Dashlane Adds Two-Factor Authentication, a New Interface, and More
Windows/OS X/Chrome/Firefox/Safari/IE/Android/iOS: Dashlane, one of our favorite password managers, just took the wraps off of a major update, including two-factor authentication via Google...
View ArticleCEO outlines the future of Pinterest
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann leads one of a small number of privileged startups for whom growth is so strong that money is not (yet) the point. Instead he’s focused on solving one of the largest...
View ArticleWhy You Should Sell Dreams, Not Just Products
After graduating with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering, Mei dabbled in finance before transitioning to the world of luxury retail and design. She now serves as the CEO of...
View ArticleToo Many Passwords and No Way to Remember Them. Until Now.
“If you want to avoid having your identity stolen, use long passwords that contain digits, punctuation and no recognizable words. Make up a different password for every Web site. And change all of your...
View ArticleAdaptive learning startup Knewton takes its biggest step yet in K-12 education
You might not be familiar with the Knewton name but, if you have school-age children, they may soon be getting to know Knewton technology. That’s because the company just announced a major partnership...
View ArticlePinterest Pushes Global Growth With A Localized Version For France, Its First...
Pinterest, the image-based social network, is picking up more global momentum: today, it announced the launch of a new site in French, with users in France getting pushed more localized content and...
View ArticleSteve Case’s Revolution Growth Leads $20M Investment in Lolly Wolly Doodle
At a time when major retailers grapple with the fallout from outsourcing apparel manufacturing to developing countries, a small, rapidly growing children’s apparel upstart is proving that clothing can...
View ArticleA Workout for Your Brain, on Your Smartphone
I often say I have a bad memory. In fact, it is perfectly possible for me to lose track of what I’m writing in the middle of a … um … never mind. To improve my memory and enhance my other brain skills,...
View ArticleDisconnect, An Ex-Googler’s Social Enterprise/Privacy Startup, Raises $3.5M,...
As we continue to see more details brought to light in how the government requests and uses information about what we do on the web and on our mobile devices, an ex-Googler and a consumer rights...
View ArticleDavid Pogue Discusses Dashlane on CBS This Morning
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View ArticleLumosity analyzes brain function of 40M people to push neuroscience forward
Lumosity is pushing the frontiers of neuroscience. Today, the brain-training startup revealed findings from its Human Cognition Project – an initiative that gives researchers access to its data to...
View ArticleDigital First Media partners with NewsCred for content boost
Two of the more forward-looking companies in the digital news space announced a strategic partnership today: the venture arm of Digital First Media will sign up with syndication service NewsCred to...
View ArticleArtisan Mobile raises $5.5M to update your mobile app’s design on the fly
For developers, app stores are both a blessing and a curse. While they offer a simple way to push your wares to mobile devices, you need to resubmit native mobile apps — those built entirely for a...
View ArticleUsing Pinterest’s social cred to get in-store shoppers to make purchases
It’s pretty common now to see a local restaurant post Yelp reviews or Zagat ratings on their storefront windows, showing the number of stars they got or positive reviews gathered as a sort of social...
View ArticleVirtual Piggy Teams Up with Live Gamer
Virtual Piggy, Inc. (OTCBB: VPIG), an innovator in safe youth payments, today announced that it will provide its youth-friendly payment system to Live Gamer. Live Gamer is the leading global...
View ArticlePaymill and Shopify team up for no fuss online stores and payments
White-label online store creator Shopify has teamed up with payment processor Paymill to offer its customers a no-fuss way of integrating payments into their stores. Shopify allows businesses or...
View ArticleEMC Acquires Aveksa Inc., Leading Provider of Business-Driven Identity and...
Aveksa Joins RSA Security Division to Help Transform Authentication and Identity Management Across Enterprise, Mobile and Cloud Environments News Summary: EMC Corporation announced it has acquired...
View ArticleEMC’s RSA division acquires Aveksa as it expands cloud services
EMC Corp’s RSA security division said it had acquired Aveksa Inc, a provider of cloud-based services that businesses use to verify the identity people accessing corporate networks and Web-based...
View ArticlePinterest now has 70 million users and is steadily gaining momentum outside...
A new study released today from Semiocast, the Paris-based social meda research firm, reveals that Pinterest has currently has over 70 million users, and that 45 percent of new users that registered in...
View ArticleRick Heitzmann on Bloomberg: How to Protect Personal Data Online
Rick Heitzmann discusses online privacy and Disconnect.me on Bloomberg TV. The post Rick Heitzmann on Bloomberg: How to Protect Personal Data Online appeared first on FirstMark Capital.
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