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The Other Justin Keller Schools Tech Bro With Same Name On Homelessness In SF | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | Remember the tech bro who wrote an imploring San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to make the homeless go away? His name is Justin Keller and that has caused quite a few social problems for another guy in SF with the same name. Many have deemed what the Keller known as tech bro wrote to be a callous attitude toward the city’s ... |
LinkedIn And The Golden Age Of American Education | Ryan Craig | 2,016 | 2 | 26 |
A new book declaring the end of the golden age of economic growth has set the wonky world of economics aflame. Robert Gordon’s juxtaposes the world-altering impact of 19th century inventions with a disbelief that today’s digital transformation might foster growth on the same scale as refrigeration, aviation or the b... |
Is 3D Printing The Next Industrial Revolution? | Filemon Schoffer | 2,016 | 2 | 26 |
It was in 1909 when Henry Ford, master of efficiency and standardization, famously said that a “customer can have a car painted any color…so long as it is black.” While the First introduced machines to replace hand labor, Ford helped usher in what was ultimately the principle of mass production; using those machi... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | This week the Apple versus FBI battle raged on, we went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, Facebook changed up the Like button and more. Here are the top stories of the week. Apple continued its battle with the FBI amid an order to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists involved in the San Bernardino ... |
HTC Hints It’s Looking At Mobile VR | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | Despite not unboxing a new high end smartphone at this week, embattled mobile maker HTC has told TechCrunch it’s not ready to admit premium defeat — saying it has a new flagship device coming soon. It’s also hinted it might consider getting into mobile VR in future — presumably as a step to try to revive interest in ... |
Color Switch Falls To The No. 2 Games Slot (But Is Still As Addictive As Ever) | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | Did you hear about that crazy-popular game that sat in the No. 1 Games spot on iTunes for more than a month and a half? I’ll give you a hint, it has color in the title. Color Switch is a tap-based obstacle game that adds an additional level of difficulty because you are constantly changing colors. The game offers eig... |
Digg CEO Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg and The Evolution Of Content and Content Monetisation | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 2 | 26 |
Recently I had the opportunity to check in with newly appointed Digg CEO, Gary Liu, the man at the helm who’s leading the rebirth of the platform that was once the darling of the internet. We discussed why Digg has struggled in recent years to live up to market predictions for the product; how Digg is evolving and di... |
This BB-8 Is Made Entirely Of LEGO Parts And Actually Rolls Like BB-8 Should | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | Ready for your semi-regular reminder that some people are just way, too clever? These folks managed to make a BB-8 model…. completely out of LEGO parts. And it actually rolls. And its head actually stays in place on top, as BB-8’s head should. One key bit here is that its creators only claim that it’s made of 100% ge... |
Grab Your Tickets To The TechCrunch Meetup During Mobile World Congress | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 2 | 19 | TechCrunch is holding a Meetup during Mobile World Congress, on the evening of Wednesday Feb. 24. . Please add your email to get news about the TechCrunch Meetup or to apply to pitch. In your pitch you need to say if you have funding or not. Be concise and to the point, covering the problem you are solving, your sol... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 02.26.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.
Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our show G3 – a women’s roundtable discussion …tech + culture + opinions on Facebook G3 records live today at ustream.tv/g3 at 2:30pmPT |
Venmo Halts New Developer Access To Its API | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | This is not how you run a platform. Developers remember. Pull the rug out from under them once, and they’ll be reluctant to stand with you in the future. So despite having a record-setting January with in its peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo just shot itself in the foot. After six years of providing an atop its mon... |
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Luxe Could Be Getting $50M From Hertz At $110M Pre-Money Valuation | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | Luxe is in talks with a strategic investor that will infuse the company with “tens of millions” in new financing from Hertz, our sources tell us. One source tells us that the round could be around $50 million at a pre-money valuation above $110 million. This source also suggested that existing investors may participate... |
What Does A Downturn Mean For Tech Regulation? | Bradley Tusk | 2,016 | 2 | 26 |
All it takes is a quick look at the market to see that we are in for a bumpy ride — and a longer-term downturn may be imminent. Tech is not immune to that, which means we’ll see a hit to valuations, VC funding and fundraising. Lots of experts have talked about what that might mean for activity in the tech sector broa... |
Tribeca Venture Partners Closes Its Second NY-Focused Fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | , a New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2011, is today announcing that it has closed its second fund with $107 million — significantly more than its $65 million debut fund. That’s good news for New York startups. In a conversation earlier this week with Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem — Tribeca’s co-founder... |
Augmented Reality Computer Vision Startup Wrnch Gets $1.8M Series A Led By Mark Cuban | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | Talk to anyone in the AR space right now and the phrase “democratizing x” is bound to arise two or three dozen times. CEO Paul Kruszewski says that concept is especially true for the computer vision space, with war chest-toting companies like Magic Leap powering their own technologies while dramatically smaller teams ... |
Dragon Front Is Like VR Magic: The Gathering | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | Tower above your army of monsters, lean across the battlefield and make your opponent’s face explode. That’s , a virtual reality card game coming to Oculus Rift. While many VR games see you flailing your arms or head about, or swinging swords and shooting bows and arrows, Dragon Front is decidedly more chill. That’s n... |
Google.org Awards $3 Million To Racial Justice Organizations In SF Bay Area | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Alphabet; Bryan Stevenson, Founder and CEO, Equal Justice Initiative; Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Founder, Roses in Concrete Community School; Landon Dickey*, Special Assistant for African American Achievement & Leadership, San Francisco Unified School District... |
Zenefits Is Laying Off Roughly 250 Employees | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | Zenefits is laying off around 17 percent of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales division, according to an email sent to the company by CEO David Sacks. “When I became CEO of Zenefits, I promised on Day 1 to reset our culture, refocus our strategy on serving small b... |
Social Media Marketing Company Clickable Acquires Talkwheel | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | , a company that offers a unique way to visualize customer conversations, has been acquired by . I last in 2014. The company aggregates the online conversation around a given company or topic in a circular format — it’s supposed to help you follow these often complicated and dispersed conversations. The format can t... |
Birdly Wants To Help Call Your Customer Data By Talking To A Slack Bot | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an app like Expensify is now , a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesforce and Zendesk. “It was really difficult for... |
Spark, The Mailbox Alternative, Lands On The iPad | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 26 | , the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct , has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app sports a number of popular features, including read later and mailbox organization. However, the system also creates read receipts and allows you to send e... |
Lessons In Moving Your Startup Overseas To Silicon Valley | Emil Eifrem | 2,016 | 2 | 26 |
As a CEO and immigrant worker (take that, Trump!), I always get asked about my company to . I usually answer that I believe you can build a world-changing organization anywhere, but the job is always easier at industry’s center of gravity. For fashion, it’s Paris; for finance, it’s London; for tech, it’s . ... |
