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Study finds that police body cameras may increase assaults — if used improperly | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Putting body cameras on police seems like a net good for everyone involved, but to deploy them and what the subtler effects will be are questions that would be better answered sooner than later. Otherwise, as a new large-scale study shows, we risk making things worse — body cameras could actually incidents of viole... |
Katamari Damacy creator is making an augmented reality game called Woorld for Project Tango phones | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Keita Takahashi, creator of the famously bizarre ball-rolling game Katamari Damacy, has a new title, but it’s not for the PS4 or Xbox One — you’ll need a Project Tango-compatible device to play this one. The announcement was made , a small developer Takahashi has been working with. The game is called , and it’s an au... |
For online lenders, it’s suddenly touch-and-go | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | A year ago, privately held online lenders like , and looked all but certain to go public at the same unicorn valuations their venture investors had assigned them — if not higher. They were seemingly reshaping the student, consumer and small business lending business. The market they’re chasing is enormous: The U.S... |
EyeSight demos VR gesture control using standard phone hardware | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Over the past few years has been establishing a name for itself by bringing gesture control to a series of computing platforms, from mobile devices to smart eyeglasses. Today’s announcement brings the company’s technology to the format where it arguably makes the most sense: virtual reality. The company isn’t letting... |
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In Oracle’s world, Android is a crime against open source | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Oracle and Google are — the same court they started in , when Oracle first sued Google over the company’s use of 37 Java APIs in its Android operating system. The case, , bounced up to an appeals court and was reversed, then appealed to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case. Now Oracle’s lawsuit, which ... |
SocialRank, the startup that analyzes your followers, adds premium features and pricing | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | is a startup that — not just in aggregate, like most social analytics services, but on an individual level. Today as part of a new SocialRank Premium plan. As a refresher: SocialRank helps customers find things like their “most valuable” followers on Twitter or Instagram, or followers who live in a certain city, or... |
Apple is opening an app design and development accelerator in India | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Apple is increasing its focus on India after plans to open its first developer center in the country. The new ‘iOS App Design and Development Accelerator’ will be located in Bangalore (known also as Bengaluru) and it is scheduled to open in early 2017. The center is designed to provide support for app developers in t... |
Facebook blocked in Vietnam over the weekend due to citizen protests | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Facebook appears to have been blocked in Vietnam as a part of a government-imposed crackdown on social media, amid public protests over built by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics. Dissidents are blaming wastewater from the steel plant for a mass fish death at aquatic farms and in waters off the country’s central provinces. C... |
What will be announced at Google I/O 2016? Here’s what we expect | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | One day a year, Google gathers all sides of the industry to show off everything the company has been cooking up for the past twelve months. From all new Android to automated automobiles, it’s the day they unveil everything they’ve worked so hard (with varying degrees of success) to keep secret. Tomorrow is that day — G... |
New version of iTunes addresses the music deletion issue | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Apple rolled out a new version of iTunes this week which introduced an updated design, including modified navigation and the return of the left sidebar. However, under the hood, the new software also includes a fix which aims to address the troubling issue of iTunes deleting some users’ music files from their computer.... |
Oracle CEO claims it discounted Java by 97.5% to beat out Android on Amazon’s Paperwhite | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | and continue to fight it out in a that Oracle claims Google owes it for using its Java code in its popular Android mobile platform. And in the process, we’re also hearing details about other companies that may not have been known before. Today it was the turn of Amazon, which Oracle today said ran Java in its Kind... |
Why you should bet big on privacy | Rand Hindi | 2,016 | 5 | 17 |
Ever felt like you were being watched online? You know, like when you read something about New York, and the next site you visit shows you ads for New York hotels? As it turns out, on my computer, there were more than 130 companies tracking my every move (check yours , then ). These companies are basically engaging... |
Artella brings collaboration to VFX and animation | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Being a freelance animator is a pretty crappy existence — it usually means living out of a suitcase, jetting from country to country as the major studios are chasing tax incentives around the world. Launched this week, is attempting to change that by creating a full suite of software to foster collaboration between c... |
