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CoFoundersLab Acquires Entrepreneur-Focused Networking Service Bizpora

Apr 29, 5:38PM

coufounderslab CoFoundersLab, a sort of “Match.com for entrepreneurs” who are seeking their soon-to-be better halves, has made another small-ish acquisition to help expand its service’s offerings. The company has bought Bizpora, a startup that was helping travelers better network with others in their field ahead of upcoming trips, as well as keep an eye on interesting people who were planning… Read More



Marissa Mayer And Michael Arrington To Talk Yahoo And Chickens At Disrupt NY

Apr 29, 5:30PM

9728359410_e262406a9f_b (1) Disrupt NY 2014 is mere days away, and we're thrilled to announce that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will be joining Michael Arrington for a fireside chat, where she'll talk about how she's been rebuilding Yahoo into a mobile and content-focused company via strategic startup acquisitions. Michael has chickens now and the Internet is obviously curious about his ambitions. Read More



Microsoft Is Technology's Comeback Kid

Apr 29, 5:06PM

shutterstock_140495338-msft Microsoft. For a generation of technology executives, the name strikes fear into even the most iron-willed business leaders. A lion among gazelles, its very gaze into a market could cause investors and analysts to flee in terror. Yet, its name has become a punchline among today's technorati, a joke about formerly dominant companies evolving into large, plodding kludges. Missed deadlines, delayed… Read More



Heroku Bets Big On PHP And Launches Native Support For Facebook's HipHop VM

Apr 29, 5:00PM

4372405053_b56aa8caac_o Cloud platform Heroku today announced a set of new tools for PHP developers that aim to give PHP the kind of enterprise-grade support the company already offers for Rails, Python, node.js and other languages. It’s no secret that PHP doesn’t always get the credit it deserves. While the language has developed quite a bit over the last few years — in large part thanks to capable… Read More



You Can Now Print From Office For iPad

Apr 29, 4:59PM

img_0018 Microsoft Office for iPad has been an almost embarrassing success for its progenitor, comfortably retaining three of the top slots in the iOS app store since its release. For days after release, Word, Excel and PowerPoint were ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. About a month later, they are 1st, 8th, and 15th. Read More



Discoverly's Nifty Tool For Seeing Social Connections Now Has Crunchbase, AngelList Data

Apr 29, 4:30PM

discoverly crunchbase Discoverly, the San Francisco startup that launched last year with the aim of putting people’s social connections “to work” in the enterprise space, has added some useful updates to its flagship social search tool. Discoverly’s Chrome browser extension, which debuted in January to let you see mutual Facebook connections while looking at someone’s LinkedIn profile and… Read More



Here's The Latest From ERA DemoDay

Apr 29, 3:38PM

era-logo Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) held its Winter 2014 demo day today with another ten new startups on stage dancing for a group of would-be new investors. Companies ranged from a juicing kit delivery service to a language training service for foreign employees at multinational companies. Here’s a full list of all of the presenting companies from today’s DemoDay: Bookalokal… Read More



Social Travel Planner Trippy Relaunches As Q&A Service, Raises $3.5 Million More

Apr 29, 3:30PM

5976264120_68e6352107_o Trippy, the social travel planner which first debuted back at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2011, is shifting away from the friends-only model with the official launch of a new Q&A-focused traveling planning service today. The new service lets locals and others familiar with an area discover and respond to questions from other travelers and potential visitors. The company is also announcing an… Read More



Android Silver Program Reportedly Designed To Give Google More Control Over Its Mobile Destiny

Apr 29, 3:29PM

Android KitKat Google does indeed have a so-called “Silver” program in the works, as reported originally in early April by Android Police, says The Information. But the intent isn’t just to improve customer support around Android devices, as it seemed at first. Instead, The Information reports that it’s about Google gaining more control over the Android ecosystem, and building a… Read More



Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Joins Us To Talk VR In The Facebook Era At Disrupt NY

Apr 29, 3:28PM

6864o15ly3z5jjbo4mp5 Disrupt NY 2014 kicks off in less than a week, and we're thrilled to announce that Brendan Iribe, Oculus VR founder and current CEO, will join us for a fireside chat to talk about Oculus' future now that the company has been acquired by Facebook. Brendan is scheduled to talk on Monday, May 5th at 2pm. Read More



