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This Gadget Tests Food For Gluten In Under 2 Minutes | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 6 | More people than ever are realizing that bread isn’t supposed to make a person bloated and sick and perhaps they have a sensitivity to gluten. Or worse, they’re allergic. The Nima from could change the lives of these people and not just those with a gluten allergy. “Mason, I just want to know what Cheez-its taste lik... |
Guy Kawasaki On Startups, Entrepreneurship And The State Of Social Media | Zach Abramowitz | 2,016 | 1 | 24 |
One of recurring pieces of advice to entrepreneurs is to create a mantra, not a mission statement. A mantra is three or four words that captures the essence of your organization e.g. Wendy’s: healthy fast food or FedEx: peace of mind. Guy even created a helpful mantra that sums up his career as the chief evangelist... |
Why SoundCloud Will Be Worth More Than Spotify | Alex Moazed | 2,016 | 1 | 24 |
SoundCloud recently it struck a long-awaited licensing deal with Universal Music, whose hit roster includes Kanye West, Adele and Taylor Swift. This latest deal provides SoundCloud with 50 percent coverage among the “Big Four” — Warner Brothers also has a deal with SoundCloud; Sony BMG and Sony/ATV are still holdin... |
Dataminr CEO On Whether He Regrets That Giant Fidelity-Led Round | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | On Friday, CEO Ted Bailey of Dataminr swung by our temporary studio set-up in Davos, where Bailey appeared to having a highly productive trip. As he told us then, he’d already met Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, enjoyed a one-on-one dinner with Cisco’s legendary former CEO John Chambers, and was on his way to meet for th... |
Seedcamp’s New Portfolio Analysis Maps Europe’s Flourishing Tech Scene | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | Back in September 2007 I attended a startup pitch event held in a London university lecture theatre. The surroundings weren’t plush. The slightly musty lecture theatre didn’t hint at the ambitions of the people present. But when Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype walked in, and joined in a panel of other seasoned te... |
Report: Twitter Losing Its Product, Media, Engineering Heads; Adding New CMO | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | Yet more personnel changes are afoot at Twitter. According to reports in Recode ( and ), the social media site is about to lose not just one but several senior executives as soon as tomorrow. Most immediately, Katie Jacobs Stanton, the company’s VP of global media; Kevin Weil, SVP of product; and SVP of engineering A... |
Facebook’s Second European Data Center Is Coming To Ireland | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | Facebook today officially that it plans to open its second European data center in Clonee, Ireland. The town, which sits will play host to Facebook’s sixth data center overall. Construction will start soon and the new facility will go online sometime in late 2017 or early 2018. Facebook’s first European data center... |
How I Raised A $1 Million Seed Round When I Was 9 Months Pregnant | Rachel Kaplowitz | 2,016 | 1 | 24 |
The last time I needed a doctor’s note was in elementary school. That was, until last September — I needed a note from my OBGYN proving I was only 31-and-a-half weeks pregnant so I could board a plane to San Francisco with fair odds I wouldn’t give birth to a mile-high baby. The first thing my doctor asked when I mad... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.24.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | – Frank Radice, Keith Tere, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our other show from Gillmor Gang Studios – |
Why Tech Entrepreneurs Should Support A Bloomberg Bid For The White House | Richie Hecker | 2,016 | 1 | 24 |
According to The New York Times yesterday, Michael Bloomberg is considering running for president. Following on last week’s news of a leak that he commissioned a to determine the feasibility of such a presidential bid, he has now requested that advisers create plans for an independent campaign. It may be the first... |
Gillmor Gang: Verbal Hashtags | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | The Gillmor Gang — Kevin Marks, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Sunday, January 24, 2016. Tech, media, and politics collide in the Global Streaming era and the birth of the VPN Party. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Francine Hardaway, Elisa Camahort Page, and Tina Chase Gillm... |
The Startup Landscape For Cybersecurity Companies In Israel | Yoav Leitersdorf | 2,016 | 1 | 24 |
There are more than 300 cybersecurity companies operating in Israel, making it an industry second only to the U.S. in size. In 2014, exports by Israeli cybersecurity companies reached $6B, equating to approximately 10% of the global cybersecurity market. In 2015, that percentage should increase, baed on 2014’s number... |
