Skills Marketplace SkillPages Raises $9.5M Series B Round To Fund U.S. Expansion, Mobile Push
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SkillPages, which helps people with useful skills to find those who need them, just announced that it has raised a $9.5 million Series B funding round. This new funding round brings the total investment in the company to over $18 million. Among the investors in this round are Irish VC firm ACT Venture Capital, as well as previous angel investors and the company’s founders. The plan is to use this additional funding to accelerate user growth, launch new mobile products and expand the company’s engineering team to enhance SkillPages’ “SkillGraph” technology that matches people who are searching for a skill to people who have it[...]
Continue ReadingSex, drugs, and SMS: A look inside teens’ texting habits
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We’ve long suspected teenagers are disgusting animals, and a recent survey from a mobile message monitoring company pretty much confirms those suspicions.
In a data-gathering exercise spanning hundreds of thousands of messages per month from phones across the U.S., TxtWatcher found that around 4 percent of teen-sent text messages include adult or sexual content. Roughly 2.35 percent of messages contained references to drugs, and a further 4 percent contain vulgar content.
(A TxtWatcher rep tells us that “vulgar content” includes terms such as “bastard” and “buttface.” And now, I have accomplished my life goal of using the word “buttface”[...]
Continue ReadingIn a data-gathering exercise spanning hundreds of thousands of messages per month from phones across the U.S., TxtWatcher found that around 4 percent of teen-sent text messages include adult or sexual content. Roughly 2.35 percent of messages contained references to drugs, and a further 4 percent contain vulgar content.
(A TxtWatcher rep tells us that “vulgar content” includes terms such as “bastard” and “buttface.” And now, I have accomplished my life goal of using the word “buttface”[...]
Internet Explorer Flaw Triggers Google Nation-State Attack Message
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Microsoft issued a patch to address the vulnerability in IE, but the flaw triggering the warning message was not addressed[...]
Continue Reading“In the Studio,” Javelin’s Noah Doyle Unfolds An Intricate Mobile Mapping Ecosystem
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“In the Studio” this week features a guest who had the presence of mind to invest in a new mapping technology about a decade ago, eventually joined the company as a senior executive, and oversaw that company’s sale to Google, where he spent four years managing enterprise products for Google Earth and Maps before becoming a full-time early-stage investor.Noah Doyle, now a managing director at Javelin Venture Partners, offers a fascinating perspective on Apple’s big announcement this week regarding maps on iOS devices. While the news was certainly big, Doyle — who has more than seven years experience working on maps, originally with Keyhole and most recently with[...]
Continue ReadingJust how far did Samsung go to keep the Galaxy S III secret? You’d be surprised
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An unreleased iPhone walks into a bar and… well, you know how this goes. And so does Samsung.
In an effort to prevent a similarly catastrophic product leak while developing its long-awaited Galaxy S III, the Korean electronics company went to extreme measures to keep everything under wraps, the company revealed in the Samsung Tomorrow blog this morning.
Samsung had a select team working on the Galaxy S III in a separate lab that required ID cards and security scans to access. The engineers were not allowed to share pictures or drawings with anyone else in the company, so the Galaxy S III team had to describe aspects of the device with words to others in the company — even to the[...]
Continue ReadingIn an effort to prevent a similarly catastrophic product leak while developing its long-awaited Galaxy S III, the Korean electronics company went to extreme measures to keep everything under wraps, the company revealed in the Samsung Tomorrow blog this morning.
Samsung had a select team working on the Galaxy S III in a separate lab that required ID cards and security scans to access. The engineers were not allowed to share pictures or drawings with anyone else in the company, so the Galaxy S III team had to describe aspects of the device with words to others in the company — even to the[...]
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