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AWS Bolsters High Performance Computing Offering With NICE Acquisition | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | attempted to enhance its g today when it purchased NICE, an Italian software and services company for an undisclosed price. NICE provides a set of tools and technologies that were attractive to AWS, and brings with it an international clientele, which should help AWS expand its market with a set of customers who have... |
Family App Life360 Acquires Couple, A Private Messaging App For Two | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | , the mobile application designed for families, announced today that it has acquired the private messaging application and Y Combinator grad (formerly known as Pair), based in Mountain View. Not a pure talent acquisition, Life360 sees Couple as being a potential initial entry point into its larger platform, which now... |
Google Is Finally Killing Picasa | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | It hasn’t made sense for Google to continue to invest in two separate photo storage and sharing applications, as it has been doing with the newer Google Photos and the dated software Picasa. And now the company is finally going to do something about that: Google this morning that it will no longer support the Picasa ... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | This week, Twitter rolled out its new algorithmic timeline, Tesla confirmed the price of its next car, Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad exited the company and on the science front, gravitational waves were detected in space. TechCrunch held the 9th Annual Crunchies awards show, which you can . Or, you can just . These are ... |
Newcomer Rocket Lab Secures Spire As Their Next Customer | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | , the venture capital- space start up, is constructing the first private launch range in the world. The company told TechCrunch that they have secured as their next customer for a launch later this year. While Rocket Lab has yet to fly their first commercial mission, Spire has made an agreement with the launch provi... |
Sendbird Looks To Help Developers Add Chat Functions To Any App | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | When John Kim and his team were working on a community-based application called — which was designed to connect nearby moms — they ran into a problem: They wanted to integrate messaging, but couldn’t find an off-the-shelf solution they liked. They ended up building one themselves, and that led a bunch of friends to as... |
UK High Court Rules In Google’s Favor In Anticompetitive Maps Case | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | While Google continues facing multiple , the company will be cheered today by a U.K. High Court decision that has ruled in its favor on a specific anticompetitive complaint. The case in question was filed by UK mapping company Streetmap , which accused Google of abusing a dominant position to promote its mapping serv... |
SEO Doesn’t Have To Be A Shot In The Dark | Dmitry Dragilev | 2,016 | 2 | 12 |
To many startups, search engine optimization (SEO) is a task that sits on their company’s back burner. With features to launch and customers to support, the idea of spending time fiddling with your title tags can seem like a fool’s errand. That’s especially true when there’s no guarantee that your hard work will resu... |
Flipagram Adds Direct Messaging To Share Photo Stories Privately | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | As the world’s big messaging apps add to keep their users , other apps are in the hopes of creating more stickiness of their own. In the latest development, , the app that lets you sew together pictures and video snippets with one minute of music to create packaged stories, has added a direct messaging feature. N... |
Rakuten Writes Down $340M In Assets, Shutters Marketplaces In Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | Japan-headquartered e-commerce firm from a range of businesses, including its Kobo e-reader division and France-based e-commerce site PriceMinister, and announced plans to close a number of global operations as part of a new strategic focus. its latest financial results today, and they weren’t great. Net profit for ... |
Microsoft’s New App “Fetch!” Tells You What Kind Of Dog You Are (And It Can ID Your Dog, Too) | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | Even Microsoft’s new image recognition app has no idea what kind of dog I have. If you don’t own a mixed-breed mutt saved from the kill shelter, however, you might have fun with the company’s latest Microsoft Garage project: a new iPhone app that looks at photos of dogs to identify its breed. Or, in the case when it... |
YouTube Acquires BandPage For $8M To Attract Musicians With Money-Making Tools | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | YouTube wants to win the love of musicians by solving their biggest problem: how to turn popularity into cash. So today it announced it’s , a startup that helps artists show off and sell concert tickets, merchandise, and exclusive fan experiences. BandPage founder and CEO J Sider [Update: According to a source famil... |
