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Microsoft makes some moves to lift Dynamics CRM marketshare | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | Microsoft has been searching for ways to strengthen its flagging Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) tool, and it made a couple of moves this week (one quite significant) with an eye toward making life easier for sales people and enhancing its marketshare in the process. For starters, you might have heard t... |
TechCrunch has gone HTTPS | Nicole Wilke | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | At TechCrunch, we value our readers’ privacy and want them to trust our work. Now that we’re HTTPS, readers can feel confident that our content hasn’t been tweaked by anyone (except our diligent editors) and that their browsing history isn’t tracked. HTTPS also makes our more secure, so tipsters can feel confident th... |
Sony discusses its virtual reality play in a market full of like-minded headsets | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | Between Oculus, HTC, Samsung and a slew of smaller hardware manufacturers, 2016 is the year that VR presence played out like a hockey stick graph at E3. To say it’s the story of the show is to greatly under represent just how big a role it’s played over the course of the last few days here in downtown Los Angeles, serv... |
What are leveraged loans and why does Uber want one? | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | Uber, fresh off , is in talks to close Over the last 24 hours, the term “leveraged loans” has been thrown around a lot, but few in the startup world have seen this term before. The bankers and finance professors I spoke to were quick to proclaim their hatred for the term because ordinary debt is already leveraged. Th... |
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Blavity’s Morgan DeBaun is speaking at Disrupt SF 2016 | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | Blavity is the bee’s knees — the cream of the crop media platform and community for black millennials in the digital age. Founded by Morgan DeBaun, Aaron Samuels, Jonathan Jackson and Jeff Nelson, ultimately aims to become a lifestyle brand with both online and offline experiences geared toward underrepresented mille... |
Fixed, the app that helps you fight tickets, gets acquired by a law firm | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | Sometimes the government, not the startup, wins. Case in point: , the company that began as a tool to help drivers , has been acquired. Fixed had struggled to get cities to accept its submissions, having faced everything from being blocked from cities’ ticket websites to agencies simply so Fixed couldn’t reach them... |
Boom, bubble or bust for fintech? | Howard Lindzon | 2,016 | 6 | 15 |
The term “fintech” has become all the rage; investors and media . Many people also have been talking about the “bubble” in the tech industry, but could there be a “bubble” in fintech, as well? The definition for financial technology is pretty daunting, and states global investment for fintech has increased from $9... |
Insurance firm China Life puts $600M into Didi Chuxing months after backing Uber | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | Can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That appears to be the thinking of China Life, Asia Pacific’s highest valued insurance firm, after it backed Chinese taxi app Didi Chuxing barely months after investing in fierce rival Uber. Didi announced today that it has scored $600 million in fresh financing from the insurance company, hal... |
Playing around with a smart rubber duck | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | Some things you should probably know about me before we dive in here: This is . He’s been through a lot. In 2014, his creators at PI Labs attempted to bring him to life courtesy of Kickstarter, eventually cancelling the bid when he fell short of his $85k goal. But he persevered. Edwin, you see, is a plucky sort of duc... |
Walgreens formally cuts ties with Theranos | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | Walgreens has terminated its three-year partnership with blood analysis startup Theranos, citing the myriad bad test results and an ongoing federal investigation as the reason for ending the relationship “effective immediately.” Theranos promised the drugstore chain it could detect hundreds of diseases using just one d... |
TechCrunch is at E3! But why? | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | These are strange days for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The (ostensibly) trade-only event draws immense attention, but it has long been fraying at the edges. Yet we’re here anyway because this year E3 comes at an auspicious time for technologies that could represent a major change to the industry: virtual and aug... |
Cyberterrorism and the role of Silicon Valley | Brian Michael Jenkins | 2,016 | 6 | 12 |
