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Georgia Leads A Push To Help Ex-Prisoners Get Jobs
By Susanna Capelouto Federal grant money is flowing to skills training programs for ex-offenders. But aid will be successful only if employers are willing to hire them. That’s where state
Sunnis Flee The Islamic State, But Still Fall Under Suspicion
By Alice Fordham The Islamic State is a Sunni Muslim group. Yet many Sunnis have abandoned their homes and fled areas where ISIS has taken over in Iraq. But that
Gozoomo Gets $5M To Make Buying Used Cars In India Easier
By Catherine Shu When Arnav Kumar started looking for his first car, he was determined to buy a used one to save money. The process of sorting through online listings
Harvard Reveals It Had An IT Breach In June Impacting 8 Colleges And Administrations
By Ingrid Lunden A seventeenth-century university has become the victim of a twenty-first-century crime. Harvard University on Wednesday announced that on June 19, it discovered a breach in the IT
HomeToGo, The European Metasearch Engine For Holiday Rentals, Raises €6M
By Steve O'Hear HomeToGo, the European ‘metasearch’ engine for holiday rentals, has raised €6 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is DN capital, and Acton Capital Partners, adding
Labor Department To Release Jobless Data Ahead Of Holiday Weekend
By Jim Zarroli Economists surveyed by Reuters are predicting that employers added about 230,000 jobs to their payrolls. That’s less than the month before but still a pretty strong showing.
Your.MD Scores $5M For Its AI-Driven Health Assistant
By Steve O'Hear Your.MD is on a mission to improve the way we seek health-related, namely self-diagnosis, information online. If you’ve ever tried to google your symptoms, you know it’s
Xiaomi Sold 34.7M Smartphones In First Half Of 2015, Up 33% Year-On-Year
By Jon Russell Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi today confirmed that it sold just shy of 35 million phones in the first half of this year. Read More …read more Via:
One Weird Trick To Help Greece
By Alexia Tsotsis It’s hard enough being a startup without the financial collapse of your country to contend with. For those in Silicon Valley who are used to Uber being
Rakuten Acquires Tokyo-Based Travel Startup Voyagin
By Catherine Shu Rakuten not only runs Japan’s largest e-commerce site, but also one of its leading online travel agencies, booking over 3.8 million hotel nights each month. Now the
