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Entrepreneurs must learn to negotiate, or they can lose everything | Lawrence Susskind | 2,016 | 4 | 4 |
Successfully taking an idea to market involves many more negotiations than most entrepreneurs realize. First, they must figure out whether to share credit with any partners or advisors who helped them along the way. Then, they need to determine who owns what, and who controls what, as they make their way through mult... |
Nest demonstrates the risks of being an early adopter by shutting down Revolv | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 4 | 4 | Remember the ? Probably not. The device was released in late 2013, and while fantastic, it largely flew under the radar before Alphabet’s Nest division bought the company, and promptly stopped selling the device. But the device was still available from various retailers and worth the cash for home packed with Internet... |
DJI, 3DR, Parrot and GoPro form new drone advocacy group | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 4 | DJI, 3DR, Parrot and GoPro are launching their own drone advocacy group to lobby for “policies that promote innovation and safety, and create a practical and responsible regulatory framework.” The Small UAV Coalition, which launched with participation from DJI, 3DR, Amazon Prime Air and others interested in the drone e... |
Samir Arora is stepping down as CEO of Mode Media | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 4 | Samir Arora, the longtime CEO of , is stepping down, replaced by interim CEO Jack Rotolo. Rotolo has serving in a number of roles at the company, most recently president of global sales and business operations. “Mode Media is poised to redefine social content for brands thanks in large part to Samir Arora’s dedicati... |
Faraday Future: “Tesla Model 3 is fantastic news.” | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 4 | Nick Sampson, head of the startup electric vehicle company , spent a busy day as the title sponsor of the April 2. I interviewed him standing up in the shade of a tree on a warm California afternoon before we both had to hurry off to the track where the cars would be lined up on the grid for the standing start of th... |
Vivaldi browser hits 1.0 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | After more than a year of public alpha and beta releases, the Vivaldi browser is . Vivaldi, which was founded by Opera co-founder and former CEO Jon von Tetzchner, prides itself as a browser for power users — a group of users, von Tetzchner and his team believe, that has been mostly abandoned by other browser vendors.... |
Social payments startup Circle rolls into Europe | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | It may have started as a Bitcoin wallet but veteran entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire’s fintech startup has since shifted focus to social payments, launching an app in Q4 last year that lets users send U.S. dollars to settle IOUs between each other, with its pitch being it makes payments as easy as firing off an SMS (and p... |
Google Calendar’s Reminders feature is now on the web | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | Way back in December, Google to the Google Calendar iOS and Android apps. Now, at long last, it is available for the web. Reminders basically amp up Google Calendar’s to-do list, so you can not only create tasks in your Gmail inbox, Google Keep, or calendar, but see a reminder that shows up on top of your Google Cale... |
Mirantis scores huge OpenStack win with VW | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | , one of the last pure play startups left standing announced a major win today when VW chose them over Red Hat for an enormous OpenStack implementation. It was huge for Mirantis and for the open source OpenStack project. VW knew it wanted to run a private cloud on OpenStack. The only question was the vendor. After a ... |
Alibaba completes SCMP acquisition and removes the paper’s online paywall | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | South China Morning Post (SMCP), the Hong Kong-based media firm, has dropped the paywall on its website after . Its physical newspaper and PDF editions will continue to be subscription based. SCMP previously limited the number of stories that non-paying users could access on its website each month, but now that limit ... |
Goldman Sachs-backed CompareAsiaGroup gets new CEO ahead of its second round of funding | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | , a consumer finance startup backed by Goldman Sachs, has appointed Sam Allen as its new chief executive officer. Allen previously worked at KKR, where he was a director on the private equity investment firm’s portfolio operations team. The company runs sites in eight Asian countries (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, th... |
