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Is it time to invest in IoT? | Tim Chou | 2,016 | 4 | 11 |
I published my first book, in 2004. At the time, I was president of Oracle On Demand, which served as a starting point for Oracle’s billion-dollar cloud business. In the book I discussed the fundamental economic reasons software should be delivered as a service. As an example of new startups in the field, I discuss... |
Cloud-based video production platform 90 Seconds lands $7.5M Series A led by Sequoia India | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | Despite the , making a professional-looking one is still a complicated process that usually involves chains of emails and uploads. wants to fix that problem with its cloud-based platform, which lets users handle almost every part of the video production process in one place. Today, the startup announced it has raise... |
NASA troubleshoots Kepler spacecraft from 75 million miles away | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | NASA experienced a close call this weekend with its planet-seeking Kepler space telescope. On April 7 , during a scheduled contact, mission operations engineers discovered that Kepler was in Emergency Mode (EM). It was the first time the spacecraft had been in EM in its 7-year lifetime and NASA is currently working to ... |
Venture firm Accel just raised a new $500 million European fund | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | is on a roll. Shortly after a $500 million seed fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund for U.S.-focused investments, the venture firm has yet another fund. This time, Accel raised $500 million for Accel London V, a fund focused on Series A and B investments in Europe and Israel. The firm announced Accel London IV — i... |
Together, we can make this auto-Facebooking camera harness for dogs a reality | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | Look at that face. The problem with Facebook isn’t the amount of pictures of dogs, it’s the of pictures dogs. Finally someone is addressing this scourge — unfortunately, it’s an ad agency. So this isn’t a sponsored post, but it may as well be. “The Posting Tail” is a ridiculous prototype device created by Saatchi &... |
Americans are afraid of autonomous cars | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | In January of this year, conducted a phone survey of nearly 2,000 drivers over the age of 18 and found some surprising results: 75 percent of respondents “would be afraid to allow an autonomous vehicle to drive itself with them in it.” Another 20 percent were cool with the idea, leaving 5 percent who are apparently a... |
Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin lays out his hopes for colonizing Mars | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | When I met with Buzz Aldrin to discuss his new book , he described himself as possibly “among the luckiest guys.” After all, his mother was born in 1903, the same year the Wright brothers made their first flight, and Aldrin himself was born less than three decades later. Yet in the span of his own life he’s seen the... |
Lyft and Didi Kuaidi launching cross-platform service this week in U.S. | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | and are gearing up this week to launch a public beta of its collaborative service in the U.S. for Chinese travelers visiting America. This is by way of interlinking APIs so that customers of one app can hail cars in the other’s market. In the next few weeks, Lyft and Didi will launch a public beta for Americans trav... |
Review: Boosted Board Dual+ flourishes in the streets of NYC | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | project, the Boosted Board Dual+ is an electric skateboard with a top of speed of 22mph — I’ve nearly gotten killed plenty of times riding it, mainly because it’s insanely fun. I’m not the only one who thinks this way about riding a piece made it his main form of transportation around the city. If you’re a daily w... |
Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane burns out and sells assets | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | “Why do you need money from me when you have every great investor on earth?” That’s the question that caused to buckle under the weight of its own early buzz. Lady Gaga’s social network builder startup has run out of money, gone out of business and sold its assets to a group of previous and new investors who will try... |
Tim Draper has raised $190 million for his newest venture fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | In late 2013, Tim Draper the decades-old firm he’d co-founded, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but he suggested he might be back some day. Specifically, he , “I am not leaving DFJ. Ever. I am just skipping a fund to do some work building Draper University” — which is Draper’s for aspiring entrepreneurs — “and experimentin... |
Facebook says it doesn’t have a gender pay gap | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | Apparently, Facebook, which is just 32% female worldwide, doesn’t have a gender pay gap, according to Lori Goler, head of people at Facebook. In the United States, women make about 76 cents for every dollar men earn, . The tech industry’s gender gap is close to the U.S. average (5.4%), falling in the middle among indu... |
