11/21/2013

TechFlash: Box raising $100M more; Jared Fliesler's first funding

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November 21, 2013

Box raising $100M more as storage wars heat up

Box last month authorized the sale of another $100 million in equity as competition with Dropbox and others in the storage and file-sharing secor grows.




Google, Square vet Jared Fliesler's first VC deal is Locality

Jared Fliesler's first funding deal is a company he was working with before the 29-year-old left Square to be a VC at Matrix Partners in March.




Wevorce raises $1.7M as it opens more offices

Divorce mediation startup Wevorce has raised about $1.7 million in new funding and announced plans to open five new offices to meet with clients.




Smart glasses maker moves closer to making vein hunting easier for nurses

The most nerve-wracking part of a hospital stay can be the hunt for elusive veins — when the medical professional searches, sometimes painfully, for a usable vessel in your arm to start an IV.




Coursera founder Ng counters MOOC criticism, aims for corporate market

Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng doesn't buy into a recent assertion by fellow Stanford professor and education entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun that Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, are a "lousy product."




Uber gives away free rides in Silicon Valley during Thanksgiving week

Uber will be giving away free rides for its uberX ridesharing service to customers in the South Bay for a week beginning Nov. 25 and ending Dec. 1, the company announced today.




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