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Beamery raises $2 million to help recruiters identify and draw in talent, instead of waiting for applicants | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | London-based startup , formerly known as Seed.Jobs, has raised $2 million in a seed round from Edenred Capital Partners and Grupa Pracuj, a human resources tech firm. Beamery makes software that helps recruiters or employers identify, get connected to and nurture relationships with prospective hires, long before they ... |
Alienware is also working on one of those VR backpacks | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | It’ll probably come as no surprise to anyone who’s been following gaming of late, but Alienware’s looking to join the likes of HP and MSI with the release of a VR backpack of its very own. The Dell-owned gaming PC maker wasn’t exactly trumpeting the device at E3, but it did show off a prototype of the proton pack, hung... |
Razer’s VR headset is designed for developers | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | The OSVR HDK2 was arguably Razer’s biggest E3 unveiling this year – but it was also kind of besides the point. Like Google’s Daydream announcement a few weeks back, this is a reference device, a way of showcasing hardware designed specifically to work with the company’s software. OSVR VR is Razer’s attempt to build a... |
Liability in the coming age of autonomous autos | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | While we are many years away from an autonomous utopia, where cars pick us up and drive us where we need to go without a human at the wheel, we are seeing the first steps toward self-driving cars. , , , —pretty much every auto manufacturer, plus and probably —is incorporating advanced driver assistance systems (... |
Black Caucus urges Airbnb to take reports of racism seriously | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Airbnb has been under fire recently . Now, the Congressional Black Caucus is urging Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky to take further action in addressing the issues of racism and discrimination on Airbnb’s platform. , the CBC notes how Title II of 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in places like hotels and motels... |
11 of the coolest video game trailers from E3 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | We’ve been focused on VR and non-traditional gaming here at E3 this year, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been walking around with our eyes closed. You might not have been paying close attention, what with having a real job and everything, so I took the liberty of collecting the most interesting trailers from the show in o... |
Crowdsourced data can teach your phone to follow your eyes | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Eye tracking has always been a tough problem. Multi-camera solutions existed in order to sense the position of the eyes in 3D space, but in general watching where your peepers pointed was too hard for cellphones. Now researchers at MIT and the University of Georgia have created an eye-tracking system that depends on cr... |
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At Founders Forum — Policy, pitches and Prince William | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Today Prince William exhorted tech leaders to do something about cyber-bullying at the conference in London. Representatives from Google, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat listened to the speech, but some of the biggest tech firms have already joined the Prince’s taskforce on the issue which will be chaired by Brent Hob... |
Meet Domgy, an AI pet robot from Beijing startup ROOBO | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | ROOBO, a fast-growing hardware and AI startup headquartered in Beijing, today unveiled a prototype of its newest product, a “pet robot” called Domgy. For the unfamiliar, ROOBO is the company behind , a voice-controlled, educational robot for kids. Pudding is used to teach kids vocabulary, geography, jokes and more. Th... |
Akamai: global average connection speed up 12 percent, bye bye IPv4 | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | CDN network today published its quarterly “ ” report for the first quarter of 2016. The report examines global internet speeds, which are going to be more relevant than ever for live-sports in the summer of the Rio Olympic Games. Global average connection speed increased 12 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015, ... |
Talking to Uber about the three pillars of its API platform | Gordon Wintrob | 2,016 | 6 | 16 |
The platform started out with a simple API. You could get available products at a location and time and price estimates, but developers would need to deep link into our mobile app for ride requests. Quickly, there was interest from developers to do more with Uber in their apps. As a result, we launched the . That al... |
Facebook says it’s not making friend suggestions based on your location after all | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | Does Facebook suggest new friends based on your location? The answer seems to change day by day. Yesterday, reported that Facebook uses location data to make friend suggestions and pointed out that this could lead to unfortunate privacy mishaps. Users could find themselves outed in situations that ought to be anonymo... |
You can’t kill email | Jonathan Levine | 2,016 | 6 | 28 |
New technology is emerging at ever-increasing speeds, transforming how we communicate, collaborate and manage our day-to-day responsibilities. As soon as we get a strong grasp on the latest workplace technology, an even newer solution surfaces. This trend is especially evident in communications technology. Among the ... |
Mozilla’s Codemoji enciphers your messages with emoji for fun and profit | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | 📚🙈 💭🐾👊🙈 🐱📪 💧👊🍻🔍🚛 🎨📪🐾👊 🎯🌴😑☔🐱🍻🔍🙈 Read that — I dare you. Oh, you can’t? Maybe that’s because I’ve rendered it unreadable with Mozilla’s unbreakable emoji-based cipher, ! Okay, so it’s not really unbreakable (and there is no profit, the headline was a lie). In fact, it’s just a Caesar shift with c... |
