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Tipbit Scores $4 Million Series A For Its Productivity-Focused Email App
Mar 12, 3:35PM
Tipbit, yet another startup attempting to re-imagine how email should work on mobile devices, is announcing $4 million in Series A funding, in a round led by Ignition Partners. Alongside the new funding, the company also introduced an updated version of its mobile email application, which includes integrations with a number of cloud services, like Evernote, Dropbox, Salesforce and more. Founded in… Read More
YC-Backed Orankl Gives Small Vendors The Same Tools As Amazon
Mar 12, 3:25PM
Customer reviews are the backbone of sites like Amazon (where they have turned into a platform for some of the most inspired comedic writing on the Internet), but it can be difficult for smaller retailers to convince shoppers to leave feedback. Orankl, a Y Combinator-backed startup, wants to give all e-commerce businesses the same tools as their larger rivals. Read More
Candy Crush Maker King Files For IPO To Raise Up To $533M
Mar 12, 2:37PM
King, the European makers of the hit game Candy Crush Saga, today moved one step closer to an IPO in the U.S., filing an updated F-1 with the SEC that priced 22.2 million shares between $21 and $24, to raise up to $532.8 million and value the company at around $7.6 billion. The move comes weeks after King filed an initial F-1 with a maximum aggregated offering price of $500 million. Read More
Fitbit Force Recall Affects Around 1M Units In The U.S And 28K In Canada, Per CPSC
Mar 12, 2:25PM
Fitbit issued a voluntary recall of its Fitbit Force after discovering that prolonged use could lead to skin irritation likely due to allergy to some of the materials used in its construction, but now the recall is official with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, making it illegal to resell (like on eBay) the existing Force at all, and revealing some details about the scope of the… Read More
Popcorn Time Installer Pulled From Host For Violating Terms Of Service
Mar 12, 2:14PM
Popcorn Time is a magical program that takes all the hassles out of torrenting a movie. It’s Hollywood’s worst nightmare. It’s essentially Netflix for pirated movies. And now it’s gone. The program’s installer was hosted by Kim Dotcom’s Mega. Not anymore. The installer was pulled from the hosting site this morning for violating Mega’s terms of service. The… Read More
The MP3 Player Is Still Rockin' In The Free World
Mar 12, 2:03PM
Neil Young - yes, that Neil Young - has a $400 portable music player he would like to sell you. Called the PonoPlayer, it's essentially an MP3 player for the audiophile. But it doesn't use MP3 files at all. Instead, the PonoPlayer supports FLAC audio files that contain significantly more data than their MP3 counterparts, resulting in a dramatically higher quality sound than a traditional MP3… Read More
LogMeIn Goes After Business Crowd With Cubby Enterprise, An I.T.-Friendly Dropbox Competitor
Mar 12, 2:01PM
Cubby, the Dropbox competitor from LogMeIn which opened up publicly near the end of last year, is rolling out a business-focused version of its service called LogMeIn Enterprise. The company is aiming to find a middle-of-the-road spot in between clunky, but I.T.-friendly solutions employees hate, and the consumer-grade cloud services that I.T. is still wary of. The Enterprise version includes a… Read More
Apple Mulls Breaking Out iTunes Radio As Its Own App In iOS 8, Report Claims
Mar 12, 1:59PM
The streaming radio race is still overwhelmingly dominated by Pandora in the U.S., but that’s not necessarily going to be the case forever: In a recent survey of streaming music users, iTunes Radio had climbed to third place, surpassing Spotify with 8 percent of respondents to the Statista study saying they’d used it in the past month. Apple has plans to potentially skyrocket its usage… Read More
Tinder To Introduce Verified Accounts Because Celebrities Aren't Getting Enough Matches
Mar 12, 1:36PM
Poor famous, beautiful people: They can’t even get a good date using tried and tested methods like swiping right. Matchmaking app Tinder has high-profile users including Ashton Kutcher, Lindsay Lohan and Josh Groban, but the startup’s CEO Sean Rad explained to The Hollywood Reporter that these people aren’t necessarily fielding an endless stream of matches. Users of the app just… Read More
With 5M Users Already On Board, Tynker Goes Mobile To Help Kids Learn To Code On The iPad
Mar 12, 1:24PM
Historically, the U.S. educational system has struggled to get young people excited by and involved with STEM-related fields, especially computer science, which has actually seen a steady decline in participation over the last two decades, according to Time Magazine. Luckily, the winds of reform have begun to sweep into education, and parents, educators and even Uncle Sam have begun to pressure on… Read More
