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Boeing’s secure smartphone has been fully detailed after an FCC filing revealed its imminent arrival yesterday, and the Android device seems like an unusual, and mission-specific gadget. With a 4.3-inch 960×540 display, LTE, a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, Bluetooth 2.1 and SD expandability, it’s not going toe-to-toe with any flagship devices, but the point is… Read More 
In an effort to usher in the post-resume era and make the job application process less of a headache, Smarterer developed a platform that provides job searchers with an easy way to show off their skills to employers. Through its crowdsourced, online quizzes, candidates can measure their skills across a range of subjects, from engineering to music, see how they stack up against their peers and earn… Read More 
Have you been in a Best Buy recently? The stores are starting to look more like exhibition halls than a warehouse retailers. And that’s by design. Stores within stores. Nearly every Best Buy store now has space dedicated to Samsung products and about half of the stores has space for Windows products. The company details the store-within-a-store concept in its 2014 fourth quarter results… Read More 
ClearSlide, a SaaS company that helps make sales representatives more productive, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership with all current venture investors, including Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Felicis Ventures participating in the round. This brings the company's total funding to $90 million. Read More 
Little Borrowed Dress, an online bridesmaid-dress rental company, has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Launch Capital, Neu Venture Capital, NYC Seed, Charles Smith, David Tisch (BoxGroup), Rett Wallace and Joanne Wilson. Read More 
WePopp, an iOS and Android app to help you plan events with friends, is extending its monetisation strategy today via a partnership with restaurant booking engine OpenTable. The new integration adds the ability to book a restaurant without leaving the app, whilst it also means that the French startup is leaving less money on the table, too. Read More 
Google has become an increasingly active participant in the world of education, particularly when it comes to exploring the role technology can play in re-imagining the way we learn. With Google Play for Education, Android and Play-powered Samsung tablets for the classroom and its work with… Read More 
Back at CES 2014, MakerBot announced three new 3D printers: one small (Replicator Mini), one huge (Replicator Z18), and one that’s about the same size as the one they’ve sold for years (now just the “Replicator”). With a new smart leveling system and built-in webcams for monitoring prints, these new models pack a few tricks that the older Replicators don’t. Since that… Read More 
Sony announced today that it is shuttering 20 of its 31 retail stores located throughout the States. The 11 remaining stores are located near major markets. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. As the company’s press release states, this move is designed to place Sony in a more competitive stance. The Sony of today is in flux. It’s offloading unprofitable divisions left… Read More 
Apple has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for education and enterprise customers. Some of the tweaks get way out in the weeds of deployment strategies, so they’ll only be really exciting for the actual pros who deal with this stuff. But the big picture is that Apple is looking to make deployments at… Read More 
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, friends, but today we've got a few robots that will eventually take control of our lives and lead us into a bright, strange future. First up we present the "A Pruning Robot With a Power-Saving Chainsaw Drive," by Yasuhiko Ishigure, Katsuyuki Hirai, and Haruhisa Kawasaki. What does that mean? It means it's a freaking robot with a chainsaw that can climb trees and… Read More 
HTC is proud of its smartphone speakers, especially on the HTC One – but it appears to be even more proud of the so-called ‘BoomSound’ (ugh) speakers on its upcoming flagship smartphone, which it pretty clearly seems to have named the “New HTC One” unless it’s trolling hard in this new video (via AndroidCentral). The company is going to announce its new device… Read More 
Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur stopped by the AOL office in Manhattan to discuss where personalization technology goes from here. When Gravity was founded four years ago, Kapur said its founders thought it was "inevitable" that the web would become more personal. At the time, everything on the web was "generic"… Read More 
After releasing earnings this afternoon, Workday has announced that it acquired Identified, a company that offered predictive analytics human resources software. Read More 
Automatic’s driving assistant, which combines a small hardware device with a mobile application in order to track, analyze, and even potentially improve your driving capabilities, is getting a whole lot smarter today with new support for IFTTT technology. That’s the online service where you can create simple “recipes” to kick off specific actions after being triggered by… Read More 
