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French Startups Are Also Taking Over CES | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 3 | It’s true, . But this is just part of the story. CES isn’t yet another startup show. It’s a now a startup show with hundreds of companies launching compelling new products at the same time coming from many different countries — and French startups in particular are coming . This year, 190 French startups are going to... |
You Don’t Want A 5-Star Review | Tom Collinger | 2,016 | 1 | 3 |
Brands know that customer reviews play an integral role in consumers’ purchasing decisions, especially online. As such, they work hard to drive the highest ratings they can. And yet, it’s the presence of less-than-five-star reviews that can actually be what drives purchase. across 40 product categories looked at the... |
From Digital Disappointment ToThe End Of The App Era, Here Are Eight Trends For 2016 | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 1 | 3 |
The only thing that grows faster than technology are our expectations of it. The gap between what we know to be possible and what we experience is only widening. Our children are growing up in a world where all screens are interactive and every service is cloud-connected, where any song or movie ever made it at their... |
What Happened To The Food Industry Last Year? | Robyn Metcalfe | 2,016 | 1 | 3 |
By the time you read this, you will be aware of the U-turn our system is making to find new, personalized, localized ways to your plate. Last year was a bellwether for systems, specifically distribution systems. In 2016, the traditional method of delivering from farms to tables is going to shift to include ... |
Startups Are Taking Over CES | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 3 | The Consumer Electronics Show keeps on growing. Several years ago the show outgrew the massive Las Vegas Convention Center and started using part of the Sands Expo Center several blocks away. They called it Eureka Park and made the exhibit space less expensive in a bid to attract startups to the show. It worked. And it... |
5 Things That Will Disappear In 5 Years | Tom Gonser | 2,016 | 1 | 3 |
Just five years ago the world was a very different place. In 2010, the iPad had just made its debut, Kickstarter was introducing a new form of venture capitalism that would change the face of fundraising and Square was letting vendors of any size accept payment with a swipe of a card on a mobile device. And we haven’... |
Livestream’s $399 Movi Brings Multi-Camera Polish Into A Pocket-Sized Package | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 3 | If you’re a regular person looking to shoot some video, it’s hard to complain about the many, many options available. Heck, the iPhone camera is good enough at this point that it’s been used to . But unless you’re a video professional, there’s still one big limitation — you’re probably recording with a single camera. ... |
The Miami Tech Scene Is Heating Up | Juan López Salaberry | 2,016 | 1 | 3 |
Miami is a city of many traits. Historically recognized for the sun, beach and tourists of South Beach, it has now become much more than that. With one of the most diverse populations in the country, Miami is the strategic capital of the Americas, binding Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America (LatAm) to the U.S. ... |
The BoomStick Gives Your Stock Earbuds A Major Sound Quality Boost | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 3 | The standard sets of stock headphones being shipped by companies like Apple and Samsung are, by and large, garbage. For consumers looking to achieve more of a high-end audio experience, their best bet is traditionally in securing a new pair of cans. A new company, , is looking to help consumers boost audio quality mor... |
Biotech Startups Hit the Ground Running, With Six Filing IPO Plans Today | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | If we had to gamble on it, we’d bet the IPO market will be far more brisk this year than last year, which was the for tech IPOs in particular since 2009. Even still, it came as a bit of a surprise today when not one or three but six biotech startups revealed plans to go public. (If you recall, biotech IPOs, which t... |
Faraday Future Unveils The Crazy Looking FFZERO1 Concept Car | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | Electric car company unveiled its first concept car, the FFZero1, at CES 2016 this evening in Las Vegas, Nevada. And true to , it looks a lot like the Batmobile. Faraday says it sees this vehicle as more of a “car of concepts” than just a singular concept car. Along with the FFZERO1, the company revealed a variable ... |
LEGO’s WeDo 2.0 Robotics Kit Teaches Science And Engineering To Elementary School Students | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | LEGO Education is launching a new version of its for elementary school students at CES today. Just like , WeDo 2.0 is meant to introduce students to robotics, engineering and programming, but it’s also meant as a tool for teaching STEM in general. The set will come with a number of Lego bricks, but most importantly,... |
