Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator StartX nabs $800K funding grant

This accelerator provides student entrepreneurs with housing, office space, cash stipends, advice, and mentorship -- much like storied Y Combinator ("YC") program, except its entrepreneurs won't need to hand off a piece of their company.

Diffbot launches APIs for monitoring web pages

Internet search startup Diffbot launched its API today for visually scanning, parsing and extracting information from web pages. Diffbot detects what type of layout a page has, then searches it for common visual cues to monitor when any content changes …