October 18, 2014
Bag Week: The Pad & Quill Attache
If life was like Toy Story, and when we fell asleep, all of our inanimate objects suddenly came to life, the Pad & Quill Attache bag would be…
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October 17, 2014
Odrive Offers A Dropbox-Style Interface For Browsing Your Online Photos, Documents, And More
If you’re tired of logging into different websites every time you want to access your Facebook photos, your Google Drive documents, your Instagram photos, and so on, odrive…
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ModCloth Hit By Second Round Of Layoffs
E-commerce retailer ModCloth has laid off additional staff across engineering, creative, product, producer, social teams and more in a second wave of layoffs. The news follows earlier cuts…
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Tumblr Debuts Its First Desktop App On The Mac App Store
On the heels of the release of Apple’s new Mac OS, OS X Yosemite, blogging platform Tumblr has just rolled out its first official desktop application with the…
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Virtual Fitting Room Startup Metail Raises Further $12M — Shunning UK VC Money Along The Way
“To be brutally honest, I’m not enamored with the UK VC scene and don’t rate it very much if at all from a technology business success perspective,” says…
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Hundreds Protest At San Francisco City Hall After Soccer Conflict With Dropbox, Airbnb Employees
A week after a video of an argument between a handful of local teenagers and Dropbox and Airbnb employees went viral, hundreds of demonstrators protested at San Francisco City…
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Playlists.net Acquired By Warner Music Group
In early July we reported exclusively that Spotify community and playlist sharing site Playlists.net was in acquisition talks, with one suitor — a prominent music industry company —…
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Twitpic Couldn’t Find An Acquirer, Will Shut Down After All On Oct 25th
The reports of Twitpic’s survival were greatly exaggerated. Despite claiming it had found an acquirer to save it from death following a trademark complaint from Twitter, the photo…
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Osmo Raises $12 Million For Its Hardware-Based iPad Game For Kids
Osmo, the iPad-powered gaming device built by former Googlers (and dads) as a way to turn tablets into more “hands-on” toys, has raised $12 million in Series A…
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Mobile A/B Testing Service Taplytics Adds Analytics And Android Support
Taplytics, a Y Combinator-backed A/B testing service for mobile apps, is announcing two big additions today — support for Android apps and an analytics product called Taplytics Insights.…
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