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Funding roundup – week ending 05/03/13

(Correction: Ruby Ribbon's fundraising) Seed-stage Learning marketplace Curious secured $7.5 million in funding, with Redpoint investing $7 million, with the other $500,000 Read More

Apple loses dominance of worldwide tablet market

While Android seems to have, at least so far, won the war over smartphones over its rival Apple (though that Read More

Spotify acquires music discovery service Tunigo

Nothing beats a good music discovery app. As Apple’s App Store creeps closer to 50 billion apps downloaded altogether, Pandora Read More

Are we still innovating? Thiel and Andreessen debate!

We live in a time when it feels like new technology is coming out faster than most of us can Read More

LinkedIn shares plunge over 10% despite healthy quarter

(Updates to reflect stock price, analyst projections) Shares of LinkedIn are down over 10% Friday.  After the company posted better-than expected Read More

New Google Glass app takes pictures with a wink

I've expressed my weariness and apprehension over Google Glass, the hands free computer that looks like a Star Trek prop, Read More

Facebook up 4% after strong mobile and payment revenue

Facebook stock is up 4% in trading Thursday, to $28.51 a share, after posting a mixed earnings report Wednesday after Read More

Poppin raises $11.1M to help you makeover your office

A friend of mine always posts pictures on Facebook of the flowers her husband sends her at work. It’s obnoxious Read More

Yelp shares soar 25% on stellar quarter

Yelp shares soared 25% to $31.65 Thursday morning after the company revealed strong quarterly results for the first quarter of Read More

Zynga.org and NewSchools launch ed tech accelerator

Zynga.org, the non-profit arm of the popular social gaming company, has entered into a new partnership with NewSchools Venture Fund in order Read More

Google leads $125M secondary round in Lending Club

A lot of big names have gathered behind Lending Club, notably those of Larry Summers, Mary Meeker, and John Mack. Read More

Astrid gets acquired by Yahoo

Exciting news! Astrid, a productivity app which helps people manage lists, has been acquired by Yahoo.  While details of the Read More

Yelp shares pop 11% on solid Q1 with $46.1M in revenue

Yelp has had another solid quarter, in which it topped analysts’ expectations for revenue and EBIDTA. Yelp shares popped 11% Read More

Facebook tops revenue; misses earnings expectations

Shares of Facebook barely budged in after-hours trading, after the company posted first-quarter results that were a mixed bag as Read More

Facebook awarded $2.8M in ruling against typosquatters

You know how sometimes you make a mistake while typing in a website name? For example, you might type in Read More

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