Smartphones are the latest invisible ally of the Fed | James D. Robinson III | 2,016 | 4 | 11 |
Throughout my business career of some 60 years, I have always been fascinated by change — the dynamics of change and how businesses, governments and people respond to change. Or fail to respond. Throughout history, major technological trends have had a profound, and often invisible, impact on governments and traditio... |
Aydin Senkut on scaling Felicis Ventures from $4 million to $120 million | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 4 | 11 |
In 2006, Aydin Senkut was an unlikely candidate for a venture capitalist. A Turkish immigrant who arrived in Silicon Valley by way of Boston, Philadelphia and Istanbul, Senkut held product positions at Silicon Graphics and a small startup named Google. Now, a decade later, Senkut has raised four funds with Felicis V... |
Analog photography lives! The Impossible Project debuts I-1 camera for Polaroid 600-type film | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | Who doesn’t like instant film? The rest of you, stay and marvel. The Impossible Project, which started the, well, nearly impossible project of reverse-engineering Polaroid’s instant film manufacturing process, has graduated to . The I-1’s photos are analog to the core — no tiny thermal printer inside — but the cam... |
Botlist is an app store for bots | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | A new site launching today wants to be the app store for bots. , as it’s called, is a third-party database that’s a catalog a lot of the bots currently available across platforms, including email, web, SMS, Slack, mobile, apps, and more. There’s no question that bots are all the rage. this week; that let developers... |
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Tesla recalls 2,700 Model X vehicles over potentially dangerous seat flaw | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | Tesla is voluntarily recalling 2,700 of its Model X vehicles over a flaw in the third-row seat that may be dangerous in an accident. In the meantime, the company has advised owners via email that they should not use the third row seat until it is replaced. The issue was discovered while doing seat strength tests ahead ... |
Digital magazine company Issuu is now a collaboration platform, too | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Digital media company has been trying to offer a better way to present content online. Now it’s a promising a better way for teams to work together on creating that content too, with the launch of a new product called . Issuu, for those of you who don’t know, allows publishers to create digital publications. They ma... |
Hyping vulnerabilities is no longer helping application security awareness | Chris Wysopal | 2,016 | 4 | 11 |
It used to be a vulnerability was disclosed, a few people who paid attention to such things blogged about it, patches were made, and we went about our day. During this time, not enough people understood the importance of application security and remediating vulnerabilities. It wasn’t mainstream, and it certainly wasn... |
Puma’s got a tiny racing robot that can move as fast as Usain Bolt | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Its story is that of an epic battle. Mankind versus machine in a race for dominance. Only one can win. In practice, thankfully, it’s much, much more adorable. A four-wheeled robot that looks remarkably like an RC car crossbred with a shoebox , programmed to give athletes something to race against. A sort of free-roamin... |
Windows 95 on the Apple Watch features the world’s most twee Start button | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Big, complex things running on tiny things is a common theme this week. Earlier we had a hack that put Counter-Strike on Android Wear, and today some maniac has installed Windows 95 on his Apple Watch. At last it’ll do something worthwhile! That is, of course, if you can find the Start button. is behind this absurd an... |
Kentucky Derby attendees can now order food, place bets from their seats | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Getting around, drinking and dining at the this year should prove a lot easier for fans and employees. According to Churchill Downs’ General Manager Ryan Jordan, the famed horse racing venue on Friday launched a Churchill Downs Racetrack app, powered by , to give attendees a better experience on-site. The new app, a... |
Frame.io releases video collaboration extension for Adobe Premiere Pro | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 4 | 11 | Frame.io today launched , an extension that will enable video editors to use the video collaboration tool inside the video-editing program. When Frame.io CEO Emery Wells asked me to join the beta program for the company’s Premiere extension, I jumped at the chance. export directly from my edit sequence to Frame.io and... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 04.29.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Check back on Saturday for the released version https://techcrunch.com/video/gillmor-gang/ Gillmor Gang on Facebook Other Gillmor Gang Studios shows:
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Sci-Hub is providing science publishers with their Napster moment | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | shows that academic paper piracy site Sci-Hub is not a niche product catering to cheapskates and isolated mad scientists: It’s as popular as it is illegal, and its millions of users span the globe, from Tehran to Boston. For those not aware, Sci-Hub is, in the X for Y startup lingo of our days, The Pirate Bay for rese... |
Tech companies can make retention of female employees a priority | Alaina Percival | 2,016 | 4 | 29 |
The technology industry has a problem with retaining qualified female employees. According to , 56 percent of women in computing jobs will leave their positions at the “mid-level” point, right when it is most costly to the companies that employ them. This is due to a number of factors that can be alleviated by corpo... |
Home Chef raises $10M for meal kits and “taste algorithms” | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | , one of several startups delivering recipes and ingredients to take some of the hassle out of home cooking, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Pat Vihtelic told me that Home Chef stands out from similar-sounding companies in a couple of ways. The big one is flexibility — ... |
Phil Schiller takes to Twitter to remind everyone not to pluralize Apple products | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Last night a single tweet on everyone’s favorite was heard ’round the world. No, I’m not talking about the that cost an NFL draft prospect . Or Drake’s tweet , Views. I’m talking about Apple marketing boss taking to Twitter to finally answer the age-old question of how to correctly refer to multiple er iPhone... |
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and every other letter had a wild week on Wall Street | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | This week was completely loaded with earnings reports from some of the biggest tech companies in the world — and it was a crazy week of swings for most of the companies that reported. There’s a running theme here: growth is being heavily rewarded — and lack of growth, punished — by Wall Street. And that’s especially tr... |
Fitbit scores win against Jawbone in trade dispute | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Chalk one up in Fitbit’s column. An International Trade Commission judge ruled in Fitbit’s favor on a series of patent disputes brought forth by Jawbone. This ruling seems to make it less likely that Fitbit would face an import ban of its wearable fitness trackers. In this case ITC Judge Dee Lord invalidated the last o... |
Twitter quietly retires Magic Recs, a DM bot that recommended viral accounts and Tweets | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | As Twitter tries out bigger things to spur growth activity — like and of tweets — it is turning away from others. Twitter has quietly retired , a strikingly effective bot account that used to send you DMs recommending viral accounts or Tweets to follow, run by an algorithm that measured how many others you knew were ... |
Samsung’s VR bedtime stories are cute, but really? | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Samsung worries about your child. Are they sleeping well? Do they miss you when you’re away on business? Can they put on a VR headset without their parents’ help? That last one is pretty important. Because Samsung wants your kids to experience the joy of VR just before bed instead of a regular bedtime story even though... |
Hear AI play Beethoven like The Beatles | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Here’s what it sounds like when artificial intelligence learns to play “Ode To Joy” in the style of EDM, Brazilian guitar, and The Beatles’ “Penny Lane”: The in Paris was challenged to re-orchestrate the theme song of the European Union. Using the max entropy approach of machine learning, they taught a computer how ... |
Chris Sacca says there’s “a greed case for diversity” | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Chris Sacca, the angel investor in companies like Twitter, Uber and Instagram, gets it. He understands that diversity is simply good for business. “There is a greed case for diversity,” . “Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn’t know existed.” It’s true. There’s a very strong business case for diversity t... |
Tall poppy syndrome and the Canadian opportunity | Gideon Hayden | 2,016 | 4 | 29 |
There’s an epidemic in . That epidemic is a mentality that leaves top talent with no option but to flee the nation’s borders and take with them everything they’ve learned. It undervalues breakthroughs developed and paid for by taxpayers. It’s a mindset that resents the success of others. It’s a bad case of . I ha... |
Fullscreen’s new streaming service aims to be the MTV for the YouTube generation | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | It’s not exactly a Netflix or YouTube rival, but AT&T-backed is hoping to carve out its own niche in the now-crowded subscription video market with its new service, launched this week. The $5 per month offering includes a mix of shorter, original content alongside full-length Hollywood movies and TV shows, like “Hitc... |
