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EdCast Raises $6M
EdCast, a Stanford StartX company that creates knowledge cloud platforms for organizations to collaborate upon, has completed a $6 million Series A round of financing led by SoftBank Capital. Mitch Kapor (Kapor Capital), Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, Cervin Ventures, Aarin Capital, NewSchools Venture Fund/ CoLab, and the Stanford StartX Fund.
How Apple Handles Bonded Labor, Conflicted Minerals, Hazardous Waste
Apple has released its eighth annual Supplier Responsibility progress report. The company says it enforced its supplier code of conduct through 451 audits, at multiple...
Harvard, Stanford Alumni Distinc.tt Gay App ‘You Can Bring Home To Mom’
Distinc.tt, an app incubated at Harvard Business School, and Stanford's StartX, launched in public beta on Tuesday. Distinc.tt is a social network for the LGBT...
IBM Supercomputer Literally Bursting Bubbles For Fluid Dynamics Study
Scientists at the ETH Zurich university and IBM Research, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL),...