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ThousandEyes Raises $5.5M From Sequoia, Launches With Service That Pinpoints Problems For How Apps Are Delivered -

ThousandEyes has raised $5..5 million from Sequoia Capital and angel investors for a service that pinpoints application issues between the enterprise and cloud services.
TechCrunch  about an hour ago:

Tred Launches Its On-Demand Test Drive Service In Seattle -

Tred, which hopes to provide a service that’s like “Uber for car test drives,” is finally launching its service to the public.
TechCrunch  just under two hours ago:

ScribbleLive Raises $8M To Continue Its Real-Time Media Content Push -

ScribbleLive, from Toronto-based Scribble Media, was once nearly synonymous with the term "live blogging," but you'd be hard-pressed to find reference to that term on its site now.
TechCrunch  3 hours ago:

TripAdvisor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel Info -

Travel portal TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information on airports, weather, and flights.
TechCrunch  4 hours ago:

ERN Raises Further $1.6M To Use Big Data To Help Banks And Merchants Push Loyalty-Based Offers -

BIG DATA costs big bucks. Perhaps then, it should be no surprise to see ERN, the London-based startup that's planning to use Big Data to enable banks and merchants to create loyalty-based offers for cardholders, has announced that it’s raised more funding before actually managing to launch.
TechCrunch  7 hours ago:

Netflix Will Launch In The Netherlands Later This Year As Its International Expansion Slows -

Netflix has announced that it will begin operating in The Netherlands later this year, further expanding its European footprint.
TechCrunch  8 hours ago:

Ooyala Sets Up R&D Center In Singapore To Chase Mobile Audiences In Asia -

Video services provider Ooyala is setting up an R&D operations in Singapore, and is hiring researchers and data scientists for the facility.
TechCrunch  9 hours ago:

Teambox Adds High-Definition Video Conferencing, Market Looks for Deeper Collaboration -

Teambox has added high-definition video conferencing, adding to a list of providers that are adding video to their collaboration platforms.
TechCrunch  9 hours ago:

Fab Grabs $150M At $1B Valuation (And Is Raising Another $100M+ More) -

Design-focused commerce company Fab has raised that round of funding we scooped a few months ago. Fab is announcing today that it has raised $150 million in the first tranche of the company's Series D round of financing.
TechCrunch  10 hours ago:

Startup-PR Matchmaker AirPR Opens To The Public, As Data Begins To Reveal How To Fix A Broken Model -

For pretty much as long as anyone can remember, a relationship triangle, or a "love triangle" if you will, has taken shape between companies and the PR firms that represent them and the press that covers them -- existing in some sort of recursive loop.