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One Medical Acquires Rise, A Nutrition Coaching App | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | Much of Rise CEO Suneel Gupta and One Medical CEO Tom Lee’s first interactions happened in front of a whiteboard at the One Medical offices after the pair were introduced by mutual investor Google Ventures. “I was very much interested in what the patient experience was happening behind the scenes,” Gupta said. “They we... |
Augmented Reality Helmet Startup Daqri Nabs Former SpaceX, Qualcomm And Virgin Group Execs | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | The augmented reality space is hot and getting hotter, especially among enterprise companies looking to redesign the experience of the onsite employee of the future. Mike Lynch Patrick Alo Roy Ashok , an AR smart helmet startup, is growing its leadership board significantly today while it continues testing its device. ... |
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NextGenVest CEO On What Fintech Startups Can Learn From Uber | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 2 | 5 |
Last week, following and his company NextGenVest, I caught up with Peeler, whose company is using Snapchat to send money tips to millennial students. In what turned out to be a entertaining and insightful interview we discussed a range of topics including why traditional financial institutions have lost all brand l... |
Meet The Finalists For The NFL’s 1st And Future | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | and Future, the startup pitch hosted jointly by the NFL, Stanford and your favorite tech blog, TechCrunch, is tomorrow! We’ve scoured fields, courts, arenas and stadiums around the world to find the most promising startups bringing technology to sports. These companies help athletes move faster, stay safer and ultimat... |
BlackBerry Confirms Job Cuts At Waterloo HQ And Florida Manufacturing Facility | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | It looks like John Chen is swinging the axe at BlackBerry. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it let go “a small number of employees… in Waterloo and Sunrise, FL”. Update: BlackBerry updated its statement and now says 200 people were laid off. This comes after a by the Global And Mail that the befallen smartpho... |
Glu Mobile Pins Its Hopes On New Taylor Swift Game | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | Glu Mobile, the mobile gaming company behind recent app store hits like the ” and who recently , is hoping it has another potential breakout title on its hands thanks to a newly announced deal with pop star, Taylor Swift. According to news this week, Taylor and Glu will work together over the course of a multi-year... |
How To Stream Super Bowl 50 This Sunday | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | So you decided to finally ditch your cable package this year. Great! But now the Super Bowl is rolling around and you’re wondering how you’re going to watch Cam Newton dab all afternoon? Luckily, we’ve put together a guide of all the ways you can stream the big game. , the network that is broadcasting Super Bowl 50 thi... |
Amazon Alexa Can Now Order An Uber From Your Echo Speaker Or Fire TV | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 5 | It’s been a big week for Amazon’s connected speaker Echo. First the company rolled out a way to just by asking Echo’s virtual assistant to place an order for you. It then added to the list of supported streaming music services. And today, Amazon has integration with on-demand car service, Uber. The feature is bein... |
India’s Housejoy Makes First Acquisition Following $23M Round Led By Amazon | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | , the India-based home services on-demand company backed by Amazon, has made its first acquisition after it snapped up on-demand laundry and cleaning company . The undisclosed deal comes a little over a month after Housejoy closed . Speaking to TechCrunch at the time of the funding, Housejoy CEO Saran Chatterjee said... |
Men’s Personal Shopper Modomoto Acquires The Cloakroom In Roll-Up | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Eventually the whole Shoedazzle / Birchbox etc. business model (get outfits, try them out, keep what you like, return the rest) would make it to the men’s market and we’ve seen many such models launch. The twist is that this time is personal, with (I never really believe this, but let’s go with it) an online personal s... |
Microsoft Is Acquiring London’s AI-Driven SwiftKey For $250M | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Microsoft is understood to be acquiring London-based , the startup which employed artificial intelligence to create a ground-breaking predictive smartphone keyboard, according to sources. The Financial Times is that the deal is “around $250m”. TechCrunch understands the figure is just under that amount. Investor s... |
Marc Benioff Offers Some Insight Into Thinking Behind SteelBrick Purchase | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | When announced for $360 million at the end of last year, it came as a surprise. CEO Marc Benioff offered some insight into why he made the purchase at . The move has to be seen in the context of comments made at a Dreamforce press event last fall with Keith Block, . Block was specifically asked at the press event... |
