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February 11, 2015
The temptation of a smartphone for a thief is dropping, thanks to Apple’s decision to implement a remote kill switch via Find My Phone that can erase and disable…
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Just days after Marin Software acquired France’s SocialMoov to build out is social media advertising reach comes one more social-ad-tech acquisition in the country. Perion Network has acquired…
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A new travel technology company called HotelsByDay wants to offer a new option for those looking for a place to work or unwind during their trips, when they…
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JW Player, the streaming video company that (in the words of its president Chris Mahl) helps online publishers find “life after YouTube, or life beyond YouTube,” has made…
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The U.K.’s first-to-market 4G/LTE network, EE, has today announced network expansion plans in a bid to stay ahead of the carrier competition — revealing plans to spend £1.5…
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Reserve, the app promising to serve as your “personal dining concierge,” is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The company was incubated at…
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Hammer & Chisel, the core gaming startup founded by Jason Citron, an early pioneer in smartphone gaming, just raised additional funding from Tencent, Benchmark Capital and YouWeb’s 9+.…
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Tim Cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference today: Apple is putting a massive $848 million into solar…
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As a part-time urban planning nerd, I love visualizations of buses, trains and cars pulsating through cities. Now with more data available through smartphones, emergent logistics platforms like…
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Hackers have screwed Snapchat several times and now the startup is taking aggressive action to keep it from happening again. Yesterday, Snapchat cut off access from music video…
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