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Why Cloud Gaming Will Popularize Virtual Reality
The virtual reality hype is real. It is undeniable that virtual reality is in popular demand among early adopters and hardcore gamers. Facebook’s Oculus Rift is sold out until June because, despite an initial public outcry against its price, many are willing to pay $599 to be one of the first to own the headset. Read More
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Google And Movidius Partner To Propel Computer Vision In Next-Generation Devices
Announced today, Google will begin licensing the Myriad 2 family of VPU chips from Movidius. This tiny chip, complete with 12 cores, specializes in enabling low power, advanced computer vision processing, which will no doubt be a valuable component to “mobilizing” to Google’s growing list of products that utilize machine learning. Read More
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Chrome For iOS Is Now Faster And Crashes 70% Less Often
Google is launching a new version of Chrome for iOS today that promises to be both faster and more stable than previous versions. According to Google, Chrome 48 for iOS now crashes seventy percent less often and the browser should feel more responsive. JavaScript execution is also now significantly faster. Until today, Google still used Apple’s UIWebKit framework. While that allowed… Read More
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The Zebra, A “Kayak For Auto Insurance,” Grabs $17 Million To Better Educate Drivers About Rates & Coverage
Austin-based The Zebra, a startup that’s something of a “Kayak for auto insurance,” has been working to bring the process of shopping for insurance online, where consumers can more transparently compare quotes and understand how insurance companies determine rates. Now the company has raised an additional $17 million in Series A funding led by Ballast Point Ventures. The… Read More
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Watch Microsoft Venture’s London Accelerator Right Here
TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures London Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 3:30p GMT. The event is private so this live stream is the only way for the general public to watch the event. Ten companies will take the stage and present their company to a group of investors. Microsoft Ventures launched in 2013 in a bid… Read More
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Branch Metrics Snags $35 Million More For Its Deep Linking & App Discovery Business
One of the problems in the early days of the mobile app era is that it wasn’t possible to link to the pages within apps the same way you could link to pages on the open web. But technology has adapted to solve that problem over the years, both on the part of the mobile OS platform makers themselves, as well as via third parties who today provide smarter links to the content within apps… Read More
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Uber Gets Fined $1.3 Million For Ambiguous Driver Training Videos In France
Urban transportation company Uber is having a rough week in France. Following yesterday’s protests, the high court of Paris just fined Uber $1.3 million (€1.2 million). The two events are unrelated, but it shows that France is still a hostile market for the American company, even though Paris is one of the most lucrative cities for Uber. Read More
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Big Viking Games Acquires Mobile Marketing Startup Gallop Labs
Gallop Labs, a startup that helps mobile publishers identify and make money from valuable users, has been acquired by one of its customers, Big Viking Games. In the press release announcing the acquisition, Big Viking CEO Albert Lai (previously co-founder of Kontagent and also an investor in Gallop) said the team’s “proven track record of turning data into actionable audience… Read More
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First-Look: Enterprise Messaging App Grape’s NLP Engine
Over the last few years, Grape, the enterprise messaging app backed by Betaworks and Zinga founder Mark Pincus, has been toiling away to build a smarter chat box powered by Natural Language Processing (NLP). Read More
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StatMuse Picks Up $10M For Its AI-Based, Graphic Search Engine For Sports Statistics
The business of sport revolves around stats — from those who use them to improve performance, through to those who look at them for fun, or for more financial ends. Now a startup that helps make it easier for regular people to dig into and visualise sports stats has picked up some funding to grow. StatMuse, a startup out of San Francisco that currently lets you search for basketball… Read More
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AppDirect Acquires Tech Support Platform Radialpoint
AppDirect, the well-funded marketplace for selling cloud services, today announced that it has acquired the Montreal-based tech support company Radialpoint. Based on this acquisition, AppDirect also today announced the launch of a number of premium support options. These include premium support for Microsoft’s Office 365, as well as a cloud and IT helpdesk, and a new consumer… Read More
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SoftBank Plans To Open A Store Staffed (Almost) Entirely By Pepper, Its Humanoid Robot
SoftBank announced today that it will launch an app store to create a software ecosystem for Pepper, its humanoid robot. Perhaps more intriguingly, the company, one of Japan’s largest telecom and Internet firms, also revealed plans for a phone store staffed mainly by Peppers. Read More
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Lyft Will Pay $12.25M To Settle Worker Classification Lawsuit In California
Lyft said today that it agreed to pay $12.25 million to settle a pending worker classification lawsuit in California, but it will continue to classify its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. Read More
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Rakuten Ventures Launches $84M Fund Just For Japanese Startups
Rakuten Ventures, the investment arm of one of Japan’s largest Internet companies, has launched a 10 billion yen ($84 million) fund dedicated to the country’s startups. The Japan Fund will focus on promising early-stage and growth tech companies that can potentially work with businesses in Rakuten’s ecosystem, which include its e-commerce platform, an online bank, and… Read More
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Deliverd Offers Another Take On The On-Demand Food Delivery Idea
Deliverd, founded by Paul Rawlings and James Grant, is another U.K. startup entering the on-demand food delivery space. However, the burgeoning company, which sees its formal launch today, offers a slight twist that potentially combines the advantages of take-out delivery services like Deliveroo with so-called online restaurants such as EatFirst. Read More
