Good news, everyone. Facebook Messenger has two new features! No sense saving them for below the fold: they’re Dropbox integration and live video Chat Heads. Read More
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Cloud-based video production platform 90 Seconds lands $7.5M Series A led by Sequoia India
Despite the increasing ubiquity of online videos, making a professional-looking one is still a complicated process that usually involves chains of emails and uploads. 90 Seconds wants to fix that problem with its cloud-based platform, which lets users handle almost every part of the video production process in one place. Today, the startup announced it has raised a $7.5 million Series A led… Read More
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Venture firm Accel just raised a new $500 million European fund
Accel is on a roll. Shortly after announcing a $500 million seed fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund for U.S.-focused investments, the venture firm has yet another fund. This time, Accel raised $500 million for Accel London V, a fund focused on Series A and B investments in Europe and Israel. Read More
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Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin lays out his hopes for colonizing Mars
When I met with Buzz Aldrin to discuss his new book No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon, he described himself as possibly “among the luckiest guys.” After all, his mother was born in 1903, the same year the Wright brothers made their first flight, and Aldrin himself was born less than three decades later. Yet in the span of his own life… Read More
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Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane burns out and sells assets
“Why do you need money from me when you have every great investor on earth?” That’s the question that caused Backplane to buckle under the weight of its own early buzz. Lady Gaga’s social network builder startup has run out of money, gone out of business and sold its assets to a group of previous and new investors who will try to restart it. That’s according to… Read More
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Smartphones are the latest invisible ally of the Fed
Throughout my business career of some 60 years, I have always been fascinated by change — the dynamics of change and how businesses, governments and people respond to change. Or fail to respond. Throughout history, major technological trends have had a profound, and often invisible, impact on governments and traditional institutions. In the digital era, this pace of change is amplified… Read More
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Computing’s future? It’s in your pocket
Technology’s neverending story has always, apparently, been the quest for The Next Big Thing. Whether that thing is something entirely new and transformative — unimaginable except within the fantastical confines of the sci-fi genre, say. Or just a far faster/more powerful iteration of the rough-round-the-edges gizmo sitting on your desk today — one which delivers a bona fide… Read More
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Slidebox brings its Tinder-like photo management app to Android
A new application called Slidebox aims to help Android users clean up their photo library by swiping to delete unwanted photos, as well as use other tools to more easily organize photos into albums. It’s sort of like a “Tinder for Photos” with a few extra features, in fact.
The app is now one of many utilities arriving to address a longtime challenge smartphone users face… Read More
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DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing
Document analytics startup DocSend has raised $8 million in new funding. Naturally, co-founder and CEO Russ Heddleston said he used his company’s tools to make the deal. DocSend launched at our Disrupt NY conference two years ago, offering users a different way to send email attachments. The attachments are presented in a web viewer, meaning that you get notifications whenever someone… Read More
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Mobile search company Quixey swaps CEOs
Quixey, a well-funded mobile technology company which once focused on solving the problems with app discovery before shifting focus to deep linking, has brought in a new CEO to run operations as the company has missed its revenue targets and lost top execs. According to an announcement released this morning, Quixey’s founding CEO Tomer Kagan will now be replaced by Mark Lazar, who… Read More
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