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Pandora’s 40-hour listening cap translates to a record 700K new paid subscribers
Pandora took some heat after placing a 40-hour listening cap on its power users back in February, but the move seems to have created some positive results.
Funding Daily: Cash for the ‘stache
A Thursday roundup of today's funding news, presented with a pink mustache.
Evernote announces reminders as forgetful everywhere breathe easier
The popular note taking and organization solutions provider Evernote announced today that reminders have been added to its product offerings.
JustFab acquires The Fab Shoes to take on the European market
With its newest acquisition, the subscription-based online store from California adds fuel to its European expansion blueprint.
LoyalBlocks makes rewarding customers easier with a $9M first round
LoyalBlocks, a loyalty marketing solutions provider for small and medium sized businesses with physical locations announced today that it had raised $9 million in its first round of funding. The company plans on using the capital injection to expand US operations and continue developing its platform.
Small businesses: Stop thinking you’re immune to a mobile hack
Guest Post Small businesses are tripping themselves up in one huge area of mobile security: they believe they are too small to get hacked.
Hooked Media turns in an entirely new take on app recommendation — one that Apple can’t kill
App recommendation engines are getting booted from Apple's app store because they suck, according to a new player in the app-finding business. But Hooked Media has come up with an entirely new take on app recommendation that has two unique qualities.
Will 3D printed guns be impossible to control? Homeland Security thinks so
3D printed guns are going to be tough to control, and the Department of Homeland security knows it.
The power of custom cohorting in mobile games
Sponsored Post For those unfamiliar with the term, “cohorting” refers to creating user segments, or technically, a group of people banded together as a group. You can segment a user base in many different ways.
Health care consumers are in the dark. Here’s how data can help
Health care is a completely dysfunctional market where the buyers have little access to price or quality information about the products they're buying. Fortunately, the data we need is out there -- if we can just get to it.
Thinker Thing creates 3D objects using the power of your brain
Mind control could one day take the pain out of 3D design.
Facebook’s newly acquired mobile tool welcomes all developers, even those who hate Facebook
Just days after landing on Facebook's campus, the founder of Parse says there will be no changes to his business -- and that means Facebook is increasingly a multiplatform development tool.
Loyal3 raises $18M to make buying stock as easy as a Facebook ‘like’
Loyal3 has raised $18 million for its platform that makes it easy for consumers to buy stock in their favorite brands.
Submissions are open for the MobileBeat 2013 Innovation Showdown!
Mobile startups: This is your chance to showcase your company, product or solution to 700 mobile executives, leaders, IT decision makers, venture capitalists, and press.
SimpleRelevance raises $1M for tech that gives emails a personal touch
Impersonal, mass emails are easy to dislike and ignore, which is why SimpleRelevance has raised $1 million. SimpleRelevance's platform gathers customer data and then personalized emails to specifically target individuals.
WWDC press invites go out, Apple holding keynote on June 10
Apple's WWDC keynote will occur on June 10, where we will see announcements regarding its operating systems. VentureBeat will be reporting live from the event.
See the future of games at E3 2013
Sponsored Post In three weeks, the video game industry will descend on Los Angeles to attend E3 2013 to see the future of the video game industry. Will you be there?
Box acquires Folders and its ‘elegant’ French spin on file storage
Box announced that it has acquired the technology behind a mobile app called Folders.
Nextdoor releases mobile app to strengthen communities using smartphones
Nextdoor is going mobile. Today, the 'private social network for neighborhoods' released an iOS application so people can be connected to what's going on in their community anytime, anywhere.
Samsung Galaxy S4 hits 10M sold in first month, selling ’4 units per second’
In other words, the giant that sold almost 400 million phones last year is getting bigger. And faster.
