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LovelyHeroku Offers A Better Way To Manage Apps And Services
LovelyHeroku is a new breed of app that enables IT staff and developers to use their smartphones to manage their work on the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS). It's the kind of service that reflects how different work is these days now that we can carry it wherever we go. The service is the creation of Matija Bogdanovica, a computer science professor in Croatia, and Mario Danic, a… Read More
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Netflix Tops HBO In Paid U.S. Subscribers As Members Stream 5 Billion Hours Of Content In Q3
Today, Netflix posted its third-quarter earnings, with the streaming video provider exceeding analyst projections thanks to strong subscriber growth in which it added 1.3 million domestically. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells said in a letter to shareholders this afternoon that the company recently surpassed the 40 million members milestone, up from "less than 30 million just one year… Read More
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A Closer Look At Microsoft’s New Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Tablets
Over the past few days, we’ve had in our hot hands the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets. We published an initial video clip and hands-on notes last evening and today, we’re sharing a short video run-through of the hardware. Surface, of course, is Microsoft’s hardware gambit that places it in contention with its traditional OEM partners. The company’s new devices… Read More
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Google Maps Engine Gets Free Tier And A Public Data Program To Help Governments, Other Orgs Surface Maps
Google is launching a free tier of Google Maps Engine today, in conjunction with its announcement of Maps Engine Pro, a small business tool. The free tier offers all of the same features but has smaller quotas for data access, in the ‘tens of megabytes’ vs. the terabytes available in the full version. Google is also launching a new Public Data Program that allows organizations to sign… Read More
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Google’s Maps Engine Pro Aims To Help Small Businesses Visualize Location Data As Easily As They Make A Pie Chart
Today, at Google’s San Francisco offices, Google introduced Maps Engine Pro, a utility that allows small businesses to use Google’s location tools to create maps out of location databases. There will also be a mobile app available for Android initially to allow users to edit and create these maps on the fly. The app, called Google Maps Engine, will allow access to any level of GME… Read More
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Andreessen-Backed Game Developer TinyCo Lays Off 27 Employees
TinyCo, an early mobile game developer that picked up funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is laying off 27 employees as it moves toward a new strategy. The company says it will outline its new moves in the coming few weeks. “We’ve moved 10 steps forward on executing a specific strategy around how we build games and what games we build. To execute against this strategy, we decided to… Read More
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InfoScout Tells Brands Who Buys What By Getting Meatspace Shoppers To Photograph Receipts
Like Quantcast but for brick-and-mortar shopping data and not web traffic, InfoScout.co launched to give consumer product brands insight into consumer demographics. With $5 million from Bain Capital Ventures, InfoScout machine-reads receipts photographed by 100,000 users of its Receipt Hog and Shoparoo apps. It combines this data with surveys to tell CPG brands like P&G who buys their… Read More
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Netflix: ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Is Our Most-Watched Original, But Our TV Exclusives Are Even Bigger
Earlier comments from Netflix suggested that its show "Orange Is The New Black" was a hit — specifically, the company said in July that each of its original shows had a better first week than the one before it. It expanded on that point in today's earnings report and letter to investors: [Orange Is The New Black] will end the year as our most watched original series ever and, as with each of… Read More
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TechStars-Backed Lua Will Open To The Public By 2014
More than two years after launching out of TechStars NYC, little Lua has grown up. The company, which provides mobile workforce technology to enterprise customers with mostly out-of-office employees (think Convo or Yammer but as a usable mobile-first product), is today announcing plans to offer self-service public availability by the end of the year. Read More
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Who Said It? President Obama Or An Infomercial?
