“The challenge is that the market perception is we’re very much a consumer company and that we’re part of the security problem.” To shake that, Patrick Heim will have to show how cloud service providers like Dropbox, and many large consumer Internet companies, can manage cloud security as well as or better than the enterprises themselves. Read More »

While untold numbers of developers are making new programs for open health-record systems, investors are still learning to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Psilos Managing Member Steve Krupa and PatientSafe Chief Executive Joe Condurso talked to Venture Capital Dispatch about what is next in the race to create health-record applications. Read More »

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In this morning’s Web roundup, glasses startup Warby Parker sees more physical stores in its future. News app Circa is putting itself up for sale. And a bitcoin startup gets a boost from Goldman Sachs funding. Read More »

Three years after it made a splash with its novel approach to news delivery, the mobile news app Circa said it is putting itself up for sale. Read More »

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to bring a little Silicon Valley swagger to the Japanese business world.

Speaking at Stanford University on Thursday, Abe said Japan should emulate the spirit and creativity of Silicon Valley’s technology scene.

“We want to learn from the culture that exists in Silicon Valley,” said Abe, speaking in Japanese with a translator. “We’d love to capture the dynamism of Silicon Valley and bring it to Japan.” Read More »

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In this morning’s Web roundup, a new funding round for Lyst marks another startup that’s curating the shopping experience. VC firms focus more attention on in-house tech tools. Read More »

The initiative comes on the backdrop of much hand-wringing about the dominance of Silicon Valley tech firms in Europe, as well as regulatory pushes in the European Commission to create a single digital market to help local firms enter the digital age and better compete against the U.S. and Asia. Read More »

Online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker has raised a fresh round of capital that values it over $1 billion and bolsters its expansion of brick-and-mortar stores. Read More »

Adatao Inc., which aims to make fast data analysis available to everybody from data scientists to technically unsophisticated users, released its first products Thursday after raising $13 million in venture capital last year. Read More »

Just 16 months and a fleeting stint as a celebrated app, the anonymous social-networking service Secret is shutting down. Read More »