Uber Picks Up Another $200M From LetterOne To Push Into Emerging Markets | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 12 | Along with its , it looks like Uber has picked up some new funding, too. (L1), a fund based out of Luxembourg and headed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, is into the transportation and logistics juggernaut to help it push further into emerging markets. This is a new, strategic investment, rather than a past... |
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How DHL Pioneered The Sharing Economy | Ryan Petersen | 2,016 | 2 | 13 |
started its business by offering free plane tickets to people on street. For trouble of giving up their baggage allowances, passengers were handed a free round-trip plane ticket to Hawaii. Founded as a courier service in 1969, used spare capacity in travelers’ luggage to transport high-value documents. To un... |
The Probable, The Possible, The Delusional | Eric Paley | 2,016 | 2 | 13 |
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy that before the end of the decade, America would put a man on the moon. This was not an empty political promise to get elected, but a commitment of a sitting president boldly exposing himself to political ridicule in the face of failure. If we can take ourselves back to that momen... |
Imagining Snapchat’s Future | D.J. Sherrets | 2,016 | 2 | 13 |
However, messaging is arguably the core of the social experience now and even more so going forward. A reason is that messaging has become used by more people than social feeds and because messaging can help enable a range of different activities including applications and commerce. I don’t know what constraints and... |
Seeing Beyond The Hubris Of Facebook’s Free Basics Fiasco | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 2 | 13 |
At the moment, Facebook is being compared to the treacherous East India Company, and director Marc Andreessen is being accused of being anti-Indian, a racist, and worse. It wouldn’t surprise me if Indian activists launch a “Quit India” movement to expel Facebook from India, modeled on Mahatma Gandhi’s efforts against... |
It’s True, Black Female Founders Receive Basically Zero Venture Capital | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 13 | In “ ,” a recent report by #ProjectDiane, you’ll come across several startling statistics like, for example, of all venture deals from 2012 to 2014, only 0.2% (24 of 10,238 deals) went to went to black female founders. In researching the state of black women in tech, #ProjectDiane examined over 60,000 startups and iden... |
What New Mobile Hardware To Expect At MWC 2016 | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 13 | Mobile World Congress, the biggest tradeshow specifically focused on mobile, kicks off in just over a week’s time in Barcelona so here’s a quick rundown of some of the big hardware-focused announcements we’re expecting to land during the best part of a week of fully mobile-focused news… The big reveal for Samsung will ... |
How To Expand Your Marketplace To LA | Arteen Arabshahi | 2,016 | 2 | 13 |
is diversity.” That is what DoorDash’s Kevin Huang told me in our conversation about how expanding on-demand marketplaces into Los Angeles differs from other markets. As an L.A.-based enterprise and marketplace investor, one of the most common questions I get from entrepreneurs is how to expand marketplaces into L.A... |
The Health Sector Needs Tech Giants | Carla Smith | 2,016 | 2 | 14 |
Big companies around the world have made – with varying degrees of success – plays at breaking into the health sector. Google and Apple are prime examples. Today, there are several technology and retail giants moving into health and healthcare that will surely cause disruptions, and push the sector further faster tow... |
When Data Goes Bad | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 2 | 13 | So I know this guy Sulemaan from my Toronto days. Really good guy, despite being a Spurs fan. Sulemaan has a son, Syed, who is flagged as a security risk, a suspected terrorist, every time he flies. Syed is six years old. This is, of course, completely insane. But the data has been parsed; the algorithm has spoken; and... |
Unscaling Energy | Hemant Taneja | 2,016 | 2 | 13 |
Solving climate change is the biggest opportunity for entrepreneurs in our generation. In fact, the planet’s best hope lies in unleashing startups to unbundle and “unscale” the global energy industry. So far, almost all the conversation and policy-making around climate change has focused on austerity — some mix of sa... |
Baidu-Owned Qiyi Could Go Private In Deal Valuing Chinese Video Site At $2.8B | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | China’s online video wars are heating up again. Last year, , the country’s largest YouTube-like video portal, in a major $3.5 billion deal, and now there’s more happenings in the space after Baidu received an offer to sell its majority share in close rival . Baidu, best known for its search technology and investment ... |
