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Making wearables more useful and smart homes less of a chore | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | to get a whole lot more useful in future if research being conducted by Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group is indicative of the direction of travel. While many companies, big and small, have been jumping into the wearables space in recent years, the use-cases for these devices often feels superficial... |
Watch 500 Startups’ Demo Day Here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | TechCrunch is excited to stream 500 Startups’ demo day live from the Computer History Museum. The demos start at 11:00 AM Pacific and are expected to last four hours. You can watch it live right here. Investors and press will hear pitches from 60 companies today — 51 of them come from the current accelerator batch and ... |
Dismissing the cord-cutter myth | Scott Ferber | 2,016 | 5 | 13 |
When cable TV subscriptions in the U.S. peaked in 2012 — and — it seemed the traditional media supply chain was stronger than ever. Since then, however, cable subscriptions have steadily declined each year. The usual culprits blamed for this decline are the streaming services, like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and ... |
YouTube tests an in-app messenger for sharing videos with friends | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | YouTube as a messaging app? Sure, why not! Everyone’s doing it, after all. In case you missed it: YouTube this week that it’s testing a new feature with a subset of its mobile app user base that will allow them to easily share videos with family and friends. Users with the feature can chat about those videos in a new... |
The NFL is bringing classic games and more in-progress game highlights to YouTube | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | NFL games are coming to YouTube! Wait, don’t get too excited just yet – YouTube and the NFL have only announced a strategic partnership that’s bringing “classic” games to the video platform. Specifically, the NFL will post three of the greatest games from the history of each of the 32 franchises, it says. In other word... |
Watch our short video recaps of Disrupt NY 2016 | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | Disrupt NY 2016 has come to an end, and our video team put together three short videos that summarize each day of the event. Enjoy! Siri co-founder shows off Viv, Alex Chung of Giphy on how to pronounce “GIF,” Randall Rothenberg of the IAB, Erica Baker of Slack, and theSkimm co-founders. Casey Neistat of Beme, Talmon M... |
BMW’s CEO reveals plans for the i NEXT, a self-driving car set for a 2021 debut | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | Before you get too excited, the above image is the , the concept car BMW showed off back in March to note that, as it celebrated its 100 anniversary, the company was spending more time looking forward than back. The automaker’s CEO Harald Krueger struck a similarly futuristic tone during in Munich this week, though... |
The science of funny | John Holden | 2,016 | 5 | 13 |
Psychologists in Canada have developed a mathematical formula for quantifying the humor of nonsense. Most of us would be forgiven for thinking math and humor are mutually exclusive. One is perceived as logical while the other is considered an intangible, uniquely human trait. Still, science knows no limits and, as Th... |
More evidence points toward Android VR unveil at Google I/O | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | According to multiple rumors and a newly spotted placeholder on the Google Play Developer Console, it seems that Google will be unveiling an Android VR headset at Google I/O next week. first spotted the placeholder, which is currently just that — you can’t click into the link like you would be able to with the Android... |
Smart-home technology must work harder to create smarter consumers | Robert S. Marshall | 2,016 | 5 | 14 |
Attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year were confronted with a head-spinning volume of smart-home devices. From $5,000 that can communicate when you’re running low on milk and eggs, to the ability to control lights, locks and thermostats from your mobile app or TV screen, these products an... |
What startups are saying about raising cash in Latin America | Gonzalo Costa | 2,016 | 5 | 14 |
You don’t have to look hard to see why the startup community in Latin America has long faced a lack of capital and resources to fuel significant growth. Many Latin American entrepreneurs have endured decades of political and economic hardships that left the investment landscape in a less than desirable state — especi... |
Highlights from Disrupt NY 2016 | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 5 | 14 | The doors to TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 opened May 9 at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The three-day conference hosted 2,300 attendees and hundreds of thousands more tuning in online. Indeed, Disrupt NY 2016 was the , making it one of our most watched events ever. In the much-anticipated Startup Battlefield, 22 competi... |
