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4 Kickstarter projects take on tech giants in the wearables industry

HootSuite uses part of its massive $165M round to form a skunkworks (exclusive)

Fiksu will help measure the horribly depressing costs of acquiring mobile app users and gamers

Mobile publisher finds its gamers are older, make more than $50K, and play while watching TV

New Canadian accelerator launches to nurture Bitcoin startups

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16M+ websites sprout up every month. But who’s creating them? (Infographic)

Danal and Billeo let you autofill those awful mobile billing forms

GamesAnalytics rebrands as DeltaDNA to improve player engagement

Russian advertising platform CityAds raises $5M to go global

DabKick rolls out a revamped version of its painless media sharing app (exclusive)

Possible IPO signal: Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez joins Gigya’s board of directors

Founders Fund raises a big $1B fund to plunk into startups

Target CIO leaves in wake of security breach as chip cards move in

Funding Daily: March 5, 2013

TownSquared quietly picks up $5.26M to create local business communities

Titanfall will have at least 3 downloadable map packs — and a $25 season pass

StreamLink gets $3.5M to make grant management less tedious

Titanfall arcade: Respawn and EA slap mechs into classic games to hype upcoming sci-fi shooter

Nasdaq launches private market for trading pre-IPO shares

Chinese Twitter clone Weibo plots an $8B IPO in the U.S.

Javelin raises $1.5M to help enterprises innovate without the bloat

AppZero gets $3M in funding to give old Windows servers a leg up

How activists forced Facebook’s hand on gun policy

Boxever picks up $6M to bring big data skills to airlines & travel sites

Elon Musk tells Congress: Space would be cheaper if the gov’t supported competition

NASA puts its asteroid-moving mission into a video game

TripleLift snaps up $4M to truly automate native advertising

Free-to-play pioneers raise $2M for new mobile studio in Barcelona

SAP enhances its cloud menu with new pricing, genome processing, and more

Yahoo buys Vizify, a startup that turns social data into pretty pictures

SendGrid has sent out almost as many emails as McDonald’s has sold burgers

GamesBeat Giveaway: Project Spark beta for Xbox One

FreedomPop launches smartphone that’s invisible to the NSA

Facebook takes steps to block illegal gun sales

Zynga spares its YoVille social game from the ax

Social networking will win the console wars

Jack Dorsey-backed Peek raises $5M, plans Latin America launch for 2014
