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Will 2016 See The End Of Closed-Source Politics? | Chris Latterell | 2,016 | 1 | 17 |
As the presidential primary campaigns heat up across both parties, voters (Republicans and Democrats) are increasingly gravitating toward outsider candidates like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson — candidates promising to shake up the establishment, with the credentials (or lack thereof) to back ... |
Startup Step-By-Step: No Cryptocountry For Old Men | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 17 | “Let’s make a country,” my friend Rich said. He was serious. He and I were talking outside of a bitcoin conference in New York. It was April, 2014 and we were inside the Javits Center, the glass abomination on the Hudson that event goers hated. It was raining wildly and the crypto-folks were bumping into each other as ... |
AdSemble Will Give One Startup Some Billboard Space Near The Super Bowl | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 17 | When people talk about ads at the Super Bowl, they usually mean those TV campaigns that big brands ( ) pay millions of dollars for. But AdSemble is giving startups an opportunity for free Super Bowl advertising of a different kind — on a digital billboard near the event itself. aims to and for this year’s Super Bowl... |
Hike Adds Quora And Automattic Founders To Its Roster Of Investors | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | Hike, the Indian messaging app competing with global giants like , is adding a quartet of Silicon Valley veterans as investors and advisors. These include co-founder and chief executive officer Adam D’Angelo; founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg (who is also a co-founder of WordPress); vice president of engineering Ad... |
The Federal Government Must Act To Ensure That The Autonomous Vehicle Revolution Takes Place In The U.S. | Rob Toews | 2,016 | 1 | 17 |
The advent of autonomous vehicles is around the corner, and the economic and social benefits will be vast. The U.S. government must take action to ensure that the United States remains the global center for this transformative technology. Much is at stake: If the federal government does not act, there is a very real ... |
Chat App Kakao Buys Majority Stake In Korea’s Top Online Music Service For $1.5B | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | Kakao, South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app that in a $3 billion deal in 2014, is pinning its international expansion hopes on music after to spend $1.5 billion buying a majority stake in Korea’s top online music service. The company is investing 1.87 trillion KRW (around $1.54 billion) in exchange for 76.4 ... |
General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age | J. Trevor Hughes | 2,016 | 1 | 10 |
The conventional wisdom is that the recently agreed-upon (GDPR) is the in the history of the European Union. I’m not quite sure how you quantify that, but it’s not surprising. This law will likely go down as a milestone of the Digital Age, similar to industry-changing laws like the Clean Water Act or the Clean Ai... |
Xiaomi’s Sub-$150 Redmi 3 Gets A Full Metal Body And Much Larger Battery | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | Xiaomi has announced the Redmi 3, the latest version of its budget smartphone. The five-inch device, which sports a full metal body for the first time and a new diamond lattice design, goes on sale January 12 for 699 CNY, that’s around $107 and is . The Chinese phone maker looks to be upgrading its devices from plasti... |
Streaming Services Dominate 2016 Golden Globes, But Amazon Takes The Win | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | Streaming services showed up in force for Sunday night’s 73rd Golden Globe Awards, but it was Amazon’s year to shine. Though Netflix with – even beating out HBO – the streaming service didn’t take home the top prize in any of the categories it competed in. Instead, it was Amazon that was tonight’s winner among strea... |
Aerodrome Is The First Commercial Airport For Drones | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | is working with the City of Boulder, Nevada, to launch the first commercial drone airport — the Eldorado Droneport. It’s one of only a handful of FAA-appointed UAS test sites in the United States. The plan is to offer training, maintenance and other support functions for the commercial drone industry, as well as for i... |
What’s Your Customer’s Online Personality? | Liraz Margalit | 2,016 | 1 | 10 |
In the retail world in which we live, it’s hard to know who your customers are. Unlike in the days of brick and mortar stores, customers in today’s online shopping marketplace are cloaked in layers of anonymity, their wants, desires and specific shopping styles all filtered out by keyboards and IP addresses. This pre... |
The Industrialist’s Dilemma | Aaron Levie | 2,016 | 1 | 10 |
at CES this week when it announced a major partnership that will integrate Amazon’s technology into its cars, also following rumors that to develop and manufacture self-driving cars. Even a couple of years ago, these combinations would have seemed shockingly strange, but today the only thing remotely surprising is... |
