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CirculeUp launches its crowdfunding platform for consumer products companies
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Today, CircleUp launched its crowdfunding platform into the market and announced $1.5 million in funding from Maveron, David Topper, and other angel investors. CircleUp has built a platform that will provide deal flow between individual, accredited investors, and consumer products companies. Firms that have revenues between $1 and 5 million will be eligible to...
Chute takes on fresh funds to grow its cloud-based photo platform for apps and brands
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Today Chute, a Y-Combinator company that provides a bolt-on photo solution to brands and developers, announced that it has taken on a new round of funding, led by Freestyle Capital. Other ventures firms taking part in the round include Battery Ventures and USVP. In totality, including these new monies, along with early...
Russian record labels say Samsung and Nokia break the law, owe them $41m
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A group of 14 Russian record labels and music publishing firms are claiming that phone manufacturers Nokia and Samsung, among others, have been breaking their country’s laws since 2010, prompting them to threaten the boycotting of the companies and taking the matter to court. The copyright holders, backed by their...
Kauffman Foundation: The venture capital model is ‘broken’
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In the technology press we hear much more about the disbursement of venture capital funds than we do how those monies were originally raised by the firm that is now releasing them. Of course, a huge fund raise will generate a few headlines, but it’s far sexier to talk about...
Groupon, the SEC, haters, and what the future may bring
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I’ve been hard on Groupon in the last few weeks for a number of reasons. Its accounting mistakes, coupled with its continued losses, multiplied by its declining stock price have made the company something of an easy target, and one that hitting has felt appropriate. However, this short post is...
Could You – Should You – Fund Your Startup With Credit Cards?
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When it comes to financing a brand-new startup, most founders find themselves stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. While some lucky startups attract angel investors or have access to money from friends and family, the vast majority are on their own, at least at first. That’s why...
Sub-100m revenue companies are having more successful IPOs than their big-ledger counterparts
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Recently, TNW brought you findings from a study indicating that if you are a technology firm that wishes to go public, the key requirement is revenues over $100 million. That report noted that recently, profits have become less important than gross receipts as a standard for when a company can...
About face: AT&T Lumia 900 launch budget not $150 million after all
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We heard rumbles of this last night, but this morning The Verge has it cold: AdAge’s story that AT&T planned to spend up to $150 million launching the nascent Lumia 900 is incorrect. Instead, it notes, the sum will be essentially a normal figure for a high-level smartphone debut. Our...
Usage data indicates that Nokia's Lumia smartphones could boost Windows Phone's app ecosystem
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Nokia could be boosting the larger Windows Phone community, a new study indicates. Executed by Nokia itself, the survey learned that owners of the company’s Lumia 900 handset buy more apps than is normal, in terms of total downloads and dollars spent. Average monthly app spend among Lumia 900 owners...
Rangers season ticket monies used to pay off debt to Lloyds
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• Rangers season ticket monies used to pay Lloyds• Whyte: I regret now not [being] more transparentRangers' administrators have confirmed the sale of future season ticket monies was used to repay an £18m debt to the Lloyds Banking Group as part of Craig Whyte's takeover of the club.Whyte paid £1...
Lyst Raises a $5M. Series A, Looks to Work on Its Back End
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Mr. Morton. They grow up so fast, don't they? Local social shopping site Lyst, which launched April 2011, has just raised a $5 million Series A. Led by London-based DFJ Esprit, with Accel Partners, Alex Zubillaga and Venrex participating, the round will allow Lyst to staff up and work on building out its back...
Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by switching to selling tickets himself
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Comedian Louis C.K. made the technology world turn his direction when he decided to sell his latest comedy special himself, digitally, and DRM free. It was a smashing success. The $5 download proved a fresh model for artists in the broadband age. Louis has again taken to task an entrenched...
The new iPad is for gaming
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The new iPad, third generation, iPad 3, whatever you call it, is a serious gaming machine. For some games, it even rivals a console like the Playstation 3. We’re going to see more and more gaming done on the iPad in the months to come. And we’re going to...
Real estate virtualization provider Real5D takes on $1.2 million
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Real5D, a company that provides a tool that allows for real estate to be virtualized, and then toured, has raised $1.2 million in a round led by DoubleRock Venture Capital. According to its release, the company intends to use monies to invest in product development and marketing. Real5D has yet to take...
Mystery email charges that TalkTalk won't refund
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A fee for email on top of broadband fluctuated for no apparent reason – and continued after provider changed its policyWhen I signed up to AOL Broadband in 2007 I was told the existing email address that I had, which I set up through a dial-up account about four years...
Things I Don’t Understand: The 2010 US Census
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It’s all over the place lately – the television ads, the billboards, the radio ads…it’s the 2010 US Census. That’s right – it seems you can’t consume any media without hearing, “We can’t move forward until you mail it back…2010 census.” All I can think when I hear the jingle is,...
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