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Bridging The Gap Between Education And The Future Workforce

Jun 18, 2:00PM

gradjobs The school year has come to an end for students across the country and for newly minted college graduates it can be a tumultuous time filled with anticipation, anxiety, happiness and disappointment. Although some college graduates will find their first, degree-related job right out of college, it’s not the case for most. Read More



Phantom Speaker Maker Devialet Turns Up The Volume With New $20 Million Funding Round

Jun 18, 1:56PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-17 at 4.20.03 PM Devialet, known for its Phantom speaker which supposedly sounds better than speakers 20 times bigger, just announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B round. LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, Xaviel Niel, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, and Marc Simoncini are behind today’s funding round. This funding follows a Series A in 2012 where the company raised $19.1 million to fund the development of… Read More



YouTube Launches YouTube Newswire, A Channel Featuring Verified Eyewitness Videos

Jun 18, 1:50PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-18 at 9.41.49 AM YouTube announced today a trio of initiatives designed to expand the video-sharing site’s role in new media journalism, including eyewitness news. Most notably, the company is launching a service called YouTube Newswire in partnership with social news agency Storyful, which will introduce a curated and verified feed of the day’s most newsworthy events being published to… Read More



Russell Simmons On His New App, Transcendental Meditation And The Art Of Sitting The F*** Down

Jun 18, 1:38PM

rsapps Russell Simmons and I discuss his new app, his vision for transcendental meditation and whether technology and meditation can coexist. Read More



The DxO ONE Is A Plug-In iPhone Camera With A 1-Inch Sensor

Jun 18, 1:32PM

02-tour-v02-md Your iPhone camera is already one of the better mobile cameras available, but a new accessory from imaging technology leader DxO could up the iPhone’s game considerably. The Lightning-enabled DxO ONE has a super bright f1.8 aperture lens, and a 20.2 megapixel, 1-inch sensor. That sensor size is on par with the Sony RX100 series of compact camera, which produces amazing pictures in terms… Read More



Hitlist's FOMO-Inducing Chrome Tab Turns Out To Be A Great Growth Hacking Strategy

Jun 18, 1:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-18 at 8.03.38 AM If you have a terrible, 10 or 15-year long affliction of wanderlust like I do, Hitlist’s Wandertab on Chrome and Firefox is the worst. Or the best. Or the worst. Well, one of the two. It’s a Chrome tab that pulls up a lush, full-screen photograph of some exotic destination and the lowest flight prices that Hitlist’s travel search engine can find there from wherever your… Read More



Google Grows E-Commerce Business In Europe With Ingenico Partnership

Jun 18, 12:34PM

euros Google has been making gradual progress expanding its payments services outside of the U.S. market, with P2P money transfer services now working in the UK and a deal with Visa Europe to expand Android Pay acceptance in 37 countries on the continent. In the meantime, it’s also working on ways of inching closer to European merchants and their payments strategies. Today, Ingenico, one… Read More



First Salesforce Wave Analytics App Washes Ashore

Jun 18, 12:00PM

Waves crashing. Salesforce announced a new Wave analytics app today called Sales Wave Analytics, the first in a line of what the company is calling ‘role-based’ packaged apps for the Wave platform. First, some context because all of this Wave talk can get a bit confusing. Last fall, Salesforce introduced Wave, which was a platform for the company’s analytics business moving forward. With… Read More



Toshiba's Announces New Windows 10 Back-To-School Laptops

Jun 18, 12:00PM

Toshiba Satellite Radius 15 P55W_ANGLE2 Toshiba has announced their entire back-to-school lineup of laptops and 2-in-1 products. The company is expanding its Satellite C Series, which is currently its top-selling line of portable computers. The new Series C will be available in both 15.6- and 17.3-inch sized, both of which are HD TruBright displays. Additionally, both sizes will come with a dedicated Cortana button for easy access… Read More



Managed By Q Sweeps Up $15M Led By RRE Ventures, Expands To San Francisco

Jun 18, 11:30AM

RnzmUZ-rZw3OJ8Ap_MiwXamIT1i3XoBYg3Otf7fvabI Managed By Q, the startup that handles all the cleaning, maintenance and re-stocking of your office, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures. Greycroft Partners, Homebrew, Sherpa Ventures, SV Angel and Steadfast Financial also participated in the round, alongside Gary Vaynerchuk, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, Semil Shah, Jessica… Read More