The Evolving Nature Of P2P Lending Marketplaces | Matt Heiman | 2,016 | 1 | 24 |
In March 2014, The Economist published declaring that peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms were set to disrupt banks and other traditional sources of capital by directly connecting borrowers to individual lenders. In the past few years, the so-called P2P lending industry has certainly experienced tremendous growth,... |
The End Of The Big Venture Formula | Danny Crichton | 2,016 | 1 | 24 | Well, do I have the deal of the century for you! Investors – the smartest investors in the world – are throwing billions at it! The price can only go up! People are flocking from around the globe to get their share! Time is very limited, so you have to act now! It’s so exciting, I even forgot how to use normal punctuat... |
Living Off Hackathons: The Possible Rise Of The Pro-Hacker | Simon Lightstone | 2,016 | 1 | 24 |
Hackathon prize money keeps rising each year as organizations learn to take advantage of their value. Runner-up cash prizes are now in the thousands, and grand-prize payouts are . There is now a compelling argument for ambitious programmers to live off hackathons: They can forget the long-term slog of building a sta... |
When Virtual Reality Meets Education | Elizabeth Reede | 2,016 | 1 | 23 |
Since the 1950s, virtual reality (VR) has been hovering on the periphery of technology without achieving accepted mainstream application or commercial adoption. Since 2012, VR startups have raised more than $1.46 billion in venture capital, including more than $100 million in funding during the last four consecutive ... |
The Repeat Political Madness Of Never-Ending Crypto Wars | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 23 | What is it with politicians and encryption? There are now two bills in different U.S. states, one in and one in , proposing that smartphones sold in the state must be able to be decrypted on demand by either their manufacturer or OS provider. Ergo the full disk encryption feature offered by Google on Android or Appl... |
How Solar Software Can Save The World | Jake Saper | 2,016 | 1 | 23 |
VCs have avoided solar deals ever since Solyndra became a four-letter word. But while their attention has strayed, the industry has been on a tear. In 2010, U.S. solar installers hit a milestone of 1 GW per year. Five years later, they’re installing more than 1 GW per month. This tremendous growth has fed a swelling ... |
Google Working On Its Own Consumer VR Hardware, Latest Job Postings Suggest | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 23 | Google appears to be doubling down on virtual reality as they look to begin building “multiple” consumer hardware devices, according to new VR job postings on their site. Google’s current consumer VR offerings are confined to its Google Cardboard program, which allows consumers to experience rudimentary virtual reality... |
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Blue Origin Launches and Lands Recovered Rocket | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 23 | Without any notice, Blue Origin made history once again when they completed a successful launch and landing of a suborbital rocket yesterday. What made this flight particularly notable was that they used the that had been launched into space on a flight in November. The recovered New Shepard rocket launched from Blue... |
Is VC The Right Money For Fintech? | Micah Rosenbloom | 2,016 | 1 | 23 |
Financial technology has never been a more exciting or innovative category — especially in New York City. Oddly, tech is not the driving force in many of these ventures. The Blockchain and Bitcoin notwithstanding, most of what we’re seeing now is financial product evolution and the unbundling of the large bank. Most... |
iAllocate Is A Robot That Helps You Invest Your Cash | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 23 | Robots are everywhere. They help lawyers , they after our parties, and now they can help you figure out how to invest your money. In fact, an Atlanta-based company called is using artificial intelligence to suggest where you should be stashing your millions. “Currently, iAllocate.me provides investors of all level... |
Bitcoin Is Dead (Again), Long Live Bitcoin (Again) | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 1 | 23 | Oh, the drama, such . Last week longtime Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn “the Bitcoin experiment…has failed,” and marked his resignation from that community with a fusillade of verbal grenades (and a of his dissent.) This in turn provoked a whole torrent of hot takes and reactions, which mostly had one thing in com... |
NASA Spacewalk Cut Short After Spacesuit Malfunction | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | NASA terminated a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today due to a spacesuit malfunction with one of the American astronauts. NASA’s Timothy Kopra and British astronaut Timothy Peake were scheduled to complete a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to switch out an electrical component in the ISS’s solar... |
