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 Zesty   Series A聽follows an expanded seed intake of $2 million, in April 2014, after attracting initial  undisclosed  seed funding in聽January 2013, led by Mangrove Capital.The startup聽beta launched its booking platform in London back in May 2013, focusing on private and NHS stanley cup  dental services to test its business model. From there it expanded to聽include other healthcare verticals, such as聽private gen stanley cup spain eral practitioners;聽physiotherapy;聽osteopathy;聽chiropractic; podiatry; sports massage; facial cosmetics; and sexual health services   and to other U.K. cities.It   currently live in聽15+ towns and cities in the U.K., and says it   aiming to step that up to all  main  U.K. towns and cities by the end of the year. It has聽3,500+ healthcare professionals signed up to its booking platform in the U.K. as of now  up from 2,000+ in April 2014 , and says it has 40,000 users booking appoint stanley quencher ments via Zesty each聽month.Its聽new funding will go towards accelerating growth i

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 Ryan CraigContributorRyan Craig is managing director of Achieve Partners, an investment firm focused at the intersection of education and employment, and author of  A New U: Faster +  stanley termosas Cheaper Alternatives to College. More posts from Ryan CraigSince colleges are failing to prepare students for tech jobs, it s time to bring back apprenticeshipsThe new marketplaces connecting school and workMy 11-year-old son Leo has a strange new obsession: the state of Connecticut. It started with a school project but has evolved to ordering Connecti stanley mug cut license plates online, a new favorite baseball team  the minor league Hartford Yard Goats聽  Go Goats!  and a new hobby: writing Wikipedia entries on Connecticut topics.His first Wikipedia entries were obscure Connecticut state roads  Routes 539, 607 and, of course,聽664, among others . He also did one on the new Earth Tower of  stanley cup the Mohegan Sun Casino. Subsequently, as a result of the fact that his Wikipedia overlords wouldn t let him post photos of th Qoow The Next Don: How VCs Plan For The Future
 Outlook.com, a key project for Microsoft, has over 400 million users. The successor to Hotmail, Outlook.com is Microsoft   mail vision for all mobile platforms. According to Microsoft, 68% of Outlook.com users hit up their digital missives from their mobile device, so having a strong application set matters.If you are an Outlook,com and Android user, this update will contain at least a few things that you like. You can now sync all your mail to your device, if you want to burn the storage capacity. If you want to be able to find any message you want, but not download the lot, Microsoft has added server-side search to the Android app. A different question: How did it聽not have that feature before Microsoft has also added a new color set to the app, and introduced support for aliases, along with vacation replies. Taken altog stanley cups ether, the Android now appears to  stanley uk be a fully functional mail experience. I can ;t imagine what using it previously was like.聽Before, over  stanley coffee mug more than 10,000 r

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 Taobao, Alibaba   hugel stanley puodelis y popular marketplace, is among 25 e-commerce sites to feature in the latest USTR & 8216;Notorious Markets ; lis stanley drink bottle t. The annual list roots out physical and digital marketplaces that are adjudged to be  engaging in and facilitating substantial c stanley cup opyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting. The key concern of the report on Taobao is around how Alibaba works with IP holders to remove counterfeit listings and prevent sales of unlicensed goods. A high volume of infringing products reportedly continue to be offered for sale and sold on Taobao.com and stakeholders continue to report challenges and burdens associated with IP enforcement on the platform,  the report said of Taobao, which is a key service that helps Alibaba reach聽488 million Chinese consumers each year.The USTR acknowledged that Alibaba has taken steps to improve the situation, but it noted that  important unresolved聽concerns remained.  In particular, the report Dpsp Chrome Should Soon Be Easier On Your Mac   s Battery
 Sail will continue to exist on life support, essentially. VeriFone will be offering third-party partner customer support, and will provide those third-parties with dongle hardware and payment gateway access, but will discontinue any efforts around acquiring customers for the service, risk management or customer billing in its U.S. business. The company will however look into offering a version for global markets that works with EMV  chip and pin  tech, VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron said during the call.Bergeron said that the only way companies will thrive in this space, so far as he can see, will be i botella stanley n providing other services on top of the basic payment processing that will raise margins and the average revenue brought in per merchant. The cost of acquiring customers, vs. what they actually pay ou stanley cups t do stanley flask esn ;t work, he suggested, especially given that use of the services by the kinds of very small independent merchants the systems are designed for tend to be occasional, infrequent and

