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Cubic Telecom Secures $5.2M To Create Devices That Roam Mobile Networks Cheaply

We're all familiar with the bill shock associated with roaming abroad with our cellphones. There are plenty of players that allow you to swap out your SIM card and use cheaper traffic, including Cubic Telecom. However, that process is tedious.

Flickr Suffers Outage Four Days After Major Revamp

It appears Yahoo-owned Flickr has suffered the first significant outage after its major revamp.

People online are reporting the site going down, with some tweets marked as early as 5:30PM PDT, says TNW. That was about six hours ago, at time of writing.

AngelPad's Sixth Batch Of Startups Includes Companies Working On Drones, Storage, And More

AngelPad, the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googlers, held its sixth demo day yesterday. I wasn't there (I know, it's super-embarrassing), but I did get to meet with founding partners Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas today to talk about the newest batch of companies.

Adly Raises $2M More As It Expands Tools For Social Media Celebrity Endorsements

Adly, a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional funding.

The new funding came from previous backer GRP Partners and new investor Siemer Ventures.

A Vibrator Called Limon

No longer just an oddly flavored potato chip, the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called Minna. The company is looking for backers for its "couples' vibrator", which just so happens to look like a pink lime-lemon hybrid.

However, the Limon is no lemon or lime.

The Cryonic Bitcoin Mining Machine Is $15,000 Of Pure BTC Power

It's almost impossible for the average computer to mine Bitcoins in any efficient way, hence the rise of Bitcoin mining machines so tuned to their specific purpose that they barely resemble PCs.

MyShoebox Gets Social With Collaborative Galleries And A Dedicated iPad App With Version 2.0

Toronto-based startup MyShoebox is facing a time in which photo sharing announcements are thick and deep; Google unveiled its updated Google+ photos experience last week at I/O, and this week we seen pretty big announcements from Yahoo! around Flickr.

On-Demand Delivery Startup Postmates Is Preparing For Launch In New York City

Postmates is looking to expand its business and make mobile, on-demand deliveries a widespread thing throughout cities around the country -- that we already know. The company has been operating in San Francisco for a while, and launched in Seattle about three months ago.

Pandora Stock Jumps As Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $128.5M; Mobile Ad Revenue Hits Record High

Pandora has had a busy quarter. In March, the social radio company saw its long-time CEO Joe Kennedy abruptly step dow , leaving the board to scramble to find a replacement.

Ex-Googler Ben Ling Brings His Operations Experience To Khosla Ventures

After just a year, Badoo COO Ben Ling is leaving the social networking site to join Khosla Ventures.