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Gilt’s Unicorn Tale Comes To An End After Being Acquired For $250M | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | Hudson’s Bay Company, the owner of department chain stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, said today it was acquiring Gilt Groupe for $250 million. The sale still represents a tough end to the story of Gilt. The startup was one of the original darling flash-sale sites coming out of New York. But that whole market has found it... |
Who The F Is The EFF? John Legere Wants To Know | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | Welp, it happened. T-Mobile CEO John Legere decided to field questions about the company launched. Is it great? Is it throttling? The . The organization also decided to participate in Legere’s Twitter Q&A which led to this gem: . — John Legere (@JohnLegere) “Who the fuck are you anyway, EFF? Why are you stirring ... |
Get You A Growler Of Brass Monkey On Demand With Hopsy | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 7 | We truly live in the future, friends. Food on demand. Love on demand. . Now you’ve got growlers – essentially buckets – of beer on demand. This new app, created by Sebastien Tron, Andrew Perroy, and Bodie Paden, is called and offers 32oz growlers of microbrew beers on demand. The company has raised $450,000 in pre-s... |
Rocket Internet-Backed Easy Taxi Confirms Asia Exit, Doubles Down On Latin America | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | , the Uber and GrabTaxi rival backed by Rocket Internet and among other investors, has confirmed that it has exited Asia in order to focus on the ride on-demand market in its native South America. The writing had been on the wall for some time, but now Easy Taxi has confirmed for the first time that it has pulled out o... |
How Startups Are Solving A Decades-Old Problem In Education | Roshan Choxi | 2,016 | 1 | 9 |
In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published research on a new method of teaching, commonly called . summarizes it: “The average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students who learn via conventional instructional methods — that ... |
C-Way Is An Apple Watch For Kids | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | While wandering the Eureka Park floor at CES, we ran into , a cool French startup that is making GPS-enabled smart watches for kids. So what exactly does a smart watch for kids do? Well first off, it helps parents keep track of their kid’s location. By embedding a GPS sensor in the device, parents can open C-Way’s a... |
Nest’s Smart Home Apps Are Back Online Following Outages | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | Nest users who depend on their connected products to monitor their homes experienced a hiccup in connectivity Saturday that left users scrambling to figure out what was happening. In the absence of any initial details from Nest, many users flocked to Twitter to vent their frustrations with the company’s products, and a... |
What To Know Before You Co-Invest | Shelly Hod Moyal | 2,016 | 1 | 9 |
One of my investors candidly asked me recently, “Shelly, if I have an opportunity to invest with people I’ve just met, how do I avoid getting screwed over?” This is a good question; for most investors interested in startups, co-investing is the way to invest. Just like you scrutinize the entrepreneur, the technolog... |
Tesla Model S Can Now Drive Without You | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | Well, authorities in Hong Kong aren’t going to like this one bit. Back in November, they told Tesla to remotely its semiautonomous driving technology until they can confirm that the features, released in mid , are safe. They were concerned (sort of understandably) by hijinks by drivers who were using Tesla’s new A... |
Bonaverde Plans To Reinvent The Way You Drink Coffee | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | co-founder Hans Stier took the stage this week at CES to give us an update on his company. As a reminder, Bonaverde nearly $700,000 on Kickstarter a few years ago for a coffee machine that roasts, grinds and brews coffee in fifteen minutes. It’s hard to manage expectations when you have thousands of backers on Kic... |
Google And Amazon Talk About Managing Drone Traffic At CES | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | Figuring out how to manage drone traffic over the United States to allow for drone delivery services and other drone-based service is going to be critical if and Google ever want to deliver packages of their customers. Earlier this week, Amazon’s VP of Global Public Policy Paul Misener and Dave Vos, Google’s lead o... |
Edwin The Duck Is A $99 Connected Rubber Ducky 🐥 | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | I’ve had a pretty decent amount of conversations with my college roommate about his great distaste for the fact that almost every new device in existence is “connected” in some way to the web. Light bulbs with WiFi would have likely seemed to be a truly ludicrous concept a few years back but now I rarely bat an eye a... |
GameFace Labs On Their Upcoming Untethered VR Headset | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | Yesterday on the CES TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield stage I sat down with Edward Mason, Founder and CEO of VR Headset startup . Founded in London, GameFace Labs makes a self-contained VR headset, meaning it doesn’t need to be attached to an external computer like Oculus or other headsets that require a high-powered... |
10 Of The Coolest Gadgets We Saw At CES 2016 | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | We met tons of brand new tech startups at CES this year and saw gadgets ranging from health-focused wearables, drones, 3D printers, and AR/VR headsets. We even got views of the Las Vegas strip from . These were the hottest hardware startups and most interesting gadgets from the show, and you can find our .
