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Gillmor Gang: God Only Knows
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 11, 2015. Apple Tax announced, fanboys and girls prepare deep rationalization for unnecessary hardware from soup to nuts, TV takes over. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More
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Crunch Network
How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution
Fears over privacy are nothing new. As users began to see the sheer availability of information online, and the amount of personal data being seen and used by tech companies, they became rightly concerned over how much information would be available to companies and individuals, and how that information would be used. The increasing stream of news about the scope and intensity of… Read More
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Crunch Network
Building Smart City Security
As urbanization intensifies and public sector technology initiatives advance quickly, the once-futuristic promise of “smart cities” is coming to fruition. Cities have always been “smart” to a degree, using technology to boost the productivity and efficiency of municipal services. But today, the proliferation of digital connectivity and big data explosion are creating… Read More
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Ras Labs Is Testing Futuristic Muscle Material That Could Make Robots Feel More Human
Synthetics startup Ras Labs is working with the International Space Station to test “smart materials” that contract like living tissue. These “electroactive” materials?can expand, contract and conform to our limbs just like human muscles when a current moves through them – and they?could be used to make robots move and feel more human to the touch. Ras Labs… Read More
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Crunch Network
For Media And Gaming, Virtual Reality Is The Wolf Standing Just Outside The Door
For the last 20 years VR has been just around the corner, but there have been three major hurdles in the way to mainstream adoption. Today, all three hurdles have been removed. It is no longer a case of crying wolf. The wolf is real, and standing just outside the door. Read More
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BlockTrail Launches Multi-Platform Bitcoin Wallet With No Access To Your Coins
Does the Bitcoin community need another wallet? Amsterdam-based BlockTrail reckons there’s space for another player, despite some sizable and well-funded wallet entities already — such as Blockchain.info and Coinbase, to name two. Read More
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Ad Blocking
So here’s an awkward question … How many of you are reading this article without ads? Don’t be shy if you are. You’re definitely not alone. You’ll be getting even more ad-blocking options?with next week’s launch of iOS 9, which is supposed to?support content blocking extensions. That could be a big step forward ?for the technology, which has been a… Read More
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Crunch Network
Surviving The Technical Cambrian Explosion
I’ve been doing a lot of recruiting lately. My employers HappyFunCorp are in the midst of another growth spurt. One of my most illuminating questions is: “What’s your strategy for keeping up-to-date with the Cambrian explosion of technical frameworks, languages, databases, templating systems, and so forth?” Everyone has a strategy — but nobody seems to feel… Read More
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Tackling A $5.5 Trillion Market, Betterment Enters The 401(k) World
Betterment, the New York-based automated asset management company, is announcing a 401(k) retirement service, called Betterment for Business, aimed to make it easier for employers to establish, administrators to manage, and employees to monitor retirement savings plans. Read More
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Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About ‘Hey Siri’ And Live Photo Features
Though Apple has long been vocal about its stance on security and privacy, it has recently begun utilizing that stance as a sales tool. If you’d like to keep personal data — anonymized or not — to yourself as much as possible, the company has messaged, then you should invest in Apple hardware. Read More
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Study: Free Stuff Won’t Convince Bloggers To Write About Your Startup
Once upon a time a startup sent me a full gasoline can full of coffee beans. These beans, once infused by the malodorous fumes of the plastic container, were useless. The can, which was fairly small, was never used and eventually recycled. In the end, a PR company probably charged a startup $10,000 to send me and about 200 other bloggers trash. The pitch was memorable in itself but I cannot… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Slack, Diversity, And Have You Heard Of Apple?