FBI Director Denies Wanting To Create A Backdoor Into The iPhone | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has claimed that the organization is not trying to break Apple’s encryption or set up backdoor access to the company’s devices and services. Writing for Lawfare, a not-for-profit, addressing the over access to the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, ... |
VR And AR Will Be Mobile’s Demand Driver, Not Its Replacement | Mike Hoefflinger | 2,016 | 2 | 21 |
With each of the six biggest global consumer technology companies now deeply invested and feverishly in development, VR/AR has become too big to fail. Facebook Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR (powered by Oculus), Google Cardboard and its Magic Leap investment (and perhaps even Google Glass’ second coming), Sony PlayStat... |
Adobe Expands Its Mobile Portfolio With Experience Manager Mobile, New Marketing Cloud Core Services | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | Adobe announced a number of new products at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today that will expand the company’s set of mobile core services in its Marketing Cloud and make it easier for enterprises to manage content for their mobile apps. Adobe’s , its enterprise tool for building content-rich sites, is getting th... |
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Connected Sports Gear Is Harder, Faster And Stronger | Millie Servant | 2,016 | 2 | 21 |
Would the world be different if Neil Armstrong had worn a Fitbit wristband when he set foot on the moon? What if Nixon had been equipped with a cardiac sensor during Watergate? The Sports & Innovation series n°1 on high-level athletes described how technologies have become essential to monitor athletic performances. ... |
Facebook Brings 360 Dynamic Streaming To Samsung Gear VR, Forms Social VR Team | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | Zuck shocked everyone by appearing on stage for the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event for MWC 2016. He wasn’t there to push Samsung’s new phones or talk about Messenger, his time onstage was all about virtual reality. Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook (which, in case if you’ve forgotten, is the parent company of Oculus) wi... |
Nokia: We’re In No Rush To Get Our Brand Back On Phones | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | After exiting the smartphone market dramatically by back in 2013, Nokia has hinted it is looking to return to the phone business by a different route — taking advantage of a clause in its sale agreement that allows it to use the Nokia brand on handsets again starting from this year. The company has a . But returning... |
Nokia Growth Partners Announces $350M Fund Focused On IoT | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | What do you finance if you’re in the network business and need to encourage your customers to upgrade faster to the next generation of cellular tech (aka 5G)? Why the Internet of Things of course… The Nokia-funded VC firm has just announced a new $350 million fund focused specifically on IoT — and sponsored exclusive... |
Wearables Drive The Component Technology Innovation | Brian Ballard | 2,016 | 2 | 21 |
For years, many of the key components of wearables have been drafting off the strengths of the smartphone supply chain. During the last two years, the application processors and sensors for wrist and head-worn wearable products have more or less been taken off the parts bin of low and mid-tier smartphones. This is ty... |
Lenovo Connect Lets You Get Low-Priced Data Plans All Around The World | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | Lenovo is best known for its computers and smartphones like dozens of other OEMs. But the company is launching a new service that should differentiate its devices from the competition. With Lenovo Connect, you can connect around the world with a low-priced global roaming plan. In other words, Lenovo is becoming a mobil... |
Samsung Reveals The Gear 360 Camera: The Next Step In Its Virtual Realization | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | The future will be filmed in 360 degrees. Samsung joins LG and others in announcing at MWC 2016 a new and compact camera that’s capable of filming everything thanks to two lenses. Called the Gear 360, the little sphere is designed to sit on a table or tripod or even hung from a drone and capture 360 degrees of video — ... |
Samsung Brings Back Expandable Memory, Water Resistance To Galaxy Line With The S7 And S7 Edge | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | Samsung showed off the new S7 and S7 edge at its Galaxy Unpacked event today at MWC 2016 in Barcelona. They’re retro. The new Galaxy phones are a tad thicker than the Galaxy S6 line, but that’s because they rock huge batteries. Samsung also went back to its roots and made the S7 line water resistant and included a ... |
Watch The Samsung Galaxy S7 Unpacked Conference Live Right Here | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R5HN6oWdC4 Samsung’s unpacked press conference at MWC in Barcelona is about to begin. The conference starts at 7 PM CET (6 PM GMT, 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST). We’ll have a live team on the ground to cover all of Samsung’s announcements. Rumor has it that Samsung is about to announce not one, ... |
