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NIH grants $2.3M to development of FeverPhone, a portable disease diagnosis kit | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | Quick diagnosis of bloodborne diseases can very much be a matter of life and death, but bouncing results off a hospital can take hours or days — so the National Institutes of Health and Cornell University are working on a device called the FeverPhone that could cut that time to as little as 15 minutes. “Imagine a gluco... |
Crunch Report | Tesla Offers to Acquire SolarCity | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | Tito Hamze,
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Resolving homelessness in the digital era | Jonathan Sposato | 2,016 | 6 | 21 |
The explosion of tech companies setting up headquarters in major cities has encroached on the homeless population, but the mentalities around this issue differ. Twitter in the Tenderloin district, a highly underdeveloped area of San Francisco, in an attempt to help rejuvenate the community. More recently however, o... |
Tesla gets more than solar panels with offer to acquire SolarCity | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | News of an came mostly unexpected to traders earlier this afternoon. In a rapid “knee-jerk” reaction, traders bid up SolarCity by 13 percent and sent Tesla tumbling down 12 percent. It is typical for the stock of an acquisition target to spike while the acquirer’s stock falls according to Michael Morosi of Avondale Pa... |
An excerpt from Eliot Peper’s cyberpunk novel Cumulus | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | has been lauded as the heir to William Gibson’s throne. He is a writer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco and is latest book, , has become an online hit. The energy of his writing and the strength of his characters is palpable throughout the story — a world in which surveillance is constant and inescapable is fa... |
Austin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | Austin’s transportation saga just keeps getting more interesting. Last week, that had formed in Austin to help facilitate ride requests in the absence of Uber and Lyft. Riders posted requests, drivers responded, and people got where they needed to go. One problem – the drivers and riders were not using an official se... |
ISS installs networking tech that may soon connect the whole Solar System | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | When you really need to get a signal in from Pluto, a direct connection isn’t always possible. Oh sure, when it’s a big project like New Horizons, you can make sure the line is clear and someone’s listening — but for routine updates from a Neptune orbiter or power-starved comet lander, there’s Delay/Disruption Tolerant... |
A federal safety board just OK’d the first CRISPR trial to genetically alter humans | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | In the spring of 2015, a group of Chinese scientists of 54 embryos using CRISPR/Cas 9 technology. Twenty-eight of those embryos were successful, but 26 — nearly half of them — failed, setting off a heated debate throughout the scientific community on the ethics of altering human genes. Regulators don’t currently allow... |
Columbus, Ohio rumored to secure a total of $140 million in grants as the U.S. DOT Smart City winner | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | The this afternoon that Columbus, OH is the winner of the for transportation innovation. The paper is stating that Columbus beat out San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Kansas City, Denver and Pittsburgh for the honors, and will receive $40 million from the DOT and another $10 million from Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. as ... |
These guys built the ‘World’s Largest Nerf Gun’ and it shoots massive darts at 40 mph | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to Nerf battles — but… well, this one wins. It’s a re-creation of the Nerf N-Strike Maverick — one of the greatest Nerf guns of all time. Oh, and it works. It shoots massive darts* at around 40 miles per hour. Built by along with , the mega-Maverick uses a 3,000 PSI ai... |
DFJ Growth is targeting a new, $500 million fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | , the 10-year-old growth-stage arm of the 30-year-old Sand Hill Road firm, is raising a new $500 million fund, suggests an first flagged by Fortune. The timing fits the narrative of many Silicon Valley venture firms, many of which have been returning to their LPs in two years’ time, rather than a more traditional thr... |
Hardware Battlefield competitor Foobot wants to reduce pollution in your home | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | The last we heard from , the company was presenting an indoor air quality monitor called Alima in the . In the two years since that event, the company has rebranded the Alima as the , raised €2 million and shifted focus from simply monitoring air quality to improving it. When Foobot released a direct to consumer pro... |