Tidal Tops U.S. App Store After Landing Exclusive Rights To Kanye West’s New Album | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | After scoring exclusive streaming rights to Kanye West’s new album, The Life of Pablo, Tidal has taken over the number one spot on the U.S. App Store. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699089796690534401 The album, which went live yesterday, was originally supposed to be available for streaming on Tidal’s platform, ... |
Apple May Ditch Samsung For Next iPhone Chip | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | Apple and Samsung have been asymmetric competitors for years, fighting to grab smartphone market share and partnering when it comes to chips. According to a recent report from , TSMC (the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) will be the only company manufacturing the A10 for the next iPhone. Samsung won’t be wo... |
Gravitational Helps Deliver Software On-Prem And In Cloud From Single Code Base | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | , a graduate of the Y Combinator 2015 class set out solve a very difficult problem for companies — how to deliver software in the cloud and on-premises from a single code base. Without a solution like the one from Gravitational, companies would have to maintain two sets of code, which is simply too costly for most comp... |
View-Master Shows Off Updated Version Of Its Iconic Virtual Reality Viewer | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | Mattel’s Virtual Reality headset is getting some new upgrades that will likely cement it as one of the best Cardboard viewers on the market when it launches this fall. It was just last week that the viewer earned the milestone designation of being the of virtual reality-focused hardware to be sold in-store and onli... |
Black Future Month And The Tech Community Redrawing Silicon Valley’s Racial Lines | Sarah Kunst | 2,016 | 2 | 14 |
players suited up and took the field to play in the NFL’s 50th Super Bowl. Walker & Co. chief executive Tristan Walker The more diversity in the ecosystem, the more it proves the value of diversity as well. Entrepreneur and investor “The black tech network has proven that there is valuable talent in the minority p... |
The New Face Of Behavior Change | Glen de Vries | 2,016 | 2 | 14 |
In 1994, I eagerly accepted my first full-time position in research at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Part of my job was to find patients willing to participate in a prostate cancer study. After meeting these men, I got a glimpse of how their diagnoses had changed their lives. Specifically, I observed a ... |
The Apple Watch Is On Sale Again, But It Doesn’t Mean A Watch 2 Is Coming Just Yet | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | The Apple Watch is now available with a $100 discount , , Target and possibly other stores. For instance, the 38mm Sport model now costs $249 and the 42mm version costs $299. You might think that it means that the Apple Watch 2 is right around the corner, but . Instead, it seems like Apple wants to grab market share... |
Worse Than A Cold Call? Polar Bear Pitching In The Arctic Circle | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 2 | 14 |
To make the most of its grey, rainy, cold and often freezing winter, the good folks in the Finnish have found a way to combine the wintry landscape, frozen Baltic Sea and eager startups into an annual pitching event. The people of Finland have an intimate relationship with ice holes and it’s customary to take a dip ... |
The Land Of Milk, Honey And Fraud Prevention | Barak Rabinowitz | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | null |
Making Sense Of The Valuation Disequilibrium | Nino Marakovic | 2,016 | 2 | 14 |
As we enter the second month of 2016, the Nasdaq is down more than 10 percent already this year and high-growth stocks are down even more. There hasn’t been a tech IPO yet this year, and the press is declaring the end of the unicorn era. Public market investors are “selling growth” and searching for value. From our v... |
Razer Raises At A $1.5B Valuation, With $75M From China’s Digital Grid For Immersive Gaming | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | , the gaming technology company based out of Southern California, has raised another round of funding, a Series C that values it at $1.5 billion, TechCrunch has learned. The backing comes in part from China, specifically the Digital Grid subsidiary of IT company Hangzhou Liaison Interactive. Yesterday, Hangzhou (a li... |
Listen To The Apprentice’s Vana Koutsomitis Talk Online Dating, And Doing Reality TV | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 2 | 14 | It’s Valentine’s Day, so what better time to interview , the self-proclaimed dating expert and finalist of this year’s U.K. version of The Apprentice. Koutsomitis almost certainly qualifies as a serial entrepreneur, having previously founded The CityStreet, a sort of Facebook for the banking and financial services sec... |
