Sick of typing up meeting notes or interviews? Speech recognition master Nuance's new Dragon Anywhere transcription app can turn what you say into text with no limit on recording time. This is no toy. It will cost $15 per month when it comes out this fall. But it could reduce headaches and wristpain inherent in manual transcription. The new Nuance Dragon iOS and Android apps also let… Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
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Three-year-old eShares digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time picture of who owns what at a startup. It also makes it far simpler to transfer ownership of all of the above — which goes a long way in explaining its traction. The Mountain View, Ca.-based outfit right now maintains the cap tables of 1,500 companies,…
Drones are the future of photo journalism, but the problem is you usually need a dedicated pilot. Unless you have a Fotokite. It's a quadcopter on a retractible dog leash. Strap a GoPro to it, and it automatically records whatever you're doing at the end of its tether while automatically hovering between 1 ft and 26 ft away. Today, the first consumer Fotokite model called Phi…
Datameer, the big data analytics company built on Hadoop, announced a $40 million Series E round today led by ST Telemedia, an investment firm based in Singapore. Top Tier Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KCPB), Redpoint Ventures, Next World Capital and Software AG also participated. Today's investment brings the total raised to over $76 million. The company…
Tracksmith, a running apparel brand based in Boston, has pulled in $4.1 million in new funding to outfit a growing pack of runners in the traditional style of the world's oldest sport. Pentland Brands, the management group behind Reebok, Speedo, and Lacoste footwear, among other sporting brands, led the Series A round, which brings the company's funding total to $5.7…
Google is ramping up its Android One affordable smartphone program with a push into Africa. The first Android One smartphone for the region is being made by OEM Infinix, and is launching in Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Morocco today.