A Visit from Chelsea Handler, And A Nervous Wait Afterward | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | As you may have heard, brash comic Chelsea Handler is set to host a new series on Netflix entitled “Chelsea Does…” in which she’ll explore a range of issues, including a universe still foreign to many outside of it: Silicon Valley. Now, as the series debut approaches on Saturday, January 23 , at least one venture firm ... |
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The Less Sporty Side Of E-Sports | Daniel Li | 2,016 | 1 | 10 |
The e-sports industry is getting big. Really big. More people watch Twitch than CNN. Riot, Valve, -Blizzard and EA all have e-sports initiatives. The largest tournaments attract tens of millions of viewers and offer multi-million dollar prize pools for the best players in games like League of Legends and Dota 2. How... |
Six Transformations From 2015 That Will Reshape The World | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 1 | 10 |
Looking at the for the Crunchies, you could get the impression that the greatest advances of 2015 were sharing and delivery apps, software platforms, and pencils. Yes, these are cool. But much bigger things happened last year. A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from science projects or objects o... |
Apple Music Surpasses 10 Million Subscribers | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | The digital music platform draws similarities to Spotify, which now boasts over 20 million paid members. Both services offer unlimited streaming at similar price points — Spotify Premium costs $10 per month. Pandora, which is also in the online music arena, has more than 78 million monthly active users, but only 3.9 mi... |
Why Bitcoin Can’t Help The Poorest – Yet | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | The term “financial inclusion” is a new buzzword in the fintech space. With the rise of services like and , we are convinced that bitcoin is the solution to the problems of the unbanked. With bitcoin, we say, the house cleaner in Dubai can get her money home and the refugee can get his money over the border into a s... |
Ledger Wallet Is One Of The Most Secure Bitcoin Wallets You Can Get | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | You can call CEO Eric Larchevêque the Winklevoss of France given that he stores around 1,000 bitcoins on his bitcoin wallet — that’s around $450,000 as of today. But it also shows how secure the company’s wallet is. I interviewed him on our stage at CES. Ledger Wallet’s first product was a sort of USB key that you ... |
A Vegas Drone Rodeo In The Rain | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 10 | Just like last year, we paid a visit to the annual in the Nevada desert ahead of the first day of CES this year. Unlike last year, though, the weather was horrible. As we arrived at the (and no, drone shooting wasn’t on the program), it was already windy and miserably cold. After about ten minutes, it started raini... |
Reimagining Internet.org | Hassan Baig | 2,016 | 1 | 10 |
In the wake of the and growing calls for permanently banning ‘s app(called Free Basics) in India, it seems a course-correction is now unavoidable for the initiative. A step in the right direction was announcing the Internet.org developer platform in May 2015, allowing developers to submit their web apps for consid... |
Saudi Arabian Startup NOMADD Looks To Clean Up Solar Energy Production | Bérénice Magistretti | 2,016 | 1 | 10 |
In Saudi Arabia, a country known more for its vast oil reserves than its commitment to renewable energy, a small startup called has developed a new way to clean up the process of solar energy production — literally. Even the Saudi kingdom realizes that despite the attractively low prices of fossil fuels, solar ener... |
FCC Urged To Rein In Broadband Providers On Privacy Grounds | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | More than 50 U.S. consumer and privacy organizations including the and the have co-signed a letter to chairman Tom Wheeler calling for “strong rules” to protect the privacy of broadband users by reining in ISPs’ and telcos’ ability to harvest user data without explicit consent. Last year, as part of its , the ... |
Computer Vision Has Its Sights On Disrupting Search | Court Westcott | 2,016 | 1 | 19 |
You do two things when you type a query in a search engine: you provide the search engine with object identification and its context. This manual input precedes a valid query result. Computer vision has the potential to change the entire nature of search, because it eliminates the need for the user to input a search ... |
Dating App Happn Reaches 10 Million Users, Adds Voice | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | to find a match. The key difference is that Happn is hyperlocal. It shows you the people you walked by each day (or people who were located within 800 feet). The service works best in major metropolitan areas, where people are walking past hundreds or thousands of people on a given day. It is currently available in la... |
Arizona Votes To Build Spaceport For Space Ballooning | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | The high altitude balloon company reached an important milestone today, when Arizona’s Pima County voted to award them a $14.5 million deal to build a spaceport. Jane Poynter, CEO of World View, told TechCrunch that this vote comes after a yearlong, nationwide search for a World View headquarters location. The core c... |
