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		<title>Patent trolls hurt R&amp;D say scholars in letter to Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Be careful about changing patent law -- it could harm innovation," is a favorite talking point for those who oppose plans to reform to America's troubled patent system. But what if the opposite is true? What&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Media veteran John Battelle launches NewCo to focus on social change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Wired and Industry Standard founder John Battelle has taken some of the ideas behind his Web 2.0 conference and created a new festival-conference hybrid called NewCo, aimed at companies that&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Y Combinator doubles down on hardware startups with new resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signe Brewster]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citing a growing number of investments in hardware companies, Y Combinator announced today it will integrate two prototyping labs and expert hardware partners into its startup accelerator. Y Combinator will build&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Taboola gets $117M in funding to build a Google Now for content</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda started the company in 2007 to do video recommendations, and now it is one of the largest content platforms on the web -- and has&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>This is the year we find out whether new media can scale or not</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment funds and traditional media entities have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into new-media entities like Vice, BuzzFeed, Vox and Business Insider over the past six months, but will these&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud texter ZipWhip raises $5M Series B</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/28/cloud-texter-zipwhip-raises-5m-series-b/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/28/cloud-texter-zipwhip-raises-5m-series-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ZipWhip, a startup that is extending SMS beyond the mobile phone, has raised a $5 million Series B round led by Chicago private equity firm Ronin Capital. ZipWhip has a cloud-based messaging&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Robotics funding is off to a hot start in 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signe Brewster]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robotics hardware startups have already raised more than $51.9 million in 2015 thus far, bolstered by home robotics startup Jibo's $25.3 million Series A round Tuesday. That's chump change for a lot of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Ringly scores $5.1M for future wearables and collaborations</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/21/ringly-scores-5-1m-for-future-wearables-and-collaborations/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/21/ringly-scores-5-1m-for-future-wearables-and-collaborations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stacey Higginbotham]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ringly, which makes a line of connected rings, has raised $5.1M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from High Line Ventures and Silas Capital. The funds will&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Open Garden raises $11M as it adds more features to FireChat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Garden has built a name for itself with FireChat, an off-grid messaging app taken up by protest movements around the world, and it’s technology hasn’t gone unnoticed by the VC&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Zendrive wants to help on-demand car services find better drivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quantified driving Zendrive doesn’t just want to grade our own behaviors behind the wheel, but also those of the taxi drivers and car-sharers that chauffeur us around our cities.]]></description>
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