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Flash Giveaway: Win A Free Ticket To #TCDisrupt
9:58 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Yes, you heard that right. Enter to win a free ticket to Disrupt. We’ve decided to do something a little crazy this year for the ticket giveaways. We’re giving away…
Hardware
Standalone Kinect For Xbox One Will Go On Sale October 7 For $149.99
9:47 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Starting October 7, consumers who opted to buy an Xbox One without a Kinect will be able to snag one for $149.99. Microsoft unbundled the Kinect device from the Xbox…
Google today announced that its cloud platform has received both a new ISO 27001 certificate and that it has completed its latest SOC 2 and SOC 3 Type II audits.…
Media & Entertainment
Cotap, A WhatsApp For The Workplace, Adds Box, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive And Desktop App
9:05 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Cotap, a startup founded by former Yammer executives Jim Patterson and Zack Parker that launched last year with the premise of becoming a “WhatsApp for the workplace“, is today unveiling a…
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’s success in the App Store could open the doors to future celebrity-publisher partnerships, suggests app analytics firm App Annie in a new report out this morning which looks…
Nutanix, a five-year old converged infrastructure provider, announced $140M in Series E funding today, based on a whopping $2B+ valuation. The funding comes from the two biggest Boston public market…
Hardware
Kobo’s Aura H20 Makes The High-Res E-Reader Waterproof – Your Move, Amazon
7:35 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Kobo has a new e-reader out that actually could shake up the market, since it offers waterproofing as a standard factory feature on a $179.99 e-reader, with a high-res, 265…
Amazon Promotes Its Student Program With 50 College Scholarships
6:59 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Amazon announced this morning that it will be offering 50 full-time, undergraduate students with a college scholarship that includes $5,000 toward their tuition as well as an additional $500 to…
If Disney isn’t already the most magical place on earth, it soon will be. The mega-amusement park has filed three patents to use drones within the park, first spotted by…
Media & Entertainment
Kato.im Launches Kato Teams, A Free Chat Platform for Businesses
6:17 am PDT • August 27, 2014
There’s a lot of Alt + Tab (or if you’re on a Mac: Command + Tab) going on when we work, and it can sometimes be overwhelming.
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Media & Entertainment
Facebook Turns On “Bandwidth Targeting” To Match Mobile Ads To Your Network Quality
6:04 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Facebook today counts more users, and faster growth, outside of its home market of the U.S. than inside it, but the U.S. still accounts for nearly half of all the…
Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month
6:00 am PDT • August 27, 2014
In today’s cloud storage wars, most companies are defined by the amount of space their users get for the least amount of money. With new pricing and updates to its…
Startups
A Fancy Cooler Has Stolen The Title Of Most-Funded Kickstarter Project From Pebble
5:30 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Arguably, Pebble and its record-breaking Kickstarter project woke the slumbering giant that is the smartwatch device category. It should follow, then, that by this time next year we’ll be seeing…
Enterprise
Salesforce Community Adds Customers And Partners To Growing Cloud
5:00 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Salesforce.com announced the official release of the Salesforce1 Community Cloud today, essentially making their Communities product released in June, 2013 an official product with a cloud of its own. The…
Pluralsight Raises $135 Million At A Valuation Approaching $1 Billion
4:30 am PDT • August 27, 2014
The online technology training service Pluralsight has raised a whopping $135 million in new financing as it looks to consolidate its position as a major player in personal and professional…
Startups
Smart Plug Startup Zuli Raises $1.65M And Kicks Off New Pre-Orders
4:30 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Smart home automation startup Zuli has just raised $1.65 million in venture funding following a successful Kickstarter campaign. The company has created the Zuli Smartplug, a connected outlet that plugs…
StartX, the nonprofit accelerator program spun out of Stanford University, is opening a biotech laboratory in conjunction with QB3, the institute focused on molecular biology research at the University of…
Startups
Snapdeal Gets Backing From Tata Figurehead In India’s Hot E-Commerce Market
2:53 am PDT • August 27, 2014
On the heels of Flipkart raising an eye-popping $1 billion, here’s one more sign of the landgrab going on in the Indian e-commerce market today. Its rival Snapdeal has raised yet more outside…
Enterprise
Fleep, The Team Messaging App Built And Funded By Ex-Skypers, Flicks Monetization Switch
1:59 am PDT • August 27, 2014
Fleep, the team messaging app built and backed by a number of ex-Skype engineers, is flicking the monetisation switch today. A year after launching as a free public beta, the…
Media & Entertainment
MIX for Android Lets You Create And Save Custom Photo Filters
11:36 pm PDT • August 26, 2014
MIX for Android is the app for you if you often feel like Goldilocks when confronted with the filters in other photo-editing apps. Not only does MIX let you edit…