Show Off Your Snapchat Stories Forever On Slinger | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | Ephemerality be damned. Some art deserves to live longer than 24 hours. So rather than just squirrel away your saved Snapchat Stories, you can upload them to aiming to be the permanent home for vertical videos. And thanks to its Popular page and the ability to Like videos, it can help you discover content creators to... |
Nvidia Announces New Drive PX 2 ‘Supercomputer In A Lunchbox’ For Self-Driving Cars | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | Following last year’s , Nvidia just announced an updated version of its computing platform for self-driving cars, the . Compared to last year’s model, this is a much more powerful beast, able to process data from 12 video cameras and other sensors in real time to make educated driving decisions. The company calls it ... |
Ford And DJI Launch $100,000 Developer Challenge To Improve Drone-To-Vehicle Communications | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | What if your drone could talk to your car? That’s probably not a question you’ve asked yourself all that often, but what if you are the United Nations or a search-and-rescue organization that wants to launch drones from the bed of their pickup trucks? Ford and DJI today announced at CES a new that asks developers to ... |
360fly Pushes Into Virtual Reality Sports And Gives A Sneak Peek At Its 360-Degree Camera Drone | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | The , a small, sturdy ball with panoramic views we first discovered at , is back again and buddying up with sports brand BRG to bring us live or recorded, 360-degree, stitchless, GoPro has its own spherical solution, with 4k recording capabilities for those live-action shots and Kodak’s PixPro aims to do the same. ... |
Netatmo Makes Outdoor Security Cameras Suck Less | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | just announced the Netatmo Presence, a new smart outdoor security camera packed with actually useful features. In particular, this camera can detect if there’s a car in your driveway, a person waiting outside or a pet running around your garden. The camera connects to your Wi-Fi network in order to send you push notif... |
Augmented Reality Versus Virtual Reality: The Battle Is Real | Ricardo Diaz | 2,016 | 1 | 4 |
Although virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have existed in some form for decades, only recently have they garnered mainstream attention. is blowing up right now, and its content and hardware advances have been exciting to watch. In a short amount of , content creators have made some mind-blowing advan... |
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Parrot’s Pot Helps You Keep Your Houseplants Alive | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | is probably best known for its drones, but the company actually offers a wide range of products that also includes headphones and in-car infotainment technology. Last year at CES, Parrot first showed its . At the time, that was just a prototype, but now the company is ready to launch this new product line in the firs... |
Withings Launches Incredibly Sophisticated Thermometer To Track Your Fever | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | You may know Withings for its , but the company has had a long history of health tracking devices. The $100 Withings Thermo is keeping up with this trend. It’s a smart temporal artery thermometer, and arguably the best thermometer you can get today. The device tracks your body temperature using your temporal artery. Y... |
Parrot’s Newest Drone Has Wings | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | When you think of consumer drones, chances are you are thinking of quadcopters. But fixed-wing drones have long been a staple of the military and the model aircraft community and now , which pioneered the quadcopter craze with its AR.Drone, is getting into the fixed-wing game, too. The 700-gram Parrot Disco, which t... |
Google SEC Paperwork Reveals It Paid Over $380 Million For Bebop | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | At the end of November, , a cloud platform startup founded by former VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene. Today, the company filed paperwork with the SEC revealing the purchase price: $380,241,352 to be precise. In addition, the paperwork revealed that Greene’s portion of the sale, 7,244,150 shares of bebop stock w... |
Activision Confirms Major League Gaming Acquisition, No Plans To Shutter Business | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | Some consolidation in the world of gaming and specifically e-sports. Today that it has acquired , a specialist in live gaming events as it vies to become the “ESPN of e-sports.” The news follows over the weekend that Activision would be buying MLG for $46 million and shuttering the business. In the event, Activi... |
