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| Richard Nieva / PandoDaily: |
RelayRides suspends New York service after cease and desist
— New York State's Department of Financial Services today ordered car-sharing company RelayRides to suspend service in New York state, issuing a cease and desist letter to the company, alleging “repeated false advertising and violation …
May 16, 2013, 6:10 AM–
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
Can't raise a Series A? Just sell yourself to Yahoo
— While many have speculated on the ways CEO Marissa Mayer will remake Yahoo, none have correctly predicted what the company has actually become: A safe haven for VC rejects. — Since taking the helm in October, Mayer has snapped up nine young …
May 9, 2013, 8:15 PM–
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
After crowdfunding $10M for a dozen consumer product companies, CircleUp raises its own $7.5M Series A
— Not all crowdfunding is created equal. The first generation of this peer-to-peer fundraising concept centered around incentive-based campaigns, where users of platforms like Kickstarter …
May 7, 2013, 11:15 AM–
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
Yahoo nearing deal to buy travel rewards startup Milewise, according to sources
— Yahoo is poised to acquire New York travel startup Milewise, according to people familiar with the deal. The deal is set to close this week, they said. Milewise was founded in 2010 to help consumers figure …
May 2, 2013, 6:00 PM–
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| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Put away your wallet, startup. Spark decides to cover its own legal fees
— As startups have become more capital efficient and seed funds have proliferated, the battle for the best early stage deals has intensified. That's led to an arms race among early stage VCs to prove how entrepreneur-friendly they can be.
Apr 24, 2013, 4:45 PM–
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
Lightspeed invests $3 million in Whisper, the “secrets” app with Snapchat-like adoption
— LA-based Whisper hasn't hit Silicon Valley tech circles yet, but it has taken college campuses by storm. The iOS app, which launched officially last November, now hosts millions of anonymous secrets uploaded by more than one million users.
Apr 4, 2013, 10:45 PM–
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| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Ecomom is liquidating and shutting down; investors are stunned
— The story of Ecomom keeps getting more stunning and more tragic. PandoDaily has learned that the company has just dealt its investors yet another blow. Just two and a half weeks after founder and CEO Jody Sherman stunned …
Feb 15, 2013, 9:00 PM–
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
FlightCar brings the sharing economy to airport car rentals, launches at SFO with $570k in Seed funding
— On the scale of frighteningly ambitious startup ideas, taking responsibility of a stranger's car and handing it over to a second stranger is pretty high up there.
Feb 15, 2013, 2:50 PM–
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Groupon acqui-hires MashLogic, will shutter Britely plugin this weekend
— Groupon may be taking a beating in the press and on Wall Street, but the company is still looking for ways to integrate itself into the fabric of small businesses. Part of doing so is attracting talent - no easy proposition when your stock is in free fall.
Feb 11, 2013, 8:30 PM–
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
Backed by $3 million, Nomi seeks to bridge online and offline retail with omni-channel platform
— If, as Marc Andreessen predicts, brick-and-mortar retail will be completely eclipsed by e-commerce, consider Nomi the traditional retailer's knight in shining armor.
Feb 11, 2013, 10:55 AM–
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Cloud Foundry:
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Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).