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Jul 21, 4:11PM

Personal styling service Trunk Club first got its start by appealing to men who don’t like to shop by offering to ship hand-picked designer clothing to their homes for free. Then, customers only paid for those items they kept. Today, in the company’s first major announcement following its acquisition by Nordstrom last year, the service is expanding this same concept to women.…
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Jul 21, 4:00PM

CartoDB, an online map maker and business intelligence startup, wants to make it easy for anyone to communicate information with a map. Today the startup is unleashing a new feature, One-Click Mapping, that will analyze any data you upload and automatically create maps showing the relevant information. Originally, CartoDB provided software for map makers and data scientists,…
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Jul 21, 3:52PM

Launching out of the Y Combinator accelerator, Verge Genomics is looking to find cures for brain diseases. Diseases such as Alzheimers, ALS, and Parkinsons are complex diseases that usually involve a network of genes, as opposed to a single gene. According to the company, over 99.9 percent of drug discoveries ultimately fail because researchers are looking at a single gene at a time. But…
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Jul 21, 3:51PM

Apple and MTV were supposed to announce the Video Music Award nominees. But it looks like many Apple services are down right now, including the iOS and Mac App Store, Apple Music (and Beats1), Apple TV, the iBooks Store, many iTunes services (iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, iTunes Store, iTunes U) and the Podcasts app.
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Jul 21, 3:38PM

Shopify has been steadily improving its iPad-based point-of-sale solution since its launch a couple of years prior, in order to better compete with rivals like Revel, Square, ShopKeep, Vend, and many others. Today, the company is expanding the capabilities of its iOS point-of-sale system with the launch of nearly a half dozen apps for the platform, allowing merchants to add custom features…
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Jul 21, 2:59PM

Later today, Apple will announce its quarterly earnings for its fiscal Q3 2015. While everybody is asking for Apple Watch sales numbers, you shouldn’t expect Apple to break out this number. Moreover, as this is a first generation product, the Apple Watch won’t be driving the company’s earnings. Instead, the iPhone should be the star of the show, once again.
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Jul 21, 2:21PM

The NFL is preparing to launch a new version of its Games Pass service, which will now include the ability to watch games on a wider selection of devices, including the Apple TV. According to information posted on the NFL website, the new Game Pass service will also replace Game Rewind, a paid service that previously offered all 256 NFL regular season games on-demand, after they air on television.
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Jul 21, 2:09PM

.406 Ventures, a 10-year-old, Boston-based venture firm that focuses exclusively on enterprise-related opportunities, has closed its third fund with $217 million. The total is slightly more than the firm assembled for its first two funds, closed in 2006 and 2011, respectively, with $169 million and $175 million. That’s by design, says senior associate Payal Agrawal Divakaran, who joined…
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Jul 21, 2:00PM

If you’re interested in extreme sports, chances are you own a GoPro and use it to film your sick moves. But folks with a GoPro know how painful it can be to edit down hours of video to 90 seconds of action-packed awesome set to music. Shred Video, a new startup launching out of Y Combinator, allows users to take footage from their iPhone, GoPro or drone and simply match it with a song…
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Jul 21, 2:00PM

In this day and age, the entrepreneurial spirit has been awakened in even those that can’t build software, which can make the engineering team a slightly mysterious entity. ClubHouse, founded by Kurt Schrader and Andrew Childs formerly of Intent Media, aims to bring more transparency and predictive models to the process of engineering. The company has raised $2 million in seed thus far.
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Jul 21, 1:14PM

Booktrack, a startup out of New Zealand that creates soundtracks to accompany e-books, has raised another $5 million in funding to make sure that reading is no longer a quiet activity. Led by COENT Venture Partners and Sparkbox Ventures, the Series B round brings Booktrack’s funding total to $10 million. Previous investors include Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and filmmaker Peter…
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Jul 21, 1:00PM

Kubernetes, the open-source container management tool Google launched last February, hit version 1.0 today. With this update, Google now considers Kubernetes ready for production. What’s more important, though, Google is also ceding control over Kubernetes and is donating it to a newly formed foundation — the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that will be run by the Linux…
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Jul 21, 1:00PM

Apprenda, an enterprise platform as a service (PaaS) player that originally launched back in 2007, today announced that it has raised a $24 million Series D round led by Safeguard Scientifics. Other participants in this round include New Enterprise Associates and Ignition Partners. This brings Apprenda’s total funding to $56 million.
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Jul 21, 1:00PM

Over the past few years, Square has evolved from being “that payment company with the recognizable dongle”, to an indispensable part of the technology stack for quite a few businesses. It’s not just about accepting the payments anymore, it’s about managing your business with software. Today, Square is releasing its second non-consumer app, a dashboard app for iOS, that…
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Jul 21, 1:00PM

Earlier this year, CoreOS announced Tectonic, its commercial distribution that combines the CoreOS operating system with Kubernetes, Google’s container management and orchestration tool. Today, as Kubernetes hits 1.0, the company launched the first preview of this new service. Tectonic subscribers will get 24×7 support for the whole stack, which, among other things, includes…
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Jul 21, 12:59PM

PragueCrunch IV is almost here! This annual celebration of all things startup is happens on Friday, July 31, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM (CEST). We’ll be holding the event on the terrace at StÅ™elecký Ostrov. If you’ve been to any of the previous events you’ll know it’s a good time. We have special early-bird tickets available now right here so get them while…
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Jul 21, 12:05PM

As Facebook continues to add more advertising features to Instagram, another photo-sharing platform is expanding in its commercial and global ambitions with a new round of funding. 500px — a Toronto-based startup where users post and share, as well as buy and sell photos — has raised $13 million. The Series B is led by a strategic investor, the Visual China Group, and included…
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Jul 21, 11:48AM

Verizon, now owner of AOL (and thus, us!) reported its second quarter earnings today. The company posted revenues of $32.2 billion on earnings per share of $1.04. Analysts where estimating sales of $32.45 billion on EPS of $1.01 — so the company was more profitable than expected despite falling short on revenue. “In the second quarter, we again balanced quality Verizon…
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Jul 21, 11:30AM

Medallia, which makes SaaS customer experience management software, has raised $150 million in new funding from returning investor Sequoia Capital. This brings the startup’s total raised so far to $255 million.
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Jul 21, 10:41AM

It’s been a long time coming. French startup Lima is shipping its device to its 12,840 Kickstarter backers two years after raising $1.2 million on Kickstarter. This showcases the long and windy road for many hardware startups that launch a crowdfunding campaign too early.
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