HP Announces Yet Another Mobile Product That Will Fail | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | HP clearly that Windows Phone is dead. Meet HP’s first flagship smartphone since the Palm Pre 3. HP calls Elite x3 a “revolutionary mobile platform” but it’s not. It’s just another also-ran from HP. HP says a device like the Elite x3 has never been done before and that’s clearly wrong. Android and Motorola tried it w... |
Kalamazoo Shooting Spree Suspect Passed Uber Driver Background Check | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | has confirmed one of its drivers, Jason Dalton, is the suspect in a shooting rampage across Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dalton allegedly picked up riders and pocketed fares in between the shootings, which have so far killed six people and gravely injured a 14-year-old girl Saturday evening. The girlfriend of one of Dalton’s ... |
Live From Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Unpacked Conference | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | It’s time to see what Samsung has been cooking up for the past year. After weeks of speculation, Samsung is taking over the CCIB in Barcelona right in time for Mobile World Congress. This year’s Unpacked conference is a big deal. The company wants to make a splash and make Samsung great again. Samsung has plenty of com... |
HTC-Valve’s Vive VR Headset Will Cost $799, Bundled With Two Controllers | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | HTC has just dropped the most salient detail for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in the virtual reality experience it’s been cooking up with Valve for the : the price. The forthcoming Vive headset will cost $799, the two companies confirmed today. So $200 more expensive than the rival Oculus Rift headset. The Viv... |
Huawei Launches The $699 MateBook Windows 10 Tablet With Keyboard Case And Stylus | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | is getting into the productivity game. The company, which recently made a splash in the U.S. with the launch of the Nexus 6p, announced a Surface Pro-like 12-inch Windows 10 tablet with a keyboard cover and an optional pressure-sensitive stylus and dock during its MWC keynote today. Pricing for the MateBook, which wil... |
Hands-On With The Modular LG G5 | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | It’s nice. That’s about the G5 in a nutshell. With rounded edges and premium build, the handset feels great in your hand. The camera works well and dual lenses allow for different shooting options not found on other smartphones. And LG stuck with its roots and included a removable battery and microSD card slot in the G... |
LG Announces Modular Android Phone, VR Headset | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | LG today at Mobile World Congress 2016 took the wraps off its flagship mobile products for the coming year. Chief among them is the G5 smartphone, a handsome device that feels fantastic in the hand and sports an expansion-type system that can utilize accessory packs. It’s fun. The company also announced a lightweight V... |
How Apple Can Improve Its Watch And Boost Sales | Kelli Richards | 2,016 | 2 | 7 |
Apple exact sales numbers, but some expert digging has led many to believe that sales of the Apple Watch haven’t reached expectations since its launch in spring 2015. The company’s annual filing suggested it sold worth in fiscal 2015, but compare that with the iPhone, which sold worth in the fourth quarter alon... |
Why You Should Be Concerned About The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act | Graeme Caldwell | 2,016 | 2 | 7 |
I really do wish I understood why lawmakers seem so gung-ho on tearing apart technologies they don’t understand, and freedoms they hardly think about. Frankly, it’s starting to get exhausting — and more than a little difficult to keep straight all the legal bungles belched out by senators and their lobbyists. Until n... |
The LG Rolling Bot Is A BB-8 For Your Home | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 21 | Meet your new companion. LG designed this rolling robot to do all sorts of mundane tasks around your home. It can even play with your cat — just don’t ask it to vacuum your floors. It’s not that kind of household robot. About half the size of a bowling ball, the little guy can roll around your pad, control appliances o... |
Super Bowl Technology Mishaps And Real Time Rescues | Steve Wilkes | 2,016 | 2 | 7 |
The Super Bowl is the crowning glory of sports in the United States, but it hasn’t been without it’s mishaps. They aren’t the last minute fumbles, missed field goals, or obvious interceptions either. They’re those unfortunate outside incidents that stopped or changed the course of the game. In many cases, today’s rea... |
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The Evolving Technology Of The Super Bowl | Don Basile | 2,016 | 2 | 7 |
gear up for the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl , we can expect to see not only a great athletic game, but a host of dazzling new technology at play behind the scenes, working to seamlessly bring the game to millions of viewers. To really appreciate how sophisticated this sport has become, here’s a look at some ... |
Meet The Voting Board Of The 9th Annual Crunchies | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 7 | to announce the 100-person Crunchies Board who collectively picked the winners of the 9th Annual Crunchies award. Early last month the law firm Perkins Coie delivered ballots to these TechCrunch editors, entrepreneurs, investors and other tech notables. The law firm then tallied the ballots and is keeping the winners ... |