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Breaks Ground To Make Elon Musk’s Hyperloop A Reality | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | Plans to construct the beginnings of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop are now underway in Quay Valley, California. (HTT) announced plans for a 5-mile test track late last year and is about to break ground on an initial framework for what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn hopes will become the U.S. transportation infrastructure of the future... |
Prepd Pack Is A Lunchbox You Won’t Be Ashamed To Carry | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | There are a ton of clear benefits to taking your lunch to work. It’s more sustainable, you are able to assess exactly what you’re putting in your body, you can save a ton of cash and most of the time it encourages you to be much healthier. And it doesn’t have to be such a hassle. Launching today on Kickstarter is the ... |
Digital Magazine Startup Magzter Puts The Focus On Individual Articles | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | With its latest update, is unveiling a more article-centric way to browse its library of digital magazines. Seems like a pretty obvious move, right? Sure, there are people who still read magazines cover to cover (says the guy whose apartment is filled with back issues of Wired and The New Yorker), but as Magzter co-f... |
Gawker Is Raising Money To Fund Its Legal Battle With Hulk Hogan | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | Gawker Media is raising outside funding, and for a specific purpose — it says it’s getting ready for its legal battle with Hulk Hogan. As , the company has called for an “extraordinary general meeting” of shareholders on Thursday, where it will discuss changing its capital structure to accommodate new financing. We’ve... |
Microsoft Pledges To Provide Nonprofits With $1B Worth Of Its Cloud Computing Resources | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today that his company will donate $1 billion in Microsoft Cloud services to nonprofits over the course of the next three years. The plan is to support a total of about 70,000 nonprofits on Microsoft’s cloud platforms like Azure, Office 365, PowerBI and CRM online through this program. “Mi... |
Augmented Reality For Trying On Makeup Is A Booming Business | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | “Sure, that looks great on a model, but how will it look on me?” Now you can find out thanks to , an augmented reality startup that’s quietly grown to power apps for 55 of the top makeup brands like Sephora, P&G and Unilever. Fire up the camera on your phone or a store makeup counter’s tablet, choose different styles ... |
Texas Attorney General Says Texans Using DraftKings Or FanDuel Are Probably Breaking The Law | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | In a situation nearly identical to what a few weeks ago, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has to a request from a state representative who asked if Paxton believes Daily Fantasy Sports should be illegal under state law. Not surprisingly, Paxton said that he believes DraftKings and FanDuel both violate state law, s... |
Netflix Added 5.6 Million New Subscribers In The Fourth Quarter | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | Netflix , and once again showed strong international growth — so much so that investors seem to be overlooking its weaker domestic growth and sending shares soaring. The company added about 4 million new subscribers internationally, and about 1.56 million subscribers domestically. That’s a big jump for the company’s i... |
IBM Beats In Q4, But Sales Of $22.1B Are The 15th Straight Quarter Of Decline For Big Blue | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | IBM reported its Q4 earnings at the close of trading today, and while its revenues were the 15th-straight quarter of declines, Big Blue beat analyst expectations both on sales of $22.1 billion, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $4.84. Analysts were expecting EPS of $4.81 on sales of $22.04 billion. Non-GAAP net income... |
Netflix Stock Surges After Beating Q4 Earnings And Global Growth Estimates | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | Netflix just , sending the stock up more than 8 percent (as of 4:35 p.m. Eastern) in after-hours trading. The company reported revenue of $1.82 billion, up from $1.48 billion during the same quarter last year, and earnings per share of 10 cents. Analysts had been revenue of $1.83 billion and EPS of 2 cents. So that’... |
Adestra Raises $7.2 Million For Marketing Software | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | Adestra recently launched its U.S. operations in New York and Dallas and will be using the capital to further its U.S. efforts. The company views itself as a competitor of Salesforce, Exacttarget, and Sailthru. Adestra’s over 500 enterprise clients include Crabtree and Evelyn, Pearson and Thomson Reuters. |
Is Bitcoin’s Promise Going Up In Smoke? | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 1 | 19 |