Adidas wants to put these Zone fitness trackers on every kid in PE class | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | Everybody likes a good fitness tracker, but nobody is thinking about the children. The poor dears are being left out of the wearable revolution — looks like it’s up to Adidas to put a gadget on every wrist and a smile on every PE teacher’s face. The athletic-goods company aims to equip whole classrooms with standardize... |
Why Facebook failed with Free Basics | Abhijit Bose | 2,016 | 4 | 5 |
Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently, fueled by 457 companies and more than 800 startups that signed vehemently opposing ’s initiative. After getting hi... |
People feel weird about touching robot butts, researchers find | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | How would you feel if a robot asked you to touch its butt? Maybe it sounds like a silly question (actually, there’s no maybe about it), but as robots proliferate and anthropomorphize, it’s actually something that needs to be considered. So scientists at Stanford considered it. The study, to be presented soon but , is ... |
NVIDIA announces a supercomputer aimed at deep learning and AI | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | The sophisticated neural networks underlying systems like Google’s Deep Dream and all manner of interesting experiments require a great deal of computing power. NVIDIA proposes to put all that horsepower in a single box, specially engineered to meet the needs of AI researchers. NVIDIA already has , so this was a logic... |
Collaborative Fund sets its eyes on consumer goods | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | Collaborative Fund is launching a new fund today. Called the Collab+Consumer fund, it’s part of Collaborative Fund’s third $70 million fund that’s geared toward finding companies that make consumer goods — like food and clothing. To be sure, the space is heating up. There are emerging companies focused on single produc... |
The reality of AR/VR business models | Tim Merel | 2,016 | 4 | 5 |
There is nearly as much confusion as there is excitement about augmented and virtual reality. While , there are more questions than answers out there. I’ll be doing a deep dive on one aspect of AR/VR every month. This month we’re kicking off with business models. AR/VR hardware sales, e-commerce sales, ad spend and ... |
ClearChat picks a heavily-encrypted fight with Slack | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | has a lot of functions, but end-to-end encryption isn’t one of them, which makes the platform a no-go for some users. Launching to the public today, comes along to save the day, serving the needs of the slightly more security-conscious teams, with chat, file transfer and more. ClearChat describes its service as “a c... |
Thrive Market brings its organic grocery store to Android | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | A company tapping into consumers’ growing desire for healthier food and organic products, is today bringing its online grocery store to Android users with the launch of a dedicated mobile application. The new app will allow users to shop for natural and organic products right from their phone, including its more rece... |
Marijuana deliverer Meadow rolls up $2.1M for dispensary sales software | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | Meadow already lets you get a prescription for medical marijuana over video chat and order from a nearby shop that delivers. Now it wants to be the backbone of the weed business, too. Pot dispensaries can’t use standard point-of-sale or inventory software because they aren’t compliant with the industry’s strict regulat... |
WhatsApp completes end-to-end encryption rollout | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | It’s a security project that’s taken around a year and a half to complete, but messaging giant WhatsApp has now fully implemented strong end-to-end encryption on its platform and across all mobile platforms for which it offers apps. This means users of the latest versions of the messaging app will have their comms and ... |
TiE Global Chairman Venktesh Shukla Joins Fenox Venture Capital as General Partner | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | is bringing on TiE Global Chairman and the founder of TiE Angels, Venktesh Shukla, as General Partner. For the unfamiliar, TiE is a nonprofit mentoring network for entrepreneurs and promoter of entrepreneurship worldwide. Its annual conference, , is in its 23rd year. According to Fenox VC partners, the firm will rely... |
