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Opera says its service for syncing web browser data was hacked | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Opera, which recently , has reset user passwords for one of its services after its servers were breached by hackers this week. that attackers gained access to , a service that lets users synchronize their browser data and settings across multiple platforms. It is investigating the incident, but initially believes th... |
Crunch Report | Justin Kan Talks YC | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Spotify might not suppress search, but that doesn’t mean artists with exclusives get treated equally | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Accusations that Spotify has been punishing artists for signing exclusives with other streaming services hit the internet in full force this morning, When confronted by TechCrunch, a Spotify spokesperson gave the same response they have been giving since the story broke — that the accusations about burying search resul... |
The monetization promise and pitfalls of Pokémon Go | Catherine Tucker | 2,016 | 8 | 26 |
more than 100 million times since its July debut, making it the biggest-growing mobile game ever. Naturally, the phenomenon has drawn much commentary about what this means for , but I am more interested in what it teaches us about making money. It’s not easy to make money in an ecosystem from unrelated parties. In ... |
Microsoft announces new resources to reduce hate speech | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Microsoft today pushed out for users of its consumer services new resources to reduce hate speech. Users will now be able to communicate directly with the company to report hate speech, and petition for reinstating content via new online forms. Most people are familiar with efforts by social networks like Twitter and... |
HopSkipDrive wants to be the Uber for kids | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Kids are told to select a secret password to ensure that the right driver picks them up and parents can follow along with their journey through the GPS-tracking on the app. But McFarland said that she believes HopSkipDrive will prevail because the “authenticity of the brand and who we are as founders” inspires the pass... |
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ShakeAlert provides earthquake early warning system | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a series of university partners are developing an earthquake early warning system called , which aims to provide the general public with alerts up to 10 seconds before an earthquake hits. The system is not yet public, but it is now in California, Oregon and Washington. “There is... |
Growing up in the intelligence era | Ash Fontana | 2,016 | 8 | 26 |
Information technology shifted 15 years ago from perpetually licensed, on-premise software to Software as a Service (SaaS). The shift created significant opportunities for startups, but led to the death of companies that ignored the change. These companies were stunned to find that traction was not enough to interest... |
Student projects leapfrog governments and industry in ‘Data Science for Social Good’ program | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Big data is hardly new at this point — nor has it wrought anywhere near its potential effects on many companies and institutions insulated by inertia and red tape. A summer program at the University of Washington called shows that fresh eyes and good code can make more in 10 weeks than some have done in as many years... |
Tracking Instagram’s money-flipping scammers | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Trying to get more followers on Instagram? If you follow a few verified banks and financial institutions, you’ll suddenly end up with dozens of new followers. There’s just one drawback: Your new followers are trying to scam you. Instagram has become a hotbed for so-called “money flipping,” according to a by the socia... |
Plowz and Mowz raise $1.5 million from LA-based Science for on-demand landscaping services | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Launching with a marketplace for landscaping, snow plowing and other home care and repair services, has raised $1.5 million from the Los Angeles-based startup studio Science and undisclosed angel investors. On the heels of the firm’s successful exit from , Science has turned to the marketplace industry for its next i... |
Facebook ditches helpful Trending Topic descriptions for global scale | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Twitter’s “Trends” are often confusing. Why is #MPBMS or #TechMunch trending? You had to click through and figure it out for yourself. When Facebook copied Twitter’s trends in 2014, it vastly improved them by adding human-written descriptions right below so you knew if you cared or not. Today Facebook is , and claims i... |
Russia’s Google equivalent is building a self-driving shuttle | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | The Google equivalent in every major market where Google doesn’t really play is making a self-driving car of some kind, and Russia is the latest to join the fray. is the company in question, which operates Russia’s leading search engine, along with a host of other going concerns. Add to that list a driverless minibus... |
