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Some pretty notable updates for Periscope, the live broadcasting service owned by Twitter, just dropped today. Included among the new goodies for users of Periscope for iOS is teleporting, a feature that will transport you to a random part of the world and drop you into a broadcast from there. Read More... →

Cheetah Mobile bet big on native ads a few years ago, and the surge in interest in mobile ad blockers around iOS 9 might brighten the app maker’s future considerably. Apple recently opened the door in iOS 9 for apps that block display ads in its Safari mobile browser. Native ads blend in with the other content […]... →

The league of taxi apps rivaling Uber is alive and well after GrabTaxi, the U.S. firm’s big rival in Southeast Asia, became the latest global Uber competitor to introduce a carpooling service for commuters. Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: ClassPass is getting a significant vote of confidence from Google Ventures in the form of cash. The fitness platform has raised $30 million in venture capital with Google Ventures participating, sources familiar with the matter tell VentureBeat. The new funding follows a $40 million raise announced in January. ClassPass has risen to prominence since it got its start […]... →

Question and answer platform Quora has modified its messaging policy to make it safer for all users. The company announced today that starting today, by default, everyone will only receive messages from those that they follow. However, if you want to make yourself more accessible on the platform, you can tweak your privacy settings. The […]... →

While Airbnb dukes it out with local regulators and fights off encroaching rivals, the company continues to look at ways of increasing the margins that it makes around its accommodation service and improving overall loyalty on its platform. In the latest move, Airbnb appears to be working on an “Experience Card” — a prepaid MasterCard credit card for Airbnb guests to… Read More... →

(Noor Zainab Hussain for Reuters) – Credit data company Experian Plc said it had received a number of class actions related to the theft of T-Mobile US Inc customer data at its server and was working with U.S. and other law enforcement agencies to investigate the matter. Experian also said on Tuesday it raised its […]... →

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... →