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Facebook, Google, And Twitter’s War For App Install Ads
Big brands aren’t the only ones to suck up to anymore. No one buys a car or Coca-Cola on their phone, at least not yet, so proving the return on investment of mobile ads to these businesses is tough. There is one thing people will instantly plop down a few bucks for on the small screen, though: Apps. Lured by billions in app install ad spend per quarter and hoping to grow that pie… Read More -
Lyft Sheds Some Of Its Quirks As It Seeks New Users
The pink mustache. The fist bump. Riding up front, and chatting with the driver. Those are all things which had come to define Lyft as a service over the earliest part of its journey, as it sought to win over users and position itself as an alternative to Uber and the existing taxi industry. Read More -
Audience Entertainment Shows Off New Ways To Play Games With Everyone At The Movie Theater
Startup Audience Entertainment aims to get movie watchers twisting and turning as they play games together in the theater. I wrote about the company a few of months ago, when it was about to release a software development kit for outside developers to create content for the platform. The demos I saw then were pretty simple — for example a game where I jumped around to tap falling… Read More -
The Algorithm Economy Heads To Amazon
Holidays are a time for families to come together, catch up over great food and drinks, and determine all the technical problems that need solving throughout the house. Indeed, for children growing up in the digital age, the holidays ultimately boil down to free (or more accurately, meal-subsidized) technical support for our most cherished loved ones. Kids: Amazon has you covered. Well, almost. Read More -
Banks As Commodity Utilities In A New Payment World
With the recent launch of Apple Pay and leaked screenshots of Facebook integrating payments with Facebook Messenger fintech companies, there is a lot of speculation regarding the future of banking. Backed up by the way-too-often quoted Millennial Disruption Index, Accenture’s Banking 2020 and a range of similar reports tech evangelists predict that Apple, Facebook and Google will become… Read More -
The Star Wars Episode VII Trailer If It Were Made By George Lucas
What would that glorious The Force Awakens trailer look like if George Lucas went back and fiddled with it, as he so loves to do? Probably something like this… Read More -
The Social Psychology Of The Naked Selfie
If you’re building a tech product that has anything to do with photos then you’re probably feeling an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu lately, and it has to do with data security. It had become so routine that throughout the fall it was hard to imagine a Monday without hearing about another set of iCloud photos that been hacked during the weekend. Read More -
A Digital Healthcare Argument For Net Neutrality
The federal agency regulating communications is at a crossroads in establishing the rules of the road for how the Internet operates. Many commentators are rightfully concerned that the FCC could adopt rules that will give cable and phone companies the opportunity to discriminate against website providers and/or content, which would potentially put some sites in a paid fast lane and leave… Read More -
Clime Stickers Are Up For Pre-Order, Will Tell You (And Baby) If It’s Cold Outside
I first covered Clime a few months ago when they were little more than 3D-printed nubbins. Now these nubbins have brains. Essentially they are tiny indoor/outdoor thermometers. You can put them anywhere and then check your mobile device for the temperature. You may have something similar in your home – they used to called them weather thermometers – but older systems are far… Read More
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Peering Into The Minds Of The 4.3 Billion Unconnected
In a recent column on TechCrunch, I wrote about the mental challenges faced by the world’s 4.3 billion offline population, when trying to use the Internet for the first time. After all, they’ve never experienced the Internet before, lacking what UX experts call a ‘mental model’ of how basic internet services work, or why to even use them. In this post, I’ll shed… Read More -
Bullying The Bullies
Humans haven’t quite gotten the hang of human rights, let alone social media. Combined ignorance of the two leads people to spew hate from the safety of an Internet connection, writing their bigotry into the public record. Now these moments are being put display for public shaming by a Tumblr seeking justice against racists. It’s a form of cybervigilantism. But is there a… Read More -
The Mexican Valley Of Startup Death
The startup universe revolves around Silicon Valley, but there is life on the other planets too. Long has the entrepreneur community been used to the term “startup valley of death” and come to fear it. As most accelerators claim, once you make it out of the ditch, you’re on your way to fame and glory. But not in Mexico. Read More -
Gillmor Gang: Basement Tape
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, November 28, 2014. I stopped writing a few years ago, mostly because I felt the form was too much a parlor trick. Social felt more directed, less pious, touched with a gentle irony when played well. Threaded through Twitter, the social graph added context to the polemic of the post, a… Read More -
Penguin Hatches A Cloud Reader For Pelican Books
Penguin Books has launched a cloud reader for its resurrected Pelican educational imprint — to experiment with delivering e-books in the browser. It likely hasn’t passed you by that traditional book publishers aren’t having the best of times these days. Indeed, when it comes to reading you could say it is the best of times and the worst of times. Read More -