, venture capitalists were talking about how Bitcoin was going to transform the global currency system and render governments powerless to police monetary transactions. Now the cryptocurrency seems to be fighting for survival. The new reality came to light on January 14, when an influential Bitcoin developer, Mike He... |
Join Me In Pittsburgh Next Week For Quit Yer Pitchin’ | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | The folks at to judge a pitch-off in Pittsburgh on January 28 and I’d like to see yuns there. As a CMU grad Pittsburgh is near and dear to my heart. From the O to the Beehive (RIP) some of my formative years were spent in a stupor of coffee and fat. I want to see what you guys are up to in PGH and want to eat some Pr... |
With Google, Facebook And Nextdoor, What’s Next For Lead Generation? | Sam Madden | 2,016 | 1 | 19 |
A number of lead-generation platforms have emerged over the past few years to help local service professionals (“pros”) win more clients. The pro market is an industry, so tech companies (big and small) are starting to take notice. As it stands today, the lead-gen options for pros — who have been a notoriously unde... |
Trello Launches Developer Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | A few months ago, project management tool launched third-party integrations with tools like Slack, GitHub and Salesforce for its paying users. Now, it is opening this platform to more developers with the launch of its so-called “ ” for developers who want to integrate their services with Trello. The company also toda... |
Google Tests “Tap 10,” A Rewards Program For Android Pay Users | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 19 | Google confirmed it’s now running a limited promotion in the U.S. dubbed “ ,” which is aimed at increasing usage of its mobile payments service, a rival to Apple Pay and others. Some Android users are being gifted rewards like a free Chromecast or free songs, movies, or subscriptions on Google Play in exchange for us... |
Prototyping Suite InVision Is Acquiring Design Tool Macaw | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | InVision, a prototyping tool we’ve , is acquiring code-based design tool . InVision is a product and prototype design tool used by hundreds of companies including Uber, Twitter, and Airbnb. Launched in 2011, the company has since raised around $80M in . The acquisition, which is InVision’s first, comes after a long ... |
Sweden Is A Tech Superstar From The North | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 1 | 26 |
While most of Europe has been mired in economic turmoil since 2008, has managed to stay afloat — and even accelerate its growth. The country and, especially, its capital, Stockholm, have outpaced other European nations with a mix of unique cultural traditions, visionary leaders, globally oriented startups and sma... |
Meet The CEOs Vying For The Crunchie For Top CEO Of 2015 | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Talk about tough acts to follow. Since being appointed as Apple’s CEO by Steve Jobs in 2011, has had to navigate periods of unprecedented success and occasional backlash at the helm of one of the most valuable companies around. His tenure has seen major product releases, including many notable releases this past year... |
Toxic Water, Toxic City | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | is toxic. The state of Michigan inadvertently poisoned the city’s well, and it will take years to flush the system. And that might not be the worst part. The state has yet to reveal how it will repair Flint’s image. I live down the road from Flint. I went into Flint for weekend trips with my parents. I played in her p... |
Foreign Exchange Weighs On Apple’s Q1 Sales To The Tune Of $5B | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Apple today another record set of results, with an all-time high profit of $18.4 billion and revenues of $75.9 billion, with some $216 billion in cash now on its balance sheet. But it could have made even more were it not for the strength of the dollar compared to other currencies. The iPhone maker said that in con... |
Apple TV And Apple Watch (Probably) Had A Big Quarter | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Without giving specific sales numbers, CEO Tim Cook said on the earnings call that it was the “ Cook added that the company “ Upon seeing the “other” numbers, Asymco analyst Horace Dediu updated his Apple Watch projections: My estimate on Watch sales is about 5.5 million units during Q4. 12.4 million to date. — Horac... |
VMware Confirms Layoffs In Earnings Statement As It Prepares For Dell Acquisition | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | VMware as part of its fourth quarter earnings statement. The layoffs had been last week. The move appears to be part of the ongoing dance among EMC federated companies prior to the . Dell announced in October for $67 billion. EMC owns 80 percent of VMware, but it operates as a separate, independent company with ... |
Apple Reports 1 Billion “Active” Devices | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | In Apple’s Q1 ’16 “ ” – documentation added to today’s earnings primarily to how foreign exchange rates are impacting revenue – there was another notable figure revealed: Apple says now its “active” install base has reached 1 billion devices. (Actually, it has surpassed it, CEO Tim Cook.) That figure includes iPhon... |