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Lydia is launching a bot to pay back your friends directly from Slack | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | and Slack are two charming services and I like using them. So when I learned the two of them were having a baby together, you bet I was excited. Lydia is a French payment app, a sort of Venmo for Europe like stealth startup . It lets you instantly send and receive money with your friends without paying any fee. And i... |
Twitter makes it easier to share tweets privately with new button on iOS and Android | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | While nowhere near as big as this morning’s news that , the company is announcing another change to its service today aimed at increasing the functionality and usage of its Direct Message (private messaging) feature. Starting today, the company is adding a new “Message” button to tweets on iOS and Android that will al... |
Cookies teases its payment app that wants to become the Venmo of Europe | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 5 | wants to become the with a consumer app to pay back your friends in no time and with no fees. The company promises a speedy onboarding experience and a great design. And today, the company is showing a bit more about the app. With the following screenshots, you can see what Cookies is building. It’s a messaging-meet... |
The death of ‘Internet’ | Henry Pickavet | 2,016 | 4 | 2 | The folks responsible for the entries in the have announced that the word “Internet” will no longer be uppercased, thus breaking my heart and making some of our writers very happy. The AP Stylebook, which many newspapers and websites (one word? really?) use to guide their style efforts, defines Internet as “a decentr... |
IoT and the development of a circular economy | Sebastian Egerton-Read | 2,016 | 4 | 2 |
Few topics receive greater hype in the media today than the Internet of Things (IoT), and still a last summer argued that the potential impact of IoT technologies might actually be understated. An estimated economic impact of $3.9-11.1 trillion a year by 2025 was the bottom line of McKinsey’s research. Debates about... |
The gig economy as a driver of innovation | Michael Contreras | 2,016 | 4 | 2 |
If you are reading this article, chances are you have taken an Uber, are familiar with Upwork and maybe even sold something on Etsy. Business models that fall under the have been proven for business-to-consumer and peer-to-peer markets because they make it possible to crowdsource products and services from huge com... |
Blue Origin releases video from third launch and landing of New Shepard | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 2 | Remember when Blue Origin made history by vertically landing a rocket after launching it into space? Remember when they that same rocket and then landed it again? Well, today Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, once again, launched that very same New Shepard rocket and successfully landed it At 11:28 AM EST, Bezos announced... |
Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, gets some upgrades | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 2 | TechCrunch went out to the ballpark this week — specifically Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. Granted, it wasn’t the most tech-centric event, but the stadium has seen some changes between seasons — including the addition of a big LED Coca-Cola sign, which looms over the new Coca-Cola Corner in right field. Appa... |
Why it’s so easy to ignore your to-do list app but get distracted by Twitter | Benjamin Brandall | 2,016 | 4 | 2 |
I’ve spent the past month in a daze, trying make sense of my own tasks and responsibilities while forcing myself adhere a system I came up with that simply doesn’t work. You can never anticipate how “perfectly designed” task-management system can fail. It’s our own nature — we’re sure of ourselves — that ma... |
Moneyball is dead. Long live Moneyball! | Jay Laramore | 2,016 | 4 | 2 |
While it seems the term has been around baseball forever, the concept of “moneyball” — coined to describe the Oakland Athletics’ approach to building competitive teams despite being hamstrung with one of the sport’s lowest payrolls — entered the popular lexicon with Michael Lewis’ , in 2003 (followed by the film). T... |
How to approach machine learning as a non-technical person | Aria Haghighi | 2,016 | 4 | 2 |
The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in machine learning technology and potential applications. As a non-expert, you’ve probably either had to assess ML technology for your product and business or as a potential investment. The jargon around ML technology is vast, confusing and, unfortunately, increa... |
11 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 4 | 2 | This week, Tesla unveiled a brand-new model, Oculus Rift shipped and Snapchat saw a major upgrade. These are this week’s top tech stories you don’t want to miss. . The base model starts at $35,000, and it does 0-60 in under 6 seconds. . [facebook url=”https://www.facebook.com/techcrunch/videos/10154133826592952/” /] ... |
