September 23, 2014
Selfie Lets You Share Yourself 24 Seconds At A Time
A year ago, “selfie” had just been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online. At the same time, we were just discovering Selfie.com, a mysterious landing page for a…
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September 23, 2014
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes Hints At A World Of Endless Expansion
Disney may have built the perfect game – Infinity, its “toys to life” franchise, which debuted in 2010 and was first released as a playable title in 2013.…
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Mobile Invoicing App Invoice2go Raises $35M, Former eHarmony Exec Greg Waldorf Joins As CEO
More than a decade after it was founded, Invoice2go is announcing that it has raised $35 million in its first round of external funding. The round, a Series…
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After $25B IPO, US Cloud Infrastructure Players Best Pay Attention to Alibaba
Amazon Web Services better watch its back. And while we’re at it, let’s issue a warning to Microsoft and Google and just about any cloud service you can…
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Watch Apple’s First Timberlake And Fallon iPhone 6 Ads
Apple has gone back to territory that treated it well in the past with new ads for the iPhone 6, with a spin on the “I’m a Mac,…
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Traxpay Raises $15M, Teams With MasterCard To Be The PayPal Of The B2B World
Traxpay, a German startup that has created a platform for businesses in a supply chain to make payments to each other — think PayPal for the B2B world, or…
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Branch Metrics Raises $3 Million From NEA For More Intelligent Deep Links That Make Apps Work Like The Web
Palo Alto-based Branch Metrics has just raised $3 million from NEA and others to address a series of challenges affecting the mobile app ecosystem today. The company has…
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Finland’s Jolla Takes Its Sailfish-Powered Smartphone To India, Via Snapdeal
Jolla, the Finnish smartphone startup that used the MeeGo open source OS as a jumping off point for its own Android-app compatible Sailfish OS — and which last…
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iOS 8 Adoption At 46% After Five Days, Says Apple
The latest official iOS 8 adoption stat comes courtesy of Apple, which has added a note to its App Store Distribution page for developers revealing that the proportion…
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Online Survey And Form Builder Typeform Raises €1.2M
Typeform, the Spanish startup that takes the heavy-lifting out of creating user-friendly surveys and other types of online forms, including payments, has raised a €1.2 million further round…
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