Apple Beats Earnings Expectations, But Misses On iPhone Sales | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | It was a hugely important quarter for Apple, and it looks like it came about in line with what investors were expecting — including, potentially, the company’s first sales decline going into the second quarter. Apple said it recorded $75.9 billion in revenue and earnings of $3.28 per share in the first quarter. That re... |
Apple Shows Soft China Revenues At $18.37B In Q1, Up 14% YoY | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Apple showed soft year-over-year revenue growth for China in Q1, and it’s clear the party may be slowing down in the region. During Q1, Apple saw 14 percent year-over-year revenue growth in the Greater China region, which accounts for the company’s sales in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In this first fiscal quarter of 2... |
Apple’s iPhone Grows 0.4% Yearly With 75 Million Units Sold In Q1 | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Apple today reported sales of 74.8 million iPhones, 16.1 million iPads, and 5.3 million Macs in its Q1 earnings report today. Apple’s first quarter includes holiday sales, as the three-month period ends December 31, 2015. As such, it was supposed to be one of Cupertino’s best quarters of the year. Plus, both went liv... |
Down The Hype Cycle: A 3D Printer In Every Home? | Filemon Schoffer | 2,016 | 1 | 26 |
When he famously said “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home” in 1977, Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, certainly wasn’t expecting a reality like the one we live in today. In less than half a century, computers don’t just exist in multiple rooms of our homes, they’ve taken ... |
Walmart Launches OneOps, An Open-Source Cloud And Application Lifecycle Management Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Walmart (yes, that ), is launching a new open source DevOps platform for cloud and application lifecycle management. , which was developed by , is meant to help developers write and launch their apps faster and make maintaining them easier. The company first announced its plans to open source the service . “Our mis... |
Apply Now! The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Coming To Boston And Atlanta | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | We’re one short month away from TC’s first regional Pitch-offs of the year, and I couldn’t be more excited to be hitting up a couple of my favorite cities, and . On February 23 and February 25, TechCrunch will be visiting Boston and Atlanta, respectively, to host our world-renowned Meetup + Pitch-off. Over the cours... |
Oculus “Quill” Turns VR Painting Into Performance Art | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Art doesn’t have to be an end product. Thanks to Oculus’ new internal creation tool, Quill, illustrators can draw in virtual reality and let audiences see their creations come to life stroke by stroke around them. Quill works much like Tilt Brush, the VR painting app Google acquired. Using Oculus’ Touch controllers and... |
Peach Creator Just Released A Web Version, But Is That Enough To Juice Activity? | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | You can now message your friends on the web , a new chat app created by the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann. The iOS app became a viral hit in Silicon Valley after it first launched at the beginning of this year. Someone else even made an unofficial web and Android version of the app called . Some think Peach has already... |
Microsoft Launches A Bing-Powered News App For iOS Devices, News Pro | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Microsoft today yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built into iOS 9. Called “ ” Microsoft’s app aims to offer readers a personalized experience by connecting them to articles that match their current interest... |
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Pinterest Is Looking To Tackle “Belonging Uncertainty” | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Through , the company is gearing up to test an intervention process aimed at addressing “belonging uncertainty,” which can potentially inhibit the performance of those who experience it. Paradigm is designing an intervention process that Pinterest, as well as other tech companies, can implement in order to address the... |
Walking Down The Crunchies Memory Lane, Don’t Forget To Buy Tickets | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | We’re just a little under two weeks away from the , which takes place February 8, 2016 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. As we look ahead to the show, we also wanted to take time to look back at past Crunchies shows to see how the show has progressed over the years. After Facebook won the Best Overall Start... |
Firefox 44 Launches With Support For Push Notifications | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 26 | Mozilla today the latest update to its for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The of this release cycle is the addition of web-based push notifications to its desktop browser. Firefox already supported a different type of web notifications before, but to see those, you had to have a site open at all times. These ne... |
