OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - An outside investigator hired by a Senate panel to assist that chamber's inquiry into the erroneous early release of thousands of prisoners in Washington state told lawmakers his team has reviewed more than 54,000 documents so far.
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Twitter had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad earnings day, and unfortunately, the only thing that might save it is a time machine. The company announced that it saw zero growth in its total user count. Excluding SMS-only users, it actually declined from 307 million to 305 million users. That's despite it launching and buying expensive TV commercials promoting Moments, which was…
BuildDirect is an online marketplace for buying home improvement products. Today, the company is opening its platform to third-party sellers with the launch of its Home Marketplace. Unsurprisingly, selling heavyweight products like flooring and roofing materials online takes a very different approach to logistics than selling books. As BuildDirect's co-founder and CEO Jeff Booth and its…
Meet Cizoo, a new iOS app that is all about making it easier to create music. Learning to play an instrument can be hard, but anyone can sing and rap. Cizoo lets you record tidbits of songs on top of a looping music background.
Cruz spent so little and won so much.
Each year, Americans spend roughly $30.1 billion dollars paying for yard work. It's a huge amount of money that's typically handled by a variety of local vendors who are mostly finding work through word of mouth referrals. Well, Yardbook, a one-year-old company launched by serial entrepreneur, Brian Gamido, is looking to change that system, and capture a huge chunk of that…
Digital enrollment, where parents can go online on their desktops or mobile phones, to register their children for school, seems like an obvious way to harness the power of the internet to simplify and digitize a transaction that still relies on analog methods far too often. The need is so apparent that it's no wonder SchoolMint, a software as a service tool that for digital enrollment…
The so-called 'Series A gap' — that is the lack of Series A funding compare to seed — is still a much discussed topic here in Europe, and in the last few years we've seen a plethora of new funds aiming to plug that gap.
Christie Bounces Rubio And Heads Home.
There's been plenty of speculation around the future of browser maker Opera, and now that looks like it will soon be resolved. Today the Norway-headquartered company confirmed that it has received a $1.2 billion acquisition offer from a group fronted by Chinese consumer tech companies Kunlun Tech and Qihoo 360.