Foursquare now lets you ‘visit’ NYC locales from over 100 years ago

Foursquare is taking its users back in time with help from the New York Public Library.

NYC’s next billion-dollar startup: Fab raises $150M at $1B valuation

After pivoting away from flash sales and toward its own products, New York City-based Fab has just raised a huge amount of funding to help drive its transformation and support its fast-growing audience.

FiftyThree raises $15M to unleash your creativity with Paper

FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app that Apple named 2012 iPad App of the Year. It has raised $15 million in a deal led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz.

Keaton Row rescues fashion victims by connecting them with personal stylists online

Keaton Row is a fashion startup reigning in the "future of personal styling" with an online, affordable process that has customers spending seven times the average e-commerce order and coming back for more.

RelSci racks up $30M for its digital database of the world’s most influential people

Relationship Science has amassed an online Rolodex with profiles of the world's "top decision-makers," and people are willing to spend thousands of dollars a year for access.

Dataminr raises $30M for lightning-quick response to Twitter ‘hotspots’

Dataminr has closed $30 million for its real-time analytics service that gives financial clients alerts about relevant breaking news before news outlets even find out.

Bib + Tuck scores funding to become your infinite fashion swapping closet

Two lifelong friends have come up with a way for fashionistas to keep their closets fresh without going broke.

Namely secures $3.35M to keep employees on-task and organized

Namely has raised $3.35 million from True Ventures to help businesses stay on top of their HR activities.

Scratch Music Group keeps the party going with funding from NEA

Scratch Music Group has closed its second round of funding to connect DJs with events. Since 2002, it has provided DJs for over 30,000 events, entertained 12 million people, and taught 500,000 people DJing skills.

Social Power unveils petition platform for your consumer wishes and gripes (exclusive)

Social Power debuted today to give consumers a louder voice. This "interactive resolution platform" is intended to address the everyday issues of consumers.

Breather debuts ‘Zipcar for rooms’ to give you peace and quiet on-demand

Breather launched its "Zipcar for rooms" at the LeWeb conference today. The startup also revealed closing $1.5 million to accelerate development and growth.

With MxHero’s Pro Edition, 25 apps can save you from corporate email hell

In its grand quest to fix the trouble with email, MxHero has come up with an intriguing way to bring its service into enterprise email services.

Bloomberg enters world of venture capital with $75M fund

Bloomberg is launching a new $75 million venture capital fund to support early-stage companies. The fund will be called Bloomberg Beta and will invest in startups that are "producing insights from data" and "making the experience of work better."

Sunrise raises $2.2M to make waking up for work suck less

Two ex-Foursquare designers secure a first round of funding for their 'smart' and 'beautiful' calendar app that focuses on user experience.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator kicks off its next class of 10 startups

The ten companies were chosen from more than 1,200 applicants -- the most competitive class ERA has had so far.

Twitter paints the world with your geo-tagged tweets

Twitter plotted all geo-tagged tweets for key global locations on a map. And the result is big data come to life -- and a vision of how we move, where we live, and where we congregate in the largest numbers.

Magzter passes 10M users, moves to NY, and signs up 20 new titles, including National Enquirer, Shape

The number one magazine provider in Apple's Newstand has now added 20 new magazine from American Media to its stable of 1,800 magazines for digital sale.

Postmates’ local delivery service hits New York City

New Yorkers will soon have yet another way to get just about anything delivered to their door.