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Yahoo reports flat earnings amid acquisition talks | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | Yahoo’s Board of Directors has been considering what’s called a “reverse spin,” to separate Yahoo’s core assets from its stake in Alibaba. The company reiterated that “management has worked diligently with the committee and its independent legal and financial advisors to engage with interested strategic and financial p... |
OneWeb will mass-produce historic number of satellites with new Florida factory | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture between and , has selected Florida to be the home of their satellite manufacturing facility. Located in Exploration Park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the factory will turn out most of OneWeb’s 900 satellites that will be used to provide global Internet coverage. OneWeb satel... |
Banks and fintech in 2025: An unlikely alliance | Eyal Lifshitz | 2,016 | 4 | 19 |
Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digitally instead of physically, which opened finances to tech disruption, and a tech wave that has changed the way consumers define ease... |
Intel announces it’s slashing 12,000 jobs | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | just announced it was slashing its workforce by 11 percent, calling it in all its corporate press-speak glory “a restructuring to accelerate its transformation.” Sure. What it means in real human terms is that 12,000 people will be losing their jobs worldwide, and that is never a good thing to hear. “These are not cha... |
Apple and the FBI spar at Congressional hearing on encryption | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | The over an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters was rehashed today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which heard testimony from law enforcement officials and technologists about the role encryption plays in criminal investigations. The FBI’s executive assistant director for science an... |
Postmates launching 15-minute food delivery service in NYC tomorrow | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | On-demand delivery startup Postmates is launching Pop, its 15-minutes-or-less food delivery service, in New York City tomorrow at 11am ET. With Pop, , Postmates features a daily curated list of lunch items that you can receive in 15 minutes or less. Pop will be available from 34th street down to the Bowery in New York... |
‘Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur’ is a simple game you can play from the iOS Notification Center | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | Casual gaming, say hello to casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center — yes, without even unlocking your phone — is now the No. 15 top game in Apple’s U.S. App Store and is flirting with becoming a top 50 Overall app. Called “ ,” the game is a very simple experience involving... |
Mesosphere open sources its data center OS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | ‘s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) aims to allow developers and admins to treat a data center as a single computer that runs applications in software containers. It’s based on a number of open-source projects, including the Apache Mesos cluster manager and projects like the scheduler and the container orchestr... |
Box CEO Aaron Levie weighs in on markets, privacy | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Despite its difficulties, Levie said that going public has ultimately been a good thing for Box. “It creates new challenges,” but “it’s also come with a lot of benefits.” “We are able to drive a lot of more transparency in our business that creates better recognition, better understanding in the customer base,” he adde... |
Tech fatigue | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 19 | post. But if you have worked in tech for long enough, you know this feeling — tech fatigue. At some point, everything new feels old, everything different feels dumb. If you get stuck in this circle of endless cynicism, you need to ask yourself the important questions. First, let me tell you how I feel about tech today... |
Rightspeed helps you devour audio books at a terrifying pace | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Podcasts and audio books are enjoying tremendous popularity at the moment, and the fresh-off-the-app-presses app that’s here to help you speed-listen your way through your audio library. Most audio book apps have the option to listen at 1.5x or faster, but have you ever wondered how quickly you can listen to an aud... |
Furbo is a dog camera that lets you share treats remotely | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | , created by startup Tomofun, gives owners a new way to interact with their dogs while away from home. The camera allows you to keep an eye on your dog, with two-way audio so that you can also talk to them and make them feel a little less alone. There are even push notifications that tell you when your dog is barking. ... |
Willow Hill Ventures will fund and connect agriculture tech startups with farmers | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | and have agreed to partner under the moniker Willow Hill Ventures to invest in growth-stage agricultural tech startups. International Farming Corp. owns and manages land that it, essentially, leases out to commercial farmers, helping them maximize the land’s yield and profitability. Finistere Ventures invests in ear... |
Practice safe financing | Joe Lonsdale | 2,016 | 4 | 26 |
The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It’s a form of debt that is really more a type of equity — one where the valuation hasn’t been determined yet. It’s helpful because sometimes you want to align a new investor or bridge a company with extra capital, but not argue about ... |