Silicon Valley comes out in full force behind SF Pride | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | This weekend was the annual San Francisco Pride Parade. The event drew over a million spectators and participation from many of the tech world’s most recognizable companies. Over 30 tech companies marched in this year’s parade. Whether you were there in person or in spirit, SF Pride withdrawal has already started. We h... |
Pitch@Palace Malaysia Demo Day recap | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you a recap of Pitch@Palace Malaysia that took place earlier today. Investors and press heard pitches from 14 companies, but you can watch the recap right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN9e6cejhqs (In order of appearance)
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Compass pivots, raising $1 million to zero in on e-commerce analytics | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | , a 4.5-year-old startup that had previously raised from investors for its business monitoring and intelligence service, is getting out of the crowded business of benchmarking startups and instead zeroing in what it sees as a far more underserved market: helping e-commerce businesses grow their revenue. The 11-person... |
The Pleurobot robo-salamander crawls and swims like a real amphibian | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | The mad roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have produced another biomimetic mechanoid — this one based on the lithe locomotion of the salamander. “Pleurobot” imitates the amphibian’s ambulation with its own articulated vertebrae, allowing it to slither along on land or at sea. “Animal locomotio... |
Live.ly shoots to the top of the App Store | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | Live.ly finished rolling out last Thursday and the app has already received over 500,000 downloads, the company tells TechCrunch. The app lets people broadcast what they are doing in real time. “We want to thank the musical.ly community for embracing live.ly as an exciting new platform and canvas for creativity and sel... |
Ancera raises $8.9 million for tech to prevent food poisoning and recalls | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | A startup based in Branford, Connecticut, has raised $8.9 million in Series A funding for technology that helps food producers detect contaminants faster than other methods will allow. The company’s mission is to prevent food waste, recalls or worse, the spread of food-borne illnesses, said Ancera CEO and founder Arj... |
Meet Articoolo, the robot writer with content for brains | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | There is great writing. And there is . And at this juncture in the internet’s evolution it seems very plain, Dear Online Reader, that you are mostly being served a tsunami of content — accelerated into your attention trough by that require a steady stream of word fodder to engage eyeballs long enough to ambush them ... |
Four things to know about the FAA’s rules about commercial drone usage | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | The , which concern unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds and flying no more than , require that drones remain within the visual line of sight of the pilot. Remote pilots are also required to hold a remote pilot airman certificate. As overall judgement on the FAA’s rules, Gemmell said: “The new rules give a ... |
Mobile shopping startup PredictSpring raises $11.4M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | , a startup that helps brands and retailers build mobile apps, announced today that it has raised $11.4 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Nitin Mangtani has said that one of his goals is to that make it easy for consumers to shop. Customers include Calvin Klein, Cole Haan and Nine West, and the company say... |
Trak is like a Fitbit for sperm | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | If you feel the world is in danger of under-population but your fallopian swim team is letting the side down, has your back. Now FDA-approved, the company’s product Trak will be the lifestyle coach and home-diagnostics tool to help deliver happier sperm and tiny shouty miracles. The company announced this week that i... |
Blue Origin breaks ground on new facility to develop orbital rockets | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | In an email to fans this morning, founder Jeff Bezos announced that the company broke ground on their orbital vehicle manufacturing site in Florida. At 750,000 square feet, the new custom-built facility is designed to be large enough to accommodate manufacturing, processing, integration, and testing of orbital rocket... |
Apple doubles down on photography with new Shot on iPhone campaign | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | Apple knows that the battle for people’s pockets is going to be fought in part in the photography space. With iOS 10, the company is making it even easier to get to the camera in a hurry, but in an effort to remind people that they’re carrying a great camera around with them, Apple is launching a new round of its pop... |
Google+ turns 5 and is somehow still alive | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | People who love sure love Google+. That hasn’t changed since Google first launched what at the time seemed like a Facebook competitor . If you’re a Google+ fan, today is a day to celebrate: Against all odds, your favorite social network turned five today. For everybody else, the fact that Google+ is may come as ... |
Decentralizing IoT networks through blockchain | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 6 | 28 |
Imagine a washer that autonomously contacts suppliers and places orders when it’s low on detergent, performs self-service and maintenance, downloads new washing programs from outside sources, schedules its cycles to take advantage of electricity prices and negotiates with peer devices to optimize its environment; a c... |