Welcome back to CrunchWeek, friends. We are glad that you are here. Very glad in fact, because the TC crew has new digs. New in that we just rebuilt a large chunk of the office — not new in that it’s the same space as before. But now it’s better, so we dragooned Megan Rose Dickey and Lucas Matney to come in and chat about the week’s most important stories… Read More
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Welcome To Hipster Hell, Tumblr Now Has Its Own Clothing Line
If the pervasiveness of shitty memes on the web weren’t enough, it seems they’re soon going to be inhabiting the real world… worn by people walking on the streets of Earth. Tumblr just announced a new clothing line designed by 10 different Tumblr artists at New York Fashion Week, The New York Times reports. Read More
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Rep A Cause With Facebook’s New Temporary Profile Pics
Your profile picture is the message you send most. There’s no easier, more ubiquitous way to raise awareness for a cause then splashing your pic rainbow for gay rights or green to promote the Arab Spring. Now Facebook is giving people a tool to leverage this tiny billboard. With its new Temporary Profile Picture feature that’s slated for a broader rollout, you can change your pic… Read More
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Crunch Network
Performance Evaluations In A Results-Focused Culture
Netflix’s culture deck has been a source of inspiration for many businesses since it was first published five years ago. In it, Netflix argues that companies must find a balance between flexibility and responsibility: Afford employees the freedom to thrive and they will reward the company with outstanding performance; emphasize purpose, honesty and good judgment to attract top-tier talent. Read More
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The Nest Is Being Robbed
Another day, another Tweetstorm by Chris Sacca about Twitter’s CEO situation. His tune is the same, with the volume turned up ever so slightly. Most importantly, the signal he’s sending out is very similar to an S.O.S. Since July 1st, Twitter’s interim CEO has been Jack Dorsey, and the chatter around who would be the next permanent CEO, succeeding Dick Costolo, has been nonstop. Read More
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Translation Startup Unbabel Unveils New Smartcheck Technology
Unbabel, a startup backed by Y Combinator, that combines human editing and machine learning into an online translation platform, announced a new feature today called Smartcheck. The system consists of a translation service built on top of an intelligent translation engine. Translators sign up for work, then customers looking for translators can search by language, business skills and so forth. Read More
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.11.15
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang chatroom (during live show broadcast) on Chat Center Gillmor gang on Facebook HERE Gillmor gang Studios presents G3 – Tech – Women – Opinions G3 on Facebook HERE Read More
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3D Touch Will Change The Way You Use Your iPhone
Don’t call it Force Touch — Apple’s new flagship feature 3D Touch is a completely different software implementation of the technology that is already available on the Apple Watch and the new MacBook trackpad. 3D Touch is by far the most important improvement in the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. It’s going to change the way we interact with our phones. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Legend Holdings
- $11M Series D
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Investment Management
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Futurefly
- $2.5M Seed
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Sarmeks Tech
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Lutsk, Volyns'ka Oblast'
- Categories: Portals, Social Games, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Elevate
- $70M Debt Financing
- HQ: Texas City, Texas
- Categories: Financial Services
- Investors: Not available
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StockRadar
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Finance, FinTech
- Investors: Not available
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Mobile Fuel
- $750K Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Atlanta, Georgia
- Categories: Automotive, Gas
- Investors: Not available
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Moff
- $1.3M Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Apps
- Investors: Not available
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Hillel International
- $16M Grant
- HQ: Washington, District of Columbia
- Categories: Non Profit
- Investors: Not available
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PRINTool
- 1.0M RUB Grant
- HQ: Moscow, Moscow City
- Categories: 3D Printing, Open Source, New Product Development, Industrial Automation ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Zapyle
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Fashion
- Investors: Not available
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VerbalizeIt
- $830K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Developer APIs, Language Learning, Travel, Curated Web, Messaging, Mobile ... See More
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Ownfone
- 786K GBP Angel
- HQ: Islington, Islington
- Categories: Services
- Investors: Not available
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Civil Maps
- $1.5M Convertible Note
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Navigation, Big Data, Maps
- Investors: Not available
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Africa Talent Management
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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G-KEEP
- $300K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Farmers Market, Transportation, Fuels
- Investors: Not available
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Mercato
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Groceries, Specialty Foods, Marketplaces, E-Commerce, Local Businesses
- Investors: Not available
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Advocate
- $120K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Social Fundraising, Polling, Politics, Professional Networking
- Investors: Not available
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Tappx
- 20K EUR Convertible Note
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: Communities, Apps, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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EverCloud
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Haifa, Hefa
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Information Technology, SaaS, Virtualization
- Investors: Not available
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Chexology
- $1.2M Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Events, Information Technology, Storage
- Investors: Not available
