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Elon Musk says he has ‘verbal’ okay to build multi-state underground Hyperloop

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Elon Musk said on Twitter that he received “verbal government approval” to build an underground Hyperloop transit network connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, with stops connecting each city center, and a dozen more entry or [...]

Slidebean picks up $850K and launches a new version of its presentation-building tool

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Slidebean, the app that wants to take on Prezi and PowerPoint, is launching version 3.0 of the service on the heels of an $850K seed round from 500 Partners. The idea behind Slidebean is relatively simple. Presentations/decks are [...]

Affirm now has 1,000 retail partners

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Today Affirm has announced that it has more than 1,000 merchants signed up to offer its financing options at checkout, helping to reduce the friction around making large purchases and, by extension, increasing sales for its partners. Read [...]

Twitter claims its anti-abuse measures are helping, though many still disagree

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Twitter today offered an update on how its improvements to user safety and its newer anti-abuse measures are having an impact. The company declined to share any hard numbers related to abuse on its network, including how many [...]

Marketing personalization startup Dynamic Yield adds $9M to its Series C, bringing it to $31M

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Dynamic Yield, which uses machine learning to help online marketers personalize customer experiences on their site, has added $9 million to its Series C, bringing it to a new total of $31 million. Its new investors are DTCP [...]

Direct mail startup PebblePost raises $47M

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

PebblePost, a startup that uses online data to target consumers with printed mail, has raised $47 million in a combination of equity and debt. That includes the $15 million, RRE Ventures-led Series B that the company announced in [...]

Vimeo promotes Anjali Sud to CEO after canceling SVOD plans

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

IAC-owned streaming video site Vimeo has a new CEO: Anjali Sud, who previously led the company’s creator business. The appointment comes as the company has scrapped plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand service and decided instead to double [...]

Sears starts selling Alexa-enabled Kenmore appliances on Amazon in bid for relevance

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s hard to see this move as anything but a temporary reprieve for the once-mighty Sears brand. The mall mainstay has fallen on hard times in recent decades as online retail has taken over — and now, the [...]

Amid a tough field, Vyking.io wins the TechCrunch London Pitch-Off

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Well the TechCrunch London Meetup + Pitch-Off in London is over for another year, and this one was arguably the best vintage ever in terms of quality of startups and the sheer enthusiasm from the attendees! Hundreds of [...]