Toshiba Nixes Wearvue, Its Smart Glasses, Less Than One Week Before Launch | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | has canceled its smart glasses less than one week before the devices were to start shipping. In an announcement today, the Japanese electronics company said it made the decision to stop developing and selling Wearvue TG-1 as part of an effort to streamline its business portfolio and operations. The firm is struggling ... |
SpaceX’s SES-9 Launch And Why They Land Rockets At Sea | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | This Wednesday at 6:46 pm EST, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the SES-9 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida with their Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The mission will mark the company’s second launch of the year. Wednesday’s mission will be coupled with a first stage landing attempt on SpaceX’s autonomous dr... |
Investors, Entrepreneurs Upbeat On Energy Storage, China And The Internet Of Things | Ankit Mishra | 2,016 | 2 | 22 |
For the last 15 years, the Cleantech Forum has been organized by the . Most recently it took place in San Francisco on January 25-27, 2016. Energy storage, China and the Internet of Things (IoT) were key topics at the forum, with investors and entrepreneurs confident on their respective futures. Energy storage, in p... |
‘A Small Number’ Of Rift Pre-Orders Were Just Canceled By Oculus | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | With the first orders of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset slated to arrive in just over a month, a number of those with pre-orders awoke this morning to the disturbing discovery that their orders had been abruptly canceled. Many of the reported instances seem to point to the fact that buyers were aiming to have ... |
“Space Music” Heard On The Far Side Of The Moon And The Science Behind It | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | Boy, that sure is weird music. We’re going to have to find out about that. Nobody will believe us. -Apollo 10 transcript This weekend, the Science Channel released the preview for their newest episode of that told the story of Apollo astronauts who heard weird sounds during their trip around the moon. The “space mus... |
Is Smartphone Innovation All Tapped Out? | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | A panel session probing the perennial heads or tails of mobile device commoditization vs mobile device innovation here at MWC 2016 earlier today heard an interesting range of views. Speakers ran the gamut of mobile makers big and small (Samsung, Motorola/Lenovo and Wileyfox), through to chipset maker Qualcomm, alternat... |
“Tough Sledding” For New And “Marginal” Funds In 2016, Says LP | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | Most institutional investors are notoriously circumspect. Chris Douvos is not like most institutional investors. In fact, Douvos, a managing director with — a fund of funds group that commits capital to venture capital, growth capital, and private equity groups — is very opinionated comparatively. It’s a refreshing q... |
Three Things The Tech Industry Has Right And The Medical Industry Has Wrong | Dr. Shantanu Gaur | 2,016 | 2 | 22 |
It seems like there’s no shortage of online apps and services to make life and business easier. You can stream movies in your own home, pay parking tickets with the tap of a finger and plan a world adventure from the comfort of your couch. But when it comes to healthcare, you’re living in the past. While medicine is ... |
Mark Suster On Falling Valuations And LA’s Tech Scene | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | TechCrunch sat down with Mark Suster, managing partner at Upfront Ventures. One of the most active investors in Los Angeles, Suster spoke of how local startups are able to draw upon the city’s creative talent to bring content, commerce and communication platforms to the next level. He also commented on falling tech v... |
Fitbit Plummets 16% In After-Hours Trading | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | While the company has managed to excel in the fitness tech category, growing competition from smartwatches meant that some early adopters are making the switch from Fitbit to Apple Watch. Fitbit went public on the New York Stock Exchange last June, pricing its shares at $20. The stock closed Monday at $16.48 and the co... |
The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Coming To BK, So You Can Have It Your Way! | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | Boy, am I excited! The is coming to the greatest place in the world: Brooklyn, New York. I live in Brooklyn, and travel all over the country to visit cities with awesome startups. Now, I’m happy to announce that you guys are finally coming to me. The will go down on March 1 at 6pm ET at Output, a pretty happening b... |
Virtual Reality In The Enterprise | Sean Jacobsohn | 2,016 | 2 | 22 |
