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The curious, the lavish, and the best, most pointless news of CES 2017
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Price.com raises $2 million to hunt for low prices on ecommerce sites
Cloud automation company Logicworks raises $135 million
Move over, Cheezburger: Blog ‘written by animals’ fetches $2.3 million
MoneyLion raises $22.5 million to change how you spend your money with AI
‘AI for healthcare’ developer analyticsMD raises $13 million
Yewno raises $6.5 million more to help publishers ‘digest’ long form content
Zarget raises $6 million to let small businesses create their own marketing strategies
FreshDesk raises $55 million for its customer support SaaS platform
Everything Apple announced today: New MacBook Pros, ‘TV,’ updated MacBook Air, and that’s it
Everything Microsoft announced today: Surface Studio, new Surface Book, Paint 3D, and more
Social activism platform Viewly snags $1.3 million
Wavefront raises $52 million for its cloud-based data analytics software
Bumpers raises $1 million for its podcast creation app
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FlashStock raises $1.5 million for on-demand marketing service
Kindly Care raises $3.1 million to launch elder care marketplace
Greylock Partners raises $1 billion for its 15th fund
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