Graphene Shows Promise For Brain Implants | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 7 | , the super thin carbon material that’s been exciting scientists in the decade+ since single-atom thick graphene crystallites were successfully extracted from the bulk material, continues to give hints of a promising future blending electronics and biology. In a new study, conducted by researchers at the and the Univ... |
WorldRemit Gets $45M At A $500M Valuation To Grow Its Mobile Money Transfer Business | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | A year after , London-based startup has picked up more funding. To compete against the likes of Western Union in the world of money transfers — and tap a remittance market that the will be worth $610 billion in 2016 — the company has added another $45 million to its coffers. This latest round, a debt round from Tr... |
Impact, Investment And Demand: Three Pillars For Civic Tech Success | Stacy Donohue | 2,016 | 2 | 7 |
Last year was one of great momentum for civic tech. We saw more and than ever enter the space, garnering interest from startups, corporations, government agencies and investment firms. Kicking off 2016, civic tech is a fast-growing field with tangible potential to improve the relationship between citizens and gov... |
Verizon Accused Of Net Neutrality Foul By Zero-Rating Its Go90 Mobile Video Service | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 7 | Verizon, the , is being accused of violating net neutrality principles by excluding its own mobile video streaming service, go90, from data charges — thereby creating an unequal playing field. On Friday it emerged (via ) that Verizon would not be charging its own customers for the data they consume over go90. An end ... |
Study: Music Is The Food Of Love | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | In what is probably one of the most unique studies involving iBeacons, music, and sex anyone has ever done, a researcher (in connection with Apple Music and Sonos) has found that music in the home increases togetherness, closer “proximity,” and leads to 67% more sex worldwide. Now before you say “Hey, this is just Appl... |
Anchor Launches To Take Radio To The Next Level | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | next generation of broadcasting. New York-based , which launched today for iOS, is offering a new, easier way to record and transmit interactive audio content. The company’s two co-founders Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, who previously worked at the , hatched their new company over a shared love of radio. And ha... |
The Ultimate Ad | Ajay Chopra | 2,016 | 2 | 9 |
If Mad Men is to be believed, the difference between a successful brand and a failure is the perfect ad: one witty line, the perfect image; an overall feeling that captures and captivates the target audience and converts them into customers. The world hasn’t changed that much since the Mad Men days (though we’re than... |
Chinese Tech Group Led By Qihoo 360 Bids $1.2B For Browser Maker Opera | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | around the future of browser maker Opera, and now that looks like it will soon be resolved. Today the Norway-headquartered company that it has received a $1.2 billion acquisition offer from a group fronted by Chinese consumer tech companies Kunlun Tech and Qihoo 360. The deal is for 100 percent of the company, and i... |
Slack Wins A Crunchie For Fastest Rising Startup | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | is growing up and to the right and as such a rapid climber won a Crunchie last night for Fastest Rising Startup at . Slack also claims to have a more diverse workforce than any other startup and smartly chose to send four of its engineers – all of them black and female – to accept the award on stage. One of the wom... |
SolarCity Beats Q4 Estimates, But Stock Plunges 30 Percent On Soft Outlook | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | SolarCity, which is down more than 50 percent over the past year, just released its Q4 2015 earnings. The market has reacted negatively, with the stock trading down about 30 percent after-hours at a price of around $17.50 per-share. While Q4 revenue of $115M and loss of $2.37 per share beat estimates of $111M in revenu... |
U.S. Version Of Politwoops Comes Back Online To Track Politicians’ Deleted Tweets | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | , a service that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets in an effort to hold elected officials accountable for the statements they make on social media, is now back online in the U.S. The restoration of the service, follows to restore Politwoops’ access to its API after previously having blocked it. The decision to shu... |
The Money In Open-Source Software | Max Schireson | 2,016 | 2 | 9 |
It’s no secret that open-source technology — once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters — has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Even major enterprise-IT vendors are re... |
