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The first quarter of 2012 saw an increase in the number of deals made by US-based VCs, but the value of funding was lower with seeding funding at a new high, according to a new report from investment measurement CB Insights. January to March saw the number investment deals closed by VC firms across...
Not all hotels are created equal. That’s why paying $150 for a night at one hotel might be a rip off, but it could be a great deal somewhere else — and that, in turn, is why DealAngel is launching a new way to search for hotels. When you go to the DealAngel site...
Daemonic Labs, a fledgling San Francisco startup with offices in Argentina, is today launching a new (and perhaps, yet another) location-based photo journaling service called Dabble at the DEMO conference in Silicon Valley. Daemonic Labs has been beta-testing its service with about 5,000 testers from around the world. It already boasts a staff of...
TransferWise When Taveet Hinrikus moved from Estonia to London, he was still paid in kroons and had to transfer the money to his new bank account in the UK. The bank fees weren’t pretty — a 2% transaction fee was charged on top of a 3% bank commission fee. Hinrikus felt robbed. He met...
If you’ve ever wanted to see the innards of an iPad or needed help fixing your toilet, you probably know iFixit, the DIY repair site, its popular teardown feature and its QA. (My favorite question: What to do when “my drunk friend slept with my iPhone and peed in his pants?”) Now the company plans to...
The US has called upon Vietnam to release three bloggers that have been arrested on charges of publishing “propaganda against the state”, as concerns grow around increased Internet censorship in the country. Following this week’s arrest of the bloggers, who are accused of “distorting the truth, denigrating the party and state”, US State Department spokesperson Darragh...
Over the past several years, Netflix has gotten really good at licensing some serious TV content from major networks. But if the company’s latest moves are any indication of its future direction, Netflix could soon become a major player not just in content licensing, but content creation. On Tuesday, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted...
Princeton; Stanford; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania will all offer courses on the platform for free to anyone in the world with Internet access. To help bring Coursera up to speed, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and New Enterprise Associates have backed it with $16 million...
Brightpearl, formerly known as Pearl, develops a leading end-to-end web based solution for SMEs and growing businesses that provides fully integrated: • Accounting • CRM and marketing • Inventory management • Sales order management • Ecommerce including Magento and eBay integration • Purchasing • Point of sale and more It is also designed to...