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'Invisible Girlfriend' Startup Provides Fake Love For A Price
If you're having trouble in the dating game and dread those judgmental looks from friends and family, you can now fake it for a monthly price.
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The Battle For The Connected Home Is Heating Up
With the emergence of connected devices, the entire home is being reinvented as a data product, opening great opportunities to entrepreneurs. A whole new generation of startups is rushing in. Nest, with its beautifully-designed home products, has become the poster child for this phenomenon, but many others are producing exciting new connected devices and platforms, at an outstanding pace.
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Coin Wants to Fix the Way We Pay — But Is It Really Broken?
A Coin is the same length and width as a standard credit card, and it’s nearly as narrow. But inside, you’ll find paper-thin circuitry that lets you spend money associated with all the cards that sit in your wallet today. With a nearly flat button, you can toggle among your many digital card signatures, and a tiny screen tells you which card the Coin is currently mimicking.
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Snapchat lawsuit tells a common tale: A start-up can have its Winklevosses
In the spring of 2011, Reggie Brown was a junior at Stanford when he approached a friend with an idea: an ephemeral text-messaging service that would delete photos automatically, seconds after they were received. The friend, Evan Spiegel, allegedly replied, “That’s a million-dollar idea,” and the two decided to recruit a third partner and build it.
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Yahoo buys SkyPhrase to better understand natural language
Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase, a natural language processing startup, in a move that could improve Yahoo’s ability to make sense of user queries and commands across any number of Yahoo products. Terms of the deal, which was announced Monday, were not disclosed. SkyPhrase’s team has joined Yahoo’s Labs business unit in New York City, a Yahoo spokeswoman said.
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Most ridiculous start up ideas that became successful
See how exactly today's hot companies began with ideas that seemed outrageously ridiculous.
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3D print a pizza with the foodini kitchen appliance
barcelona-based start-up natural machines has developed the 'foodini' kitchen appliance that brings 3D printing into the home.
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Hundreds of Start-Ups Hope to Be a Copycat Start-Up
Pitches for new start-ups seeking investment on entrepreneurial and venture capital websites are often copycats. with a slight twist, of already successful companies.
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Meet The Startup That's Going To Make Eggs (Yes, Eggs) Obsolete
San Francisco-based Hampton Creek is one of those companies. It's trying to replace eggs with a plant-based substitute that's cheaper, but just as tasty and just as good for you. It's backed by Bill Gates, Peter Thiel (who co-founded PayPal, was an early investor in Facebook), and Khosla Ventures.
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How Snapchat's First Investor Found Snapchat Before Anyone Else
It's a good thing Jeremy Liew met Barack Obama...
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Snapchat Files For A Restraining Order, Accuses Ousted Founder Of Leaking Confidential Court Docs
Snapchat has filed for a temporary restraining order against Reggie Brown, the man who claims to have invented the idea for disappearing messages...
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How Matternet Wants To Bring Drone Delivery To The People Who Need It Most
A Silicon Valley startup Matternet has been developing drone delivery technology for several years now. The company’s co-founder and CEO Andreas Raptopoulos’ TED talk from this past summer about the potential to use small drones for delivery purposes has garnered more than 200,000 views since it was posted online last month — and perhaps helped to inspire Bezos himself
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Snapchat confirms $50 million in new funding
Snapchat raises $50 million in Series C funding.
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Here’s Digg founder Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
Digg founder, Google Ventures partner, and Web personality Kevin Rose has a new blogging platform idea called Tiny. He published a prototype video on YouTube today which offers a glimpse into his thinking. In his mind, the idea would be to allow readers to get a glimpse at the author’s world as they’re “writing it”.
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Amazon Has Bought Square Competitor GoPago
Looks like Amazon has acquired mobile payments startup GoPago for an undisclosed sum, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Vincenzo Di Nicola, Italian native and GoPago's cofounder and CTO, talked to La Repubblica, as first noticed by TechCrunch's Ingrid Lunden.
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Start-Up Spirit Emerges in Japan
The 20-somethings in jeans sipping espresso and tapping on laptops at this Tokyo business incubator would look more at home in Silicon Valley than in Japan, where for years the surest signs of success were the gray suits of its corporate salarymen. But for those hoping the nation’s latest economic plan will drag Japan from its long malaise, the young men and women here at Samurai Startup Island represent a crucial component: a revival of entrepreneurship.
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Meet the workspace designer for Dropbox, Instagram, and other internet startups
Lauren Geremia has designed interior office spaces for US technology startups including Dropbox, Instagram, and Hightail (formerly known as YouSendIt.) She founded her firm, Geremia Design, in 2010 to change the way employers think about office design. Geremia, 31, says the increased attention that companies, especially tech startups, are paying to workplace design is indicative of new incentives for employees: The work environment has become an extension of one’s compensation.
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How Snapchat Became The Breakout Consumer Product Of 2013
Last year, as 2012 ended, I scanned the early-stage startup landscape and tried to identify one company that was a breakout for the year — I ultimately selected Stripe, and explained why. I liked the thought-exercise so much I decided to do it again this year, and it didn’t take much deliberation to choose Snapchat — in my personal opinion, the clear breakout consumer product of 2013.
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The Best Startup Offices From 2013
These new offices of 2013 are the foundations for dreams. If you’re someone whose work environment dictates their productivity, these offices will put you into overdrive.
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Neetzan Zimmerman to leave Gawker
Gawker viral content mastermind Neetzan Zimmerman is leaving the company for social network startup Whisper, he told Capital on Friday. Zimmerman will be the editor in chief of the social secret-sharing app that has recently been attracting tens of millions of dollars from investors.
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