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Google Wallet debuts automatic transfers so you can skip “cashing out” | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Google today is stepping up its battle with Venmo, Square Cash and other person-to-person payment applications with an update to its mobile app, which now allows for automatic transfers to your bank account. That is, transfers will no longer require you to cash out money from your Wallet balance first. This will spee... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.26.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | This is a LIVE recording session of – today with: Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Newly proposed rules for foreign entrepreneurs will help some, but not all, found U.S. startups | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an office under the Department of Homeland Security, put forward that would allow the U.S. Government to offer parole (temporary permission to be in the country) to foreign entrepreneurs starting their businesses in the United States. The proposal specifies that a founder... |
Flirtey flies pies for Domino’s in New Zealand | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | has demonstrated delivery of hot pizzas by drone in Auckland, New Zealand. The company has a long history of embracing high-tech concepts. Last year, they tested out a four-wheeled, vehicle. And in 2012, Domino’s launched a casual build-a-pizza game that also let players order the pizza they built digitally for real... |
StudySoup raises $1.7M to help students buy and sell class notes | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | San Francisco-based education startup which calls itself “a peer-to-peer learning marketplace,” announced it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. The company works as an online study group where students can sell or purchase class notes and study guides. “We realized that a lot of students come to college on very... |
Rheo, a personalized video app designed by ex-Apple product vets, scores $2.3 million | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | A personalized video channel for Apple TV, , has now closed on $2.3 million in seed funding, the company announced this week. It has also updated its application and expanded its content lineup, thanks to a new deal with Vimeo which brings the network’s catalog of short videos, including its “Staff Picks,” short films... |
WhatsApp-Facebook data-sharing deal probed by UK privacy watchdog | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 8 | 26 | Well that was fast. Just one day after , by detailing plans to share the mobile numbers and last seen status of its users with parent company Facebook for ad-targeting and marketing purposes, the UK’s data protection watchdog has fired a warning shot across Zuckerberg’s bows by announcing it intends to investigate the... |
Sony may unveil two new versions of the PS4 next month | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 21 | Sony will reportedly unveil two new versions of the PlayStation 4 at its upcoming New York press event on September 7. that the company is set to launch a more powerful version of the console — called ‘Neo’ — but now that it will also refresh its standard model. There are no precise details right now, but the Journa... |
Designing for voice differs from traditional UX | Stephanie Hay | 2,016 | 8 | 21 |
Two words: “all set.” People say them every day — after the waiter delivers food, when finishing a customer service call or before launching a rocket into space. (Or so I imagine.) These two words are just fine in the context of real life, human-to-human interactions. They’re also covered as a feedback loop in tradit... |
How the International Olympic Committee is using technology to educate future host cities | Bérénice Magistretti | 2,016 | 8 | 21 |
As the Rio Games draw to a close and the competing athletes pack up, leaving the Brazilian metropolis behind, the is already hard at work laying the foundation for the future spectacle of Olympic games. Throughout the Games, the IOC’s has been collecting data and compiling reports to share knowledge of the Games ... |
How government can unlock three trillion dollars of value in the digital economy | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 8 | 21 |
The traditional Silicon Valley view is that innovation happens in spite rather than because of government. But according to Accenture Senior Director of Strategy, , government does have an important role to play in stimulating growth. But it’s not the old top-down New Deal kind of government focused on massive inve... |
Tech and the presidential race | Ayinde Alakoye | 2,016 | 8 | 21 |
For Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the importance of articulating a vision for the technology industry seems to be lost. While Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton released a comprehensive in June that should excite software developers, Mr. Trump doesn’t pay much attention to our industry’s concerns an... |
The new, scary face of auto insurance | Kevin Wang | 2,016 | 8 | 21 |
Technology in the mobility space has made travel safer, faster and more convenient. The results have been incredible: The Insurance Information Institute found a in the past three years. The same survey found that . Mobility has also become more accessible with ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft delivering more ... |
Africa Roundup: Kenya’s Safaricom takes on Uber, Orange expands Pan-African profile | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 8 | 7 | Uber drivers in Nairobi the company’s July fare cuts. The move comes amidst greater competition in Kenya’s ride-hail market since local telecoms company Safaricom entered with its own Little Cab app. Partnering with Kenya’s , Safaricom launched the new service to aggressively take on Uber—immediately offering cheape... |
INNOVATE2016: Brewster Kahle’s call for a decentralized web | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 8 | 7 |
and an The problem, he says, is that the Internet is no longer either private or secure. So his argument, summarized in a He launched his new mission in June with a The technology now exists, he says, to create websites Finally, he says, we have the technology to build both a genuinely public and commercial In... |
