Apple indoor positioning app ‘Indoor Survey’ spotted on iOS App Store
Apple could be on the verge of releasing its first dedicated indoor positioning app for iPhone, as a seemingly legitimate, albeit non-operational, first party app called “Indoor Survey” was spotted in...
Proposition F, on the ballot Tuesday in San Francisco, threatens to limit short-term rentals and could cost Airbnb $6M in lost revenue each year
Airbnb is fighting a critical war in its own back yard this week — Airbnb is on an “inexorable march towards history,” says its head of global policy, Chris Lehane.
Sources: Pivotal may IPO in early 2016; EMC would sell about 20% of shares and retain the rest
EMC May Float Pivotal in IPO Next Year in a Plan Blessed by Dell — David Paul Morris, Slaven Vlasic / Getty — EMC and Dell are speeding up plans to take the software company Pivotal public …
Artemis and Nokia Networks to begin testing Steve Perlman's pCell wireless technology in 2016
Nokia Networks to Test Steve Perlman's pCell Approach for Speeding Wireless Networks — Steve Perlman's intriguing approach for dramatically speeding up wireless service is finally going to be put to...
ClearSky Data Lands $27 Million To Expand Hybrid Storage Solution
ClearSky Data has come up with an interesting approach to solve the data storage cost and speed problem. Today it was rewarded with a $27 million Series B round to continue the mission. — The compa...
Handy raises $50M Series C led by Fidelity Management, reportedly at $500M valuation
Handy Raises $50M Led By Fidelity, Reportedly At $500M Valuation, To Clean Up In Home Services — There has been consolidation, collapse and other troubles among some on-demand home services startups...
Jawbone Files Countersuit Against Fitbit In “Frivolous” Patent Infringement Case
The war continues apace in the world of wearable fitness trackers. Jawbone — which makes fitness trackers, speakers and Bluetooth headsets — has filed a counterclaim against Fitbit in a patent infrin...
Sources: Square to set IPO price range this week, start trading the week before Thanksgiving
Square IPO roadshow to begin next week: Sources — Financial services startup, Square is slated to set its IPO price range this week according to sources familiar with the matter.
Profile of TransferWise, a rapidly growing London-based p2p international money transfer startup, valued at $1B and backed by a16z, Peter Thiel, others
The inside story of TransferWise — London's hottest ‘unicorn’ — TransferWise became London's highest profile startup in January …
Why adaptive learning software is seeing increased adoption in US schools and colleges and may completely replace textbooks
Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Should we welcome it? — Eighteen students file into a brightly lit classroom.
How QVC became the fifth-largest US mobile retailer on the strength of its digital strategy
QVC: The unlikely juggernaut of mobile shopping — WEST CHESTER, PA. — In Control Room A at QVC's 58,000-square-foot studios, line producer Sean Hagan is perched behind five computer screens … Tweets...
CEO: After Alibaba's investment, India's PayTM plans to spend $764M over three years to expand through mobile sales, payments, services like banking, insurance
India's Alibaba-backed PayTM plots $755m 3-year expansion — PayTM, the Indian payments start-up supported by Alibaba of China …
EU opens antitrust investigation into Hutchison's $14B O2 acquisition in UK
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A look at China's fast-growing online B2B marketplaces like Zhaogang and Molbase, serving fragmented steel, chemical, and other industries
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Line gained just 7M monthly active users in the last six months as it fails to catch on outside core markets of Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia
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Hands-on: Facebook M, powered by humans, excels at carrying out real-world tasks, unlike pure AI virtual assistants like Siri or Cortana
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Application performance management company AppDynamics has raised $83.4M of a $150M financing round, according to an SEC filing
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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