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The App Ecosystem’s New Status Quo
Americans spent more time using smartphone and tablet applications in 2014 than they did mobile and desktop web combined. With nearly four billion smartphones projected to be in use by 2020, the platform shift to mobile is well underway. Read More
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NASA Rover Designed To Last 90 Days Celebrates 12 Year Anniversary
This week NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover celebrated its 12 year anniversary on the red planet. What’s truly remarkable about this is the fact that the rover was only designed to operate for about 90 days. Due to helpful unforeseen surface conditions and few creative software changes, NASA has been able to keep Opportunity alive and operational to this day. After a 6 and a half… Read More
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Paul Allen’s Yacht Blamed For Destroying Coral Reef
Vulcan, the investment firm of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, features a practice area that aims to “reduce our impact on the environment, particularly local watershed and ocean habitats.” So you can imagine it more than a little embarrassing when Allen’s 300-foot yacht, Tatoosh, was accused yesterday of destroying a coral reef in the Cayman Islands that has been in… Read More
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Susa Ventures Looks to Raise $50 Million Second Fund
Susa Ventures, a 2.5-year-old, seed-stage firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. , is looking to raise up to $50 million for a second fund, two years after raising a $25 million debut fund. The SEC filing is here. Read More
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Lockscreen App Slidejoy Gets A Newsy New Feature
Slidejoy, a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading experience. Co-founder Sanghoon Kwak led the development of the new Trends feature, and he said that previously, if you were reading news on Slidejoy, you saw one article at a time, and they came from about a dozen publishers. Read More
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Facebook Shutters Its Parse Developer Platform
Here’s a surprise: Facebook is closing its Parse developer platform. After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a reported $85 million in 2013, Facebook turned Parse into one of its key developer services. Read More
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Apple Pay Is Coming To ATMs From Bank Of America And Wells Fargo
Both Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are working on integrating Apple Pay into their ATMs, according to a source familiar with the teams on the projects. Engineers at both companies have been placed on multi-month assignments to build the Apple Pay options. I’ve confirmed the identity of at least one engineer who publicly lists themselves as a Bank Of America employee. Wells… Read More
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Nigerian Fintech Company Interswitch Could Become Africa’s First Public Startup Unicorn
Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Read More
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Amazon Tanks 13% After Reporting Q4 Miss With $1.00 EPS, $35.7B Net Sales
Despite posting the best quarterly profit in its history, Amazon plummeted as much as 13% after-hours after missing on net sales and earnings per share. This came after the stock had soared to end up nearly 9% in the hours preceding the earnings release. The Seattle-based retail company reported net sales of $35.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2015, up 22% from $29.3 billion in… Read More
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Microsoft Beats On Strong Cloud Revenue With $25.7B Revenue, $0.78 EPS
Microsoft today reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2016 (I know, that’s weird, but Microsoft’s financial year ends in June). The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $25.7 billion for the last quarter and $0.78 of adjusted per-share profit. Wall Street expected Microsoft to deliver an EPS of $0.71 on revenue of $25.26 billion. In the year-ago quarter, the… Read More
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Shypmate Pays Travelers To Bring Products To Ghana And Nigeria
Shypmate, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a quick, low-cost international shipping solution that relies on everyday people to transport items from the U.S. to Ghana and Nigeria. Why Ghana and Nigeria? Well, the founding team (pictured above) has members from both Ghana and Nigeria — two African markets they’re familiar with and have a need for this kind… Read More
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Crunch Network
Security And Privacy Standards Are Critical To The Success Of Connected Cars
The automotive industry is rapidly evolving to transform the car from a simple mode of transport to a personalized information hub: There will be an estimated 220 million connected cars on the road globally by 2020. Each of those cars will be equipped with more than 200 sensors, more than double the number of sensors in connected cars on the road today. Read More
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Apple Acquires Education Startup LearnSprout
Apple has acquired education-technology startup LearnSprout, Bloomberg reported a bit ago and we have just confirmed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LearnSprout is a three-year-old, San Francisco-based software startup whose online data insights help K-12 educators track students’ performances. The company had raised $4.7 million from investors across two rounds, including… Read More
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Republican FCC Commissioner Says Silicon Valley Should Revisit Net Neutrality
Ajit Pai, FCC Commissioner and outspoken critic of the Title II regulation proposed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, says Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs should not support Net Neutrality. Read More
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Inside Parlio: Egyptian Activist Wael Ghonim’s New Platform For Social Change
