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Crunch Network
Why the next great SaaS company will look nothing like Salesforce
Integration companies, while not glamorous, can build market power by positioning themselves at the center of an ecosystem and creating an “ecosystem network effect”, whereby they become a de facto standard. Okta and Segment are both on their way to achieving this. Read More
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Secret is coming back
Secret, the anonymous sharing app developed by David Byttow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, looks to be on its way to resurrection. The app was part of a wave of anonymous apps like Whisper and YikYak but shut down April 2015 after facing a lot of criticism over privacy and cyberbullying. Secret allowed anyone to post snippets of text like a rumor or piece of gossip on an anonymous basis. Many… Read More
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Crunch Network
Facebook needs accountability to win back advertisers’ trust
The advertising industry let out a collective groan in September when Facebook admitted a “discrepancy” in its reporting that led it to overstate how much time, on average, viewers were watching video. Because the error was huge — numbers were inflated as much as 60-80 percent for two years — and in Facebook’s favor, some were quick to ascribe sinister motives. Read More
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Crunch Network
We are on the verge of a consumer M&A avalanche
If you believe in the mantra “innovate or die,” you might conclude that the largest consumer and retail brands are terminally ill. Giants like Kraft and Clorox all seem to be too slow and enslaved to shareholders to innovate. At the same time, they may be too large to perish… at least for now. Read More
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Crunch Network
Data Ethics — The New Competitive Advantage
We are living in an era defined and shaped by data. Data makes the world go round. It is politics, it is culture, it is everyday life and it is business. Our data-flooded era is one of technological progress, with tides rising at a never seen before pace. Roles, rights and responsibilities are reorganized and new ethical questions posed. Data ethics must and will be a new compass to guide us. Read More
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Pro-Trump CEO gets booted from Y Combinator over harassment concerns
Andrew Torba, founder of conservative social network Gab.ai, has been removed from Y Combinator’s alumni network. Read More
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Gillmor Gang: Optimizzle
The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, November 11, 2016. McLuhan said the medium is the message. Our next President agreed, and decided Twitter is the medium. Plus the new G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, and Tina Chase Gillmor. @stevegillmor, @kteare, @fradice Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor… Read More
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Here’s where seed investors are scaling up
Seed investors are, by definition, the first ones to back startups and technologies that go on to become world-changing forces. So when they collectively raise their bets about something — whether it’s social media in the early 2000s or autonomous vehicles in the last few years — it’s a reasonable indication that thing is poised for explosive growth. With that in mind… Read More
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I refuse to review Snapchat Spectacles — but I’m glad to have my hands back
And I honestly don’t think these things should be reviewed at all — especially as a gadget. More of a hybrid marketing/consumer research experiment than an actual product launch, Snap, nee Snapchat, Spectacles are one of the coolest, most fun bits of hardware I’ve used lately and I just scored an NES Classic. Read More
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Trump surveillance fears could lift privacy tech in Europe
The full ramifications of Donald Trump being the next president of the United States of America will not be known for months — perhaps years. Given he’s a man of many conflicting words it’s near impossible to know which of his pledges and pronouncements he will keep or act upon, likely until his administration is up and running and showing its true colors. Read More
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Facebook wants to make you secure no matter how hard you make it
When you have a billion people using your service, you have an obligation to keep your users secure, even when they behave in unsafe ways. Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Facebook, speaking at Web Summit last week, told a quick story to show what his company was up against when it came to security. “The family car was not designed to be driven into a wall at 100 kilometers… Read More
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Driving the Midwest
Last September, in the depths of high summer, my wife and I wanted to see the Midwest again. We began in Brooklyn and drove across the Verrazano, a bridge so long and well-engineered that its makers took into consideration the curvature of the Earth when they designed it. This spit us out out onto Staten Island, once New York’s ash heap and now a bustling bedroom community surrounded on… Read More
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Snapchat Spectacles vending machine page starts 24-hour countdown to next location
Snapchat’s going to be selling Spectacles at another location in just under 24 hours as of Saturday morning, as the company’s Snapbot locator page started a 24 hour countdown timer as of 7 AM PT (10 AM ET). The sleeping bot on Snap’s Spectacles locator page will presumably be replaced by an updated map when the countdown runs out, showing you were the adorable vending… Read More
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Crunch Network
Trendspotting