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Hear AI play Beethoven like The Beatles | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Here’s what it sounds like when artificial intelligence learns to play “Ode To Joy” in the style of EDM, Brazilian guitar, and The Beatles’ “Penny Lane”. The in Paris was challenged to reorchestrate the theme song of the European Union. Using the max entropy approach of machine learning, they taught a computer how t... |
How to deal with the rising threat of ransomware | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 4 | 16 |
Of all the money-making schemes hackers employ, the most prevalent is perhaps , a malware that is usually delivered through infected email attachments and or . Ransomware encrypts files on a user’s computer and renders them unusable until the victim ransoms the key for a specific amount of money. Cybercriminals a... |
GoDaddy CTO and cloud VP heads to Google | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 16 | GoDaddy’s chief technology officer — amid a time when the company is expanding its cloud-computing operations — is departing, . Elissa Murphy will be leaving the company later in May. Her departure comes as GoDaddy has , helping it evolve from a simple hosting service to something more robust. These kinds of tools he... |
The new-world insurance agent | Peter G. Colis | 2,016 | 4 | 16 |
Silicon Valley is building the new-world insurance agent. My grandfather started selling insurance in the 1950s and insurance eventually granted him the American dream. Today, the industry accounts for 7 percent of U.S. GDP, with more than of net premiums paid annually. The aged way of conducting business is pushin... |
Handcuffed to Uber | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | Plenty of people would give everything to be an early employee at seven-year-old . But Uber employees who’ve been with the ride-share company for at least a few years have discovered a considerable downside to their ride with the transportation juggernaut. They can’t afford to quit. Startup employees have to exercise ... |
How Silicon Valley can put local businesses back on the map | Tony Xu | 2,016 | 4 | 16 |
I come from a small-business family. My mom has owned three small most recently, a medical clinic in the South Bay. But it was in her first business, a Chinese restaurant outside Chicago, where I saw firsthand the challenges facing small-business owners. When politicians say that “small are the backbone of Americ... |
Microsoft’s new tool for building line-of-business apps is now in public preview | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 29 | allows anybody to build basic business apps without having to touch any code. These apps can run on the web and on mobile (through the PowerApps apps for iOS and Android). Microsoft first announced a private preview of this project but , it’s open for anybody who wants to give it a try. Building apps in PowerApps i... |
Making sense of enterprise security | Tom Seo | 2,016 | 4 | 16 |
Until recently, I knew nothing about enterprise security beyond some of the more widely publicized breaches in the United States. That said, after spending most of 2016 immersed in the space, I’ve come to appreciate just how challenging and broad an issue security has become to enterprises. I’ve also come to believe ... |
Nokia and Skype strongmen invest in Finnish food delivery app | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 4 | 16 |
Even with billion dollar behemoths already in the food delivery market, Helsinki-based food delivery app has managed to raise $11 million fresh funding from heavyweight Nordic investors including the founder of Skype and the chairman of Nokia as the company announced its Stockholm launch on Friday. “We are now expa... |
We should be worried about job atomization, not job automation | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 4 | 16 | In the future, machines will do tedious, repetitive work for us, and do more of it than humans ever could, simultaneously increasing economic output and liberating humans everywhere from drudgery. We all know what that means: Disaster! Dystopia! Catastrophe! Everybody panic, the robots are stealing our jobs! We’re dooo... |
Epic Foundation’s new app helps donors understand where their money is going | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | is a nonprofit aiming to improve charitable giving — an approach that encompasses the way people select, monitor and “experience” their donations. Founded by serial entrepreneur (among other roles, he was CEO at Phonevalley, a mobile marketing agency , where Mars became head of mobile), Epic is trying to bring a mo... |
MediaXchange, U.S. newspapers’ biggest industry event, will be an echo chamber without solutions | Matt Mitchell | 2,016 | 4 | 16 |
The Newspaper Association of America’s annual MediaXchange conference is this weekend. And while I won’t be at this year’s event, I’ve been a “member”, attendee and sponsor in the past, and will attend again in the future. Like the 17th iteration of Groundhog Day, sessions will focus on digital issues newspapers cont... |
