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11:49 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch Giffiti Jazzes Up Photos With GIFs
 In the ever-escalating social media arms race, GIFs are the best way to get attention. Static photos are so 2013. But a new app called Giffiti (like graffiti with GIFs) lets you enhance you...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch Your First 10 Customers Can Make Or Break You
 Early in a startup’s life, the main focus is building the right product for the right market. For most B2B startups, this is the period when you start winning your first 10 customers. Thes...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch Getting Banned From The App Store Was The Best Thing That Happened To Us
 “Brace yourself, Marco…we’ve just been removed from the App Store.” With those words, I visualized everything we’d slaved over for months crumple itself into a ball...
05:30 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch Our Lingering Questions For Hampton Creek
 Josh Tetrick, the charismatic founder of Hampton Creek, a food startup in Silicon Valley, bills it as one that uses science and technology to change the way the world eats. However, Tetrick has ...
05:21 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch An Insider on Switching Between Top Venture Firms and Their Biggest Differences
 Earlier this week, we sat down with venture capitalist Brian O’Malley of Accel Partners to talk about where he’s shopping now.We also asked O’Malley — who was recruited i...
04:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch How Technology Is Fueling The Push Toward Solar
 Solar energy in the United States has seen immense momentum throughout the years. When the Solar Energy Industries Association released its annual report in 2008, it concluded that U.S. solar ph...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch Rating The Websites Of The 2016 Republican Political Candidates
According to a recent report, 2016 political candidates will spend a billion dollars on digital communications before November of next year. More than likely, only a fraction of that will be spent on ...
04:57 am GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch HTC Forges More VR Relationships As Co-Founder Peter Chou Joins Visual Effects Firm
 HTC’s much-anticipated VR headset, created in partnership with games firm Valve, just had its launch delayed until the first quarter of next year, but that isn’t stopping the Taiwane...
04:00 am GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch Graduated From An Engineering Bootcamp? Now What?
 While hip hop may have ‘too many mc’s and not enough mics’, in tech, there are too many startups and not enough seasoned technologists. Over the last seven years, hopeful entre...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, August 30, 2015
Techcrunch Email Is The Last, And Ultimate, Social Graph
 One of the magical innovations of the Web 2.0 era was when the bigger social platforms opened their doors to third-party app developers. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter widely touted ,and profite...
10:41 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch Elon Musk Cant Be That Afraid Of Robots, Check Out This Tesla Production Line
 Elon Musk has warned us about robots taking over with the help of AI. He’s even donated money to make sure that it doesn’t happen. However, it sure does seem like Tesla relies on rob...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch The SaaS Success Database
 What does it take to build a billion-dollar SaaS enterprise-software company? We gave a 30,000-foot answer to this complex — and fascinating — question in a recent TechCrunch post, T...
05:30 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch Baby, We Wont Drive Our Cars: The Future Of Automotive Transportation
 “Transportation tech is not only changing how we get from A to B, it’s fundamentally altering the underlying infrastructure of our cities.” Read More ...
05:28 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Dog Days
 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 28, 2015. A surprise guest in the chat center, benevolent Zuckership...
04:46 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch The Tactico Geomaster Is A Crowdfunded Watch I Could Get Behind
 There are more Kickstarter watches out there these days than grains of sand on the beach. Everyone with a quartz movement and a NATO strap figures they can make and sell some kind of fashion wat...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch Opening Pandoras Dox: The Unintended Consequences of an Internet That Never Forgets
 There’s some leaks that can’t ever be taken back or patched over or fixed–and they’re generally things that, as things stand, aren’t even illegal. Read More ...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch The SurrealEmotional Cadence OfTech Notifications, Illustrated
Notifications have a dirty job to do to grab the flittish eyeballs of tech users. But some of these digital chat-up-lines go about this unlovely task by attempting to pull the kind of weird moves that...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch The SurrealEmotional Cadence OfTechNotifications, Illustrated
 Notifications have a dirty job to do to grab the flittish eyeballs of tech users. But some of these digital chat-up-lines go about this unlovely task by attempting to pull the kind of weird move...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch The Honeywell Bubble Count Revisited
 I am a tall straight white cisgendered Canadian man in excellent health, i.e. I won pretty much every available lottery on the day I was born. People expect me to excel at things, or at least th...
03:00 am GMT - Sat, August 29, 2015
Techcrunch Designing New Mobile Experiences ForThe Music-Loving Generation
 As music fans go mobile, music festivals are following suit. The kids in America are rocking out to T-Swift with a Natty Lite in one hand and a mobile phone open to native festival apps in the o...
11:19 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch GOAT Lets You Cop Kicks Without Getting Jacked
 Yesterday on Facebook, a man named Matt Neal sent out a plea. He’s 26, his blood type is B+ and he has a failing kidney. His ask? “One working kidney from a true sneaker head.”...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch The Math Behind SaaS Startup Valuation
 One of the most critical metrics for software companies — but also one of the most difficult to measure — is the lifetime value of their customers (LTV). The lifetime value dictates ...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch The Math Behind SaaS Startup Customer Lifetime Value
 One of the most critical metrics for software companies — but also one of the most difficult to measure — is the lifetime value of their customers (LTV). The lifetime value dictates ...
10:24 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Tech Stocks Fumble, Facebook Announces M, And YouTube Takes On Twitch
 Welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. We’re very glad that you are here. This time ’round, our fearless Matthew Lynley headed the ship, while our own Josh Constine and your ...
09:05 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Judges Order To Shut Down NSA Phone Surveillance Reversed By Federal Appeals Court
 A federal appeals court has just ruled againsta 2013 decisionorderingtheNSA to stop its bulk metadata collection program. The three-judge panelissued its ruling Friday, contending that conservat...
09:01 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch SocialBattles Is A Photo App For People Who Think Instagram Isnt Competitive Enough
 Andre and Sandro De Moraes must really like to see people compete.The brothers previously created GoldMic, a now-defunct social network for hip hop battles. Now they’ve launched a new iOS ...
08:48 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Googles App Search Results Now Look More Like An App Store
 Google has been working for some time to improve how it highlights mobile apps, and the data they contain, in its search results. And now, Android users performing Google searches for apps outsi...
08:48 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Hires Security Researchers Behind That Crazy Jeep Hack
 Uber has hired the duo behind a spectacular hack earlier this year that involved taking remote control of a Jeep Cherokee.Wired writer Andy Greenberg experienced this firsthand — he wrote ...
08:03 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.28.15
 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Gillmor Gang chatroom HEREGillmor Gang on Facebook HER...
08:03 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.28.15
 Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Gillmor Gang chatroom HEREGillmor Gang on Facebook HER...
07:06 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Mobile Gaming Live-Streaming Service Mobcrush Has Raised Around $10M
 We’ve heard from sources that Mobcrush, a live-streaming service centered around mobile games much in the same way Twitch is known for streaming popular eSports desktop games,has raised ar...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: CarPlay, Booze, And Keyboards
Welcome to the second edition of the TC Gadgets Podcast on Minecraft. This week, we’re discussing Apple CarPlay, the MixStik (which helps you to be an awesome bartender), the new full-size keybo...
06:35 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Everything You Need To Know About iOS 9s New Content Blockers
 One of the lesser-known, but potentially groundbreaking, features arriving in the newversion of Apple’s next mobile operating system, iOS 9, is support for “content blocking” e...
06:34 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch IBMs Dr. John Kelly Is Bringing Watson To Disrupt SF
 IBM’s Dr. John Kelly is joining the TechCrunch crew onstage at this year’s Disrupt SF. But he won’t be alone. Instead, Kelly is bringing Watson along with him. Watson is an IBM...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble
 Service marketplaces have recently become Silicon Valley darlings. The marketplace model has been a popular way for VCs to efficiently tap into the local economies at scale, specifically the $80...
05:50 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week’s headlines saw the stock market plunge, Facebook’s new digital personal assistant, the launch of YouTube Gaming, and more. These are the stories to catch you up on tech ne...
05:47 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch NYC Taxis Are Testing An Uber-Like App Called Arro
 The battle between yellow cabs and Uber cars is about to get that much spicier. According to Crains New York, a new app called Arro is being beta tested among 7,000 yellow and green taxis in the...
04:47 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter: Were Upping Our Female Employees to 35 Percent in 2016 (Along With Other Changes)
 Like a lot of tech companies in Silicon Valley, Twitter last year published numbers about the different backgrounds and cultures of its employees, and its numbers were revealed to be rather whit...
04:40 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch The Perfect Storm Bass Preamp Contains Secret Soviet Technology
 There’s a lot about this Kickstarter project to dissuade me from writing about it. First, this is a bass preamp, a little box that sits between the bass player and the amplifier. It is a d...
04:38 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Namely, The All-In-One HR Platform, Hires Radhika Samant And Teresa Dietrich
 Namely, a startup that does all the heavy HR lifting for you, is today announcing two new strategic hires in the form of Radhika Samant and Teresa Dietrich. Samant was previously CFO at Enterpri...
04:35 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch FAA Starts Beta Testing App That Tells Drone Pilots Where They Are Allowed To Fly
 Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would soon start beta testing an app that would help drone flyers understand where they can and — more import...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Today Is The Final Day To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
 After a one-week extension, today is the absolute last day to get your early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2015, so if you want to secure your spot to the hottest show in tech while saving a seriou...
03:46 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch The OnePlus 2 Returns With Another Indie Phone Powerhouse
 If you’ve been out of the Android game for a while you’d be hard-pressed to understand why people love OnePlus so much. These phones, conceived by the folks who initially launched Op...
03:33 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Android Wear Device Supports iOS, Per This Pre-Order Page
 Apple Watch not for you? The Amazon preorder page for the Huawei Watch states that the device will support iOS. Now, at this point, it’s unclear if this is a typo or unreleased information...
02:34 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman Exits Company Following Ashley Madison Hack
 Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman is stepping down, the company announced this morning. Avid Life Media, or ALM, operates the dating site for cheaters, Ashley Madison, which was affected by a ma...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Chrome Will Begin Pausing Flash Ads By Default, Starting In September
 Google’s Chrome web browser keeps getting better. According to a new post on Google+, the company says that, starting onSeptember 1st, Chrome will begin to pause many Flash ads by default ...
12:40 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Thread, The U.K. Online Personal Styling Service For Men, Scores $8M Series A
 Using a mixture of algorithms and human stylists, London-based Thread works on the premise that a lot of men hate clothes shopping, however much they like stylish attire.The online styling servi...
12:30 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch 10 Things I Learned Interning At A Singaporean VC Firm
 You see a lot as an intern at a venture capital shop. Over the past three months I worked as an intern at the southeast Asian-focused venture firm Tigris Capital, under the tutelage of general p...
12:22 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Vive VR Headset Full Consumer Launch Slips To Q1 2016
 You wait years and years for virtual reality to become a thing, and then suddenly a truck load of VR headsets pile into the tech hype cycle almost at once (thanks Oculus). But if you’re a ...
10:33 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch ReBoard Is An iOS Keyboard With Third Party App Shortcuts
 ReBoard is a just launched iOS keyboard app from an indie dev team in India that’s targeting productivity-focused folk, by adding the ability to reach out to other apps right from the keyb...
10:33 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch ReBoard Is An iOS Keyboard With Third-Party App Shortcuts
 ReBoard is a just launched iOS keyboard app from an indie dev team in India that’s targeting productivity-focused folk, by adding the ability to reach out to other apps right from the keyb...
09:54 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Aging2.0 #30in30in30 World Tour Wants To Find The Best Startups For Seniors
 Consumers in their twenties to early fifties are usually considered the most attractive age demographic because of their spending power. Unfortunately, this means that older people are often und...
08:14 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Cheetah Mobile Will Launch Its Online Advertising Platform In India
 Best known as an Android utility app maker, Cheetah Mobile is now focused on global growth for its mobile advertising business. The Beijing-based company announced today that it will launch its ...
08:06 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch DeNAs Mirrativ App Livestreams Any Game Or App On Your Android Device
 YouTube isn’t the only one to introduce a live-streaming app this week. Just days after YouTube Gaming was outed, Japan’s DeNA — a prolific producer of games itself — has...
07:00 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch iZettle Gets $67M To Expand From Mobile Payments To Small Business Financing
 European mobile payments player, iZettle, is expanding into what amounts to small business loans — announcing a capital advance product, called iZettle Advance, which will be available to ...
06:46 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Is About To Lay Down Its TV Cards
 A new Apple TV is on the way, though, and it could move the needle in more than one industry. According to information I’ve been able to compile from multiple sources, Apple is about to la...
01:30 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Vine Music
 Vine, the six-second looping video app from Twitter, has today announced a significant feature update that brings more attention to the audio in users’ videos. Starting tomorrow (Friday), ...
12:40 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch A Battle Royale Of Digital Assistants: The Big 5
 Facebook is the latest tech titan to try and bring a consumer-focused digital assistant to the largely uninterested populace. M is a largely text-based hybrid assistant that can rely on human kn...
12:29 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Facebooks M Is Not The Droid Youve Been Looking For
 Facebook unveiledits M personal assistant yesterday, shelled out a few details and revealed that it was currently being beta-tested by a couple hundred random users in the Bay Area. The service ...
12:00 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2015
Techcrunch Brands Without Wax
 The ancient Romans had a word to describe the most precious artistic works of the time: sincere. A technique made popular at the time involved inserting wax into a sculpture’s cracks as it...
11:52 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Say Hello To Windows 10 Build 10532
 If you are part of the Windows Insider program, Microsoft’s tool to get new code into the hands of its hardcore users ahead of the general public, you get a treat today: Windows 10 build 1...
11:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Remember That Time That Company Changed That Thing?
 People don’t like change. We just don’t. Especially when it comes to our favorite sites or apps. When you move our cheese we get confused and angry. In fact, Facebook can’t do ...
10:47 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Female Funders Launches, Challenging 1,000 Women To Become Angel Investors
 Looking to builda bridge overthe technology industry’s (and the technology investment industry more specifically) chasm-sizedgender gap, a group of successful women entrepreneurs, investor...
10:14 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch The DJI Phantom 3 Professional Is The Easiest Drone Ive Ever Flown
 DJI didn’t start out as the best entry-level drone maker on the market but, at this point, it’s safe to say that they’ve taken the crown from Parrot and are truly creating flyi...
09:49 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Former Facebook And Instagram Marketer Eric Edge Joins Photo Startup PicsArt
 PicsArt is announcing that it has hired Eric Edge as its vice president of marketing. Edge spent the past last four-plus years at Facebook (where he led the company’s marketing efforts in ...
08:47 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Hits New Peak Of 1 Billion Users On A Single Day
 Facebook just achieved a major milestone, on Monday nearly 1 in 7 humans logged on to its site.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg heralded the accomplishment in a post from his profile:On Monday, 1 in...
08:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch OpenFeint Founder Jason Citron Returns To A Familiar Place With Discord App For Gamers
 Some founders keep returning to the same ideas over and over in new form. Jason Citron, a lifelong gamer, was the creator of OpenFeint, an early mobile social gaming network that he sold to Japa...
08:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch NYC Rises As A Hub For Software-As-A-Service Startups
 As the market continues to mature, and as we watch a blossoming of SaaS activity in New York City, we believe that NYC is poised to become a genuine leader in the formation of companies leading ...
08:17 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Splash Integrates With Giphy Because Why Not?
 Splash, the event page service that lets anyone create beautiful event landing pages, has announced an integration with Giphy, the betaworks-backed GIF search engine. This makes Splash the only ...
08:13 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch NFLs Twitter Video Deal Came And Its Deal With Facebook Went
 Today, the WSJ reported that the NFL’s video test with Facebook ended “quietly” earlier this year. The publication also referred to it as a “partnership,” a term th...
07:48 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Chrome Starts Telling Autoplaying Videos To STFU
 We’ve all been there: you’re exploring the vast interwebs, opening tabs rapid fire like the middle-clickin’ master you are. Suddenly one of the zillion tabs you’ve got op...
07:38 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Video Piracy
 Facebook didn’t get to be one of the largest video streamers on the web without making a few enemies. Unfortunately, up to this point, a lot of those enemies were the people actually creat...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch INNOVATE2016: Shining A Light On Political Fundraising
 When it comes to politics, the Internet, it seems, has been a great disappointment. Read More ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch The Psychology Of Insecurity
 The latest data breach victim to make the headlines is a big one — deeply personal and private information of more than 21.5 million current and former federal employees and over a million...
06:51 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Study: 42% Of Americans Check Their Email In The Loo
 Need a quiet spot to check your email? Looks like for many people, that’s the bathroom. According to a new study from Adobe, 42 percent of Americans use their time there to check their ema...
05:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Google On EUs Anti-Competitive Claims: Concerns Are Unfounded
 We’re a little over five years into the EU’s antitrust investigation of Google and today’s back and forth is about Google Shopping results. Back in April, Europe’s antitr...
05:46 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Techy Is An On-Demand Repair Service For Laptops
 While companies like iCracked have extensive repair networks allowing you to get a phoneor tablet repaired in just hours, getting alaptop repaired normally requires making an appointment, droppi...
05:43 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch The Next iPhone May Come With Animated Wallpapers
 It would appear that the next-gen iPhone may come with some added flare. Sources told 9to5mac that the UI for the iPhone 6S may come with animated wallpapers, not unlike the animated watch faces...
05:04 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Workflow Lets You Put Shortcuts To Frequent Actions Right In iOSs Notification Center
 Workflow, the clever if somewhat geeky app aimed at iOS power users that helps you automate frequent tasks you perform on your iPhone or tablet, like ordering an Uber to your next event, making ...
05:04 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Workflow Lets You Put Shortcuts To Frequent Actions Right In iOS Notification Center
 Workflow, the clever if somewhat geeky app aimed at iOS power users that helps you automate frequent tasks you perform on your iPhone or tablet, like ordering an Uber to your next event, making ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Instagram Thinks Outside The Square, Now Allows Landscape And Portrait Photos And Videos
 One in five photos or videos on Instagram show up with annoying whitespace around them because people use other apps to letterbox their landscape or portrait imagery to fit in Instagram’s ...
04:53 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Have You Tried Asking Siri To Give You A Hint?
 Hey Siri, give me a hint. Apple just invited journalists to his annual September press event. It’s happening on September 9th at 10am. But the best part of this invite is the attention to ...
04:23 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Invites Press To iPhone Event On September 9th
 “Hey Siri, give us a hint” is about all the hints we’re going to get on what’s coming up at the next Apple event. And of course some artwork that four people in a basemen...
04:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch HotelTonight Offers A Silicon Valley Set Visit And TV-Themed Vacations In Partnership With HBO NOW
 Last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight is getting a fun update — from now until September 8, users can enter a contest tovisit to the Los Angeles set ofSilicon Valleywhile the HBO show...
04:04 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Pay For Everyone! PayAnywhere Mobile Reader Hits Apple Stores in September
 It doesn’t happen that often, but once in a while I find myself in the wild without my wallet and reallyneed to buy something. Because I absolutely never leave the house without my iPhone,...
04:01 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Google Rolls Out Personalized Storm-Tracking Information In Search Results
 With theU.S. hurricane season about to kick off, Google announced today that it’s expanding theweather-related information that will appear in Google search results when web users search f...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Announcing The Disrupt SF 2015 Agenda
 There are hungry makers, intent on building the next big thing. There are folks who have seen it all and are looking to be surprised. And there are the big fish looking to swallow the smaller fi...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch IoT And The Rise Of Subscription Marketing
 The ties that bind consumers to brands are growing stronger. At the same time, however, they are fading into the background, thanks to the Internet of Things. Today, a slew of devices, from refr...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Deadline Extended: Only Three Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
 The window was supposed to close last week, but we’ve extended the deadline for early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2015 to this Friday, August 28. That means you have only three days left to...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Deadline Extended: Only Two Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
 The window was supposed to close last week, but we’ve extended the deadline for early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2015 to this Friday, August 28. That means you have only three days left to...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Welcome to Include 2.0, TechCrunchs Diversity Program
 In June of 2014, TechCrunch launched Include, a program designed to direct TechCrunch’s resourcesto improve diversity in the startup community. In year one, our approach was simple. The he...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Narvar, A Service That Improves Online Post-Purchase Experiences, Raises $10M
 Narvar, a startup that enables companies to better engage with customers after online purchases, said it has raised $10 million. Narvarprovides companies with software that improves the post-pur...
03:49 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Direct Messenger Is An Unofficial Twitter DM App
 I can’t wait to see @alex crying tears of joy when Twitter finally releases a standalone Twitter DM app. This day hasn’t come yet, but it doesn’t mean that third-party develope...
03:49 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Why We Look
 We look because it’s there. We humans look towards violence in order to define it, to decide where we must run (or if we should stand and fight). We are fascinated by suffering. There is a...
03:33 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Adds Music And Water Controls To Echo As Part Of Alexa Fund Roll-Out
 Amazon has today announced that two new companies, Musaic and Rachio, are being added to the Amazon Echo platform with investments from the $100 million Alexa Fund. With the Amazon Echo, which i...
03:16 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Life360 Acquires Chronos To Add Quantified Self Tracking To Its Family Locator App
 Life360, the maker of mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone that help keep families connected, has acquired Chronos Mobile Technologies, a startup behind a number of mobile apps...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch HandUp, A Startup Focused On The Homeless, Launches Donation Gift Cards For Those Living On SFs Streets
 Two and a half years ago, Rose Broome had a moment that most San Franciscans are all too familiar with. She passed a homeless woman on the streets, but didn’t know what the best way to hel...
02:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Teslas Model S P85D Just Broke Consumer Reports Ratings System, Scoring 103 Out Of 100
 Well, this is something you don’t see every day. According to a new report out of Consumer Reports, theTesla Model S P85D, all-wheel-drive electric sedan, performed “better in our te...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Watch Not A Flop Now #2 Wearable, Just Behind Fitbit
 According to a new report out this morning from IDC, Apple is now the number twowearable maker, thanks to itsApple Watch, coming in just behind market leader Fitbit during the second quarter of ...
01:51 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Top VC Brian O Malley On The Next On Demand Wave
 Brian O’Malley is good at his job. He’sgood enough,in fact, that two years, ago, Accel Partners plucked him out of his former firm, Battery Ventures, so he could bat for its team ins...
01:37 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test
 The other day I was writing an article and I wanted to link to a piece I wrote when I was at CITEworld in 2013 — just twoyears ago. I went searching for it, but soon discovered that IDG, t...
01:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Square Adds Appointments App To Its Business Software Suite
 Piece by piece, Square is trying to provide all of the tools that businesses need to manage themselves. They have the payment processing part down, a payroll product, real-time analytics and now...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Remerge, The Berlin-Based Mobile App Marketing Platform, Scores $3M Series A
 Berlin’s reputation as a hotbed of adtech entrepreneurship seems unstoppableas VCs continue to pile money in. The latest example is mobile app marketing platform Remerge. Read More ...
11:13 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Pronto Secures $1.6M To Both Cook For, And Deliver To, Hungry Londoners
 Fueled by apps and the web, ‘on-demand’ is a big business right now. Uber is on-demand transport and (eventually) logistics. PostMates is on-demand delivery. TaskRabbit is on-demand ...
10:48 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Patents Earbuds With Noise-Canceling Sensor Smarts
 Apple continues looking at ways to improve its earbuds — including potentially ditching the iconic white cables which had such a starring role in iTunes ads, back in the day. According a p...
08:23 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Chinese Drone Startup Yuneec Grabs $60M In Funding From Intel
 A second Chinese drone startup has disclosed major funding this week. Intel announced it put $60 million into Shanghai-based Yuneec, just two days after rival EHANG publicized a $42 million Seri...
07:05 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Enterprise Users Will Fuel Shipments Of Large Tablets, Says Strategy Analytics
 Shipments of tablets are straggling as as phablets like the iPhone 6 Plus became more popular. Enterprise users, however, may be the tablet’s saving grace, boosting sales of higher-end mod...
06:40 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch LG Made A Full-Size Keyboard For Mobiles That Folds Into A Stick To Fit In Your Bag
 If you ever wanted to stuff a full-size keyboard inside your (big) pockets or bag, then LG’s got your back with its newest product. Read More ...
05:06 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Action-Based Email App Dispatch Comes To The iPad
 Everyone has their own favorite email app, there are plenty out there to choose from, but one of the best under-the-radar offerings (and my personal choice) — Dispatch — just got an ...
04:06 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Evernote Is Killing Off Its Dedicated Food App
 Evernote founder Phil Libin was succeeded as CEO by ex-Googler Chris O’Neill last month, and the new man at the top appears to be wasting little time making his mark after Evernote announc...
03:37 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Prime Video Follows Netflix Into Japan
 American video-streaming services are like buses if you happen to live in Japan. Fresh off the news that Netflix is heading to the East Asian country next week, Amazon has revealed that its Prim...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Eko Communications Lands $5.7M For Its Messaging Platform For Corporates In Asia
 Slack opened the tech world’s mind to the potential of messaging inside organizations, but there are plenty of others working to bring the concept to different kinds of businesses. One suc...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch How The Content Giants Are Tackling Global Markets
 It’s no surprise that the major content players – Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Yahoo, etc. – continue to capture front page news and headlines every day for their strategic moves ...
01:00 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Sharing Salaries In A Spreadsheet Is Not The Way To Pay Transparency
 In the last couple weeks, I’ve seen a lot of media coverage on one former Google employee’s effort to bring more pay transparency to her workplace by creating a spreadsheet for co-wo...
12:07 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Google Hopes Open Source Will Give Its Cloud A Path To The Enterprise
 “Google is not an enterprise company and we are trying to become cognizant of what the enterprise needs,” Craig McLuckie, Google’s product manager in charge of its Kubernetes a...
12:01 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2015
Techcrunch Why Angry Birds Games Arent Enough For Rovio
 Earlier today, Rovio said it would lay off 260 employees. This was fascinating newsto the Internet, given Rovio’sstatus as one of the vanguards of mobile gaming as the iPhone and Android e...
11:41 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Co-Founder Garrett Camp Buys Back Majority Share In StumbleUpon
 Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon says he’ll soon be the site’s majority stakeholder. Again. The site originally launched in 2001. StumbleUpon was sold to eBay in 2007, but sol...
10:51 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch React Demolishes Engineering Silos So Facebook Can Reuse Code For Web, iOS, And Android
 It was supposed to take 18 months. But with React Native, Facebook built its iOS Ads Manager app in 5 months, and then ported it to Android in just 3 more months. That’s because React Nati...
08:56 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch NASAs 3D Printed Rocket Parts Actually Work
 Today, NASA tested a 3D printed turbopump, one that was put together with 45 percent fewer parts than pumps made any other way. This obviously saves time and money, but come on…NASA is slo...
08:56 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch NASAs 3D-Printed Rocket Parts Actually Work
 Today, NASA tested a 3D-printed turbopump, one that was put together with 45 percent fewer parts than pumps made any other way. This obviously saves time and money, but come on…NASA is slo...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Lugg, An App For On-Demand, Short-Distance Moves, Raises $3.8 Million
 While Uber, Lyft, and similar ride-sharing services can help you get from one place to the next, they aren’t practical for hauling your large purchases – like those from an IKEA shop...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Riding The Funding Wave
 When we observed an increase in Series A fundings in the first quarter of 2015, we had two theories as to what was happening. First, people are attracted to the Series A figures more than Series...
07:40 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Goes Nuclear On The Messaging War With Its M Assistant
 All messaging apps are the same no more. A few years ago, there were few differences between SMS and a slew of chat apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Kik, Line, KakaoTalk and Facebook Messenger. But e...
07:36 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Breaking: Vegemite May Power The Electronics Of The Future
 Ok, not really, but this is pretty cool. Vegemite is a disgusting yeast paste beloved by far too many people. While I wouldn’t recommend actively eating it, Professor Marc in het Panhuis a...
07:21 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch YC Answers The Questions You Ask (A Lot)
 Earlier today, Y Combinator President Sam Altman posted the type of numbers about which he gets asked “a lot” — calling them (humbly and probablyrightly) “very imperfect ...
06:52 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch BlackRock Acquires Sequoia-Backed FutureAdvisor
 BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is acquiringFutureAdvisor, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based online financial advisory firm that aims to help people manage their existing ...
06:35 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch This One-Afternoon Project Could Change How You Meet Friends
 Frustrated by how difficult it was to have spur of the moment get-togethers with friends, Stanford classmates Joseph Lau and Nikil Viswanathan spent a Friday afternoon in San Francisco’s S...
06:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Contrary To Reports, Android Pay Not Launching This Week
 Android Pay, Google’s forthcoming payments platform and rival to Apple Pay, will soon launch, allowing consumers to pay using their Android smartphones at point-of-sale as well as make pur...
06:06 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch 3D-Printed Microfish May Soon Inject Themselves In Your Body
 Not unlike those fortune-telling fish you used to get at joke shops a new form of 3D-printed microfish – fish, not fiche – can wiggle and jiggle and wriggle inside you, dropping off ...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Two Lies And A Truth About The Bubble
 There has been a lot of discussion about startup valuation over the past few months. Luminaries across the industry have chimed in, suggesting we’re returning to a time of irrational inves...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch T-Mobile Refuses To Block Access To The Pirate Bay
 It seems that the #Uncarrier has a soft spot for pirates, but perhaps onlywhen they’re being asked to deal with them without a court order. T-Mobile’s Austrian branch is refusing to ...
05:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Windows 10 Now Runs On 75 Million Devices
 Microsoft is 7.5 percent of the way to its goal of a flat billion devices running Windows 10 in the next few years. Today the software giant announced that its latest operating system, Windows 1...
05:31 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Is Adding A Personal Assistant Called M To Your Messenger App
 We’ve been hearing rumblings that Facebook was working on an “assistant” within Messenger (along with others), but today we’ve gotten the details that pull it all togethe...
04:59 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitchs Archenemy
 YouTube just launched YouTube Gaming on the web, Android and iOS. As expected, YouTube Gaming goes head-to-head against Twitch, mirroring many popular features of the existing gaming streaming g...
04:50 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Dodge Kickstarter Fees And Take Crowdfunding On Your Site With Celery Launch
 Why pay Kickstarter or Indiegogo 5% when most crowdfunding traffic comes from project creators and their own promotion? And why publicize a crowdfunding page that will only live for a month inst...
03:59 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Coin Unveils The Next Generation Of Its All-In-One Credit Card
 Coin, the device that wanted to replace all of your credit cards with a… card, is prepped and ready to dig into the future with Coin 2.0. Coin 2.0 uses NFC and is EMV-compatible so that us...
03:31 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Underground Is An Android App Store With Only Actually Free Apps
 Amazon just announced a new store for Android apps and games called Amazon Underground. While the company already has the Amazon Appstore, Amazon Underground is a brand new section as well as a ...
03:31 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Underground Features An Android App Store Focused On Actually Free Apps
 Amazon just announced a new store for Android apps and games called Amazon Underground. While the company already has the Amazon Appstore, Amazon Underground is a brand new section as well as a ...
03:19 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Yahoo Announces New Tumblr Sharing Tools And Native Video Ads For Developers
 Simon Khalaf, Yahoo’s senior vice president of publisher products, today outlined some big shifts in the mobile ecosystem and unveiledsome new tools for mobile developers. He made the anno...
03:05 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Codementor, A Learning Platform For Developers, Launches Live Group Classes
 Codementor, an open marketplace for code instructors, is ramping up its services with the launch of live group classes. The startup, a Y Combinator alum, also announced that it has doubled its s...
02:52 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Vim On A Typewriter Will Endear You To Grizzled Unix Experts
 There have been many mechanical keyboard solutions in the past few years, most notably an IBM Selectric with serial out that let you klack away like Ada Lovelace directly into a printed email. H...
02:41 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Loses Swipe To Unlock Patent In German Court
 Apple has lost a challenge in the German court system that sought to overturn an earlier ruling, which voided its patent for ‘swipe to unlock’ in Europe. The patent (EP1964022) was g...
02:24 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch PayPals Instant Checkout Platform One Touch Goes Live In Over A Dozen More Markets
 PayPal today expanded its instant checkout service known as One Touch to 13 new markets worldwide, including a wide swath of European countries along with Australia. The system, which lets mobil...
02:13 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Martians New Smartwatch Hides The Power Inside An Unassuming Package
 The Martian Voice Communicator tries hard make you think it’s not a smartwatch. The model I tested, a black faux diver with a non-working bezel and quartz movement, looks more like a drugs...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On Bullish: Radical Transparency
 Hello friends and welcome back to Bullish, a weekly show fromTechCrunch designed to see how long I can sit under lights and not sweat through my makeup. Jokes aside, Bullish is our first talk sh...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Sony Crammed A Full-Size Speaker Into This Silly TV Remote
 Remember the coolest cooler? It was a cooler with a speaker, a blender, big wheels, USB power, lights and more. Sony is releasing its own version of the coolest cooler! Here it is, a weirdly sha...
01:53 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Portal Lets You Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Thumbdrive
 Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via your Wi-Fi connection, has today made its way to iOS. The new version offers ...
01:01 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Lets Talk About Uber, Congestion And Urban Air Quality
 The U.K. government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has released updated statistics on the number of taxis and private hire vehicles operating in England — which shows a marked incr...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Avaiable
 Google’s Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available....
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Available
 Google’s Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available....
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Storefront Launches RetailGrade, A Scoring Tool For Pop-Up Shops
 Despite a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar shopping still accounts for 94 percent of retail sales in the U.S. That’s whyStorefront, a startup that provides bra...
12:01 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Wuzzuf Secures Egypts Largest Funding Round, Led By European VCs
 BasharSoft, the startup behind leading Egyptian recruiting Wuzzuf, has spent the last 5 years surviving the turmoil of Egypt’s recent history. But it’s come through that to become a ...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch MOCACARE Gets $2M Series A To Create Consumer Health Trackers
 MOCACARE, the maker of heart tracker MOCAheart, plans to develop new products and find distribution channels in China after raising a $2 million Series A. Read More ...
11:52 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Hybrid Cloud Vendor Velostrata Comes Out Of Stealth With $14M Investment
 Velostrata, an early stage hybrid cloud startup, emerged from stealth today announcinga $14 million Series A investment. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partnersand Greylock IL Partners. Th...
11:36 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Intercom Raises $35M To Make Businesses Smarter About Their Customer Communication
 Intercom, a startup promising businesses a “fundamentally new” approach to communicating with their customers, has raised $35 million in Series C funding.Co-founder and CEO Eoghan Mc...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Hyper Brings You The Best Of Internet Video, Every Day
 Hyper, a curated video discovery platform, is launching today to provideyou with a daily dose of the best short-form video content that the Internet has to offer.Powered by $1.1 million in seed ...
11:27 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Docady, The Smart Document Storage And Management App, Raises $1.5M
 Docady, an iOS app that lets you store and manage all your important documents, has been doing well in the App Store since its official launch in mid-July, including being featured by Apple as a...
11:18 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Rovio To Cut 260 Jobs As The Angry Birds Franchise Becomes Irrelevant
 It looks like Angry Birds maker Rovio is having some troubles to pay the bills. The Finnish company is about to cut 260 jobs after reducing its workforce by 110 employees in October 2014. At the...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch ZeroStack Hopes To Put Private Clouds Within Reach of Mid-Market
 ZeroStack, a company that hopesto help mid-market companies set up a private cloud more easily, exited stealth today and announced $5.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led byFoundatio...
09:11 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Airbnb Removes Top Host In Asia From Its Service With No Explanation
 ‘Sharing economy’ companies like Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit and others have grown popular for offering new types of work, and by association, additional incomes to people worldwide. Wh...
06:35 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch Formerly Known As Bolt, Charge Messenger Raises $1.7M Seed Round And Launches Web Client
 With messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber fighting for growth around the world, is there room for smaller, newer players? Charge Messenger thinks so and to prove that point, it just ann...
04:15 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2015
Techcrunch PredictSpring Helps Brands Embrace Mobile Shopping
 Longtime Googler Nitin Mangtani (manager fora number of productsincluding Google Shopping) has founded a startup of his own, PredictSpring, where he’s working to help brands and retailers ...
11:59 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch More Layoffs For Intuit As Company Continues Realignment
 Intuit is laying off 249 employees, mostly in the company’s Small Business Group, according to an internal memo from CEO Brad Smith reviewed by TechCrunch. We first heard about thelayoffs ...
11:42 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch A Few Thoughts On Tech Stocks
 Shares in technology companies have recently come under intense pressure, similar to other equities, markets, commodities and more. How far tech shops have declined, however, is worth digging in...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Desksourcing Is ANewLaborMarketConceptInTheMobile-FirstWorld
 I’ve always been fascinated by how labor markets work. People are the foundation for how things get done. How we organize across and within companies impacts both creativity and efficiency...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Desksourcing Is A New Labor Market Concept In The Mobile-First World
 I’ve always been fascinated by how labor markets work. People are the foundation for how things get done. How we organize across and within companies impacts both creativity and efficiency...
09:32 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Founders Fund Leads $33.5M Round For Modumetal, Maker of Nanolaminated Metals For The Oil And Gas Industry
 Founders Fund, the venture firm co-created by Peter Thiel, is entering yet another surprising area that you don’t commonly see with Silicon Valley VCs. They’re backing a materials sc...
09:17 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Gmail To Auto-Populate Google Calendar With Things Like Flights, Hotel Bookings And Ticket Details
 For a while, Gmail data like flight information has been surfaced in Google’s search product. One could imagine that that data would make sense in other places…like Google Calendar. ...
08:38 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Tech Support Startup HelloTech Is Closing $10M In Funding
 Los Angeles startup HelloTech is in the final stages of raising $10 million in Series A funding, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Madrona Venture Group is leading the round. Foll...
08:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Testing. Testing. Is This Thing On?
Not going to lie: I have no idea what this is. My attempted explanation is that we were told that we should do video podcasts, and instead of turning on a webcam like normal people, we decided to reco...
08:24 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Programmer Drives His Tesla Model S A Record-Breaking 452.8 Miles On A Single Charge
 Tesla’s Model S, a “premium performance” sedan with dual-motor, all-wheel drive, is advertised as having a 265-mile range, according to the company. But Bjrn Nyland, a programm...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Cash In On The Gift That Is Grit
 I’ve watched from the sidelines for years as the debate has played out about race and gender in Silicon Valley, and tech at large. Recently, I read an article shaming Facebook, Google and ...
07:46 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch YouTube Gaming, Its Twitch Competitor, Set To Launch Tomorrow
 Back in June, YouTube announced that it would be getting into the gaming game and launch its own Twitch competitor called YouTube Gaming. Tomorrow will be that day (in the US and UK), we’v...
07:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Michael Bays 451 Media Group Announces Publishing Arm For Interactive Graphic Novels
 451 Media Group , the digital media company co-founded by Transformers director Michael Bay, is launching anew publishing division for graphic novels. The company was first announced this spring...
06:57 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Slower Smartphone Growth Expected In 2015 As Chinas Market Matures
 Analysts at IDC have loweredtheir projections about how much they expect the smartphone market to grow in 2015. Earlier this year, IDC said shipments would grow at 11.3 percent year-over-year, b...
06:51 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Updates Logic Pro X Music Program With Alchemy Synth And Support For Apple Musics Connect
 Apple’s professional-level music creation tool, Logic Pro X, just received a major update today (10.2) that addsthe well-known Alchemy synthesizer into the mix, while also allowing artists...
05:45 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Houzz Acquires Home And Gardening Community Site GardenWeb From NBCUniversal
 After a number of big fundraising rounds over the last few years, Houzz has now made its first acquisition. The company today announced that it has acquired GardenWeb, a garden and home communit...
05:29 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch TuneIn Launches TuneIn Premium With Ad-Free Radio, Audiobooks, MLB Games
 Popular radio service and app TuneIn just launched a new subscription service. For $7.99 per month, TuneIn Premium subscribers get a bunch of new premium content as well as a nifty ad-free featu...
05:19 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Hortonworks Acquires Onyara, Early Startup With Roots In NSA
 Hortonworks, the big data company built on Hadoop,bought early-stage startup Onyara today. The company, which launched at the end oflastyear, has its roots in the NSA — yes that NSA. The O...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Slack Leans On Companies Like Box And Nuzzel To Use Add To Slack Buttons For Contextual Integration
 Slack’s true power is being a platform. A platform that other tools can plug into and play nice with. The company says there are 80+ of these types of integrations and thousands of develop...
04:35 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Facebooks New Moments App Now Automatically Creates Music Videos From Your Photos
 Facebook Moments, the social network’s recently launched photo-sharing app which aims to address the problem of getting friends to sendeach other the photos they’ve been hoarding on ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Butterfleye Is A Home Security Camera That Can Learn What Not To Record
 Butterfleye is a hardware startup aiming to build a connected home security camera that avoids coming across as creepily prying. Read More ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch 6 Reasons Hardware Is The New Software
 For many years, hardware has lagged behind software because of price, specialization, and the speed of innovation. Recently though, more startups are taking up the challenge thanks to the Intern...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch The Sensel Morph Is A Keyboard On Steroids
 In the world of technology, change happens with the blink of an eye. But one thing that has remained relatively constant throughout the years is the good old mouse and keyboard. The Sensel Morph...
03:35 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Tapingo Launches A Student-Run Delivery Service, Plus Other New Ordering Options
 As students return tocollege campuses this week, Tapingo is introducing three new features available at all 125 schools where the mobile ordering service is currently in use.With an average camp...
03:16 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch GoPros Nick Woodman To Speak At Disrupt SF 2015
 The last time GoPro CEO and Founder Nick Woodman stopped by Disrupt SF, the company had yet to go public, the Hero3 had just been announced and VR was still a thing of the future. We’re ex...
03:11 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Cablevision Becomes First Pay TV Provider To Distribute CBS And Showtime Over-The-Top To Broadband Customers
 Following a similar move which saw itbecoming the first internet service provider todistribute HBO NOW to its broadband customers, New York-area cable TV company Cablevision announced this morni...
03:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Chic by Choice Acquires Its Berlin Competitior La Remia
 Chic by Choice (CBC), a European startup which resembles RentTheRunway, has acquired its German competitor La Remia. Terms were undisclosed. Anna Mangold and Claudia von Boeselager, the founders...
02:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Amazons Prime Now Expands To Seattle Region, Adds Beer, Wine & Liquor Delivery Option
 Amazon’s one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, is finally making its way to the company’s hometown with today’s launch in Seattle and surrounding regions. Included in the expan...
02:10 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Philips Launches Cheaper Hue Smart Light Bulb Kit
 The Philips Hue product line is great, but it’s also very expensive with some starter kits costing $200. But if you really want to be able to control multiple light bulbs at a time, Philip...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Why Billion-Dollar Valuations Dont Matter
 In the last few years, there’s been a massive decoupling between private and public markets. A Goldman Sachs report shows that since December, five of the seven most recent exits for billi...
01:46 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch SlideShare Rebrands As LinkedIn SlideShare, Adds A Pinterest-Like Clipboard Section
 Over three years afterits acquisition by LinkedIn, SlideShare this morning is getting deeper integration with theprofessional social network, a rebranding (now it’s “LinkedIn SlideSh...
01:28 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Airbnb Gets Tourist Tax DAccord In Paris, Its Largest Market
 Airbnb has announced it will begin collecting tourist tax in Paris, the most popular city for home sharing on its platform, starting from October 1 — after which the remittance collection ...
12:46 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Ghost Drone Maker EHANG Lands $42M Series B, Fills Key Executive Roles
 Drone startup EHANG has scored a $42 million Series B to develop its technology and launch new products. Led by GP Capital, the round also included participation from returning investors GGV Cap...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Mapstr Maps Out The Next Steps For Its App That Keeps Track Of Your Favorite Places
 French startup Mapstr just released the version 1.0 of its nifty map app, but it’s already thinking about the next steps. The company just raised $800,000 from angel investors and is worki...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Salesforce Lightning Ushers In New Design For Core CRM Product
 Salesforce.comlifted the curtain on Salesforce Lightning today, the completelyredesigned version of its core CRM product. As is often the case with Salesforce, theannouncement included several p...
11:42 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Cyanogen OS Lands On Two New Smartphones, Targeting EMEA
 The Cyanogen flavor of open Android, which is pushing a more customizable version of Google’s mobile OS — helped along by some $115 million in funding in its coffers, including an $8...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Spare5 Raises $10M Series A Round For Its Mobile Mechanical Turk Service
 Spare5 lets businesses outsource menial tasks like tagging and describing images, cleaning up data and classifying content to smartphone users who want to earn a few cents while standing at the ...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Big Data Vendor BlueData Announces $20M Round And Intel Partnership
 BlueData, a company that helps customers generatevirtualized big data clusters,announced a $20 million Series C round and a partnership with Intel today. Intel Capital led the round. Also partic...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Coursera Raises $49.5M Series C Funding Led By NEA, Expects Second Closing Will Bring Total To $60M
 The fast-growing online education service Coursera today announced that it has raised a $49.5 million Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates. Other investors include Kleiner Per...
10:01 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Friendsy Gets $500k To Grow Its .edu-Only U.S. Tinder Rival
 Stay long enough in tech and you’ll see the same ideas being recycled, usually with a slight twist. To wit: Friendsy, a student-only social network that’s aiming to bringing Tinder-s...
09:21 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Ola, Ubers Rival In India, Now Supports Other Services With Its Payment Platform
 India’s Ola is taking its rivalry with Uber beyond taxis after it made its in-app payment service available within a range of other apps and services. Read More ...
08:56 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Zipcar Buys Fleet Management Startup Local Motion
 Zipcar looks like it is boosting the enterprise side of its car sharing business after it acquired Local Motion, a five-year old fleet management startup, in an undisclosed deal. Read More ...
07:36 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Alibabas Cloud Computing Group Says Its New Artificial Intelligence Platform Is Chinas First
 Aliyun, the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group, is launching an artificial intelligence platform that it claims is the first in China. Called DT PAI, the service combines algorithms used by A...
06:31 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Vysor Puts Your Android Devices Screen On Your Desktop
 If you’ve ever wanted to play games or use apps from your phone on your desktop — web versions of messaging apps are certainly convenient — then Vysor is a new service for Andr...
04:16 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Watch Sonys First Aerosense Drone Take Flight
 Sony has given the world the first peak of its upcoming drone project. Cool though it is — the craft takes off vertically in this YouTube video — consumers shouldn’t get too ex...
04:01 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch ClearSky Data Exits Stealth With Novel Approach To Cloud Storage
 ClearSky Data emerged from stealth today, offering an unusual approach to storage and data lifecycle management. It wants to combinethe speed of on-premises storage with the cost and elasticity ...
02:29 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Hackers Now Going After Ashley Madison Targets
 Hackers have taken to the 36 million email list stolen during the Ashley Madison hack to attempt to extort folks who may or may not have used the app to cheat. Brian Krebs has spoken to an admin...
01:24 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Marc Benioff, Salesforce Takes A Different Philanthropic Tack Toward Backing SFs K-12 Schools
 As San Francisco’s population rapidly changes with an influx of new tech money and workers, a big question is what happens to the city’s K-12 schools and what tech’s ultimate i...
12:54 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Storms The Stage, Unveils The Tiniest VMAs Emoji Of All Time
 Today, Twitter launched an emoji tied to the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards (which are happening this weekend). Users hash tagging either #VMA of #VMAs will get avery tinymoon man emoji to pop up i...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Mobile Exits Drop Below Investments For First Time Since 2013
 It’s been party time for mobile, with massive growth and disruption helping VCs to raise huge funds, entrepreneurs to raise massive rounds, and valuations to skyrocket. With 89 mobile Inte...
10:44 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch RIP Summer
 After a multi-year bull cycle that raised the prices of domestic equities to levels that made value-focused investors squirm, the U.S. markets are suffering from a stiff correction, dropping in ...
10:40 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Frdrique Constant Aims Upscale For Their Refined Horological Smartwatch
 “If the roast beef is right they’ll be back,” said Thornton Mellon and that has been the motto of Swiss watchmakers since the beginning of the burgeoning smartwatch revolution....
10:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch TaskRabbit Co-Founder Launches A Slick New 401(k) Platform
 In recent years, Kevin Busque began to notice something at TaskRabbit, the outsourced jobs marketplace that he co-founded seven years ago with his wife, and TaskRabbit’s CEO, Leah.The comp...
09:54 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Russian Wikipedia Editors Weighing Options After Site Is Blacklisted In Russia
 The Russian government has instructed all ISP’s in the country to block Russian Wikipedia following their denied request to remove apost about preparingnarcotics. “Today, we have hea...
08:59 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Offers Free Download Of Start Me Up To Celebrate 20 Years Of Windows 95
 Remember Windows 95? I mean, how could you not? Oh, you’re under 30? Yeah, then you probably don’t remember Windows 95. Its launch was a glorious day, it stood for the rise of graphi...
08:48 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Rolls Out Its Donate Now Button To Nonprofits
 Facebook just made makingyour donation to Our Lady of Perpetual Exemptiona biteasiermore visible. Today, Facebookannounced that it’sopening up its donate button as an available call-to-act...
07:55 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Hiring Software Juggernaut Greenhouse Swallows $35M Series C
 “We’re not trying to be the all-singing, all-dancing HR system. I don’t know how to be kickass at Payroll” says Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait. But what his startup is ...
06:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Bash For iOS Makes It Easy To Organize Hangouts With Friends
 A group of high school friends, now UC Berkeley engineers, have created an app called Bash to make it easier for friends to organize hangouts, meetups and other events. Launching today on the Ap...
06:08 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Public Tech Companies Are Already Recovering From Brutal Stock Market Decline
 Things didn’t look good this morning. When stock markets opened, Facebook was down 12.1 percent, Apple was down 10 percent, Google was down 6.5 percent, etc. But public tech companies are ...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Developing Targeted Initiatives For Women Of Color In Tech
 More than 30 diverse tech startups recently attended the first-ever White House Demo Day as part of President Obama’s Startup America initiative to call attention to the low numbers of wom...
05:58 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Tries To Keep People Engaged With Web Notifications For DMs And Tweaks To Tweet Sharing On Android
 If you’re a Twitter on the web user, like I am, then you’ll be happy to know that the company has now introduced web notifications when you get a direct message. Just keep Twitter op...
05:51 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Tests Bus-Style Discounted Smart Routes
 Uber lets us trade money for time. But the cheaper the rides, the more people who will use Uber. That’s why it’s testing a way to let you pay less money for a little less convenience...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch This Technology Monitors Our Cellphones To Calculate Wait Times At Airports
 There are plenty of things that I don’t like, one of them is waiting. For just about anything. I’m not alone. The airport is one of those places where hours upon hours can disappear&...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Developers Can Now Import Data To Google Cloud Storage By Mailing In Their Hard Drives, Tapes And USB Flash Drives
 Back in 2013, Google started a preview of a new service that let developers ship their hard drives to Google for import into its Cloud Storage service. Today, it’s expanding this service a...
04:49 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
 If you enjoy reading TechCrunch, there’s a really good chance you’d enjoy the TechCrunch Radio show on Sirius XM. Yes, that’s a real thing. John Biggs and I discuss the latest ...
04:41 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch What Does The Chinese Fallout Mean For Apple?
 This morning, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) suffered from a stark drop when the stock market opened. Its shares tanked 10 percent to $95.17 compared to Friday’s closing price. Shortly after, Apple b...
04:34 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Launches First Public Beta Of Cortana For Android
 After a private beta and a few leaks, Microsoft today launched the first public beta of its Siri- and Google Now-like Cortana personal assistant for Android. Microsoft describes the Cortana app ...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Google Classroom Gets An Update Ahead Of New School Year
 Google launched a couple of updates to its Classroom educational platform today that will make life a little bit easier for teachers as they get ready for the next school year. Read More ...
03:53 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Ashley Madison Offering $500,000 Reward For Info On Hack Now Linked To Two Suicides
 At a news conferenceon Monday, police in Canada revealed thatAvid Life Media, the company that operates the Ashley Madison website, is now offering a $500,000 reward to anyone providing informat...
03:32 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch With $1M In Funding, VC Database CB Insights Launches A Data Tool For Salespeople
 Many of you probably know CB Insights as the venture capital database that puts out reports about trendslikethe on-demand economy and compiles lists of unicorn startups. Today, the company is ex...
03:10 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Jon Callaghan Of True Ventures To Talk At Disrupt SF 2015
 Jon Callaghan is a founder and managing partner of True Ventures, an industry-leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology firms. We’re thrilled to announce that Cal...
03:01 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Google Maps Tests A New Feature That Collects Users Foodie Photos
 Though services dedicated to photos of food – like Foodspotting or Forkly, for example – have exited the scene (as well asconsumers’ collective consciousness) over the years, s...
02:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Down 12.1%, Apple Down 10%, Google Down 6.5%, Microsoft Down 5.8% As Stock Markets Plummet
 Tech companies are suffering from the current hostile stock market environment as stock markets around the world are plummeting following concerns over China. All tech companies are tanking righ...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Controversial Climate-Change Solution May Be In The Clouds
 In a move that has some environmentalists up in arms, a group of retired Silicon Valley engineers and scientists are proposing a new approach to fighting climate change. They want to brighten cl...
01:50 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Shuts Down Services That Tracked Politicians Deleted Tweets In 30 Countries
 Two services that tracked deleted tweets by politicians and other diplomats in an effort to maintain a transparent, public record of statements made on social media, Politwoops and its sister si...
01:03 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Having Won Over VCs, Y Combinator Turns To LPs
 Last week, Y Combinator ran investors through 105 presentations by early-stage startups in a two-day show it calls Demo Day. The pace of deal-making for such events, staged every summer and wint...
12:52 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Its Opening Day In Los Angeles For The Dodgers Accelerator Program
 The LA Dodgers Accelerator, an accelerator program in partnership with R/GA, is kicking off its first class today in the City of Angels with ten sports-related tech startups. In April, the Dodge...
12:30 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch AdMobilize And Verizon Partner To Monitor Ads In The Real World
 AdMobilize, a new monitoring and tracking technology that measures attention and traffic in stores and for outdoor advertising, is partnering with Verizon* to add 3G connectivity to its outdoor ...
11:30 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Selling News Feeds As A Service, Stream Raises $1.75
 Building off the strength of a successful open source project, a new startup that provides newsfeed development and management as a service — Stream — has raised $1.75 million in its...
11:30 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Selling News Feeds As A Service, Stream Raises $1.75M
 Building off the strength of a successful open source project, a new startup that provides newsfeed development and management as a service — Stream — has raised $1.75 million in its...
11:30 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Everything But The House Raises $30M To Move Estate Sales Online
 Everything But The House (EBTH), an online estate sale marketplace, has pulled in $30 million in new funding to help people who aredownsizingsell their stuff tobargain hunters and collectors aro...
11:14 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch LGs 10-Inch G Pad II Sports An Enormous Battery And Other Improvements
 LG is going all-in on battery life with the second version of its G Pad tablet that was just unveiled today. The device itself won’t surface in the flesh until the IFA electronics show nex...
06:18 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch In Chinese Markets, Its A Good Year For A Bloodletting
 Despite the government’s best efforts (and new pronouncements today) China’s public markets are collapsing. Read More ...
05:29 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Hey Uber, Welcome To China
 Uber isn’t happy with its competitors in China. The U.S. ride-sharing goliath has “spoken out for the first time” about being blocked on WeChat, China’s hugely popular mo...
04:01 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Mirantis Announces Second Straight $100m Round And Intel Partnership
 Last October, Marantis, the pure-play OpenStack vendor announced a $100 million round. Just10 months later, it’s back with anidentical announcement. This time the investmentis led by Intel...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Games After Gamergate
 Perhaps the greatest testimonial to those who endured Gamergate is not to remember it. To not talk about it all. So I won’t. However one aspect that I will talk about is what it did to ga...
03:00 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Elysium Space Finds A Taker For Its Moon Memorials
 Elysium’s memorial services are part of the technological triumphs of a new generation of space industrialists, who have brought seemingly futuristic notions of asteroid mining, consumer s...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Next-Gen Cybersecurity Is All About Behavior Recognition
 In the wake of devastating personal information leaks, like Target’s back in 2014 affecting more than 70 million customers and the more recent Ashley Madison data breach, concerns over cyb...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2015
Techcrunch Crowdsourcing Dystopia
 Violent extremism starts with an idea and an entrepreneur. On offer is a belief system that promises to upend the status quo, to change the world and take you with it. Investors commit at differ...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch Farewell To Flash: What It Means For Digital Video Publishers
 It’s been more than five years since Steve Jobs wrote his infamous “Thoughts on Flash” letter citing the high level of energy consumption, lack of performance on mobile and poo...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch Lakestar Joins Europes Heavy-Hitter VCs With New $385M Fund
 As the European startup scene has matured over the last few years so too has the VC scene. But a handicap has always been the issue of follow-on funding. Gradually, however, the most successful ...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch There Is No Silicon Valley Crash Coming For A While
 Talk of the bubble bursting eventually surfaces with every successful market. When valuations are increasing exponentially, excitement is building to a fever pitch, and companies are sprouting s...