This year is already shaping up to be the year (VR) goes mainstream. In January, Oculus Rift stole the spotlight at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by (finally) announcing a . HTC and Sony have also confirmed launch dates for their headsets in the first half of 2016, and Google announced they are ... |
Uber Says Kalamazoo Driver Had 4.73 Rating, Completed Over 100 Rides | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | Uber just hosted a conference call regarding Uber driver Jason Dalton, who is suspected in the . That night, Dalton allegedly picked up Uber passengers in between shootings. The call, which includes Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, and Ed Davis and Margaret Richardson of Uber’s safety advisory board, has touch... |
Facebook “Birthday Cam” Encourages Videos, Not Robotic Wall Posts | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | Birthdays on Facebook have become a dystopian chore. Typing “HBD” or just “Happy Birthday!” on a friend’s profile is basically the least human way to interact with them. So Facebook is pushing people to record more intimate greetings with its new Birthday Cam feature launching today on iOS. A banner on the birthday boy... |
Amazon Brings X-Ray To Web Video | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | Amazon’s X-Ray for Movies and TV Shows – the feature that brings additional content, like actor bios and other background information – is now available on Amazon Video and Prime Video on the web. HTML5 was actually one of the few major platforms Amazon had yet to address with this version of X-Ray, as support is alrea... |
Every Angle Of The New Samsung Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | [gallery columns="6" ids="1281226,1281240,1281239,1281242,1281241,1281238,1281237,1281236,1281235,1281234,1281233,1281232,1281231,1281230,1281228,1281227,1281225,1281224,1281223,1281222,1281221,1281220,1281219,1281217,1281216,1281215,1281214,1281213,1281212,1281211,1281210,1281209,1281208,1281207,1281206,1281205"] Sams... |
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Skype Kills Its Standalone Video Messaging App Qik | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | , Microsoft’s attempt at spinning off video messaging into , is shutting down. The app was first introduced in fall 2014 to serve a different audience than the larger, more fully-featured, Skype application. Instead of offering real-time chat, screen sharing and audio and video calling, Qik was designed only for async... |
Apple Hires Developer Behind Signal, Edward Snowden’s Favorite Secure Chat App | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Apple hires plenty of interns all year round, but one particular addition revealed this week caught the eye given the company’s current position opposing a controversial order to enable the FBI to access the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. , a Switzerland-based developer who worked to develop secure ... |
Apple Changed Its Site’s Code So The Word “click” Doesn’t Look Like… | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | If you squint, you can see how the word “click” might look inappropriate. But Apple’s too prim and proper for that. So when it wanted the tagline for its new desktop operating system El Capitan to be “There’s more to love with every click”, it made a tiny, hilarious to its . By adding a little extra spacing between e... |
This Little Bluetooth Sensor Shouts The Second Anyone Tries To Move Your Stuff | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 2 | 22 | Uh oh. You’re three cups of coffee into a busy work day, and you’re starting to get the ol’ caffeine rumble gut. But you don’t want to give up your table at the coffee shop. It’s . “Hey, can you watch my stuff?” you say to the nearest complete stranger who doesn’t look like they’d love a shiny new laptop. is an itty-... |
The Politics Of The Internet Of Things | Dominique Guinard | 2,016 | 2 | 25 |
The prospective scale of the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to fill anyone looking from the outside with the technical equivalent of agoraphobia. However, from the inside, the view is very different. Looked at in detail, it is a series of intricate threads being aligned by a complex array of organizations... |
Barriers To Augmented Reality Are Holding Us Back From The Holodeck | Justin Hendrix | 2,016 | 2 | 25 |
There is more money and talent invested in virtual and augmented reality than ever before. Indeed, more than $3.5 billion has been invested into virtual and augmented reality startups in the past two years. The industry is growing fast; Goldman Sachs suggests the combined hardware and software market for VR and AR wi... |
Apple Files Motion To Vacate The Court Order To Force It To Unlock iPhone, Citing Constitutional Free Speech Rights | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | with Apple executives today, TechCrunch was informed that Apple had filed a motion to vacate in the case of the FBI compelling Apple to assist in unlocking an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook. The executive said that “within hours” Apple had provided the information requested by the government on December 6 and again o... |
