Five Ways Native Monetization Is Changing Silicon Valley

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Editor’s note: Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO of Sharethrough , the native video advertising company. Dan has been honored as an AdAge “Media Maven” and was recently named to the Forbes “30 under 30″ list.

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TechCrunch Giveaway: Last Chance To Win Tickets To Disrupt NYC #TCDisrupt

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Happy Friday! In less than one week, my colleagues and I (along with many, many others ) will be flying to New York to gear up for one of the biggest conferences of the year, Disrupt NYC.

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Consmr Goes Mobile, Moves Closer To Becoming Yelp For The Supermarket

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Back in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr , which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods.

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EveryMove Nabs $2.6M From Blue Cross, BuddyTV Co-founder To Help You Reduce Health Costs

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EveryMove , an alum of TechStars’ Seattle accelerator program building what they’ve dubbed a “mileage plan for health benefits, today announced that it has closed a $2.6 million round of series A financing. Participating investors include Penera Blue Cross, Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Nebraska, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Founders Co-op, Summit Capital, Jonathan Sposato, Voyager Capital Partner Geoff Entress, Matt Shobe, William Lohse, BuddyTV Co-founder Andy Liu, Ken Kuntz, and others.

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Samsung Acquires Mobile Entertainment And Music Streaming Startup mSpot

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Samsung Electronics has acquired mobile entertainment startup mSpot , according to a release issued today. Financial terms were not disclosed, but previous reports point to an acquisition price of $8.8 million. mSpot let users stream and watch full-length movies on their mobile phones and on the web .

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Cheezburger Creator Launches SimpleHoney To Find Hotels You’ll Love

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People deal with the pain of online hotel search is different ways. For many, it means spending hours and hours of research spread across dozens of browsers tabs.

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Simple Rolls Out iPhone App, But Still No Word On Public Launch

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Simple (formerly known as BankSimple), the startup with $13.1 million in funding to build a better banking experience for customers, has today introduced its first  mobile application , surprisingly ahead of its public launch. Operating in private beta/invite-only mode for now, co-founder Joshua Reich says that anyone with a Simple account can now use the app, which had been limited to TestFlight distributions since its private launch last November

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ThingLink Acqu-hires Pixboom To Double Down On Fashion

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ThingLink , which has a platform for tagging things inside images, has acquired Pixboom , an interactive image tagging service for the Swedish fashion industry. The terms of the deal were undisclosed but we understand it was an ‘acquhire’ in that ThingLink, in the main, wanted to bring the Pixboom team on board

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Blinkx Adds Tens Of Thousands Of Movie Clips, Thanks To AnyClip

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Video search company Blinkx will be adding tens of thousands of clips from various feature films to its search engine, thanks to a deal with startup AnyClip . The agreement should bolster the amount of content Blinkx users will be able to access, as well as monetization for both companies and the studios who provide their videos to AnyClip. AnyClip has more than 50,000 video clips from 12,000 different feature films, which come from studios such as Warner Bros, Universal Studios, Vivendi, First Look and Virgil Films.

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Brammo Rolls Out 100MPH Empulse Line of Electric Motorcycles, Priced Between $17K to $19K

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In recent years a flurry of electrified two-wheeled motorcycles and scooters have emerged from companies like Zero, Brammo, Mission Motors, BRD and Evolve. While some are still in the prototype phase (I’m looking at you BRD!), others have shown rapid advancement to meet rider needs, preferences and performance. Though they’re still light years away from their gas-powered counterparts, the release of Brammo’s 100MPH and 100-mile range electric motorcycles later this year will undoubtedly turn some heads.

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