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U.S. Senator demands Whisper outline privacy policies

When Vator Founder Bambi Francisco, interviewed Whisper CEO Michael Heyward at Vator Splash LA earlier this month, he called the service, "the safest Read More

Funding roundup – week ending 10/24/14

Seed stage La Belle Assiette, a French marketplace for private chefs, raised $1.7 million (€1.3 million) from Nicolas Brusson, Thibaud Elzière, Nicolas Bourdin, the Read More

The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better

Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it. —— The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more Read More

Meet IUNU, a new way to grow food indoors

It's not something that Americans - trained to consume whatever they want, whenever they want - think about. But there Read More

Twitter set to open $1M homeless learning center

Silicon Valley has been getting all philanthropic recently, and Twitter wants in! The social network is going to build a learning center, with Read More

Amazon shares faceplant after Fire Phone fail

Oh, Lord. Amazon shares nosedived in after-hours trading following a record third quarter loss and weak fourth quarter guidance. As Read More

Facebook launches new anonymity app called Rooms

Coming off a scandal, in which it used strong arm tactics used to force drag queens on the network to change to Read More

Ello legally bars itself from ever showing ads

When people on Facebook started going on and on about how great Ello was last month, I have to admit that Read More

Alibaba looking for rights to stream Hollywood content

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has already conquered the public markets inside the United States, launching the biggest initial public offering Read More

Target gets its game face on with free shipping

Target is looking to have its Karate Kid moment this holiday season. Remember last year—something about a massive security breach Read More

Yahoo has reportedly closed its investment in Snapchat

I've been hearing the rumors of Snapchat raising a new round of funding at a $10 billion valuation for, literally, months now. Kleiner Read More

Twitter looks to lure in developers with new mobile SDK

As with every social network, Twitter's future depends on getting both users, and advertisers, onto mobile. And that future will depend Read More

Smart fitness tracker Moov raises $3 million Series A

I've recently been trying to lose weight, mostly through changing my diet. And it has worked, to some degree; if Read More

Payment automation solution Tipalti raises $13M

With the rise of the Network Economy, with all of the marketplaces, ad networks, crowd sourcing, affiliate networks and monetization, there Read More

Hipmunk is first hotel booking service on Yelp Platform

Last summer, leveraging its huge database of businesses, Yelp launched Yelp Platform, which allows businesses and consumers to make transactions directly on the Read More

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