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Bose Develops Prototype “Sleepbuds” After Buying San Diego Startup

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Bose , the privately held maker of headphones, loudspeakers, and other electronics for audiophiles, has acquired Hush, a San Diego startup founded by three undergraduate engineering students to develop “smart” noise-masking earbuds designed to help users sleep. Lee did not reveal.

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Stocktwits' Lindzon Leads Round In DailyWorth

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Howard Lindzon , the prolific angel investor who runs San Diego-based Stocktwits , has led a round in personal finance email DailyWorth.com. The newsletter was founded by Amanda Steinberg. The firm has now raised over $3M in funding. The firm has now raised over $3M in funding. The firm is based in New York. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Lars Helgeson, GreenRope

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San Diego-based GreenRope (www.greenrope.com) is just that, and to figure out how it got to where it is, we spoke with Lars Helgeson, the firm's CEO, about what exactly GreenRope provides, how it grew out of email marketing, and where it is going. READ MORE>>.

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Goldstar Launches Nationwide Expansion

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Goldstar offers up half-price tickets to local concerts, theaters, comedy clubs, sporting events, and much more through a weekly email newsletter. The firm's deals are only available to members--who sign up for free--and are used by ticket marketers to fill out venues.

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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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Hi, and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. For the whole newsletter, which comes out every weekend, you can subscribe by heading over here , and clicking “The Station.”

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Dauntless Takes Flight with New Business Model for Starting Biotechs

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First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. All of the company’s funding so far has come from Sofinnova Ventures, and Mike Powell, a Sofinnova general partner in San Francisco, is board chairman.

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How long can Zuckerberg afford to bankroll the AR/VR market?

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If someone forwarded you this message, you can get this in your inbox from the newsletter page , and follow my tweets @lucasmtny. Apple launches its first local newsletter. This week, the company rolled out a local newsletter in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing bundled local news curated by the Apple team.