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- Visa's PayPal-Like Wallet Gains Traction With Partners; Will Consumers Follow?
- DogVacay Fetches $6 Million from Benchmark Capital
- As iPad Grows, PC Replacement Cycle Slows
- Cloud Storage Service SugarSync Gets a Face Lift, Adds Search Tool
- CubeTree Founder Ross Fubini Joins Canaan Partners
- DataSift Closes $15 Million Round In VC Funding
- Another Square Copycat: Bank of America Launches Mobile Payments
- Steve Ballmer's Memo on the Windows Unit Shake-Up
- Windows Head Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
- Traverie Uses Your Friends' Facebook Photos to Help You Pick Your Next Vacation Destination
- Along With New Homepage, Yahoo Also Set to Launch a "Gmail-Like" Email Reboot to Slow Gmail Gains
- RIM Sees an Up Day After Setting BlackBerry 10 Launch Date
- AT&T Puts Hefty $499 Price Tag on Samsung's Android-Based Galaxy Camera
- Quora Adds "Online Now" Feature to Drive Faster Answers
- Twitter Adds Another Ex-Googler and First Amendment Vet to Its Legal Team
- Microsoft Talks About Its Plans for Yammer: Socialize Everything
- US, Mexico Teaming Up to Fight Cross-Border Mobile Device Trafficking
- Halo 4 Day-One Sales Hit $220 Million, Outselling Box Office Titans
- Nintendo Wii U Forecast Calls for Heavy Sales, Easing Later
- HTC Deal Brings Apple Profit and Maybe a Blueprint for Other Android Manufacturers
- Will Acer's $200 Price Tag Make the Chromebook More Appealing?
- Louis C.K. Comes Back to HBO, but Doesn't Ditch the Web, Either
- Gogo's New Antennas Should Improve In-Flight Wi-Fi, but Don't Expect Netflix
- Former Zynga VP Ya-Bing Chu Placing a Bet on Real-Money Gaming
DogVacay Fetches $6 Million from Benchmark Capital | Tricia Duryee | Nov 13, 2012 04:00 am | | DogVacay has raised $6 million in capital to build out a local marketplace providing in-home boarding services, a category being referred to as "Airbnb for dogs." Benchmark Capital contributed to the company's first round, and previous investors include First Round Capital and Science, the L.A.-based incubator. DogVacay is live in the U.S. and Canada, and is looking to expand internationally and at adding other services, like dog walking and training. Competitors include Rover.com. read more » | Cloud Storage Service SugarSync Gets a Face Lift, Adds Search Tool | Lauren Goode | Nov 13, 2012 03:02 am | | Personal cloud storage service SugarSync, which competes directly with DropBox, is rolling out a desktop redesign and adding search functionality to its service. The new SugarSync desktop app resembles a chat box and lets users share files with contacts by dragging and dropping the folders or files onto a contact's name. The new version of the app also appears as a kind of virtual drive on computers, one that allows for file auto-syncing, and the search function will search all personal computers and mobile devices running SugarSync. read more » | CubeTree Founder Ross Fubini Joins Canaan Partners | Liz Gannes | Nov 13, 2012 03:00 am | | Canaan Partners has hired Ross Fubini, who co-founded enterprise collaboration company CubeTree (sold to SuccessFactors), was formerly at Kapor Capital, and continues to be an advisor to companies like Palantir. Fubini will be a venture partner at Canaan and noted he would focus on investing in hard technical problems as well as the consumerization of the enterprise. read more » | DataSift Closes $15 Million Round In VC Funding | Mike Isaac | Nov 12, 2012 09:07 pm | | Social analytics company Datasift announced on Tuesday morning it had closed a $15 million dollar round of funding, led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Northgate Capital and Daher Ventures. This is the second round raised by the start-up in 2012 alone, having already closed a $7.2 million round in May. DataSift was named one of Twitter's "Certified Partners" in August, a small group of companies anointed by the microblogging service as some of the best third-party handlers of Twitter data. read more » | RIM Sees an Up Day After Setting BlackBerry 10 Launch Date | John Paczkowski | Nov 12, 2012 03:30 pm | | Monday was a better day than usual on Wall Street for Research In Motion. The company's shares rose more than 4 percent, briefly hitting $9.07 before closing at $8.81, after it announced a January 30, 2013, "launch event" for its first BlackBerry 10 devices. A nice rally for the long-suffering BlackBerry maker, which has seen its stock price fall 40 percent year-to-date amid continuing stumbles in the smartphone market. read more » | Get the latest news & reviews on AllThingsD.com: News | Reviews | Mobile | Media | Social | Enterprise | Commerce | Conferences | Voices | Video | Jobs About Us | Contact Us | FAQ | Privacy Policy | Advertise | Send a Tip | | |
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