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Fee-For-Value Drives Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Opportunity | Steve Kraus | 2,016 | 1 | 9 |
One of the main tenets of healthcare reform has been to better align payment/reimbursement schemes to incentivize healthcare providers for achieving improved outcomes and lower cost. Historically, insurance companies (including Medicare) have made separate payments to providers for each of the individual services the... |
Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | On Thursday a half-day conference taking place in London’s Kings College heard a range of views about the U.K.’s draft , currently before parliament. The government’s intention with the IP Bill is to pass legislation that cements and extends the surveillance capabilities of domestic intelligence and law enforcement ag... |
Endless Has Built A $79 PC For The Offline World | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | There are affordable computers, there are cheap computers and then there’s the , which is available for as little as $79. “Everybody in the world deserves the option to have a computer,” said Endless CEO and Chief of Product Matt Dalio. In other words, Endless is building Linux-based computers for people who have ne... |
Faraday Future’s Chief Engineer Is Short On Answers, Full Of Buzzwords | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | Faraday Future’s Nick Sampson joined me on the TechCrunch CES 2016 for what turned out to be a lively interview. Sampson is Faraday’s Senior Vice President of R&D and engineering and, I guess, moonlights as the company’s spokesperson. But he’s no Elon Musk. So far even after the company’s public reveal, very little is ... |
Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | TechCrunch has obtained photographic evidence and an eyewitness report that Facebook has built an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger For Mac desktop app. The photo below shows a Facebook employee using it. Photo of a Facebook employee using Facebook Messenger For Mac, attained by TechCrunch from a source Releasing an... |
The 2015 Analytics Software Market | Sameer Al-Sakran | 2,016 | 1 | 9 |
Now that the books have closed on 2015, it’s time to look back and take in some of the changes in the analytics software market. There have been several trends (open source, cloud hosting, SQL on Hadoop) that have continued to play out, as well as the emergence of AWS Redshift as a major force in data warehouses. Add... |
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Gillmor Gang: Stock Footage | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Matthew Panzarino, Ari Weinstein, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, January 8, 2016. The Gang welcomes Workflow’s Ari Weinstein for a deep dive into the science and politics of the Notification Layer. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Kristie Wells, Franci... |
Virtual Reality And A Parallel Universe Of Cyberclones | Sampriti Bhattacharyya | 2,016 | 1 | 9 |
One of the biggest technology trends of 2015 was virtual reality (VR), from to . saw a lot of VR experiences where users could wear headsets and navigate an immersive 3D world. In Las Vegas, demonstrated a range of new gadgets and gaming experiences involving both VR and AR (augmented reality, e.g., ). It is exc... |
The Cruel Inequities | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 1 | 9 | There are few people in technology more infuriating than Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, who earlier this month dropped a of the ongoing refragmentation of modern societies, followed immediately by a on technology’s role in economic inequality. It’s a bizarre piece, almost reading as an attempt to back away from some o... |
Samsung Announces Feb. 21 Galaxy Unpacked Event, Teaser Suggests Focus On Gear VR And New S7 Line | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g3O94WALV8 Samsung is ready to show off some new Galaxy phones again, and it’s also becoming overwhelmingly clear that the company believes virtual reality is a key to its future mobile strategy. Samsung just sent out invitations and released a teaser video for the company’s Galaxy Unpa... |
European VC Creandum Closes New €180M Early-Stage Fund | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | I can barely keep up with the amount of new , as new funds are closed. And, if my sources are correct, we aren’t done yet. The latest to close a new fund is Stockholm and Palo Alto-based . ‘Creandum IV’ is a €180 million early-stage fund, and will be primarily targeting seed and Series A investments, but also f... |
Uber Takes Its Alipay Partnership Global To Tap Into Chinese Travelers | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | Uber is hoping to squeeze more money from users in China after it a tie-in with Alibaba’s Alipay that will enable Uber China customers to pay their fare using the payments service when they are overseas. Alipay and Uber China first partnered to cover domestic rides in 2014, but now the duo is tapping into the huge ma... |