Walmart is buying Jet.com for $3 billion | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 8 | 7 | Walmart Stores is buying Jet.com in a deal worth $3 billion dollars according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal, confirming . According to our source the signatures for the deal were dry on Friday and will be announced as early as Monday morning — echoing what was reported in both Bloomberg and Recode. The... |
How Google Analytics ruined marketing | Samuel Scott | 2,016 | 8 | 7 |
Marketers in the high-tech world who use phrases such as “social media marketing,” “Facebook marketing” and “content marketing” do not understand the basic difference between marketing strategies, marketing channels and marketing content. And Google Analytics is to blame. In the just over 10 years since the , too ma... |
TechCrunch Tirana Meetup — Come meet us, Monday Aug 8 | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 8 | 7 | After an impromptu meetup in Prizren, Kosovo, where I met with local startups, I’m heading to Tirana, Albania where I’ll be holding an informal TechCrunch Meetup. soon on the details. There is also a . It will be on the evening of Monday Aug 8. I’ve been impressed with the growing tech scene in the Balkans, and it’s... |
HR 2.0 is the poster child for the next wave of SaaS innovation | Tarun Kalra | 2,016 | 8 | 7 |
The path for SaaS domination of a market segment has historically followed one of two routes: bringing previously offline workflows online, or moving on-premise software processes online. In short, SaaS would take over segments that previously were not SaaSified. As hotbeds of net new SaaS activity consolidate into m... |
How to tell if your small company needs to expand through acquisitions | Chelsea Stoner | 2,016 | 8 | 7 |
The market for mergers and acquisitions, particularly in software, is red-hot: Big private-equity firms, flush with cash, did 170 software deals worth $27.22 billion in the first half of 2016 alone. Beleaguered Yahoo was by Verizon for $4.8 billion; Microsoft a blockbuster $26 billion purchase of professional-net... |
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Pokémon Go crosses $200M in global revenue one month into launch | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 7 | While bugs and feature complaints are still causing a decent amount of negativity among users, Pokémon Go continues its upward trajectory in terms of overall revenue. App reveals that the game now have over $200 million in net revenue from players based on their estimates. The spending frenzy in Go compares favorably... |
Netflix launches iOS and Android apps for its internet speed test service | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Netflix began helping its users test their internet connection for streaming speeds in May . Now it is bringing that service to mobile with the launch of apps for and , as . Just like the Fast.com website for desktops, the “Fast Speed Test” apps give you a reading on the kind of speed you can expect Netflix to run... |
Polish 3D printer company Zortrax lied about contract with Dell | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 7 | Two years ago when was still a much-contended space a small Polish company called Zortrax made waves – and raised capital – on the news that it had signed a contract with Dell for 5,000 3D printers. I reported the news in 2014 and researched the implications more deeply later that year and found little that might con... |
Autopilot in Tesla Model X helps driver get safely to a hospital | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 7 | A Missouri man might not have made it safely to the hospital without the aid of his Tesla Model X’s self-driving features (via ). Joshua Neally, the 37-year old Model X owner, was on the way home from his law firm after work when he was struck by a pulmonary embolism. Neally allowed the Autopilot system to take over f... |
Crunch Report | Facebook will bypass Adblockers | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Tito Hamze
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Interactions nabs $56 million to improve your automated customer service experience | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | As the world turns, customer service seems to evolve much more slowly than most all other services. The problems that induce more hair-pulling and teeth-gnashing than solutions only seeming to be further abstracted by bad tech and the customer is these days left hanging up the phone after cussing out a robot. For how m... |
Only a few days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt SF tickets | Contributor | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Disrupt SF 2016 is right around the corner, and time is running out to get tickets to the hottest startup show in the Bay Area for the lowest possible price. You have just four days left to snag early-bird tickets to Disrupt for $1,995 apiece, a full $1,000 less than what it will cost you when early-bird ticket sales e... |
For the ambitious ed tech company AltSchool, it’s time for phase two | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Much has been written about the ambitions of , a San Francisco-based startup that’s aiming to change the way that school children learn. Its big idea, broadly, is that personalized learning is far more effective than the standardized education that most students are stuck with today. As important, personalized learnin... |