iTunes Radio Is No Longer Free | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Apple Music has also been an integral feature of CarPlay, the company’s new auto dashboard. Apple, which first popularized portable MP3 listening with its iPods, has been vying to remain a top contender in the digital music space. Its $3 billion acquisition of Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics in 2014, exemplified this push.... |
Get Small To Get Big Through Microservices | Matt Miller | 2,016 | 1 | 23 |
If we trace a path that starts with Gutenberg’s use of moveable type to Malcom McLean’s invention of the shipping container, we start to recognize a very interesting pattern: Each new layer of abstraction and standardization creates tremendous value out of the resulting increases in scale and efficiency. Today’s digi... |
When Will We See A New Apple Watch? | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | We will get new Apple Watch hardware at some point. The possibilities of better battery life, lighter casings and un-tethered utility are self-evident and Apple will capitalize on those. But when? This week, rumors from Chinese site ( ) said that early production of a next generation Apple Watch was beginning at supp... |
Will Robots Save The Future Of Work? | Alastair Bathgate | 2,016 | 1 | 15 |
Is a robot coming for your job? It’s not a novel question, but if are correct, the answer could be leaning more definitively toward yes. The analyst firm’s research suggests one in three jobs will be converted to software, robots and smart machines by 2025. What is new, however, is that the influx of robots in the ... |
Meet Airbus Ventures, A “Pure-Play” Aerospace Venture Firm | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | In late spring last year, the Netherlands-based aerospace and defense giant announced a $150 million corporate venture capital fund. Today, that fund, Airbus Ventures, announced its first bet, on an eight-year-old, Phoenix-based company called that uses 3D printing to make appliances and . Our interest piqued, we... |
Lyft Lowers Prices In Latest Rideshare War With Rival Uber | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Earlier this week I benefitted from a drop in Uber Pool pricing, noting my ride was a whole Starbucks medium-size latte less than Lyft Line. Lyft, fresh with a new billion dollars in funding, is . Uber announced a in more than 100 cities in the U.S. and Canada last week, most likely prompting Lyft to figure out the ... |
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | After some of our staff , TechCrunch is back reporting the hottest tech stories. This week, the U.S. government got serious about self-driving cars, Apple rolled out new software betas, and we uncovered evidence that Facebook has built a Messenger for Mac desktop app. These are our best stories. President Obama announ... |
Welcome Space Gal Emily Calandrelli To TechCrunch | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | We’re super pleased to say that Emily Calandrelli has joined up with TechCrunch to cover space, science and everything STEM related. Emily, known as on Twitter, has an authoritative and entertaining voice in the space arena, something I’ve been wanting more of on TC for a while now. You may have seen Emily’s articles... |
Twitter, And Pretty Much Everyone Else, Had A Bad Day | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Today was not a good day for tech stocks. Universally, tech stocks crashed today alongside everything else, erasing billions in value across the board, as part of a bad day overall for the market. There’s not a whole lot of confidence throughout the market, but tech — even bellwethers like Apple — weren’t safe today. T... |
BMW MINI Teams Up With HAX To Build A NYC Accelerator Focused On Connected Cities Of The Future | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | What will the city of the future look like? We’re starting to see new technologies capable of helping future urban populations share more resources, reduce costs and communicate in new ways and BMW’s MINI would like to be at the forefront of this movement. That’s why MINI says it teamed up with , an existing hardware ... |
Necessity Is Driving Agricultural Innovation Indoors | Joshua Bateman | 2,016 | 1 | 15 |
According to the United Nations, the earth will house an estimated 9.7 billion people by 2050. Consequently, more food will need to be produced over the next four decades than has been produced over the last 10,000 years. And with more than 99.7 percent of global food coming from land, and most of the arable land alr... |
Twitter Updates Polling; Touts 1.7 Billion Votes | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Twitter is making an update to its recently released ; instead of a default 24-hour timeframe, poll lengths can range from five minutes to seven days. Launched in October, the company also touted the success of polls, announcing that 1.7 billion votes have been cast so far.
