Trion Worlds has pumped new life into its fantasy online role-playing game Rift: Planes of Telara by adding in-game rewards from gamer social network Raptr. The results of new rewards: 470 percent more daily active users and 58 percent longer play sessions. After five years of development, Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion launched Rift in March [...]
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Austin-based re:3D just started a Kickstarter campaign for the Gigabot, a large-format 3D printer designed to build things on a 24x24x24 inch built envelope, allowing you to make much larger objects than you can with similar printers like the Makerbot. You can get the bot kit for $2,500 or a pre-assembled unit for $4,000. The [...]
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China’s Xiaomi has proven itself to be pretty great at selling phones, but the company surprised a lot of people when it announced it would be selling a set-top box last fall. Unfortunately, shortly after that announcement came the news that the box wouldn’t be going on sale after all as it had run afoul [...]
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Streaming music service Rdio has made its service available in seven new countries — Mexico, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, and Austria — and has opened up free music streaming to users in Brazil. Rdio has had trouble collecting new users compared to competitors Spotify and Rhapsody, and so it has been expanding its service [...]
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If the world were cooler, this is what VPN tunnels would look like. VPNs are useful for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that they help you hop over China’s Great Firewall and evade the country’s web censorship. But most Chinese net users don’t have VPNs, in part because they tend [...]
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Domo, the business intelligence startup founded by Josh James, the former CEO of Omniture just announced that it has raised a $60 million series B round of venture capital funding. The round brings Domo’s total capital raised to a whopping $125 million and change. The round’s participants reads like a phone book of venture capital [...]
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Domo, the business intelligence startup founded by Josh James, the former CEO of Omniture just announced that it has raised a $60 million series B round of venture capital funding. The round brings Domo’s total capital raised to a whopping $125 million and change. The round’s participants reads like a phone book of venture capital [...]
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Our regular Funding Daily reporter is off this week sunning her hard-working carcass in Hawaii. You know what that means: No more witty headlines for you! While we’ll do our best to fill Rebecca Grant‘s supremely funny shoes, we simply can’t live up to her trademark one-liners about sriracha, Clydesdales, and the ups and downs [...]
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If someone Instagrams a picture of your messy shoe store, or texts a pic of that hair they found in their salad, your business is at risk. But while you can’t stop people from sharing their observations, one company wants to help you use them. OpinionLab gives businesses the opportunity to let that stream of [...]
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NASA space observatory sends back a couple more mind-blowingly beautiful images of the sun.
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