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TechCrunchIT  19 hours ago:

IZettle Takes Its Mobile Payment Service To Mexico, Its First Market Outside Of Europe, And One Step Closer To Square -

iZettle, the mobile payments company that has been described as a European version of Square, is today making a move that puts it one national boundary away from the U.
TechCrunchIT  less than a day ago:

GitHub Rolling Out Major Redesign, Emphasis On Speed, Content And Interactivity -

GitHub is rolling out a major redesign over the next few days with the intent of putting more emphasis on content, speed and interactivity.
TechCrunchIT  less than a day ago:

Norway Cloud Service Touts NSA-Free Storage As Alternative To Dropbox, SkyDrive And Other U.S. Services -

Jottacloud, a cloud storage service based in Norway, is promoting itself as a safe and secure haven, free of the NSA's long reach that it has with services such as SkyDrive, Dropbox and iCloud.
TechCrunchIT  less than a day ago:

Disconnect, An Ex-Googler's Social Enterprise/Privacy Startup, Raises $3.5M, Extends To More Browsers -

As we continue to see more details brought to light in how the government requests and uses information about what we do on the web and on our mobile devices, an ex-Googler and a consumer rights attorney, who have dedicated themselves to helping users remain private, have raised some funding to do this better and in more places.
TechCrunchIT  3 days ago:

Speed And Automating The Connections Between Humans And Machines In The API Economy -

This coming Friday night, I’ll be at the API Days conference in San Francisco to talk for a few minutes about my perspectives of the API economy.

TechCrunchIT  4 days ago:

Elastic Path Raises $8M For Commerce Everywhere API Platform -

Elastic Path has raised an $8 million debt round to fuel the development of its "commerce everywhere," API -- a hypermedia platform that abstracts backend complexity for the front-end developer and business person.
TechCrunchIT  5 days ago:

PiCloud Is A Model Cloud Made Of Raspberry Pi & LEGO For Teaching Students About Web Platforms -

Here's another interesting implementation of the $35 Raspberry Pi microcromputer -- or rather a stack of 56 Pis, linked together to form a model web platform called PiCloud, using LEGO bricks as bespoke racks for the Pi stacks.
TechCrunchIT  5 days ago:

GoodData Raises $22M From Latin America's Largest Enterprise Software Company -

GoodData has raised $22 million in a Series D round, with funding led by Sao-Paulo-based TOTVS Ventures, the investment arm of TOTVS S.
TechCrunchIT  6 days ago:

GitHub Adds Maps To Give A View Of A Developer's Geodata -

The ability to visualize geodata as a map is the latest feature GitHub is offering developers. The new capability adds to GitHub's family of visualization tools that now includes the ability to render 3D models on the code-collaboration platform.
TechCrunchIT  6 days ago:

Encap Raises $2M For A Mobile ID App As An Alternative Two-Factor Authentication -

As high-profile sites like Twitter, Google, and most recently Evernote and LinkedIn turn to two-factor authentication to help their users protect themselves from malicious hackers and security breaches, Encap, a startup based out of Norway, has created an alternative it says is better and safer, using an app on a person's mobile device.