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FiftyThree raises $15M to unleash your creativity with Paper -
FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app that Apple named 2012 iPad App of the Year. It has raised $15 million deal led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz.
Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says -
Chomsky makes at least one pretty significant mistake, however. He said that Google Glass has a camera and a recorder, "which means that everything that's going on around you goes up on the Internet.
CareCloud raises $20M to vanquish ‘walking dead’ and ‘dinosaurs’ of health IT -
CareCloud offers cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) software that helps doctors improve patient care, increase collections, and streamline operations.
Why your insurance company wants to be ‘friends’ on social media -
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Basil Enan is the CEO and founder of CoverHound.
To car insurance companies you’re a number.
Smart Scaling: How to get actionable advice from your board to kickstart growth -
Sponsored Post Advisory boards can be invaluable. They can also be unbearable. But either way, you can leverage their networks and knowledge to grow your business.
NSA chief: we do not ‘unilaterally’ obtain data from Google, Facebook, Microsoft servers -
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, and Apple might breathe a little easier today. Their denials of working with the NSA's PRISM program to turn over huge quantities of customer data over to the secretive U.
Parakweet raises $2M to give you data-driven book recommendations -
Parakweet's core product Bookvibe combines natural language processing and social media analytics to surface the books that are right for you.
Elon Musk plans Tesla battery swapping tech demo June 20 -
Electric car company Tesla is planing to hold a demonstration of its battery swapping technology that should enable its vehicles to travel non-stop on long road trips.
ProxToMe raises $700K for mobile blasts to attendees at live shows -
In addition to the funding, ProxToMe is today announcing new iOS and Android apps as well as a web-based dashboard for tracking fan interactions with a performer's messaging and with each other.
Obama steps up defense of NSA snooping: ‘Freedom vs. security is a false choice’ -
President Obama took to the Charlie Rose show to defend the NSA's surveillance practices, which he says are both transparent and legal.
