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GoPro acquires Stupeflix and Vemory to beef up its video editing tools | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | GoPro today of two startups to address one of the company’s sore spots: Video editing. Stupeflix and Vemory are the companies behind the mobile apps Replay and Splice, respectively. GoPro tells TechCrunch the company spent $105 million on the two companies combined and that all the employees from these companies will ... |
Gmail Gets Improved Security Features For Business Users | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | Google a number of new security features for Gmail users in the enterprise today. Last year, the company launched its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature for users that helps businesses keep sensitive data out of emails. Today, it’s launching the first major update of this service at the in San Francisco. The DLP ... |
Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Into A Minor Accident While The AI Was Driving | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | It was bound to happen eventually: one of Google’s self-driving cars has gotten into a minor accident – and, for once, it was while the AI was in control. Google’s cars have actually gotten into a dozen-plus fender benders over the years.. but in the previous cases, the government-mandated human driver was actually the... |
Crosley’s First Direct Drive Turntable Doesn’t Disappoint | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | don’t have the best reputation among vinyl heads. Almost all of the record players the company makes are designed for first-time buyers. They’re cheap, both in terms of price and design. The first turntable I owned was a Crosley. Most of the parts were plastic, and it didn’t produce great sound. If you played anything... |
Machine Learning Is Not The Answer To Better Network Security | Matt Harrigan | 2,016 | 2 | 29 |
Machine learning isn’t a silver bullet for network security. I know, right now you’re saying “But wait Matt, All I hear is that every hot new company in the space is based on machine learning and that VCs are funding machine learning companies in record numbers, even with the economy in question.” And you’re right, ... |
A New, Standardized Way For Employees To Keep Their Vested Stock Options Longer | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who unless their employers eventually go public or else sell to an acquirer in a cash deal. The problem centers on the option plan structure that startups use. Owing to a decades-old tax provision, employees have to exercise their options within 90 da... |
IBM Adds Post-Cyber Attack Planning With Resilient Systems Acquisition | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 29 | The is being held this week in San Francisco where security pros come together to discuss strategy. IBM made several security announcements this morning ahead of the conference, headlined by the purchase of . Instead of trying to prevent an attack, Resilient gives customers a plan to deal with a breach after it’s ha... |
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Amazon Acquires Emvantage To Build Its Online Payment Platform In India | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Amazon will acquire startup Emvantage for an undisclosed amount to develop its Indian e-commerce site’s payment platform. In a press announcement, Amazon said the Noida-based company’s employees will start working for Amazon’s payment team after the transaction is completed. Founded in 2012 by chief executive officer V... |
The Internet Of Medicine Is Just What The Doctor Ordered | Brendan O’Brien | 2,016 | 2 | 16 |
Healthcare reform has eluded Congress for more than two decades. It seems technology, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), could well make the biggest transformation of all. In many respects, IoT is just what the doctor ordered. It holds the key to lowering medical costs, improving quality and making healthcare mo... |
American Airlines Sues Gogo Over Slow Inflight Wi-Fi | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Remember the first time you connected to WiFi on a commercial flight? It was awesome! But now, almost 10 years later, data-obsessed passengers are getting sick of the slow Gogo-enabled WiFi found on most domestic flights. Luckily, at least one airline is finally doing something about it. On Friday American Airlines fil... |
How Standalone Apps Can Grow Twitter’s Stagnant User Base | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | problem. Well, Twitter actually has a number of problems — employee retention, profitability and lack of trust among diehard users to name a few — but user growth seems to be its most critical area. Our own Josh Constine that Twitter burned bridges with prospective new users a long time ago because it was, and largel... |
A New, No-Strings Funding Opportunity for Ed Tech Startups Focused on Middle and High Schools | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Last summer, the 18-year-old, Oakland, Ca.-based philanthropic venture fund decided to launch a virtual accelerator program that provides grants to founders whose tech is addressing languishing gaps in K12 education tech. It kicked things off with a batch of 15 teams, all of whom were chosen for their focus on . Tod... |
Google’s Think Tank Changes Its Name To Jigsaw And Becomes A Tech Incubator | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Google Ideas, the company’s think tank, is relaunching as an incubator named (warning: autoplayed audio) to invest in and develop tech solutions to geopolitical problems and digital attacks. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and current executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s new parent company, : “Why Jigsaw? For... |