The revelation comes as Twitter share... |
OurMix Is Social Music Discovery Done Right | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Spotify does a great job at helping users find music they’ll like, thanks to features like its popular “ , and sections that point you to trending tracks and new releases. But over the years, it’s moved away from its earlier emphasis on which leaves room for other apps to come in and fill the void. One such app is th... |
Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Fastest Rising Startup Of 2015 | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Up for grabs are highly coveted Crunchies in 12 categories, and today we’ll be taking a look at the finalists for the Fastest Rising Startup of 2015. This award goes to the company that has risen from the depths of obscurity to become a household name. There are several amazing startups up for the award this year, so l... |
Venture Capital Is Terrible At Online Shopping | Jess Kimball Leslie | 2,016 | 1 | 15 |
Another day, another series of Silicon Valley e-commerce explosions: Gilt Groupe for a fraction of its valuation (and its capital raised) and One Kings Lane is reportedly the next to die. Previously it was being sold for nothing after severely underperforming — ah, Fab, the first billion-dollar retail “unicorn” b... |
F.lux Asks Apple To Let Its Screen Color Adjustment App Back Into App Store | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | As many noted when , one of the mobile operating system’s newest features, a nighttime reading mode with reduced blue light emissions, looked awfully familiar. The ability to adjust the screen brightness on iOS devices is something software maker has been developing for years. Its technology, which even briefly work... |
In Q4, VCs Kept Funding Young Companies But Slowed Later Bets | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Call it the Fidelity effect. According to a new MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, there appears to have been a chill in late-stage funding in the fourth quarter of last year, while investors continued stuffing money into seed- and early-stage investments. Accordi... |
Google Play Adds Support For Promo Codes, Including In-App Purchases | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | Promo codes are coming to Google Play! Android developers will finally be able to market their applications, as well as distribute copies of paid apps for free, and more, by way of promo codes – a feature Apple has supported for years. Thanks to a new option spotted in the Google Play Developer Console, it appears that... |
MicSwap Turns Your iPhone Into Rock And Roll | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 15 | If it’s been a long time since you’ve rock and rolled and it’s been a long lonely time since you did the stroll, it might be time to model some old-fashioned microphones on your iOS device. An app, , makes it easy to do just that. Two musicians, and , created the app to offer microphone modeling for mobile devices.... |
With Detroit Taking A Lyft In A Driverless Car, What’s Next For Cities? | Brooks Rainwater | 2,016 | 1 | 12 |
Transportation and geography have always been intertwined. Specifically, the auto industry, with Detroit being the prime example, was once more tightly tied to place. The same can be said for the tech industry, which still maintains a dominance largely in Silicon Valley. Until very recently, these industries were dis... |
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Announces $100M Philanthropic Education Fund | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Reed Hastings took to Facebook Tuesday to announce that he would be personally funding a new $100 million philanthropic fund, focusing exclusively on education-related projects and organizations. The mission on the details a commitment to enhancing the educational experience of children. Currently, too many children ... |
RIP Threadflip | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | , an online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing, is no more as of Wednesday at midnight. An email sent to users explains that the startup, founded in 2011, will shut down operations and roll into clothing rental startup, Le Tote. With Threadflip, users were able to take photos of their items and list them for ... |
NASA Formalizes Efforts To Protect Earth From Asteroids | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Last week, NASA a new program called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) which will coordinate NASA’s efforts for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs). If a large object comes hurtling toward our planet, it will be this office’s job to identify it, determine a way to deflect it, and give the ... |
Unlocking Trapped Engineers | Vivek Ravisankar | 2,016 | 1 | 12 |
Millions of software are caged. Their talent remains unseen behind the iron bars of the misconception of a shortage of software . An estimated 1 million technology jobs will go unfilled by 2020, according to a report put forth by Microsoft in 2012. Publications like The Wall Street Journal and even the White House... |