Google researchers teach AIs to see the important parts of images — and tell you about them | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | This week is the in Las Vegas, and Google researchers have . They’ve taught computer vision systems to detect the most important person in a scene, pick out and track individual body parts and describe what they see in language that leaves nothing to the imagination. First, let’s consider the ability to find “events... |
Crunch Report | Apple ordered to Stop Selling iPhone in China | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | Tito Hamze
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But seriously, why did Theranos have just one spokesperson? | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 28 | Theranos have a spokesperson, as in one person handling all public relations efforts outwardly. We’ve confirmed Brooke Buchanan, VP of communications, left her position within the company on Friday. Buchanan could not be reached for comment on the departure but the head of comms was handling all calls, emails, and ... |
NASA’s new X-plane and the future of electric aircraft | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | The world is on a quest to create cleaner, quieter airplanes that could replace the fuel-guzzling, roaring commercial aircraft in use today. NASA is leading much of the research and development effort in this area and today they’ve an official name for their next X-plane concept: the X-57 “Maxwell.” Maxwell is a hybr... |
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Examining the cybersecurity landscape of utilities and control systems | Stephen Boyer | 2,016 | 6 | 17 |
According to a federal indictment March 24, 2016, seven attackers with links to the Iranian government executed cyberattacks against dozens of banks from 2011 to 2013 that disabled their websites and interfered with hundreds of thousands of customers’ ability to access their online accounts. Public announcements of... |
DIRTT’s ICEreality puts VR to use for interior, office design | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | A manufacturer of custom prefabricated elements to be built into offices and other work spaces, is the latest corporation to adopt virtual reality for the enterprise, rather than entertainment. The company unveiled their ICEreality software this week at an annual construction industry trade show, , in Chicago. (Ye... |
Department of Defense expanding Hack the Pentagon program | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | Wanna hack the military? The Department of Defense is starting to give hackers more opportunities to test its systems without the threat of prosecution. The department announced today that it is expanding its program to include more DoD systems and networks. Hack the Pentagon pays hackers to find and report vulnerabi... |
HeyMarket, mobile CRM for text messaging, stops you from drunk texting your customers | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | Like most stories worth telling, this one begins with bad time management. The day I was set to fly out to San Francisco, I was on the road with a friend driving to Chapel Hill from Chicago. By the time I got back, I had just under an hour to pack for my new home. I got to the airport 20 minutes before my flight and cl... |
Snapchat funds ‘Real Life’ internet magazine examining tech and modern life | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | If you’ve been aching for some high-minded chatter on the topic of how we, as social animals living in a postmodern society, interact with and are affected by social media and technology, you’re in luck. Snapchat is funding a site called on which just such chatter will be published. The site, headed by “social media ... |
Startups and immigration: Myths, lies and half-truths | Desmond Lim | 2,016 | 6 | 17 |
has transformed local transportation in American cities and aims to enable Americans to travel to Mars. makes healthcare more accessible for Americans while simplifies making doctor appointments. has created gaming products loved by gamers around the world and created a fantasy sports platform enjoyed by s... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 06.17.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | – Keith Teare, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Nintendo talks mobile gaming, VR and its future at E3 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | has never been afraid to go against the grain of prevailing industry trends. In fact, the refusal to follow the pack has become a defining aspect of the gaming giant’s business strategy during the ascendance of chief console competitors Sony and Microsoft. So it comes as no surprise, really, that it did something mark... |
New York State Senate passes anti-Airbnb bill | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | The New York State Senate has passed that would make it illegal to advertise short-term rentals (less than 30 days) for entire homes on Airbnb. Earlier today, the State Assembly passed the bill through to the State Senate. The next step in the process is for New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to either sign or veto... |
Watch Microsoft Accelerator’s Tel Aviv Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s Tel Aviv Demo Day this Tuesday, June 21st starting at 5:30pm IDT, 7:30am PST. The is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global markets. The... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | This week, Microsoft bought LinkedIn, Apple’s WWDC took place and the E3 gaming trade show had the tech world talking. These are the stories you don’t want to miss this week. Huge news this week in the world of M&A: , or $196 per share, in cash. LinkedIn is keeping its branding and product, and it will . LinkedIn’s C... |
Devolver Digital co-founder Mike Wilson on becoming the “Sub Pop for games” | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | “Doom was made by six dudes in six months. And that’s where we are again — it’s come full circle.” That’s Mike Wilson, co-founder of , a game publisher that’s made a name for itself by finding the smallest and weirdest, yet most promising indie games out there. Whatever they’re doing, it works: Its list of successes i... |
