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WTF is crowdfunding? | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | a lightly inebriated jaguar by its tail without hitting half a dozen crowdfunding campaigns these days. Looking at some campaigns, it seems like it could be the ultimate get rich quick scheme: you dream up a harebrained idea, create a pretty video and BOOM. Make it rain. Except running a successful Kickstarter or Indi... |
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General Catalyst’s Niko Bonatsos on why timing and empathy are key to founder success | Jasper Kuria | 2,016 | 9 | 4 |
If I had to pick one, I’d timing. But again, it could be explained as foresight or genius of the founder to launch the startup at a great moment in time. The most successful companies have a confluence of factors aligning to work in their favor. Take Facebook, for example. Mark Zuckerberg founded it at a time whe... |
A former Rothenberg employee is now suing over breach of contract and more than $100K in Amex charges | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | David Haase, a former employee of the beleaguered San Francisco-based firm Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. (RVM), is suing the firm and its founder, Mike Rothenberg, saying he was asked to run up more than $100,000 in business expenses on an American Express account at the direction of Rothenberg and never repaid. I... |
Technology is finally changing the apartment rental experience | Omri Barzilay | 2,016 | 9 | 4 |
The real estate rental market is a highly localized, relationship-based industry driven largely by individuals living and working in their own cities, causing many to acknowledge the longstanding difficulty of streamlining disruption to this market. In recent years, however, that hasn’t stopped a multitude of innovat... |
Understanding the economy of the crowd | Philip Soffer | 2,016 | 9 | 4 |
When you think about crowdsourced work, you probably think about and, maybe, Uber. On the one hand, an anonymous platform where people feel like mechanical parts. On the other hand, a face-to-face platform where people are rapidly obsolescing and doomed to be . I call this the “Turk Myth,” that crowdsourced work i... |
Samsung’s smart belt is now on Kickstarter, and it’s still called WELT | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | In Berlin, it means “world.” There’s probably something to be read into that, but I’ve been here covering IFA for several days now and quite frankly, I’m coming up short. The gadget and now it’s kind of, sort of ready for prime-time. Along with its appearance on the show floor, the product has with an estimated del... |
The thing that makes IFA a hard show to cover is also its best feature | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | Today concludes my fourth IFA. Or maybe my fifth. These tech conferences tend to blend together after a while. The first time I attended the show, I hadn’t really heard of the thing, to be honest. Even this year, a number of my colleagues still hadn’t. In the U.S., IFA hasn’t risen to the ranks of a CES or even an MWC,... |
A wristband and your finger can replace your phone, but you still need a phone to use it | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | The most exciting part of Samsung’s IFA booth is also its most understated. Somewhere toward the middle of the huge, brightly lit hall are a series of tables showing off non-Samsung products, a perfect microcosm of the ways in which large electronics corporations are reaching beyond their own walls for inspiration. Not... |
What cities need to know about drones | Brooks Rainwater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 |
As drones increasingly fly through our cities in the coming years — delivering our latest order from Amazon or other on-demand retailers — the regulation of our airspace and the environment in which we co-exist with flying robots becomes more and more present and real. The conceptual shift that we have gone through —... |
And this is why VR headsets are headsets and not sunglasses | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | They fall off. A lot. And nothing rips you from the escapism of VR faster than having a pair of glasses constantly fall off the bridge of your nose. No sudden movements and you should be fine. I’m not saying never to the idea. I can certainly see a time in the not too distant future when such devices might become pract... |
We become the people in ‘WALL-E’ one VR massage chair at a time | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | Little by little, next thing you know you’re sitting in a massage chair, wearing an Oculus Rift, acting like you’re not in the middle of a crowded German trade-show floor. You can let yourself go for a few seconds at a time, and for a few seconds at a time, it kind of starts to work. You vacillate between closing your ... |
As long as robots look adorable and make us coffee, we’ll be eating out of their robotic hands | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | It doesn’t take much. For all the bluster around the conversation about Skynet and robotic overlords, we still melt when a diminutive robot flashes the slightest hint of humanity through a small set of blinking eyes — and then does something nice for us. Sony’s Xperia Agent robotic assistant captured the tech world’s a... |
