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00:53 08.01.2016

Gilt’s Unicorn Tale Comes To An End After Being Acquired For $250M

Hudson’s Bay Company, the owner of department chain stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, said today it was acquiring Gilt Groupe for $250 million. The sale still represents a tough end to the story of Gilt. The startup was one of the original darling flash-sale sites coming out of New York. But that whole market has found itself challenged by slim operating margins, its initial popularity… Read More... →

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00:38 08.01.2016

Lenovo is phasing out the Motorola brand

Lenovo is planning on phasing out the Motorola branding on its phones this year, a Motorola executive revealed to CNET, today at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Instead, the Chinese manufacturer will brand its higher-end handsets as “Moto by Lenovo,” the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Rich Osterloh, told CNET’s Roger Cheng in an interview. […]... →

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00:34 08.01.2016

Get You A Growler Of Brass Monkey On Demand With Hopsy

We truly live in the future, friends. Food on demand. Love on demand. Uranium ore on demand. Now you’ve got growlers – essentially buckets – of beer on demand. This new app, created by Sebastien Tron, Andrew Perroy, and Bodie Paden, is called Hopsy and offers 32oz growlers of microbrew beers on demand. The company has raised $450,000 in pre-seed from angels and are looking to… Read More... →

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00:15 08.01.2016

Find Your Trainer Helps You (Duh!) Find A Personal Trainer

We’ve seen plenty of startups succeed in the fitness space, from activity frackers like Fitbit to gym subscriptions like Classpass. But access to a personal trainer has yet to be democratized. Until now Find Your Trainer, with a fresh $1.5 million in seed funding, is an on-demand marketplace that connects customers with personal trainers that fit the user’s personal goals. Most… Read More... →

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00:07 08.01.2016

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 7, 2016

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

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00:00 08.01.2016

Kabam sells off ‘classic’ mobile games to China’s Gaea to focus on bigger titles

EXCLUSIVE: In order to focus on its biggest games, Kabam has sold off its classic mobile games and third-party publishing business to Chinese game firm Gaea Mobile for an undisclosed price. The change is a big deal for Kabam, which has decided to double down on high-profit, big-name titles such as Marvel Contest of Champions. That […]... →

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23:42 07.01.2016

The Grillbot Is A Robot That Cleans Your Grill

Lazy grillers, rejoice. Thanks to the Grillbot, you may never have to clean your grill again. Today at CES we discovered the Grillbot, and it’s exactly what it sounds like – a robot that you plop down to automatically clean your dirty grill. Selling for $129, the robot has three replaceable metal bristles that help the robot both clean and move around your grill. The device has… Read More... →

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23:30 07.01.2016

Are Republicans The Party Of Silicon Valley?

According to Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist, innovation is central to the Republican’s chances in 2016. Spicer argues that the Republicans — with their pro business, anti regulation slant — are the natural party of Silicon Valley. Read More... →

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23:13 07.01.2016

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Toast raises $30 million for Android-powered point-of-sale system to challenge Square Toast announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to support its Android point-of-sale (POS) system for restaurants. This latest […]... →

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23:00 07.01.2016

Dylan’s Desk: At CES, the ridiculous never goes out of style

A lot of us sort of expected CES 2016 to reveal a new, more practical side to the consumer electronics industry. Guess again. Despite a looming global economic slowdown, the devaluation of tech-company unicorns, and the fact that everybody already has as many smartphones, tablets, and wrist gadgets as they need, CES continued to show […]... →

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23:00 07.01.2016

Too Private To Fail

At a San Francisco Halloween party this year, I ran into a man wearing nothing but bubble wrap, covered in glitter, waving a wand. “I’m a unicorn,” he explained. Anyone from the bankers on Sand Hill to the barista at Philz can tell you: A unicorn is a startup that reaches the rare and vaunted high-water mark of a $1 billion valuation. Except that it’s no longer that rare. Read More... →

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22:57 07.01.2016

Fusar Mohawk Turns Any Helmet Into A Powerful Smart Helmet

Meet Fusar, a helmet kit. Instead of trying to reinvent helmets, the Fusar system works with any helmet. You just have to clip the main component, the Mohawk, to your existing helmet to turn it into a safe, smart helmet. The full kit will be available for $549, and early adopters can buy it for $349. Read More... →

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22:53 07.01.2016

3DR Makes It Easier To Take Exactly The Drone Video You Want

3D Robotics (3DR) is making it a lot easier for the owners of its Solo drones to take exactly the video they want. The company is introducing a couple of new functions for its drone (and especially the smartphone apps that control is) at CES this week. Read More... →

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22:50 07.01.2016

Biz Stone “Unpivots” To Revive Q&A App Jelly

After a year on hiatus, Biz Stone is restarting active development of the social Q&A app Jelly he originally launched in January 2014. Stone, one of Twitter’s founders, paused Jelly in November 2014 to focus on a whimsical opinion sharing app called Super. “For anyone who remembers Jelly, yes, we took a break but we’re back 100%. Silicon Valley types might call this an… Read More... →

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22:44 07.01.2016

Ily Aims To Be The New Home Phone That Keeps Your Family Connected

If you’re a parent who’d like to do a better job keeping in touch with your kids when you’re not a home, then a forthcoming product called Ily might be the answer. Ilan Abehassera, founder and CEO of Ily-maker Insensi, has talked about his vision before, but today he’s demonstrating Ily onstage at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield the Consumer Electronics Show.… Read More... →

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22:40 07.01.2016

Biz Stone’s Q&A app Jelly pulls an ‘un-pivot,’ begins a closed beta

Well, we haven’t heard much about Jelly, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone’s app for asking and answering questions, basically since it launched two years ago to the day. Today, we get an update. In a Medium post today, Stone writes that the Jelly team is “returning to our original vision with renewed enthusiasm and an entirely […]... →

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22:37 07.01.2016

Futuristic ‘Uncanny Valley’ Explores The Potential Unintended Consequences Of VR

As we dip our toes into virtual reality more and more each day, one could imagine a far-off unintended consequence — the blurring of virtual and actual reality. A short film called “Uncanny Valley” explores that notion, with a bit of an “Ender’s Game” plot and feel. Here’s the setup from its creator, Federico Heller. In the slums of the future,… Read More... →

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22:30 07.01.2016

Smart Toy Maker Elemental Path Starts Accepting Pre-Orders For IBM Watson-Powered Dinos

Elemental Path is now accepting pre-orders for its smart toy products. The smart toy maker made its debut on Kickstarter this year with a line of what it calls CogniToys, or toys that learn and grow with the child that plays with them. These toys, including a 3D printed dinosaur, are powered by IBM’s Watson supercomputer to help each toy listen to and engage with its child owner and… Read More... →

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21:36 07.01.2016

Let’s Put Twitter Moments In The Hands Of Twitter Users

Storytelling is fun, but it’s also not easy. You have to have an idea of what story you want to tell and what pieces to include to illustrate it. Sometimes it’s words, sometimes it’s photos, sometimes it’s videos, and sometimes it’s all of them. Moments is a tool for Twitter itself to pull together these things and nag you talk you into viewing them. Read More... →

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21:11 07.01.2016

Screen Recorder For iOS Vidyo Gets Yanked From App Store

If you didn’t grab a copy of the new screen recording app Vidyo that sneaked into the iTunes App Store yesterday, it’s now too late. Apple, not surprisingly, has pulled the app from the store. Vidyo quickly drew a lot of attention, given that screen recording utilities are usually prohibited, and there was some hope that Apple’s policies on the matter had changed. In case… Read More... →

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