06:49 pm GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Alphabet Soup
 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, August 22, 2015. President Trump dominated the Gang, leaving just enoug...
04:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch Dropboxs Wall Street Challenge
 Dropbox boasts a valuation in the $10 billion range. Last February the company hired a new CFO, which for many startups is a signal that their IPO moment is coming sooner rather than later. Nobo...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch Tapping Into The Emotional Internet
 Wearables currently decipher physiological biometrics — heart rate, pulse, caloric intake. But in the coming years, we’ll see emotion-sensing wearable technology that clues us into s...
10:55 am GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch Skin Cancer Checker App, SkinVision, Snags $3.4M To Move Beyond Moles
 Can an app warn you that you might have skin cancer? Digital health startup SkinVision is using smartphone tech and vision algorithms to allow consumers to track changes to their moles. Users of...
03:00 am GMT - Sun, August 23, 2015
Techcrunch How The Digital Economy Can Help End Extreme Poverty
 When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government’s delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I was struck by how much the in...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch Money And Politics: Bitcoins Governance Crisis
 A lot of intriguing and conflicting things have been said about Bitcoin in the past few years. Some see it as the salvation of the financial system, others as a new toy, appealing only to the te...
08:55 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch InstaVet Makes It Easy To Schedule A Veterinary House Call
 With the recent deluge of on-demand startups, many of us expect to get whatever we want with the push of a button, whether it’s food, a rideorpretty much anything else. So why not medical ...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch The Future For Artists And Celebrities (And YouTubers) Is Direct Intimacy
 The most-watched Game of Thrones episode ever, this past season’s finale, had 8.11 million viewers. Meanwhile, Pentatonix, a musical a capella group on YouTube since 2012, gets 10 million ...
06:30 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch Hands-On With Fords Sync 3
 Ford was one of the first major car manufacturers to bring connected car technology to its lineup with Sync in 2007, but while the first iterations of its Sync and MyFord Touch infotainment syst...
06:16 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch Meet Joelle Emerson, The Startup CEO Helping Slack, Pinterest And Airbnb Tackle Diversity
 Diversity inthe tech industry is dismal, with white men making up the vast majority of its workforce. That being said,tech companies are aware of the lack of diversity and some are even actively...
05:05 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.22.15
 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Saturday August 22nd, at 10amPT.Gillmor Gang LIVE chatroom during the...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch Artificial Intelligence, Legal Responsibility And Civil Rights
 I have been a huge science fiction fan as long as I can remember, and a recurring theme in both science fiction literature and movies is the creation of artificial intelligence. However, the sub...
02:30 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch 9 Features Apple Music Needs To Win Over Power Users
 Apple Music could win over more power users with some changes. And now would be a great time, because everyone’s trial periods are about to expire. Here are 9 features that I believe Apple...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch Dont Be Apple
 There is so much to admire about Apple. They make superb, beautiful products. Their amazing comeback story is unparalleled in corporate history. Steve Jobs has become something akin to a modern-...
03:36 am GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch LightBlue Bean Is An Arduino Board With Bluetooth Built-In
 If you’re anything like me you understand the power of Arduino but are stymied by limitations of education, imagination, or wireless connectivity to implement it into your own life. Thanks...
02:56 am GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Offers Free Fix For Small Percentage Of iPhone 6s With Faulty Camera
 Apple is offering iPhone 6+ owners the opportunity to replace the iSight camera on their device for free, after the U.S. company found that “a small percentage” of models produce blu...
02:00 am GMT - Sat, August 22, 2015
Techcrunch How Coursera Cracked The Chinese Market
 Most U.S. consumer Internet companies have a hard time breaking into China. Cultural differences and the Internet firewall are a huge barrier to entry. Even tech giants like Google, Facebook and...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch China Draws Executives From Silicon Valley
 China recently published its GDP growth for Q1 of 2015 at 7 percent. While this figure is drastically lower than the double-digit growth seen in previous years, it has still attracted foreign co...
09:58 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch This App Snaps A Pic Of Your Friends If They Try To Swipe Through Your Phones Photos Uninvited
 We’ve pretty much all been there: you hand your phone to a friend to show them a picture. They look at the photo, they chuckle… and then they casually swipe to the next photo in your...
09:05 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Amazons Soul, Ashley Madison, And Ubers IPO
 Welcome back friends, we are here to cap off the week, taking a look at the biggest stories in the process. This time ’round, ourcoterie was helmed by none other than TechCrunch’s ow...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Disrupt SF Early-Bird Pricing Extended
 Don’t say we never did anything for you. We’re offering an extension on the early-bird pricing for a limited time. You have just one more week to get your Disrupt SF (September 21-23...
08:37 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch The New York Daily News Is Incubating An Ad-Tech Startup Called Optimera
 The second startup participating in the New York Daily News’ Innovation Lab began at the Daily News itself.Optimera was founded by Keith Candiotti (pictured above), the ad operations manag...
08:18 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Will Tell Dropboxs Story At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015
 Dropbox is perhaps one of the companies in the toughest position in Silicon Valley right now. It’s been a darling in the eyes of the tech industry, rising to a $10 billion valuation as of ...
06:28 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Google Brings Tweets To Desktop Search Results
 Back in May, Google and Twitter partnered to bring tweets into mobile search results. It was, and is, a pretty big deal for both companies. The relationship is apparently going well, as Google a...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Dont Reverse Mobile-Platform Improvements That Benefit App Developers And Consumers
 The global app industry has grown dramatically in recent years. Creative developers, enabled by harmonized platforms that incorporate inexpensive feature-rich devices and extraordinary software ...
05:59 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Sampler Is Like Those People Who Give You Free Warm Cheeseballs At Costco But Only On The Internet
 Giving out samples on the street is kind of silly. Taking a little cup of urine-colored sports drink or a nasty bag of chips offers little in the way of customer generation and it usually ends u...
05:21 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Terms And Conditions Are The Biggest Lie Of Our Industry
 THE LEGAL AGREEMENTS SET OUT BELOW GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS TECHCRUNCH POST (“TECHCRUNCH”). TO AGREE TO THESE TERMS, CLICK “AGREE.” IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO ...
04:57 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Chrome Extensions Are Coming To Firefox
 Mozilla today announced major changes to how Firefox will implement add-ons going forward. The most important of these is the adoption of a new extension API that will be largely compatible with...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Today Is The Last Day To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
Today is the last day to save $1,000 on tickets to the hottest show in tech, so you need to head over to our ticketing page right now and get your tickets to Disrupt SF 2015. We’re thrilled with...
03:54 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week, Amazon came under fire by The New York Times for harsh work culture allegations, Google surprised the world with a new router, and data from an extramarital affairs site was leaked on...
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch QuizUp Looks To Gamify Corporate Learning With QuizUp At Work
 Work isn’t all about fun and games, but QuizUp is trying as hard as it can to change that. The popular and frustratingly addictive trivia game is announcing a new initiative today to chang...
03:03 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch The Internet Is Awful
 We were on the coast of Croatia when we saw our first nude sunbather. He was an older gentlemen who probably looked good in a suit but now, skin pruned from the water and his body hair plastered...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Reserve Acquires Set For Service, A Startup Offering Guest Management Tools For Restaurants
 Reserve, a “dining concierge” startup that helps users with restaurant reservations and payments, has acquired bootstrapped New York City company Set for Service. Set for Service off...
02:22 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch SmartThings Support Is Coming To Amazon Echo
 It would appear that Amazon has plans to team up with SmartThings to power various home automation features with the Amazon Echo, the voice-powered personal assistant device. According to a Goog...
01:37 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Seeks a Broader Audience, Including with Traditional VCs
 Many crowdfunding startups now make it easier for founders to reach a bigger audience of investors. The question is whether investors are as keen to continue fundingcrowdfunding sites.OurCrowd m...
01:37 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Seeks A Broader Audience, Including Traditional VCs
 Many crowdfunding startups now make it easier for founders to reach a bigger audience of investors. The question is whether investors are as keen to continue fundingcrowdfunding sites.OurCrowd m...
10:54 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Is Really Really Really Keen To Convert iPhone Owners To Its Smartphones
 Got an iPhone? Got a dollar? That’s all you need if you want to take one of Samsung’s newest smartphones for a thirty day, “no obligation” spin. Read More ...
10:06 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Plans To Go Public In 12-18 Months, According To Leaked Presentation
 Uber could become a public company as soon as next year, according to a leaked document published in a report from Reuters. Read More ...
10:06 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Plans To Go Public In 18-24 Months, According To Leaked Presentation
 Uber could become a public company as soon as next year, according to a leaked document published in a report from Reuters. Read More ...
06:56 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Uber And Ola Add Free In-Car WiFi To Their Taxi On-Demand Services In India
 There’s good news if you’re a ride-sharing app regular in India and sick of struggling with the country’s sometimes (/often) patchy mobile internet coverage. Both Uber and Indi...
05:05 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2015
Techcrunch Hail Creates Content For Multiple Online Publishing Platforms With One Click
 If you work on any kind of online content, you know it’s not enough to hit publish and then sit back waiting for traffic. Links have to be shared to Facebook and Twitter, excerpts posted t...
11:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch After Years Of Restraint, Facebook Tries Allowing GIFs In Ads And Page Posts
 Facebook refused to fill its site with flashy animated banner ads for a decade. Zuckerberg thought these interrupted the user experience, and could stunt growth. But after reaching near ubiquity...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Optimizing South Korean Technology For American Users
 Navigating culture and business practices can be a trying task for any company going global. For tech companies, this often can mean coping with varying degrees of Internet connections from diff...
10:44 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Watch A Girl Named Isabella Unpack A New 3-D Printed Arm
 At this point in the 3D-printing game it should be obvious why the tech exists and why we should all own 3D printers: because they can change lives. Nowhere is that point hammered home more than...
10:08 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Collapses To Record Lows, Tests IPO Price As Tech Stocks Slump En Masse
 At least Twitter isn’t alone. Alibaba also set a record low today. In the post-IPO market, Twitter is sucking air. After repeated quarterly reports detailing slowing, anemic user growth, s...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch The Second Coming Of Deep Linking
 For developers and users, mobile deep linking has been a fantastically anticlimactic technology. Deep linking has existed since iOS 2.0, a time when fewer than 1 in 10 of us had a smartphone and...
08:58 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Our 9 Favorite Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2
 Yesterday’s Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day had a little something for everyone, with everything from condom delivery to server vulnerability monitoring thrown in the mix.Of the 52 that ...
07:45 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch New York Citys Tech Industry Is 62 Percent White, 60 Percent Male
 New York City’s tech industry is mostly white (62%) and male (60%),according to a recent analysis from the Center for an Urban Future.The fact that white men make up the majority of NYC...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch INNOVATE2016: Silicon Valley Is A Political Issue In The 2016 Election
 Why should Silicon Valley care about the 2016 election? According to Georgetown University’s Larry Downes, it’s going to be an election in which the most disruptive technologies R...
07:03 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch HBO Now Rolls Out For Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick
 HBO is expanding HBO Now, its subscription streaming service, to the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. As of today, you can watch all HBO series, movies and documentaries for $15 per month with ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch More Disrupt SF Hackathon Tickets Are Available Now
 Want to participate in the Disrupt SF Hackathon but missed out on the first wave of tickets? Well, good news. Today we’re releasing the next wave of Hackathon tickets to the general public...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch ZocDoc Joins The Unicorn Club (Officially)
 In June of last year, VC Experts discovered a filing that suggested ZocDoc, a roughly eight-year-old, New York-based online medical care schedule service, was raising a new round of funding wort...
06:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch If This Selfie Emoji Becomes Official, I Am Going Back To Using A Flip Phone
 One of my favorite things to do is to watch and see what emojis become candidates for Unicode updates (don’t judge). Sometimes they’re really great and sometimes they’re, well,...
06:31 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Google/Gallup Study: Computer Science Is Not A Priority For Most Schools
 Nine in 10 parents believe that teaching computer science is a good use of school resources. Two-thirds of parents believe CS education should be mandatory in schools. Eight percent of students ...
06:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Swarm Gets Back Into The Game With Leaderboards
 In its quest to add a little fun through your (literal) journey through life, Swarm is launching version 3.0 of the app, bringing in a special new game that lets you compete with your friend net...
06:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch 10 Art Apps To Inspire Your Inner Creative
 What do you look for in an app? It might be something useful that helps to organise your life, it might be to connect with friends and family, or perhaps it’s a diverting game to while awa...
06:24 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Updated Tile Item Tracker Boasts Louder Ring, Find Your Phone Feature
A new version of the bluetooth tracker tagTile just dropped on Amazon, Tile’s website and a host of T-Mobile stores. The updated item tracker nowboasts a ring that’s three times louder and...
06:03 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch LawDingo Adds Accountants, Doctors And Therapists To Its Platform For Remote Consultations
 LawDingo users, meet DocDingo, CashDingo and PsychDingo.As I’ve written in the past, the Y Combinator-incubated startup promises to connect you with a lawyer instantly, usually over the ph...
05:53 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Legendary Investor Yuri Milner Will Hit Up Disrupt SF In September
 A few short weeks ago, Yuri Milner announced to the world that he’d be investing $100 million to find extraterrestrial intelligent life.Today, TechCrunch has its own announcement: Yuri Mil...
05:11 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Google Brings Interactive Watch Faces And Built-In Google Translate Support To Android Wear
 Android Wear’s watch faces are getting a bit more interesting today. Developers were always able to display a lot of information on their watch faces, but users couldn’t interact wit...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Google Photos Introduces Rediscover This Day To Help You Reminisce
 Without a doubt, Google Photos wants to be home to all of your photos. Whether you have a thumb drive, CD, DVD or undeveloped film laying around, the team wants you to consider uploading them to...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch What We Need To Know About On-Demand Work Platforms Before Regulating Them
 As we fast approach the 2016 election cycle, the future of on-demand work platforms is at a crossroads, with Uber, TaskRabbit and other market leaders facing increased scrutiny and skepticism fr...
04:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Affirm Partners With Shopify, Will Now Let All Merchants Offer Financing Options
 Affirm, the lending company started by Max Levchin that offers customers payment plans for online purchases, has announced that the company’s financing options will now beavailable to all ...
04:35 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Jolla Opens Up More Sailfish Tablet Pre-Orders
 Finnish mobile maker Jolla has opened up additional pre-orders for its forthcoming Sailfish tablet. It said today that a “limited” batch of additional slates is now available to pre-...
04:08 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Voice-Focused Dating App Revealr Acquired By Smooch-Owner Venntro Media Group
 Voice-focused dating app Revealr, which lets you record a 20 second audio clip as a calling card for prospective dates, has been acquired by Venntro Media Group, owner of multiple dating propert...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch There Are Only 2 Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
 The clock is ticking. If you’ve been holding out on purchasing tickets to Disrupt SF 2015, you have just two days left to score them at the low, early-bird price of $1,995. You seriously d...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Giphy Cam Lets You Create And Share Homemade Gifs
 Giphy, the search engine for all things gif, has today released a new app called Giphy Cam that lets users create their own gifs to send or share on social media. “Giphy has always wanted ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch RV Rental Marketplace Outdoorsy Provides The Impermanence Millennials Seek For Summer Travel
 Add recreational vehiclesto the so-called sharing economy. Outdoorsy is a startup that provides an online marketplace for motorhome and trailer owners to rent out their vehicles when they’...
03:56 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Search App Vurb Adds Messaging To Become The U.S. WeChat
 [tc_on_aol code=”519023602″] WeChat dominates China with its messaging hub that lets you shop, call a taxi, and pay bills — all from one app. Now, mobile search app Vurb wants ...
03:07 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Nintendo Really Wants You To Buy A 2DS For Your Kid
 Nintendo just cut the Nintendo 2DS price tag to $99. And for this price, you also get Mario Kart 7. This cheap portable console can play all the 3DS games, which makes it a good console for your...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Okta Customer Research Finds Office 365 Most Used Cloud Service
 As a cloud identity management service, Okta collects tons of data about how its customers use other cloud products. Today it released its firstOkta Business @ Work Report. Among the many compel...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Lavaboom Encrypted Email Startup Declares Bankruptcy
 Lavaboom, a German startup that was building a zero access secure email service that focused on simplifying PGP encryption security to target a more mainstream user-base, is shutting down and fi...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Israeli App Security Startup Snags $2.3M Seed Round
 AppInside, a tool designed to help app developers check for security vulnerabilities, announced a $2.3 million seed round from Boston’s Accomplicetoday.When a company, whether a bank, hote...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Donde Fashion Is Bringing Smarter Search To The World Of Online Apparel
 Shopping online for clothes can be a real pain, especially when you’re searching for something very specific. Sure, most retailers have filters for tops, pants, dresses, etc., but most don...
01:52 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch MixStik Is An Essential Mixology Tool To Make Great Cocktails With No Skill
 There’s nothing like a sweet, sweet cocktail during summertime. But maybe you don’t know how to make great cocktails. Meet MixStik, a small connected stick that will help you make ta...
01:20 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch With $100M In Funding, Carbon3D Will Make 3D Manufacturing A Reality
 Carbon3D, a startup building 3D printers for manufacturers, has pulled in $100 million in new funding to move 3D printing out of the prototyping phase and into production.Google Ventures led the...
01:08 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Expands Its Program For Ads Outside Twitter
 Twitter is unveiling several new features for advertisers who want their campaigns to go beyond Twitter itself. And it’s giving the program a new name, the Twitter Audience Platform.Last y...
01:07 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch The Jot 8.5 Is A Better And Brighter Boogie Board
 Boogie Boards are a lot of fun and the company just released a new model. Called the Jot 8.5, the slate combines the fun of a white board with the convenienceof an electronic writing screen. But...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Mesosphere And Microsoft Bring Mesos To Windows Server
 Mesosphere, the company that aims to build a container-centric “operating system for the data center” based on the Apache Mesos project, is giving the first public demo of Mesos runn...
12:40 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Grand Rounds Raises $55M to Connect Patients With Specialists
 Grand Rounds, a service companies use to give employees access to healthcare advice and treatment around the U.S. irrespective of where they live, has raised $55 million in a new financing round...
11:41 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Yoogaias Home Fitness Platform Gets $3M To Push For International Growth
 Finnish fitness startup Yoogaia has pulled in a $3 million seed to stretch its home exercise platform into more markets. Investors in the round are Nokia Growth Partners, Inventure, Sanoma Ventu...
10:49 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Global Video Service Viki Buys Soompi, A Fan Site For Korean Dramas, In Sub-$10M Deal
 Viki, the global video site owned by Japan’s Rakuten, has made an acquisition of its own after it snapped up Soompi, an English-language news and fan site dedicated to Korean cinema and dr...
10:25 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Peak Android? YoY Growth Lowest Ever In Q2, Says Gartner
 It’s no wonder Google is expanding its efforts to broaden Android’s reach by working with OEMs in emerging markets, via its Android One smartphone affordability program; the latest g...
10:09 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Line Messenger Releases Line Here, Its New Location-Sharing App
 Mobile messenger Line has unleashed its latest standalone app, a location-sharing service called Line Here. Line users can already share their location in chats, but Line Here extends that servi...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Sony Releases The SmartBand 2 To Take On Fitbit
 Will it be enough? Sony just announced a new Sony SmartBand 2. It is everything you’ve come to expect from fitness tracker. It has a silicon band, it can track your steps for days and it c...
09:03 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Final Fantasy VII Comes To iOS
 If you were cheesed off when Square Enix launched a mobile version Final Fantasy XIII for gamers in Japan only, then we’ve got some news for you. Final Fantasy VII, a true classic in the s...
07:31 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Singapore Online Grocer RedMart Raises $26.7M Ahead Of Southeast Asia Expansion
 RedMart, an online grocery service in Singapore, has closed a $26.7 million round in preparation for an upcoming Series C which will be used to expand its service across Southeast Asia. Read Mor...
07:00 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch ChurchDesk Scores $2 Million Funding To Help Churches Go Digital
 Copenhagen-based startup ChurchDesk is a cloud-based platform and mobile apps for iOS and Android to help church staff and volunteers run their church more efficiently and better engage with the...
05:42 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Alibaba-backed Paytm Can Now Offer Banking Services In India
 Eleven companies, including Alibaba-backed Paytm and several telecoms, can now offer a wide array of financial services after being granted provisional approval by the Reserve Bank of India, the...
04:40 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch WhatsApps Web Client Adds iOS Support
 WhatsApp has finally added iOS to the platforms supported by its web app. This means that iPhone users can now sync their accounts and chats to WhatsApp Web. iOS is already listed on WhatsApp We...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Lessons Learned From My First Startups
 I was born an engineer and an introvert. The rest is pretty predictable. When I was three I obsessed over jigsaw puzzles. At five, LEGO. I showed whatever I built to my mom, and she gave me a st...
02:46 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch This App Shoots VHS Quality Video That Bob Saget Would Be Proud Of
 If you long for the shitty quality videos of pre-2000, the ones shot on a camcorder, then this iOS app is for you. Fittingly, it’s called VHS Camcorder and it costs $3.99. It’s kind ...
12:39 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2015
Techcrunch Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2
 Hardware was the clear cut theme of Day 1, Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2015 was a bit more eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, eSports...
11:35 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Review: Grado GH1 Headphones Are Big On Sound, Tradition
 In keeping with that thought, I’m currently leaningback in an Eames Lounge Chair dialing inon a copy of the Citizen Kane of headphone-listening albums, The Dark Side Of The Moon Remastered...
10:15 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Introducing TechCrunchs Seven New Weekly Newsletters, Because Email Wont Die
 After seeing massive growth on our daily newsletter over the past year, we decided to rethink the product and see what else we could offer to our die-hard readers. The biggest takeaways were tha...
09:44 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Hardware Alley In SF Wants YOU
 It’s that time again: Hardware Alley time! We want you to exhibit at Disrupt this September and we won’t take “Ehhh, maybe.” for an answer. Disrupt runs from September 21...
09:44 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Y Combinator Gets Hardcore About Hardware
 “Hey Robot, make me a sandwich”, I yelled over the ruckus of Y Combinator Demo Day’s break room. The traditional catered lunch had been replaced with a new buffet: hardware sta...
09:37 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Owlet, The Smart Baby Bootie, Raises $7 Million Series A
 Owlet, the teenie tiny bootie that goes on babies and informs you if they’ve stopped breathing, has raised a $7 million A round, adding some solid numbers to their already impressive $1.85...
09:19 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Uqora Is An After-Sex Drink To Prevent UTIs In Women
 Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are the second leading cause of doctor visits in the U.S., responsible for 10 million visits per year. They’re incredibly uncomfortable, require antibiot...
09:14 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Loss Of Extended Post-Graduation Work Permit Could Hurt International STEM Students
 International students in the United States who are working toward a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degree may soon find it a whole lot harder to work legally in the cou...
09:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Darwinism At Your Doorstep: Why You Only Care About Amazon Now
 Why do we care suddenly about working conditions when it turns out that white-collar employees are the ones getting shafted? The workers at Amazon fulfillment centers have much less choice and m...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Rise, A Nutrition Coaching App, Acquires HealthyOut
 Rise, a service that connects users with diet coaches, has acquired healthy restaurant food recommendation startup HealthyOut. HealthyOut combs the menus of nearby restaurants to find healthy fo...
08:41 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Thurst Is A Promising Dating App For Queer, Trans And Gender Non-Conforming People
 Finding love using online dating apps and services can be tough, and even dangerous for anyone who’s not straight and cisgender (those who don’t identify as transgender). Yes, there ...
08:25 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Dropbox Now Lets You Drag And Drop URLs To Share Webpages
 Dropbox announced a pretty handy feature today that allows you to drag and drop URLs into Dropbox. Anyone with access to where you’ve dropped them can then open the web pages on any device...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch The Do It When I Want Economy Is Here To Stay
 The public discourse about the “on-demand” economy gets a D+. Wherever I turn, whether it’s the Economist, New York Times, TechCrunch, ReCode, Forbes, Washington Post or Busine...
07:06 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch An Analysis Of Zirtuals Reality And The Perils Of Debt
 Debt is a harsh mistress, especially for a startup tech company. Read More ...
06:23 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Softens Blow Of Times Article, But Its Too Soon To Celebrate, Say Attorneys
 In recent days, Amazon has worked to soften the blow of a blistering piece about its culture in Sunday’s New York Times. In the article’s immediate aftermath, Jeff Bezos wrote a memo...
06:20 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Avid Life Media Says No Full Credit Card Numbers Stolen In Ashley Madison Hack
 The company behind dating site Ashley Madision, Avid Life Media, has issued a statement putting to rest some of the issues its users have been afraid of. Read More ...
06:05 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Of Course BlackBerrys Upcoming Android Phone Is Awkward
 Meet the FrankenBlackBerry. Is it an Android phone? Is it a BlackBerry? No, it’s the new BlackBerry Android phone! If you ever wondered what would happen if you slapped a BlackBerry keyboa...
06:04 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Cliick Wants App Users To Click Over Clickbait
 Meet Cliick: another dating app wannabe, but one that’s taking a bit of a leftfield approach to the perennial problem of matching singles. Instead of proffering profiles for users to swipe...
05:47 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch The Top 9 Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1
 Smart mattress covers, RNA diagnostics, and photosynthetic grow lights were amongst the big ideas that shone brightest on stage at Demo Day 1 for Y Combinator’ Summer 2015 batch. 50 startu...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch TechCrunch Is Hiring A Mobile Product Team
 At TechCrunch, we cover the latest in mobile, and it’s time for us to devote the same intensity to creating new TechCrunch apps on mobile platforms. To accomplish that, we aim to build out...
04:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Demonsaw Uses Social Cryptography To Share Files And Data Anonymously
 While Demonsaw sounds like it would be an amazing metal band, it’s actually a sharing system built by a senior programmer at Rockstar Games. The creator, Eijah, was part of the core team f...
04:14 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Launches Third Technical Preview Of Windows Server 2016, Adds Built-In Container Support
 Microsoft today published the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. As promised, this is also the first version of Windows Server to natively support Windows Ser...
04:05 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Airbnb On Building A Global Company
 The RISD grads were so passionate about their idea that they bootstrapped their company with a binder full of credit cards and sold politically themed cereal boxes during the 2008 presidential c...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Only 3 Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
 Disrupt SF is right around the corner, and the deadline for getting early bird ticket pricing to the show ends this week. You seriously don’t want to miss out on the opportunity to save $1...
03:41 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Heres Samsungs Answer To The Apple Watch
 Last week, Samsung held a big conference in New York. While many anticipated the announcements of the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+, the company also teased a new upcoming device —...
02:51 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Guardant Health And Flatiron Health Team Up To Cure Cancer With Big Data
 Every year, 8 million people around the world die from cancer, and 14 million people find out they have the disease. Guardant Health and Flatiron Health are joining forcesin an aim to cut those ...
02:49 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Americas Deputy Chief Technology Officer DJ Patil Is Coming To Disrupt SF 2015
 White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer for data policy DJ Patil is coming on stage with us at TechCrunch DisruptSF 2015.We’re excited to have him come and chat with us about his role ...
02:49 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Americas Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil Is Coming To Disrupt SF 2015
 White House Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for data policy DJ Patil is coming on stage with us at TechCrunch DisruptSF 2015.We’re excited to have him come and cha...
02:05 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Spredfast Acquires Shoutlet For A Social Marketing Team-Up
 Spredfast has acquired another social marketing company, Shoutlet.While the two companies are in the same industry, Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron (pictured above) said that when he looks at their pr...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On Bullish: The Digital Divide
 Happy Wednesday, friends, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, a newshow from TechCrunch designed to force me to wear makeup at least once a week. This time ’round we’re t...
01:50 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch SoftBank CEO In Waiting Nikesh Arora Buys $483M Of Stock In Personal Bet
 SoftBank’s Nikesh Arora — the man who Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son is backing as his replacement at the Japanese company — is doubling down on his employer after he agreed to...
01:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Humin Launches Knock Knock, An App For College Kids To Contact Each Other Without Exchanging Numbers
 Ankur Jain, the founder of Humin – an app that aims to organize your contacts better than your smartphone – is sitting across from me in a conference room in downtown San Francisco a...