500 Startups Batch 15 Diversity Stats: 33% Female, 15% Black, 10% Latino | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | A new 500 Startups batch means new diversity stats. In the startup accelerator’s 15th batch, 44% of the founders are international, 33% are female, 15% are black and 10% are Latino, 500 Startups Founding Partner Dave McClure announced today at demo day. 500 Startups has generally been pretty good around investing in fe... |
Yello Mobile Raises $30M More At A $4B Valuation From Japan’s SBI Holdings | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | — the Seoul, Korea-based mobile apps business that has grown by and acquiring — has picked another $30 million in funding. This latest cash injection comes from , a digital financial services group based out of Japan that announced a . When we covered Yello’s recent , we noted this was a first tranche of fundin... |
Instagram Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Fight Hackers | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Instagram accounts are worth stealing. Now at 400 million users including celebrities, brands, and artists making a living, it’s time to add another lock to its doors. In November I wrote that , and a tipster just told me they’ve spotted it in testing. Today, Instagram confirmed to me that it’s beginning to roll out t... |
Google Makes It Easier To Take Machine Learning Models Into Production | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Google today, a new open source project that aims to help developers take their machine learning models into production. Unsurprisingly, TensorFlow Serving is optimized for Google’s own TensorFlow machine learning library, but the company says it can also be extended to support other models and data. While projects... |
On Chatbots | Lauren Kunze | 2,016 | 2 | 16 |
Chatbots, historically maligned as “ ,” are finally transforming from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. According to recent predictions, chatbots ( ) will be big. Like, Google-killing big, heralding the end of apps and search as we know it — or so proclaimed and . Much ink has been spilled. Startups are spawning an... |
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Google Quietly Shutters Play For Education | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Back in 2013, Google Play for Education, a program that made it easier for educators to purchase apps and books and distribute them to their students’ Android tablets. Now, this program is coming to an end. As first and also confirmed by us today, Google will stop selling Play for Education licenses on March 14. Fr... |
Shopify Debuts Shopkey, An App That Puts A Product Catalog In Your iOS Keyboard | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | A growing number of e-commerce businesses today are assisting their customers over SMS and mobile messaging. There are even SMS-based services, like , , , and others targeting the emerging “conversational shopping” market. Now, e-commerce platform is aiming to help its merchants better serve their customers via mo... |
Kontakt.io, The Beacon Startup And Platform, Locates Further $5M Funding | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Beacons — the micro-location technology that lets your smartphone trigger events based on how close you are to a beacon transmitter — have many uses beyond simple proximity-based marketing. These include indoor navigation and points of interest, or more industrial use-cases, such as tracking the movement of items store... |
These Are The Startups Pitching At The Boston And Atlanta Meetups Next Week | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | The and Meetups are but a week away, and we have finally confirmed the companies pitching in the Pitch-Offs. These startups will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of expert VC judges, and after each presentation they will be subject to a quick Q&A. At the end of all the pitches, the judge... |
ODately Is A Concierge Service Taking Aim At Cash Rich, Time Poor Online Daters | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | Who has time to swipe Tinder these days? Or wade through the seven circles of weird messaging hell on OKCupid? Too many people, evidently, which is why the whole online dating thang can feel more like being forever stuck in digital dating limbo. But never fear! A bootstrapping London-based startup is preparing to fix t... |
GameStop CEO Says PlayStation VR Will Start Shipping This Fall | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | With launches already looming for both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift, virtual reality fans have been earnestly awaiting details for the last major HMD to join the party, the Playstation VR. Yesterday, in an interview with ‘s Maria Bartiromo, Gamestop CEO Paul Raines declared that GameStop “will launch the Sony prod... |
HomeKit-Enabled Eve Energy Can Help You Cut Your Power Bill | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | , a company that makes a number of smart home devices under , including those that track and , is today rolling a new product for those more concerned with monitoring and controlling their home’s energy usage. The plugs into a wall socket, allowing you to control connected devices via iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch ... |
Instagram Spotlights vs Snapchat Stories vs Twitter Moments | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | raging for curated social media supremacy. When big things happen, each of these apps wants to be where you see the best of and behind the scenes. They’ve all created their own features that take the work off your hands. Just sit back and watch, swipe or scroll. But how do they feel and what do they do best? Last nigh... |
