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Polygon among $9.3M investment in Paper to help onboard NFT buyers via email
Paper, a crypto-focused payments processing company launched in February, closed a $7.3 million seed round after a $2 million angel investment for a total of $9.3 million in fresh capital.
Paper gets $100M worth of venture-backed paper for B2B edtech
For edtech startups, it’s always been easier to go direct-to-consumer than it is to sell into school districts. The latter has stodgy and strict sales cycles, while the former has a bit more flexib
The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels
Cloud Paper, the startup whose bamboo toilet paper (and celebrity and billionaire backers, including Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Mark Cuban) made a splash l
Ink raises $7M to make printing on college campuses less painful
Ink, a Nebraska-based startup focused on revamping on-campus printing, has raised $7 million from VTF Capital, SQN Venture Partners, Invest Nebraska and NE Angeles. This brings total funding to $15 m
Ticketmaster is taking NFL ticketing digital
The football ticket is about to go paperless. As part of a multi-year contract extension between The National Football League and Ticketmaster, the ticketing giant has said it will be selling the NFL
Dropbox Paper gets document previews and some other small updates
Dropbox continues to tune its products as it tries to tap a bigger audience within larger companies with some updates today to its collaboration tool Paper, including the ability to preview documents
Ripcord’s $40 million Series B will pay for more file digitizing robots and human jobs
Bay Area startup Ripcord just scored a $40 million Series B, following its successful launch earlier this year. By all accounts, the company has apparently hit the ground running with its decidedly un
New algorithm lets you make anything in origami
They say if you fold 1,000 origami cranes out of individual sheets of paper your deepest wishes will be granted. I tried it once – I was a lonely college kid – and I ended up with pink eye
Books and roses
Anyone who thinks paper books are dead has never been in a Barcelona bookshop the day before Sant Jordi. The Patron Saint festival is Catalunya's equivalent of Valentine's day. But as well as giving l
Dropbox’s note-taking app Paper launches globally in 21 languages
Dropbox said today that it is rolling out Paper — its note-taking app that it’s emphasizing is a tool that’s built for managing workflow as well — globally. In addition to the regular
What Salesforce’s acquisition of Quip means for enterprise software startups
A new player has entered the enterprise productivity race. For decades, Microsoft reigned as the market leader in enterprise productivity -- until Google pushed into the space with Google Apps. Now, w
Dropbox launches an iPhone and Android version of its document-editing app Paper
It’s an interesting time for Dropbox’s document-building tool, Paper. Quip, in a similar vein to Paper, was bought for a whopping $750 million by Salesforce earlier this week. This deal su
Microsoft Launches Plumbago, A Paper App Competitor That Lets You Sketch & Handwrite Notes
Microsoft’s Office suite already has a popular note-taking app with OneNote, but today the company is turning its attention to how note-taking should work on tablets that support stylus and touc
Meet The Disrupt NY 2015 Speakers And Judges
Disrupt NY is just a few days away, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak throughout the three-day-long conference. You can stil
Facebook Open Sources More Of The Tech Behind Its Paper App
It doesn't look like Facebook's Paper app for iOS ever caught on with users, but many developers looked toward it as an example of what a modern mobile app could look like.
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FiftyThree’s Paper Introduces ‘Mix’ To Give Creators A New Way To Collaborate With Others
The newest version of the Paper app will have a feature called Mix, which will enable users to view and riff on projects others have started, as well as sharing their own projects that can be added to
Wacom Launches Bamboo Paper On Android, Windows 8 And Kindle Fire
Drawing tablet and digitizer hardware maker Wacom is expanding the availability of its homegrown note-taking app today, with a launch that brings the previously iPad-only app to devices powered by And
Pencil By FiftyThree Gets Surface Pressure In A Free Update Coming For iOS 8
Pencil, the iPad stylus from app-maker turned hardware builder FiftyThree, is getting an update that allows it to change the character of lines drawn in its Paper app based on how you apply the unique
TC Cribs: Feeling Like A Kid Again At FiftyThree’s Creative NYC HQ
Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that goes behind the doors of tech companies to see what it’s like inside for the lucky ducks who work there. Today’s episode brings us to the