F-Commerce Startup Soldsie Raises $1 Million For Its Facebook Comments-Based Shopping Platform E-commerce startup Soldsie, which just announced in January that it had raised $425,000 from 72 investors through FundersClub, has now officially closed its full seed round of $1 million in outside funding. In addition to FundersClub, the company raised from 500 Startups and e.ventures. Investors in the

Carrie Fisher to Return as Princess Leia in Next 'Star Wars' Movie Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, will reprise her role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, she confirmed to Palm Beach Illustrated. Asked point blank whether she'll be in the next Star Wars film, Fisher answered with a simple "Yes". She goes on to explain how she sees the Princess Leia

Minneapolis-based ad agency Campbell Mithun will hire its "Lucky 13" summer interns by asking for their ideas on how to best re-engage the Twinkies brand with consumers. The agency, which created the brand's "Where’s the cream filling?" ads, asks applications as the brand is going to auction on March 13 due to bankruptcy. The online internship application process opened at the beginning of this mo

The company, which has $11.9 million in funding to date, started out as a subscription-based cosmetics company, but it's evolved into more than "pink Birchbox" packages for women. There's a men's division, and it's moved into European markets by acquiring competitor JolieBox. It's also focusing on new product lines, including home decor and lifestyle. The company now has 300,000 subscribers with a

Moving to a paperless world brings benefits: fewer piles to sort through, infrequent paper cuts and saving trees. But archiving your digital files to the cloud often means forgetting about them. Where did last year's tax forms go? In which folder did you save the phone bill? doo,(opens in a new tab) a free organizing service, allows users to access all their documents in one location, where they c

Dating is an insanely awkward societal invention that plagues most of us -- and thanks to Google Glass, the future of romance looks grim. What's in store with the advent of this new tech? It means your date might be on Facebook while you're trying to discuss Game of Thrones. It means while you're talking about your deepest fears, they'll take pics of food stuck in your teeth and snapchat it to the

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If you want to sell electric cars, Israel looks like a great place to start. It’s a small country, with most people clustered around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Gasoline costs more than $7.50 a gallon, and oil revenues help support Israel’s Arab foes. So it’s easy to understand why Shai Agassi, an entrepreneur who was born in Israel and made a fortune in Silicon Valley, chose to launch his Better Plac

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