Reedsy Launches Book Editor To Seamlessly Turn Your Draft Into A Book | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 16 | has been traditional publishing houses one step at a time. At heart, Reedsy remains a marketplace to find an editor, copy editor, cover illustrator and more. And now, Reedsy also provides to seamlessly interact with your editors and produce a final book. This isn’t the first book editor, but Reedsy’s book editor i... |
Snapchat Debuts Stories Web Player For Academy Awards | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 28 | Snapchat rolled out the red carpet for web users to catch up on snaps from tonight’s Academy Awards. Visitors to the site were greeted with an online player offering Snapchat Live updates on the awards show. This is the first time Snapchat has shown off content in this manner. This move fits in with a larger integrati... |
Bill Maris Talks Uber, Zenefits, And Increasing GV’s Yearly Fund To $500 Million | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 28 | On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, I talked with GV CEO Bill Maris about a wide range of issues, including what happened with its , why GV didn’t invest in Zenefits, and why Maris alone makes every decision on behalf of the powerful venture unit, which now employs 70 people. I’m a venture geek ... |
Mobile Companies Are Just Getting Started | Michael Jones | 2,016 | 2 | 28 |
It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation after compliance issues forced the CEO to resign. Publicly traded tech companies like Twitter weathered layoffs and stock sell-offs. Those few companies that are d... |
How To Stream The 2016 Oscars Tonight | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 28 | The Oscars are finally here. Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally get his Oscar? Will we see another epic from Ellen? If you want to catch all the action but won’t be in front of a TV, here are all the ways you can stream the event tonight, starting at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET. The show will stream live on and the Watch ABC... |
Director John Hillcoat Says The Film Industry Has “Lost Its Nerve” | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 28 | While most of the current Hollywood headlines are , there were some new movies this weekend, too — including , a sprawling crime drama with a cast that includes (deep breath) Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson and future Wonder Woman Gal Gadot. I spoke to direct... |
These Are The Startups Pitching At The Brooklyn TC Meetup + Pitch-Off! | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 28 | The crept up faster than any of us anticipated. In just two short days, we’ll head over to Output in Williamsburg and ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of judges and an adoring, primarily hipster audience. But which companies have been selected? Without any further ado, I’m... |
Marketing Tech’s Bumpy Road: Consolidation, Growth And A New Frontier | Ajay Agarwal | 2,016 | 2 | 28 |
Marketing technology has become big business over the last five years, and spawning more than 2,000 new companies. New channels, new data streams and new workflow have emerged to disrupt important aspects of marketing at big and small companies alike. And CMOs are buying — roughly $23 billion in 2015, according to ... |
Monetizing Mobile Gaming | Nick Day | 2,016 | 2 | 28 |
The mobile gaming industry made in 2015 — and it is only set to continue growing (with estimates as high as $49 billion by 2018). But the mobile gaming industry is in the “wild west” phase of its history right now, with the constant improvement of mobile devices and so many variables to successful monetization. Tho... |
How Smart Founders Can Take Advantage Of The Platform Shift | Brian Feinstein | 2,016 | 2 | 28 |
About 15 years ago, the Internet triggered a platform shift in the delivery of enterprise software; a wave of cloud startups quickly unseated the kings of the server era. Now, another platform evolution — the mobile era — is upon us. For nimble and opportunistic founders, the shift toward mobile is a monumental oppor... |
After The Gold Rush | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 2 | 28 | The startup gold rush of the last ten years is over. Sorry. Those hordes of ambitious entrepreneurs still stampeding to the Bay Area in the hopes of building their Minimum Viable Product, getting into Y Combinator, and growing their app into the Next Big Thing–they’re already too late. That era is behind us. It was a g... |
Apple Pay Goes Live In China | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | , a move that takes Apple’s digital payments service into its fifth country worldwide. The service had been in China since December — this week — and now Apple has delivered in the country, which is its behind only the U.S. based on revenue. Apple Pay initially supports credit and debit cards from UnionPay, which... |
IBM and SoftBank Launch First Japanese Language APIs for Watson | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | A year ago, SoftBank . Now Watson has learned enough Japanese for developers to take advantage of its new skills. The two companies launched six Japanese APIs today. In addition to speech-to-text and text-to-speech services, they include: : to create apps that can decipher intent and meaning when questions are asked i... |
Google’s CEO Says “Forcing Companies To Enable Hacking Could Compromise Users’ Privacy.” | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Google’s Sundar Pichai has thrown his support behind Apple’s recent decision to push back against the FBI and not build a backdoor into iOS. In the Google CEO’s first tweetstorm, Sundar notes that requiring companies to enable hacking of customer devices and data “could be a troubling precedent.” Could be? It would be.... |