The drone race is on | Philip McNamara | 2,016 | 5 | 14 | |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.14.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 5 | 14 | Gillmor Gang – Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording session begins has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Author Raj Raghunathan talks about what it takes for smart people to be happy | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 14 | In my on-going series I’ve been talking to designers, coders, and journalists. This time I talk to business professor Raj Raghunathan author of , a book about finding happiness when you’re already firing on all cylinders in a hard-charging career. Raghunathan’s book shows us that there is little correlation between ... |
Power laws rule everything around me | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 5 | 14 | We live in a time of great polarization. Politically, in nations across the world, both the left and the far right grow more numerous, and draw further away from the mainstream establishment, every year. Economically, the rich continue to separate themselves from the poor, as the very rich do from the rich. And in tech... |
NYC presents more opportunities than challenges for foreign ad firms | Elmira Bayrasli | 2,016 | 5 | 14 |
With digital ad spending reaching nearly , and expected to surpass the spend on television advertising next year, the Big Apple overflows with adtech startups. Many of these startups are coming to New York from abroad, specifically Europe and Latin America. “Silicon Valley has more startups and more money,” Judith M... |
India-based food delivery startup TinyOwl reportedly shuts down in all cities except Mumbai | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 22 | , a India-based restaurant delivery service that has raised more than $27 million from investors including Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners, has reportedly stopped service in all cities except for Mumbai. Users of TinyOwl’s smartphone app started seeing a notification last week that service will be discontinued afte... |
How will marketplace lending become a mainstream investment asset class? | Min Zhang | 2,016 | 5 | 22 |
A friend who recently started his own business couldn’t obtain a mortgage from three banks. I suggested he try marketplace lending platforms like to take advantage of the ongoing innovation in fintech. However, SoFi turned him down, as well, because it abides by the same underwriting rules as traditional banks. Lik... |
INNOVATE2016: Freada Kapor Klein on fixing tech’s gender problem | Freada Kapor Klein | 2,016 | 5 | 22 | , Kapor Klein is also a founding member of , a network of mostly female engineers set up by Ellen Pao to enable Silicon Valley companies to become more diverse. Inclusion – or what she calls “closing the gap” – is win-win for tech companies, Kapor Klein insists. Companies that focus on diversity will succeed, she sa... |
How storage is changing in the age of big data | Don Basile | 2,016 | 5 | 22 |
Have you ever tracked all the ways you use in a single day? How many of your calories, activities, tasks, messages, projects, correspondences, records and more are saved and accessed through every day? I bet you won’t be able to stop once you start counting. Many of us never pause to consider what that means, b... |
The mercurial nature of P2P lending | Mike Lobanov | 2,016 | 5 | 22 |
The meteoric rise of e-lending platforms attracted a lot of interest among investors and entrepreneurs. and have already become public companies, and their competitors, such as , , , , , , and others continue to develop and increase their loan portfolios. Many in other countries like the idea of copying s... |
Why Google beat Yahoo in the war for the Internet | Mohit Aron | 2,016 | 5 | 22 |
As we witness what may be the final days of Yahoo as an independent business, consider how just a decade ago it was running neck-and-neck with Google, now one of the world’s largest companies by market value. It would be silly for anyone to claim they could have predicted how these two businesses would compare today,... |
Africa is becoming a testbed for commercial drone services | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 5 | 22 | UPS recently entered into a partnership with , a medical drone delivery startup, to begin aerial transport of healthcare supplies in Rwanda. Included in the deal is , a Gates Foundation supported non-profit specializing in immunizations. Zipline’s first distribution of medical supply packages will start in July—meani... |
Gillmor Gang: Rubber Room | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 5 | 22 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 20, 2016. Google provides notifications catnip via Firebase, I spend the weekend struggling with 4:3, and oh, thanks a lot for bricking my iPad Pro, 9.3.2. Back to the Mac, my asp. @stevegillmor, @kevinmarks, @sco... |
