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Evernote Will Shut Down Market, Its E-Commerce Effort, On Wednesday | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Some more news from Evernote — the note-taking app and startup of the same name — that speaks to the company’s current rough patch: today it announced that as of Wednesday at 6pm Pacific, it will shutter , the e-commerce platform where it sold Evernote swag and Evernote-integrated office products, in an attempt to cre... |
NASA’s Super Guppy Gives Mars-Bound Spacecraft A Lift | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Today the Orion capsule, NASA’s spacecraft designed to bring humans to Mars, starts its next phase of development at Kennedy Space Center. The remarkable part is that just this morning, that large spacecraft was at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. In order to carry Orion from New Orleans to Cape Canaver... |
Pager Expands Its On-Demand Doctor Service By Letting Users Chat With Nurses | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | isn’t just a doctor-on-demand service anymore. We’ve mentioned the New York City-based company as aiming to bring doctors to patients’ homes, and to be clear, you’ll still be able use the app to set up medical house calls. Now, however, that’s just one part of a broader experience. In the new version of Pager, every... |
WhatsApp Hits One Billion Users, Remains In Search Of Revenue | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | You know what’s cooler than a (several hundred) million users? A billion users. Just over a week after , announced today that the product now has 1 billion users. The timing of the WhatsApp news may have been calculated: it comes on the same day that Google . While Google has it’s shown to have a deft hand at gro... |
Gmail Now Has More Than 1B Monthly Active Users | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | During its earnings call, Google today announced that Gmail now has more than 1 billion monthly active users. That’s up from the company announced during its I/O developer conference last May and up from . With this, Gmail joins six of Google’s other popular projects, including Search, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube... |
Alphabet’s “Other Bets” Cost It Almost $3.6B Last Year | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Alphabet — the company formerly known as Google — some today. For the first time, the company also broke out its revenue and loss from its “other bets” outside of the core products that still make up its subsidiary. These other bets generated $448 million in revenue in 2015 but Alphabet’s operating loss for those... |
Alphabet Becomes The Most Valuable Public Company In The World | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Today was a huge day for Alphabet — the first day it finally broke out its “other bets” in its earnings report — and boy did the company not disappoint. The company smashed expectations on both ends, bringing in $21.3 billion in revenue and earnings of $8.67 per share. Analysts were expecting earnings of $8.09 on $20.8... |
Post-Morin, Path Gets Chatty | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Korea’s Kakao is making a big change to Path eight months after acquiring the social app. people can now message each other inside the app, rather than having to open the separate . It could be a move to invigorate users, and streamline the product. While building an entire companion app for chat worked for Facebook,... |
Safe Harbor Deadline Passes Without A New Deal On Transatlantic Data Flows — Yet | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | A deadline to agree a new deal to govern transatlantic data transfers has passed without agreement on a new, safer ‘Safe Harbor’. But talks are continuing — and Věra Jourová, the EC commissioner heading the negotiations from the European side, said today that a deal “is close”, although she emphasized that “an addition... |
Verizon’s New “Free View” Lets Consumers Turn On Free Trials Of Premium Channels At Any Time | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Traditional cable TV providers are having to up their game as more of their customers cut the cord in favor of over-the-top options. Verizon, in a move meant to better serve and retain those customers willing to pay for a premium cable TV experience, today a new feature called “Free View” for FiOS TV. This option let... |
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Yep, Sesame Street Now Has A Venture Fund | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | is bringing on a pretty big partner for a new seed-stage fund focused on improving children’s lives — and it’s not someone you’d expect to get into the venture capital game. Craig Shapiro’s venture is launching a new $10 million fund that’s tied to , creator of Sesame Street and other children’s programming. The fund... |
OpenTrons Aims To Be The ‘PC’ Of Biotech Labs | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Robotics startup has come up with a way it believes will make wet lab experiments faster and cheaper – automation. Most life science research is still done by hand. This can be a tedious process that OpenTrons hopes to diminish by using robotics and software to complete it. “Basically, if you’re a biologist you spend... |
