August 18, 2014
Y Combinator’s Doblet Plans To Be Everywhere Your Phone Charger Isn’t
We’ve all been there. You’ve been out all day and suddenly that low battery alert pops up on your phone. If you’re lucky, the bar you’re at might…
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August 18, 2014
Microsoft Azure’s Cloud Services And Virtual Machines Experience “Service Interruption”
Update 2: Here’s the latest from Azure, relating to its downtime: Starting at 18 Aug 2014 17:49 UTC, a small subset of customers are experiencing connectivity issues to…
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Looksee Debuts A Tinder-Meets-Instagram For Connecting Around Shared Photos
A new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The…
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YC’s Zenamins Mails You Personalized Vitamins
40 million Americans take three or more vitamins a day, yet both the pill bottles and the way we buy them haven’t changed in decades. Well they’re about…
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AppNexus Raises $60M Round Valuing The Ad-Tech Company At $1.2B
Ad tech company AppNexus just announced that it has raised an additional $60 million. The company said that the round, which could eventually reach $100 million, valued AppNexus…
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Noke Is A Simple, Keyless Bluetooth Padlock To Share Access To Your Stuff
Meet Noke: a water-resistant connected padlock that doesn’t need a physical key to be unlocked — the clue is in the name, which is pronounced ‘no-key’ — instead…
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Switch Is TripAdvisor For Finding A Tech Bootcamp
Thanks to the predicted tech talent shortage and uncertainty in other industries, the idea of switching careers to jump to the tech industry is an enticing prospect for…
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Chris Burch’s Office Products E-Tailer Poppin Raises Another $17 Million
Attractive, decked-out offices are a good way to attract new talent, which has led many tech companies (and others) to furnish their office spaces via Chris Burch’s workplace products…
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ChangeTip Wants To Kill Clickbait With Social Bitcoin Micropayments
ChangeTip is hoping to drive mass adoption of micropayments on the web by using Bitcoin plus existing social networks as the medium to deliver feeless micro donations to…
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GetSet Uses Natural Language Processing To Reduce College Drop-out Rates
GetSet, a new stealthy US edtech startup that’s aiming to reduce the high college drop-out rate is uncloaking today and revealing its first rollout at Arizona State University,…
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