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When’s the best time to share on Facebook? | Antoine Amann | 2,016 | 9 | 10 |
There’s all manner of advice and guidance on the web for online publishers looking to optimize their social media efforts. , , , , , , and others all claim to have the answers to such seemingly simple questions as “When is the best time to post on Facebook?” and “How often should you post stories on Facebook?”... |
Slowly but surely, Congress will join us in the 21st century | Lorelei Kelly | 2,016 | 9 | 10 |
With Congress’ approval ratings in the single digits, and in the midst of an ugly political season, our legislature might not appear as a hopeful place to start putting U.S. democracy back on track. And shows like “House of Cards” that depict Congress as sinister and conspiratorial don’t help its dismal reputation. T... |
App platform Kinetise aims to bring app building to the enterprise | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 9 | 10 | , an app building platform and Disrupt hackathon favorite, aims to democratize the the the process of creating native mobile apps for iOS and Android in the enterprise. Using a drag-and-drop interface, the system essentially lets you build and deploy native apps, visually. In this way, non-developers are able to create... |
After more than a decade, the fire still burns for Box CEO Aaron Levie | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 10 | Box CEO Aaron Levie has been at it for more than a decade. For a guy barely past 30, that means it’s all he’s done professionally for his entire adult life. You could forgive him if he were thinking about another challenge, but even after all this time, the fire still clearly burns for Levie. When I asked him about pos... |
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Gillmor Gang: The Enterprise Show | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 9 | 10 | From Gillmor Gang Studios: The Enterprise Gang — Paul Greenberg, Esteban Kolsky, Brent Leary, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Monday, August 8, 2016. This enterprise-focused version of the Gang features four leading independent analysts in a discussion about the changing nature of industry influencers... |
The Beginning Of Protest | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 9 | 10 | The most provocative book I’ve read this year is , by Micah White, one of the two initiators of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Remember Occupy? Those crazy days when, giddy with the apparent success of the previous year’s , independent, decentralized groups of protestors, connected by cell phones and social media, ... |
Camorama records 360-degree 4K video for your VR pleasure | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 10 | While the promo video is a bit, shall we say, racy I think the product is pretty solid. It’s basically a 4K action cam that doubles as a 360-degree camera. This means you can record 360-degree videos for a mere $239 for early birds. Who would want such witchcraft? 360-degree video is pretty cool stuff and it could me... |
StarOfService raises $10 million for its service marketplace | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | French startup just raised another $10 million for its European alternative. Andrea Piccioni and Silvio Pagliani, ENERN Investments and Point Nine Capital participated in today’s round, as well as various business angels. When I StarOfService, the company didn’t even try to hide from me that it was a Thumbtack co... |
French online restaurant FoodChéri raises €6M Series A | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | French food delivery startup , which operates an online only restaurant along the lines of in the UK or Munchery’s original model in the US, has raised €6 million in Series A funding led by 360 Capital Partners, and Breega Capital. Spanish VC Samaipata Ventures (a fund managed by the founders of online takeout order... |
Chevrolet Bolt EV starts at $29,995 U.S. with federal tax credits | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Chevrolet’s new Bolt EV is a vehicle that has dubbed “Tesla-walloping,” and its pricing seems like a direct shot at Tesla’s lineup, including the forthcoming Model 3, which is set to be the dedicated electric carmaker’s more “affordable” option. Chevrolet revealed specific pricing and trim details for the base model ... |
Crunch Report | GoPro releases the new Karma Drone | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Sony asserts its place at the grownups’ table with new flagship SLR camera | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | At the Photokina trade show, Sony launched a long-awaited followup to its aging flagship SLR camera. The Sony A99 II sports high-resolution sensors, 5-axis image stabilization, a raft of high-end video features and a hefty price-tag to match. The camera is putting its proverbial foot down as a force to be reckoned with... |
Cross-channel ad startup AdStage raises $2M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | today that it has raised an additional $2 million from Verizon Ventures. The company offers tools for businesses to manage their ad campaigns across Facebook, Google, Bing and elsewhere, and it says it’s currently managing $100 million in quarterly ad spend. CEO Sahil Jain recently told me that including content m... |
Uber rival Grab raises $750M led by SoftBank at a $3B valuation | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Grab, the largest company rivaling Uber in Southeast Asia, has that it has raised $750 million in fresh capital. This is the company’s Series F round, and it was led by existing investor SoftBank with participation from undisclosed existing and new backers, Grab said. One of those is almost certain to be China’s Didi... |
