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Curiscope VR managed to raise $1M in Kickstarter campaign

Curiscope, a U.K. augmented and virtual reality content startup, has raised a $1 million seed round led by LocalGlobe, the seed VC firm founded by Saul and Robin Klein. Ascension Ventures, Force over Mass, ustwo Adventure, and Richard Fearn also participated. The backing follows crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo last year for the company’s The Virtuali-Tee product, an augmented reality experience that combines a t-shirt and app to let you explore part of the human body. Curiscope other’s product out in the wild is a virtual reality experience called Great White Sharks. Specifically, The Virtuali-Tee is described as a high-quality t-shirt, partnered with a free app,

Analysis, Business, Entertainment, VR World

Is New Turkish Airlines ‘Startup Class’ Ad Comic or Offensive?

This new commercial from Turkish Airlines was meant to be funny, but not everyone finds the humor in it.

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Cheetah Offers $3.13 Million Fund to Help Potential Taiwanese Startups

China’s Cheetah Mobile decided to establish a US$3.13 million fund to help Taiwanese startups

Interviews

Will Startup Culture Takeoff in China And Taiwan?

Beijing-based venture capitalist Rui Ma chats about startups in Asia.

Audio/Video, Business, Cloud Computing, Enterprise, Graphics, Hardware, Mobile Computing, VR World

Nvidia Launches $100,000 GPU Startup Prize

Nvidia is launching a $100,000 GPU startup prize as part of their emerging companies summit which runs during Nvidia’s 2015 GPU Technology Conference.

Global Politics, Rumors, Software Programs, US, VR World

Yahoo to Lay Off Most of Indian Staff

In a surprise move, Yahoo has been rumored to be laying off the majority if not all of their software development staff located in Bangalore, India.

Business, Entertainment, Smart Home, VR World

The Rocki Road Part 5: Rocki at Techstars

The Rocki Road is an occasional blog feature written by its CEO N.M. Yap detailing the company’s path through the start-up world. Rocki is now officially part of Techstars family — day nine actually. It all happened last week which could some day be remembered as a truly significant moment in Rocki’s road, as important (or more important) than the Kickstarter launch. At Kickstarter, we launched Rocki the “garage-built” company complete with the cliched troop of friends, family, ex-team mates, volunteers, and anyone and everyone who’s able to contribute to the cause. Everyone on the team are experts in their day job and sweating it out by night to build Rocki, something

Business, Hardware, Opinion, Software Programs

THE ROCKI ROAD Part 4 – Disney, Techstars & YCombinator

Disney, Techstars & YCombinator – some of you who are familiar with Start-ups would immediately know this episode is about Accelerators from the title. After all, Techstars and YCombinator are without a doubt the two biggest and most well-known Accelerators, with countless of articles written about the two and comparing the two. How about Disney – what’s Accelerator gotta do with Disney? Well, the question should be what has Disney gotta do with Accelerators. Answer is simple – Innovation. Accelerators are creating so much buzz and so “at the forefront of technology innovation” that Disney has jumped in too — they’ve launched the inaugural Disney

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