Favor shutters service in five big cities, focuses on second-tier markets | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | , the Postmates-esque on-demand logistics company that launched out of Austin in 2013, has today announced that it will shutter service in five U.S. cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami and Washington, DC. Before this announcement, Favor was operational in 23 cities, including Toronto, so this takes the compan... |
Tablo launches its live TV and DVR app for Apple TV | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | Looking to cut the cord and have a new Apple TV? A new app from Tablo can help. Launching shortly for Apple TV 4th generation devices — the new models that include access to the Apple TV App Store — the app allows you to both stream live television and watch recorded programs. The app works in conjunction with the comp... |
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Talking Kleiner 3.0 with Eric Feng, its new consumer investing partner | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | Kleiner Perkins has been through the wringer since the go-go dot-com days of the late 1990s. After on Google, the storied venture firm raised from investors and grew too ambitious in scope before a few years ago — but not before being hit with one of the in venture industry. (It won the case, which centered on ... |
Apple ordered to stop selling two iPhone models in China [Updated] | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | A Beijing court has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the city, having ruled that the phone’s design is too similar to a Chinese brand. The infringement claims were brought against Apple by Shenzhen Baili for its 100C smartphone, says the Beijing Intellectual Property Bureau. Apple can still appe... |
Domino’s backs out of free pizza promotion with T-Mobile due to higher-than-expected demand | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 17 | T-Mobile’s latest “un-carrier” move — an attempt to reward its customers with freebies offered via an app called T-Mobile Tuesdays — has been just a bit too popular. Demand for the app and its various promotions was so high that . And now, one of the best deals it offered — free Domino’s pizza — has been pulled. Accor... |
The evolution of the mobile payment | John Rampton | 2,016 | 6 | 17 |
It’s anticipated that there will be more than using a mobile phone by the end of 2016. A recent noted that 39 percent of all mobile users in the U.S. had made a mobile payment in 2015. This is up from 14 percent in 2014 and by my estimations will in the 70 percent range by 2017. Because of this enormous growth — ... |
Students demonstrate their HoloLens apps after a quarter of VR and AR design | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | It’s just about impossible to get your hands on Microsoft’s impressive mixed-reality HoloLens platform these days — unless you’re a computer science student at the University of Washington. Then you get to play with them whenever you want. At least that’s the case for the students in CSE 481V, in which, according to th... |
Whatever happened to MCNs? | Peter Csathy | 2,016 | 6 | 10 |
Remember MCNs? Those quaint multi-channel networks — aggregators of YouTube channels — that generally focused on a specific vertical audience? (kids), (gamers), (fashion/beauty), (food/travel), (sports), (Latino), (dance/music) — just to name a few. And don’t forget the broader-based mega-aggregators lik... |
What Pinterest learned in two years working on its search engine | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | About two years ago, Pinterest launched a different flavor of search engine called Guided Search. Instead of relying on deep data on the user, it would create a network of related topics that users can dive deep into. The idea being that a search like “iPhone” would net additional categories, like “design,” “hardware” ... |
Crunch Report | Gawker Files For Bankruptcy | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopeck
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Ben Lerer, Gary Vaynerchuk and Andy Dunn join the board of nonprofit RaisedBy.Us | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | , an organization that facilitates charitable giving at startups, has added three entrepreneurs and investors to its board of directors — CEO Ben Lerer (pictured above), CEO Gary Vaynerchuk and CEO Andy Dunn. The nonprofit works with startups so their employees can donate a set amount of each paycheck to the char... |
Dango mind-melds with emoji using deep learning and suggests them while you type | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Dango is an emoji suggestion chatbot — wait, where are you going? Stay with me, this is actually pretty cool. Okay, so is one of those virtual assistants that lives in your chat apps, and this one is based on a neural network that has been trained with millions of examples to understand what emoji mean. So not only ca... |
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Tesla’s weird week | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | It’s been a weird few days for Tesla. In a span of just 72 hours, the Model S was accused of having major suspension issues, the NHTSA supposedly got involved, Tesla explained there is nothing wrong and the NHTSA isn’t actually investigating the issue and Elon Musk tweeted that the whole thing was a giant conspiracy. W... |
Scholarships are the new sweepstakes | Joe Edelheit Ross | 2,016 | 6 | 10 |
One million dollars. A student will earn that much more in life with a four-year college degree as opposed to just a high school diploma. That’s according to , which offers just such a degree for a grand total of in tuition, room and board paid over four years. Unless there are rich parents in the picture (or mayb... |
How activist DeRay Mckesson’s Twitter account was hacked | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Even though several huge data breaches have recently exposed hundreds of millions of social media login credentials online, users aren’t re-setting their passwords — which means you’ll probably continue to see celebrities’ social media accounts getting hijacked.