3D Touch Opens A New Dimension Of User Interaction | Craig Tashman | 2,016 | 2 | 1 |
We spend so much time touching our devices — but what if they could touch us back? Apple’s recent leaps with show that this could soon be a reality. , even play an instrument — the tactile capabilities of future technologies are set to transform our digital experiences. In this article I will explore how developing ... |
Black Girls Code Founder Kimberly Bryant On Racism And Implicit Bias | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 1 | Founded in 2011, Black Girls Code is on a mission to change the face of technology by introducing girls from underrepresented communities to coding. Black Girls Code does this through a series of workshops, hackathons and summer camps. “When we look at tech companies, they really at this point in time don’t reflect t... |
Robin And Saul Klein’s Localglobe Backs Online Mortgage Advisor Trussle | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | Localglobe, the new VC fund from father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein, has led a £1.1 million investment in online mortgage advisor . Others joining the round include notable U.K.-based investors Ed Wray, co-founder of Betfair, Dan Cobley, ex-Google U.K. MD, and Ian Hogarth, co-founder and chairman of Songkick. Lon... |
Managing Your Startup In 2016: New Rules For A New Environment | Ajay Agarwal | 2,016 | 2 | 6 |
It’s a new environment for startups in 2016. Financing will get harder. Valuation inflation will dissipate. Profitability will be in vogue again. And old-fashioned business fundamentals will balance out the disruption frenzy of the past five years. Given the new investment climate, what’s an entrepreneur to do? To an... |
3 Ways That The Blockchain Will Change The Real Estate Market | Don Oparah | 2,016 | 2 | 6 |
Experts have suggested a number of niche industries that will be made more secure by the untamperable data record provided by blockchain technology — including international — but to date, very little attention has been given to the potential effects on the real estate market. According to , the typical homeowner ... |
‘Appocalypse,’ Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love AI | Shaunak Khire | 2,016 | 2 | 6 |
The force has been strong for artificial intelligence over the last few weeks, what with Slack announcing a fund for bots, Elon Musk announcing OpenAI and, of course, the release of Star Wars. This has given all of us new hope — and even more reason to talk about AI and bots controlling every aspect of our lives. Say... |
A Look Inside How ESPN Gets Ready For Super Bowl 50 | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | Before it’s made apparent by my remarks, I don’t know jack shit about football. I can watch a game with a Bud Light in hand and unassumingly make my way through a plate of snacks and know when the right time to yell at the ref or give a high five is, but eh it’s not my thing. What I was really interested in when I roll... |
Kenzen Wins For Best Startup In The Future Athlete Category At The NFL’s 1st And Future | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | Twelve startups campaigned for their chance to win the prize at 1st and Future, the startup pitch hosted jointly by the NFL, Stanford and TechCrunch, but only one could take home the prize in each category. Kenzen, the startup billing itself as a “personal health lab,” was among the chosen few today, winning in the cat... |
HYP3R’s Location-Based Engagement CRM Wins The “Future Stadium” Category At 1st and Future | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | We’ve reached the end of 1st And Future — a sports-centric startup competition thrown as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and TechCrunch. The final of three categories in the competition today was “The Future Stadium”, focusing on technology that would advance the stadium experien... |
How To Start Fresh And Stay Safe With A New Device | Gary Davis | 2,016 | 2 | 6 |
The New Year signals the kickoff of the great gadget migration, when our once-beloved devices become hand-me-downs. Reusing perfectly good electronics is always better than trashing them, but it is important to take a few sensible, yet crucial precautions passing on that smartphone, tablet or PC. Likewise, if you a... |
Gillmor Gang: Passion Plate | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, February 5, 2016. The Gang’s ears are burning as expletives fly around our heads in augmented reality. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, Mary Hodder, and Tina Chase Gi... |
LiveLike’s VR Spectator App Wins The 1st And Future Bringing Home The Game Category | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | Virtual reality, body cameras, and the Internet Of Things are poised to change the way we watch sports. Today we saw how at TechCrunch’s startup competition held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The home viewing category winner, , lets you watch games in virtual reality from multiple angles. The contest ... |
