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Viki Climbs The Great Firewall, Signs With ‘China’s Facebook’ Renren For Its First Video Distribution Deal In The Country 13 Jul 2012 | 02:40 pm
Online video site Viki has made a big business out of aggregating content from around the world, covering 150+ languages in all, and making it accessible to all by crowdsourcing translations from its ...
Digg Sold To LinkedIn AND The Washington Post And Betaworks 13 Jul 2012 | 02:40 pm
Sun Valley and self-driving cars aside, the story of the day today is that social news site Digg has sold its remaining assets for $500K to the NYC-based tech firm Betaworks. While that number is inde...
Eric Schmidt: Google Self-Driving Cars Should Become The Predominant Mode Of Transport In Our Lifetime 13 Jul 2012 | 02:40 pm
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt offered some new insight into Google’s self-driving car program today at his annual press talk at Allen and Co.’s Sun Valley conference. Schmidt revealed that G...
August Capital Summer Party Tickets Released 13 Jul 2012 | 02:40 pm
As promised, we have released another batch of August Capital Summer Party tickets. Tickets sell out quickly and if your buyer bot is too slow to snag passes for you and 400 of your closest friends, y...
E-Signature Company DocuSign Raises $47.5M Led By Kleiner Perkins, Mary Meeker Joins The Board 13 Jul 2012 | 02:40 pm
Updated Electronic signature platform DocuSign has raised $47.5 million in Series D funding. The round was first revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the company just...
The Future Of Customer Experience – 3 Examples Of Virtual Assistants, Biometrics And Siri-Style Services 13 Jul 2012 | 02:40 pm
The future of customer service is less about the people than it is the sound of a person or the virtual image of an individual. Humans are just so inefficient. But they can be improved, too, through ...
InMobi Acquires MMTG Labs, The Startup Behind AppBistro And AppGalleries 13 Jul 2012 | 02:40 pm
We’re hearing that mobile ad network InMobi has acquired MMTG Labs, a San Francisco startup that operates AppBistro, an application marketplace for Facebook pages, and AppGalleries, which is a white-l...
Shareaholic Raises $3 Million Series A Led By Kepha Partners For Sharing And Analytics Platform 13 Jul 2012 | 02:39 pm
Shareaholic, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that makes browser extensions and other tools to facilitate the sharing and discovery of web content, tells TechCrunch that it has raised $3 mil...
Updated: Betaworks Acquires Digg (For Significantly More Than $500K) 13 Jul 2012 | 02:39 pm
Betaworks, the company behind bit.ly, news.me, Chartbeat and a number of other successful products, has acquired the social news site Digg.com for an undisclosed amount. Betaworks’ founder John Borthw...
The Fancy’s E-Commerce Expansion Continues With Launch Of “Buy” Button For Web Publishers 13 Jul 2012 | 02:39 pm
This week, New York-based The Fancy, a Pinterest-like site with a focus on not just browsing, but buying from its collection of inspirational imagery, began encouraging users to share its content on s...
