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MetaProp NYC kicks off the second class of its real estate accelerator with lease marketplace Flip | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | If you need (or just want) to get out of the lease on your apartment, a startup called can help you do it — and you might even make money in the process. The company , and now it’s joining as the “anchor startup” for the second class at , an accelerator for real estate startups. Flip co-founder and CEO Susannah Vil... |
Adobe acquires Livefyre | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Adobe today that it plans to acquire , the service that’s probably best known for its online commenting system. On top of this service, the company also offers a number of tools for brands to engage with their audiences as well, which is likely what Adobe was most interested in. Adobe plans to integrate Livefyre int... |
The key to global empowerment is technology | Tanner Taddeo | 2,016 | 5 | 3 |
With the exponential growth in technology, the world has seen not only profound change in various industries, but also a fundamental shift in the structure to our global society. To unwrap this bit of jargon, let’s look at the intersection of human rights and technology. The fundamental nature of human rights is to a... |
Mark Zuckerberg celebrates the end of WhatsApp ban in Brazil | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Access to WhatsApp has been restored in Brazil, roughly 24 hours after telecom providers began in response to a court order. A judge in the Brazilian state of Sergipe ordered local phone carriers to block access to WhatsApp for 72 hours, but his ruling was overturned on appeal. Mark Zuckerberg celebrated the end of t... |
Craig Wright will publish “extraordinary proof” that he is Satoshi | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Another day, another confirmation that the shadowy figure called Satoshi Nakamoto is indeed Craig “Verbal” Wright. This time Wright himself claims that he will offer “extraordinary proof” that he is Satoshi. This means, we can assume, he will sign messages using Satoshi’s private key. He writes: So, over the coming da... |
Venerable audio company Bowers & Wilkins bought out by Gideon Yu’s EVA Automation | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Bowers & Wilkins, an audio gear brand that has been familiar to millions , has been bought out by EVA Automation, a two-year-old company that has never released a product. Yet the old company’s name and CEO will remain. You’re not going to hear about a weirder deal today. EVA Automation is the company founded by Gideo... |
Moovit transit app integrates with Uber | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | The local transit app announced today that it will soon be integrated with the ride-sharing app in 131 cities in 22 countries. This is kind of the chocolate and peanut butter of urban travel. uses official transit data plus crowdsourced data to give riders the best information about potential routes. Is the train r... |
Prete splits from Treat to bring unlimited blowouts to SF | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | is a new blowout startup launching today in San Francisco and Los Angeles that wants to hook you up with unlimited hair styling. No cuts, color or anything else, just as many blowouts as you want for $129 a month. Some of you may recall about a similar blowout service coming to SF called Treat that wanted to use est... |
Google enables HTTPS for all Blogspot sites | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Google today made HTTPS connections for all of the sites on its Blogspot domain. Google for Blogspot last September, but at the time, it was an opt-in feature. Starting today, encrypted connections are enabled by default. It’s worth noting that this only applies to Blogspot blogs that fall under the .blogspot.com d... |
Spotify ditches the controversial ‘hamburger’ menu in iOS app redesign | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Spotify is one of the more popular music streaming apps, but it’s not necessarily the most beautifully designed (that was , unfortunately). Navigating through the various sections of its app took a lot of tapping, and often wasn’t very intuitive. Today, Spotify is attempting to improve its interface with a redesign, a... |
Instagram crams more ads in less space with Video Carousels | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | What’s more lucrative than a video ad? Multiple videos in a single ad. To help businesses show different sides of their products in vivid motion, today Instagram is launching video ad carousels. It’s a savvy way for the company to give advertisers more flexibility through horizontal space so as not to further clutter t... |
Uber denies plans to kill surge pricing in the U.S. | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Despite the today, Uber says it does not have plans to nix surge pricing in the U.S. It did away with surge in Delhi, India, but has the feature there as well. An earlier report from claimed Uber would be doing away with surge, a feature on the Uber app that bumps prices up in a particular area when there’s high d... |
Meet the Disrupt NY 2016 speakers and judges | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | is right around the corner. The event starts on May 9th and we’re delighted to reveal the agenda. The lineup is stellar and for the first time, we will be hosting in Red Hook, Brooklyn at the . We say this every year, but this is set to be our best Disrupt NY yet. The conference kicks off on May 9th and is a packed ... |
Instacart, PlateJoy partner to deliver recommended groceries to dieters | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | The makers of a virtual nutritionist app, have partnered with to offer same-day delivery of the foods that they recommended to users through the PlateJoy app A subscription to PlateJoy costs $59 for six months. Users get food recommendations for themselves and family, cooking tips and recipes, and access to a perso... |