Yahoo Shuts Down Yahoo Screen, Its Home For Original Content Like “Community” | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | , and confirmation by Yahoo, Yahoo Screen has closed its doors with its content being split among its various magazine properties. Screen as a place to house Yahoo’s original content, which the company has since backed away from (remember the $42 million write-down?). From bringing back the show “Community” to airing... |
Hide Unwanted iPhone App Icons With This iOS 9 Trick | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | For those who believe a cluttered desk is a cluttered mind, the same is likely doubly true when it comes to your iPhone’s home screen. Unfortunately, those who desire complete control of the aesthetic flow of their phones have always had to play around the unavoidable inclusion of Apple’s stock iOS apps on their launch... |
Amazon’s Other App Store, Alexa’s “Skills” Section, Has Quietly Grown To Over 130 Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | Amazon has been quietly building out an ecosystem of applications for its connected device, the Amazon Echo. While nowhere near as well-known or buzzed about as the two top app stores on the market today – Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s Play Store – the Echo app store, aka the “Skills” section in the Amazon ,... |
Images Of Faraday Future’s Crazy Concept Car Seemingly Leak Via Its App | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | Whoops. Faraday Future — the super mysterious electric car company that no one really seems to know much about — is all set to debut tonight… and it seems that might’ve just leaked. An app called “Faraday Future Concept” briefly hit the app store this morning, complete with concept images and slides describing a “1... |
Is The Password Dead? The Future Of Web And Mobile Authentication | Richard Reiner | 2,016 | 1 | 4 |
Will 2016 be the year when passwords become obsolete? Or will we just continue to grin and bear it? And what’s the matter with passwords, anyway? Passwords have been around a long time (think about soldiers entering armed camps at night and giving the secret password), but today, the average consumer uses 25 or more ... |
We Want To Fly You To San Francisco To Attend The Crunchies | TechCrunch | 2,016 | 1 | 4 | We want to fly you to San Francisco for the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards! Walk the Green Carpet in style! One lucky winner will be able to invite three friends on a whirlwind trip to San Francisco to rub elbows with founders, VCs and other attendees at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards. We’ll fly you and three friends out... |
Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked Into Cyanogen’s Forked Version Of Android | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | Microsoft’s Cortana quietly snuck onto Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you happen to own a OnePlus One smartphone. That’s because of its alternative Android operative system which features Cortana baked into the software. The move had been but this upgra... |
WeChat Adds Skype-Like International Calls To Its Messaging App | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | WeChat, the Uber popular Chinese message app with more than 500 million active users, is taking a leaf out of the Skype playbook after it an international telephone calling service. The service is initially available for users based in the U.S., Hong Kong and India, but it will roll out to others over time. ‘WeChat O... |
The Avegant Glyph Will Let You Watch 3D Movies On A Plane | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | Equipped with 3D capabilities, the wearable device can connect to a computer or smartphone via an HDMI connector, displaying movies and the Internet on a private viewing screen. When turned to its side, the product can be used as headphones. TechCrunch spoke with Richard Kerris, chief marketing officer at Avegant. Wi... |
Facebook’s Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK that allows them to build interactive experiences and “bots” in Messenger for shopping, booking travel, and more, sources with direct knowledge of the SDK confirm. The Chat SDK allows developers to ... |
Volkswagen Gave An Apology Sandwich With The Reveal Of Its Budd-e Concept Car In-Between | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | Volkswagen’s head brand ambassador Herbert Diess quickly got the emissions fiasco apologies out of the way on stage at CES on Tuesday and then unveiled two connected and all-electric concept cars of the future, the e-Golf Touch and the much-anticipated Budd-e microbus. Diess was in the running for VW CEO shortly after ... |
Toast, A Point Of Sale Service For Restaurants, Raises $30M | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | When Chris Comparato joined his former colleagues at , a service that includes a point-of-sale tool for restaurants, raising new financing to continue scaling the company was near the top of the list. So today, the company said it has raised $30 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Google Ventures... |
Intel Says Its Button-Sized Curie Will Ship In Q1, Costing Under $10 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced new details about one of its big (little?) efforts in the space. Curie, Intel’s button-sized wearable hardware module that was , will begin shipping this quarter and will cost less than $10, he said. Am... |
