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Funding Daily: A case of the Mondays -
There wasn't much big news today in the tech world today, but the deals kept flowing. Surprisingly, our most popular funding story of the day happened to be the smallest deal -- people just can't get enough of privacy solutions ahead of the NSA data snooping controversy.
S.F. Mayor Ed Lee says mid-Market St. ‘thriving’ because of Twitter -
The mayor San Francisco says 1,826 tech companies are in San Francisco, and he hopes more of them move to Twitter's neighborhood.
NASA selects its newest space explorers — and half are women -
NASA today announced its 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class, drawing upon a pool of 6,000 candidates.
RetailMeNot files for IPO and shows there is big money in coupons -
RetailMeNot, "the world's largest digital coupon marketplace," filed for a proposed initial public offering.
Why the half-life of a Pinterest pin is thousands of times longer than a tweet or Facebook post -
"Sure, you get 70 percent of your clicks in the first two days," Pinquora CEO Shara Verma told me last week.
Keaton Row rescues fashion victims by connecting them with personal stylists online -
Keaton Row is a fashion startup reigning in the "future of personal styling" with an online, affordable process that has customers spending 7x the average e-commerce customer, and coming back for more.
This tiny Raspberry Pi trojan horse could be a cute little backdoor into your corporate network -
You gotta love security geeks -- they can make it so easy for you. At least, if you're a black hat hacker.
Medivo raises $15M to bridge gap between patients and physicians -
Health startup Medivo has raised $15 million to expand its health monitoring platform that connects doctors, consumers, and clinical labs.
Automattic acquihires mobile WordPress app Poster -
Poster, an app that allows you to post articles on WordPress from you iOS device, has been acquired by WordPress.
Google’s Chromebooks could finally get their big break in Walmart and Staples stores -
Targeting the back-to-school shopping rush, Google announced today that its Chromebook computers will soon be headed to even more major retail stores.