Marketing In The Fast Lane With Self-Driving Cars | Loni Stark | 2,016 | 1 | 31 |
From George Orwell predicting the overwhelming reach of television in to the video phone calls in , it seems that technology often imitates pop culture. Nowhere could that be truer than with the new developments in self-driving vehicles. These self-driving vehicles won’t just change the way we look at transportati... |
Online Censorship Rears Its Ugly Head In Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | With a growing middle class rising up across its population of more than 600 million people, Southeast Asia is truly a growth market. Added to that, the influx of mobile devices bringing Internet to hundreds of millions of people for the first — and putting it right in their pocket, no less — makes it , which has the ... |
Asia-Focused KFit Lands $12 Million To Expand Beyond Fitness Services | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | , a nine-month-old service offering gym and healthcare services in the style of ClassPass in the U.S., has announced that it closed a $12 million Series A funding round to move into new verticals. The round was led by , with participation from new investors SIG and Axiata Digital Innovation Fund. Also in on the roun... |
SpaceX And Russia Change The Rules Of The Military Launch Market | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | It’s been a tough week for United Launch Alliance (ULA). A hearing last Wednesday brought news of a potential ban on Russian made RD-180 engines which ULA requires for their Atlas V rocket. To make matters worse, the U.S. Air Force is also considering ending an $800 million-per-year contract with the company. This bad ... |
Africa’s Tech Gold Rush | Nik Milanovic | 2,016 | 1 | 31 |
Africa is on the verge of something big. This seems to be a quiet, cautious consensus in some investment communities. The past year has been peppered with stories of tech startup hubs emerging across the continent, from Lagos to Kigali to Agadir. The model of American tech entrepreneurship looks to be slowly sparking... |
Gett Adds £6 Couriers To Its On-Demand Cab Service In London | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | As continues to raise ever more funding to drive its on-demand transportation app into more categories and countries, one of its smaller, regional cab-hailing rivals is quietly expanding into its own adjacent services: , a startup with service in 50 cities globally whose app can be used to hail black cabs in London,... |
The League’s Amanda Bradford Is Not Impressed By Stanford Student’s Criticism | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | Well, that’s one way to respond when someone doesn’t like your startup. After a Stanford student spotted an internship opening at , they declared that they were “totally and utterly ashamed that this dating service came out of Stanford,” and asked, “Is it possible to get any more elitist than this? Does it even cross ... |
Don’t Mortgage Your Startup | David Frankel | 2,016 | 1 | 31 |
The last 5-10 years have been an extraordinary time for early stage tech founders to raise money. But easy access to capital has ingrained some bad habits among founders. There has always been the risk of over-funding your company or not being able to find a funder for your next round, but now it’s far more common to... |
UberPUPPY Is Exactly What You Think It Is | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | Oh my god. Uber has finally done it. They’ve made my dreams come true. Uber wants you to “paws whatever you’re doing,” because in honor of this week’s Puppy Bowl, the company is teaming up with Animal Planet, the SF SPCA, Peninsula Humane Society, and Berkeley Humane Society to deliver on-demand puppies to your house t... |
Tech Valuations In 2016: The End Of The Line For Sloppy Growth | Rory O’Driscoll | 2,016 | 1 | 31 |
What’s going on in technology investing right now? Is this another 2001, when imploded? Another 2008, when the wider world crashed but powered through? Or is it like Facebook in 2012, a valuation blip and a chance to buy? Anecdotes about dead unicorns are not enough. An explanation has to start with a framework a... |
Startup Step-By-Step: Raising | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | look around the room. It’s five in the morning and the black car is idling outside. The driver has already called me and I quietly whispered that I was coming down. My wife, my long-limbed and tangled in sheets, is asleep. In the small light on my bedside table I see her settle into the warm place where I just was and... |
Transcending Borders Through Technology | Ayman Sayed | 2,016 | 1 | 31 |
