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Madison Color Raises $4M for Home Hair Care
As the tech industry scratches its metaphorical head and wonders what needs transforming today, perhaps the answer is at its metaphorical fingertips: Home hair care.
Just.me App Wants to Be a Switchboard Operator for All Your Messaging Needs
Do you use WhatsApp, Path, Instagram, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter and a billion more apps? Just.me thinks it could just be your one and only.
Streetline Gets $25M to Solve Parking
Suddenly tech investors are all about … parking?
Silicon Valley Investors Flock to Massive Upstart Humor Site 9GAG
9GAG — the fast-growing community site for memes, comics and other Internet humor — has raised $2.8 million.
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Smarterer Wins $1.75M for Skills Quizzes
The skill-quizzing site Smarterer has raised $1.75 million in Series A funding from investors including True Ventures and Google Ventures. Smarterer’s Microsoft Excel test has been taken more than 42,000 times, and all together users have answered more than 10 million questions so far.News Byte
Tello Raises $2.7M to Help Businesses Get Mobile Feedback
Tello, which helps businesses solicit feedback through iOS and Android apps and text messages rather than just waiting for it to pop up on Twitter or Yelp, has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding from True Ventures and Bullpen Capital. Katie reviewed the consumer version of the Tello product last year. Google bought a similar start-up called Talkbin last year.Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a New Social App Is a Very Bad Thing
If you get her started, Caterina Fake sounds almost like a professor of social networking philosophy.
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Salesforce Pays $50M for Assistly Customer Service Platform
Salesforce said today it has acquired the customer service platform Assistly for $50 million in cash. Assistly helps companies manage customer service through various channels like Facebook, Twitter, chat, email and phone, and is a competitor to Zendesk. That marks the third (and biggest) acquisition in one day for Assistly investor True Ventures: WeGame was bought by Tagged and VodPod assets were bought by Lockerz.Showyou: An iPad Experience for Shared Videos
Showyou is a new iOS app from San Francisco-based Remixation with an imaginative interface built for social video consumption. Its main view is a never-ending tiled video wall intended primarily for use on the iPad.
Special Delivery for All: Message Bus Launches Email Service
The co-founders of Webshots and Twitter’s early infrastructure and operations lead have started a new email services company called Message Bus that’s already backed with more than $3 million from True Ventures and Polaris Ventures.
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