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Google Merges European Operations To Square Up To Regulators And Rivals
United we stand, divided we fall. So goes the old saying that search and mobile giant Google is now taking to heart in Europe, as it faces off with regulators and rivals in the region. The company is merging its European regional and product operations into a single unit, to be led by Matt Brittin, formerly the head of Google’s operations in northern and western Europe, who now… Read More
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500 Startups Launches A $15M Korea-Focused Fund Called 500 Kimchi
With its extremely high smartphone penetration rate, speedy broadband connections, and advanced economy, South Korea is one of the richest breeding grounds for tech innovation in Asia. 500 Startups, which has already made several investments in Korean companies, is digging deeper into the country with the launch of 500 Kimchi, a $15 million fund that will focus on mobile companies. Read More
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LG’s New Smartwatch Will Support LTE But Won’t Run Android Wear
LG is developing its own software for smartwatches after the company announced that one version of its upcoming LG Watch Urbane will run on its own “proprietary” platform. Read More
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SamaUSA Rethinks Workforce Development For The Digital Age in East Palo Alto
Nestled between Silicon Valley suburbs with median multi-million dollar home prices, East Palo Alto is a 28,000-person community that can feel like it has been left by the wayside of the current tech boom. One-third of its adult residents don’t have more than a high school diploma and its unemployment rate is about double of what the neighboring communities see. Some of this is… Read More
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Samsung Filed The Most Patents In Europe In 2014, U.S. Led The Field By Country
While IBM is number-one when it comes to the number of patents filed in the U.S., in Europe, Samsung is leading the pack. Today, the European Patent Office released 2014 figures for patents filed in the region, which showed that the Korean company, and currently the world’s largest smartphone maker, filed 2,541 for the full year. In terms of countries, the U.S. dominated the list… Read More
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LocoMotive Labs, Maker Of Todo Math App, Raises $4M To Expand In Asia
Math can be fun, but try telling that to a small child stuck behind a desk doing endless drills and worksheets. Founded by a former game developer, startup LocoMotive Labs’ mission is to make learning mathematic basics entertaining for all children, no matter their learning styles. Read More
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Chat App Viber Opens Its Games Service To All Users Worldwide
Messaging app Viber has quietly made its games service available for all users worldwide following a two month pilot in five countries. The company, which was bought by Rakuten for $900 million a year ago, initially launched three games for users in Belarus, Malaysia, Israel, Singapore and Ukraine in December 2014. The titles — Viber Candy Mania, Wild Luck Casino and Viber Pop, links… Read More
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Nickelodeon Unveils “Noggin,” A Mobile Subscription Service For Preschoolers Arriving In March
Nickelodeon today unveiled its new mobile streaming subscription service called Noggin, which will be aimed at preschoolers and priced at $5.99 per month when it launches next month. Parent company Viacom had previously announced the forthcoming service’s arrival in January, noting also that it would not require households to have a cable or satellite TV subscription in order to access… Read More
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Watch Tech’s Takeover of San Francisco’s Office Space In This Visualization
Here’s a visualization of all the major commercial real estate deals involving the tech industry and San Francisco’s SOMA district over the past three years, thanks to Stamen Design and broker Kalin Kelly, who finds space on behalf of tech companies and nonprofits. The point of this visualization is not a surprise. It’s known that there are lots of tech companies in the… Read More
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If You Think Tinder Needs More Cute Pets, BuzzFeed Has The App For You
Oh, BuzzFeed. Don’t ever change. The company just released what it says is its second ever mobile app, called Cute Or Not. As you might expect from the name, you’re asked to rate pets as (duh) cute or not, through a Tinder-style swiping interface. You can also upload photos of your own pets to see how they’re rated by other app users. Read More
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The Web: Headliner Or TV’s Supporting Actor?
