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Pepperdata Scores $15M For Hadoop Cluster Management
Apr 16, 11:30AM
Pepperdata, a company that’s built a platform for managing and fine-tuning Hadoop cluster performance, announced a $15M Series B funding round today. The round was led by new investors Wing Venture Partners along with Citi Ventures and Silicon Valley Data Capital. Prior investors Signia Ventures and Yahoo Chairman Maynard Webb also participated. Today’s money brings the… Read More
New Treadmill Tech Will Make Your Run More Realistic
Apr 16, 10:07AM
A new technology from researchers at Ohio State allows runners to feel as if they are speeding up or slowing down naturally. The treadmill-based tech takes sonar readings of the user’s position on the belt and can tell when to crank things up or slow things down. Created by Steven T. Devor, associate professor of kinesiology, and former graduate student Cory Scheadler, the system… Read More 
Gaming Startup Code Kingdoms Exits Beta On A Quest To Get Kids Coding
Apr 16, 8:00AM
Making learning to code accessible, fun and engaging is the jumping off point of London-based startup Code Kingdoms, which has today launched out of beta, after trialling its game for the past year with around 25,000 kids and 700 schools. Read More 
Rocket Internet Acquires Restaurant Delivery Service Volo
Apr 16, 8:00AM
Well, what do we have here. Just a couple of days after participating in European restaurant delivery service Take Eat Easy’s €6 million Series A funding round, ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth Rocket Internet has acquired Germany’s Volo, a startup playing in exactly the same space. If I was Take Eat Easy’s CEO I might be slightly puzzled to say the least. Read More 
Number26 Grabs $10.6 Million To Bring Its Bank Of The Future To Everyone
Apr 16, 8:00AM
It feels like Number26 opened its doors yesterday, but the young startup just raised a $10.6 million Series A round (€10 million) from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, with Daniel S. Aegerter and existing investors Earlybird and Redalpine also participating. This represents Valar Ventures’ second investment in a European fintech startup — the VC fund also participated in… Read More 
Ola, Uber's Big Rival In India, Raises $400M To Grow To 200 Cities This Year
Apr 16, 4:54AM
Ola, the largest rival to Uber in India, has announced that it has raised a $400 million Series E round to fuel further expansion in India. Read More 
Jawbone Replaces The UP24 With The $100 UP2
Apr 16, 4:00AM
First came the Jawbone Up. Then the UP24. Then the UP3. And now… the UP2. Because numbering things in the order they came out is for schmucks! Read More 
Jawbone's New $200 UP4 Doubles As An American Express Card
Apr 16, 4:00AM
After a few delays, Jawbone’s UP3 fitness tracker is finally set to hit the delivery trucks early next week. And yet… it already has a successor, of sorts. Meet the UP4. It does everything the UP3 does, and you can buy things with it. Read More 
In Latest Deals Brazilian Investor Kaszek Ventures Doubles Down On Women Entrepreneurs
Apr 15, 10:08PM
Latin American investors Kaszek Ventures have kicked off 2015 with back-to-back investments in startups founded and run by Brazilian women — Dress & Go, a luxury apparel rental site, and Love Mondays, an employer review site. Previously, Kaszek had only one female-founded company in their portfolio of 28 — OQVestir, a Brazilian luxury ecommerce site that closed a Series A in 2011. Read More 
Announcing The Agenda For Disrupt NY 2015
Apr 15, 9:38PM
TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to New York May 2-6, and we’re excited to announce the full agenda. The event will span five days and feature industry titans, noted thought leaders and up-and-coming entrepreneurs. General admission tickets are still available. With just over two weeks before the big event, we wanted to give you a full picture of the schedule and speakers. Ron Conway and… Read More 
WeWork's Adam Neumann To Join Us At Disrupt NY In May
Apr 15, 9:21PM
WeWork is just about five years old, and in five years has grown to be one of the biggest real estate companies in the world, with a valuation north of $5 billion. Given the tremendous growth of the company, alongside WeWork’s ability to combine technology with physical space, made CEO Adam Neumann a perfect fit for the Disrupt NY Stage. We’re very pleased to announce that… Read More 
Nestdrop Goes Back To Delivering Weed, Adding 9 Locations Along The West Coast
Apr 15, 9:14PM
Marijuana delivery startup Nestdrop is back in operation today, this time in 9 cities spread across the entire West Coast, including in Seattle, Portland, and 7 California locations. This now makes Nestdrop the only weed delivery service currently operating across multiple states. But things were not looking so good a few months ago for the startup. L.A. city attorney Mike Feuer filed… Read More 
Google Launches Handwriting Input For Text And Emoji On Android
Apr 15, 8:39PM
Google Research today launched its latest project: Google Handwriting Input. Besides their voice and favorite keyboards, Android users using Android 4.0.3 and up can now also simply use good old-fashioned handwriting to input text into any Android app. Read More 
Netflix Adds 4.9M New Members In Q1, Sending Shares Up More Than 10%
Apr 15, 8:14PM
Why’s Wall Street so excited about flat revenues and an earnings miss? Netflix reported that its subscriber base grew to a total 62.3 million. That figure includes 2.3 million new domestic subscribers, and 2.6 million non-domestic subscribers. Read More 
The Rise Of Micro Startup Acquisitions
Apr 15, 8:00PM
Recent news of Pinterest acquiring a two-person startup was probably a head scratcher for most of you. It shouldn’t be. Along with Kosei, Hike Labs was a focusedmicro acquisition intended to bolster Pinterest’s content discovery efforts. More companies should be following their lead. Read More 
As Mozilla Prepares Firefox Fightback, President Li Gong And Mobile VP Rick Fant Leave
Apr 15, 5:56PM
Mozilla and its Firefox browser have been hurting badly in the stakes for browser market against Google Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari, and now the company is preparing a bigger restructuring with its president and a mobile VP both leaving the company, along with a renewed marketing and product effort that it plans to kick off likely in May, as it looks… Read More 
Boomerang Commerce Launches A/B Testing Platform For Pricing
Apr 15, 5:16PM
Boomerang Commerce, a startup that helps online retailers optimize their pricing and a 2014 Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield finalist, today announced the launch of its A/B testing service for pricing. Marketers love A/B testing to see which message works best, but when it comes to pricing, offering two different customers two different prices for the same product can quickly become a recipe… Read More 
On-Demand Food Delivery Service Sprig Has Raised $45 Million
Apr 15, 5:00PM
Sprig, a food delivery service that specializes in healthy on-demand meals in San Francisco, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Social+Capital and Greylock Partners. The company plans to expand to the remainder of the Bay Area and Chicago in the coming months, and then more cities by the end of 2015. Sprig’s menu is limited, but is supposed to arrive no later than 20… Read More 
Wikipedia's New iOS App Sees An Improved Design, Adds Social Features With Shareable "Fact Cards"
Apr 15, 4:15PM
The Wikimedia Foundation has been steadily rolling out updates to the Wikipedia mobile experience in recent months, and today that trend continues as the organization rolls out a brand-new iOS app. This release is focused on improvements to the visual design of Wikipedia’s app, better search, and includes the addition of social features that allow you to share facts and images with… Read More 
Home Automation System Seed Labs Launches Silvair Control To Make Your Lightbulbs Smart
Apr 15, 3:51PM
As our homes becoming increasingly wired (or unwired) it’s important for our teakettles to talk to our fridges and, potentially, for both to gang up on our vacuums. But how? They can now use something called the Silvair Control from Seed Labs. We last met up with Seed Labs last November when they showed me a working system to control electronics in the home using an open and very usable… Read More 
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