Jaguar partners with Tile to make sure drivers never leave without their wallets | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Automaker today announced a partnership with Silicon Valley startup to prevent drivers from leaving home, or any other place, without their essential personal items. Tile, which has raised in total venture funding to-date, makes small, waterproof tags that employ Bluetooth low-energy radio and GPS technology to l... |
Why Apple’s stock fell off a cliff today | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Apple took a more than $40 billion hit today after reporting its second-quarter earnings — and it was . Shares of Apple were down more than 8 percent in after-hours trading at one point today. Things went about as poorly as you could expect: the company couldn’t hit revenue or earnings targets, iPhone sales fell off a... |
It isn’t just Uber: Carnegie Mellon’s computer science dean on its poaching problem | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Andrew Moore was a professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University for a dozen years when Google hired him away in 2006 to lead some of its efforts around ad targeting and fraud prevention. CMU lured Moore back in 2014, making him the dean of its computer science school. But he still understand... |
Apple iPhone sees first YOY sales dip ever | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | For the first time in its history, the iPhone is experiencing a drop in sales. In 2015 at this same time, Apple sold 61 million units of the iPhone. This year, for the period ending March, Apple only sold , representing a 16 percent YOY drop. This shouldn’t come as a surprise for most folks who know that we are close ... |
Apple Music hits 13 million paying subscribers | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | During an earnings call , Apple CEO Tim Cook did manage to locate some bright spots in the company’s ever-expanding portfolio. Among them was a steady increase in paying Apple Music subscribers. That number has surpassed 13 million, up from the . Of course, the number still pales in comparison to the 800-pound stream... |
Twitter’s woes continue on Q1 sales of $595M, a sluggish 310M MAUs and weak guidance | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Twitter its Q1 earnings today, and they’re not great. On the back of 310 monthly active users, the company posted revenues of $595 million, with Q1 GAAP diluted earnings per share of ($0.12) and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.15. This is a big miss on revenues but a beat on EPS. On top of this, the company issued very we... |
eBay shares rise 5% after beating earnings expectations | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | |
SpaceX’s next launch and the business of rocket recovery | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | SpaceX confirmed to TechCrunch that their next launch is scheduled for May 4 at 1:22 am EST with a two-hour launch window. The company is expected to couple the launch with another rocket landing attempt on a drone ship out at sea. It was less than three weeks ago that SpaceX made their first successful on a drone s... |
FBI to keep Apple guessing on San Bernardino iPhone hack | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | The FBI plans not to disclose to Apple the method it used to access an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooting suspect, or submit it for an internal government review, according to a . The FBI announced in March that it had from a third party that enabled it to access data on an iPhone used by Syed Farook. F... |
The restaurant OS | Chris Caliz | 2,016 | 4 | 26 |
So you’re a techie and a foodie. You’re having dinner and your phone buzzes to let you know you can pay for the meal you’re enjoying right from an app. It’s then you realize there’s something going on in restaurant tech. If you want to know more, or get involved, this is your primer — because there is a lot of new ac... |
Regulators order environmental impact study of Lyft Line and UberPOOL | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Remember when a California regulatory agency tried to throughout the state? Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Two years after its initial threats, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has decided that the services are legal and can continue to operate. However, the CPUC has ordered Uber and Lyft to... |
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Teardown of HTC Vive highlights the headset’s differences from Oculus Rift | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Today’s VR headsets are marvels of miniaturization. And, as iFixit’s teardowns show, both the Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive are also remarkably user-friendly when it comes to repair and customization. doesn’t have quite the novelty of the one , but it’s still interesting for anyone who likes to see how the sausage is ma... |
HTC announces $100M Vive X virtual reality accelerator program | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | HTC is devoting more and more resources to virtual reality as it looks to outrun its mobile demons and catch the VR wave before everyone else. Today at a press conference in China, HTC announced that it will be devoting $100 million to a new virtual reality accelerator program for developers called , . Applications a... |
ToyTalk renames to PullString, repositions as authoring tool for bots | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | ToyTalk, the startup that mashed together and let your kids chat away with for hours on end, is cashing out on the bot craze with a slight realignment of philosophy — and a new name. “When working with children,” the company’s CEO Oren Jacob said, “you are beholden to , and ToyTalk as a company had to work diligen... |