Thiel says he decided several years ago to try to cripple Gawker | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | Earlier today, we speculated that billionaire Peter Thiel may have secretly financed a lawsuit to put Gawker Media out of business owing to a series of antagonistic stories about him written by Gawker’s now defunct Valleywag site . Thiel has since talked with New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and that not o... |
Sherpa, a Spanish-language AI-based personal assistant, raises $6.5M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | We’ve seen a big rise in apps and bots, and a lot of them have something in common besides being based on artificial intelligence and machine learning: many of them are written first (or only) for English-speaking users. Now one of the more interesting personal assistant apps created first for Spanish speakers is annou... |
All the cool kids are doing Ethereum now | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 5 | 22 | In the beginning the Prophet Satoshi brought us Bitcoin. And the cryptogeeks and libertarians looked upon it, and said lo, we smile upon this, for it is good, and decentralized, and solves the Byzantine Generals Problem. For a time all was well. But then came and and . And came the Prophet Vitalik, bearing Ether... |
Crunch Report | Xiaomi Unveils Their Drone | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopek
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With Twitter’s NFL deal, social networks can take on traditional broadcasters at last | Dror Ginzberg | 2,016 | 5 | 22 |
But Twitter’s deal for Thursday Night Football is significant because it shows a social network can take broadcasts from TV, and because it has done so in a category known to be the highest-value of all TV rights deals — live sports. In its aftermath, the deal poses several questions. One is: what does this mean for ... |
Supercomputers supercharge NASA’s simulated storms and improve hurricane forecasts | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | Understanding the complex order behind the apparent chaos of a tropical storm or hurricane is no easy task, but it’s worthwhile to try — such storms deal death and destruction globally, and the better we know them, the better we can prepare for them. highlights some of the work and improvements in storm prediction and... |
Meet the latest cohort of Acceleprise startups, and the apps they built to make work easier | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | , a San Francisco-based accelerator for enterprise tech and software-as-a-service startups, held a Demo Day for its third cohort of companies today. The accelerator invests $50,000 into each startup admitted to its program via convertible note financing, taking approximately a 5 percent stake under a $1 million cap. It... |
How do you outsmart malware? | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 5 | 25 |
The in recent months and years is in large part because of being developed on a daily basis. Malicious actors are constantly taking advantage of technological innovations and breakthroughs to devise new ways to flood the Internet with new malware that circumvent security tools, propagate within networks and wit... |
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle Reddit’s informal alliance with image-sharing community Imgur. That’s where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs and then share the links on Reddit. The begins rolling out today with 50 Reddit communities, including Art, Aww, Food, Fun... |
Ripple is a Silicon Valley-based startup making milk from peas | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | The Bay Area fosters a culture of forward thinkers and new ways to solve problems in our world, including in our . is one such startup in Silicon Valley hoping to disrupt the dairy industry with pea protein. The company joins a growing list of game-changing food startups that have launched out of the lab and into th... |
U.K. carrier Three says it will start trialling ad blocking next month with a 24-hour opt-in test | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | Back in February, U.K. mobile carrier it would start to offer on its network opt-in ad blocking technology from , potentially reaching 30 million customers in its network. Now the company is getting down to details: It will start to trial ad blocking in June in the U.K., with a 24-hour test for opted-in customers, t... |
Reddit CTO Marty Weiner on building a home for the Internet’s wildest community | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | growth met with copious scandals and user complaints, is getting back to basics and trying to scale like your average Internet company, albeit one that boasts around 234 million unique visitors powering 8 billion page views per month. Critical to this major effort is . Weiner joined the Reddit team this past summer... |
Nuheara’s IQbuds are somewhere between wireless headphones and a hearing aid | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | I went into the demo not knowing what to expect. Not in the sense of, “How good will these be?” so much as, “I’m not exactly sure what these things do.” Like, are they headphones? Are they hearing aids? The answer, interestingly enough, is a little bit of both. The IQbuds are, ostensibly, Bluetooth earbuds. That they... |
