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FWD.us loses two backers in Elon Musk and David Sacks

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Funding roundup – week ending 05/10/13

Seed Stage Online end-of-life planning resource eFuneral received a $250,000 investment commitment from nonprofit venture development organization JumpStart. Video cooking Read More

Edtech company Logical Choice Technologies bags $5M

School is going digital, and edtech is where it’s at. As more and more schools look to digitize the classroom, Read More

Facebook Home expanding to more devices

When Facebook Home passed the 500,000 installs number on Google Play roughly a week after its release, it was seen, by some, as Read More

Fly high: The Air Force Academy and Silicon Valley

  Todd Branchflower was one my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get Read More

Kickstarter: big name projects are good for our site!

It may have flown past your radar, but there has recently a bit of controversy over at Kickstarter when two Read More

Yahoo’s spree continues, buys up GoPollGo and Milewise

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Fertility tracker Ovuline teams with Fitbit, Withings

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Report: Facebook to buy Waze for up to $1 billion

Facebook has been on a mobile tear over the past year or so, and that strategy does not seem to Read More

Groupon shares pop 10% after unusually positive quarter

Could Groupon be seeing a legitimate turnaround? The company's future is looking bright after it revealed better than expected Q1 Read More

Hipmunk launches direct booking option for hotels

When Hipmunk—the all-you-can-eat buffet of travel sites—raised $15 million in a Series B last year, CEO Adam Goldstein said, “we Read More

Google Wallet VP Osama Bedier steps down

(Updated to reflect comment from Google) Osama Bedier, the Vice President of Google Wallet, has left the company, Google has confirmed Read More

Path to be a featured app on three Sprint devices

Path, the social network built around exclusivity, is looking to branch out. The company is teaming up with Sprint to Read More

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