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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Places A Big Bet On Containers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is launching a slew of updates and new products related to containers at Docker’s developer conference in Barcelona today. Together, all of these amount to a big bet on containers on HPE’s part. “We view containers as a disruptive technology,” HPE’s acting VP in charge of the company’s incubator partners and strategic… Read More
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Uber Drivers Can Now Pick Up Riders Headed In The Same Direction As Them
Going My Way? A new Uber feature allows drivers the ability to set a destination and pick up riders headed in that same direction. Drivers traveling across town or to and from places like Palo Alto back up to San Francisco had to pick up rides near them with no guarantee they’d get another rider going back to where they came from. That caused a lot of consternation among drivers who had… Read More
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Community Speaker Series Ignite Gets A Re-Boot
Ignite, the original speaker series held in hundreds of cities throughout the world, is making a comeback. The original co-founder and head of Highway 1, Brady Forrest has reacquired Ignite from O’Reilly Media and is relaunching it today as Ignite Talks PBC. Forrest and his co-founder, Bre Pettis, the founder of Makerbot, launched the series out of a Seattle bar in 2006. What started… Read More
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Apple’s Tim Cook: No-one Wants An iPad-Mac Hybrid
Apple CEO Tim Cook has told the The Irish Independent he has no plans to converge Cupertino’s lovingly crafted iPad and Macbook hardware lines into a hybrid tablet-plus-laptop device — arguing that melding the two device types would undermine the user experience. Read More
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Zenefits Launches Its Own Payroll Platform
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad danced around a question about building out payroll services at Disrupt SF 2015. “I can’t announce anything about new products specifically, but you know payroll’s a very important spoke,” Conrad said at the time. But the cloud-based HR unicorn has built a payroll product, launching out of beta today. As Conrad tells it, a select group of… Read More
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Facebook Ups Its Sticker Game As The First Paid Packs Arrive For Messenger
In a move that may seem trivial, but could be indicative of the future, you can now buy paid-for stickers inside Facebook Messenger. Facebook itself isn’t leading offering stickers directly, but it is working closely with a third-party — Singapore startup PicoCandy — to offer a selection of new emoji and sticker packs, some of which will cost $0.99 or $1.99. Read More
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CashKaro Raises $3.8M Series A To Become The Ebates Of Southeast Asia
CashKaro, which claims to be India’s largest cashback and coupon site, is planning to expand into new countries after raising a $3.8 million Series A from Kalaari Capital. Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Swati and Rohan Bhargava, CashKaro works with more than 1,000 e-commerce sites and makes money through their affiliate programs. Swati Bhargava told TechCrunch that… Read More
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Docker Puts Focus On Container Security
Docker today announced three new security tools and features for containers at its DockerCon Europe conference in Barcelona. These tools are meant to make using containers safer without interrupting the usual developer workflow. They include support for hardware signing with a Yubico hardware key, and user namespaces support so Docker containers don’t need to have root access anymore. Read More
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Bitnami’s New Stacksmith Service Makes It Easier For Developer To Build Custom App Containers
Bitnami is probably best known for making it easy to deploy web apps, services and development environments with just a few clicks. As developers start moving to containers, Bitnami, too, has to change to keep up with this trend. The company today launched the first beta of Stacksmith at Docker’s developer conference in Barcelona. Stacksmith gives developers a set of… Read More
Catch Up On: Crunch Report Crunch Report
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Crunch Network
Information Sharing Is Key To Avoiding A Cyberattack
President Obama’s recent extraction of a pledge from Chinese leader Xi Jinping that neither government would conduct or continue economic espionage in cyberspace, while important, still comes up far short of addressing the significant and growing global concerns about the potential for a 9/11-style cyberattack on critical financial sectors. Now more than ever, dramatically increased… Read More
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Apple Confirms It Will Open A Retail Store In Singapore, Its First In Southeast Asia
Apple has confirmed that it will open its first retail store in Southeast Asia, located in Singapore, as the U.S. phone maker begins to increase its efforts in the region’s fast-growing smartphone market. Read More
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Crunch Network
What Technology Will Look Like In Five Years
As a driver of technical innovation for a software company, a huge part of my job depends on forecasting how current tech trends will play out, merge, dissipate or expand. Here are some of my predictions of what the world will look like in 2020. Read More
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POCIT: 6 Latina Founders To Watch
Welcome to the second edition of POCIT! Consider this: 87 percent of VC-backed founders are white and 83 percent of the founding teams of those startups are all white, according to a 2010 CB Insights report. This week, we’re taking a look at some stellar Latina entrepreneurs in tech. Who do you want to see highlighted next week? Keep sending me your nominations and suggestions at… Read More
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Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Approaches $15 Million Target For Second Fund
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a three-year-old, seed-stage venture firm led by its founder and sole general partner, Charlie O’Donnell, is about to close its second fund with $15 million, up from an $8.3 million debut fund closed last year. It’s a meaningful milestone for O’Donnell, who got his start in venture capital as an analyst at Union Square Ventures and later worked as… Read More
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Paris Attacks Highlight Tech’s Elevated Role In Disaster Relief
As terror attacks put France into a national state of emergency on Friday, AirBnB, Facebook, Google, Skype, Twitter and Uber launched into disaster response mode. AirBnB contacted all hosts in Paris asking if they could take in those stranded in the city. Facebook let users alert their friends they were safe. Google offered free calls to Paris via Hangouts, as did Skype, Verizon and Sprint. Read More
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How Much Technology Is Too Much Technology?
