Mission Everywhere

Ceros  allows marketers to create animated, interactive content — but don’t call it a content marketing company. “We think content is just a dry, bland, over-leveraged, oversaturated space,” said founder and CEO Simon Berg. “The goal is not to hack the system, the goal is to make a great experience for your customers.” That’s why he describes Ceros as a platform for creating experiences. The company is focused on powering beautiful, well-designed graphics and web pages, instead of blog posts or white papers that mostly exist to snare search traffic. Ceros is announcing today that it’s raised $14 million in Series C funding. Ceros previously raised $19.5 million in funding, according to Crunchbase . The new round was led by Greenspring Associates, with participation from Grotech Ventures, CNF Investments, Sigma Prime Ventures, StarVest Partners, Greycroft and Silicon Valley Bank. “Ceros is well known for empowering marketers to think creatively, but we have also come to know Ceros

Tesla is set to announce news today at 5 pm Pacific, CEO Elon Musk announced this week.  The timing is interesting, given the billionaire's renewed spat with federal regulators.  Wall Street is speculating that the news could be a long-awaited base-model Model 3 or an autonomous update.  Elon Musk announced this week that " some Tesla news " will come at 2 pm on Thursday at 2 pm PT this week. Due to its timing — right in the middle of a renewed fight with federal regulators and amid a flurry of Twitter memes   — the cryptic hint has fueled a flurry of speculation. Ahead of the announcement, Ben Kallo, an analyst at Baird, declared Tesla a "fresh pick" and re-affirmed his $465 price target — one of the highest on Wall Street. Regardless of what the news ends up being, he says it should help the stock pick up steam. "Regardless of the content of the company update, we think the demand concerns are overblown and believe the announcement could be

Parsley Health is a medical practice that charges a monthly fee and doesn't take insurance. For $150 a month, the membership provides access to doctors and health coaches, with the goal of treating conditions in a more comprehensive way than traditional primary care. Now, the practice is expanding into pediatrics in its New York office, aiming to provide better care for children and teens with chronic conditions. The cost for kids is $129 a month. Parsley Health, a new kinds of doctors office that charges a monthly fee and doesn't take insurance, is expanding its practice into pediatrics.  Parsley Health got its start in 2016 and now has centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. The practice, founded by Dr. Robin Berzin, is focused on functional medicine, a type of practice that tries to take a more comprehensive approach at treating the underlying cause of a particular disease, looking at it more holistically than on a case-by-case basis. For a monthly fee

Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : Zūm, which enables parents to schedule rides for their kids from fully vetted drivers, raises $40M Series C led by BMW i Ventures   —  Ride-sharing isn't just for transporting teenagers and adults anymore.  Zūm, a ridesharing startup for kids, just raised a $40 million Series C round led … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2NA8vjA

Tom Krazit / GeekWire : Microsoft unveils Azure Sentinel, a new cloud service that allows customers to view and respond to security alerts and threats across corporate networks   —  Ahead of next week's big RSA security conference, Microsoft plans to introduce a new cloud service Thursday that will help customers manage … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2GR42bI

Amazon has announced "Amazon Day," an initiative that lets customers pick the day of the week they want their Amazon orders to be delivered. All orders designated for the Amazon Day made that week will be delivered on that day grouped in one shipment. It can be convenient for customers to know exactly what day an order is going to be delivered. It also helps Amazon lower it's ballooning shipment costs by processing and fulfilling fewer orders with fewer of them needing to get to the customer in two days or less. Now, Amazon day can be whatever day you want it to be. Amazon Prime members can now designate a day of the week to have all their shipments delivered. The initiative is called "Amazon Day." Customers can also switch around their Amazon Day from week to week if their ideal delivery date changes. Here's the way it works: A Prime member designates a day of the week as their "Amazon Day." When a customer makes an order, they can ch

Samsung unveiled its first foldable smartphone last week, the Galaxy Fold . The Galaxy Fold is the most expensive smartphone Samsung has ever made. It starts at $1,980. The phone features many technological innovations , but carries a lot of risk for customers as well. Samsung's $2,000 foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, has been turning heads since its unveiling last week . Foldable phones are the hottest new phone trend in 2019 , which isn't too surprising. Before smartphones became mainstream in the late 2000s, foldable "clamshell" phones like the Motorola Razr dominated the marketplace with their compact designs. The Galaxy Fold hearkens back to that era of flip phones : You can use the Galaxy Fold's 4.7-inch display with one hand, but the phone can open up into a 7.3-inch tablet-like display. Having a new smartphone design, after over a decade of the same rounded rectangles over and over again, is obviously exciting. But buying the Galaxy Fold whe

Shares of JD.com, the Chinese e-commerce service that rivals Alibaba, are on the rise today after the online retailer announced better than expected results for Q4 2018, bucking uncertainty around tech companies in China. The company reported net revenue of RMB 134.8 billion ($219.6 billion) for the final quarter of last year. Despite representing the slowest growth rate year-on-year since JD went public five years ago (22.3 percent), the figure beat analyst predictions of $19.149 billion. JD.com also beat on earnings per share. That combination saw its Nasdaq share price rise by as much as 14 percent in pre-market trading, Reuters reports . The stock is up around five percent at the time of writing, according to Yahoo Finance data . JD.com went public on the Nasdaq in 2014 Chinese startups are weathering challenging economics in the country. Apple recently cut its quarterly revenue forecast on account of China’s slowdown, while domestic Chinese tech companies have gone furthe