Now some Ubers will only wait 2 minutes before charging you, not 5 | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 26 | Better sprint outside, because now Uber can ditch you if you’re just two minutes late for your ride, or start charging you before you get in the car. Previously, people got a five-minute grace period to get to the car after it arrived, or to cancel their trip after they sent a request. But now, Uber is telling some use... |
AstraZeneca commits ‘hundreds of millions’ to sequencing genomes of 2M people over 10 years | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca today unveiled a — with top-tier medical and tech partnerships and a nine-figure price tag. The resulting database would be the largest of its kind, and would be used to hunt rare genes that may contribute to diseases. AstraZeneca is dipping into its own stores for the first big sourc... |
iBooks and iTunes Movies ordered closed in China by government regulator, just six months after launch | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | The New York Times reports that a government regulator of iBooks Store and iTunes Movies in China last week. The two services , along with Apple Music (which is still available). The shutdown was ordered by the , which oversees content in those mediums. TechCrunch has contacted Apple for comment. The company told th... |
Uber strikes $100M class-action settlement to keep drivers independent contractors | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Uber’s driver versus independent contractor debate just took a huge turn. from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, the company announced that it has reached a settlement in two class-action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts. Both suits contested that Uber should be classifying its drivers as employees instead of independ... |
The automation revolution and the rise of the creative economy | Aidan Cunniffe | 2,016 | 4 | 21 |
Only three main occupations were available to intrepid job seekers 10,000 years ago: hunting, gathering and procreation. Since then, the job market has advanced dramatically, developing into something not only more diverse, but also more abstract. This progress was the result of human evolution, but also human innova... |
Chameleon raises $1.9M for smarter product tutorials | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | is a startup that wants to help other startups and online businesses do a better job of explaining their products to users. It announced today that it has raised $1.9 million in seed funding led by . Co-founder and CEO Pulkit Agrawal said that for many companies “user on-boarding is really painful” — they can work re... |
Elon Musk has an idea for autonomous transit vehicles but he’s being coy about it | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Elon Musk has a plan to solve the traffic crisis in our cities. A vague, secret plan. He may not have a plan. But he did say something out loud in public about it, and he doesn’t usually do that unless he has at least a plan. that, speaking at a transport conference in Norway, Musk’s fecund imagination briefly ove... |
Medium raises another $50M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | , the online publishing platform led by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, just that it has raised $50 million in Series C funding. It’s been less than a year since , but Williams wrote that the company decided to raise additional funding “to bolster our resources now given the demand we’ve seen for the vision we are b... |
Snapchat lets you Face-Swap with your camera roll, drops paid replays | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Snapchat is done selling you stuff. As of today’s update, every snap can be replayed once, but you can no longer buy extra replays. That means people with more money can’t break the rules of Snapchat any more. Snapchat launched on top of the one free one you got per day, but along with the shut down of the that launc... |
California bill to give gig workers organizing rights stalls over antitrust concerns | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | A controversial bill that would have given gig workers the right to collectively bargain with the tech companies they work for stalled in the California legislature today, meaning that workers will have to wait at least another year for the opportunity to bargain for higher wages, paid sick leave, and other perks. Uber... |
Why go Live? Facebook’s head of video Fidji Simo will tell Disrupt NY | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | How will Facebook video change the physics of news publishing, app downloads, commerce, and what we point our phones at? Find out at TechCrunch Disrupt NY May 9th to 11th when Facebook’s head of video Fidji Simo joins us on stage for a fireside chat. By now, Facebook’s likely hit 10 billion video views per day. In a fe... |
Beepi lets you buy, sell and now lease a car with an app | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | There are lots of apps that help you research prices for buying or selling a car, and they’ll even hook you up with a dealership when you’re ready to buy. But lets you buy and sell used cars in 16 metro areas in nine states without using a dealership — or a test drive — at all. “Every company starts with a group of e... |
