Weddingful Raises Funding as Startups Question Daily Wedding Deals
The Groupon model has been applied to many niche industries: yoga, moms, and travel to name a few. But while Pinterest has…
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Despite Delays, Raspberry Pi Poised to Disrupt Industries
Raspberry Pi Foundation director Eben Upton wasn’t expecting the kind of demand that his $25 (or $35, if you want networking)…
ContactMonkey Secures $800K for Address Book Solution
ContactMonkey announced this week that they’ve secured an $800,000 round of seed funding from Plazacorp Ventures and…
BrandYourself Raises $1.2M for Personal SEO Tool
SEO can seem like a complicated affair that the average person can’t do themselves, and a lot of high-cost personal brand…
Wanderfly Launches Version 2.0 of Social Travel Tool
Social travel discovery site Wanderfly is debuting its new version 2.0 site at Launch today, which extends the site’s…
Instaprint Launching Location-Based Instagram Photo Booth
Apps like PopBooth have tried to capitalize on the nostalgia associated with photo booths, and digital photo booths have popped…
Pow/Wow and Branch Launch to Power Social Conversations
Pow/Wow, a new NYC-based startup that launched a public alpha of its product this week, is designed to make moving from sharing…
SessionM Enters the In-App Rewards Battle
Today mobile marketing startup SessionM came out of stealth mode, revealing its plan to help drive engagement within apps through…
Science Inc.’s Dollar Shave Club Raises $1M for Razor Delivery
Science Inc., the incubator founded by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones that launched last year with $10 million in funding, is…
Jumio Raises $25M, Turns Webcams Into ID Readers
Jumio, the startup that made it possible to pay via webcam, is announcing a new Series B funding round of $25 million, led…
Social News Reader Smartr Shutting Down
Smartr, the social news reading service launched in October of 2011, will be shutting its doors as its creators focus their…
IP-Focused Startups Ask What an Idea’s Worth
There are a lot of businesses out there based around the big idea of ideas, but each takes a considerably different approach…
Square Launches Register to Simplify Point-of-Sale Systems
In talking to mobile payments startups recently, one thing became evident: integrating with the existing point-of-sale (POS)…
Foursquare Co-Founder Departs Amid Talk of Changes
Over the weekend, GigaOM’s Om Malik broke the news that Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is departing the company…
The Coursebook Wants to Become "Pandora for Learning"
Education is a busy space for startups right now, with online tools like Planboard introducing its lesson planning tool for…