Brexit and Trump; applied CRISPR and the Gigafactory; the rise of self-driving vehicles, the fall of pollsters; the global saturation of smartphones, the first mass-market VR headsets; the first drone-delivered terror bomb, the first drone drug mule; Signal and the Secure Enclave; Ethereum and the DAO; AI and SpaceX — we can all agree, I hope, that this has been one hell of a year. Read More
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Crunch Report | Facebook Made Us All Dead
Facebook has a bug and has switched their profiles to being memorialized, Mark Zuckerberg affirms that Facebook didn’t affect election and Singles’ Day breaks shopping records. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Kickstarter smash hit INSTRUMENT 1 from Artiphon is now available to buy
Take a Chapman Stick, add a lot of tech in its belly and jam a USB cable up its jacksie and you get something that looks vaguely like an INSTRUMENT 1. It’s a completely new type of musical instrument developed by Artiphon. Funded through a seven-figure Kickstarter campaign, the instrument is shipping now, and we can’t wait to see what people will be creating with it. Read More
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Nintendowned: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in (null) seconds
We knew the NES Classic Edition, with its retro aesthetic and solid game selection, would be hard to get at first, but this is some next level, Tickle Me Elmo-style demand. Amazon, which made its supply of the console available at 2PM Pacific today, sold out in what appeared to be less than a minute. Read More
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Facebook Messenger launches its public group chat feature “Rooms” in select markets
Facebook’s experiment with semi-anonymous social networking centered around interests, via a standalone app called Rooms, failed. But the learnings from that earlier experiment have now popped up in Facebook’s Messenger application as a new feature called Rooms, which is rolling out now in select markets. The limited launch is meant to serve as a test to see if Facebook’s… Read More
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Signups for encrypted mail client ProtonMail double after election
The election of Donald Trump has lots of Americans worried about their privacy, and they’re turning to encrypted communication platforms to protect themselves. During an interview yesterday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden encouraged those concerned about the ramifications of Trump at the helm of the NSA to use encryption — and it seems like people are listening. ProtonMail… Read More
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READY Robotics
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- HQ: Baltimore, Maryland
- Categories: Industrial Automation
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Illumitex
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- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Software, Hardware, Energy, Energy Efficiency ... See More
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Acarix
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- HQ: Kongens Lyngby, Hovedstaden
- Categories: Health Care
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digedu
- 45K EUR Seed
- HQ: Skibbereen, Cork
- Categories: Education
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HercuTech
- $5.0M Venture
- HQ: Tempe, Arizona
- Categories: Innovation Management, Project Management
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BABBLER
- $2.5M Private Equity
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Email, Public Relations, Journalism
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Senseye
- 1.3M GBP Venture
- HQ: Southampton, Southampton
- Categories: Manufacturing, Predictive Analytics, Internet of Things
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Isbit
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Smartpipe Solutions Ltd
- $19M Series A
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Telecommunications, Big Data, Real Time, Mobile Advertising
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Yottaa
- $13M Venture
- HQ: Waltham, Massachusetts
- Categories: Internet, Enterprise Software, Content Delivery Network
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Flipdish
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Inkbay
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NeveXN
- 2.0M EUR Round
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PERQ
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- HQ: Indianapolis, Indiana
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Commerce Signals
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Analytics, Advertising, Retail, Mobile, Software
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MC Payment
- 5.0M SGD Round
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
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Utegration
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- HQ: Houston, Texas
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Lybra Tech
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Mitrol Energy
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Builderstorm
- 128K GBP Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Brighton, East Sussex
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Hickies
- $10M Round
- HQ: Brooklyn, New York
- Categories: Fashion
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Masimo
- $5.0M Grant
- HQ: Irvine, California
- Categories: Biotechnology
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Genomenon
- $410K Seed
- HQ: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Imali
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Undercover Colors
- $5.5M Venture
- HQ: Raleigh, North Carolina
- Categories: Fashion, Social Innovation, Lifestyle
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TidalScale
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- HQ: Campbell, California
- Categories: Data Mining, Software, Analytics
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District 27
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WaterSuite
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