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Houzz Acquires Home And Gardening Community Site GardenWeb From NBCUniversal

Aug 25, 5:45PM

houzz_homepage After a number of big fundraising rounds over the last few years, Houzz has now made its first acquisition. The company today announced that it has acquired GardenWeb, a garden and home community site, from NBCUniversal for an undisclosed amount. Read More



TuneIn Launches TuneIn Premium With Ad-Free Radio, Audiobooks, MLB Games

Aug 25, 5:29PM

TuneIn Radio Popular radio service and app TuneIn just launched a new subscription service. For $7.99 per month, TuneIn Premium subscribers get a bunch of new premium content as well as a nifty ad-free feature. Read More



Hortonworks Acquires Onyara, Early Startup With Roots In NSA

Aug 25, 5:19PM

Big Data concept picture with ones and zeros going off into infinity. Hortonworks, the big data company built on Hadoop, bought early-stage startup Onyara today. The company, which launched at the end of last year, has its roots in the NSA — yes that NSA. The Onyara engineers worked at the NSA for 8 years helping to develop a technology that would later be known as Apache NiFi. The NSA released the technology to the open source community last year as… Read More



Slack Leans On Companies Like Box And Nuzzel To Use "Add To Slack" Buttons For Contextual Integration

Aug 25, 5:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-25 at 9.24.52 AM Slack’s true power is being a platform. A platform that other tools can plug into and play nice with. The company says there are 80+ of these types of integrations and thousands of developers hacking away at adding more. Right now, you have to rely on you or someone on your team finding the integrations that you want on the integrations page and then adding it to your instance of Slack.… Read More



Facebook's New Moments App Now Automatically Creates Music Videos From Your Photos

Aug 25, 4:35PM

Facebook Moments Facebook Moments, the social network’s recently launched photo-sharing app which aims to address the problem of getting friends to send each other the photos they’ve been hoarding on their own phones, is expanding to video. The app received its first major update today since its mid-June debut, and will now automatically create a video of your shared photos which you can… Read More



Butterfleye Is A Home Security Camera That Can Learn What Not To Record

Aug 25, 4:00PM

Butterfleye Butterfleye is a hardware startup aiming to build a connected home security camera that avoids coming across as creepily prying. Read More



6 Reasons Hardware Is The New Software

Aug 25, 4:00PM

robotdap For many years, hardware has lagged behind software because of price, specialization, and the speed of innovation. Recently though, more startups are taking up the challenge thanks to the Internet of Things. Read More



The Sensel Morph Is A Keyboard On Steroids

Aug 25, 4:00PM

sensel In the world of technology, change happens with the blink of an eye. But one thing that has remained relatively constant throughout the years is the good old mouse and keyboard. The Sensel Morph, freshly unveiled on Kickstarter today, is looking to change that. The Sensel Morph is a touch-input device that is meant to change the way we interact with the digital world. It looks like a… Read More



Tapingo Launches A Student-Run Delivery Service, Plus Other New Ordering Options

Aug 25, 3:35PM

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset As students return to college campuses this week, Tapingo is introducing three new features available at all 125 schools where the mobile ordering service is currently in use. With an average campus coffee shop processing 300-500 Tapingo orders a day, and a busy venue recieving over 800 orders, the platform has grown to the point where it is a household name on some college campuses. The… Read More



GoPro's Nick Woodman To Speak At Disrupt SF 2015

Aug 25, 3:16PM

GoPro Nicholas Woodman The last time GoPro CEO and Founder Nick Woodman stopped by Disrupt SF, the company had yet to go public, the Hero3 had just been announced and VR was still a thing of the future. We’re excited to announce that Woodman is returning to Disrupt SF and there is plenty to discuss. Woodman started GoPro in 2002 on the back of a loan from his parents and the proceeds from selling beads and… Read More



Cablevision Becomes First Pay TV Provider To Distribute CBS And Showtime Over-The-Top To Broadband Customers