The Tor Project Raised Over $200,000 From Its First Crowdfunding Campaign | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | In the quest to lessen its reliance on grants from the U.S. government, the back in November. That initial funding drive is now over with the organization that it brought in just over $200,000 in donations — $205,874 from 5,265 donors, to be precise — over the six-week period. Tor — which uses anonymous, volunteer-... |
Google Reportedly Paid Apple $1B In 2014 To Remain Default Search Engine On iOS | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | There’s always been plenty of speculation around how much Google pays Apple to include its search services inside iOS devices, and we finally have some clarity over that figure. Information raised as part of an ongoing legal case between Oracle and Google shows the search firm compensated Apple to the tune of $1 billio... |
With Lo And Behold, Werner Herzog Offers Up A Humanist History Of The Internet | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | What does a humanist history of the Internet look like? Though it isn’t a documentary in the journalistic sense, Werner Herzog’s paints a unique picture of the bones and skin of our technologically interconnected universe. I’ve seen and read countless documentaries and histories of the Internet’s creation and prolife... |
Canvs Raises $5.6M To Help TV Networks Track Viewers’ Emotions | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | is a startup measuring emotion on social media, but CEO Jared Feldman insisted that we shouldn’t think of it as . He said that’s because existing tools for measuring sentiment have earned something of a bad reputation. Where those tools are usually limited to classifying social media posts as good, bad or neutral, Ca... |
Jeff Schumacher Of BCG Digital Ventures On The Merits of Corporate VC | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | Though the unit is seemingly late to the corporate venture game — corporate VC represented around of all invested capital last year — Schumacher suggested to TechCrunch editor-at-large Mike Butcher earlier today that BCG’s timing is actually pretty great. “We grow by acquiring a lot of broken startups and [can] prov... |
The World Economic Forum On The Future Of Jobs | Roshan Choxi | 2,016 | 1 | 21 |
The World Economic Forum (WEF) published an analysis today on the technological and sociological drivers of employment. The report, titled , validates the accelerating impact of technology on global employment trends, and also highlights serious concerns that job growth in certain industries is still very much outpa... |
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies COO Explains The State Of Hyperloop Development | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | It’s been a big month for hyperloop transportation. Both , the first company to try to bring Elon Musk’s vision of a transit system that could take passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under 30 minutes at speeds of around 800 MPH, and , its venture-backed competitor, have begun for the technology. In t... |
From Barter To Bitcoin | Danial Daychopan | 2,016 | 1 | 21 |
Whether it’s the dollar, pound, rouble, rupee, euro or yuan, physical or digital, our entire world is built on currency exchange. But from , banknote to , the means of exchange have evolved significantly. Let’s have a look. Bartering was first recorded in Egypt in 9000 B.C., when farmers would go to market to excha... |
Dr. Peter Vogel Makes The Case For Startups In Switzerland | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | There’s more to Switzerland than skiing, chocolate and endless beauty. Dr. Peter Vogel spoke to TechCrunch at Davos 2016 and argued that Switzerland is a great place to startup a company. But of course he would say that. Vogel is management and the Scientific Lead of a foundation dedicated to promoting startups in Sw... |
BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov On Increasing The Size Of Bitcoin “Blocks” | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | null |
Ice.com’s New Owners Raise $2 Million To Bring Fair Pricing To The Jewelry Industry | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | The jewelry industry is notorious for its insane markups on products and confusing array of terminology related to the metals used or gemstone grades – as with the “ ” of diamonds, for example. Now, a new startup – that’s managed to snag the old domain name – is trying to change that. With its online jewelry marketpl... |
Google’s WiFi for Indian Train Stations Launches At Mumbai Central Railway Station Tomorrow | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | Google’s is slowly going operational starting tomorrow. As was announced late last September, Mumbai Central railway station will be the first location at which Google will provide high-speed internet access. The program, part of Google’s Access & Energy Team, is in partnership with Indian state-owned company . RailTel... |