T-Mobile CMO Mike Sievert is pumped about Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 smartphone: Today, the executive tweeted that Samsung’s latest flagship is a record-breaker at the carrier, with over 100,000 pre-registrations in under 48 hours since its announcement. 100,000+ pre-registrations in 2 days is a new record at @TMobile #GalaxyS5 !!— Mike Sievert (@SievertMike) February 26, 2014… Read More 
Google is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group from Motorola. ATAP only just announced Tango, its 3D-environment sensor for mobile devices, and now it’s revealing a two-day developer conference April 15 and 16 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Ara, for… Read More 
Apple has shared some information around how Touch ID and its Secure Enclave keeps information private in an updated security document newly posted to its "iPhone in Business" microsite. The new info provides an inside look at how exactly the Secure Enclave generates and communicates encrypted and temporary identification information to the rest of the system to make sure that fingerprint data is… Read More 
What if you could get an alert to your phone anytime someone left a package on your doorstep? Or, if you could track whether your elderly parent took her medication in a given day? CamioCam's intelligent, video-monitoring service wants to be able to accomplish these tasks and more. The startup, which is launching at the LAUNCH conference today, turns any connected camera in your home (a tablet,… Read More 
Listen up, future entrepreneurial superstars! Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, February 27th at 5pm PDT. Do NOT miss out on this once-in-a-six-month opportunity! Why apply, you ask? I could list for you the many ways TechCrunch will work to get your company in front of the brightest and most influential people in tech, if that would help. I'd explain you might win $50,000, but… Read More 
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The Boeing Black Secure Android Smartphone Gets Official After Three Years In Development
Feb 27, 2:24PM
Boeing’s secure smartphone has been fully detailed after an FCC filing revealed its imminent arrival yesterday, and the Android device seems like an unusual, and mission-specific gadget. With a 4.3-inch 960×540 display, LTE, a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, Bluetooth 2.1 and SD expandability, it’s not going toe-to-toe with any flagship devices, but the point is… Read More
Smarterer Lands $1.6M To Bring Its Crowdsourced Skill Tests And Recruiting Tools To The Enterprise
Feb 27, 2:11PM
In an effort to usher in the post-resume era and make the job application process less of a headache, Smarterer developed a platform that provides job searchers with an easy way to show off their skills to employers. Through its crowdsourced, online quizzes, candidates can measure their skills across a range of subjects, from engineering to music, see how they stack up against their peers and earn… Read More
There Is Now A Samsung Store In Nearly Every Best Buy Store
Feb 27, 1:29PM
Have you been in a Best Buy recently? The stores are starting to look more like exhibition halls than a warehouse retailers. And that’s by design. Stores within stores. Nearly every Best Buy store now has space dedicated to Samsung products and about half of the stores has space for Windows products. The company details the store-within-a-store concept in its 2014 fourth quarter results… Read More
ClearSlide Raises $50M From The Social+Capital Partnership, Greylock To Help Make Sales Presentations More Effective
Feb 27, 12:30PM
ClearSlide, a SaaS company that helps make sales representatives more productive, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership with all current venture investors, including Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Felicis Ventures participating in the round. This brings the company's total funding to $90 million. Read More
Bridesmaid Dress Rental Service Little Borrowed Dress Raises $1.25M From Index Ventures, A16Z
Feb 27, 12:29PM
Little Borrowed Dress, an online bridesmaid-dress rental company, has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Launch Capital, Neu Venture Capital, NYC Seed, Charles Smith, David Tisch (BoxGroup), Rett Wallace and Joanne Wilson. Read More
WePopp Adds Restaurant Booking Via OpenTable
Feb 27, 11:22AM
WePopp, an iOS and Android app to help you plan events with friends, is extending its monetisation strategy today via a partnership with restaurant booking engine OpenTable. The new integration adds the ability to book a restaurant without leaving the app, whilst it also means that the French startup is leaving less money on the table, too. Read More
Meet Oppia, Google's New Open Source Project That Allows Anyone To Create An Interactive Learning Experience
Feb 27, 7:42AM
Google has become an increasingly active participant in the world of education, particularly when it comes to exploring the role technology can play in re-imagining the way we learn. With Google Play for Education, Android and Play-powered Samsung tablets for the classroom and its work with… Read More
MakerBot Starts Taking Pre-Orders For Their Itty-Bitty 3D Printer
Feb 26, 11:05PM
Back at CES 2014, MakerBot announced three new 3D printers: one small (Replicator Mini), one huge (Replicator Z18), and one that’s about the same size as the one they’ve sold for years (now just the “Replicator”). With a new smart leveling system and built-in webcams for monitoring prints, these new models pack a few tricks that the older Replicators don’t. Since that… Read More
