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Rocana Lands $15M To Bring Big Data Analysis To IT Ops

One hundred dollar bills sticking out of a shirt pocket. Rocana (formerly ScalingData) announced $15 million in Series B funding led by Google Ventures with General Catalyst Partners, Toba Capital and Paul Sagan (former chairman at Akamai and current executive in residence at General Catalyst) also contributing. This round brings the total raised to $19.4 million. Rocana aims to simplify and speed up how companies running large data center… Read More

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Meerkat Launches Its Android App To All

periscope-android Live video streaming app Meerkat beat Twitter’s own Periscope to market on iOS, and now it’s available on Android for all, with no Periscope app for Google’s mobile OS to be seen. The Meerkat app for Android carries a “Beta” label, as did a previous version that was locked down only to a select group of invitees, but it doesn’t appear to have that many… Read More

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Google To Test Mobile-Optimized Web Pages In Indonesia

google-search-android-phone-hand Google announced today that it will begin running tests of a new way to deliver search results to mobile users with slow connections. The company’s pilot trials will initially take place in Indonesia, a country where the Internet is playing a greater role in people’s lives – especially among younger users – but is still plagued by slow mobile connection speeds, which… Read More

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Warby Parker Now Worth $1.2 Billion, Focusing On Building More Brick-And-Mortar Stores

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 10.32.11 AM The e-commerce eyeglasses retailer Warby Parker has raised $100 million to expand physical store locations from 12 to 20 by year’s end and to work on technology that will allow customers to conduct eye exams on their mobile phones.
Global investment management firm T. Rowe Price led the round, along with participation from Wellington Management and from previous investors Tiger Global… Read More

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Phablets Are Eating Phones And Tablets

phabletserrywhere It’s been increasingly evident for years: smartphone users are digging bigger phones as they do more on screens, and spend less time talking on the phone. And there’s no sign of the appetite for super-sizing mobile handsets abating — not according to a new report from Yahoo-owned mobile analytics firm Flurry. Read More

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NeonMob Is A Platform For Creating, Trading, And Collecting Digital Art

Screenshot 2015-04-30 12.07.53 Digital art is gaining popularity, with companies like Curioos dedicating entire marketplaces to the medium, but the idea of scarcity when it comes to the Internet is relatively new. NeonMob is looking to change the way we think about that with a platform dedicated to digital art collectibles. The company offers tools to creators so they can build out a collection of art — perhaps… Read More

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Zero’s New Email App Can Help You Reach “Inbox Zero”

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 10.56.03 AM A new mobile email application called Zero is launching today to help users power through their inboxes on the go to achieve the often sought-after state of “inbox zero.” Aimed at heavy email users who receive a lot of inbound email, an app that promises to speed up email processing by 30 percent or more sounds too good to be true. But while still far from perfect in its present… Read More

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Airtable Launches Its API And Embedded Databases

airtable Two months after launching its unique organizational tool, Airtable is rolling out two new features that’ll make it easier to share your personal spreadsheet/database hybrids with others in a way they’ll find useful. In addition to sharing direct read or edit access to the relational databases you create in its app, Airtable is today letting you draw from the underlying data using… Read More

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Mobile Action Raises $2 Million To Help App Makers Attract More Users

mobile-action Getting apps discovered in an increasingly packed app store is a challenge. This is why a number of firms have launched services to help app publishers figure out how to better optimize their app’s search result ranking when users type in various keywords, as well as gain other competitive intelligence. One such firm, San Francisco-based Mobile Action, has now closed on $2 million in… Read More

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