Startup Battlefield Applications Extended for Disrupt NY | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | null |
Why Apple Is Fighting Not To Unlock iPhones For The Government | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | filed an order compelling Apple to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the attackers in the San Bernardino shooting incident late last year which left 14 people dead. Shortly thereafter, Apple CEO Tim Cook indicating that Apple planned to fight the order. Apple was joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundati... |
Twitter Fixes Bug That Compromised Some Users’ Emails And Phone Numbers | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Twitter it has fixed a bug that hit its password recovery systems for 24 hours last week. Less than 10,000 active accounts were affected, but that the bug could have potentially exposed emails and phone numbers connected to those users. Accounts who were affected have already been notified. Twitter also said that the... |
Thousands Of Chinese Residents Evacuated For World’s Largest Telescope | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Over 9,000 Chinese residents will be evacuated from their homes in order to create a radio-quiet zone for the world’s largest telescope. The telescope, known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), will listen for radio waves in the universe, a common strategy used by scientists to search for int... |
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PayPal Overhauls Its Mobile App | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | PayPal’s mobile app is getting a massive overhaul today, representing the first time in the history that the company has rebuilt its app from scratch. With the redesign, PayPal is focused on offering a more extensible framework under the hood that will allow it to add new features in the months to come, while also offe... |
Fandango Buys Flixster And Rotten Tomatoes | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | NBCUniversal-owned continues to expand beyond movie ticketing, announcing today that it has acquired Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes from Warner Bros. Entertainment. Flixster allows users to learn more about movies, while Rotten Tomatoes is the best-known aggregator of movie reviews — it’s ubiquitous enough that people ... |
Why Apple Is Right To Reject The FBI’s Push To Brute Force iPhone Security | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Apple is . The company is taking a public, principled stance on this, which is in line with its recent Yesterday it released explaining that it will fight the , which is asking for some very specific technical assistance in order to enable the FBI to access data on an iPhone 5c used by one of the . Specifically ... |
Bullish: Closing The Tech Divide Through Teaching Kids How To Code | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | This week on Bullish, Mission Bit CEO Stevon Cook joined me in the studio to chat about computer programming and the importance of teaching kids how to code. In case you’re not familiar with Mission Bit, it’s a non-profit organization that works closely with the San Francisco Unified School District to teach coding t... |
Yahoo Is Shuttering Several Digital Magazines | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Yahoo today said it is shutting down a huge swath of its digital magazines as it rethinks its digital content strategy. A Yahoo spokesperson said Yahoo Tech was not affected by the changes. According to a , Yahoo Tech editor in chief Dan Tynan is leaving the company. Capital New York also reported that Yahoo is shutte... |
Not Another African Tech Article | Clinton Mutambo | 2,016 | 2 | 17 |
The great continent of Africa seems to be the flavor of the month. As the world wakes up to its potential, I can’t help but cringe each time an “African tech” article is published on a popular medium like TechCrunch. The lack of data and “exotic charm” of Africa makes it an easy target for baseless, heavily flawed or... |
Chelsea Peretti To Rich People: “Save Twitter” | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Twitter has been having trouble growing beyond its current user base of around 300 million. Because of that, shareholders are scared and the . Of course, the tech world is concerned about this issue. But we never stop to think about how this might affect celebrities like Brooklyn Nine Nine star and comedian Chelsea Pe... |
X Prize And IBM Team Up On A New, $5 Million A.I. Competition | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | On Wednesday morning at TED2016, The X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis and IBM Watson general manager David Kenny jointly announced the launch of a new X Prize competition focused on artificial intelligence. The $5 million “ ,” as the competition is called, will invite teams from around the globe to come up wi... |
California DOJ’s OpenJustice Platform Makes Local Law Enforcement Data More Transparent | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | African-American people at the hands of police officers has created a lot of reasonable doubt in our criminal justice system. , an interactive web platform developed by the California Department of Justice and spearheaded by the office of the attorney general, has today released a new set of criminal justice data for... |