If nothing else, StikBox is a good way to hide the fact that you own a selfie stick | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | What if I told you that you could hide the shame of carrying around a selfie stick, protect your smartphone have a free kickstand all in one go? How much would you pay for such a luxury? $10,000? $100,000? $8 million? Try around $40, American. The StikBox is actually a pretty solid idea that seems to work fairly well... |
Your washing machine should be smarter about washing clothes than you are | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 4 | Washing machines have always felt like a sort of necessary evil. I’m wouldn’t go so far as suggesting that no one enjoys washing clothes — heck, I find doing the dishes kind of cathartic. People are weird. But most washers feel like big, dumb machines. Machines that break down, lose our unmentionables and often ruin th... |
William Hurley on Honest Dollar’s sale to Goldman Sachs | Jordan French | 2,016 | 9 | 4 |
Faced with myriad regulatory hurdles and a changing landscape dominated by “too big to fail” banks, investors and entrepreneurs alike have traditionally shied away from fintech. But that doesn’t at all bother Whurley — born William Hurley — who once on a mind-controlled skateboard powered by an XBox Kinect. His lat... |
The biotech empires of Silicon Valley and Europe | Bérénice Magistretti | 2,016 | 9 | 4 |
As biotechnology , two hubs have emerged as hotbeds of innovation for the resurgent industry. While the two-square-mile patch of South San Francisco bustles with more than 70 biotech firms, including , and , an equally influential geography has grown along the Lemanic Arc of Switzerland and into the heart of Bas... |
Zilingo lands $8M for its marketplace for fashion sellers in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | may not be a name known to many prior to today, but the under-the-radar e-commerce company has closed an impressive $8 million Series A round to scale its fashion-focused operations in Southeast Asia. The round was led by Sequoia India, Indonesia-based Venturra Capital and Susquehanna International Group, with Wavemak... |
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 explosion, Proxima b and SETI: Listen to TCBC Episode 3 with Emily Calandrelli | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 5 |
On this week’s episode of TCBC, the podcast where TechCrunch’s writers go in-depth about the beats they love and obsess over, we talk to , our resident space reporter and the host of – season 3 of which premieres this coming Saturday on FOX. Luckily, there’s been no shortage of space news lately: , which occ... |
Intel buys computer vision startup Movidius as it looks to build up its RealSense platform | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | Intel’s RealSense platform was the star of its Intel Developer’s Forum conference in San Francisco last month and it seems the company is only looking to grow the scale and capabilities of its computer vision tech. Today, the company announced that it is acquiring the computer vision startup behind Google’s Project Tan... |
11 reasons we didn’t invest in your company | Phil Nadel | 2,016 | 9 | 5 |
Like most VCs, we often review dozens of deals each week. We have developed a funnel that enables us to quickly eliminate those that do not fit our general investment criteria (e.g. industry, stage, model). The deals that survive this initial culling process are subjected to much greater scrutiny and due diligence. T... |
The four public policy questions every startup should ask | Eric Tanenblatt | 2,016 | 9 | 5 |
Quietly incubating in dusty, ramen-scented apartments and college dorms all across the country, the brainchild of some sleep-deprived twenty-something will revolutionize our lives in ways that today seem wholly unimaginable: how we hail on-demand services, how we communicate and interact with one another, how we work... |
Blowing up on Kickstarter, Hello brings video conferencing and security to any TV | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | The $6.7 billion telepresence and video communication category hasn’t evolved much since we were introduced to Cisco and Polycom. At the same time Smart TVs are making video conferencing easier. But it’s still not easy. Hello is a new startup addressing this space — created by two former refugees from the war in Koso... |
Four reasons you really shouldn’t miss Disrupt SF, kicking off one week from today | Ned Desmond | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | starts a week from today. There’s still time to get on board, and here are a few reasons why you might be sad if you don’t. You can still . #1 , , , , . If those names got your attention, so will these: the Warriors’ Steph Curry, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, author Neal Stephenson, HBO’s creator M... |
Why the advertising industry needs to embrace AdBlock | Vinay Kumar Mysore | 2,016 | 9 | 5 |