GV’s Approach To Healthcare Investing: An Interview With Dr. Krishna Yeshwant | Kirti Patel | 2,016 | 2 | 2 |
Healthcare investments — in particular, investments in digital health — are booming, and don’t seem to be slowing down. According to , digital health funding hit nearly $5.8 billion in venture funding last year, surpassing the previous record of $4.3 billion in 2014. One of the top venture firms, (previously known... |
Legacy Republic Unveils Studio, A Portable Scanner For Family Photo Albums | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | is removing a big hurdle in its photo digitizing process — putting albums in the mail. YesVideo back in 2014. The idea is to recruit a freelance workforce of so-called Legacy Makers who help families digitize their photos. Through digitization, the company says it can preserve memories and make it easier to share th... |
Here’s What Watching The Super Bowl With Microsoft’s HoloLens Could Look Like | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Watching sports could soon be a very different experience — at least if it’s . Before you know it, a holographic player could be charging through your walls and replays could play in 3D on your coffee table. Microsoft today released a new concept for its that shows off its vision for what the combination of sports a... |
Treat Takes On DryBar With Unlimited Blowouts At Partner Salons | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | “No cuts. No color. Just blowouts.” It’s the DryBar promise and has made the beauty chain one of the largest blowout bars in the U.S. But an L.A.-based startup called Treat hopes to tackle DryBar where it believes it is weakest – more blowouts for the same price. Think of it as a sort of ClassPass for getting your hair... |
Zagg Acquires Mophie For $100M+ | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Here’s a bit of breaking news for your Tuesday afternoon: ZAGG, best known for its line of Invisible Shield screen protectors, is acquiring Mophie, makers of the popular JuicePack line of smartphone battery cases. Zagg will pay $100M for Mophie up front, plus a flexible 12-month earn-out based on Mophie’s performance o... |
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Image Recognition Invades Shopping As Curalate Raises $27.5M | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Pinterest. Instagram. Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s job. The image recognition marketing startup just raised $27.5 million led by NEA, bringing it to $40 m... |
Yahoo Signals Its Core Business Could Be For Sale By Exploring “Strategic Alternatives” | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Well, we sort of expected this one to happen. After its core Internet business has continued to flounder, which could imply a number of things — including selling off its core business to another company, . “The Board also believes that exploring additional strategic alternatives, in parallel to the execution of the... |
Salesforce Announces Latest Lightning CRM Release With SteelBrick Integration | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | This afternoon at a big presentation in San Francisco, announced a new version of the Lightning CRM platform that includes built-in Wave analytics, intelligent email from in July, 2014 and configure-price-quote features at the end of last year. In addition, the company announced a new built-in phone tool which al... |
IAC Misses Expectations With Q4 Revenue Of $848.7 Million | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | IAC just reported its Q4 2015 earnings, missing analysts expectations with revenue of $848.7 million and earnings of $0.75 per share. Analysts were expecting earnings of $0.93 cents per share on revenue of $865.49 million. Last year, IAC spun off its dating services, Match Group, which then went public itself in Q4 201... |
Tinder Owner Match Group Reports First Earnings Since Separating From IAC | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Average revenue per paid user fell to just 53 cents, down from 62 cents last year. Net income fell from $48 million to $36 million. “Match Group had a seminal fourth quarter, completing our initial public offering, the acquisition of PlentyOfFish, and the realignment of our management structure to better reflect our in... |
Yahoo Plans To Cut 15 Percent Of Workforce, Reports $4.5B Writedown On Tumblr, Americas And Europe | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Yahoo to lay off approximately 15 percent of its workforce. The company made the announcement in conjunction with its , where it reported revenue of $1.27 billion and earnings per share of 13 cents. That’s ahead of revenue estimates — had analysts had revenue of $1.19 billion and EPS of 13 cents. The Wall Street J... |