Twitter May Introduce An Algorithmic Timeline And People Are Losing Their Minds | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | Remember Twitter? Or, at least, that would seem to be the sentiment from parts of Twitter that are now shocked that the company is considering switching to an algorithmic timeline, . Everyone panic! This changes everything! Twitter will never be the same. . There’s even a top trending hashtag for it. CEO Jack Dorsey ... |
How Mobile Technology Will Increase Stadium Security | David Goldberg | 2,016 | 2 | 6 |
In the months and years following September 11, one of the most noticeable changes was the experience of going through an airport — longer lines, no liquids, taking off your shoes. What used to feel out of the ordinary is now expected. After the tragedies in Paris targeting live entertainment venues, the Stade de Fra... |
Repairing Your iPhone Home Button From An Unofficial Repair Shop Can Brick Your Phone | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | Going to an unauthorized Apple technician to repair your home button can cost you a lot of money. On Friday, The Guardian that thousands of iPhone users encountered a mysterious “Error 53” error due to a new security feature to protect your data. This error renders your iPhone useless as it bricks it. If you break ... |
Watch 12 Startups Pitch The NFL At 1st And Future Here | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | Tomorrow, the Broncos and Panthers will battle it out for the right to call themselves the champions of Super Bowl 50. Today, just miles away from the stadium, twelve startups are battling it out in front of a room full of NFL executives, team owners, and investors. Hosted in a partnership with the NFL and Stanford, ... |
How To Fix Tech’s H-1B Problem | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 2 | 6 | I’m a Canadian who has spent a sizable fraction of his adult life working in the USA, so immigration, especially as it relates to the tech industry, is a pretty personal subject. I was at a alumnus event in San Francisco this week (it turns out there are almost 2,000 of us in the Bay Area) and, inevitably, the arc of... |
Tim Cook: A Backdoor Into The iPhone Would Be The ‘Software Equivalent Of Cancer’ | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Apple CEO Tim Cook has mounted the fiercest argument explaining why Apple is opposed to used by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.
Cook has already explained Apple’s stance in detail on two occasions (in and which was made public), and numerous tech figures have added their support. However, in the wake of ... |
Foxconn Pauses Its Proposed $6.2 Billion Acquisition Of Sharp | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Foxconn’s proposed acquisition of Sharp has hit a snag, just hours after Japan-based that it had agreed to the buyout, which is estimated at around $6.2 billion. that, despite Sharp’s confirmation, Foxconn has not signed an agreement and has put the deal on hold because it harbors concerns over Sharp’s financial fut... |
Indian Online Travel Company Ibibo Lands $250M From Naspers | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | , which claims to be India’s largest online travel group, has raised $250 million in new funding from majority stakeholder Naspers Group. In an announcement, Ibibo Group said the new funding will be spent on its hotels vertical and technology. The company recently . Hotel booking is an important area of focus for Indi... |
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Drawbridge Is Building A Business Beyond Ad Targeting | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | isn’t just an ad-tech company anymore. We’ve written about how the company, which is , has built technology to — so data from one device can be used (in an anonymized way) to target ads another. However, CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan said that in the past year-plus, the company has also launched data licensing and ... |
Bullish: LGBTQ People In Tech | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Welcome back to another episode of Bullish! This time, I sat down with Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford to talk about LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) inclusivity in the workplace. Although some tech companies have released data around people of color and female representation in their wor... |
The Benefits Of Digital Drawing | Will Eisley | 2,016 | 2 | 24 |
According to a 2015 study of more than 4,000 designers conducted by Subtraction.com and Adobe’s Khoi Vinh, 64 percent of designers still That’s not surprising: Paper is virtually always accessible and offers simplicity. Plus, pen on paper has been the traditional medium budding artists are taught from the beginning,... |
Forge Looks To Make It Easy To Save Short Clips In Gaming Sessions | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Jared Kim might not be the best gamer — but he still wants to be able to share highlights from his sessions, and save them to remember them in the future. So much so that he decided to take a second crack at the premise with , a new service entering beta today that helps gamers find short clips of the action and share... |