Uber Might Owe Tens Of Thousands Of California Passengers $1.8 Million In Class Action Lawsuit | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Several Uber customers in California received notice today they’re involved in a class-action lawsuit against the rideshare giant. Uber agreed to the terms of a $1.8 million suit alleging it inappropriately charged customers an “airport fee toll” late last year. The lawsuit, filed in November 2015, accused Uber of char... |
Didi Kuaidi, The Company Beating Uber In China, Opens Its API To Third Party Apps | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | One day after Uber to add ‘content experiences’ for passengers, the U.S. company’s biggest rival — Didi Kuaidi in China — has opened its own platform up by releasing an SDK for developers and third-parties. Didi Kuaidi, which is following a recent $3 billion funding round and , gave an initial 30 apps access to it... |
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Citrix Is The Latest Enterprise Tech Firm Under Pressure From Activist Investors | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Technology companies, particularly those with an enterprise bent, appear to be coming under increasing pressure from activist investors who want to squeeze out profits at the cost of products and jobs. Last year EMC pressed by an activist investor eventually . Citrix is the latest company facing this issue –and from t... |
Visa Checkout Announces Walmart, Starbucks As Merchant Partners | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Today, Visa Checkout announced that some major new companies would se starting to utilize the service. Starbucks, Walgreens, NFL Shop, HSN and Match.com have all signed on and will be joining Checkout’s more than 250,000 merchants using the express online payments service. Walmart.com integration will also be coming la... |
Google Focuses On Virtual Reality With New Lead For Cardboard | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | According to a , Google is doubling down on virtual reality, with its VP for product management, Clay Bavor, dropping his responsibilities for other apps like Gmail and Drive to focus solely on and VR. Bavor has been with Google for over 10 years, so trusting this budding unit with him is a massive signal that Googl... |
Meet Square’s Gloria Kimbwala, An Engineer Dedicated To Advancing Diversity In Tech | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | , Gloria Kimbwala, a campus program specialist at Square, is an engineer. She went through Square’s College Code Camp exactly two years ago. Today, she’s running it. , now in its sixth session, is a five-day program at Square designed to immerse young female computer science or engineering majors in coding workshops, ... |
Get Your Crunchies Tickets Now, And Remember The Crunchies Of Yore | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | The are a little over a month away, and we’re gearing up to make this show one of the best ones yet. In the lead up to the Crunchies, we thought it’d be fun to take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of the Crunchies of yesteryear to see what the startup and tech scenes were like in the past. In this piece, we’... |
Skype Brings Group Video Calls To Mobile Devices | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | In celebration of its 10-year anniversary, Skype today the launch of free group video calling on Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows 10 mobile devices. The has been available for a couple of years on the desktop, for both Mac and PC, but had yet to make its way to mobile. The addition, says Skype, will roll out to th... |
Lyft Announces Partnership To Help Seniors Without Smartphones Get Around | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft have always been awesome at empowering people without viable forms of transportation to get around. A key demographic that’s been left out of reaping these benefits, however, is the nation’s senior citizens. Today, Lyft announced a partnership with the that will provide senior... |
Delicious, Former Web 2.0 Darling, Is Now Managed By New Alliance, Rolls Back Most Recent Changes | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Once upon a time (maybe around 2004), the social bookmarking service was the hottest thing on the web. It hit all the right buzzwords of the time (collaborative tagging, folksonomy, AJAX), but like so many other services, Yahoo simply let it whither after it acquired the company in 2005. Since then, it has changed ow... |
Sketchfab Adds ‘View In VR’ Button To Its 3D Model Sharing Platform | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 1 | 12 |
In its latest feature expansion, 3D model repository has just added a VR button, allowing owners of to don their VR goggles to get a more immersive view of the content on its platform. While starting with VR’s bargain basement headset (aka Cardboard), Sketchfab it plans to expand support to “all major head... |
Google I/O Will Hit Mountain View On May 18-20 At Shoreline Amphitheatre | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | We don’t have too many details yet, but Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai just let the world know where and when Google I/O will take place this year. I/O'16 coming to neighborhood where it all started 10 yrs ago: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, May 18-20. More details soon. — Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) https://... |