01:17 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch FanDuel Acquires Sports Analytics Company NumberFire
 Fantasy sports company FanDuel is acquiring numberFire, in a deal that co-founder and CEO Nigel Eccles told me will help FanDuel pursue a vision that goes beyond fantasy sports.“Our ambiti...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Competitor Cinder
 Disrupt SF 2015 is right around the corner, so we thought we’d catch up on one of last year’s Battlefield contestants — Cinder. Cinder didn’t win the competition, but the...
12:25 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Full Ashley Madison Hacked Data Apparently Dumped On Tor
 Hacked data from online extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has apparently been leaked online, after a threat by a group of hackers to do so earlier this summer if the service did not sh...
12:23 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: OnePlus 2
In December of last year, a new, mysterious phone entered the oligarchy of the smartphone world. It was called the OnePlus One, and it made a hell of a splash as one of the more capable indie phones o...
12:08 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch More Than Just A Period Tracker, Kindara Raises $5.3M To Understand Womens Health
 Kindara, a startup that helps women track ovulation cycles and fertility, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding to bring big data to women’s health. Boston Seed Capital led the seed roun...
11:37 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Xiaomi Bakes Operas Data Compression Tech Into Newest Version Of MIUI Android
 Xiaomi may be best known for its competitively priced smartphones, which have soaked up marketshare in China at the expense of Samsung and other Android makers, but it also has its own version o...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch AlienVault Secures $52M Round With Eye Toward IPO
 AlienVault, a company that delivers a hybrid threat management solutions combined with a crowd-sourced threat intelligence platform, announced a $52 million investment round today. The company b...
10:39 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Api.ai Raises $3M For Its Siri-Like Conversational UI, Makes Developer Usage Free
 Api.ai, a developer of AI and natural language tech that enables developers to add Siri-like conversational interfaces to their apps, has raised $3 million in additional funding. The startup has...
10:08 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Lands Strategic Investment From One Of Indias Top Private Equity Funds
 Uber is once again upping its focus on India after the U.S. company announced it has closed a strategic investment from Tata Capital, one of India’s largest wealth management organizations...
10:03 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch SwiftKey Quantifies Emoji Use
 Which emojis do New Yorkers use more than other U.S. states? How diverse is California’s emoji usage? Do Alaskans dream of emoji fish? Read More ...
09:00 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch On-Demand Parking Service SpotHero Raises $20M In Series B
 The taskof locating a parking spot in a majorcity can be agonizing and at points seem downright impossible.SpotHero is aiming to simplify the process and help drivers locate parking and reserves...
08:21 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Rakuten Launches Its Own Security-Enhanced Android App Store In Japan
 Rakuten, Japan’s top online retail firm, has pulled an Amazon after it launched its own branded Android app store today. Read More ...
08:04 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Retail Analytics Startup IntelligenceNODE Raises $4M From NEA And Orios
 Mumbai-based IntelligenceNODE, a big data analytics startup that serves retailers, has raised $4 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates and Orios Venture Partners. The comp...
06:09 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Google Is Opening A YouTube Production Studio In Mumbai, India
 There’s good news for aspiring YouTube stars in India after Google announced its first YouTube Space for the country. The production studio is the second of its kind in Asia, following the...
06:00 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch GrabTaxi Lands $350M From Chinas Top Uber Rival Didi Kuaidi And Others
 GrabTaxi, the taxi-hailing app that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is in the money after announcing a $350 million Series E round from a range of investors that — interestingly — inc...
05:35 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Snapdeal Confirms $500M Investment From Alibaba, SoftBank and Foxconn
 Indian e-commerce platform Snapdeal has confirmed that it received $500 million of funding from three of Asia’s largest tech companies: Alibaba, Foxconn, and SoftBank. Returning investors ...
05:01 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Alibabas Cloud Computing Business Will Open Its International Headquarters In Singapore
 Aliyun, the cloud computing unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is taking another major step toward international expansion with the opening of a data center in Singapore. Aliyun received ...
03:49 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch Viddsees Android App Showcases Short, Independent Films From Asia
 If you like short films from independent makers and have an Android device then there’s good news for you after Viddsee launched a native Android app. Read More ...
01:51 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch The 50 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1
 Hardware took the spotlight at today’s Y Combinator Demo Day, reflecting a major shift of the accelerator beyond the cliche mobile app startup. Out of the 50 companies from the Summer 2015...
12:00 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2015
Techcrunch The Future Of The Web Is All About Context
 Imagine a world where search engines proactively send recommended articles, people and companies to their users — and all of these recommendations are extremely helpful and relevant. This ...
10:31 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch How Googles Networking Infrastructure Has Evolved Over The Last 10 Years
 Google today announced that it wants to fix your home Wi-Fi, but internally, it has long been working on far more complex networking issues. To connect the hundreds of thousands of machines that...
10:29 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Sandwichs Adam Lisagor on Producing the Killer Corporate Video
 Adam Lisagor, an L.A.-based video producer, has more demand for his corporate videos than he can handle, thanks to the breakout success of product launch videos for Square, Airbnb, and Warby Par...
09:33 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Launches New Windows 10 Build, Vows To Keep Its Early Access Program Alive
 Microsoft released a new Windows 10 build to its testing community today, noting in the process that thecadre of developer and fans that comprise its ‘Insider’ program will continue ...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch When The Bus Will Be Its Own Boss
 Thousands of cabs make their way through the streets of London. Hundreds of buses pick up and drop off passengers. Trucks carry their cargo. They are, of course, autonomous; like Google’s ...
08:24 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch StreetCode Academy Bridges The Gap Between East Palo Alto And Silicon Valley
 East Palo Alto sits in betweenFacebook and Google’s Silicon Valley campuses. But, despite their close proximity, they’re typically considered to be two different worlds.Formerly know...
08:16 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Anova Acquires Hardware Marketing Startup Get Fresh For $9.2M
 Okay, this one’s a little surprising: Anova, maker of an automated sous vide cooker, has acquired startup Get Fresh, with Get Fresh CEO Stephen Svajian becoming CEO of Anova.I wrote about ...
07:53 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Kik Raises $50M From Strategic Partner Tencent
 Kik, the Canadian company behind the messaging app of the same name has announced $50M worth of funding from one of its partners, China’s Tencent (also the biggest internet company in Chin...
07:53 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Kik Raises $50M From Tencent To Become The WeChat Of The West
 Kik, the Canadian company behind the messaging app of the same name has announced $50M worth of funding from one of its partners, China’s Tencent (also the biggest internet company in Chin...
07:50 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay
 Well it turns out that people who are willing to drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on gadgets like to use gadgets to spend more dollars. An exclamation point-laden report released today from...
07:29 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Is It Just Me Or Has Autocorrect Gotten Worse Lately?
 Has something changed with the algorithm for Apple’s spelling safety net? Read More ...
06:22 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Company Awarded Patent For Space Elevator
 The space game is hot and only the strongest are going to survive. One Canadian company feels like its in a good spot to succeed, having just been awarded the patent for a “space elevator....
06:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Wake Launches Its Effortless Designer Feedback Tool Publicly
 Sometimes a designer can get sucked so deeply into a project that they don’t even really know whether it looks good or not anymore. Feedback is an essential, yet strangelycomplicated, part...
06:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Kim Dotcom Leaks Conversation With UMG, Showing That Lawyers Run The Digital Music Industry
 Yesterday, Kim Dotcom tweetedan audio recording of a phone conversationbetween himself and Universal Music Group, about a potential deal betweenthe music label and Megaupload. While the call was...
06:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Meet Slick, A Motorized GoPro Stabilizer For Action Sports
 Slick is a new GoPro accessory launching today with an Indiegogo campaign. Instead of attaching your GoPro directly to something, you can put your GoPro into the Slick stabilizer and then attach...
05:42 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Traversal Networks Wants To Be Your Companys Cyber Security Department
 Imagine a company that installs an appliance to monitor your network for malicious activity, thenbroadcasts that security data to a cloud service and has experts watchingand responding to any re...
05:28 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Silent Circles Blackphone 2 Landing In September
 Silent Circle showed off the second generation of its pro-privacy Android-hardened smartphone, the Blackphone, back in March at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow — touting a summer launc...
04:58 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Yell Endlessly Into Your Phone, And Now Nuance Will Transcribe It
 Sick of typing up meeting notes or interviews? Speech recognition master Nuance’s new Dragon Anywhere transcription app can turn what you say into text with no limit on recording time. Thi...
04:57 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Cardwheel Is A Memories App That Recalls Photos Based On Context, Not Time
 Launching today, Cardwheel is an app that recalls a freshset of memories each day. However, unlike year-ago-remembering apps, Cardwheel uses machine learning to recall relevant, contextual memor...
04:46 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Google Launches OnHub Router, Promises Faster Wi-Fi And Simpler Setup
 Google today surprised us by launching a router with the help of its partner TP-LINK. The $199.99 OnHub router promises to do away with many of the issues you’ve likely experienced with yo...
04:38 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch ProtonMail Open Sources Its Encrypted Webmail Interface
 Secure encrypted email provider ProtonMail, which runs a “zero access” PGP mail service based in Switzerland has now open sourced its webmail interface — meaning all the code t...
04:35 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Opera Max Can Now Compress YouTube And Netflix Videos
 Opera Max, Opera’s data-saving proxy for Android, has long allowed you to save some of your previous mobile data by compressing text, video and images when you surf the web or use apps lik...
04:30 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch WellPath Integrates With 23andMe, FitBit To Customize Your Daily Supplements
 These days, you can get a subscription box for just about anything. And today, that includes customized nutritional supplements. WellPath, a company that puts together customized packages of mon...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Reminder: Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt SF 2015 End August 21
 You love technology and you love money. Why not combine both of those loves by purchasing an early-bird ticket to Disrupt SF 2015 before Friday and save yourself $1,000 in the process? But you h...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch How The Blockchain Can Aid The Effectiveness And Use Of Complementary Currencies
 The blockchain provides the foundation to design complementary currencies that embellish community relationships, drive regional economic growth and encourage self-sustainability. The local mult...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer At Pinterest, Its First CTO
 There are plenty of things on Steve Huffman’s to-do list since returning to Reddit as its CEO. Having a gifted technical mind himself, currently doing double duty as Hipmunk’s CTO, t...
03:06 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch How Relay FM Proves That Podcasts Arent An Overnight Success
 When Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett launched Relay FM, they expected to build a small independent network of weekly tech podcasts. Just a year later, Relay FM features 16 different shows and de...
03:03 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch With A New SMS Service, Gone Turns Your Unwanted Stuff Into Cash
 Gone, an app that helps you sell off unwanted stuff, has just launched an SMS service to make unloading your crap even easier. Gone launched its concierge service in San Francisco and Austin las...
02:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch EShares, Now Valued At $77 Million, Looks Far Beyond Silicon Valley
 EShares, which digitizes paper stock options, warrants and derivatives to create a real-time picture of who owns what at a startup, just raised $17 million in Series B funding at a post-money va...
02:07 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch BuzzFeed Confirms $200M Investment From NBCUniversal
 BuzzFeed just announced that it has raised $200 million from NBCUniversal.If the news sounds a little familiar, that’s because Vox Media announced a similar dealwith NBCUniversal last week...
02:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Fotokite Phi Is A $349 Drone On A Leash That Needs No Pilot, Just A GoPro
 Drones are the future of photo journalism, but the problem is you usually need a dedicated pilot. Unless you have a Fotokite. It’s a quadcopter on a retractible dog leash. Strap a GoPro to...
02:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Fig Lets You Crowdfund Computer Games For Profit, Not Just Fun
 A conspiracy has been hatched by the world’s top Triple-A and indie developers to change the way computer games are financed. It’s called Fig. It’s a highly curated reward and ...
02:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Confide, The Self-Destructing Messenger, Goes Live On Desktop
 Confide, the app that lets you send self-destructing messages, is now transitioning to the desktop. Confide launched 18 months ago as a mobile app on iOS and Android, offering users the chance t...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Product Hunt Takes AMAs A Step Further With The Launch Of LIVE
 Product Hunt, the online community where members upvote products, games and books they like, is helping that community get more of a heads up on “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) events today ...
01:16 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Whim Is A Dating App Focused On Actual Dates
 There’s a new service called Whimfor people who aretired of all the chattingin the current batch of dating apps,To be sure, there are other online dating servicesthat purport to focuson ma...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Square Cash Launches Apple Watch App Just In Case You Have Money Left After Buying The Apple Watch
 I don’t carry cash anymore. Ever. Sometimes I get caught in a situation where I need it, mostly when I want to tip someone. I use either a credit card or Apple Pay to pay for things, and I...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Datameer Bags $40M Round Led By Singapore Investment Firm
 Datameer, the big data analyticscompany builton Hadoop, announced a $40 million Series E round today led by ST Telemedia, an investment firm based in Singapore. Top Tier Capital Partners, Kleine...
12:04 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Swipe, The Web-Based PowerPoint Competitor, Raises Further Funding And Launches Pro Plan
 Swipe, the web-based PowerPoint alternative that brings features such as audience analytics, real-time polls and live syncing to the humble presentation, is flipping the monetization switch toda...
12:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Tracksmith Raises $4M To Outfit The Classic Runner
 Tracksmith, a running apparel brand based in Boston, has pulled in $4.1 million in new funding to outfit a growing pack of runners in the traditional style of the world’s oldest sport.Pent...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch iPad Point-Of-Sale Company Revel Systems Raises $13.5M To Expand In Asia And Europe
 iPad point-of-sale platform maker Revel Systems has raised $13.5 million in funding from ROTH Capital Partners to fuel its rapid growth. A follow-up to Revel’s Series C, which it announced...
11:13 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Index And Connect Ventures Back Marvel To Let You Turn Sketches Into Mobile App Prototypes
 Marvel, the U.K. startup that lets you turn sketches into mobile app “prototypes”, has picked up a new $2 million ‘seed extension’ round of funding. The company is also r...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Google Pushes Android One To Africa
 Google is ramping up its Android One affordable smartphone program with a push into Africa. The first Android One smartphone for the region is being made by OEM Infinix, and is launching in Nige...
09:31 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Fashion Discovery Site Roposo Nabs $15M From Tiger Global
 Roposo, a discovery platform for fashion products, has scooped up $15 million in fresh funding from returning investor Tiger Global. Based in Gurgaon, Roposo lets users save items from different...
08:45 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Google Delays Pilot Of Ara Modular Smartphone Til 2016
 There are Google (Alphabet) moonshots such as its project to hack death/extend human life. And then there is the stuff shooting quite a lot lower than the moon — aka projects which also se...
07:15 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Warburg Pincus, Illumina & Sutter Hill Launch New Genomics Co. Helix With $100M
 Based in San Francisco, Helix is aiming to be a central repository for personalized genetic information and provide a marketplace for applications potentially like the ones developed in Illumina...
07:02 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Targets Media Partners To Drive Growth In Asia And The Middle East
 Twitter added just 14 million new users in its last quarter of business, and now it is making a big push to grow in Asia and the Middle East, two regions that collectively account for over half ...
06:35 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Will Livestream Its Newly Rebranded Apple Music Festival On Beats 1
 Dr. Dre’s new album premiered on Apple Music, as you might expect, and now Apple is leveraging its annual live music festival to promote its music streaming service. Read More ...
06:35 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Will Live Stream Its Newly Rebranded Apple Music Festival On Beats 1
 Dr. Dre’s new album premiered on Apple Music, as you might expect, and now Apple is leveraging its annual live music festival to promote its music streaming service. Read More ...
04:01 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Platform9 Raises $10M In Series B Funding For Its OpenStack Deployment And Management Service
 Platform9, a service that aims to make it easier for businesses to launch an OpenStack private cloud on their existing servers, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B funding ...
03:48 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch BuzzFeed Signs Partnership With Yahoo Japan
 BuzzFeed has signed a joint venture with Yahoo Japan, which until recently was the country’s top search portal before Google gained a slight lead. Read More ...
02:44 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch 500 Startups Steps Into Vietnam To Expand Its Reach In Southeast Asia
 500 Startups, the U.S.-led VC firm, is continuing its push into Southeast Asia after it hired two partners in Vietnam, a signal that it may be about to launch a local fund for startups the count...
01:32 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch New Stretchy Electronics Will Help Us Stay Healthy And Safe
 Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are working on a new form of electronics encased in a stretchy, bendable casing that allows you to wrap leads ...
01:16 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Tenant King Creates Local Marketplaces Within High-Rise Buildings
 One of the most frustratingthings about living inan urban high-rise buildingis the close quarters you are forced to share with neighbors. However, one startup is trying to turn this annoyance in...
01:06 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2015
Techcrunch Behold! The Laptop Butler That Holds Your Drink To Your Laptop
 As we approach the New Age, a thousand portents churn on the horizon. Dogs and cats begin living together. A man has found something he mislaid months before in a place he has already looked. An...
11:33 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch MyTransHealth Will Launch This Fall To Help Transgender People Access Safe And Inclusive Healthcare
 One in four transgender people delay seeking healthcare due to discrimination, according to the National Center of Transgender Equality. A startup called MyTransHealth aims to address this with ...
11:28 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Heres A Video Of A 6 Foot Tall Humanoid Robot Stomping Through A Forest
 “Man, I sure hope I get to see a video of a massive robot stomping around a hiking trail today!”Your wish is my command, my friend. Read More ...
10:51 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Google Hangouts Gets Its Own Site, Just Like Facebook Messenger
 Everyone wants to be free and standalone. Remember when Facebook Messenger got its own site that maybe people use but we’re not sure because they don’t talk about it? Google Hangouts...
10:37 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch The 9 Worst Performing Tech IPOs Of The Last Year
 On the heels of our gallery looking into the best performing technology IPOs of the last twelve months, here is the other side of the spectrum, with help from CrunchBase data. Read More ...
10:37 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch The Ticket Fairy Pays You To Bring Friends To Events
 If you convince all your friends to go to a concert, shouldn’t the promoter give you a discount? Now they can with The Ticket Fairy, a full-stack events marketing and analytics suite comin...
10:09 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Amazons $5 Dash Button Already Hacked To Do Other Stuff Beyond Giving Amazon Money
 Need something to spark a bit of creativity this week? How about a super clever hack for Amazon’s $5, single-purpose Dash buttons? The Dash buttons were originally meant to serve as a quic...
09:42 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Zulilys Buyout Spike Leaves It Less Valuable Than When It Went Public
 For investors of Zulily, today is a good day. The company has agreed to be acquired by the parent company of QVC in a roughly $2.4 billion deal. The agreement values Zulily at $18.75 per share, ...
09:15 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Tech808 Merges The Worlds Of Hip-Hop And Entrepreneurship
 This past Saturdayin Oakland,CA, about 120 underrepresented people in tech — ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs to BlackGirlsCODE students to tech leaders — gathered inside ImpactHu...
08:18 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch 800-Pound Publishing Gorilla Facebook Barges Back Into Blogging With Notes
 Facebook basically locked Notes in the basement for the past half-decade. Its bare-bones blogging feature launched in 2006 as a place for writing missives that wouldn’t fit in a status upd...
06:37 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Custom Analytics Company Keen IO Goes Open Source With Its Data Explorer
 Keen IO announced today that it’s open-sourcing one of its key features. The company allows customers to create their own analytics tools without having to develop the infrastructure from ...
06:06 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch YC-Backed Drip Capital Provides Small Businesses With Working Capital, Loans
 With a broader U.S. economic recovery under way, loans to small businesses that fall under the $1 million mark have still been slow to recover. A Y Combinator startup called Drip Capital is look...
05:59 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch P2P Payments App Xendit Launches In Indonesia
 Xendit, a money-transfer service geared toward Southeast Asian countries, is launching today in Indonesia.The company is billing itself as a more private money-transfer service that’ll bea...
05:54 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Stealthy Hardware Startup Solu Bags $1.3M Seed
 Another hardware startup is sparking up in Finland. Helsinki-based startup Solu has taken in a $1.3 million seed round, ahead of a planned product launch this fall. Read More ...
05:47 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch The TC Meetup Pitch-Off Is Tomorrow And Youre Coming And Thats Final!
 We’re a day away, people. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off in NYC is going down in almost exactly 24 hours, and it simply wouldn’t be complete without you. Ten companies will have e...
05:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Next Version Of Android Is Called Marshmallow
 Google has made it a thing to name its Android OS versions after food. Letter by letter in the alphabet (har har). But not just any food, food that’s really bad for you. This version, whic...
05:13 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Wuala, The Secure P2P Cloud Storage Service Acquired By LaCie, To Shut Down
 In a blog post to customers, secure P2P cloud storage service Wuala just announced that it is to shut down. Read More ...
05:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Googles Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof
 Google now lets you see if your house is a good candidate for installing solar panels. Project Sunroof, a 20 percent project by Google engineering lead Carl Elkin, shows you how much solar power...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch How IoT Will Change Your Relationship With Insurance
 Between TVs, refrigerators, ovens, light bulbs, cars, fitness trackers and jewelry, it seems like everything these days is connected to the Internet. It’s probably safe to say that youR...
04:54 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch College Job Finder Campus Job Rebrands As WayUp
 Campus Job, a startup that connects college students with local job opportunities, has changed its name toWayUp. Launchedin September of 2014 by recent grads Liz Wessel and JJ Fliegelman, WayUpp...
04:20 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Aipoly Puts Machine Vision In The Hands Of The Visually Impaired
 It’s 3.30am in the featureless Singularity University meeting room I’m peering into via Skype and I’ve just asked Marita Cheng to take a photo of the buttons on her co-founder,...
04:05 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Twitters MoPub Sees Big Growth In Native Ads
 Twitter-owned mobile ad exchange MoPub is releasing some new numbers about the growth of native advertising.Native advertising is a fuzzy term, but it usually refers to ads that have been custom...
04:03 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch iRobot and CyPhy Co-founder Helen Greiner To Talk Robotics, Drones And Founding Companies At Disrupt SF 2015
 When it comes to the complex world of robotics, Helen Greiner is an expert. She was one of the co-founders of iRobot, the robotics company responsible for the wonderful vacuuming Roomba robot, a...
04:02 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Away, The Direct-To-Consumer Luggage Brand, Packs Up $2.5 Million
 Bringing down the cost of luxury goods through direct-to-consumer sales isn’t a new trend. We’ve seen companies like Warby Parker, Casper and more succeed in the space. But today, a ...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Last Week To Get Your Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt SF
 If you somehow still haven’t picked up your ticket to Disrupt SF, the time to act is now. You only have until 11:59 p.m. PT on August 21 to purchase tickets at the early-bird price of $1,9...
03:01 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Ubers New Update Gives Food Delivery As Much Attention As Transportation
 Uber is quietly rolling out an update today where Uber Eats (Uber’s prepared food delivery service available in NYC, Los Angeles, Toronto, Austin, Chicago, and Barcelona) is getting a majo...
02:59 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Circle Medical Brings A Full Service Medical Practice To You
 Circle Medical, launching from this summer’s Y Combinator batch, isa full service medical practice that will come to you. While other doctor-on-demand startupslike Heal have existed for a ...
07:06 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch MarketInvoice, The U.K. Invoice Finance Platform, Raises Further $10M
 The U.K.’s MarketInvoice, which plays in the peer-to-peer lending space by enabling businesses to raise money from institutional investors and high net worth individuals by ‘selling&...
06:54 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Jeff Bezos Says The New York Times Amazon Expose Got It All Wrong
 This weekend’s must-read story from the world of tech was this long New York Times report on the working culture. (Go ahead and read it if you didn’t already.) Read More ...
06:01 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Indias Housing.com Buys Real Estate Sales Software Startup HomeBuy360 For $2M
 Housing.com, the SoftBank-backed real estate platform in India, recently let go of its controversial CEO. Today it’s back in the news for more positive reasons, after it announced a $2 mil...
04:06 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
 It’s 2015 andyou might think ofthe mainframe as a vestige of an earlier computing era, but these megamachines still play a roleinside large institutions running intensive workloads.And as ...
04:01 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes
 You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence, but IBM has been putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for 15 years. T...
04:01 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Seagate, Toshiba, Scality And Others Launch Kinetic Open Storage Platform For Smart, Low-Overhead Cloud Object Storage
Two years ago, Seagate debuted a new technology for hard drives that essentially gives applications direct access to some of its drives over an Ethernet connection to store objects using key-value pai...
04:01 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch PLUMgrid Partners With Linux Foundation To Open-Source Its IO Visor Project
 The Linux Foundation and PLUMgrid today announced an alliance of hardware manufacturers, Linux distribution vendors and others that aims to advance Linux networking and virtualization for modern...
03:44 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch An (Important) Disproof Of The One-Time Pad
 In arecent TechCrunch articleI was quoted calling the one-time pad a “unicorn”. Inevitably, I wasroundlycriticized. But what none of the commenters (or myself) realized, however, was...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2015
Techcrunch Understanding The $100 Million Search For Intelligent Alien Life
 The search for microbial life continues to be a high priority for Congress and NASA, while the search for intelligent life is left fighting for scraps. Milner’s $100 million investment cha...
11:44 pm GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Drops Another Windows 10 Update
 And then there were three. Earlier this week, Microsoft released a new set of updates for Windows 10, the third time it has done so since the operating system formally debuted in late July. Wind...
10:30 pm GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch Engineering Firm HappyFunCorp Eyes More Acquisitions
 HappyFunCorp has been living up to its name, according to co-founder Ben Schippers — at least if you associate happiness and fun with profits, growth and acquisitions. Last year, I visited...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch Where Vancouvers Tech Ecosystem Goes From Here
 Compass recently published its second report on the global startup ecosystem. The report is the result of more than 200 interviews with entrepreneurs from 25 different countries, 11,000 startup ...
08:49 pm GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch An Exclusive Look At Amazon Orientation Day
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07:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch Tips For Silicon Valley From A Startup Accelerator In Gaza
 Founding a startup is difficult anywhere in the world, but it’s especially hard in Gaza. Since the war one year ago, Gaza has been nominally peaceful — but the norm is Gaza is not ea...
05:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch Air Traffic Control Is Getting A Much-Needed Upgrade
 Air traffic control (ATC) towers are an omnipresent feature of modern airports, second in recognition only to airliners themselves. Towers, though, represent only a small part of the vast networ...
03:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch The Burgeoning Invisible App Market
 Today’s “invisible app” market could be classified as a passing trend, but it might also be the beginning of a significant multi-year shift in how we transact when we’re ...
03:00 am GMT - Sun, August 16, 2015
Techcrunch The Promise Of 5G
 The evolution of personal communication has fundamentally altered the everyday lives of most people on our planet. Armed with a smartphone connected to a seemingly infinite ocean of information,...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Politicized Gig Economy May Make Changing Status Quo More Difficult
 The so-called “sharing economy,” which some affectionately (or pejoratively) describe as the “gig economy,” is becoming a highly politicized issue in the 2016 presidentia...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch MyOptique Buys Two More Eyewear Brands To Grow In Europe
 Index Ventures-backed veteran online glasses retailer MyOptique Group has expanded its customer base with two new acquisitions: German rival 4care, which owns Lensbest.de; and the U.K.-based pre...
10:54 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch The TC Meetup Pitch-Off In NYC Is On Like Donkey Kong
 We’re so close! The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is in three days and time is running out to buy tickets. What is the TC Pitch-off, you ask? Ten pre-selected companies will have exactly s...
09:10 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Disney Announces Star Wars-Themed Attractions, Thereby Ensuring Force Will Be With Us All
 Disney has announced that they will add multiple Star Wars-themed attractions to their two parks. You’ll be able to visit 14 acres of space worlds including a “never-before-seen plan...
08:45 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Tune In To TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM This Tuesday!
 It’s clear, based on the fact that you’re reading this article, that you enjoy visually consuming TechCrunch content. But what if I told you that you could listen to TC on the radio?...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Lessons From An Advertising Past
 The Lending Club IPO was a watershed moment for marketplace lending. One of the largest U.S. public Internet offerings ever, its success makes crystal clear that peer-to-peer lending is not only...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch BuildUp Fellows Program Aims To Nurture Underrepresented Founders In Tech
 There’s no shortage of tech accelerators and incubators, with the likes of Y Combinator, 500 Startups and TechStars. All three of them have addressed diversity in their own ways, but more ...
04:06 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Local SF Brewery Creates A Platform To Help The Tech Crowd Choose The Right Beer
 Craft beers aplenty but not sure what your taste buds might like to try? Local Brewing Company is a newly opened brewery in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco withan app for that. Brewmaster...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Navigating The New Waters Of Fundraising
 As a VC that has been in the industry for 15 years, I have watched many trends come and go. For the first few years of my career, my colleagues and I spent most of our time sourcing these trends...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Bluetooth Suppositories And Other Teledildonics You Didnt Know You Needed
 Let us talk frankly about technology and sex, which are, as the old ad has it, two great tastes that taste great together. Let’s talk about vibrators, and teledildonics, and orgasms, and K...
