Seed-stage Health care and technology industry hybrid HealthTap raised $2.35 million in a Convertible Note Seed financing led Read More
Funding roundup – week ending 03/25/11
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Digitally clueless: bands that hand out CDs
A silly thing happened to me at SXSW: a musician (or their best friend) handed me a CD. Read More
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What you need to know – 03/25/11
CivicScience, an online polling application, sealed $1.2 million in seed funding. ChangeWave Research, a business and technology Read More
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NYTimes on iPhone prettified for new paywall
Days before its much-discussed and dissected paywall goes live, the New York Times has refreshed the look of Read More
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RIM PlayBook to support Android apps natively
BlackBerry’s PlayBook just doubled its coolness and gave itself a little more fighting power against the market’s resident Read More
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Sequoia funds Color to build a photo universe
Make a sexy iPhone and Android app for snapping and sharing photos socially, with a spartan website design Read More
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What you need to know – 03/24/11
In an effort to maintain its leadership position amidst rising copycat services, Chegg made changes to its site Read More
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What you need to know – 03/22/11
8thBridge, which bills itself as a social commerce company, secured a $10 million Series B round led by Trident Capital, Read More
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Apple sues Amazon for using “app store” mark
And the question resurfaces: should any one company own the phrase “app store”? Apple seems to think so. The Read More
Happy Monday, Sprint customers. Google today announced its new partnership with Sprint, which will allow Sprint users to Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 03/18/11
Early-stage Illume Software, developer of a mobile app (iZUP) designed to prevent distracted driving, secured $2.4 million in new Read More
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iZUP raises $2.4M to help distracted drivers
Illume Software, developer of a mobile app designed to prevent distracted driving, announced Thursday that it has secured Read More
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What you need to know – 03/16/11
Online education company 2tor raised a $32.5 million Series C round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation Read More
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Seed funding thriving (too much?) in NYC
Owen Davis, managing director of NYC Seed, says seed rounds have doubled in size in the last Read More
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What you need to know – 03/15/11
Following its acquisition of the Huffington Post and the subsequent laying off of 900 employees, AOL announced that Read More