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MiniLuxe Brings Its High-Tech Beauty Salons Nationwide With $23M In New Funding
Software may be busy eating the world, but for the founders of the MiniLuxe chain of beauty salons the process is more about using technologies to shape nails (and the nail-care industry) than it is about biting them. Read More
Google Voice Finally Supports MMS On AT&T, Sprint, And Nearly 100 Other Carriers
If you’ve ever tried to receive a picture message with your Google Voice number, you might’ve noticed something rather crucial: it… probably didn’t work. For the most part, MMS heading into the service would just vanish into the ether. No … Continue reading
See Benchmark’s Peter Fenton And Software’s Hottest Container Store, Docker, Onstage At Disrupt Europe
Peter Fenton is one of the hardest-working investors in venture capital and his latest portfolio company Docker has taken the enterprise software world by storm — and there’s no better opportunity to get insights from Fenton and Docker Chief Executive … Continue reading
Social Networks And Directories Main Target Of European Search De-Listing Requests
Some interesting data has been released today by the Forget.me service, regarding Europe’s so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling. The data suggests most requests for de-listing personal information focus on the parochial targets of social media sites and directory websites, … Continue reading
Apple Patents Flexible Display Input Methods
Apple has patented a way for a computing device to pick up input when a flexible display is bent or reshaped in some way, according to a new filing published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider). The patent details a … Continue reading
BloomNation, A Marketplace For Local Florists, Raises $5.6 Million Series A
BloomNation, a Santa Monica-based startup offering florists and floral designers a platform for running their business online, as well as a marketplace that connects florists and consumers, has now closed on $5.55 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Ronny … Continue reading
Ambi Climate Gives Any Air Conditioner Nest-Like Powers
Ambi Climate wants to democratize smart home climate control with a device that brings learning climate management to standalone window air conditioner units, central air systems, freestanding systems or the single room machines more common in Europe and Asia, so … Continue reading
Salesforce Introduces Interactive Mobile Customer Service And Gives Core CRM A Makeover
Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s conference extravaganza, is coming next week, and Salesforce has some big announcements ahead of their showcase starting with an update to their core CRM product, now known as Sales Cloud 1 and their customer service piece, now known … Continue reading
Jobvite Lands Another $25M For Its Recruitment-As-Marketing Analytics Platform
Jobvite — a recruitment platform visited by more then 35 million people in the last year, which lets companies post job openings and then disseminate and monitor how those job vacancy alerts perform across other sites and recruitment services — is today announcing that it has … Continue reading
IBM Sees Salvation In Watson’s New York Home
Armed with $1 billion in financing, an unprecedented degree of autonomy within IBM, and an entire Manhattan city block, IBM launched its media blitz to show the world its vision of a future enhanced and enabled by Watson, its artificial … Continue reading