Designer Fund, which backs startups founded by designers, has raised $20 million | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | , a San Francisco outfit that looks to invest in seed-stage startups that feature designers on their founding teams, has raised $20 million in funding from unnamed individual investors, most of them successful designers looking to support the next generation. The four-year-old firm was founded by Enrique Allen and Ben ... |
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Ellen Pao, Freada Kapor Klein and others form tech diversity and inclusion war room | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | A giant war room of diversity advocates in Silicon Valley has formed under the name . The effort consists of former Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao, Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou, Kapor Capital Partner Freada Kapor Klein, Slack engineer Erica Baker, ReadySet founder Y-Vonne Hutchinson, angel investor Susan Wu, Cathy Labs... |
Microgravity contest takes students and experiments on the vomit comet | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | FOX’s show is teaming up with Arlington, Va.-based , which operates weightless flights from U.S. airports. The reason they’re collaborating: to create the ultimate consolation prize for college students who were just too young to apply to NASA’s latest astronaut class. The show, a part of FOX’s “Xploration Station” se... |
No one organizes any crime on Slack, apparently | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Slack released its today, revealing that it has received a grand total of one government request for user data. Just one. The number is somewhat remarkable when compared with the rest of the industry. Facebook recently announced that it from U.S. agencies over a six-month period. Google disclosed 12,002 requests fo... |
Periscope mimics FB Live by letting you permanently #Save replays | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Periscope added its biggest missing feature today in a move that could make it more palatable to brands and social stars, and help it compete with Facebook Live. You can now replays of your broadcasts by including #Save in their title. You still can delete them later if you want. Previously, broadcasts disappeared aft... |
Oculus snags Fitbit exec Hans Hartmann as new COO | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | is bringing a new COO aboard as it perhaps looks to double down on tightening things up logistics-wise. COO will be jumping ship and joining the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, according to a from Oculus CEO . Hartmann, who was with Fitbit since 2011, will be replacing founding COO Laird Malamed, who ... |
Fitbit shares tank after reporting a weak outlook amid rising competition | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | is not having a good day, with the stock crashing more than 11 percent after reporting its first-quarter results. Here’s the rub: its guidance for the second quarter came in light. light. Industry watchers were expecting the company to report earnings around 26 cents per share, while the company put its outlook at ea... |
How consolidations will play out in the transportation, food and entertainment industries | Arthur O'Keefe | 2,016 | 5 | 4 |
Out of the ashes of its predecessor the is born. People forget that the exists because rational people with good vision see opportunity. Often the vision is “spot on,” but expectations of velocity of transformation and adoption are inflated, leading to over-investment that subsequently must be rationalized. no... |
Free Code Camp survey reveals demographics of self-taught coders | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | If you’ve ever wondered who exactly is signing up for all these free learn-at-home coding classes and tutorial websites, (which is one of them) has kindly with regard to various basic demographics and some more code-centric items. Some of the stats are expected (few women — around 1 in 5 surveyed) and a few are surp... |
Why Zuck is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | see how each student requires a unique inspiration and learning style. Yet with classroom sizes ballooning and teachers underpaid, there’s no way for students to get the dedicated attention they need. Luckily, technology could offer the adaptive education guidance pupils need to succeed. That’s why in December Faceboo... |
Robot surgeon outperforms human colleagues doing same procedure | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | It’s another victory for the machines: and robot-assisted human operators in a soft-tissue procedure, bringing us that much closer to automated medical care (and the ). The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) was designed at the Children’s National Medical Center as an attempt to bring automation to soft-tissue sur... |
Tesla hits the accelerator, aims to build 500,000 cars a year by 2018 | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | says it is expecting to hit its goal of producing 500,000 cars annually — including the Model S, Model X and Model 3 — two years earlier than expected, meeting that expectation by 2018. All this is coming ahead of a critical next year for Tesla with the expansion of its line of vehicles with the Model 3 and . Tesla a... |
Winter brings opportunities for the wise and frugal | Ben Narasin | 2,016 | 5 | 4 |
One of my seed portfolio founders called for advice recently. He’d raised a Series A from a Tier 1 VC and was ahead of plan, but his investor suddenly wanted him to cut spending: on SEM, on PR, on whatever he could. He wanted to know why, and how to think about it. Firms have portfolios to manage. The older the firm,... |
