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Mozilla Relents, Says It Will Implement HTML5 DRM Solution In Firefox
Mozilla today announced that it will reluctantly implement the HTML5 DRM standard in its Firefox browser. With more and more copyrighted content being streamed over the Internet, rights holders have long been worried that there is no standardized way to wrap a DRM solution around these streams in HTML5 without resorting to using Flash or Silverlight. A while ago, Microsoft and Google decided to… Read More -
Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is A World’s Fair Fantasy Turned City Street Reality
Google has made a lot of progress on its self-driving car project in the past few years, and just this week it began ferrying journalists around Mountain View in the autonomous vehicles. The company shared with us a heap of information about the project, its history and how it came to be in light of its recent advancements – and while it’s been hard going, you might be surprised at how… Read More -
Movie Theater Pre-Shows Are About To Become Shazam-able, Thanks To Partnership With NCM
You may not have heard of NCM Media Networks, the company that Shazam is announcing a partnership with today, but if you've been to a movie theater recently, chances are you've seen their content. NCM runs the FirstLook pre-show segments that run in Regal, AMC, and Cinemark theaters, interspersing ads with behind-the-scenes videos promoting movies and TV Shows. (Apparently FirstLook runs on a… Read More -
Rebtel Spins Out Sinch, With $12M In Funding, To Offer Communications Tools To Developers
Rebtel has just infused $12 million into a new spun out company called Sinch, aimed at making communications tools accessible to mobile developers for any app. Not unlike Layer or Twilio, Sinch offers developers tools to add in messaging and voice calls inside their iOS or Android app for what the company describes as "a fraction of the cost of competitors." Read More -
Real-Time Analytics Startup Chartbeat Adds Data For Native Ads, Raises $3M More
Native advertising is seen "as this great new hope for publishing," said Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile, but there's also a fair amount of skepticism and outright dismissal. He argued that one of the main reasons for that is pretty simple: "So much of native is bad." Since Chartbeat is a real-time analytics company, it's no surprise that Haile blamed some of that badness on the way the ads are… Read More -
Here Are The Best And Most Interesting iPhone 6 Mockups So Far
Apple hasn’t said anything yet about any iPhone 6, nor will it until the fall (or whenever it actually announces it) but that hasn’t stopped the Internet’s collective imagination and curiosity from creating countless mock-ups of what the next generation of Apple smartphone will look like. Just this morning, we heard about how the iPhone 6 could have 1704×960 resolution for… Read More -
Jack’s Passive-Aggressive Memo To Square
Thought leadership disguised as an internal memo? Most obvious #humblebrag ever? Square co-founder Jack Dorsey has posted an internal company memo to Medium this morning, where he rants writes about how some people at the company were using his name to push through and sell ideas. That is, he explains, it’s the whole “Jack really wants this to happen, Jack thinks this is an… Read More -
Litely Is The Best New Photo-Filtering Application For iOS
A new photo editing application for iOS called Litely, created by the professional photographer responsible for a number of Instagram’s filters, has climbed its way to the top of the App Store in the days following its release earlier this month. Today, the app is #3 Overall on the App Store’s top charts (free apps), and #1 in the Photo & Video category, thanks in part to some… Read More -
Apple Said To Be Testing 1704×960 Resolution Display For iPhone 6
A new report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman claims Apple is testing a 1704×960 resolution display for its upcoming iPhone. The new display res for the iPhone 6 would allow the device to keep the same screen resolution as the iPhone 5s (16:9) and denser screens in terms of pixels per inch than the current Retina standard, regardless of whether Apple goes with 4.7-inch or 5.5-inch displays on… Read More
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Baoku
- Size $10M
- Round A
- Investors CBC Capital
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in2nite
- Size $2.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors IDG Ventures
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New Enterprise Associates, NBGI Ventures
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AdRoll
- Size $70M
- Round C
- Investors Foundation Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Northgate Capital ... See More
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Birchbox
- Size $60M
- Round B
- Investors Viking Global Investors, First Round Capital, Accel Partners, Aspect ... See More
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Airbnb
- Size $450M
- Round D
- Investors TPG Growth, Dragoneer Investment Group, T. Rowe Price, Sequoia Capital
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Biosport Athletechs
- Size $100K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Placester
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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American Aerogel