Sony To Close Two-Thirds Of Its US Retail Stores
Feb 26, 11:02PM
Sony announced today that it is shuttering 20 of its 31 retail stores located throughout the States. The 11 remaining stores are located near major markets. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. As the company’s press release states, this move is designed to place Sony in a more competitive stance. The Sony of today is in flux. It’s offloading unprofitable divisions left… Read More
Apple Makes Big Improvements In iOS Management Tools For Enterprise And Education
Feb 26, 11:02PM
Apple has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for education and enterprise customers. Some of the tweaks get way out in the weeds of deployment strategies, so they’ll only be really exciting for the actual pros who deal with this stuff. But the big picture is that Apple is looking to make deployments at… Read More
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs…
Feb 26, 11:00PM
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, friends, but today we've got a few robots that will eventually take control of our lives and lead us into a bright, strange future. First up we present the "A Pruning Robot With a Power-Saving Chainsaw Drive," by Yasuhiko Ishigure, Katsuyuki Hirai, and Haruhisa Kawasaki. What does that mean? It means it's a freaking robot with a chainsaw that can climb trees and… Read More
HTC Teases The "All New HTC One" In New Promo Video For BoomSound
Feb 26, 10:35PM
HTC is proud of its smartphone speakers, especially on the HTC One – but it appears to be even more proud of the so-called ‘BoomSound’ (ugh) speakers on its upcoming flagship smartphone, which it pretty clearly seems to have named the “New HTC One” unless it’s trolling hard in this new video (via AndroidCentral). The company is going to announce its new device… Read More
Gravity's Amit Kapur Says Personalization Is Going To "Explode" This Year
Feb 26, 10:22PM
Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur stopped by the AOL office in Manhattan to discuss where personalization technology goes from here. When Gravity was founded four years ago, Kapur said its founders thought it was "inevitable" that the web would become more personal. At the time, everything on the web was "generic"… Read More
Workday Acquires HR Predictive Analytics Company Identified
Feb 26, 10:12PM
After releasing earnings this afternoon, Workday has announced that it acquired Identified, a company that offered predictive analytics human resources software. Read More
Connected Car App Automatic Gets Even Smarter With IFTTT Integration
Feb 26, 10:00PM
Automatic’s driving assistant, which combines a small hardware device with a mobile application in order to track, analyze, and even potentially improve your driving capabilities, is getting a whole lot smarter today with new support for IFTTT technology. That’s the online service where you can create simple “recipes” to kick off specific actions after being triggered by… Read More
Samsung Galaxy S5 Breaks Records With Over 100K Pre-Registrations At T-Mobile In Under Two Days
Feb 26, 9:58PM
T-Mobile CMO Mike Sievert is pumped about Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 smartphone: Today, the executive tweeted that Samsung’s latest flagship is a record-breaker at the carrier, with over 100,000 pre-registrations in under 48 hours since its announcement. 100,000+ pre-registrations in 2 days is a new record at @TMobile #GalaxyS5 !!— Mike Sievert (@SievertMike) February 26, 2014… Read More
Google's Project Ara Modular Smartphone Gets Its Own Developer Conference This April
Feb 26, 9:50PM
Google is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group from Motorola. ATAP only just announced Tango, its 3D-environment sensor for mobile devices, and now it’s revealing a two-day developer conference April 15 and 16 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Ara, for… Read More
Apple Details Touch ID And The A7′s Secure Enclave In Updated iOS Security Document
Feb 26, 9:32PM
Apple has shared some information around how Touch ID and its Secure Enclave keeps information private in an updated security document newly posted to its "iPhone in Business" microsite. The new info provides an inside look at how exactly the Secure Enclave generates and communicates encrypted and temporary identification information to the rest of the system to make sure that fingerprint data is… Read More
CamioCam Turns Any Web Or Video Camera Into A Smart, Cloud-Based Monitoring Device
Feb 26, 8:44PM
What if you could get an alert to your phone anytime someone left a package on your doorstep? Or, if you could track whether your elderly parent took her medication in a given day? CamioCam's intelligent, video-monitoring service wants to be able to accomplish these tasks and more. The startup, which is launching at the LAUNCH conference today, turns any connected camera in your home (a tablet,… Read More
Only 24 Hours Left To Apply To TechCrunch Battlefield!
Feb 26, 8:32PM
Listen up, future entrepreneurial superstars! Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, February 27th at 5pm PDT. Do NOT miss out on this once-in-a-six-month opportunity! Why apply, you ask? I could list for you the many ways TechCrunch will work to get your company in front of the brightest and most influential people in tech, if that would help. I'd explain you might win $50,000, but… Read More
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