Meet Brain, The AI Engine That Wants To Replace Search | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Fifteen miles away from where Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked out of their first office developing the technology that would become Google, a team of eleven engineers no older than 20 are hard at work on developing what they hope will be its replacement. Their adoptive home, for the moment, is the co-working space Ti... |
Opera CEO: Sale To Chinese Consortium Wasn’t Our Decision | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | After months of rumor, finally confirmed two weeks ago that its board had from a consortium of Chinese firms for the price of $1.2 billion. I had a chance to sit down this week at MWC with Lars Boilesen, the CEO of Opera, and Håkon Wium Lie, the company’s CTO and inventor of cascading style sheets (CSS). In this wi... |
Pro-ISIS Hacker Group Video Threatens Twitter, Facebook CEOs Over Account Suspensions | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Twitter and Facebook have recently claimed to be stepping up their fights against extremist content being hosted on their platforms. Indeed, there is that certain tactics to counter extremists’ appropriation of mainstream social media platforms — such as Twitter deploying repeat account suspensions — is having an imp... |
Mark Zuckerberg Asks Employees To Stop Crossing Out “Black Lives Matter” On Facebook’s Walls | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is asking his employees to stop being ignorant and racist (my words, not his). In an , Zuckerberg said he was disappointed by the “several recent instances of people crossing out ‘black lives matter’ and writing ‘all lives matter’ on the walls at MPK.” MPK, one of Facebook’s buildings in M... |
Tablets Are Dead | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | were supposed to be the new hot thing. Apple released the first iPad, Samsung was working on the and countless others were about to flood the market with Android tablets. Six years later, there weren’t any tablets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Companies and consumers have moved on. Tablets are dead. To be f... |
Netflix Now Testing Autoplaying Trailers | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Netflix is again testing how to best integrate teaser trailers into its user experience. At Mobile World Congress, a test of autoplaying video trailers that would begin to play when users hovered over a title. But the company is also quietly testing a different format of teaser trailer, as well. Some Netflix members ... |
Facebook Officially Launches Canvas Ads That Load Full-Screen Rich Media Pages In-App | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Instant Articles, meet Instant Ads. Facebook wants to give advertisers an immersive way to reach people without making them leave the social network. So today it for all advertisers. When users click a Facebook News Feed ad connected to Canvas, it opens a full-screen, rich media page inside of Facebook rather than fo... |
Turing Robotics Drops Android And Sets Up Shop In Finland Amid Global Security Concerns | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 2 | 25 |
California-based secure smartphone manufacturer announced that it will move manufacturing and its new global headquarter to the Finnish city of Salo. Turing’s decision is rooted in security concerns. “Finland’s Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications which safeguards confidentiality and privac... |
Zumper Acquires PadMapper And Relaunches It With An Updated Interface | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | , the apartment rental platform that , has , the popular map-centric apartment rentals site that was once embroiled in a with Craigslist. The acquisition actually closed in January and the combined Zumper and PadMapper teams used the last few weeks to build updated versions of both PadMapper’s Android and iOS a... |
Microsoft Begins Making Progress On Nadella’s Broad Security Vision | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Last fall, Mr. Nadella came to Washington and in a comprehensive speech in the enterprise. Today, the company made a series of announcements from Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer Bret Arsenault that starts to bring that vision into clearer focus. It’s probably not a coincidence that the company is makin... |
In The Apple Encryption Debate, Can We Just Have The Facts Please? | Jeff Kosseff | 2,016 | 2 | 25 |
I’m about to take a radical position in the encryption debate between Apple and the FBI: I’m undecided. As Apple and federal law enforcement continue to hurl rhetoric about encryption, one thing has become crystal clear: today’s encryption debate is neither healthy nor well-informed. Encryption’s role in privacy – an... |
