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Ferrari raises over €1.8 million for families of earthquake victims

Shane McGlaun

Ferrari held an auction where it sold off a one-of-a-kind 599XXEVO racing car along with a bunch of other Ferrari items. The auction was held for charity in an effort to raise money to benefit the families of the victims of earthquakes that struck on May 20 and May 29th at Emilia-Romagna. The auction raised

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21 Jun 2012

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You Can Have a Cup of Coffee With Tim Cook for $90,000

feeds.mashable.com Emily Price 24 days ago

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Have you always wanted to meet Tim Cook? Those dreams can now become a reality — if you happen to have $90,000, that is.A posting on the site Charity Buzz is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit down and have coffee with Cook at Apple’s headquarters to the highest bidder. The experience will be for two people, and will last between 30 minutes and an hour. All of the auction's proceeds will benefit the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights.Bidding has currently gotten up to $90,000, with 20 days left in the auction and 35 bids. The listing was originally estimated at... Read similar

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DailyWorth Raises Additional $1 Million For Series A

techcrunch.com Michael Seo 25 days ago

DailyWorth, an online community for financially minded women, is adding $1 million to their existing Series A round of funding. The money comes sixteen months after DailyWorth raised $2 million in their Series A last January. This additional influx of investments was led by DFJ Gotham, while additional investors include Gabriel Investments, 500 Startups, Robinhood Ventures, Investors’ Circle, Bullet Time Ventures, Patient Capital Collaborative, Joanne Wilson, Rebecca Saeger, Carol Chow, Diego Canoso, and Mark Censits. The money raised will be used for “growth and key hires” as DailyWorth... Read similar

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College Students Raise $375K for Boston Charity

feeds.mashable.com Eric Larson 25 days ago

Within hours of last Monday's Boston Marathon bombing, a pair of college students had already scraped together a plan to raise money for victims and their families. Nick Reynolds and Chris Dobens, from Emerson College in Boston, contacted Milwaukee-based design company Ink to the People on Monday night with hopes to design and distribute T-shirts that read "Boston Strong," and donate all collected proceeds to One Fund Boston, a charity organized to help those most affected by the attack. Despite an initial goal of $1,500, the two raised more than $375,000 for the charity in seven days. "The... Read similar

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Remitly, Formerly BeamIt, Raises $2.6M More For International Mobile Money Transfers

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 131 days ago

Mobile payments platform Remitly (formerly BeamIt), which allows U.S. users to transfer money overseas, has raised an additional $2.6 million, bringing its total raise to date to $5.1 million. The new investment comes from Trilogy Equity Partnership, making this a strategic move from Remitly, as Trilogy is known for its mobile expertise, investing in mobile startups like the now Rapid7-owned Mobilisafe and Lookout, for example, while also currently operating wireless carriers in the Caribbean and Latin America.Read similar

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Chevrolet’s first 2014 Corvette Stringray sold at auction for $1.1 million

www.slashgear.com Brittany Hillen 117 days ago

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Chevrolet has sold its first 2014 Corvette Stingray for a cool $1.1 million to Rick Hendrick, who owns a NASCAR team. The sale took place at the Barrett-Jackson car auction in Arizona shortly after the vehicle was unveiled at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. Hendrick will receive the car this summer – complete with all Read The Full StoryRead similar

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Social Publishing FTW: With 40M Users, Jonah Peretti’s BuzzFeed Raises Another $19.3M Led By NEA

techcrunch.com Ingrid Lunden 135 days ago

BuzzFeed, the online social publishing powerhouse with 40 million readers started and headed by Jonah Peretti, today announced that it has raised another $19.3 million to continue building out its empire. The Series D round was led by new investor NEA with existing investors RRE, Hearst, SoftBank, and Lerer Ventures also participating, as well as new investors Michael and Kass Lazerow — the founders of a social empire of another sort, Buddy Media. The funding takes the total raised by BuzzFeed to $46.3 million. Some believe that we are entering a period in which the big social media comp... Read similar

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BonitaSoft Raises $13M Series C For Its Open Source Business Process Management Solution

techcrunch.com Steve O'Hear 2 days ago

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BonitaSoft, a provider of an open source business process management (BPM) solution, has raised a $13 million Series C round led by the FSN PME Fund, a French government initiative to invest in technology companies to help them scale globally. Also joining the round are previous investors Ventech, Auriga Partners, and Serena Capital. The new funding round brings the total raised by the company to just over $28 million since being founded in 2009, and follows an $11m Series B in late 2011. BonitaSoft is headquartered in Grenoble, France — hence the French government’s backing —... Read similar

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Credit Scorer Kreditech Raises ‘Around $3.5M' From Samwers And Others

techcrunch.com Mike Butcher 26 days ago

Last month Oliver and Marc Samwer — founders of the Rocket Internet startup incubator — launched Global Founders Capital, a new €150 million ($194 million) fund aimed at any and all startups worldwide. This month one of the first startups to benefit from that will be credit scoring startup Kreditech which has raised an undisclosed amount said to be "low to mid 7 digits". We've heard USD$3.5 / EUR€3 million. This is in addition to the $4M is raised at the end of last year. Kreditech is live in the Czech Republic, Spain and Poland but, according to co-founder Felix Haas, will also soon launch in... Read similar

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Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of The World's Most Expensive Domain Names

www.businessinsider.com Alyson Shontell 138 days ago

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Page Howe hasn't always been lucky in business. But in 2007, he struck gold when two domain names his company owned were acquired for more than $1 million each.He sold Seniors.com, which he purchased for $100,000, for $1.8 million (or $1.5 million after commission). A few months later, he sold Guy.com for $1 million. He had only owned the domain for about a month. Howe first came to our attention when we were digging through the most expensive domain names of all time. DNJournal's August 2008 cover story reveals how the failed dotcom chairman cashed in big with a domain business.Howe was born ... Read similar