Securifi’s Almond 3 Is A Router And Smart Home Hub In A Nifty Single Box | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | Securifi just announced the Almond 3, a brand new touchscreen wireless router that wants to become the central part of your smart home. The Almond 3 will be released in the coming months for $120. At heart, Securifi’s new device remains a wireless router. You plug it to your modem and it will create a Wi-Fi network for... |
Will The Paris Climate Change Deal Prove To Be The Catalyst For Cleantech? | Ankit Mishra | 2,016 | 1 | 5 |
Back in January 2014, the CBC aired “ ,” which highlighted the difficulty of operating in cleantech in the past few years. The documentary revealed how much the mood had changed since John Doerr’s now-famous March 8, 2007, TED talk on climate change and renewable energy. Following the talk, and caught up in the hype,... |
The Return Of Technics Is Symbolic, But Will Anyone Actually Buy Them? | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | The Technics SL-1200 turntable might be the most important piece of DJ equipment ever created. . Although the original SL-1200 might not be the best turntable ever created, the updated and improved SL-1200 MK2 is by far the most popular turntable for resale on sites like and Craigslist. DJs everywhere want it. Back ... |
The Withings Go Is A Cheap Little Activity Tracker | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | has up its sleeve, a new activity tracker. This isn’t a new version of the or . This is a brand new activity tracker. And the best part is that it only costs $69. The Withings Go uses an always-on E Ink display like the one on your Kindle or original Pebble. It’s very power efficient but it’s also a black and whi... |
Sony’s Kicking It Old-School At CES And Releasing A High-Res Turntable | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | While most companies are focused on touting their latest Internet-connected refrigerators or self-driving cars at CES, Sony is kicking it old-school and announced a turntable at . Yes, like the kind of turntable that will play your old vinyl LPs — except if you just got into vinyls and are still expanding your collect... |
DietSensor Scans Your Food For Calories | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | For those of you who count your carbs and calories, DietSensor is looking to make your life easier. The French-based startup has created a tool that scans your food and determines its nutritional value. The idea is that you can go out to eat at a restaurant or at someone’s home and still keep tabs on your diet…if you... |
Watch Sony’s CES Extravaganza Press Conference Right Here | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | [ustream id=12885645 live=1 hwaccel=0 width=700 height=394] We’re live at the Sony press conference at CES in the Las Vegas Convention Center starting in just a few minutes. We got a lot of… interesting devices all day long, such as Samsung’s . We have a team on the ground ready to cover the event and give you hands-o... |
Kodak Is Bringing Back Super 8 | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | If you’ve always wanted to shoot video using the tools your parents probably used to film each other naked then Yves Behar and Kodak have a product for you. Super 8 was a cartridge-based film standard that became surprisingly popular after its release in 1965. It has remained popular with vintage film buffs and now Eas... |
Here’s Why Samsung’s New Frankenstein Fridge Is Actually Dumb | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | Is it a fridge? Is it a tablet? No, it’s a fridge-tablet hybrid, coming straight from Samsung’s brainstorming sessions. Samsung’s new features a giant tablet on the front. The Internet of the new fridge. But there are tangible reasons why this fridge innovation is a bad thing. This isn’t the first time Samsung a ... |
Porsche Design Revs Up A Drive That Powers Your MacBook | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | CES is a time of bad photoshopping and the above image is a perfect example. That said, the product it hopes to sell is quite compelling. It’s basically a USB-C desktop hard drive that connects to and powers USB-C devices – primarily the new MacBook. Called the , the drive has a single USB-C port and a power port. The... |
In A Crowded Market, A VC Uses Its Office As A Hook | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | You might be hearing talk of depressed valuations, but that message certainly isn’t reaching commercial real estate owners in the Bay Area. The median price per square foot to rent office space in the city has shot up 33.7 percent in just the last three months alone, , an online real estate resource. Over the last 12 ... |
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Samsung Gear S2 Follows In Apple’s Footsteps With iOS Support, Gold And Platinum Variants | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | When Samsung unveiled the Gear S2, it looked lot like . And the company announced another move in this direction today by a new 18-karat rose gold and platinum Gear S2. Like the Apple Watch, it’s made of real gold and it’s not just gold-colored. The new variants with matching leather bands will be available in Febru... |