Microsoft Adds Apple Pencil Support To Office | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | The Apple Pencil was billed as a tool that could assist both creatives and professionals. Microsoft, a company known fairly well for assisting professionals with pretty much every important document of theirs thanks to their Office suite, their Office app for iPad Pro so that users can utilize the Apple Pencil to not... |
MassChallenge’s John Harthorne Explains How Startups Can Fix The World | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | John Harthorne sat down today with TechCrunch at Davos 2016. And boy is he enthusiastic about startups. Harthorne is the CEO of , a large startup accelerator based in Boston and quickly expanding across the globe. As Harthorne explains, MassChallenge is different from other accelerators as it does not take an equity... |
The Pine A64 Is A $15 PC With Endless Possibilities | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | PINE64 has so far raised over $1.4 million in its for their tiny, yet versatile, $15 computer. The Pine A64 costs less than three bottles of asparagus water from Whole Foods, but for that price you get a 1.2Ghz board, 512MB SDRAM, 10/100Mbps Ethernet Port, 3.5 MM Audio/Mic Output, 4K HDMI and 2 USB ports. I had the... |
If You Hate Mornings, You’ll Really Hate Microsoft’s New Android Alarm Clock App | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | https://youtu.be/VWJyCYkMc3Y today what must be the most annoying alarm clock for Android yet — especially if you hate mornings as much as I do. The app only lets you dismiss the alarm by — you guessed it — mimicking certain facial expressions, taking a picture of an object that matches whatever color the app deci... |
Walkie-Talkie Voice Messaging App Roger Lands $1M Led by Social Capital | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | , a walkie-talkie-style voice messaging app that launched in late 2015, has led by Social Capital. Voice messaging — known as push-to-talk — is nothing new. in response to the complexities of punching out Chinese characters for text messages and the rise of blockbuster chat app WeChat. Voice messaging feature is su... |
Facebook’s Engineering Wizardry Makes Even VR Videos Load Fast | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | How did Facebook go from 1 billion to videos views per day in 18 months without the whole server farm catching fire? It’s called SVE, short for . SVE lets Facebook slice videos into little chunks, cutting the delay from upload to viewing by 10X. And to ensure the next generation of 360 and virtual reality videos loa... |
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Microsoft Announces A Dropbox App For Windows 10 Tablets & PCs, Windows 10 Mobile App “Coming Soon” | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 21 | Microsoft and Dropbox unveiled an expansion of their partnership today with the debut of a native application for Windows 10 devices. The app, which will work on both Windows 10 PCs and tablets, follows the companies’ earlier integrations across both web and mobile devices. However, the app is not yet live in the acr... |
MyMusicTaste, A Crowdsourcing Platform For Concerts, Raises $10M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | , a Seoul-based startup that gauges fan interest to help figure out where to plan concerts, plans to expand throughout Asia after landing a $10 million Series A led by Softbank Ventures Korea. Other participants in the round include Samsung Ventures Investment, Formation 8, Golden Gate Ventures, Timewise Investment, Pa... |
RNTS Media Completes $45M Acquisition Of Mobile Ad Company Heyzap | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | The deal is done — Germany company says it has completed its acquisition of . The acquisition is worth up to $45 million, specifically $20 million in cash upfront, with cash and stock earn outs of $25 million. It was and represents a team up between two mobile ad companies, namely Heyzap and RNTS subsidiary Fyber.... |
Grocery Delivery Startup Honestbee Launches In Taiwan | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | , a grocery delivery service backed by Formation 8, has launched in Taipei, its fourth city so far. Services are already available in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Niseko, Japan. During the first half of this year, Honestbee also plans to expand into Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, and Jakarta. Based in Singapore, Honestbee that is... |
Chinese Travel Booking Giant Ctrip Invests $180M In India’s MakeMyTrip | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | , the Chinese travel booking site valued at over $10 billion, has taken a big step in India after it in , a fellow booking service that covers flights, hotels and bus ticketing in the South Asian country. The investment is in convertible bonds but MakeMyTrip, a 15-year-old company that is listed on the Nasdaq, will ... |
Colleges Are Overreacting Like Your Parents And Banning Hoverboards | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | Surprise, surprise! If you buy cheap off-brand electronics from a shoddy factory in Asia, they may have poorly-designed lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire. After nearly basically banned hoverboards overnight, college campuses are now jumping on the hoverboard hate bandwagon. Over a have banned the two-wheel ... |
