


How a homeless person moved an audience of tech workers to tears at Launch conference

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5 of the oldest U.S. tech companies — and their unusual histories

Twitch Plays Pokémon inspires ambitious Zelda, Mario, and Street Fighter spin-offs

Physical storage in ‘the cloud’? MakeSpace launches Air service

Pokémon anime coming to Netflix this weekend

Look, Ma, I’m Googling with no hands in Chrome’s latest beta

Crime-fighting robot maker Knightscope scores million-dollar seed round

Yoshi’s New Island makes us question all of his dino-egg tossing (preview)

Why this Dutch carrier is the first to sell the Blackphone — the ultimate secure smartphone

Veteran developers’ new take on a 30-year-old wizard game comes together in the cloud

ClearSlide hooks $50M for its WebEx killer for sales

Murdered: Soul Suspect turns a ghost story into a fascinating, original video game (hands-on preview)

Smule’s Open Mic uploads your karaoke songs from the Web (exclusive)
Institutional Venture Partners Opens New Office in San Francisco

Live from London: U.K. game conventions turn to Twitch to broadcast expos online

Citing privacy concerns, U.S. government won’t share NSA reform proposals

Formspring creator launches Loop, an app for sharing animated GIFs with friends

Dining payments startup Dash raises $1.2M to expand in N.Y. & launch in Chicago

Google aims for a basic $50 modular phone next year, dishes more on Project Ara

How far has Bitcoin come in the past year? This report tells all

5 offbeat finds from Mobile World Congress: A beer brewing app, super-secure phone, and more

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Want to go big in social? Don’t be Facebook, Jr.

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Berlin VC: Here’s what we look for in cloud software startups

Nintendo pulling the plug on Wii and DS online gaming (updated)

Warner Bros. rumored to consider investment in YouTube video site Machinima

Passwords? Nah. Nok Nok Labs takes $16.5M for the next generation of authentication

GitHub introduces a text editor to beat all text editors

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Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes

Knox Payments launches with $900K to speed up painfully slow online check-outs

GetInsured launches its Healthcare.gov alternative

MasterCard and Syniverse join forces to make traveling abroad safer for your credit card

Digital card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will soon have unlockable decorative card backs

Former CIA tech chief is on the prowl for big data & wearables startups (exclusive)

Funding Daily: February 26, 2014

Google’s next developer conference is all about modular smartphones

Minecraft is mainstream with 100M registered PC accounts and 14.3M copies sold

Square snaps up BookFresh to move beyond payments

PayPal’s vision for payments: Never enter a 16-digit number again (exclusive)