YouTube Now Lets You Blur Random Objects In Videos | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | Back in 2012, YouTube added a new feature that allows you to automatically . Today, it’s going . You can now draw a rectangle around any object in a video, and YouTube will then blur it and automatically follow it as it moves through a scene. That means you can now easily blur any kind of sensitive information that y... |
New Levitating 3D Printing Technology Prints In Mid-Air | John Biggs | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | [youtube=https://youtu.be/xNUQ8EpHC-g] Imagine printing something with multiple print heads while the object in question was floating in space. Please. Imagine it because I have no idea what is going on here. A new “levitating” 3D printing technology pioneered by Boeing uses a central nugget of magnetic material. The n... |
Examining The Top 4 Fintech Predictions For This Year And Beyond | David Klein | 2,016 | 2 | 25 |
Alongside “Unicorn” and “Grexit/Brexit,” “Fintech” was considered one of the But fintech isn’t a newcomer to this list — and for good reason. For a few years now, fintech companies have . They are building tech-enabled financial platforms that serve consumers better than traditional financial institutions, and cons... |
CREXi Brings Commercial Real Estate Dealmaking Online | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 2 | 25 | It’s a familiar pitch — taking an industry that relies on outdated technology and rethinking it with modern, web-based tools. The industry in this case is commercial real estate, and the startup trying to rethink the process is , whose name stands for commercial real estate exchange. To be clear, it’s far from the onl... |
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New HTC Vive headsets with enhanced ‘design factor, performance’ are on the way | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Though the HTC Vive has only been on sale for a few months, the company may be gearing up to show off an updated model of their Vive virtual reality headset. In a discussion regarding the company’s future virtual reality plans, Rikard Steiber, SVP of Virtual Reality at HTC, told TechCrunch that new Vive virtual reality... |
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How Yo inspired the Jonas Brothers to create apps | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Remember that silly app, Yo, where you could ping someone with just a tap? Well, Kevin Jonas does. At the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York, the Jonas brothers talked about why they are creating apps. After seeing the Yo app , Kevin said it made launching startups look easy. “If they could do that, look wha... |
Why a design mindset matters | Gian Paolo Bassi | 2,016 | 11 | 3 |
Engineers become engineers because they like to figure out how things fit together, literally and figuratively. This is not always entirely true, but usually. The lines are blurring between traditional engineers who make designs real and the designers who can now “engineer.” Technology is now allowing anyone with a d... |
Watch the full series of “The Down Round” | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Silicon Valley is like no other place in the world right now. The Bay Area has been booming with ideas and innovation for the past decade. But in 2016, the IPO market wilted and unicorns suddenly had to prove their worth. Startups that had raised hundreds of millions of dollars began shuttering and investors are nervou... |
Arcadia Power launches a solar energy service for renters across the U.S. | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | The renewable energy services company has just launched a new product that allows renters across the U.S. to buy renewable energy. It’s a significant step forward for the renewable energy project developer and operator, which had previously integrated with utilities as an offset provider and load management company. A... |
On-demand birth control delivery startup Nurx raises $5.3 million from Union Square Ventures | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Out of the pill? is a web platform delivering birth control in less than a couple of hours, and it just raised $5.3 million in Series A financing from . The startup launched in 2014 to bridge the gap between running out of birth control and waiting to get a new prescription. It delivery of PrEP, an anti-HIV medicat... |
Planetary Resources mines Luxembourg for $28M in asteroid-hunting funds | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | The aspiring asteroid miners at Planetary Resources have struck pay dirt in Luxembourg, the tiny (but wealthy) European country positioning itself as an ally to commercial space. The country is directly investing €12 million, with another €13 million coming from public investment bank SNCI. This investment doesn’t come... |