Dedrone raises $10 million to detect aerial intruders | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | As civilian drones become more affordable, sophisticated and common around the world, a company called has raised $10 million in venture funding for systems that monitor the skies and tell people when drones have entered their airspace. led the Series A investment in Dedrone bringing the company’s total capital rais... |
Tesloop offers city-to-city autonomous travel in a Tesla | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Travelers in the Southwest have a new all-electric option: long-distance car sharing in a Tesla with Autopilot. The service is called , and it currently serves 15 cities in southern California, plus Henderson and Las Vegas in Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona. The idea came to founder Haydn (one name only; probably because ... |
Apply now! The TC Meetup + Pitch-off is coming to Austin and Seattle | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Fresh on the heels of Disrupt NY, we’re packing up and heading to Austin and Seattle for the TC Meetup + Pitch-off. Ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch to a panel of expert judges, including local VCs and TC editors, as well as our lovely audience. Judges will conduct a quick Q&A on stage, and at the... |
Uber debuts Trip Tracker so you can view a family member’s ride in real-time | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | Uber today a new tool that will allow family members and other loved ones to track each others’ trips using its service. Called simply “Trip Tracker,” the addition is a feature connected to Uber’s , a program which allows customers to pay for rides for their family and friends. With Family Profiles, users can add ... |
HP’s 3D printers pave the way for an interesting future | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | In the since HP announced it was entering the 3D printing space speculation arose regarding what exactly the PC giant would launch? Home 3D printers for the masses? All-in-one manufacturing machines? Amazing teleportation devices? Nope. They launched a big printer for industrial users that prints in full color in a w... |
WhatsApp launches desktop apps for Mac and Windows | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | , the Facebook-owned messaging service that , has . The release comes about 15 months after . People who have already been using WhatsApp in their web browsers will find that the software isn’t significantly different. The company “our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone,” with all messages synced bet... |
Software piracy claims can ruin your business and reward those responsible | Robert J. Scott | 2,016 | 5 | 10 |
There is a highly divisive and costly practice that software companies have inflicted on their customers for nearly a decade. This practice brings with it significant emotional duress, time investment and financial penalties — all of which divert meaningful resources from revenue-driving activities. And to add insult... |
Hyperloop Technologies becomes Hyperloop One, pulls in $80 million and announces global partners | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Technologies is now Hyperloop One and $80 million richer from a close of its Series B round of financing today. The news comes just days after rival hyperloop builder Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced a to power its own prototype with magnetic levitation technology. Both Hyperloop One (formerly Hy... |
The TC Disrupt NY Battlefield Finalists are Bark, Beam, BitPagos, Ritual, SeaDrone, and WaterO | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Thus far at TC Disrupt NY, we’ve seen a between IAB’s Randall Rothenberger and AdBlocker’s Till Faida. We’ve seen the Siri founders debut the next-generation of voice powered AI with And we’ve seen . . Tomorrow, we have a star-studded lineup that includes the likes of Jessica Alba, Carmelo Anthony and Soledad O’Br... |
Shaving for the Red Hook Initiative | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | We’re here in Red Hook, Brooklyn for TechCrunch Disrupt NY and Jon Shieber’s beard is getting out of control. It’s getting shaved for the . Use to contribute to the cause or to the Red Hook Initiative. Jon is a gentle soul and a fine writer. As a Senior Editor he is tasked with organizing and managing Crunch Netwo... |
Please don’t learn to code | Basel Farag | 2,016 | 5 | 10 |
There’s an idea that’s been gaining ground in the tech community lately: Everyone should learn to code. But here’s the problem with that idea: Coding is not the new literacy. If you regularly pay attention to the cultural shenanigans of Silicon Valley, you’ve no doubt heard of the “Learn to Code” movement. Politician... |
3Dprintler lets you order a 3D print via chatbot | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Who do you call if you want to 3D print something? Step forward , a startup that has made a search engine for locating 3D printing services in your area. The team was chosen as the wildcard company from Startup Alley to present onstage in the 2016 Battlefield here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. , which launched last ... |
Birch gets your credit card rewards in order | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Credit card reward programs can be confusing, and each can be totally different from the next. So managing all your points and rewards can quickly become a headache. Enter , a service that helps users manage their rewards programs and points across multiple credit cards and accounts. Birch plugs into a bank account, l... |