Elon Musk’s Tesla offers to acquire Elon Musk’s SolarCity for $2.8B | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | The great Elon Musk empire is uniting. Today his electric car and battery company Tesla to acquire his solar panel installation company SolarCity. Together the companies could allow you to outfit your home with solar panels that power a giant battery for everything inside, as well as your electric car. The deal still... |
See Jane Go is bringing women-only ride hailing to the West Coast | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | Earlier this spring, (the ride-hailing service formerly known as Chariot for Women) established itself in the Boston area as a safer service for women drivers and passengers. Now is starting a similar service for women in the greater Los Angeles area this summer. Its public launch is today, with a commercial launch... |
Aphex Twin commissions 12-year-old YouTuber to direct first video since 1999’s ‘Windowlicker’ | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | If you follow your dreams, and film it, and put it on YouTube, there’s a chance Richard D. James will see it and commission you to direct the first Aphex Twin video in 17 years. That’s the lesson learned by young Ryan Wyer, of outer Dublin, who was not even close to being born when the seminal “Windowlicker” came out i... |
Gradifi partners with Radius Bank to offer MasterCard to ease student loan debt | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | founder doesn’t have an outbound sales team. That’s how big the student loan problem is. When Boston-based Gradifi first launched its student loan paydown plan, 456 companies reached out wanting to sign up for the benefit. Employers want to attract and retain employees and, unfortunately, one of the best ways to do ... |
Verizon buys Telogis to drive deeper into the connected vehicle market | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | With a lot of tech companies and automakers staking their claims in the connected car space, now there are signs that others are looking to move in, too. Today, telecoms giant Verizon that it is acquiring , a California-based company that develops cloud-based solutions for mobile workforces, and specifically telemat... |
The Apple App Store graveyard | Alex Austin | 2,016 | 6 | 21 |
People just don’t seem to have the same excitement lately about Apple’s App Store or the Google Play platform. The air of hopelessness that surrounds the mobile app ecosystem is obvious and demoralizing. When I published my first app on both platforms (an app that automatically monitored fuel economy while driving), ... |
Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau wins $250,000 award for exoplanet research | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 6 | 21 | , a Harvard astronomer known for multiple “firsts” in the field of exoplanet research, has been as one of three recipients of the for Young Scientists. The annual award, which comes with $250,000, is the largest unrestricted cash award given to early-career scientists. The two other recipients include from the Sc... |
Opera’s power-saving mode lands in its stable release channel | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | A few weeks ago, Opera a new feature for its browser on Windows and OS X that aims to make the batteries in your laptop last longer. Until now, this feature was only available in Opera’s beta release channel; today, it is graduating . The company claims that this new feature (together with Opera’s built-in ad blocke... |
Amazon will pump $3B more into its Indian marketplace as it competes with Snapdeal and Flipkart | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | plans to put $3 billion more into its , said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The investment was announced Tuesday evening at the U.S.-India Business Council’s 41st Annual Leadership Summit in Washington D.C., where Bezos and other business leaders met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This brings the total amount... |
Rakuten to exit the UK, Austria and Spain as global retrenchment continues | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | Rakuten is downsizing its international presence once again after Japan’s top e-commerce firm plans to shutter its e-commerce businesses in three countries in Europe. The move to close Rakuten.co.uk in the UK and Rakuten.es and Spain, as well as Rakuten’s offices in Cambridge and Barcelona, , when the company pulled... |
Astronauts have entered an inflatable habitat on the space station for the first time | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | This week, astronauts successfully the International Space Station’s first inflatable habitat. . enters for first time to collect air sample and set up sensors. — Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) Wearing a mask and a headlamp, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams opened the hatch to the Bigelow Expandable Activity ... |
The battle for the post-digital world | Tari Haro | 2,016 | 6 | 7 |
Marketing in a – was a major theme of 2016 Forrester Research Marketing Forum held in New York recently. At event . In that context, he described evolution of marketing: pre- marketing meant using mass media in a one-to-many approach; marketing was about data-driven, one-to-one personalization; and – ma... |
