A post on the official company blog of Uber said that they will be doing more thorough background checks of the drivers of its car riding service, TechCrunch reported.
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UK-based Fuel3D secures $2.6M in early stage funding after raising $300K in Kickstarter
Fuel3D, the UK-based company that raised $300,000 on Kickstarter for its high resolution 3D scanner, has secured $2.6 million for its early stage funding round, TechCrunch reported.
Mode Analytics raises $375K to improve sharing and collaboration among data analysts
San Francisco-based startup Mode Analytics secured $375,000 in fresh capital from unnamed investors citing a filing submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cold weather depresses retail sales in January
Retail sales fell unexpectedly in January and the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, in the latest signs of slowing economic growth early in the first quarter.
LG Electronics rolls out new version of big screen G Pro smartphone, seeks to move to top 3
LG Electronics has introduced the G Pro 2, the new version of its large-screen smartphone G Pro, in an attempt to land at Number 3 in global smartphone sales in 2014, Reuters reported.
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In its quest to provide employees with a convenient way of getting to work, Facebook will be doing a 90-day trial run of its charter boat that will ferry workers across the San Francisco Bay.
PayPal is shuttering the doors of backend-as-a-service provider StackMob two months after it was purchased. StackMob's clients have until March 31 to transfer their data, VentureBeat reported.
White House officials finally rolled out the Cybersecurity Framework aimed at improving the cybersecurity of public and private critical infrastructure providers so they can better fight against cyber threats, TechCrunch reported.
Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and founder of Netscape, is optimistic that tech is already recovering from the 2008 financial crisis and that it has decades of growth ahead, TechCrunch reported.
Sellvana, an open source e-commerce software developer based in Portland, Oregon, has received $5 million for its seed funding round from unnamed New York investors, VentureBeat reported.
After selling Mt. Gox to French entrepreneurs in 2011, the Bitcoin exchange's original creator Jed McCaleb is already working on another Bitcoin-related project.
The Walt Disney Company is launching its own Disney Accelerator powered by Techstars to incubate early stage companies possessing unique ideas about products in the consumer media and entertainment segment, TechCrunch reported.
A massive cyber attack from unknown sources that has been spamming bitcoin exchanges is highlighting some of the dangers people can encounter when they exchange cash for digital currencies like the bitcoin, experts said on Wednesday.
MyHealthTeams has obtained $3.36 million for its Series A funding round led by The Westly Group to create social networks to help those living with chronic conditions, TechCrunch reported.
