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Apple’s New Mac Pro: A 4K Video-Editing, Super-Fast Powerhouse, Available In December For $2,999
Today Apple announced December availability for the Mac Pro, the strange, solid cylinder of computing power. It starts at $2,999 for the 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon, 12GB DRAM, 2GB VRAM, and 256GB. The new model runs at 44W, 70% less energy consumption than the original Mac Pro. The New Mac Pro is assembled in the US and features AMD FirePro graphics and can hold up to one terabyte of flash storage. It… Read More
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Hiyalife Releases An iPhone App For Its Privacy-Aware Memories Platform
Back in the day, a few startups came along to bring a timeline interface to our memories. We're all familiar with the Facebook newsfeed approach, though in fairness, timelines are an age-old way of displaying information, almost as old as writing itself. But the history of startups in this space is patchy. Memolane was mysteriously shut down. It had raised $2.5 million in venture capital to create… Read More
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Apple Unveils Cheaper MacBook Pro Retina With Intel Haswell Processors, Slimmer Designs
Today at Apple’s press conference, the company unveiled updated MacBook Pro models with retina displays. The new laptops sport the latest Intel processors based on the Haswell architecture. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros got updated. The 13-inch model is lighter (under 3.5 lbs), slimmer (.71 inch thick) and has a bigger 9-hour battery. It has integrated graphics and Thunderbolt 2… Read More
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Apple Makes OS X Mavericks A Free Upgrade, Available Today
Apple has announced the release date and price for the new version of its desktop OS, OS X Mavericks. And the big surprise is it’ll be free. The software is available to download from the Mac App Store, starting from today. “Over the last few years, we’ve reengineered our development process, and [with the app store], the way we distribute. Today, we’ll revolutionize pricing,”… Read More
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1 Million+ Apps Later, Apple Says Developers Have Made $13 Billion On Its Platform
The iOS App Store now has over a million apps, which have been downloaded 60 billion times. The news broke this morning at the Apple event taking place at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, when CEO Tim Cook took the stage, prefacing the day's announcements with a recap of the traction Apple is seeing with the new iPhones and iOS 7 adoption. And as always, he gave a shout out to… Read More
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iOS 7 By The Numbers: 200 Million Downloads In 5 Days, 64% Adoption Rate, 20 Million iTunes Radio Listeners
In San Francisco today, Apple shared some numbers during its keynote. Only five days after the iOS 7 release, 200 million devices ran the new operating system. It represents a 64 percent adoption rate to date. “This blows away the other guys,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on stage. As always, this massive adoption rate is one of Apple’s major strengths. While many believed that iOS 7… Read More
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Locket Launches A Developer Toolkit That Lets App Publishers Push Ads To Android Lockscreens
Locket, the Android app that pays you (in tiny amounts) just for unlocking your smartphone, is today launching a toolkit for app developers that will allow them to publish their own content to users' lock screens. That means when users see ads for apps on their phone's screen, they can open up the app itself with just a swipe, similar to how a push notification works. Read More
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Startup Book Publisher Unbound Raises $2M For Kickstarter For Authors Platform
Just as crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding has taken off in recent years, it was clear this model was seeping into many other areas of business. One small startup that latched onto the model was Unbound, a UK startup that worked out that if they made their authors rock stars, then the fans would follow and subsequently fund a new model for publishing which did not require the "hits" model followed… Read More
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Emu’s Android Texting App Makes Your SMS Conversations Smarter
I know, I know: these days it seems like nearly everyone and their mother is trying to cash in on the mobile messaging app craze. And at first glance, a new Android messaging app called Emu seems like just another claimant to the throne. It's not. It's much, much better. Rather than try to build a new online messaging platform from scratch and then agonize over ways to make it stand out amid a… Read More
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In Pitch To NYC Regulators, Airbnb Claims It Generates $632M In Economic Activity
Peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb has faced some heat in New York City lately and is seeking to have new laws passed that would legitimize the service in the city. With that in mind, the company has released the findings of an economic study that it hopes will show what a positive impact the service has on the local community and economy. Read More
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HomeShop18
- Size $14M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors GS Home Shopping, Network18
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Easy Taxi
- Size $7M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Rocket Internet, iMENA Holdings
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Cloudian
- Size Not available
- Round B
- Investors Intel Capital
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Cureatr
- Size $5.7M
- Round A
- Investors Cardinal Partners, Milestone Venture Partners
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F-star Alpha
- Size $12.1M
- Round A
- Investors Atlas Venture, Aescap Venture, TVM Ventures, SR One, MP Healthcare Venture ... See More
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BoostUp
- Size $1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Detroit Venture Partners, Patrick Sullivan, IncWell
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WiTricity
- Size $25M
- Round E
- Investors Intel Capital, Foxconn
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Phraxis
- Size $1.5M
- Round Crowd
- Investors Not available
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Bromium
- Size $40M
- Round C
- Investors Meritech Capital Partners, Ignition Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Highland ... See More
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Black Lotus
- Size $3.5M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Gainspeed
- Size Not available
- Round B
- Investors Juniper Strategic Investments
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Ruffl
- Size $1.6M
- Round Seed
- Investors Karen Hanton, David Pritchard, Mark Ferguson
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Bizdom
- Size $125K