Uber says that 20% of its rides globally are now on UberPool | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | , the world’s biggest unicorn, as a limo service that typically cost more than traditional taxi services. But as Uber looks to add an ever more mainstream audience globally, it has added more lower-cost options, and those are now coming into their own. Uber today said that 20 percent of all of its rides globally are ... |
PlaceAVote wants to give voters a say in Congress | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | PlaceAVote wants you. The soon-to-launch startup brings together politically minded users to debate the bills currently before Congress. , which is competing in Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2016, allows its users to discuss issues, write explanations of bills and even vote on them — and it aims to sell that data to Congr... |
Ritual wants to reinvent the vitamin | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | has developed a beaded oil capsule vitamin for sustained release from what it says are the best ingredients found throughout the world to nourish your body. The company launched today onstage at Disrupt NY. Vitamins, even the sustainable release kind, sit within a crowded space. They come in pill, pack and powder form... |
Mozilla relaunches Firefox Test Pilot to experiment with new features like side tabs | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | is bringing back its for Firefox. The idea behind Test Pilot is to allow users — and Mozilla’s engineers — to test experimental browser features long before they arrive in the browser. A first version of Test Pilot first launched all the way back in 2009, but its focus was on studying how users interacted with their... |
Bark helps parents keep kids safe online without invading their privacy | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 is a new service called , aimed at parents who want to keep their kids safe online. Unlike traditional “parental control” software or net nanny-type watchdog applications, Bark’s goal is to strike the correct balance between respecting a child’s right to privacy and protec... |
Cujo is a firewall for the connected smart home network | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | “Cujo protects everything on your network,” the company’s CEO, Einaras Gravrock says, describing his product in the simplest terms ahead of its Disrupt NY launch this week. “Think of it as an immunity system for your network.” The is surprisingly unassuming, a small plastic stump with light-up eyes that stands in ado... |
Semi-driving the semi-autonomous 2016 Volvo XC90 | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | The T6 R-Design has an all-new look and a powerful 2-liter supercharged engine with 316 horsepower. But this is TechCrunch, where we’re all about that tablet-like center console and pushing all the buttons to see how well the vehicle can drive on its own. Volvo’s goal is to eliminate injuries or fatalities in crashes... |
Peter Thiel to back Trump as GOP presidential candidate | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has agreed to back Trump as a in Cleveland this summer. Thiel’s level of support for the Donald is unclear, but Thiel will be one of 172 selected Golden State delegates headed to the Republican National Convention, and a source tells us he has committed to back Trump as the GOP’s... |
SeaDrone simplifies underwater exploration and inspection | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Startup Battlefield: SeaDrone at — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) It’s the year, or perhaps the decade, of the drone, and the popular craft are only getting cheaper, better and easier to control. But why should drones be limited to the air? , demonstrated onstage at Disrupt NY today, brings the benefits and simplicity o... |
BitPagos uses the blockchain to enable credit for online payments in emerging markets | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | The world is familiar with bitcoin being used for many things. Online payments, long-distance remittance, even a substitute for gold. But what about credit? Not so much — and that’s where , a startup competing in the Battlefield pitch competition at , wants to make its mark. The Buenos Aires-based company, which has ... |
HomeMe looks to help pre-approve apartment hunters for rentals | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | Mark Douglas’s daughter was shopping around for an apartment. But the person showing apartments just assumed that because she was young she didn’t have the buying power to afford an expensive apartment — and they didn’t have any data to back that up. That’s where , an application that helps people get pre-approved for... |
Vrse CEO Chris Milk talks VR storytelling and the road to virtual reality’s Citizen Kane | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 10 | “Citizen Kane does not come in year two of VR.” Esteemed VR filmmaker/documentarian/founder/CEO took to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in NY to discuss the limitations and massive items of potential for the proliferation of VR content, still in its early early early stages. Some of the most difficult challenges in t... |
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Samsung Pay strikes partnership with Chinese online payment giant Alipay | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Samsung that will make Alipay, China’s largest online payments platform, available through Samsung Pay. The partnership, made between Samsung Electronics and Ant Financial, the Alibaba financial tech affiliate that owns Alipay, is important because Alipay is one of the most formidable rivals mobile payments like Sam... |
Singapore’s Jungle Ventures brings on three new operating partners | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Jungle Ventures, the Singapore-based VC firm that last year, has recruited three new operating partners to its team. comes from streaming service HOOQ, where he was chief product officer, joining recent recruits , ex-Spotify, and , who led Evernote business development in Asia Pacific. The firm hasn’t formally an... |