Yelp tops 2Q expectations, announces partnership with Nowait and names Jed Nachman as COO | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Following the bell today, reported a strong that made the stock soar almost 11 percent in after-hours trading. Yelp’s earnings release included better-than-expected revenue of $173.4 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.16. As part of the earnings release, Yelp made two additional announcements. First, the... |
Sometimes the most qualified applicant is not the most obvious | Kat Cole | 2,016 | 8 | 9 |
Hundreds of thousands of jobs that require both business and technical skills , which means it’s likely your company is hiring for an important member of your team. But if you are relying on typical tried-and-true measures to find candidates, there are many potential great fits with the right skills that won’t even ... |
Instagram castrated Snapchat like Facebook neutered Twitter | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | way when combined with network effect. You don’t always need to be better to win, you just have to rob your competitor of its appeal. Why would people stray if you provide convenience, even without quality? This is the strategy behind . Snapchat invented a brilliant format for sharing day-to-day life: photo and video... |
Disney will invest $1B into MLB’s streaming video business | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | The Walt Disney Company just that it’s paying $1 billion for a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the video streaming company created by Major League Baseball. As a result of the deal, BAMTech is also spinning out of MLB’s broader digital media business, MLB Advanced Media. BAMTech’s clients aren’t limited to baseball (the... |
NanoRacks’ commercial space testing platform outside the ISS is now open for business | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Say you’ve got an experiment or prototype satellite that you want to expose to the ravages of space. Sure, you could launch it with a bunch of others, but what if you need it back afterwards? NanoRacks has you covered. The company — well, actually, the crew of the ISS — has , which will allow anyone with the cash to s... |
Can chatbots help build your next website? | Dave Sloan | 2,016 | 8 | 9 |
Small businesses have their pick of affordable DIY website-building platforms: , , and , to name a few. But these “no coding skills required” platforms struggle to acquire and retain customers. While the UI of these platforms is often beautifully designed, it’s still too much work — and for business owners, who ... |
Intel buys deep learning startup Nervana Systems for a reported $350 million | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Intel announced Tuesday that it is acquiring deep learning startup in a move that looks to bolster the role of AI solutions within the company. Recode that the price tag of the deal is north of $350 million, adding to what has been a pretty active (to put it mildly) last few weeks in tech M&A. In a , Nervana CEO an... |
Auto manufacturers need stable startup partners | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | , which analyzes the future of the connected, autonomous car, recently hosted a webinar focused on the relationship between automotive manufacturers and startups. SK Kim, venture capitalist and manager at Hyundai Ventures, and Liz Kerton, executive director of the Autotech Council, laid out the challenges of mashing to... |
Apple releases its 5th developer betas | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Good news, Apple developers – Apple today has released its 5th version of the iOS 10 beta build along with new betas for watchOS 3, macOS, and tvOS. With this release, we’re getting closer to the final, public build of iOS – it’s likely that there will only be one or two more betas before its release expected in Septem... |
First round of Disrupt SF Hackathon tickets now available | Contributor | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | The wait is over, hackathon fans. With Disrupt SF 2016 right around the corner, we thought it was high time we released the first wave of tickets to the Disrupt SF Hackathon. The hackathon takes place September 10-11 at Pier 48 in San Francisco. Those of you looking to spend the weekend before Disrupt hard at work codi... |
Robotic legs could power up physical therapy for kids with cerebral palsy | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Kids suffering from cerebral palsy may soon have a powerful new physical therapy technique in the form of robotic assistance for their legs. A study is being conducted on the potential benefits of the system, newly adapted for the use of children. Lokomat is a “robotic gait training program” that’s been around for a co... |
Fossil’s new Android Wear smartwatches are up for pre-order | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Like many of its old school watch brethren, Fossil wasn’t exactly in a hurry to embrace the world of connected wearables – after all, when you make watches, you think you’ve got all the time in the world. Late last year, the , with a slew of new devices (not mention a along the way), including an Android Wear smartw... |
No Man’s Sky is an immersive wonder for solitary wanderers | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | you experience as a player coming back to your ship after a long trip on foot for the first time in No Man’s Sky is astounding. I crested a ledge and saw the ship I’d left a couple of hours ago sitting exactly where I’d left it, but from above, making it look small and almost insignificant among the colorful alien lan... |
You’re a travel agent! You’re a travel agent! Everyone’s a travel agent! | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | Amsterdam-based is aiming to shake up the travel industry by turning you (and that guy, and the lady over there and that chap over there, too) into a travel agent. The platform is a sharing-economy approach to booking travel for your friends and complete and utter strangers. Startup veteran Jochem Wijnands is now tak... |
