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By Sarah Perez Walmart’s Silicon Valley R&D group @WalmartLabs has acquired its fourteenth startup, the company is announcing this morning, with a deal to bring in a total of 16 employees from social marketplace Luvocracy, including founder and CEO Nathan Stoll, previously co-founder of Aardvark and an ex-Googler. The three-year old company offered a Pinterest-like…

By Sarah Buhr Well, it’s happened. Sarah Palin has her own internet channel, free from the “lamestream media.” Palin seems to be just one more personality joining what seems to be a larger trend in our society. We’re moving on from television to watching content via the internet. The Sarah Palin channel will cost you…

By John Biggs It’s summertime and the Hardware Alley love is easy. We want to see you in San Francisco for Disrupt SF 2014, our annual celebration of all things startup. It’s a great time. You get to meet great funders and VCs, and I’d love to meet you. Hardware is my favorite thing in…

By Jonathan Shieber Armed with nifty energy management software, thousands of Samsung lithium ion batteries, and $56 million in outside financing, Green Charge Networks is looking to change the way companies pay for power. If the issue sounds a little boring (yawn, utility bills), think about this: businesses spend billions of dollars on power —…

By Ron Miller Email has always been a poor file manager and startup MxHero wants to change the way we manage email attachments. To that end, it announced it closed its seed round today with a $500K contribution. Funders include lead investor White Star Capital along with contributors GW Holdings, Esther Dyson, Ari Kushner, Actinic…