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Litecoin Slumps As Bitcoin Recovers Some Of Its Former Luster

Jun 30, 8:49PM

banker-bitcoin During the height of the 2013 Bitcoin bubble, Litecoin soared, crossing the $40 mark late in the year. Since then, mostly tracking Bitcoin, Litecoin’s value has faded. Today, you can buy a Litecoin for just under $9. That cryptocurrencies are dealing with post-bubble excesses is hardly news. What’s more interesting is that Litecoin, which largely followed Bitcoin’s price… Read More



Twitter Confirms Acquisition Of Mobile Ad Retargeting Startup TapCommerce

Jun 30, 8:29PM

tapcommerce twitter Twitter just announced that it’s acquiring mobile ad startup TapCommerce. Re/code’s Ina Fried broke the news about the acquisition earlier this afternoon, reporting that the deal price was $100 million (the companies did not announce a price). Read More



LinkedIn VP Of Product David Hahn Joins Greylock As Entrepreneur-In-Residence

Jun 30, 8:00PM

david hahn Greylock Partners today announced its newest entrepreneur-in-residence, bringing longtime LinkedIn exec David Hahn onto the team. At the venture firm, Hahn will be focused on what’s happening in healthcare and education technology, with the long-term goal of entering one of those sectors. Read More



Irish Pub Only Accepts Job Applications Through Snapchat

Jun 30, 7:44PM

snapchat-money2 At one pub in Ireland, applying for a staff position is actually a snap. Sober Lane, which is opening a new Dublin location in July, is only accepting applications through Snapchat, the app that allows users to send impermanent pictures and videos to their friends. Read More



Universities Look To Oculus Rift To Lure Students To Campus

Jun 30, 7:27PM

YouVisit Oculus 01 When you hear “Oculus Rift” you think games, but it looks like virtual tours are becoming a new category to the uses for the virtual reality device. Founders of YouVisit, a virtual tour company, Taher Baderkhan, Abi Mandelbaum and Endri Tolka met in their first year of college and they had one thing in common: they were all international students. Read More



HODOR!

Jun 30, 5:59PM

hodor-1024 Stop. the. presses. Yo, the ridiculously simple messaging app that lets you send a “Yo” to your friends and nothing more, has a new rival. (Or perhaps a more appropriate word would be “parody.”) Introducing Yo, Hodor. As the name implies, this recently launched app offers a different spin on the Yo concept by letting you virtually shout “HODOR!” to your… Read More



Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data

Jun 30, 5:20PM

Sparks flying from a sparkler. Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks hopes to simplify the entire matter by moving it… Read More



CoreOS Raises $8M Series A Round, Launches Managed Linux As A Service

Jun 30, 5:16PM

8028191546_d8f37bad25_k CoreOS, a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on investments by Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. This comes after a previous investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital last year. Read More



Forget.me Puts Out Early Data On What Europeans Want To Vanish From Google

Jun 30, 4:57PM

4635702361_75503474bf_z An online service called Forget.me, launched last week to quickly capitalize on a European court ruling from late May that requires Google to process requests by private individuals to de-index outdated or irrelevant personal information, has put out some early data on the kind of requests individual Europeans are submitting via its (for now) free service. Read More



Microsoft May Prioritize The Desktop In Windows 9

Jun 30, 4:39PM

microsoft-earnings Microsoft is looking to revamp and retool its Windows 8 operating system with a blend of updates that will see the code better suit the form factors that it wants to service. However, could those updates undo its push to create the Windows Store as a favored place for developers to put applications? Read More



The RealReal's Latest App RealBook Will Tell You What Your Designer Goods Are Actually Worth

Jun 30, 4:06PM

realreal-items Luxury consignment marketplace The RealReal is expanding its mobile footprint today with the launch of a new app called RealBook, which lets both potential buyers and sellers better understand the value of luxury items, including fashion and apparel, fine jewelry and watches. RealBook now joins the company’s previously launched smartphone apps, The RealReal’s mobile shop and Consign. Read More



Twitter Rolls Out App Install And Engagement Ads, And New Click Pricing, Globally

Jun 30, 4:01PM

twitter app install ads Social networking platform Twitter says its MoPub ad network now reaches more than 1 billion iOS and Android users every month, and so today it is making its latest move to build out that mobile advertising business with more products. Twitter is kicking off the global rollout of mobile app promotion ads — units that either take users to app downloads, or to the apps themselves if… Read More



Google Will Shut Down Its Orkut Social Network In September

Jun 30, 3:59PM

01_PT Orkut, the social networking service Google launched back in 2004, miraculously survived multiple rounds of spring cleaning despite the fact that it was never a huge hit outside of Brazil, India and a few other countries. It was always just a matter of time before Google was going to shut it down, however, and that day has now come. Read More



Reading Rainbow Has More Backers Than Any Kickstarter Campaign Ever

Jun 30, 3:46PM

readingrainbow Ever since Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006, LeVar Burton has been working to bring it back. In 2012, he launched a tablet app program, and just recently, he launched a Kickstarter campaign asking for $1 million to develop Reading Rainbow programming across all platforms, which will be provided to classrooms for free. Flash forward to today, and the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter… Read More



Kinetise Lets Devs Create Five Working Mobile Apps At Once

Jun 30, 3:28PM

Screen Shot 2014-06-30 at 5.11.55 PM Mobile app creators are a dime-a-dozen. However, few are as thorough and powerful as Kinetise, which allows you to create apps in a few minutes and then deploy them on iOS, Android, Blackberry OS, Java, and Windows Phone. Interestingly, it works. Read More



Mail Digitization Startup Outbox Relaunches As Able, A Collaborative Small Business Loan Provider

Jun 30, 3:08PM

able In January, the intriguing but ultimately unsuccessful startup Outbox announced it was shutting down its service that digitized U.S. postal mail. However, the team said at time that they weren’t done yet – having raised a $5 million Series A round just last summer, the founders were going to focus their efforts on a new product, they explained. Now we know what that new product… Read More



The Story Of Slenderman, The Internet's Own Monster

Jun 30, 2:45PM

slenderman Every generation creates its own monsters. Folk tales tell of witches and wyrms in the woods, my TV-infused generation feared Jaws in lakes and Bloody Mary in the mirror. This generation gets its monsters from the Internet. Slenderman is a pure product of electronic media. He appears in places we rarely frequent, these days – abandoned, crumbling halls, deep woods, a playground with… Read More



Get Paid: GoDaddy Links With PayPal, Dwolla, Stripe For A Mobile & Web Payment Service

Jun 30, 2:30PM

4222474443_a5e2ebaabe_b As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web services company is adding on more features that will help it make more profitable revenues from its 12 million small-business customers. The latest of these puts GoDaddy further into the world of e-commerce. Today, it is launching “Get Paid,” a new online and mobile payments service created with existing… Read More



Mobile, Social News Startup NowThisNews Acquires Video Distribution Platform Cliptamatic

Jun 30, 1:56PM

nowthisnews New York-based NowThisNews, a startup looking to reinvent video journalism for the mobile and social era, has acquired a company in a similar space, Cliptamatic, a platform which helps premium content owners distribute video to social media in real-time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition was for equity. Cliptamatic had raised north of $2 million a few years… Read More



Apple iTunes U Update Lets Teachers Create Class Content On The iPad

Jun 30, 1:51PM

iPad in the classroom Apple is continuing to build out its educational tools with a view to expanding the utility of iPads in the classroom. Today it’s announced updates to its iTunes U educational app that aim to make it easier for educators to create and manage course content directly on an iPad. Read More




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