A quick look at some of the artists who make Stranger Things so special | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 9 | out for a minute and look at the names in the ending credits of . If you’re like me, you’ve been watching the Netflix original series and obsessively talking about it with literally everyone you know. I’m not going to spoil the show, but there are a few things that stood out for me and I wanted to share them all with... |
Nvidia and Baidu partner on a ‘top-to-bottom’ platform for self-driving cars | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed a new partnership on stage at Baidu’s annual Baidu World conference today. This partnership with Baidu will see Nvidia and the Chinese tech giant work together on building a comprehensive autonomous driving platform. “We’re going to bring together the technical capabili... |
Taking Sphero’s BB-8 Force Band for a spin | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Sphero’s BB-8 was arguably the most compelling bit of merchandising, which is, naturally, saying a lot. The latest Star Wars film was, as anticipated, a merch juggernaut, but there was no better bit of serendipity than a startup smartphone-controlled toy maker and the movie’s scene stealing droid. How does one go about... |
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Kim Dotcom’s extradition appeal has started and is being live-streamed | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | More than four years later, Kim Dotcom’s legal battles (at least in New Zealand) may be close to an end. His final appeal to avoid extradition to face charges in the U.S started yesterday in Auckland’s High Court, and is expected to last And, in a for any case in New Zealand (and in typical Kim Dotcom fashion), the a... |
Baidu gets approval to test self-driving cars in California | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Baidu received an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit from the California DMV, the company revealed today. This paves the way for Baidu USA to begin testing its self-driving car technologies on public roads in California, which it says it will do soon. The Baidu autonomous driving research team in the U.S. was announced ... |
Applying analytics to clinical data | Sue Siegel | 2,016 | 8 | 31 |
Advanced technologies and the rapid adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) are enabling the physical world to merge with the digital, leading to explosive growth in the volume and quality of clinical data. Cognified care is the application of analytics to transform this newly available digitized clinical data i... |
Secret ‘bursts into flames’ feature may be behind Samsung’s Note 7 delays | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | The Galaxy Note 7 seems like a pretty decent phone if you like phones literally the size of the galaxy ( ) — but be aware that Samsung’s curvy-screened flagship device may be prone to, well, exploding. Fear not, however: Samsung is looking into it. That’s according to statements provided to and the , which have the c... |
Seattle angel investor Jon Staenberg on the state of startup investing | Jasper Kuria | 2,016 | 8 | 31 |
Absolutely. Most investors like to pretend they add a ton of value and expertise but they don’t. I am clear about it. The value I add is in having a good enough relationship with the founder so that when things aren’t going well they tell me. I then open my Rolodex and connect them with people that can help. What val... |
Instacart’s app has changed grocery stores for good | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | TechCrunch got an aisle-side view of how the company’s people and technology come together on location at Costco in San Francisco. And one thing’s clear: The San Francisco startup has changed grocery stores for good. According to the company’s Chief of Operations , one of Instacart’s primary innovations isn’t all th... |
NFX Guild’s James Currier’s journey from baiting hooks to baiting big deals | Navin Chaddha | 2,016 | 8 | 31 |
James Currier focuses on building businesses with network effects, and he builds those businesses by choosing the right people first. Currier started as a schoolboy entrepreneur, selling worms to fishermen at six and later selling boxer shorts in college. After starting his career in venture capital, Currier founded ... |
The dream of the Courier lives on, but it’s still a dream | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Oh yes, young feller, that there sure is something. But why don’t you just set a while an’ listen to the stories of an old blogger. ‘Twas back in the old days — before the millennials took over. That’d be 2009 or so. Longer than most remember these days. Let me ask ya something, m’boy. Ever hear tell of a ? Perhaps ... |
Relive Samsung’s incredibly awkward Gear S3 press conference | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Samsung knows how to throw a party. A really, really weird party. The electronics giant has put on some of the more bizarre events over the past decade, including, memorably, one at IFA 2012 that featured a real-life magician hired by the company to demonstrate just how magical the company’s new phablet really was. Thi... |
IoT’s killer app is home security | Chris Ciabarra | 2,016 | 8 | 31 |
I live in San Francisco, and I have a raccoon problem. If you’re a Bay Area local, chances are you’ve had a run-in with these not-so-small four-legged monsters. When I moved into my house, raccoons would run wild in my front yard almost every night, tipping over trash cans and scaring my dog. Being an IoT enthusiast,... |