Facebook Opens Up Registration For Its F8 Developer Conference | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Each year, Facebook holds a big ol’ developer conference where it announces a few new products, host a bunch of sessions for developers to learn how to work with the various products under Facebook’s watch (WhatsApp, Oculus, Facebook itself, etc.), and everyone drinks a little too much under the guise of networking. At... |
Wharton Professor Adam Grant On Creativity And The First Mover Myth | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Adam Grant, a best-selling author and the youngest tenured professor at , is back with a that hits both real and virtual bookshelves today: “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.” We talked about the book yesterday with Grant, who, despite being just 34, has already been teaching for a dozen years, includin... |
3D Is The New 2D | Amitt Mahajan | 2,016 | 2 | 2 |
User interfaces traditionally have been 2D for desktops and the web. Mobile phone apps, while supporting 3D for specific cases like games, also have been 2D. The , although incorporating subtle elements of 3D, has only reinforced that 2D is the main and most optimal interaction mechanism for existing computing devic... |
Uber Dribbbles Up A New App Icon | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | null |
Twitter Starts Taking Its Logged-Out Users Seriously | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 2 | Twitter two updates today that should make it easier to use for logged-out users — a group of people the company has generally not taken as seriously as it should. First of all, Twitter is now rolling out its updated homepage, which makes it easier for logged-out users to drill into interesting messages, pictures and... |
The Future Of Smart Home Payments | Oren Levy | 2,016 | 2 | 20 |
The Internet of Things (IoT) has metamorphosed over the last few years. In the future, its applications will no doubt impact industry, urban development, healthcare, agriculture and other major ecosystems. Gartner projects there will be 6.4 billion connected things in use worldwide in 2016 (a 30 percent increase from... |
How To Train Your Human: Designing For Healthier Habits | Lakshmi Mani | 2,016 | 2 | 20 |
Meet Joe. He’s in his mid 30s and has two kids. Trying to watch his waistline, he decides he wants to lose 20 pounds. He buys the latest in wearables and the best in fitness apps to track his food and exercise. He tracks religiously for the first week and manages to lose a few pounds. But by week two, he’s less excit... |
Gillmor Gang: ScuttleBot | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 2 | 20 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Zach Seward, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Wednesday, February 17, 2016. Zach Seward discusses the release of Quartz, a conversational IOS news bot service. Also discussed: Bot Fatigue and the state of Notifications six months after the . @stevegillmor, @borthwick, @zseward Prod... |
Japan Launches Observatory To Study Black Holes And Dying Stars | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 20 | This week the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched a new space observatory designed to study black holes, dying stars and the history of galaxy clusters. The X-ray Astronomy Satellite, known as ASTRO-H, will be able to detect X-rays more than 10 times fainter than its telescope predecessor, ... |
Kickstarter-Backed FOVE Delays VR Headset Ship Date, Begins Offering Refunds | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 20 | FOVE, an eye-tracking VR headset company, announced today that due to unexpected difficulties in part-sourcing it will be delaying the expected ship date of its Kickstarter-backed HMD to fall 2016. Likely to be more upsetting to many of the developer backers, the HMD is losing support for HTC’s Lighthouse system and in... |
Solving The H-1B Visa Problem | Tom Giovanetti | 2,016 | 2 | 20 |
In this corner: A number of employers, particularly tech companies, who claim they have a large number of unfilled positions and can’t find enough skilled American workers to fill all their needs, and thus need to attract skilled foreign workers through an expanded H-1B visa program. In the opposite corner: Immigrati... |
EquiPay: “Reparations, One Meal At A Time” | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 20 | , a bill-splitting app that accounts for racial and gender income inequalities, is on its way to becoming a reality, after starting as a joke at Cultivated Wit’s Comedy Hack Day. With EquiPay, the idea is “reparations, one meal at a time,” so instead of splitting meals equally among friends, it’s about splitting them e... |
We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Cyberpunk Dystopia | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 2 | 20 | Apple will lose this battle with the US government. Maybe not this year, or next, but soon enough, and for the rest of our lives. It is folly to pretend otherwise. Most ordinary people, and most powerful people, don’t care about abstruse theoretical arguments against back doors and weakened security. They care about—or... |
It’s Time For Edtech Entrepreneurs To Throw Out Stale Business Models | Guido Kovalskys | 2,016 | 2 | 20 |
