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VCs -- Not "Shark Tank" -- Give DoorBot $1M for Caller ID for the Doorbell
A startup called DoorBot has raised $1 million after selling 10,000 Wi-Fi videocamera doorbells for $199. DoorBot on Shark Tank DoorBot is a specialized smart home security device, so next time someone...
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MindMeld Assistant App Listens Along to Conversations to Help in Real Time
MindMeld, which is one of the more ambitious application ideas out there, and has been promised for more than a year, launches to the public tonight. Well, to the U.S. English-speaking public with...
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N3twork Wants to Reshape Online Discussions Around Interests
Online forums today look like throwbacks to the Web of the 1990s. Lots of text, lots of page breaks, lots of hard-to-follow conversations. Meanwhile, more modern social media conversations on Twitter...
View ArticleIce Cube, Kevin Hart and Conan Share a Lyft Car (Video)
Peer-to-peer ride-sharing service Lyft just got its first big celebrity endorsement, of sorts. Via Conan O’Brien, here’s “Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Conan Share a Lyft Car”: The conceit is that Lyft...
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Lasso Promises to Deliver Wine and Cheese Within Two Hours for Free
There are many same-day delivery tests and trials going on in various cities from Amazon, Google, Postmates, Instacart and others — but scant evidence that ferrying around last-minute orders can...
View ArticleQuickPay Takes $5.5M More to Help People Find and Pay for Parking
QuickPay, which works with parking operators to make their lots and spots mobile-enabled so drivers can find and pay for parking, has raised $5.5 million from backers including Fontinalis Partners,...
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15 Million Students Learned to Program This Week, Thanks to Hour of Code
Hour of Code, a five-day-old initiative to get kids to take programming tutorials during Computer Science Education Week, will soon reach 15 million students, organizers said. From the start, Hour of...
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Crowdtilt Collects a Quick $23M to Bring Crowdfunding All Over the World
By now, millions of people have contributed to crowdfunding campaigns online — to fund the distribution of an independent film, to raise money for a family impacted by a natural disaster, to preorder a...
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San Francisco Gets Fast, Free Public Wi-Fi on Market Street
Nearly 10 years after international tech hub San Francisco first said it wanted to offer free public Wi-Fi, the city’s first big deployment is finally being unveiled today. There’s a new mayor and a...
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Pact Raises $1.5M to Help People Hit Health Goals by Putting Money on the Line
A motivational startup called Pact has raised $1.55 million, led by Khosla Ventures and Max Levchin, for its mobile apps, which help people set monetary stakes for meeting their goals. Pact, currently...
View ArticleLife360 Gets $7M to Make Smart Home Products Aware When Families Are Home
Life360, an app maker that enables families to constantly share their location with each other, wants to make itself more useful. It has taken $7 million in funding from private equity group Duchossois...
View ArticleThat Nifty Micro-USB Charger for the HP Chromebook Is Getting Recalled for...
One of the appeals of the HP Chromebook 11, which was introduced this October, was the fact that the laptop could be charged via micro-USB, just like a phone. Except … there have been nine reports of...
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A Tale of Two Cities? A Q&A With Gavin Newsom on San Francisco's History of...
On the occasion of San Francisco finally getting its first major public Wi-Fi installation this week — nearly a decade after such an initiative had been proposed and awarded to Google and Earthlink —...
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Big Money for Mobile Crowdsourced Transit App Moovit, With Sequoia Leading...
The notion that public transportation is a large and growing global opportunity for a tech company might seem a bit of a strange one. But, as Moovit co-founder and CEO Nir Erez sees it, “The world is...
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oDesk and Elance Merge to Create One Big Freelancer Company (But Still With...
Elance and oDesk said today that they would merge. The companies have a lot in common — they both connect freelancers and gigs online — and they say they have a combined 10 million workers in 180...
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WhatsApp Does a Passive-Aggressive Stats Release to Call Out Others for...
There’s a big difference between someone signing up for a service, and someone using it on a regular basis. On this much everyone should be able to agree. WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum But both of those types...
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Prismatic Social News App Overhauls for a Better Personal Interest Graph
These days, visiting sites like Facebook and Twitter seems to result in homework: Heart-tugging videos to watch, silly listicles to read, essays to contemplate. Now here’s another startup, Prismatic,...
View ArticleTicket Search Service SeatGeek Buys Competitor FanSnap
SeatGeek, a ticket search service that gets about 3.5 million visits per month and expects $12 million in revenue this year, has bought its competitor FanSnap in order to take it off the market....
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Google Was More Resistant to Government Takedowns Than Government...
Requests by governments for Google to take down videos, search results, blog posts and other content grew 68 percent in the first half of 2013 compared to the last half of 2012. That’s according to the...
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People Are More Freaked Out by Hacking Than Tracking, Survey Finds
When asked to choose which is more important to them, protecting their personal information online or protecting their online behavior, respondents to a recent survey said hacking is a bigger concern...
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