Waze downplays exploit that let researchers track users | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | has responded to security concerns raised yesterday in a documenting an exploit found by UC Santa Barbara researchers. In short: it’s legit, but not as dire as it’s made out to be. The exploit leverages the Waze feature that shows you nearby users, showing that the data you’re seeing is live and giving you options s... |
Employee found dead at Apple headquarters identified | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | The Santa Clara County coroner’s office identified the at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters on Wednesday as 25-year-old Edward Mackowiak, Reuters reports. BREAKING: Apple employee found dead at company headquarters identified as Edward Mackowiak- coroner — Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) Mackowiak’s body was reportedly ... |
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A Dyson engineer explains why the company spent $71 million and four years developing a high-tech hair dryer | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | Hair dryers are everywhere. Bathrooms. Gym locker rooms. Open a drawer in your hotel room — boom, free hair dryer. It usually requires a lot to get me to really notice a hair dryer. But Dyson has succeeded, and all it took was $71 million and four years of development. It’s a logical progression, really. Between its va... |
Video consumption on Snapchat more than doubled in less than a year | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | may have started out as the ephemeral messaging and photo-sharing app, but a majority of users now consume video there too, according to a report from today. Daily video views on Snapchat have spiked to 10 billion, the report said. That’s up from on Snapchat in February this year, 6 billion daily video views in No... |
You don’t always have to be a coder to build something | Hossein Rahnama | 2,016 | 4 | 28 |
We live in a world where, because of technology and access to information, people can cultivate expertise and contribute on projects or in industries where previously they would have needed formal schooling. The first great example of this was about 10 years ago when we saw “citizen journalism” born from the rise of ... |
SpaceX is awarded its first national security contract | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | The U.S. Air Force has awarded an contract to launch their GPS-3 satellite into orbit. This is the first National Security Space (NSS) contract for SpaceX, who won essentially by default since ULA, the only other viable competitor, to bid in the competition. “This GPS III Launch Services contract award achieves a... |
Solar startup M-KOPA leapfrogs Africa’s electricity grid | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | Across East Africa more than 300,000 households previously without electricity are powering homes and devices with solar panels and using mobile money to pay for it. , an energy startup with IPO ambitions already backed by $52 million in VC. Co-founded by Canadian Jesse Moore, the company offers solar-power home system... |
Microsoft restricts Cortana on Windows 10 to Bing and Edge | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | is Microsoft’s version of Google Now and Apple’s Siri digital assistant. It’s built right into Windows 10 and, while I’ve generally not found it all that useful, it’s a core component of Microsoft’s attempt at making its operating system smarter. , whenever you use Cortana to do a search on Windows 10 that would typi... |
On-demand private chef startup Kitchit shuts down | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | Kitchit, , is shutting down because “investment runways are finite, and unfortunately ours reached its end at a moment of substantial upheaval in the food-tech world,” Kitchit founders Brendan Marshall and Ian Ferguson . Marshall and Ferguson detail the entire story of the company — from the “first bite” to the “bitt... |
COVR Photo is perfect for stalkers and street photographers everywhere | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | Ever wanted to grab your smartphone to snap a quick photo, but didn’t want to be obvious about it? has you covered with a freshly launched iPhone 6 case that includes a tiny periscope. It enables you to use your phone and camera as usual most of the time, but if you want to slip into sneaky, spying sleuth mode, slide... |
Researchers propose theory on why touchscreen controls in mobile games are the worst | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | I know we’re supposed to be all done talking about Flappy Bird, but I think it’s justified to bring it up when it appears in a research paper about why games like Flappy Bird are so hard — and so frustrating. Turns out the controls are fundamentally bad. That may not come as a surprise to — well, anyone. Angry Birds an... |
This guy built a working hoverbike and somehow managed to not chop his legs off | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | If I made a list of “People I admire greatly but that I’d probably never hang out with for fear of my life and limbs,” would be right at the top. He is a living, breathing mad scientist. This dude has built functional , and His latest project: a hoverbike. An actual hoverbike. Sure, he has no real engineering qua... |