As is clear from the front pages of newspapers recently, we are living in a world where open democratic values are under attack. Paris, Bamako, San Bernardino, Jakarta and Ouagadougou have all been targeted by terrorists. The European Union is being challenged over nation-state loyalties: Geopolitical realities are d... |
Digital Transformation Requires Total Organizational Commitment | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 1 | 31 | By now you’ve surely heard that moving forward, every company will be a software company, and that shift is happening now as companies large and small scramble to transform into digitally-driven organizations. Wherever you turn, businesses are facing tremendous disruptive pressure. What’s interesting is that the theory... |
China Just Released True Color HD Photos Of The Moon | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 30 | This month, the China National Space Administration released all of the images from their recent moon landing to the public. There are now hundreds and hundreds of never-before-seen true color, high definition photos of the lunar surface available for download. The images were taken a few years ago by cameras on the Ch... |
Will the Bubble Burst? Ask Your Cabbie | Jerry Bowerman | 2,016 | 1 | 30 |
There are too many headlines and articles about bubbles, market crashes, negative interest rates and venture-backed unicorns. Why write one more? Because I believe there is a much more pragmatic way to evaluate what you are reading from all the “experts.” Experts armed with mountains of data and statistical analysis ... |
One Sidecar, Up With A Twist | Robbie Goffin | 2,016 | 1 | 30 |
I’m old enough that when someone says Sidecar, I immediately think of Cointreau, lemon juice and cognac, shaken and served up. What’s remarkable to me is that the folks at GM, one of the country’s most venerable industrial enterprises, heard “Sidecar” and instead saw an interesting enough opportunity to find $39 mill... |
Onfleet Has Powered Over 1 Million On-Demand Deliveries | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 30 | , the company that provides infrastructure for on-demand delivery, recently powered its one millionth delivery. More than half of those deliveries occurred within the last four months, Onfleet CEO Khaled Naim told TechCrunch. Onfleet powers deliveries and logistics for companies like , , , and others. To be clear,... |
How The Growth Of Mixed Reality Will Change Communication, Collaboration And The Future Of The Workplace | Pete Sena | 2,016 | 1 | 30 |
Sci-fi tech, meet Wall Street. A recent from investment bank Goldman Sachs predicted that virtual hardware be an $80 billion industry. This “base case” forecast assumed that adoption be slow, as compared to that of smartphones and tablets, but, the report noted, “as the technology advances, price points decl... |
Telegraph Academy Bootcamp Teaches People Of Color How To Code | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 30 | Where are all the people of color in engineering roles at tech companies? Berkeley, Calif.-based coding bootcamp Telegraph Academy, which plans to relocate to Oakland in the next few months, wants to make it so that the tech industry has no excuse not to hire black and latino/a people for technical roles. “First and fo... |
President Obama Wants $4 Billion To Bring Computer Science Education To Every K-12 School | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 30 | President Barack Obama more than $4 billion in funding for states, and $100 million specifically for districts in order make sure every K-12 student has access to computer science curriculum. President Obama is calling this the “Computer Science for All Initiative.” “Our economy is rapidly shifting, and both educator... |
Silicon:Safe Bags $1M Seed For Its Hardware Fix For Bulk Password Theft | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 30 | . . . . . . … Those are just a handful of the companies that have suffered massive password-related breaches in recent years. is Cambridge-based U.K. startup reckons it has the answer to these kind of massive password hacks. For the last three years it’s been developing a piece of hardware that’s designed to... |
The State Of P2P Lending | Sonny Singh | 2,016 | 1 | 30 |
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending became one of the hottest industries in fintech — or any other any industry — in 2015. Companies raised large venture rounds, investors found unicorns and there were even a couple of IPOs. Will 2016 continue this trend, or will the P2P lending bubble finally pop? Here are some of the highli... |
The Great White Fail Whale | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 1 | 30 | Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having nothing particular to interest me in meatspace, I thought to visit the . It is a way I have of driving off the spleen. Whenever my meds get such an upper hand of me, that I yearn to troll passersby–then, I account it high time to get to cyberspace. S... |