Salesforce inks deal with AWS to expand international presence | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | announced today that it was expanding its relationship with , with Salesforce naming the cloud giant a preferred cloud provider. The agreement should help Salesforce increase its international presence without having to build its own data centers in countries that have data sovereignty laws, which require that data s... |
SpaceX continues ambitious launch schedule with next mission, fifth one this year | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | Less than a month after their last successful mission, is back at it. Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:40pm EDT tomorrow with telecommunications satellite on board. What’s truly notable is that tomorrow’s launch will be the fifth one for SpaceX this year, demonstrating an increased ... |
Terrapattern is reverse image search for maps, powered by a neural network | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | is a visual search engine that, from the first moment you use it, you wonder: Why didn’t Google come up with this 10 years ago? Click on a feature on the map — a baseball diamond, a marina, a roundabout — and it immediately highlights everything its algorithm thinks looks like it. It’s remarkably fast, simple to use a... |
Facebook will shut down FBX, its desktop ad exchange | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | Facebook plans to shut down FBX, the ad exchange that allows advertisers to buy retargeted desktop ads using third-party tools like Criteo and AppNexus. The news was first reported and and we’ve confirmed it with Facebook. In an emailed statement, Vice President of Monetization Product Marketing Matt Idema suggeste... |
Heavy Internet use leads to school burnout in teens | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | As if you didn’t need more proof that your darn kids need to get off the computer and into the back yard, researchers at the University of Helsinki and Department of Psychology have found that excessive Internet use — essentially bordering on addiction — leads to school burnout in teens. There isn’t much detail on the ... |
A lending case involving top VCs moves toward a trial | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | , a venture-backed company that uses big data to assess loan applications from people with low credit scores, has been called out as a predatory lender, including in Fortune . One reason among others is that the APR on some of its loans is a stunning 349 percent. Yet the company’s predecessor, , which was founded in ... |
Google quietly discontinues the Nexus Player | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | The may have been the best TV media player no one ever bought. Google and Asus introduced the Nexus Player back in November 2014. It was one of the first Android TV devices, and a more-than-capable device. And yet, despite Google’s weight behind this device, it hasn’t been a mainstream success, especially when you co... |
Preparing for infrastructures of the future | Sandeepan Banerjee | 2,016 | 5 | 25 |
There are many abstract notions about what the future of infrastructure will look like, but the truth is that the future is staring companies in the face. The adoption of hybrid cloud models, containers and microservices architectures are only the beginning stages of preparing for infrastructures of the future. The l... |
Austin and Seattle TC Pitch-off applications close in two weeks | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 25 | You have about two weeks to apply for the pitch-offs in Austin and Seattle, going down June 14 and June 16, respectively. Ten companies will have exactly 60 seconds each to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges, including TC editors and local VCs. After all the presentations, the judges will determine our winne... |
Line Integrates Bike Taxi Service Go-Jek Into Its Chat App In Indonesia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Messaging app ‘s ongoing efforts to be more than just a messaging app took an interesting turn in Indonesia, the world’s fifth largest country with over 250 million people, after it teamed up with popular motorbike taxi on-demand service . Now users in the country can summon a Go-Jek driver from inside the Line app. ... |
Twitter Is Testing A Dedicated GIF Button On Mobile | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Twitter wants you to share more GIFs, that’s why the company is testing a new GIF button inside its mobile app. Some lucky users are seeing a button that appears between the camera and poll icons inside the Twitter for Android app. We haven’t managed to replicate this ourselves here at TechCrunch (on Android or iOS) bu... |
Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 With “Friends Day” Videos | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Now Facebook has its own holiday it calls On February 4th, the social network turns 12 years old. But in typical self-less Zuckerberg fashion, Mark said “rather than having this birthday that focuses on us, we should make sure that the world focuses on what’s important.” Namely, its users. So today Facebook is sendin... |