Insider, a marketing platform for emerging markets, secures $2.2M to expand | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | , a unified online marketing platform out of Turkey, has secured a $2.2 million Series A round of financing, bringing its total funding since launching in 2012 to $3.3 million. That may not sound a lot, but it’s a lot for the region and considering it’s targeting a global market, especially emerging markets outside the... |
U.S. federal guidelines for self-driving cars say they will lead to safer roads | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | The U.S. government revealed its much-anticipated Federal Automated Vehicles policy on Monday evening, detailing its 15-point Safety Assessment to be rolled out fully on Tuesday, which is designed to give manufacturers hoping to build and ship self-driving vehicles proper expectations around what will work for regulato... |
How blockchain will grow beyond bitcoin | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 9 | 19 |
Since its advent in 2009, bitcoin’s decentralized, broker-less and secure mechanism to send money across the world has . Of equal — if not greater — importance is the blockchain, the technology that supports the cryptocurrency, the distributed ledger which enables trustless, peer-to-peer exchange of data. Every day,... |
Google sends out invites for its October 4 Pixel phones event | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Google just sent out invites for an event in San Francisco on October 4th. Rumor has it that the company will reveal its next smartphones at the event. While the invite itself only features Google’s own logo, the company also just posted a and that both strongly hint at a new phone. The URL for the teaser site is ... |
Airbnb faces fresh crackdown in Barcelona as city council asks residents to report illegal rentals | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Airbnb is facing a further squeeze on its activities in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital that’s hugely popular with tourists — ramping up tension with local communities dealing with inflating rents and rowdy behavior by visitors facilitated by the rapid rise of sharing-economy platforms. The city has been trying to cr... |
What reset? Both seed- and late-stage valuations just hit record levels, says new report | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Investors are valuing seed-stage startups at the highest levels ever, according to a new report published by the private deals database . According to its analysis, the pre-money valuation for a seed-stage company reached $5.9 million in the first half of this year, an 11 percent increase from the end of 2015 and a wh... |
Bower & Wilkins’ P7 wireless headphones are all luxe and great performance | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | It was announced on , and, well, here it is: The wireless version of Bower & Wilkins’ P7 headphones. Well, how are they? As great as I’d hoped, but there are some changes that were made that seem out of place. But rest assured: Despite being tailored to the mid and high frequencies, they still have those warm, roomy l... |
The evolving road of beacon tech | Kjartan Slette | 2,016 | 9 | 19 |
When launched its protocol at the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2013 it laid the foundation for an entire new industry — the proximity industry. , close to 500 proximity companies operate globally, and between 6 and 7 million beacons are deployed in commercial settings with . Not bad for something that wa... |
Etsy buys Blackbird Technologies to bring AI to its search | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | It’s not just gigantic search engines that are looking to around emerging areas like speech recognition. Even design and craft marketplaces can use a little machine learning and artificial intelligence to make their wheels turn a little better. Today, the popular handmade-goods site announced it has a startup cal... |
Voice is chat’s next battleground | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Sure, they’ll get better. But the upcoming innovation in chat is about being more human, not less. With the proliferation of adequate speech recognition, AI assistants and wireless headphones, the tech is ready to unlock the potential of our most basic form of communication. Soon, we’ll talk and listen to our messagin... |
The Ripple Rug: You know, for cats | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Of all the products I’ve seen this year, none are more worthy of our time and attention than the . Created by Fred and Natasha Ruckel, the Ripple Rug is a rug with holes and lumps in it. Your cat can climb inside, stick its paws out, and generally get all up inside that business. It’s 35 inches on each side and made o... |
Black female founder raises $7 million for renewable energy tech startup | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | I’d like to tip my imaginary hat off to Jessica O. Matthews, the black female founder and CEO of renewable energy tech startup . Her company just closed a $7 million Series A round led by the NIC Fund with participation from Kapor Capital, Magic Johnson Enterprises, BBG Ventures and Lingo Ventures. With the new inject... |
Google acquires API.AI, a company helping developers build bots that aren’t awful to talk to | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 9 | 19 | Google has just that it has snatched up the team behind API.AI. API.AI provides tools to developers to help them build conversational, Siri-esque bots. As humans, we’re pretty good at communication. If someone says “the girl saw a man with the binoculars,” we can generally use contextual clues to figure out if they m... |
