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New Airbnb Logo Wants You To Draw It Like One Of Your French Logos
Jul 16, 9:47PM
In a scene out of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley,’ Airbnb unveiled a very sexually connotative logo today: Bélo. Apparently no one in on the design process asked themselves, in this guy’s parlance, “Does this logo look like a boobs and a butt and a hooha?” Read MoreInvestors Cash Out Of Payment Technology Startups
Jul 16, 9:11PM
Even as a clutch of new payment technology companies including Zooz Mobile and Plastiq announce new financing rounds today, it seems like investors are no longer paying out for payment companies. Over the past three quarters, the number of venture-backed payments companies has declined, tumbling from 59 startups in the third quarter of 2013 to just 41 companies in the second quarter of 2014. Read MoreShipping Startup Shyp Raises $10M Led By SherpaVentures, Plans Expansion To New York City
Jul 16, 8:48PM
On-demand shipping startup Shyp only officially launched in San Francisco just a few months ago, but it’s already looking to expand to new markets. First, though, the company raised $10 million in new capital, led by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford’s SherpaVentures. The funding follows $2.3 million in seed funding that Shyp had raised from Homebrew Ventures and a large number… Read MoreEvoke Is A New Induction-Based Vaporizer That Looks And Feels Like An Old-School Pipe
Jul 16, 8:42PM
The Evoke is the latest electronic vaporizer to grace the industry with its presence, and I sincerely mean that. From the looks of things, the Evoke (from LotoLabs) is one of the first vaporizers I’ve seen that looks to the past for design inspiration, with a wooden, hefty look to it not unlike the tobacco pipes of the olden days. The company touts that its induction-based vaporizer… Read MoreeBay Reports Mixed Q2 Results With Revenue Of $4.366B, Non-GAAP EPS Of $0.69
Jul 16, 8:30PM
Today after the close of regular trading, eBay announced its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $4.366 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.69. Its revenue tally for the period was up 13 percent year-over-year. eBay’s second-quarter GAAP earnings totaled $676 million. It’s non-GAAP earnings were much higher at $868 million. Read MoreZillow Acquires Retsly, A Service That Helps Developers Access Real Estate Listings
Jul 16, 8:30PM
Real estate site Zillow today announced that it has acquired Retsly, a Vancouver, B.C.-based startup that helps developers access real-estate data from multiple listing services (MLS). The service takes the data from these sites and normalizes it so developers can more easily use the data in their own applications. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Read MoreY Combinator May Be Worth One Billion Dollars. Here's The Math
Jul 16, 8:28PM
Y Combinator’s president Sam Altman dropped some big stats about his prestigious startup accelerator today. But there’s a few he left out that can be estimated based on his announcement that the combined market cap of all YC companies exceeds $30 billion. Specifically, you can use that number to approximate how much YC’s stake is worth. The ballpark answer? Around $1.05 billion. Read MorePond5 Raises $61 Million Series A Led By Accel Partners, Stripes Group
Jul 16, 7:59PM
Pond5, Shutterstock’s rival in the digital media and video world, has today announced that the company has closed a $61 million round of funding led by Accel Partners and Stripes Group. Read MoreMIT Students Create An Ice Cream Printer
Jul 16, 7:00PM
You scream, I scream, we all transform an off-the-shelf Cuisinart soft-serve maker to extrude super-cooled and 3D-printed shells of ice cream! Three students at MIT, Kyle Hounsell, Kristine Bunker, and David Donghyun Kim, have created a homemade ice cream printer that extrudes soft serve and immediately freezes it so that it can be layered on a cooled plate. The system is a proof-of-concept… Read MoreGoogle Planning A Big Push In India This Fall
Jul 16, 6:51PM
Google is planning a big advertising campaign for its Android One initiative in India this fall, according to several recent reports. While the figures don’t line up, the news itself makes a lot of sense. Read MoreSenate Passes Cellphone Unlocking Bill That Lets You Use Your Phone With Another Carrier
