Rakuten CEO On The $100M Pinterest Round: We Want Pinterest Users To Pin Images And Buy Using Our ID
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Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, valuing the company at $1.5 billion, will be making two major c... read more
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In an effort to streamline its digital offerings, The Weather Channel has today announced that its popular iPhone app has undergone a major redesign. ... read more
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Heroku was a hit with Ruby developers because it was an easy-to-use development platform. Others have tried to do the same with other languages such a... read more
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There's been a lot of armchair valuation punditry across the Valley this week. As the Facebook IPO looms, our intricately entwined ecosystem of startu... read more
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There's a new product that just came out of Disney Interactive Labs - a video portal for clips, movie trailers, and even a collection of curated YouTu... read more
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Search engine ranking startup Positionly has secured $300,000 seed funding from Berlin-based led by seed VC Point Nine Capital and joined by Angels Ma... read more
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Almost 115 million households in the U.S. currently own at least one TV set and 36 million own four or more. That's a huge market and as Apple, Google... read more
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No one ever called a limit on the number pivots a company can do, right? So here's the latest at a company we've been watching for a while now. RAVN, ... read more
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It's hard to underestimate how important ranking in Apple's top 25 in the iTunes store is for mobile app developers. After all, the top 25 is probably... read more
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Customers of Time Warner Cable have some reason to rejoice today, as the cable company has gotten the go-ahead to add channels like MTV, VH1, and Come... read more
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Is link shortener Bitly raising $20 million in new funding? The Verge says it is. In response to my email, a company spokesperson denied The Verge's s... read more
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The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Apple is currently ordering larger screens for the next iPhone. With the usual nonsense, the WSJ ci... read more