TechFlash: Robot crashes bitcoin expo; Benchmark's new fund; Box's funding

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December 6, 2013

Robot steals show at Plug and Play bitcoin-themed expo (Video) The theme was bitcoins at Plug and Play Tech Center's winter expo on Thursday but the star was a 5-foot, 500-pound security robot that greeted several hundred attendees on their way in. Benchmark confirms new $425M fund, minus 2 co-founders Benchmark Capital, an early backer of Twitter, confirmed on Friday that it raised $425 million in a new fund in a regulatory filing that left off two of the firm's co-founders. Box's new $112M funding ups value to $2B as company seeks global growth Cloud storage company Box has brought in $112 million in funding from several Japanese investors to help fuel its international expansion in Asia, a sum that puts the company's valuation at nearly $2 ... 23andMe retrenches in skirmish with FDA Personal genome tester 23andMe said on Thursday it has stopped reporting health-related information for new customers. Jack Dorsey's Square battles with SoftBank for Japanese clientele Mobile-payments startup Square Inc. is going head to head with the second-richest man in Japan, SoftBank Corp.'s Masayoshi Son, in a price war over Japanese credit-card transactions. More founder & funder news House targets patent trolls, but will small businesses be hit as well? Scardino or not, Twitter and peers need more women board members 6 lessons Nelson Mandela leaves for entrepreneurs Its political clout growing, PolicyMic talks Obamacare with millennials

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