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Tweet Nokia has joined forces with Smart City Capital in order to help develop smart city projects in Canada to meet the Smart Cities Challenge programme criteria set out by the country this year. Read more… Neowin

Tweet If you’re used to using Capital One’s website to deposit paper checks, you’re now out of luck as the company has officially retired that service to force users into using the mobile app instead. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Capital One is dropping out of Isis’s mobile payments pilot project, according to a report from NFC World, casting a pall over the carrier-driven initiative to turn the mobile phone into a universal digital wallet. Capital One told NFC World it’s pulling out because it has gotten the data it wanted from the trials, and it even held out the possibility of working with Isis again in the future….

Tweet Whisper, a Los Angeles-based secret sharing/anonymity social social platform today announced that it had raised $ 21 million in new funds from a group of venture capitalists led by Sequoia Capital general partner Roelof Botha, who in the past had backed YouTube and Tumblr. GigaOM had first reported the news of Whisper’s funding in July 2013. At that time, we reported that company was raising about $ 15 million in its…

Tweet Spark Capital plans to announce Monday evening that it’s closed an oversubscribed $ 450 million fourth fund, countering earlier reports that put the number slightly lower, and bringing the firm’s total management close to $ 1.4 billion. Spark Capital was founded in 2005 in Boston by Todd Dagres, Santo Politi and Paul Conway, and has invested in some well-known tech companies like Twitter, Tumblr, OMGPOP, and Warby Parker. An oversubscribed fund is one where…