Houzz wins “Best App” at the inaugural Google Play Awards | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Interior design and decorating resource is the overall best Android app of the year, according to Google, which this evening announced the results of the at its developer conference, Google I/O. While in previous years, the company had rounded up large numbers of apps for “ ” lists, the new Google Play Awards ins... |
It’s time to remove “serial entrepreneur” from our vocabulary | Shan Sinha | 2,016 | 5 | 19 |
In today’s tech-driven business world, the title “ ” is a coveted badge of honor. A quick look at Google, for example, yields no less than 830,000 mentions — with “how to become a ” topping the list of popular searches. And all the while, the phrase increasingly pops up in personal bios, job applications and eve... |
Google engineer says he’ll push for default end-to-end encryption in Allo | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | After Google’s decision by default in its , raised questions about the balance of security and effective artificial intelligence, one of the company’s top security engineers said he’d push for end-to-end encryption to become the default in future versions of Allo. Allo debuted with an option to turn on end-to-end en... |
FireChat Alerts could help spread vital information in offline and disaster-stricken areas | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Decentralized chat app FireChat is that could help disseminate critical info like storm warnings, health advisories and so on when the normal communications grid is down. Truth be told, Alerts aren’t terribly different from the normal chat function, which passes data from phone to phone over an ad-hoc network that do... |
UberMedia connects cross-channel ad impressions to actual store visits | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Mobile ad company is expanding its measurement and attribution business in a big way. You may remember UberMedia as the company that owns social apps like Echofon and UberSocial. While that’s still the case, it has shifted its attention over the past few years to its mobile ad platform, which uses the apps as a sourc... |
3D-printed bespoke wheelchair debuts at Design Week in London | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | For all their being motion-enabling platforms, wheelchairs are themselves rather static. A frame of steel and aluminum supporting foam-filled leather or plastic, with a handful of settings that may or may not accommodate the user’s specific condition. A London design firm has worked for two years to create an alternati... |
The Withings Go shows promise, but is mostly a non-starter | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Drop the price $20 and add a bit more functionality and you’ve got a compelling product on your hands. The way things stand now though, the is more of a curiosity than it is compelling — or, for that matter, tempting. It’s a shame, really. It’s the kind of device that you really want to like. is in the business of b... |
Chemists create an app that can tell if your beer is skunked | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | That’s what you say when you find out your whole keg of Heiney is totally skunked but it doesn’t matter because you’ll totally still drink it after you finish the pony keg of Sammo’s Irish Red. But what if I told you that folks in Spain have figured out a way to use an app to tell if your beer is a mess? Whoa, right? ... |
Audio fingerprinting being used to track web users, study finds | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | A wide-scale of online trackers carried out by researchers at Princeton University has identified a new technique being used to try to strip web users of their privacy, as well as quantifying the ongoing usage of some better-known tracking techniques. The new technique unearthed by the study is based on fingerprintin... |
Now you can embed Reddit posts on other websites | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Reddit posts are going to get the chance to live beyond Reddit itself, thanks to new embedding capabilities. If you’re an online writer or publisher, that means you can start including live Reddit content in your stories. If you’re a reader, that means you might start to see more Reddit posts on other sites, the same w... |
Beyond the Valley | Pat McCarthy | 2,016 | 5 | 19 |
As someone who has worked in technology his entire adult life, I can say the following with complete conviction: Somewhere at this moment a young entrepreneur is developing a product, service or business model that will transform the way our world thinks, works, plays, communicates, dates, sleeps or wakes up the day ... |
Edyn debuts smart water valve to put home gardens on autopilot | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Oakland, Calif.-based started selling a new, smart gardening device this week: an Internet-connected water valve that lets users irrigate their gardens or lawns automatically. The Edyn Water Valve uses data from the company’s Edyn Garden Sensor, a soil sensor, along with local weather systems, to adjust the moisture... |
Tally raises $15 million for app to make credit cards less expensive, easier to manage | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | San Francisco-based raised $15 million in Series A venture funding to launch an app that promises to help people maintain good credit while avoiding fees, charges and other credit card affiliated pains. led the Series A and was joined by the company’s earlier backers — and . also invested. According to Tally C... |