Meet The Organizations Vying For The Crunchie Award For Biggest Social Impact In 2015 | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Winners will receive one of the much coveted, never duplicated, Crunchies in 12 categories, and today we’ll be taking a look at the finalists for perhaps my personal favorite category — Biggest Social Impact of 2015. This award goes to the organization that has made the most impact on society at large during the year. ... |
Uber Delivered Puppies On Demand To TechCrunch Ahead Of Super Bowl Weekend | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | has big plans for Super Bowl 50 this weekend. The rideshare platform will pick up passengers at designated areas throughout San Francisco and route them in a way that will hopefully help avoid all the traffic congestion that is already starting to happen before the big game. It’s also offering something very fun and... |
Confirmed: Practice Fusion Lays Off 25% Of Workers To Create Positive Cash Flow | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Practice Fusion, a startup digitizing electronic health records (EHR) for hospitals and healthcare facilities, confirmed to TechCrunch that it trimmed a quarter of its workforce today in an effort to become cash flow positive. The layoffs were across the board, including engineering, product, marketing and customer suc... |
The Race To Mine Asteroids Gains International Support | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Today, the Luxembourg Government that they are taking steps to become Europe’s hub for mining space resources. The small European country plans to establish the necessary legal and regulatory framework and invest in related research and development projects. They’re even considering investing in already-established as... |
No, Amazon Is Not Planning A Network Of 300-400 Bookstores | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Yesterday, a in the Wall Street Journal claiming that online retail giant Amazon was planning to launch as many as 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores. The report set off a about the news; slamming the idea of a company that’s precipitated the collapse of bookstores building them itself; and even some . Just one pro... |
Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | announced today it was buying , developers of an Internet of Things cloud platform for $1.4 billion. With Jasper, Cisco gets a company that understands the burgeoning Internet of Things market. While the IoT term gets bandied about quite a bit, it simply means connected machines talking to one another over the intern... |
Building A Framework For Sustainability | Maxwell Wessel | 2,016 | 2 | 3 |
Platforms are what make the technology world go ’round. Great platforms create value for technologists everywhere — be it a technology-specific platform like what Google has newly open-sourced through , a customer-specific platform development environment like Salesforce or a truly horizontal platform like what Amaz... |
Applause Connects Brands With Livestream Stars | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | We’ve seen startups helping brands tap influencers to promote themselves on social media platforms and , so it might be time for a new influencer marketing startup, , that’s focused on live video — particularly Twitter’s app. It’s certainly a platform that CEO Jon Jacques is familiar with. In addition to working ... |
Watching Technology Trends Emerge In Africa | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | With so much happening in the African tech market these days, it’s hard to keep track. Here’s a handy guide we’ll try to put out every month on the biggest news in one of tech’s most exciting (and earliest) emerging markets. The big story in January was . CEO Reed Hastings turned the switch on for the entire continent... |
Let’s Be Honest About The Problems With Blockchain And Finance | Mike Gault | 2,016 | 2 | 3 |
Strange times live in. The world’s biggest financial players and analysts are buzzing about an invention that became famous partly by promising to destroy them. In just a few months, went from the cause célèbre of crypto-anarchists and tech evangelists to the . We’ve seen a steady stream of news: (its member... |
Struggling GoPro Falls 10% On Earnings Miss; Announces New CFO | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | “Growth slowed in the second half of the year and we recognize the need to develop software solutions that make it easier for our customers to offload, access and edit their GoPro content,”
said GoPro Founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman, in a statement. GoPro has been trying to brand itself as a media company, to deemph... |
iPhone 7 Could Have A Flush Rear Camera | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Chances are you hate this protruding camera module pictured above on your current iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s. According to a new rumor on the iPhone 7 design (via ), the next iPhone could have a flush rear camera. The antenna bands across the back would also disappear. The iPhone 6 casing was significantly thinner than the... |