Sling TV, Dish’s Internet TV Service For Cord Cutters, Unveils A More Personalized Interface | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 5 | , Dish Network’s streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters, has been helping to for the pay TV provider, but its user interface has needed some work. Today, the company attempted to address this problem with the of a new interface focused on a more personalized experience for its users and improved navigation. Cor... |
Slack Promotes Former Twitter Boss April Underwood To VP Of Product | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 2 | Slack’s rocket ship has a new co-pilot. April Underwood, Slack’s former head of platform who just , has leveled up to become the startup’s VP of Product. Underwood joined Slack in June after nearly five years at Twitter where she was a Director of Product. Putting the head of platform in charge of the entire product s... |
Silicon Valley Lies And Those Who Tell Them | Bruno Aziza | 2,016 | 1 | 2 |
We are now in a new year. Like most people, you’ll likely start 2016 setting a bunch of resolutions. If you are an entrepreneur, or want to become one, do yourself a favor and make the one resolution that can make 2016 your best year: Stop believing the Silicon Valley lies and those who tell them. I’ve been in the te... |
Samsung’s ‘Rink’ Motion Controllers For Gear VR Look Pretty Great | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 2 | A few days ago, Samsung that they’d be showing on the floor at CES in Las Vegas. One of them, which barely caused a blip on the radar was the “rink.” It’s Samsung’s motion controllers for the Gear VR, something that is sorely needed for their mobile virtual reality experience. If you remember, Oculus just shared that... |
Real Solutions For On-Demand Worker Classification | Alex Chriss | 2,016 | 1 | 2 |
This past year will be remembered as the year of the on-demand economy. For many people, especially those outside of Silicon Valley, it seemed to come out of nowhere. On the consumer side, this was almost universally a welcome surprise. The impact on workers was, of course, much more hotly debated. Headline-grabbing ... |
The Top Five Trends For The Connected Car In 2016 | Mahbubul Alam | 2,016 | 1 | 2 |
Many years ago, car predictions focused on what near-future vehicles would look like. Would they be bigger or smaller and how fast would they get from 0 to 60 mph? But today, as modern automobiles have evolved to moving machines bristling with sensors, software, processors and networks, future predictions are all ab... |
Why Bitcoin Matters | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 1 | 2 | The most epochal financial transaction of this century, to date, occurred on May 22, 2010. It did not involve Wall Street, or the City of London; it took place in Jacksonville, Florida. It did not feature collateralized debt obligations, or credit default swaps. It was a purchase of two Papa John’s pizzas, in exchange ... |
The Unicorns Of Southeast Asia | Choon Yan | 2,016 | 1 | 2 |
I have spent most of my life living and traveling in Southeast Asia; the last two years as the mentor to Asian startups. Southeast Asia — home to 620 million people across 11 countries — has been skyrocketing with tremendous growth; case in point, the 16 percent increase in Aggregate Investment Deal Value, to US$1.0... |
New Rules For Our Health’s Digital Future | Thomas Hwang | 2,016 | 1 | 2 |
Technology promises to transform healthcare. It’s redefining how we interact with, and act on, our health data, and reshaping how care is delivered and coordinated. But uptake so far has been limited, particularly among the elderly, those with chronic conditions and others who could benefit most from a better, smarte... |
One Month After Lyft, UberX Finally Lands At LAX | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | Los Angeles Uber riders, rejoice. UberX is finally coming to LAX. The company that as of 8 a.m. tomorrow, riders will be able to request and get picked up by UberX cars. This comes exactly one month after Lyft launched at LAX, which was by LA’s Mayor Eric Garcetti. Uber and Lyft had with the airport and the LA ci... |
Apple’s First iOS App Development Center In Europe Will Be Located In Italy | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | Apple is opening an iOS App Development Center in Naples, Italy. The facility will be the first of its kind in Europe as the U.S. company explores ways to nurture mobile app developers and talent of the future from the region. The center is designed, as the name suggests, to be a place where aspiring app developers can... |
FireEye Picks Up Fellow Cybersecurity Intelligence Firm iSight For $200M | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | Cybersecurity and analysis firm FireEye has boosted its service with in a $200 million deal. FireEye, which is a member of the billion dollar unicorn club, has around its valuation, with some pundits pointing out that investors were overly bullish on the company and cybersecurity in general following a spate of att... |
Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Workers With Equity | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | as Baby Boomers tip over into retirement, is making its contractor workforce into a full-time one. The care workers, called CarePros within the company, will have the potential for stock options. “I really don’t want two classes of people in our company. Everyone is in it to help the elderly and everyone should succee... |
Facebook’s Newest Feature Is A Hub For Discussing And Following Live Sports Matches | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | In its ongoing quest to be your hub for all things social and communication, Facebook is increasing its focus on sports after the social network announced a new feature to enable users to follow games and commentary around them. is a new destination inside the social network that includes play-by-play coverage of spor... |
GM Unveils Maven, Its Big New Play In Car-Sharing Services | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | has taken the wraps off its latest move to put itself into the next generation of transportation. Today the company launched , a new program that brings together the company’s various efforts in car-sharing services, along with a team of 40 from within the car technology industry and people brought in from Google, Zi... |
State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | State lawmakers and the District of Columbia have put together a group of bills pushing for legislation to protect our digital privacy. The coalition of 16 states and D.C. say surveillance technology and a lack of regulation has given Big Brother too much power when it comes to monitoring online information. “A biparti... |
Uber’s Standalone Food Delivery App Is Coming To The U.S. | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | Uber is gearing up to launch a standalone app for UberEATS, the company’s prepared food delivery service, in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Houston, Seattle and Dallas, . The app is expected to be available for both iOS and Android by the end of March. Uber also plans to expand... |
Anxiety Party | Daniel Burka | 2,016 | 1 | 20 |
We have a somewhat unusual at . There are six of us. Four product designers, a researcher and a team coordinator. Each of us held fairly senior design positions previously, and we each have a lot of experience. Because we’re all experienced, we function as peers — no one is at the helm… or maybe we all are. We ma... |
There Is Real Fraud In The Underground Market For In-Game Virtual Goods | Yinglian Xie | 2,016 | 1 | 20 |
The that Activision Blizzard acquired King Digital Entertainment, maker of the hit game Candy Crush, for a staggering $5.9 billion is an acknowledgement of the promising (and profitable) future of mobile games. The global gaming market is to reach $91.5 billion in 2015. While PC and console games are still mainst... |
Software Testing Tool Developer QASymphony Raises $5M | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | , which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capital on product development and marketing. The funding was led by Fulcrum Equity Partners with participation from returning investor BIP Ca... |
Jack Dorsey Has A Lot Of Work To Do | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | Twitter stock saw a mini-rally today after hitting an all-time low on rumors that News Corp was eyeing a tie-up with the company. Twitter didn’t comment on the report, and News Corp said the rumor is untrue, but the fact that the rumor surfaced and picked up speed so quickly points to just how precarious the company fe... |
Astronomers Find Evidence Of A Ninth Planet | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | Two astronomers at Caltech have found that indicates the presence of a ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, it would transform the model of our solar system as we know it. While the proposed planet has yet to be directly imaged, its gravitational influence on other known objects has allowed astronomers to ... |
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Announcing The Judges For The NFL And TechCrunch 1ST And Future Pitch-Off | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | In case you missed it, the NFL, TechCrunch and Stanford GSB have teamed up to create 1ST and Future, a pitch-off competition featuring startups in three categories, Stadium of the Future, Bringing Home the Game and Tomorrow’s Athlete. Today we’re announcing the judges the contestants in each category will face in thei... |
Keep An Eye On Sidecar’s Patents | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | A day after the that General Motors was picking up assets from failed Uber competitor Sidecar, today the startup’s CEO finally confirmed the details and provided a few more details about the deal. A “key component to the transaction,” writes CEO Sunil Paul, was Sidecar’s patents, for which GM has taken a license, b... |