NextVR gets ready to drop the bass with live VR concerts | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | After dedicating tons of energy (and loads of bandwidth) to live streaming sporting events in stereoscopic VR, NextVR is moving to its next major market: live virtual reality concerts. has announced a major partnership with Live Nation to live stream “hundreds” of concerts and events to their virtual reality platform.... |
Uber taps global leaders for new public policy advisory group | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Uber announced today that it has assembled an advisory board from around the globe to help guide the company on public policy as it continues to expand into new markets. The board includes members from every continent except Africa and Antarctica. Uber now operates in 70 countries but, although it’s grown rapidly, its ... |
Teachable raises $2.5 million to help instructors teach outside the confines of course marketplace | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | New York-based has raised $2.5 million in a seed round of venture funding to help instructors of anything set up their own branded storefronts for selling courses and connecting with learners online. The company’s technology lets instructors teach courses online in any subject without having to commit their proprieta... |
Farfetch grabs another $110 million for its fashion marketplace | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | is growing like crazy as the company just secured $110 million. The London-based startup has become a dominant e-commerce player in the fashion space. Farfetch runs a marketplace that connects high-end fashion retailers with customers. But the company doesn’t plan to stop there. Today’s was led by Temasek, IDG Capit... |
SpiroCall measures lung health over any phone — no app necessary | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Sometimes you see an application of technology that’s so innovative and helpful you can’t believe it exists in this age of narcissistic and short-sighted startups. SpiroCall, a service that lets anyone in the world call a toll-free number and have their lung health evaluated over the phone, seems too good to be real — ... |
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GoPro hitched a ride on a rocket and the video is incredible | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Today, GoPro released some pretty incredible footage of a suborbital rocket launch that climbed to 396,405 feet at speeds as high as Mach 5.5. Check out the footage below. The launch in the video took place from Spaceport America in New Mexico on November 6, 2015, with a 20-foot tall SpaceLoft-10 sounding rocket from ... |
Google launches Slides Q&A to help presenters connect with their audiences | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Google is launching today, a new feature for . With Slides Q&A, presenters can get questions and general feedback from their audience — and audience members can vote for their favorite questions. Slides Q&A is rolling out globally today. Presenters who want to use it will see a button in the Slides presenter view to... |
Instagram Business Profiles to feature ‘Contact’ buttons, directions and more | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Instagram had confirmed that it was developing business profiles – basically, the Instagram equivalent to a Facebook Brand Page. Now, we’re able to see what these profiles look like as they’ve been spotted in the wild. The profiles, which are currently being tested with a small group of users, offer a variety of usef... |
New York’s ff Venture Capital has raised a new, $54 million fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | New York-based venture firm , has raised $53.8 million for its fourth seed-stage venture fund, according to an that shows fundraising began in the fall of 2014. The firm had closed its third seed-stage fund fund in January 2014 with $52 million. Since then, ff Venture Capital has hired two new partners, including Ad... |
EchoPixel’s breakthrough VR tech lets doctors look inside your body | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 4 | Think of tech like InnerSpace but instead of actually minimizing scientists and shooting them into your body to find disease, the medical imaging startup lets doctors pinpoint problem areas from CT, MRI, and ultrasound scans using 3D glasses and a special display. But with EchoPixel and 3D glasses, internal organs ... |
SpaceX successfully landed another rocket on a drone ship | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | SpaceX successfully launched the Japanese communications satellite, JCSAT-14 on their Falcon 9 rocket at 1:22am EST today from Cape Canaveral, Florida. After the launch, the company soft-landed the first stage of the rocket on their drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” – the second time this has ever been done. Land... |
I’ve got a few questions for virtual reality filmmakers | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | So, I’m sitting aboard a flight to Boston at the moment. I just finished a bout of midterms at Northwestern University that allegedly went well enough for me to make it through undergrad. I have an $8 beer in my hand that Spirit Airlines is using to subsidize their garbage service, but more importantly, I’m grappling w... |
Skoog 2.0 brings wireless connectivity to the multi-use educational musical instrument | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | “The key was to create an instrument for all children,” explains Skoog co-inventor Dr. Ben Schögler. “That includes kids with disabilities, whether physical or learning disabilities. It was made to be an inclusive instrument, because musical instruments are beautiful, they’re fantastic, but they’re difficult to play.” ... |