Uncovering and counseling domestic violence victims through the My Plan app | Claudia Cahalane | 2,016 | 5 | 19 |
‘Has he threatened you with a gun?’ Is one of the questions a woman will be asked when she’s downloaded the domestic abuse counseling app . “This scenario is more common on college campuses than we’d like to believe,” said the app’s co-founder, Nancy Glass. Glass, who is a professor and associate dean for research a... |
Things to make your home office legit | Contributor | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | post was done in partnership with |
Watch Alchemist Accelerator’s Demo Day Right Here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you ‘s demo day live from PARC, a Xerox Company. Alchemist is one of those rare programs that focuses on enterprise startups. These aren’t your parents enterprise companies. Pitches today will span products that help businesses leverage drones for delivery, keep food fresher with RFIDs, ... |
The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 years | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | This week I ended up with an advance copy of new report called . The report—which is a subsection from a larger, ongoing study of 500 women across the USA—details findings on the way that kids are using technology and reveals several interesting insights. The highlights include: Additionally, some of Influence Centr... |
YouTube shows off dedicated VR app for Daydream platform | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 19 | Google has been slowly building virtual reality-focused functionality into the YouTube app over the past year with support for 360-degree video formats, stereoscopic video, 3D audio and general Google Cardboard support. Today, YouTube, the “world’s largest collection of VR videos,” teased a complete VR-centered design ... |
Apple is ‘working rapidly’ to launch Apple Pay in more countries in Asia and Europe | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Apple Pay may only be available in six countries right now, but the iPhone maker is keen to extend the footprint of the digital payment service worldwide. That’s according to Jennifer Bailey, VP of Apple Pay, who spoke to TechCrunch this week as the service expanded its presence in Singapore, where it now supports five... |
Facebook starts selling offsite ads targeting non-users too | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Facebook’s advertising network is already a colossal business — it helped in its most recent quarter alone — but it is about to take a step towards become the internet’s advertising exchange after announcing that it will start showing ads to non-users across the web.. Previously, if you were either not a Facebook use... |
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Crunch Report | Snapchat Raises $1.8 Billion | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopek
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Intel buys computer vision startup Itseez to improve navigation in self-driving cars | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Intel has to develop better navigation for self-driving cars. The value of the deal was undisclosed. Founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, makes computer vision algorithms and software. The company’s it calls “advanced driver assistance systems,” which allows car hardware to recognize pedestrians and traffi... |
Quora loses its public face, Marc Bodnick | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Quora’s been at the Q&A game for 7 years now but still is only starting to monetize. It’s growing, but momentum could take a hit tonight as long-time head of business and community Marc Bodnick to return to the investing world or found his own startup. Bodnick tells me “I’m ready to be part of something that I start,... |
This algorithm could make DNA origami as simple as 3D printing | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | If you want to print something a few inches tall, extruded plastic is a good medium. But when you need something at the nanometer scale, DNA is a better bet — but who has the time to design and assemble it base by base? New research lets would-be DNA origami masters design the shape — while an algorithm determines wher... |
Gawker’s Nick Denton to billionaire Peter Thiel: Let’s take it outside (of court) | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Tech investor, billionaire and Donald Trump-backer has been locked in a legal battle by proxy with Gawker Media that amounts to a First Amendment test which could potentially put Gawker out of business. The media company that consistently challenges and pokes at the powers that be in technology and venture capital ha... |
Tesla’s patent strategy opens the road to sustainability for transport and for itself | Craig Buschmann | 2,016 | 5 | 26 |
What makes Tesla unique? How about everything. Mention patents to most people and their eyes glaze over. Worse, they think of patent “trolls” that some say are harming American businesses. But everyone appreciates one fundamental fact: Patents, and intellectual property generally, mean value. Tesla began accepting or... |
KitSplit brings its peer-to-peer, creative equipment rentals to Washington, D.C. | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | aims to help creative professionals rent the equipment they need, whether it’s basic video gear or something a little more high-tech, say or . The service launched last year in New York, and now it’s ready to expand, starting with its launch in Washington, D.C., followed by Philadelphia and Boston. Co-founder sai... |
ForcePhone adds pressure sensitivity to any phone using ultrasonics | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Force touch may be a feature exclusive to the latest iPhones, but something like it is now possible on pretty much any phone out there, thanks to research from engineers at the University of Michigan. It works not by polling sensors in the touchscreen, but through ultrasound. The phone’s speaker emits a sound covering ... |
