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  • Tinggal, a budget hotel network in Indonesia, lands $1M from backers of India’s Wudstay  Indonesia-based Tinggal is less than one month old, but today the company announced that it has raised $1 million in funding. Particularly of interest is the fact that this financing has come from the investors and members of the executive team behind India-based Wudstay, a budget hotel network tha...
  • Korean last-minute hotel booking app DailyHotel launches in 10 new countries  DailyHotel, a Seoul-based app that lets harried travelers quickly find hotel rooms, has launched in 10 new Asian countries. The startup was founded in 2013 by brothers Ryan and Jimmy Shin after Ryan struggled to find a last-minute hotel room in Seoul. It has raised more than $10 million from Sequoi...
  • Mobile ad-tech startup NativeX acquired by Chinese advertising company Mobvista
  • Can Emerging Nations Create Their Own Silicon Valleys?
  • Apple vs FBI: Read Apple’s Opening Statement To Congress Tomorrow
  • Buffer Adds Twitter-Based Customer Service Tools
  • Innovations In Cybersecurity At RSA 2016
  • Is Singularity Near?
  • Why Facebook Hosted 200+ African-American Stude
  • NY Judge Rules In Favor Of Apple In Government Request For iPhone Data  In a New York case, Judge Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Read More
  • Meet The Judges For The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off In Brooklyn Tomorrow Night!  Did I mention we’re having a pitch-off in Brooklyn tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and tickets are still available, which you can buy here. But what is a pitch-off? Well, ten companies have been selected to show off their wares on our stage. They wi...
  • GoPro Spends 20% Of Its Cash On Hand To Acquire Two Video Editing Startups
  • Gmail Gets Improved Security Features For Business Users
  • INNOVATE2016: CTA President Gary Shapiro On Marco Rubio As Silicon Valley’s Best Hope
  • Crosley’s First Direct Drive Turntable Doesn’t Disappoint
  • Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Into A Minor Accident While The AI Was Driving
  • Machine Learning Is Not The Answer To Better Network Security
  • IBM Adds Post-Cyber Attack Planning With Resilient
  • A New, Standardized Way For Employees To Keep Their Vested Stock Options Longer  Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who remain trapped unless their employers eventually go public or else sell to an acquirer in a cash deal. The problem centers on the option plan structure that startups use. Owing to a decades-old tax provision, employees have to e...
  • CornerJob Fires Up Its Blue-Collar Jobs Marketplace App With $10M Series A  Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Read More
  • Facebook’s Private Photo-Sharing App Moments Now Supports Video
  • Israeli Investment Firms receive $665 Million In Commitments In February
  • MongoLab Changes Its Name To mLab As It looks Beyond Database Management
  • Square Cash’s Fast Payments App Can Now Hold A Balance
  • The HTC Vive Ships April 5, Pre-Orders Open Now
  • Castle Is A Property Management Platform From The Future
  • More Than Meets The Virtual Eye
  • Twitter Ended Up Paying $479M For Ad Tech Startup TellApart, 10-K Reveals  Twitter’s largest acquisition to date, of the ad tech business TellApart, has turned out to be a little less less big than originally thought. Back in April 2015, it was calculated that Twitter would pay nearly $533 million for TellApart based on the company’s share price at the time. But a 10-K re...
  • Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation  You know Kung-Fu. Researchers at HRL Laboratories have discovered that when you use transcranial direct current stimulation to send the brain activity of commercial and military pilots into the heads of novice pilots subjects can essentially learn to fly in a realistic flight simulator. The researc...
  • Google Maps Brings Its “Add A Pit Stop” Feature To iOS
  • Draft Text Of EU-US Privacy Shield Deal Fails To Impress The Man Who Slayed Safe Harbor
  • Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield Applications Close Today, Why You Should Apply Now
  • Dashlane Brings YubiKey Support To Its Password Manager
  • Microsoft Launches Pre-Orders For $3,000 HoloLens Development Kit, Will Start Shipping March 30
  • Nominations For The 2016 Europas Awards Now Open, TechCrunch Partners
  • Hopscotch, E-Commerce For Mums In India, Lands $13M Led By Facebook Co-Founder Saverin

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