We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in crisis. , the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise known as “The Nation’s Report Card,” revealed that just one-third of eighth graders and one-quarter of twelfth graders performed at or above “proficient” in math. In reading comprehens... |
Anyline Raises €1.5M To Let You Add Optical Character Recognition To Your App | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | , the Austrian startup that provides mobile OCR tech to enable developers to add text recognition to their own apps, has raised €1.5 million in funding. The list of investors is interesting, too. It includes angel investor Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann, busuu co-founder Bernhard Niesner, Lukas Püspök, and the U.S.-based VC-f... |
Shine Signs First European Carriers To Its Network-Level Ad Blocking Tech | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | The are stepping up a gear today as mobile network-level ad blocker startup has announced it’s signed its first European carriers to roll out its tech. Three UK and Three Italy are implementing Shine’s technology, the companies said today, paving the way for other brands in the Three Group to follow. It’s not clear... |
Tesla Motors Finally Owns Tesla.com | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 20 | Tesla.com is now in the hands of Elon Musk. Stu Grossman owned the domain since 1992 but it mostly sat unused. As of February 19, 2016, it redirects visitors to TeslaMotors.com and all is right with the world. that Grossman bought the domain because of his affinity to the legendary engineer. Apparently he was going to... |
Zenefits Stumbles Into PayPal’s Old Drama | Eric M. Jackson | 2,016 | 2 | 18 |
The tech world was stunned last week when — the unicorn that had once been called “ ”– announced that its the company and that it was . The company cited regulatory compliance problems as a factor in the decision. David Sacks, who is replacing Conrad in the top spot, was PayPal’s first COO and was the founding CE... |
Apple Gets An Extension In iPhone Unlock Case, Response Now Due February 26th | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | Apple has received an extension in the timeline that it has to reply to a court order to modify an iPhone for the FBI. The deadline, originally Tuesday, has been pushed out to Friday, February 26th, TechCrunch has learned. Apple will need to make its case why the FBI’s request to create a special version of iOS is burd... |
Twitter’s Founder, Facebook Pledge Support For Apple As It Fights Court Order To Unlock iPhone | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | ’s founder and have joined a growing chorus of voices from the tech community supporting as it used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey “We stand with @tim_cook and Apple (and thank him for his leadership)!” We stand with and Apple (and thank him for his leadership)! ... |
Mark Cuban Commends Apple, Proposes New Law For Tech Security | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | Apple says that because of its upgraded operating system which links data to the passcode instead of the device, it simply does not have the capability to comply with the government’s most recent request. The information on the phone disappears after too many failed log-in attempts. Cook suggests that going forward, ... |
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From Food To Flowers: The Push For Supply Chain Transparency | Juan Palacio | 2,016 | 2 | 18 |
Try to figure out exactly where fresh products come from in a grocery store. The stickers may say “Mexico” or “Colombia,” but those are big places, and labels like this don’t give much insight. Research online; the information isn’t there. Try with a few other products, and you’re likely to find the same thing. Compa... |
No, Apple Has Not Unlocked 70 iPhones For Law Enforcement | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | The more highly technical the basis of a story, the more likely it is that some key detail will get jacked up by a journalist trying to translate it for the public. Call it Panzer’s Law. It’s only natural, especially when it comes to stories about security and privacy, such as Apple vs. the FBI. There are a myriad of c... |
Imgur Gets Its Sheryl, Hires COO So Founder Can Nerd Out On Product | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | is Internet dude paradise. The underhyped image sharing and commenting community has 150 million active users and saw 900 billion page views in 2015. Thanks to silly GIFs, science experiments, cute cats, and crazy inside jokes, Imgur has become the #1 web destination for millenial men according to comScore. Now it’s t... |
Digital Payments Startup ModoPayments Raises $2 Million | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | Today, that completed a $2 Million funding round by a group of individual angels that includes , , and Jay Kassing among others. way back in 2011 when they were still primarily focused on building a mobile payments platform for store merchants to monetized location check-ins. A lot has changed for the Richardson... |