I am now part of the problem. The advertising industry is wringing its hands and shaking its fist at the use and growth of ad-block technology, but I am not above temptation. I simply installed it. And much like the many million people who have done so already, I love it and probably won’t ever fully abandon it. So i... |
Apple rolls out its new, personalized playlists to Apple Music subscribers on iOS, macOS betas | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | Ahead of , the company has begun rolling out new, personalized music playlists to Apple Music subscribers, who are beta testing the soon-to-be-released iOS 10 mobile operating system and macOS Sierra. Originally at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple Music’s new playlists are a direct challeng... |
Garena, Southeast Asia’s most valuable tech startup, lands additional funding | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | , the games firm that is Southeast Asia’s most valuable tech startup, has closed additional funding from three new investors. They are , an affiliate of Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek, Indonesia’s , and , a Japan-based fund from Taizo Son, the younger brother of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. The amount raised... |
European VC Northzone closes €300 million fund | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | , a 20 year veteran of the European VC industry, has closed its 8th fund, capped at €300 million, which it will deploy to “early-stage” startups in the region. Specifically, these will be A, B and C rounds, and although investments will span the whole of Europe, there will be particular focus on key tech hubs, includin... |
Snapchat joins the Bluetooth SIG, fueling hardware speculation | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | Snapchat has given observers another reason to suspect it might be working on hardware – the social network company joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) according to the . The SIG industry association maintains the Bluetooth wireless standard, and membership is a necessary prerequisite for companies that ... |
Softbank has completed its £24B cash acquisition of ARM Holdings | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | One of the biggest tech deals this year — and the biggest ever in the UK — has now closed. Today, Softbank that it has completed its acquisition of ARM Holdings, the semiconductor firm that it said , in order to make a big jump into IoT. As a result, ARM will be delisted from the LSE effective September 6. Softbank h... |
Sonali De Rycker and Niklas Zennström join TechCrunch Disrupt London, Dec 5-6 | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 5 | is happening once again this December and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak. The two-day conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £... |
The invisible @apple tweet | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Here’s a silly thing because it is the ass end of a Friday. Apple just started using the Twitter account — — that they’ve had since 2011. And they’re using it to send out a tweet that promotes the Apple event next week where they’ll introduce new iPhones including a twin lens model with images that rival an SLRs in l... |
Crunch Report | SpaceX Hyperloop Test Track | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Jeremy Bloom on sports technology and his new startup show | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | The CNBC series takes a look at investment opportunities in the sports and action space — from electric bikes to underwater jet packs. The startups with successful pitches can receive investments from the show’s judges. For more of our conversation with Bloom, watch the video above. |
Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Earlier this summer to rollout a multi-process architecture, codename Electrolysis, for Firefox. In the months since, Mozilla has completed its initial tests on 1 percent of its user population and the initial numbers are good, according to Asa Dotzler, director of Firefox at Mozilla. The company is reporting a 400 pe... |
What if cybersecurity followed physics? | Ron Moritz | 2,016 | 9 | 2 |
The first cybersecurity unicorn kernel popped in late 2013 with the announcement of investment. Today, 10 privately held companies hold membership in the ultra-exclusive cybersecurity unicorn club. With the addition of each new member, eyebrows are raised and questions are asked. What underlying data supports such ... |
Samsung spills the details of its Note 7 exchange program in US | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | If you’ve got a Galaxy Note 7, you’ve probably already heard about the recall. But the specifics differ for each region, and Samsung just now for what your options are here in the land of the free. First thing you’ll want to do is go to wherever you bought your device — they’ll be doing the exchange there. Then you g... |
