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At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Alex Konrad, Staff Writer at Forbes moderated the panel "What Unicorns looked like at Series Read More

Amazon drivers are left out of Seattle driver’s rights bill

Monday was a big day for Uber and Lyft drivers, as the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to allow them to unionize. Yay, Read More

Facebook, Google, Twitter take stronger stand on hate speech

(Updated with comment from Facebook) Hate speech is a tricky area for a lot of people. Of course most of Read More

Backblaze announces open beta for affordable cloud storage

Backblaze, a company we've spoken about before here on Vator, has announced that their cloud storage solution, B2, is now Read More

Android Pay now supports Lyft, Instacart, other apps

Google announced today that Android Pay, its digital wallet platform for in-app and tap-to-pay purchases, can now be used to Read More

Facebook quietly launches new site for professional services

(Updated with comment from Facebook) You hear the same thing every presidential election: that small businesses drive the economy. That Read More

Daily funding roundup – December 15, 2015

Malaysia-based iPrice, which aggregates a multitude of ecommerce sites in Southeast Asia into a single shopping destination, today announced it raised Read More

Vator Splash LA 2015 Finalist – Staffly

Vator Splash LA Class 2015 cohort Staffly, a startup that instantly connects retailers with screened, insured, and trained Staffly™ Staffers through their mobile Read More

Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle can now form unions

Uber can’t be very happy about this.In a unanimous 8-0 vote, the Seattle City Council just approved a bill that Read More

Twitter warns users of possible state-sponsored hackings

Websites are going to get hacked. It's just a matter of when, not if, at this point. And that is Read More

One Kings Lane cuts 25% of staff; will it be the next Fab?

It's hard to remember when being a flash sale site seemed like a good business model. Sites like Groupon, LivingSocial Read More

Commuter service uberHOP launches in Toronto, Seattle

Ride-hailing behemoth Uber announced today that it’s bringing its commuter service uberHOP to Toronto. The service just launched in Seattle Read More

Experian sells off Hitwise and Simmons for $47M

It can he hard not to be a little weirded out sometimes about how much information there is about all Read More

Daily funding roundup – December 14, 2015

Missoula-based Submittable Holdings Inc. raised $1.34 million in Series A venture funding for an app that makes it easy for media companies, Read More

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