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 Was it a reasonably priced mid-sized sedan with ample leg room for passengers in the back  Was it a small, well-equipped compact SUV with room for聽all the kids  bags and all-wheel drive for better control in adverse conditions  Was it even a two-door sports car with exaggerated curves and more power than any public road could ever need Chances are, it was none of the above. More likely, it was a dinosaur wearing a saddle. Or a robot space horse. Or the Enterprise s shuttle. Or an Incom T-16 Skyhopper. Or the Batmobile.The point is t stanley cup hat the  car  that likely first filled you with wonder bear stanley us s no resemblance to the first one you ever rode in. Instead, your first vehicular experience was probably far more down to earth. Rather than a space-age conveyance, it was probably a station wagon or a van, or perhaps a bus o stanley tumbler r a taxi. And what s more disappointing still is that, compared to that first car you ever rode in, the cars of today seem, on balance, little changed.Don t pass the pace carFor Wntv Lattice Engines Raises $20M For Predictive Analytics Platform To Increase Sales
 The company says that Battelle and Brown will be working together during March  to ensure a seamless transition.  Brown joined Federated in 2009 as president and chief ope vaso stanley rating officer, and replaced Battelle as CEO a little more than a year later.Brown said in the press release that she ;ll be stanley cups  announcing a new venture in a couple of weeks.In a post on his own blog,聽Battelle offers more details on the decision. He says that Brown told him earlier this year that she wanted to work on & 8220 omething smaller and more directly related to content creation,  and they discussed possible replacements:And then it hit me 鈥?quite literally in mid-sentence while on a Board call. Why the hell don t I simply step back in  I love this company, I am passionate about the Independent Web, and to be honest, I see a huge opportunity in front of us. What am I, nuts  Why didn t I stanley cup tumbler  think of it the moment Deanna told me of her decision Battelle notes that he stepped back from a day-to-

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 Dan FinniganContributorDan Finnigan is the CEO of Jobvite.Silicon Valley and the tech industry have been getting considerable heat lately. The San Francisco housing crisis and gentrification in the Bay Area are some common examples. It doesn ;t feel good聽  especially to a hard-working, risk-taking community committed to not only building big businesses, but making the world a better place.The tech industry has done much to stanley quencher  improve the standard of living, health and prospects of the Bay Area. But not everyone has benefited. We need to open our eyes to the full impact on stanley website  the commun stanley cups ity in which we operate and live聽  and provide it greater empathy and support than we do.We are among the most fortunate people in the history of the world. The average salary for a software engineer in the Bay Area is $103,367. That puts Silicon Valley s  average Joe  in the top 20 percent of American wage earners. The distorting effect of large inflows of this kind of wealth into the Bay Area Mshm Apple Watch Series 2 Review
 But it was also a time for gadgets. As we wait for 2013 to come to a close and hope for brighter things for the year to come, here   a look at the gadgets we loved, the ones we hated, and the ones that we found aesthetically offensive.The GoodThe Fitbit ForceFitness trackers are many and varied, but Fitbit consistently delivers top-notch hardware. The Fitbit Force is the latest. It takes the successful formula of the wrist-borne Fitbit Flex and adds a basic screen so you can get info stanley universitario rmation right from your wrist, instead of having to open an app on your phone every time you want to check your progress  in mor vaso stanley e detail than via a few lighted dots .The PebbleMany tried to make a smartwatch people wanted to wear and use this year, and many failed. Pebble succeeded. Success for a smartwatch still doesn ;t look like massive millions of units sold, but it looks better than when the Pebble team tried this a few years ago  stanley water bottle with the inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry.  The what &

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 But why should you put your startup on display in Startup Alley  Because it  聽the be stanley tumbler st way to connect you with the hundreds of startup enthusiasts, industry experts and venture capitalists that can help your sta stanley tumblers rtup get to the next level. Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt lets you make three months ; worth of connections in just three days.Most of the TechCrunch staff attends Disrupt聽alongside dozens of other members of the press that could give your startup the coverage it needs. So, in addition to walking away from the Manhattan Center with scores of new industry contacts, you could find your startup in the public   eye.The best startup  as determined by audience vote  in Startup Alley each day wins an entry into the Startup Battlefield for the chance to win $50,000, the coveted Disrupt Cup and the attention of the tech community.It costs just $1,995 to display your startup in Startup Alley, and that scores y stanley bottles ou two all-access passes to TechCrunch Disrupt, which are