Airbnb releases first transparency report on government requests for user data | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Airbnb received 188 requests for users’ data from governments around the world in the first six months of this year, according to the company’s . The home-sharing company provided data in response to 82 of those requests. Airbnb is publishing a transparency report as part of its , an initiative to make the company mor... |
The billionaire’s plaything | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | James Bond has to fight a madman with his own fleet of Space Shuttles. The movie was made in 1979, a golden age for government-subsidized spaceflight. Back then the thought that a man like Hugo Drax could afford a fleet of shuttles was ludicrous. The thought that private businesses could send anything bigger than a ... |
Investors, here are the Startup Alley companies at Disrupt SF | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | We’re thrilled to announce that you can catch a glimpse of all the Startup Alley companies on . In addition to being a great resource for investors, the site is also mobile-friendly so you can easily view info on all of your favorite Alley companies right from your mobile device at the conference. The hub is separate... |
Chris Moore of Redpoint Ventures: the market “feels like it’s in flux” | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Chris Moore is an increasingly rare breed. At the founding of 17 years ago, Moore joined as an associate and — unlike today’s associates who often are cycled in and out of venture firms — he was made a partner. Since then, Moore has led deals in numerous companies that have gone on to sell for sizable amounts, includ... |
Bitmovin grabs $10.3M as it looks to crack VR video adaptive streaming | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | It’s pretty odd that even while people are chatting about producing the VR video’s crazy theoretical future with 8K resolution per eye, stereoscopic rendering and light field-ready footage, I’m still here struggling to keep Louis C.K. clips from buffering on my mobile phone. For VR to be successful, companies are going... |
Weekly Roundup: SpaceX explosion destroys Facebook satellite, Google takes on Uber | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | This week, what would have been Facebook’s first satellite was destroyed in a Falcon 9 explosion, Facebook changed its Trending Topics layout and new information about the Dropbox password breach was unveiled. These are the top stories of the week, and you can , if that makes your life easier. SpaceX experienced a w... |
Microsoft is putting Cortana machine learning in a fridge | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Microsoft is to rebuild the refrigerator and make it smarter, faster, strong; well, maybe just smarter. The new collaboration between the two will see Microsoft provide computer vision technology, via its Microsoft Cognitive Services Computer Vision API, to let the fridge identify objects contained within. Why would ... |
ILMxLAB’s Diana Williams and Michael Koperwas will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt SF | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Every fan’s dream is to be there – to inhabit the rich world created by Lucasfilm and the creative minds behind the epic films and their surrounding media universe. , the immersive entertainment division of Lucasfilm, is working to make those dreams come true. Michael Koperwas and Diana Williams are two of the creat... |
The LMS market glacier is melting | Phil Hill | 2,016 | 9 | 2 |
The world of edtech is strange and full of apparent contradictions. Venture capital investment has exploded since 2010, hitting an all-time high of in 2015, with private equity and strategic acquisitions pushing this number even higher. Dozens of startups, if not more, vie for the attention of presidents and provos... |
Sanbot is a humanoid robot with penguin flipper arms and a touchscreen heart | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | When I arrived at Qihan’s IFA booth, a rainbow-colored trio of Sanbots were performing choreographed moves to some unrecognizable pop song. Because, well, when you want to get people to stop at your both in the middle of a giant show full of gadgety distractions, you pull out all the stops. The plucky little robot has ... |
Fleex now lets you learn English by streaming Netflix shows | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | When I first covered , it a neat little video player that let you learn English using your favorite movies or TV shows. Since then, has acqui-hired the team behind Fleex and now plans to relaunch the language learning platform with a new killer feature — Netflix shows. Maybe I’m biased because it’s basically how I... |
Finally, Windows 10 on a refrigerator door | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | To the thousands, nay, millions who were holding out for a Windows 10 fridge before upgrading, we’ve got some pretty great news straight from the IFA show floor. Granted, it’s still just a prototype with no firm release date, but here you go. LG put a fully functioning Windows 10 tablet on the door of a fancy new icebo... |