Microsoft’s Q3 misses with EPS of $0.62, revenue in line at $22.1B | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Microsoft today earnings for its third financial quarter of 2016. The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $22.1 billion for the last quarter and $0.62 of adjusted earnings per share (EPS) and $0.47 GAAP EPS. Wall Street Microsoft to report an EPS of $0.64 on revenue of just under $22.1 billion. Microsoft’s own gui... |
To the Moon! Lunar XPRIZE team looks to send Wikipedia into space aboard homemade rover | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Quick: You can send 20 gigabytes of data to the moon. What’s it going to be? Time’s up! Wikipedia? What a coincidence — that’s what the , a team working on a homegrown lunar rover for Google’s Lunar XPRIZE, decided, too! And they’re really planning to . No, it’s not a joke, . PTS is an that’s one of several compet... |
Alphabet slides 5% after missing earnings expectations on revenue of $20.3B | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | For a split second, Alphabet was the most valuable company in the world. Not so much any more, however, with the company’s market cap continuing to slide after it reported its first-quarter earnings. Relatively speaking, shares of Alphabet are only down around 5 percent in extended trading. But for a company worth more... |
Honeyfund launches app to crowdfund your honeymoon | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | A lot of people live with the idea that life is about experiences rather than things. A firm subscriber of that philosophy is — a company whose new Honeyfund app helps newlyweds bankroll their honeymoon, rather than stocking their house with half a dozen different bread makers. With Plumfund, fundraisers can ask frie... |
FirstBuild launches Pique, a faster cold-brew coffee maker for the home | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Coffee has turned from a daily routine into somewhat of an art form in the last few years, with drip makers, the French press, single-serve cups, pour-over and an endless supply of the latest hi-tech machines that will whip up any bean-flavored concoction to your liking. Note most of what’s out there caters to hot-co... |
Why startups can’t disrupt the mortgage industry | Aaron LaRue | 2,016 | 4 | 21 |
Home loans are the Holy Grail of online lending. They come with high loan balances, steady returns and hefty fees. There also is a healthy liquid market for the securitized loans, and the debt is asset backed, which reduces risk and opens up the investor pool. On top of that, “establishment” mortgage lenders are not ... |
In Europe, Ford will read the speed limit signs, prevent your speeding | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Good news for those of us with a fast car, a lead foot and poor impulse control: is rolling out a new Speed Limiter feature. The car uses a camera to read the speed limit signs before giving you a heads up if your velocity is making you a police-magnet. Whoa, there, Jack. Take ‘er easy. For now, the technology is onl... |
Norwegian PEN chapter sues its country to ensure Snowden can receive Ossietzky Prize in person | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | The Norwegian chapter of writers’ rights organization PEN International is in an attempt to make it safe for Edward Snowden to accept in person the prestigious Ossietzky Prize — without fear of extradition to the United States. The Carl von Ossietzky Prize has been awarded yearly by Norsk PEN since 1994 for exception... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 04.21.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 4 | 21 | Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 11amPT/2pmET. Gillmor Gang on Facebook |
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Uber agrees to pay up to $25M for misleading customers in California over its safety | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Uber has agreed to pay up to $25 million to California-based prosecutors to settle a case in which the ride sharing giant is accused of misleading consumers around the safety of its service. The civil lawsuit, filed in December 2014, took issue with Uber’s background checks of drivers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. ... |
Hands on with Reddit’s new smartphone app | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | “Finally” is one of those words that gets overused in tech news stories, but I think it’s fair to say that it’s taken a pretty long time for to release its first official, native apps for iOS and Android. Until now, the company has made do with Alien Blue, which started out as a third-party app before being in 20... |
GoPro goes all-in on VR without a winning hand | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Flat video is last century and GoPro is pulling out all the stops. Through a series of product launches — most recently the new — the company signals that it has your back in the battle against bi-dimensional consumption of moving pictures. The strategy confirms the obvious — i.e. that it knows which way the wind i... |
Student-designed ‘FemtoSats’ aim to bring cost of satellite deployment below $1,000 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Got a grand burning a hole in your pocket? You could get a new laptop — or you could send this tiny, palm-sized satellite to space. That’s what a team of engineers at Arizona State hope, anyway: their “FemtoSats” are meant to be as cheap a space-bound platform as has ever been devised. At just 3cm per side and 35 grams... |
The second round of Disrupt NY Hackathon tickets are now available | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | May is right around the corner, and soon thousands of innovators, investors and entrepreneurs will make their way to Brooklyn for . While the main event may be the conference that runs from May 9-11, one of our favorite parts of Disrupt is , which takes place the weekend before. We’re thrilled to announce that the se... |