Gillmor Gang: Parse This | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 1 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, January 29, 2016. The Gang discusses Facebook sharecropping as Parse joins FriendFeed on the scrapheap of post app momentum. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, and ... |
Parrot’s Henri Seydoux Shares His Vision Of The Future Of Drones | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | has had an interesting week. Many were expecting a new drone from the famous drone maker (among other things). But when you think about drones, chances are you are picturing a quadcopter in your mind. Instead, the company and airplane-like drone with two wings. I had the chance to interview Parrot founder and CEO He... |
Why Seattle’s Ridesharing And Taxi Unionization Measure Misses The Mark | Richard A. Lazar | 2,016 | 1 | 8 |
The Seattle City Council recently passed a first-in-nation local that seeks to allow ridesharing and taxi drivers to unionize and collectively bargain. The city is trying to solve a problem created under federal law that doesn’t permit companies to provide benefits and protections to independent contractor workers ... |
Why SpaceX Is Changing Its Rocket Landing Location | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | SpaceX has confirmed that they will attempt another, more difficult, rocket landing on their next launch January 17 . Their Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with NASA’s Jason-3 satellite on board. This time the rocket will be returning to a “drone ship” (an autonomous float... |
And The Winner Of Hardware Battlefield 2016 Is… Nima By 6SensorLabs | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | very fierce for the third edition of our Hardware Battlefield. Fourteen shockingly good hardware startups competed to win the coveted Metal Man trophy. These companies had a very special CES experience as they all pitched in front of multiple groups of judges on stage at the Sands Expo. The startups were competing for... |
Unicorns And Little Ponies Hit The Slaughterhouse As Maker Media Lays Off 17 | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Stables full of startups are being turned into glue, whether they’re mythical beasts, donkeys in party hats, or just baby horses. The latest forced to do layoffs is Maker Media, the champion of the do-it-yourself movement. 10 years and $10 million later, multiple sources tell me that Maker Media laid off 20% of its sta... |
Analytics Startup Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | laid off 18 people yesterday, representing less than 10 percent of its 230-plus person team. “This is obviously a deeply tough decision,” said CEO Suhail Doshi. “By no means do we intend to hire people only to let them go … We’re very sorry that it happened.” Many other startups are also cutting costs by . The news ... |
Uber Lowers Fares In Over 100 Cities | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | This is the third year that Uber has cut January fares for some cities. The company showcased Boston, DC and Los Angeles as examples of cities where past price cuts resulted in increased demand. A large part of Uber’s success can be attributed to its emphasis on balancing supply and demand. While some competing apps s... |
Edtech 101 | Amy Lin | 2,016 | 1 | 8 |
In 2015, the investing community sat up and took notice of edtech. , and ever since, more analysts have been meticulously studying the growth of edtech funding and innovation. With and a nod from Mary Meeker’s , more people are starting to realize that the Internet has just begun to impact education. Since 2014, ... |
I Am Cardboard Showing Newly Funded DSCVR Headset AT CES | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | , makers of a variety of Google Cardboard viewers, recently delivered their new (pronounced “Discover”) after a recent, successful Kickstarter campaign. Since delivering the 3,000 headsets promised to backers just before Christmas, the Hong Kong-based company of 10 have sold approximately another 20,000 of the DSCVR ... |
Peach Is A Slick New Messaging App From The Founder Of Vine | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Chat chat chat, talk talk talk. We love it, you love it. Messaging apps are hot for 2016 (again) and there’s seemingly a niche platform for all of us. There are also big platforms for the rest of the world like Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, Snapchat and Hangouts (and tons more). , is . was created by the founder of Vin... |
YC Switches Up Its Management, As Altman Shifts Focus | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Famed accelerator Y Combinator has grown a lot under the direction of Sam Altman, who was appointed president roughly two years ago. It’s grown so much in fact that Altman, known for constantly iterating on YC’s model, says it’s now for him to manage as closely as he once did, so he’s shifting more responsibility to ... |