Crunch Report | Snapchat Releases Spectacles | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Exclusive TechCrunch survey reveals startups and investors are divided over Brexit | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | On Thursday 23 June 2016 the world changed. On that day a referendum was held to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union. Leave won by 52% to 48%. The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million people voting (though not 100% of the electorate). The campaigns on both sides had iss... |
Apple adds Sonos speakers to its stores as it focuses on wireless audio | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | Did you hear? — at least to Apple. And to that end, Sonos, perhaps the best wireless speakers available, are now available in the Apple Store alongside speakers from B&O, Logitech, and Apple’s Beats. Apple but the Sonos speakers would be the first multi-room system available. The Sonos PLAY:1 and PLAY:5 are availab... |
Climate change and cleantech provide unlikely first flashpoints in Presidential debate | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | In the opening moments of the presidential debate, some of the first flashpoints came over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s push for clean energy and clean technology in her economic development plan. While both presidential challengers, Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump, support infrastructure spending, Cl... |
Hofstra bans private Wi-Fi, charges $200 for network connectivity during debate | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | In an exciting bit of pre-debate frisson, journalists are now Tweet they have to pay $200 for Wi-Fi access on site and, more importantly, the ones who have paid now have no Internet at all. Aaaaaaaaand the $200 Wi-Fi Hofstra forced the reporters to buy at the ? It's down. — Emily Dreyfuss (@EmilyDreyfuss) Journalis... |
Fishing in the dead pool | Josh Rochlin | 2,016 | 9 | 26 |
I have used my free time this summer revisiting a childhood passion: fishing. My father loved to fish. He would take me to Central Park’s with a hook and lure. I would inevitably catch something very small, put it in a cup and hope it would survive overnight to show my friends. As I grew older, we graduated to fish... |
76ers get into e-sports with purchase of Dignitas and Apex pro gaming teams | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | The Philadelphia 76ers became the first American professional sports franchise to own an e-sports team with the purchase of pro gaming outfits Dignitas and Apex. If this isn’t proof positive that online pro gaming is big business, I don’t know what is. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but they’re not paying in... |
U.S. Department of Labor sues Palantir for racial discrimination | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | The U.S. Department of Labor is , the software and data analysis company contracted by the federal government, for alleged racial discrimination against Asian people in its hiring and selection processes. The aim of the lawsuit is to put an end to ‘s alleged discriminatory hiring practices, . The suit also seeks reli... |
Lenovo’s gutting of Motorola is nearly complete | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | My first cell phone was a Sanyo. But only because I couldn’t afford a Motorola. I wanted a StarTAC. All the cool kids had a StarTAC. My Sanyo said loud and clear I was not a cool kid. Sometime later, I spent around $650 to be one of the first people to get the RAZR. People didn’t stand in line back then, but I purchase... |
Lenovo undergoes another big layoff round, mostly impacting Motorola | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | Late last year, Lenovo following a quarter of bad financial news. The company let 3,200 employees go, as decline in PC demand, increased smartphone competition and currency fluctuations apparently created something of a perfect storm. The company is at it again, and while the number is less than list time, it’s still... |
Zenly raises $22.5 million from Benchmark for its location-sharing app | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | French startup has raised $22.5 million over the summer from and a few other investors. Business Insider first the round and TechCrunch got an official confirmation. Here’s what we know. Benchmark is leading the round with Peter Fenton joining the board of the company. Fenton has invested in a few social network ... |
Edie Windsor coding scholarship selects 40 LGBTQ women to learn how to code | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | There’s a shortage of people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer community in tech — not because they lack skill, but because they lack equal opportunity. , the organization for lesbian and queer women in tech, has selected 40 people to receive scholarships to attend coding bootcamps at schools like Gener... |
GM’s Maven starts offering one-way car sharing | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | GM’s has begun rolling out one-way car sharing for its members in Ann Arbor and Detroit, letting users pick up vehicles and use them to get between Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan, and between Detroit and the Detroit Metro airport. The one-way service is a big advantage for car-sharing services, as it means u... |
