Judging by the latest news out of startup cloud-storage provider CX, heavyweight investors are still bullish about newcomers to the space. CX announced Thursday it has closed on a Series B funding round worth $5 million led by Eric Schmidt’s venture capital firm TomorrowVentures, bringing its total VC investment to $10 million. Also on...
NBA legend Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson this morning announced that he is joining and investing in Detroit Venture Partners, a VC firm that invests in seed and early-stage technology companies primarily located in the heart of downtown Detroit, as its fourth general partner. The Hall of Fame basketball star will be working with the founders...
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Norman Giller, from Sports Journalists, has reported that Associated Newspapers – home of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday among other newspapers – is on the verge of releasing a new Sunday red-top tabloid. This has been rumored ever since the News of the World was killed two weeks ago. But Giller hits on...
There’s a fundamental problem when it comes to almost any recommendations system that we’ve seen thus far — almost every recommendation comes from a stranger. While I might trust some random guy at a gas station to give me directions, I probably don’t want him recommending where I would want to take my other...
While tech darling Square has been growing its mobile payments business at a rapid pace, it’s far from the only success story in the business. Over in Des Moines, IA, mobile payments start-up Dwolla is enjoying its own impressive growth and just hit $1 million in daily transactions, putting it on a faster initial...
We’ve covered Hitpost, a nifty app that allows you to share pictures of sports events. The startup most recently added scores, news, and athlete tweets to go along with photos. Today Hitpost is launching a new version of its iPhone app that aims to take sporting news to the next level. You can download...
It wasn’t so long ago that I had the chance to talk Dwolla CEO Ben Milne about the changing payment industry and how he believed that the company’s “Grid API” could make Dwolla even safer than using cash. The company has seen itself as the champion on behalf of people everywhere who are stuck...
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