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Kclh NTSB says fatal Tesla Autopilot crash caused in part by resulting inattention
 The two students, Kenny Jones and Derrick Bonafilia, were computer science students who stumbled across the聽Martin Arjovsky  聽Wasserstein GAN  WGAN  earlier this year. WGAN, a more sta stanley tumblers ble cousin of the  stanley puodelis basic GAN, turned out to be a great tool for both learning artistic style and generating new art.GANs traditionally involve a generator and a discriminator interacting via an adversarial relationship. The generator is trying to create an image artificially that tricks the discriminator into thinking it is real. Simultaneously, the discriminator wants to reject as many fake images as possible.Generator versus discriminatorUnfortunately, GANs are notoriously unstable   to the detriment of anything they ;re applied to. Fortunately, the聽Wasserstein modifications made GANs stable enough to produce recognizable art.聽The team used the WikiArt database of 100,000 labeled paintings as training material.To maximize the performance of the model, the team added an extra compo stanley termohrnek nent to Azxu Abu Dhabi s state fund just opened for business, right in San Francisco
 Given that all of Google   mobile apps are currently getting the Material Design update, it   no surprise that the company   flagship app is getting the same treatment now, too.What   actually more interesting is that the app is also getting a little bit smarter. One of the new features   powered by the same technology that also makes Google Now possible   is Google& 82 stanley cups 17  ability to monitor your email for messages related to plans you are making with your friends or colleagues but that don ;t involve a formal calendar invite.聽When Google notices those, it ;ll now bring up a prompt in the Google app that asks if you wa stanley quencher nt to be reminded of that  dinner with Alex  you were planning for tonight.That   a pretty nifty new聽feature, but as so often, that also depends on how you feel about Googl stanley quencher e learning more and more about you and your daily habits from  optionally  crawling your Gmail account.The other new feature  though one

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Piqb Fujitsu signs deal to integrate Box cloud storage into its enterprise software
 The company first announced the update in June, with transit directions in Maps, a new Flipboard-style News app and promised improvements to Siri and Spotlight. There will also be iPad-specific features, including support for split-screen apps.聽Developers have already been able to try out early v stanley mug ersions of iOS 9.Much of the recent discussion around iOS 9 has be stanley gertuves en around the new content blocking capabilities, which will allow users to install extensions to block ads and other content in Saf stanley tumblers ari. Wxkj This Week On The TC Europe Podcast: Nokia Gives Up, Seedcamp Invests, Tado Heats Up
 A 500 Startups-backed startup, the company originally grew out of another idea centered around preserving photo  stanley drink bottle memories called聽Storytree. Launched in December 2012, SimplePrints arrived as an iOS application designed to mak stanley cups e the process of building a photo book less time-consuming and complex. With the SimplePrints app, what otherwise could have been a lengthy online project gets boiled down to a few steps. You pick some photos, choose a layout for the book and then checkout.The company sells both 8& 215;8 hardcover and softcover books starting at  stanley cup $14.95, which are printed within 48 hours and shipped internationally within 4 to 7 days. Books orders can be expedited, too, for those last-minute gifts.The idea is that you can spend a few minutes here and there to complete your photo book in less聽30 minutes, instead of having to find聽an聽hour  or more  to build a book online at a site like Shutterfly or Snapfish.  Though it should be noted that Shutterfly    Photo Story 

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Ykku Samsung s Galaxy Note 7 refund program rolls out to Australia and parts of Asia
 Maybe you were out on vacation. Maybe you were focused on that key hire. Maybe you started but forgot to finish the application. Whatever the reason, TechCrunch is giving you one more week to get your application submitted by September 30th at 9pm PDT. Do stanley cups website  it here.Why apply  Aside from stage time and feedback from judges like Klaus Hommelsof Lakestar Capital, Sonali De Rycker of Accel Partners and Daniel Waterhouse of Balderton Capital, Battlefield teams have a lot more behind the scenes to be pumped about.For starters stanley termoska , companies receive pitch coaching from TechCrunch to ensure they knock the socks off our judges. Teams will also receive a free booth in the Battlefield section of Startup Alley to network their way to glory, as well as the opportunity to rub elbows with our speakers and judges at our VIP events. The winner of the Startup Battlefield will also take home the coveted Disrupt Cup and a $50,000 grand prize.Since 2007, the 500+ Star stanley tumblr tup Battlefield alumni have raised $5.2 billi Adru Pearltrees Arrives On Android, Wants To Become The File Manager For The Post-PC Era
 It sounds like the targeting technology remains the same. Drawbridge is still looking at  stanley cups user behavior to suggest when multiple devices are likely being used by the same person, which in turn allows advertisers to use desktop data to improve the targeting of their mobile ads. It   just adding video into the mix, as well.However, co-founder and CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan told me that this is still a significant move for the company. For one thing, there   the general rise in video advertising, particularly on mobile. For another, she said that this should help Drawbridge expand into other advertising categories, such as entertainment and automotive.For example, if someone watches a movie trailer on their computer, Sivaramakrishnan suggested that it   useful for a movie studio to know that, so that they stanley cup  can deliver targeted marketing and promotions to their smartphone.Moving forward, Sivaramakrishnan said she wants to do more t stanley universitario o support different types of  crea