Sean Parker’s Airtime acquires WebRTC video chat wizards vLine | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | It takes some serious engineering magic to build low-latency group mobile video chat and simultaneous content viewing. That’s why app acquired vLine, which offered video chat infrastructure to SaaS companies. Founded in 2010, vLine was backed with from Kleiner Perkins and Harrison Metal. vLine’s team will join Air... |
Only humans, not computers, can learn or predict | Joab Rosenberg | 2,016 | 5 | 5 |
announced in late January that a computer designed by Google’s defeated a human master in the ancient Chinese board game, “Go.” This impressive achievement once again raised the expectations for a predicted future in which computers will have artificial intelligence, with worldwide touting this anticipated future... |
SAP announces new partnership with Apple to expand iOS in the enterprise | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | announced a broad partnership with Apple today to bring iOS to SAP’s enterprise customer base. The announcement comes almost two years after . Steve Lucas, president for SAP’s Digital Enterprise Platform says while it’s natural to see similarities between the two deals — two large enterprise companies making a deal w... |
Ultra-cute bugbots cooperate to climb a step together | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | Anything is possible if we all work together — and no one gets left behind. That is the lesson these tiny “VelociRoACH” robots taught me today. The name stands for velocity robotic autonomous crawling hexapod, which really says it all. They were designed by roboticists at , where a number of other nature-inspired mach... |
YouTube VP Matt Glotzbach graduates to CEO role at Quizlet | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | , the makers of popular web and mobile study tools, hired a new CEO, Matt Glotzbach, former Vice President of Product Management at YouTube. Glotzbach led the creation of YouTube’s music subscription service, and fan-funding business platforms. But Quizlet will not be his first education-focused initiative. A 12-year G... |
A closer look at Samsung’s connected Family Hub Refrigerator | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | Imagine for a moment that you’re a fly on the wall of a Samsung executive board meeting. It’s pretty easy to imagine why the Family Hub Refrigerator seemed like a great idea. Someone probably said something about leveraging the smart home and disrupting the kitchen and they were off to the races. And sure, there are ce... |
Launcher lets you create iOS widgets that display or hide based on day, time or location | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | You may remember as the once-banned iOS widget that after its approval, The problem Apple had with the app, seemingly, is that its sole existence was to be a widget provider — the app by itself didn’t offer any standalone functionality beyond widget configuration. Today, Launcher is out with its first significant... |
TrapTap maps speed traps and more | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | , which has raised over $200,000 on Kickstarter with about a week to go, alerts drivers to speed traps, school zones, speed zones, and red light cameras by blinking red, green, or blue. But it’s not a radar detector; it’s more like connected car training wheels. TrapTap says it has mapped every school zone and red ligh... |
eBay acquires AI-powered big data processor Expertmaker | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | eBay announced today that it is acquiring Expertmaker, a Swedish company that specializes in analysis of big data with a machine-learning twist. Expertmaker was founded in 2006; in its own words, the company’s “genetics-inspired multi-AI approach, extracts hidden value in your data.” I couldn’t have said it better myse... |
Amazon poaches AI guru from Xerox PARC to work on Alexa virtual assistant | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | Amazon has hired Xerox PARC employee and artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Ashwin Ram to head up AI R&D for Alexa, the e-commerce behemoth’s virtual assistant. Ram first about his appointment on Tuesday, and a spokesperson for Amazon has now confirmed the hire but declined to offer any further comment. The vete... |
Fintech doesn’t just disrupt banks, it makes them platforms | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | It’s easy to move your money between banks. What’s annoying is moving your apps. There’s been a recent explosion of fintech products in spaces like stock trading, wealth management, payments, loans, remittance and insurance. It’s been fueled by a massive uptick in venture investment in private fintech companies, which ... |
City carpooling service Via picks up $70M further funding, another $30M to come | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | bills itself as an ‘on-demand transit company’ and in some ways is competing with Uber, specifically within the city carpooling space. Today the company announced $100 million in Series C funding, when actually only $70 million of that has closed, with, we’re told, another $30 million in strategic investment to come i... |
Netflix now lets you control how much data it uses when streaming from your smartphone | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | Netflix this morning a new way for consumers to control how much data its app uses when they’re accessing the service by way of a mobile device. In the updated version of the iOS or Android application, there will be a new setting called “Cellular Data Usage,” where you’ll be able to switch off the automatic, default... |
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Spotify-backed Soundtrack Your Brand launches in U.S., inks global deal with McDonald’s | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | As Spotify continues to grow its and expand the services it , one of its side bets is making inroads in another route to music streaming riches. Spotify-backed and co-founded , which streams music in business locations, is launching in the U.S. And to mark the news, it’s also announcing that it has signed a big glo... |