Opera brings built-in VPN service to its browser | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | When Opera acquired the virtual private network (VPN) service SurfEasy , it obviously did so to build that technology into its browser and maybe its Opera Max data-savings app. It took more than a year, but now Opera is actually launching a free built-in version of SurfEasy in the early release of its browser. The b... |
Spotify suffers notable hour-long outage for many users | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 2 | Breathe that weekend air, Saturday is here in most parts of the world! Great time to put on some music and relax, except, that is, if you’re a Spotify user because the world’s most popular streaming service is experiencing some issues right now. It looks like the service is returning for most users. Access to Spotify ... |
Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | Question and answer site Quora has made its first push to make money after it introduced advertising. The company, which was when it closed an $80 million Series C in 2014, that it has 100 million monthly visitors, half of whom are from the U.S. with 15 percent from India. That’s up from , and likely the reason fo... |
Rocket Internet’s Zalora loses co-founder and MD amid uncertain future | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | , the fashion-focused e-commerce site backed by Rocket Internet, has lost two top executives. Singapore-based managing directors , who is also listed as a co-founder, and have departed the company, TechCrunch understands. The company, like others in the Rocket Internet portfolio, has a fairly unorthodox executive st... |
Federal judge rules FBI didn’t have proper warrant to hack child porn site | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | A federal judge ruled today that the FBI did not obtain the proper warrant before hacking a child porn website and that the evidence it collected against one of the defendants, Alex Levin, must be suppressed. The case centers on a child porn site called Playpen, which was hosted on a hidden Tor service intended to conc... |
Qualtrics adds former Google and Apple exec Kim Scott to the board to help pull in top Silicon Valley talent | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | Billion-dollar customer insight startup hopes to recruit top Silicon Valley talent to its home base in Utah as it continues to grow and part of that strategy involves adding professional tech coach Kim Scott to the board of directors. Qualtrics became one of a handful of new unicorns in the Beehive State last year an... |
Tripping.com sees non-hotel lodgings draw “420-friendly” travelers | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | A search engine that lets travelers find and book a stay in non-hotel lodgings, , has detected a burgeoning “budbnb” trend in Colorado. San Francisco-based Tripping.com aggregates vacation rental listings from the likes of , , and other sites, and shows travelers the best prices on available lodgings. It currently... |
The Lian-Li DK-04 is a big PC case and a motorized standing desk all-in-one | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | What if I told you that you can strengthen your own core while liquid cooling your PCs? That’s the dream, right? Better still, you can accomplish all of that in a single product — which is precisely the sort of innovation one has come to expect from a computer accessory manufacturer that recently announced a case that ... |
Adtech is going native on steroids, hyper-personalization and consolidation | Kfir Hod Moyal | 2,016 | 4 | 20 |
After years of VC exuberance, 2015 marked the end of an investment cycle for the adtech industry. Quite a few companies with high valuations stumbled, downsized, restructured and pivoted in order to achieve, or at least progress on a path toward, sustainable profitability. Yet, despite the contraction in VC investmen... |
Build your brand, and they will come | Cyril Ebersweiler | 2,016 | 4 | 20 |
Your hardware startup got some buzz and you beat your crowdfunding target. You’ve lived on planes to set up production, and have even been a featured speaker at some hot tech events. At last, you’re ready for the orders to start rolling in! But then, silence. When do retailers start calling? The good news: hardware i... |
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Review: Curb, energy monitoring for an entire home | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | My kids don’t turn off the damn lights. Ever. And now, with , I have a new way to see when they leave on their lights. All I have to do is look at an app. This is the future of parenting — and, well, energy monitoring.
