The TechCrunch Meetups in Atlanta and Boston are approaching rapidly, which means that you need to move fast if you don’t want to be left out. In case you haven’t heard of the TC Meetups before, here’s a quick refresher: We’ve been running regional TechCrunch Meetups for the past three years in various cities across the globe. The purpose is to bring together the… Read More
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Diversity of ideas and founders is the 500 Startups way. So it’s fitting that the accelerator’s 11th Mountain View batch would feature an extraordinarily wide range of companies; from those tackling huge problems like recruiting and health in the Arab world, to more “niche to win” businesses focused on picture framing or cookie delivery. Investors I spoke to… Read More
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There are a number of ways member-based organizations can network online – Facebook, shared calendars, Meetup.com, etc. – but these groups today still struggle to keep members engaged and informed about upcoming events and other activities. A startup called GroupAhead is working to solve those challenges by introducing a platform that allows any organization to have their own… Read More
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Move over, millennials, kids are once again the top priority for marketers. Thanks to a confluence of factors, children have become the most valuable consumer segment of all. As a father, I can tell you that my kids dictate the majority of our household purchasing decisions. Since children influence how the family budget is spent, they’re prime targets for TV advertisers. But in the… Read More
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Microsoft today released early builds of its Office suite designed for Windows 10, software that is designed to accept touch input and work across tablets and phones. Office 2016, the desktop edition of Office, will also ship this year. Windows 10, of course, is Microsoft’s new operating system that is designed to work across every device category and screen size. The move to harmonize… Read More
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Reserve, a mobile application offering a different take on restaurant reservations, is today exiting its beta period which saw it limiting access by way of a waitlist, and is expanding the service to diners who use Android devices. The previously iOS-only app now works in San Francisco, New York, L.A. and Boston, allowing customers in these markets to use Reserve’s “dining… Read More
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Qumulo (pronounced cume-u-low), a stealth storage startup out of Seattle, announced a $40M Series B investment today. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with participation from existing investors Highland Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners. Company co-founder and CEO Peter Godman says the founders cut their teeth in the early 2000s at Isilon,… Read More
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Apple, in its flush of new, bigger iPhone 6 handsets, has been selling record numbers of its older and newer model smartphones in the last few months, and now it’s passed another significant milestone: it has managed to overtake sales of Android devices in the key market of the U.S. for the first time in three years.
According to figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the market… Read More
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MobileIron is introducing a new Content Security Service (CSS) today that provides IT with a cloud security umbrella to set document protections across a variety of services, even when employees save documents to a personal account. In today’s BYOD (bring-your-own-device) world, IT knows all too well that people save company content to personal cloud storage accounts, even if there… Read More
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Last year’s large-scale cyber attack has had a specific financial cost to Sony’s business, detailed today as a line-item on its preliminary results for its third quarter, ending December.