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Rsgc GiveMeSport Raises Series B Round From IMG To Expand In The US
 The launch comes after聽a time when Birchbox had been in the press due to its聽struggles with聽achieving profitability. As Recode reported in August when the startup received a $15 million lifeline from investors in the form of a convertible note, the company had faced numerous challenges over the past year or so. This included a rash of newer competitors like Michelle Phan   Ipsy聽as well as聽layoffs. The report also suggested there may have been struggles with customer churn as current subscribers tired of their boxes, and inefficient marketing spend.  Birchbox denies these claims. Birchbox had聽also shopped for a stanley thermos  potential acquirer last year, The WSJ reported in June, but failed to achieve聽a deal.The idea with Bi stanley termos rchbox is to allow customers to s stanley cups ample beauty products & 8211; like makeup, hair and skin care items, among other things & 8211; through a聽monthly goodie box. Customers are聽then encouraged to buy the full-sized items online. But, as Recode noted, only聽35 percent of Birchbox& Zcwl Google Tipped To Consolidate Communication By Killing Google Voice, Rolling Features Into Hangouts
 Don t touch, just hoverSamsung s S Pen stylus has been upgraded to work both on the touchscreen of the Note 8.0 as well as with the physical navigation buttons, and Samsung is also extending the functionality of the pen in other ways. And the Air View feature, where users can initiate previews by hovering their pen over something without touching the screen, is now getting expanded to third party apps.  stanley cup The first of these  stanley cup is a new version of the Flipboard social newsreading app, where users can select and expand a tile by hovering the pen over a selection.Yes, you can argue that this is more of a gimmick than a useful element at this point: why, exactly, do you need to hover the pen over the over a tile when it s just as easy to tap and select  And isn t the point of the touchscreens that you can  touch  them  But I can also see how this could become more useful as the feature develops and gets used elsewhere. For example, one  stanley termos of the annoying issues with touchscreens are accidental clic

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Xdgc Facebook tests a GIF maker on iOS
 Sadly, this currently only works in the San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno  which Google helpfully tells us is in central California  and Boston  a major city on the East Coast, as far as we are aware .To get started, you simply plug in your address and some data about your monthly electricity bill, and the too stanley tumblers l will tell you what the recommended solar installation size is and聽how much it would cost to buy or lease the hardware.In case you want to go ahead with a solar install, the tool also lets you reach out to local solar providers. Google says these listings are sponsored, so chances are  stanley termo puodeliai it ;ll get a bit of a kickback when it generates a sales lea stanley quencher d for聽these companies. Zqin Hackathons emerge as an outlet for Silicon Valley to channel its frustration in the wake of the election
 CloudFlare, a company that is trying to move all of the traditional networking hardware you typically have in an on-premises data center into the cloud, figured out how to let financial institutions聽have have it both ways. According to CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince they can use the CloudFlare service, yet still聽hide聽the SSL key behind the institution   firewall, therefore聽never exposing it to the open internet. This process allows thes stanley tumblers e companies聽 and others who use SSL keys  to use the cloud while maintaining complete control of the SSL key.Prince said he began having conversations with financial institutio bidon stanley ns about getting them to use his company   services聽starting two years ago when banks began being subjected to network attacks by hackers that were bringing down their n stanley cup etworks. Two years ago, we got frantic phone calls from the world   largest banks that the were getting attacked by Iranian hackers who were knocking them offline,  Prince told me.He met