For the moment, at least, cyberterrorists have not harnessed the technology they would need to destroy Western civilization from a basement lab in some remote corner of the world. Although Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said is unlikely any time soon, new technological developments have the pot... |
Spark fragmentation undermines community | Vinod Iyengar | 2,016 | 6 | 12 |
The Hadoop distribution war comes down to a final battle between Cloudera’s CDH and Hortonworks’ HDP. That wasn’t always the case. At the peak of the market’s fragmentation, many companies offered Hadoop distributions in one form or another. These included Amazon (AWS), Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR, Pivotal, Tera... |
David Fine talks smart cities, the future of IoT on Technotopia | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | is the author of a three part series about the future of “Civic Technology” and the . His theory – and it’s a good one – is that “as Moore’s Law continues apace, cities will continue to blanket themselves in all sorts of cheap, reliable, and (we hope) meaningful sensors. Sensors generate data, and data will serve as ... |
Apple’s App Store at the end of the app era | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | frozen in amber, the App Store’s fundamental deal has remained unmoving since its inception. As an enormous ecosystem swelled around it, crystalline structures of new rules and avenues of customer interaction have also grown — but not nearly fast enough for most developers. Especially the “long tail” of independent ap... |
The operating systems of the 2016 elections revealed! | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 6 | 12 |
New media maven has always been particularly good at explaining the operating systems of contemporary life. In his controversial new book So what about politics, I asked him when we met at the ? What is the operating system of the 2016 election? It was the wrong question. What I should have asked about are the o... |
Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups | Josh Guttman | 2,016 | 6 | 12 |
I’ve spent more and more time in over the past few years and learned there’s more to this city than Drake and the recent successes of their professional sports teams. We made one investment there in 2015 and the experience — with the company specifically and the city generally — has been overwhelmingly positive. ... |
Ping shapes new identity after $600 million acquisition | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | When I walked into a conference room last Tuesday at the in New Orleans to interview Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand, it was my first chat with him since the week before for $600 million (as ), a tidy exit for the 14 year old company. I had questions, lots of questions. After all, in conversations with Durand and C... |
P2P mobile payment app Tapp raises $9 million to tap into the cash economy in Southeast Asia | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 6 | 12 |
Finland-based mobile payment app has raised $9 million to expand its operations in Southeast Asia for users without a bank account or credit card. Mobile phones have emerged as the dominant alternative payment method to cash for buying and selling goods and services in emerging markets. And with a service akin to al... |
Nura headphones are custom fit to the listener’s frequency | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 12 | Your parents were right, dear reader. You are a precious, unique snowflake. Your ears, at least. I can’t really speak for the rest of you, but, hey, you seem great. Of course, your special, unique snowflakiness presents a challenge to our friends in the headphone industry — even more so than the standard one-size-all a... |
Twitter chairman: Even painful political tweets have a place | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Twitter chairman Omid Kordestani says that even the harshest, most painful political tweets have a place on Twitter — whether we like it or not. “How do you personally react to that, it’s painful to read these tweets — that’s our society, you have to have room for all these voices,” Kordestani said at the Bloomberg tec... |
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The Last Guardian is definitely (probably) coming to PS4 this October | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Several times, year after year. But Sony kicked off this year’s big pre-E3 press conference with yet another glimpse at the long awaited game, The Last Guardian. But the company had a little something extra up its sleeve this time: an honest-to-goodness release date. After years... |
Behold the Xbox One S and Design Lab controllers in all their glory | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Earlier today, they were but flashes on the big screen at Microsoft’s big E3 kickoff event. Now they’re pieces of metal and plastic in the same venue that hosted the aforementioned event (presently the site of an Xbox mixer with, mercifully, with an open bar). The is, of course, noticeably more svelte than its predec... |
Data breadlines and data brawls | Tomasz Tunguz | 2,016 | 6 | 12 |
