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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian and PayPal Throw Support Behind General Assembly’s Opportunity Fund
8:00 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and PayPal have jumped on in support of General Assembly’s Opportunity Fund scholarship program. Opportunity Fund gives scholarships to women, veterans and minorities to participate in GA’s 12-week…
Trying to make access to the world’s largest cryptocurrency automatic for the people, BitAccess is looking to build a network of automated Bitcoin banking machines available worldwide. The concept of…
Media & Entertainment
After YouTube And Vimeo, Pinterest Now Adds Vevo Music Videos To Its Site
7:08 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Make way for more content coming to Pinterest: today the platform is adding Vevo music videos, which you can search for, share, and watch on Pinterest itself, on your own Pinboards,…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon Launches A Live App Testing Service For Android And Kindle Fire Developers
6:43 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Apple acquired TestFlight, a popular mobile app testing service earlier this year, and today Amazon is stepping up to compete with its own mobile app testing service aimed at developers…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon Continues Its Higher Ed Book Sales March At Purdue, Offers Staffed On-Campus Pickup
6:04 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Amazon debuted a program that seemed both inevitable and unthinkable earlier this year, depending on your perspective, when it teamed with UC Davis for a unique school-specific storefront that provided…
Startups
AdStage Raises $6.25M To Bring Its Cross-Network Ad Platform To The Masses
6:01 am PDT • August 13, 2014
AdStage, a startup whose co-founder and CEO Sahil Jain said he plans on “bringing a real SaaS model to the ad tech space,” is announcing that it has raised a…
Media & Entertainment
Spotify Teams Up With BandPage To Jump Deeper Into Artist Merchandising
6:01 am PDT • August 13, 2014
As Spotify reportedly inches closer to an IPO, the company continues to build out its presence as an e-commerce platform for artists to market themselves and generate revenue beyond basic…
Media & Entertainment
Beautified Gets $1.2 Million Seed, Updates Its Look And Takes On StyleSeat In SF And LA
6:00 am PDT • August 13, 2014
The last minute booking app for last minute hair and beauty appointments in New York, Beautified, announced a lot of updates today. First, the startup founded by NYC DJ Hannah…
Hardware
Electric Imp Raises $15M From Foxconn & Others To Make The Internet Of Things A Thing
6:00 am PDT • August 13, 2014
In the future it seems like every device we buy will be connected, enabling us to track and manage what’s going on in our homes and offices wherever we are.…
Uber Adds Turn-By-Turn Directions To Its Driver App
6:00 am PDT • August 13, 2014
There’s no doubt that Uber has made many of our lives more convenient, by enabling passengers to hail a ride via mobile app. But one of the biggest complaints passengers…
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Media & Entertainment
Amazon Launches Local Register, A Square Competitor With Lower Transaction Rates
5:12 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Amazon has launched a Square and PayPal Here competitor called Local Register, which provides users with a free app and a $10 card reader, and charges merchants and anyone selling…
Startups
Flytrex Live Is An Internet-Connected ‘Black Box’ For Your Personal Drone
5:05 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Personal drone enthusiasts — specifically, those who like flying quadcopters — have a new way to make the experience a lot more social. Meet the Flytrex Live: a ‘black box’-style…
Enterprise
Lookout Lands $150M To Bring Mobile Security Product To Enterprise
5:00 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Lookout, a mobile security product that to this point has been mostly geared towards consumers, announced today they had snagged $150M in Series F funding to begin focusing on enterprise…
Hardware
Samsung’s Metal-Edged Galaxy Alpha Is Its Most iPhone-A-Like Handset Ever
3:34 am PDT • August 13, 2014
Samsung has announced a new metal-edged flagship smartphone that takes its design language a step closer to the iPhone — and gives it something to fend off competition from surefooted…
Media & Entertainment
BuzzFeed’s Future Depends On Convincing Us Ads Aren’t Ads
8:08 pm PDT • August 12, 2014
BuzzFeed makes the majority of its money on ads that pretend to be content, but can it keep up this charade? Or, is the Starbucks-sponsored “10 Summer Emojis That Should Definitely…
This Is SF’s Answer To The Westboro Baptist Church Hate Messages
7:15 pm PDT • August 12, 2014
SF came out in a counter protest against the Westboro Baptist Church’s “God Hates the Media Tour” to show love for the tech community today.
NSA Internet Metadata Program Collected More Than Was Allowed, Shared Data Too Broadly
6:20 pm PDT • August 12, 2014
A now-defunct National Security Agency (NSA) bulk collection program that collected information about online communications exceeded its authority, collected too much, and shared that information too freely, recently declassified court…
Ahead of its Demo Day next week, Y Combinator reminded investors in a blog post on Tuesday that it has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment toward founders. “Don’t even…
Media & Entertainment
YC-Backed TicketLabs Helps Small Music Venues Get More Fans Through The Door
4:49 pm PDT • August 12, 2014
Over the last few years, technology has steadily worked its way into the concert-going experience. Apps make the ticket purchasing experience a simple affair, while the endless flood of social…
OnePlus Cancels Its Dumb Contest Following Uproars Of Sexism
2:28 pm PDT • August 12, 2014
If you want to get more women involved in your community, throwing the equivalent of a sketchy online beauty contest and labeling it “chivalry” probably isn’t the way to do…