Investments In Virtual And Augmented Reality Hit Nearly $700M in 2015 | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | The virtual fire continues to heat up beneath the AR/VR industry with investments continuing to build and soar. According to a , AR and VR investments are taking off pretty rapidly with nearly $700 million being invested into the space in 2015. The overall trends show investment steadily rising. The report notes that ... |
Punch Is A Clever Lockscreen Messenger App For iPhone…That You May Never Get To Use | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | Apple’s App Store rules are designed to maintain a level playing ground for developers and keep them from overtaking the operating system’s interface or feature set in ways Apple did not intend. But at times, the rules also bump up against innovative leaps in terms of how we could use our smartphones. Case in point: a ... |
Sundance VR Trend Piece | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | So about this time of year my inbox gets flooded with junk from Sundance. Reps, PR, invites to parties. ! [Sure, why not]. Raise a glass with Canon [sense a trend?]. See the Extraordinary Difference Vaseline is Making [what?]. You get the picture. But for the last couple of years, the big inbox trend for Sundance has ... |
Yik Yak Launches On The Web | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | , the anonymous, location-based social network that has taken college campuses by storm, has today launched a web client. The company has been working on the web version of the app for the past few months in a closed beta, and is now ready to unveil it to the public. To get going on the web, users simply add the same p... |
Ad-Tech Company OpenX Saw $140M In Net Revenue Last Year | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | Private companies get to be selective about the numbers they share with the public — on the ad-tech side, you usually end up with vague announcements about percentage growth, run rates and so on. , however, is releasing numbers that are a little more concrete. Specifically, it says it saw $140 million in net revenue (... |
Meet The Tech Vying For The Crunchie For Best Technology Achievement In 2015 | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 20 | The Best Technology Achievement Crunchie goes to the products that reflect true excellence in their fields, products that made waves in the tech landscape in 2015. There are several great products up for the award this year, so let’s take a look at this year’s finalists, as well as those companies that have won the awa... |
HTC Denies Reports It Will Spin Its VR Business Into A Standalone Company | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | Virtual reality is becoming a major focus for struggling smartphone maker HTC, but not so major that it will spin out its VR business into a standalone company. The firm today issued a statement denying in its home country of Taiwan which claimed Chairwoman Cher Wang is in the process of creating a new VR entity that... |
Indus OS Raises $5M To Make Android Work For First-Time Smartphone Users In India | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | If you want proof that Android is the operating system of emerging markets, look no further than . The company, formerly known as Firstouch, is tweaking the Google-run operating system to the unique demands and culture of India. And it’s raised $5 million in fresh funding to push on with its lofty target of reaching o... |
Uber Makes First Big Expansion In China As It Aims To Reach 100 Cities In 2016 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | Fresh from raising new funding, Uber China — Uber’s dedicated business in the world’s largest country — is embarking on its largest expansion to date which will increase its coverage to 37 cities, up from 22. Uber China has slowly expanded its coverage of China with launches in large cities thus far. In a change of app... |
How To Succeed When Facing Digital Disruption | Jeanne Ross | 2,016 | 1 | 18 |
In a digital economy, companies are constantly faced with opportunities, challenges and threats. Business changes are critical to successfully navigate in this environment, but there are plenty of pitfalls to watch for along the way. Some companies, like those in the media space, are probably closer to the head of th... |
New Chinese VC Cocoon Networks Opens For Business In London With A $713M Fund | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | As stocks in China continue to see a lot of volatility, some tech investors from the country are setting up a £500 million ($713 million) fund in London and are looking to back startups here. , as the new group is called, is backed by China Equity Group and Hanxin Capital, and plans to invest in UK and European startu... |
Slack CEO Pays Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | Ahead of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield shared a touching note with employees about Dr. King, the civil rights movement and why the collaboration software’s office is closed today. With Butterfield’s permission, Slack engineer Erica Baker shared the note externally “not only because it touch... |
