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November 11, 2014
Business app marketplace AppDirect announced today that it has acquired Leftronic, a data visualization startup that launched four years ago. Leftronic allows businesses to build custom dashboards visualizing…
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After Uber and Lyft emerged to fundamentally challenge taxis and change on-demand transit, a wave of bus startups has cropped up to address group and scheduled transportation. Chariot,…
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DogVacay has just raised $25 million in Series B1 funding, according to a report from Fortune. DogVacay confirmed the funding to TechCrunch. The company, which provides a service…
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Outside of industry behemoths like Shutterfly, very few photo book makers are able to grow beyond a niche audience. San Francisco-based SimplePrints is hoping to buck that trend,…
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Suddenly major brands are looking to get into the startup funding game, whether we’re talking GE, Yammer or even non-tech brands like McDonald’s. Coca-Cola is another consumer brand…
Read articleNovember 7, 2014
Hey, remember ReservationHop? You know, the much-criticized service that promised to sell restaurant reservations to users? Well, founder Brian Mayer is officially abandoning the idea. The service seemed…
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An application called Accounts, live now on iOS to start, is a new attempt at developing a universal address book. While many competitors that have gone before it…
Read articleNovember 6, 2014
A new application launching today called Odysee offers a different way for consumers to back up photos and videos from their smartphones. Instead of backing up to the…
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Lytro has been around for three years building a brand new type of camera with light field technology, and while the tech itself is quite incredible, transforming that…
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It was just over a year ago that Scribd officially unveiled a Netflix-style subscription e-book service. As of today, subscribers will have access to 30,000 audiobooks, too. Co-founder…
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