Past, present and pending photography meet in Leica’s screenless M-D | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | Footloose and LCD-free — that’s how Leica made the . The new camera is actually old in several ways: It’s essentially 2015’s M packaged in the chassis of the limited, and also screenless, Leica 60. But the very fact that Leica is pursuing this almost absurd form of digital purism is suggestive of the future of photogr... |
TechCrunch Disrupt NY will be the first major media conference to stream on Facebook Live in full | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | We’re excited to announce that we’re using Facebook Live to make Disrupt NY the first major media conference live streamed in its entirety — with TV-quality production — on Facebook. Delivering a real-time video feed of Disrupt to TechCrunch’s more than 2 million Facebook fans is a first for all of us and we can’t wait... |
Supreme Court moves to expand FBI’s hacking authority | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | The Supreme Court approved hotly contested amendments to federal criminal procedure today that, if accepted by Congress, will expand the FBI’s ability to hack into computer networks. The rule at the heart of the debate is Criminal Rule 41, which limits judges’ authority to authorize search warrants. Magistrate judges c... |
LinkedIn up 5% after beating earnings expectations | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | surprised Wall Street on Thursday, with better-than-expected first quarter results. Shares jumped about 5 percent in after-hours trading. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of 74 cents, significantly higher than the . Revenue for the quarter was $861 million, above the anticipated $828 million and a 35 ... |
Mercedes home batteries are a potential rival for Tesla’s Powerwall | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | The batteries developed for the high demands of all-electric Mercedes-Benz cars are finding a new application as in-home energy storage units. Sound familiar? Yeah, it’s a lot like the . Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler AG announced that the storage units are being manufactured by its subsidiary Deutsche ACCUMOTIV... |
Gametime now lets users “snap and sell” printed tickets | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | Mobile ticket sellers added a new feature to their app this week that could draw a larger supply of concert and sports tickets to their marketplace. Designed to make it easier for users to sell old-school printed tickets via mobile, the “snap and sell” feature in Gametime feels something like check scanning in mobile... |
Be kind to artificial intelligence | Mike Finley | 2,016 | 4 | 17 |
Big innovations come in unexpected bursts. We grow accustomed to life and work as we know it, until something apparently simple brings about bold change. For example, we used phones for 100 years, but making them mobile transformed the world; we had the Internet for decades before the Web browser put digital educatio... |
Making sense of the lending industry’s rapid changes | Mike Lobanov | 2,016 | 4 | 17 |
“A horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad.” This was what the president of Michigan Savings Bank said to Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, in 1903, discouraging him to invest $5,000 in the new car company. Sixteen years later, Rackham sold his Ford shares for more than $12.5 million, e... |
The next version of OS X could be called ‘MacOS’ | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 17 | It’s a small branding change, but it would make a lot of sense. Many different signs point to Apple abandoning the name “OS X” in favor of “MacOS”, or maybe “macOS” without a capital letter. Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller at this change last year at WWDC in an interview with John Gruber. Then a config... |
Etsy’s latest diversity report recognizes gender as a spectrum, not a binary | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 28 | Peer-to-peer marketplace Etsy has released its first since going public last April, showing that people who identify as women make up 50% of the leadership and management roles at the company. In 2014, women held just 37% of leadership roles at the company. What’s also notable about this report is that it represents ... |
The investor psychology and why VCs aren’t immune | Nav Athwal | 2,016 | 4 | 17 |
One of the most oft-repeated quotes about investing goes something like this: While Warren Buffett may not have had venture capital in particular in mind when he offered up that bit of sage advice, it is a fitting way to describe the current climate of the VC industry. Over the last year, venture capital has undergo... |
The 3 factors behind Uber and Lyft’s regulatory win in California | Lisa Rayle | 2,016 | 4 | 17 |
