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Home improvement DIY site BuildDirect raises $30M

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SaaS security company Adallom raises $15M Series B

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Jimmy Wales joins as co-chair of The People’s Operator

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Spotify introduces merchandise to help artist relations

Every time I write about the music streaming space, it always comes down to the same thing: there are just Read More

Nest CEO: any privacy changes will be transparent

After all that has happened over the past year or so, with all of the revelations about the NSA, PRISM Read More

Stealth mobile security startup Bluebox raises $18M

In the BYOD era, it’s kind of amazing more companies haven’t been hacked. Like, OF COURSE Target compromised the credit Read More

Business Insider raising a new round?

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How does eBay make money?

We talk a lot about innovation in the tech world, about new ideas and boundary pushing technology. But, sometimes, the Read More

Billion-dollar acquisitions: are they worth it?

As you may have heard, Google bought smart thermostat company Nest for a whopping $3.2 billion earlier this week.  Yes, $3.2 Read More

Funding roundup – week ending 1/17/14

Seed stage The Dodo, a new site dedicated to animal news, launched with $2 million in seed funding from Lerer Read More

IBM invests $1.2 billion in new cloud data centers

Last year, IBM bought cloud-computing service provider SoftLayer for around $2 billion. I think it goes without saying that no company Read More

U.S. Government reveals malware that attacked Target

Since the Target data breach was announced last month, the world has been wondering: WTF, Target? How does a retailer Read More

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