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Investment Banking 2.0 Says "Hello World!?"
Aug 18, 11:30PM
David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech corporations have been conducting more M&A deals with less input from traditional investment banks. Because of my company’s insight into buy and sell-side M&A interest, I wanted to provide some additional insight into how we see the M&A world changing. Read MoreYC-Backed UPower Is Building Nuclear Batteries
Aug 18, 11:04PM
Despite the promise of bountiful, cheap, and clean energy, nuclear energy didn’t completely overtake fossil fuels like everyone expected in the middle of the twentieth century. Among other things, fear of radiation leaks and waste products that have to be buried for hundreds of years turned the United States away from adopting it for more than a fraction of our energy usage. Read MoreWomen.com Is A Place Where Women Can Engage In Real Talk Online — No Men Allowed
Aug 18, 10:22PM
From middle school girls’ sleepovers to more codified groups like the “Ladies’ Four O’Clock Club,” women have known for ages that there’s something special about the conversational dynamic that happens when a group of females get together. When women are with other women that they trust, they often can be completely honest and comfortable in a way that they… Read More>From Westfield Labs Comes An App To Let Your Pre-Order Meals From The Food Court
Aug 18, 9:00PM
One of the most recent applications from Westfield Labs is Dine On Time, an app that lets busy shoppers skip the line at restaurants in its food court and pay for their meal via mobile app. Since many of the diners in its San Francisco location are actually workers who have offices nearby, time is of the essence, and being able to place an order without having to wait in line is huge. Read MoreY Combinator's Doblet Plans To Be Everywhere Your Phone Charger Isn't
Aug 18, 8:48PM
We’ve all been there. You’ve been out all day and suddenly that low battery alert pops up on your phone. If you’re lucky, the bar you’re at might have the right charger for your phone behind the counter. If you’re not, you’re walking or taking the bus instead of calling a car service. But with Y Combinator-backed Doblet, you might be able to get a charge… Read MoreSwing Copters Is The Latest Game From The Creator Of Flappy Bird
Aug 18, 8:27PM
Take Flappy Bird, make the bird fly vertically and avoid swinging things, and you have Swing Copters, the next mobile game from Dong Nguyen. Because let’s burn more of our time on this earth with mindless games. Read MoreBooting A PDP-11
Aug 18, 8:16PM
As we move swiftly into an era of ubiquitous computing, Internets of Things, and mind-machine connections via wetware, it’s important to step back and take a look at where we’ve been. That’s why this How-To by Trammell Hudson is so cool. It shows how to boot a PDP-11 so you can play Adventure on a monochrome screen and reminds us that old computer were as finicky as Model… Read MoreMicrosoft Azure's Cloud Services And Virtual Machines Experience "Service Interruption"
Aug 18, 8:05PM
Update 2: Here’s the latest from Azure, relating to its downtime: Starting at 18 Aug 2014 17:49 UTC, a small subset of customers are experiencing connectivity issues to some Azure Services which may include Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Websites, Automation, Service Bus, Backup, Site Recovery, HDInsight, Mobile Services, StorSimple and possible other Azure Services in multiple regions. Read MoreLooksee Debuts A Tinder-Meets-Instagram For Connecting Around Shared Photos
Aug 18, 7:25PM
A new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The idea is that when two users mutually like one another’s photos, their identities will then be revealed to each other, allowing them to make a personal connection and begin… Read MoreuBiome Raises $4.5M From Angel Investors, Andreessen Horowitz To Crowdsource Microbiome Research
Aug 18, 6:42PM
Microbiome is the ecosystem of bacteria that lives within us, which outnumber the number of human cells 10-to-1. Microbes in the microbiome perform functions such as digesting food and synthesizing vitamins and have also been linked to human mood and behavior. Read MoreYC's Zenamins Mails You Personalized Vitamins
Aug 18, 6:00PM
40 million Americans take three or more vitamins a day, yet both the pill bottles and the way we buy them haven’t changed in decades. Well they’re about to, thanks to new Y Combinator startup Zen Health and its customized vitamin pack delivery service Zenamins. Punch in what you already take and answer a few questions and Zenamins will send you a personalized pill pack. Staying fit… Read MoreThis Real-Time Projected CGI Makeup Is Beautiful And Terrifying
Aug 18, 5:57PM
CGI has come a long way – from simulating Jar Jar Binks on the silver screen to replacing green screens with King’s Landing. Today, we should add this video to the progression. Producer and technical director Nobumichi Asai has used a projection technology called Omote to project makeup onto a live model’s face. Read MoreGoogle Makes It Easier For Advertisers To Track Which Ads Generate Phone Calls
Aug 18, 5:54PM
Over the course of the last year, Google’s AdWords advertising platform started launching a number of new products that allow advertisers to link ads and phone calls. Those include click-to-call ads, call metrics and calls as conversion in your AdWords stats, but today, it is taking this concept a bit further with the launch of Website Call Conversions. Read MoreNow Coming With Your Laptop: Large Helpings Of Cloud Storage
Aug 18, 5:35PM
Out this morning is a spec list for the forthcoming HP Stream laptop that will run Windows 8.1, and is expected to cost $199. It’s a device that Microsoft hopes will compete with Chromebooks, Google’s laptop offering that has consumed some PC market share, mostly among less expensive devices. Read MoreAppNexus Raises $60M Round Valuing The Ad-Tech Company At $1.2B
Aug 18, 5:03PM
Ad tech company AppNexus just announced that it has raised an additional $60 million. The company said that the round, which could eventually reach $100 million, valued AppNexus at $1.2 billion. The money came from an unnamed “large, Boston-based public equity and asset management firm.” Read MoreAlgorithmia Raises $2.4M To Connect Academia And App Developers
Aug 18, 4:56PM
While communities built around GitHub and Stack Overflow have developers working together more than they ever have before, one group’s work is typically seen by too few, considering the impact it could have: researchers in academia, whose work at its most successful is typically discussed only at conferences or in journals. Read MoreTom Hanks' Typewriter App Shoots To The Top Of The App Store
Aug 18, 4:53PM
Tom Hanks’ name can do more than sell a movie, it seems. His recently launched, hipster-ish typewriter app for iPad, Hanx Writer, has now shot to the top of the iTunes App Store, ranking No. 1 in both the Productivity section, as well as Overall. Launched last week, Hanx Writer turns your iPad into an old-fashioned typewriter, offering a pseudo-analog typing experience. The bangs of… Read MoreNoke Is A Simple, Keyless Bluetooth Padlock To Share Access To Your Stuff
Aug 18, 4:44PM
Meet Noke: a water-resistant connected padlock that doesn’t need a physical key to be unlocked — the clue is in the name, which is pronounced ‘no-key’ — instead it uses Bluetooth connectivity as the unlocking mechanism, triggered when your smartphone is nearby. Read MoreChinese Hackers Steal Personal Data From 4.5M Community Health Systems Patients
Aug 18, 4:39PM
Community Health Systems, one of the largest hospital operators in the U.S., today announced that hackers stole about 4.5 million records with patient names, addresses, birth data, phone numbers and Social Security numbers. The company says the data was stolen in attacks that occurred between April and June 2014 and the hackers gained access to data from anybody who was referred for or… Read MoreSwitch Is TripAdvisor For Finding A Tech Bootcamp
Aug 18, 4:03PM
Thanks to the predicted tech talent shortage and uncertainty in other industries, the idea of switching careers to jump to the tech industry is an enticing prospect for many in these less-than-stellar economic times. 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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