Adobe’s Project VoCo lets you edit speech as easily as text | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | today showed off a new experimental tool, Project VoCo, at its annual in San Diego. Project VoCo lets you edit speech as easily as text — and you can’t just edit existing text, you can even use the same voice model to create completely new recordings, too. Here is how this works: Project VoCo needs about 20 minutes ... |
2016 Mercedes-Benz C350e soothes range anxiety | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | The 2016 Mercedes-Benz C350e plug-in hybrid sedan is not a fighter. It’s not even much of a Chevy fighter. It is a very comfortable, very refined plug-in-hybrid mid-range Mercedes. So if that’s your jam, this is your car. The C350e has a 2-liter gasoline engine and a 60-kW electric motor, for a combined 275 hp and 4... |
Apartment List raises $30 million to find you a home | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | null |
GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings | John Mannes | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Expectations were already incredibly low for GoPro this go around and yet somehow the company managed to eclipse even the worst fears of analysts. The company’s stock trading was halted prior to that missed revenue expectations by 23 percent and nearly $75 million. When trading began again, shares were down 22 percen... |
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Marketing and optimization startup Zarget raises $6M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Arvind Parthiban said Zarget’s goal is to build a full suite of products for small businesses to track and optimize websites — one that could be used by “a tech-savvy marketer like me, without any coding skills.” The product’s capabiliti... |
The ransomware dilemma | Mahendra Ramsinghani | 2,016 | 11 | 3 |
More than 90 percent of all phishing emails are now ransomware. The average amount paid via ransomware has grown from $40 in 2009 to $1,000 in 2016. This amount will grow even faster as ransomware moves to enterprise. An LA-based hospital paid $17,000 and, according to FBI records, several small businesses have paid ... |
Underrepresented founders: Apply now for Include Office Hours with NEA | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | TechCrunch Include are happening in SF on November 15th! Vanessa Larco, Pete Sonsini and Rick Yang of NEA will join TechCrunch to provide advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities for underrepresented groups in tech to take their ... |
Inside Intel’s race to build a new reality | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | I n many ways, virtual reality is still a moonshot.
The $2 billion by Facebook in 2014 lent the neo-futurist hobby a decidedly shortened timeline for consumer adoption. To the tech titans operating alongside it, the purchase was a signal. Mobile’s most prominent success story was setting its eyes on what could possi... |
Facebook video pays off | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | to “put video first” is also putting money in Facebook’s pockets. The more organic videos Facebook users watch, the more high-priced video ads Facebook can slip into the feed. Now Facebook’s strategy around auto-play video, paying Live content producers and offering more creative tools is helping to propel its massive... |
In Labdoor, Floodgate sees an e-commerce giant in disguise | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Fish oil. Protein shakes. Vitamin D pills. The packages look alike. Does it matter which you buy? It certainly does, according to , a four-year-old, South San Francisco-based startup that tests about 50 supplements and energy drinks each month that it buys off retail shelves, then ranks for consumers. What it finds mi... |
Amazon’s private label brands are taking over market share | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Amazon’s investment in has been paying off, according to a new report out today. The retailer now competes with vendors via its own products in over a dozen categories, including computer accessories, home goods, pet supplies, grocery items, and more. In some categories, Amazon has even established itself as the onli... |
Sen. Al Franken asks Uber and Lyft about alleged racial discrimination against passengers | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 11 | 3 | Senator Al Franken has some questions for Uber and Lyft about racial discrimination following the that says some of those companies’ respective drivers racially discriminate against passengers. The study, , found that black people have to wait longer for rides in Seattle. In Boston, the study revealed that Uber driv... |
Facebook Messenger is testing “Instant Games” like this one from King | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Facebook Messenger is preparing to launch a new “Instant Games” platform that will let people play lightweight games against friends. Candy Crush maker King.com is already testing one of these Instant Games called “Shuffle Cats Mini” in New Zealand, TechCrunch has discovered. And other studios including Big Viking als... |
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