It’s a common gripe: Outdated regulations obstruct innovation; government regulators move too slowly or, worse, try to block technological progress. But when conditions are right, regulations can sometimes change quickly, often in a way that promotes innovation. That’s what happened in the case of ridesharing in . C... |
Now that’s a suitor! The Daily Mail talks to private equity firms as it FLIRTS WITH YAHOO BID | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 10 | The parent company of U.K. tabloid may make a bid for Yahoo’s news and media businesses. According , the has held discussions with several private equity firms to partner on an offer. A DMGT confirmed the report in an emailed statement, writing, “Given the success of and Elite Daily we have been in discussions w... |
Buying @Haje: How I got my given name as my Twitter handle for $250 | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 10 | You’ll never guess how I succeeded in getting my first name as my Twitter handle. It involved a six-month campaign that included some light Internet stalking, badgering staff at Twitter, $250 and a visit to the patent office. I’m celebrating my 10th anniversary on Twitter. I was to join the social media platform, whic... |
Tagging may be the best way to make IoT contextually relevant and usable | Jim Hunter | 2,016 | 4 | 10 |
Before the iPhone, we lived in caves. And it was easy to organize things in our cave. Rocks went in the rock pile. Clubs went in the club pile. Bones went in the bone pile. We sorted, organized, and classified to manage our things. As more people came to live in our cave, managing things got a little more complicated... |
Black Panther’s artist and editor on diversity in comics and relaunching the iconic superhero | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 10 | Marvel Comics just launched , written by (that’s right, the well-known journalist and author of New York Times bestseller ) and drawn by Brian Stelfreeze. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the character, he was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 1960s — as a black superhero, he stood out at a time wh... |
7 lessons CEOs can learn from President Obama’s video strategy | Vitaly Shter | 2,016 | 4 | 10 |
Regardless of your political orientation, it is hard to argue against the success of the digital media strategy that President Obama and his team implemented to engage millions of Americans over the past two terms. Since Franklin Roosevelt’s famous radio in the 1930s, presidents have always aimed to engage the Amer... |
Uncle Sam wants you… to hack the Pentagon | Christopher Lynch | 2,016 | 4 | 10 |
The name, I was told, was a non-starter. There was simply no way we would call it Hack the Pentagon. None. You simply can’t call it that. Here’s a tall glass of Nope. So naturally… we called it Hack the Pentagon. So with much fanfare and press, on March 31 , 2016, the Department of Defense unveiled . A day later wou... |
The iPad Pro is the most accessible computer Apple has ever built | Steven Aquino | 2,016 | 4 | 10 |
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with traditional laptops, like the MacBook. I own one of the . It was my first Mac, and despite being ancient in computer years, it’s still serviceable. I don’t use it much anymore, but it’s fun to think that a machine I bought in 2008 is capable of running OS X El Capitan in... |
Embracing the sharing economy for growth in China | Hugh Harsono | 2,016 | 4 | 10 |
‘s track record for economic has been impressive in the last several decades, with accounting for up to one-third of global in recent years. However, is slowly transitioning from a manufacturing-reliant to one focused more on services, with the service sector accounting for 46 percent of GDP in recent years... |
Apple is going all-in on celebrities to sell new Apple TV | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CxQW3bzIss After , , , Apple is releasing a new ad featuring a couple of celebrities. This time, basketball player Kobe Bryant and actor Michael B. Jordan are sitting on a couch watching a Bryant biopic. And things don’t go as smoothly as expected. While Bryant is still a young fella... |
The open web is not going away | Zack Rosen | 2,016 | 4 | 10 |
, the founder of Drupal, and , the founder of WordPress, recently posted calls to arms (of sorts) in defense of the “open web.” I, too, am a believer in the open web — a platform that anyone can hack on powered by standards (http) and great technology (servers, devices, browsers). It delivers on the promise of the In... |
Autodesk looks to future of 3D printing with Project Escher | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 4 | 10 | Like so many organizations these days, is a company in transition. It was until recently a traditional boxed software company selling licenses. Yet its own business model disruption is only part of the story. As a company steeped in the manufacturing design process, it’s seeing its customers looking to change as we... |
Ex-Rocket Internet execs raise $800K to battle Foodpanda for business customers in Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | Two former Rocket Internet executives are out to beat Foodpanda, the food delivery startup backed by the German incubator-cum-investor, at its own game — and they’ve raised $800,000 to get to it. Hong Kong-based was founded in January of this year by (its CEO and former MD of Foodpanda in Latin America), (its CPO... |
