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First Opinion Raises $6 Million In Series A From Polaris Partners To Help You Text Your Doctor
4:00 am PST • December 18, 2014
Mobile doctor visits startup First Opinion has gained $6 million in Series A funding, led by early-stage health investors Polaris Partners. Previous investors contributing to this round include True Ventures,…
Got some Bitcoin burning a hole in your virtual wallet? There’s an online marketplace for that… U.K.-based BTXDeals.com has just launched an e-tail website where sellers are offering goods and…
Startups
SparkLabs Global Ventures Invests in the UK’s Code Kingdoms and Seoul’s MangoPlate
3:00 am PST • December 18, 2014
SparkLabs Global Ventures, which makes seed-stage investments in startups around the world, announced today that it has provided funding for two startups, Code Kingdoms and MangoPlate.
Startups
GameAnalytics Scores $5.5M Series A, Hires Ex-Aol European MD As CEO
2:00 am PST • December 18, 2014
GameAnalytics, a free analytics platform for games developers, has leveled-up its funding. The Copenhagen-headquartered startup, which also has a sales office in London and a development hub in Berlin, has…
Ridibooks, which claims to be South Korea’s largest e-book vendor, announced that it has raised a $8 million Series B to improve its user experience and reach new customers. Investors…
AnandTech Sells To Publisher Purch To Grow Its Tech And Hardware Reviews Site
11:29 pm PST • December 17, 2014
AnandTech, the brilliantly super techie blog founded by recent Apple hire Anand Shimpi, has left the independent media club* after announcing its sale to Purch, the publishing company behind fellow tech sites Tom’s…
Startups
TeachPitch Helps Educators Around The World Share Learning Resources
10:15 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Creating lesson plans, learning about teaching methods, and finding new educational material are all part of a normal workday for teachers, but it can be difficult because most educators have…
Startups
Khosla Ventures Is Raising A Fresh $400 Million Fund For Seed Investments
10:05 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Mega VC firm Khosla Ventures is raising a new $400 million seed fund as it looks to enter the new year with some gusto.
This holiday season it’s important to remember the true meaning of Christmas: the slow encroachment of robots upon human existence and the expectation of the enslavement of Homo sapiens by…
Hardware
Sony Pictures Employees Now Working In An Office “From Ten Years Ago”
7:29 pm PST • December 17, 2014
She works for Sony Pictures. She said she’s now working in an office on lock-down, a throwback to an earlier time when the Internet wasn’t around. “We are stuck in…
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We Tried Zombie-Survival Game Dying Light On The Oculus Rift
5:09 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Last week, I got an early look at first-person zombie-survival game Dying Light, which arrives on PC and consoles in February. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill demo, however — Techland, the…
Media & Entertainment
US Officials Believe North Korea Was Involved In Sony Hacks
4:59 pm PST • December 17, 2014
U.S. officials say they believe that North Korea’s government was involved in the large-scale hack of Sony servers, which led to the leak of troves of Sony data from emails…
Microsoft Employee Pens The Worst/Best Corporate Blog Post Of All Time
3:57 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Recently a Microsoft employee published a blog post on the company’s Office blog. The missive, under the name of Tim Carroll, a “senior product manager on the Office 365 team,”…
Media & Entertainment
StudyPool Provides A Marketplace For On-Demand Tutoring
3:27 pm PST • December 17, 2014
StudyPool, a 500 Startups batch company that connects students and tutors, is yet another company that takes the template for building a marketplace from Uber and Airbnb and applies it…
Waging A War For Talent
3:00 pm PST • December 17, 2014
We live and work in an age of mass competition and where the ability to land top talent can have as much of an impact on the success of the…
Security
Sony Officially Cancels ‘The Interview’ Release Following Hacker Threats
2:53 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Following threats from hackers responsible for large-scale server breaches and leaks at Sony, the entertainment studio has made the official decision to cancel The Interview, which was set to be…
Transportation
Uber Responds To Concerns With Promises To Invest More In Customer Safety
2:38 pm PST • December 17, 2014
After facing scrutiny in multiple markets over questions of passenger safety, global transportation service Uber said it is reviewing some of its business practices and is working to make improvements.…
TC Droidcast Episode 31: Pebble, ZenWatch, And Smartwatch 3
1:22 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Join us as we chat about the Pebble gaining support for Android Wear interactive notifications, the Asus ZenWatch and the Sony Smartwatch 3. We also get a little bit futurist…
Media & Entertainment
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel On Email Hacks: “Our Work Has Been Violated And Exposed”
12:59 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel today released a powerful statement about privacy, a day after the latest batch of emails released in the massive Sony Pictures hack exposed a…
Startups
Dating Platform Zoosk Ditches IPO Plan As Founders Exit Leadership Roles
12:15 pm PST • December 17, 2014
Zoosk, the online dating platform that has been around since 2007, has today announced changes to leadership, with CFO Kelly Steckelberg taking over as CEO. She will be replacing co-founder…