Will Twilio reopen tech IPO window? | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | If the company ends up going through with its plans, it would likely be just the third tech IPO of the year. This has been the worst year for public offerings since the 2009 recession. Many who follow tech IPOs are excited to see that it’s inching closer. “It all feels like a concert where the headliner is running late... |
Twitter tunes into Spotify to soundtrack its audio cards | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Whistle while you tweet with the new partnership between Twitter and Spotify. Now you can listen to 30-second previews of songs in your timeline and Moments thanks to . Twitter first in 2014 with iTunes previews and later worked with . Now the most popular on-demand subscription streaming service will lend your ear... |
B&O PLAY’s Beoplay A1 packs a lot of sound into a little Bluetooth speaker | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Some days it’s hard to get excited about Bluetooth speakers. That’s not a statement of judgment, really, it’s just that the space has been flooded with a lot of like-minded devices that are honestly pretty tough to tell apart. And then something like the Beoplay A1 comes along and gives you hope that maybe there’s stil... |
We want you to be the next Startup Battlefield Manager! | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | TechCrunch is looking for a Startup Battlefield Manager! TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is the world’s preeminent startup competition and is at the very heart of Disrupt. At each event selected startups have an opportunity to pitch in front of top-notch investors, compete for $50K and the Disrupt Cup. More than that,... |
Jury finds Google’s implementation of Java in Android was fair use | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | “Today’s verdict that Android makes fair use of Java APIs represents a win for the Android ecosystem, for the Java programming community, and for software developers who rely on open and free programming languages to build innovative consumer products,” a Google spokesperson said. “Overall, this is a win for software d... |
The circle is complete: Minecraft is getting a deathmatch mode | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Minecraft, a game that skyrocketed to unprecedented levels of popularity among all ages because of its open-ended gameplay, infinite worlds, and limitless possibilities for creation and collaboration, . Is this it? Is this Minecraft’s shark jump (or pig jump, or squid jump) moment? Oh, of course not. But it is a remin... |
Protect your pet with Treat’s on-demand vet visits | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | Your pet gets sick and you don’t know what to do. Google has a thousand conflicting answers and it could be a week until you can get an appointment with a veterinarian. But to check on your furry friend. Treat can also hook you up with the best pet products, training and grooming. It’s like a medical concierge for yo... |
The omnichannel customer experience is poised to take off in regulated industries | Clara Shih | 2,016 | 5 | 26 |
The omnichannel customer experience is nothing new, especially in the consumer and retail industries. Many companies and brands are using data and automation technologies to engage seamlessly with their customers at any time and place and across any device. At the same time, omnichannel doesn’t mean digitizing every ... |
Airbnb + HotelTonight = new startup Overnight | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | “I think it’s great that people can control their privacy as long as they abide by their agreements and local laws” Co-founder and CEO Asher Hunt tells me. “We’re invested in the long-term sustainability of home sharing and though people have seen our privacy aspects as attractive for the reasons you point to, we encou... |
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Adobe is bringing content-aware cropping to Photoshop | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 26 | If you’ve every tried to crop a photo (and in the age of Instagram, who hasn’t?) or simply adjust the horizon line, you know how hard it can be to find just the right crop that allows you to focus on what you want to highlight in a picture without cutting other important parts out of it or leaving you with white edges.... |
The rise of APIs | Matt Murphy | 2,016 | 5 | 21 |
It’s been almost five years since we heard that “ .” The number of SaaS applications has exploded and there is a rising wave of software innovation in the area of APIs that provide critical connective tissue and increasingly important functionality. There has been a proliferation of third-party API companies, which i... |
Startups to Congress: Strong data security keeps us competitive | Karyn Smith | 2,016 | 5 | 21 |
Twilio recently had the opportunity to meet with members of and their staff who have taken on the difficult task of balancing and privacy. We were struck by the sincere desire to understand how actions proposed by those in Washington impact smaller technology businesses. It’s been clear to for some time that, i... |
Camellia Labs debuts single-cup chai brewer, Chime | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 21 | In the world of kitchen appliances, everyone wants to be the next , it seems. First, there were single-cup coffee brewers that followed and claimed to be better than Keurig, from Nespresso, Mr. Coffee and Lavazza to name a few. Later came cold drink machines like the Bartesian for cocktails, or PicoBrew for craft beer... |
