October 14, 2014
Uber-For-Weed Startup Meadow Lights Up In San Francisco
You can really see where David Hua’s food blogger cred shines with his new medical marijuana startup Meadow. In the app, there is just close-up after close-up of…
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October 14, 2014
Teen Social Network Let Raises $600K
Let, a teen social networking app with a focus on gamification, is announcing that it has raised $600,000 in seed funding. That’s not a huge amount of money,…
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HighQ Takes On The Enterprise Collaboration Space With An Eye Toward Data Sovereignty
London-based HighQ is opening a new data center in Australia, growing its bid to provide locally supported enterprise collaboration and file-sharing products. The company has quickly expanding revenues,…
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Phonio Lets Celebrities Call Their Fans On The Phone, Raw And Unfiltered
No one feels special for following their favorite musician on Facebook or Twitter. Social media has become impersonal mass media. But Phonio wants to make the celebrity-fan connection…
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Social Commerce App CardBlanc Puts A Shopping Mall On Your Phone
CardBlanc, a new e-commerce application targeting millennial spenders officially launched today, introducing a financial platform for easier mobile checkout combined with social activity similar to what you’d see…
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Google For Work Gets New Support Options
It’s not always easy to get support from Google (just ask anybody who ever had his AdSense account suspended for nebulous reasons), but over the course of the…
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Berlin’s Orderbird, A Tablet-Based Sales Platform, Orders Up Another $10M
Companies like Square, Groupon, PayPal and Amazon are all vying to be the primary tech partner for merchants at the point of sale in the U.S., and as…
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Gruveo Brings Anonymous Video Calls To The iPhone And iPad
Gruveo, a service that launched last year to allow for fast, anonymous video calling via the web, is now coming to mobile, starting with today’s debut of an…
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The iPhone 6 Plus Gets A One-Handed Keyboard App, And It’s Glorious
While I came around to the iPhone 6 Plus and its unique allure, as told in a post from a couple of days ago, Apple’s big smartphone still…
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Skype Launches A New Video Messaging App For The Mobile-First Era, Skype Qik
If Skype was invented today, what would it look like? This morning, a small team within Skype is attempting to answer that question with the launch of a new…
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