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Funding roundup – week ending 5/23/14

Seed stage X.ai, a personal assistant that schedules meetings, raised $2 million from IA Ventures, Softbank Capital and Lerer Ventures. Read More

Three states set to probe eBay after massive hacking

(Updated with comment from eBay) Earlier this week, when eBay revealed that it had been hacked, the company seemed to be Read More

Pentagon: Effects of Snowden Files are “staggering”

The ripple effects of the Snowden Files are starting to become visible in the way the U.S. interacts with other Read More

Way cool: Google’s newest tablet can take 3D pictures!

Honestly, Elon Musk and Google are the only things that give me hope for American innovation these days. Submarine cars Read More

Connecticut taxi companies take aim at Lyft and Uber

Ride-sharing services Lyft and Uber should be pretty used to lawsuits at this point. I mean, it seems to happen in just about much Read More

Silicon Valley’s “Glass Cliff”

This year in news: The New York Times fired its first female Editor-in-Chief, Jill Abramson. Because bitches, man! We still Read More

Indian e-commerce heats up as Flipkart buys Myntra

Amazon may be coming to India, but that doesn't mean that the country's largest e-commerce company, Flipkart is going to take Read More

Fab once again fires a big chunk of its workforce

(Updated with comment from Fab) The name Fab is becoming brutally ironic, as things at the e-commerce company just seem to getworse Read More

Spotify solidifies its position with 40M active users

In terms of music streaming companies, there is Pandora, with its more than 250 million registered users, and then there is Read More

eBay wants users to change passwords after being hacked

In what is becoming a distressingly routine event these days, another major, and widely trusted, Internet company has been hacked. Read More

Netflix to expand to six more European countries

Netflix continues to expand its international footprint. After launching in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands Read More

Golgi gets $5 million to make your apps load faster

People have absolutely no patience for slow apps. None at all. Just one slow start, or crash, and that app Read More

FutureAdvisor powers up with $15.5M for smart investing

One of the lessons we all learned from the recession: when you have money, you have to save that shit. Read More

LiveOak Venture Partners closes $109M fund

There are tech hubs in sectors all around the country, even in places that not everyone would expect. We all Read More

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