Accel appoints ex-Facebooker Nir Blumberger as Venture Partner to focus on Israel

 VC firm Accel's London office has appointed a new Venture Partner to focus on Israel. Nir Blumberger has joined from Facebook, where he was a Corporate Development executive, and, we're told, was involved in M&A and strategy in areas such as virtual/augmented reality, messaging and video. He'll be based in Tel Aviv, giving Accel a much more formal presence in Israel,… Read More

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Midokura raises $20M Series B round for its network virtualization platform

 Network virtualization specialist Midokura today announced it has raised a $20 million Series B round with participation from Japanese fintech company Simplex and existing investors like Allen Miner and the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan. With this round, Midokura's total funding has now hit $44 million. As enterprises move away from expensive proprietary networking hardware… Read More

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Looking for Early Victories, Sanders Lost Chance to Expand Base

A decision after his Nevada loss set up a dynamic that would haunt the campaign for the rest of the race.

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Steve Kornacki Loves Numbers and Drawing Circles

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Fujitsu signs deal to integrate Box cloud storage into its enterprise software

 Box just inked one of its biggest deals in Asia so far as it focuses on international growth. Fujitsu, one of Japan's largest IT services providers, announced today that it has made a strategic partnership with the cloud-storage company and will integrate Box into its enterprise software. Read More

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Muhammad Ali wasn't always 'The Greatest' at sponsorships

NEW YORK (AP) - Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest athletes of all time, but he didn't cash in during his prime the way you'd expect today. Product endorsements deals for the boxer were scarce, and in fact his most notable commercial during his earlier years was for a ...

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Opera's power-saving mode lands in its stable release channel

 A few weeks ago, Opera announced a new feature for its browser on Windows and OS X that aims to make the batteries in your laptop last longer. Until now, this feature was only available in Opera's beta release channel; today, it is graduating to the stable version. The company claims that this new feature (together with Opera's built-in ad blocker) can extend your battery life by… Read More

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Sanders Says He'll Continue Fight to Next Tuesday's D.C. Primary

Bernie Sanders says he's "going to fight hard to win the primary in Washington, D.C." on June 14, and "then we take our fight for social, economic, racial and environmental justice" to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Sanders leaves unclear whether he will keep alive his candidacy for Democratic nomination when the convention convenes in late July "I know that the fight" is "very, very steep," he says in speech in Santa Monica, Calif.; says will continue to fight for "every de

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Looks like a good night for Hillary

(Paul Mirengoff) Tonight marks the virtual end of the 2016 primary season. The District of Columbia will hold its Democratic primary next Tuesday, but that hardly counts. The states that voted today are: California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota (Dems only), and South Dakota. On the Republican side, Donald Trump is winning them all, as you would expect of the presumptive nominee. He's running very well in California (in the

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Hillary's California Director Previously Stage-Managed Marxist Rallies

'We're actually running the government'

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Amazon will pump $3B more into its Indian marketplace as it competes with Snapdeal and Flipkart

 Amazon plans to put $3 billion more into its Indian e-commerce site, said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The investment was announced Tuesday evening at the U.S.-India Business Council's 41st Annual Leadership Summit in Washington D.C., where Bezos and other business leaders met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read More

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Black Lives Matter activist jailed for arrest interference

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A Black Lives Matter organizer who interfered with an arrest by Pasadena police has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Jasmine Richards was sentenced Tuesday but she will be given credit for 18 days she already spent in jail. She also must attend anger management ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Congress Mounts New Probe Of Agency Snooping On Consumers

Investigators want to know if Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is protecting consumers' data

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Rakuten to exit the UK, Austria and Spain as global retrenchment continues

 Rakuten is downsizing its international presence once again after Japan's top e-commerce firm announced plans to shutter its e-commerce businesses in the UK, Spain and Austria. Read More

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Hillary Clinton on Historic Victory: We've Reached a Milestone

Hillary Clinton celebrated clinching the Democratic nomination in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday evening. The former secretary of state said she has a strong majority of the popular vote and that she's won a majority of pledged delegates. "Tonight's victory belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible," she said. Clinton congratulated her rival Senator Bernie Sanders for his "extraordinary campaign."

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Astronauts have entered an inflatable habitat on the space station for the first time

 This week, astronauts successfully entered the International Space Station's first inflatable habitat. .@Astro_Jeff enters @BigelowSpace #BEAM for first time to collect air sample and set up sensors.https://t.co/57FUupjcHN — Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) June 6, 2016 Wearing a mask and a headlamp, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams opened the hatch to the Bigelow Expandable… Read More

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