Cognovi Labs will study the presidential debates tonight with their emotional sentiment tool | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | when correctly predicted the outcome hours ahead of the final vote — and counter to what traditional polling had suggested was going to happen. Tonight, the company is partnering with Applied Policy Research Institute and the Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University and has set up a war room of 30+ political and... |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on how AI will transform his company | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at his company’s massive Ignite conference to lay out his vision for how deep learning and artificial intelligence will transform the company. “AI is at the intersection of our ambitions,” Nadella said, noting how it will allow us “to reason over large amounts of data and conv... |
If Google buys Twitter, there’s a perfect spot for it in YouTube | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | If you combined the fastest and slowest types of social media, the result could be both must-see and never-forgotten. YouTube lacks short-form, frequently updated content, but is synonymous with video and that popularity brings in lucrative ads. Twitter is struggling with growth and monetization, but it’s the pulse of ... |
The New York Times invests in theSkimm | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | Big media companies are backing newsletter startup . Following that was announced in June, theSkimm announced today that it has raised an additional $500,000 from The New York Times, Yannick Bolloré (CEO of ad giant Havas Group), strategic advisory firm MediaLink and actress Mariska Hargitay. The company says it now... |
Movie pirate? Don’t trust Plex Cloud | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’s be honest, its big claim to fame is hosting and serving downloaded movies. And now the company behind the software where users can stream m... |
AirServer can now transmit your iPhone screen to your Xbox | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | AirServer, makers of software that essentially turns anything into an AirPlay sever, has announced the availability of for the Xbox One. That means you can transmit your AirPlay screens to your gaming console, thereby creating a black hole of Microsoft-on-Apple madness. Air Server also lets you transmit via Google Ca... |
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This is probably Google’s 4K Chromecast “Ultra” | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 9 | 26 | If you’ve been waiting for a Chromecast with 4K video support, good news: it’s looking more and more real with each passing day. Rumors have been floating around for a few weeks now of an upcoming “Chromecast Ultra”, which says will make its debut at Google’s October 4th event. Now we know what it looks like. Posted ... |
Crunch Report | Chan Zuckerberg $3 billion investment to cure disease | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Virtual reality in Japan | Sunny Dhillon | 2,016 | 9 | 21 |
I spent a week in Tokyo last month as a speaker at the gaming conference. Had you asked 10 year old me about Japan, I would have conjured up images of Godzilla, Dragon Ball Z, and ninjas. Funnily enough, day trips to and brought some of these to life through arcades, cosplayers, and stores full of manga collecti... |
Weebly updates its website builder with a focus on e-commerce and marketing | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | launched a new version of its platform today. While the company started out as an easy-to-use website creator and editor (I used it to ), CEO David Rusenko said that with Weebly 4, “We feel like for the first time we’re past a website builder — it’s something substantially different.” To be clear, the website editor ... |
McKinsey says digital finance adoption could add trillions to high growth economies | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Adoption of digital finance could add $3.7 trillion to the GDP of emerging markets economies, including $1.1 trillion in China alone, according to a new McKinsey & Company report. The strategy consulting firm’s Global Institute released , at a New York event featuring a keynote by Gates Foundation co-chair Melinda Gat... |
Flickr is shutting down Marketplace, its commercial photo licensing program | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Flickr rolled out Marketplace, a photo licensing service that was meant to help Flickr users get paid by big websites and media properties that wanted to use that user’s photos. As of today, Flickr Marketplace is going away. It’ll take a few months for Flickr to wind things down, and Flickr notes that any royalties du... |
Y Combinator signs up to Founders Pledge charity scheme for social causes | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | There’s always been an ongoing conversation amongst successful tech entrepreneurs about how to “give back.” Not everyone can afford to found an entire hospital, and yet many feel a desire to do something more than move on to the next startup. What probably needs to change is not so much the conversation around the “big... |
Aria Systems launches automotive recurring revenue platform | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Aria Systems is bringing together the chocolate of usage- and subscription-based revenue opportunities with the peanut butter of increasingly connected automotive systems. The resulting candy (to complete this metaphor) that launched this week is . This is a cloud-based monetization platform for connected cars, on-dem... |
Scientists teach machines to hunt and kill humans — in Doom deathmatch mode | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | You know how sometimes you look at a piece of research and think, “I suppose it’s an interesting technical problem, but isn’t teaching an AI to hunt and kill humans a pursuit fundamentally dangerous to the continued existence of mankind?” This is one of those times. Some traitors to the species at Carnegie Mellon have ... |