Google Expands Its Self-Driving Car Pilot To Kirkland, Wash. | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Google today that it is expanding its testing program to Kirkland, Washington. So far, Google’s cars have driven 1.4 million miles around the company’s hometown of Mountain View, California and — more recently — in Austin, Texas. “We have strong roots in Kirkland having established an office here a decade ago,” sai... |
New Apple Patent Covers Hovering Gestures For iPhone Displays | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | 3D Touch was just a first step. AppleInsider a that would add a proximity sensor layer into your iPhone display. It would open up a brand new field of interactions for your phone with new hovering gestures. Behind the scenes, Apple is thinking about integrating tiny infrared sensors inside a multi-touch display. Pi... |
FAA Reauthorization Bill Still Leaves Much To Be Desired For Commercial Drone Operators | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is due for reauthorization and the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee introduced of the FAA bill today. While the efforts to reform the air traffic control system will likely take center stage in the around the bill, it also includes a number of items around the comme... |
Google Boots Ad Blockers From Google Play | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Earlier this week, in the new version of its web browser for mobile devices, the Samsung Internet Browser. Third-party developers quickly responded by launching ad-blocking mobile apps that work with the browser. Now those developers are finding their apps are being pulled from the Google Play, and their updates are b... |
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Instagram Extends Video Ads To 60 Seconds To Score TV Dollars | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 3 | Instagram today announced that it began running its first , starting with T-Mobile and Warner Brothers. Until now, the maximum length for video ads was , already longer than the 15-second videos users are allowed to post. Instagram tells me that “We recognize that advertisers have a variety of creative resources and ... |
The Sharing Age | Fred Mazzella | 2,016 | 2 | 4 |
Imagine the possibilities of a world in which we are able to make trusted connections between a near-infinite number of people. A world in which transaction costs, time and distance are reduced to almost nil. A world that is instantly available from a smartphone, anywhere, anytime. This global revolution, enabled by ... |
Nintendo Hits Snooze On Plan To Introduce A Sleep Tracking Device | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | Back in October 2014, Nintendo went off on a health tangent to develop a sleep and fatigue tacking app that would help optimize your slumber time. Nothing much had been heard about the project since, until yesterday, that is, when the Japanese games giant confirmed it has been put to sleep indefinitely. We were certa... |
Introducing TechCrunch’s Brand-New Apple TV App! | Sarah Lane | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | I’m excited to announce that TechCrunch Video has arrived on Apple TV, and now available to download in the App Store! The app features our entire VOD library as well as our growing list of live streaming events, just in time for this Saturday February 6th, and the on Monday February 8th. TechCrunch Video is helpfu... |
SETI Scientist Explains Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is a field of science that’s been around for over 60 years. While SETI tools and strategies have improved immensely over that time, we have yet to find definitive evidence for intelligent alien life in our universe. TechCrunch spoke with famed astronomer , to underst... |
CustomInk Acquires Represent, A Custom Merchandise Marketplace for Influencers | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | , a leading player in the online custom apparel space, has announced it is acquiring , a Los Angeles-based social commerce startup. Sources close to the acquisition tell us the price tag was approaching $100 million, with it being a cash and stock deal. Founded in 2014 by Bryan Baum, Andrej Pancik, and Leo Seigal, Rep... |
Announcing TechCrunch Include Hub, A Home For Our Diversity And Inclusion Program | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | TechCrunch has been running a program called Include for a while now. In its , it offered diverse entrepreneurs, founders, organizations focused on inclusion and technologists a variety of benefits like monetary support and free or discounted tickets to our Disrupt events. Last year, , the next phase of our diversity... |
LinkedIn Tumbles 30% On Earnings Guidance | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | The company says it now has 414 million members, with 100 million unique visitors each month. 57% of active users are on mobile. “Q4 was a strong quarter for LinkedIn, bringing to a close a successful year of growth and innovation against our long-term roadmap,” said Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, in a statement. “We e... |