Space Propulsion Startup Accion Systems Starts Taking Orders | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | The space propulsion company has announced that they will officially start taking orders for their micro-propulsion systems designed for CubeSats and other small satellites. The company is selling miniature electrospray ion engines that generates thrust by accelerating charged particles to very high speeds. Accion’s ... |
Facebook Plans To Put Ads In Messenger | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | A leaked document Facebook sent to some of its biggest advertisers reveals that Facebook will launch ads within Messenger in Q2 2016. The document, obtained by TechCrunch but kept private to protect its verified source, says businesses will be able to send ads as messages to people who previously initiated a chat threa... |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Says Company Is Profitable In U.S. | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | Uber is officially profitable in the U.S., Uber CEO Travis Kalanick . H/t to the buried news in that story, which was titled “Travis Kalanick Speaks Out: Uber’s CEO On Risk, Regulation, and Women in Tech.” Here’s the key chunk, straight out of the horse’s mouth: “We’re profitable in the USA, but we’re losing over $1... |
Facebook Lures Video Creators With Minutes Watched And 10-Second View Metrics | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | The better the videos are on Facebook, the more people will watch and the more lucrative video ads Facebook can show. So today it’s that will teach them what works and what doesn’t. Facebook Page insights will now show the total minutes spent watching each of their videos, and the number of times people watched a vid... |
Indigo Is Mapping Plant Microbiomes To Produce Next Generation Crops | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | David Perry thinks the secret to agricultural challenges like drought resistance might lie in the bacteria that live in a bunch of grass on the beach. That’s just one example that , a company that analyzes the microbiomes of plants to produce seed coatings that impart various attributes, is looking into as a way to co... |
Silicon Valley Keeps Winning Because Non-Competes Limit Innovation | Chris DeVore | 2,016 | 2 | 18 |
Talent plus capital. Whether you’re building a company, a city or a national economy, these are the raw materials that make it possible to do things that others can’t. Silicon Valley is the world’s most magical mixing chamber for these two simple ingredients, home to the most exciting, creative and valuable companies... |
Even Barbie Has A Smart Home And Hoverboard Now | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | Consumers may have been slow to adopt smart home technology, but that’s not the case for . At the recent New York Toy Fair, Mattel unveiled a newly upgraded – and now tech-enabled – Dreamhouse for its iconic doll. The house lets kids control its various elements – from the lights to the elevator to other appliances – ... |
Hinge May Start Charging Users As It Zeroes In On Serious Dating | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | to which I cover dating apps, you may be surprised to know that I’m not much of a digital dater. In fact, I’ve only ever had monogamous, exclusive relationships with people I’ve met offline, with one booty call exception. Shout out to the man I now refer to as “Tinder Tim.” I met my current girlfriend at a BBQ, and th... |
Google Decouples Play Games From Google+, Lets Gamers Choose Their Own Names And Avatars | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | Until today, you needed a Google+ account to use , Google’s online gaming service for bringing online multiplayer gaming, video recordings and like profiles and leaderboards to Android games. Today, Google is launching an update to Play Games, however, that removes this requirement. All you need to sign up now is a ... |
Apple Apologizes And Updates iOS To Restore iPhones Disabled By Error 53 | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 18 | Earlier this month, a report flagged a curious ‘Error 53’ message that was disabling iPhones. The error was caused by unofficial repair shops replacing the connector that ran between the Touch ID sensor in an iPhone’s home button — usually in the process of replacing faulty home button assemblies. Today, Apple is iss... |
Biden Comes To Silicon Valley For Innovation In White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 27 | Vice President Joe Biden showed up at the this morning for a round table discussion with those in the tech industry about efforts towards a future without cancer. Biden’s 46-year-old son Beau passed away from the disease last Spring and President Obama announced Biden would be in charge of a $1 billion national cancer... |
Netflix: The Force Awakens | Gene Hoffman | 2,016 | 2 | 27 |
I’ve that Netflix will have the last laugh — that its success with content production will soon rival and surpass traditional TV networks and movie studios. Now I’m more convinced than ever. Ironically, it’s a smear campaign spearheaded by NBC to undermine Netflix that has reinforced my opinion. NBC research guru A... |
Self-Driving Cars And The Kobayashi Maru | Andrew Heikkila | 2,016 | 2 | 27 |
