January 26, 2015
The Reason To Be Cheerful About HoloLens
With the release of the HoloLens, Microsoft put something out there that has a chance of being transformative. Not in the high concept way, but in a general…
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January 26, 2015
Fly Or Die: Canary Home Monitoring System
The home security market is quickly heating up. As IoT continues to be a dominating trend, security systems that use smaller, faster technology will become the central hub…
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Israel Grows From Startup Nation To Exit Nation
Thanks to a string of big exits over the past year, Israel’s technology companies are moving the country from a startup nation to an exit nation. Read More…
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A16Z Leads $58M Round In UK’s TransferWise To Ramp Up Its P2P Transfer Business
TransferWise, the fast-growing UK-based P2P money transfer startup that has reportedly been in talks with Facebook for remittance services, has raised now raised a large round of funding led…
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More Than 200,000 Photographers Have Participated In EyeEm’s “Missions” For Brands
Whenever a new social network or online community springs up, it seems pretty inevitable that brands will eventually try to build a presence there. Naturally, this can cause…
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Here’s How To Turn On Windows 10’s New, Hidden Calendar And Clock
I presume by now that if you are a Windows kid, you are using the newest build of the Windows 10 operating system, the recently released 9926 edition. If you…
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Filmmakers Need A Virtual Reality Editing Suite, So Visionary VR Built It
Virtual reality is as different from movies as movies are from novels. It’s hard to port one into another without losing a lot. New storytelling mediums need new…
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Social Customer Service Firm Sparkcentral Locks Up A $12M Series B
Sparkcentral, a company that provides tools to help businesses conduct customer support over social channels, has raised a $12 million Series B round of funding, led by Split Rock…
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This Entrepreneur Quit His Day Job To Make A Little Rubber Thing For Your Headphones
A cursory search under “headphone management” will bring up virtually hundreds of products. Spoolee’s novel contribution to the category is a twig adrift in an ocean of competition.…
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The Dawn Of Our Robot Overlords Inches Closer As iRobot Starts VC Shop
Robot domination may have just taken another step forward. Just as venture capital investments in robotics are beginning to take off, the granddaddy of consumer robotics companies, iRobot, is launching…
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