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Houzz Raises $165M Series D Funding Round Led By Sequoia To Fuel International Expansion
Houzz, the fast-growing home-remodeling site, today announced that it has raised a $165 million Series D round led by Sequoia Capital, one of its early backers. Existing investors Oren Zeev, New Enterprise Associates, GGV Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & … Continue reading
Yahoo Tests A New Homepage Highlighting Magazines, Talent… And Twitter
For the past year or so, Yahoo has been working through a major design overhaul under CEO Marissa Mayer, and it looks like it has now started testing out new formats for its biggest property of all, Yahoo.com. From the … Continue reading
StoreDot Charges Up With $42M For Its Fast-Charging Bio-Organic Batteries
Israeli startup StoreDot, which is developing quantum dot-utilizing fast-charging smartphone battery technology, among other things, has closed a $42 million Series B funding round. It pitches its bio-organic nano-crystal technology as an enabler for faster charging batteries and also a … Continue reading
Rowl Raises $4M To Help You Find The Heart Of Saturday Night (Or Any Night)
Is your inbox cluttered with too many messages from clubs in your area notifying for all the shows coming up, but not the RIGHT shows coming up? Can you never figure out when the hell that band that plays that … Continue reading
Estate Assist Wants To Provide Estate Planning For The Social Media Age
Contemplating the end of life freaks me out and as such, I’ve never put together a will. But then I’m young, healthy and I don’t own much so I can’t say I’ve felt the need to. Most Americans don’t actually. … Continue reading
Eve Raises $2.3M To Rethink Programming
While everybody in the tech industry seems to be trying to make programming easier to pick up, most of the efforts that have popped up either repackage the concepts found in existing languages or boil down the logic programmers use … Continue reading
LinkedIn Flexes Its Search Engine Muscle, Adds College-Finding Tools For Students
Last year, LinkedIn widened the net for potential users when it started to allow high schoolers to join its social network for professionals, and today it’s launching a clutch of features that it hopes will get them to stick around a … Continue reading
YC’s Altman Thinks Reddit’s Community Ownership Experiment Could Be A Model
The thought of using crypto-currencies to back shares of a company first crossed Y Combinator head Sam Altman’s mind about two years ago. “It was an idle thought that popped into my head,” he said. “It was not until Reddit reached out to me about … Continue reading
U.S. Secretary of Energy Presents IHS Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin with the First “James R. Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security”
Dateline City: WASHINGTON WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz today presented the first James R. Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security to Dr. Daniel Yergin, IHS Vice Chairman and Pulitzer Prize-Winning energy expert, in a ceremony at the U.S. … Continue reading
Apple’s iPad Update Plans Could Put Gold First And Offer 12.9″ Model For 2015
Apple could add gold to the menu for the next version of the 9.7-inch iPad Air, according to Bloomberg, and then introduce a 12.9-inch version of its tablet next year. This is in line with rumors we’ve heard from Bloomberg … Continue reading