At today’s White House Press conference, President Obama came out to sell Americans on the Affordable Care Act and try to deflect criticism about Healthcare.gov’s continued glitches. I think most of us in the press expected him to address the shady government contract processes that allowed a mediocre web developer, CGI Global, to take on a $92 million, U.S.-government-funded e-commerce… Read More
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NanoCellect
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- Round Grant
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EDUonGo
- Size $530K
- Round Seed
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Photonics Healthcare
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital
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Inventorum
- Size Not available
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- Investors High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Klingel New Media, Vogel Ventures, MCB Salt
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Comprimato
- Size $200K
- Round Seed
- Investors Credo Ventures, Y Soft
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BountyJobs
- Size $4.5M
- Round D
- Investors Not available
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InReal Technologies
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors High-Tech Gruenderfonds
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WePay
- Size $1.5M
- Round Crowd
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Panorama Education
- Size $4M
- Round Seed
- Investors SoftTech VC, Google Ventures, A-Grade Investments, Startup:Education, Yale ... See More
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Sqrrl
- Size $5.2M
- Round A
- Investors Atlas Venture, Matrix Partners
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Kona Medical
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ChromaDex
- Size Not available
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Insightra Medical
- Size Not available
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- Investors Baird Capital, Tekla Capital Management
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OneClass
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Soylent Corporation
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Occipital
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Glowbl
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Sweetspot Intelligence
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Rentamus
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BeMyGuest
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OKpanda
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CorMedix
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Pocketbook
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Silicon Cloud
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convoe
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Marine & Auto Security Solutions
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Buyapowa
- Size $4.6M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Bright Station Ventures
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Azullo
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Rosebud Fund, Enterprise Ventures
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Payfone
- Size $10M
- Round Private_equity
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Networked Insights
- Size $9.4M
- Round C
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Netflix’s Q3 Beats Analyst Estimates With 1.3M New Domestic Subscribers, $0.52 Earnings Per Share
Netflix's third-quarter earnings report just came out, with the company beating analyst expectations on higher-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the third quarter, Netflix reported earnings of 52 cents per share on revenues of $1.1 billion. That compared to earnings of 13 cents per share on sales of $905 million in the year-ago quarter. Earnings were above analyst expectations of 49 cents a… Read More
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Social Video Broadcasting Startup Spreecast Comes Out Of Beta With A New Design
It's been two years since we first wrote about Spreecast, a startup which allows anyone to create live, social video broadcasts. After all that time, it's finally coming out of beta and doing so with a big new redesign. With the redesign, the new Spreecast is cleaner and more airy, cutting out all the jumble of logos and screenshots that used to dominate the homepage. Read More
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Facebook Adds Video And New Pricing To Its Mobile App Ads
Facebook just announced two changes to its mobile app install ads that should make them more appealing to advertisers. First, the company says it will now support video in these ad units. "Video creative has proven to be an effective way to drive engagement in News Feed," Facebook writes, and it makes sense for app ads since a video can be much more effective than screenshots and text for… Read More
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Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz
Soylent, the drink that’s designed to fulfill a person’s nutritional needs, just raised $1.5 million in seed funding from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer Ventures. Yes, that’s right. The seemingly wacky personal experiment of YC-backed founder Rob Rhinehart and his team is becoming a full-fledged business with $1.5 million in pre-orders. Chris Dixon led… Read More
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Facebook’s Referrals To Media Sites Up 170% YOY, New “Stories To Share” Tells Pages What To Post
Facebook wants to get more news content in its feed by proving to media sites it's their premier social ally. Today it announced referral traffic to media sites is up an average of 170% this year, and it launched the "Stories To Share" tool, which aims to drive even more traffic by suggesting which articles media sites should post to their Pages but haven't yet. Read More
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Microsoft Releases Code To Fix Surface RT Tablets Borked By Windows RT 8.1 Upgrade
The Windows RT 8.1 upgrade is on hiatus until Microsoft can fix an issue with the software that was causing havoc for a slim percentage of Surface RT owners moving to the new operating system. The company today released a new statement relating to the problems, indicating that the bug in the code only impacted Surface RT owners. In the company's estimation, around 0.1 percent of Surface RT… Read More
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BlackBerry’s BBM Will Hit iOS And Android Today, One Month After Botched Launch
Hey, remember when BlackBerry was going to officially roll out BBM for iOS and Android a few weekends ago only to be stymied by technical issues? At the time it was yet another dark mark on BlackBerry's already sketchy record, but things are finally starting to look up. The company confirmed on its Inside BlackBerry blog that the messaging app will go live in the Android and iOS app stores for new… Read More
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Sqrrl Raises $5.2M To Provide Deeper Granularity For NSA-Born Database Technology
Sqrrl, a big data startup with links to the NSA, announced $5.2 million in Series A funding from existing investors Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners, which will be used to further fund the development and commercialization of its scalable, NoSQL database "Sqrrl Enterprise." An updated version of this product (version 1.2) is also shipping today with additional analytic, security and performance… Read More
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Social Weddings Platform WedPics Tops Half A Million Users, 5M+ Uploads, Ahead Of Series A
One of the challenges for startups going after the weddings space is that they must constantly acquire new users - at least before the word-of-mouth momentum kicks in, as brides, grooms and guests tell their soon-to-marry friends about the various wedding-related services they used last. A Raleigh, N.C. area startup called WedPics now believes it has found its footing, having hosted 75,000… Read More
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Inkling Acquires Two Consumer Book Brands From Open Air Publishing As It Continues Push Beyond The Classroom
Interactive e-book Inkling first became known for bringing academic textbooks to the digital realms of iOS and the web. But in recent years it has expanded into consumer titles as well. And today, the company is announcing that it has added more non-textbook titles to its library with the acquisition of two brands -- Betterbook and Ready, Set, Baby! -- from digital-first how-to book publisher … Read More