Applications For The TC Pitch-Offs In Boston And Atlanta Close In One Week | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is headed to Boston and Atlanta, and time is running out to apply to participate. Ten companies from each glorious city will have exactly sixty seconds each to pitch their product to a panel of expert VC judges and the audience. Judges will hold a quick Q&A following each rapid-fire pr... |
Curioos Opens Up Marketplace For Its Digital Art Platform | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | has been selling art prints from digital artists for a few years now. But it’s been a cumbersome work to add new artists to the website. That’s why the company is automatizing the listing process by switching to a marketplace approach. Any digital artist can now submit their work and get revenue from Curioos prints. T... |
3 Nearly Free Growth Hacks | Mason Pelt | 2,016 | 2 | 4 |
“Growth hacking” is a term that people seem to think means “magically market any product or company for free.” I wrote a post called to clarify the difference between efficient, effective marketing and mythical marketing pixie dust, yet still people don’t seem to understand. Before I give you three tips for powerfu... |
With Soundsgood, Create And Publish Playlists On All Streaming Services | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | Meet , a French startup that wants to make it easier to publish playlists on the web. While it’s never been a better time to create a playlist on a streaming service and share it with readers and followers, everybody uses a different streaming service. Soundsgood works with Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud with mo... |
Tango’s New CEO Takes Its Struggling Messaging App Back To Basics | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | isn’t wasting any time making changes to reverse the declining fortunes of the messaging app company. Co-founder Eric Setton, who made the jump from Tango CTO to CEO one month ago, this week that the company is splitting its service into two to rediscover the core chat experience that made it successful. Valued at m... |
Box KeySafe Aims To Simplify Encryption Key Management For SMBs | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | Box announced a new product today called Box KeySafe that should help simplify encryption key management, putting it in reach of small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) who require encryption, but want to avoid the complexities associated with Box’s higher end product. Many highly regulated industries have wanted to ... |
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La Belle Assiette Grabs Another $1.5 Million For Its On-Demand Chef Service | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | French startup just raised another $1.5 million (€1.3 million) to expand its services. The company has become a leading on-demand chef service in Europe, and is now looking at other opportunities in the events catering industry. La Belle Assiette started as a marketplace for in-home chef service. You can browse and f... |
You Misunderstand Foursquare. It’s comScore, Not Instagram | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | Foursquare is not a consumer social app business, it’s a data company. And only when it admitted that to itself and revalued as such was it able to pull in more capital and keep chugging. Today at LA’s Upfront Summit, Foursquare’s lead investor from Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson stuck up for the startup while tryin... |
Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson On Why Talk Of “Lowering The Bar” Is Inherently Racist | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | Implementing unconscious bias trainings at tech companies has become a thing over the last year or so. Part of that is thanks to Paradigm, a consulting startup that work with tech companies like Slack, Airbnb and Pinterest to help formulate strategies around diversity and inclusion. Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson recent... |
CoreOS’s rkt Container Engine Hits 1.0 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | ‘s container runtime competitor hit version 1.0 and according to the company, it’s now ready for production use. Version 1.0 introduces a number of new security features and, going forward, any changes to the command line interface and on-disk format will be backwards compatible. Rkt currently supports both applica... |
Justin Kan Is Hiring Someone To Revive Justin.tv On Snapchat | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 4 | Justin Kan, the founder of Justin.tv — the online video portal that eventually became video game streaming giant Twitch — is restarting the service on Snapchat . for just shy of $1 billion, but it started out as Justin.tv — a project that began as a live-stream of Kan, who strapped a camera to his head and walked aro... |
Bringing Silicon Valley To Congress | Jason Putorti | 2,016 | 2 | 4 |