Jul 16, 6:11PM
The Senate passed a bill that that legalized phone unlocking, which allows consumers to switch carriers with the same phone once a their contract is up. Read MoreCountable Wants To Make Politics A 'Continual Conversation'
Jul 16, 5:47PM
Telling your senator how to vote is as easy as “liking” a Facebook picture, thanks to a new app from the creators of TV streaming service SideReel. Countable, available for iOS and coming to Android soon, presents a succinct summary of each piece of legislation Congress is considering, along with a short one-sentence argument in favor of the bill or against it. You are then able… Read MoreApple Agrees To Pay As Much As $450M To Settle E-Book Case, But Says It Will Continue Appeal
Jul 16, 5:42PM
Apple has reached an agreement with 33 states to pay as much as $400 million to consumers to settle the antitrust suit over e-book pricing. Including attorneys’ fees and payments to states, the company could pay a total of $450 million. However, the payment could be reduced, or eliminated entirely, depending on the results of Apple’s ongoing appeal. While a federal judge ruled… Read MorePopular Bitcoin Mining Pool Promises To Restrict Its Compute Power To Prevent Feared '51%' Fiasco
Jul 16, 5:31PM
This morning GHash.IO, a popular bitcoin mining pool, announced in a statement that in the future it will “not exceed more than 39.99% of the overall Bitcoin hashrate.” Earlier this year, GHash crested the 50% hashrate mark, sparking fears inside the bitcoin community regarding the so-called ’51% problem.’ The issue isn’t too hard to understand: If any one… Read MoreAirbnb Launches Massive Redesign, With Reimagined Listings And A Brand New Logo
Jul 16, 5:28PM
Today at an event for its users, Airbnb announced a massive redesign to its website and mobile apps that is designed to make it easier for users to find the information that they need while also making listings on its platform more appealing. The company also introduced a new, modern logo that will replace the lower-case cursive “a” that has defined it over the last several years. Read MoreGoogle Starts Selling Its Aerial Imagery To Maps For Business Users
Jul 16, 5:09PM
Google Maps for Business is a service for enterprises and government organizations that need to visualize their assets on a map. Today, the company has announced that customers can now purchase Google’s aerial imagery directly from the company and use it to map public service projects, study the environmental impact of a project, or evaluate a property. Read MoreFullStory Gets $1.2M To Help Customer Service Do Their Job Better
Jul 16, 4:58PM
Tired of waiting forever on a customer service call? Have no fear, FullStory is trying to minimize those endless hours spent on the phone by capturing everything a user does on a company’s product using a simple script. Read MoreBlackBerry Gets Its Own Siri With BlackBerry Assistant
Jul 16, 4:13PM
BlackBerry is trying to build up some steam for its upcoming BlackBerry OS 10.3 launch, and for its new BlackBerry Passport hardware, and today that means a new feature reveal: The company detailed BlackBerry Assistant on its official blog today, and the feature looks unsurprisingly like Siri and Cortana for iOS and Windows Phone respectively. The Assistant features the now-omnipresent… Read MoreHandUp Raises $850K For A Platform That Lets Donors Lend A Hand To The Homeless
Jul 16, 4:00PM
Homelessness in the United States is such a tremendous and multi-faceted problem that no single approach can fix it. But that means that there can be a mix of ways to help out homeless people, from federal assistance to local non-profit programs. San Francisco-based HandUp marries tech to individual charitable donations through a platform that allows donors to give to specific people. I… Read MoreMicrosoft May Axe One-Fifth Of Its Nokia-Sourced Finnish Workforce
Jul 16, 3:50PM
According to a local-language report in Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Microsoft is gearing up for around 1,000 layoffs in Finland. Microsoft acquired around 4,700 employees in the country when it purchased substantial assets from Nokia, a deal that closed in April. We reached out but Microsoft declined to comment. At work here is the fact that Microsoft is widely expected to be… Read MoreIf 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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