Racial justice activist DeRay Mckesson became the most ... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Gawker files for bankruptcy, Verizon inches closer to buying Yahoo, what to expect at Apple’s WWDC conference next week and more headlines to stay on top of this week’s tech news. Apple is about to kick off in San Francisco on Monday. As usual, the company will get things going with filled with secret and not-so-se... |
Andreessen Horowitz officially closes its newest fund with $1.5 billion | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | , we told you that was targeting $1.5 billion for its fifth and newest fund. This morning, the seven-year-old Sand Hill Road firm is confirming that it has closed on that amount, having secured the capital commitments from its previous investors. The announcement comes a little more than two years after the firm clos... |
The future of the IoT job market | Zach Supalla | 2,016 | 6 | 10 |
Since the dawn of technology, we’ve been afraid of technology eliminating our jobs. Look at the birth of the steam engine. When it was invented in the late 1700s, people believed its arrival signaled the end of manual labor and thousands of hardworking individuals would be out of jobs. Instead, the steam engine creat... |
Mozilla’s multi-process architecture project cleared for takeoff | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Attention. Project code-name is a go. Mozilla’s long-running project to bring multi-process architecture to hundreds of millions of Firefox users has finally met release criteria for a full-scale rollout. Nearly every other browser on the market has adopted multi-process architecture, splitting tabs and extensions in... |
What to expect at Apple’s WWDC keynote | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Apple is about to kick off in San Francisco on Monday. As usual, the company will get things going with filled with secret and not-so-secret announcements. Here’s what I expect to see. A good chunk of the conference should be about iOS and OS X updates. Usually, Apple showcases some of the most significant features... |
Slack is down, so enjoy your three-day weekend | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Chat and collaboration app Slack is experiencing serious outages today, but we’re not sure of the nature or extent of the disaster, because status.slack.com is also inaccessible! What? This is like a fire station burning down! Slack did tweet that there are “connectivity issues for some teams,” hilariously accompanied ... |
See you next week in Warsaw and Krakow | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Looking forward to seeing you all in Warsaw and Krakow. There will be much rejoicing and smalec. It is my understand that you all are watching “football” matches in the “Eurozone Cup” (Americans know nothing about “soccer”) but I think it’s a great opportunity to network in Polska and practice your pitching. The will... |
Facebook forces its photo-sharing app Moments to the top of the App Store | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Facebook is continuing its heavy-handed push to get users to install its private photo-sharing app Moments. The company’s latest move – warning people some of their photos will be deleted if the app isn’t installed – has managed to make Moments the number one app in the App Store. Users are being given a deadline of Ju... |
Gawker files for bankruptcy | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy today, according to documents filed in a Southern District of New York court. The filing comes as Gawker’s with the wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) drags on. Hogan sued Gawker after the site published a clip of his sex tape and a blog post analyzing it; his lawsuit, as w... |
The PlayStation 4 ‘Neo’ is real, but Sony won’t show it at E3 | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | In an interview with , Sony Interactive Entertainment president and global chief executive Andrew House confirmed that the PlayStation 4 ‘Neo’ is real. But don’t expect to see it next week at the E3 conference in Los Angeles. House has said Sony doesn’t plan to unveil it at E3. Rumors of a more powerful PlayStation 4 ... |
The quest to cure loneliness | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 10 | and Facebook Nearby Friends failed to change the way we all meet up. That’s because intent, not location, is the most important thing when connecting people offline. If we want to meet up for food, coffee, drinks, the gym, a party or just to chill, it’s tough to know who else does too. It doesn’t matter if a friend is... |
Join us at TechCrunch Shanghai 2016 next week | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 19 | TechCrunch returns to Shanghai next week! We are hosting , in association with our local partner , from Monday June 27 until Wednesday June 29 at the West Bund Art Center. The schedule — — is packed with insightful interviews and panel sessions. It includes representatives from a range of top firms from China and b... |
The next wave in software is open adoption software | Jake Flomenberg | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
