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Filing Says Sleep- And Health-Tracking Startup Lark Is Raising Another $3.6M
Oct 05, 12:52AM
Lark, which launched a wearable silent alarm on-stage at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference back in 2010, has raised $3.1 million of an intended $3.6 million round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I've emailed the company and its CEO Julia Hu for confirmation, and I'll update this post if I hear back. The filing doesn't specify the investors in the new round, but intriguingly, it does identify Weili Dai, president and co-founder of Marvell, as as member of its board of directors.Inside The Grace Hopper Celebration, Where Thousands Of Women Are United By Tech
Oct 04, 11:47PM
"Life changing," "amazing," and "shockingly wonderful" are not often terms that are typically used to describe industry conferences. But that's exactly how people talk about the Grace Hopper Celebration, an annual four-day event dedicated to bringing together women in computing to talk about technology and their careers.Saps Looking For Twitter Bounce Penny Stock 1,400%, Telegraph Strong Retail Interest In Its IPO
Oct 04, 10:53PM
I have all my money under a mattress in fear of a debt ceiling collapse, and people are buying stock because they think an S-1 means the company has started trading. Let's rewind: Twitter has filed to go public. Its stock symbol, when it commences trading, will be TWTR. Another firm, Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, which is out of business following bankruptcy in 2007, currently trades as TWTRQ. You can see where this is going.Pinterest Files A Trademark Infringement Suit Against Social Travel Startup Pintrips
Oct 04, 10:11PM
Pinterest has made a point of discouraging the many social media companies that riff on Pinterest in their own brand names, with some of the more prominent of these going so far as to rebrand their services. And as for the rest? Get ready to go to court.Skype Will Finally Start Syncing Chat Messages Across Devices
Oct 04, 10:08PM
If you use Skype on your phone and desktop, you know how annoying its inability to effectively keep your chat message status in sync between different machines can be. After you start Skype on your phone, for example, it downloads and alerts you of all of the sometimes hundreds of messages you've received since you last shut it down, even though you've long seen them on your desktop. Sometimes, this also means the app will be unresponsive for quite a while (or just crash).Twitter's M&A Has Ballooned From $52.2M Last Year To Over $417.5M In 2013
Oct 04, 9:45PM
When it comes to acquisitions, it's clear that Twitter had been spending more money on acquiring technologies and talent in 2013 than in the past few years. According to the company's recently filed S-1, Twitter spent $52.2 million in cash and stock on acquisitions in 2012. In the first half of 2013, Twitter spent double that, $112.5 million on acquisitions. Note, this does not include the company's largest acquisition to date, MoPub, which was purchased in September for $305 million in stock.Ask A VC: Battery Ventures' Brian O'Malley On AngelList Syndicates And The Importance Of A Lead Investor
Oct 04, 9:35PM
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, we welcomed Battery Ventures' general partner Brian O'Malley into the studio to talk about his perspective on the latest topic du jour, AngelList Syndicates.Elon Musk Details Cause Of Tesla Model S Fire, Says It Would Have Been Worse With Gas
Oct 04, 7:53PM
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to the company blog today to talk about a Tesla Model S fire that caught the attention of the news media this week. Musk says that the fire was caused by a piece of a tractor trailer which punctured the battery compartment of the car with a "peak force on the order of 25 tons."Deep Web Users Are Ready To Launch Silk Road 2.0
Oct 04, 7:50PM
In an interesting post-mortem release by the creators of the defunct anonymous marketplace Atlantis there is information that the former admins and users of the Silk Road are planning to resurrect the service. User RR writes: "We have SilkRoad v2.0 ready to launch and is now in its final testing stages. Our site has all the features of the original one and we have kept the same style of forum for your ease."Hands-On With The Kickstarted Bohemian Guitar Company's 'Oil Can' Guitars
Oct 04, 7:31PM
In order to put our money where our hype is we like to take a closer look at Kickstarter products we've talked about on the site. Today we have the Bohemian Guitar Company's "oil can" guitars, a Kickstarter project that raised $54,000 - $20K over their $32,000 goal. The company, based in Georgia, just started shipping their cleverly-designed gitfiddles and I got the chance to try one out.Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs
Oct 04, 7:12PM