In 1966, Gene Roddenberry’s would boldly go where no man had gone before, telling the tale of Captain Kirk and his crew as they explored the galaxy while taking on myriad sci-fi adventures. In the opening scene of the franchise’s 1982 motion picture, , the U.S.S. Enterprise responds to a distress call from another... |
Why Clayton Christensen Is Wrong About Uber And Disruptive Innovation | Alex Moazed | 2,016 | 2 | 27 |
Silicon Valley has disrupted disruptive innovation, and Clayton Christensen isn’t happy about it. Christensen vaulted to rock-star status in the tech world in 1995 when he the theory of disruptive innovation in the ( ). Two years later, he published his bestselling book, . His work was widely praised, including g... |
Heidi Roizen On How To Choose Your VC | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 27 | On Thursday night, this editor hosted nearly 200 investors and entrepreneurs who in San Francisco to hear several guest speakers, including Heidi Roizen, a former entrepreneur, a , and a Stanford alum who has at the university for more than a decade. Roizen thinks the boom-boom tech economy we’ve been living throu... |
Hands On With The 3Doodler Start, A $39 Kid-Friendly 3D-Printing Pen | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | It’s hard to believe, but 3Doodler launched the popular Kickstarter for its first plastic-extruding pen almost three years ago. Now, the company is back with the , a kid-friendly version of the device that boasts a safe-to-touch design with no hot points and a new eco-plastic material that makes building creations s... |
Diffbot Aims To Build The Intel Of Data For Artificial Intelligence | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | $10 million commitment led by Tencent, one of China’s largest Internet companies, chief executive Mike Tung has come a long way from his days of eating beans and rice in the dark and solving the math problems that would form the core of his groundbreaking artificial intelligence software. Diffbot, which in 2012, ha... |
GGV Capital Is Raising A Giant New Fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | , a 15-year-old, cross-border venture fund that invests in both U.S. and China-based companies, is raising two giant new funds, shows two new SEC filings that list a target of and , respectively. Both forms state that the first sale has yet to occur. The figures represent an enormous increase in the amount of money ... |
Gillmor Gang: Poorly Educated | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 2 | 27 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, February 26, 2016. The Gang finds it hard to concentrate purely on technology as we wake up to the increasing likelihood of more Trump in our diet. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Rebecca Woodco... |
Google For Entrepreneurs Backs Diversity Organization Tech Inclusion | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | , an organization and conference organized by Change Catalyst, which is geared toward helping people of color and women in tech gain equity. Through the partnership, Tech Inclusion will be able to scale and add more entrepreneurship programming to its events, Tech Inclusion co-founder Wayne Sutton told me via email. GF... |
Google Is Reportedly Building A Standalone VR Headset Not Powered By A PC Or Smartphone | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | Google may be preparing a consumer virtual reality headset for a release as early as this year that defies existing categorizations and doesn’t rely on a PC or mobile phone as the central brain, the reports. Rumors have been bubbling up on the company’s VR hardware ambitions over the last few weeks. The reported a ... |
Groupon Soars 23% On Favorable Earnings | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | This is quite the bright spot for the company — until today, the stock had been down 71% in the past year. Shares closed Thursday at $2.24, a far cry from the $20 per share Groupon saw when it went public in November 2011. Rich Williams was promoted to Groupon CEO in November, and has helped the company streamline its ... |
Zenefits Under Investigation In California | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | The hits just keep on coming at the embattled cloud human resources software provider Zenefits, as the California Department of Insurance has begun an investigation into its licensing practices. The company, whose , has faced a series of investigations into potentially criminal misconduct after a searing BuzzFeed inve... |
Uber Proposes $28.5 Million Settlement Over Safe Ride Fee Class Action Lawsuit | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | Uber is asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to settle two cases: Philliben v. Uber Technologies, Inc. and Mena v. Uber Technologies, Inc., which have since been consolidated into one case on behalf of Uber passengers seeking restitution for every $1 Safe Rides fee charged to every Ube... |
Startups Selling To Other Startups: A House Of Cards? | Bastiaan Janmaat | 2,016 | 2 | 11 |