Get Your Extra-Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt NY Before Prices Increase | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Extra-early-bird tickets to the show are available through Friday, February 19, so if you’re already planning on coming to Disrupt and want to save yourself some serious cash in the process, now is the time to act. In addition, you’ll be able to talk with the dozens of companies on the show floor in Startup Alley, and ... |
Google Translate Now Has More Than 100 Languages And Covers 99 Percent Of The Online Population | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Google’s hit a major milestone today as it nears its 10th anniversary. After , including Hawaiian and Kurdish, Google Translate now includes more than 100 languages (103 to be exact). Google claims that this means the service, which , covers 99 percent of the online population. The idea for Google Translate was fir... |
White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn’t Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Following , the White House has reacted to Apple’s . , the White House has said that the Department of Justice isn’t asking for a backdoor to unlock the iPhone 5c in the San Bernardino case. Instead, the Government only wants help for one device. Reuters a media briefing in Washington and reported the White House’... |
Scientists Can Now 3D Print Otzi The Mummified Ice Man | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 17 | Otzi, for those not up on their 5,300-year-old mummified men, died and was frozen in the Alps near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. His body is one of the best preserved human mummies in Europe and now he’s getting a 3D-printed makeover. Researchers and engineers have worked together with 3D-printin... |
A Rant About Why Twitter’s Past Failures Make It Nearly Unfixable | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Twitter had a terrible, horrible, no good very and unfortunately, the only thing that might save it is a time machine. The company announced that it saw zero growth in its total user count. Excluding SMS-only users, it from 307 million to 305 million users. That’s despite it launching and buying expensive TV comm... |
Who Is A VC? | Richard Kerby | 2,016 | 2 | 10 |
Last year, I dug into why there are so few black people in venture capital (you can see my previous post ). More recently, the folks over at Social Capital and The Information took a crack at providing the data around diversity among partners within venture capital (that data can be found ). I’ve now decided to tak... |
Student.com Bags $60M To Grow The Reach Of Its Student Digs Marketplace | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | , an accommodation marketplace founded back in 2011 (as ‘Overseas Student Living’ before rebranding last year) to focus specifically on the needs of international students, is announcing a $60 million combined Series B and C round today, led by global investment firm VY Capital. Horizons Ventures, Expa, Spotify founder... |
Meta Hypes The Reveal Of Its ‘Futuristic’ Next-Gen Augmented Reality Glasses | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | , an augmented reality glasses company born around the same time as Google Glass, is getting ready to show off the next-gen version of their AR headset. The company published a video to on Wednesday which features a handful of tech influencers lauding their “futuristic” experiences with demos of the yet-to-be-publicl... |
Bullish: A New Era | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | After a short hiatus, Bullish has returned. The talk show is exactly how you remember it, except with a new host (that’s me, MRD!) and better music. Sorry I’m not sorry, ! Anyway, this week we brought in Matthew Schwab, president of on-demand flower delivery BloomThat, to shed some light on the on-demand economy, ... |
Twitter Plans Changes To @Replies And Other Confusing Rules | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Twitter can be an incredibly confusing service for new and existing users, and Twitter says it’s now planning to address some rules that might make it unwieldy. In the company’s letter to shareholders, Twitter said that changes were coming to rules like the @reply and the .@name syntax. We don’t know what that looks li... |
Twitter’s User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Twitter today reported its fourth-quarter earnings — one of the most important quarters of the company’s history — and basically fell flat on its face. Twitter’s monthly active user growth, on a quarterly basis, was flat, compared to a slight jump that what analysts were expecting. Last quarter, the company had 320 mil... |
Twitter’s Monthly User Count Actually Shrunk If You Exclude SMS | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | It was bad enough that Twitter’s total user count is stuck at 320 million with this quarter. But if you don’t count “SMS Fast Followers”, or people that only use Twitter via text message and don’t see ads, its monthly user count went down from 307 million to 305 million monthly active users in Q4. In the U.S., Twitte... |
The Mobile Health Paradox: Why Data Isn’t Nearly Enough | Yusuf Sherwani | 2,016 | 2 | 10 |
Across most developed economies, healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation. In the U.K., the National Health Service (NHS) faces an estimated funding gap of £30 billion by 2020. In the U.S., the situation looks more bleak, with total annual healthcare spending surpassing , representing an astonishing 17.4 pe... |
Tesla Will Unveil Its $35,000 Model 3 On March 31st | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | We’re just about an hour away from Tesla’s quarterly earnings calls, but the news is already starting to trickle out. The biggest detail so far: you know the Model 3? Tesla’s more affordable car, meant to bring their entry-level line down to roughly $35,000? We’re finally going to see what it looks like, and hopefully ... |