Mainstreaming The Smart Grid
The October anniversary of Hurricane Sandy — which knocked out power in over 8,100,000 homes in 17 states and was the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. history — has served as an opportunity to reflect on how we view our power grid. The practice is important. Stephen Lacey provided some of the best analysis of what caused the storm and how utilities are adapting the grid. Many… Read More -
Mo’ Data Mo’ Problems
The most exciting promise of Big Data—and if you hate that term, you’re not alone, but I think we’re stuck with it now—is this: the data collection happening on an increasingly gargantuan scale, parsed by modern data-processing and pattern-recognition algorithms, will unearth powerful new insights into our world and, especially, human behavior. Unfortunately this is… Read More -
Lazada, Rocket Internet’s Amazon Clone In Southeast Asia, Raises $250M Led By Temasek
We don’t often see companies announcing funding rounds on the weekend, but that’s not stopping Lazada, the Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, from announcing it has pulled in €200 million (around $250 million) in fresh capital. Read More -
What’s Next For Firefox?
When historians look at the history of the Web ten or twenty years from now, chances are they will point to Firefox as one of the most important products of the last ten years. But right now, it’s hard not to look at Firefox and worry a little bit about its future. At the height of its success, around 2010/11, Firefox owned more than a quarter of the browser market in the U.S. and almost… Read More -
IBM: Black Friday Online Sales Up 8.5% Over Last Year, 20% Of Sales Came From iOS
Online retailers had a good Black Friday, with sales up over 8% from a year ago, and nearly 47% of online traffic coming from mobile devices throughout the day. Mobile played a big role this year in terms of both traffic and sales, and yesterday was especially notable for being the first Thanksgiving Day where mobile traffic to online retailers accounted for more than half of all online traffic. Read More
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CARsgen
- Not available Series A
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Arena Online
- $750K Seed
- HQ: Houston, TX
- Categories: Social Games, Application Platforms, Online Gaming
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Aperiomics
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Diagnostics, Biotechnology
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FindURClass
- $250K Angel
- HQ: Mumbai
- Categories: Not available
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Zendrive
- Not available Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Automotive
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16Lab Inc.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
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August
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Newport Beach, CA
- Categories: Digital Media, Social Media
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Gimmie
- $700K Venture
- HQ: Singapore
- Categories: Media, Gamification, Incentives, Advertising, Consumers
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SoMedia Networks
- $1.5M Post IPO Debt
- HQ: Vancouver, BC
- Categories: Video, Software, Media
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Medgenics
- $21M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Biotechnology
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Genomics
- $16M Venture
- HQ: Not available
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Purse.IO
- $300K Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Marketplaces, Bitcoin
- Investors: Not available
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Pond-Deshpande Centre
- $500K Seed
- HQ: Fredericton, NB
- Categories: Entrepreneur
- Investors: Not available
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Delyver.com
- $1.0M Venture
- HQ: Bangalore
- Categories: Online Shopping
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Pollask
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
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Equilume
- 550K EUR Seed
- HQ: Kildare
- Categories: Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices
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Benevir Biopharm
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: Rockville, MD
- Categories: Biotechnology
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Virometix AG
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Schlieren
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Baedal Minjeok
- $36M Series D
- HQ: Seoul
- Categories: Not available
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GrapeSeed
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Subscription Businesses, Crowdfunding, Wine And Spirits
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Tangiblee
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Chicago, IL
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LoudCell Technologies
- $1.0M Venture
- HQ: Santa Clara
- Categories: Software
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Studying.to
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Education, University Students, Universities, College Recruiting, Internet ... See More
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Spinn.coffee
- $0K Seed
- HQ: Not available
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Magnetic Software
- $150K Angel
- HQ: Cape Town
- Categories: Software, CRM, Project Management, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
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