A lot of secondary buyers are apparently coming from overseas | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | We told you early last month that secondary businesses have been with sellers in recent months, and that’s not expected to change anytime soon. went public in the first quarter. There’s also the related issue of , which has both institutional and individual shareholders nervously wondering whether to hang on to th... |
Mashable cuts staff as it shifts focus from politics and world news | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore (pictured above) announced layoffs today in a company-wide email that he also . As part of the cuts, Executive Editor Jim Roberts and Chief Revenue Officer Seth Robin will be leaving the company. that the layoffs affected about 30 staffers, including its entire political reporti... |
Now’s your chance to try Signal’s desktop Chrome app | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | The desktop version of Edward Snowden’s favored end-to-end messaging system, Signal, is now available to anyone who wants to check it out. Open Whisper Systems announced the desktop version back in December, but until today it was invite-only. It’s not a native app but a , meaning it installs in the browser but gets i... |
The Sacramento Kings just held the NBA’s first startup pitch competition | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | At a game on Tuesday night, the Sacramento Kings held the National Basketball League’s . Four local companies (narrowed down from 32 semi-finalists and about 100 applicants) pitched to the entire stadium, which voted on Twitter for the winner. , an on-demand legal advice service, won the competition and took home a $1... |
Sen. Franken wants to know what Oculus is doing with its Rift user data | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Sen. (D-Minn.) has some questions for Oculus. The U.S. senator sent a this morning to Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe to inquire about how his virtual reality company is utilizing and sharing customers’ personal data. While Sen. Franken called VR technology “an exciting development,” he also expressed concern with how the... |
Test drive: Self-parking in the 2016 Jaguar XF S | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | I recently had the opportunity to test drive the 2016 Jaguar XF S, which is a stately four-door luxury sedan with comfortable leather seats and supercharged V6 engine that could get a person in a lot of trouble. But not too much trouble — the new XF has the latest in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), which inc... |
Litsy is a book-focused social network that goes beyond reviews | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | If you’re a book lover, might be the social app for you. The startup was founded by Todd Lawton and Jeff LeBlanc, who previously launched the book-themed clothing company . Lawton told me the idea for Litsy came from connecting with Out of Print fans at events like book festivals and comic book conventions. “We real... |
Facebook will announce chatbot and live chat APIs at F8 | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Chatbots could replace 1-800 numbers, and Facebook wants them on Messenger. But most businesses don’t have the resources or technical skills to build chatbots themselves. That’s why Facebook is currently providing developers with API tools to build chatbots and Live Chat web plug-ins for business clients, according to ... |
As globalization slows, new startup Globality raises $27 million to bring SMBs to world markets | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Global capitalism is in a bit of pickle right now. Goldman Sachs (either a or the , depending on your point of view) came out with a report earlier this year , while recently published an article The Journal’s Josh Zumbrun writes: Much of the world is struggling with a sluggishness that is clouding the U.S. outlook... |
Rapchat makes me the rapper I always knew I was | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | We covered a little bit , and I finally decided it was time to take it for a spin. I know I’ve got sweet rapping skills, and I know when it’s time to lay a sick beat and spit some fire, so that’s why I’m doing this in-depth review of Rapchat. Rapchat is an app that lets you pick a beat from a library, rap over the b... |
Silicon Valley could gain $25 billion by narrowing gender gap | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Research has shown, time and time again, that diversity is good for business and the economy. If Silicon Valley can close the gender gap, the tech-heavy area could gain $25 billion (a 9% increase) in gross domestic product by 2025, according to a new McKinsey report. In San Francisco, the city could drive roughly $45 b... |
FBI says method used to unlock iPhone doesn’t work with iPhone 5s or newer | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | Slowly but surely, the FBI is releasing information about the method it used to unlock Farook’s iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shooting. Now that the Justice Department , the FBI doesn’t have to disclose the mysterious method it used. First, the FBI disclosed this alternative method to some . And FBI direct... |
Clearbit Connect’s new Gmail widget can help you find anyone’s email address | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | LinkedIn’s of the popular email add-in Rapportive, and its subsequent demolition as its new owner some of its best features, left a lot of users angry and scrambling for an alternative. A of have since , but a newcomer called may be one of the best to hit the market yet. may not be a household name, but th... |
