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Startups
Houzz Raises $165M Series D Funding Round Led By Sequoia To Fuel International Expansion
8:30 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Houzz, the fast-growing home-remodeling site, today announced that it has raised a $165 million Series D round led by Sequoia Capital, one of its early backers. Existing investors Oren Zeev,…
Yahoo Tests A New Homepage Highlighting Magazines, Talent… And Twitter
8:27 am PDT • October 1, 2014
For the past year or so, Yahoo has been working through a major design overhaul under CEO Marissa Mayer, and it looks like it has now started testing out new…
Hardware
StoreDot Charges Up With $42M For Its Fast-Charging Bio-Organic Batteries
8:24 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Israeli startup StoreDot, which is developing quantum dot-utilizing fast-charging smartphone battery technology, among other things, has closed a $42 million Series B funding round. It pitches its bio-organic nano-crystal technology…
Rowl Raises $4M To Help You Find The Heart Of Saturday Night (Or Any Night)
8:17 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Is your inbox cluttered with too many messages from clubs in your area notifying for all the shows coming up, but not the RIGHT shows coming up? Can you never…
Estate Assist Wants To Provide Estate Planning For The Social Media Age
8:05 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Contemplating the end of life freaks me out and as such, I’ve never put together a will. But then I’m young, healthy and I don’t own much so I can’t…
While everybody in the tech industry seems to be trying to make programming easier to pick up, most of the efforts that have popped up either repackage the concepts found…
LinkedIn Flexes Its Search Engine Muscle, Adds College-Finding Tools For Students
6:59 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Last year, LinkedIn widened the net for potential users when it started to allow high schoolers to join its social network for professionals, and today it’s launching a clutch of…
Media & Entertainment
Apple’s iPad Update Plans Could Put Gold First And Offer 12.9″ Model For 2015
6:25 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Apple could add gold to the menu for the next version of the 9.7-inch iPad Air, according to Bloomberg, and then introduce a 12.9-inch version of its tablet next year.…
Media & Entertainment
To-Do App Wunderlist Links Up With Dropbox, Its First Integration
6:08 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Wunderlist, the task management app with 9 million+ users, is adding a new feature to its web and mobile service: from today you will be able to link and access…
Media & Entertainment
PopKey’s Animated GIF Keyboard For iOS 8 Is The One You Should Be Using
6:01 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Apple is now accepting keyboards that go beyond just offering different ways to type text – it appears to have opened the doors for graphical keyboards, too. Riffsy already showed…
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When Jeff Bezos talked about delivering your Amazon packages by drone last year on 60 minutes, it seemed like a grand publicity stunt designed to get his company some attention, but…
Media & Entertainment
Berlin-Based Adtech Startup Remerge Raises $1M For Its Mobile App Marketing Platform
5:24 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Today, Remerge, another Berlin-based adtech startup, sees its official launch, off the back of a $1 million seed round led by Point Nine Capital. The startup, whose five founders include…
JibJab Jumps Into Selfie Gifs With New Messaging App
5:00 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Many hours have been spent on JibJab creating wacky e-cards for my friends and family throughout the years. I’ve “elfed myself,” sent my dad a pic of his face on every…
Enterprise
StackEngine Emerges From Stealth, Adds Operational Layer To Docker
3:00 am PDT • October 1, 2014
StackEngine, a startup out of Austin, TX, emerged from stealth today with $1M in seed funding and a product that gives operations and IT staff a way to manage Docker containers,…
Germany Warns Google Over User Profiling Privacy Violations
2:59 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Google has been warned it needs to rein in its user profiling activities in Germany because its current practice of joining the dots across multiple services is in violation of…
Startups
ZenMate Scores $3.2M Series A For Its VPN-Style Private Browsing Service
1:00 am PDT • October 1, 2014
As consumers become more tech savvy and privacy conscious, it’s not surprising to see VCs begin to pay more attention to startups who are focusing on privacy in all its…
Firespotter Labs Becomes Switch, Providing A Cloud-Based Phone System For Google Apps
9:26 pm PDT • September 30, 2014
Unified communications has long been touted as the future, but being able to provide access to all of one’s calls and messages on multiple devices is an idea that has…
Apple Accepting iTunes Donations For ‘City of Hope’ Center During October
9:00 pm PDT • September 30, 2014
Apple will be accepting donations for the City of Hope charity during the month of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the company revealed today. The organization is a…
Fintech
YC’s Altman Thinks Reddit’s Community Ownership Experiment Could Be A Model
6:48 pm PDT • September 30, 2014
The thought of using crypto-currencies to back shares of a company first crossed Y Combinator head Sam Altman’s mind about two years ago. “It was an idle thought that popped into…
Here’s How Windows 10 Will Make Your Mouse And Fingers Get Along
5:44 pm PDT • September 30, 2014
Earlier today during its event in San Francisco, Microsoft played a video detailing how its coming Windows 10 operating system will handle a fusion of touch, and more traditional mouse-based input. I…