The wide world of e-sports | Christoffer O. Hernæs | 2,016 | 5 | 21 | |
Technotopia: Haseeb Awan on why the sun is rising on Asian startups | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 21 | This week’s features . Haseeb is pretty bearish on the current financial markets but he sees the growth of Asia and India as a true powerhouse that will be able to use all of the cool new stuff the world is building in a very real way. You can or
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How Prince and Bowie started streaming music services | Tien Tzuo | 2,016 | 5 | 21 |
In the wake of Prince’s untimely death, more and more stories have been revealed about his secret life of good works: anonymous checks, civil rights activism, charity concerts, etc. Right now, Paisley Park staff members are handing out to mourning fans purple boxes filled with CDs, t-shirts and other memorabilia. But... |
Uber and Lyft shut down in Austin after voters defeat Proposition 1 | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | Today voters in Austin went to the polls to weigh in on Proposition 1, an attempt to overturn a bill requiring mandatory fingerprint-based criminal background checks for new Uber and Lyft drivers in the city. The results are in, and with voting against Prop 1, the proposition failed to pass. This means that the bill r... |
The Disrupt NY Hackathon kicks off in Brooklyn | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | , welcome to Brooklyn. TechCrunch’s big conference has moved out of Manhattan, into Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. The hackathon that opens the event got started to 12:30pm today, with attendees given less than 24 hours to form teams, build products and prepare a presentation for our judges. They’ll compete for a ... |
The next AI is no AI | Jarno M. Koponen | 2,016 | 5 | 7 |
Artificial Intelligence is starting to turn invisible from the outside in — and vice versa. The exact effects and workings of AI technologies are becoming more challenging to perceive and comprehend for humans. Even the experts themselves don’t always fully understand how an AI system operates. Effectively, as the im... |
How to keep your investors invested | Navid Boostani | 2,016 | 5 | 7 |
You did it. You secured your funding. Good for you. You tirelessly developed, pitched, sold, maybe even danced a little. Not a song and dance, but a display of passion, commitment and promise. You successfully instilled the confidence investors need to see before signing on the dotted line. Now that you’ve earned thi... |
Bots, Messenger and the future of customer service | Michael Schneider | 2,016 | 5 | 7 |
In the 1970s, CFOs sat with CEOs and devised ways for upset consumers to not be able to get compensation easily. They put up automated phone systems and arcane and inflexible policies and rejoiced at how little the company had to “give up” to complaining customers. And this system worked… until social media gave ever... |
Apple’s new site lets you create a custom “Shot on iPhone” ad for Mother’s Day | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFFLEN90aeI Last week Apple released the latest iteration of its “Shot on iPhone” campaign. The new ad was developed for Mother’s Day, and features a slideshow of pictures and videos of moms and their kids. Now, a week later, Apple launched the aptly-named website , which lets you creat... |
Meet the robot that pretends to listen | John Holden | 2,016 | 5 | 7 |
We’ve all done it. Cornered at a party by some bore talking about his unimaginative app that will “change the world.” All seemingly convincing excuses to leave have already been used by the rest of the group (who were all there just a second ago). The last refuge of the rude scoundrel — the smartphone — is in your ja... |
Lightening the cognitive load | Joe Rizk | 2,016 | 5 | 7 |
A longtime colleague and friend of mine used to love to say “Let’s just make this easy for them” whenever we discussed an upcoming meeting. I think I winced the first few times I heard it. It didn’t seem like much of a negotiation strategy… at least, that is, until he helped me appreciate how powerful it can be to m... |
NVIDIA ups the power and drops the price with its impressive new graphics cards | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | While you were out enjoying your Friday night, NVIDIA kicked off the weekend with at the DreamHack gaming event in Austin to debut its latest gaming GPUs. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took to the stage at the city’s Emo’s music venue to showcase , the company’s first Pascal-based GPU, which promises double the performance and... |
The next stop on the road to revolution is ambient intelligence | Gary Grossman | 2,016 | 5 | 7 |
It’s easy to see a rainbow when it’s in the distance, but more difficult to discern when you are in its midst. Though it’s still early days, we’re now in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution. , the founder of the , says the impending “transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before.... |
Gillmor Gang: Verbal Agreement | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 6, 2016. Size still matters as we move from primaries to the fall campaign. Can the next Google emerge from the next big search thing, or will the Establishment strip the unicorns down to size? @steve... |
FwdForce faces an uphill battle in trying to make crowdfunding more accountable | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | For entrepreneurs, artists and people with an idea burning their way out of their souls, crowdfunding is a way of turning dreams into reality. For backers, the campaigns are a way to be tastemakers, to be on the cutting edge of what is new and cool and to get the newest gadgets before they’re available in shops. There’... |
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