Celonis takes $27.5M led by Accel, 83North to grow the market for big data process mining | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | How do big businesses optimize IT-driven processes? Often by hiring management consultants to cast an expert eye over digital traceries and deliver recommendations for improving core operations like logistics and production. But Munich-based B2B SaaS startup reckons software can do a better job of flagging up areas w... |
Silicon Valley shows its primary colors | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | senators battled it out during the Democratic primaries. However, several Silicon Valley CEOs and investors poured early financing into one particular candidate – Hillary Clinton. Chris Sacca, an early investor in Twitter, Uber and Instagram, also bet early on Clinton, contributing to her campaign in July 2006. Bill G... |
Is Formula E the future of racing? | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | There are only two races left in ’s second season, making this as good a time as any to review whether electric racing is the future of motor sports. I tend to think it is the future, but there are some definite growing pains to be worked through. Some good reasons for Formula E to be the future of racing: Some reason... |
Secret’s founder returns with Bold, a Medium for enterprise | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | learned just how much goes unsaid inside companies while he was running . Blasting private information out publicly causes harassment, which led Secret to flame out and give investors back some of their money. But now Byttow is channeling his insight into a new startup called , which he tells me is a “platform for w... |
Review: Leica’s X-U is a pricey adventure camera | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | time for everything, even for the German camera manufacturer of fame: . In this case, it’s their first waterproofed camera capable of shooting underwater. Some compromises were made here and there to make this possible, but at the end of the day, it still looks — and for the most part, shoots — like a Leica should. M... |
Questions you need to ask your VC | Roger Lee | 2,016 | 6 | 7 |
Most entrepreneurs focus on the hard economics of the deal when they negotiate with investors: percentage ownership, valuation, preferences and other terms. Those things are all important — but so is the soft stuff, especially in today’s volatile market. Think about it. Taking venture capital funding is the beginning... |
Google’s new app makes your iOS Live Photos less shaky and more awesome | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | Apple’s Live Photos are, by design, something most people don’t really think about. You just take your still photos as you always would, and iOS automatically captures a bit of footage from before and after the photo was taken and turns it into a little animation. Sometimes these animations are – little coincidenta... |
Good for PoC launching to identify inclusive tech companies | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | It’s hard to know which tech companies will be good to work for, until you’re actually there. Sure, there’s Glassdoor, but that doesn’t let you see what it’s like to work somewhere if you’re a person of color — especially since most tech companies are predominantly white. Enter . Founded by Amélie Lamont, , Catt Smal... |
Google’s VR prototypes give you charming and strangely expressive googly eyes | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | How best to represent a person in virtual space? A square with their avatar picture on it? Too Slack. A custom face crafted with a million sliders? Too Second Life. A 3D scan of their face? Too “Lawnmower Man.” Then perhaps… a cartoon representation of the headset the user is wearing, with giant googly eyes on the fron... |
T-Mobile thanks customers with a new freebies app that hasn’t worked all day | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | Hey T-Mobile, this is how you go about thanking your customers! Yesterday, the mobile operator announced its latest “un-carrier” move – this time, its latest gimmick involves and the launch of an app called “ ” that’s full of freebies. Unfortunately, that app has been down all day as T-Mobile’s servers couldn’t han... |
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Software is still eating the world | Jeetu Patel | 2,016 | 6 | 7 |
penned his famous “ ” essay in The Wall Street Journal five years ago. Today, the idea that “every company needs to become a software company” is considered almost a cliché. No matter your industry, you’re expected to be reimagining your business to make sure you’re not the next local taxi company or hotel chain cau... |
Google launches new certification program for software development agencies | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | Google today announced a for development agencies. The idea behind the program is to recognize agencies that “have undergone the required training and have demonstrated excellence in building Android applications,” a Google spokesperson tells us. In total, in India, Russia, U.K. and U.S. have already been certified... |