Wael Ghonim is an activist who helped spark the Egyptian Revolution, a wave of protests and demonstrations in Egypt that were part of the Arab Spring, and which helped overthrow the long-reigning Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Ghonim, who worked for Google at the time, used social media to unite Egyptians and create the movement in his country and was jailed for it. Thanks to social media… Read More
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BirdEye Swoops In On $8 Million Series A
BirdEye, a software company focused on helping its clients improve their business reputations and customer experiences in real time, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Ventures. Plenty of Silicon Valley luminaries also piled into the round, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang; Square’s project engineering lead Gokul Rajaram; Kevin… Read More
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Dropbox Is 2% Black, 5% Hispanic, According To 2015 Diversity Report
Dropbox just released its diversity report for 2015 on the company’s blog, citing some progress around having more women in leadership positions, with 25 percent of the VPs at the company being women, but an overall decline in percentage of women. Last year, Dropbox was 33.9 percent women worldwide. This year, that percentage has dropped to 32 percent world Read More
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Shryne Backs Up Your Online Relationships And Memories
A refrain about my generation is that we are too ephemeral and that our memories are too fleeting. Exhibit A: Snapchat. Now, obviously generational complaints are generally bullshit and olds are meant to be ignored, but it’s also not like I just want to forget everything, either. Read More
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Pindrop
- $75M Series C
- HQ: Atlanta, Georgia
- Categories: Risk Management, Security, Customer Service, Mobile, Audio, Fraud Detection ... See More
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NewVoiceMedia
- $30M Series F
- HQ: Basingstoke, Hampshire
- Categories: Customer Service, Sales and Marketing, Enterprise Software
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Bigfoot Biomedical
- $2.4M Debt Financing
- HQ: Milpitas, California
- Categories: Healthcare Services, Mobile Health, Medical Devices
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BitGiving
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Delhi, Delhi
- Categories: Charity, Curated Web
- Investors: Not available
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Moneytis
- Not available Convertible Note
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: FinTech, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, P2P Money Transfer, ... See More
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Wonolo
- $5.7M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Marketplaces, Temporary Staffing
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Insurify
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Apps
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Booster Fuels
- $9.0M Series A
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Transportation
- Investors: Not available
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centrose
- $1.4M Convertible Note
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: Biotechnology
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High Purity Quartz Materials
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Renewable Energies, Solar, Semiconductors
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Wercker
- $4.5M Series A
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Software, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Naritiv
- $3.0M Series A
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: Video, Digital Media, Social Media Marketing, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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StackAdapt
- 1.0M CAD Series A
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: Advertising Networks, Internet Marketing, Ad Targeting, Advertising ... See More
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eNaturr
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast'
- Categories: Information Technology, Services, Hardware + Software
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Birch
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Gainesville, Florida
- Categories: Not available
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SENSU
- $700K Angel
- HQ: Tokyo, Tokyo
- Categories: Online Shopping, Creative, E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Farmer's Edge Laboratories
- $41M Series C
- HQ: Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Categories: Hardware + Software, Data Integration, Farming
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Kurio
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya
- Categories: Apps, Mobile Advertising, Content Syndication, Media, News, Mobile
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NEXT Academy
- $3.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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WiZN Systems
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
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Reputation X
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Sausalito, California
- Categories: SEO, Internet Marketing, Curated Web, Analytics, Reputation
- Investors: Not available
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SciSports
- 1.4M EUR Private Equity
- HQ: Enschede, Overijssel
- Categories: Sports
- Investors: Not available
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World Tech Makers
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Not available
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HELOND
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Belgrade, Vojvodina
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PT Ltd Tales of Coffee
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya
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Qriyo Infolabs
- $160K Seed
- HQ: Not available
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Finova Financial LLC
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
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Godel Technologies (JustDoc)
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Health and Wellness
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