Google Fiber Is Coming To Certain Areas Of San Francisco | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Google announced plans today to bring its lightning-fast Google Fiber service to “some apartments, condos and affordable housing properties” in San Francisco, notably utilizing existing fiber instead of building their own fiber-optic network as they have in the past. A detailed that the move was done in an effort to ... |
Computer Science Is Now A High School Graduation Requirement In Chicago’s Public School District | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Following a unanimous vote by the Chicago Public School Board of Education, computer science will become a graduation requirement for all high school students in what is the nation’s third largest school district. Starting with next school year’s class of freshmen (class of 2020), students in Chicago Public Schools wil... |
Captain401, A Service For Spinning Up And Managing 401(k) Plans, Raises $3.5M | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | At Roger Lee’s last startup, he wanted to set up a 401(k) plan for his employees. He soon realized how frustrating and outdated the process was; it required stacks of paperwork and even faxing documents. That’s what prompted him to start , a service built for quickly spinning up 401(k) plans for small- to medium-sized... |
In Advance of Next Fund, Andreessen Horowitz Brings Aboard Martin Casado As GP | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Andreessen Horowitz’s team continues to grow and change. Today, the is announcing the appointment of its newest and ninth general partner: Martin Casado, the cofounder and CTO of Nicira and a pioneer of so-called software defined networking; Nicera was among the first companies to decouple software from networking ha... |
Microsoft Is Buying Mobile Cross-Platform Development Company Xamarin | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Xamarin, a company that allows developers to build fully native apps across several platforms from a single shared code base. Microsoft and Xamarin have worked closely together since a to make it more simple for mobile developers to build native apps on platforms in Visu... |
Astro Digital Releases Platform For Anyone To Analyze Satellite Imagery | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Astro Digital, a satellite imaging and imagery analysis company, released the of their image processing software today. Anyone can access their software, for free, and retrieve satellite imagery of any area on Earth. The company also offers an API that developers can use to incorporate satellite data into their produ... |
LinkedIn’s First TV Ad Says 3M Members Are Qualified To Become An Astronaut | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Okay, be honest. How many of you dreamed of becoming an astronaut when you were a kid? I certainly did — and in my heart of hearts, I still kind of regret that it didn’t happen. Well, that might not be as unrealistic as you might think, at least according to a new ad from LinkedIn. The company says this is actually its... |
500 Startups Launches A Pair Of $25M Funds Focused On India, FinTech | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | 500 Startups is adding a couple new micro-funds as it looks to further grow its investments in India and FinTech Markets. The $25 million funds, named and (after a popular Indian frozen dairy treat), will continue to focus on early stage investments in those spaces. 500 Startups currently has over 80 FinTech invest... |
Apply Now For TechCrunch Include Office Hours With General Catalyst | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | The next round of are here! On March 8th, Niko Bonatsos, Deepak Jeevan Kumar, Steve Herrod, and Prateek Alsi of General Catalyst will join TechCrunch editors to provide advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities for underrepresented grou... |
You Can Now Edit And Format Your Google Docs By Voice | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | About six months ago, Google voice typing for Google Docs on the web to allow you to dictate your text into a document. Today it’s taking this feature a step further by also allowing you to edit and format your text by voice, too. This means you can now say things like “select all,” “align center,” “bold,” “got to en... |
RevTwo Brings Real-Time Screen Sharing, Chat, & Voice Calls To Mobile Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | What if mobile applications weren’t standalone, isolated experiences, but could actually connect users to each other – or even to the app’s developers – with a push of a button? That’s the vision behind a startup called , exiting from stealth today. Its mobile app SDK for iOS lets developers offer a range of in-app su... |
Gmail For Android Gets Rich Text Formatting And Instant RSVPs | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | Google announced two small but useful updates for today: rich text formatting and instant RSVPs. Rich text formatting has long been available for Gmail on the web, but this is the first time Google has brought it to mobile. The formatting options are pretty straightforward: You can bold, italic, underline, color and ... |
