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Itone thing to have a great business idea, but connecting all of the disparate pieces of information and people needed to build it can be a frustrating growing pain — and one that the internal knowledge sharing company Guru is trying to fix.

Guru launched in 2015 as a Chrome extension to help revenue and customer service teams have

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Since its debut on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in September 2016, demand for a service likeproductboard,which gives companies a holistic view of product development and encourages input from across an organization, has only gotten more acute, according to company chief executive Hubert Palan.

Now, with an $8 million commitment from

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A few folks have reported a new ransomware technique that preys upon corporate inability to keep passwords safe. The notes & which are usually aimed at instilling fear & are simple: the hacker says &I know that your password is X. Give me a bitcoin and I won&t blackmail you.&

Programmer Can Duruk reported getting the

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Robinhood has gone from being a little consumer-facing fintech app to an absolutely giant consumer-facing fintech app.

The company, which launched in 2013, has ballooned to a $5.6 billion valuation on the heels of a $363 million Series D financing round led by DST Global. The app has also grown to 5 million users, as of today, with more than $150

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The team at Octi says itbuilding a crucial piece of the augmented reality puzzle — the ability to understand the human body and its movement.

Co-founder and CEO Justin Fuisz told me that most existing AR technologies (including AppleARKit) tend to be &plane-based& — in other words, while they can make

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In recent months, we&ve seen more and more funding flowing into tools for mental wellness — whether thatAI-driven tools to help patients find help to meditation apps — and it seems like that trend is starting to pick up even more steam as smaller companies are grabbing the attention of investors.

Thereanother one

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