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Uber Raises $258M in Google’s Largest Investment Round Ever 27 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
Uber, the car service that lets you hail a driver anywhere from its app, has confirmed it has raised $258 led by Google Ventures in the biggest round ever for the search engine investment arm. TPG Cap...
Locket Rolls Out Campaign for Customization and Looks to Give Back 27 Aug 2013 | 05:24 am
Mobile advertising startup Locket has successfully set customers a-clicking. The company has approximately 100,000 users, a quarter of whom downloaded Locket within two days of launch. The company ann...
Alert Logic Announces Deal with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe 21 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
Cloud data security company Alert Logic announced today that its executive management, together with private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, now owns a majority interest in Alert Logic. W...
Zillow Acquires StreetEasy for $50M – Expand Real Estate Footprint 21 Aug 2013 | 04:48 am
Real estate kingpin Zillow has acquired StreetEasy, a go-to New York real estate listing service with over 1.2 million unique monthly visitors. The $50 million sale gives Zillow a local presence to le...
Facebook Acquires Team Behind Jibbigo Speech Translation App 16 Aug 2013 | 05:27 am
Facebook has acquired Mobile Technologies, the 12 year old company behind Jibbigo, a speech recognition and machine translation app. The app is the first to offer speech to speech translation in both ...
Fly Under the Radar with OFF Pocket 16 Aug 2013 | 05:24 am
Even when your phone’s off, you might not be off grid. The OFF Pocket, a metalized-fabric case currently on Kickstarter, blocks signals to mobile phones and ensures users digitally disappear. The pro...
The Seasteading Institute Fundraising for First Floating City Plans at Indiegogo 15 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
To flesh out plans for their floating city, The Seasteading Institute takes fundraising to Indiegogo. With capital from the masses matched by the Thiel Foundation, twenty-first century pioneers may se...
Musk Reveals Plans for Hyperloop: His Fifth Mode of Transportation 13 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
Elon Musk followed up on his Tweet heard round the tech world today with published plans [link via Gizmodo] for the Hyperloop. The pod-and-tunnel design revolves mainly around a low-pressure tube syst...
Apigee Lands $35M to Power API Platform 2 Aug 2013 | 05:32 am
Apigee, which provides an API platform to simplify the creation of apps, has landed $35 million in a Series E sizable enough it could carry the company to an IPO. The round was led by a fund under man...
Tasneem Salim Talks All-Female Gaming Convention in Saudi Arabia 2 Aug 2013 | 03:06 am
Gamer and developer Tasneem Salim wanted in on her country’s gamer conventions. The only problem? No girls allowed. So Salim and her two co-founders, Felwa Al Suwalim and Najla Al Arifi, created their...