The Next Tesla Will Start At $35,000, But Don’t Expect To Pay That Price | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | Tesla has yet to unveil the Model 3, but the company just confirmed that it will be available starting at $35,000. The Model 3 has to cost about this price, and today, Bloomberg who confirmed the starting price. At that price, the car will retail at a price point slightly higher than the average car sells for in th... |
Fintech Savings Service Qapital Launches Android App | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | Qapital, the integrated with most banks, is launching its Android app today. First available only in iOS, the new service offers the same breadth of functionality to new Android customers which comprise the bulk of mobile phone users in the world. For investors and boosters like acclaimed behavioral economics researc... |
GitHub Updates Its Enterprise Product With Clustering Support, Updated Design | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | , the company’s on-premises solution for managing code, is getting a major update today. It comes at a time when there seems to be in the company around the importance management has been putting on this product. The marquee feature of GitHub Enterprise 2.5 is support for clustering. With this, businesses can now set... |
Fox Marks Down Its DraftKings Investment By 60 Percent | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | Twenty-First Century Fox, which over the summer, has the investment by about 60 percent, according to its . Specifically, Fox noted that “based on information concerning DraftKings’ current valuation in a recent financing transaction, the Company determined that a portion of its investment in DraftKings was impaire... |
The Trashbot Will Eat And Sort Your Garbage | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | Robots need excitement. If their lives don’t provide instead they’ll incite violence. Common sense. Simple common sense. But robots also need trash. That’s why the is so cool. This robotic trash can will automatically sort all of your garbage, pitching metals into one can and non-recyclables into another. The project... |
Oculus-Ready PC Bundles From ASUS, Alienware, Dell Pre-Sell For $1499 Next Week | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | Oculus wants to make it easy to get everything you need to dive into virtual reality. Thanks to team-ups with , , and , Oculus will open starting at $1499 on February 16th at 8am PST. Buying as a bundle gets people a $100 to $200 discount on the PCs. The bundles include an Oculus Rift, a gaming PC powerful enough ... |
LendEDU Is Making Student Loan Refinancing Easier | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | When 21-year-old college students Nate Matherson and Matt Lenhard started their first business for tutors, they didn’t really know that they would soon embark on a journey to help solve the $1.2 trillion student loan problem in the U.S. Launched out of their University of Delaware dorm room, their first business was de... |
Gmail Now Warns Users When They Send And Receive Email Over Unsecured Connections | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | Google is marking Safer Internet Day, which falls today, by to help better identify emails that could prove to be harmful or are not fully secure. that it would beef up security measures and identify emails that arrive over an unencrypted connection and now it has implemented that plan for Gmail, which has passed ... |
DFJ Raises $350 Million For Its 12th Early-Stage Fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | Sand Hill Road venture firm DFJ is announcing a new, $350 million fund this morning — the firm’s 12th early-stage vehicle. We chatted with managing director Josh Stein yesterday about the effort, which he says took about two months from start to finish. The biggest takeaway: Expect more of the same from the firm, which... |
Social Video Streaming App TiZR Picks Up Backing From Spinnin’ Records | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | With Twitter-owned , Facebook’s , and, of course, , is there any space left for a new social video streaming app? London-based clearly believes the answer is yes, and, evidently, so do investors. The burgeoning startup, whose app recently debuted on iOS, has raised $500,000 in backing in a round led by EDM record ... |
Comedian Chelsea Peretti Skewers Tech’s Lack Of Diversity, On-Demand Economy At Crunchies Awards | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | The tech industry came under fire at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards on Monday night – an event which aims to celebrate the best and brightest companies, founders and investors from the startup world. The event’s host, Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-star, actress, writer and , opened the evening with barbs aimed at the indus... |
Lully Launches The Sleep Guardian Plus To Reduce Night Terrors | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 2 | 9 | , the YC-Backed startup had just announced the close of a $2.1 million seed round for operations surrounding their flagship product called The Sleep Guardian. That product launched in June of 2015. Today they are launching an updated version— . The Sleep Guardian Plus is a small device you place under a child’s mattres... |