Every fall, I teach a class at Stanford entitled, “The Washington Debate about American Competitiveness.” It covers how our political leaders discuss America’s ability to adapt and compete in a 21st-century economy. This year, near the end of one of the lectures, one of my brightest students raised her hand and flipp... |
Uber Drivers Plan Strike During Super Bowl Weekend | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | Uber has slashed driver wages in the last month, with some earning less than minimum wage. Now drivers are planning a protest in San Francisco right when they could be significantly increasing their hourly pay. The city expects roughly 300,000 visitors to begin pouring in this weekend for the Super Bowl and that means... |
New Air Force Satellites Launched To Improve GPS | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | This morning, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Boeing-built satellite into orbit as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS). This $131 million satellite was the final addition to the Air Force’s most recent 12-satellite GPS series, known as the satellites. GPS satellites a... |
Microsoft And GoPro Sign Patent Licensing Deal For File Storage Technology | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | Microsoft, though its , and today that they have signed a collaborative patent licensing deal for “certain file storage and other system technologies.” “This agreement with GoPro shows the incredible breadth of technology sharing enabled through patent transactions,” said Nick Psyhogeos, president of Microsoft Tec... |
Revolut Gets More Funding For Its Mobile Foreign Exchange Service | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | British startup just closed its seed round. After announcing having raised this Summer, the company has added a couple of new investors. In total, the company has raised $4.8 million (£3.2 million) from Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp and Point Nine, Venrex and business angels. Revolut provides an app t... |
Meet The People Vying For The First-Ever Diversity Crunchie Award | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | In case you haven’t noticed, diversity and inclusion are really important in tech, which is why we’ve stepped up our and have decided to present the first-ever award for diversity, the Include Diversity Award, at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards on Monday, February 8. The Include Diversity Award goes to the person who... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 02.05.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our sister show G3 on Facebook |
Don’t Sleep On New Data Privacy Regulations | Sanjay Beri | 2,016 | 2 | 5 |
Chalk it up to the Snowden Effect. Although it has been nearly three years since Edward Snowden turned the world on its head by releasing a trove of highly sensitive documents, the ripples of his decision are still being felt broadly. To that end, the European Union recently finalized the text of what looks to be the... |
Wevr Raises $25M, Announces Cross-Platform VR Content Network | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | It’s a question on a lot of entrepreneurs’ minds: will the virtual reality space need replica networks for everything? Will the unique input and interface needs of VR lead to there being a Facebook for VR, a Twitch for VR and a Gmail for VR? Well today, is launching a private beta of Transport, a video platform that ... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | This week, Alphabet surpassed Apple as the most valuable public company in the world, China released HD true-color photos of the moon, and IBM made three acquisitions. Here are the stories to catch you up on this week’s tech news. after reporting its fourth-quarter earnings. The company smashed expectations on both en... |
ZIRX Drops Its Consumer Valet Service To Focus On The Enterprise | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | , an on-demand valet startup, is shutting down its consumer service at the end of the month, according to an email that the company sent out to ZIRX members today. The company . However, the company isn’t shutting down. ZIRX is shifting its focus to its enterprise service while shuttering its consumer valet service on... |
Bay Area Airbnb Hosts Get Less Than They Bargained For During The Big Game | David Ordal | 2,016 | 2 | 5 |
As Super Bowl 50 draws near, some Airbnb hosts are hoping for a substantial payout. Crazy listings are popping up – this home is going for . If that’s out of your price range, how about sharing a room for only ? The thought process seems solid – descending on the already housing-strained San Francisco Bay area. W... |
CODE2040 CEO Calls For More Transparency, Accountability And Cultural Changes In Tech | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | Tech companies have gotten better about disclosing their diversity data, but there are still a ton of companies that haven’t done so. In the reports that exist, what’s often missing are insights around retention rates, which can be good indicators of a company’s culture and what it’s like to actually work there. I r... |
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