Joby proves that selfie sticks can, indeed, get sillier | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Whenever you see wide shots of a TV audience, you see huge contraptions with cameras on them, enabling TV folks to create fantastic swooping shots. If you want some of that in your life, Joby can help with its . It’s great to get close to the action and to make the people around you think you’ve lost your mind by spor... |
ReplyBuy brings an AI concierge to the sports and entertainment market | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts. , a finalist in the , wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. 1st and Future is a sports-centric startup competition produced as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and TechCrun... |
Cybersecurity is threatening America’s military supremacy | Paul Martini | 2,016 | 9 | 21 |
The sparsely populated Spratly Islands, a collection of hundreds of islands and reefs spread over roughly 165,000 square miles in the South China Sea, are very quickly becoming the center of one of the most contentious international disputes between world powers since the fall of the Soviet Union. Alarmingly, the use... |
The Trade Desk finishes strong at $30.10 per share after its first day on NASDAQ | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Things are looking up for adtech companies on Wall Street — or at least for one of them. debuted on NASDAQ today at a price of $28.75 per share, up nearly 60 percent from its IPO price of $18. And while there wasn’t a dramatic pop, it continued to climb and closed the day at $30.10 per share. That’s a good start, part... |
Twitter’s new transparency report is disclosure done right | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | It’s common practice these days for companies that hold significant amounts of user data to publish transparency reports. Google, Facebook, Dropbox and Slack all put out their numbers on a regular basis, breaking down government requests for user data by country and type (platforms typically receive requests for law en... |
Hulu’s VR app is getting new comedy and news programs | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Virtual reality needs content if it’s ever going to take off in a meaningful way. And while thus far that’s largely been focused on gaming, we’re finally starting to see studios make a major push into the space. What shape that content will ultimately take is another question entirely. Certainly comedy and news aren’t ... |
Bots are waging passive-aggressive war on Wikipedia | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links and perform other tedious tasks set by their human masters. But even these automated helpers come into conflict, reverting and re-reverting each other on the same topic — sometimes for years. It’s not exactly all-out war: This is more like... |
Blizzard kills the classic Battle.net brand after 20 years | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Blizzard is killing Battle.net just a few months shy of the online gaming service’s 20th birthday — killing the name, anyway. No, Overwatch and Hearthstone aren’t going permanently offline or anything, you’ll just be calling the service that hosts and updates your Blizzard games something else from now on. , Blizzard a... |
Waze launches Bluetooth beacons to avoid tunnel blackouts | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Waze’s engaged community is definitely its most powerful asset, and now the company wants to broaden its community to include tunnel operators who want to fill in the current gaps in wireless navigation tech. These roadways have typically been frustrating to all manner of wireless communication, posing a problem for ev... |
Apple could also be in talks to acquire Lit Motors | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | Apple is to be in talks to acquire McLaren, but that’s not all. While was digging on the McLaren story, they also found out that Apple is also talking with for a potential acquisition. Now you might be thinking “Lit who?” While Lit Motors is nowhere as big as McLaren, it’s another interesting company in the autom... |
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces $3 billion investment to cure disease | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced a new program informally called Chan Zuckerberg Science to invest $3 billion over the next decade to help cure, prevent, or manage all disease. The money comes from the $45 billion organization Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan started last year to advance human p... |
Talking self-driving cars, IPOs and what’s next, with True Ventures | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 21 | A few weeks ago, closed its newest, early-stage fund with , which is just a slight step up from its last, $295 million fund, despite some enormous wins like Fitbit, whose first check came from True. (As you likely recall, the wearable device maker staged a public offering last year.) We weren’t able to catch up wi... |
Eventbrite cofounder Kevin Hartz joins Founders Fund as partner | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Serial entrepreneur Kevin Hartz has joined the San Francisco-based early-stage venture fund Founders Fund as a partner, he revealed in a post on Medium. Hartz was most recently the co-founder and chief executive of event and ticketing startup . He’s the second high-profile hire that Founders Fund has made so far in ... |