Drawbridge raises $25M as it takes its cross-device tech beyond advertising | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | , a startup that helps businesses identify when a single person is using multiple devices, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. Every time I write about Drawbridge, I’m contractually obligated to mention that the company is , Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. For this round, Drawbridge went ... |
A few words on chatbots | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 5 | A new wave of technology is preparing to crash down upon the unsuspecting consumer. Chatbots are surging towards our conversations at breakneck speed! No, not the kind of chatbots that have been around for donkeys’ years, adding robotic interjections to irreverent chatrooms when the Internet was a niche playground jus... |
Casey Neistat’s video app Beme has finally left beta and is now on Android | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | When Casey Neistat launched his new social networking app Beme last Summer, nothing was really ready yet. The product was underdeveloped, the team understaffed, and users weren’t exactly sure why they needed a version of Snapchat where the only main difference was that you had to cover the iPhone’s proximity sensor to ... |
Uber’s partnership with Alipay goes global | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Uber today expanded its partnership with Alipay, a Chinese payment app owned by Alibaba that boasts 450 million active users. The partnership will allow Chinese travelers to pay their Uber fares using Alipay in any of the 68 countries where Uber does business, and allow riders to hail Uber cars directly from the Alipay... |
Evan Hansen departs Medium to become editor in chief at Periscope | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | More changes at publishing platform Medium: Evan Hansen, who’s been overseeing the company’s editorial strategy, is departing. Hansen joined Medium three years ago. (He was previously editor in chief at Wired.com.) His role has been described variously as senior editor, and . Looks like he’s sticking with the theme ... |
The future of digital lead generation | Dmitri Saveliev | 2,016 | 5 | 2 |
Lead generation has come a long way. According to , assuming, of course, that we accept that the Roman trade market was the original lead generation platform for traders. The way in which leads were developed during Roman times was through word of mouth. By spreading information via word of mouth, people with a netw... |
Venture investments in new manufacturing technologies could reshape American industry | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | A wave of venture investment into new manufacturing startups looks set to transform American manufacturing. While the foundations for these companies may have been laid in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco, the startups that are driving this next industrial revolution hail from more unlikely hubs of techno... |
High schooler’s 3D printed ‘mini-brain’ bioreactor accelerates Zika research | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | A “mini-brain” infected with Zika. The red dye indicates vulnerable progenitor cells. What are you planning on doing this summer? Probably not designing a revolutionary new bioreactor with which a thousand “mini-brains” can undergo testing. You’re probably not designing a bioreactor at all! But New York high schooler C... |
Africa Roundup: More VC to Jumia’s parent, Konga Launches Nigeria’s PayPal, M-Kopa Solar lights homes with M-Pesa | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Just when we thought Africa Internet Group’s (AIG) 2016 VC haul couldn’t get larger, French mobile giant million. This followed earlier rounds totaling $326 million ( ) that brought the e-commerce venture’s equity to $1.08bn, making it Africa’s first startup unicorn. Orange joined other investors, such as Goldman, MT... |
SoundCloud turns on ads and Go premium subs in the UK and Ireland | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Now that has inked licensing deals the big music rights holders, the startup is wasting no time rolling out subscription services and advertising to a wider number of markets to better monetize its 175 million users and compete better against the likes of Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music and the rest. The music-streami... |
Shopping Quizzes is a quiz-based recommendation engine for e-commerce sites | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | A key tenet of e-commerce is the recommendation engine. If implemented correctly, it can be a major sales driver for online retailers. However, most sites normally just implement a basic engine that guesses what shoppers want, without any input from the shoppers themselves. has created a recommendation engine that act... |
Tesla’s bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Tesla today of how effective its particulate filters are. Spoiler alert: They are so good, not only do they clean up the air inside the car, they make the world the car cleaner, too. It may not be obvious why this matters: The company is aiming squarely at a very specific type of customer, which may be the company’... |
Michael Dell reveals new branding scheme for the Dell-EMC conglomeration | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Michael Dell today revealed the new names, and yes we are talking multiple names, for the artist formerly known as the . EMC will be deprecated for the main branding Dell Technologies, but will live on for the enterprise brand Dell EMC while the client services business will be called Dell, Inc. according to multiple ... |