HSN’s first pitch-off competition goes in search of the next big consumer product | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | is looking for the next big American consumer product. Today, 100 makers and entrepreneurs from around the U.S. will pitch their products for a chance to win airtime on HSN, a listing on HSN.com, a piece in Good Housekeeping magazine and its “Seal of Approval,” following testing. The products will come from across cat... |
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You too can bid on Steve Jobs’ turtleneck and other random junk! | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | If you’re a founder who’s feeling hot after getting some new seed funding and want to treat yourself, may I recommend purchasing the entire wardrobe of Silicon Valley’s greatest Versace menswear aficionado and wearing it as you berate employees in your office? Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, famously posited ... |
Glint raises $27 million to stop solid employees from bailing | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Redwood City-based has raised $27 million in a Series C round of venture funding for software that helps companies figure out how their teams are experiencing problems, or why and when solid employees may leave, undesirably. Glint replaces the traditional 360-review tools used by corporate HR teams and executives wit... |
Salesforce shares face plant despite beating analyst expectations | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Salesforce earnings came out today! They’re not great, either, and it looks like a weak outlook for the company’s third quarter is doing some damage to its shares, which were down as much as 8 percent. For a company that literally defined the phrase “software as a service” — basically, running your business online — an... |
Box beats earnings expectations | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | Box is seeing a “dramatic improvement in efficiency,” co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie told TechCrunch, pointing to lower sales and marketing costs relative to new customer acquisition. Investors had been skeptical that Box was spending too much in this category, but the company has been steadily improving this ratio. “ ... |
Lenovo’s got a snazzy new lightweight convertible laptop | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | The poor Yoga 910 never really had a chance. Moments after Lenovo announced the laptop, the spotlight was completely absorbed by the strange new Yoga Book. It’s a shame really, because this is a pretty nice piece of hardware — one that surely would have been the talk of the company’s event, had it not gone and showed t... |
Detroit’s music chops and auto shops could drive connected-car entertainment | Scott "DJ Skee" Keeney | 2,016 | 8 | 30 |
On a recent episode of a podcast called “The Watch,” one of the hosts made a joke about “grabbing the aux cord” in a friend’s car to play new music. In an age when self-driving cars could be whizzing us around cities in the next decade, it’s strange to think that we haven’t yet come up with a great solution for a muc... |
Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Dropbox disclosed earlier this week that a large chunk of its users’ credentials obtained in 2012 was floating around on the dark web. But that number may have been much higher than we originally thought. Credentials for , as first reported by Motherboard and confirmed by TechCrunch sources. The revelation of a passwo... |
Apple adds a 2TB iCloud storage option for $19.99 per month | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | iCloud users can now access up to 2TB of storage, as Apple just added a new tier that provides 2TB for $19.99 per month. As a refresher, iCloud storage can be used by Mac and iOS users to store and sync photos and videos, documents, device backups, music, emails and more between their devices. Apple also offers a Dropb... |
Bang & Olufsen’s pricey new wireless speakers look like martini shakers | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 31 | If nothing else, Bang & Olufsen knows how to make an impression. The Danish audio company announced a pair of new wireless speakers — or rather, one speaker in two different sizes — with conical aluminium designs that, if nothing else, certainly stand out. The BeoSound 1 and 2 (names, interestingly enough, already used... |
Happy birthday Iris Apfel, and thanks for making our messages mod | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Nonagenarian cover girl, designer and fashion icon turned 95 yesterday, and spent part of her birthday sharing with TechCrunch her thoughts about creativity and technology. If you you’re not familiar with Apfel, you probably are. Her influence in textiles, interior design and fashion is longstanding. As wrote of h... |
Cozy raises $8.5M Series B to simplify life for property managers and renters | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | , a platform to streamline interactions between property managers and renters, closed an $8.5 million Series B today led by , with participation from , and all other investors that participated in the company’s Despite the fact that , the way in which we lease them is anything but smart. Many property managers st... |
Pusher pulls in $2.5M to push live web and app content everywhere | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | London-based , the company powering The NY Times’ live election results and DraftKing’s fantasy scoring results, just raised $2.5 million to up its stakes further. The money came from , which focuses on debt financing aimed at the Software as a Service (SaaS) space. The company has seen strong organic growth so far, ... |
