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Apple Said To Be Mulling Health And Fitness Services Platform
May 05, 5:54PM
Apple is reportedly working on building a “full health and fitness services platform,” which would resemble and be modelled on its App Store software marketplace, according to a new report by Reuters. Apple is also said to be ramping up its hiring of health tech and hardware experts, which is an ongoing trend that’s been noticed by other observers in the past. The latest hire at… Read MoreJobr Wants To Be Like Tinder For Your Job Hunt
May 05, 5:00PM
Jobr is a moile app that takes the Tinder "swipe left, swipe right" model and extends it to searching for a job. Officially launching today, Jobr seeks to connect job seekers and recruiters in a way that speeds up the process for both. On the side of the job seeker, the app gives a simple interface for reviewing various employment opportunities quickly. Read MoreAutomattic Raises $160M To Catch Up With The Web's Evolution
May 05, 4:57PM
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the open-source WordPress platform, today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series C round from Insight Ventures, True Ventures, Chris Sacca, Endurance, Tiger and Iconiq. That’s a massive funding round for WordPress, especially given that it hasn’t taken funding since 2008 and at that time had “only” raised $12… Read MoreThe Future Of Jawbone Could Be In Wearable Identity Tech
May 05, 4:52PM
Wearables so far have a pretty limited audience overall in terms of the global consumer market, but they could become a lot more integral to the lives of average people in the future. On stage at Disrupt NY today, Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman talked about what we might see in UP bands down the road, and there was a lot more than just activity tracking involved: worn tech knows you, he explained, and… Read MoreAfter Exiting Phones, Nokia Launches $100M Fund To Drive Connected Cars
May 05, 4:44PM
Nokia has launched a new $100 million investment fund focused on connected cars, as the 150-year-old company seeks to pull off its latest reinvention trick. The fund will be managed by Nokia's venture arm, Nokia Growth Partners. Read MoreBase Brings Smarter Notifications To Android
May 05, 4:26PM
A new application called Base, debuting here at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley in New York, brings smarter mobile notifications to the Android’s homescreen. The idea with Base, which grew out of its creator Widdit’s earlier efforts with a personalized welcome screen dubbed HomeBase, is to make push notifications more relevant to you, based on what you’re doing now… Read MoreCross-Platform Developer Service Xamarin Adds Amazon Fire TV Support
May 05, 4:00PM
With its Fire TV platform, Amazon is making a major push for the living room. One of the advantages for developers is that Amazon is using Android as the basis for its living room set-top box and that it features a store where users can download Android apps. For the most part, that’s games right now. Still, there are only around 250 apps or so in the store at the moment, but if it’s… Read More
Sam Altman (Reluctantly) Says Y Combinator Has An Accelerator Monopoly
May 05, 3:54PM
If you think Y Combinator dominates the world of the startup accelerators, YC President Sam Altman agrees with you. In an on-stage interview at TechCrunch's Disrupt New York conference, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington said he was trying to get something controversial from Altman, so he asked whether YC sucks "99.9 percent of oxygen out of the accelerator ecosystem." Altman countered that… Read MoreSurprise! That Wild Rumor About Apple EarPods With Biometrics Sensors Was A Fake
May 05, 3:20PM
Shocking, just absolutely shocking: the wild rumor claiming that Apple was developing new “EarPods” headphones that included integrated heart rate and blood pressure sensors, which had everyone buzzing, turns out to be fake. According to an anonymous Tumblr from the Secret post’s creator (he/she verified this within Secret, linking to Tumblr using the original poster’s… Read MoreY Combinator Squares Up To 500 Startups, Takes Its One-Day Event International
May 05, 3:17PM
Y Combinator, the mother of tech accelerators, says it is not planning to run its three-month YC program anywhere but Mountain View, but it is definitely starting to look further afield. Today YC announced that it would start running its Startup School, its one-day networking event, in cities outside of the Valley, starting first with New York and London. Read MoreCoin Demoes The Tech That Scored A $15.5M Round Led By Red Point
May 05, 3:10PM
People haven't shut up about Coin since the credit card replacement debuted in November, yet we've never seen the tech demoed in real life. Today, all that changes. Read MoreDon't Trust Bitcoin Startups That Centralize Everything
May 05, 2:48PM
Peter Smith of Blockchain.info and Susan Athey of Stanford University took the stage at Disrupt NY to update everyone on the state of bitcoin. In the last few months, Mt.Gox collapsed, bitcoin has lost half of its value. Can bitcoin survive following the current reality check? According to our two experts, bitcoin as a whole is here to stay. But Mt.Gox may have shown us that there is a wrong… Read More"There Are Things That Are More Important Than Money," Says Kickstarter CEO
May 05, 2:37PM
Yancey Strickler, co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter, has confirmed the crowdfunding platform will not be getting involved with crowd equity. Strickler was in conversation with TechCrunch's John Biggs, here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. Read MoreFred Wilson On The New York Startup Scene And Why Too Much Money Is "The Root Of All Evil"
May 05, 2:33PM
When Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson took the stage today at TechCrunch's Disrupt New York conference, he elaborated on a recent blog post about "the valuation trap" and argued that "too much money is the root of all evil." Wilson's post was actually a response to an article in TechCrunch about the challenges Square and Box seem to be facing. Basically, Wilson argued that startups should be… Read MoreSnakable's New USB Charging Cable Will Never Need Duct Tape
May 05, 2:08PM
If you’ve ever owned a USB charging cable (and if you’re reading TechCrunch, odds are you have), then you’ve encountered the problem that Snakable wants to solve. That is, after repeated use, the cable breaks, the wires are exposed, and then, more often that not, the cable itself becomes unreliable, requiring you to jiggle it in order to get your device to start charging.… Read MoreVC Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won't Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will
May 05, 1:43PM
Fred Wilson of New York's Union Square Ventures, one of the top tech investors around, believes that by 2020, the biggest tech company in the world -- Apple -- will cease to be the most important, and won't even be in the top three. Read MoreDrivy Raises $8.3 Million For Its Community-Based Car Rental Service
May 05, 1:00PM
French startup Drivy raised a Series A round of $8.3 million (€6 million) from Index Ventures and Alven Capital. These two investors already put $2.8 million (€2 million) in seed funding. As a reminder, Drivy allows anyone to rent out their car. On the other side, you can go to Drivy’s app or website to rent a car, usually for less than what it would cost you in a brick and mortar car… Read MoreWebsite Testing Company Optimizely Raises $57M Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz
May 05, 1:00PM
Looks like Andreessen Horowitz sees a big opportunity in A/B testing — the venture firm is leading a $57 million Series B round of funding in Optimizely. Andreessen partner Scott Weiss (co-founder and former CEO of Cisco-acquired security company IronPort) is joining the Optimizely board of directors. Read MoreOculus: Not A Single Line Of ZeniMax Code In Any Oculus Products
May 05, 12:56PM
Oculus today responded pretty forcefully to allegations that John Carmack, the creator of Doom, violated his non-disclosure agreement with ZeniMax when he joined Oculus shortly before the company was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. According to Oculus, "there is not a line of ZeniMax code or any of its technology in any Oculus products." Read MoreFollowing Massive Data Breach, Target CEO Resigns
May 05, 12:56PM
Following the massive data breach that saw as many as 70 million Target customers’ personal information stolen, along with 40 million credit and debit cards, the company’s board has announced this morning that Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel would be stepping down from his positions as CEO and president, as well as Chairman of the board of directors. In the interim, John Mulligan,… Read More
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