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Indian Real Estate Search Engine CommonFloor Acqui-Hires Anonymous Gossip App Bakfy
7:20 am PST • January 7, 2015
Indian real estate search engine and listings site CommonFloor, which last January raised $10.4 million from Tiger Global and Accel to expand beyond property listings, has acquired mobile local social…
Yomp, An App To Get Employees Fit And Healthy, Raises An Angel Round
7:12 am PST • January 7, 2015
London-based health startup Yomp, formerly known as PleaseCycle, has raised $315,000 (£200,000) from five angel investors, to expand its heath and wellness platform which ‘games’ company employees into healthy habits.…
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Startup Poland Hopes To Highlight The Country’s Booming Tech Scene
6:47 am PST • January 7, 2015
As with most countries, industry bodies designed to represent the startup community have sprung up. The UK has the non-profit Coadec which does its best to influence government policy around…
Greylock IL Partners Cut The Apron Strings To Create 83North, A New $200M Fund
5:44 am PST • January 7, 2015
At times it’s been ever so slightly confusing that Silicon Valley venture capital giant Greylock Partners had a venture arm based between London and Israel, called “Greylock IL”, which was…
Startups
VSCO Acquires Artifact Uprising To Help Bring More Photography To The Real World
5:00 am PST • January 7, 2015
Visual Supply Co., better known as VSCO, has acquired Artifact Uprising, a Denver-based startup focused on bringing photographers’ work from the digital hubs frequented by modern creatives to the real…
TechStars Will Launch In Berlin In June, Applications Open Now
3:32 am PST • January 7, 2015
After expanding into London, TechStars, the accelerator which originally emanated out of Boulder, Colorado before reaching other US cities, is moving into continental Europe today. It’s planning a June launch…
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Apple’s Bigger iPhones Dent Android’s Sales Momentum
3:11 am PST • January 7, 2015
Apple’s newest iPhones, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, have put a spring in iOS’ smartphone sales figures for fall, and a small dent in the rival Android platform’s share,…
Less than three months after completing its $2.91 billion acquisition of the phone manufacturer from Google, Lenovo announced today that it will bring back Motorola smartphones to China. Three devices—the…
Google TV Development Support Ends As Google Moves Onto Android TV
10:07 pm PST • January 6, 2015
Google TV’s long, drawn-out good-bye has finally reached an end, with Google confirming today that it will no longer support the platform now that its successor, Android TV, has launched.
Startups
Chinese Mobile Development Giant NetDragon Raises $52.5M For Its Online Education Business
9:10 pm PST • January 6, 2015
NetDragon, one of China’s leading mobile and games development companies, has raised $52.5 million in Series A funding for its online education business from investors including IDG Capital, Vertex Venture,…
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FTC Closes Its Yelp Investigation Without Taking Action
8:21 pm PST • January 6, 2015
One of the biggest and most influential review platforms in the world, Yelp has constantly been hit with claims that it manipulates reviews so its advertisers get higher rankings. This…
Hardware
The Next MacBook Air Will Be A 12-Inch Beauty With An Edge-To-Edge Keyboard
8:01 pm PST • January 6, 2015
Apple’s 12-inch MacBook Air has been rumored for a while now, but the computer is very real, according to a new report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman. The resourceful and consistently…
BMW Shows Off Gesture Controls And Automated Parking
7:27 pm PST • January 6, 2015
BMW is showing off a bunch of new or new-ish technologies this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. On the just-announced side, there are in-development gesture-based controls…
CES is in full swing — the doors of the show officially opened this morning, tens of thousands of people took over the show floor, going from one stand to…
CES Hardware Battlefield participant LyteShot is working on an alternate-reality gaming alternative to playing with traditional NERF guns. Its solution relies on wireless “guns” and sensors — known as the…
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Intel Promises $300M To Boost The Representation Of Women And Minorities In Tech
6:35 pm PST • January 6, 2015
In an afternoon keynote at CES 2015, Intel‘s CEO Brian Krzanich bounced on stage to pass out some slightly platitudinous statements about the future of technology, and to bring the audience dancers, a…
Chevrolet Booth (North Hall)
6:29 PM PST • January 6, 2015
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Shaquille O’Neal Helped Build A Water-Proof Floating Speaker Called The SuperStar BackFloat
5:15 pm PST • January 6, 2015
Even though he no longer pounds basketballs through hoops, Shaquille O’Neal has been keeping himself busy. In collaboration with Monster, he’s helped design a new Bluetooth speaker that can float.…
Robotic pet-food dispensers are nothing new, but what happens when your robotic pet food dispenser is smarter than your pet. Petnet can help you find out. The system dispenses food…
Kicker Audio
5:01 PM PST • January 6, 2015
Recorded on January 6, 2015. Kicker Audio on TechCrunch CES 15 created by joezolnoski
