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Visa Selected Three Black-Founded Startups To Help Solve Its Marketing Challenges
On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama hosting the first-ever White House demo day, which placed an emphasis on diversity, Visa has announced the winners of its The Everywhere Initiative. And, wait for it, all of the winning startup founders are black. The Everywhere Initiative sought out to source innovative solutions from startups for Visa’s marketing issues around… Read More
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Plate IQ Turns Paper Invoices Into Predictive Insights
YC-backed Plate IQ is using smartphone tech to tackle a recurring paper-based pain-point for small and medium-sized restaurants — namely the stack of invoices they get from food suppliers every week. Ad Tech Startup C1X Raises $5.1M
C1X is announcing that it has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding.
Founder and CEO Mukundu Kumaran spent seven years as an engineering director at Yahoo. He said that during that time, he saw the complexity of the ad-tech industry, and now his vision at C1X is “to simplify how the basic advertising transaction works.” Read More
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CrunchWeek: Earnings Beatdown, Twitter’s Palace Intrigue And VR Goes Full Weird
Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s recurring roundup of the biggest tech stories of the week. This week our humble band delved into recent earnings by Etsy and Fitbit, Twitter’s share price declines, hints about the social company’s next CEO, and, of course, that VR thing you might have heard of. Read More
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: HTC, OnePlus, Drifter, And Robot Sex
It’s earnings season, and HTC is having a rough few years quarter. Meanwhile, OnePlus released the OnePlus 2, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 seems to have leaked all over the place. Plus, the Drifter waterproof speaker (with its own operating system) is now available for pre-order. We discuss all of this, and our future romantic relationships with robots, on the latest episode of the… Read More
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Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Coaching, So Coach.Me Put Coaching In Your Coaching
You don’t just wake up an expert on how to write a crappy headline; someone has to coach you. Thanks to Panz, you are now reading this gem.
Coaching is a big business, though, and there’s a platform for it called Coach.me that’s been seeing some pickup as of late. It was founded by former Odeo engineer Tony Stubblebine and incubated by Obvious, Inc’s investment arm. Read More
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Fitness Wearable Developer Lemonade Lab Scores $5.8M From Foxconn Unit
Lemonade Lab, which develops sensors for athletes, has scored $5.8 million led by a Foxconn subsidiary. The Boston- and Tokyo-based startup will form a strategic partnership with FIH Mobile, which provides manufacturing services for mobile device makers. This is the latest in a string of hardware investments made by Foxconn, whose manufacturing clients include Apple, Microsoft and Acer, or… Read More
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Hackaday Acquires DIY Hardware Marketplace Tindie
Tindie, the marketplace for makers to fund and sell their hardware creations, is being acquired by maker blog Hackaday.Tilt Co-Founders James Beshara And Khaled Hussein Talk International Expansion And Preserving Culture
Tilt’s already expanded to the United Kingdom, its second international country, this year and plans to expand to five more countries in the next five months or so. That’s a challenge for any startup for a number of reasons. It has to build out a playbook for how to expand incrementally to each country, and, at the very least, it has to ensure that it preserves the… Read More
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Social Publishing Service Wattpad Hacked, “Some” Passwords May Have Been Exposed
It looks like Wattpad, a site where authors can share their writing and interact with readers, was hacked a couple of months ago.
The company has been sending out emails to some users alerting them that their information may have been compromised. (I have a Wattpad account, but I didn’t get anything). Read More
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