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December 5, 2014
Another day, another funding from SoftBank. This time the corporation, one of Japan’s leading telecoms, has invested $7 million in Altaeros Energies, which is based at the Massachusetts…
Read articleDecember 4, 2014
Video ad startup Viewbix is announcing that it has raised $3 million in additional funding. The company basically wraps videos in a custom player — so if you’re…
Read articleDecember 4, 2014
“The company was profitable. We probably would have pursued an IPO. The business was accelerating”, LiveRail CEO Mark Trefgarne tells me in his first interview about how his…
Read articleDecember 3, 2014
IAC Chairman Barry Diller talked about dating app Tinder while on-stage today at Business Insider’s Ignition conference, but surprisingly, he didn’t directly address the company’s biggest piece of…
Read articleDecember 3, 2014
One of the best decisions I ever made was to get rid of my car. The thing that really drove me over the edge? The constant search for…
Read articleDecember 3, 2014
Nestio, the NYC-based real estate startup focused on changing the way brokers and landlords go about their daily business, has raised a $1.6 million funding round to accelerate…
Read articleDecember 3, 2014
Skype co-founder Janus Friis is backing a new communications app called Wire, out now for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. The app itself is the reimagining of…
Read articleDecember 2, 2014
Back before founding a company was cool, it was a lot easier to get a lot of smart people in a room. Rock stars were hireable because they…
Read articleDecember 2, 2014
LookSharp, a startup that offers job listings and operates InternMatch, has acquired Readyforce, a professional network for college students and new graduates. The deal’s financial terms were undisclosed.…
Read articleDecember 2, 2014
Snapchat has opened up its Geofilters tool to a broader community this morning, letting anyone submit artwork that will appear as a geo-targeted filter on Snapchat photos. Geofilters…
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