Managed services killed DevOps | Andrey Akselrod | 2,016 | 4 | 7 |
DevOps, as we know it, is dead. Perhaps not many people agree with me, but the age of DevOps is just about over. Then again, perhaps this won’t come as a surprise to some. While certain industries somehow manage to survive for years — decades, perhaps — without needing to make fundamental changes, that’s absolutely n... |
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A few things I learned about virtual reality after spending way too much time in it | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 4 | 7 | I’ve spent a lot of time in virtual reality. A whole lot. We’re in the middle of building a VR testing lab at the TechCrunch office, and I’m trying to iron out as many kinks as possible said kinks end up costing me money. Between the Rift CV1 and the Vive, I’ve spent more time in a VR headset than anyone who isn’t bu... |
The future of the car is not about propulsion | Mike Hoefflinger | 2,016 | 4 | 9 |
I’m to see breakthroughs in cars. I have and respect for . I agree with Peter Thiel on the thing, and with Larry Page, who that Silicon Valley doesn’t throw the ball down the field enough. So, with all the talk of the Chevy Bolt Tesla-killer, the will-they-or-won’t-they joint venture of Google and Ford, the ... |
GifGrabber re-emerges as Giphy Capture | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 9 | It looks like some of was burning a hole in its pocket: GifGrabber, one of the most popular apps for making animated Gifs on a Mac, is now part of the family, and the new version of the app . As you might expect, the company announced the launch … With a GIF: A GIF of GIFs playing on the GifGrabber website, captu... |
The delayed revolution in digital financial services | Paul M. Schwartz | 2,016 | 4 | 9 |
Technology has transformed how we work, communicate and travel. In contrast, modern digital technology has not yet transformed financial services. Open data is the key to change in this sector of the economy. The time has come for the financial services industry to join the open data revolution. Open data means inter... |
Sell your clothing and electronics with these apps | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 30 | Poshmark ThredUP OfferUp |
The funny things happening on the way to singularity | John Hauer | 2,016 | 4 | 9 |
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Why image recognition is about to transform business | Ken Weiner | 2,016 | 4 | 30 |
At Facebook’s recent annual developer conference, Marc Zuckerberg outlined the social network’s artificial intelligence (AI) plans to “build systems that are better than people in perception.” He then demonstrated an impressive image recognition technology for the blind that can “see” what’s going on in a picture and... |
Dear Facebook, why are Facebook Comments so unremittingly terrible? | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 4 | 9 | For long months now, Facebook Comments have been riddled by some of the most transparent, eye-roll-inducing “I make a good salary working from home” spam you’ve ever seen. Every mail service can filter it out; but Facebook? Home to cutting-edge AI research, massively scalable services, some of the smartest software peo... |
Review: Grenco Science’s G-Pen Elite is the best vape of its kind | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 4 | 30 | rapid development of portable vaporizers for ground, plant-based material is hard to ignore, if you’re not living under a rock. Typically, an expensive gadget, Grenco Science has tasked itself with creating a vape for the people, with specs and science that punch above its sub-$200 weight class. Before I dive into the... |
According to its cofounder and CEO Snapchat is mainly “a camera company” | D.J. Sherrets | 2,016 | 4 | 30 |
Despite all of its new bells and whistles… and the billions of videos, ads, and effects that have been added to the service, chief executive Evan Spiegel still thinks of the new media juggernaut he’s created as “a camera company”. Speaking at Columbia University’s on Friday, Spiegel ran through a number of the de... |
New initiatives emerge to help refugees | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 4 | 30 |
Prompted by the ongoing crisis affecting much of the western world, have to provide solutions to the many challenges facing the beleaguered masses. As Rahm Emanuel once famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” In a sea of clueless government bureaucrats and fearful citizens, these st... |
Kindle Oasis is beautiful, pricey and still not like reading a book | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 30 | I’ve spent the last week trying to pretend the new is the same as reading a real book. It’s not. I love books. I love Kindle’s e-readers and was hoping this was the melding of the two. That real book feel was part of the inspiration for the latest Kindle in the family and why it comes with a protruding one-sided grip... |
Gillmor Gang: iPad Prose | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 4 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Frank Radice, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, April 29, 2016. Apple dips and Twitter flutters, but the Gang won’t bet against them as new media picks new winners. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Elisa Camahort Page, Francine Ha... |
Pushing back against sexism, this is a new era for women online | Claudia Cahalane | 2,016 | 4 | 30 | |
Startups need to do due diligence, too | Eamonn Carey | 2,016 | 4 | 30 |
I hear a lot of horror stories about investors. Many are misunderstandings. Some are just outright false. Then there are those that are true. Sadly, there are a lot of those. There’s the alleged angel in the Baltic region who committed (in an email) to leading a round and then refused to talk to the other investors a... |
