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05:17 12.12.2015

Prismatic is shutting down its news app for iOS, Android, and web on December 20

News reading app Prismatic today announced that it will be shutting down both its consumer-facing apps, for iOS, Android and web, and its Interest Graph application programming interfaces (APIs) for third-party developers. “Four years ago, we set out to build a personalized news reader that would change the way people consume content,” the Prismatic team […]... →

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04:24 12.12.2015

More than a million U.S. government hack victims still not notified

More than a million victims of a massive hack of U.S. government computer files have still not been officially notified that their data was compromised... →

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04:00 12.12.2015

How Startups Are Making Real Estate Businesses More Efficient

Advances in information technology have generated enormous efficiencies in many industries, including manufacturing, transportation, communications, entertainment, retail and financial services. Yet in real estate, the largest industry of them all, innovation has lagged as agents and brokers have been slow to adopt new technologies. Read More... →

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02:48 12.12.2015

Peter Pham On The Pendulum Swing Back In VCs’ Favor

Early last week, during a panel about the state of early-stage investing, a handful of VCs I interviewed largely agreed that, as a class, they’re less keen right now to write checks as quickly as earlier this year. The next day, First Round Capital published a survey of more than 500 founders of venture-backed companies who plainly agree. In fact, 80 percent of respondents said they… Read More... →

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02:00 12.12.2015

SuperAwesome and Poke aim to target online U.S. family gamers with kid-safe ads

U.K.-based startup SuperAwesome and the Poki online games playground have teamed up to create kid-safe AwesomeAds to family gamers in the U.S. London-based SuperAwesome has created a digital advertising platform that the company says can safely target children without running afoul of privacy regulations. The deal shows that the growing digital kids market is a big opportunity, with industry estimates saying the […]... →

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01:54 12.12.2015

Worst Year For Tech IPOs Since 2009

With just 28 technology companies entering the U.S. public markets, 2015 was the worst year for IPOs since 2009, according to Dealogic. This compares to 62 last year and 48 the year before, with 131 “unicorns” opting to remain private longer. “We haven’t seen so few tech IPOs since the 2008-09 U.S. financial crisis,” notes Kathleen Smith, principal at IPO ETF… Read More... →

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01:43 12.12.2015

Marketing tech: Learn how to fake it ’til WHILE you make it (webinar)

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar as our stellar panel shares how small and medium-sized companies can emulate the kinds of killer martech the Fortune 500 crowd is using — with the results to show for it. Register here for free. Implementing some new marketing technology solution is simple for an enterprise company: Just establish a […]... →

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01:13 12.12.2015

Artificial Intelligence Non-profit OpenAI Launches With Backing From Elon Musk And Sam Altman

Today, OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. Its director is a research scientist at Google, Ilya Sutskever. This comes a day after Facebook open-sourced its AI hardware. Its reason for existing was explained in an introductory post: Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole… Read More... →

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01:06 12.12.2015

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Chief Of Staff Reveals Plan For Big-Bet Philanthropy

“They’re going to be very embracing of risk and trying out new things and seeing what works,” says Caitlyn Fox, chief of staff of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. After weeks of critics jumping to conclusions before seeing details or results, Fox spoke with me for nearly an hour about the strategy for Priscilla and Mark’s philanthropic foundation. Read More... →

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00:49 12.12.2015

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and others commit $1B to nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI

Several technology luminaries are announcing today that they have committed $1 billion to fund a new nonprofit artificial intelligence research company called OpenAI. Y Combinator president Sam Altman, former Stripe chief technology officer Greg Brockman, Tesla and SpaceX cofounder Elon Musk, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Y Combinator founding partner Jessica Livingston, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, […]... →

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00:34 12.12.2015

13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

The TechCrunch crew is back from Disrupt London with exciting news to report and a few new companies for you to meet. Jukedeck, an AI startup that writes music for your videos, took home the Disrupt Cup and the £30,000 grand prize. The winner of the Disrupt London Hackathon was FreeMe, a hack built to give women in distress the ability to push a help button in feminine hygiene dispensers… Read More... →

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00:02 12.12.2015

Daily Search Forum Recap: December 11, 2015

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 12.12.2015

The Erosion Of “Same Round, Same Price”

It seems most founders believe investors asking for “extras” on the side are simply greedy and short-sighted. While it’s easy to criticize investors, I believe this behavior is driven in large part as a response to conditions founders have created in early stage investing. I believe two trends, when taken together, have eroded the “one round, one price” standard. Read More... →

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23:48 11.12.2015

This tool transfers your Rdio playlists and collections to Spotify

If you’re sulking about the impending shutdown of music streaming service Rdio, this might cheer you up. There’s a new free tool that will automatically transfer your playlists, your collections, and the artists you follow from Rdio to Spotify — which is not going anywhere, or I hope not, anyway. The tool, called Rdio2Spotify, comes […]... →

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23:44 11.12.2015

Marketing analytics: Find out what it takes to play with the big guys (webinar wrap-up)

VB WEBINAR: Predictive analytics? Find out what works — and what doesn’t — in marketing analytics from our expert panel. VB analyst Jon Cifuentes is joined by Foursquare’s CRO Stephen Rosenblatt and Astea’s VP David Giannetto, author of Big Social Mobile. Access the webinar on demand right here. When it comes to marketing analytics, are you a rookie, a tweener, […]... →

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23:01 11.12.2015

Trump Tower website suffers outage after Anonymous warning

By Angela Moon and Eleanor Whalley The website for Trump Towers, Donald Trump’s glitzy signature skyscraper in Manhattan, went offline for about an hour on Friday after activist hacking group Anonymous denounced the real-estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner for his anti-Muslim comments. The website for 68-story Trump Towers, which Trump often uses for his presidential […]... →

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22:41 11.12.2015

Google’s redesigned Play Movies & TV app for iOS gets HD streaming and cellular connectivity

Google has released a much-needed update to its Google Play Movies & TV iOS app that endows the software with both HD streaming and cellular connectivity. Prior to today’s update, the app had seen a decidedly tepid reception, earning just a 2.5 / 5 rating over 705 reviews. Besides the resolution bump and expanded connection option, the app […]... →

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22:35 11.12.2015

YouTube Gaming For Android Gets A “Cardboard Mode” For More Immersive Viewing

YouTube Gaming, Google’s answer to Twitch, is trying to stay ahead of the curve by adding new functionality quickly. One such feature is only available for Android right now, and its a “Cardboard Mode” that allows you to watch any video with a theater-type big-screen setting feel. Don’t have a Google Cardboard yet? Grab a Star Wars themed one for free. Basically… Read More... →

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22:33 11.12.2015

Postmates Digs Into Commerce With Curated ’12 Days Of Postmates’ Campaign

Postmates, the on-demand delivery startup that has dug nationwide trenches in the food delivery space, has today unveiled the ’12 Days of Postmates’ campaign. The promotion will let users in five cities (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle) order specially curated products from more than 30 brands for $1.99. The company promises one-hour delivery on all the… Read More... →

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22:20 11.12.2015

Google is giving away Star Wars-themed Cardboard virtual reality viewers

Google is continuing its marketing partnership with Lucasfilm, and this time it is giving people a free way to view basic virtual reality content. To promote the impending release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which will debut in theaters around the world December 18, Google is giving away its Cardboard virtual reality phone holders that […]... →

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