Intel Invests $1.3 Million In CODE2040 | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 24 | As part of Intel’s $300 million commitment to diversity, the company has announced a multi-year partnership and $1.3 million investment in CODE2040, a non-profit organization that helps get black and Latino/a students of color involved in tech. This comes a little over a month after . “With a specific focus on broaden... |
Watch Xiaomi’s MWC 2016 Press Conference Right Here | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5xSfaMbLdc Xiaomi is set to unveil… something at Mobile World Congress 2016 and you can watch all the action right here. If the title of the stream is any indication, there’s a good chance that Xiaomi is taking the Mi 5 global but the Chinese giant could have other things waiting in the... |
Newly Merged MoxyBilna Lands $15M For Female-Focused E-Commerce In Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Moxy and Bilna, the , now have a new name and $15 million in funding to build out their game. The company, which has close to 400 employees, is now known as Orami, and today it announced that it has closed $15 million led by Indonesia’s SMDV, and with participation from Gobi Partners, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saver... |
Apple Supporters From All Walks Line Up In Downtown San Francisco To Rally Against FBI Court Order | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | A large group lined up outside of the Apple store in downtown San Francisco this evening, but not for the usual reasons. This time, about 60 to 70 protestors swarmed Apple to voice their opposition to an FBI’s court order requiring the tech giant to create a backdoor to iOS encryption. The FBI over an iPhone belong... |
Uber Launches A Motorbike Taxi On-Demand Service, Initially In Thailand | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Uber is expanding its services from four wheels to two after the U.S. company a motorbike taxi on-demand service in Thailand. ‘UberMoto’ is initially a pilot service in Bangkok, a city where motorbike taxis are already a popular way to beat the city’s dreadful traffic and get from A to B quicker. Uber has offered two... |
Sony Announces PlayStation VR Press Event For March 15 | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | With just weeks to go before the first orders of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive find their way into buyers’ living rooms, Sony is sending out press invitations for a special event highlighting the PlayStation VR to be held on March 15 in San Francisco The event is taking place during the 2016 Game Developers Conference a... |
Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company Boomerang Commerce | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | null |
LinkedIn Problems Run Deeper Than Valuation | Damian Kimmelman | 2,016 | 2 | 23 |
In little over a month, shares in LinkedIn lost over half their value — because of poor growth forecasts, fears over future income, and even investor concerns over a tech bubble. The issues facing LinkedIn, however, go beyond the company itself. The problem stems from each of the company’s revenue streams, which ulti... |
The Latest Generation Atlas Humanoid Robot Is Absolutely Incredible | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Ready to feel bad for a pile of circuit boards? Wait ’til about a minute and twenty seconds into this video. That robot you see being pushed around is the latest generation of Atlas, the insanely advanced humanoid robot as built by the Google-owned Boston Dynamics. (Don’t feel too bad, by the way: they’re hitting stuff... |
Don’t Dread Data Ethics And Governance | Andrew Brust | 2,016 | 2 | 23 |
Data ethics is a subject our industry has largely ignored, avoided and failed to acknowledge as important. This neglect is almost certainly caused by fear — fear that examining the question would expose us as doing wrong; fear that ethics might stifle innovation; fear that the ethical questions are insoluble and intr... |
Online Travel Platform KimKim Brings Back The Travel Agent | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Sometimes, there can be a little much disruption. So goes the thesis of Joost Schreve, the former head of mobile for , who left the company last November and started his own startup, , in December. The nascent company — seed-funded with $1 million from investors, including NFX Guild — is catering to the presumably m... |
Branded.me Adds Social Features And Blogging To Its Personal Website Builder | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | * isn’t just a website builder anymore — it’s adding tools allowing users to connect with other users and publish their own content. CEO Nick Macario said the site’s goal is to be “the creative platform for professionals” — in other words, it’s where professionals can take full control of how they present themselves to... |
Why NASA Received A Record Number Of Astronaut Applications And What They Can Expect Next | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Over 18,300 people have applied to join NASA’s latest astronaut class, breaking the previous record of 8,000 submissions set in 1978. This year’s turnout was also nearly 3 times higher than NASA’s last call for applications in 2012. Each of these hopefuls is competing to be in the newest class of 14 astronauts who will... |