Google’s new Project Muze proves machines aren’t that great at fashion design | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | Google’s AI technology may be capable — thanks to its neural network-powered computer vision program — but when Google turned its machine learning technology to the world of fashion via its new experiment , the results were less than compelling. Designed in partnership with European e-commerce company , Project M... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.02.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 9 | 2 | This was a LIVE recording session of – today with: John Taschek, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
European insurance tech startup FinanceFox closes $28M Series A | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | “We’re not a bunch of startup dudes saying we’re disrupting insurance… we’re not a bunch of arrogant pricks,” co-founder and CEO Julian Teicke told me during a call late last week. The company, which is announcing $28 million in Series A funding today, is one of a number of European ‘insurtech’ startups who are attem... |
Allo brings Google’s smarts to messaging | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Google first and , its new messaging and video chat apps, at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. Duo launched about a month ago and today it’s Allo’s turn. With Allo, Google is combining everything it has learned from its previous messaging products with the company’s machine learning smarts. Indeed, A... |
NASA’s asteroid-harvesting mission solicits proposals for its robotic spacecraft | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Asteroid mining is coming soon to a planet near you: this planet, and in 2021, to be specific. But NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission has lots of work to do before that point. Today the space-faring organization issued an from four partners on how they would go about creating the robotic spacecraft that would perform th... |
Crunch Report | macOS Sierra now available | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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The Oculus Touch motion controllers will cost many moneys | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Oculus is just months away from releasing the Touch controllers and we now have a better idea of just how much they’ll hurt your wallet. A GAME store display revealed that the launch price of the controllers will be £190 in the U.K. That’s about $212 in the U.S., which is a bit more than many Rift owners hoped for, tho... |
Federal policy for self-driving cars pushes data sharing | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | expected to radically transform transportation as we know it. The agency today released its (PDF), a document that will govern the way self-driving cars are developed, regulated, and policed in the U.S. According to the policy paper, NHTSA hopes to broaden the guidelines’ reach by collaborating with the governments ... |
North Korea accidentally lets slip all its .KP domains — and there aren’t many | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | North Korea is famously secretive and restrictive — the regime goes to great lengths to both prevent the outside world from learning what goes on there and prevent its citizens from learning about the outside world. An IT error just gave us a glimpse at the country’s online ecosystem — and it’s a pretty meager one. Lat... |
Samsung’s replacement Note 7 units are starting to hit US stores | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | I’m writing this from a plane. As we boarded, the flight attendant asked that we not use or charge our “Samsung 7” phones on the plane. The wording was a little awkward, but she more or less got the point across. It’s been . What was supposed to be the company’s moment of triumph has proved to be one of the biggest co... |
Up the mountain with GoPro | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | is better than it’s ever been,” Nick Woodman explained to a rapt audience at GoPro’s mountain press conference yesterday. “Demand is kicking tail,” he said as the crowd cheered loudly. That’s how it went pretty much all day. Enthusiastic uniformed GoPro employees as far as the eye can see, beginning with a morning pre... |
DeepMind wants its healthcare AI to charge by results — but first it needs your data | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | because from today ‘Don’t be evil’ rides again, via the DeepMind AI division of the Alphabet ad giant, as a Hippocratic assurance to ‘Do no harm’. It’s no small irony that DeepMind’s new mantra for its , voiced by co-founder Mustafa Suleyman at an outreach event today for patients to hear what the Google-owned compa... |
Mike Rothenberg allegedly wired $5.2 million from Silicon Valley Bank without investor permission | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | reported last month, Mike Rothenberg, the beleaguered founder of the San Francisco-based venture firm Rothenberg Ventures, has been involved in an ongoing SEC inquiry into possibly deceptive financial practices within his firm that include wire fraud, bank fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and retaliation against a lowe... |