10:18 am GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Loyalty Bay Raises $1M For Its API To Incentivize With Gifts
You know those gift cards you see at the checkout counter in various stores? Well, it’s a kind’ve crazy business. Most people, when given gift cards, forget to spend them or that thereR...
02:00 am GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch The Future Of Consumer Marketing Is Personal
 Today’s marketing industry is a long way from achieving its end-game of a system that delivers the perfect creative through the best medium at the optimal moment to each individual audienc...
12:10 am GMT - Sat, August 15, 2015
Techcrunch Obama Is #TeamSpotify, White House Releases Two #POTUSPlaylists
 The Commander and Chief has just made his music streaming service allegiancesknown. The White House released a pair of playlists Friday morning that were allegedly hand-picked by Obama himself. ...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Lessons from Seouls Two Sharing Economies
 As a Fulbright grantee, I spent part of the last year researching the sharing economy in Seoul. One of my main findings? Korea actually has two. The first is small-scale, hyper local and sociali...
08:52 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch MissTravel Will Find A Sugar Daddy To, Uh, Sponsor Your Vacation
 Ever wanted to travel to an exotic island for a week but didn’t have the cash? Well, thanks to MissTravel, that’s not a problem anymore — if, and it’s a big if, you’...
08:45 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch InspiroBot Generates Random Inspirational Images To Make You Seem Deep And Maybe A Little Crazy
 Take a pretty picture. Slap some inspirational words on it. Post it on Facebook, then swim in a river of likes. If this is a thing you do, be afraid: you have been replaced by a robot. A wonderf...
08:30 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead
 Slack! The email killer! It’s going to kill email! Welp, not today. The team clearly listens to its users, as the company announced a new integration (for Standard and Plus plan customers)...
07:38 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch The 11 Best Performing Tech IPOs Of The Last Year
What qualifies asa tech company? Everyone has their own definition. For this gallery, we’ve hewn closer to the Silicon Valley definition of tech with help from CrunchBase data. Every list has it...
07:17 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Mozilla Makes Private Browsing More Private In Firefox, Adds Tracking Protection
 Mozilla is testing a new private browsing mode in Firefox that doesn’t just keep no trace of your porn browsing habits on your machine but that also blocks online services that could track...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Samsung, 3D Printing, And The Coolest Cooler
 Samsung unveiled new phones and Samsung Pay this week, causing a bit of buzz in the world of mobile. Because we simply can’t resist it, we discussed the latest in 3D printing, while the Co...
06:55 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Bar Roulette Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
 The premise is simple: tap a button, get into an Uber and have no idea where you’re going. Actually, that sounds like a really awful nightmare I had once.Bar Roulette is a fun mashup built...
06:47 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Why Google Became Alphabet, Explained In 120 Seconds
 What are the pros and cons of Google reorganizing itself as Alphabet? Well, Larry gets to play with the future, Google can focus on more ambitious projects, and it could help the company retain ...
06:14 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch You Can Now Run Windows 10 On Your Mac
 Thanks to Apple updating Boot Camp, that is. If you have had a hankering to try out Microsoft’s latest operating system — and I can recommend at least taking it for a spin — no...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Creating A SEA Change In The Digital Age
 A popular anecdote states that Henry Ford paid his assembly line workers a good wage so they could afford to buy their own company’s cars. Although the reasoning for this decision has been...
05:35 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week, Google announceda major corporate restructuring, Samsung introducedtwo new flagship smartphones and Tinder took to Twitter ina full-blown PR meltdown. These are the stories to catch y...
04:57 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch RetroPie 3 Lets You Play Old Games On Your New Pi
 The RetroPie project has always been one of the best things about the Raspberry Pi. This software suite turns your tiny, single-board computer into a retro gaming engine and has powered such exc...
04:52 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch The #ILookLikeAnEngineer Community Hosted One Of The Most Powerful, Inspiring Tech Events Ive Ever Attended
 The #ILookLikeAnEngineer movement, an effort to highlight diversity in the tech industry, is still going strong. Last night, over 200 underrepresented engineers and supporters came together in S...
04:35 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Bitcoin Provider Cubits Aims To Help Greeks Move Their Money
 Bitcoin services provider Cubits.gr and Greek exchange BTCGreece have teamed up to help Greek citizens move cash out of the country to suppliers and business partners. Founded by Julian Mautner,...
04:32 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch CultureSphere Promises A Bottoms Up Approach To Employee-Driven Social Media Sharing
 While businesseshave plenty of options if they want to push their employees to do more social media sharing, CultureSphere founder and CEO Danny Gordon said the existing tools all take a similar...
04:18 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: LocalBitcoins Leaves New York, And The Number 8
 Happy Friday, friends, and welcome to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s mostly-weekly podcast on all things bitcoin. This week John Biggs was in San Francisco, so we recorded the audi...
03:25 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Introducing The Startups Presenting At The NYC Meetup Pitch-Off
 If you’re a frequent flyer over here in TechCrunch airspace, then you know that there is an upcoming Meetup + Pitch-off going down in NYC in but four short days. Ten companies will have ex...
02:51 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch European Entrepreneurs Launch StartupBoat To Address Refugee Crisis
 While many in Europe are sunning themselves on beaches, a group of young tech entrepreneurs and investors have grouped together to address the crisis of refugees, many from Syria, which have com...
01:41 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch jEugene Detects Errors In Legal Documents, Saving Time And Money
 Legal documents. If they didn’t already bore you to death imagine having to find the mistakes in them. This is the role of quite a number of poor humans who must screen these things, or su...
01:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch TetraSciences Internet-Of-Instruments Could Supercharge Research
 There are estimated to be over 13 million scientists globally, almost all of whom have to enter the results of their work manually, often by hand in a notebook. Sure, much of it gets entered int...
05:00 am GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch New Financial Times And Economist Owners Ponder The Future Of Digital Media
 Who saw the recent sale of the Financial Times (FT) from Pearson to Nikkei for $1.3 billion coming? The sale of The Economist, also owned by Pearson, three weeks later, was less of a surprise, a...
04:20 am GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Yahoos Audio-Free Video Messaging App Livetext Is Now Available Worldwide
 If you were intrigued by Livetext, the audio-free video messaging app launched by Yahoo last month, but don’t live in the U.S. or the handful of test markets where it was available, then w...
12:30 am GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Chaotic Moon Is Building A Fitness Tracker For Wheelchairs
 Here’s a different kind of fitness tracker — Freewheel, a prototype developed by Chaotic Moon Studios.The Austin-based design and development studio was in the news recently because ...
12:00 am GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Auro Robotics (YC S15) Is Testing A Driverless Shuttle System On College Campuses
 College students may soon be taking autonomousshuttles from class to class and wherever else they need to go on campus.YC-backed Auro Robotics is currently testing their driverless shuttle syste...
12:00 am GMT - Fri, August 14, 2015
Techcrunch Auro Robotics Is Testing A Driverless Shuttle System On College Campuses
 College students may soon be taking autonomousshuttles between classes and wherever else they need to go on campus. Y Combinator-backed Auro Robotics is currently testing their driverless shuttl...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Reddit Responds After Being Threatened, Banned And Unbanned By The Russian Government
 Reddit has had a pretty bizarre last fewdaysin Russia. The entire site was blacklisted andbanned yesterday fora number of users inRussia following a clear threat made byRussia’s FCC, the R...
10:57 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch No-Fee, Stock-Trading App Robinhood Is Now On Android
 Zero-fee, stock-trading app Robinhood is now on Android. The app launched on iOS late last year and has grown to “hundreds of thousands of customers” and made over $1 billion in trad...
10:45 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Pinterests Tim Kendall Talks Monetization And Commerce
Tim Kendall’s new job is to make sure Pinterest’s partners are finding new ways to make money off one of the most engaging platforms on the Internet. He’s been plenty busy since he g...
09:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Why A High-Profile Washio Customer Tweeted Then Deleted What Looked Like A Used Condom In His Laundry Bag
 Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein tweeted this morning that he’d found what looked like a used condom in a freshly cleaned bag of baby clothes from laundry startup Washio. “Hi @washioapp,&...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Corporate Venture Capital Is King In Japan
 When it comes to raising money in the U.S., corporate venture capital is seemingly synonymous with “Plan C.” If you can’t raise money from top-tier firms, you move on to Plan B...
08:52 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Tim Cook On Latest Diversity Numbers: Theres A Lot More Work To Be Done
 Apple just released a new diversity report with data about the race, gender and ethnic makeup of the company.Even though the company is still mostly white (54%) in the U.S., it’s promising...
08:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch INNOVATE2016: Understanding The Zignal To Noise Ratio In The Presidential Race
 Welcome to INNOVATE2016, a weekly interview series focusing on how new technology and innovation is influencing the upcoming Presidential election. According to our first guest the 2016 election...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Get Your Disrupt SF Hackathon Tickets Now
 It’s time. Tickets to the Disrupt SF 2015 Hackathon are now available, and you can get in on the action by snagging a ticket here. The event takes place September 19 and 20 at the historic...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Google And Dell Launch A Chromebook Built For The Workplace
 During an enterprisey event at Google SF today, the company announced a brand new Chromebook for enterprise, built by Dell. The Google for Work team has been tailoring all of Google’s cons...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Facebooks Parse Open-Sources All Of Its SDKs
 Parse, the backend platform for apps Facebook acquired back in 2013, today announced that it will open source all of its software development kits (SDKs). The Parse SDKs for iOS, Android and OS ...
05:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Releases iOS 8.4.1 Update With Various Apple Music Fixes
 Today, Apple released an official iOS update (8.4.1) to users, aiming to fix a number ofbugs that have been plaguing those using Apple’s new music service.The update aims to reduce the gen...
05:28 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Tesla Will Raise $500M In A Public Offering With Participation From Musk
 In a prospectus filed today by the company, Tesla announced the intention to sell up to 2,100,000 shares of common stock. Underwriters will also receive a 30-day option to purchase up to 315,000...
04:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Group Commerce Startup Massdrop Raises $40M
 Massdrop is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The company focuses on what it calls “community-driven commerce.” It allows people who are interested in th...
03:58 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Tinder Cofounder Sean Rad Back In As CEO
 Last night it was revealed that Sean Rad, cofounder and President of Tinder, would return to the CEO position he once held and, in March, handed over to Ebay exec Chris Payne. In a press release...
03:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch The Galaxy S6 Edge Is Samsungs Answer To The iPhone 6 Plus
 Today at a big press conference, Samsung announced two new flagship phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, and its new sibling, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+. While a Note update was highly anticipate...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Boku Acquires Mobileview Italia In Further Carrier Billing Consolidation
 Boku, the U.S.-based company that enables consumers to pay for goods via their phone bill or phone credit, has made another land grab in Europe with the acquisition of Italy’s Mobileview I...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Touts Video Chops With Two More Big Screen Phones
 As expected (and amply leaked), Samsung has today whipped back the curtain on a pair of new flagship smartphones, announcing two new phablets: the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+ at press ...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Launches Samsung Pay In The U.S.
 Today at Samsung’s Unpacked 2015 event, the company announced that its mobile payment feature, Samsung Pay, is launching in the U.S. in September. In many ways, Samsung Pay works like Appl...
02:40 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Simply Framed, The Online Custom Frame Shop, Expands Collection
 Simply Framed, the online shop that helps you get any artwork custom framed, is today announcing a host of new features to simplify the process.The company launched back in 2014 in collaboration...
02:37 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Watch Samsungs Galaxy Note Press Event Live Right Here
 Samsung is holding a big press conference in New York at 11 AM EDT (8 AM PDT, 4 PM BST). The company is expected to announce two new flagship phones — the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and the Sam...
02:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Stride Health Expands Nationwide, Introduces Prescription Discounts For Freelancers
 Stride Health, a startup that aims to be theHR teamfor all independent working Americans, is introducing two new features today to help freelancers better manage their health insurance. Launched...
02:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Fleksy Adds Deep-Linking To Its Keyboard App, Opening New Revenue Opportunities
 Fleksy, the popular third-party keyboard app for iOS and Android, has taken the next step to monetizing its service after it began enabling deep-linking to other apps. Read More ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch United Airlines Brings Highly Detailed In-Airport Maps To Its iOS App
 No matter how advanced phone mapping technologies have become, stepping into an airport takes you back several decades into the era of physical maps. With no other way for unseasoned travels to ...
12:57 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch HTC Cuts 15% Of Its Workforce As It Bids To Return To Profitability
 HTC said last week that it would be cutting costs “significantly,” and today the struggling Android phone maker revealed that will make 15 percent of its staff made redundant as part...
12:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Who What Wear Closes $8 Million Series B From Amazon, Others
 Who What Wear, the shoppable fashion site with 3.8 million uniques, has today announced the close of an $8 million Series B round with participation from Amazon and Bertelsmann Digital Media Inv...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch DigitalGlobe Partners With Mapbox To Launches Its Maps API
 DigitalGlobe, the publicly traded, high-res imagery service that owns its own fleet of satellites, has long been known as a purveyor of fine satellite imagery to governments and large companies ...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch DigitalGlobe Partners With Mapbox To Launch Its Maps API
 DigitalGlobe, the publicly traded, high-res imagery service that owns its own fleet of satellites, has long been known as a purveyor of fine satellite imagery to governments and large companies ...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Salesforce Adds E-Commerce To Its Community Cloud
 Customers of Salesforce’s Community Cloud will soon be able to add their own buy buttons. The Community Cloud allows businesses to build sites where customers can interact with the company...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Smart Glass Maker View Raises $150M
 View, a company which specializes in creating something calleddynamic glass, raised a ton of new capital Thursday to fund their specialized windows that can changetint in response to weather con...
11:20 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Is Looking At Facial Recognition For Easing Photo-Sharing
 Perhaps taking a leaf out of Facebook’s playbook, Apple is looking at ways to automatically share photographs with the people being snapped, according to a new patent filing. Read More ...
08:40 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Xiaomi Trolls Samsung With Redmi Note 2 Launch
 Chinese mobile making upstart Xiaomi is gunning to steal Samsung’s thunder by launching a pair of phablet smartphone on the same day Samsung is due to unbox phablet-sized updates to its Ga...
07:50 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch BigBasket, One Of Indias Largest Online Grocers, Raises $50M
 BigBasket.com, one of the biggest online grocery stores in India, is planning to expand into more cities after raising $50 million in new funding led by Bessemer Venture. Founded in 2011, the co...
06:20 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Lenovo Is Laying Off 3,200 Staff After A Poor Quarter Of Business
Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker and fifth largest smartphone firm, is laying off 3,200 employees as it bids to return to healthier finances following a disappointing last quarter. Read More...
01:37 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2015
Techcrunch Tencent Strikes Strategic Partnership With Indoor Mapping Startup Sensewhere
 Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the maker of WeChat, has pinned down a strategic investment with indoor mapping startup sensewhere. The total amount of the deal was undisclosed, but the companie...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Niantic Labs, Maker Of Ingress, Spun Out Of Google As Its Own Company
 The dust hasn’t completely settled on Google’s Alphabet move and we’re told that the new umbrella company will be nimble. Today, one of the groups inside of the company announc...
10:46 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Intercom Helps Businesses Track Whether Their Messages Are Actually Working
 If you’re sending emails or other messages to your customers, there’s a standard way to measure your success — you look at whether they opened those messages, and whether the o...
10:02 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Postpones Ship Date For Its Surface Hub Wall Computer To January
 Microsoft’s Surface Hub device will now ship on January 1st of next year. The delay comes after the firm signaled last month that a prior, fall ship date would be delayed. Microsoft promis...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Youre Still Modeling Growth Incorrectly
 When I first got the job running marketing at Mint, founder and CEO Aaron Patzer told me that we had to get Mint to 100,000 users within six months of launching. The number itself didn’t i...
09:15 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Confirms Live Broadcasting Will Soon Open To Journalists And Verified Profiles
 Facebook plans to open up its Periscope livestreaming competitor to more than just celebrities. In replies to requests from Verified Pages about when they’d get access to the VIP-only Face...
09:04 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Yahoo Sags 4% After Alibabas Q2 Earnings Disappointment
 After Alibaba reported lower-than-expected financial performance in its second quarter, shares of Internet portal and mobile shop Yahoo fell around four percent in regular trading. Alibaba’...
08:43 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch BMW: Alphabet Is More Than A Name To Us
 Google is now the largest subsidiary corporation of Alphabet, the newly established holding company that manages Google and all of the company’s side projects. But Alphabet’s website...
08:39 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Vox Media Raises $200M From NBCUniversal
 NBCUniversal just announced that it has invested $200 million in Vox Media, which owns sites like Eater, SB Nation and the eponymous Vox.com, as well as tech news publications Re/code and The Ve...
08:25 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Cisco Pops 2.5% After Reporting Better-Than-Expected FQ4 Revenue Of $12.84B
 After the bell, Cisco reported its fiscal fourth quarter financial performance, which beatmarket expectations. The company detailed revenue of $12.84 billionin its fiscal period, resulting in ea...
07:38 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Drops New Windows 10 Mobile Build, Promises Faster Release Cadence
 Quick hit here, friends: Microsoft dropped a new Windows 10 Mobile build today for ‘fast ring’ subscribers of its Insider program. The gist is that Microsoft is continuing apace with...
07:26 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch How Not To PR By Tinder
 Have you heard about the Tinder Meltdown (TM)? Some even called it a “stunt.”In case you haven’t, here’s the quick and dirty: a piece appeared on Vanity Fair that Tinder ...
07:24 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch RXACTIVE Fitness Wear Helps You Work Out Harder In Less Time
 Manyof youprobably know the feeling you get when you only have thirty minutes to squeeze in a run between work and a dinner meeting, but you’ve drank enough coffee to keep going for miles....
06:53 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Ohm Is A Smarter, Lighter Car Battery That Works With Your Existing Car
 While you probably don’t think about them until you have to, automotive batteries — the chunky boxes that helps start your car’s gas engine — are pretty terrible. They di...
06:37 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Will Start Offering Paid Internships To CODE2040 Fellows
 In its latest attempt to foster and support diversity, Apple has partnered with CODE2040, a non-profit organization focused on empowering underrepresented minorities in the tech industry.Apple i...
06:36 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Turn Your TV Into A Huge Smart Touch Display With The $99 Touchjet WAVE
Innovations on the good ol’ family television have moved from 3D to 4K to curved panel over the years. But what all of those evolutions have shared are a heightened price tag for a whole new dev...
06:18 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Dropbox Adds Support For U2F Security Keys
 Dropbox today announced that it will now support security keys.Security keys are physical USB dongles from companies like YubiCo that allow you to bypass the traditional app- and text message-ba...
06:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch The TC Meetup Pitch-Off In NYC Is Going Down In Six Days
 Dear readers, I’m writing to inform you that the TC Meetup + Pitch-off in NYC is in less than a week, and tickets are selling out fast. I don’t want you to miss out. You don’t ...
05:44 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Intels Baby Steps Toward A More Diverse Workforce
 Intel just released a mid-year report diversity report, highlighting the progress its made in its effort to improve diversity over the next five years. Earlier this year, Intel announced its $30...
05:43 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch What To Expect From The iPad Mini 4
 Multiple recent leaks have indicated that Apple is working on a major new version of the iPad mini. You can expect a more powerful, thinner iPad mini, and it will let you take advantage of all t...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Periscope Has 10M Registered Users Watching 40 Years Of Video Per Day
 Periscope may have just hit the impressive milestone of 10 million registered users after just four months, but what it wants you to focus onis the sheer volume of video content that its users a...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch PokItDok Healthcare API Platform Picks Up $34 Million In Series B
 PokItDok, the API provider for the healthcare industry, has today announced the close of a $34 million Series B. The company, launched back in 2011, provides software framework for things like p...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch The Boom, Not Doom, Of Market Failure
 While it might seem that the disruption du jour is all anybody is ordering these days — making innovation, growth and new value seem like insurmountable things — businesses should fo...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Removes 140-Character Limit From Direct Messages So That People You Follow Can Send You Long Rambling Missives About Their Day And Stuff And Things. You Know, Like Horror Stories About Their I
 They warned us back in June that this day was coming. I was in denial. Surely, Twitter wouldn’t. Couldn’t. Welp, they have. Get ready for people to drop a book into your DMs, because...
04:53 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Kik Brings Music-Themed Communities To Its Mobile Messaging Service
 Mobile messaging firm Kik is upping its focus on music after launching a new service to connect fans of top artists and bands via its popular chat app. Read More ...
04:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Link-Sharing Site This. Raises $610,000 Seed Round
 Who may be on first and What may be on second but This. is on its first seed round. The media company, incubated inside of Atlantic Media, is a “curation platform for people passionate abo...
04:21 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Demo Your Virtual Reality Startup At TechCrunch Disrupt SFs VR Pavilion
 We were promised flying cars, and we got them — they’re just virtual. But we still want people to pilot them in between hearing the top tech CEOs speak at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in Se...
04:15 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Spotted Gets $14.5M For Its Crossed Paths App For Subtly Pinging Crushes
 German startup Spotted, which plays in the serendipitous connections space, with a location-sensitive app that lets users view and message the people they’ve crossed paths with — a l...
04:02 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Google Launches New Site To Showcase Experimental Open Source Apps For Android And Android Wear
 Google launched Android Experiments today, the mobile apps counterpart to its Chrome Experiments site.Just like with Chrome Experiments, the idea behind Android experiments is to showcase apps t...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Box Snags Former EMC Exec To Run Nascent Platform as a Service Offering
 Box announced today that it was hiring former EMC executive Jeetu Patel to be in charge of its platform business. Patel will have the titlesenior vice president of platform and chief strategy of...
03:43 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Startups.co Will Restart Virtual Assistant Service Zirtual
 Following the “pause” in operationsof Zirtual, founder and CEO Maren Donovan published a blog post last night offering a few more details about what went wrong. She also announced th...
03:39 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Windows 10 Is Now Available For The Raspberry Pi
 Want to run a stripped-down version of Windows on your Raspberry Pi? Sure you do. Windows 10 IoT Core, a version of Windows for embedded devices, is now available from Microsoft and looks to be ...
03:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Meet Genee, Your Artificially Intelligent Personal Assistant
 Genee, an artificially intelligent scheduling app, is launching today into public beta so that anyone can haveapersonal assistant. On the heels of Zirtual’s collapse, Genee hopes to take h...
03:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Join The Giants Of The Maker Movement At TC Disrupt In San Francisco
 Makers rule the world. Whether you sling code or craft hardware, the ability to build is of absolute importance in the new economy. That’s why I’m pleased to announce that I’ll...
02:57 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch A Review Of The Dead-Simple Pirate3D Buccaneer 3D Printer
 3D printing has never been this easy. Meet the Pirate3DBuccaneer printer. It takes minutes to set up and works flawlessly. Yet this isn’t a printer for the serious DIY tinkerer. This is a ...
02:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Get Ready For The New Nexus Phones
 If you like your Nexus 5 but it’s starting to feel old, rejoice! It looks like Google is teaming up with not one but two Android OEMs to manufacture the next Nexus phones. Huawei is workin...
02:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch On-Demand Massage Startup Soothe Unwinds With $10.6M In New Funding
 Soothe, which sends massage therapists to clients’ homes, is smoothing its expansion with $10.6 million in new funding. The startup’s new round was led by The Riverside Company and w...
02:22 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch New ATM Shimmer Fits Invisibly Inside The Card Slot
 The wily ATM hackers are at it again with a new form of card data gathering system, a “shimmer.” These super-thin card readers slide right into the card slot and are technically invi...
02:17 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Russian Government Threatens To Block Reddit
 The Russian government isn’t too happy with Reddit these days. But it’s not even over criticalcomments made about the government’s handling of Ukraine, it’s about a singl...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Branchs Deep Links Let You Preview Apps In Your Browser
 Branch, a startup focused on deep-linking technology, today released a new toolfor developers called Deepviews that will help them deliver previews of their applications before they are installe...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On Bullish: Can The Bold Italic Come Back?
 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This week we’re taking a look at digital publications, the spate of recent shutdowns we...
01:31 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Cover Restaurant Payments App Unveils Cover 2.0, With Revamped Discovery
 Cover, the app that helps you find a restaurant, order food, and ultimately split the bill among friends, has today announced a huge redesign to the app. Over the past couple of years, Cover has...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Lightricks, The Creator Of Facetune, Lands $10M To Develop New Photo-Editing Apps
 Lightricks, the startup behind popular selfie app Facetune, will focus on developing its image processing technology after snapping up $10 million. Led by Carmel Ventures, this represents Lightr...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Mojio Launches Apps And Services Marketplace For Its Connected Car Platform
 Mojio, a connected car platformthat is based arounda small, Internet-connected device you plug into your car’s OBD port, is launching an app and services store for its platform today. The ...
12:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Events Performance Monitor DoubleDutch Raises $45 Million In Series E Funding
 DoubleDutch is hoping tomake measuring the success of your event as easy as skipping rope, and now they’ve got some more cash to make it happen. The company announced Wednesday that they h...
12:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Alibaba Second-Quarter Revenue Misses Expectations
 Alibaba’s investment in its mobile business is starting to bear fruit, but the e-commerce giant still reported disappointing second-quarter results. Read More ...
12:03 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Insenth Focuses AR Glasses On Cyclists
 Meet Senth In1 — a pair of AR glasses, based on Android 4.3, being developed by a Beijing-based startup, specifically for cyclists. Read More ...
11:10 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Tencents Mobile Gaming Growth Slows, But Online Advertising Beats Expectations
 Tencent’s second-quarter earnings result was a mixed bag. On one hand, sales at its core smartphone games business slowed down. On the other hand, the Chinese Internet giant’s online...
10:40 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch When Normal Emoji Are Not Enough
 The many faces of emoji just gained a few more — thanks to a web tool put together by 17-year-old developer Giacomo Randazzo which randomly remixes standard yellow-faced emoticons to stir ...
05:34 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Hong Kong Police Raid Uber Offices, Arrest Drivers
 Uber’s worldwide expansion plans have hit yet another legal bump. Five Uber drivers were arrested in Hong Kong yesterday, allegedly for operating without a hire car permit and driving with...
05:04 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Expects India To Surpass Its U.S. Business Soon, And More [Q&A]
 Uber expects its business in India to overtake its U.S. operations as it prepares to expand into more rural parts of the country to tap the huge growth potential on offer. Read More ...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2015
Techcrunch Branch8 Lets Merchants Sell Via Multiple E-Commerce Sites With Fewer Headaches
 If there’s one thing that is as diverse and multi-faceted as culture in “Asia” — a term that really exists on paper to help people label this part of the world — it...
11:57 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch #FergusonTaughtMe Touches On Race, Police Brutality And Privilege
 A year ago this past Sunday,police in Ferguson, Missouri,shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old. Over thelast couple of days, people haven takento Twitter using the hashtag...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Driving Your Car Will Soon Be Illegal
 Driving a car will be illegal by 2030. Our economy will be severely impacted as millions of truck drivers, cabbies and delivery people are put out of work. In this era of endless innovation, man...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Reminder: Get Your Discounted Student Tickets To Disrupt SF 2015
 Disrupt SF is coming up fast, and we still have some student tickets available for the show at the deeply discounted price of $300 a piece. Previously, these tickets were only available to those...
09:06 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Looking Glass Founders See Their L3D Cube As A New Type Of Display
 Earlier this year,Looking Glass successfully raised $252,000 on Kickstarter for its 3D LED cube, dubbed the L3D Cube. Now the startup actually is shipping cubes — or rather, kits for assem...
09:06 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Patreon Makes Space To Create | TC Cribs
 In today’s episode of Cribs, we visit Patreon, a subscription-based funding platform for artists. Patreon is all about creative. Giant murals deck the walls alongside the productions of wr...
08:05 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Shares Tumble 5% Amid China Concerns
 Apple suffered a 5 percent drop in its share price Tuesday as Wall Street reacted strongly to news from China that the government is further devaluing the yuan. The currency devaluation is likel...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Its Operating Systems Vs. Messaging Apps In The Battle For Techs Next Frontier
 As mobiledevicescontinue to explore and colonize the technology landscape, their conquests areleading us to a new era, beyond search and apps.Looking to claimthe territory previously held byURLs...
