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Can’t Find The Windows 8.1 Update? Here’s How To Get It
Earlier today, Microsoft released Windows 8.1, the successor to its controversial Windows 8 operating system. From what I can tell, most folks appear to be having a fine time updating. Not everyone, mind you, but that's frankly to be expected. However, some folks are having a hard time actually finding the update itself, so let's help them. If you can't see Windows 8.1 in the Windows Store… Read More
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Le Laboratoire’s Ophone Is A Smartphone For The Nose That Knows
Can you smell a symphony? If Le Laboratoire has its way, you soon will. The contemporary art and design sensor founded by academic and scientists David Edwards in 2007 was at Wired's 2013 event in London this week, showing their latest creation: an olfactory experience unlike any other, delivered digitally like an email or instant message. Read More
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Twitter’s Theoretically Temporary URL Messaging Ban Due To Massive Wave Of DM Spam
Late yesterday afternoon many Twitter users began to notice that they could no longer send Direct Messages containing URLs. The complaints about the issue gained steam late into the night, when we reported that Twitter said a ‘technical issue’ was behind the problem with DMs. Well, it turns out that the technical issue may have been referring to the handling of Direct Message spam, not… Read More
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Mode Lands A $550K Seed Round Led By David Sacks To Bring Online Collaboration To Data Science
Mode, a company that is building an online repository for data science work, announced today that it has secured a $550,000 seed round of funding, led by Yammer founder David Sacks. Mode CEO Derek Steer previously worked at Yammer, including after its acquisition by Microsoft. Read More
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Oracle Buys Compendium, A Content Marketing Startup, To Build Up Its Arsenal Against Frenemy Salesforce
On the heels of its $871 million acquisition of Eloqua in December 2012, today Oracle is sailing into another acquisition in the cloud-based marketing space in competition with Salesforce and others. It is buying Compendium, a six-year-old startup that, out of Indianapolis and largely bootstrapped, has managed to build up a business with a number of large clients including CVENT, Gymboree and… Read More
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F6S Becomes A Global Clearinghouse For Startup Freebies, $100M Worth
Last year we covered an interesting new global initiative, and the rash of new accelerators across the world created a problem: how to apply for many of them. To the rescue came f6S.com, a way for startups to keep track of these programs on one platform. You can apply directly from the site for many of the programs, which, of course, has created something of a honeypot for service providers who… Read More
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FlyKly Wants To Turn Your Pedal Bike Into An E-Bike By Swapping Out The Back Wheel & Adding An App
FlyKly Smart Wheel is a Kickstarter project that wants to turn your boring old pedal bike into a sneakily pedal-assisted electro-bike by sticking an electric motor in the back wheel. Or, more specifically, by replacing your old geared (or non-geared) back wheel with its Smart Wheel, and adding an app into the mix to control the speed. The app is also used for locking and unlocking the smart wheel… Read More
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Backed By Social+Capital, A16Z, And Formation8, Data Elite Launches Lab To Fund And Advise Big Data Startups
If AngelList provides a foundation for investment 'capital as a service,' then Data Elite could be the model for 'advising-as-a-service.' Data Elite is launching today as a a venture lab and fund that counts Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway and Anand Rajaraman as backers. Data Elite has declined to reveal the amount of funding it has raised from these… Read More
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Rent The Runway Branches Further Offline, With A Permanent Showroom At Henri Bendel
E-commerce startups have been working at the online-offline game for a while now, in the form of pop-up shops and brick-and-mortar investments like Warby Parker's New York flagship and Bonobos' Guide Shops. Now Rent the Runway has found a new home offline: a permanent showroom in Henri Bendel's iconic Fifth Avenue department store. Read More
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Waterhouse Jumps Wellington’s Ship To Boost Balderton’s Early Stage Activity
Following recent changes at DFJ Esprit, Forward Ventures, and Index Ventures, today sees another change in European VC personnel. Long-time partner Daniel Waterhouse has left Wellington Partners to join Balderton Capital as a General Partner, where he'll be based in London focussing on early stage investments in the software and internet sectors. Read More
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The Makerbot Digitizer Is Nearly Magic
When I was a kid I was amazed by advances technology. I went to a friend's house when I was in fifth grade and his father had a PC - an IBM PC, I believe - with a built in hard drive. We loaded King's Quest and Colossal Cavern in seconds and he even had a menu of apps that you could select by tapping a key. As a kid who grew up with tapes and later floppy disks, this was close to magic. Read More
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Trailerpop, An App That Makes Movie Trailers A Game, Looks To Tap Video Advertising
Because games are the overwhelmingly most actively used and lucrative category in the two major app stores, it’s no surprise that apps from other categories have tried to employ gaming mechanics to boost engagement. Trailerpop is an app that’s trying to re-invigorate video advertising by turning movie trailer watching into a game. They have about 20,000 trailers and hundreds of… Read More
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In A Push For Radical Transparency, Bloomberg Beta Makes Its Operating Manual Public For All To See
Bloomberg Beta is releasing its internally generated "operating manual" to the world on Github. While the manual was created by five-person staff for its own use in determining how and under what terms it plans to make investments, making the manual public will give startups seeking funding a better idea of what makes Bloomberg Beta tick, and what they can expect when they enter into discussions… Read More
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Tailwind Buys PinReach As Pinterest Analytics Startups Consolidate
When Pinterest frenzy was at a peak (adding users in record numbers; $1.5b valuation), and before Pinterest started to roll out its own tools for marketers, a rush of startups emerged that third parties could use to track how popular pins were across the network and related details. Now, some news of consolidation among them: Tailwind (formerly known as PinLeague) is buying PinReach from social… Read More
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Sequoia-Backed Data Visualization App Roambi Unveils A Complete Redesign To Complement iOS 7
Roambi, the app that makes it easy for companies to turn their data into interactive graphics, has released a major update of its analytics platform. The most obvious difference in Roambi Analytics 7, as the latest version is called, is a complete visual makeover that brings the app's look into line with iOS 7's design. MeLLmo, the Sequioa-backed creator of Roambi, also launched Roambi Card View… Read More
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Ping, Now Called Hop, Launches An App That Makes Email Feel More Like Real-Time Mobile Messaging
Ping, a mobile messaging app that turns emails into real-time conversations, is relaunching today under the new name of "hop." (It seems that PING Golf may not have cared for the original name too much). But the name isn't the only thing getting a makeover since the app's reveal only a month ago - Ping, now hop, is also now optimized for iOS 7, syncs faster, and includes new and tweaked features… Read More
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Hulu Plus Lands On The Nintendo 3DS
Hulu, one of three bigreasons why you should probably cut the cable soon, has today announced that it will provide access to its library of streamable TV shows and movies to Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, and Nintendo 2DS owners. According to the official blog post, Hulu and Nintendo worked together to provide a solid experience across the various handheld gaming devices, one that "takes… Read More
