitter reported its second-quarter earnings today, and it did not go over well. As a result, the stock is down more than 12% in trading today — which is a very Twitter thing to happen, so to speak. Here’s the chart, which could pretty much be summed up with a 😐: Today also wiped out most of the gains that it accrued year to date. Twitter’s last report was a rare… Read More
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Peer5 raises $2.5M for its peer-to-peer approach to streaming video
Peer5, which helps publishers stream video to large audiences, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. I wrote about the startup earlier this year when it was part of Y Combinator. CEO Hadar Weiss said he raised the funding after YC Demo Day from investors including FundersClub, Oriza Ventures, Tank Hill Ventures, Leorsa Group, Ed Roman and Buddy Anheim. In… Read More
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Cristiano Ronaldo acquires digital agency to launch his 7EGEND venture
Sporting stars have followed Hollywood and music industry celebrities into the world of startups and tech investing, but until now the world’s biggest soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, has played the tech ball close to his feet. Not any more. The highest paid player in the world has bought the lion’s share of one of Portugal’s biggest digital agencies with a view to create a… Read More
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Sling TV to host pay-per-view events, starting this weekend with UFC fight
Dish’s streaming service for cord cutters, Sling TV, will host its first ever pay-per-view event this weekend, by offering coverage of UFC: 214: Cormier v. Jones 2. The fight between former titleholder Jon Jones and current champion Daniel Cormier is taking place on Saturday, July 29 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. Access to the event will be offered to Sling TV viewers for… Read More
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BuzzFeed is getting into the smart appliance business with the Tasty One Top
Here’s a sentence I never expected to write: BuzzFeed is making its first smart appliance, the Tasty One Top, available for pre-order. It sounds a little weird for a digital media company to try to sell you a fancy hot plate, but this is part of BuzzFeed Product Labs, which was created last year following the acquisition of e-commerce startup Scroll. The team’s goal is to… Read More
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We probably still need some more numbers for this Very Important Twitter Chart
I’m reviewing the transcript in my notes of Twitter’s second-quarter earnings call — which definitely did not go well, with the stock crashing more than 10% — and it seems like Twitter is beating the drum very hard on its daily active user growth. The company is regularly referring to double-digit growth in its DAU count year-over-year and that it is stressing DAUs as… Read More
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Mitel to buy ShoreTel for $430 million to create unified communications powerhouse
Sometimes combining two companies that compete in the same market provides a quick way to leapfrog your market share. That was likely the thinking behind Mitel’s decision to buy ShoreTel this morning for $430 million. Combining the two companies catapults Mitel to number two in the Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) market, according to the company. As for ShoreTel, while it… Read More
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GoPro’s CEO believes a simple video editing app holds the key to the company’s future
Nick Woodman believes QuikStories represents the path forward for GoPro. The company’s founder/CEO doesn’t hold back. “You can say this is the biggest thing we’ve done to simplify the experience of sharing video since the invention of the GoPro itself,” he says matter of factly. Investors haven’t always agreed with his decisions, but his unbridled enthusiasm… Read More
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Rent the Runway is launching same-day delivery, starting in NYC
Rent the Runway customers can now be one step closer to actually not having a closet. The company just announced they are launching same-day delivery in NYC, with plans to expand to other markets soon. Customers who order by 12pm will have their order delivered by 5pm, and receive live updates with the ability to adjust the delivery window. To be clear, Rent the Runway has experimented… Read More
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Russian scientists put a defibrillator on a drone
In what looks like a potentially useful use of drone technology, Russian scientists at the Moscow Technology Institute have stuck a defibrillator on a drone so it can be remote piloted to a person in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Read More
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Sony’s a7S II stuns with 4K footage from outside the International Space Station
Sony’s lineup of full-frame mirrorless cameras is impressive, and have become a staple for videographers and photographers worldwide. But now, the a7S II has gone beyond just our world, capturing amazing 4K footage from outside the International Space Station. The a7S II was mounted on the ISS on the KIBO Japanese Experiment Module created by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency… Read More
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Ford’s Chariot shuttles are expanding to New York City
Ford is adding its largest market yet for Chariot, the crowd-sourced shuttle service that it acquired last September. Chariot began operations in San Francisco, where the former startup ran commuter routes of its branded transit vans, and expanded to Austin after that. In August, it’ll begin service in New York City, with two debut routes running from the Lower East Side to Midtown… Read More
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Salesforce claims you can set up customer service in Service Cloud update in less than a day