06:20 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Wearsafe Is A Connected Panic Button For The App Generation
 At the Disrupt NY hackathon this year the winning hack was a live-streaming app called Witness whose team’s pitch was a desire to be the panic button for the mobile age. But what about sti...
06:14 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Drunk Mode App Aims To Be College Kids Responsible Drinking Buddy
 There were inklings of hints that this was the frattiest startup of all time. For starters, the subject line of the email pitch was “Not Porn” and it was about an app called Drunk Mo...
06:11 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Square Has Both The Hardware And Software To Help Businesses Of All Sizes
 Last week, I visited payments company Square and sat down with its Hardware Lead, Jesse Dorogusker, about much more than hardware. Dorogusker, a former director of engineering at Apple, discusse...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Top VCs Are Chasing Digital Companies In Latin America
 It has been difficult to attract investors to the digital startup space in Latin America. This is because of a variety of reasons, including the lack of a track record of established VC firms in...
05:37 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Checking In On Windows 10
 A few points, dear reader, to get ourselves acclimated: Windows 10 landed in the market at the beginning of this month to moderately strong reviews Microsoft is hellbent on attracting a user bas...
05:13 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Google Launches First Beta Of Its Zync Visual Effects Renderer On Google Cloud Platform
 Google, the largest subsidiary corporation of Alphabet, wants movie studios to use its cloud to render their special effects.Last August, Google acquired Zync, a visual effects rendering service...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Gnip Launches Full-Archive Search API To Provide Instant Access To Nine Years Worth Of Tweets
 Social data company Gnip, acquired by Twitter last year, has become an indispensable tool for all types of companies. Data, especially social data, is necessary to make decisions on things like ...
04:45 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Your Edgy Startup Idea Is Stupid
 First it was glitter and dicks. Then it was on-demand everything. Then it was breasts. Startups, please: stop.2015 has been the year of the awful idea. It began early on this year with a number ...
04:37 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Sketchfab Adds Animations To Its 3D Model Sharing Platform
 3D model repository Sketchfab just added a nifty little feature that should appeal to 3D animators. You can now upload animated models to Sketchfab, and the website will endlessly loop the anima...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch InboxVudu, The AI-Based Email Prioritizer, Launches An App For iOS And Apple Watch
 InboxVudu, the system that helps you prioritize important emails, is today launching an iOS app and an Apple Watch app. The service uses machine learning to recognize phrases and sentences that ...
03:28 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch A Programmer Is Recreating The Classic Game Night Trap In The Browser
 Our sister site Engadget has a fun interview with a programmer who is currently porting live action video game Night Trap to the browser using HTML5. Why? Because Night Trap, one of the first vi...
03:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Markhor Takes The Middleman Out Of Designer Shoemaking
 Markhor founder Waqas Ali spent the first half of his life without ever using the Internet. He grew up in a small village in Pakistan, and recalls usingGoogle for the first time in 2007 afterhe ...
03:16 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch This Natural Language Interface Aims To Let Anyone Make Animations Jump
 UK-based animation tech and post-production effects studio iKinema has been demoing a natural language interface for controlling animations which CEO Alexandre Pechev reckons could prove its wor...
03:08 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Makerbase Is An IMDb Of Who Made Your Favorite Apps And Websites
 A new servicecalled Makerbase wants to make it easier for anyone to discover who built some of the most popular websites and apps people use every day. The idea, which is described as an “...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch DigitalOcean Teams Up With Bitnami, Now Lets You Install Over 100 Web Apps With A Few Clicks
 DigitalOcean has made a name for itself as a hosting service that focuses on simplicity. Now, the company is making it easier to install complex applications on its service with the help of Bitn...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network
 Facebook’s making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it’s going to let other developers earn money off them too. Today Facebook announced that its openi...
02:48 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Y Combinator, Tim Cook Back Nebia, A Shower That Uses 70% Less Water
 As a health spa owner in Mexico City, Carlos Gomez Andonaegui often fretted about the cost of water. Mexico’s capital city, with more than 20 million people in the metropolitan region, sit...
02:34 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Symantec Sells Veritas Division To Private Equity Group For $8B
 Symantec announced today that it had sold its Veritas division to TheCarlyle Group, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm for $8 billion in cash. The move comes after Symantec, mostly known...
02:04 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch YC-Backed Bizzy Helps Brands Send Fewer Emails With Better Conversion
 There’s nothing worse than a clogged inbox, and though it might not appear so, ecommerce brands don’t want to be the object of your resentment from over-emailing. Bizzy, a YC-backed ...
01:16 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Wildcard Debuts A News-Reading App Designed For The Mobile Age
 Besides messaging, snapping photos, and checking the weather, news reading has become one of the top activities done on mobile phones. It’s so popular, in fact, that Apple is introducingit...
12:07 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Canonicals Ubuntu Phones Now On Sale Globally
 Mobile market latecomer Canonical claims “latent demand” for its tardy but alternative smartphone OS has encouraged its OEM partner, BQ, to open up availability of its handsets to bu...
12:04 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch FindTheBest Becomes Graphiq, Launches New Visualization Tools For Publishers
 Over the past six years,FindTheBest has been rolling out search and comparison shopping tools (18 in all)to cover everything fromcompanies to schools to gadgets to real estate. At this point,fou...
11:34 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch In The Age of Disruption, Customer Love Is More Important Than Ever
 Think about how frustrated you were the last time you waited for your cable guy to show up, or how annoyed you gotwhen you settled into the back of a cab, only to have the driver tell you he wou...
11:12 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch StoryCorps App Plans Ambitious Oral History Project For Thanksgiving
 Over the past 12 years, oral history project StoryCorps has collected interviews with over 100,000 people. Most of these recordings are stored at the Library of Congress, creating what StoryCorp...
10:51 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch New System Lets Designers And Researchers Draw In 3D Space
 A new 3D interactive system created by researchers at the University of Montreal allows designers and builders to “draw” in scenes in real time. By projecting images on a thin materi...
09:59 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Patents New Liquidmetal Techniques For Manufacturing
 Liquidmetal, as you’ll recall, is a bulk metallic glass – BMG – that can be cast into shapes and then hardens into a metal. It’s popular in watchmaking and was recently t...
09:19 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Livspace Lands $8M To Expand Its Online Home Design Service In India
 Livspace, an interior design and home furnishings e-commerce startup in India, has closed $8 million in fresh funding to expand its nine-month-old service. Read More ...
08:35 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch StyleLounge, The European Metasearch Engine For Clothing And Lifestyle Products, Raises 2.3M
 Germany’s StyleLounge, which operates a metasearch engine for clothing and lifestyle products, has raised a 2.3 million Series A round of funding. Read More ...
06:29 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Tiger Global Leads $30M Investment In E-Commerce Robotics Firm GreyOrange
 Robotics is the latest area of interest in India for Tiger Global, after the New York-based hedge fund led a $30 million investment in GreyOrange, a company that automates e-commerce and logisti...
05:20 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch The Tech Behind Each Letter In Googles Alphabet
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05:05 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Smartphone Shipments To India Recover Thanks To Devices Priced Under $100
 After a slow start to 2015, smartphone shipments to India recovered in the second quarter. According to IDC, 26.5 million devices were shipped to India during that time period, up 44 percent fro...
04:01 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Silicon Valley Leaders Of Iranian Descent Sign Letter Supporting Iran Nuclear Deal
 “We are Americans of Iranian descent. Like all Americans, we’re proud of our great country, and wevigorously defend the U.S. ideals of freedom and opportunity,” reads the openi...
04:01 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch DataGravity Focuses On Security In Latest Release
 DataGravity announced version 2.0 of its storage appliance today, one that focuses on data security, particularly knowing what files you have and who’s been accessing them.When DataGravity...
02:49 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch OK Alphabet
 “Finally.” “Moonshots.” “Sundar.” “Speed.” “Brilliant.” “YES!” These are all things that I’ve heard from insiders to...
02:25 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2015
Techcrunch Scentbird Aims To Help Men Smell Better
 Perfume subscription platform Scentbird was once just for the ladies. But participation in Y Combinator influenced the startup to create a men’s cologne service, Scentbird Men. Scentb...
11:12 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Bumble Introduces VIBee, A Verification Feature Independent Of Your Social Status
 Bumble is on somewhat of a hot streak. The dating app, which has women initiate all of the conversations, originally launched nine months ago. After reaching 1,000,000 unique conversations in ea...
10:54 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Zeetings Adds Interactivity And Analytics To Your Presentations
 Tired of making (or watching) the same old PowerPoint presentations? An Australian startup called Zeetings gives you new tools to interact with your audience and track their engagement.“De...
10:12 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Google Shreds Bureaucracy To Keep Talent Loyal To The Alphabet
 Google was too big for its own good. Housing everything from its search engine to robots to life-extension technologies in one corporate hierarchy made for a lot of managers. Smart people often ...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Defusing The Internet Of Things Time Bomb
 They’re coming, and we won’t be able to stop them. But will they be friends or foes? What are we talking about? Internet of Things (IoT) devices. And, as with most things, the answer...
09:56 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Adobe Is The Latest Tech Company To Increase Parental Leave
 Software company Adobe will be expanding its maternity and paternity leave programs foremployees. Starting November 1, birthmothers will be able to take up to six months of paid leave. Primary c...
09:52 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Google Shares Spike 6% After Alphabet Restructuring
 Google just announced a big restructuring of the company, sending shares up about 6% in extended trading.After the announcement, shares of Google rose 5%, but have since risen even further. As p...
09:46 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Google Is Now Alphabet, But It Doesnt Own Alphabet.com
 So Google is now part of Alphabet, a new holding company that will manage Google and all of its other products. Why is the new company called Alphabet? Google/Alphabet CEO Larry Page says itR...
09:37 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Twitters Stock Bounces Back 9% After An NFL Deal And A Stock Purchase
 If you just read the media reports, Twitter is a sad, ship-jumping mess. The reality of the situation is that while the company might seem like a soap opera partof the time, its uniqueness cause...
08:52 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Meet Alphabet, Googles New Corporate Boss As Sundar Pichai Takes Over The Search Company
 Google just rocked the world with some light news on a Monday. It has restructured the company and everything will now report up to “Alphabet Inc.” a new corporate name. That include...
08:30 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Rackspace Pops 5% After Reporting Lackluster Q2 Results Buttressed By The Promise Of Share Buybacks
 Following the bell today, Rackspace reported its second-quarter financial performance. The company mostly missed street expectations, with lower-than-expected revenue, and earnings-per-share tha...
08:19 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Second Measure Launches, Offering Powerful Live Data Analysis Of Public/Private Companies
 A testament to the strength of Second Measure (YC S15) and their data analysis product is the fact that, after backing the company, Y Combinator was so impressed that they became paid users of t...
07:46 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch A Sneak Peek At ABC Familys New Silicon Valley Reality Show Starring Tim Draper
 The latest Silicon Valley reality series Startup U begins tomorrow night on ABC Family and we got a sneak peek at what the show is about. Startup U features 10 student entrepreneurs as they comp...
07:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Govbergs OnTime App Lets You Keep A Virtual Watch Box On Your Phone
 Watch collectors are weird. Sometimes they plan meetups where they get together with their entire watch collections and fondle each others’ timepieces, breathless with excitement. In short...
06:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Addresses Bendgate Complaints With Sturdier iPhone 6s Shell
 Supply chain leaks have indicated that Apple is working on an iPhone 6s, and details of the new device have been surfacing one at a time for the past few weeks. Unbox Therapy has obtained the re...
06:42 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Teleport Expands Its Life, Housing Search Engine to New York City
 As Silicon Valley buckles under the pressure of housing the technology industry itcreated, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company called Teleport has been quietly building a set of tools to distr...
06:25 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Snapchat Adds Data-Saving Mode To Win Users On A Budget
 Snapchat is courting teenagers around the world who want to save their data plans with a new travel mode. When enabled, Snaps, Stories, and Discovery content will only load if users tap them, ra...
06:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Google Will Soon Bring Metal-Like, Low-Overhead Graphics API To Android
 Google today announced that it will soon support the Khronos Group’sVulkan graphics API on Android. The goal of Vulkan is very similar to that of Apple’s Metal API for iOS and OS X. ...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Scoots New Cargo Line Of Scooters Can Carry Taller People And More Stuff
 Scoot, the Zipcar for scooters, recently updated its line of vehicles to carry bigger people and more cargo.The new Scoot Cargo vehicle can carry up to 390 pounds, including both rider and whate...
05:41 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch A $30 Dongle Can Unlock Your Car And Garage Remotely
 Hacker Samy Kamkar has created a clever system for capturing and playing back the radio signals that can open your garage door and car. It costs $30 and could spell the end of the laughably inse...
05:22 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch NomadCast Is A Powerful Live Streaming App With Embeddable Player
 Meet NomadCast, a recent addition to the live streaming app space. While Meerkat, Periscope and YouNow have been focused on the social aspect of live streaming, NomadCast varies in many ways. No...
05:10 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless (And Insecure)
 Internet hyperbole (and financial analysis) have rendered HTC, a once high-flying mobile brand, essentially valueless. In short, the company is trading below cash on hand which means if you boug...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Five Factors Influencing The Car-As-A-Service Evolution
 What if I told you that 50 years from now, the car industry’s revenue model will see a significant shift from outright purchase to a subscription-type model? You wouldn’t think it wa...
04:54 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
 Tuesdays are special. Besides the fact that my favorite bar has $1 oysters that night, TechCrunch Radio also airs every Tuesday evening at 6pm ET / 3pm PT. John Biggs and I discuss the latest in...
04:47 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Windows RTs Last Hurrah
 While the market has known for long seconds that Windows RT is over, it has not been clear where users of operating system would end up in the Windows 10 era. Microsoft’s Gabriel Aul noted...
04:41 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch LockedOut: An Uber For Locksmiths
 By now, it’s clear that we will see “Uber for [x]” companies until there is indeed an Uber for everything. Here is the latest one: LockedOut — an Uber for locksmiths.The...
04:08 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch CloudCutout Applies Machine Learning To Image Editing
 Danish startup CloudCutout is applying machine learning techniques to the quotidian yet pernickety process of isolating an image from a background. Their initial target market is school photogra...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Branch Metrics Beefs Up Talent For Deep Mobile Linking Through ClassOwl Acquisition
 Palo Alto’s Branch Metrics, which just raised $15 millionearlier this year, is beefing up its talent bench through acquiring education startup ClassOwl. Three employees from ClassOwl, whic...
03:36 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Fitbit Founder James Park Will Speak At Disrupt SF 2015
 James Park is on a roll. Best known as the co-founder and CEO of Fitbit, his company went public on June 18 — and things couldn’t have gone more smoothly. Fitbit is now worth more th...
03:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Ohlala, An Uber-for-Escorts, Launches In Berlin, Plans Global Rollout
 Until now, ‘let’s meet’ apps like Tinder have skirted the border between dating and simple sexual hookups. Others, like Grindr, have been far more blatant. But noone (at least ...
02:31 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Virtual Assistant Startup Zirtual Is Pausing All Operations
 Zirtual is hitting the pause button.The personal assistant startup sent an email to customers saying that it’s “pausing all operations,” starting today: “Due to a combina...
01:36 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch BounceX Raises $6.5M To Make Advertising Less Obnoxious
 Bounce Exchange, a startup that helps websites strategicallyadvertiseby analyzinguser behavior, has pulled in $6.45 million in new funding. 500Friends founder and angel investor Justin Yoshimura...
01:30 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Mapping Israels Cyber-Security Startups
 While many CISOs and corporate executives are familiar with Israeli cyber talent owing to Check Point, Imperva, CyberArk and other notable security success stories, the sheer scope of Israeli st...
01:23 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Now With 4 Million Users, Design Platform Canva Launches To Businesses
 For the past couple of years, Sydney-based Canva has been working to make graphic design more accessible through its online platform offering over a million photographs, graphics and fonts that ...
12:52 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Access To Startup Skills Threatened By U.K. Visa Review
 The U.K.-based startup founders and investors who penned an open letter backing the Conservatives at the General Election in May are now confronted with the prospect of a Tory government looking...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Reminder: Two Days Left To Sign Up For 2-for-1 Tickets To Disrupt London
 If you haven’t yet signed up to win the chance to buy two tickets to Disrupt London for the price of one, what are you waiting for? You have just two days left to get your name on the dist...
10:21 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Xiaomi Is Now Making Smartphones In India
 Xiaomi, the company that topped China’s smartphone market in the last quarter, has begun manufacturing devices in India in another move to localize its brand in the South Asia country. Rea...
09:13 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Alibaba Buys 20% Of Chinese Retail Giant Suning For $4.6B
 Alibaba may be using the internet to let merchants reach Chinese consumers, but the e-commerce giant still retains an interest in brick and mortar retail. How much of an interest, you ask? Enoug...
07:17 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch Koreas Daum Kakao Brings In 34-Year-Old CEO To Grow Its Messaging Business Overseas
 Daum Kakao, the $3 billion dollar internet company that owns messaging app Kakao Talk and recently bought Path, has turned to youth after hiring a new CEO to push its business forward. Read More...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2015
Techcrunch A Conversation With Y Combinators President Sam Altman
 Since taking over YC, Altman has not only increased the number of startups in each batch, but he has also ventured into hardware and biotech, started a growth fund (according to SEC filings) and...
11:26 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2015
Techcrunch Y Combinators L. Condoms Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand
 I don’t know what kind of a situation one needs to be in to need a pack of condoms delivered in under an hour when there’s likely a fully-stocked convenience store within a 15 minute...
10:24 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2015
Techcrunch Rubicon Global Wants To Help Collect The Healthcare Industrys Trash
 Rubicon Global, a company helping businesses save money on trash and recycling, is expanding into the healthcare industry.Rubicon connects businesses with local garbage haulers through an online...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2015
Techcrunch Biometric Security: From Selfies To Walking Gaits
 The payments industry, facing the risk of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks and various types of credit card fraud, has begun incorporating various types of biometric technology to enhanc...
09:14 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2015
Techcrunch This Is My Jam Shuts Down Without Screwing Users
 “We’re deleting everything in a week because we got acquired/ran out of money”. This is a familiar scene when a startup shuts down. It’s why I’ve wondered if users ...
06:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2015
Techcrunch Bigger Isnt Always Better: How A Big Round Can Hurt Your Startup
 When you’re a struggling team eating away at your meager savings and trying to get your startup profitable, venture capital funding seems like the holy grail. Raising money from investors ...
03:37 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2015
Techcrunch Hardware Incubators Are Critical To The Future Of Making Things
 Hardware is hot — and poised to get hotter. Venture capital investment in connected device hardware startups reached approximately $1.48 billion in 2014, more than triple the amount of two...
06:00 am GMT - Sun, August 9, 2015
Techcrunch How Gulf Countries Can Ignite Their Startup Revolution
 There is hardly a day that passes without a new major initiative, announcement or bold proclamation by the Gulf economies of United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia t...
10:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch Hacking For Cause: Todays Growing Cyber Security Trend
 What do the following data-breach headlines from the past year have in common? The Sony Pictures hack: Everything we know so far; Anonymous hackers release emails ordering bear cubs be killed; H...
09:24 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch The Thin Black-Clad Line
 We live in a cyberpunk novel. Every major nation-state clandestinely develops (and/or purchases) carefully targeted malware, and constantly probes—or penetrates—other nations’ ...
06:53 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch Yahoo To Get Its Iconic San Francisco Billboard Back
 Happy 20th Birthday, Yahoo! What did you get, what did you get? I bet there’ll be parties galore. Gifts, prizes. Presents! – A BILLBOARD! A Billboard? – THE Billboard. If you&#...
06:31 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch Visa Selected Three Black-Founded Startups To Help Solve Its Marketing Challenges
 On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama hosting the first-ever White House demo day, which placed an emphasis on diversity, Visa hasannounced the winners of its The Everywhere Initiative. An...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch Understanding The Future Of Mobility
 We recently had the opportunity to participate in two important conferences focused on the future: one on the on-demand economy (On Demand Economy 2015) and the other on mobile communications (R...
05:46 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch UK-Based Carphone Warehouse Hack Could Affect Up To 2.4M Customers
 Happy Saturday! Today, UK-based mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse shared with its customers that it had been the subject of a “sophisticated” cyber attack, potentially laying bare t...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Foxy Lady
 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 7, 2015. Thanks to Twitter and a mid-debate nap, the shape of the 2016 race b...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch Plate IQ Turns Paper Invoices Into Predictive Insights
 YC-backed Plate IQ is using smartphone tech to tackle a recurring paper-based pain-point for small and medium-sized restaurants — namely the stack of invoices they get from food suppliers ...
03:30 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2015
Techcrunch ZenHub Brings Its Project Management Service To GitHub Enterprise
 ZenHub, a service that helps engineering teams manage their GitHub projects through Trello-like drag-and-drop task boards, was previously only available for regular GitHub accounts. Starting now...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Cities As Platforms
 Take a look at the last decade’s fastest-growing companies. You’ll notice they have one thing in common: They’re all platforms.YouTube was not the first video-hosting site, but...
10:35 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Ad Tech Startup C1X Raises $5.1M
 C1X is announcing that it has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Mukundu Kumaran spent seven years as an engineering director at Yahoo. He said that during that time, he sa...
10:28 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Apples App Store Saw $1.7B in Billings And Broke Customer Records In July
 Perhaps to counterconcerns over iPhone sales and China, Apple this week released numbers related to the App Store’s growth that demonstrate the very real impact China is having on its app ...
09:43 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Hack The Planet! (Before Its Too Late)
 Greetings from the gaudy hellscape of Las Vegas, and that overcrowded maelstrom of surly hackers known as DEF CON! What follows is a brief rundown of the talks here (and its big corporate sister...
09:29 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Earnings Beatdown, Twitters Palace Intrigue And VR Goes Full Weird
 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s recurring roundup of the biggest tech stories of the week. This week our humble band delved into recent earnin...
09:10 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch A Look Back At Earnings
 Tired of earnings and financials and share price changes and non-GAAP operating margins and future cash positions? Too bad.It’s earnings season in the markets, and that means that the tech...
08:45 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Apples Next iPhone Rumored To Debut On September 9th
 I’m not a betting man — but if someone were to say “Quick! When will Apple announce the next iPhone?!”, I’d say September. It’s… just what they do.Sure ...
08:45 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.07.15
 Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1:30pm PT.Our LIVE CHATROOM hereGillmor Gang on Facebook HEREOur sister show &...
08:41 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Smartwatches Decimated Traditional Watch Sales Last Month
 An NPD survey is suggesting that the Apple Watch has pushed watch sales to the lowest point since 2008. NPD has found that watchmakers sold $375 million worth of watches in July, down 11% from l...
08:15 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Watch This Human-Controlled Robot Crush Cans And Punch Through Drywall
 “The way I like to think about this project is that we’re trying to put a humans brain inside of the robot”Don’t worry: it’s less techno-horror-movie-esque than it ...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch How Consumer-Focused AI Startups Are Breaking Down Language
 Language is a distinctly human trait. Or is it? A new wave of consumer-focused startups are now developing artificial intelligence programs that can mimic, adapt and interpret the complex semant...
07:08 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Rand Paul And Chris Christie Spar Over NSA Surveillance
 Last night, Fox News hosted one of the most ridiculous, deeply entertaining GOP Presidential debates I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing a drinking game to.In the midst of the Moscow Mul...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: HTC, OnePlus, Drifter, And Robot Sex
 It’s earnings season, and HTC is having a rough few years quarter. Meanwhile, OnePlus released the OnePlus 2, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 seems to have leaked all over the place. Plus, t...
06:58 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Opera Acquires Bemobi, A Netflix-Like Subscription Service For Premium Apps
 Browser maker Opera today announced that it has acquired Bemobi — a subscription-based mobile-app-discovery service with a focus on the Latin American market. Opera expects the acquisition...
06:47 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Verizon Kills Off Subsidies And Contracts, Simplifies Data Plans
 Verizon announced a brand new line-up of monthly plans for new customers. Following T-Mobile’s model, plans are now a bit cheaper and easier to understand. But you should expect to pay mor...
06:20 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week Apple.com got a significant redesign, a Time magazine cover featuring Palmer Luckey went viral, Netflix announced a huge perk for its employees, and we found out what it’s like t...
05:57 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Researchers Teach Robots To Avoid Childhood Bullies
 Kids are mean. Just ask any robot. Robotics engineers have discovered a tendency for little kids – kindergartners and grade schoolers – to be abusive towards robots when they’r...
05:37 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Outspoken Investor Chris Sacca Backs Jack Dorsey As Next Twitter CEO
 As Twitter marches closer to selecting its next CEO, outspoken early investor in the company Chris Sacca has made his personal choice known. Via Twitter of course: Twitter should name @jack as f...
05:30 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Lyft Invites Us Into A Fuzzy Van For Outside Lands
 More than 200,000 music lovers are about to don their spirit hoodies and flower crowns for San Francisco’s popular Outside Lands music festival this weekend. That means lots of traffic,con...
05:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Coaching, So Coach.Me Put Coaching In Your Coaching
 You don’t just wake up an expert on how to write a crappy headline, someone has to coach you. Thanks to Panz, you are now reading this gem. Coaching is a big business though and there̵...
04:19 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Yuck It Up, Humanity, Because VR Is Going To Make Things Really Weird
 The Internetogencia was all in a tizzy this week as it commented on a cover photo from Time magazine extolling the simple joys of VR. The cover, if you haven’t seen it, features the dishev...
02:36 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Drifter Is A Waterproof Speaker That Lets You Leave Your Smartphone Behind
 While a waterproof, buoyant speaker seems like a viable option for boaters, fishers, and generally wet sport enthusiasts, most of them are powered by Bluetooth, meaning that a very delicate and ...
02:36 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch iOS 9 Public Beta 3 Arrives With Support For AT&T Wi-Fi Calling, New Wallpapers, Wi-Fi Assist And More
 For the first time, Apple this year allowed the public to participate in beta testing the forthcoming version of its new mobile operating system, iOS 9. And now, the company has pushed out the l...
01:50 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Google Maps New Night Mode Feature Makes It Easier To Navigate In The Dark
 A new update to the Google Maps iOS application promises to make it easier to navigate when it’s dark outside, potentially reducing the risk associated with using the app while behind the ...
01:50 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Google Maps Night Mode Feature Makes It Easier To Navigate In The Dark
 A new update to the Google Maps iOS application promises to make it easier to navigate when it’s dark outside, potentially reducing the risk associated with using the app while behind the ...
01:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Critical Flaw IDed In ZigBee Smart Home Devices
 Security researchers have identified a critical vulnerability in devices using ZigBee, a wireless standard used for connectivity in multiple Internet of Things and smart home devices — rai...
10:00 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Ten Questions Every Founder Should Ask Before Raising Venture Debt
 When financing a growing company,venture debt can be a great supplement to venture capital. Much has been written to help founders think through venture capital, but venture debtremains a bit of...
05:00 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Alibaba Launches English Version Of Anti-Counterfeiting Tool
 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched an English-language version of TaoProtect, one of its counterfeit reporting system. Used on Tmall and Taobao (Alibaba’s top B2C and B2B platfo...
04:26 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch Fitness Wearable Developer Lemonade Lab Scores $5.8M From Foxconn Unit
 Lemonade Lab, which develops sensors for athletes, has scored $5.8 million led by a Foxconn subsidiary. The Boston- and Tokyo-based startup will form a strategic partnership with FIH Mobile, whi...
01:00 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2015
Techcrunch How Venture Capital Incentives Promote Zombie Companies
 It feels like every other day: Another company raises a massive round of funding. We tend to assume that a company that’s raising money must be doing well. However, the truth is that ventu...
10:23 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Apple.com, One Of The Worlds Biggest Stores, Gets A Redesign
 A redesign of Apple.com that went live today removed the standalone ‘Store’ tab, and the ‘store.apple.com’ domain entirely. This is an enormous change for one of the bigg...
10:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch iOS 9 Will Know To Use Cell Data When The Wi-Fi Sucks
 iOS 9 finally kills off an endless source of frustration: getting stuck on Wi-Fi networks that are just strong enough to connect to but too weak to actually use. Read More ...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Taking The Mystery Out Of SDKs With Open Source
 Mobile SDKs are, for most publishers, a necessary evil. Whether you’re trying to integrate analytics, cross-promotion, tracking, monetization or payments, your first step is most often to ...
08:58 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Should Software Companies Be Legally Liable For Security Breaches?
 It’s a truism that all software has bugs and security holes. It’s another that license agreements invariably make software vendors immune to liability for damage or losses caused by ...
