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CyberLightning Raises $4.2M To Bring 3D Interface To Industrial ‘Internet Of Things’ Monitoring
By Steve O'Hear When you think about the Internet of Things (IoT) you likely think of consumer hardware products like smart thermostats, WiFi lightbulbs or Quantified Self gadgets, such as various fitness trackers and other gizmos. CyberLightning, however, is an IoT startup of a different kind. It offers a platform for industrial IoT usage, such…
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Yo The One-Word Messaging App Updates So It’s Not Quite So Absurdly Simple Anymore
By Natasha Lomas One-word messaging app Yo is growing up, fueled by its recent $1.5 million in seed funding at a $10 million valuation. The startup has now released an update (v1.1.0) to its iOS app which introduces a series of new features — including the ability to send more than just the word “yo”.…
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Collective Health Wants To Completely Replace The Health Insurance Industry With A Software Program
By Sarah Buhr “Did you know you can actually negotiate and get a better deal at the doctor’s office if you offer to pay up front?,” co-founder and CEO of Collective Health Ali Diab asks. He’d broken his foot and had to go to the doctor for an MRI that would have cost him $3700,…
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VMware Vets Get $4.5M In Series A To Launch Private Cloud Management Platform
By Ron Miller Back in 2009 I saw a talk by then VMware CTO Steve Herrod, now a partner at General Catalyst Partners, who described a private Amazon Web Services-like environment where users could provision services with the same ease they do in the public cloud. It was the first time I heard the term…
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Tech Companies, ACLU Voice Support For Facebook In Data Search Warrant Case
By Cat Zakrzewski A group of tech giants and civil liberties groups voiced their support on Friday for Facebook as it continues its legal battle to return private data collected in a set of bulk search warrants to its users and prevent future searches. Facebook disclosed in June that a New York court forced the…