Samsung Continues Its Financial Recovery Despite Missing Analyst Expections | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | Samsung’s slow recovery appears to be continuing after the South Korean tech company release its financial projections for the final quarter of 2015, although they are lower than industry analyst expectations. that it expects to see a 6.1 trillion KRW ($5.1 billion) profit on total sales of 53 trillion KRW ($44 billio... |
Lenovo Is Making The First Google Project Tango Phone | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | Lenovo announced at CES that the company would be producing the first phone. As a reminder, Project Tango is that adds depth as well as a bunch of sensors to your device’s camera. The conference was a little short on details. All we know is that Lenovo is going to release a phone that is going to cost less than $50... |
Announcing The Finalists For The TC CES Hardware Battlefield: Nima, Carbon, IdentiLock, And Wiivv | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | The third annual Hardware Battlefield at CES 2016 is nearly complete. Fourteen companies took to the TechCrunch stage at the Sands Expo with six minutes to prove their viability in the market. And it wasn’t just the audience that they were trying to impress. We had expert judges including Fitbit’s James Park, FirstMark... |
Lumus Is Showing A Wide Field-Of-View Smart Glasses Prototype | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | These days, it’s hard to stand out in the smart glasses category. There are many underwhelming products coming to market now and many more that, while extravagant, seem to be caught in the “forever-coming-soon” stage. It’s therefore refreshing to see a real live demo that really delivers. Among other things, makes ti... |
App-Improvement AI And The Future Of Web Development | Larry Alton | 2,016 | 1 | 7 |
Artificial intelligence (AI) is permeating our lives — just not in the ways we might have expected from reading sci-fi novels or watching robot apocalypse-themed movies. Instead of having live robots walking around, doing our dishes and engaging us in conversation, AI exists primarily in web and mobile apps designed ... |
IBM Sells Salary.com Compensation Business To The Original Founding Team | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | This week at CES, unveiled some that underscore its push into big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. But at the same time, the company has quietly divested itself of an older asset. Today it was that — a portal for people to find and compare remuneration data across lots of different industries... |
The GoSun Stove Cooks With Just The Power Of The Sun | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | Fire is for prehistoric man. The modern man uses the sustainable and renewable energy of solar power to cook meats an veggies – like the GoSun Stove. The company was selected from the halls of CES as the Wild Card contender in Hardware Battlefield 2016 where it is competing with 14 other startups in a bid to win $50,00... |
Kymeta’s Partnership With Panasonic Brings Internet To Maritime Markets | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | This week at CES, Kymeta announced a partnership with Panasonic to bring lightweight, flat-panel antennas to the maritime market. Kymeta’s core technology, the mTenna, is designed to communicate with satellites in order to bring high speed internet to anything on the move. The partnership will allow Kymeta to leverage ... |
Today On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Drones, Smart Fridges, French Startups And Tales Of CES | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out of the show. In case you missed it this morning, have a look at this morning’s show to get our take on the current , Samsung’s and other wearables, ... |
Segway Made A Robot That Connects To Your Two-Wheeled Scooter | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | Another day, another autonomous two-wheeled robot. , the maker of two wheeled riding machines, has released something called the Segway Robot. This little robotic head connects to a standard Segway and adds an Intel RealSense RGB-D camera, speech recognition, and self-driving capabilities all powered by an onboard com... |
Meet Glance, A Smart Wall Clock That Displays More Than The Time | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | is a smart wall clock featured in our Hardware Battlefield competition at CES and launching soon. The device is not only a good looking wall clock, it is also a great way to get all the information you need in a visual way. When you wake up, the clock will display how much you slept based on your activity tracking dev... |
Snap, The 4K Flying Camera With Auto-Tracking, Is Ready For The Spotlight | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | , a flying camera we , is ready for the spotlight as it takes the stage today to compete in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES. The device, made by Vantage Robotics, provides an alternative for those who want professional aerial shots but don’t want the hassle of controlling a cumbersome (and expensive) drone l... |
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