Today On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Project Tango, iPhone Headphone Jack, Faraday Future And More CES | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | 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 , Google’s Project Tango , the , and a pr... |
Hands On With Google’s Project Tango Developer Kit | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Yesterday we checked out an event hosted by Lenovo and Google, where the duo that Lenovo would be making the first Phone. While we found out that the device would ship this summer and cost under $500, we didn’t get many other details on the device. However, the company gave us a chance to play with Project Tango’... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.08.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | – John Borthwick, Ari Weinstein, Matthew Panzarino, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session for today has concluded. Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our sister show – G3 – on Facebook |
You’ve Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Despite the glorified status that entrepreneurship has obtained in modern culture, it’s a huge pain in the pass. The work is long. The lows are low. Showering? Good luck with that. One of the worst parts about being an early-stage founder, however, is realizing just how little you really know about the broader ecosyste... |
Harry Potter Books Head To Kindle And Nook After Pottermore Suffers Cruciatus Curse | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Whether you side with Hufflepuff or Slytherin, it sucked that you could only get Harry Potter ebooks from a special service called … until now. The company has is now selling these books for $9 on the Kindle and Nook and for a very interesting reason: the goblins at Gringotts realized Pottermore didn’t have much money... |
Lily, A Camera Drone That Automatically Follows You, Pulls In A Mountainous $34 Million In Pre-orders | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Self-driving drone has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders by the end of 2015, with 60,000 units already sold. While that’s not as massive as (1.2 million sold in the first day), it’s still a pretty good indicator Lily is on... |
3D-Printed Insole Maker SOLS Lays Off 20 Percent Of Staff | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | , a company using 3D-printing technology to , has laid off 20 percent of its workforce, or 14 employees in total across all teams, TechCrunch has confirmed. The staff reductions come just ahead of a forthcoming product announcement due in a few weeks, as well as further efforts aimed at broadening SOLS’ product offeri... |
MatterHackers Releases A Tablet That Lets You Design 3D Prints On The Go | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | Most 3D printer apps are fairly basic – mostly they’re used to monitor print jobs. MatterHackers has just released the MatterControl Touch T10, a 10-inch, $299 tablet that allows you to place items, edit them, and even print them on the fly using a powerful Android-powered tablet. Because the device is dedicated to 3D ... |
Over 200,000 People Have Signed A Petition To Stop Apple From Killing The iPhone’s Headphone Jack | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 8 | You may have that Apple might be doing away with the headphone jack on the iPhone to push forward the wonderful world of wireless listening. Awesome, right? Well, hold on. First off, as per usual, Apple has said nothing to confirm or deny this, so it’s just a rumor. Still, we’re treated with baffling headlines like t... |
If At First Your Acqui-Hire Sucks, Try Again | Courtland Alves | 2,016 | 1 | 1 | |
The First International Beauty Contest Judged By Robots | Zoltan Istvan | 2,016 | 1 | 1 |
Robots are starting to appear everywhere: driving cars, cooking dinners and even as robotic . But people don’t usually give machine intelligence much credence when it comes to judging beauty. That may change with the launch of the world’s first international beauty contest judged exclusively by a robot jury. The con... |
Why Silicon Valley Should Bring Unsexy Back | Rana Gujral | 2,016 | 1 | 1 |
. . “ .” These are just a few of the goofy startup ideas that have cropped up in in recent years. I can’t be the only one who’s disappointed with this. The is the birthplace of game-changing innovations, like the microprocessor and the PC. It’s home to enough brainpower to take on the biggest problems of today... |
Urban.us Raising $10 Million Fund To Invest In Startups That Impact City Living | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 1 | Venture fund is gearing up to close a $10 million fund to continue investing in startups focused on impacting urban city living across mobility and logistics, environment, utilities and local government. Urban.us expects to close the fund later this year, but it has already committed some of that money to smart irrig... |