Tumblr brings Apple’s Live Photos to the web | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | today is version of its service, while also rolling out that will allow other web developers to do the same. The company has released an open source JavaScript library it calls “Laphs” — or Live Anywhere Photos — which lets you support Live Photos on any website. To activate a Live Photo on the web, you use a clic... |
Timeular’s neat little device to make time tracking fun is now on sale via Kickstarter | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Last week , a nifty little box that makes the dreaded chore of tracking your time at work easy, and . Essentially it is an eight-sided device that is Bluetooth-enabled and acts as a timer. You simply program each side to a different task and tip it when you’re working on a particular task or change to another. The po... |
Microsoft wants to crack the cancer code using artificial intelligence | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Cancer is like a computer virus and can be ‘solved’ by cracking the code, according to Microsoft. The computer software company says its researchers are using artificial intelligence in a new healthcare initiative to target cancerous cells and eliminate the disease. One of the projects within this new healthcare enterp... |
Hacking for investor profit | Casey Ellis | 2,016 | 9 | 20 |
Just over four years ago, I was walking out of a conference center in Melbourne with butterflies in my stomach. I’d just sat through what still is the most viscerally disturbing information security talk I’ve ever seen. The late Barnaby Jack, a brilliant security researcher well-known at that time for his work on “Ja... |
Makerbot doubles-down on its sure bets, professionals and teachers | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | The promise of premium home 3D printing hasn’t panned out. Hobbyist printers are common and cheap these days – there are – but the original vision of a 3D printer on every desk didn’t quite pan out. And Makerbot learned that piece of news the hard way. When the company started it was the brand to beat. Makerbots were... |
BMW Films are back to wow a new generation of potential car lovers | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgwzpIE6c&w=800&h=448] Probably the first time I saw Clive Owen, it was in a to advertise its cars. At the time, I didn’t really care all that much about cars (I had one, and it was fine, and that was all I needed to know about that) but these short movies still had a consid... |
Facebook makes its dynamic ads more friendly to brick-and-mortar retailers | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Facebook just some new features for its dynamic ads, aimed at making the format more appealing to businesses with brick-and-mortar stores. show you different products based on your activity and interests. Now, the company says it can incorporate data about local product availability, pricing and special offers into ... |
Tesla patches exploit that left Model S potentially vulnerable to remote access | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | Tesla moved quickly to patch a vulnerability discovered by that rendered the Model S susceptible to remote attacks, provided the Tesla Model S was currently making use of its in-car web browser, and also physically close to and connected with a maliciously modified Wi-Fi hotspot. Keen’s security team had been focusin... |
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Kickstarter is breaking down assumptions about where innovation can occur | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 20 | still think Kickstarter can replace venture capital need not look further than to see just how separate the world of crowdfunding is from traditional early-stage finance. While it’s easy to point to products like as a sign that crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter are gaining ground against traditional institutional... |
Higher education goes Hollywood | Ryan Craig | 2,016 | 9 | 18 |
As I began my career in higher education in the late 1990s, technology seemed poised to upend the entire academic enterprise. The New York Times, in an article titled “ ,” speculated that “just by doing what he does every day, a teacher potentially could grow rich instructing a class consisting of a million students.... |
Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 9 | 18 | As Barack Obama’s second term comes to an end, an increasingly loud of are calling for a dramatic final presidential act: the pardoning of Edward Snowden. Authoritarians are horrified by this, and, as usual, they are wrong. A pardon really isn’t enough. As , Snowden deserves a medal. I can hear the outraged naysay... |
Salesforce Einstein delivers artificial intelligence across the Salesforce platform | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 18 | Say what you will about Salesforce, the company is always looking ahead. This afternoon, it announced Salesforce Einstein, its artificial intelligence (AI) initiative. The timing, which comes just ahead of rival Oracle’s , is probably not a coincidence. Regardless, the larger AI theme is something Salesforce has been ... |
