Google To Announce Finalists For Bay Area Impact Challenge
Tomorrow, Google will announce the 10 finalists for its Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to give back to communities in Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area. For the next 10 days, anyone can visit the website to vote for their favorite nonprofit among the group. According to the Bay Area Impact Challenge site, finalists were selected based on four criteria: community… Read More-
ROLI’s Radical Musical Keyboard Attracts A $12.8m Series A Round
The Seaboard GRAND, is a completely new type of keyboard musical instrument. It has soft rubber keys which can bend and shape a tune, the way you can bend the strings on a guitar. It’s a genuinely radical departure from normal keyboards. Check out the video below to see what I mean. That’s all great, but these are not usually considered investable technology products. All that… Read More -
Fab Lays Off One-Third Of Global Headcount, Slashing New York City Staff
The day of reckoning has come for Fab’s New York City office, where it is expected to have widespread layoffs due to yet another change in the company’s business model. The layoffs will affect about a third of the company’s global staff, but will be limited to New York staff. After previously morphing from a social networking site to online flash sales, now the… Read More -
New Tunepics Social Network Is Like Instagram With A Soundtrack
If you mashed up Instagram with music tracks, what would you get? A timeline of pictures from friends with evocative soundtracks that stimulate the ears as well as the eyes? Perhaps even tug at the emotions? That, at least, is the hope of Tunepics, a new social network that does just that. With this new iOS app, users can feature a song with every image they share. The tracks are pulled… Read More -
May 22 Is Bitcoin Pizza Day
Four years ago this week, on May 22, 2010, a BTC fan and programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 Bitcoins – about $40 at that time – for two Papa John’s pizzas (pictured above). He wrote: I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day. I like having left over pizza to nibble on later. You can… Read More -
Google Plans Low-Cost, High Quality Wi-Fi Networks For Small- And Medium-Sized Businesses, Report Says
Google is apparently planning to offers subsidized, commercial-grade Wi-Fi hardware to small and medium-sized businesses, The Information reports, alongside software to help greatly improve the quality of the Wi-Fi experience at places like doctors’ offices, restaurants, gyms and more. The hardware would be the only cost involved, as it would use the businesses’ existing… Read More -
Whistle, The ‘FitBit For Dogs’, Adds GPS Features To Make Sure You Never Lose Your Pet
The “Internet of Things” has made it easy to keep track of lots of things, from where you parked your car to where you left your phone. And now Whistle, the San Francisco startup that’s become known in recent months for its somewhat silly sounding (but apparently quite handy) “FitBit for dogs” gadget, announced today that it’s adding some key new features to… Read More
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Baoku
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- Round A
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in2nite
- Size $2.8M
- Round Unattributed
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New Enterprise Associates, NBGI Ventures
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AdRoll
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- Round C
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Birchbox
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- Round B
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Airbnb
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- Round D
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- Size $100K
- Round Unattributed
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Placester
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- Round Partial
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American Aerogel
- Size $2.5M
- Round Partial
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Mission Control Technologies
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- Round Debt_round
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WebCurfew
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- Round Debt_round
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RF Surgical Systems
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- Round Unattributed
- Investors Oxford Finance Corporation
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Zapstitch
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- Round Seed
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Caspida
- Size $2M
- Round Unattributed
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
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CarNinja
- Size $2.3M
- Round Unattributed
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
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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
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Tyrogenex
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
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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
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Smava
- Size $5.5M
- Round B
- Investors Earlybird Venture Capital, Neuhaus Partners
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Xbox One’s June Update Will Finally Fix Two Of The Console’s Most Annoying Shortcomings
Everybody celebrate! Or, at least, Xbox One owners, celebrate! Two of the Xbox One’s most frustrating quirks are being swept away come June. First up: auto sign-in is coming. As it currently stands, even if you only have one Xbox Live profile on the machine, you have to either: sign in manually, or plug in the Kinect and hope it successfully recognizes you (which it often… Read More -
Apple Pulls No. 1 Game “Weed Firm” From The App Store
Apple has pulled the No. 1 game in the U.S., called “Weed Firm,” from the App Store. The game, which had been described as something of a “Grand Theft Auto” for the marijuana-minded, allowed players to grow and sell weed, interact with gangsters, and earn lots of dough for their drug-dealing activities. According to a statement posted to the game… Read More -
eBay Advises Users To Change Passwords Following Cyberattack, “Large Number” Of Users Affected
Following an odd blog post which appeared overnight and then was quickly taken down advising eBay users to reset their passwords, eBay has now published its official statement informing its users about a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data. Ebay says it currently has no evidence of the compromise resulting in unauthorized… Read More -
The Fourth Internet
Not very often do you read something online that gives you the chills. Today, I read two such things. The first came from former Gizmodo, Buzzfeed and now Awl writer John Herrman, who wrote about the brutality of the mobile social (or for sake of discussion ‘fourth’) Internet: “Metafilter came from two or three internets ago, when a website’s core… Read More -
OnePlus One Review: Smartphone Value Redefined By A Newcomer
OnePlus is a rare beast: A startup building smartphones. Their first device is the Android-based OnePlus One, which, despite its unnecessarily repetitive name, is impressive hardware in a market where legacy device makers rule the roost and charge top dollar for smartphones packing the same kind of internals as the One. The OnePlus One is actually a remarkable deal at $299 for an unlocked… Read More -
The Surface Pro 3 Is Microsoft’s Answer To The MacBook Air. Again.
Microsoft just announced the Surface Pro 3 and a new direction for the Surface line. Microsoft is no longer looking to counter the iPad. The Surface Pro 3 is Microsoft’s answer to the “heavy” MacBook Air. This argument is not new. Microsoft touched on this with the Surface Pro and then the Surface Pro 2. The value proposition is simply more clear now. Instead of muddling… Read More -
The End Of The Acqui-Hire?
Editor’s note: Ben Narasin is a long-time entrepreneur, president of TriplePoint Ventures, the seed equity practice of TriplePoint Capital, and a freelance writer. A few years ago, before seed investing was as well defined as it now is, I co-hosted a bean bag sitting circle at The Lobby on the topic of “the seed round.” While I assumed the topic would appeal primarily… Read More -
Crazy Dude Builds Fully Automatic Wolverine Claws In His Garage
Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of “Things You Really Probably Shouldn’t Do At Home! Seriously.” Armed with a pinch of ingenuity and a heaping fistful of insanity, garage inventor Colin Furze has recreated Wolverine’s signature claws. They extend! They retract! They… look incredibly dangerous! Others have taken a stab at this sort of project before… Read More
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