Tivoli Audio’s founder launches a Kickstarter campaign for his new company’s internet radios | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | Over the past several years, Massachusetts-based Tivoli Audio has made a name for itself with high-end internet radios, combining classic aesthetics with online connectivity that lets users, say, listen to region NPR stations from around the country, among other things. Back in March, the company’s founder Tom DeVesto ... |
The unsexiest trillion-dollar startup | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | ballistic when public shipping manifests leaked the existence of the iPhone 3G. That’s about the only time something exciting happened in the freight forwarding business. The circulatory system of the global economy is a trillion-dollar industry, yet no one really talks about it, or builds tech for it. Each of these d... |
Crunch Report | First Project Tango Phone | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Tito Hamze
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Samsung Pay sets launch date for Singapore | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | After months of , Samsung Pay has finally for Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia. The mobile payment service will debut there on June 16 for people who have a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Samsung Pay has rolled out in South Korea, the United States, China, and Spain so far. In Singapore, it will be availabl... |
Why transparency would have saved us from the 2008 financial collapse | Perry Rahbar | 2,016 | 6 | 9 |
From my desk at Bear Stearns, where I’d traded mortgage-backed securities for years, I watched as the and housing markets crashed in 2008. A few months later, there was no Bear, and my new desk was at J.P. Morgan. It’s easy to think the crisis was a result of “Wall Street got drunk,” as George W. Bush . But I saw ... |
How a 30K-member Facebook group filled the void left by Uber and Lyft in Austin | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 7 | Exactly a month ago, in Austin after voters defeated Proposition 1, an attempt to overturn mandatory fingerprint-based background checks for Uber and Lyft drivers in the city. With almost a million residents of the 11th largest city in the United States now void of the reliable transportation option that is Uber and L... |
Forge locks down $4.5M Series A to help gamers capture awesomeness | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Sometimes entrepreneurship is about starting battles and other times it’s about finishing them. Jared Kim has been on a mission to cut the frustration out of sharing gameplay with friends since he was 19. , his second play in the space, closed a $4.5 million Series A yesterday led by True Ventures. This round matches ... |
Jake Winebaum explains how cutting his teeth as a serial entrepreneur led him to launch Brighter | Navin Chaddha | 2,016 | 6 | 9 |
, founder & CEO of , a Saas-enabled dental marketplace, has been a serial entrepreneur for 35 years, with many pivots and adventures along the way In an interview with Mayfield Partners, Jake takes us on a journey from his first startup in college to his idea to disrupt the healthcare industry with Brighter, a provi... |
How Twitter secured accounts after user credentials were sold online | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Rumors of a started circulating yesterday afternoon, fittingly, on Twitter. Security researchers cautioned users to change their passwords and enable two-factor authentication, a feature that requires a user to verify their identity at login with a pincode sent to a trusted device. But the rumors were wrong — at leas... |
Hands-on with Moto’s modular Moto Z and a few of its crazy accessories | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | The wasn’t the only crazy phone on display at Lenovo’s Tech World today. Joining it on stage was a new handset from Lenovo’s sister company, Motorola: that can use backpack-like accessories to double as everything from a small boombox to a portable projector. We only got a few minutes with the device, so we’ll hol... |
UNU set to forecast tech trends after accurate Oscars, Kentucky Derby predictions | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Can AI outpace the expertise of vaunted futurists like or ? The is slated to answer questions tomorrow about technology and its long-term impact on humanity via a Reddit AMA (“ask me anything” interview). The same system accurately predicted Oscars winners, and the top four horses to win at the Kentucky Derby prev... |
Up close and hands-on with Lenovo’s augmented reality Tango phone | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Earlier today, Lenovo unveiled the world’s first smartphone fueled by Google’s Project Tango (or just “Tango,” as it’s now known) computer vision efforts. The big new thing? Really, really awesome augmented reality capabilities, all based on the phone’s ability to recognize what’s around it. Think video games that co... |
Larry Page has dueling flying car companies, but it’s self-driving tech that will get them off the ground | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | part of the car generally sits in the driver’s seat. And that’s doubly true if the car is a car. The notion of such aerial vehicles has always fascinated, but the pesky need to pilot the things has generally grounded it — as if the engineering and legal challenges weren’t enough already. But autonomous driving techn... |
Venture capital pioneer Tom Perkins dies at 84 | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Thomas Perkins, who co-founded venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, . He was 84 years old. Before becoming an investor, Perkins founded a laser company called University Labs, and was the first general manager of Hewlett-Packard’s computer division. He co-founded Kleiner Perkins with Eugene Kleiner i... |
Predicting the next Slack: Finding sticky cloud apps with cult-like followings | Jamie Barnett | 2,016 | 6 | 9 |
Slack has become at a remarkably quick rate one of the most popular cloud apps used across businesses. , the app added more than two million daily users who collectively spend more than 320 million hours connected to the app, sending 1.5 billion total messages. Seemingly overnight, Slack emerged as a household name (... |
Jennifer Lawrence tapped to play Elizabeth Holmes in new movie about Theranos | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Out of all the federal regulations turmoil, questionable test results and threats to oust her from her own company, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is getting a silver screen lining — Jennifer Lawrence will play her in an upcoming movie. reports “The Big Short” director Adam McKay will be making the film about the 3... |
What autonomous driving is — and isn’t — in 2016 | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | When announced that its latest Civic sedan would have a full suite of state-of-the-art driver assist features for $20,000, called it a self-driving vehicle. While the Civic can do a lot, it cannot drive itself. Yet. So what are we even talking about when we talk about autonomous or self-driving vehicles? Lucky for ... |
OpenVote launches a publishing platform, crowd-voting tool for political debate | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,016 | 6 | 9 |
OpenVote, from early Facebook designer Bobby Goodlatte and Sean McCann, is unveiling a larger publishing platform where people can debate policies and pledge their votes. Before becoming a prominent designer at Facebook, Goodlatte grew up with politics in his family. For almost all of Goodlatte’s life, . While he a... |
Facebook now lets users comment with a video | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Facebook launched today, a feature that acknowledges the meteoric rise and continued growth of online video creation and consumption. By 2020, internet video traffic will represent 82% of all consumer internet traffic, according to forecasts from the It could also help Facebook catch up, yes catch up, to Snapchat in... |
Modular phones are here, like it or not | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Call me old fashioned, but I like my phones in one piece. But that’s not the future according to LG. Or Motorola. Or Google’s Ara team. These companies see consumers swapping widgets and gizmos on and off their phone like it’s some sort futuristic communication device. That’s crazy. I don’t like it. Get off my lawn. Le... |
Lollicam is a real-time mobile video tool for adding cinematic effects to selfies | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | When will teens get tired of taking selfies? Probably never given the myriad ways they can augment what nature gave them thanks the power of the smartphone in their pocket. To wit: since last fall, after teen-beloved multimedia-focused social sharing platform Snapchat , the startup darling has been making hay with a f... |
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Lenovo shows off a pair of Intel-powered smart shoes | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Believe it or not, today’s Tech World isn’t the first time has shown off a pair of smart sneakers. Just about this time last year, the company revealed a pair of kicks with the unique ability to determine and display their wearer’s mood. How the concept wearable actually worked and why anyone might possibly want to d... |
Motorola’s new Moto Z line features swappable modular smart backs | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 9 | Anyone else starting to get the feeling that all of these modular smartphones are becoming interchangeable? Not in the sense that you can swap products cross-platform, of course. That’s not how proprietary hardware works. The latest take on the compelling (though far from mature) space are , which were introduced pract... |
Zoox raises $200 million at $1 billion valuation for its self-driving cars | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | Sources tells us that Zoox is more than a car that simply steers itself, but that every aspect of the car has been reinvented. They think that they have proprietary technology that could help them compete with Tesla. |
Capitalizing on foundations of innovation | Lenny Grover | 2,016 | 6 | 30 |
Two of the most important technological advances that helped fueled much of the country’s record economic growth in the post-WW II era were ubiquitous computing devices and modern communications technologies. Indeed, most of the companies covered on TechCrunch certainly would not exist if not for the development and ... |
IBM’s Cognitive Social Media Command Center is bringing Wimbledon to you | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | Most tennis fans would salivate over the chance to witness Serena Williams attempt to win and tie Steffi Graf’s 22 Grand Slams, pulling within two of Margaret Court’s 24 for the most major singles titles in women’s tennis history. But for those unable to make the trip to London to witness the tournament, which is cur... |
Zenefits halves its previous valuation to $2B to head off investor lawsuits | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | is executing a change in its current ownership structure that will increase the overall ownership of the company for late-stage investors; it’s a move that revalues the company’s Series C round at $2 billion and looks to placate investor concerns over the company’s regulatory investigations. As part of accepting the n... |
Apple might buy Jay Z’s Tidal music app | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em. Apple is in discussions with Tidal about acquiring its music streaming app, which offers exclusives and early releases from big artists like Beyonce and Kanye West. reports that the talks are still early and might not end in a deal, but Apple wants those exclusives to bolster its Apple... |
NFL star Martellus Bennett on his new children’s book and app, Hey A.J. | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | It’s not everyday that a 6 ft. 7 in. NFL star says he is going to spend his offseason designing and launching a new interactive children’s app. So to learn more, we sat down with , tight end for the New England Patriots and founder of , a multimedia production company designed to bring Martellus’ ideas to life. The... |
Trulia can now help you find a place to rent near public transport | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | , the online real estate search engine , an interesting new feature today that allows you to quickly find rental homes and apartments that have good public transport access. , as the new feature is called, is essentially an additional search filter that removes all houses that are more than a 15-minute walk away fr... |
Facebook throws out the news Paper | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | Facebook Paper could have given publishers , but no one wanted the standalone news reading app. Facebook has pulled the Paper app from the app store and will discontinue support for existing downloads of it on July 29th, according to a message show to all user. Despite it’s eye-catching, progressive design, the experie... |
New York’s longstanding Apple retailer Tekserve is closing up shop | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | After nearly 30 years of dutiful serve to New York City’s Apple community, Manhattan-based retailer will be closing its doors for the last time later this summer. It’s yet another sign of the times for a computer market that has shifted dramatically since Apple took computer selling into its own slick and well-lit ha... |
How Mexico went from telecom laggard to mobile trailblazer | Ira Brodsky | 2,016 | 6 | 30 |
Twenty years ago only one out of 10 people in Mexico had a telephone of any kind. Today, more than 100 million people (out of a population of roughly 125 million) have cell phones and, more amazingly, . To keep up the torrid growth, scrappy competitors are offering smartphones for every budget and plans that let use... |
Government regulators are looking into fatal Tesla crash involving Autopilot | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | Tesla announced today that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into a recent fatal crash of a Model S with the company’s activated. The accident took place on May 7th in a small West Florida town called Williston. The Florida Highway Patrol is also conducting its own investi... |
How the VW diesel settlement breaks down in dollars | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | On Tuesday, June 28, Volkswagen finally announced an agreement with US federal regulators (including the ), private plaintiffs in the United States, and 44 states to settle its TDI diesel case to the tune of about $15 billion. In case you need a refresher, in fall of 2015, researchers discovered that VW had engineered... |
NASA and Apple enlist Weezer and Trent Reznor to make music about Jupiter | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | With the set to arrive at Jupiter on the Fourth of July, NASA did what any reasonable space agency would to celebrate the momentous occasion, teaming with Apple to release a short film and enlisting artists like Weezer and Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor to celebrate.
A short film, , has been released through iT... |
Come out to TechCrunch’s Summer Party at August Capital | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | The is a thing of tradition and we hope you can make it out this year. Like in years past we’ll gather on the spacious grounds of August Capital in Menlo Park and enjoy an evening of cocktails and the spirit of entrepreneurship. Tickets are very limited and released on a rolling basis. It’s $85 to attend and $1000 to... |
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500 Startups tries its hand at a startup studio, 500 Labs | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | 500 Startups, known for its work as a startup accelerator, now hopes to incubate its own ideas in-house and spin them off into new companies. Called 500 Labs, it’s a new attempt at finding interesting ideas that might turn out to be good investments. 500 Startups essentially brings in developers and entrepreneurs in re... |
Google Maps gets multi-stop directions and vacation memories on mobile | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | Google is bringing long awaited multi-stop directions to mobile with its new summer update. Travelers can now hit as many tourist traps as they want on their cross country treks. Just like in the web version, users can swiftly rearrange the order of stops. Android users will get the feature first, followed by iOS in th... |
Digi.me bags $6.1M to put users in the driving seat for sharing personal data | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | There is a lot of noise in the privacy space, says serial entrepreneur and . founder Julian Ranger. And cutting through that noise is one of the big challenges he reckons stands in the way of his current startup. But the concept behind is so intriguing that you really have to hope the team manages to make themselves... |
Google Wallet vets get $19M more for Index, which helps offline retailers be more like online ones | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | As companies like Apple, Google and PayPal continue to home in on virtual wallets for consumers who dream of using phones or watches to pay for everything in person without fumbling around for a plastic card or cash; a startup called is focusing on how to make the experience better and more connected for the brick-an... |
Furby gets updated again for the smartphone era | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | A good Furby doesn’t die, it just runs out of batteries. And maybe, if you’re lucky, it evolves every few years or so. Back in 2012, Hasbro brought the cuddly little iconic monster back from the toy grave with an electronic update. A few years on, the company is to the line, aimed at an even more tech savvy consumer.... |
Spotify and Apple are staring each other down while flipping the bird | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 6 | 30 | The companies are at it again, and this time it’s not only bothersome to the businesses themselves, but to the end consumer. Going to the next level in an ongoing spat over Apple’s subscription rules, it would appear that Apple has rejected Spotify’s latest update to its app in late May, citing business model issues. S... |
Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | There is yet another hack for users of popular social media sites to worry about. Hackers may have used malware to collect more than 32 million Twitter login credentials that are now being sold on the dark web. Twitter says that its systems have not been breached. , a site with a search engine of leaked login credentia... |
Lending Club’s site goes down | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | [Update: As of 6:40 p.m. PST last night, the site was back up and running, but it appears to be down again this Thursday morning, as of at least 6:10 a.m. PST.] Lending Club’s has gone down tonight, prompting at least one nervous investor to tweet out his concern that “[a]s a long time investor there, I am worried th... |
Crunch Report | Big Apple App Store Update | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopeck
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The fintech world beyond Silicon Valley and Europe: Emerging market contenders | Alexander Dunaev | 2,016 | 6 | 8 |
According to a recent by Accenture, investments in fintech hit $5.3 billion in the first quarter of this year (having grown 75 percent in 2015, exceeding $22 billion). These are staggering figures for a still nascent industry, which can have a monumental impact on all sectors, from lending and investments to saving... |
‘Solar Voyager’ autonomous boat looks to make history in sun-powered journey across the Atlantic | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | About 200 miles due east of Boston, a robotic boat is putting along at a walking pace on what could be an historic journey across the entire Atlantic. built by two friends in their spare time, would be the first autonomous vessel to cross that ocean — and the first one to cross any ocean using solar power alone. Isaa... |
Uber and Fiat are in discussions to form a self-driving car partnership | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | Uber and Fiat Chrysler are in talks about a partnership involving self-driving car technology, according to several reports. first published earlier today about a possible deal between the two companies, confirmed by sources. According to a person familiar with the matter, the discussions are in the very early stage ... |
Making contrarian bets in adtech | Rob Hodgkinson | 2,016 | 6 | 8 |
It has become fashionable of late to see adtech as a dirty word in the world of technology investment. With the growing threat of online ad blocking and the much-debated issue of click-fraud, many investors struggle to see the upside of backing businesses involved with the seemingly murky world of advertisement techn... |
Olly has built a breakout brand in a crowded space: Here’s how | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | Vitamins and venture capital might not seem like the most natural fit, but a number of related companies have attracted capital from tech investors in recent years, including SmartyPants, which makes a , and Elysium Health, a supplements company that counts a as a co-founder. Still, competitors may have trouble catc... |
Tinder discontinues service for users under 18 | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | is discontinuing use of the app for everyone under the age of 18 starting next week, according to a statement from Tinder VP of Communications Rosette Pambakian. The dating app has allowed everyone 13 years of age or older to use the app since it launched back in 2012. Anyone between 13 and 17 years old was only allow... |
Warning: Do not let a drone equipped with terrifying robo-scissors cut your hair | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | What happens when carefree hackers Simone Giertz and Samy Kamkar get together for a lazy afternoon? A lunatic plan to and a pair of automatic scissors. That the plan is doomed to fail from the start doesn’t deter Simone and Samy, and why should it? As you can see in the video, the plan isn’t to put stylists out of wo... |
Meet the newest AngelPad startups, and the tech they built to cure business headaches | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | Yesterday in San Francisco, held its 10th Demo Day, a graduation of sorts for the enterprise startups admitted into and backed by the accelerator. The accelerator, run by husband and wife team and , has realized at least one solid exit already in the adtech startup , which sold to Twitter for $350 million in stoc... |
NHS memo details Google/DeepMind’s five year plan to bring AI to healthcare | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | More details have emerged about the sweeping scope of Google/DeepMind’s ambitions for pushing its algorithmic fingers deep into the healthcare sector — including wanting to apply machine learning processing to UK NHS data within five years. has obtained a between DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust in London, whic... |
E-Trade plays its cards in evolving automated investment space | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | E-Trade recently rolled out its new aimed at young professionals just beginning to face the financial struggles of adulthood. Adaptive Portfolio combines previously offered active and passive management with risk classifications that automatically rebalance to accommodate market changes. Users will also have the option... |
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Announcing the startups pitching at the Austin and Seattle Meetups | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | In less than a week, TechCrunch is hitting the road to visit Austin and Seattle on June 14 and June 16, respectively. And with us, we bring the TechCrunch Pitch-offs. We’ve just selected 10 startups to pitch their wares in front of a live audience and a panel of expert judges, including local VCs and TechCrunch writers... |
Hourly employee scheduling startup When I Work secures $15MM from Drive Capital | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | It’s been some time since I worked hourly (mostly in restaurants) but I do remember that scheduling my shifts was a real hassle and involved a paper sheet on a cork-board in the shift room. I’m sure organizing those schedules for multiple employees was an even bigger hassle for the manager. As of 2014 there are that ... |
Underrepresented founders, apply for Include office hours with Pejman Mar and ffVC | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | TechCrunch Include are happening on June 16th and startups have 48 hours left to apply! Pejman Nozad, Mar Hershenson, Ajay Kamat and Neda Blocho from , along with Adam Plotkin from , will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program... |
Would-be Apple Pay rival CurrentC closes beta, future uncertain | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | , a mobile payments app that once aimed to take on Apple Pay, Android Pay and others, is shutting down its beta program, deactivating users’ accounts, and not yet commenting on if or when it will return to the market as a consumer-facing payments application. The news, announced on the CurrentC website this week, follo... |
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