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” the saying goes. Well, if you’re running a startup that sells to other startups, you might be putting all your eggs in one blender. B2B companies whose customers are other early stage B2B companies put themselves doubly at risk: Not only are startups failure-prone by nature, b... |
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Pandora Has Mixed Q4 Earnings With $336M Revenue And 3.8% Growth To 81.1M Listeners | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | Amid rumors that it’s trying to sell itself, Pandora missed on its where it said it had 81.1 million listeners, up from 78.1 million in Q3 but down from 81.5 million a year ago. Pandora saw 5.37 billion, up 4.5% quarter-over-quarter and 3% since a year ago. Earlier today, The New York Times reported that the company... |
Sleep++ 2.0 Proves That There’s Still A Market For Apple Watch Apps | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | The Apple Watch was supposed to become the new thriving platform and App Store for third-party apps. 10 months later, it’s hard to name popular Watch apps. And there are reasons why the Apple Watch App Store isn’t as vibrant as the iOS App Store. But some developers, such as , have found ways to make your Watch more u... |
NBA Bolsters Partnership With SAP To Bring Natural Language Queries To Stats Site | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | The NBA announced today that it was bringing natural language queries to its online stats pages on . The feature enables fans to type a question in a natural way and the site should come back with your answer without having to dig for it. The feature is launching in Beta starting tomorrow. The technology underlying th... |
EU Approach To Regulating Data Needs More Hope And Less Fear | Paul MacDonnell | 2,016 | 2 | 27 |
From Britain’s railway mania of the 1840s to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, innovative new technologies have routinely touched off periods of near hysteria as marketers and commentators promise world-changing disruption; excitement builds to a fever pitch and the marketplace wildly over-allocates resources to ... |
Watch OK Go Fly Weightless In Their New Music Video | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | The band released their latest creative music video and this one was taken on a parabolic airplane tens of thousands of feet in the sky. The video, which features OK Go floating in weightlessness, was for their song “Upside Down & Inside Out.” Hello, Dear Ones. Please enjoy our new video for "Upside Down & Inside Out... |
In Race to Build Kid-Activity Subscription Services, Pearachute Raises $1.2 Million | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | They’re starting to crop up here and there, new startups that have appropriated the monthly class-pass model and are focused on children’s activities. Last month, a New York-based startup called announced in seed funding, including from serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan. Meanwhile, Brooklyn-based , which caters to lo... |
Yeezy Season Approaches As Tidal Scores Stream Of Kanye’s Fashion Show Concert | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | Yesterday, Kanye West took to Twitter to announce the launch of both his new album and season three of his ultra-popular fashion brand, Yeezy. The brand will debut its latest duds and kicks at a star-studded fashion show concert today at 4 p.m. ET at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Want to see Ye onstage but didn’t score... |
Facebook Tests SMS Integration In Messenger, Launches Support For Multiple Accounts | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | Facebook says it’s testing a way for users to receive, read and respond to their SMS-based conversations in its Messenger application for mobile devices. The feature, which would be optional if broadly rolled out, could help to shift users away from their default texting application and see them increasing their time s... |
Drive Motors Lets You Actually Buy A Car Online. How Did This Not Exist? | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | No one wants to go to a car dealership. We’re in the era where everything can be done online, so it’s crazy you can’t buy a new car straight from the web. Every site and startup that claims to help you do that just dumps you on a contact form to request more info or a meeting with a car dealer. But does exactly what ... |
Chrome Will Drop SPDY Support On May 15 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | With SPDY, Google laid much of the for what later become , the next-gen version of the HTTP protocol that is responsible for sending websites to your browser. Now that HTTP/2 is an official standard, Google is getting ready to deprecate support for SPDY in its Chrome browser and as the company today , starting May ... |
San Bernardino survivor’s husband backs Apple in battle with FBI | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | that the majority of Americans support the FBI and its order to open the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. While some of those voices may be less aware of the specifics of the situation, Apple has the backing of the husband of one of the survivors of the terrorist attack, which left 14 people d... |
