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PhotoMath Brings Its Awesome Math Equation Solving App To Android
PhotoMath is a nifty little app. You point your phone camera at a math equation, and it will give you the answer and show you all the steps to solve this particular equation. Following its huge success in the App Store, the app is coming to Android. When I first played with PhotoMath before the team took the stage in our Battlefield competition at Disrupt London, I was impressed by its design… Read More
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A Chat With The Researcher Who Found Online Bystanders Won’t Stop Bullying
Kelly Dillon, a Doctoral Candidate at the Ohio State University School of Communication, found that people generally won’t act when they see someone bullied online. This news, while not surprising to anyone with a passing interest in technology, is worrying. In short, if you’re bullied online, don’t expect help. Read More
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Beauty By Design: The Intersection Of Data And Digital Art
It’s only through parallel creative exploration that the broader ramifications of open data can be clarified and communicated, both in terms of the value of the art itself and also what it can reveal about our increasingly complex lives. Read More
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Twitter Will Crack Down On Serial Trolls By Tracking Their Phone Number
Twitter has a troll problem. Even its CEO knows it. And now the company is doing more to prevent its users suffering abuse and threats on its service. Read More
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Kobalt Tunes Into $60M Led By Google Ventures For Its Music Rights Collection Platform
The rise of digital music services has had some musicians up in arms over the way (and how much) they are paid. Now a startup that has built a better way to track this is stepping up its role in the game. Kobalt — which has developed platform to help music rights holders collect royalties more efficiently from across different digital music services — has raised a $60… Read More
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Grofers, An On-Demand Delivery Service For Indian Cities, Raises $10M From Sequoia And Tiger Global
An Indian startup called Grofers wants to help local shops take advantage of the e-commerce boom by not only providing them with a mobile platform for their inventory, but also facilitating on-demand delivery within 90 minutes. The startup just got a vote of confidence in the form of a $10 million series A round led by Sequoia Capital (a returning investor) and Tiger Global. Read More
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As Kleiner Trial Plays On, VC’s Upper Echelon Is Laid Bare To The Real World
The world of venture capital has long been cloaked in understated reticence and secrecy. That’s especially been true for the traditional top tier Sand Hill Road firms, such as Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. After all, a big benefit of being in the private market is, well, the privacy. Deals can be done with handshakes. Salaries and bonuses can be confidential. Business strategies… Read More
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Come And Get Your Net Neutrality Hot Takes
It is hot take season today on the net neutrality front, and TechCrunch would be remiss if we didn’t bring you the best, worst, banal, and asinine of the virulent anger and relieved happiness that is currently bouncing around the nation. What we’ve done is put our ears to several groaning inboxes, and have selected a number of letters, responses, quotes, and oral comments from the… Read More
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Source: Wearable Maker Fitbit Is In Talks To Buy Fitness App Startup FitStar
For the last several years, Fitbit has created hardware and software designed to help consumers keep track of their activity levels. But we’ve heard the wearable maker could soon acquire FitStar, a startup which makes apps that might help motivate Fitbit customers to actually be more active. Read More
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The 7 Largest Weed Startup Funding Rounds
The industry for legal marijuana is developing quickly – and VC funding is there to back up the cannabis startups that show the most promise. Read More
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Who Wins The Battle of The Disrupted Tech Giants: HP Or IBM?
