Meet Healthfundr: Equity-Based Crowdfunding For Health Startups

When Marshall McLuhan said that the medium is the message in the 1960s, it’s amazing to think about how much that idea still applies in present culture. What he meant is that new forms of media (technology) transform our experience and is ultimately more important than the content that is shared. In other words, technology [...]... Read More

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Log Into Your Favorite Apps With Your Eyes Thanks To Kansas City Startup EyeVerify
BY: Kathryn Hough
Life imitates art now thanks to a new technology that integrates with consumer-facing apps to allow users to sign in with an eye scan.
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YouTube Aims To Protect Activists With Face Blurring Option
BY: Jon Christian
This week Youtube started to offer automatic face blurring which the Google-owned site connected to human rights concerns as well as routine privacy precautions.
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French Startup Infinit To Offer Unlimited P2P File Hosting
BY: Jon Christian
An ambitious French startup wants to reinvent file hosting as a peer-to-peer service, cutting out the costs associated with servers and eliminating the storage and speed limitations of current generation technology.
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WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com Knows What You’re Doing
BY: Irina Papuc
Think back on some of those more private Facebook status updates you’ve indulged in. They may be posted on the tell-all site WeKnowWhatYou’reDoing.com, a regurgitation of the bad and the ugliest that Facebook has to offer.
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Will You Sign The Internet Declaration Of Freedom? [Infographic]
BY: Irina Papuc
Monday marked the release of the Declaraction of Internet Freedom, a multi-organization collaboration to raise awareness about freedom of speech on the Internet.
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Why Startups Won’t Let You Out Of Their Database
BY: Kathryn Hough
Have you ever tried to get out of a company’s database? It’s almost impossible and most likely, that’s on purpose. There’s a dirty little secret in the startup world: if you are still a company’s database, they can continue to make revenue off you even if you are not an active user.
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Gliph: Turn Your Digital Identity Into An Ice Cream Cone
BY: Kathryn Hough
Imagine meeting someone for the first time before the era of smartphones and social media. You have to get to know them slowly because you can’t Google them. A new identity app, Gliph, aims to recreate this natural connection.
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Sidecar: Smart Calling For Your Smartphone
BY: Corey Cummings
Sidecar is a newly launched app that aims to add robust and unique features to the calls you make regularly on your smartphone, including video, contact, and location sharing.
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Filesharing Religion Kopimism Celebrates First Marriage
BY: Jon Christian
In a move that a faith leader called unavoidable, two congregants of Kopimism, a religion based on filesharing, were recently married in a Kopimist ceremony
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FTC Settles Myspace Privacy Violations… Wait, Myspace Still Exists?
BY: Jon Christian
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission announced that social network Myspace has agreed to settle charges that it misrepresented the protection it offered to users’ personal information, in an agreement that will require independent privacy assessments for the next 20 years. The measure comes at a moment when the former social giant has been battered by [...]
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Facebook Makes Chat A Little Creepier
BY: Jon Christian
Take heed, event promoters and love-lorn flirts. Facebook‘s chat service will soon become a bit more transparent – and, proportionally, creepier. The new feature set, which will appear first on messenger-only mobile apps and eventually work its way to the Facebook website, introduces a “read receipt” to messages sent over the site’s instant messenger service. [...]
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Google Updates Google News With Google Plus Comments, Realtime Developments
BY: Jon Christian
Google rolled out a handful of new features and updates to news aggregator Google News this week, mostly designed to introduce more content from Google Plus to the site, in line with the company’s massive push to integrate social aspects to its wider product family. Changes – which will be introduced to the U.S. Google [...]
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