Super Bowl XLIX was the most watched television show in U.S. history. It was also the most socialized Super Bowl ever measured, with 265 million Facebook posts, likes, and comments, and more than 28 million global tweets. Today’s TV viewer doesn’t just watch TV anymore — they scroll through Twitter and Facebook in real time, watch YouTube Videos, send Snapchats, and pin… Read More
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AirPR Sells Its PR Marketplace To The CHR Group
AirPR, a startup promising a fresh approach to public relations, has sold its PR marketplace to marketing agency The CHR Group. The marketplace first launched in 2012 and offered to connect startups with the right PR representation. (It opened more broadly the following year.) However, it’s not AirPR’s only product — the company also launched an analytics platform to track a… Read More
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Salesforce Shares Spike To All-Time High After Meeting Street’s Profit Estimate, Boosting Its Full-Year Guidance
Sometimes when a company reports in-line earnings, its stock price takes a knuckle to the temple. Other times, if a firm meets market expectations, it gets a nice pop in value. Enter Salesforce the Latter. Today after the bell, Salesforce reported $1.44 billion in fourth quarter revenue, and adjusted earnings per share of $0.14. Both were dead in-line with market expectations. The… Read More
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The New Razer Blade Is The Gaming Laptop To Beat
Earlier this month, Razer launched the second generation of its ultra-high-resolution gaming laptop, the Blade. I’ve since gotten a few weeks to play with it and can confirm that its hardware lives up to the crazy QHD+ screen. Like its predecessor, this year’s Razer Blade packs in a 14-inch, 3200 x 1800 pixel screen. It looks pretty from most angles and can get quite bright, and has… Read More
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Nostalgia Overload: Toejam And Earl’s Creator Is Kickstarting A Sequel
Remember Toejam and Earl? It’s the game that taught the Sega Genesis-owning kids of the early 90s the value of a funky fresh bass track. Now it’s back — that is, assuming enough people throw money at it on Kickstarter. Read More
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Google Builds An AI That Can Learn And Master Video Games
Google has built an artificial intelligence system that can learn – and become amazing at – video games all on its own, given no commands but a simple instruction to play titles. The project, detailed by Bloomberg, is the result of research from the London-based DeepMind AI startup Google acquired in a deal last year, and involves 49 games from the Atari 2600 that likely provided… Read More
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On-Demand Valet Startup Luxe Picks Up $20M From Redpoint And Venrock
On-demand valet startup Luxe, which launched just last year, has already attracted a lot of attention from investors. Less than six months after its official launch, sources tell us the company has raised a $20 million Series A round of funding led by Redpoint Ventures and Venrock Partners. Read More
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Congress Snipes And Gripes On Eve Of Net Neutrality Vote
It’s net neutrality eve, putting both Washington and Silicon Valley on collective edge. To some extent. In service to you, I awoke early this morning so that I could tune into a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the issue of net neutrality. However, the discourse was so dull, containing as far as I could tell the precise same talking points that have become rote through… Read More
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Y Combinator-Backed Bright Aims To Bring Solar Power To Mexico
Jonah Greenberger envisions Mexico’s rooftops covered in cost-effective, environmentally friendly, dark blue solar panels. The 28-year-old founder of Y Combinator-backed solar power startup Bright left his job working in fossil fuels at Chevron to work on lowering exorbitant energy costs for the people of Mexico. “The third world pays the most for electricity. Mexico has the… Read More
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Sandbox Group
- $27M Debt Financing
- HQ: Chicago
- Categories: Not available
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Construct-Ed, Inc.
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Benchmark Intelligence
- $20K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Branch Metrics
- $15M Series A
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Junyo
- $250K Venture
- HQ: Menlo Park, CA
- Categories: Kids, Education
- Investors: Not available
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Wedding.com.my
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Kuala Lumpur
- Categories: Visual Search, Weddings, Marketplaces, Content Discovery, Social Commerce ... See More
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TryLately
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: SaaS, Brand Marketing, Project Management, DIY
- Investors: Not available
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Exablox
- $16M Series C
- HQ: Mountain View, CA
- Categories: Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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KiteReaders
- $50K Seed
- HQ: Santa Clara, CA
- Categories: iPhone, Android, Publishing, Apps, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Doseol ventures
- $25K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Design
- 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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Spika
- $840K Series A
- HQ: Tokyo
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Services, Service Providers
- Investors: Not available
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Intermap Technologies
- $7.3M Post IPO Debt
- HQ: Englewood, CO
- Categories: Risk Management, Geospatial, Location Based Services
- Investors: Not available
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Checkd AS
- $200K Seed
- HQ: Oslo
- Categories: SaaS, Software, Construction
- Investors: Not available
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Pingvalue
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Luxembourg
- Categories: Retail Technology, Mobile Commerce, Social Media Marketing, Big Data
- Investors: Not available
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Nommery
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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GANGAN AFRICA EVENTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Lagos
- Categories: Social Business
- Investors: Not available
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Scratch-it
- Not available undisclosed
- HQ: Portland, OR
- Categories: Advertising, Mobile, Coupons
- 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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Novian Health
- $1.0M Venture
- HQ: Chicago, IL
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- 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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Lytro
- $50M Series C
- HQ: Mountain View, CA
- Categories: Hardware + Software, Hardware, Photography
- Investors: Allen & Company, GSV Capital, Danhua Capital
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Luxe Valet
- $20M Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Services, Mobile Devices, Transportation
- Investors: Redpoint Ventures, Venrock, Fritz Lanman
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Opendoor
- $20M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Real Estate
- Investors: Khosla Ventures, GGV Capital, Thrive Capital, SherpaVentures, Solon Mack ... See More
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ZIMPERIUM
- $12M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Mobile Devices, Enterprises, Mobile Security, Mobile
- Investors: Sierra Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Telstra Ventures, Lazarus Israel ... See More