. The system monitors the entire home by using sensors installed in the circuit breaker. For many ... |
Shots acquires Mindie to build a teen video app empire | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | Mindie does with soundtracks what Instagram did with filters: It makes boring imagery interesting. And with the insane amount of video that teens are sharing, the music-video-making app seemed too useful to die when its creators shut down Mindie in December. So Mindie’s technology is getting dug out of its grave thanks... |
Viber defends new end-to-end encryption protocol against criticism | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | Messaging app Viber rolled out its own yesterday, following in the , and allowing users to keep their calls and messages private. But researchers are questioning whether Viber’s messages are really as secure as the company claims. In a announcing the change, Viber COO Michael Shmilov says that the new feature will... |
The Shade Room is back on Facebook, other media startups still “in jail” | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | The celebrity gossip and news startup The Shade Room is back on , the startup today, albeit under a new moniker. Its previous page, which had racked up more than 4 million followers, was “facebook.com/theshaderoom;” the new profile is “facebook.com/shaderoominc.” The startup said its page had been removed from the... |
Rolltape adds Radio feature so you can share voice messages with the world | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | is a voice messaging app that’s supposed to . Now, with the launch of Rolltape Radio, it can help you share those stories on a broader scale. The change is pretty straightforward. Previously, Rolltape messages (which are recommended to be five minutes or less, but have no hard limit) could only be shared with friends... |
Mike Arrington takes on reduced role at CrunchFund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | Michael Arrington — who famously co-founded TechCrunch in 2005 and just as famously with the outlet in 2011, one year after it to AOL — is now taking on a reduced role at the venture fund that he co-founded when he left TC. After an surfaced earlier today showing that is targeting $40 million for its third fund... |
AI is not a threat to humanity, but an Internet of ‘Smart’ Things may be! | Abdalla Kablan | 2,016 | 4 | 20 |
After more than 60 years since its conceptual inception — and after too many hype-generating moments — AI is yet again making its presence felt in mainstream media. Following a recent , many perceive AI as a threat to our jobs, while others even go so far to assert that it poses a real threat to humanity itself. Wha... |
Influencer marketing startup Captiv8 raises $2M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. Created by the founders of , Captiv8 is one of a number of companies connecting marketers with influencers on social platforms like Instagram and Twitter. However, the startup says it uses a technology- and data-driven approach, examining things like geography an... |
Zeitgeist wants to be the Warby Parker of electric bikes | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | The was designed to solve one problem: getting uphill on a bike. That led to other goals, like creating a battery that only had to be charged every two weeks and was hidden within the structure of the bike. This, then, led to favoring design and performance over the cost of the bike. “We want to be the of bikes,” s... |
Facebook Messenger launches Group Calling to become your phone | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | Jump on the party line or hear the voices of your whole family with Facebook Messenger’s latest feature. on Android and iOS for free, users can start a group VoIP audio call from any group chat. Just tap the Phone icon, select which of the group chat members you want included and they’ll all receive a Messenger call ... |
BMW and Daimler abandon Apple Car talks | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 20 | If Apple really is working on a car, it won’t be the Ultimate Driving Machine™. BMW and Daimler have discontinued talks with Apple over a potential automotive collaboration, . Things fell apart (last year for BMW, more recently with Daimler) over questions of leadership and ownership, the German newspaper’s source sai... |
Theranos under criminal investigation | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Piling on to Theranos woes, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California have started probing into the blood analysis startup for possible criminal activity. The microscope under which Theranos found itself for over the last year prompted both agencies ... |
Apple Pay is now available in Singapore | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Apple has launched Apple Pay in Singapore today, making it to get the digital payment service. Apple Pay lets customers pay for physical and digital goods using their iPhone, iPad or Apple watch, but it is initially somewhat limited in Singapore. That’s because it is only open to American Express credit card holders ... |
Don’t want your startup to fail? Arianna Huffington tells founders to go to bed | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Sleep deprivation is the undoing of startup founders, according to Arianna Huffington. “There is this kind of founder myth that if you are a founder you can’t afford to get enough sleep,” she told me over the phone while catching a plane back to New York. “The truth is three-quarters of startups fail and if founders go... |
