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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recently visited South Korea to meet with top executives from Samsung’s mobile division, reportedly asking Samsung to launch a phone with a Facebook interface.
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In the quest to make speech recognition tech faster and more accurate, Microsoft researchers traveled inside the human brain, so to speak.
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Thumbtack, a marketplace for local service providers, has raised a $12.5 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital.
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Facebook’s annual meeting Tuesday at the Westin San Francisco Airport in Millbrae, Calif., will be the target of protestors, but their issues lie more with FWD.
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Five years ago, Twilio, a cloud-based communication service provider couldn't find a penny. Last week it snagged $70 million and is worth half-a-billion dollars and is on track to do $50 million in revenues in 2013.
More from GigaOm Larry Harvey is the main co-founder of the Burning Man festival, while John Perry Barlow is a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
More from TechCrunch Mobile e-commerce startup Shopgate announced its Series B funding round today, which it revealed to TechCrunch totals $7 million in an interview.
More from TechCrunch FounderDating, the networking service that matches startup entrepreneurs with potential co-founders who have complementary skill-sets, has launched in London.
More from CrunchGear Kuapay, a startup offering a consumer mobile wallet application and accompanying loyalty platform for merchants, is rolling out an upgraded version of its mobile app today which focuses on improved speed, security and a new user interface which makes it easier for users to track their credit card details as well as discover nearby local merchants who support the Kuapay service.
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What exactly is the position of email these days? Is it the rich relative everyone's trying to cozy up to in an effort to bankroll their dreams? Or the troubled friend in desperate need of an intervention? Either way, the market for "fixing" email - currently led by iOS app Mailbox, which wants to "put email in its place" - is one of the hottest targets for new apps and services.
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Sometimes a great business idea isn't the result of years of planning, a lifelong dream, or a sudden magical flash of insight.
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Segment.io, a Y Combinator-backed startup making it easier for developers to integrate APIs from multiple analytics providers into their applications, is today expanding its service to include support for mobile.
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Although the recent Penguin update wasn’t quite the “game changer” that many SEOs believed it would be, the fact that the entire digital marketing community believed that major changes were on the way is proof enough that old school SEO is out for good.
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ResearchGate is one of a handful of companies trying to speed up academic research on a global scale.
More from GigaOm FWD.us, the political action group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, announced Friday that IAC chief Barry Diller and YouTube co-founder Steve Chen are now supporters of the group.
More from All Things Digital Talk about buyer’s remorse; our co-founder, Patrick de Laive has been working out how wealthy he’d have been if he’d bought Apple shares instead of a shiny new 17″ PowerBook.
More from TheNextWeb Paul Adams, who was previously Facebook's global head of brand design, has joined a startup called Intercom, where he will be serving as head of product design.
More from CrunchGear For this week's episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar, co-founder and CEO of Parse.
More from TechCrunch Basho Co-Founder Antony Falco has raised $3 million for Orchestrate.io, a database API similar to Twilio in its capability to ease the complexity of adding features to mobile and web applications.
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