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Enterprise
Warner Music Group buys concert discovery service Songkick
Warner Music Group announced today it’s acquiring the selected assets of the music platform Songkick, including its app for finding concerts and the company’s trademark. Songkick has been involved in a lawsuit against the major… Read More
Startup
Insticator raises $5.2M to help publishers
Insticator is announcing that it has raised $5.2 million in Series A funding. The startup allows online publishers to add quizzes, polls and other interactive elements (either created by Insticator or by the publisher themselves) to their stories. Read More
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Enterprise
Alexa brings hands-free TV to more devices
Alexa’s latest trick is offering a hands-free TV viewing experience, that will allow consumers to turn on or off their television, change inputs, fast forward, rewind and more, without having to first invoke a specific skill, or even press a button on their remote. Read More
M&A
Uber, Yandex combine ridesharing and UberEATS in $3.72B. JV
As Uber works through a huge amount of internal management turmoil, the company is also consolidating and rationalizing more of its international business. Today, the company announced it will be combining its rides-on-demand business and UberEATS. Read More
Music
The Affect Music Has On Different Teens
Music is something that every person has his or her own specific opinion about. Different people have different taste, and various types of music have many ways of leaving an impact on someone. Read More
Broadcasting
Radio networks to broadcast a common radio format
Radio broadcasting is a unidirectional wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format. Read More
Frequent Blogging Customers
Rover raised $65 million for pet sitting
Finding temporary housing for your dog should be as easy as renting an Airbnb. That’s the idea behind Rover, which raised $65 million to expand its pet sitting and dog-walking businesses.. Read More
Katie Roof
MateLabs mixes machine learning with IFTTT
If you’ve ever wanted to train a machine learning model and integrate it with IFTTT, you now can with a new offering from MateLabs. MateVerse, a platform where novices can spin out machine... Read More
John Mannes
US venture investment ticks up in Q2 2017
Venture investment in U.S. startups rose sequentially in the second quarter of 2017, boosted by large, late-stage financings and a few outsized early-stage rounds in tech and healthcare.. Read More
Devin Coldewey
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Fashion
Groupon Moves Into Flash Fashion
More acquisitions for Groupon to widen the net of consumers using its platform for more than daily deals. Today it is announcing the acquisition of ideeli, a flash fashion retailer, for $43 million in...
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Entertainment
When music and technology collide
Some might say that technology is killing the music industry. But if you look around, there’s a beautiful marriage there — the music industry is evolving every day, and artists are embracing technology in new and innovative ways...
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Features
That’s One Way To Ditch Your Passenger
As near as we can tell, this guy must have thought he was going over backwards and tapped the rear...
Mike John
Animals
Shark Week: How to Watch It Like a Scientist
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your television, the Discovery Channel's "Shark Week"...
Mike John
Cars
Who's Afraid of the Self-Driving Car?
It's been 60 years since the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine gave us the promise of flying cars...
Johanna Zmud