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Over the last 18 months, those of us following the venture and startup space have gone on a rollercoaster ride of mega rounds, unicorns, sky-high valuations and bubble fears. Look beyond the hyperbolic headlines and you’ll see that there is more than meets the eye to that shiny new unicorn valuation. Square’s recent IPO registration statement provides an opportunity to peel the… Read More... →

Mobile advertisers, whether they place ads inside the mobile browser or inside apps, are feeling pressure to create ads that mobile users don’t hate or want to block. They’re using all kinds of demographic, psychographic, and behavioral data to personalize the content of ads. But Brian Wong, co-founder and CEO of the mobile rewards platform […]... →

There are few traditional businesses that investor Chamath Palihapitiya isn’t interested in disrupting. At a StrictlyVC event in September, he talked about raising a multibillion real estate fund to co-manage along the $600 million that his already unconventional venture firm, Social + Capital Partnership, closed on earlier this year. Today, at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco… Read More... →

Posted by MiriamEllisEarlier this month, I was standing on an 8,000’ pinnacle of the Sierra mountain range at the precise moment when winter arrived. A few miles and minutes back down the highway, it had been golden fall with aspens, oaks, and big leaf maples in peak color. Then the sky darkened, showering hail. Right before my eyes, hail turned to snow, wildly whirling, salting the evergreens into obscurity. Winter had come. It’s a rare, exhilarating thing to witness patient Nature change in the blink of a... →

Posted by Elena Kelareva, Product Manager, Google Maps APIs Location-based and time-relevant data are changing the way we live, work and travel. As consumers, we can access incredibly detailed information about where we are and where we're going with a few taps on our mobile devices.... →

(Lehar Maan for Reuters) — Ecommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it generated more than $3.9 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV) within the first hour of its China’s Singles’ Day sale. This compares with $2 billion recorded in about an hour in the 2014 sales event, which is held on Nov. 11 and […]... →

PeerSpace, a short-term meeting space reservations marketplace, has announced a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Foundation Capital to propel growth. Existing investor Structure Capital also participated in the round. The startup is a bit like Airbnb but for empty meeting spaces. The idea is to utilize creative spaces in the cities the platform operates instead of the same old… Read More... →

Another day, another new VC fund closes in Europe. This time it’s the turn of Helsinki-headquartered Open Ocean, backer of startups such as Truecaller and EyeEm. Read More... →

Today, the NY Attorney General dropped a bomb on daily fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings. Sites like them have been categorized as “illegal gambling sites” and have ordered them to cease operations in the state of New York. BREAKING: NY Attorney General determines that FanDuel & DraftKings are illegal gambling sites, orders them to cease operations in NY.… Read More... →

Kapor Capital, in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, hosted a pitch competition earlier today in Oakland, Calif. for startups working on revamping the old-school human resources industry and working on technology to mitigate bias in the hiring process. The judges, Kapor Capital Partner Freada Kapor Klein, Shauntel Poulson of Reach Capital and Laurence… Read More... →

Nvidia today announced a new module called the Jetson TX1 that fits in your hand but can bring GPU-powered intelligence to development boards, drones, robotics, and other devices. The new gadget can handle many kinds of machine learning workloads and thereby enable devices to run smarter applications. And that’s increasingly important. “The ability for computers […]... →

TestFlight has doubled down on its testing policy to let iOS and tvOS developers have more users participate in the beta app testing stage. The service now permits up to 2,000 users into the program for 60 days, a marked difference from before when developers were limited to 1,000 users for 30 days. One could […]... →

Tacos. Emojis. Tacos + Emojis. That’s what Taco Bell rolled out to Twitter yesterday. They called it the “#TacoEmojiEngine.” What's #TacoEmojiEngine? Tweet us a + any other emoji to find out. pic.twitter.com/tioahCA0WC — Taco Bell (@tacobell) November 9, 2015 What the hell is it and what is the point? I set to find out, tweeting along the way. Basically,… Read More... →

iHeartMedia, maker of the iHeartRadio streaming music app, is launching a new app called iHeartRadio Family. The app includes music and radio stations selected specifically for kids, and it was created in partnership with children’s retailer Build-A-Bear Workshop — there will be a Build-A-Bear Workshop Radio station, along with stations like tied to popular artists like Selena… Read More... →

500px has launched an app for the Roku platform that will bring its entire photo catalog right to your television, but there’s a catch: you’re going to need the latest version of the Roku operating system. With it, users can view any of their photos right on the largest screen in their home. But if […]... →

This week’s Cribs episode takes us to Minted, an online marketplace of independent artists and designer. Minted hangs its headquarters shingle in San Francisco’s historic Jackson Square neighborhood. Stunning is the word for Minted’s interior. The two-story, 32,000-square-foot office space was originally built in 1909 and boasts large windows with lots of natural… Read More... →

74% of people say that when a site is mobile-friendly, they're more likely to return to that site in the future, according to a Think With Google study . If that's not enough to encourage you to build up your mobile audience, consider this: 52% of users in the same study said that a bad mobile experience made them less likely to engage with a company.... →

Pluto TV, a video streaming service targeting cord cutters, has differentiated itself from other over-the-top competitors like Netflix by offering a more TV-like experience with over 100 “channels” you flip through in an interface that looks similar to a traditional TV guide. Now the company is bringing its lean-back video viewing platform to Apple TV, with plans for Roku… Read More... →

With its Docker Registry and Container Engine, Google has made a big bet on containers for its Cloud Platform this year. Today, the company is launching updates to both of these services. The Container Engine, Google’s service for automatically managing clusters to run and orchestrate container deployments, now supports the latest version of Kubernetes (version 1.1). This new version… Read More... →

Mr. Gottschall is the author or editor of seven books, including The Storytelling Animal " a New York Times Editor's Choice Selection and a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize " and most recently he published a fascinating book titled The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch.... →