Startup News
Security firm Edgewave nabs $8M to help smaller businesses track threats
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 17:59
The company's new funding will primarily be used to launch a marketing campaign.
Nestpick wants to be the Airbnb for international students, with the backing of Rocket Internet
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 11:00
Rocket Internet is rolling out its latest startup in Europe, with Nestpick hoping to "revolutionize the rental market for a new generation," as it puts it.
Why Facebook's new enterprise play is a bad idea
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 04:00
Guest:Moving far from your expertise is a bad idea. But tech companies keep doing it.
Apple iPod antitrust case goes to the jury
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 02:14
Closing arguments have finished in the class action suit against Apple for allegedly blocking iPod owners from downloading music from non-iTunes music services.
Facebook engineering VP Cory Ondrejka departs after overseeing Oculus acquisition
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 23:54
Formerly the CTO of Second Life publisher Linden Lab, he oversaw Facebook's mobile app transition for two years.
Google Drive gets Gmail attachment support, Google voice search on Android, uploading from other apps on iOS
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 23:52
Gmail now finally lets you attach Google Drive files.
Google plans to integrate its fact database Freebase into Wikimedia's Wikidata
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 23:32
But not all is lost -- Freebase will "launch a new API for entity search powered by Google's Knowledge Graph."
Apsalar pulls free mobile attribution analytics, shifts to all-paid model
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 23:20
In the mostly-free mobile analytics market, niche contender Apsalar is pulling its free mobile attribution product and shifting to an all-paid model. “Effective January 1st 2015, Apsalar will stop providing free access...
Libscore launches to track the most popular JavaScript libraries on the web
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 22:48
Libscore, a service that can tell you which JavaScript libraries the top million websites use, is launching publicly today. Borne out of payments processing startup Stripe’s Open Source Retreat, Libscore periodically c...
WordPress.com update adds unified blog management tools
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 21:55
The Automattic-owned digital publishing platform is rolling out a new update today that should make it easier to manage multiple websites on one dashboard.
Apple shuts down sales at its Russian online store after ruble value dives
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 21:20
The ruble lost 19 percent of its value today, even after the Russian government instituted an interest rate increase to stop the run on the currency.
Gmail gets Content Security Policy support to stop extensions from loading unsafe code
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 21:13
CSP is a computer security concept for preventing cross-site scripting and related attacks.
Have You Heard The One About The Tax Credit That You Pay To The IRS?
Forbes - 16 Dec 2014 21:11
Let's be clear: Congress deserves much of the scorn heaped upon it for its gross mismanagement of the tax law. No greater example of its negligence need be given than the fact that sometime this week, 55 provisions of t...
Why Big Data and AI Need Each Other -- and You Need Them Both
Forbes - 16 Dec 2014 20:35
Go ahead: give yourself a pat on the back. You’ve been doing a great job with big data. You’re collecting and analyzing customer information, gleaning insights into what customers want and need, and acting on those i...
Jury unanimously declares Apple innocent of iPod antitrust charges
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 20:15
An eight person jury in a federal court in Oakland, California has declared Apple innocent of antitrust charges leveled at it by a group of iPod users. The decision was unanimous. In the class action suit, the plaintiffs...
CES chief Gary Shapiro explains the coming chaos of the gigantic tech trade show (interview)
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 20:00
CES will draw 150,000 people to view 20,000 new gadgets in Las Vegas in January.
Mattermark, the startup helping investors rank other startups, picks up $6.5M
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 20:00
This company wants to turn blind bets into measured decisions, one data point at a time.
Instagram adds 5 new filters and slow-motion video uploads
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 20:00
The new features help set the popular photo-sharing app apart from Twitter and others.
Twitter introduces ad targeting based on carriers and recently purchased devices
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 19:49
People with new mobile phones may be interested in downloading new apps, while current service subscribers won't care about new subscriber deals.
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 19:19
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Startup promises GPS accuracy for iOS, Android with 90 percent less battery suck
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2014 19:00
In the form of two lines of code, the technology from PathSense may be available to app developers by February.
Entrepreneurship in the Shadow of Ebola
Forbes - 16 Dec 2014 18:48
Over the past 15 years, I have encountered remarkable stories of resilience while visiting the fields, farms and factories of Root Capital clients. The defining success factor is almost always people – individuals with...