Etsy Shares Spike 13% As It Reports Strong Revenue In Fourth Quarter | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Etsy didn’t have a good 2015, but it was still able to finish on the stronger side. Today the company reported its fourth-quarter results, coming in at $87.9 million in revenue and a loss of 4 cents per share. Analysts were expecting a loss of 1 cent per share on revenue of $86.5 million. Another important number to tr... |
Pocket Wants You To Read Ads Later Too | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | s="dropcap">People love . Its 22 million registered users have saved over 2 billion articles. But there comes a time in every startup’s life when it must ween itself off venture capital and become a sustainable business. Today, after 9 years without ads, with sponsored content in its Recommended feed. But these aren... |
Spotify Announces Google Cloud Platform Partnership | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Spotify on their news blog that they have selected as an infrastructure partner for their popular music streaming service. Up until now, it appears Spotify has been managing that hardware burden themselves via multiple providers and data centers (including Amazon Web Services for whom they were an ). However the mu... |
Here’s What It’s Like To Set Up An On-Demand Geofilter On Snapchat | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Yesterday . The new on-demand geofilters let anyone pay Snapchat to create and distribute a custom filter in a specific area for a set time. We wanted to see how quick and easy it was to launch a custom filter, so we decided to create one at TechCrunch HQ in San Francisco. Here’s what the process was like. Go and cl... |
CloudFlare’s New Domain Registry Protects Site Owners From Domain Hijacking | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | , the security-focused content delivery network, already protects its customers from DDoS attacks and other attacks, but today, the company is taking another step to ensure its customers remain in control of their sites. CloudFlare is launching a domain registry service — CloudFlare Registrar — that protects high-profi... |
Fitbit Remains The Worldwide Leader In Wearables, But Xiaomi Is Quickly Gaining | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Fitbit has long been the king of wearables and released today says James Park and Co. still wear the crown. But Xiaomi is quickly gaining power. A lot of power. Fitbit managed to ship 21 million devices in 2015, up 93.2% over 2014’s amount of 10.9 million units. That said, even by shipping nearly twice as many units,... |
With 12 Other Active Cases, The FBI Can’t Claim That It’s Just About One iPhone | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | the Department of Justice have used a strong narrative to defend their case in the dispute between the FBI and Apple. The FBI wants Apple to unlock an iPhone 5c belonging to one of the terrorists involved in the San Bernardino shooting. According to the FBI, it’s just about one iPhone. And yet, that argument doesn’t h... |
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Nova Powers Your Sales Leads With Artificially Intelligent Personalization | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 23 | Sometimes generating leads is about finding connections wherever you can. “I went to school at X too!” “X is a great cause, my brother has done some work with them also.” And so on and so forth. The problem for salespeople is braving the firehose of information available online to find these connection points easily an... |
IBM Launches Quarks Open Source Development Tool To Build Efficient IoT Apps | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | introduced a new open source development tool today called Quarks, which is supposed to help manufacturers and programmers develop efficient applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data. Quarks is actually based on the , a proprietary enterprise tool for processing large amounts of live data, but it’s b... |
Well-Funded Fundrise Fires CFO, Citing Extortion Attempt | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | It’s strange days for , a Washington, D.C.-based crowdfunding platform that allows a range of investors to fund commercial real estate projects. Earlier today, The Real Deal, an outlet that covers New York real estate news, an which states that Fundrise has fired its mortgage REIT’s chief financial officer and tre... |
Line Is Closing MixRadio, The Streaming Service It Bought From Microsoft | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | Messaging app firm in December 2014 and now, just over a year later, it is closing the music streaming service after deeming that its business isn’t financially viable. Line has existing music services that are live in its home market of and , one of its largest markets where it has over 30 million users, so it’s ... |