Why the NRA hates smart guns | Jon Stokes | 2,016 | 4 | 30 |
push from President Obama to revive initiatives to develop “smart gun” technology, it looks like it’s time to revisit the issue once again. The most common question I got in response to my is, “even if you’re correct that smart guns are a bad idea, why is the NRA so opposed to letting the market even try to get it... |
On the dark art of software estimation | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 4 | 30 | “How long will it take?” demand managers, clients, and executives. “It takes as long as it takes,” retort irritated engineers. They counter: “Give us an estimate!” And the engineers gather their wits, call upon their experience, contemplate the entrails of farm animals, throw darts at a board adorned with client/manage... |
Watch SpaceX land a rocket in this awesome 360 video | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 30 | Have you ever wished you could stand on deck as a 160-foot rocket lands an arm’s length away from you, after a short trip into space? Yeah, me too, but given the rockets’ , perhaps watching it with a VR headset is a the slightly safer option. SpaceX just shared a gorgeous 360-degree video with the world, and if you ha... |
6 insights into the French SaaS landscape | Clement Vouillon | 2,016 | 4 | 8 |
As a Berlin-based VC firm focused on SaaS, we often get questions about the current state of the European cloud software landscape. To be able to answer these questions more precisely we decided to analyze each major European ecosystem, starting with France. Our goal was to find all the relevant players in the French... |
Welcome to the post-app world? | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 4 | 30 |
We’ve fallen in love with apps. It’s hard to see something so popular fading into the past, but what if that happened? What if apps were simply an iteration of the mobile web, before something better came along? With the flurry of announcements that occurred around Facebook’s F8 conference, perhaps that time has fina... |
With EmoWatch your Apple Watch knows if you are :) or :( | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | Siri is good for a lot of things, but she generally doesn’t care much whether you sound your usual perky self. Launching today is , a new app for your iPhone and Apple Watch that will take care of that side of things, helping you track your emotional state. The EmoWatch app identifies and tracks users’s emotions from ... |
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White House announces the kids and projects of its 2016 Science Fair | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | The annual White House Science Fair is always a heartening occasion. Watching President Obama ramble around and shoot the breeze (and sometimes ) with a bunch of smart, nerdy kids is entertaining, and the projects are often pretty impressive. is, of course, the last in the president’s term, and it promises to be a g... |
New Facebook rules allow publishers and celebrities to share sponsored content | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | As more and more online content , it becomes more important for Facebook to provide ways for publishers and creators to make money. That’s why to the social network’s branded content and ads policies could be a big deal. Under the new rules, verified Facebook Pages can now share branded content (i.e., “any post — in... |
SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first time | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | At 4:43 pm EST, SpaceX successfully launched their next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). In addition to a seamless launch, SpaceX landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous drone ship for the very first time. Landing from the chase plane — SpaceX (@SpaceX) This was Spac... |
Alphabet’s secretive Schaft Inc. shows off new bipedal robot in Tokyo | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | There’s a new bot in town (Tokyo, specifically), and while it might not be as cute as , as creepy as or as anthropomorphic as , it might be more practical than all of them. It walks on two legs, but not like a man, or even a bear. This one, designed by Alphabet-owned Schaft Inc., has its own uniquely robotic form o... |
BMW just jumped into the U.S. car-sharing biz, with the help of YC alum RideCell | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | BMW just launched a new car-sharing service called that will enable Seattle residents to access 400 cars that they can pick up and drop off pretty much wherever they like, as long as that’s not on the outskirts of town. Eventually, the idea is to expand into cities nationwide. BMW’s isn’t a revolutionary concept at t... |
Chariot for Women is a new ridesharing service for women only | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | Uber driver Michael Pelletz is launching a new ridesharing service with a twist: All the drivers and passengers will be women. will be active in the Boston area on April 19. But does the world need another ridesharing service? Especially one so specific? It turns out maybe it does. “The premise is the same as all the... |
General Catalyst’s Phil Libin eyes bots with his first investment in stealth bot startup Begin | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 8 | Phil Libin in a bot company called that’s co-founded by GDGT co-founder Ryan Block, who left AOL Alpha in September last year to pursue the new venture. This is Libin’s first investment in bots, but it certainly wont be his last, as he will be primarily focusing on bots for the next few years. Begin will be yet ano... |
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