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Your Fitness App Is Making You Fat
8:00 am PDT • March 13, 2015
Fitness apps are all the rage. An explosion of new companies and products want to track your steps and count your calories with the aim of melting that excess blubber.…
Startups
YC Alum Asseta Raises A Million For Its Marketplace For Spare Parts
7:52 am PDT • March 13, 2015
Y Combinator alum Asseta, a marketplace for capital equipment and other spare parts, has raised an additional $1 million in seed funding, after shifting its focus away from the sales of used manufacturing equipment…
TiVo Receives Approval To Acquire Aereo Assets
7:10 am PDT • March 13, 2015
DVR maker TiVo announced this morning that its purchase of assets from Aereo – the innovative but ultimately doomed internet TV streaming startup – has been approved by a U.S. Bankruptcy…
The space race to launch satellites providing internet coverage to the roughly 4 billion people living in unconnected or nominally connected communities around the world is no longer just the…
Hardware
Asus Republic Of Gamers G501 Notebook Is Under An Inch Thick With A 4K Display
6:28 am PDT • March 13, 2015
The Asus Republic of Gamers G501 should help bring gaming portability to a whole new level, thanks to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M graphics card, Intel Core i7 processor and…
Media & Entertainment
With iOS And Android Plans, Even Cortana Is Part Of Microsoft’s Cross-Platform Strategy
5:40 am PDT • March 13, 2015
Cortana is bound for both Android and iOS via standalone apps planned for launch after Windows 10 brings the Microsoft virtual assistant to the desktop, according to Reuters. The Android…
India’s Top Mobile Wallet App Adds Support For Payments To Bank Accounts
4:24 am PDT • March 13, 2015
Paytm, the India-based mobile shopping and payments service operated by (now) Alibaba-backed One97, has introduced a big new feature that lets users transfer money to bank accounts.
Google Kills Off Google Code
2:58 am PDT • March 13, 2015
Another long-in-the-tooth Google outgrowth is being shuttered because Google says it has been superseded by outside alternatives.
GSF India Is Now Hunting Internet Of Things Startups For Its Accelerator Program
11:56 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
GSF India, the Bangalore-headquartered accelerator program and angel investment firm, is broadening its scope to cover young startups in India’s internet of things space. The organization has partnered global tech…
German Startup Campaigns For Personal Data API Law
5:37 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
German startup Protonet, which last year raised just over $4 million via Seedmatch for its secure server product for SMEs — 8x more crowdfunding than it had originally sought –…
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Death By A Thousand Seating Charts
5:11 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
When Kleiner Perkins’ head legal counsel Lynne Hermle pulled up a seating chart from the firm’s December 2011 offsite on the court’s projector during her cross examination of Ellen Pao…
Eventbrite looks like it was designed in a basement circa 2005. It works great, but gives a boring first impression. Splash, meanwhile, wants you to feel like you’re at the…
The Apple Watch is a novel product in Apple’s lineup for more reasons than one, but the sheer range of options available to prospective buyers may be among the most…
New-Age Bootstrapping Is Not A Money Problem, It’s A Product Opportunity
3:00 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
The tendency for entrepreneurs is to build big products. The problem with big, feature-rich products is that they take substantial time and money. People talk about this topic frequently, especially…
Net Neutrality Rules Offer Few Surprises But Garner Plenty Of Reactions
2:37 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
From Capitol Hill to boardrooms, interested and affected third parties are predictably pouring in on the FCC net neutrality rules that were released this morning. The rules show how the…
|LIVE IN MAY| Meerkat Founder To Speak At Disrupt NY
1:53 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
Few apps have instantly captured the hearts, minds and eye-rolls of the tech scene like Meerkat. And to think Ben Rubin was building something else. The CEO of Life On…
Startups
Photobucket Brings Back An Original Founder With Acquisition Of Photo Chat App Lasso
12:56 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
Photobucket is today announcing the acquisition Lasso, a private photo-sharing and chat app that was designed to simplify the challenges around requesting photos from family and friends. The deal will…
Media & Entertainment
Apple Launches An Invite-Only Beta Program For iOS
12:26 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
Apple has launched a new beta program for iOS (via 9to5Mac), with the latest build of iOS 8.3 (which includes advanced Message filtration features) acting as the first seed. The…
Watch Tony Stark Deliver A Real Bionic Arm To A Happy Fan
12:21 pm PDT • March 12, 2015
The real Tony Stark AKA Robert Downey Jr. in conjunction with EnablingTheFuture delivered a real bionic prosthesis to a young fan, Alex, who was born without most of his right…
Raising funding isn’t about “how much?” but rather “from whom?” Beyond just providing the capital necessary to keep a startup growing — or even, simply, to keep it alive –…