What’s The Half Life Of A Unicorn? | Simon Crosby | 2,016 | 1 | 1 |
“Cybercorns” are companies that have surpassed the magical $1 billion valuation. Several of these extraordinary ventures are , , , , , , , , and . Each has attained an enviable position as a valued solution to an important set of customer security pains. The entrepreneurs who built these companies (many of... |
With Debt Round, Web Publisher LittleThings Plans For More Positivity-Fueled Growth | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 1 | There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of , but apparently it’s seeing rapid growth, thanks to a focus on positive and inspirational stories. In fact, , LittleThings was responsible for the single most popular Facebook post of 2015. The story is basically just of of Ann and Nancy Wilson covering “Stairway ... |
A Quick Tour Of Wearables In 2015 | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 1 | Wearables had a varied year in 2015, with a lot of hype and a few big winners streaking ahead of the field, leaving plenty of also-rans struggling to stand out. It’s fair to say that the entire category is yet to prove whether it offers lasting utility or mere faddish novelty. The success of the smartphone is such than... |
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Now That Netflix Is Global, You Should Go Buy A VPN | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | Netflix shocked the tech world ( ) with yesterday. That move means that the video streaming service is now available in 190 countries, so the chances are that you, dear reader, are eligible to access it right now — unless you happen to live in China, North Korea, Syria or the Crimea. Netflix’s original content — whic... |
AmpMe Syncs Multiple Devices To Become A Portable Speaker System | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | There are plenty of services out there that promise to sync up your devices to form a surround-sound speaker system. But , an app that launched out of Montreal three months ago, claims to be the only one that can work across both iOS and Android. The company was founded by serial entrepreneur and angel investor Martin... |
Meet H. Moser & Cie., The Swiss Watch Company Apple Is Probably About To Sue | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TWWv8yd8c] Oh, Switzerland, you seem to have it all: fine chocolates, fondue, goats with bells around their necks. But what you don’t have is a sense of how to beat smartwatch makers without looking silly. To wit: meet the H. Moser & Cie. Swiss Alps watch (they probably meant ... |
Sphero’s New Wristband Will Let You Control BB-8 With Gestures — And Also The Force | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | “We’re giving every Star Wars fan the power of the Force,” said CEO Paul Berberian. He stopped by the TechCrunch stage at the Consumer Electronics Show today to show off the company’s Force Band, which will allow people to control the company’s BB-8 robotic toy with gestures. When pressed on how it worked, Berberia... |
Today On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Oculus Rift, Wearables And We’re Live From CES | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | 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 , the new and other wearables, and a prev... |
Oculus Co-Founder Confirms The Rift Will Be Sold At Cost | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | The Oculus Rift will be sold with a $599 retail price. And Oculus is taking a wash on the hardware. Oculus Co-Founder and VP of Product Nate Mitchell revealed to TechCrunch’s Jordan Crook earlier today that the company is selling the hardware at cost in an effort to kickstart the VR ecosystem. This is in addition to ... |
IBM’s Watson Now Powers AI For Under Armour, Softbank’s Pepper Robot And More | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | From its debut to the world as a Jeopardy champion in 2011, has made a name for itself as a powerful artificial intelligence platform for large enterprise applications, from through to . Now IBM is aiming to take Watson to the consumer. Today at CES, IBM CEO Ginny Rometty unveiled strategic partnerships with sport... |
L’Oreal’s Sensor Warns You If You’re Getting Too Much Sun | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | No more getting red at the beach! L’Oreal has come out with a new product that will warn you if you’re getting too much sun. The new skin sensor, known as My UV Patch, was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. It looks like a heart sticker and it can be worn for several days. It’s also fr... |
MyFitnessPal Makes It Easier To Order Healthily At Restaurants | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | I’m in Las Vegas for this whole week, which means two things. One, I hate myself. Two, I’m constantly out at restaurants, which makes it even harder than usual to eat healthily. , the popular nutrition and fitness app that was last year, is unveiling a new feature today that should help. The app already allows you to... |