When I think about the behavior of many business people today, I imagine a . These employees are the -poor, waiting around at the end of the day on the . The overtaxed analyst team prioritizes work for the company executives, and everyone else must be served later. An employee might have a hundred different ... |
PlayStation VR is arriving October 13th, priced at $399 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | I mean, I’m as excited about The Last Guardian as the next unwashed blogger, but you didn’t really think we were going to get out of tonight’s pre-E3 Sony press conference without a little hardware news, did you? And it’s 2016, after all, so it’s time for Sony to join the Oculus Rifts and HTC Vives of the world with it... |
With the LinkedIn sale, Frank Quattrone notches another win | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | While the tech industry digests the news that LinkedIn is becoming an independently run subsidiary of Microsoft in exchange for in cash, one renowned figure in Silicon Valley is already publicly celebrating the deal: Frank Quattrone. The legendary investment banker tweeted earlier today that Qatalyst, the boutique ba... |
The new world order for open-source and commercial software | Dave Hillis | 2,016 | 6 | 13 |
We have been living through another cold war. Not geo-political — digital. Open-source software versus commercial software has long been on the brink of going nuclear, fought in the shadows with enormous stakes and conflicting ideologies. But suddenly… perestroika! The wall quietly fell. It did not end in absolute vi... |
Here are the most well-designed apps of 2016, according to Apple | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Once a year, Apple stops its Worldwide Developer Conference to recognize a handful of apps for being particularly well designed. The prize? A shiny statue, a full suite of Apple hardware, and the right to say that one of the most respected companies in the world thinks a good designer. For app developers and designer... |
Cyber insurance is changing the way we look at risk | Yoav Leitersdorf | 2,016 | 6 | 13 |
If, or more accurately, when your company is hit by a cyber attack, do you have what you need to recover? Do you know what kind of losses you can afford to absorb in your bottom line? How do you manage your risks? Have you thought about whether you need cyber insurance? Back in 2011, Sony’s PlayStation network was br... |
Spotfund makes micro-donations easier with social-first mobile app | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Pouring a bucket of ice-cold water over your head, or liking or sharing a charity online might help raise awareness, but what campaigns that go comprehensively viral need is cold, hard cash. Launched this week, has created a site and that makes raising $1-$3 donations far easier than before. Donating to a cause y... |
iOS 10 beta finally lets you remove all those built-in apps | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Raise your hand if you have a folder on your iPhone or iPad filled with all the built-in apps from Apple that you never use but can’t delete. Oh, all of you? Then you’ll be interested to learn that will finally allow you to and reclaim the space they’ve occupied for years. And if you get the beta, you can do it tod... |
Ubisoft is bringing Star Trek to VR this fall | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Well, this just rocketed to the top of our list of most eagerly anticipated VR games in warp speed. At its big pre-E3 press conference, Ubisoft unveiled , a new title set to arrive on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR this fall. The title was unveiled courtesy of a trailer featuring Trek vets Levar Burton, ... |
Branding Brand acquires conversational commerce company WaySay | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | E-commerce giant announced today that it acquired , a company specializing in customer engagement tech like marketing automation, in-app messaging and other technologies to help big brands engage and communicate with its customers. Examples of the assistance include offering shopping advice and post-transaction supp... |
Apple’s latest foray into the enterprise involves deeper integration with Cisco | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Lost in the hubbub of today’s two hour-plus was an announcement of deep integration between Apple and Cisco in the upcoming release of iOS 10 — yes, you read it correctly, Cisco. When it comes to enterprise partnerships, IBM . More recently, SAP of its own, but last August . Apple has been working closely with Cis... |
With changes to price-matching, Amazon and Walmart usher a new era of retail | Richard Hui | 2,016 | 6 | 13 |
and both recently changed their price matching policy, and the changes may be a harbinger of things to come in the retail world. Walmart would match a competitor’s price if a shopper showed an ad for the same product, while Amazon’s shift is in regards to a price drop for a recently purchased item. If the price of... |
