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| Josh Constine Children are our future, and VCs are giving them the cash to make it happen. Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel's 20-Under-20 fellows, just raised $3.8 million for... read more | |
| John Biggs In the underground world of the deep web there are few places as nefarious as Silk Road. The site, hidden on the Tor network has long been one of the primary... read more | |
| Josh Constine Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the... read more | |
| Matt Burns Imgur, the image host for Reddit and most of the internet, just launched its own meme creation tool. And it's about the best meme generator available.... read more | |
| Mike Butcher The emergence of NumberFour in Berlin - which has today announced a $38m Series A round - throws up a few interesting points worth briefly dwelling on. It may... read more | |
| Catherine Shu Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the... read more | |
| Mike Butcher NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38... read more | |
| Leena Rao In a slightly bizarre announcement today, PayPal is debuting PayPal Galactic, an initiative to own universal payments and commerce in space. Yes, outer space. read more | |
| Billy Gallagher Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors.... read more | |
| Sarah Perez A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today... read more | |