IBM Launches New Mainframe With Focus On Security And Hybrid Cloud | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | Mainframes aren’t dead yet. is launching a new version of its mainframe for mid-sized enterprises today that introduces a number of new security features. With up to 4 TB of RAM, the z13s also supports 8x as much memory as IBM’s previous single-frame mainframes. IBM also says the z13s offers faster processing speed... |
Synology Brings Its First Router To The U.S. | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | isn’t exactly a household name in the U.S. yet, but the Taiwanese company is definitely trying to make more of a name for itself here. The company has long offered its various , but now it’s also bringing its first router (the RT1900ac) to the U.S. market. The Synology router is now available in the U.S. for a sugges... |
Chat App Company Tango, Valued At Over $1 Billion, Makes More Layoffs | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | Messaging app Tango has made further layoffs as new CEO Eric Setton continues to orchestrate changes in a bid to transform the struggling company’s fortunes. Setton, who , — a back-to-basics messaging service and a social networking app — earlier this month. On Friday, that 20 percent of Tango’s team would exit th... |
The Savioke Robot Is Headed To A Hotel Near You | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | When I’m in a hotel room I like absolute privacy. After all, calling upon Baphomet and/or playing Firewatch takes absolute concentration and I don’t want humans intruding on my reverie. That’s why the folks at are building the Relay. The creators of the Relay all took part in the robotics incubator Willow Garage and ... |
Palantir Acquires Kimono Labs For Its Web-Scraping Service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | , a Y Combinator-backed that helps developers without having to write their own scrapers, has been acquired by . The company made the announcement on its website today, and Kimono co-founder confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch. Neither Palantir nor Kimono disclosed any financial details of the transaction, b... |
For $499, You Can Buy Your Kids A Little Tesla Model S From Radio Flyer | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | and — yep, the company best known for the little red that parents all over the U.S. use to drag their kids around their neighborhoods — are about to launch a little electric Model S for kids.
The $499 Model S for Kids is now and is scheduled to ship in May. Like any good Tesla, the Model S for Kids is obviously... |
Astonishment, Expectations And Reality In User Experience | Benjamin Brandall | 2,016 | 2 | 15 |
After my recent article about , I was lucky enough to get an interview request from , a (UX) designer with serious credentials including TEDx, Apple and Google. During the interview, I went into terrified rambling mode. Holly is putting together a kind of primer for those involved in UX design called . The ide... |
Combatant Gentlemen, A Runaway Startup Hit For Men’s Clothing, Launches App | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | , of a new generation of startup consumer clothing brands, has . The men’s clothing e-tailer and content creator has been a favorite of millennial men who’re looking to upgrade their wardrobe beyond , and , and now those fellas have yet another way to buy the company’s traditionally inspired Italian wool suits (w... |
These Are Almost Certainly Samsung’s Next Galaxy Phones: Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Leak All Over | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | We’re about a week out from Mobile World Congress, the big trade show where just about everyone-but-Apple traditionally shows off their new flagship phones for the next year. More often than not, the biggest MWC announcements leak out a bit earlier than intended… and sure enough, it looks like Samsung’s stuff has leake... |
Multicast, Big Phones And The Appification Of The Web And TV | Simon Khalaf | 2,016 | 2 | 15 |
Last year was another groundbreaking period of the mobile revolution. Overall app usage grew by 58 percent, driven largely by personalization, media and productivity apps. What’s interesting is the majority of this growth came from existing users, providing that mobile addicts — users that launch apps more than 60 ti... |
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Arielle Zuckerberg On Her First Six Months In VC At KPCB | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 2 | 15 |
Following reporting on Arielle Zuckerberg’s entrance into the world of venture with , we thought it would be fascinating to check in with her to see how her first 6 months in venture has been. In what turned out to be a refreshingly honest interview we discussed the hardest elements of the transition in venture; w... |
The Serious Business Of Play | Doug Renert | 2,016 | 2 | 15 |
“The next big thing will start out looking like a toy.” At least according to A16Z partner Chris Dixon. He the phrase to explain why incumbents often confuse new, disruptive threats to their businesses with trivial gimmicks. But what if the next big thing doesn’t just look like a toy, but actually is one? Last year... |
Eight Lessons From The Hoverboard Craze | Benjamin Joffe | 2,016 | 2 | 15 |
