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In-home care startup Honor lands $20M to modernize senior care
Honor, a startup on a mission to change the face of in-home senior care, has landed $20 million in funding to help realize its vision. Led by Andreessen-Horowitz with an investment of $15 million, the funding round also raised $5 million dollars from other big names like Yelp founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppleman, PayPal co-founder ...
Picnic Health lands $2M investment to improve patient access to health records
PicnicHealth, a Y Combinator backed startup based in San Francisco, has raised $2 million in seed funding to expand its service and grow its team. The service collates patients’ medical records from a variety of sources and makes them available as a “patient-friendly health timeline” accessible via an online portal. According to a report by ...
Rumor: On-demand delivery app Shyp is raising $50M at a $250M valuation
Shyp Inc., the on-demand shipping startup that celebrated its one-year birthday in March, is supposedly raising as much as $50 million at a valuation of $250 million. Several sources shared details about the possible funding round with TechCrunch. As for the investors involved, one source said that the funding round may be led by Kleiner ...
Apple’s iPhone trade-in program is off to a bumpy start in China
Apple Inc. launched its popular iPhone trade-in program in China on Tuesday, giving consumers there the opportunity to receive store credit toward the purchase of their next Apple product at any of the company’s 18 stores countrywide. Now it appears Apple’s trade-in values for used iPhone’s are significantly lower than trade-in offers from private shops ...
Apple and IBM add 8 new iOS apps and 2 new industries to MobileFirst for iOS
The partnership between Apple and IBM has produced eight more iOS apps for the enterprise. Released on Tuesday, new industry-specific iOS apps have been added for two new industries, namely Healthcare and Industrial Products, in addition to new iOS apps for Travel and Transportation, Retail and Insurance. Announced last July, the Apple-IBM partnership has already ...
Google Drive for Work gets added security features to protect data
Nine months after launching Drive for Work, a premium cloud storage offering for business users, Google has announced that it will roll out a host of new security features to both Drive for Work and Google for Education. Over the next few weeks, Google will introduce a series of new sharing controls, security features and ...
Flickr adds Public Domain and CC0 designations, SpaceX first to take the leap
Flickr, the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing platform, has added Public Domain and Creative Commons 0 (CC0) to its list of available copyright designations. Both options will allow users to share their work freely with the public for reuse in any way they desire. (via Ars Technica) Flickr has supported Creative Commons since 2004, but while U.S. Government ...
Google unveils convertible ASUS Chromebook Flip and Chromebit, a Chromebook on a stick
Tuesday was a busy day for Google Inc. as the search giant unveiled a host of new Chrome OS hardware. The company introduced three new Chromebooks: the Haier Chromebook 11, the Hisense Chromebook – both in the 11-inch category – and, by far the most impressive, the ASUS Chromebook Flip, a convertible laptop-tablet. Also unveiled ...
Annual mobile app sales to top $99B by 2019, says report
In January, Apple revealed that iOS developers had earned $10 billion in revenue for 2014. Now a new report suggests that mobile app development will continue to be a lucrative endeavor. Annual revenue from mobile apps is set to reach $99 billion by 2019, says research firm Juniper Research. The report, titled Apps & App ...
Huawei reports 33 percent increase in net profit, invests heavily in R&D
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has reported a 32.7 percent increase in net profit for 2014. Net profit rose from 21 billion yuan ($3.38 billion) in 2013 to 27.9 billion yuan ($4.5 billion) in 2014. According to its annual report released March 31, the company achieved strong financial performance in 2014 across all business areas. The ...