Productive mobility is poised to give business a virtual boost | Diomedes Kastanis | 2,016 | 9 | 18 |
Throughout history, new technologies have constantly changed the way we’ve worked. They’ve been responsible for full-scale revolutions. And continued investments have come as corporate demand for worker productivity . We should expect augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to eventually attract increased sp... |
Oracle buys Palerra to boost its security stack | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 18 | Oracle is kicking off a in San Francisco this week, and to mark the event, it’s announced an acquisition. Oracle is buying , a cloud security startup co-founded by Oracle alums Rohit Gupta (its CEO) and Ganesh Kirti (CTO). Terms of the deal were not disclosed but we will try to find out. Palerra was founded in 2013 ... |
Facebook ads still slipping past Adblock Plus via stripped-down code | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 18 | The Adblock Plus crowdsourced hacker militia can’t keep up with Facebook’s disciplined army of engineers. When Facebook first announced it would , Adblock Plus (ABP) built a in two days, boasting that “We promised that the open source community would have a solution very soon…This time that community seems to have g... |
Here are Apple’s new ads for the iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 18 | Apple just released not one, not two but three new ads for its new devices — the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. They all tout new features, such as water resistance, low light camera performance and new fitness features. Let’s start with my favorite one. In “Midnight”, a young man goes for a night ride on his s... |
The government technology pitch | Luke Fretwell | 2,016 | 9 | 18 |
Crisis has a history of dictating government technology disruption. We’ve seen this with the anticipation of Soviet Union aerospace and military dominance that sparked the emergence of DARPA, as as with the response to 9/11 and subsequent establishment of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And, of course, th... |
Lyft’s ambitious future vision includes self-driving dominance by 2021 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 18 | started picking up passengers with self-driving test cars in Pittsburgh – so it’s not surprising that just a few days later, Lyft has something to say on the subject. Lyft’s response may not be autonomous cars in active duty, but it is a lengthy, detailed treatise on how , as penned by Lyft co-founder and President J... |
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Uber-owned Otto to offer freight hauling services using autonomous trucks in 2017 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | this summer in a deal worth up to $680 million and it plans to put the company to work next year. That’s according to comments from Otto co-founder Lior Ron, who that Otto will enter the long-haul freight business in 2017. To recap, which can handle driving on U.S. highways. It doesn’t entirely automate the proces... |
Three things venture capitalists need to show their own investors | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 9 | 27 |
“The table stakes for [venture capitalists] has never been higher,” says Judith Elsea, co-founder of the fund-of-funds , in our latest interview. With the rise of stronger and stronger operational models, like , the value add VCs must provide has increased significantly. So in this world of heightened competition ... |
Crunch Report | DJI releases its new drone, the Mavic Pro | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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GoGoGuest helps coffee shops manage their Wi-Fi, customer-by-customer | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Be honest: Have you ever spent an entire day working at a coffee shop, despite only buying a single cup of coffee? I’ve definitely been guilty of this, and I’ve also been to coffee shops that try to fight back by removing outlets, turning off their Wi-Fi or outlawing laptops on certain tables. A startup called is tak... |
Tyra Banks on startup investing and her new TV show | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Tyra Beauty is both “beauty business and badassery,” Banks quipped in a video chat with TechCrunch. It’s a “cosmetics experience, not a cosmetics line.” She spoke of the business model, where they employ salespeople called “Beautytainers,” to spread the word about Tyra Beauty through word of mouth. |
Musk says under 5 percent of SpaceX is working on Mars mission, 2024 launch is ‘optimistic’ | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Elon Musk , but he’s not rushing it. In a conference call following the SpaceX CEO’s presentation today at the International Astronautical Conference, Musk noted that the project is still essentially a hobby at the company, drawing only a fraction of its efforts. In response to a question about whether the company sho... |