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Tastemates helps you find people who like what you like | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | If you’ve ever forged a connection with someone because you had the same favorite movie or TV show or book, a new startup called has built a social network around that experience. Or as CEO Jon Vlassopulos put it, “We’re trying to codify serendipity” — those surprising moments of, “Oh my God, I can’t believe anyone e... |
Shyp rolls out its new packaging pricing model to all customers | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Shyp has finished rolling out a new packaging pricing model to all its customers that includes variable shipment pricing based on the packaging that the company provides. Shyp is still playing around with its business model and, to be sure, over time these tweaks will add up. The unit economics of on-demand services ar... |
Videorama makes editing mobile video actually fun | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Smartphone users shoot a lot of video, but turning those videos into something special still takes a lot of work. A newly launched app called aims to solve that problem by offering a powerful video editor that’s also super simple to use. In other words, you don’t need to be a video pro in order to do things like trim... |
Insurance brokerage is broken | Whitney Arthofer | 2,016 | 5 | 2 |
I’ve worked on a number of projects over the past year as an MBA Associate with the General Catalyst team. One of my principal areas of focus has been a deep dive into the emerging field of insurance technology startups, piggybacking GC’s early work in the space with investments like , , , , and . As we , wor... |
Bessemer Venture Partners Byron Deeter on success in SaaS | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 5 | 2 |
Following an introduction from Jason Lemkin, last week I had the chance to catch up with of . Deeter puts successful SaaS models into two main buckets: companies that adopt the “SaaS for X” model, taking something done by other companies, even other software companies, and doing it better; and companies that do ... |
Chegg acquires Imagine Easy Solutions, the company behind EasyBib, BibMe and Citation Machine | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | The online textbook service today announced that it has acquired for $42 million. Imagine Easy is behind online bibliography and research tools like (which was also its first product) and similar tools like , and , most of which it acquired in the last couple of years. Imagine Easy also offers teaching tool... |
Uber is facing a nationwide class-action lawsuit | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Less than a month after , another one has popped up. This time, the suit pertains to all current and former Uber drivers in the United States, except for those in California and Massachusetts. The suit, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago division, asks the court t... |
Even your connected car will need antivirus software | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Connected cars can talk to each other (vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V), and they’re starting to be able to talk to the city they’re driving around (vehicle-to-infrastructure, or V2I). That also means baddies can potentially talk to our cars, as we’ve seen in the experimental . But hacking isn’t the only danger, because wh... |
The InBody Band fitness tracker can measure your body composition | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 2 | Most fitness trackers are all about numbers. How many steps did you take? How many flights of stairs did you climb? How many projected calories did you burn? But there is one number (an important one, if you’re a health nut) that is left out of almost every fitness tracker on the market: BMI. The , made by a South Kor... |
Reshaping human health and changing lives through gene editing | André Choulika | 2,016 | 5 | 20 |
Gene editing is going to fundamentally change our lives and how we traditionally think about health throughout the first half of the 21st century. Gene editing is going to change the way people are treated by curing the roots of diseases instead of merely treating the symptoms. It’s going to change the way we think a... |
SPiN ping pong club premieres its San Francisco location | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | It’s no secret that San Francisco tech loves ping pong. Table tennis has become a must-have for programmers stepping away from their computers to blow off steam. Indeed, it’s most startups first luxury purchase. According to a recent in The Wall Street Journal, a dip in table tennis sales is also an indicator of wh... |
Nokia confirms another 1,000 layoffs in Finland | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | As a late Friday coda to this week’s news of Nokia’s , today Nokia quietly confirmed it is laying off 1,032 employees in its home market of Finland. The cuts will come across all business units, with half out of its HQ in Espoo. The majority of cuts will happen by this summer. On top of putting the news out in the eve... |
Elizabeth Warren takes on the ‘so-called gig economy’ in speech | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | Senator Elizabeth Warren has some choice words for Uber, TaskRabbit, Alfred and all the other companies taking part in the “so-called gig economy,” as she put it in a speech Thursday for the . She isn’t against them by any means, but urged both the companies and lawmakers to make labor-friendly changes: “No worker sho... |
Twitter and Betaworks are teaming up in a new fund | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | We’re hearing from multiple sources that there’s a new fund coming out of Betaworks, and Twitter is chipping money into it. Twitter is investing at least $10 million in the new fund, according to one source. We don’t know the total size of the venture. In the past, Betaworks has focused on smaller seed investments and ... |
Startup spending guide: Where to spend money | Ryan Angilly | 2,016 | 5 | 20 |
