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Slack looks to make screen sharing at work more interactive
As Slack moves more and more into trying to become a go-to tool for workplace collaboration — especially in the face of competition from Atlassian and other incumbents — it has to first make sure it has the table stakes down. Today, the company is looking to take another step in that direction as it starts rolling out an updated screen sharing feature that allows users to mark… Read More
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Techstars alums will now get discounted WeWork space
WeWork and Techstars are buddying up, the organizations announced today. Techstars, the global accelerator program responsible for companies like ClassPass, Sphero and Digital Ocean, will be bringing its program into the WeWork community by running its curriculum at WeWork locations in Toronto, Boston, Kansas City, and New York City. As a part of the deal, Techstars alumni will now get a… Read More
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Spotinst delivers spot cloud infrastructure services at discount prices
Cloud infrastructure vendors offer a range of prices for their services including aggressively priced virtual machines available on the spot market on an as-available basis. The catch is that the vendor can shut down these VMs whenever they happen to need them. Spotinst, a Tel Aviv-based startup, developed a service to buy and distribute that available excess capacity. Today, the company… Read More
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Startup O.school raises $800,000 to improve sex education
Sex education startup O.school recently raised $800,000 to help achieve its goal of offering easy access to sex-positive, inclusive and comprehensive education around sex and sexuality. Sex is one of those things that is still heavily stigmatized in many societies. That leads to subpar education around all-things sex and sexuality. O.school aims to fix that. Read More
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Deserve raises $12 million for a credit card targeting college students
Most young adults don’t have credit cards these days. Many of them are concerned about accruing debt. Others are finding it difficult to build credit.
A handful of startups are now focused on building alternatives. One of these is Deserve, which recently changed its name from SelfScore.
The Menlo Park-based startup had been working with international students to assess credit. Now… Read More
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ChowNow, a GrubHub competitor, raises $20 million Series B round
ChowNow, an online food ordering service, has raised a $20 million Series B round led by Catalyst Investors. This round brings ChowNow’s total funding to nearly $40 million. “We were excited for [Catalyst] to get involved because they were behind Mindbody,” ChowNow CEO Chris Webb told TechCrunch. Mindbody, a white-label service for health and wellness businesses, went public… Read More
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HireSweet monitors Github and Stack Overflow to recommend you your next engineer
Hiring engineers sucks and many, many companies are trying to leverage artificial intelligence to solve this issue. French startup HireSweet is focusing on finding you candidates who didn’t even think about applying to your company. The startup scans GitHub, Stack Overflow and other technical platforms to find the experts you’re looking for. HireSweet processes unstructured data,… Read More
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OpenIO raises $5 million to build your own Amazon S3 on any storage device
French startup OpenIO just raised $5 million from Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures and Nord France Amorçage. The company has been focusing on object storage technology for different kinds of infrastructure. With today’s funding round, the company plans to work on getting new clients in the U.S. and Japan in addition to the EMEA region. Object storage is a different way of thinking… Read More
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The League is making everyone’s first profile picture black and white
Exclusive dating app The League is going monochrome. Starting today, everyone’s first profile picture will be displayed in black and white.
To be clear, this isn’t a filter – everyone’s first photo will be automatically displayed to potential matches in black and white, with no option to opt out. You’ll still be able to swipe through and see the rest of a… Read More
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Gfycat hits 130M monthly active users as short form video heats up
GIFs — or, let’s call it for what it is: short-form video — were always pretty popular, but it still seems surprising that we would embed them into our phone’s keyboards. But here we are in 2017, and there is a group of startups that are looking to bring the usage, or in the case of Gfycat the creation, of GIFs closer and closer to an everyday thing. So it’s… Read More
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