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Intel spins out Intel Security with TPG to form new McAfee valued at $4.2B | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | that it has plans to spin off its security unit into a new company that will be owned in-part by private equity firm TPG. Intel will retain a 49 percent ownership stake of the entity with TPG taking the majority stake. In exchange, Intel will be receiving $3.1 billion in cash. Intel’s security unit originated from its... |
Reflections on a historic few months for online video | Ashu Garg | 2,016 | 9 | 7 |
This has been my Summer of Video — several months when it became clear to me that we’ve reached an inflection point in the transition from linear TV to online video. It started at the beginning of the season with the release of which discussed the shift and how it’s transforming media and marketing. From studying t... |
Everything you need to know from Apple’s iPhone 7 event | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Apple held its annual September press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, unveiling the iPhone 7 at long last. CEO Tim Cook took the stage (after a charming bout of Carpool Karaoke) to introduce everything new with Apple — from new iPhones to new Apple Watches. You can dig through the , or read the play-by-play ... |
VideoBlocks wants stock media to keep it real, launches “The Authentic Collection” | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | , the stock media company that gives subscribers unlimited access to its catalog of images, videos and audio clips for an annual subscription, wants stock media to look less whitewashed and more like the real deal. But no stock media marketplace can purge every image that reflects “conventional” beauty or caters to oth... |
Crunch Report | Everything Apple 2016 | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Playing around with the Apple Watch Series 2 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Maybe there’s a theme emerging here — behind-the-scenes tweaks while maintaining aesthetic consistency with past generations. Like the new iPhone, the Apple Watch Series 2 is pretty much aesthetically indistinguishable from its predecessor. Heck, even the new AirPods look nearly identical to the company’s EarPods, albe... |
Trying out Apple’s fully wireless AirPods | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | The AirPods were as close as we got to an honest-to-goodness hardware surprise at today’s big Apple event in San Francisco — though anyone who heard tell of the untimely demise of the headphone jack probably could have seen this coming. Pre-Beats, at least, headphones have traditionally been something of an afterthough... |
Football is definitely back because Twitter now has an emoji for every NFL team | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | As if Twitter’s didn’t convince you that the social network was going all-in on the NFL, maybe this will. Twitter announced today (a day before tomorrow’s NFL season opener) that they made a custom hashtag emoji for every NFL team. There is also a #TNF hashtag for Thursday Night Football that shows the NFL logo on a ... |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to spin off software assets in $8.8B transaction | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | In an $8.8 billion transaction, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, also known as HPE, will be spinning off its non-core software assets, according to . The assets will be merged with , a British software company, to form a new combined corporation. After separating from Hewlett-Packard last year, HPE forged a business model... |
Up close with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Here we are in a post-headphone jack world. I don’t know about you, but I expected thing to feel different, like that part in the when Dorothy sees color for the first time. But there you have it. These things take time. And we’ll see whether other companies follow suit – though the company certainly has a pretty str... |
Apple also doubles storage on old iPads and makes high-end iPad Pro models cheaper | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Apple hasn’t mentioned the iPad during its , but it doesn’t mean that the company has no news for the device. The iPhone 7 finally with 32GB of storage, and the iPad is also receiving a storage bump. The 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros already start at 32GB, so only old iPad models are getting more gigs. In particu... |
A view on VC from a realistic optimist | Ryan Armrbust | 2,016 | 9 | 7 |
During the last year there has been considerable discussion regarding the current state of the venture capital industry: Are we in a bubble? Did that bubble pop? Why has there been a dearth of major technology company IPOs? How much higher can valuations skyrocket, yet why does it seem increasingly difficult for earl... |
Apple Pay comes to Japan, New Zealand and Russia this fall; hits the web on September 13 | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Apple Pay will arrive in three more countries this fall: Japan, New Zealand and Russia, and will hit the web alongside . The web version of Apple’s payments service will be made available to Safari users on any Mac introduced from 2012 on, which is also running the latest operating system, macOS Sierra. The company de... |
All the ways you are probably going to lose an AirPod | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Apple has some wireless earbuds! . They go right into your ear when they aren’t in a case that’s charging them. The battery lasts for 5 hours or so, and the case can charge them for 24 hours. Really cool, right? It’s like, straight out of the movie . But in the characters are only wearing one wireless earbud. Here’... |