Best Buy partners with PCH to bring hardware startups to its brick and mortar | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | “It is still incredibly important for startups to get their products in front of customers in stores,” explains Highway1 head Brady Forrest. “Startups traditionally face hurdles to entering brick and mortar retail, and that is why PCH is working with Best Buy to innovate in-store retail with things like direct to store... |
Samsung waiting to see where VR hype cycle lands before moving on standalone headsets, next-gen 10K displays | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | At a company event today in San Francisco, Samsung President & Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn detailed that the company is actively pursuing both smartphone-focused VR headsets and standalone solutions. The decision to market and ship a dedicated all-in-one device would rely largely on where the VR market goes in th... |
Tinder Boost lets you pay your way to the front of the line | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | is introducing a new premium feature called Tinder Boost. The feature will let users pay to have their profiles displayed first to other users on the app in the same locale for 30 minutes. According to the , it’s all about saving users’ time and making sure that the Tinder experience is maximized during the time that... |
What to look for in the next Pokémon Go | Penry Price | 2,016 | 9 | 27 |
If you had to crown an “App of the Summer,” would undoubtedly be at the top of the list. The app became a household name within days of its July launch and was . This easily could have been this generation’s , but somehow has pulled off something other brands can’t even conceive. While ’s developer Niantic h... |
“Good guy” loan startup LendUp pays $6.3M for overcharging violations | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | LendUp was supposed to be different than the payday loan sharks that rip off the poor when they need emergency cash. But in its early days, charged customers illegal fees, miscalculated interest rates, falsely advertised loans nationwide that weren’t available there and misled people that borrowing from LendUp would ... |
The OX is a flat-pack truck for the developing world | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | The Global Vehicle Trust has revealed its OX prototype, a truck that can be flat-packed into itself for transportation anywhere in the world. When it arrives at its destination, the OX can be unpacked and assembled by a trained team of three professionals in about 12 hours. (Insert your own favorite IKEA joke here.) Th... |
Google unleashes deep learning tech on language with Neural Machine Translation | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Translating from one language to another is hard, and creating a system that does it automatically is a major challenge, partly because there are just so many words, phrases and rules to deal with. Fortunately, neural networks eat big, complicated data sets for breakfast. Google has been working on a machine learning t... |
Occipital launches $500 dev kit to turn your iPhone into a room-scale tracked VR headset | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | For iOS or Mac users interested in VR, there isn’t a lot you can do right now without migrating to the dark sides of Android or Windows. is aiming to get people on the iOS platform access to some more cool VR opportunities. Today, the company opened up a $500 development kit today that brings room-scale motion trackin... |
Everything you need to know about SpaceX’s plan to colonize Mars | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | on Elon Musk today as he gave a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico. Musk began by saying that their goal is to “make Mars seem possible, make it seem as though it’s something we can do in our lifetimes, and that you can go … that anyone can go if they wanted to.” The reason to go is... |
IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | While the gears of research are turning fast developing new methods of machine intelligence, another, perhaps more impactful, trend is brewing in the field. Open source frameworks like Apache Spark are hitting their stride at the ideal time to put data analytics in the hands of the business development analyst without ... |
Honeywell’s new HomeKit and Alexa compatible smart thermostat runs $149 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Honeywell’s been doing its thing for well over a century now, with its thermostatic roots stretching back even further to the 19 century days of coal heating. The company’s connected thermostat history, meanwhile dates roughly back to 2013, with the simply named WiFi Smart Thermostat, released following a bit of a pat... |
Airbnb revamps its app with new tools for hosts, improved messaging | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Airbnb may not be ready to unveil , Airbnb Trips, just yet, but in the meantime the company is a big makeover. The upcoming version of the main Airbnb app will introduce a number of new features for hosts, including things like message templates for quicker replies and a calendar that lets them easily see who’s stay... |
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