Uber Begins To See The Payout From Accepting Cash Payments | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | What does it take for a company to move away from a core feature that is central to its identity? Last May, Uber broke from its tradition of only accepting payment via card. The U.S. company began , a city in India with a population of nearly eight million, to pay for their rides using cash. One of Uber’s biggest sell... |
Adobe Launches Animate CC, Previously Known As Flash Professional | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | Adobe today officially launched Animate CC, the of its animation tool for the web. Animate CC was as , but the importance of Flash has (thankfully) declined over the last few years and the company decided it was time to rename the product to better represent what it is actually being used for. Animate CC, as well... |
Watch The 9th Annual Crunchies, Hosted By Chelsea Peretti, Right Here | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | It’s a big week for San Francisco. Yesterday, the city played host to the Super Bowl and tonight, we are celebrating the startup ecosystem with our 9th in the swanky . You can guess which one of those I’m more excited about. Tonight’s show will be hosted by comedian Chelsea Peretti, and the awards will be presente... |
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad Out Amid Compliance Concerns | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | There’s a big shuffle happening at Zenefits today — with Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad exiting the company and COO David Sacks taking over. Conrad is also stepping down as a director of the company. In an email to employees, Sacks noted that compliance issues that have plagued the company contributed to Conrad’s exit. Zen... |
And The Winners Of The 9th Annual Crunchies Are… | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | Silicon Valley is getting dressed up tonight to celebrate startups, their founders and CEOs, VCs and angels, and the products they make during our awards show at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. Tonight’s show is hosted by comedian . After an open nomination process, the members of our put in their vote... |
The Holy Grail of Web Scale | Salil Deshpande | 2,016 | 2 | 8 |
With customers demanding access to goods and services where and when they want, and servers deluged with requests, concurrency and expectations of responsiveness, organizations of all types are focused on building “web-scale” systems. Initially built by companies such as Facebook and Google because their sheer size d... |
NASA Releases 360-Degree Video Of Martian Surface | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | Today, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a new 360-degree video, giving you a virtual tour of the Martian surface. The video was created by stitching together images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover on December 18 , 2015. The scene takes place at Namib Dune with a view of Mount Sharp on the horizon. Curiosity’... |
CBS Says Super Bowl 50 Broke Streaming Records With 3.96 Million Unique Viewers | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | CBS reported earlier this morning that its live stream of Super Bowl 50 broke all prior streaming records for the big game. Now the network has released numbers to back up that claim: according to this afternoon, 3.96 million unique viewers tuned in to watch the Broncos versus the Panthers across laptops, desktops, t... |
Opera Postpones Earnings Release As Takeover Rumors Swirl | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | Last Friday, the Oslo stock exchange decided to in Opera Software’s shares after rumors of a potential takeover by Chinese security firm appeared in a Norwegian newspaper. Trading in Opera shares is still suspended today (which is a pretty unusual move) and now Opera itself is adding fire to the takeover rumors by ... |
Instagram Finally Makes It Easy To Use Multiple Accounts | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | Starting this week, enables a feature to allow users of the ubiquitous photo sharing app to . This will, no doubt, make heavy users and Social Media Managers alike, rejoice. Up to five accounts can be added and switching between them will not require logout, however you will need to be using version 7.15 of the app ... |
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Apartments.com, Mobile Strike & Amazon Scored The Top Spots Among Tech Companies’ Super Bowl Ads | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | A number of technology companies took to the airwaves during last night’s Super Bowl 50 broadcast to make their names – and brands – better known among a mainstream audience. However, according to new data out today from TiVo, which historically tracks viewer engagement with Super Bowl ads across its network, the only ... |
A Look At The Marketplace Lending Originator Ecosystem | Michael Gilroy | 2,016 | 2 | 8 |
At the end of 2015, Canaan hosted its first FinTech Central event, which included a panel that had leaders from across the marketplace lending originator ecosystem. A marketplace lending originator is a company that sells loans online using retail, institutional and bank capital. Over the last few years, marketplace ... |
Health And Fitness Data Is Useless | Hanson Lenyoun | 2,016 | 2 | 8 |
