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What Changes Are Coming to the Oil and Gas Industry

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Fundbox raises $17.5M to bring working capital to SMBs

Small businesses that need small loans don’t have a lot of options available to them, unless they want to put Read More

Cloud service marketplace AppDirect raises $35M

AppDirect, a cloud service marketplace and management company, has raised $35 million in Series C funding, the company announced on Thursday. The Read More

Facebook overhauls desktop ads: fewer but larger

I've been using Facebook for 10 years now (has it really been that long? Ugh, I'm getting old!) and I Read More

Dropbox debuts a slew of new products and features

Wednesday was a very big day for Dropbox, with the cloud storage company announcing a series of new products and Read More

Omada Health raises $23M for chronic disease prevention

For the first time in history, chronic disease now kills more people worldwide than infectious disease. In other words, where Read More

Q&A site Quora raises $80M in Series C funding

(Updated to reflect confirmation from Quora) There can be many reasons why a company raises money. Sometimes it needs the Read More

Alibaba spends $1.05B for 20% stake in Wasu Media

Another week, another big investment from Alibaba. As its U.S. IPO comes closer, the Chinese e-commerce giant seems to want Read More

Yelp expands Platform to include spas and salons

Last year, Yelp decided that it was sick of just being the site that told you where to go; it Read More

Can a CEO have opinions? Yes. The right opinions.

The Brendan Eich/Mozilla firestorm was over just as quickly as it started, but lots of questions remain. While tens of Read More

Facebook in India: 100 million users and counting

Facebook has been putting a lot of attention on India in recent years and for very good reason: with a huge Read More

Twitter gets an updated, but very familiar, new look

It's not uncommon for companies to redesign their pages. Thinks get stale, new features get added, whatever. People groan and Read More

USAID denies ZunZuneo was created to foment dissent

Last week, the AP published a report on one of the most bizarre covert U.S. plots to undermine a communist Read More

Internet of Things company Neura raises $2 million

When Vator holds its two-day Splash Oakland event on May 6 and 7, we will be holding a series of panels to Read More

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