08:46 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch New Relic Posts Strong FQ1 Revenue, Beats On Profit And Guides Above Street Expectations
 New Relic reported its first quarter, fiscal 2016 performance today, including better than expected revenue, and lower than expected per-share loss. While the latter clause is correct, it’...
08:43 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch NVIDIA Soars 9% After Beating On Profit And Revenue, Credits Growth In Its Gaming And Auto Tech Divisions
 NVIDIA shares were up nearly 9 percent in after-hours trading following its announcement of a beat in FY 2016 Q2 earnings Thursday. The computer component manufacturer managed to exceed street e...
08:43 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch The TechCrunch NYC Meetup Pitch-Off Is Nigh!
 The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off in NYC is kicking off in less than two weeks, and you know better than most that a party isn’t really a party unless you’re there. But let’s n...
08:31 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Did Virtual Reality Just Have Its Google Glass Shower Moment?
 If you followed the Google Glass saga, you remember that everything started out pretty hunky dory. There was an exciting demo that included people jumping out of a plane. Then there were develop...
08:29 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Report Points To Russia In Sophisticated Cyber Intrusion Of Unclassified Joint Staff Email
 A preliminary CNBC report is suggesting that the Russian government is responsible for a “sophisticated cyber intrusion” of an unclassified Joint Staff email server. The server, whic...
08:22 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Zynga Beats Expectations In Q2 With $200M In Revenue, Fails To Stem User Exodus
 Zynga today beat analyst expectations for revenue and earnings, but its user numbers continued to decline, sending the stock down about 1 percent in extended trading.Zynga’s daily active u...
08:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Arista Networks Beats Q2 Expectations With $195.6M In Revenue, $0.54 In Adjusted Per-Share Profit
 Arista Networks, a networking firm, announced its second-quarter financial performance today, beating market expectations. The firm earned an adjusted $0.54 per share, on revenue of $195.6 milli...
08:16 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Hackaday Acquires DIY Hardware Marketplace Tindie
 Tindie, the marketplace for makers to fund and sell their hardware creations, is being acquired by maker blog Hackaday.Headquartered in San Francisco, Tindie has previously raised $1.7 million i...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Tilt Co-Founders James Beshara And Khaled Hussein Talk International Expansion And Preserving Culture
 Tilt’s already expanded to the United Kingdom, its second international country, this year and plans to expand to five more countries in the next five months or so. That’s a challeng...
07:47 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Social Publishing Service Wattpad Hacked, Some Passwords May Have Been Exposed
 It looks like Wattpad, a site where authors can share their writing and interact with readers, was hacked a couple of months ago.The company has been sending out emails to some users alerting th...
07:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Researchers Hack A Model S, Tesla Sends Out Over The Air Fix
 When it rains, it pours. After it was announced that cars from bothChrysler and GMhad majorsecurity vulnerabilities last week, two security researchers announced that they had figured out a way ...
07:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Researchers Hack A Model S, Tesla Sends Out Over-The-Air Fix
 When it rains, it pours.After it was announced last week that cars from bothChrysler and GMhad majorsecurity vulnerabilities, two security researchers announced that they had figured out a way t...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Not Just An App: The Front End Of The Trillion-Dollar, Full-Stack Revolution
 Stop calling Uber, Airbnb and Munchery just apps. These apps are the front end of a full-stack revolution powered by cloud, mobile, drones, robots and AI. These apps started as simple solutions ...
06:23 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Dr. Dres New Album Premieres Tonight On Apple Music
 You knew it was going to happen. Apple acquires Beats. Announces Apple Music. Launches Beats 1 radio station (and yes…it’s WORLDWIDE). And then… BREAKING: Exclusive stream of @...
06:20 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Behold! Watch As The Power Of The Wind Instantly Energizes This 3D-Printed Thingamabob
 Do you believe in perpetual motion? The Flat Earth Theory? The sauroids who run our governments? Have I got something for you. The Wind Energy Stored In Gravity project allows you to store wind ...
06:06 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On TechCrunchs Bitcoin Podcast: Biggs Goes Reddit, And Meet T.com
 Hello dear friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast. Akin to the proverbial ancient turtle, we are still here. This time around, John Biggs came ...
06:04 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Genius Hub Is Like A Paid Version Of Reddits AMA
 Reddit’s traffic may be climbing amid its recent controversy and turmoil, but the company’s fate is now more questionable than before. And that means it’s time for competitors ...
06:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Launches Open Source Tool To Help iOS Developers Port Their Apps To Windows
 At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would soon release tools that would make it easierfor iOS and Android developers to take their existing code and ...
05:28 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch #ILookLikeAnEngineer Is Coming To A San Francisco Billboard Near You?
 #ILookLikeAnEngineer has taken the Internetby storm over the last few days. Now, there’s an IndieGoGo campaignthat has already surpassed its goal of raising$3,500 to put up a billboard in ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch On-Demand Food Startup Sprig To Start Classifying Its Contractors As Employees
 Healthy food delivery startup Sprig just became the latest on-demand startup to decide to classify its workers as employees instead of independent contractors. That means Sprig will soon offer i...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Online Designer Bag Reseller Rebagg Gains $4 Million In Seed Funding To Take On TheRealReal
 Rebagg, an online resell marketplace for designer handbags, has closed on $4 million in seed from General Catalyst,Metamorphic Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Founder Collective, Big Sur Ventures-N...
04:46 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch IBM Buying Merge Healthcare For $1B To Bring Medical Image Analysis To Watson Health
 IBM announced a huge deal today, agreeing to pay a billion dollars for Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging company it plans to fold into the Watson Health unit. Merge’s technology is in us...
04:35 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Teslas Robotic Metal Snake Charger Is For Realz
 Tesla is coming off of a rough earnings day, but that didn’t stop the company from showing off some awesome stuff. Today, the company tweeted out a demo of something its founder and CEO El...
04:31 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Outlook For Apple Watch One-Ups Apples Native Email Client
 Microsoft Outlook is now a fully-featured Apple Watch app. An updated versionof the iOS application released today added the new smartwatch functionality, which includes the ability to quickly g...
04:18 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Femsplain Rolls Out A Community Platform For Feminists
 Femsplain bills itself as a “community-driven publisher,” and it’s looking to build that community with a new initiative called Femsplain Beta. The feminist site was launched l...
04:14 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Listen to Elon Musks Awkward Silence After A Question About Teslas Self-Driving Fleet
 Yesterday on Tesla’s earnings call, Adam Jonas, an analyst from Morgan Stanley, asked Elon Musk about the company’s future plans to either sell cars to Uber (prompted byTravis Kalani...
04:08 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Shotput Wants To Be The AWS For Logistics
 “We’re in a unique, extremely unsexy industry,” explained James Steinberg, who founded Shotput with fellow Northeastern University graduate Praful Mathur around 18 months ago. ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Dinner Lab Raises A $7M Series A To Expand Its Social Dining Club
 Dinner Lab, a membership-based club that gives youaccess to private dinner parties in unique locations throughout your city, announced it is has raised a $7 million Series A led by James River C...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Box Metadata Update Part Of Broader Strategy To Attract Large Customers
 Box announced a major update to its metadata feature today, a move that is part of a broaderstrategy to attract and keep larger customers.The update includesthree major pieces: first of all it p...
03:38 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Clutter On-Demand Storage Service Expands To Bay Area, Raises $1.3 Million
 Clutter, the on-demand storage service based out of Los Angeles, has today announced that it has expanded its offering to cover all of the San Francisco Bay Area. The company also announced that...
03:38 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch NBA Champion And Finals MVP Andre Iguodala Will Speak At Disrupt SF 2015
 The Golden State Warriors were the hometown favorite here in Silicon Valley during their championship run, so naturally we’re ecstatic to announce that NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala will b...
03:05 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch The DistroKid Music Distribution Service Has Launched An Indie Artist To The Top Of The Charts
 Philip Kaplan’s startup, the DistroKid, has had it’s first major success story. The hip hop group Jack & Jack have hit #12 on the Billboard Top 200, a first for an indie group. I...
02:56 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch HBO NOW Adds Support For Googles Chromecast
 HBO’s over-the-top streaming service may not be making money just yet, but it is rapidly expanding its footprint. Starting today, the service will support Google’s Chromecast for str...
02:24 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Snobswap Raises A Million To Bring Brick-And-Mortar Consignment Shops Online
 A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age,Snobswap, has raised over a million in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury...
02:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Pornhub Launches An Unlimited Streaming Service, Pornhub Premium
 It’s been generally accepted since the days of the 9600 baud modem that all Internet porn should be free. However, with the rise high quality video and new streaming systems, we can change...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Fundera, Funding Circle And Others Introduce The Small Business Borrowers Bill Of Rights
 Today in Washington D.C., a coalition of lenders, credit marketplaces, brokers, non-profits and others (including Fundera and Funding Circle) have introduced the “Small Business Borrowers&...
01:55 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch BuzzTime Restaurant Entertainment System Launches Payments Functionality
 NTN BuzzTime, the service that puts trivia games and entertainment in the palm of restaurant diners and bar patrons hands, has today announced the ability to pay their bill through the BuzzTime ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Mirantis And CoreOS Launch Enterprise-Grade OpenStack And Kubernetes Integration
 OpenStack company Mirantis and CoreOStoday announced that they have teamed up to integration Mirantis’ OpenStack distribution with CoreOS’s Tectoniccontainer platform. Together, the ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch 500px Revamps Its App To Better Appeal To The Instagram Crowd
 500px, the online photo-sharing community which recently raised another $13 million to challenge Flickr and Getty, is today rolling out a significant change to its mobile application. Begin...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Monument Valley-Maker Moves Into Mobile Health With Moodnotes
 Q: What do you get if you cross seasoned psychological cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques with modern app design? A: Moodnotes: aka the lovechild of London-based digital product studi...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Flipboard Launches Its First Destination Site, 2016 Election Central
 In preparation for tonight’sfirst Republican presidential candidate debate, Flipboard is launching its first ever destination site, 2016 Election Central, to help users of the popular news...
11:38 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Blockfeed App Surfaces Hyper Local News
 This New York city-based startup is aggregating local news sources, from small blogs to established newspapers, geolocating relevant news stories to a hyper local location — such as a part...
11:26 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch U.K. Web Users Now Prefer To Do It With Smartphones
 U.K. web users now see their smartphone as the most important device for getting online, overtaking the previous most popular device, the laptop, according to a study of Brits’ digital hab...
11:03 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch HTC, Still Struggling, Pins Turnaround On Cost Cutting And Sexier Devices
 Poor HTC. The Taiwanese firm just can’t seem to catch a break right now. Preliminary Q2 results in July predicted its business would return to the red, and, now those loses are confirmed w...
09:03 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Indian Health Search Portal Practo Lands $90M Led By Tencent For Global Expansion
 Chinese internet giant Tencent is getting its tentacles into India’s healthcare space after it lead a $90 million Series C round for medical search startup Practo. The startup raised $60 m...
08:04 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Music Clocks More Than 11 Million Trial Customers
 Apple has gone public with the first figures for its debut music streaming service — Apple Music — after senior VP Eddie Cue told USA Today that it had garnered over 11 million users...
06:54 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Snapdeal Will Invest $100M In Its Research Arm Over The Next Three Years
 Snapdeal, one of India’s largest e-commerce companies, will spend $100 million over the next three years on its Bengaluru-based research and development center. Called the Multimedia Resea...
06:19 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch Jibo Raises $11 Million To Bring Its Social Robot To Households In Asia
 Less than two months after SoftBank’s Pepper robot went on sale in Japan, another intelligent humanoid is poised to make its way into Asia. That’s because Boston-based Jibo just clos...
02:00 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2015
Techcrunch The One Thing Every Great Company Has In Common
 Obscured in the valuation dust of the current unicorn stampede is a key question: What actually makes a great company great? What do the future Facebooks, Googles and Apples have in common ̵...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch How To Build A Smart Game Economy
 With game developers’ main objective being to create a really good game with an optimal monetization mechanism to maximize revenue, there are quite a few aspects to planning and implementi...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch SavingGlobal Raises Further 20M To Crack Open The European Savings Deposit Market
 SavingGlobal launched in early 2014 to enable German savers to access the best fixed deposit rates in Europe, not just from banks in their home country. However, the plan was always to offer the...
10:32 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Just Dropped An Update For Windows 10 But Isnt Really Explaining What It is
 “This update includes non–security-related changes to enhance the functionality of Windows 10 through new features and improvements.” — Someone at Microsoft. Microsoft dr...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Government Data And The Uber Question
 When the cost of a shared ride approaches that of a one-way bus fare in San Francisco and a tourist can book an apartment in Chicago at half the price of a tax-generating hotel room, local gover...
09:27 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch It Was The Best Of times, It Was The Worst Of Times
 $NFLX close: $123.71. Up 2.11 percent. A new record high. Year to date: Up 153.5 percent.$TWTR close: $28.47. Down 2.97 percent. A new record low. Year to date: Down 20.55 percent.:):( Read More...
09:04 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch An Inside Look At The First-Ever White House Demo Day
Yesterday, President Barack Obama invited 30 companies over to the White House (on his birthday, no less) to participate in the first-ever White House Demo Day. The purpose of the event was to acceler...
08:54 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Castlight Health Rises 2.7% On Stronger-Than-Expected Q2 Revenue, Minor Profit Miss
 Following the bell, enterprise healthcare management company Castlight Healthreported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $18.5 million, and a per-share lossof $0.19. ...
08:50 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Watching People Do Stuff Is A Business Model And Sywork Is The Twitch For Illustrators
 Watching people play video games. Check. Watching people play with apps. Check. Watching people do earnings. Check. Watching people draw things? Check. Now, anyways. Today, a company called Sywo...
08:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch The Dream Of Internet Freedom Is Dying
 So says Jennifer Granick, who gave the keynote address at the (somewhat infamous) Black Hat security conference today. Once, techno-utopians could say things like “The Internet treats cens...
08:39 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Tesla Beats With Adjusted Revenue Of $1.2B, But Stock Drops 7% On Reduced Delivery Estimates
 Update: Tesla’s stock price hasbounced back, now down only about 3 percent after hours. Today after the markets closed, Tesla reported secondquarter financial results, including non-GAAP r...
08:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Bevel Turns Your Phone Into A 3D Scanner For $49
 Here at TechCrunch we’re eagerly awaiting the day that 3D photographs are just as mainstream as traditional ones. We even have an ongoing collection of some TC writers modeled in 3D. Howev...
08:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Reddit Finally Bans Racist r/CoonTown And Other Hateful Communities, Updates User Policies
 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman introduced an updated set of user policies Wednesday, which included details for how Reddit would be “quarantining” certain communitiesand banning ones which...
08:26 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch GoDaddy Posts Q2 Profit Miss On Modestly Strong Revenue Of $394.5M, Falls 2%
 Update: The company is currently down around 9percent in after-hours trading. GoDaddy reported its second quarter financial performance today, including revenue of $394.5 millionand negative ear...
08:13 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Fitbit Reports Huge Beat In Q2 With $400M Revenue, $0.21 EPS
 UPDATE: Fitbit shares slid dramatically (around 11 percent) later in after-hours trading despite beating expectations. Fitbit reportedits first earnings Wednesdaysincegoing public earlier this s...
07:28 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch FutureAdvisors FutureGift Removes The Awkwardness Of Giving Kids Cash For College
 Gifting a child money for future education expenses is nothing new. However, giving cash is almost alwaysawkward, plus the giver misses out on the chance to show off a physical gift. Just launch...
07:05 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Streaming Video Startup Pluto TV Nabs Spotifys Chief Content Officer
 Pluto TV, an L.A.-based video streaming startup targeting cord cutters, has just made a significant new hire: the company is bringing on Ken Parks, previously the Chief Content Officer at Spotif...
06:04 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Bucket Transforms Text From The Web Into A Visual Travel Planner
 Bucket, a service that transforms unstructured text based on travel recommendations into a page of cards with information from places like Yelp and Frommer’s, is launchinginto an open beta...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Google Slides Now Lets You Present From Your Android Device To Hangouts Video Calls
 Earlier this year, Google Slides — the company’s PowerPoint competitor — gained the ability tocast presentations to any screen with Chromecast or AirPlay. Today it’s expa...
05:37 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Google And Samsung Will Now Release Monthly OTA Android Security Updates
 Earlier today, Samsung announced that it would now provide security patches for its Android devices “about once per month.” In addition to Samsung, Google also today announced a simi...
05:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch YouTube Does Away With Its Wretched Practice Of Displaying 301 Views
 You use YouTube, everyone uses YouTube, so you know the “301+” number that this headline refers to. Before a video goes bananas with views, it gets paused at “301+” for s...
05:27 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Storage Vendor Tintri Lands $125M Round With Eye Toward IPO
 Tintri, a company that develops storage solutions for virtual applications, announced a $125 million round today.The company also indicated the next logical step is probably going to be an IPO i...
05:25 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Runtastic Acquired By Adidas For $240M
 Long time fitness app maker Runtastic has been acquired by sportswear brand adidas Group. The news was announced today in a blog post. The deal values Runtastic at 220 million ($240M). The trans...
05:24 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Expands Its Parental Leave, Bolsters Paid Time Off And 401k Matching
 On the heels of Netflix’s institution of ‘unlimited’ paid maternity and paternity leave for its employees, Microsoft this morning announced that it is bolsteringits own parenta...
05:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Good Eggs Will Shut Down All Operations Outside San Francisco, Lay Off Nearly 140 Employees
 Organic food delivery startup Good Eggsjust announcedthat it will be closing its operations in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans — every city where it has a presence, except for S...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Watch Fifth Grader Ari Get Fitted For A Brand New 3D-Printed Hand
 During the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles last week, a fifth grader named Ari stopped by a booth set up by Google. The booth had information about its “Impact Challenge&#...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Watch Fifth Grader Ari Get Fitted For A New 3D-Printed Hand
 During the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles last week, a fifth grader named Ari stopped by a booth set up by Google. The booth had information about its “Impact Challenge&#...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Launches Live Streaming Video Feature, But Only For Celebrities
 Before Periscope and Meerkat jumpstarted the mobile livestreaming craze, Facebook was already quietly working on its own way to let public figures broadcast live videos to their fans. Today, Fac...
04:36 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch This Startup Empowers Youth Of Color To Tackle Social Issues With Technology
 Enza, a youth innovation and leadership incubator, recently held a free, five-day residential program at Stanford University for 26 youth of color to brainstorm technology solutions that address...
04:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch YC-Backed MicroHealth Helps Patients Manage Chronic Illnesses
 MicroHealth, a mobile health startup in Y Combinator’s current class, is launching today to help patients take control of their chronic illnesses. The companywas started by Spanish brother...
04:33 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch MicroHealth Helps Patients Manage Chronic Illnesses
 MicroHealth, a mobile health startup in Y Combinator’s current class, is launching today to help patients take control of their chronic illnesses.The company was started by Spanish brother...
04:28 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Payable Raises $2.1M To Build Out A Payments Platform For Contractor-Based Businesses
 Gig economy or not, it looks like part-time or flexible jobs are becoming a more structural part of the labor market.But software hasn’t necessary improved to help contractor-based busines...
04:28 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Payable Raises $2.1M To Build A Payments Platform For Contractor-Based Businesses
 Gig economy or not, it looks like part-time or flexible jobs are becoming a more structural part of the labor market. But software hasn’t necessarily improved to help contractor-based busi...
04:23 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Sway Exits Preview, With New Windows 10 App In Tow
 Microsoft announced this morning the general availability of its “digital storytelling” app called Sway, the latest addition to the Microsoft Office suite. The app, which was first i...
04:20 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Google Fiber Is Headed To San Antonio
 While this news isn’t exactly exciting for me just yet, being in San Francisco, Google has announced its next expansion city for Fiber…San Antonio. If you’re keeping score, her...
04:17 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Lowes Invests In SoloPro, A Service That Unbundles Real Estate Agent Services
 SoloPro, a service that unbundles real estate services and gives buyers a 3 percent rebate when they buy a home through the service, today announced that it has received a strategic investment f...
04:01 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Empowers Pages To Provide Customer Support Over Private Messages
 A business publicly debating customer problems on their Facebook Page’s wall is a recipe for a PR disaster. So today Facebook is giving Pages more options for privately messaging people wh...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Insurance Is The Next Frontier For Fintech
 We have entered a golden age for fintech. LendingClub and OnDeck recently exited through massive IPOs, and global investments in the fintech space hit $3 billion last year. This outpouring of in...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Red Hats Updated Enterprise OpenStack Platform Promises To Simplify OpenStack Deployments
 Red Hat today launched its Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7into general availability. The distribution combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, the latest OpenStack release (“Kilo...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Graava Is A $249 Action Camera That Edits Highlight Videos For You
 Your GoPro is great until you have to edit all those hours of footage to find the cool moments. Graava does that automatically. Starting pre-orders today for $249 (eventually $399), the Graava a...
03:47 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch New Zero-Day Exploit Can Completely Brick Your Mac
 It’s Black Hat season, meaning that we are getting a new batch of zero-day exploits showing how insecure our gadgets are. Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson found a serious zero-day vulnerabil...
03:28 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Anchors Away And Shiver Me Timbers! Antlos Puts You And And Your Friends On A Boat
 Yachting has an image problem. When you think of a big old sailboats you mostly imagine rich leathery men in boat shoes who smoke big cigars and try to hit rare pink dolphins in the head with wi...
03:26 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Machine Learning Used To Predict Fine Wine Price Moves
 Curiosity about the limits of machine learning led former trader, UCL academic and startup founder, Dr Tristan Fletcher, to apply techniques more typically found in normal asset class trading to...
03:22 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Dish Beats In Q2, But Its Streaming Service Sling TV Isnt Helping Stem Subscriber Loss
 Dish Networks finally offered some insight into the traction of its over-the-top streaming TV service, Sling TV, in its second quarter earnings. The company reported for the first time that Slin...
03:07 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Affirm Acquires Coding Bootcamp Lending Startup LendLayer
 Affirm has completed a talent acquisition of LendLayer, a startup that provideslending foraccelerated learning programs like Hackbright Academy. LendLayer partnered with a number of accelerated ...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch WeWorks First Acquisition Is Building Information Modeling Firm Case
 WeWork, the NYC tech (and real estate) darling valued north of $5 billion, has today announced its first acquisition. The company will be acquiring Case, a building information modeling and cons...
02:32 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch LOT Polish Airlines Now Accepting Bitcoin
 I’m not a big fan of the “X accepts bitcoin” type of post but this one is near and dear to my heart – and actually interesting. LOT Polish airlines, the official Polish a...
02:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Target Launches Beacon Test In 50 Stores, With Expanded Rollout Later This Year
 Target, the second largest general merchandise retailer in the U.S., announced this morning that it will starttesting beacon technology in 50 of its stores nationwide. With beacon technology, th...
02:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Garmin Announces The Forerunner 25, A Jolly And Inexpensive Workout Watch
 Smartwatch, schmartwatch – you gotta get you a Garmin! The new Forerunner 25 is a low-cost workout watch that comes in multiple jolly colors and can register your heart rate, speed, distan...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On Bullish: The Politics Of PR
 Welcome back to Bullish, where we try to explore that fine line between what is bullish, and what is bullshit. This time around we have Amy Widdowson Mains in the studio to dig into public relat...
01:08 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch DJI Announces An New, Easy-To-Use Camera Drone, The Phantom 3 Standard
 DJI has just announced a new camera drone, the DJU Phantom 3 Standard, an oddly-named quadcopter that features a built-in HD video camera, 25 minutes of flight time on one charge, and a special ...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchBase Report: Harvard, Stanford And MIT Top The List Of Schools For Female Founders
Editor’s note:Gen Teare(@geneteare), a past female founder,heads up the CrunchBase Venture Program and CrunchBase’s data work. Ned Desmond(@neddesmond) is the COO of TechCrunch and CrunchB...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Workfront Raises $33M For Its Enterprise Work Management Service
 Work management solution Workfront (previously known as AtTask) today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series E funding round led by growth equity firm JMI Equity, which also previousl...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Tinders First Non-Dating Feature Is Speed Networking For Forbes 30 Under 30
 Tinder is tiptoeing into the friendzone, and the work place. After years of saying “We want to overcome all the issues of meeting new people”, not just dating them, today Tinder will...
12:07 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Amplitude Raises $9M For A New Approach To Analytics And Pricing
 Mobile analytics startup Amplitudehas raised $9M in Series A funding. When we wrote about Amplitude last year, we noted that it’strying to undercut competitors like Mixpanel with lower pri...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN
 Fastly, a content delivery service (CDN) service that focuses on helping companies deliver dynamic content to their users faster, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D round ...
11:42 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung Pay Heads To Samsungs Smart TVs
 Last March Samsung announced Samsung Pay — a mobile payment offering which it hopes will go head to head with Apple Pay. The service has still not rolled out yet but Samsung is expanding i...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Mobile Lifecycle Marketing Firm Leanplum Raises A $11.6M Series B Round Led By Kleiner Perkins
 Leanplum, a service that helps developers and marketers engage with mobile users through personalized messages, dynamic UI optimization and A/B testing services, today announced that it has rais...
11:01 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Chat App Line Invests In Mobile Games With New $20M Joint Venture
 With its revenue dropping this past quarter following a growth slump, Japan-based messaging firm Line is going back to what it knows best with a new $20 million joint venture to create mobile ga...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Sign Up For Another Chance To Buy 2-For-1 Tickets To Disrupt London
 Disrupt London 2015 is just around the corner, and it’s never too soon to start thinking about snagging your tickets to the show. With this year’s Disrupt, we’re releasing a fe...
09:11 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Go Off-Grid With Silent Pockets Leather Goods
 Every get the feeling someone’s watching you? Of course you do; you use the Internet… So what’s the answer to pervasive tracking technologies? Well, one answer — at least...
08:31 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Chinas Government Will Embed Police In Its Largest Tech Firms
 China already has some of the most stringent Internet restrictions in the world, but censorship is poised to become even more extreme. Sites and social networks will no longer just be surveilled...
06:53 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Last-Mile Logistics Startup LetsTransport Gets $1.3M To Expand Throughout India
 India’s e-commerce market is the fastest growing in Asia and expected to hit $6 billion this year. The country’s underdeveloped logistics networks needs to improve quickly, however, ...
04:01 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch GE Adds Infrastructure Services To Internet Of Things Platform
 GE announced today that it was expanding its Predix Internet of Things platform to provideInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS).The IaaS market is dominated by Amazon Web Services with many others ...
02:48 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Defends Video Practices After Accusation Of Lies And Theft
 It’s a tale as old as time. Internet video creator/vlogger garners support after accusing $260 billion social media giant of using unethical practices and earns a seemingly official reply ...
12:13 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch Disconnect CEO Explains That New Do Not Track Policy
 The Electronic Frontier Foundation released what it called a “stronger” Do Not Track setting yesterday. But what does that actually mean for your day-to-day privacy on the web? To un...
12:00 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2015
Techcrunch To Expedite Innovation, Give Away Your Code
 Open-source software has been a growing phenomenon for more than two decades, but in recent years it has risen in importance in a whole new way: as a key to rapid innovation for startups and cor...
11:30 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch How To Make An Acquisition Successful
 During most acquisitions, the acquirer mistakenly tries to find a middle ground. Indecisive leaders and consulting firms steer towards the middle to appease the many stakeholders in a company. R...
11:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Google And MIT Researchers Demo An Algorithm That Lets You Take Clear Photos Through Reflections
 Whenever I try to take a photo througha plane or hotel window, chances arethere are plenty of reflections that show up on the final image and ruin it. Now, however, Google and MIT researchers ha...
10:47 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Vernox Labs Mines Unstructured Data To Help Developers, Contractors Reduce Construction Costs
 Urban construction anddevelopment is about as far as you canget from an easily scalable business. Designs from architects are usually bespoke or one-off.Land-use politics are unpredictable. Indi...
09:53 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Netflix Announces Its New Unlimited Maternity And Paternity Leave Program
 A few hours after hitting its all-time stock price high today, Netflix has announced a new program for all employees. In a blog post, Netflix outlined its unlimited maternity and paternity leave...
09:39 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Six Killer Xbox One Announcements Microsoft Made Today
 In addition to the multitude of sick new gameplay footage we saw today from Gamescom, Microsoft revealed, confirmed and offered updates on some major new features that will be coming to the Xbox...
09:33 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Zendesk Picks Up 3% After Hours Reporting Better-Than-Expected Q2 Adjusted Loss, Q3 Guidance
 Briefly, my friends, Zendesk reported its second quarter financial results today, beating market expectations. The company also guided its third quarter revenue above street goals. Shares of the...
