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Hyper Aims To Be Your New Chat-Based Travel Agent
Hyper is a new travel startup betting that the secret ingredient to a great travel booking experience is interacting with another human being. In other words, founders Minqi Jiang and Peter Zakin (who previously worked at Google and Venmo, respectively) are aiming to give users the experience of having a personal assistant who helps you book your flights and hotels, but via a chat interface.… Read More
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Defumblr’s Smarter Android Lockscreen Takes Cues From Apple’s “Proactive” Features
A new mobile application from a co-founder of Reputation.com wants to re-imagine how consumers interact with their smartphones. Instead of unlocking the device and launching apps for common actions – like replying to calls, texts and emails; making to-do lists; seeing what’s nearby; or reading the news, for example – an app called Defumblr will put this information directly… Read More
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With Brave Software, JavaScript’s Creator Is Building A Browser For The Ad-Blocked Future
Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript programming language and former CEO of Mozilla, is working on something new — a web browser that will block ads (particularly the kinds that slow performance and use personal data) while still potentially making money for publishers.
Eich’s startup Brave Software isn’t making the browser available for general usage today, but it’s… Read More
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Meituan-Dianping, China’s Largest Group Deals Site, Closes Massive $3.3B Round At $18B Valuation
Meituan-Dianping, China’s largest group deals site, confirmed that it has closed a colossal $3.3 billion round at a valuation of $18 billion. The company claims that this is the largest single funding round ever raised by a venture-backed Internet startup in China. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Breaks Ground To Make Elon Musk’s Hyperloop A Reality
Plans to construct the beginnings of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop are now underway in Quay Valley, California. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced plans for a 5-mile test track late last year and is about to break ground on an initial framework for what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn hopes will become the U.S. transportation infrastructure of the future.
Musk first proposed… Read More
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Digital Magazine Startup Magzter Puts The Focus On Individual Articles
With its latest update, Magzter is unveiling a more article-centric way to browse its library of digital magazines.
Seems like a pretty obvious move, right? Sure, there are people who still read magazines cover to cover (says the guy whose apartment is filled with back issues of Wired and The New Yorker), but as Magzter co-founder and President Vijay Radhakrishnan put it, most of us… Read More
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Augmented Reality For Trying On Makeup Is A Booming Business
“Sure, that looks great on a model, but how will it look on me?” Now you can find out thanks to ModiFace, an augmented reality startup that’s quietly grown to power apps for 55 of the top makeup brands like Sephora, P&G and Unilever. Storm Ventures Launches $10M Fund For Indian SaaS Startups
Earlier this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced a set of initiatives, called Startup India, designed to help the country’s fledgling tech companies and their investors. One of the first Silicon Valley venture capital firms to take advantage of Startup India is Storm Ventures, which just launched a new fund for SaaS startups in India. Read More
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How To Succeed When Facing Digital Disruption
In a digital economy, companies are constantly faced with opportunities, challenges and threats. Business changes are critical to successfully navigate in this environment, but there are plenty of pitfalls to watch for along the way. The digital economy provides huge opportunities to build a niche and excel, but companies must get out of any pre-digital mindsets to recognize those opportunities. Read More
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Magic Bus Aims To Magically Ease Silicon Valley Commuter Woes With City-To-City Transportation
Magic Bus is a new startup out of Y Combinator that hopes to end many Bay Areas commuter’s slow, soul-crushing daily drive down the 101 with a scheduled, WiFi-enabled, private bus system to transport them anywhere from San Francisco all the way down to Sunnyvale. There are a number of startups focused on carpooling in the Bay Area – Chariot, Shuddle and even Uber and Lyft among… Read More
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