It’s been a rough several years for the once-mighty technology behemoths, HP and IBM, and while each has the cash and resources to chug along for years to come, both companies have struggled to find a foothold in a fast-changing market. HP once represented the archetypal Silicon Valley company, a pillar of the computer world, a place where a teenage Steve Jobs worked one summer and cut… Read More
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House Republicans Threaten To Curb The FCC’s “Ability To Regulate The Internet”
Following a landmark vote to put in place strict net neutrality regulations, a group of 21 Republican House members sent a nastygram to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, upbraiding him from policy to procedure, and threatening more than just words. The GOP coterie, after repeating prior complaints, said the following: Finally, to the extent that a public record supports further action, we will… Read More
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Postponing IPOs Can Deliver Information Advantage
It’s taking longer for startups to get to IPO, but that’s not necessarily bad news for investors in private companies. Why? Because startups today aren’t just valuable for their future exit potential, but for the proprietary data they produce while still private. Read More
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Study: Most People Won’t Stop Online Bullies
In 1964 a woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed and left for dead in Kew Gardens, Queens. She screamed for help over a half hour while bystanders and apartment-dwellers above apparently ignored her pleas. Her assailant had time to disguise himself during the attack. She died of her injuries, and experts at the time called the failure of bystanders to act “Genovese Syndrome.” While… Read More
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Pebble Launches A Preview SDK With Color Support For The New Pebble Time
The Pebble Time is still going strong on Kickstarter, but Pebble is already thinking about the device’s launch in May, and is accordingly making tools available early to help both existing and new developers target the platform. A new developer preview of the Pebble SDK 3.0 is now available, and it includes a software emulator that shows you how your apps will look on the Pebble… Read More
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LoveCrafts
- $7.5M Series A
- HQ: London
- Categories: E-Commerce
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Quo Nightlife App
- $165K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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TryLately
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: SaaS, Brand Marketing, Project Management, DIY
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Silent Circle
- $50M Venture
- HQ: National Harbor, MD
- Categories: Security
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Sqore
- $3.5M Venture
- HQ: Stockholm
- Categories: EdTech, Skill Assessment, Certification Test, College Recruiting, ... See More
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Sols
- $11M Series B
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Curated Web, Fashion, Health Care, Manufacturing
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Bondora
- 4.5M EUR Series A
- HQ: Tallinn
- Categories: Consumer Lending, Finance
- Investors: Not available
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Pasiv
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
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Glowforge
- $1.3M Seed
- HQ: Seattle, WA
- Categories: Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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DataStreamX
- $368K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Marketplaces, Real Time, Data Visualization
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BeaconsInSpace
- $190K Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Marketplaces, Internet of Things
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Nfoshare
- Not available Angel
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Human Resources
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Neumob
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
- Categories: Software, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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IMYNE
- $1.0M Venture
- HQ: Minneapolis
- Categories: Internet
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YesGraph
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA
- Categories: Analytics, Developer APIs, Enterprise Software, Social Recruiting, ... See More
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Bionic Labs
- $6.2M Venture
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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MICE Industries Inc.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Wooster, OH
- Categories: Business Development
- Investors: Not available
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9Lenses
- $3.1M Series A
- HQ: Sterling, VA
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Business Analytics, Software, SaaS
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Headway Workforce Solutions
- $1.5M Venture
- HQ: Raleigh
- Categories: Staffing Firms
- Investors: Not available
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ChartSpan Medical Technologies
- $1.7M Series A
- HQ: Greenville, SC
- Categories: Health Care, Doctors, Software, Mobile Health
- Investors: Not available
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tibdit
- Not available Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Southwark
- Categories: Finance, Incentives, Publishing, Monetization
- Investors: Not available
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Construct-Ed, Inc.
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Quakertown, PA
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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BioRestorative Therapies
- $4.3M Venture
- HQ: Jupiter, FL
- Categories: Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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Transcend Medical
- $29M Series C
- HQ: Menlo Park, CA
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Retrotope
- $10M Venture
- HQ: Los Altos Hills, CA
- Categories: Health Care, Health Care Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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BlueVox
- $410K Seed
- HQ: Henderson, NV
- Categories: Telecommunications, Information Services, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Kobalt
- $60M Series C
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Independent Music Labels, Technology, Music Services, Digital Rights ... See More
- Investors: Google Ventures, Michael Dell
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Nasty Gal
- $16M Series C
- HQ: Los Angeles, CA
- Categories: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
- Investors: Index Ventures, Ron Johnson
