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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 9:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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The weekend. 48 hours without the obligation to respond to email, pass along documents or cater to your boss’s every whimsy, but if you’re busy being careful to stay away from work, it can also be pretty easy to miss all the latest news from the world of tech. Never fear, TNW’s here. And we were paying attention. So sit back, ignore the ringing phone for 10 minutes and catch up on all the news and features from The Next Web and beyond over the weekend. News from The Next Web over the weekend Facebook Reveals Huge Psychology Experiment on Users…

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Travel planner TripHobo secures funding upward of $1m to become the ‘TripAdvisor of itineraries’

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 7:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, India, Insider, Product Updates, travel

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We wrote about a travel planner late last year that had a really nifty feature: it helped to optimize your itinerary so you could just pick what attractions you wanted to visit, and it would plan your route for you. Now, Indian startup JoGuru has rebranded itself as TripHobo. CEO and co-founder Praveen Kumar told TNW that the reason for the name change was because many people in the Western world still don’t know the meaning of ‘guru’ — a Sanskrit term for ‘teacher’ or ‘master’ most commonly used in Indian religions. “Once we started to grow, what we saw…

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Travel planner TripHobo secures funding upward of $1m to become the ‘TripAdvisor of itineraries’

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 7:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, India, Insider, Product Updates, travel

Travel-hiking
We wrote about a travel planner late last year that had a really nifty feature: it helped to optimize your itinerary so you could just pick what attractions you wanted to visit, and it would plan your route for you. Now, Indian startup JoGuru has rebranded itself as TripHobo. CEO and co-founder Praveen Kumar told TNW that the reason for the name change was because many people in the Western world still don’t know the meaning of ‘guru’ — a Sanskrit term for ‘teacher’ or ‘master’ most commonly used in Indian religions. “Once we started to grow, what we saw…

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Why is Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten going global with a new $100m fund?

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 7:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Japan, rakuten

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Rakuten Ventures, the VC fund belonging to Japan’s top e-commerce company, is going global after it announced a new $100 million fund. The fund is Rakuten Ventures’ second, it is the follow-up to an initial $10 million fund focused solely on Asia. This time around, Rakuten Ventures is expanding its scope to the US and Israel as it seeks to identify companies and technologies that provide benefits and synergies to the mothership. The fund is again led by Singapore-based “one-man team” Saemin Ahn, who tells TNW that he plans to bring on hires to help cover the new geographies. Ahn is prioritizing new hires to cover…

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