Apple rolls out a new App Store developer site with guides and videos for growing app businesses | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Apple today is unveiling an overhaul to its developer website, a resource available to the 11 million registered developers worldwide who have helped grow the App Store to now more than 1.5 million applications. The updated site will include new articles and videos aimed at helping developers better understand how to... |
Please welcome Brian Heater, Kate Conger and more to TechCrunch | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | We . We’ve got some more new faces for you here at TechCrunch, and they’re good ones. First up, has worked at a number of tech pubs, including PCMag, Laptop and Engadget, where he served as the Director of Media. Most recently, he was the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Pla... |
Rebuilding retail brick by brick | Mike Hsieh | 2,016 | 4 | 18 |
In 2016, Walmart plans to close 269 stores. Macy’s plans 36 closures, and Kohl’s 18. Is this the beginning of the end for brick-and-mortar retailers? There has been much speculation about what retailers should do in an omni-channel world. How do they compete in a world where Amazon is undercutting them in prices and ... |
The Shade Room is in Facebook jail, missing its 4 million followers there | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Facebook 86’ed from its platform today for unknown reasons. The celebrity gossip and news publisher attracted about 4.2 million followers on Facebook. We reached out to The Shade Room and to Facebook to learn why its page disappeared. Facebook did not yet reply to our inquiry, but we’ll update this story as it develo... |
As VCs enroll the startup class of 2016, it’s RIP for ‘me too’ companies | Niko Bonatsos | 2,016 | 4 | 18 |
Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The most recent case in point is the startup class of 2008-2009: Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber and Tiny Speck (Slack) all in those dismal years. And, while not ever... |
Netflix shares take a dive on a rocky forecast | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Netflix just posted its first-quarter earnings, and it looks like for investors it was a whiff. The company’s shares are diving more than 10% in extended trading, which more or less fits in with the usual behavior of Netflix — big spikes, up and down, all over the place and all the time. , and we’re seeing that big re... |
Supreme Court affirms Google Books scans of copyrighted works are fair use | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former’s scanning without permission of millions of copyrighted books. And the final word is: it’s fair use. The order is just ... |
Longtime Facebook VP Mike Vernal joins Sequoia Capital | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Mike Vernal, a Facebook VP who has spent the last eight-plus years at the company, most recently leading its search, profile, local and developer platform product groups, is leaving the company to become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Before joining Facebook, Vernal spent nearly six years at Microsoft, first ... |
Verizon and Hearst team up to buy Complex Media | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Chalk this up as the latest major bet on the importance of mobile video for the future of digital media. Verizon Wireless and Hearst Corp. are set to jointly acquire . The “video-first” lifestyle site, focused on pop-culture trends and general entertainment, will continue to operate independently, albeit with Verizon ... |
Netflix posts a mixed Q1 but adds 6.74M new subscribers | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Despite adding a record number of new users in the first quarter, Netflix is having a no good, very bad day. The company reported earnings of 6 cents per share — a beat — but missed on revenue targets with $1.96 billion in revenue. Analysts were expecting earnings of 3 cents per share on $1.97 billion in revenue. But t... |
3 reasons New York City is the best place to start a tech company | Mona Bijoor | 2,016 | 4 | 18 |
In terms of venture capital dollars, it’s still hard to beat Silicon Valley. The latest figures have Bay Area companies gobbling up about . Factor in San Jose and Los Angeles and that share climbs to nearly one-third of the all the money raised by private companies in 2015. By contrast, companies raised just 5... |
Jay Z, Tidal & Kanye West sued for misstatements about ‘The Life of Pablo’ exclusivity | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Kanye West’s on whether or not his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” would be an exclusive to music streaming service Tidal, has now been met with a class action lawsuit led by consumer tech privacy law firm Edelson PC. The artist originally promised the album would only be on Tidal, but “Pablo” to competitors, inclu... |
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Bill Campbell, go-to advisor for Silicon Valley’s brightest, receives loving tributes after his passing | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | There’s an old saying in football: It isn’t the hours you put in but what you put in the hours. Apparently, Bill Campbell — a widely revered former Columbia University football coach who went on to run Intuit for four years in the 1990s and only retired as its chairman in — put something magical into his hours with e... |