Sprinklr Launches Social Ad Tools And Raises $40M More

Apr 29, 3:19PM

Sprinklr, which describes itself as “the largest independent social relationship platform provider,” just announced that it has raised $40 million in Series D funding. It’s also announcing of its first “paid social media solution,” i.e., a product for managing ad campaigns on Facebook and Twitter. With the new product, Sprinklr says its customers can plan, execute,… Read More



Sprint Announces Spotify Partnership, Unveils HTC One M8 Harman/Kardon Edition Smartphone

Apr 29, 3:14PM

Spotify Browser Sprint has gathered the NY media today to reveal a new smartphone in collaboration with HTC and Harman/Kardon, as well as a discount partnership with Spotify. Sprint unveiled a partnership with Spotify alongside a new service called Sprint Sound sessions, the carrier's own portal to premium discounted live event, advanced music releases, and of course, discounted access to Spotify. Here's… Read More



Spotify's Big Redesign Rolls Out To Android Today

Apr 29, 3:01PM

Android-spotify Following a major makeover from earlier this month, which introduced a new, simpler and darker theme to the streaming music platform Spotify, Android users are now also getting a refreshed app starting today. Like their web, desktop and iOS counterparts, Android users will also now see the darker theme, refreshed typography and rounded iconography that was announced earlier, as well as a… Read More



Buildies Cardboard Blocks Are, You Know, For Kids

Apr 29, 2:52PM

p8CPr-Gbqws9O-lzbcn_0yn1w2byapDFjRtiWulShhk Urbana-based creator Brian Lilly has designed and built something every kid will enjoy: massive, stackable blocks called Buildies that fold together to make Lego-like shapes and let the wee ones create castles, fortresses, palaces, and abandoned gas stations crawling with the stinky undead. Read More



InMobi Launches Native Ad Platform To Woo Publishers Looking Beyond Facebook, Google

Apr 29, 2:48PM

Native Content Ads Tango Native mobile advertising is on fire, especially for independent ad networks looking to challenge their much bigger and established rivals. InMobi, is today launching its native ad platform joining the rage and attempting to woo publishers and advertisers seeking to create their own unique ads outside these bigger networks. Over next few years, InMobi will invest around $100 million in fleshing… Read More



Amazon Debuts A Storefront Just For Wearable Tech

Apr 29, 1:45PM

Screen Shot 2014-04-29 at 9.43.54 AM Online shopping giant Amazon wants to get out ahead of the curve with wearable tech – hence the launch of its new Wearable Technology store today. The store is a subsection of its Amazon.com ecommerce portal, with a focus on devices like the Misfit Shine, Jawbone UP24 and Narrative Clip, to name just a few. Read More



AT&T Plans To Expand Its 4G LTE Network To The Wild Blue Yonder With Inflight Connectivity

Apr 29, 1:12PM

5976264120_68e6352107_o When I fly, I am afforded a few brief hours of sublime luxury when I’m not connected to the Internet – I live in Canada, you see, where in-flight Wi-Fi between our country and the U.S. still isn’t all that normal. But one day soon, you won’t be able to escape the web, even at 30,000 feet, no matter where you’re flying from or to, and AT&T’s newly announced… Read More



Nod Gesture Control Ring Is Designed For Continual Wear, Starts Selling Today For $149

Apr 29, 1:00PM

Nod_Glamour shot Gesture control devices are a big new area of interest among hardware startups, and a Bluetooth-enabled ring that makes it possible to control connected devices with a wave of your hand is nothing new. But the Nod is different from many of the other solutions out there we’ve seen, in that it’s already in the advanced prototype phase, has serious high-profile VC backing, and in that… Read More



Firefox 29 Launches With Major Redesign, Firefox Account Integration

Apr 29, 1:00PM

ff29_grid Mozilla is launching its most important release of Firefox in a very long time today. After almost two years of working on its Australis redesign, the company is now finally ready to bring it to its stable release channel. After loading it for the first time, chances are you’ll be slightly confused. This is Firefox’s most radical redesign since it moved to its rapid release schedule a… Read More



EdTech Company Connected Sparks Launches Indiegogo Campaign To Fund Lyka's Journey

Apr 29, 1:00PM

Lykanadbook An alien robot named Lyka has landed on Indiegogo with a campaign to educate the children of earth about technology, science, engineering, and the environment. The project is the first effort from New York-based multimedia education technology and toy development company Connected Sparks. Based on the travels of an itinerant robot named Lyka who comes to Earth after her own planet is ravaged by… Read More




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