Magic Bus Aims To Magically Ease Silicon Valley Commuter Woes With City-To-City Transportation | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | is a new startup out of Y Combinator that hopes to end many Bay Area commuter’s slow, soul-crushing daily drive down the 101 with a scheduled, WiFi-enabled, private bus system to transport them anywhere from San Francisco all the way down to Sunnyvale. There are – Chariot, Shuddle and even Uber and Lyft among them, ... |
Twitter’s Latest Dedicated Celebrity Apps Supercharge Moments | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | Twitter has never forgotten the power that its influencers possess, though they often haven’t utilized their sway as successfully as they could. Twitter is now looking to give its A-list celebrities better tools to show their fans love while conveying their own #personalbrands on the site. Earlier this week I chatted ... |
More Money For India’s On-Demand Economy: Swiggy Raises $35M For Food Delivery | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | India has a big appetite for on-demand startups at the moment, and today one of the hopefuls in the food category has raised some money to supersize its business. , a restaurant delivery startup that claims to be the largest in India after passing Rocket Internet-backed Foodpanda last month, has raised $35 million in ... |
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy | Anshu Sharma | 2,016 | 1 | 18 |
Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy — they are suffering from stack fallacy. Stack fallacy is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to build the layer above... |
Second Home Raises $10.7M From Yuri Milner, Martin Lau, Index And Plans Lisbon Home | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | Co-working spaces and membership clubs with a heavy tech bent have proliferated across the planet in recent years as the industry itself has exploded, and startups look to find flexible spaces to work. But not many have gone for such an eclectic mix of fashion, designers, startups and investors (among others) as , the... |
Neura, A Privacy-Focused Platform For The Internet Of Things, Raises $11M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | , a platform that helps users personalize connected devices while guarding their data, will promote its new software development kit after raising a $11 million Series A. The round was led by AXA Strategic Partners and Pitango Venture Capital, with participation from Liberty Israel Venture Fund and Lenovo Group. Neura,... |
The List Of Crunchies Presenters Is On Fire This Year | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | Each year, the startup community comes together in the name of innovation to celebrate the highlights, accomplishments and feats of brilliance of the past year. John Oliver once called it “the biggest group of high-functioning nerds.” We call it the . This year you are in for a treat. Chelsea Peretti, comedian and sta... |
Powering Up A New-Old-Stock PS/2 Model 30 | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65QblpaFcrw] I am a big fan of watching old stuff work again and video takes the proverbial IBM cake. The PS/2 Model 30 came out in the early 1990s and was one of the first machines with an Intel 286 CPU, a 10Mhz monster that could run Sierra games like a champ. And here it is s... |
European Antitrust Chief Eyeing Tech Giants’ Hold On Data | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | The European Union’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has fired a warning shot about the competition risks posed by dominant tech platforms that harvest vast amounts of personal data, suggesting big data operators such as Google might in future be considered in breach of the region’s competition rules base... |
Atlas, The Humanoid Robot, Could Become Your Android Butler | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0qWVKcJR3w] Here’s to good old , the walking humanoid robot. He walks, he runs, he carries heavy loads and now – as part of a calibration program – he can do chores around the house. This video shows the team at running calibration tests on Atlas. These tests let the operato... |
Donor Data Is The New Currency Of Presidential Candidates | Craig Spiezle | 2,016 | 1 | 18 |
As we head into the presidential primaries, there is no question big data and analytics will play a major role in targeting voters, driving contributions and ultimately determining who will be the next president. As we have transformed into a data-driven society and economy, this may be expected. But the candidates’ ... |
Wahanda Rebrands To Treatwell, Eyes Up U.S. Entry | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 18 | , the European hair and beauty marketplace that Japan’s Recruit Holdings (at a $240 million pre-money valuation), is getting a makeover of its own. Today the company has rebranded to . The name comes from made in June 2015 to expand its services in Holland, Germany and Belgium. The name change and brand refresh ... |
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