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Re-Virb: Social Network Relaunches, Hopes To Become 'Tumblr For Entire Websites'
2:54 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
Back in February 2009, we wrote about the relaunch of Virb, a social network owned by MediaTemple’s venture platform (mt) Ventures. Instead of trying to take on goliaths like Facebook,…
Brands4Friends invests a further "multi-million" in private buying club Secretsales
2:50 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
Following an initial investment in February, the UK private buying club Secretsales has raised a second round of funding from Germany’s Brands4friends. The actual amount is once again undisclosed but…
JRob won our Proton Pack Backpack giveaway last week and told us he would give it to his daughter if he won. At first we didn’t believe a CrunchGear reader…
Media & Entertainment
Review: Fusion of Ideas' Carbon Fiber Stealth Armor case for iPhone 4
2:17 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
Carbon Fiber. Made up of many tens of thousands of intertwining strands to give it incredible strength, it’s the material of the future. You’ve undoubtedly decked out everything you own…
ChickRx Is A WebMD For Twenty-Something Women
1:36 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
Health education websites such as WebMD have been around for some time now, but recently launched startup ChickRx has a slightly different take on the online medical information space. ChickRx…
Hardware
Do You Want To Do Play-By-Play At The Next World Cyber Games?
1:00 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
The World Cyber Games~! It’s sorta like the Olympics for gamers, and the next big event takes place between September 30 and October 3 in Los Angeles. Even if you’re…
It can be argued that Apple eventually dominates in every consumer electronic market it enters. I’m sure I don’t need to point out the history of iPod, iPhone, and iPad.…
Its IPO Still Nowhere In Sight, Newegg CEO Tally Liu Is Out
12:57 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
Last we’d heard from Newegg, the major online electronics retailer, was when the company filed for a $175 million IPO back in September 2009. Now we hear former President Tally…
Worldwide Advertising On Social Networks Estimated To Hit $3.3 Billion In 2010
12:49 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
Social networks worldwide are estimated to bring in $3.3 billion in advertising dollars this year, according to updated estimates by eMarketer. That number represents a 31 percent increase from 2009’s…
What Exactly Does Twitter Want Us To Fly To?
12:30 pm PDT • August 16, 2010
Earlier this year, Twitter got into the event business for the first time with Chirp, a developers conference they put on in San Francisco with the help of Carsonified. Obviously,…
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Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced…
Biotech & Health
Google DeepMind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app
9 hours ago
Google DeepMind has taken the wraps off a new version of AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only…
Startups
$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups
8:00 AM PDT • May 8, 2024
Good news, crypto founders! Venture capital activity is picking up in the sector, recovering from the multi-year lows investments fell to in late 2023. Put…
Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions. “You will see more member-exclusives coming up where…
We’ve all seen them. The inspector with a clipboard, walking around a building, ticking off the last time the fire extinguishers were checked, or if all the lights are working.…
Startups
Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40 million round
11 hours ago
Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded a company, Replay, that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of replays that have become…
Usually, when something starts to rot, it gets pitched in the trash. But Joanne Rodriguez wants to turn the concept of rot on its head by growing fungus on trash…
Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S. The new round comes just two months…
iRobot has announced the successor to longtime CEO, Colin Angle. Gary Cohen, who previous held chief executive role at Timex and Qualitor Automotive, will be heading up the company, marking a major…
Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In their first-ever earnings…