Instagram Goes Beyond The Feed With Everyday Spotlight Compilations | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | Instagram’s answer to Snapchat’s Live Stories isn’t and big events any more. Internally, they’re known as Spotlight Compilations — vertical slideshows of the best videos related to a theme, like “Dynamic Duos – Odd Couple Animal Videos” or “Ramped Up – Rad Skateboarding Videos.” They appear in the Spotlight section a... |
The EHang 184 Is A Human-Sized Drone Taking Off At CES | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | We’ve seen some pretty cool stuff on day 1 of CES 2016, but probably nothing more eye-catching than the EHang 184, a human-sized drone built by the Chinese UAV company . Yes you heard right — a giant autonomous drone that fits a human. It’s basically what you would expect to see if someone shrunk you down to the size ... |
10 Under 10 Years Old | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPFhtdvdZ08] Watch a sad old man (age 25) interview the top pre-tween entrepreneurs in this hilarious video. Even though it’s a parody of the Forbes 30 Under 30, this is too real. “Even an 8-year-old could have regrets because there’s always going to be that 6-year-old inventor w... |
A Few Quick Laps In Chevy’s New $30K All-Electric Vehicle, The Bolt | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | This morning at CES, Chevrolet unveiled an all-new electric vehicle called the Bolt (not to be confused with their hybrid, the Volt.) For around $30K after rebates, Chevy is promising a range of around 200 miles per nine-hour charge and a pretty sweet suite of technology. I’m not going to go deep with my impressions ... |
Uber Settles Privacy Probe With NY Attorney General’s Office, Pays $20K Fine | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | Uber has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office for failing to report unauthorized third-party access to its drivers’ personal information in timely manner, . Schneiderman is expected to announce the settlement tomorrow morning, according to BuzzFeed. This settlement comes... |
This Robotic Arm Can Do Everything From 3D Printing To Laser Cutting To Cake Decorating | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | Having hands is pretty damn great, you know. Most of us take it for granted just about every day. Armed with the right tool, your hands can do just about anything. That’s the idea behind KATIA, a product launched at the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas today. One robotic arm, and endless array of possibil... |
DCM’s David Chao On Investing In China, And VR, And, Oh, Hey, Cannabis | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | , the early-stage, cross-border venture firm, has scored many hits by sticking it out in China since nearly its 1996 founding, even as many competing firms – because they were unable or unwilling to invest the time in local relationships – have come and gone. Among the many China-based companies backed early on by DCM ... |
TechCrunch Takes The UberCHOPPER | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | So this just happened. This afternoon, Uber activated its UberCHOPPER promotion in Vegas. Walking out of the GM keynote, I open up the Uber app to get a ride and up popped the $99 UberCHOPPER option. A few Slacks later, our splendid editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino (thanks Matthew!) approved the expense and off to the... |
FITGuard Is A Mouthguard That Detects The Severity Of A Blow To The Head | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | There are 3.8 million sports-related head injuries each year, and 47 percent of athletes do not report symptoms of their head injuries, whether out of lack of understanding or a need to feel tough. As we’ve learned over the past few years, from the death of NFL athletes like Frank Gifford or the movie , based on the r... |
Indiegogo Now Wants Fortune 500 Companies To Create Pre-Order Campaigns | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | Indiegogo has historically been about helping the young and scrappy entrepreneur to put their idea out there and get some much-needed capital for a first production batch. The company is launching a brand new set of tools today dubbed ‘Enterprise Crowdfunding.’ This time, it’s all about the large well-established compa... |
Jack Dorsey Confirms Departures Of Several Twitter Execs | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later this week, but want to set the record straight now: — jack (@jack) “I’m sad to announce that Alex Roetter, Skip Schipper, Katie Stanton, and Kevin Weil have chosen to leave the company. Alex and Kevin, both here over five years, scaled the ads product an... |
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