William Robinson

Organizer. Total twitter trailblazer. Web geek. General bacon specialist. Incurable music practitioner. Writer.

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Judge dismisses big property landlord’s lawsuit against Airbnb in California -  A California judge has dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb. Last February, Aimco, which owns or manages about 50,000 properties, s... https://t.co/i9YXbIY241

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Lab-made meat startup SuperMeat raises $3M seed to develop ‘clean’ chicken -  SuperMeat, an Israeli biotech and food-tech startup that is developing lab-made chicken meat, has raised $3 million in seed funding, as it becomes the latest of a crop of so... https://t.co/eYdQp4m8WV

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Smart lock maker Otto suspends operations -  Otto showed the world its digital lock in August. Four months later, the company has suspended operations. Hardware is hard. It’s a cliche for a reason. The company made the decision just ahead of the holid... https://t.co/8PXEplwnLa

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What were your best nine Instagram photos from 2017? -  You might have noticed a new end-of-year trend on Instagram the past few days. If so, you can thank https://t.co/t8Abxtk2PL, a website that lets you automatically collect and collage your most-li... https://t.co/x2QwgknyiG

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The food revolution may have just needed a cup of Blue Bottle -  Each massive exit in the tech ecosystem usually follows the same cycle: an upstart becomes a huge business, it goes public or sells for a huge sum of money, many of the best people that ... https://t.co/gjpXdpeiXm

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Financial technology startups emerged as serious challengers to financial services in 2017 -  While cryptocurrencies stole the spotlight in 2017, a clutch of companies were quietly working behind the scenes to slowly bring the financial services estab... https://t.co/wTDrO5nYsM

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Latin America’s Groupon Mafia -  The founders of PayPal and its employees have produced many highly successful companies over the years. Often referred to as the “PayPal Mafia” because they’ve had such an impact on the startup ecosystem, this serial e... https://t.co/q7YD9gyDY0

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Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off -  Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazo... https://t.co/mRMzRZjML7

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TrendKite raises another $11M for its PR analytics platform -  TrendKite is closing out 2017 with the announcement that it’s raised an additional $11 million in funding. The Austin-based startup says it’s currently analyzing 4.2 million articles every... https://t.co/pDgKyZVjsV

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A digitizing David takes on photo-scanning Goliath -  Mitch Goldstone loves photo scanning. His business, ScanMyPhotos, does what it says on the tin: you send photos to the company and, using high speed scanners and special software, his team digitize... https://t.co/tGoRJN6uo9

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Historian Leslie Berlin talks about the rise of Silicon Valley -  In this week’s episode of Technotopia I spoke to author and historian Leslie Berlin, writer of Troublemakers: Silicon Valleys’ Coming Of Age. Berlin is the Project Historian for the Sil... https://t.co/zVAmelaHJU

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Uber’s Frankenboard arrives -  Today was a momentous day in Uber history. After much debate, rumors and strife over the past few weeks, it looks like the company and its shareholders have come to an agreement over a tender offer that will see SoftBank... https://t.co/pfUDwaHXE9

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HQ Trivia is coming soon to Android -  HQ Trivia is letting Android users pre-register for the live-streamed trivia game built by the makers of Vine, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. Pre-registering means you’ll get notified the moment HQ Trivia is availa... https://t.co/D3terq98qC

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Quiet -  he trip began just before the end of school. From the wood-shaving smell of third grade out into the clean fall air, sprung free by my mother who appeared at the little window in the classroom door like a treat. You were the one who got out e... https://t.co/UOSiLKnHyE

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The AI chip startup explosion is already here -  All eyes may have been on Nvidia this year as its stock exploded higher thanks to an enormous amount of demand across all fronts: gaming, an increased interest in data centers, and its major potential a... https://t.co/RpaeZGR8TR

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Scaleworks announces pre-holiday surprise with Keen IO acquisition -  Scaleworks, a private equity firm based in San Antonio, Texas, apparently couldn’t wait until after the holidays to share the news of its latest purchase. The firm announced it was ... https://t.co/v0JjkkkamD

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Inside “Fin”, the elite human/AI assistant -  “I have FOMO for the future”, says Sam Lessin. That’s why his startup Fin is working backwards from a far-off tech utopia. One day, computers with some human help will answer our every beck and call. Today... https://t.co/YtUbf9OFDK

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Meet Molekule, the sleekest air purifier on the market -  Molekule, a San Francisco-based startup with a sleekly designed molecular air purifier started as an immigrant dream twenty years ago and ended up being named one of Time’s top 25 inventions of... https://t.co/cRkujiDH3E

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Mattermark to shut down after selling to FullContact -  Mattermark, the site for startup and company data, is shutting down its own business after selling in a disappointing outcome to FullContact. In a document obtained by TechCrunch, co-founder and ... https://t.co/HHCq8QdfMP

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Podia helps content creators build their online business -  More than a year and a half ago, I wrote about Coach, a startup offering tools for tutors and other freelancers to make money and operate their business online. Since then, the company has sh... https://t.co/szMdS16syr