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Earlier today, we speculated that billionaire Peter Thiel may have secretly financed a lawsuit to put Gawker Media out of business owing to a series of antagonistic stories about him written by Gawker’s now defunct Valleywag site nearly a decade ago. Thiel has since talked with New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and confirmed that not only has he provided Hulk Hogan (legally… Read More... →

Microsoft lays off 1,850 people, Slack hits 3 million monthly users, Boom makes your music sound like its in surround sound, Xiaomi unveils their drone and Pokemon Go launches into Beta all this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Understanding the complex order behind the apparent chaos of a tropical storm or hurricane is no easy task, but it’s worthwhile to try — such storms deal death and destruction globally, and the better we know them, the better we can prepare for them. Read More... →

Acceleprise, a San Francisco-based accelerator for enterprise tech and software-as-a-service startups, held a Demo Day for its third cohort of companies today. The accelerator invests $50,000 into each startup admitted to its program via convertible note financing, taking approximately a 5% stake under a $1 million cap. It admits 8-12 companies per cohort, and invests out of a $3.5 million… Read More... →

The growth of data breaches in recent months and years is in large part because of the new generation of smart malware being developed on a daily basis. Malicious actors are constantly taking advantage of technological innovations and breakthroughs to devise new ways to flood the Internet with new malware that circumvent security tools, propagate within networks and siphon critical data for… Read More... →

Posted by David_FarkasThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc.[Estimated read time: 8 minutes] Creating content for local link building can be intimidating. Sure, you know your business. You know your area, but do you know what locals want to read about? You can always guess, and you might strike gold. My guess is you don’t have... →

Back in February, UK mobile carrier Three said that it would start to offer opt-in ad blocking technology from Shine on its network, potentially reaching 30 million customers. Now the company is getting down to details: it will start to trial ad blocking in June in the UK, with a 24-hour test for opted-in customers, the company said today. “We believe the current mobile… Read More... →

Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle Reddit’s informal alliance with image sharing community Imgur. That’s where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs and then share the links on Reddit. The image uploading feature begins rolling out today with 50 Reddit communities including Art, Aww, Food, Funny, Gifs, and EarthPorn (pretty nature pics). Read More... →

Critical to this major effort is Marty Weiner. Weiner joined the Reddit team this past summer as the company’s first-ever CTO, and he’s spent the past 10 months building out areas for improvement on a site infrastructure that is increasingly less MacGyver’d together. Reddit is the 9th most-visited website in the United States, but when Weiner was hired last August, the… Read More... →

The Bay Area fosters a culture of forward thinkers and new ways to solve problems in our world, including in our food system. Ripple Foods is one such startup in Silicon Valley hoping to disrupt the dairy industry with pea protein. The company joins a growing list of game-changing food startups that have launched out of the lab and into the consumer market in just the last few years.… Read More... →

AWS announced today that it was expanding its relationship with Salesforce.com with Salesforce naming the cloud giant a preferred cloud provider. The agreement should help Salesforce increase its international presence without having to build its own data centers in countries that have data sovereignty laws, which require that data stays in-country. It’s expensive to build their… Read More... →

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I went into the Nuheara demo not knowing what to expect. Not in the sense of “how good will these be?” so much as, “I’m not exactly sure what these things do.” Like, are they headphones? Are they hearing aids? The answer, interestingly enough, is a little bit of both. The IQbuds are, ostensibly, Bluetooth earbuds. That they’re completely wireless is enough… Read More... →

Less than a month after their last successful mission, SpaceX is back at it again. Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:40pm EST tomorrow with telecommunications satellite Thaicom 8 on board. What’s truly notable is that tomorrow’s launch will be the fifth one for SpaceX this year, demonstrating an increased launch frequency compared to last year. In… Read More... →

Terrapattern is a visual search engine that, from the moment you first use it, you wonder: why didn’t Google come up with this ten years ago? Click on a feature on the map — a baseball diamond, a marina, a roundabout — and it immediately highlights everything its algorithm thinks looks like it. It’s remarkably fast, simple to use, and potentially very powerful. Read More... →

Elevate, a venture-backed company that uses big data to assess loan applications from people with low credit scores, has been called out as a predatory lender, including in Fortune last year. One reason, among others is that the APR on some of its loans is a stunning 349 percent. Yet the company’s predecessor, Think Finance, which was founded in 2001 and  quietly spun out Elevate into… Read More... →

Facebook plans to shut down FBX, the ad exchange that allows advertisers to buy retargeted desktop ads using third-party tools like Criteo and AppNexus. The news was first reported in the Wall Street Journal and we’ve confirmed it with Facebook. In an emailed statement, Vice President of Monetization Product Marketing Matt Idema suggested that this is part of Facebook’s shift to… Read More... →

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There are many abstract notions about what the future of infrastructure will look like, but the truth is that the future is staring companies in the face. The adoption of hybrid cloud models, containers and microservices architectures are only the beginning stages of preparing for infrastructures of the future. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Inventure Partners совершил экзит из компании Fogg Mobile, которую выкупил международный провайдер коммуникационных  решений для бизнеса Globetouch Inc. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Ранее Inventure Partners вложил в Fogg Mobile $7 млн, став крупнейшим институциональным инвестором компании на момент ее продажи. Это первый выход фонда с момента основания. Fogg Mobile, Inc. («Fogg Mobile» или «Fogg») –  распределенная мобильная сеть передачи данных на основе технологии soft SIM, позволяющая ... →