Why Apple wants to be the smart home’s nerve center | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | On Monday, Apple announced that it would make an app called Home available to users soon, allowing them to connect and control all of their HomeKit-enabled smart home devices from their iPads, iPhones or even Watches. Per an earlier live from the event, the Home app will let users control a Fantasia-like orchestra of... |
Apple launches Swift Playgrounds for iPad to teach kids to code | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Apple today announced , a new project that aims to teach kids to code in Swift. When you first open it, Swift Playgrounds presents you with a number of basic coding lessons, as well as challenges. The interface looks somewhat akin to Codecademy, but it’s far more graphical and playful, which makes sense, given that th... |
Apple launches iMessage Apps so third-party devs can join your convos | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | At today’s , Apple swung open the gates for developers. Not only has the company opened up , but it’s also letting third-party devs into sacred space: messages. With iMessage Apps, users can simply open up an app drawer from right within the Messages app to interact with others (and apps) at the same time. This range... |
Apple unbundles its native apps like Mail, Maps, Music and more, puts them in the App Store | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Apple today has made a big change to its suite of native applications for iOS devices, like Mail, Stocks, Compass, Calculator, Watch, Weather and others: . What that means for end users of iOS devices is that the majority of the stock apps that come pre-installed can be removed. This puts users in more control of thei... |
Apple Music’s redesign makes it feel like a familiar iPod | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 13 | Today Apple showed off a brand-new version of Apple music, which the company said was built “from the ground up” with simplicity in mind. The company also boasted that the service now has 15 million paid subscribers. While most are happy with the content provided by Apple Music, the confusing UI has always been a sore ... |
MAUs be damned: Kik proposes new user engagement metrics for chat apps | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Measuring the success of your app via the number of monthly active users is dubious at best. The metric may have become the standard but, when it comes to daily use apps such as messaging services or social networks, the data point becomes all the less illustrative. humans are social beings and we generally communicat... |
Deleting Apple’s pre-installed apps in iOS 10 doesn’t actually ‘delete’ them | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | One of the most talked about features in Apple’s upcoming iOS 10 is on your iPhone or iPad. But it turns out that deleting the apps doesn’t delete them. That’s according to Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, who confirmed the facts at hosted by Federighi, who was joined by co... |
Samsung Pay launches in Australia to take on “tap-and-go” credit cards | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Samsung Pay has expanded its reach in the Asia-Pacific region with yet another country launch. This time , where Samsung smartphone owners can now use the service. Its launch Down Under–where tap-and-go credit cards are already popular–comes the day before . The service is already available in South Korea, the United... |
Facebook’s suicide prevention tools will now be available to all users | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | has updated its suicide prevention tools and is now making them available worldwide. The tools, which let people flag posts from friends who may be at risk for self-harm or suicide, were previously available only for some English-language users. Other users could , but the new tools make the process quicker and less ... |
Crunch Report | New Legend of Zelda Announced | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Tito Hamze, Joe Zolnoski
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Ninja Dude vs Zombies game review | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Ninja Dude vs Zombies is an endless tap’n’slash arcade. You are a brave ninja trapped on a tower surrounded by hordes of bloody zombies. So of course, as with all things zombie related, the only way to survive is to kill those pesky zombies, who somehow have learned to climb the sides of your crumbling tower. The con... |
Facebook content and brand strategies that win in a silent autoplay world | Zane Vella | 2,016 | 6 | 14 |
A new reports the slightly astonishing statistic that fully 85 percent of videos are played with the audio turned off. The business of native video is relatively new, with the company switching on its own platform only about 18 months ago. Not incidentally, the company also began advantaging native video in the... |
Apple’s iOS 10 finally, truly begins the mobile messaging war | John Koetsier | 2,016 | 6 | 14 |
Yesterday will be remembered as the day that the . In the immense game of thrones that mobile became , the first war among technology giants was for mobile devices. The second was mobile platforms: iOS and Android. The third mobile tech war will be fought over messaging. And it will be fought everywhere. WeChat has ... |
Apple will require HTTPS connections for iOS apps by the end of 2016 | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | During a security presentation at Apple’s , the company revealed the deadline for all apps in its App Store to switch on an important security feature called App Transport Security — January 1, 2017. “Today, I’m proud to say that at the end of 2016, App Transport Security is becoming a requirement for App Store apps,”... |
Bed Bath & Beyond acquires One Kings Lane for undisclosed sum | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Bed Bath & Beyond is a public company, so that means it needs to announce acquisition prices if the purchase is considered material. That could be up to about 15% of the company’s $6.5 billion market cap. “We are excited to be part of the Bed Bath & Beyond family,” said Dinesh Lathi, Chief Executive Officer of One King... |
Twitter tunes up SoundCloud with a fresh investment | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | has invested in the audio streaming company , according to multiple reports. The investment, , unites the two companies roughly two years after a botched buyout would have joined SoundCloud’s audio armory to Twitter’s social media platform. Both companies have fallen on hard times, with Wall Street punishing Twitter’... |
Crunchyroll-owner Ellation announces Vrv, a multi-channel, streaming video service | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Digital media company is announcing a big push into streaming video with , which will offer a variety of channels aimed at gamers and other geeks. Ellation is best known as the parent company of anime service Crunchryoll. Otter Media, the joint venture from Chernin Group and AT&T, in the company back in 2013 and ... |
Andy Rubin explains his $300M bet on the future of hardware | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Andy Rubin, the creator of Android — arguably the widest distributed operating system in the world — left Google a few years back to start a hardware incubator with a $300 million fund called Playground. Since then, he’s been pretty busy trying to envision the future of hardware. And that doesn’t just include robotics.... |
Uber in talks to close up to $2 billion in leveraged loans | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Rumors from the that Uber was in the process of finalizing terms for a $1-2 billion leveraged loan began spreading just after noon PST. This comes just two weeks after the company closed a $3.5 billion equity round from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. If the deal goes through, it would mean the company has add... |
Net neutrality withstands legal challenge | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Net neutrality won yet another legal victory today when a federal appeals court upheld Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit data throttling online. But the fight for net neutrality isn’t over yet — representatives from service providers like AT&T have already suggested that they’ll appeal all the way t... |
Expect a lot more M&A, says Marc Andreessen | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen spoke at the Bloomberg Technology conference this afternoon, and he said he expects far more M&A than the tech industry has seen in recent years. The conversation stemmed in large part from questions about LinkedIn’s announced acquisition by Microsoft, which disclosed yesterday that i... |
Scala is the new golden child | Chris McKinlay | 2,016 | 6 | 14 |
Tooling in the data science community evolves quickly, and picking the right tool for a job — not to mention a career — can often be divisive. Which tools should you try to master? What is the proper balance between difficulty, relevance and potential? If it’s not already, deserves a place at or near the top of you... |
Golden Gate Ventures closes new $60 million fund for Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | Singapore-based has closed a new $60 million fund for Southeast Asia’s rapidly-growing startup ecosystem. last summer, when it had closed an initial $35 million in capital from investors including Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek and Naver, the Korea-based owner of . No... |
At an investor panel, disagreement underscores broader uncertainty | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | During an investor panel at the Bloomberg Technology conference in San Francisco today, one thing was fairly apparent: the panelists, which included partner Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital; Aspect Ventures cofounder Jennifer Fonstad; and Samsung Electronics President and Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn, didn’t agree ... |
Google Fiber is buying high-speed internet provider Webpass | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | Google Fiber is bulking up its business after it announced a deal to acquire ISP Webpass, a 13-year-old company that provides high-speed internet for business and residential customers across parts of the U.S. Alphabet-owned Google Fiber is present in five U.S. cities, but to be grow to more than 20 in the immediate ... |
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And the winners of our first-ever Meetup and Pitch-Off in Tel Aviv are… | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | We at TC have had an amazing time this week in Israel, meeting founders, hearing about crazy new technology, and probably eating too much food. Yesterday our time here was capped off with the big thing we came here for: our Meetup and Pitch-off in Tel Aviv. More than 900 people came together by the seaside at Trask t... |
The Car Hacker’s Handbook digs into automotive data security | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 14 | In the coming age of autonomous cars, connected cars, and cars that can communicate with each other, the city’s infrastructure, our phones, and the entire internet of things, data security is going to be paramount. That’s why Craig Smith, who has spent 20 years working in banking and healthcare digital security, wrote ... |
Kabbage partners with Scotiabank to provide small business loans in Canada and Mexico | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | Small business lending platform announced a partnership with Scotiabank today to make it easier for residents of Canada and Mexico to take out small business loans of up to $100,000 in minutes. Kabbage has historically worked directly with business owners. The company offers rapid evaluation and a line of credit. The... |
Circle takes $60M to grow its social payments biz globally, as it steps into China | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | How do you compete with China’s homegrown social payments giants? Veteran entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire, co-founder of U.S.-based social payments app , reckons you don’t; not like for like in the domestic Chinese market. Which is really the sensible view, given that was already seeing some $50 billion in monthly trans... |
Slither.io is snaking its way on to homescreens | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | is not new, but it is crazy popular. The game has been sitting at number one on the iOS gaming charts for some time. Slither.io has been available for just over three months now and, according to the most recent ranking, the game still holds the number one game, action game, and simulation game spots in the U.S. App... |
Crunch Report | A Giant Nerf Gun | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopeck
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Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | When Apple released a preview version of iOS 10 at its annual developers conference last week, the company slipped in a surprise for security researchers — it left the core of its operating system, the kernel, unencrypted. “The kernel cache doesn’t contain any user info, and by unencrypting it we’re able to optimize th... |
Invesdor raises another $1.4m to expand equity crowdfunding in Europe | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | Equity crowdfunding continues to be a hot topic around the world, with a number of players new and old re-doubling their efforts to capture the hearts and wallets of investors everywhere. The most recent example is , a platform focusing on Scandinavia, who used its own platform to raise its fourth round of funding. Th... |
How will Israeli innovation play into the global robotics industry? | Mor Assia | 2,016 | 6 | 22 |
In the last few months, a Singaporean University hired as a secretary, a Boston Dynamics employee pushed over his colleague who was moving boxes at a factory and , a San Francisco Target employee, began checking to make sure all the products in Aisle 3 are fully stocked. Nadine, Atlas and Tally may live in diffe... |
Being open to open source and creating a new business category at VMWare | Elisa Schreiber | 2,016 | 6 | 22 |
In the age of developer-defined infrastructure, where developers have decision making power in application and cloud infrastructure technologies, open source has proven to be a powerful go-to-market and distribution method for both startups and enterprises. Developers are always looking for new technologies to improv... |
Review: HP’s Spectre shows a great ultrabook can suffer from being thin | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | will most likely be thinner than the one you have now. That’s because some Windows PC makers like HP aren’t keen with the thinness of even their own offerings. So, their designers and execs have gone all-out to design (with some compromise) an ultrabook so thin, it beats the MacBook by 0.1 an inch — I wasn’t keeping t... |
National Science Foundation allots $1.5M to kid-focused maker projects | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | To celebrate (don’t tell me you forgot!), the National Science Foundation has to five small projects looking to get kids involved with STEM topics, creative play and generally making stuff. It’s not just funding a new gadget or tool library, though — there’s quite a variety of approaches here. University of Marylan... |
Twilio prices its IPO at $15 per share, above its previous target | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | Twilio today said it would price its initial public offering at $15 per share, which would value the company at around $1.23 billion. That would value Twilio above its previous $1 billion valuation from its last financing round. With the pricing, the company expects to raise around $150 million, with an option for anot... |
Sevenhugs bets on smartphone-free connected home future with $14.6M Series A | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | French startup closed a $14.6 million Series A today led by Xerys on a quest to better integrate smart home technology. Sevenhugs has already developed a sleep tracker and is nearing completion on development of a universal smart-remote. Sevenhugs joins , , and others with its hugOne sleep-tracker. When it launches... |
Twilio’s IPO festivities will include live coding from the New York Stock Exchange | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | There are plenty of reasons to keep an eye on ‘s initial public offering, like whether or not it will . Here’s a small-but-fun one: The company has organized a live coding event from the New York Stock Exchange. Tomorrow morning, Twilio will bring three developers to the NYSE floor, where they’ll be trying to build a... |
WowWee’s got a new coding robot and a dead-simple drone | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | , the Hong Kong-based manufacturer behind that old RadioShack stalwart, RoboSapien, showed off a couple of promising high-tech toys due out in the fall. COJI is one of the company’s more compelling products in a while. The little robot, which made its first public appearance at ToyFair earlier this year, is designed wi... |
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Vitrima is an add-on that turns a GoPro into a 3D camera | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | Here’s a neat little add-on for folks looking to get a little more out of their GoPro. The Vitrima is a big metal add-on created by Chicago-based startup Fantem that brings 3D video capture to the action camera. The device features a plastic GoPro case affixed to a big lens with mirrors that split light, creating separ... |
NASA app brings live ISS views and latest space media to Apple TV | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | Space fiends who are also couch potatoes, rejoice! NASA’s all-purpose app for finding and watching content from the cosmos . You could previously use it on any other iOS device, watching launches and press conferences live or getting the latest imagery from the International Space Station — but this lets you do so wit... |
Hands-on with a compact medium-format camera, the Hasselblad X1D | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | unique location — the Absolut Elyx house — in the Meatpacking District for me to meet their reps and play with the new X1D. For a quick refresher, it’s the world’s first compact medium-format camera, . Given that the X1D is still in pre-production until its launch in August, I wasn’t allowed to shoot my own 50MP image... |
Tend.ai trains your robot to operate dozens of 3D printers and laser cutters at a time | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 22 | If you’ve got more than a handful of 3D printers or other devices running at a time, it’s a full-time job keeping them going — removing and packaging products, tweaking settings, pushing “OK” after minor errors, that sort of thing. Why not have a robot do it for you? is a new company that helps you train collaborativ... |
The hungry consumer and the software pivot | Ben Schippers | 2,016 | 6 | 25 |
The internet has become a lonely space, and are for something new. We don’t talk much anymore about new processors, video cards and faster dialup modems — at least not like we used to. Gone are the days of zip drives, bigger zip drives, faster DVD writing, ripping and pirated versions of Windows 95. The technolog... |
Telecoms open shop on Madison Avenue, but will brands buy? | Adam Cohen-Aslatei | 2,016 | 6 | 25 |
Many companies have transformed and realigned their focus with great success. Avon transitioned from peddling books door-to-door to marketing beauty products. Wrigley started as a soap and baking soda company. IBM originally sold massive mainframe computers and calculators. Now, telecom companies are making similar p... |
How Seesaw accidentally became a teacher’s pet at 1/4 of US schools | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 25 | It began as just another photo sharing startup founded by a Facebook exec. It ended up in 200,000 classrooms from kindergarten to 12th grade in 25,000 schools across 100 countries. All because of one truism: When a student’s audience is the world, they want their work to be good. When their audience is only their teach... |
Governments must embrace the Information Age or risk becoming obsolete | Kaspar Korjus | 2,016 | 6 | 25 |
