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Amazon Echo Can Now Control Your Smart Home
Amazon Echo, the company’s $200 connected speaker which serves as a virtual assistant of sorts offering to play music, answer questions, and, of course, shop by voice, will now work to control the lights and other appliances in your home, too. Amazon announced today, by way of an email to current customers, that Echo has been updated to support a variety of connected devices from… Read MoreAd Attribution Startup Conversion Logic Raises $4M
Conversion Logic has raised a new round to fund its efforts to help advertisers track the effectiveness of their ads across devices and channels. The Los Angeles-based startup is announcing a $4 million seed round led by Rincon Venture Partners, with Ricon’s Jim Andelman joining the board of directors. Crosscut Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, TenOneTen, Founder Collective, and… Read MoreThe Implications Of The Seed Funding Boom
Josh Kopelman wrote a great post recently highlighting the current state of the early-stage funding market. One of his main points was that the Series Seed round is becoming so easy to raise that founders aren’t being tested and thus often surprised when it becomes difficult to raise their Series A. Read MoreTorrent App Popcorn Time Comes To iOS, No Jailbreak Required
Popcorn Time, the service sometimes referred to as the “Netflix for pirates” because of the way it makes it easy to stream pirated content to your PC or mobile device, is now getting a lot easier for iOS owners to use. According to new reports, the service is being made available by way of an iOS application that no longer requires users to jailbreak their iPhone or iPad in order… Read MoreVeradocs, Renamed Vera, Wants To Protect All Data
Veradocs came out of stealth today, renaming itself Vera to reflect the fact it doesn’t just protect documents on the move, but other types of data as well. The company, which has been working toward this day for some time, announced $14M in Series A funding last November. At the time, Vera was in Beta working with a small set of customers, but today it announced general… Read MoreSports Broadcast Wearable FirstV1sion Gets Sweat-Tested In EuroLeague Basketball
Smart garments are one of the fitness wearables Gartner recently pegged as having the “greatest potential for growth”. And lining up in that category is Spanish startup FirstV1sion, whose on-body sports wearable will be used during a broadcast of a Euroleague basketball match on Friday to deliver a first-hand player perspective of one of the teams to watching fans. Read MoreZazzy’s New Marketplace Lets You Design And Sell Your Own 3D Printed Jewelry
Zazzy, an Amsterdam-based startup that allows anyone to design and customize their own 3D-printed jewelry is now launching a new marketplace that lets you sell your jewelry to others as well, instead of just buying it for yourself. The company believes the new platform, Zazzy.co, will make sense for artists and designers looking to expand their portfolios, as well as… Read MoreDingo Aims To Be A Fairer, Safer Aftermarket Ticketing App
“The secondary ticket market is a murky place – think touts, fake tickets and online fraud,” says Dingo co-founder Paul Roiter. His startup, which offers a so-called fan-to-fan ticketing app for iOS that lets you sell unwanted tickets, is hoping to change that. Read MoreXbox One Gets Over-The-Air TV Powers In The U.S. And Canada
Xbox One owners have a new way to get TV on their console: The game machine supports over-the-air TV now for those in the Xbox One Preview program, and in the coming months for everyone else, provided that you also pick up an $80 Hauppauge WinTV-955Q TV tuner and an HDTV antenna. Xbox is also working with Hauppauge to make it even cheaper to get on board, with a $60 tuner panned for… Read MoreiHeartMedia Is Bringing Programmatic Ad Buying To Its Broadcast Radio Stations
iHeartMedia is taking another step into the digital world — the company is announcing that businesses will be able to buy ads programmatically on its broadcast radio stations. Basically, this means advertisers will be able to use automated, online tools to buy ads on iHeartMedia’s 850+ stations. (The company was known as Clear Channel before rebranding last fall and adopting… Read More
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