Who hasn’t seen someone ride one yet, or heard of their ? As active investors in hardware startups and at the forefront of the craze in Shenzhen where most of the world’s hoverboards are born, here is our take on the phenomenon. Hoverboard? Smart scooter? Self-balancing board? Mini-Segway? These devices boomed eve... |
Extra Early-Bird Prices For Disrupt NY 2016 Are Ending Soon | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | Extra early-bird tickets to the show are available now through Friday, February 19, so if you want to save a few hundred bucks on tickets you’re already going to buy anyway, now is the time to act. Tickets cost $1,795 per person, a full $1,200 off the final ticket price and $200 off the normal early-bird pricing of $1,... |
Thousands Bought Kanye West’s New Album, But Never Received Their Download | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | Digital music service , thanks to scoring the exclusive rights to Kanye West’s new album, “The Life of Pablo” – but that release hasn’t exactly been going as planned. Twitter today is filled with complaints from consumers who claimed they paid for the album, but never received the download. TechCrunch staff has experi... |
Infinite Sunset Is A Beautiful Instagram Hack For Sunsetholics | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | It’s true, I’m addicted to sunsets. At this point, my entire Instagram account is just . But it looks like I’m not the only one. is a neat little Instagram hack that pulls sunset pictures from Instagram to put together an ever-changing, infinite sunset. Behind the scene, and have built a tiny algorithm that sear... |
Slaask Creates A Customer Contact Widget That Connects To Slaack | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 15 | You like customers. You like Slack. You like talking on Slack. You like to talk to customers on Slack. You like sandwiches. How do you connect all of these things (except the sandwiches.) . Slaask, we can only assume, means Slack-as-a-service. It was created by Alexis Lewalle and “ex-professional horse rider” Remi Del... |
Earnings Review: Groupon Spikes, Pandora Mixed and Twitter’s Flat User Growth | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | It’s over! (Nearly.) This week was the last set of big earnings reports, barring a few happening early March — Square and Box, to be exact. It was a wild week, to be sure. Groupon (surprise!) beat expectations, sending the stock soaring. Pandora was reportedly in buyout talks, and had a mixed quarter, giving the comp... |
Apple Music Tops 11 Million Subscribers; iCloud Reaches 782 Million | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | At the beginning of this year, Apple Music had , according to a report from the Financial Times. Now, Apple SVP Eddy Cue has confirmed this figure. In fact, he gave a more precise number – the company has just passed over 11 million subscribers, he says. This tidbit and more were revealed on John Gruber’s “The Talk Sh... |
Apple Will Update The iPhone’s Remote App To Do Everything Apple TV’s Own Remote Can | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | Back in October of 2015, Apple released a long awaited hardware update to the Apple TV — and with it, a shiny new Apple TV remote. You could speak to the remote to issue voice commands (“Siri, play Pitch Perfect 2. Yes, again. Don’t judge me, Siri. You don’t know me.”) and flick around a built-in trackpad for quick nav... |
How Tech Can Shut Down Patent Trolls | Ken Seddon | 2,016 | 2 | 12 |
The trolls of mythology can be conquered with lightning, church bells or heroic cunning, but shutting down today’s patent trolls requires a more comprehensive approach. Patent trolls, more formally known as Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), pose a major threat to American businesses. A study revealed that more than... |
Soylent, The Easiest Thing To Tear Open Since CDs | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | I’m a believer. If you know me personally, this may be hard for you to understand, given that my favorite foods are bread and cheese and that I feel Seamless should always win Best Overall Startup at the every year until eternity. My love for Soylent — credited to both the taste and to the overall effect it has on ... |
Survios’ First-Person Shooter Shows How Addictive VR Will Be | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | I want to play again. My arms are sore from shooting a virtual bow-and-arrow and slashing robots with a lightsaber. My heart is racing from dodging drone missiles and defending my teammate. And my mind is spinning from the possibilities. I want to play again. And I won’t be the only one. The game is called Raw Data b... |
Apple’s First Original TV Series Could Star Dr. Dre | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | According to , Beats co-founder and Apple executive Dr. Dre will be starring in and producing his own six-show original series called . The semi-autobiographical storyline is rumored to be distributed via Apple Music, includes other celebrities like Sam Rockwell and Mo McCrae, and contains “an orgy scene”. Last year... |
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