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Social Startup Life360 Raises $10 Million

Life360, a social app that aims to keep families in communication via Android or iOS mobile phones, announced Wednesday that it raised a $10 million round of venture funding. The round was led by DCM, with participation from previous investors. The app’s main products include geo-fencing-based alerts, check-ins and private communication between family members, among other features. Life360 also announced that it recently surpassed 40 million users.

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald