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Twitter hires Apple’s Jeffrey Siminoff as VP of Diversity

Like most other tech companies that have released diversity stats over the last year or two, Twitter has not been Read More

Consumer electronics startups raised $1.3B this year

After years of aniticipation, 2015 really became the year of the wearable. We've already seen an explosion in popularity on Read More

Lyft secures a quarter of its $1 billion round

If they're not there yet, Lyft is well on its way to that $1 billion round.Kingdom Holding Company, a Saudi Read More

Daily funding roundup – December 28, 2015

Phytech, a Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel-based provider of Ag analytics and data management solutions, closed a Series A funding round Read More

Amazon adds 3M Prime members in the week before Christmas

In my heart, I know I should shop locally for the holidays. It helps the economy and it helps create Read More

Technological breakthroughs in cancer diagnostics

As cancer research advances, more has been learned about the molecular biology of cancer, and potential drugs that can target Read More

Giancarlo Vedeo – Waste Management is Lavajet’s Business

Giancarlo Vedeo is a respected leader at Lavajet, the Italian waste management company he helped establish back in 1990. He’s Read More

HBO just can’t stop people from pirating Game of Thrones

HBO tried to stop people from pirating Game of Thrones. Oh, how it tried! Not by cracking down, per se, Read More

M&A roundup – week ending 12/26/15

Kik, a Canadian mobile messaging app acquired fashion advice bot Blynk. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.  Blynk, which calls Read More

Meet Alex Gurevich, Partner at Javelin Venture Partners

There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or Read More

The top 10 sharing economy fundraisings of 2015

People driving other people around. Taxis, so to speak. If someone had told you five years ago that, in 2015, Read More

Here are 2015’s biggest deals in media

It's hard to believe that social media has grown up. I remember when Facebook first came out when I was Read More

Daily funding roundup – December 24, 2015

HomeTouch, an online platform to find vetted and experienced home carers, has secured investment financing from one of London’s leading Read More

The most shocking events in social, and media, in 2015

It's easy to try to predict what's going to happen in the coming year. Sometimes we're right (I predicted that Read More

Top 10 social media stories of 2015

2015 was an interesting year for social media, one where the established players dominated without much hint of competition. Facebook Read More

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