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Amazon Birthday Gift will allow users to give gifts via Facebook...just like Facebook Gifts

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Thousand Eyes raises $5.5M from Sequoia Capital

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 19, 2013 | Comments

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New startup emerges to transform how companies troubleshoot app service problems

These days, the average large company has some 100 cloud-based applications running, making it a bit tough on the in-house engineering team to troubleshoot since these applications aren't running on their servers. It's the cloud, after all. Emerging out of stealth to address this issue is three-year-old Thousand Eyes, which also announced that it's raised $5.5 million in a Series ...

Combat Gent raises $1.84M for high-end men's fashion

by Faith Merino, June 19, 2013 | Comments

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Specializing in suits, shirts, and ties, the company is also adding a new line of Italian shirts

You always hear that old saying “fake it till you make it.” It means if you want to make the big bucks some day, you have to dress like you eat aged prime rib and lobster for dinner every night. That’s hard to do when you’re actually eating toast for dinner every night and your wardrobe consists of various hoodie-and-jeans ...

Fab raises $150M round led by strategic partner Tencent

by Faith Merino, June 19, 2013 | Comments

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Fab plans to go big or go home

There’s much to love about Fab and its CEO Jason Goldberg. I’m particularly in love with the fact that he recently coined the term “emotional commerce,” which sums things up pretty neatly. There’s e-commerce, which is all about convenience. There’s social commerce, which is all about leveraging customers’ social graph to drill down to their unique tastes. And then—bam, there’s ...

Yahoo received as many as 13,000 user data requests

by Faith Merino, June 18, 2013 | Comments

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Of the companies that have revealed their user data requests so far, Yahoo has had the most

Over the weekend, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple all revealed the number of government requests for data between December 2012 and May 2013. Now Yahoo is joining in on the fun, announcing late Monday night that it has received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests for data under FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and other types of investigations. So far, that’s more ...

Netflix to license DreamWorks characters for new shows

by Faith Merino, June 17, 2013 | Comments

	Dora Shmora, now Netflix has Shrek and Po Netflix may have lost a Dora, but it’s gained a Shrek. And a Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, and How to Train Your Dragon. While it looked like Netflix’s kids programming took a huge hit last month with the expiration of its deal with Viacom, the company has surprised with a ninja Matrix move showing that it really is one step ...
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Apple received government requests on 9K-10K accounts

by Faith Merino, June 17, 2013 | Comments

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Apple says that FaceTime and iMessage content are not affected

Shortly after Facebook and Microsoft both disclosed government requests for data last weekend, Apple followed suit. The company issued a statement Sunday night revealing that between December 2012 and May 2013, it has received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement. Apple estimates that about 9,000 to 10,000 accounts were specified in those requests. Interestingly, ...

LA's startup tech scene - State of the Union 2013

by Kristin Karaoglu, June 17, 2013 | Comments

	Rustic Partners' Neal Hansch presents an overview of the LA tech startup scene Neal Hansch, partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, gives a mini State of the Union presentation on what's happening across the LA tech scene. Hansch also outlines which incubators and accelerators are sprouting up. Interested in knowing what's happen in SoCal? This is a good video to watch.
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Google using balloons to bring the Internet to everyone

by Steven Loeb, June 15, 2013 | Comments

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Google's new Project Loon uses solar-powered balloons to bring the Internet to remote areas

The goal of any big Internet property is, of course, to get as many people using their service as possible. That is a given. What that really means, though, is getting Internet access to everyone, even in places that are rural, remote, and underserved. And that is the real challenge: how do you actually get the entire world onto the ...

Of course there's an app for rating hookups

by Faith Merino, June 14, 2013 | Comments

	The women-only app lets users anonymously rate hookups So here’s the perfect story to wrap up your work week: there’s an app for rating hookups! FINALLY. The app is called Lulu and there's a caveat: it’s only for women. And it’s only for rating their hookups with guys. Now before you go getting your panties in a twist about sexual objectification, I’ll go ahead and pay lip service ...
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A list of top Austin accelerators and incubators

by Faith Merino, June 14, 2013 | Comments

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Can't afford life in Silicon Valley? Try the "Silicon Hills" of Austin

I’ve never been to Austin, so I can’t personally say that it’s not like the rest of Texas, which, as the “business friendly” state, is sounding more and more like Bangladesh. Nevertheless, the tech scene in Austin is booming, so much so that it’s been dubbed the “Silicon Hills.” Heavy hitters like Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Dell, and more ...

Funding roundup - week ending 06/14/13

by Steven Loeb, June 14, 2013 | Comments

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Dispop, Instagrad, SageCloud, Thumbtack, WorldDesk, Minilogs and Wrapp all raised money

Seed-stage Online women’s clothing consignment shop Bib + Tuck received $600,000 in seed funding from billionaire fashion mogul J. Christopher Burch, along with a couple of angels. Social bookmarking site Minilogs raised a €200,000 seed round from unnamed investors. Silverback Learning Solutions, an educator-founded technology company, secured financing of $2.5 million from angel investors Web analytics platform Spinnakr raised a seed round of nearly $1 million, from 500 ...

Nextdoor, the network for neighborhoods, comes to NYC

by Steven Loeb, June 14, 2013 | Comments

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Network creates private protected neighborhood sites, over 1,800 have been created for NYC so far

I grew up in New York City and I can tell you one thing that is absolutely true: you will never, ever know your neighbors. You will probably know what they look like, you might even nod or say hello to them if you are feeling particlarly social that day. But have a conversation with them? Look them in the ...

Google shutting down AdWhirl at the end of September

by Steven Loeb, June 14, 2013 | Comments

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AdWhirl allowed publishers to many ads from multiple networks on a single platform

Google will be shutting down AdWhirl, a platform for developing advertisements in iPhone apps, at the end of September, according to a notice on the AdWhirl homepage. "Important notice: We will retire AdWhirl on 30 September 2013. Ad network mediation can be managed with AdMob Mediation, a free and robust tool with features like network-level reporting, country-level allocation, and support for more ad ...

Facebook mobile ad revenue set to explode in 2013

by Steven Loeb, June 13, 2013 | Comments

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The social network's worldwide revenue will grow over 333% this year

Facebook's attempt to bring in more ad revenue to mobile is about to pay off this in a big, big way this year. The social network is set to see its mobile ad revenue shoot up over 333%, from $470 million to 2.04 billion, according to a report from eMarketer released Thursday. That will more than double its worldwide share, from ...

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