Facebook Distances Itself From Marc Andreessen’s Statements On Free Basics | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Marc Andreessen is having quite a contrite Wednesday. Andreessen, who currently sits on Facebook’s board, caused a stir last night with his online response to . He took to the Twitterverse last night to express his irritation with the regulator’s decision with a statement that some on the Internet likened to coloniali... |
You Should Be Using 1 Second Everyday | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | As a writer at a site that covers a lot of startups, I hear the same line a few times a week: “We just wanted to make something that makes peoples lives better.” 1 Second Everyday actually made my life better… and it’s done so without really having to do much of anything at all. The idea is just as the name implies... |
You Have One Day Left To Apply To TC Pitch-Offs In Boston And Atlanta | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | You have exactly one day left to apply for the TC Pitch-offs in Boston and Atlanta, which will be held on February 23 and February 25 respectively. Why have you put it off until now? Who knows? Maybe you procrastinate. Maybe you’re plagued by overwhelming self-doubt and would rather not try at all then try and fail. ... |
Acre Designs Wants To Change The Way We Buy And Build Houses | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Most new homes that are being built in the U.S. today really aren’t all that different from those that were built 30 years ago. Some materials may be different, but most builders haven’t really kept up with the times. Y Combinator-backed wants to change this by building that are outfitted with the latest technology... |
Disrupt NY 2016 Cruises To The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Now, 10 years after the Queen Mary 2 opened the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, the kings and queens of the startup and tech communities will soon make their way to the terminal for Disrupt. Disrupt NY 2016 will kick off with the Hackathon on May 7-8, followed by the main Disrupt conference which runs from May 9-11. The even... |
Google Forms Gets Templates, Add-On Support And More | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | , the company’s tool for creating and analyzing surveys, is getting a major update today. Google is adding a slew of new features to the service that range from support for templates to new options for analyzing surveys. Google’s brought a design update and added the ability to add logos, videos and GIFs to surveys. ... |
HBO NOW, The Network’s Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | HBO NOW may have scored as one of , but its subscriber count is falling short of analyst projections. Industry observers had expected the service, which allows consumers to stream HBO programming over the internet without a cable TV subscription, to reach 1 to 2 million subscribers. However, HBO CEO Richard Plepler co... |
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Unity Announces Native Support For SteamVR | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Two major powerhouses in the gaming industry announced that they would be working together to churn out killer VR content. Unity Technologies and Valve announced today that the Unity platform would be gaining native support for SteamVR, allowing developers to significantly expand their capabilities for no extra cost. U... |
Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company PageCloud | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | We are certainly looking forward to seeing what’s next from this former Battlefield finalist. |
Apple Executives Detail Scope Of FBI Request And Company’s Motivations For Not Complying | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | with reporters today, Apple executives spoke in response to a motion the Justice Department filed today to force Apple to comply with a to provide access to the iPhone of Syed Farook taken as evidence in the case of the San Bernardino terrorist killings. The executives — speaking on background — also explicitly sta... |
Immersit Turns Your Couch Into A Vibration-Powered Immersive TV Experience | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | Meet , a new kind of connected device for your couch launching today . Immersit generates vibrations to immerse you in your movies or video games. And it works with your existing couch. Have you ever been to a theme park with vibrating seats? Immersit is trying to recreate that at home, and it’s not as easy as it see... |
The Mobile Electorate | Nic Denholm | 2,016 | 2 | 19 |
In 2008, Barack Obama redrafted the electioneering script, becoming the first presidential candidate to use social media as a political channel. His opponents’ failure to grasp the significance of social media proved as catastrophic as Richard Nixon’s dismissive attitude to television in 1960 — an attitude that proba... |
Mental Health Startup Lantern Raises $17 Million Series A Round | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 10 | , a mental health startup that offers tools to deal with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $17 million Series A round led by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s venture arm with participation from previous investors such as Mayfield and SoftTechVC. UPMC Enterprises, the hospital’s venture arm, has i... |
Salesforce Acquires PredictionIO To Build Up Its Machine Learning Muscle | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | has made another acquisition to build out its technology in machine learning and big data analytics: the company has acquired , a startup based out of Palo Alto that had developed an open source-based machine learning server. Salesforce plans to use some of the tech to build out Salesforce’s own machine learning capa... |
