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Dan Scheinman: what baseball taught me about investing

Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO Read More

Your world is full of placebo buttons

All products and services, everything we buy and use, have but one job—to modulate our mood. The fundamental reason we Read More

Fitbit said to be in talks to buy Pebble

Even as the wearables space is on track for its largest funding raising year ever, both Fitbit and Pebble, two Read More

At Post Seed: what will Trump mean for Silicon Valley?

Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Read More

Period tracking app Clue raises $20M Series B

Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), J. Craig Venter (Human Longevity), Read More

Vista completes purchase of Cvent, merges it with Lanyon

Back in April, private equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced the acquisition of enterprise event management platform Cvent. The price of the deal Read More

Cyber Monday sets all time e-commerce record with $3.45B

Even though Black Friday gets all the attention, it's becoming increasingly clear that Cyber Monday is where the money's at. Read More

Collaborative care platform Orb Health raises $3.2M

The back and forth of sharing health information between physicians and patients can be extremely complex, causing it to be Read More

Dick’s Sporting Goods buys scorekeeping app GameChanger

Updated with comment from Costanoa Venture Capital Most people probably only know Dick's Sporting Goods as, well, a sporting goods store. Read More

CNN acquires the team behind video-sharing platform Beme

Editor's note: Our Post Seed VC event is coming up on Dec. 1 in San Francisco. We'll have Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Aydin Read More

Hackers broke the San Francisco MUNI over the weekend

It feels like, for the last few years at least, I've been hearing a lot of experts say that the Read More

Funding roundup – week ending 11/26/16

Bed Bath & Beyond acquired PersonalizationMall.com, an online retailer of personalized products. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.  PersonalizationMall.com Read More

Thanksgiving Day online sales just miss the $2B mark

Every year it seems like more people are coming to the realization that they don't need to nearly get trampled, Read More

Stripe raises $150M; Valuation jumps nearly 100% to $9.2B

The end of Thanksgiving marks the unofficial start of the Christmas season, the time when our gift shopping can no Read More

Peter Thiel’s Palantir raises another $20 million

Palantir, which has been called "the most secretive company" in Silicon Valley, has just taken a new round of funding, but one Read More

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