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Prototyping Suite InVision Is Acquiring Design Tool Macaw
InVision, a prototyping tool we’ve covered before, is acquiring code-based design tool Macaw. InVision is a product and prototype design tool used by hundreds of companies including Uber, Twitter, and Airbnb. Launched in 2011, the company has since raised around $80M in four fundraising rounds. The acquisition, which is InVision’s first, comes after a long collaboration between… Read More
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Sweden Is A Tech Superstar From The North
While most of Europe has been mired in economic turmoil since 2008, Sweden has managed to stay afloat — and even accelerate its growth. The country and, especially, its capital, Stockholm, have outpaced other European nations with a mix of unique cultural traditions, visionary tech leaders, globally oriented startups and smart government policies. Read More
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Meet The CEOs Vying For The Crunchie For Top CEO Of 2015
We’re only a couple weeks aways from the 9th Annual Crunchies show when we will honor a select group of the best and brightest startups and leaders in the tech industry. Today, we’re looking at some of the top leaders in the tech industry who are contending for the Crunchie for CEO of the Year, an award given to the leader who has had the most critical impact on the tech… Read More
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Moz, Inc.
- $10M Series C
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Search, Software, SEO, Semantic Search
- Investors: Not available
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SheKnows Media
- $22M Debt Financing
- HQ: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Categories: Parenting, Beauty, Entertainment, News, Fashion, Media, Women, Publishing ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Vidyard
- $35M Series C
- HQ: Kitchener, Ontario
- Categories: Analytics, Media, Internet Marketing, Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Cedexis
- $22M Series B
- HQ: Portland, Oregon
- Categories: Content Delivery, Software, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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ParkWhiz
- $24M Series C
- HQ: Chicago, Illinois
- Categories: Software, Parking, E-Commerce, Geospatial
- Investors: Not available
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Peakon
- 4.0M EUR Series A
- HQ: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden
- Categories: Human Resources
- Investors: Not available
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ComEd (Commonwealth Edison)
- $4.0M Grant
- HQ: Chicago, Illinois
- Categories: Electrical Distribution, Utilities, Customer Service, Services
- Investors: Not available
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Tarveda Therapeutics
- $38M Series C
- HQ: Watertown, Massachusetts
- Categories: Medical, Therapeutics, Health Diagnostics, Nanotechnology, Healthcare ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Cadre
- $50M Series B
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Investment Management, Real Estate, Services, Technology
- Investors: Not available
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HighQ
- $50M Private Equity
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Project Management, Collaboration, Document Management, Knowledge ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Relativity Media
- $100M Private Equity
- HQ: California, Kentucky
- Categories: Games
- Investors: Not available
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Eyeota
- $7.0M Series A
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: Big Data Analytics, Big Data, Ad Targeting
- Investors: Not available
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Grovo
- $40M Series C
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Freemium, Curated Web, Video, SaaS, Human Resources, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Jitterbit
- $20M Series B
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Data Integration, Software, Open Source
- Investors: Not available
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panOpen
- $4.5M Venture
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Open Source, EdTech, Colleges, Education
- Investors: Not available
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Kannact
- $2.9M Venture
- HQ: Portland, Oregon
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Lever
- $20M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Human Resources, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Software, Recruiting
- Investors: Not available
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Fireglass
- $20M Series A
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Information Security, Security, Cyber Security
- Investors: Not available
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The Zebra
- $17M Series A
- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: Search, Auto, Price Comparison, Insurance Companies, Comparison Shopping, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Moneytis
- Not available Convertible Note
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Virtual Currency, P2P Money ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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GoMore
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden
- Categories: Peer-to-Peer, Public Transportation
- Investors: Not available
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ProctorExam
- 500K EUR Seed
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: Online Education
- Investors: Not available
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SnapMD
- $5.3M Series A
- HQ: Glendale, California
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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centrose
- $1.4M Convertible Note
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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High Purity Quartz Materials
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Renewable Energies, Solar, Semiconductors
- Investors: Not available
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Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals
- $5.0M Debt Financing
- HQ: Tucson, Arizona
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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ZenMate
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: Security, Browser Extensions, Privacy, Software
- Investors: Not available
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Metric Gaming
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Curious.com
- $1.4M Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Menlo Park, California
- Categories: Education, EdTech
- Investors: Not available