The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Coming To Atlanta And Boston | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | It’s that time of the year again. After a restful holiday season, filled with Disrupt Europe and CES, we’re ready to hit the road again and visit some of our favorite cities. The first TC Meetups of the year will go down in and , on February 23 and February 25 respectively. We’ve visited both cities for the past few... |
The First Virtual Reality Roller Coaster Will Take You To Space | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Following CES in Las Vegas last week, VR is on the minds and lips of everyone in the tech and gaming space. But even though virtual reality is more immersive than any form of entertainment previously known, it still can’t manipulate all the senses at once. Alton Towers Resort has developed a way to make the VR experien... |
SmashFly, A Service That Looks To Snag New Hires More Effectively, Raises $22M | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 1 | 12 | Mike Hennessy thinks finding potential recruits is just like marketing — you have to keep them interested and snatch them at the right time. That’s why he started , a startup that manages inbound interest from potential recruits and keeps them engaged with a company that’s eventually hoping to convert them to an emplo... |
Uber Is Finally Creating A Dedicated R&D Team On The Ground In India | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | Uber is increasing its focus on India, the country that it behind only China in the coming years, with plans to establish its first dedicated engineering team in the South Asian country in the coming months. Right now, Uber has a section of its team in San Francisco dedicated to shaping its service to the needs of In... |
Snoop Dogg Would Like Bill Gates To “Fix His S*&t” | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | When something happens like, I don’t know, Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because hot damn sometimes it just feels good. Today, one Xbox Live user was particularly miffed. His name happens to be Snoop Dogg. He had a me... |
A Millennial Mom’s Guide To CES | Randi Zuckerberg | 2,016 | 1 | 13 |
I attended CES in Las Vegas last week doing quadruple duty as radio host of my radio show on SiriusXM; as judge and MC of The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards Show; as co-host of a lively karaoke party with AmpMe, and as tech collaborator with HSN. I was wearing a lot of hats at the event, but what I loved about approac... |
Obama’s New Cancer Initiative Could Use A Shot Of Silicon Valley Innovation | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | Silicon Valley should have a stake in the U.S. government’s moonshot initiative to cure cancer. President Obama announced this initiative in his last State of the Union address Tuesday night, placing Joe Biden in charge of “Mission Control” for the effort. Biden started reaching out to hundreds of the world’s top cance... |
Car Buying Platform Carwow Raises £12.5M Series B Led by Accel | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | , the U.K. site that claims to offer a better way to buy a new car, has stopped off for some further funding. The four year-old startup has raised a £12.5 million Series B led by Accel, who I understand tried but failed to get in on the . Previous investors Balderton Capital, Samos Investments and Episode 1 Ventures, ... |
Babylon, The U.K. Digital Doctor App, Scores $25M To Develop AI-Driven Health Advice | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | Hot on the heels of , another U.K. startup playing in the digital health app space has picked up funding. , which like PushDoctor, lets you have video consultations with a doctor (and a lot more), has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Investment AB Kinnevik, the Swedish listed investment fund. Others partici... |
Jeb! Gets! Phone! Call! On! His! Apple! Watch! | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | The walking embodiment of the “I’m a PC” guy just discovered that his Apple Watch can make phone calls and he couldn’t be more excited :D Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was doing an interview with when his Apple Watch started going crazy. USA Today of Jeb’s reaction. “My watch can’t be talking,” he said ... |
AWS Launches Schedules Reserved Instances | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform is a new pricing tier today that will make its service more for customers who only need to run their cloud-based applications during certain hours of the day or only on certain days of the month. With this new pricing tier, called , AWS users can reserve instances for pre-defi... |
Wealthfront Launches Portfolio Review, An Advisory Tool For Avoiding Fees And Maximizing Savings | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | Ever year investors pay out hundreds of billions of dollars (that’s billions with a “b”) in fees to money managers that, essentially, they really don’t need to be paying. Things are so bad that companies like have raised over $12 million in financing to provide a service that gives people a window into the fees they’... |