We’ve all come across numerous “Top 100 resources for startups”-type posts at least once as we Google our way to entrepreneurial success. But after reading just one of them, it’s not hard to go from “I have no idea what’s out there” to “I have no idea how to choose” … Oh good: Only 14 helpdesk options from which to c... |
Checking the market’s temperature with Bain’s Ajay Agarwal | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | leads the West Coast team for , which he joined 13 years ago. Because he he has seen some market zigs and zags, we met him for coffee this week to talk about what he’s seeing in the market right now. Our chat has been edited for length. AA: It used to be that 90 percent of our team was on the East Coast, in Boston an... |
Metadata raises $2M to help advertisers target users who resemble their existing sales leads | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | Ad-targeting startup announced it has raised $2 million in seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Gil Allouche said the company’s technology offers an effective way for businesses that sell to other businesses to find and target new potential customers through advertising. Companies connect their Salesforce and other CRM a... |
Lenovo video teases return of Motorola’s iconic RAZR flip phone | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | Motorola’s RAZR surely stands as one of the most recognizable phones of yesteryear (although myself I preferred the ) — and while the brand has been desultorily maintained for Verizon’s dubious benefit, a suggests a more serious throwback device is nearly at hand, so to speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzE1YS... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.20.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
FlashFunders relaunches with crowdfunding support with the pass of Title III of the JOBS Act | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | In the wake of the , crowdfunding equity platform FlashFunders has relaunched its site with new features. The new features allow users to crowdfund investment under Form C, which allows for up to $1 million in a single Series from anyone, not just accredited investors. on the scene a little under one year ago, offeri... |
Paul Bragiel is back with a new venture firm | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | Paul Bragiel, the venture capitalist who at qualifying for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics as lone member of the Colombian cross-country ski team, is forming a new, San Francisco-based venture firm with his brother, Dan. According to an , they are targeting $10 million for their debut effort. The outfit is called . ... |
Google’s new 360-degree short ‘Pearl’ puts you in the passenger seat with dad and daughter | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | It’s Friday, so you can probably spare a few minutes to watch a heartwarming little 360-degree animated film, the latest in This one, entitled “Pearl,” takes place entirely inside a beat-up ’80s sedan, and traces the story of a girl and a guitar. It made its debut at the end of Google’s at today. Directed by , a... |
Google’s ATAP is bringing its Project Soli radar sensor to smartwatches and speakers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | Every year at I/O, Google’s ATAP division, which is responsible for turning some of the company’s crazier ideas into products, organizes its own small keynote. This year, the company offered updates on a number of projects, including , its attempt at building a very small radar sensor that can translate hand movements... |
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Google demos Project Ara developer unit, plans for a 2017 commercial release | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | It’s been a little while since we’ve heard much about , but Google wasn’t going to let an I/O go by without shedding a little more light on the much discussed (and formerly Moto-centric) modular smartphone platform. After highlighting the latest updates from Projects and y showed off an impressive working developer... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | This week, announcements from Google’s annual I/O developer conference dominated tech headlines. But Oracle and Google are back in court, Apple unveiled a new redesigned store in SF and we learned that Amazon may start selling its own groceries soon. These are the stories you don’t want to miss. TechCrunch the Google... |
Google and Levi’s team up on a “connected” jacket that lets you answer calls, use maps and more | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | At Google’s I/O conference today, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) research unit offered an update on its interactive textiles project . ATAP’s Ivan Poupyrev announced that the company was collaborating with iconic clothing company, Levi’s, to launch a “connected” smart jacket aimed at urban cyclists t... |
Indiegogo improves crowdfunding with a stamp of approval for hardware projects | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | One of the biggest challenges of a hardware crowdfunding campaign is delivering in a timely fashion. knows that better than most, and is teaming up with to help entrepreneurs deliver products through engineering assistance and go-to-market support. The move is continuing the crowdfunding platform’s hard push to bea... |
Fitbit finally gets design with the Alta sports tracker | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | trackers are all about motivation. I used to go for a run every single day, and then quit, and then went to yoga every single day, and then I did nothing every single day. Now, a little older and a little more sore, I find myself worried less about working out all the time and more focused on eating healthy and taking... |
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