is hot right now. We generate tons of it, but most of it sits there, latent, unused and . This is particularly pronounced when it comes to and , where we strap on our trackers and expect the pounds to melt away with each step passively logged. But we haven’t seen a dramatic improvement in our nation’s with... |
AngelList Raised $163M For Startups in 2015, Up 56% Year-Over-Year | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | AngelList, the online platform that had made itself indispensable to early-stage startups for fundraising and recruiting, That’s about 56 percent higher than About 40 percent of the deals were private rounds and institutional funds were in about 40 percent of rounds as well. AngelList has been cultivating investment... |
Free Basics And Facebook’s Waterloo In India | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 2 | 8 |
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India made a wise decision by . The project was ill-conceived and showed a lack of understanding of India’s culture and values. Mark Zuckerberg surely had good intentions in wanting to provide Internet access to hundreds of millions of people who lack access. But he went about it... |
Tribe Is A Nifty Walkie-Talkie App | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | Meet , a new social app for iOS and Android that is going head-to-head against , Snapchat and countless other social messaging apps. Tribe is an interesting take on messaging thanks to its heavy focus on video and neat design. At heart, Tribe isn’t reinventing the wheel. Everything you can do in Tribe also works in S... |
Benchmark Adds A Sixth General Partner: Scott Belsky | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | Early-stage venture firm Benchmark has added a sixth general partner to its roster: 35-year-old Scott Belsky, a former Goldman Sachs associate who went on to cofound the New York company Behance, an online platform for graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, web designers, and art directors to showcase their sk... |
Jessica Livingston Talks Female Founders, Business Cycles, and Her Favorite Event of the Year | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | On April 4 , Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston will host the third annual at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, an event meant to empower female founders — and those who aspire to become them – though a powerful line-up of women who’ve been there and done that, so to speak. Among the speakers at this year’s... |
Magic Leap Adds Alibaba’s Jack Ma To Board As New Funding Pushes Valuation To $5B | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Magic Leap confirmed its round — — which was led by Alibaba. The Chinese firm did get a seat on the company’s board, but that is being taken by Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai not Jack Ma as we initially reported. , the much-hyped augmented reality company , doesn’t have a consumer product yet, but that isn’t stop... |
Health-Centric Food Delivery Service Power Supply Raises $5M Seed Round | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 8 | , one of a growing number of services, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed round led by Upfront Ventures. Other investors include Hanson Li (Saison, Locol), former Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen, health expert Mark Sisson, former Fresh Direct CMO Drew Koven, Alan Bankier and The Motley Fool. The compa... |
Let’s Fix Startup Board Meetings | Jon Callaghan | 2,016 | 2 | 1 |
I spend a lot of time in board meetings. Specifically, private company startup board meetings. Rooms filled with some of the most talented, bold, daring and dedicated people on the planet, devising solutions to some of the economy’s toughest problems. More often than not, however, most of these board meetings fail. D... |
Don’t Mess With Musk | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Earlier today, longtime Bay Area venture capitalist posted something fairly unexpected to Medium. In a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk titled “Banned by Tesla,” Alsop wrote of his surprise that Tesla would cancel the Model X he’d ordered and that Alsop has been eagerly awaiting. (Alsop says in the post it was to be red... |
Watch This Trained Eagle Take Down A Flying Drone | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | As more and more civilians start flying drones, there will probably be an exponential rise in situations where authorities need to quickly take down a poorly-navigated drone hovering above a stadium or government building. But, since drone companies have yet to provide any sort of backdoor to manually takeover the devi... |
Bloomberg Beta On Investing In The ‘Future Of Work’ | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | null |
Meet The Competitors Vying For The Crunchie For VC Of The Year | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | We’re getting ready for the here at TechCrunch, where some of the brightest startups, companies and leaders hope to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the 12 categories up for grabs. Among that mix are those who write the checks to get these startups off to a good beginning – venture capitalists. Below are the V... |
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