


Facebook ads: cost per impression up 186%, cost per click up 35%, revenue per click up 83%

Last.fm users now have access to Spotify’s 20M song library

HowAboutWe forms media network to explore love, sex, dating, relationships, and … rhinos?

Google ordered to pay as much as $1 billion to patent troll Vringo

Clean Wave takes $8.8M for electric car tech

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3 things to expect from the burgeoning hardware startup space in 2014

Companies dig Facebook-style hardware, server maker Quanta says

Verizon brings wireless coverage to 35 NYC subway stations

Apple is testing new Apple TVs with an integrated router and TV tuner

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Umang Gupta: 4 things I learned from a career in tech startups

Feedzai launches fraud detection software in U.S. to help retailers stop data theft

Ensighten takes $40M to remove the clutter from marketers’ toolboxes

Four tips on how not to get hacked, from someone who lost a Twitter username worth $50K

More companies want in on Facebook’s open-source data center experiment

GutCheck gets $4M to help you bounce business ideas off potential customers

Funding Daily: Teamwork edition

Google & Lego team up to build a virtual brick-building playground

HomeHero connects you with caregivers for the aging adults in your life

Instacart is growing faster than you can say ‘Begone, grocery stores’

Give kids free rein to read with Epic’s eBook subscription service for ages 12 & under

Cotap grabs $10M to bring business messaging to all employees — even your barista

Cosmetics startup Julep whizzes by rivals with its crowdsourced approach to making makeup

Yahoo down second quarter in a row, Mayer cultists be damned

AT&T sees a big $6.9B profit — but still gets trounced by Verizon

Federated Media sells its content-marketing arm to focus on programmatic ads

Medium raises $25M, so founder Ev Williams doesn’t have to keep funding it himself

Can tech innovation curb gun violence? Smart Tech poses 4 million-dollar challenges to find out

PayPal executive Mike Liberatore leaves for mobile payments startup Clinkle

This telepresence robot is missing legs and wheels — on purpose

London’s GoCardless nabs $7M to help businesses accept direct debits online

VCs bet $100M that Health Catalyst can take on Oracle & IBM

GetGlue rebrands as ‘TVtag’ to focus more on TV curation

Global Internet speeds climbed 29% year-over-year (report)

Intel’s offline voice recognition tech could be a Siri-killer

The World Bank Group’s IFC invests in Rocket Internet startups

Cloudyn brings its cost management tools to Google’s cloud

1 smartphone for every 7 humans: Smartphone shipments top a billion in 2013
