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Saturday, 30 July 2016

Startups: This Week’s Top Stories // July 30, 2016

Uber co-founder launches new real estate venture for Expa called Haus | Microsoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup | Dedrone partners with Airbus to bring drone detection to wide open spaces including airports | Charging startups to apply to an accelerator is exploitative and dumb | Krawd turns the ad agency into a marketplace | Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.83 billion | Peek.com raises $10 million, strikes partnership to bring tour and activity booking to Yelp |
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WEEKLY ROUNDUP
SATURDAY, JULY 30 2016 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Jordan Crook

Uber co-founder launches new real estate venture for Expa called Haus

Garrett Camp, Uber cofounder and CEO of Expa Studios, is today unveiling Expa’s latest project, Haus. Haus is the studio’s first real estate play... Read More…
Devin Coldewey

Microsoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup

The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. The winner... Read More…
Lora Kolodny

Dedrone partners with Airbus to bring drone detection to wide open spaces including airports

A startup that helps businesses determine when drones are flying unwantedly or otherwise into their airspace, Dedrone, has partnered with the electronics... Read More…
Haje Jan Kamps

Charging startups to apply to an accelerator is exploitative and dumb

Yesterday, a little birdie told me about Nextt, an accelerator (probably more accurately referred to as an incubator) for early-idea-stage startups. The idea is... Read More…
Romain Dillet

Krawd turns the ad agency into a marketplace

Meet Krawd, a French startup that wants to rethink the way advertising agencies work. Like in other industries, Krawd thinks that it's more efficient to build... Read More…
Romain Dillet

Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.83 billion

After a months-long bidding process and many layoffs, Yahoo has finally found a buyer. Verizon (which owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch) is officially acquiring... Read More…
Lora Kolodny

Peek.com raises $10 million, strikes partnership to bring tour and activity booking to Yelp

Peek.com has raised $10 million in equity funding to become what it calls an “OpenTable for the $100 billion activities market,” according to CEO... Read More…
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