08:24 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Etsy Beats In Q2 But Falls 13% After Hours On Troublesome Q3 Guidance
 Today following the cessation of trading, Etsy reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $61.4 million, and earnings per share of negative $0.07. The street had exp...
08:14 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Netflix Surges 8% To All-Time High On News Of New Price Target And Japan Launch Date
 On a day the NASDAQ was down about 0.2 percent, Netflix hit a new all-time high during intra-day trading, hitting $122.78 and eventually closing at $121.00per share, up 7.5percent on the day. Th...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Setting Sales Quotas Is Like Running A 10K Race
 If you’ve ever run a 10K road race, you know that race organizers spend a lot of effort to have volunteers at every milepost telling runners what their time is. If you’re like me, yo...
07:51 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch NHL Teams Up With MLB Advanced Media To Create New Digital Products And Platforms
 One of the greatest things to come out of Major League Baseball might not be a particular team, player or record. It could be the Advanced Media group, which is a powerhouse in online streaming....
07:13 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch The American Dream, Under Construction Since 1776
 Though it’s not quite an accelerator (of anything really), the White House has decided to hold its very first White House Demo Day, wherein more than 90 entrepreneurs from over 30 differen...
06:43 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Taking The 2016 Audi TTs Virtual Cockpit For A Spin
 The new2016 Audi TT virtual cockpitboasts high-definition, crystal-clear digital graphics, Google Earth imagery and navigation, haptic feedback, Google-like search, voice command operation and &...
06:37 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Gagan Biyani, CEO Of Sprig, Will Bring Kale And Quinoa To Disrupt SF 2015
 Gagan Biyani, CEO Of healthy food delivery startup Sprig, will be joining us this year at Disrupt SF. In case you don’t remember, Biyani is a TechCrunch alum, having covered mobile apps fo...
06:33 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch This Ridiculous Frankenwatch Embodies Everything The Swiss Are Doing Wrong
 Much has already been said about the new mullet watch by Nico Gerard. The watch, called the Pinnacle, costs $9,200 and is essentially a metal band with two watches attached to it. On one side yo...
06:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Apple Denies Making Plans To Be A Wireless Carrier
 A fair amount of folks reported yesterday that Apple was testing its own MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), to become, in essence, a mobile carrier while borrowing components from other car...
06:19 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Solar Power Startup Bright Raises $4 Million To Distribute Energy In The Developing World
 Bright, a solar panel installation and distribution startup, pulled in $4 million in seed money to build out itssolar software and financing team. The startup launched out of the last batch of Y...
05:37 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Want To Make An Impact With Your Work? Try Some Advice From 80,000 Hours
 People in the tech world like to talk about doing great things— but what does that actually mean for your career? If you’re serious about making a positive impact on the world, shoul...
04:58 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Squares Board Adds Former Brown University President Ruth Simmons
 Square announced a powerful addition to their board today, former Brown University President, Ruth Simmons. Before her 11-year post at Brown, she was the President of Smith College, establishing...
03:55 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Childrens Magazine Highlights Is Moving To Mobile With Help From San Francisco-Based Startup Fingerprint
 You probably remember flipping through Highlights magazine as a child, while in the waiting room of your doctor’s office, perhaps. But now, this longest-running children’s magazine o...
03:55 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Childrens Magazine Highlights Is Moving To Mobile With Help From SF-Based Startup Fingerprint
 You probably remember flipping through Highlights magazine as a child, perhaps while in the waiting room of your doctor’s office. But now, this longest-running children’s magazine of...
03:55 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Get Ready For A 21.5-Inch iMac With 4K Retina Display
 The 27-inch, 5K retina iMac is a beautiful desktop computer, but it’s a bit too expensive for many people. This is about to change as the latest beta of OS X El Capitan tells us more about...
03:24 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch TapHeaven Promises True Automation For Mobile Advertisers
 The pitch for TapHeaven might sound a little familiar — co-founder and CEO Chris Hoyt said his technology delivers truly automated ad-buying. What makes TapHeaven more than just another ad...
03:19 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Loyalty Startup Belly Builds On Opportunities Of Apple Partnership, Launches New Marketing Suite
 Fresh off of Apple’s WWDC announcement earlier this summer that they would be partnering with loyalty rewards program Belly as one of their“mobility partners,” Belly announced ...
03:12 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Genius Launches Android App, Redesigns Home Page And iOS App
 Genius, gone from rap song explanation site to annotator of the entire internet, has today launched a revamped version of the website, the iOS app, and for the first time ever, an Android app.Th...
02:54 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch YouTubes Desktop Web Player Gets A New Look
Does YouTube look different to you today? If you’re noticing that the YouTube player on the desktop seems to have a sleeker look-and-feel, then you’ve probably spotted theupdate YouTube ha...
02:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Instacart Makes Its First Acquisition With Acqui-hire Of App Maker Wedding Party
 On-demand grocery delivery serviceInstacarthas made its first acquisition since raising hundreds of millions in venture funding for its growing business. The company is “acqui-hiring”...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Republic Launches New Platform To Send GOP To White House
 Software is eating the world, and it is continuing its monstrous diet in politics. The traditional shoe leather approach of political campaigning has been replaced by rooms of engineers, AWS ins...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Berlins Zeotap Raises $6.4M To Let Telcos Sell Customer Data To Mobile Advertisers
 Apparently, telecom operators are sitting on a huge amount of unique customer data that could provide much-needed revenue by being packaged up and sold to mobile advertisers and content provider...
12:34 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Kobalts AMRA Inks Its First Licensing Deal: A Global Agreement With Apple Music
 Two months ago, Kobalt — a startup whose technology tracks and collects music royalties from streaming music providers — acquired and revamped and royalty co...
11:03 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Gurgaon-based Local Delivery Startup Pickingo Picks Up $1.3M
 Pickingo is the latest hyperlocal delivery startup in India to get funding. The company, which transports items between merchants and customers in six cities, has raised $1.3 million led by Reha...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Panorama Raises $12 Million To Help Schools Understand Their Students
 Panorama Education, a startup that surveys students, parents and teachers to collect actionable data, has raised $12 million in new funding to help school districts make better decisions.Spark C...
10:53 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Alibaba Hires Goldman Sachs Veteran To Grow Its International Business
 Alibaba is continuing its international push after hiring former Goldman Sachs vice president Michael Evans as its new president in charge of global business. Read More ...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Battery Attributes Can Be Used To Track Web Users
 A team of European security researchers has published a paper analyzing how the battery life of mobile devices could be used to track web browsing habits of Firefox users on Linux, using the HTM...
07:27 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch GIF Keyboard Maker Riffsy Raises $10M Series A
 GIF keyboard maker Riffsy has raised a $10 million Series A to make sure you never have to communicate using only boring sentences and emojis again. The round was led by Menlo Ventures with part...
06:43 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Tencent Wants To Buy All Remaining Shares Of Elong, One Of Chinas Top Travel Sites
 Tencent has made a bid to buy all outstanding shares of eLong, one of China’s biggest online travel agencies (OTA). Read More ...
01:17 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch #ILookLikeAnEngineer Aims To Spread Awareness About Gender Diversity In Tech
 When OneLogin Platform Engineer Isis Wenger agreed to participate in the company’s recruiting campaign, she felt pretty apathetic about it. She also didn’t anticipate the backlash th...
01:17 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch #ILookLikeAnEngineer Aims To Spread Awareness About Diversity In Tech
 When OneLogin Platform Engineer Isis Wenger agreed to participate in the company’s recruiting campaign, she felt pretty apathetic about it. She also didn’t anticipate the backlash th...
01:00 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2015
Techcrunch Swipe To Patent: Design Patents In The Age Of User Interfaces
 User experience and user-interface design is an emerging field in the technology industry, even more so in the legal world of patents. (Sometimes this field is known by the shorthand UX/UI.) It ...
09:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Uncovering ECHELON: The Top-Secret NSA/GCHQ Program That Has Been Watching You Your Entire Life
 If history is written by the victors, government surveillance agencies willhave an awfully long list of sources to cite. Domestic digital surveillance has oftenseemed to be a threat endured most...
09:17 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Hacking Diversity In Tech By Emphasizing Retention
 Conversations around diversity in tech often focus on the “pipeline” and getting more people from underrepresented groups through the door. But that’s just a first step. The ne...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Disruption In Healthcare Could Be Costly
 Entrepreneurs are giving the healthcare industry a much-needed injection of innovation. Enthusiasm for new ideas and solutions in healthcare is clear from the 200 percent growth in funding for d...
07:19 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Controversy Fuels 9X Growth For Reddit
 Any press is good press, apparently, as Reddit hit a new 8 billion page view record in July admist community upheaval over new policies and leadership. Reddit grew from 175 million unique visito...
07:04 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Chewses Tracy Lawrence on Raising Your First Round As A Female Founder
 Right before Tracy Lawrence went into fundraising mode for her catering startup Chewse last year, she cut off her hair. She didn’t know it at the time, but later upon reflection, she thoug...
06:52 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Department Of Homeland Security Highlights Privacy Concerns In Senate Cybersecurity Bill
 And now for an update in the continuing saga of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a controversial piece of legislation currently in the Senate that, to some, represents an import...
05:50 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch This Site Is Your DeLorean For Startup Homepages
 When I ran through years and years of homepage designs by Twitter the other day, it was like hopping into a DeLorean and heading back in time. It was really interesting seeing what the company h...
05:21 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Twitter Collapses 5%, Tumbling Toward IPO-Level Prices
 Shares of Twitter, a popular social media company, fell sharply today, dipping nearly 6 percent by midday trading. The company’s equity fell in value below the $30 mark, setting newlows. A...
05:18 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Pitch Your Startup At The TechCrunch Lisbon Office Hours This Wednesday
 If you’re a startup, you’ve heard of TechCrunch’s Startup Alley and the Battlefield. It’s a big part of our TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Hundreds of startups from all o...
05:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Cloud Security Platform Zscaler Raises A $100M Series B Round Led By TPG, Now Valued At Over $1B
 Security platform Zscaler today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series B funding round led by late stage investor TPG. The company, which offers a wide range of web, mobile and cloud...
05:12 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch What Its Like To Use Amazons New Dash Buttons
 At first, everyone thought they were an April Fool’s joke. But Amazon Dash buttons are real, and just this past week, they became available to allAmazon Prime members for a mere $5 apiece....
04:55 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Soylent Debuts Its Ready-To-Drink Meal Replacement Shake, Soylent 2.0
 Venture-backed food replacement drink makerSoylent– yes, named after the movie where people unknowingly were sustained by eatingother people – is out today with its newest product. T...
04:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Frontback Is Back With A New Team
 It’s a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for the Frontback community right now. On July 23rd, the company announced that it would shut down on August 15th after two years. But something hi...
04:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch The Math Behind Microsofts Big Nokia Writedown
 Inside a recent SEC filing, Microsoft detailed the figures behind its massive goodwill writedown that trashed its earnings last quarter. The writedown was an admission that the company’s e...
03:55 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Bohemian Guitars Returns With Something That Will Encourage Ukulele Lady To Like You
 Bohemian Guitars first won our hearts with their unique oilcan git-fiddles, an instrument at once primitive and surprisingly advanced. I played with them about two years ago and now they’r...
03:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Sonys New Phones Are Perfect For Snapchat, Yet No One Will Buy Them
 Sony announced two mid-range smartphones today focusing on what Sony does best — smartphone cameras. As a reminder, Sony is one of the leading providers of smartphone cameras, supplying th...
03:28 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits
 Amazon quietly rolled out a series of changes to its “Amazon Household” program and the ability for Prime members to share their shipping benefits over the weekend. The changes are d...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Eden, Offering On-Demand Tech Help, Switches From Contractors To W2 Employees
 Back in May, Eden launched out of the Y Combinator accelerator to provide users with on-demand tech help, whether it’s fixing a cracked iPhone screen, solving WiFi issues, installing a pri...
02:05 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Microsoft Acquires Sales Contest Platform FantasySalesTeam, Will Integrate Into Dynamics CRM
 Microsoft announced this morning the acquisition of Austin, Texas-basedIncent Games, the makers of a “sales gamification” platform called FantasySalesTeam. As the name implies, the c...
01:17 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch With $3.6 Million In Funding, Meal Box Is Building A Turkish Food Delivery Empire
 After launching in Istanbul just over a year ago, Meal Box, a healthy mealdelivery startup, is lookingto cornerthe take-out market in the world’s fifth-largest city. Backed by $3.6 million...
01:07 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Betaworks-Backed Glitter Is A Personal Trading Cards App
 Every two years, betaworks brings in brand new entrepreneurs and helps them bake up a new batch of products and services. In 2013, those companies included Giphy, Dots, and Poncho, and now the s...
11:30 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Mobile Marketing And Analytics Startup WizRocket Lands $8M From Sequoia And Accel
 WizRocket, which helps companies increase user engagement by fine-tuning mobile, web, and e-mail notifications, has raised $8 million in new funding from Sequoia Capital and returning investor A...
09:32 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Xiaomi Regains Top Spot In Chinas Smartphone Market, Ahead Of Huawei And Apple
 Xiaomi regained the crown as China’s top smartphone in Q2 2015, according to reports from multiple analyst firms. Read More ...
08:52 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch BoardVitals Raises $1.1 Million To Make It Easier For You To Become A Doctor
 BoardVitals is essentially a repository for hard questions. Aimed at doctors to be, the service wants to change the way medicine is taught and is beginning with the medical boards, test taken by...
08:33 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch SoftBank Leads $100M Investment In India-Based Budget Hotel Network OYO Rooms
 SoftBank is back investing in India after it lead a $100 million round for OYO Rooms, a two-year-old startup that runs an online marketplace for affordable hotels in the country. Read More ...
08:16 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch The Mt.Gox Arrest Is The End Of The First Age Of Bitcoin
 The former head of bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox, Mark Karpeles, screwed a lot of early adopters. It is unclear at this point how much Karpeles allegedly lost or took, but the Japanese police are clai...
07:19 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Snapdeal, One Of Indias Largest E-commerce Players, Reportedly Gets $500M From Alibaba, Foxconn And SoftBank
 Snapdeal, one of India’s biggest e-commerce companies, has scooped up $500 million in funding from Alibaba, Foxconn, and SoftBank, according to Re/code. Read More ...
05:45 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Nokia Sells HERE Mapping Business To Group Of European Car Makers For $3.07B
 Nokia has announced that it has sold its HERE mapping business to a consortium of automobile makers for $3.07 billion, ending months of speculation over its future. Read More ...
04:01 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Drawing Lessons From Julys Jeep Hack
 If you wereanywhere near the internet in late July,you probably readthe news: Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, two security researchers who specialize in hacking cars, figured out how to remote...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2015
Techcrunch Government Should Think Before Imposing Heavy Regulation On Fintech
 On July 16, the U.S. Treasury Department finally made a move that many fintech professionals have expected – and some dreaded – for years. They issued a Request for Information (RFI)...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch Ephemeral Vs. Perpetual Messaging: Thinking Outside The Timeline
 If you are following the battle of the short messaging systems, you might think it is a one-dimensional contest between the systems that maintain your chat history for all time – like Twit...
09:46 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch BestTechie Founder Creates KYA Analytics To Provide A Better Understanding Of Your Audience
 The K-Y-A in KYA Anlytics stands for “Know Your Audience,” and founder and CEO Jeff Weisbein said that’s exactly what he’s trying to help online publishers do. Weisbein h...
08:30 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch Startups Rocket To The Front Of The Space Race
 Capitalizing on the falling cost of launch services and the miniaturization of satellites, a new breed of startups are gearing up for the space race under the moniker of NewSpace.At a recent con...
06:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch Your Banking Future And The Big Brother Fed
 Manhattan, 2040: Alice wants to open an antiques store. Chelsea seems like a good location. She has to find 150 square meters to move the items that she has collected over the years, and to go o...
05:20 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch 10 Lab-Made Meats, Cheeses And Other Odd Startup Foods
 It’s still early days in the bacteria becomes our food production process. However, several Silicon Valley scientists are creating lab-grown edibles of the truly bizarre or mixing up anima...
03:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch Machine Learning And Human Bias: An Uneasy Pair
 “We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the ...
02:56 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch Festival Of Code Winners May Be The Startups Of The Future
 Startups start with talent, and the talent, as we all know, seems to get younger every year. But it wouldn’t happen if children themselves were not introduced to the word of technology and...
10:11 am GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch Listen To VC Eileen Burbidge On Being Fired At Skype, Founder Psychosis, And Close Ties To U.K. Gov
 TechCrunch interviews Eileen Burbidge, Partner at London VC firm Passion Capital, where we discuss her early days working at Skype and Apple, the types of startups she invests in, her close ties...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch The Next Great Startup Will Be A Unicornio
 “The minute a major Silicon Valley VC sets up a branch in Mexico, you will be out of business,” a Mexican founder told me over dinner at last year’s Mexico VC Day in San Franci...
12:02 am GMT - Sun, August 2, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Apple Road
 The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, August 1, 2015. The Gang talks cars, the politics of streaming, back catalogues, disco...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2015
Techcrunch Soft Sensors Are Breaking Into Four Major Industries
 From something as simple as a door sensor at a store to the new age of “smart” sensors in a rapidly emerging wearables market, the application of sensors has already permeated many p...
05:12 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2015
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.01.15
 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 10amPT. LIVE chat Center chatroom during LIVE broadcast HEREGillmor Gang on Facebo...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2015
Techcrunch How Businesses Are Leveraging Public Data To Reach Target Audiences
 It’s no secret that the growth of publicly available data, or open data, is more prevalent than ever. From government databases, such as those aggregated by Data.gov, to data made availabl...
02:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2015
Techcrunch A Conversation With Michael Lopp, Pinterests Head Of Engineering
 About a year ago, Michael Lopp joined Pinterest as the company’s head of engineering — filling in the leadership of the engineering sidenext to co-founder Evan Sharp and CEO Ben Silb...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2015
Techcrunch Vapor No More: Ethereum Has Launched
 Thursday was, I think, a historic day–though whether it becomes a memorable milestone like the launch of the Altair 8800, or an obscure footnote la CP/M, remains to be seen. Thursday was ...
01:00 am GMT - Sat, August 1, 2015
Techcrunch Why Homejoy Failed And The Future Of The On-Demand Economy
 On the heels of Homejoy’s failure, the fundamental “on-demand marketplace” model has come into question by investors, the media and even consumers. That questioning is very rel...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, August 1, 2015
Techcrunch Setting The Right Valuation For A Competitive Series A Round
 Founders are often puzzled by how VCs derive valuations for competitive Series A rounds. A competitive Series A round is an equity round where a company generally raises greater than $5 million ...
11:20 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Why Polyvores Jess Lee Sold To Yahoo
 Yahoo bought Polyvore in what we’ve heard could be a $60 million deal today. Both Polyvore and Yahoo were mum on those details, but Polyvore co-founder Jess Lee did tell TechCrunch her com...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch FarmLogs CEO Jesse Vollmar Will Talk About The AgTech Revolution At Disrupt SF 2015
 The World Bank says that farmers need to produce 50% more food to feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit the earth by 2050. While farmers are facing higher demand, they have fewer resources ...
10:30 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Heres The Latest Batch Of 500 Startups Companies
 500 Startups has unveiled its fourteenth batch of companies going through its accelerator. While Y Combinator is starting to roll out its own class in an upcoming Demo Day, a new one from 500 St...
10:10 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch CrunchWeek: Twitter Soap Opera, Uber Valuation, and Ouya Gets Bought
 It’s time for CrunchWeek again!What a week it was.The Twitter soap opera continues with earnings, no new CEO, hashtags and more. Uber keeps raising money until we lose count. Ouya gets put...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Doing Good Tech Versus Doing Good With Tech
 The FDA is currently considering clinical trials for a drug that would delay aging. The idea of extending human longevity is a controversial one, with some arguing for immortality and others arg...
09:16 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Yahoo Will Acquire Fashion Startup Polyvore
 Yahoo just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire style-focused community Polyvore. In a blog post about the deal, Yahoo’s senior vice president of publisher products Simon ...
08:52 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Is This Flying Car Company For Real?
 We’ve been promised a flying car for as long as I can remember. From The Jetsons to Back To The Future, we’ve been sold this dream for years and years. Owning something that starts o...
08:35 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Bostons WTF/LOL Problem
 Well, that was embarrassing. Following months of piss-poor communication and a chaotic planning process, Boston’s bid to be the U.S. entry for the 2024 Olympics finally died this week like...
08:01 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch How To Speak Startup, Part Deux
 Given the massive influx of capital that we are currently enduring in Silicon Valley, TechCrunch has decided to take another crack at thelexicon of the moment to help everyone understand just wh...
07:25 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Tesla, Windows 10, Top Gear, And OUYA
 August is nearly upon us, which means news is slowing. But that hasn’t stopped car companies from racing away with the news, including Tesla’s introduction of Ludicrous Mode (which w...
07:23 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch YC-Backed Locent Lets Businesses Sell Products Via Text Message
 Launching out of the Summer 2015 Y Combinator batch, Locent is an e-commerce platform powered entirely by text messages. One of the biggest challenges for online retailers is shepherding custome...
07:20 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Asana Wants To Get Better About Diversity, And This Is Its Plan
 Asana, the team productivity software that’s raised $38.2 million from high-profile investors like Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, just got called out on Twitter for its lack of div...
07:12 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch YC-Backed GrowSumo Helps Businesses Grow Sales Through Partner Programs
 Partner programs can be a big source of revenue — for example, channel sales account for 80 percent of Cisco’s revenue. Now a startup called GrowSumo is working to make those program...
06:58 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Reportedly Raises New Funding Round, Now Valued At Over $50 Billion
 Uber just closed a new round of funding that will value the company at more than $50 billion,according to the Wall Street Journal. The newspapersays that Uber has raised close to $1 billion in t...
06:37 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch YC Backs Cofactor Genomics To Pursue RNA Testing, Which Could Offer Better Diagnoses Than DNA
 As part of Y Combinator’s push into computational biology and bioinformatics, the early-stage firm is backing a team that used to work on the Human Genome Project and is now experimenting ...
06:36 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Kim Dotcom Is Not Involved With Mega Anymore, Plans To Build Yet Another Cloud Storage Service
 Kim Dotcom revealed in an interview on Slashdot that he is no longer involved with Mega — he isn’t working for the company anymore, but he also doesn’t own any shares of Mega. ...
06:19 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Twitters Homepage Over The Years
 If you’re a heavy Twitter user, you probably don’t see the homepage much…no, not your timeline, the Twitter.com that shows up when you’re logged out. If other people didn...
06:13 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Dropbox Arrives On Roku With An App For Viewing Your Personal Photos And Movies
 Dropbox has launched on the Roku, with an app that allows you to view the photos and videos you have stored in your account directly on your TV by way of Roku’s streaming media player. The...
05:39 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch MyTape Is A Video-Sharing App To Capture And See The World Around You
 Meet MyTape, a brand new social app for iOS centered around video. On MyTape, you follow people, shoot videos and watch stuff around you. It’s a sort of mash-up between Periscope and Front...
05:29 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch 13 TechCrunch Stories You Dont Want To Miss This Week
 This week’s tech headlines saw the launch of Windows 10, Amazon’s new Product Hunt competitor, and Truecaller’s entrance into the unicorn club. These are the stories to catch y...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Early Apple Designer Susan Kare Joins Pinterests Creative Team
 Susan Kare, an early Apple designer behind some of the company’s early typefaces and icons, has joinedPinterest. She’ll be part of Pinterest’s creative team as a product design...
04:15 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Maybe There Doesnt Need To Be An Apple Watch App For Everything
 Should Apple be concerned that a number of popular app makers like Facebook, Google and Snapchat have yet to embrace its Apple Watch platform with apps of their own? That’s a question rais...
03:41 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Google Rejects French Watchdog Demand For Global Privacy Delistings
 Google said “non.” In a blog post, Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer explained why Google wouldn’t comply with the French data protection watchdog demands. The CNIL wanted...
03:20 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch 9 Basic Tips For Not Getting Pwned At Blackhat 2015
 Honestly, does anyone even say ‘pwned’ anymore? Am I exposing myself even more by putting it into the headline? Ugh, this is not off to a good start. Read More ...
03:05 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Oolu Is Bringing Solar Energy To West Africas Off-Grid Population
 In rural West Africa,150 million peopleare currentlyliving without electricity. Oolu, a Y Combinator company launching today, aims to reduce this number by delivering affordable solar energy to ...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch YC-Backed Saida Wants To Bring Short-Term Loans To People In Emerging Markets
 Saida, an app that helps people get approved for short-term loans based on their activity on their phones, launched out of Y Combinator today. Saida can see how a person, for example, uses their...
02:23 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Decembers Disrupt London To Feature Delivery Hero And Wallapop
 We’re continuing to announce speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an amazing slate of global startups, investors, influe...
02:18 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Amazon Prime Music Gets Its Own Exclusive Content With Launch Of Amazon Acoustics
 Amazon is expanding its Prime Music servicetoday with the launch of a new collection of exclusive acoustical recordings from a number of artists, both established and up-and-coming. At launch, t...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch UK Is Leading The Way To Become A Global Bitcoin Hub
 When it comes to regulating bitcoin companies, it’s still mostly a work in progress. Some governments want to restrict bitcoin quite a lot, while others are adopting a more favorable stanc...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch UK Is Leading The Way To Becoming A Global Bitcoin Hub
 In many countries, when it comes to regulating bitcoin companies, it’s still mostly a work in progress. Some governments want to restrict bitcoin quite a lot, while others are adopting a m...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Klarismo, A Service That Makes A 3D Model Of The Inside Of Your Body, Raises $2.1M
 Klarismo, which takes existing MRIs and other kinds of body scans to build a 3D model of a person, has raised $2.1 million and launched out of Y Combinator. Klarismo is an online service where u...
01:16 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Nvidia Issues Recall For Shield Tablets After Overheating Poses Fire Hazard
 Nvidia is issuing a voluntary recall for its 8-inch Shield tablets after determining that they may, in fact, combust. The company has learned that the battery in the device has the potential to ...
11:50 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Apple To Release New Apple TV In September, Report Says
 Rumor has it that Apple should soon release a new version of its set-top box as well as a new streaming service for TV content. According to a new report by Buzzfeed, Apple was supposed to annou...
11:43 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch JustTheBell Is Just The Bell
 Sleeping with a cellphone in your room is, according to scientists who aren’t real, akin to sleeping with a radioactivity-emitting sleeplessness machine. That’s why artist and design...
11:19 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Major Security Bug In Apteans Customer Response System Puts User Data At Risk
 A bug discovered by security researchers Eric Taylor and Blake Welsh can change a standard customer feedback system called Aptean SupportSoft into a method for hackers to grab passwords, credit ...
09:28 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Uber Is Investing $1B To Grow Its Business In India To 1M Rides Per Day
 Not content with raising $1 billion to fund a major expansion in China, Uber has announced that it is putting aside another billion dollars in resources to grow its business in India. Read More ...
07:24 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch HTC Spends Nearly $10M On A 15% Stake In Virtual Reality Platform WEVR
 HTC is planning to release its extremely well-received virtual reality headset Vive to consumers later this year, possibly in November. In the meantime, the Taiwanese company is busy building ou...
04:04 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Samsung And MasterCard Will Launch Samsung Pay Together In Europe
 Samsung and MasterCard, which have been working together to bring Samsung Pay to consumers and merchants around the world, announced today that they will extend their partnership to launch the m...
12:21 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Facebook Fuels Ad Tracking By Nagging App Users To Instantly Log In On Safari
 35 million people run into a Facebook email and password login roadblock on iOS each day, and over half of them bounce. That’s why Facebook confirms to me that it’s testing a new too...
12:15 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Find A Photo, Get A Waffle
 About a week ago, the Google Photos team shared this mystical and magical video about a waffle wafel. What could it mean? What is this all about?Why a waffle??!?!?! Read More ...
12:02 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch DogSync Is An App To Help Your Family Keep Track Of Feeding Fido
 Designed for pet-loving households, DogSync (a recent winner of our patent-pending TC Radio pitch-off) is a task manager that helps families communicate and sync tasks like feeding, walking or l...
12:00 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2015
Techcrunch Requiem For The App Revolution
 The app revolution is dead. In fact, it died years ago. It had been a good run, but a revolution is no longer a revolution when the model is the status quo. With new apps created every day, the ...