PayPal Commerce Matches Stripe With PayPal’s Own Native Shopping Toolkit For Apps | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 11 | PayPal’s first acquisition after it was of a young startup called , which had for small businesses to integrate buy buttons across third-party apps. Now, PayPal is taking the wraps off a new product that will integrate Modest’s technology. — as the new service is called — launches today in closed beta, setting th... |
Tinggal, a budget hotel network in Indonesia, lands $1M from backers of India’s Wudstay | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | This year it looks like budget hotel networks are a major trend for the tech industry in Southeast Asia. Already close to half a dozen startups offering standardized accommodation options have sprouted up, and today another new entrant has emerged in Indonesia — with a slight twist. Indonesia-based is less than one m... |
Korean last-minute hotel booking app DailyHotel launches in 10 new countries | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | , a Seoul-based app that lets harried travelers quickly find hotel rooms, has launched in 10 new Asian countries. The startup was founded in 2013 by brothers Ryan and Jimmy Shin after Ryan struggled to find a last-minute hotel room in Seoul. It has raised more than $10 million from Sequoia India, but declined to say ex... |
Mobile ad-tech startup NativeX acquired by Chinese advertising company Mobvista | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | NativeX founders Ryan and Robert Weber , a startup that makes advertising for mobile games and apps, is being acquired by Chinese mobile ad platform . In a statement today, the companies said that all-cash deal is valued at 160 million RMB (about $24.5 million). Based in Sartell, Minnesota, NativeX was founded in 2000... |
Apple vs FBI: Read Apple’s Opening Statement To Congress Tomorrow | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | Apple’s general counsel Bruce Sewell will testify before a congressional Judiciary Committee tomorrow. The hearing has been convened to discuss what is being described as “The Encryption Tightrope” — subtitle: “Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy”. Sewell’s opening statement can be read below in full. FBI directo... |
Can Emerging Nations Create Their Own Silicon Valleys? | Jenny Q. Ta | 2,016 | 2 | 29 |
Silicon Valley has dominated the fields of technology and tech investment for the past two decades, operating virtually unchallenged during the zenith of its power. But the investment landscape is changing, bringing shifts in a number of factors that are edging out the major player in the technology investing game — ... |
Buffer Adds Twitter-Based Customer Service Tools | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | is best known as a scheduling tool to help marketing teams schedule content on social media, but with the , it signaled a plan to expand its repertoire to also cover customer service users. One of Buffer’s claims to fame is its policy of radical openness, . This week, the company is launching the fruits of its acq... |
NY Judge Rules In Favor Of Apple In Government Request For iPhone Data | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | In a New York case, Magistrate Judge James Orenstein of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Orenstein had paused the request to allow Apple to file in opposition of the order because it involved the broad inte... |
Why Facebook Hosted 200+ African-American Students From The SF Bay Area | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | Just one day after Mark Zuckerberg’s internal memo leaked, , Facebook hosted more than 200 African-American students from the San Francisco Bay Area. The day-long field trip to Facebook this past Friday, which had been weeks in the making as part of Black History Month, was spearheaded by the employee resource group B... |
Is Singularity Near? | Truls Unholt | 2,016 | 2 | 29 |
, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company, on December 11, 2015. With $1 billion in funding from high-profile investors, such as Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel, the company put forward an ambitious research agenda to keep artificial intelligence beneficial to humanity. Both the research agenda... |
Meet The Judges For The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off In Brooklyn Tomorrow Night! | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | Did I mention we’re having a tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and tickets are still available, which you can . But what is a pitch-off? Well, have been selected to show off their wares on our stage. They will have exactly sixty seconds to wow a panel of expert judg... |
Innovations In Cybersecurity At RSA 2016 | Mahendra Ramsinghani | 2,016 | 2 | 29 |
At the 25th RSA 2016, it will be the year of Security + Machine Learning + Artificial Intelligence. With global cyber spending expected to reach by 2020, startups & legacy companies alike will be competing for this ever growing pie. And thanks to Obama’s latest push for $14 billion in new Federal spending on cybers... |
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