Extra Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt NY Extended To February 24 | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | Plus, you’ll be able to chat with the dozens of companies on display in Startup Alley, and attend all of the parties and after-parties to keep the conversation and networking going long after the show floor closes for the day. We can’t wait to see you at the show! |
Apple vs. FBI | Contributor | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | https://techcrunch.com/tag/apple-vs-fbi/ |
Facebook Now Lets You Use Multiple Accounts On Messenger For Android | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | Let’s say you’ve got kids. They like using Facebook Messenger to keep in touch with other kids to talk about Minecraft or bubble gum or whatever kids talk about these days (What? I don’t know. I’m 28, so I’m basically a million years old in cool-stuff years.) You’re happy to let them use Facebook Messenger in the eveni... |
The Next Billion-Dollar Insurer | Jay Farber | 2,016 | 2 | 19 |
Venture capital-backed insurance success stories have risen at a regular drumbeat over the last few years: 2011 brought the billion-dollar Esurance acquisition, 2012 brought the wildly successful Guidewire IPO, 2013 brought the large Climate Corporation acquisition and 2014-2015 brought Zenefits to prominence. Each o... |
Donald Trump Says You Should Boycott Apple | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | Presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Apple over its fight with the FBI. As you can see in the footage below ( shot at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina), Trump was discussing the need to bring overseas jobs back to the United States when he gets sidetracked by mentioning... |
Announcing The Judges For The TC Pitch-Offs In Boston And Atlanta | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | The Pitch-offs in Atlanta and Boston are but a few days away. pitching at our events, but today is the day you find out who will cast judgement on those startups and determine a winner. Without any further ado, here are the judges for the Boston and Atlanta meetups: Gaurav Tuli is a Principal at F-Prime Capital, the... |
Virgin Galactic Unveils New SpaceShipTwo, The VSS Unity | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today. This is the latest version the company has revealed to the public since their deadly crash during a test flight with the previous version. In a , Virgin Galactic specified that the new vessel , the VSS Unity, was actually named by Step... |
Box’s Aaron Levie Defends Apple Amid FBI Controversy | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | “Apple’s response to the government is something we completely wholeheartedly agree with,” said the CEO of the cloud storage company. “The world is going to get more complex, so you can’t create weaknesses in software that then will become vulnerabilities in the future.” If Apple were to comply with the FBI requests an... |
Justice Department Files Motion To Force Apple To Comply With Backdoor Request | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | And we’re back with another episode of between . This time, the Department of Justice gets involved. The department has asking Apple to comply with the FBI order. The FBI originally ordered Apple to create a special version of iOS to access a work iPhone 5c from one of the terrorists involved in the San Bernardino... |
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | This week, Apple battled with the FBI amid an order to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists involved in the San Bernardino shooting, Kanye West made waves in the tech world when his new album launched exclusively on Tidal, the new Samsung Galaxy phones leaked and much more. These are the top tech stories... |
Smartwatch Shipments Have Overtaken Swiss Watches For The First Time | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | So it begins: “worldwide smartwatch shipments” have hit 8.1 million units in Q4 2015 compared to 7.9 million for Swiss watch shipments. Strategy Analytics, a research firm, has found that smartwatch shipments “rose a healthy 316 percent from 1.9 million in Q4 2014.” Apple has an estimated 63 percent of the global marke... |
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U.S. Government Says Hoverboards Are Verboten | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has deemed hoverboards “unsafe” and, in a , all hoverboard manufacturers to gain UL certification before selling more boards. Makers, importers and retailers put on notice — US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) “Consumers risk serious injury or death if their... |
Microsoft Launches Plumbago, A Paper App Competitor That Lets You Sketch & Handwrite Notes | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | Microsoft’s Office suite already has a popular note-taking app with OneNote, but today the company is turning its attention to how note-taking should work on tablets that support stylus and touch-based input. The company has now released , a digital notebook application for Windows 8.1 and 10 tablets that allows users... |
Optimizing Analytics On Time Series Databases | Sankalan Prasad | 2,016 | 2 | 19 |
When was restricted to a desk job because of a leg injury, little did he know that he was showcasing an impressive example of crowdsourced, open source and big data time series analysis (as the world knows it today). Soon after his injury he devoted his time to studying navigation, meteorology, winds and currents. ... |
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