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Daily funding roundup – January 4, 2016

Japan-based startup news media The Bridge today announced raising an undisclosed amount of funding from Fuji Startup Ventures and PR Times. Founded in 2011 as Read More

This year Mark Zuckerberg wants to build his own JARVIS

Elon Musk, may be the real life Iron Man, but it's another tech billionaire that is planning to build his own J.A.R.V.I.S. Read More

M&A roundup – week ending 1/2/16

Credit Karma, a personal finance company, acquired Snowball, a provider of an inbox for prioritizing mobile notifications on Android. No financial terms Read More

Top 10 predictions for the sharing economy in 2016

What a year! 2015 definitely marked the ever-increasing rise of the sharing economy company, with Uber continuing its massive fundraisings Read More

Food delivery pivot fails to save Sidecar

Remember when it was Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar? Well, now it’s just Uber and Lyft. Sidecar, one of the first Read More

Oops! Here are the social media predictions that went wrong

Every year, around this time, I write a story, as many in this field do, where I try to predict Read More

Top 5 sharing economy predictions that didn’t pan out

Each year, the technology industry's investors, analysts, experts, and (ahem) expert reporters discuss their predictions for the year ahead. (Look Read More

Nextdoor is expanding outside of the U.S. for the first time

(Updated with comment from Nextdoor) It looks like Nextdoor, the social network built around bringing together people who live in Read More

Here’s what the future holds for social media in 2016

So another year has come and gone. With 2016 on the horizon, it's time for me to get out my Read More

Facebook is still being sued over its IPO

Remember when Facebook went public in early 2012 and the whole thing devolved into an epic mess, filled with lawsuits and Read More

Slack debuts first TV ads; is it worried about competition?

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Daily funding roundup – December 30, 2015

Veeve (fka Vive Unique), a London, UK-based home sharing service, raised a new funding round. Existing backer Smedvig Capital made a new Read More

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