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Media & Entertainment
Goal-Tracking And Self-Improvement App Lift Adds Personal Coaching, Raises $1.1M More
7:44 am PST • December 16, 2014
Lift, the mobile app incubated by Twitter co-founders’ Obvious Corp., launched last year to help people build healthier habits and achieve their goals by offering a simple way to track your…
Hardware
Apple Pay Now Supports Cards That Make Up 90% Of U.S. Credit Purchases
7:09 am PST • December 16, 2014
Apple Pay is gaining steam, just months after launch, with the company revealing to the NYT that it now supports cards from providers that make up 90 percent of the…
Upfront Ventures Raises $280 Million For Its Fifth Fund
7:00 am PST • December 16, 2014
Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Upfront Ventures has had a pretty good run as of late, due to a number of its recent investments seeing exits in the past year…
With $2.5M In Seed Funding, Digit Saves Money For You So You Don’t Have To Think About It
7:00 am PST • December 16, 2014
The concept behind Digit is pretty simple: You create an account, give Digit access to your online banking account credentials, and over time the company gradually transfers funds from your…
Media & Entertainment
Fans Can Create Albums For Favorite Teams In Fancred Update
6:03 am PST • December 16, 2014
Fancred, the social networking app for sports fans, released an update today that enables fans to set up detailed profile pages with an album for each team they support. Fancred will…
Canonical’s Stripped-Down “Snappy” Ubuntu Comes To Google’s Compute Engine
6:00 am PST • December 16, 2014
A week ago, Canonical released the first alpha version of its new minimalist “Snappy” edition of Ubuntu Core for container farms. To the surprise of many, the launch partner for…
Clever Gets $30 Million From Lightspeed To Become The Login Layer For Education Apps
5:00 am PST • December 16, 2014
Since launching two-and-a-half years ago, Clever has added tens of thousands of schools to its platform. Thanks to pretty incredible traction in an industry that historically has been loathe to…
Media & Entertainment
Dots Spins Out Of Betaworks With $10M Series A From Tencent, GreyCroft
4:51 am PST • December 16, 2014
Dots, the mobile gaming studio responsible for two dead-simple but beautiful games, is today announcing the close of a $10 million round, as well as the official spinout of Dots…
Adyen Raises $250M From General Atlantic To Expand Its International Payments Platform
4:30 am PST • December 16, 2014
International payments startup Adyen is growing fast, doubling the number of payments processed over the last year as well as revenues over that time. Capitalizing on that growth, the company…
Media & Entertainment
Messaging App Line’s Payment Service Begins Rolling Out To Users Worldwide
3:56 am PST • December 16, 2014
Line prematurely announced the introduction of its chat app payments feature earlier this month, but now it has begun rolling out to its 500 million-plus registered users.
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Scandinavian VC firm Northzone, which has offices in the Nordics and also London and New York, and includes Spotify, iZettle and Trustpilot in its portfolio companies, has closed its seventh…
Chinese Internet Giant Tencent And Sony Music Entertainment Sign Distribution Partnership
2:28 am PST • December 16, 2014
Just one month after striking a distribution partnership with Warner Music Group, Tencent, one of China’s biggest Internet companies and the maker of WeChat, has made a similar deal with…
Startups
Infinity Levels Raises $500,000 To Develop Supercell-Inspired Games In Southeast Asia
1:47 am PST • December 16, 2014
Bangkok-based gaming startup Infinity Levels has landed $500,000 in funding to help it follow the lean development model popularized by Supercell and its blockbuster smash title Clash Of Clans.
These Were The Top 10 Most Popular Searches On Google In 2014
12:00 am PST • December 16, 2014
Each year, Google releases a list of the topics we’ve collectively searched for the most over the past 12 months. Each year, I try and see how many I can…
Startups
SoftBank Leads $90M Round For India’s Housing.com To Continue Its Asian Spending Spree
10:23 pm PST • December 15, 2014
SoftBank’s investment spree in Asia is continuing today after the company announced a $90 million round for Locon Solutions, the company behind India’s Housing.com property portal.
Startups
China’s Miyabaobei, An Online Store For Baby Products, Scores $60M Series C
8:14 pm PST • December 15, 2014
Miyabaobei, a Chinese site that sells formula, clothes, and other items for babies and toddlers, has raised a $60 million Series C round from H Capital, with participation from returning…
Media & Entertainment
Netflix Brings Private Recommendations To Android Phones And Smartwatches
7:42 pm PST • December 15, 2014
Back in September, Netflix began using Facebook to let users recommend content to friends without having to share it to publicly on the social network. Now the company has brought…
Global Hackathon Seoul Will Be The First Event Of Its Kind Sponsored By The City’s Government
7:24 pm PST • December 15, 2014
Seoul’s city government hopes to get more people interested in its startup scene by sponsoring Global Hackathon Seoul, which will take place from July 29 to August 1, 2015. According…
Goldee’s Try At Hardware Fizzles And Leads To Code Sabotage By Disgruntled Employees
4:32 pm PST • December 15, 2014
If you want a solid example that backs up the startup maxim “hardware is hard,” look no further than the cautionary tale of Goldee, a software startup that turned its…
Startups
Home Maintenance Startup Happy Home Company Is Waiving Fees For Bay Area Residents With Storm Damage
4:11 pm PST • December 15, 2014
We’ve heard about startups that, intentionally or not, take advantage of bad weather and worse, so it’s nice when a new company actually offers to help out without making a…