Uber To Allow Some People With Nonviolent Convictions To Become Drivers | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | Uber is going to ease up on some of its driver-screening requirements in California in order to make room for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, . , a California ballot measure that passed in 2014, people with low-level, nonviolent felonies for things like theft, check fraud and possession of drugs can apply to r... |
Startups.co Acquires Zana, A Site For Educating Entrepreneurs | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | has been busy buying services like like and to build a network of connected products for entrepreneurs. Next up: , a site that says it’s “democratizing entrepreneurship.” The acquisition was reported last week by . Startups.co CEO Wil Schroter told me today that the deal was a mix of cash and stock, with a price... |
GoPro Stock Drops 23% After Announcing Layoffs And Disappointing Q4 Guidance | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34 percent to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly jumped to 11.20 before trading was halted. The company has a market cap of about $2 billion in after-hour values. This came aft... |
Uber And Lyft And The Debate Over Fingerprints In Austin | Dan Graham | 2,016 | 1 | 13 |
It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city’s job. In a sane world, a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving. Ridesharing policy is increasingly being framed as either/or brinksmanship, presenting a false choice. I reject that polarity, and I urge yo... |
PrintABowl 3D Prints Beautiful “Elevation” Devices For Your Pleasure | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | If you enjoy a bit of the old Weed O’ Gandalf then you’re going to get a kick out of these smoking systems by . This company makes specially -designed smoking paraphernalia that is 3D printed using a ceramic molding method. While the bongs themselves aren’t 3D printed – that would be a bit difficult given the state of... |
Southeast Asia’s GrabTaxi Opens Office In Seattle To Attract U.S. Engineering Talent | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | , the billion-dollar on-demand taxi service that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is opening its first office in the U.S. as it seeks to widen its hiring efforts. The growth of unicorns worldwide has made the sight of overseas companies hiring on U.S. soil fairly common, particularly targeting potential returnees home.... |
Programming Trends To Look For This Year | Martin Puryear | 2,016 | 1 | 13 |
There has never been a more exciting time for technologists and developers worldwide. The number of active development languages and frameworks, as well as development tools and learning avenues, continues to soar. Despite all these resources at our fingertips (or perhaps because of this abundance), it may not be o... |
From AI To Robotics, 2016 Will Be The Year When The Machines Start Taking Over | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 1 | 13 |
For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve. And, as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its development follows the same curve, so we are seeing exponential advances in technologies such as sensors, networks, artifi... |
Apple Watch Scooped Up Over Half The Smartwatch Market In 2015 | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | Despite a late arrival to the wearables market, Apple claimed the top spot in terms of device sales, according to new research from out this week, which stated that the Apple Watch accounted for over 50 percent of smartwatch sales in 2015. Even more impressive is the fact Apple’s Watch only at the end of April – me... |
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CoinDesk Gets Acquired By Digital Currency Group | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | CoinDesk, one of the leading bitcoin news sites, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group according to a . A source close to CoinDesk tells TechCrunch the price of the deal was around $500-600k. The bitcoin news site, which launched in 2013, had raised around $2 million in undisclosed funding from investors and acc... |
In Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data Collection | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 1 | 13 | In a letter sent Wedesday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) sought to raise questions regarding Google’s use of data gathered from their EdTech initiatives. While I commend Google’s foray into education technology (“EdTech”), I am concerned about the extent to which Google may be collecting... |
Netflix Says It Will Crack Down On Customers Using VPNs To Access Its Global Catalog | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Netflix went global earlier this month, and now it will crack down on customers who use VPN software to access content that is not available or licensed in their country. “Some members use proxies or “unblockers” to access titles available outside their territory,” Netflix said in a statement. “In coming weeks, those... |
