Connect, a social address book and friend finder application that launched earlier this year, has raised $10.3 million in new funding as the company prepares to expand into messaging, and also to additional international markets including China, Russia and elsewhere. The Series A round includes investment from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Fosun International, the “Berkshire… Read More
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Mobile marketing startup Gallop Labs is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Golden Venture Partners and Mantella Venture Partners. Angel investors include Allen Lau (CEO of popular social reading startup Wattpad, and an investor through Two Small Fish Ventures), Kontagent co-founder Albert Lai (now CEO of Big Viking Games), and Jennifer Lum (co-founder… Read More
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It’s no fad. Just nine months after hitting 200 million users, Instagram now says 300 million people use its photo app every month, with 70% of them coming from outside the US. That makes Instagram officially bigger than Twitter, which had 284 million active users as of six weeks ago. Instagram’s been going strong for four years now, and despite fears that the acquisition by… Read More
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The U.K. recently announced compliance guidelines for the government’s new Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS), a mandatory energy assessment and energy-saving identification scheme in response to the requirement “for all Member States of the European Union to implement Article 8 of the Energy Efficiency Directive.” Read More
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Nokia — doubling down on mapping as a multiplatform business after selling its devices and services division to Microsoft earlier this year — says that it’s had over one million downloads of its Here navigation and mapping app on Android since launching it as a sideloaded, limited release. Now, the company is ramping up its ambitions with a global release anywhere that… Read More
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Reserve, a mobile app that makes it easy to find reservations at top restaurants, announced today that it’s now available in San Francisco. The service launched in October. It came out of Expa, the “startup studio” created by Uber and StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp — CEO Greg Hong said that just as Uber made personal drivers more accessible to a broader audience,… Read More
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I’ve never owned a home. That’s mostly because I make a journalist’s salary while living in one of the least affordable cities in the world. But also, I really like the fact that I can call my landlord or superintendent whenever something breaks, because it’s their responsibility. Read More
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Video-game-streaming service Twitch just announced that it will acquire GoodGame, a full-service agency dedicated to serving the needs to pro-gamers and brands looking to be involved in the eSports industry. 
Microsoft’s Gabriel Aul, one of the most prominent members of the Windows 10 team, announced today that a security update to the current build of the operating system will not install if a user has Office already installed.