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France’s Convargo wants to connect shippers with truckers | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 6 | 19 | A new startup from one of the founders of Rocket Internet’s beauty and wellness marketplace is de-cloaking today. , launching in France, is the latest attempt to bring Uber-like convenience to the shipping industry, by connecting shippers with truckers. The young company is also announcing that it’s raised €1.5 mill... |
Workspace utilisation and scheduling software Condeco scores $30M led by Highland Europe | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 6 | 19 | Highland Europe’s new €332 million fund promised to help , and, true to its word, the VC firm’s latest invest sees it lead a €27 million ($30m) Series A round in London-based . The startup offers what is calls workspace utilisation and meeting room scheduling software to blue-chip clients. The company recently added ... |
In defense of the Uber-ization of everything | Sameer Patel | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
I recently posted on Facebook a short rant about digital transformation for established enterprises. The skinny is that there are endless amounts of and barely no opining on the or when it comes to executing any kind of digital transformation of your business or industry. Here’s to the Facebook post if you wa... |
INNOVATE2016: Candidate Erin Schrode harnesses tech and positivity for a new political generation | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
Enough pessimism. Even in politics, we have reason to be cheerful. Take, for example, , a 25-year-old woman who ran for in Marin County. Seeing herself as a “tech candidate”, this self-styled “rabble rousing optimist” believes we are just at the “dawn of the revolution” when it comes to political innovation. Schro... |
Why a global threat sharing program is vital to protect global infrastructure | Daniel Riedel | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
We live in a time where the global sharing of threat intelligence is not only possible; it’s vital to the security of our global infrastructure, and the public and private sectors have been working tirelessly to create these programs. So far, the biggest challenges have revolved around technology, laws, and cost — b... |
Blue Origin launches, lands the same rocket for the fourth time | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 6 | 19 | has successfully completed the fourth launch and landing of their New Shepard rocket and crew capsule. With another nominal flight test, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company is marching toward their goal of becoming the first private company to send tourists into space. And along the way, they’re perfecting the ability to reuse... |
Financial technology matures as government steps in | Caitlin Klevorick | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
You would be hard pressed to read the news and not know that fintech is seemingly at a crossroads — from ‘s CEO resigning to reports of other peer-to-peer lending platforms to headlines that state that, after a boom in funding, venture capitalists are looking to other sectors out of fear. Indeed, some are already ... |
London-based Thriva offers a home finger-prick blood test to quantify your bad self | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 6 | 19 | When the ‘quantified self’ involves stabbing your little finger with a sharp object and collecting the resulting blood, it feels like the real deal. Enter Seedcamp-backed , a new London-startup that offers a home finger-prick blood test that lets you track a range of internal blood markers associated with good or bad ... |
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Startup spending guide: When freebies will do | Ryan Angilly | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
This is the second installment in the series, where we are exploring how early-stage startups should spend their non-payroll money. In we defined “early-stage ” and enumerated areas where early-stage startups need to spend money. In this installment we’re going to cover areas where free tools are not only av... |
No man is an island, which is why London’s tech community needs Europe | Harry Briggs | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
First let’s clear up this myth about red tape. When I hear politicians rage about European red tape, I wonder whether any of them have actually run a business. I even believed the myths myself — until I started a business. When I co-founded Firefly Tonics, a health drinks company, the only interactions we had with Eu... |
Signs point to a contraction, but no one’s bursting venture capital’s bubble | Bill Maris | 2,016 | 6 | 19 |
In March of last year, our GV engineering team to assess whether or not the tech industry was experiencing a bubble. That question was being asked a lot at the time (it’s less prevalent now, in light of some changes in the market). During our research, we uncovered ample evidence to argue both sides of the coin. An... |