ABI Research predicts no more night vision for vehicles | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Technology market analysts at predict that advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are going to be big business in the next decade — to the tune of $132 billion. But they also predict the decline and fall of night vision in our cars. Night vision systems have been available for vehicles since the early 2000s. They ... |
ISS beams down 4K footage of Earth shot with the RED Epic Dragon | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | We get to see the Earth in high definition every day with our high-def eyes, it’s true, but we’re limited to a certain ground-level point of view. Not so much the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. And they’ve just sent down a batch of stunning 4K footage of the Earth taken with their fancy RED Epic Dra... |
Samsung posts strong first-quarter results thanks to the S7’s success | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | delivered strong results for the first quarter of 2016, thanks to sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, its flagship smartphones. The company’s operating profit grew 12 percent from the same period last year to 6.68 trillion (about $5.84 billion). Quarterly revenue was 49.78 trillion won, up 5.7 percent year-over-year. ... |
Amazon has built a subscription launchpad with Amazon Prime | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | It looks like incremental news, but the fact that Amazon now lets you subscribe to Amazon Prime Video from the rest of Amazon Prime signals a bigger shift. Amazon wants to turn the company into a subscription business, one subscription at a time. Amazon remains the dominant e-commerce platform in the U.S., but the co... |
Apple’s WWDC will be held June 13-17 | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 18 | Apple has yet to , but we now know the dates of the next Worldwide Developers Conference. When you ask Siri “when is WWDC,” Siri already has an answer for you. Apple will hold its annual developer conference from June 13 to June 17. This is in line with Apple’s previous conferences. The company will very likely presen... |
Drivy grabs $35 million for its car rental marketplace | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | French startup has raised another $35 million (€31 million) from Cathay Innovation, Nokia Growth Partners and existing investors Bpifrance, Via-ID and Index Ventures. If you don’t already know Drivy, the company wants to rethink the way car rental works today. If you have a car, chances are you don’t use it every day... |
Let’s define “container-native” | Salil Deshpande | 2,016 | 4 | 27 |
What a narrow use of a beautiful term! There should be a new definition for container-native that aims to better represent the magnitude of impact that containers will have on software development and operations. Just as in other once-a-generation shifts, legacy players rarely make the transition in a meaningful way.... |
NASA makes it rain with $243M in contracts to institutions and small businesses | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | NASA is spreading the dough around like a pastry chef. Today the agency announced to nearly 300 different recipients, from small engineering firms to big-time research institutions. And then it truly shelled out, awarding a $193 million contract to Universities Space Research Association in Maryland. The smaller cash... |
Users average 50 minutes per day on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Facebook’s “family of apps” strategy is a wild success. While some might have expected it to roll Instagram into Facebook and leave chat in its main app, keeping Instagram independent and splitting off Messenger into a companion app has helped it solidify itself as more than just a ubiquitous utility, but as a downrigh... |
A Silicon Valley VC says investors from China are joining Series A deals, and they’re playing “hardball” | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | As a venture investor for the last 20 years, George Zachary has witnessed plenty of trends develop and fizzle. Yesterday, we talked with him about what he’s seeing right now. One of the newest wrinkles he noted is a growing number of Chinese investors who’ve grown aggressive about getting into Series A deals, and who s... |
PayPal beats the street on Q1 sales of $2.54B and EPS of $0.37 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Payments giant PayPal posted strong Q1 earnings today, counter balancing some of the weaker showings from other tech stocks yesterday and outstripping the overall growth rate of e-commerce, in its own words. Following in the footsteps of its former parent, which also strong results for Q1, PayPal posted revenues of $... |
Facebook expects VR will have no material impact on 2016 revenue | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | If you think Facebook will get rich on Oculus, you better be patient. Mark Zuckerberg said on the call he sees VR as a long, long-term bet rather than a way to make a quick buck on 3D games. “This is early and it’s going to take a long time. There’s a lot of hype around this.” He explained that while VR, like AI and ... |
DeWalt — yes, the drill maker — gets into the mobile business with rugged MD501 smartphone | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | DeWalt, a name familiar to anyone who loves power tools (and who doesn’t?), is jumping into the mobile market with . It’s waterproof, has a good variety of high-end features and looks like you could use it to pound nails. The feature list is actually pretty impressive: dual SIM, micro SD slot, glove-friendly 5-inch HD... |