Walking Dead Game Dev, Next Games, Lands $6M Series A From IDG & Early Supercell Investor Jari Ovaskainen
Mar 12, 1:22PM
Games making hub Finland — land of Rovio and Supercell, to name a couple of the higher profile games studios tucked up near the Arctic circle — has attracted another tranche of outside investment. Next Games, a free-to-play Helsinki-based startup founded last year by former employees of Rovio, Supercell and Disney, has secured a $6 million Series A funding round — with most of… Read More
Conan Takes On Bitcoin
Mar 12, 1:13PM
Just for giggs, we present Conan O’Brien and the COO of BTC talking about Bitcoin. I think the brief informational video is far more useful to understanding the cryptocurrency than any of the Bitcoin blogs I slog through every day. Given my recent rantage, it’s glad that someone else thinks about the community in the same way. Read More
Credit Karma Confirms New $85M Financing Round Led By Google Capital
Mar 12, 1:00PM
Credit Karma, the online credit score provider and credit marketplace, has raised $85 million in a new round of financing led by Google Capital with participation from Tiger Global Management and existing investors. The company’s announcement confirms our earlier reporting, with $60 million of the new cash going to the company and another $25 million being used as a secondary investment to… Read More
Google's Acquisition Of Green Throttle Games Could Signal Better Native Android Gaming
Mar 12, 12:50PM
Google has acquired Green Throttle Games – or at least what was left of the company after it essentially shut down late last year, according to a new report by PandoDaily. The startup followed Ouya, GameStick and others in providing an Android-based gaming experience designed for the living room, but it also had considerable talent thanks to founder Charles Huang, who created Guitar Hero,… Read More
Hole In WhatsApp For Android Lets Hackers Steal Your Conversations
Mar 12, 12:45PM
As part of what is predominantly an Android security issue, a CTO and consultant has discovered a vulnerability in WhatsApp encryption that could allow another app to access and read all of a user's chat conversations within it. Bas Bosschert, the CTO at DoubleThink, has posted his own formula for accessing WhatsApp chats, and confirms that the vulnerability still exists after yesterday's big… Read More
Rdio Will Drop The Echo Nest For Music Recommendations Post-Spotify Acquisition
Mar 12, 12:06PM
Music streaming service Rdio is getting rid of partner The Echo Nest, its CEO Anthony Bay told CNBC in an interview published this week (via Verge). The news comes despite promises by The Echo Nest and new owner Spotify that they’ll continue to offer free access, and continue its support of commercial partners for The Echo Nest API even after the Rdio competitor has taken over the music… Read More
Dubble Adds Social Hooks To Its Double-Exposure Photo-Sharing Network
Mar 12, 11:41AM
The photo-sharing juggernaut rumbles on. Dubble, a photo-sharing iOS app that launched last October, has expanded its feature-set to beef up the social networking side. Its Dubble’s largest update since launch. Specifically, the v1.2 update adds the ability for Dubble users to like and comment on each others’ shots, and add other users as favourites so they see their activity in a new… Read More
Pet Sitting Marketplace Rover Raises $12 Million Series C
Mar 12, 11:00AM
Rover, the Seattle-based online community that connects dog owners with in-home sitters, is today announcing $12 million in Series C funding, in a round led by new investor Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Foundry Group, and Petco (yes, the retailer) also participated. The company has raised nearly $25 million to date. The new funding also sees Menlo’s Sunil Raman… Read More
Online Bill Of Rights Needed To Protect Democracy, Says Berners-Lee
Mar 12, 10:26AM
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who pioneered the interconnected information management system we now know colloquially as the Web (he called it the World Wide Web), has called for an online Magna Carta to protect the openness and neutrality of the Internet. Read More
Indian Online Classifieds Site Quikr Confirms $90M Fund Raise Led By Kinnevik
Mar 12, 4:56AM
India’s largest online classifieds site, Quikr, has raised $90 million in fresh funding from a group of investors led by Sweden’s Kinnevik. The latest round, which would take the total capital raised by Quikr to around $136 million, values the startup at over $250 million, a report added. Quikr had raised $32 million from Warburg Pincus, Matrix Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and… Read More
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