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CrunchGear  about an hour ago:

Postmaster Raises $600K Seed Round To Expand Its Smart Shipping API, Partners With Lone Star Overnight -

Postmaster, an Austin-based startup that aims to simplify shipping and parcel tracking through an easy to use REST API, launched earlier this year and today, the company announced that it has raised a seed investment round of $600,000 led by Capital Factory, Cloud Power and Zelkova Ventures, as well as a consortium of angel investors.
CrunchGear  about an hour ago:

Personal Profile Page Startup About.me Is Ready To Take Your Money With New Premium Service, Plans For Wefollow Integration -

About.me, the online identity platform that spun out from Aol* at the beginning of the year before acquiring the one-time Digg spinout Wefollow, is now lifting the curtains on its plans to generate revenue, with today’s debut of About.
CrunchGear  just under two hours ago:

Live Blog: Live From The Reveal Of Microsoft's Next-Generation Xbox -

It's Xbox day! Almost exactly 8 years after the announcement of the Xbox 360, Microsoft is back with another one.
CrunchGear  2 hours ago:

Meet Agent, A Smartwatch With A Second Processor For Minimizing Power Consumption And Wireless Charging -

Smart watches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recently year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers in San Francisco which I attended last week, there's at least a passionate niche audience for the things.
CrunchGear  2 hours ago:

Brow.si Is An Add-On And Platform That Wants To Put The Engagement Fight Back Into The Mobile Web -

Today Brow.si, a new product from MySiteApp, is launching in open beta as an add-on for mobile websites that promises to bring a host of features to rival the engagement of native apps.
CrunchGear  3 hours ago:

TeamSnap Online Sports Management Platform Acquires Weplay For An Undisclosed Amount -

TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents and coaches to help facilitate coordination for events, games, practices, etc.
CrunchGear  3 hours ago:

With $15M From Omidyar And 35M+ Users, Change.org Wants To Prove Socially-Minded Business Can Attract Big Numbers -

Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling social action platform, but, over the last year, that changed dramatically.
CrunchGear  4 hours ago:

Burstly Debuts Its Testing-To-Revenue Restructure, Opens SkyRocket Monetization To All -

Burstly's grand vision coming out of its TestFlight acquisition is getting full reveal today with the announcement of the company's new corporate structure, which rebrands Burstly's monetization tools as SkyRocket, and opens them up to all mobile developers and publishers with a new self-serve option, whereas previously they'd been accessible only to the biggest fish in the app ecosystem pond.
CrunchGear  4 hours ago:

3 Mindbending Ways Apple Dodged $13.8B In Taxes -

Kudos to Apple's finance lawyers, who are the Cirque Du Soleil of legal contortionism. On the eve of live testimony from CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Phillip Bullock, head of Apple's tax operations, a scathing congressional investigation of Apple's tax dodging strategy reveals how the computer giant avoided $13.
CrunchGear  5 hours ago:

New U.K. Edtech Entity To Spend Up To $77M Acquiring European E-Learning Firms Over Next 18 Months To Build Regional Giant -

Expect a swathe of consolidation in the European e-learning sector in the coming months. Edxus Group, a new London-based corporate operating edtech company, is planning to plough in €50-60 million ($64-$77m) over the next 18 months to develop and acquire European e-learning businesses and build out a single regional player with the scale to compete against U.