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January 6, 2015
TV and radio star Ryan Seacrest was at the Consumer Electronics Show tonight to talk about Typo, the mobile keyboard startup that he co-founded with CEO Laurence Hallier.…
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My first CES started a little bit more than 24 hours ago for me. As I wrote yesterday, I want to share my impressions of the show. I’ve…
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Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform…
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Billing itself as “the world’s first cross device mobile and digital platform,” startup Tube Centrex is planning to help YouTube stars, media companies, and others build and monetize…
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A startup whose first product is a mobile money management application called Even, designed to offer low-income workers interest-free credit to help them make ends meet in between paychecks, has…
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Which panel at this conference isn’t boring? Where’s the after-party? Your friends and followers around the world probably don’t know or care. But people nearby might, and Secret…
Read articleJanuary 4, 2015
Next week will be my first CES. Over the past couple of months, when I talked with CES veterans, they all told me that CES is a horrible…
Read articleJanuary 4, 2015
Applying to jobs seems easy: you roll into a shop, fill out an application, and wait for a call. But aside from nicer handwriting, how do you stand…
Read articleJanuary 2, 2015
Scribd, a startup offering unlimited access to half a million e-books for $8.99 a month, is announcing that it has Raised $22 million in additional funding. The round…
Read articleJanuary 1, 2015
Back in the day, we reported that messaging app Snapchat* was raising over $100 million in a round led by Kleiner Perkins. And then the WSJ reported that it…
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