Startup News
New York Department of Financial Services drafts nation's first comprehensive Bitcoin regulation
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 05:03
New York's proposed Bitcoin regulations are the most comprehensive in the nation and could have major implications for the way Bitcoin is regulated in the U.S.
Former Amazon & eBay exec helps retailers take on Amazon with newly funded startup
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 02:47
Amazon and eBay veteran, Guru Hariharan, is ready to revolutionize the way retailers price and sell products. His company, Boomerang Commerce, announced today $8.5 million in its first round of institutional financing fr...
How Can America Compete? U.S. Suggests New Economic Framework
Forbes - 18 Jul 2014 00:46
You probably didn’t notice it. But the economic policy world changed recently in a quiet way.
Advertisers on Facebook seek more control over mobile ad targeting
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 01:46
Executives that work with Facebook on mobile technology say the social media kingpin believe sequential targeted mobile ads are a good way to increase ad marketshare.
What the new Apple-IBM mobile partnership means for enterprises
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 01:00
Guest Post: A look at the four "core capabilities" the new partnership will address.
Kik gets location sharing thanks to Glympse partnership
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 23:11
Kik gets Glympse, location sharing technology, integrated into the messenger app.
GrowthBeat will show you why smarter CRMs enable businesses to get ahead and grow
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 23:00
Today, we're excited to announce a new session with 6Sense CEO and founder Amanda Kahlow and Pure Storage head of global campaigns and demand generation Mike Kim.
Google & Apple: 'If you charge for in-app goodies, you can no longer call your app free'
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 21:42
Google and Apple respond to European Commission's requests to change how they offer games with in-app purchases.
TubeMogul's IPO is a go, with share pricing off to a rocky start
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 21:39
Emeryville-based TubeMogul goes IPO, scales back initial price share.
Video: Malaysian Airliner MH17 "Shot Down"
Forbes - 18 Jul 2014 21:33
The Malaysian Airliner Flight MH17 was brought down in eastern Ukraine. Local resident who witnessed the disaster described seeing a huge explosion and dead bodies falling from the sky. It appears the plane was "shot"...
Dough, an investment training startup, takes a fresh $25M to the bank
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 21:18
With Dough, you, too, can learn to be a trading wizard.
White House seeks new HealthCare.gov tech firm. The top requirement: Keep the damn site up
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 21:06
The new contractor will have to have a solid plan for load testing the site, to make sure it won't go down just when lots of people are trying to sign up for health insurance.
VC investments hit $13B in Q2 -- highest point since dotcom days
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 21:03
Latest MoneyTree Report shows $13 billion spent on venture capital investments in 2014's second quarter and the software industry leads the charge once again.
Hands-on with Amazon's Kindle Unlimited: expect all the frustrations and joys of Netflix
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 20:30
Amazon's new Netflix-style ebook service feels oddly familiar.
Biometric wearables lab Sensoria scores $5M from Italian investors
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 20:29
Redmond, Wash.-based Sensoria has signed a term sheet for a $5 million first investment round with Italy’s Reply SpA. The investment put 20 percent of Sensoria into Reply’s portfolio and earned Reply a board seat. Se...
Unbabel scores $1.5M to add a human touch to machine-powered translation
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 20:19
Computers may have solved number-crunching and turning data into digestible information, but what about the translation of human languages? A company called Unbabel is tackling that with its combination of artificial int...
Speaktoit raises $2.6M to build an army of 'personal assistants'
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 20:14
The company develops what an "intelligent companion," which acts like Apple's Siri but operates across devices and comes with a face.
Baidu brings its search engine to Brazil
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 19:54
The Baidu search engine keeps expanding. Is a U.S. version next?
Podium Power: 7 Steps To A Rock Solid Speech
Forbes - 18 Jul 2014 19:54
Public speaking is often cited as the number one most common fear, even before death itself.
Softbank Ventures Korea and Qualcomm Ventures invest in last-mile online delivery service Naldo
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 19:14
Naldo is betting on a growing web-enabled logistics trend worldwide.
Announcing our next trio of speakers for GamesBeat 2014: a store guy, a broadcaster, and a reporter
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 19:00
Bob Meese of Google Play, Malathi Nayak of Reuters, and Jonathan Simpson-Bint of Twitch will join us on Sept. 15-16.
iCloud in a box: Bitcasa CloudFS API gives devs -- and users -- control, privacy, ownership
Venture Beat - 18 Jul 2014 18:45
Guest Post: The Cloud Wars are in full force. With total worldwide mobile traffic having reached more than 1.5 exabytes per month in 2013 and digital data expected to increase 10 fold by 2016, mobile app developers need ...