Welcome to our continuing series featuring videos of robots that will, when they become autonomous, hunt us down and force us to work in the graphene factories of Mars. Below we see Wild Cat, a fully untethered remote control quadrupedal robot made by Boston Dynamics, creators of the famous Big Dog. This quadruped can run up to 16 miles an hour and features a scary-sound internal gas engine that can power it across rough terrain. Wild Cat was funded by the DARPA’s M3 program aimed at introducing flexible, usable robots into natural environments AKA introducing robotic pack animals for ground troops and build flocking, heavily armed robots that can wipe out a battlefield without putting humans in jeopardy. Next up we have ATLAS, another Boston Dynamics bot that can walk upright on rocks. Sadly ATLAS is tethered to a power source but he has perfect balance and can survive side and front hits from heavy weights – a plus if you’re built to be the shock troops of a new droid army. ATLAS can even balance on one foot while being smacked with wrecking balls, something the average human can’t do without suffering internal damage. I can’t wait for him to be able to throw cinder blocks! Finally we present these charming self-assembling robots from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory which we covered earlier today. The robots exert an internal force to spin and then connect with each other using magnets, allowing them to fly into the air for a second and then fall down next to their brothers and sisters in exactly the right spot. This allows these completely featureless squares to form any shape they want and, like autonomous LEGOs, they can build complex devices out of a few simple shapes. "There's a point in time when the cube is essentially flying through the air," said researcher Kyle Gilpin. "And you are depending on the magnets to bring it into alignment when it lands. That's something that's totally unique to this system." They may look innocuous but imagine these things self-assembling into, say, a wall, a door, or even a plate of explosives. They could sneak through pipes into your home and create a robotic assassin to destroy you in the sleep, thereby freeing up your “Schlafplatz” for other humans who have been reduced to sleeping out of doors after the robots took over most habitableYourMechanic Introduces Pre-Purchase Car Inspections So You Don't Buy A Lemon
Oct 04, 7:05PM
Knowing what's wrong with a car before you buy it could save you a lot of headaches down the line, and it could help you negotiate down the price of the vehicle. YourMechanic now wants to make it easier for used car purchasers to get vehicles checked out, with the launch of Pre-Purchase Car Inspections.This Week On The Gadgets Podcast: Silk Road, Instagram Ads, BBM, And The Z30
Oct 04, 7:00PM
An anonymous, underground drug trafficking web site Silk Road has been busted and the founder has been arrested, effectively shutting down a $1 billion+ revenue business after two years. And in softer tech news, Instagram has revealed plans to put ads in the stream over the next couple months. Meanwhile, BlackBerry continues to be in shambles, with BBM for Android and iOS delayed and the Z30 reportedly not going on sale in the company's home country of Canada on Rogers.Twitter Vs. Facebook IPO In One Chart
Oct 04, 6:23PM
In the near future, anyone with an Internet connection and some lunch money will be able to invest in one of Silicon Valley's hottest tech companies. But after big brother Facebook's IPO debacle, should America's armchair investors pin their hopes and dreams on Silicon Valley's younger sibling? We help you compare in one easy chart.General Assembly Shuts Down Co-Working Space In NYC To Focus On Education
Oct 04, 6:06PM
After three years of offering co-working spaces to young startups and entrepreneurs, General Assembly has decided to shut down the co-working brand of its business in 2014, according to multiple sources as well as a blog post. According to the post, it simply makes more economic sense to shut down the co-working branch of the company and shift complete focus to the educational arm of General Assembly, which provides classes on things like Digital Marketing, Business Fundamentals and Tactics, and Back-end Web Development. As it stands now, General Assembly already has 3,000 alumni students who have taken a longer term class with them, and 70k students who have step foot inside one of GA's worldwide offices looking for mingling space and/or a class to enroll in.Locca Wants To Stop You Losing Stuff - Or Your Kids - With Its SIM-Packing GPS Trackers
Oct 04, 5:46PM
You wait ages for a lost item tracker hardware startup, and then loads and loads pile on at once. Meet Locca, an Austrian startup that has just kicked off a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a pair of item trackers that pack in a range of location pin-pointing techs to enable item tracking even across international borders.Video Automation Startup IRIS.TV Launches With $1.7M In Funding To Keep You Tuned In Longer
Oct 04, 5:17PM
A new startup in Los Angeles called IRIS.TV wants to give video publishers the tools to make streaming video more personalized, and therefore keep viewers hooked for longer. The company is coming to market with $1.7 million in seed funding from angels in the media and finance worlds.White House's Deputy Tech Advisor Turns To Bartending Amid Shutdown
Oct 04, 4:52PM
Here's a novel way to spend some mandatory vacation time: serve your fellow co-workers top-shelf alcohol. The government shutdown has most of Washington's public sector furloughed, so Tom Power -- the White House's Deputy Chief Technology Officer -- decided to take up bartending. Washington D.C.'s shutdown is like a Catholic school prom: all that pent-up frustration has finally been set loose.Gillmor Gang Live 10.04.13 (TCTV)
Oct 04, 4:06PM
Gillmor Gang - John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. ike the Gillmor Gang on Facebook at facebook.com/gillmorgangiCloud Alternative Loom Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round
Oct 04, 4:00PM
A startup called Loom, which begin its life as the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing startup Popset, is working to build a better iCloud for both consumers and developers. Currently, the company offers a cloud storage and syncing service, in the form of a mobile application for iOS and desktop app for Mac. And today, Loom is also announcing $1.4 million in seed funding to continue to build on its vision.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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