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Rad, A Parisian Hipster Fashion Portal, Gets $3.3M Led By Index To Go International -
Because fashion never goes out of style, fashion portals continue to bring in the money not just from consumers looking for the next big thing -- be it style or bargain, and ideally both -- but also investors keen to ride the wave.CrunchGear 4 hours ago:
LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking -
LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to "a DNS issue."CrunchGear 6 hours ago:
Rocket Internet's Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The “Amazon Of Southeast Asia” -
Lazada, the e-commerce site founded by Rocket Internet in a bid to build the "Amazon of Southeast Asia," announced today that it has landed another $100 million from returning investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Kinnevik Investment AB, Summit Partners and Tengelmann Group, as well as new investor, Belgian-based family-owned investment holding company Verlinvest.CrunchGear 10 hours ago:
30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seasteading Venture, Blueseed -
As has been written ad nauseam, we've seen a lot of activity in the wild and whacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to the tech industry's new obsession with Bitcoin.CrunchGear 10 hours ago:
EMC Acquires Israeli Storage Startup ScaleIO For $200M-$300M To Compete Better With The Cloud Kings -
Palo Alto-based ScaleIO is one of a new generation of startup storage providers that's using intelligent software to help big companies streamline and converge their data storage operations at scale, across thousands of servers.CrunchGear 11 hours ago:
Why Makerbot Is Like Apple -
When we first discovered that Makerbot was looking to partner with Stratsys I was a bit non-plussed. Makerbot, as I've noted before, has a certain indie cred that makes this move a bit unpalatable.CrunchGear 11 hours ago:
Well Done, Microsoft -
The reveal of the Xbox One didn't go as Microsoft hoped. Gamers loved the system, but hated the absurd restrictions placed on the games.CrunchGear 12 hours ago:
Microsoft Heeds Gamer Feedback, Dumps Xbox One DRM Restrictions -
Attention gamers: you win. The folks at Redmond infuriated many when it revealed that the Xbox One would come with a long list of potential caveats -- there was the automated 24 hour check-in to keep the console in playable condition, and the restrictions on who you could share disc-based games with, not to mention the fact that it would shipped region-locked.CrunchGear 12 hours ago:
Twitter Acquires Local Discovery Startup Spindle, Will End Spindle Service -
Twitter acquired Spindle, an app for local discovery, today. The Spindle team will move to San Francisco and shutter the Spindle app.CrunchGear 14 hours ago:
