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Project Orion: Say Media’s Plan To Tailor TypePad Into Its CMS And Become The Conde Nast Of The Web | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | I finally caught up with CEO Matt Sanchez today, after his of tech blog ReadWriteWeb. He wouldn’t confirm the (he didn’t deny it either), but he let slip something else which sheds light on Say Media’s overall strategy. Internally, they call it Orion. It is a professional, modern content management system (CMS) s... |
Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | We’re creatures of habit. We go where we’ve already gone. That’s why Facebook’s new feature I just discovered is so powerful — it knows where we’ve been thanks to our checkins. Replacing the old Friends’ Events sub-tab of the home page’s Events bookmark, Suggested Events helps you discover things to do that take plac... |
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Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | At this point internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the (SOPA) in . Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it passes, SOPA would makes it really easy for copyright holders to force sites offline that they think are offending, among other things. While the judiciary vote has bee... |
TinTin iPad Art Book Blurs The Line Between Books, Movies, And Apps | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | If you are a big TinTin fan, you probably know that Steven Spielberg’s opens today in theaters. But if you are a big fan, there is also a companion coffee table book called “The Art of The Adventures of TinTin.” But don’t get the . Get the instead. It has all the same art work, plus a whole lot more—3D models o... |
RIM Denies BlackBerry 10 Delay Allegations: Claims Are “Uninformed” | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | I’ll admit to lobbing a few mortars at RIM (alright, maybe more than a few), but it looks like things may be even worse than expected. that RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis lied about the the reason their first BlackBerry 10 devices would be delayed even later into 2012. Lazaridis said during RIM’s that they were waiting ... |
YouWeb’s MoviePal Wants To Be The Shazam For Watching Movie Trailers | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | A new startup is launching out of incubator YouWeb today that aims to make watching movie trailers more social. , an iOS app, allows you to watch movie trailers and share them with friends. The MoviePal app allows you to watch movie trailers via your phone. The app sources trailers from YouTube, Flixster and other vid... |
Stream TV Networks Introduces Ultra-D: Glasses-Free 3D Conversion Tech | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | The biggest hindrance to consumer adoption of 3D technology thus far has been a lack of content, and price, of course. While I can’t vouch for their price tags quite yet, it would seem that Stream TV Networks has come up with some new 3D technology that could make that whole limited content thing much less of an issue.... |
Avatron’s Air Dictate App Makes Siri Take Notes On Your Mac | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | Perhaps best known for the iOS app, is at it again with new a iOS dictation app called (what else?) Air Dictate. But of course, Avatron wouldn’t just cook up a straightforward dictation app — there’s a twist. Instead of just taking your voice input and transcribing it into a file on your iDevice, it actually syncs ... |
Duolingo Teaches You A Language While Helping Translate The Web (And Could Be Google’s Next Purchase) | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | has a pretty impressive track record when it comes to Google acquiring his companies. Not many entrepreneurs can count two exits to the search giant. Google acquired von Ahn’s ESP Game, which crowdsourced people to look at images and label them to improve image search, in 2005 and renamed it . In 2009, . And now, vo... |
Gratitude Scales. Take A Few Seconds To Say “I Love You” | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 25 | Tell someone they’re special, remind them you care, share a memory, say “I love you” — it’s easier than ever. Thanks to mobile devices and social networks, love is becoming more scalable. Tweet or status update how you’re thankful for their friendship. Text, Skype, message, or email how their support has meant the worl... |
TechGrinch Was Not Impressed By Google’s “Jingle Bells” Doodle | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 25 | When I visited Google.com this morning, I was as excited as the kids sprinting from bed to tree. But all I found was a lump of sonic coal. Oh joy, after months of Christmas music, I get to hear a one more time? *sigh* But wait, is it a game where I guess how to play the song on the colored keys? No. Can I remix it an... |
A Few Tips For Developers On How To Get Hired By A Startup | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 25 | Not everyone is cut out to work for a startup. It involves a lot of hustling, a lot of nail-biting, pizza-eating, sleeping at your desk, tears, failure, confusion, and on and on. And wearing your startup’s t-shirt. All the time. That being said, it can also be extremely rewarding and, with all the cash flying around Si... |
Rooted MotoACTV Brings Web Browsing And Angry Birds To Your Wrist | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 25 | Fitness watches are one thing, but how about a fitness watch that lets you play a few levels of Angry Birds in between wind sprints? Motorola’s debuted alongside the Droid RAZR not too long ago, and one developer has finally taken it upon itself to unleash its full potential. The hack comes courtesy of developer , wh... |
How To Use Anyone’s Face As A Facebook Chat Emoticon | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 25 | Emoticons no longer have to be anonymous smiley faces representing simple emotions. Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event on the service as an emoticon. That means you can make one out of your best friend, Chuck Norris, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama or anyone else. This o... |
Former heads of NSA and Homeland Security unlikely Apple supporters in encryption battle | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | At a panel discussion today at Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and Homeland Security threw their support behind encryption technologies. , who was the head of Homeland Security under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and who helped author the USA Patriot Act, and former NSA ... |
San Bernardino DA claims Syed Farouk’s iPhone may house ‘cyber pathogen’ | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | that his agency isn’t aware of what data is contained on the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farouk. on any meaningful information lying on the device. Yet, on Thursday, the San Bernardino District Attorney speculated that the phone may house a “dormant cyber pathogen” that threatens the county. The DA’s ... |
When capital prefers venture over public markets | Matt Oguz | 2,016 | 3 | 3 |
Market movements in the technology sector — particularly in SaaS tech companies — are causing a stir among investors. It’s always a challenge to estimate valuation ranges for publicly traded companies such as LinkedIn, Salesforce and Workday because these calculations require assumptions of growth. Twitter is another... |
Watch Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition | John Biggs | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hKux_89nng] Called the X-Prize for music the pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. A group of judges including Jazz great Pat Metheny will pick their favorites and you, the viewer, can jam along on your desk. The en... |
Box, Google, Facebook, Microsoft come out in support of Apple in amicus brief | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | While most leaders in the tech industry are standing behind Apple, some government officials, and politicians including Donald Trump, have called upon Apple to comply with the FBI’s data requests. The case has yet to be resolved in the courts — with potentially significant ramifications, weighing in on the Apple securi... |
It’s the end of “euphoric times” for custom app developers | Ashwin Ramasamy | 2,016 | 3 | 3 |
For the first time in about eight years, we saw a decline in the small business customer base of app developers (in terms of revenue and per-project value). The primary reason cited is the rise of white labels and SDKs. “Uber for X” toolkits have indeed become a force to reckon with. Small businesses increasingly rel... |
This investor has ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars to sprinkle around US-based VC firms | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | is the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds in China. It also has millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says. This year. Right now. It’s a very different message than VCs are receiving from many other institutions, judging by our recent convers... |
Comparably launches Glassdoor competitor for salary data | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | The Santa Monica-based startup says its site will make it easier to find whether or not your salary is competitive amongst industry peers with the same level of experience. The self-reported data can also be sorted by gender, helping to highlight pay discrepancies. In addition to gender and years of experience, compens... |
ICX Media raises $2.5M to connect video creators with publishers and marketers | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | , a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of the four co-founders previously worked together at mobile... |
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The singularity is never coming, but it’s already here | Ben Narasin | 2,016 | 3 | 3 |
When I heard Ray Kurzweil present the concept of the singularity to a small group at TED, the idea that computing power advances would ultimately allow thinking machines to advance beyond humans’ ability to advance them, and eventually allow us to “upload” our own consciousness into an eternal ether, I was so smitten... |
Facebook Messenger adds music, starting with Spotify song sharing | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | First came the with Uber, and now Facebook Messenger is launching “its very first music integration” with Spotify. Inside the Messenger “More” section in chat threads, all iOS and Android users will now find a Spotify option. Tap it and they’ll be shuttled into Spotify’s app where they can “Search for something to sh... |
Docker acquires Conductant as it looks to help businesses run large-scale systems | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | Docker today that it has acquired Conductant, a small startup that focused on orchestration. While you have probably never heard of Conductant — and as far as we can see, the company doesn’t even have a web presence and has never received outside funding — this acquisition brings a lot of talent to Docker. Conductant... |
Facer brings its popular watchface customization utility to Apple Watch | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | A popular smartwatch customization platform for Android, , has today made its way to and Apple Watch. While there are already dozens of utilities on the App Store that allow users to better personalize their Apple Watch’s home screen, Facer stands out because of its sizable collection of free watchfaces, range of ex... |
Neumob hires Netscape, Google veteran Jim Roskind as CTO | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | Jim Roskind , which recently raised , helps developers speed up their apps with the help of a combination of a content delivery network and a number of network optimization techniques. The company announced today it has hired as its CTO. While Roskind may not be a household name, he is a tech industry veteran with a... |
RingCentral opens its WebRTC API to developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | RingCentral, which focuses on providing VoIP services to businesses, today the of its WebRTC-based API and for developers. RingCentral’s one-year-old , which helps developers integrate business communications (including voice, text and — for the older generation — fax) into their business processes, already hand... |
Evertoon wants you to build funny 3D cartoon videos on your phone | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | Niniane Wang video — a short animated film of two creatures poking fun at the iPhone — on YouTube and was thinking of all the ways a video like that could be more customizable and personalized. It also helped spark the idea for her to start , launching today that makes it easy to make short, personalized films tha... |
Failed Powa Technologies fire sale: Ben White, Greenlight Digital divvy up and buy U.K. assets | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | One more chapter in the messy story of Powa Technologies, the payments startup that last raised money at a but rapidly sank into the deadpool on a flimsy raft of vaporware. Today, accounting firm Deloitte announced that it had secured two buyers for two parts of Powa’s U.K. business. Neither of them was Thompson Inve... |
imDown’s mobile entertainment network focuses on one-minute vertical videos | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | Thanks to smartphones and the rise of apps like Snapchat and Periscope, vertical videos have gone from being an annoyance to a and often preferred video file format. That shift has inspired a number of startups to focus on the medium, in an effort to carve out a niche in YouTube’s shadow. The latest to join the fra... |
LinkedIn open-sources its WhereHows data discovery and lineage portal | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 3 | LinkedIn today open-sourced , a meta data-centric tool the company has long used internally to make it easier for its employees to discover data the company generates and to track the lineage of its datasets as they move around its various internal tools and services. Now that almost every modern business creates mass... |
Want to compete with Salesforce? Buy Marketo | Vik Singh | 2,016 | 3 | 4 |
There are several enterprise players that want a share of Salesforce’s business, but just aren’t making headway by knuckling up against the company’s dominant, entrenched SaaS CRM offerings. Rather than competing head on, a smarter approach for these businesses is to “front door” Salesforce, instead. By acquiring , ... |
PayPal makes money every time you use Uber, Airbnb | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | PayPal has been going through some big changes since separating from eBay last year. The company recently introduced a and is now monetizing its popular peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo. Already with 18 million users, PayPal is expanding its checkout to 120 new countries. And they are doubling down on Braintree, w... |
Kissmetric’s Hiten Shah on VC funding vs bootstrapping and how to determine founder ‘grit’ | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 3 | 4 |
What’s it like being the founder of two wildly successful startups, advisor to Linkedin and Automattic and a prolific angel investor with Buffer and Mattermark? shares a glimpse in our latest interview. We discussed the pros and cons of VC funding compared to bootstrapping your startup, the implications of financin... |
Legal battles loom as technological ubiquity creates tensions between privacy and security | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 3 | 4 |
The battle between the FBI and Apple over the unlocking of a terrorist’s iPhone will likely require Congress to create new legislation. That’s because there really aren’t any existing laws that govern these technologies. The battle is between security and privacy, with Silicon Valley fighting for privacy. The debates... |
Andreessen Horowitz talking with investors about a new, $1.5 billion fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | The Sand Hill Road venture firm is in the thick of fundraising and talking with investors about a fresh $1.5 billion fund, according to several sources who note the fund could always close at a higher number. It was almost exactly two years ago that the firm closed its forth, multi-stage venture capital fund, Andrees... |
SpaceX successfully launches SES-9 into GEO but crash lands rocket on drone ship | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | Today at 6:35pm EST, SpaceX successfully launched the SES-9 communications satellite into Geostationary orbit (GEO). Launching the SES-9 payload was the primary goal of today’s mission, but many had their eyes back on the ground for what would have been the first successful landing of a rocket on a drone ship in the oc... |
TechCrunch went skiing with a drone | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | Because of its impeccable safety record, Cape is currently the only FAA-approved company that’s to fly drones close to people in locations other than a closed set. Yet the opportunity is still highly regulated. Select ski areas let Cape Productions film skiers, but only in areas away from crowds because the drone sti... |
Want an Echo Dot? Here’s how to bypass Amazon’s restrictions and order one today | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | Amazon is making it difficult to . But there’s still a way, and it’s really easy to nab your place in line for the new mini Echo. Better hurry, though. Amazon could close this loophole at any moment. To pre-order the Echo Dot: It’s that easy. This little workaround was discovered by Dwight Churchill, a product manager... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | This week we went hands-on with a few awesome gadgets (including the Fitbit Blaze and the Meta 2 AR headset), Slack introduced voice calling and one of Google’s self-driving cars got into a minor accident. These are the stories to catch you up this week. [facebook url=”https://www.facebook.com/techcrunch/videos/1015402... |
How to politely ask people to get the f*ck off their phones | Nir Eyal | 2,016 | 3 | 4 |
Chances are, you’ve experienced the following situation: You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out his phone — not for an urgent call, but to check email, Instagram and Facebook. Maybe you’ve witnessed this behavior and f... |
Why browser extensions change the way we work | Rick Nucci | 2,016 | 3 | 4 |
Browser extensions change the way we work. They alter facets of your job by changing the experience of the apps on which you rely so they conform to your workflow — versus having to open 17 separate browser tabs just to complete a simple task. Historically, browser extensions were a little wild as far as how they wer... |
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The Sony Future Lab could be as forward-thinking as the Walkman | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | Sony is doing something unheard of in the consumer electronic space: It’s going to show off prototypes. Can you imagine Apple or Samsung doing that? Not really, no. For several good reasons, electronic companies like to keep products under wraps until they’re completely finished and the company can unveil it with many ... |
Google now uses geolocation to hide ‘right to be forgotten’ links from its search results | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | , Google today that it is making a number of changes to how it handles links it has delisted under Europe’s ‘ ‘ regulations. Instead of simply delisting links from the various regional versions of its search engine, it will now use geolocation to remove these links from all searches that come from a given region. To ... |
Rando is a random social sharing app that lets you play Russian Roulette with photos, GIFs and more | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | A new app from the developer behind the popular , promises to be the cure for boredom. , as the app is called, offers a crazy twist on our carefully curated online personas — instead of allowing you to choose a photo or GIF to share with friends, Rando will randomly pick one for you. You can also share random text q... |
Apple’s best defense against the FBI is the one it can’t share publicly | Min Pyo Hong | 2,016 | 3 | 4 |
With Apple vowing to resist the FBI’s demands for an iPhone backdoor in the San Bernardino case, many people assume the company is motivated purely by principles and concern for their customers. No doubt these are key reasons for Apple’s stand, and I have great admiration for Tim Cook’s leadership on this matter. A... |
Computer science is the key to America’s skills crisis | Linda Moore | 2,016 | 3 | 4 |
The United States faces a global competitiveness crisis that, if not addressed, will put our nation at a strategic disadvantage for decades to come. In just a few years, there will be 1.8 million jobs unfilled in our nation because we don’t have enough individuals trained with the necessary technical skills to fill t... |
Link from “The Legend of Zelda” pops up on Google Maps today | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | Google has hidden a little surprise today in Google Maps for fans of “The Legend of Zelda” — the company is celebrating the release of the , “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD” for Wii U by turning Google Maps’ Pegman figure into the game’s hero, Link, for the next five days. You’ll find the Link avatar in the... |
Source: Microsoft mulled an $8 billion bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | When announced earlier this week, the enterprise messaging startup signalled a move into territory dominated by the likes of . But it looks like this is not the only moment when the two company’s paths have crossed in recent times. Microsoft eyed Slack as a potential acquisition target for as much as $8 billion, T... |
Two new apps, Daycap and VideoSlam, help you create GIFs and videos to remember your day | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | Two recently launched applications, and , make it easy to summarize your day in the format of videos or GIFs, which can then be shared out to social media. Do you these apps on your iPhone? No. Are you totally going to download them on your lunch break because it’s Friday, they sound fun, and those TPS reports can... |
Former NSA and CIA Director General Michael Hayden to appear at Disrupt NY 2016 | Ned Desmond | 2,016 | 3 | 4 | If you’re looking for a supremely qualified intelligence figure to talk to about the current state of technology, policy and intelligence, you could do worse than retired four-star Air Force General Michael Hayden. Hayden has held the two top intelligence roles in the US government, Director of the NSA (’99-’05) and CI... |
There’s more to early-stage funding than VC money | Homan Yuen | 2,016 | 3 | 5 |
Good companies will always get funded. If that’s your company, it’s important to make sure you have the resources to keep it alive long enough to get funded. Murmurs of a looming downturn in venture capital are pressuring more companies to preemptively begin fundraising, whether or not they have gained sufficient tra... |
Can you take the Internet out of the Internet of Things? | Daniel Myers | 2,016 | 3 | 5 |
The Internet of Things and the Internet might seem inextricably linked, but, increasingly, there are questions centered around how IoT devices should work with one another — and what happens when the Internet connection goes down? Users also are concerned with the privacy implications of having their data stored on a... |
3 signs you’ll soon be attending a coding bootcamp at your college | Drew Sing | 2,016 | 3 | 5 |
It all started as an alternative to the traditional college education. Now they’ve caught the eyes of deans across the country. Coding bootcamps have been a trending topic in higher education as their focus on job readiness and generous starting salaries has garnered the attention of both college students and career ... |
Oh, the places you can go with Google Street View | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 3 | 5 | Google Street View uses in-house data-capturing tech that lets you see the world from the comfort of your own device. GSV allows us to see not only photos of certain gems on the planet, but provides new perspectives that only its cameras can capture. Here are some of the most interesting projects Google has brought to ... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 03.05.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 3 | 5 | – Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang on Facebook Connect with our other show – G3 – on Facebook …and |
The Dark Ages of Austin startup capital | Richard Bagdonas | 2,016 | 3 | 5 |
An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. This was one week before their counterpart in the Bay Area offered $2 million for 20 percent of the same company. Nothing had changed in that week, and both received the same pitch and deck in the weeks prior. The ... |
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On the war between hacker culture and codes of conduct | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 3 | 5 | Did you know that a Code of Conduct war is underway in the world of open-source software development? I realize that this sounds ridiculous. Codes of Conduct boil down to: “a) don’t be an asshole, b) this is how we define ‘asshole’ around these parts”. Who could argue with that? And yet this has become eruptively contr... |
MIT spin-out Thunkable hopes its drag-and-drop app builder can be a money-spinner too | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 3 | 5 | Bagging lots of users is a challenge one of the startups in Y Combinator’s 2016 winter batch is worrying about a bit less than the average. The two-man strong founder team of is coming from the rather more comfortable position of already having fostered a community over four million strong — thanks to the drag-and-dr... |
Amazon says it will bring device encryption back to Fire OS | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 5 | Less than a day after it emerged that device encryption support for its Fire OS devices, the U.S. firm has flip-flopped and said that it will restore the feature. Yesterday we reported that Amazon will continue to encrypt data transfers from Fire tablets to external servers, but content stored locally on Fire OS devi... |
AT&T will launch online-only packages for DirecTV this year | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | In an effort to appeal to cord cutters, AT&T will that allow users to stream DirecTV online without an annual contract, satellite dish, or set-top box. The plans—called DirecTV Now, DirecTV Mobile, and DirecTV Preview—will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. AT&T when it acquired DirecTV for $48.5 bill... |
Uber and Ola launch motorbike taxi services in India | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Bangalore is the setting for the latest showdown between Uber and its fierce India-based rival Ola after both companies launched motorbike taxi on-demand services in the city. Ola, which is backed by Tiger Global and has an alliance with Lyft and other Uber rivals worldwide, rolled out its pilot service last night, whi... |
Dwolla fined $100,000 for misrepresenting its data-security practices | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Online payment processing startup has been hit with a $100,000 penalty by the . The CFPB, a government agency, said in a that Dwolla misrepresented the safety of its data-security practices. Dwolla launched in December 2010 and is a competitor to PayPal and other online payment networks. Its technology allows user... |
Weebly expands beyond easy-to-build websites, adds easy-to-build marketing emails | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | isn’t just for building websites anymore — it recently launched , a platform for building marketing emails. CEO David Rusenko said this is actually Weebly’s second big expansion, after adding an e-commerce platform. But at least e-commerce is, y’know, part of a website. Why move into emails? “Email marketing is the n... |
Smart mattress cover startup Eight raises $6M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | , the startup , announced today that it has raised $6 million in seed funding. The company makes a smart mattress cover that can track your sleep, change temperature (the temperature can even vary across different parts of the cover) and send data to other Internet-connected devices. It says it has sold 6,000 units ... |
Chase down those ZZZ’s with new Sleepfulness app | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | If you’ve ever looked at meditation and thought “that stuff just sends me to sleep,” you may just be onto something. , better known for its successful mindfulness and meditation app , recently released . The new app helps you pull the plug on yet another long and horrific day, and dispatches you off to slumberland. ... |
What Lending Club’s falling share price means for the P2P lending sector | Mike Lobanov | 2,016 | 3 | 2 |
, the largest P2P lending platform in the U.S., has seen its share price drop by more than 50 percent since December 10; the price per share on the NASDAQ Stock Market (current price per share will vary). So what is the reason for such a precipitous decline in the share price of the world’s leading P2P lender, and ... |
Dot & Bo to help startups with office design | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | In an industry where nap pods and slides are commonplace, a comfortable work atmosphere has been considered a critical component for hiring at tech startups and corporations, and San Francisco-based Dot & Bo is looking to capitalize on this market opportunity. “We’re launching a new service specifically targeted toward... |
HBO will launch streaming services in Brazil and Argentina this year | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | HBO announced today it would be expanding its streaming footprint with the launch of standalone streaming services in Brazil and Argentina, which are set to go by year’s end. These join the , also before year’s end, as well as the network’s streaming services that are live now in nine countries worldwide (U.S., Denmar... |
Microsoft will soon offer a HoloLens emulator for developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Want to develop for Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality platform but don’t want to pay ? Until now, it looked like you were out of luck, but as Microsoft , you will soon be able to use a to write your applications, even if you don’t own the actual hardware. The emulator, as well as all of Microsoft’s other developer... |
Apply now for TechCrunch Include office hours with Emergence Capital | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Another chance to in TechCrunch Include Office Hours is here. On March 18th, Santi Subotovsky and Alison Wagonfeld of Emergence Capital will join TechCrunch editors to provide advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities for underrep... |
WhatsApp adds support for document sharing, but only PDFs at launch | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service that recently hit , is today rolling out a much-anticipated feature to its apps on iOS and Android devices: document sharing. Though the company hasn’t yet made an official announcement, a number of WhatsApp users have seen the feature pop up alongside other sharin... |
Slack voice calling arrives on desktop | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Slack was being cheeky when yesterday it said “very, very soon”. Today the new “Calls” feature starting rolling out on Slack for desktop and on the Chrome browser. It lets you start a private Slack Call or launch a conference call in a channel that anyone can join with a click. And in keeping with Slack’s lighthearte... |
Cisco to acquire Leaba Semiconductor for $320 million as buying spree continues | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Cisco continued its buying spree today as it announced its intention to acquire Israeli chip designer for $320 million. Cisco sees this acquisition as a way to bolster its hardware catalog with highly advanced chip technology. “By combining Leaba’s semiconductor expertise with the Cisco engineering team, we will acce... |
3 gadgets not quite ready for prime time | Gideon Kimbrell | 2,016 | 3 | 2 |
It’s 9 p.m. and you’ve finally gotten the kids in bed, leaving just enough time to prepare for tomorrow. You head into your home office and flick on the light, which also happens to be a Bluetooth speaker. The bulb reads out your schedule for the next day, and you realize you’re supposed to take a snack to your daugh... |
GoTenna, the startup that lets you text without cell signal, raises $7.5M and launches with REI | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | , the device for people who want to stay connected when they don’t have cell signal, has found a natural launch partner — outdoor equipment retailer REI. Daniela Perdomo, goTenna’s CEO and co-founder, told me that REI has signed on to be the startup’s exclusive retail launch partner. For the next three months, the only... |
Plane is a new ‘social icebreaker’ app from the founder of Cupple | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | is a new social app from Tim Allison, who previously founded Cupple, the relationship app by YC alumni Pair (which since re-branded to Couple and was to Life360). Born out of Allison’s own frustrations, after he moved countries, Plane is pitching itself as a ‘social icebraker’, and lets anybody post a short locati... |
No More Voicemail is an app that kills voicemail so callers have to text you instead | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Voicemail is The idea of phoning someone then leaving a rambling message when they don’t pick up in the age of instant connectivity, where friends, family, colleagues and others can be easily reached with a text. Voicemail is so over, in fact, that large corporations like and have ditched the service entirely. If... |
Video: The father and son VCs behind the new LocalGlobe seed fund | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | Robin and Saul Klein are the ‘father and son’ VCs behind the new LocalGlobe seed fund ( , , ). Just recently they in online mortgage advisor . It’s likely to be among the first of many. Saul has been actively involved founding and investing in over 100 tech companies in London since at least 1994, Robin for, wel... |
Aerial imagery service TerrAvion adds data services | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 2 | There has been a lot of hype around using drones in precision agriculture, but for the time being, using regular planes outfitted with specialized cameras is still a more cost-effective way to cover wide swaths of land. YC-backed made on using planes for aerial imaging for precision agriculture; after a few growing... |
Grab, Uber’s biggest rival in Southeast Asia, signs deal with conglomerate Lippo Group | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 20 | Singapore-based has just scored a new ally in its battle against and other on-demand ride apps. The company, which claims to be Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing app, announced a strategic partnership with , one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates. Known for its real-estate holdings across Asia, Lippo Group i... |
Owners of (older) Kindles have to update their software or lose Internet connectivity | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 20 | People who have Kindles made before 2012 need to update their software by March 22 or lose Internet connectivity, . Procrastinators and people who missed the message will have to perform the unspeakably arduous task of with a USB cable to download the update manually. If you own a newer Kindle, however, you might no... |
Airbnb will open its Cuba listings to users outside the United States | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 20 | will now let travelers from outside the U.S. to book properties in Cuba after receiving authorization from the U.S. government, . Previously, only Americans were allowed to reserve the site’s . They will open to international users on April 2. Airbnb launched its , four months after the Obama administration reveale... |
ServisHero, a mobile app for finding local services in Southeast Asia, lands $2.7M | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 20 | , a company that provides local services on-demand via a mobile app in Southeast Asia, has landed a $2.7 million investment led by . Founded last June, ServisHero is based in Malaysia but already the service is available in Singapore and — as of today — Thailand too. This round, which is billed as a pre-Series A, also... |
Building a smarter home | Stefanie Turber | 2,016 | 3 | 20 |
presented a highly entertaining vision of what of the future would . The animated television show anticipated a world where humans would be able to do everything with just the push of a button. In many ways, the show turned out to be prophetic; today we have printable food, video chats, smartwatches and robots ... |
Entrepreneurs everywhere can now solve the problems of humanity | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 3 | 20 |
Not long ago, all of the major innovations came from big research labs in the West. And Silicon Valley not only built the core technologies but also the best applications of these. This is where all the amazing advances happened. We no longer have a monopoly on disruptive innovation. The cost of building world-changi... |
Mattermark raises $7.3M at a $42M valuation to expand its B2B search and analytics tools | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 3 | 20 | , a startup that mines and crunches public Internet data to provide investors, sales teams and others with search tools and other business intelligence, has raised another $7.3 million in funding — a Series B round that values the company at $42 million. The new cash injection will be used to hire more talent; and to k... |
The death of Instagram for brands | Steve Feiner | 2,016 | 3 | 20 |
Earlier this week Instagram updated its news feed algorithm. Posts will no longer appear in chronological order and instead be sorted “based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post.” What this means is that Instagram will choose ... |
Twitter looks back at the evolution of Twitter Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 20 | As part of the flurry of retrospectives , the company is also looking back at the history of advertising on Twitter. Granted, that probably doesn’t give you the same nostalgic twinkle as but, like it or not, it’s still an important part of the company’s story. So in , Joel Lunenfeld, vice president of sales strateg... |
Will apps become the next disability lawsuit target? | Frank C. Morris, Jr. | 2,016 | 3 | 20 |
Apps have become a driver of the economy. According to the website, leading app stores offer around four million apps. App users are able to engage in commerce, access content and connect with for-profit and not-for-profit entities of every kind and description. If space was the final frontier for Captain Kirk and t... |
Now the cloud wars (really) begin | Aaron Levie | 2,016 | 3 | 20 |
Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, presciently After years of investing in their own Today — like Watson envisioned — we now see a time when only five to ten “computers” (or clouds) may For all of The undisputed leader in the space, which just celebrated its 10 year anniversary, For all of the back-and-forth b... |
Lessons from starting a company during the last downturn | Alex Bard | 2,016 | 3 | 20 |
I started my last company in mid-2009, just as the market was beginning to recover from the fallout of the financial crisis. In the past several years, surrounded by fast-growth startups with sky-high valuations, many of us forgot what the downturn felt like. Today, things are changing. Again, we’re facing economic u... |
Review: Nikon’s D5500 lacks charm, but shoots fair photos | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 3 | 20 | DSLR is often an oxymoron. DSLRs tend to be full of enough features to frighten off newbies and, depending on price, enough bells and whistles to keep you busy for weeks. So is the new Nikon D5500 entry-level? After a few glances and general fooling around, I quickly realized the Nikon D5500 has many of the specs foun... |
Inside the Starburst-sized box that could save the Internet | Michael Pozmantier | 2,016 | 3 | 20 |
Cybercrime is costing us millions. Hacks drain the average American firm of , and, in the resulting panic, companies often spend to resolve a single attack. It’s time to face facts: Our defenses aren’t strong enough to keep the hackers out. But there is hope. Companies can encrypt data so that what is stolen remai... |
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