Thirty-six years ago, American writer and futurist Alvin Toffler wrote his famous , outlining the inevitable transition from a “Second Wave,” characterized by an industrial society, to a “Third Wave,” characterized by what he calls the “Information Age.” The Information Age, as Toffler described, is defined by the s... |
Novelist John Sundman talks CRISPR, genetics, and logic bombs | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 25 | Novelist is a national treasure. His best work, Acts of the Apostles, predicts CRISPR, advanced genetic engineering, and chip-based Trojan Horses and his writing is at once dense and thrilling. I got the chance to talk with him this week for the podcast. Sundman lives on Martha’s Vineyard and has been a tech contra... |
Seoul’s new traffic signs warn of the dangers of texting while walking | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 6 | 25 | The traffic and pedestrian signs alerting the danger of using smartphones while walking on the street, soon to be installed in five areas of the South Korean capital. The safety campaign, implemented together with the National Police Agency, specifically targets kids, teenagers and young adults, the main users of s... |
You can help stop human trafficking with the TraffickCam app | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 25 | In a world where the phrase “oh god, not another app” often springs to mind, along with “Yeah, yeah, I’m you want to make a world a better place” is a blast of icy-fresh air. TraffickCam is an app developed by the , an organization fighting back against sex trafficking. The goal of the new app is to build a nati... |
The dredge report: being an account of an expedition into the hyperreality of the California Delta | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 6 | 25 | It has occurred to me that perhaps TechCrunch pays insufficient attention to slurry, sediment, silt, sludge, mud, and muck; to canals, earthworks, levees, dikes, dredges, and the Army Corps of Engineers; to the vast engineering works, with lifespans measured in decades, that literally reshape our world. So last weekend... |
The app boom is not over | Anshu Sharma | 2,016 | 6 | 25 |
There’s a new wave of reporting focused on the post- era. Recode announced “ .” Quartz points out how most users . Let me be very clear: The a b is n o . The reporting on this topic made me think of an imagined Yogi Berra quote: “Nobody downloads anymore, it’s too crowded.” Let’s start with the facts. The real... |
Latin America’s chronic inefficiency could drive more O2O commerce growth | Romero Rodrigues | 2,016 | 6 | 25 |
After 45 minutes on the phone with a travel agent, I’ve grown too frustrated with trying to figure out different alternatives for an international flight to the Maldives that stops in Paris on the way back. Within seconds, I’m compelled to pick up my mobile phone where and can help me much more efficiently. Tired... |
Former TechShop CEO Mark Hatch joins Network Society Ventures as General Partner | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 3 | Early-stage venture firm has snagged TechShop’s former CEO and co-founder Mark Hatch as general partner. Hatch is recognized as a pioneer of the maker movement, is a current entrepreneur in residence at UC Berkeley, and is a former Green Beret. For those who don’t know it, bills itself as “a membership-based DIY wo... |
Students are demanding the facts about coding bootcamps | Darrell Silver | 2,016 | 6 | 25 |
It’s been a remarkable rise so far, but for coding bootcamps to become mainstream they must prove that the outcomes they advertise are real. In 2012 coding bootcamps began offering courses in software development and promising graduates new careers in technology. The schools, now backed by hundreds of millions in VC ... |
Bots that work everywhere | Tom Hadfield | 2,016 | 12 | 3 |
Bots made big headlines in 2016. They’ve been hailed variously as the future of commerce and a revolution in customer service. It seems likely that, just as the web and the cell phone once did, the messaging interface will transform how we interact with the world around us. To do so, however, the bot community must t... |
Apple reveals autonomous vehicle ambitions in letter to US regulators | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 3 | Apple has publicly revealed its ambitions to play in the emerging market of self-driving vehicles with to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. first broke news of the communique. Precise details of Apple automotive products were not revealed in the letter. But it did state that: “Apple uses machine lea... |
WTF is AI? | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | We’ve all heard that famous assertion, foundation for a modern philosophy of self, consciousness, and individualism. But Descartes had it easy: for him, thought was self-evident — he didn’t have to define it. What is thought? What is intelligence? And can a machine be said to possess either? The field of artificial in... |
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