Salesforce announced an update to its Service Cloud today, which the company says enables non-technical administrators to build a customer service organization with connected services in less than a day. That’s a bold claim, even for the marketing department, but the Service Cloud app builder has been built on top of the Salesforce Lightning development platform and designed to drag… Read More
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Verizon Q2 meets on $0.96 EPS, sales down 2% YOY, plans $1B in ‘synergies’ in Oath
Verizon Communications has been investing in building out new areas of business like media and wireless services to offset declines in legacy products like fixed telephony, and today it released Q2 results that underscored that strategy. Verizon reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.96 (with GAAP EPS of $1.07), and revenues of $30.5 billion, citing growth in wireless customers (which… Read More
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Twitter’s user growth goes nowhere and the stock is collapsing
The small nice-ish story Twitter had going for itself for the past few quarters was that, at the very least, its monthly active users were growing quarter-over-quarter. While MAUs might not be the right number to look at these days, for better or worse it’s one of the core metrics that Twitter is judged on for now — and that didn’t pan out when it reported its earnings today… Read More
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Baidu teams up with PayPal to take its Chinese mobile wallet global
PayPal has continued its strategy of expanding its presence on mobile after it revealed a tie-up with Baidu. The arrangement will allow the Chinese firm’s 100 million mobile wallet users to make payments to PayPal’s 17 million merchants through the Baidu service. The news is the latest in a series of recent partnerships from PayPal, which this month expanded its integration… Read More
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Citus Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
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Group K Diagnostics
- Not available Seed
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- Categories: Health Diagnostics
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Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
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Premy
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Limitless
- 60K EUR Angel
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SourceSage
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: Software
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doogy AS
- 2.0M NOK Angel
- HQ: Oslo, Oslo
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NANO Security Ltd
- Not available Series A
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Cosme Hunt
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Shopping, Cosmetics, Beauty, Shopping Mall
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WeWork China
- $500M Series A
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Coworking, Collaboration, Real Estate
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bridgerins.com
- $750K Seed
- HQ: Short Hills, New Jersey
- Categories: Insurance
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Slack
- $250M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Real Time, Collaboration, Messaging
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Big Switch Networks
- $31M Round
- HQ: Santa Clara, California
- Categories: Data Center, Software, Network Security
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JazzHR
- $6.0M Venture
- HQ: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Software, Internet, Human Resources, Recruiting, SaaS
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FineDine Menu
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Istanbul, Istanbul
- Categories: Hospitality, Restaurants, Mobile, SaaS
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Dreamleague Gaming
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Pasadena, California
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Cool Cousin
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Tourism, Leisure, Travel Agency
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4Suites
- $435K Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Real Estate, Hospitality, Mobile, Hotel
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Tethr
- $7.9M Seed
- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: SaaS, Compliance, Customer Service, Machine Learning, Call Center, Business ... See More
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Tine Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: SaaS, Augmented Reality, Health Care, Enterprise Software
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9 Spokes
- 12M AUD Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Auckland, Auckland
- Categories: Information Technology
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Cyrus Biotechnology
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Software, Biotechnology, Nutrition
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Megacool
- $1.5M Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Mobile, Software
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BigStylist- Salon at Home
- 80M INR Venture
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: Beauty
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PreciThera
- 36M CAD Series A
- HQ: Montréal, Quebec
- Categories: Biotechnology
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Somatik inc.
- $0K Private Equity
- HQ: Oakland, California
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Minka
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- HQ: Bogotá, Distrito Especial
- Categories: FinTech, Venture Capital
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Jhakaas
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: Local Business, E-Commerce Platforms, Mobile Apps
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Brolly
- 1.1M EUR Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Insurance, InsurTech, FinTech
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