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Ferrari LaFerrari super exotic goes official in Geneva

www.slashgear.com Shane McGlaun 74 days ago

Sting, Cher, Stig, some people are so famous or infamous that they don’t need last names. Ferrari apparently thinks it’s new hypercar fits in the same category. The car is called the Ferrari LaFerrari. That may well be the worst name possible for the car (Ferrari The Ferrari?). Thankfully, the only bad part about the Read The Full StoryRead similar

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Logic3 and Ferrari unveil an AirPlay speaker – VROOM

the-gadgeteer.com Bill Henderson 34 days ago

Logic3 has introduced the Scuderia FS1 Air speaker dock from their Ferrari Audio lineup of speakers and headphones:. The design is inspired by Scuderia Racing Team’s work with Ferrari. The Speaker looks fast with a sloping front nose and a raised spoiler in the rear. Even the two rear-facing speaker grills look like classic tailpipe [...]Read similar

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T-Mobile raises iPhone down payment amount

www.tuaw.com Steven Sande 5 days ago

The launch of the iPhone 5 on the T-Mobile USA network last month was greeted with a lot of fanfare and a new pricing structure -- customers could pick up a 16 GB iPhone 5 with a US$99.99 down payment and then make 24 payments of $20 to purchase the phone outright. TmoNews reports that the down payment on all iPhone 5 models has been raised by $50, which raises the cost of the least expensive unlocked iPhone 5 to $630.That's not all that much less than the price of an unlocked 16 GB iPhone 5 from Apple -- $650. Of course, there's no monthly payment option if you buy direct from Apple. Customer... Read similar

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Fashion Project, The Site Making Online Shopping A Charitable Act, Raises $1.8 Million In Seed Funding

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 40 days ago

Recent TechStars Boston grad Fashion Project has a different take on the second-hand apparel market. It operates an online store where women can donate their high-end designer items, and others can re-purchase them for less than retail, knowing that the majority of sales are donated directly to charity. The company has now attracted the interest of investors, too, and days ago closed on $1.8 million in seed funding from Atlas Ventures, High Peak Ventures, Schooner Capital, and other angel investors.Read similar

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Original 1966 Batmobile auctions for $4.2 million

www.slashgear.com Craig Lloyd 118 days ago

It happened, folks. The original Batmobile from the 1966 Batman film was auctioned off yesterday at the Barrett-Jackson house in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Adam West-driven, George Barris-built movie car sold for a whopping $4.2 million, which almost meets the record for the most-expensive movie car sold at auction, which was the Aston Martin DB5 driven Read The Full StoryRead similar

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This Earthquake Sensor Is Powered By the Very Earthquakes It Senses

gizmodo.com Eric Limer 175 days ago

#earthquakes There's no doubt that earthquakes can be powerful, and usually the bulk of that power goes to destroying things. While you can't stop an earthquake from quaking earth, a Victoria University student has found a way to divert some of that energy to monitoring the quake it came from. More » Read similar

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AppNexus Raises $75 Million (MSFT, YHOO, GOOG)

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 114 days ago

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Programmatic ad-buying exchange AppNexus just raised $75 million from TCV. That's a lot of money! It also makes AppNexus that much less likely to be acquired by Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, or Google any time soon. It's may be too pricey now. IPO or bust? Here's a blog post from CEO Brian O'Kelley: I’m excited to announce that AppNexus has closed on a Series D round of $75 million, led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). There are so many people to thank – our early investors (especially Ben, Marc, Ron, and Josh), our mentors and advisors (esp... Read similar

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Video Management Startup Kaltura Raises Another $25 Million To Expand Into Asia

techcrunch.com Ryan Lawler 179 days ago

Video management startup Kaltura is growing fast, but it’s looking to expand even more, and has raised even more money to do so. The company has closed a $25 million Series D round of funding, which includes money from new investors Mitsui Global Investment and Orix Ventures. Existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital,.406 Ventures, and Avalon Ventures also participated in the round. Mitsui’s participation is strategic, as Kaltura looks to expand more into the Asia-Pacific market. Kaltura differentiates itself from online video platforms like Brightcove and Ooyala in ... Read similar

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What Actually Happens When A Startup Raises A Boatload Of Money And Fails

www.businessinsider.com Alyson Shontell 50 days ago

What happens when startups raise a bunch of money then fails to get a decent-size exit? Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson says it's usually plays out one of two ways: 1. Founders "slog it out" for years -- sometimes decades -- until it finally becomes a real business, but not one that is great. Wilson says this is the more "painful" scenario. "It means that there is a business that can be built, but it won't be one that makes the VCs much money and because it takes so much time and money to "slog it out", it doesn't make the entrepreneur much money either," he writes. 2. The startup "hits a w... Read similar

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Axcient Raises $20M To Help Companies Backup And Protect Data

techcrunch.com Leena Rao 120 days ago

Axcient, the hybrid cloud-based data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity startup, has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by Scale Venture Partners and Thomvest Ventures with Peninsula Ventures and Allegis Capital participating. This brings the company's total funding to $53.5 million.Read similar

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Tim Cook coffee date auction surpasses half a million

www.slashgear.com Craig Lloyd 22 days ago

If you haven’t heard, Apple CEO Tim Cook is auctioning off a coffee date with him, with all the money going to charity. After almost two days of bidding, with 18 days left to go still, the highest bid so far as surpassed the $500,000 mark, even though the auction listing puts a $50,000 estimated Read The Full StoryRead similar

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