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AI-powered parking platform Metropolis bags $167M

Metropolis, a startup building payment infrastructure for parking facilities, today announced that it raised $167 million in a Series B round co-led by 3L Capital and Assembly Ventures with participat

San Francisco Vs. Silicon Valley: Where Should You Build Your Business?

When Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard in the summer of 2004, he didn't move his fledgling company to the mountains, or the Gulf of Mexico, or San Francisco, he moved to Silicon Valley. Well, Palo Alto to

Helio gets all up in Quincy Jones's grill

Helio, the MVNO to all that is hip, is partnering with Quincy Jones’s QD3 to launch mobile “urban” channels. “Urban” meaning “for black people and white people who

Blingplayer Lets You Show Off Your Inner Crunk

Oh boy. It was only a matter of time before every gadget on earth got blingified. The latest casualty is MediaReady’s new Blingplayer (normally spelled with all caps), a “fashion” mu