BuzzFeed Showcases Its Serious Side With A News App And Customizable Alerts

Jun 18, 11:21AM

BuzzFeed News notification Are you the kind of person who says, “I read BuzzFeed for the news”? Do you secretly wish you didn’t have to wade through all those listsicles and quizzes to get to the serious reporting? Well, BuzzFeed’s releasing an app just for you. The company is launching a mobile app called BuzzFeed News, and at first glance, it’s pretty much what you’d expect. Unlike… Read More



How A Team Of Accomplished Entrepreneurs Plan To Revolutionize Your Television Experience

Jun 18, 11:11AM

Molotov - screen shot iPad The company’s logo on the doorbell was so tiny that I wasn’t sure I was at the right door. After 18 months of hard work, I was the first journalist to see Molotov in action, a brand new way to watch TV. Behind the scene, AlloCiné co-founder Jean-David Blanc, Canal+ co-founder Pierre Lescure, former TF1 executive Jean-Marc Denoual, and Gamekult and Sens Critique co-founder Kevin… Read More



Bookindy Is A Chrome Extension That Hijacks Amazon To Let You Buy From Your Local Bookstore

Jun 18, 11:04AM

Bookindy Amazon quickly established itself as an online bookstore behemoth, before expanding into almost every facet of our e-commerce lives. But, for all that convenience, we pay a heavy price, not least with the erosion of the high street. Enter Bookindy, a clever new web app that aims to help your local independent bookstore fight back. Read More



EFF's 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon

Jun 18, 9:49AM

EFF Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual Who has your back? report into online service providers’ transparency and privacy practices when it comes to government requests for accessing user data. Read More



SoftBank Lands $236M From Alibaba And Foxconn To Bring Its Pepper Robot To The World

Jun 18, 8:04AM

Softbank Pepper Remember Pepper, the intelligent robot that SoftBank unveiled in Japan last year? Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba and manufacturer Foxconn have invested $118 million each in its robotics division. Read More



Hong Kong's Spacious Lands $3M To Expand Its Property Portal Across Asia

Jun 18, 6:12AM

property Hong Kong’s Spacious is a latest in a series of startups that has raised money to change the way people in Asia find houses to rent or buy. Read More



Cameo, Vimeo's Video Editing Platform, Ditches Social Networking Functionality

Jun 18, 4:01AM

21dDjvN7XF1w7laQiAJ3Yh4lv8qYBHZXVuZkJqNBf1A Cameo, the video editing platform which was bought by Vimeo last year, today launched a complete rebuild of its app. While the new update contains familiar features like easy importing, editing, and HD video support, the redesign notably removes Cameo’s social networking features. Previously, users could follow other filmmakers inside the app and view their posts in a… Read More



China's Qihoo 360 Moves To Delist From NYSE Via A $9 Billion Buyout

Jun 18, 3:14AM

qihoo Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba held the largest IPO in U.S. history last year, but going public isn’t all sweetness and roses for every Chinese tech firm. In fact, a resurgent public market coupled with increased private equity has made the ideal of listing domestically — or, not being public in the U.S. — more appealing. Read More



Judge Tentatively Orders Ellen Pao To Pay More Than $275,000 In Court Costs To Kleiner Perkins

Jun 18, 1:31AM

ellen-pao1 Judge Harold Kahn has tentatively ordered Ellen Pao to pay $275,996.63 back to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for costs incurred during a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year. Pao lost on all counts of her case against KPCB, which claimed she was not properly promoted within the VC firm on the basis of her gender. The jury found that her gender was not the reason Pao… Read More



Yahoo Japan Invests In Monk's Hill Ventures' Fund For Southeast Asia

Jun 18, 1:10AM

yahoo japan Southeast Asia-based VC firm Monk’s Hill Ventures has welcomed a big name investor to its list of LPs after Yahoo Japan, the internet portal and $24 billion valued joint venture between Yahoo and SoftBank, invested an undisclosed amount into its inaugural fund. Read More




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