House unanimously passes Email Privacy Act, requiring warrants for obtaining emails | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | The U.S. House of Representatives has passed , the , sending it on to the Senate and from there, hopefully anyhow, to the President. The yeas were swift and unanimous. The bill, which was introduced in the House early last year and quickly found bipartisan support, updates the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy A... |
Facebook swells to 1.65B users and beats Q1 estimates with $5.38B revenue | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Facebook continued its winning streak as other tech companies floundered, reaching 1.65 billion monthly users and surpassing estimates in its Q1 2016 with $5.38 billion in revenue and $ earnings per share. Facebook’s share price climbed more than 8 percent in the moments after earnings were announced, reaching more t... |
Facebook is adding a new class of stock that will help keep Zuckerberg in control | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Facebook today, as part of its earnings release, said it would add a new class of non-voting stock for the company, which will keep Mark Zuckerberg in control of the company. “This proposal is designed to create a capital structure that will, among other things, allow us to remain focused on Mr. Zuckerberg’s long-term ... |
‘Europe by rail’ booking platform, Loco2, finally gets an app | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Pan-European train travel booking website has launched its first smartphone , letting iOS users book and pay for trips via a dedicated app. Launching an Android app is also on its roadmap for this year. The London-based site, which was founded all the way back in 2006 and was one of the first European travel startup... |
Acqui-hire experts Tasman acqui-hired by consulting juggernaut Ernst & Young | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | So you wanna buy a startup? But how do you get the deal signed and roll their team into yours? Consulting behemoth Ernst & Young wants to have the answers and rule M&A advisory services in Silicon Valley. So today it acqui-hired , Bay Area specialists in integrating acqui-hires and acquisitions into their new parent c... |
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Minecraft on Gear VR is available now for $6.99 | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Get ready for lots of virtual cubes in virtual reality! Minecraft: Gear VR Edition is now available on the Oculus Store for $6.99. The blocky blockbuster was met with major fanfare when it was revealed last month that it was landing on the Gear VR. I had a chance to try it out and wasn’t , but it is undoubtedly a maj... |
Elon Musk plans ‘Red Dragon’ Mars mission for as early as 2018 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Somewhere, Elon Musk is bored; you can tell because he starts tweeting like crazy about colonizing the solar system. “Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018,” this morning, apropos of nothing. More details followed, in typical Musk style. Dragon 2 is designed to be able to land anywhere in the solar system. ... |
Samsung’s Gear 360 camera is going on sale in 2 days and we still don’t know how much it costs | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | Samsung unveiled the Gear 360 virtual reality camera at Mobile World Conference. People were generally impressed, but without a price tag most withheld judgment. Well today onstage at the Samsung Developer’s Conference, the company revealed that the 4K 360-degree cameras will be going on sale April 29 in select countr... |
That time when we ate super-powered hot sauce live on Facebook | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | I’ve officially been at TechCrunch for a week and a half now, which I’ve been informed is the hot sauce anniversary. You know, the one where Thrillist sends you a bottle of scientifically-engineered hot sauce made from peppers with names like the Trinidad moruga scorpion, Carolina reaper and the only slightly less omin... |
The state of election technology is… improving | Joe Kiniry | 2,016 | 4 | 27 |
With the U.S. knee-deep in what has been an unusual presidential primary season, to say the least, many eligible voters are highly engaged in the process, passionate about their preferred candidates. But when it comes to voting trends, a reality check is in order: Voter turnout in the U.S. during the last midterm ele... |
Court holds Amazon liable for years of unauthorized in-app purchases made by kids | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 27 | In an entirely unsurprising , a federal judge has sided with the FTC in the agency’s lawsuit against Amazon, which had said that the company did not do enough to safeguard customers against unauthorized in-app purchases made by children. According to the FTC’s original , Amazon billed its customers millions of dollar... |
Facebook adds Dropbox support and video Chat Heads to Messenger | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | Good news, everyone. Facebook Messenger has two new features! The first inches it (as happens to all messaging apps) one step closer to just emailing someone: you can now . Just hit the “More” button in a conversation as if you were going to drop in one of those horrible Bitmoji. Dropbox should be right there, and you... |
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