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The Road To Disrupt: A Look At Ansa, The Off-The-Record Messaging App
By Sam O'Keefe On this week’s installment of the Road To Disrupt video series, we meet our final Startup Battlefield company, Ansa. Built for more utility that that other ephemeral messaging service, Ansa enables users to to have more control over their text, voice, photo and video communications. Ansa’s founder Natalie Bryla designed the product…
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Apple’s Next iPad Could Sport Anti-Reflective Coating For Easier Daylight Use
By Darrell Etherington Apple has a new iPad that has just gone into production, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The next Apple tablet will reportedly will reportedly come in both 9.7-inch (iPad Air) and 7.9-inch (iPad mini) flavors, per the news network’s sources, and will be equipped with a new anti-reflective coating that…
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Australian Telco Telstra Acquires Ooyala For $270 Million
By Ryan Lawler Streaming video distribution and monetization platform Ooyala is being acquired by an Australian telco in a deal worth $270 million. The money will give Telstra a 98 percent ownership stake in the company, which is up from the 23 percent it owned through a previous investment round. Read More Source: Technology
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Snapchat Is Now The #3 Social App Among Millennials
By Sarah Perez Snapchat is now the third most popular social app among millennials, according to a recent report by comScore which finds that Snapchat has 32.9% penetration on these young users’ mobile phones, trailing only Instagram (43.1%) and Facebook (75.6%). That means the app is more popular than Twitter, Pinterest, Vine, Google+ or Tumblr…
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Silbert’s Bitcoin Opportunity Fund Drops $250K On India-Based Unocoin
By Kim-Mai Cutler Despite some early moves that raised questions about Bitcoin’s legality in the country, the Indian market and its sheer size is still enticing to investors. Barry Silbert, a longtime Bitcoin enthusiast and founder of SecondMarket, just invested $250,000 in Unocoin. The company, which handles trading, merchant processing and storage for the currency,…