PolicyGenius Raises $15 Million For Its Online Price Comparison Insurance Brokerage | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Brooklyn-based has raised $15 million in a new round of funding to expand its price comparison insurance brokerage service. Increasingly, old line industries are coming online, and insurance, one of the last holdouts, is no different. Founded by a former McKinsey consultant who worked with the insurance industry in 2... |
Xiaomi Confirms It Sold “Over 70M” Phones In 2015, Falling Short Of 80M Target | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | China’s Xiaomi has finally revealed how many smartphones in sold last year. Kinda. The company said in a statement today that it sold “over 70 million” devices in 2015. That’s a 15 percent jump on the , but it is short of the 80 million projection it set for 2015 — which was reduced from an initial 100 million target.... |
NASA Adds Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser To ISS Supply Vehicles | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Today, NASA the winners of the second round of commercial resupply services (CRS-2) contracts. The winners, Orbital ATK, SpaceX, and the newcomer Sierra Nevada Corporation, will be responsible for providing new cargo, disposing of unneeded cargo, and safely bringing back research samples from the International Space ... |
Uber Fined $7.6 Million In California | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | The California Public Utilities Commission . Uber has 30 days to pay the penalty, otherwise, its operating license will be suspended in California. The CPUC also held the company in contempt and imposed an additional $1,000 fine. According to the CPUC, Uber failed to provide information “in a full and timely fashion” ... |
Orbital ATK and SpaceX Receive Air Force Contracts For New Engine Development | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | It’s been a good few days at Orbital ATK and SpaceX. Right on the heels of major contracts from NASA to resupply the International Space Station, both companies were the first recipients of the Air Force’s first ‘Other Transaction Agreement’ for rocket propulsion system development. Orbital ATK’s contract, worth $46.9 ... |
Buzzy Social App Stolen Shuts Down Amidst “Concerns” From Users | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Amidst concerns over the gaming mechanics of a popular buzzy app called , its creators has decided to shut down. They tweeted out the news today. Basically, the app allowed you to “own” peers with Twitter accounts, whether they signed up for the service or not. It was meant to be a fun game, but rubbed many people t... |
A Guiding Light Into The Future Of Marketing | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 1 | 14 |
The Consumer Electronics Show is a feast to the eyes, but an overload of the senses. Separating the profound from the gimmicks and the trends from the distractions is vital but hard. For me, there is one just one takeaway from CES this year: Everything around us is becoming digital. So while our industry cares about ... |
Microsoft Drops Prices For Some Azure Instances By Up To 17% | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Microsoft has long said it would AWS’s prices for compute, storage and bandwidth. Earlier this month, Amazon of some of its general purpose, compute- and memory-optimized EC2 machines. It doesn’t come as a major surprise then that Microsoft is now also for some of its virtual machines by between 10 and 17 percent... |
Peach Gets An Unofficial Web And Android Version Called Nectarine | Drew Olanoff | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | If you haven’t tried out because you don’t have an iOS device, a developer has ginned up which is an unofficial Android and web version of the service. It’s limited as far as what you can do and how you can interact, but you can definitely view your stream (in flipped order), like posts and comment on posts. It’s p... |
Dating App Zoosk Destroyed By Tinder, Drops 1/3 Of Staff | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Despite $61 million in funding, is getting swiped to death. A source told TechCrunch the dating startup is laying off a huge chunk of its staff, and now the company confirms over 40 people will be let go. That’s one-third of the whole company. The mobile era has not been kind to the old-school web dating app. Founded... |
Intel Beats The Street On Q4 Sales Of $14.9B, EPS Of $0.74 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Intel — the world’s largest chipmaker — today after the close of trading. The company appeared to beat estimates with revenues of $14.9 billion and earnings per share of $0.74. Analysts on average were EPS of $0.63 on revenues of $14.8 billion. Despite the surprise boost especially on EPS, Wall Street is not happy ... |
Foursquare Gets $45M And A New CEO To Build Out Enterprise Business | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 1 | 14 | Foursquare has been a fantastic idea in search of a business plan for as long as it’s been alive. Efforts to monetize the platform via ads in its app (now apps) have not made the grade. Now, the last of the cool standalone Web 2.0 companies has a new hit revenue stream in its business and enterprise location services a... |
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