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The curious, the lavish, and the best, most pointless news of CES 2017
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Price.com raises $2 million to hunt for low prices on ecommerce sites
Cloud automation company Logicworks raises $135 million
Move over, Cheezburger: Blog ‘written by animals’ fetches $2.3 million
MoneyLion raises $22.5 million to change how you spend your money with AI
‘AI for healthcare’ developer analyticsMD raises $13 million
Yewno raises $6.5 million more to help publishers ‘digest’ long form content
Zarget raises $6 million to let small businesses create their own marketing strategies
FreshDesk raises $55 million for its customer support SaaS platform
Everything Apple announced today: New MacBook Pros, ‘TV,’ updated MacBook Air, and that’s it
Everything Microsoft announced today: Surface Studio, new Surface Book, Paint 3D, and more
Social activism platform Viewly snags $1.3 million
Wavefront raises $52 million for its cloud-based data analytics software
Bumpers raises $1 million for its podcast creation app
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FlashStock raises $1.5 million for on-demand marketing service
Kindly Care raises $3.1 million to launch elder care marketplace
Greylock Partners raises $1 billion for its 15th fund
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DMscore raises $2.5 million for A.I platform that helps lawyers find clients
Everything Google announced today at its ‘Made by Google’ event
Andreessen Horowitz-backed Allset raises $2.35 million to cut your restaurant wait in half
Drive Time Metrics raises $2.1 million to monetize connected car data
Industrious raises $37 million to open 12 new coworking spaces
Lightspeed Ventures leads $32 million round for marketing data startup Datorama
Fluent City raises $2.5 million to teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture
Everything Apple announced today: iPhone 7, Apple Watch Series 2, AirPods, and more
Peer-to-peer international courier service Grabr grabs $3.5 million
Andreessen Horowitz backs $6.6 million round for optimization startup SigOpt
MediaBrix raises $6.5 million to make mobile ads more ’emotionally charged’
Data privacy startup Virtru secures $29 million
EventBoard raises $13.5 million to make managing office meeting rooms less terrible
Susa Ventures closes $50 million fund to back more seed-stage startups
Marketing software startup Bynder scores $22.3 million
K-Beauty gurus’ favorite Memebox raises $65.9 million to expand online retail
iBeat raises $1.5 million for ‘life-saving’ heart-monitoring watch
CloudApp closes $2 million investment for its media-sharing tech
Shopping and travel bot startup Mezi chats its way to $9 million
Connected car startup Automile drives home $6.2 million
Drupal and WordPress hosting company Pantheon raises $28.5 million