California regulators warm up to the idea of driverless cars sans steering wheel | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Proposed rules that would allow for testing of truly driverless cars on roads in California are gaining steam in the state’s legislature. Specifically, in California was revised on Monday to soon allow: “the testing of autonomous vehicles that do not have a driver seated in the driver’s seat and are not equipped with... |
VR on the battlefield, to the couch and back again — sort of | Yuval Boger | 2,016 | 8 | 30 |
Fifteen years ago, a team of scientists working at Johns Hopkins University was asked to do what seemed like the impossible: Design a headset that would create an image so immersive and realistic that it would allow anyone to experience what it feels like to be in a car — before that car actually exists. One of the m... |
A few dozen Nest Labs employees just headed to Google; here’s why | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | , the maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, is parting ways with a few dozen employees who work on its Internet of Things platform. According to a report that we’ve independently confirmed, those employees are joining Google per a restructuring. Both companies are subsidiaries of parent company Alphabet. The... |
Donald Trump finally fundraises in Silicon Valley | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a slow fundraising start in Silicon Valley. In the June lead-up to the final state primaries, Trump had raised very few dollars in the region that’s typically lucrative for political contenders. A of Federal Election Commission data found that Trump had only raised a... |
Velocity raises $22.5M Series B to build ‘Uber for Experiences’ | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Digital hospitality platform announced this week that, following its $16 million Series A last year, the company raised $22.5 million led by . The company creates curated dining experiences for time-poor diners looking to expand their horizons. The money will be invested in expansion to 29 cities over the next three... |
Google said to undercut Uber with expanded ride-share service in San Francisco | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Google is running its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco, . The move would put Google in direct, immediate competition with Uber, which helps explain even further the recent departure of . Google’s new offering piloted in May, according to the WSJ, and uses the Google-owned Waze app to connect commuters for sh... |
Startup accused of scamming employees scrubs its online presence | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | A little-known startup is in meltdown mode after a former employee took to Medium to accuse the company of scamming her out of her wages and firing her in retaliation after she filed a wage claim to recoup the unpaid cash. The was widely shared online; in response, the company shuttered its website and threatened leg... |
Facebook Offers gets revamped for mobile, now lets you track saved coupons in a dedicated section | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Facebook’s goal of tracking ads all the way through to a customer’s purchase at point-of-sale is getting a big boost today with a makeover of the Facebook Offers program. Now designed to be more mobile-friendly, Facebook is allowing businesses to create two kinds of offers – those customers can redeem online and those ... |
Pebble update gives users more info at-a-glance and quicker actions | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Pebble is getting ready to start shipping new hardware, including the Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2, but first it has something for both iPhone and Android based device owners. The new Pebble software update includes some big tweaks to how Pebble operates, both for end users and developers, including improvements to actio... |
Snapchat makes it easier to create your own On-Demand Geofilters | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | On-Demand Geofilters from Snapchat let anyone build a custom filter for their event (or for whatever reason – I’m not judging your Snapchat filter needs), which was a petty good idea when the . Today it becomes an even better idea, thanks to new templates that let users create their own customized geofilters without an... |
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Nine-year-old boy prints a mechanical hand for his teacher | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Calramon Mabalot is a pretty wild kid. He likes 3D printing and, along with his brother, he builds lots of cool projects – including a mechanical hand for a local teacher he met while building 3D projects. In an interview with , Mabalot described how he designed and built a prosthetic hand complete with full articulat... |
Wayfair snatches up Boston startup Trumpit to bring photo & video messaging to its mobile app | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Online furniture shop has acquired a Boston-based mobile messaging application called , with the aim of utilizing its technology in order to expand its customer service offerings. So yes, that means messaging will be a part of the mobile Wayfair application in the future. Today, the app only offers users the ability... |
Somebody at Apple thought the reality show ‘Planet of the Apps’ really needed Jessica Alba | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Apple’s reality TV show keeps getting weirder. Every time Apple and Propagate release new information about the show, it gets harder to understand what they’re actually trying to build. This time, got a statement saying that Jessica Alba is joining the cast of the show as a mentor and adviser. In case you missed th... |
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