- Size $2.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Mission Control Technologies
- Size $4M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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WebCurfew
- Size $450K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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RF Surgical Systems
- Size $15M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Oxford Finance Corporation
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Zapstitch
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Anupam Mittal
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Caspida
- Size $2M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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CarNinja
- Size $2.3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
- Size $108K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Nova Towers Holdings I
- Size $19.6M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Tyrogenex
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Xcovery
- Size $2.4M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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X2 Biosystems
- Size $2.5M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Smava
- Size $5.5M
- Round B
- Investors Earlybird Venture Capital, Neuhaus Partners
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Wheretoget Raises $2 Million For Its Powerful Shazam For Fashion
Meet Wheretoget, a community of dedicated fashion enthusiasts. Whenever you see an outfit that you like on the web or in the street, you upload a picture. Wheretoget’s community will take care of the rest and find where you can get this very same outfit. There is no secret sauce, no magic algorithm, just dedicated human beings. And the French startup just raised $2 million (€1.4 million)… Read More -
Early Alibaba Backer GGV Raises $620M For Fifth Fund
GGV , the backers of US and Chinese tech companies like Alibaba, Pandora, Qunar, Zendesk and Tudou, has raised $620 million for its fifth venture capital fund. GGV Capital V is just $5 million shy of the firm's last fund, raised in 2012, and brings the firms total capital under management to more than $2.2 billion. Read More -
After 500K iOS Downloads, ‘iPad Game’ Monument Valley Arrives On Android
Monument Valley, an iOS game made by London-based app design studio ustwo, has launched on Android -- after racking up an impressive 500,000 downloads on the App Store in just over a month. Read More -
dEXTRIS Is The Latest iOS Gaming aDDICTION
dEXTRIS has melted my brain. It's as mind-numbing as Flappy Bird and the design hearkens Geometry Wars combined with the vertical scrolling action of 1942. The premise is simple yet the game is complex. While it feels impossible to hit new milestones, and most often you don't, sometimes your cubes pass a previously unseen flashing line and you feel like a winner. Read More -
Samsung Said To Be Set To Launch Its Google Glass Competitor This September
Google Glass is kinda sorta now a publicly available product – the launch came with a series of fits and starts, culminating in an open, unlimited public beta that kicked off yesterday. Its first major competitor might be gearing up for a debut to follow shortly, according to a new report from Business Korea (via Business Insider). The report says that a Samsung employee passed along the… Read More -
George R.R. Martin Writes Everything In WordStar 4.0 On A DOS Machine
George R.R. Martin is an impressive man. Not only can he kill off characters like it's NBD, and magically make you care for characters who have been historically evil, but he writes millions of words about an imaginary land without any help from the Internet, spell check, or autocorrect. The Song Of Ice And Fire author, and creator behind HBO's "Game of Thrones", writes everything for the… Read More -
Incident, Makers Of The gTar, Launch Sequence App So Anyone Can Make Music
Incident, the same folks that brought you the gTar, are today opening up the platform to a new group of users. Launching Sequence, the company wants to make it as easy as possible for total amateurs to get started making music. The Sequence app is free, and offers the ability to mix together instruments to form a song, or record in real-world noises as samples. “It’s a cross between a… Read More -
Darby Smart Raises $6.3M For DIY Craft Marketplace
Darby Smart, a do-it-yourself crafting startup, has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding led by Maveron, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, CAA Ventures and existing investors. Read More -
Sift Science Lands $18M Series B From Spark Capital To Stop Credit Card Fraud
Today Sift Science, a credit card fraud prevention company, has closed an $18 million Series B round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Max Levchin, and First Round Capital. But what exactly is Sift Science? Read More -
Electric Cruisebeast Creator Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
In one of the loveliest paeans to modern technology ever penned on the web, The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman posted a lengthy comic describing what it’s like to own a Tesla Model S, and it was nothing short of effusive. He did take issue with the car’s name, however, and offered up some helpful suggestions for alternate titles. The final product is easily one of the best and most… Read More
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