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Pew: what the future of Internet of Things looks like

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Family locator Life360 snags $50M and partners with ADT

I’m really keeping my fingers crossed that there will come a time in the very near future when it will Read More

Facebook reportedly setting up sales office in China

Facebook, like oh so many other websites, has been banned in China for years Since 2008, to be exact. Yet, Read More

Evernote crosses the 100 million user mark

Note taking and archiving company Evernote has reached a user new milestone: the company has reached over 100 million users, across its numerous Read More

Rewards community Swagbucks raises $60M, hires new CEO

Considering how much of our lives we spend online, watching videos, taking surveys, playing games or whatever, it would be Read More

NSA tampering with servers/routers for spying efforts

Well, if you missed your daily dose of outrage this morning, Glen Greenwald—the Guardian journalist who first reported on the Read More

Techstars Founder David Cohen at Splash London June 19

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App performance testing company BlazeMeter raises $6.5M

BlazeMeter, a cloud self-service start up, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding, the company revealed on Tuesday. The Read More

Have annoying friends? Try Twitter’s new mute button

Social media can be a double edged sword. It allows us to find and, in some small way, be a Read More

Pinterest’s promoted pins enter the next phase

It's been a while since Pinterest first announced that it would be starting its first monetization effort with promoted pins. Read More

Yahoo goes mobile-first, introduces new native ads

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been pretty candid in the past about how the company has missed the boat on mobile. While Read More

Square launches Square Order so you can skip the line

Square is looking to shake up its revenue streams and maybe live up to that $5 billion valuation it’s now Read More

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