March 11, 2015
Sneak Peek At Flipboard’s Apple Watch App
Among the many new applications designed for Apple Watch, there are still a few big names who had yet to reveal how their apps will look and operate.…
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March 11, 2015
Google Launches Cloud Storage Nearline, A Low-Cost Storage Service For Cold Data
Google is launching a new cloud storage service today that has the potential to change how many companies, ranging from startups to enterprise, view online storage. With Google…
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Apple Pegged To Bring Force Touch Pressure-Sensitive Input To Next iPhones
Apple’s Force Touch tech, which it built into both the new 12-inch MacBook and the new Apple Watch, is also headed to the next iPhone, according to a…
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Looker Raises Another $30M For Its New Approach To Business Intelligence
Looker, a business intelligence startup co-founded by early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps Lloyd Tabb, has raised another $30 million in Series B funding, money that co-founder…
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Zuora $115M Investment Round Validates Subscription Approach
Zuora, the company that helps customers manage their subscription models, today announced a massive $115M funding round involving not just Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but also public market…
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Lingua.ly, Which Turns The Internet Into A Language Textbook, Raises $1M
Lingua.ly, which saves language students from the tedium of traditional textbooks, has raised $1 million. Participants in the round include Udi Netzer (a returning investor), Shai Rephaeli, Yochy…
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YC-Backed Notable Labs Provides Personalized Medical Testing For Brain Cancer Patients
Matt de Silva was working as a hedge fund manager with Thiel Capital in the fall of 2013 when he got the news that his dad had brain…
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Hearsay Social Hires Its First CFO
Hearsay Social, a Sequoia-backed startup helping finance and insurance companies grow sales through social media, announced today that it has hired its first chief financial officer — William…
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Congress Presses Uber And Lyft On Driver Background Checks
Ride-sharing companies are not strangers to Congressional inquiries. This week a group of Congressional Democrats hit the CEOs of Uber, Sidecar and Lyft with another letter, this time…
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Y Combinator-Backed SIRUM Matches Unused Medicine With Low-Income Patients
An estimated $5 billion worth of prescription medication gets burned up, flushed down the drain or thrown in the garbage each year. About $2 billion worth of it…
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