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 The IHMC  Institute for Human and Machine Cognition  Robotics Lab out of Pensacola, Flori stanley termos da has developed a system by which the robot can navigate across a series of different stanley termosai  surfaces of different sizes and geometries 鈥?in the case of the featured video, mason blocks that have been turned on their sides and at various angles, so in some cases the robot has little more than a corner on which to step.Atlas has no prior knowledge of the surfaces laid out in f stanley becher ront of it. Using the program, it tests the surface one foot at a time, shifting its weight around in the process and finally applying it to the supported foothold. The process is supported by angular momentum provided by the robot s upper body as Atlas executes some of the more difficult steps.The project is one of a series of bipedal walking projects being undertaken by the institute. While great strides have recently been made in robotics, robots still cannot get to the same places that people can,  says the IHMC.  Our humanoid pr Btcm GM and Cruise announce first mass-production self-driving car
 The iPhone 5c comes in five different colors, including blue, green, pink, yellow and white. It   packing an A6 chip, and the Retina display we came to stanley cup price  know and love with the iPhone 5. Another big plus from the iPhone 5c vs. the 5 is that it packs more LTE bands than any other iPhone ever, and gets stanley quencher  better battery life than its predecessor.All of that is made more impressive by the fact that the iPhone performs terrifically, and looks fantastic. The colors really pop, and the case fits solidly in the hand and thanks to a slightly rubberized feel it should be easier to hold onto than any previous iPhone as  stanley website well. The color-match wallpapers add to the charm of the overall package, and that   likely to appeal to customers who just want a device that looks great out of the box and doesn ;t require any laborious customization.This slideshow requires JavaScript.The attendant cases that Apple has designed are more substantial than you might initially believe from just looking a

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Yxbi FCC Chairman Hearts Uber, Even If He Can   t Help
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 Packing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich  with an update to Jelly Bean slotted for later this year , a 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, and 2GB of RAM, th stanley quencher e Galaxy Note 10.1 will be available tomorrow  August 16  for $499  16GB  or $549  32GB . To be a bit more specific about specs, the Galaxy Note 10.1 has a 10.1-inch 1280stanley cup price  215;800 TFT display, a 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and LED flash, and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. You ;ll also find support for up to 64GB memory cards, Bluetooth 4.0 and USB 2.0 access, but apparently an stanley drink bottle  adapter for that is sold separately. The Galaxy Note 10.1 will also feature a few of the features we ;ve seen on the Galaxy S III, including video pop-up play, and a handful of great preloaded apps like Netflix, Dropbox, and Adobe Photoshop Touch. If you ;re interested, head on over to Samsung   website tomorrow and order yourself one. On the fence: check out our in-depth review here.

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 The funding brings the total raised by Denver-based FullContact to just und stanley mug er $45 million. FullContact   co-founder and CEO Bart Lorang said the company is not disclosing its valuation.The big elephant in the room for FullContact is LinkedIn. Fast approaching 450 million users, the company is one of the bigger players in the area of online professional identity and has become the go-to place for people looking to connect with people in their professional networks. On its own it was already a competitive threat, and聽its聽acquisition by Microsoft may be eve stanley puodelis n more so,  stanley termoska as it speaks to the bigger company   ambitions to leverage LinkedIn  聽social networking in its own enterprise-focused products, from sales through to productivity services.But rather than wilting under聽the obvious challenges that this poses to FullContact and others in the space, FullContact   CEO聽has a more constructive view on the聽deal and what it means for his startup. The LinkedIn聽acquisition Txtv Mobile Video Views Up 300% In 2012, With Tablets Driving The Charge With A 360% Increase
 The deal will be finalized by the end of March. Sony said it will cut 5,000 jobs worldwide by the end of this fiscal year, but the new PC company plans to hire about 250 to 500 Sony employees and continue to fill aftercare warranties. Sony will initially invest 5% of the new company   capital to support its launch.The sale of VAIO isn ;t a big surprise, as Sony   PC business has long underperformed its other divisions. Indeed, when Kazuo Hirai took over as president and CEO of Sony in 2012, he didn ; stanley cups t even list PCs as one of the company   cornerstones. Instead, he said Sonystanley tumbler  8217  future rested on digital imaging, gaming, and mobile. But even though Sony has consistently released innovative products in all three categories, including its Xperia smartphone line, its performance still lags behind competitors like Samsung and Apple.Sony also said that it expects to spend 20 billion yen restructuring its PC and TV segments, with a focus on high-end set stanley cups s and 4K