Here’s your first look at Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay on PS4 Pro | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1hBNALUk4w&w=640&h=360] If you’re not familiar with the Mass Effect series of sci-fi role-playing games, then you’re missing out. The new PS4 Pro that Sony unveiled today can handle 4K, and Bethesda used the opportunity of the event to give us our first look at Mass Effect: And... |
No, Apple, digital zoom still sucks | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Apple continues to dance a sexy dance for photographers all over the world, launching better cameras with more features and higher quality. But when Phil Schiller, VP of marketing at Apple stands on a stage saying that digital zoom is a good thing, real photographers won’t listen to him. Neither should you. Here is why... |
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Apple unveiled the $159 wireless AirPods | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | If $159 sounds like a lot of money for 8 grams, it’s because it is. Shortly after introducing the , Apple unveiled the . If you’re familiar with the existing EarPods, you’ll feel right at home. The AirPods are like the EarPods, but without wires. These earbuds come with a built-in W1 chip for audio processing and pai... |
Don’t cry because the headphone jack is over, smile because it happened | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | Let’s get this straight: Tim Cook doesn’t read your tweets. He doesn’t care about your thoughts on iPhone vs. Samsung and he definitely doesn’t care about your headphones. Apple is an apex predator and it acts like one, shedding fat for muscle and eating entire swathes of the CE industry as it goes. Like the 1,000-poun... |
Box introduces “New Box” at BoxWorks | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 7 | has always been known as the irritant in the content management industry, that plucky cloud upstart ready to take on the staid and conservative on-prem competition, but after more than a decade in the business, , perhaps the company felt it was time to disrupt itself. Today, at the customer conference, it announced... |
Crunch Report | Who will buy The Honest Company? | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Military veterans provide a new competitive advantage for tech companies | Craig Hanson | 2,016 | 9 | 9 |
Ask any Silicon Valley CEO what some of their biggest challenges are and you likely will hear “finding and retaining great people.” Tech is booming, yet even now that valuations and financing rounds are , it remains incredibly hard to attract and keep talent amid a competitive ecosystem where there are so many compa... |
The drone race is off and running, with Israel in the lead | Yoav Leitersdorf | 2,016 | 9 | 9 |
Audiences around the globe enjoyed all the action of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games thanks in large part to the drones hovering above the events ( ), capturing every movement, from every angle. Athletes and spectators didn’t give a second thought to the presence of these drones — which shows how rapidly they’ve become... |
Five lessons for founders | Amy Chang | 2,016 | 9 | 9 |
Fundraising is something all of us as entrepreneurs worry about constantly and discuss pretty much whenever we meet. A lot of people think you should meet for the first time with a VC or a potential investor with your pitch in hand, ready to start the process. I disagree. Scrap around and find a way to get warm intro... |
Roku lands its first streaming deal in Asia with Philippines-based PLDT tie-up | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Roku, the streaming media company, has netted its first deal with an operator in Asia after it announced an agreement with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT). PLDT is no stranger to deals with tech companies, and , which also operates in Southeast Asia. Now, through its deal with Roku, PLDT will sell ... |
Every single part of this camera is 3D printed | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | We’ve seen 3D printed cameras before, but they always include some prefabricated part: a hinge, a spring, or more complicated bits like shutters and iris mechanisms. But designer Amos Dudley has done what I’ve always hoped someone would do: make a camera — yes, including the lens. He used a Form 2 SLA printer, which ... |
PayPal brushes-off request from Palestinian tech firms to access the platform | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Some people might be wondering why a hashtag to do with Paypal has been blowing up on twitter in the last two days. The has been making waves on social media after 43 companies and organizations in Palestine to Paypal asking for the payment platform to work there. The move came only after PayPal ignored their reque... |
Judge a book through its cover with this terahertz camera setup | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | What do you do if you want to peek inside a book, but you’re pretty sure it’ll crumble into dust if you even crack the cover a little bit? Well, nothing: Opening a book is a critical step in finding out what’s inside. Or at least it was until someone at MIT decided that shouldn’t be the case. The researchers combined a... |
The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income | Scott Santens | 2,016 | 9 | 9 |
It appears some establishment voices have picked up on a way of opposing the idea of the monthly citizen dividend of about $1,000 per month, known as universal (UBI), in a way that successfully leaves some progressively minded people afraid. The fear inspired is that those with the greatest need may be left worse... |
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