There are many visions of what our hyper-connected future might look like. We’re packaged countless variants on the shiny-techie-future vision theme every day as marketing departments lay it on thick to try to put gloss on their latest product and restless grease on the wheels of consumption… Read More
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Crunch Network
STEM Education, Meet The New Manufacturing
STEM education and the maker movement have flooded our nation’s schools, making project-based learning much easier to mark off of the instructional “must do” checklist toward meeting new criterion and readying students for a career. Our school districts are feeling the pressure to be innovative and find new ways to engage students with technology while adhering to the… Read More
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Crunch Network
If You Want Tech Freedom, Congress Needs To Change A Law
Freedom is critical to the economic engine of Silicon Valley, but laws are not often written to preserve it. A federal decision in October let consumers unlock cell phones, tinker with their tablets and hack into some aspects of their connected vehicles’ software — as long as they don’t break other laws. Unfortunately, this decision has to be renewed every three years, through… Read More
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Facebook Says It Will Enable Safety Check During More Human Disasters, Following Criticism
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to turning on Safety Check in more human disasters going forward, responding to criticism that the company turned on its safety feature for Paris but not for Beirut and other bombings. Zuckerberg explained that the Paris terror attacks marked the first time the company has enabled Safety Check for a human disaster, not a natural disaster like an… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Digg
- $4.0M Series A
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Design, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Technology, News, Web Tools
- Investors: Not available
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ALPHAEON Corporation
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Irvine, California
- Categories: Social Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Avedro
- $32M Series E
- HQ: Waltham, Massachusetts
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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GetYourGuide
- $50M Series C
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Internet, Marketplaces, Online Travel, Tourism, Travel
- Investors: Not available
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Seeq
- $4.2M Venture
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Software, Services, Analytics
- Investors: Not available
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Watchwith
- $2.0M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Television, SaaS, Advertising Platforms, Social Media Marketing, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Storj
- $200K Venture
- HQ: Mableton, Georgia
- Categories: Cloud Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Avenida
- $30M Series C
- HQ: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal
- Categories: Online Shopping, Retail, E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Kypha
- $2.1M Debt Financing
- HQ: Saint Louis, Missouri
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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PlaceSpeak
- 500K CAD Angel
- HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Categories: Government Innovation, Information Technology, Social Media
- Investors: Not available
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Jetzy
- $650K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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MediCope
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Herzliya, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Consumer Internet
- Investors: Not available
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NeuroGenetic Pharmaceuticals
- $2.5M Grant
- HQ: Del Mar, California
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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GoQuo
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur
- Categories: E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Qliance Medical Management
- $450K Venture
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Health Care, Health Care Information Technology, Hospitals, Health Services ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Camp Native
- $1.1M Venture
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Sales and Marketing, Travel
- Investors: Not available
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Mavrck
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: Social Media Marketing, Brand Marketing, Advertising Platforms, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Sailing Technologies
- 90K EUR Debt Financing
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: Boating Industry, Sporting Goods, Specialty Chemicals, Startups
- Investors: Not available
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Tappx
- 20K EUR Convertible Note
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: Apps, Communities, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Wellmo
- 1.0M EUR Seed
- HQ: Espoo, Southern Finland
- Categories: Health and Wellness, Cloud Computing, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Varentec
- $13M Series C
- HQ: San Jose, California
- Categories: Clean Technology
- Investors: Not available
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CareMonkey
- 650K EUR Venture
- HQ: Richmond, Victoria
- Categories: Electronic Health Records, Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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Avitus Orthopaedics
- $250K Venture
- HQ: Farmington, Connecticut
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Cardax Pharma
- $1.6M Venture
- HQ: Honolulu, Hawaii
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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PriceMDs.com Inc.
- $1.0M Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Stary
- $740K Product Crowdfunding
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: Sporting Goods
- Investors: Not available
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LanguaTravel
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Language Learning, Education, Travel
- Investors: Not available
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Modern Movement
- $65K Convertible Note
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: Android, Software, Software Compliance
- Investors: Not available
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NOYSI
- $110K Angel
- HQ: Madrid, Madrid
- Categories: Unifed Communications, Communities, Web Tools
- Investors: Not available
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LoveCrafts
- $20M Series B
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available