Ground delivery robots: Passing fancy or next wave? | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 10 | “Every failed on demand startup will reappear as a successful robotics driven business in five to 10 years.” So Jeremy Conrad, founding partner of the San Francisco-based hardware fund , one recent afternoon. Conrad apparently means what he tweets, having investing in , a new, San Francisco-based ground-delivery ro... |
Can Israel build big, sustainable companies? | Zach Abramowitz | 2,016 | 4 | 10 |
The Israeli start-up ecosystem is a well-oiled investment machine that has been turning out companies for the better part of two decades. The country has its own homegrown angels like Gigi Levy-Weiss and Eilon Tirosh, venture capital firms like Carmel, JVP, Pitango and Canaan, equity crowdfunding firms like OurCrowd ... |
Tech coalitions pen open letter to Burr and Feinstein over bill banning encryption | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | This Venn diagram created by TechCrunch summarizes the provisions of the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016. A group of tech coalitions has to Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), concerning their bill on command, which achieved infamy in record time following earlier this month. ... |
Snapchat’s crazy “3D Stickers” just came to iOS. Here’s how to use them | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | About a week ago, : the ability to “pin” emojis to objects in your videos, and have those emojis track that object and move around with them. They call these “3D Stickers” (a weird name, sure, but hey, not my call.) It was only for Android users when it launched last week, but it’s hitting iOS today. Sound silly? A ... |
How paid journalism must work online — and why Blendle can’t | Max Tatton-Brown | 2,016 | 4 | 19 |
I write. I with writers. Many of my friends are journalists. The future of being able to charge for quality material is really important to me. However, to make progress in this area, I think the industry needs to stop pinning its hopes on the same dead ends that come up again and again. To me, one of these is mi... |
Samsung Pay will launch in Singapore “as early as Q2 2016” | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | Samsung has , but today it set a more definite timeline–sort of. The company announced that the service will be available in retail stores “as early as Q2 2016,” the day after rival Apple Pay . To be sure, Apple Pay is currently available only for American Express cardholders in Singapore, while Samsung Pay has . Si... |
PillDrill is a home medication scanning system for keeping track of prescriptions | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | The fight to drag the healthcare system kicking and screaming into the 21st century often overlooks the little picture in favor of larger systematic fixes. But for many users on multiple meds, the only thing standing between them and an incorrect or missed dosage is a big, plastic box from the drugstore sporting emboss... |
Apple is finally adding full web previews for tvOS apps | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | Apple is finally getting around to adding web previews for tvOS apps — correcting this rather baffling and prolonged omission. The addition was first noticed by Jeff Scott, who, having a tvOS app himself, was surely thrilled at the news. Hey, look at that, Apple TV apps now showing up in web preview pages: When di... |
Apple’s head of legal says it refused China’s request for its source code | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | a long-standing rumor that it has collaborated with the Chinese government to provide its source code. There’s been plenty of speculation over this issue, since China is one of Apple’s most important markets and the country’s government has a reputation for its tough stance on tech companies — into the country’s top... |
Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across . Completely open source and always pushing the limits for collaboration, there are a ton of different development boards available, but none are as awesome as . Behind the delightfully punny name, you’ll find an Arduino-compat... |
EFF sues DOJ for access to secret court orders on decryption | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | Does the government secretly force companies to decrypt their customers’ messages, build backdoors or hand over their source code so that law enforcement officials can pick through it for vulnerabilities? Those are the questions at the center of an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit filed today against the Justice ... |
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TechCrunch launches a personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | We’re excited to announce the launch of our cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s Messenger program revealed at F8, and it will help our readers get the news they want from us in a more conversational way. You can activate the bot on our , or . [... |
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