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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NextCode Health
- Size $15M
- Round A
- Investors Polaris Partners, ARCH Venture Partners
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Savaari Car Rentals
- Size Not available
- Round B
- Investors Intel Capital
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UZwan
- Size $1.6M
- Round A
- Investors Qingsong Fund
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The Base
- Size $2M
- Round Seed
- Investors CyberAgent
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Lyks
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Kickstart Seed Fund
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Angiodroid
- Size $1.2M
- Round Seed
- Investors Italian Angels for Growth, Zernike Meta Ventures
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Comprimato
- Size $257.3K
- Round Seed
- Investors Credo Ventures, Y Soft
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Indotrading
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Rebright Partners
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Teambox
- Size $5M
- Round A
- Investors Avalon Ventures, Data Collective
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Talknote
- Size $2M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Claro Energy
- Size Not available
- Round A
- Investors Sheetal Bahl
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Appsee
- Size $1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Giza Venture Capital, Moshe Lichtman
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CYP Design
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Mercia Fund Management
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UNBOUND
- Size $1.8M
- Round Seed
- Investors DFJ Esprit, Cambridge Angels group, Forward Investment Partners
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Tensorcom
- Size $5M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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SMS Assist
- Size $45M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Pritzker Group Venture Capital
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Symbiotec Pharmalab
- Size $48M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Actis
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Union Square Ventures Adds Hacker News-Like Link Sharing Community To Newly Designed Site
Union Square Ventures, the New York-based VC firm that has backed Twitter, Foursquare, Etsy, Zynga and many others, has debuted a newly redesigned website today. A VC firm launching a new site isn't usually big news, but in this case, USV has added an interesting new sharing community that draws comparisons to Y Combinator's Hacker News. Read More
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Can You Click Your Way To Happiness? New Self-Help Service For The Stressed & Sad, Happify, Makes Big Claims
A new website catering to the stressed out, emotionally unfulfilled, and generally down called Happify is launching publicly today backed by $3.8 million in seed funding. Its goal? To bring the latest scientific advancements in positive psychology and positive neuroscience to consumers in the form of games, activities and exercises designed to "hack your inner self" and "optimize your well-being."… Read More
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Health Startup Noom Receives NIH Grant To Study Smartphone Tech In Eating Disorder Treatment
In the field of fitness trackers and apps, evidence of their efficacy is often anecdotal. The New York-based health startup Noom is looking to back their technology up with harder evidence, though, and they have received a small business grant from the National Institutes of Health to do so. Read More
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eBay Adds 200 “Trendsetter” Star Curators, More Social Features To Its Marketplace
The influence of social media continues to extend beyond platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and today, eBay is throwing its hat into the ring. It is unveiling a series of new features in its Marketplace that will see the company making one of its biggest moves yet to bring itself up to date with today's younger online audience -- and compete more comprehensively against the likes of Amazon. eBay… Read More
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eBay Acquires UK Startup Shutl To Change The Ecommerce Game With One Hour Delivery
eBay has announced an agreement to acquire Shutl, the UK-based marketplace that uses a network of couriers to deliver local goods within a couple of hours of an online purchase. Terms were not disclosed. The company was founded by Tom Allason the founder and former CEO of eCourier.co.uk in 2008. Allason was unavailable for comment, but we understand from sources that he is pretty happy with the… Read More
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Cannonball For iPad Reorganizes Your Inbox Automatically, But It’s Not For Power Users
There's no shortage of apps which are trying to build a better interface for managing email. The latest to join the melee is Cannonball, an iPad application which reorganizes the inbox by separating your communications - personal emails from subscriptions, daily deals from newsletters, and so on - into a highly visual interface you interact with via drag-and-drop. Read More
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Live From Apple’s New iPad Announcement
It’s that time again! We’re live at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to take the stage to debut everything the company has been secretly working on for the last few months. What will they show? No one knows for certain, of course — but we’ve got some ideas, and there’s been no shortage of rumors. New iPads? Probably! Read More
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WunWun Triples Orders Since Launch, Partners With Dwolla For Payment
Hot on the heels of Dwolla's big Dwolla Credit news, WunWun on-demand delivery service has some news of its own. Starting today, users of the service will be able to pay with Dwolla, either through Dwolla's cash-based payments system or the new Dwolla Credit system. See, as it stands now, WunWun charges their own corporate cards to make purchases for users, and then bills the users' credit… Read More
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Video AdTech Startup Teads Closes $5.2M Series A, From Partech & Elaia, To Prep International Push
French video adTech startup Teads, which sells technology allowing publishers to embed video ads within articles that automatically play when they become visible on the user's screen, has closed a $5.2 million Series A round, with backing from Partech Ventures (also an investor in Dailymotion) and Elaia Partners. Read More
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Enterprise Software Company Blue Rooster Raises $3M, Opens Hong Kong Office
Enterprise software company Blue Rooster announced today that it has raised $3 million from PFU Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. Seattle-based Blue Rooster said the funding is the first installment in a multi-stage investment that has not yet been completed. Read More