A quick look at the state of hardware technologies in China and beyond | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 6 | 26 | In the past few years hardware investment has come into its own as a major force in the tech world beyond the walls of medical devices (where it had been relegated for years). A from , the hardware accelerator backed by shows just how far the movement has come in a relatively short time. According to HAX partner B... |
Uber positions its China app as more than a ride-hailing service | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 6 | 26 | Uber China is repositioning itself as an all-in-one solution for transportation, food and entertainment. At TechCrunch Shanghai, Uber China VP of Operations and Regional General Manager of Central China Kate Wang showed off Uber’s new vision for China — one that includes two new offerings, UberLIFE and Uber + Travel, w... |
The future of 3D-printed prosthetics | Jon Miller Schwartz | 2,016 | 6 | 26 |
The recent ubiquity of printers and innovations in prosthetic design, manufacturing and distribution offer a viable solution for the millions of people living with limb loss around the world. In the United States alone, close to 200,000 amputations are performed each year, yet, with priced from $5,000-$50,000, ha... |
The opportunities Silicon Valley doesn’t see | Sebastiaan Vaessen | 2,016 | 6 | 26 |
Silicon Valley is justifiably seen as the geographical center of digital innovation. From Google and Facebook to Uber and Netflix, the Valley is home to many global technology leaders. However, when searching for the next big startup, the time has come to look beyond Silicon Valley. It seems that most Western startup... |
Announcing the agenda for the TechCrunch Meetup in Tel Aviv | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 6 | 19 | It’s happening. The TechCrunch team landed in Tel Aviv and we’re in the starting blocks for the on Wednesday June 22. And it’s going to be an awesome event. As TechCrunch doesn’t come to Tel Aviv often enough, we wanted to do something special for our meetup here. In addition to the usual networking part and pitch-of... |
A new sales technology stack is coming | Karan Mehandru | 2,016 | 6 | 26 |
Perhaps the greatest revolution in the modern go-to-market model was not actually a revolution at all, but simply the easiest thing we could do with all the new data being generated by our systems. I’m talking about inbound marketing and demand generation, the process by which marketing as a function becomes a quanti... |
Accessibility was all around this year’s WWDC | Steven Aquino | 2,016 | 6 | 26 |
From , there was one overarching theme that emerged — from watchOS 3’s conceptual simplification, to Siri coming to the Mac, to the “app store” in Messages, it became clear that Apple is focused on making its software more accessible than ever before. These features, among others, were built with the intent of givi... |
How the ‘insecurity of things’ creates the next wave of security opportunities | Mahendra Ramsinghani | 2,016 | 6 | 26 |
More than 5 billion IoT devices were installed in 2015. Gartner this will grow to 20 billion by 2020. Unfortunately, experts agree that security is not only an afterthought, but often is actively resisted and circumvented. IoT devices are attractive to hackers because they have very weak login credentials, are “on ... |
Will the rich get richer with Apple’s new app store ads | Oren Kaniel | 2,016 | 6 | 26 |
Apple’s reveal of sponsored search ads on the App Store was overshadowed by its simultaneous opening up and improvement of its subscription offerings. But for the average developer or publisher, the ads will have a much more immediate effect on their business. Paid ads won’t begin until Apple has completed a period o... |
OK, Europe: It’s your move | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 26 | first Warsaw TechCrunch Meetup in 2007 at a pub called Lolek. We were visiting my wife’s parents and I figured I would post on the site and get a few people together to see the first iPhone. Five wary people came and three left when they figured out the meetup was a dud. Two weeks ago I visited Krakow for . The event... |
After oil, Norway looks to startups for economic growth | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 6 | 26 |
With oil prices plummeting, countries blessed with natural resources are feeling the heat and Norway is no exception. Politicians responding to the oil troubles are heeding calls for a new way forward, centered around startups. And the efforts to foster a new approach are led by an ambitious ex-business exec, the Cro... |
Kwik raises $3 million to take on Amazon Dash buttons | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | And the team is announcing that Norwest Venture Partners is leading a $3 million seed round to help Kwik fulfill their vision. The startup hopes that this capital will help them move beyond their beta-testing in Israel and expand to the U.S. “Consumers like the convenience and simplicity of smart buttons,” said Sergio ... |
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