Aug 25, 3:11PM

cbsallaccess Following a similar move which saw it becoming the first internet service provider to distribute HBO NOW to its broadband customers, New York-area cable TV company Cablevision announced this morning that it will offer its internet customers the ability to subscribe to CBS’s over-the-top TV services, including CBS All Access and Showtime without an accompanying pay TV subscription.… Read More



Chic by Choice Acquires Its Berlin Competitior La Remia

Aug 25, 3:01PM

ChicByChoice-photo Chic by Choice (CBC), a European startup which resembles RentTheRunway, has acquired its German competitor La Remia. Terms were undisclosed. Anna Mangold and Claudia von Boeselager, the founders of La Remia, will stay on board as advisors. CBC’s aim is to disrupt inventory management and better monetize brands’ and retailers’ excess inventory. While resembling its US… Read More



Amazon's "Prime Now" Expands To Seattle Region, Adds Beer, Wine & Liquor Delivery Option

Aug 25, 2:21PM

prime-now Amazon’s one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, is finally making its way to the company’s hometown with today’s launch in Seattle and surrounding regions. Included in the expansion are Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland areas, the company says. The move comes shortly after the service’s expansion outside the U.S. to London, which took place earlier this summer. Read More



Philips Launches Cheaper Hue Smart Light Bulb Kit

Aug 25, 2:10PM

hue-wdk-hand-and-switch The Philips Hue product line is great, but it’s also very expensive with some starter kits costing $200. But if you really want to be able to control multiple light bulbs at a time, Philips has something new for you — the new $40 wireless dimming kit. In order to bring the price down, Philips had to remove a bunch of features, starting with the ability to control your lights from… Read More



Why Billion-Dollar Valuations Don't Matter

Aug 25, 2:00PM

fakegold In the last few years, there’s been a massive decoupling between private and public markets. A Goldman Sachs report shows that since December, five of the seven most recent IPOs for billion-dollar startups came in at valuations equal to or below their pre-IPO valuations. Read More



SlideShare Rebrands As "LinkedIn SlideShare," Adds A Pinterest-Like Clipboard Section

Aug 25, 1:46PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-25 at 9.41.13 AM Over three years after its acquisition by LinkedIn, SlideShare this morning is getting deeper integration with the professional social network, a rebranding (now it’s “LinkedIn SlideShare”) and a new tool that allows users to clip out the best slides from presentations and save them to topic-based clipboards. The added feature, simply called “Clipping,” has been… Read More



Airbnb Gets Tourist Tax D'Accord In Paris, Its Largest Market

Aug 25, 1:28PM

Paris Airbnb has announced it will begin collecting tourist tax in Paris, the most popular city for home sharing on its platform, starting from October 1 — after which the remittance collection will be gradually expanded to cover the other cities where the platform operates in France. Read More



Ghost Drone Maker EHANG Lands $42M Series B, Fills Key Executive Roles

Aug 25, 12:46PM

Ghost Drone EHANG Drone startup EHANG has scored a $42 million Series B to develop its technology and launch new products. Led by GP Capital, the round also included participation from returning investors GGV Capital, ZhenFund, and PreAngel, as well as Lebox Capital and OFC. Read More



Mapstr Maps Out The Next Steps For Its App That Keeps Track Of Your Favorite Places

Aug 25, 12:30PM

Mapstr - lifestyle 3 French startup Mapstr just released version 1.0 of its nifty map app, but it’s already thinking about the next steps. The company just raised $800,000 from angel investors and is working on a set of new features for the coming months. As a reminder, Mapstr is a bookmarking service for places. It’s a hybrid between a map app and a note-taking app, and it works really well if you want… Read More



Salesforce Lightning Ushers In New Design For Core CRM Product

Aug 25, 12:00PM

Salesforce cloud logo against blue curtain. Salesforce.com lifted the curtain on Salesforce Lightning today, the completely redesigned version of its core CRM product. As is often the case with Salesforce, the announcement included several pieces. At the same time, it announced the first in a series of industry-specific CRM packages. The new version has been designed with a cleaner, more modern looking interface. It streamlines… Read More




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