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With Money Tight, HubSpot Looks To Tap Public Markets
Aug 25, 11:23PM
With $7.3 million in cash on hand, and losses of $17.77 million in the first half of 2014, HubSpot has filed to go public. HubSpot’s slim cash load and expanding losses — the firm had a deficit attributable to common shareholders of $16.37 million in the first six months of 2013 — are contravened by its rising revenues: HubSpot had revenue of $51.27 million during the first… Read MoreFor The First Time, More People Will Watch MLB.tv Streams On Devices Than Desktops
Aug 25, 10:26PM
On August 26th of 2002, Major League Baseball streamed its first live MLB.tv video of a game to the web — a tiny, grainy little player that looks laughable in comparison to today’s HD streams you hold in your palm. This month, 12 years later, the MLB says that it projects that over 51% of its monthly live streams will be watched on ‘connected’ and mobile devices in… Read MoreCorporate Accelerators Are An Oxymoron
Aug 25, 10:00PM
ntial to deeply influence what innovations succeed — and which ones do not. Perhaps nowhere is this conflict more pronounced than in the development of “design customers” early in a startup’s life. One of the most important functions of early-stage investors and advisers is to help make customer introductions for startups once they have built a minimum-viable product.… Read MoreKorean Bitcoin Exchange Korbit Raises $3M Series A
Aug 25, 9:00PM
Korean bitcoin exchange Korbit has raised $3 million in Series A funding led by SoftBank Ventures Korea and Pantera Capital, with participation from BAM Ventures, and returning investors Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., Tim Draper, Pietro Dova, and Strong Ventures. The startup told TechCrunch that it will use its Series A to improve the quality of its products and services and make additional hires. Read MoreThe Original Night Trap Programmers Want To Release A New Version Of The Campy Classic
Aug 25, 9:00PM
Night Trap was released in 1992 for the Sega CD and the horror survival title was one of the most divisive and notorious games ever made. Now the original creators want to re-release the title in beautiful HD, a move that should send gamers of a certain age into a tizzy. The game was one of the first to use digital video, and told the story of a group of co-eds trapped in a house of horrors.… Read MoreMailbox Suffers Outage Due To 'Unprecedented Demand'
Aug 25, 8:59PM
When you consider yourself a pro at something, but it’s mainly because you have a great tool to help you, what happens when that tool breaks? I got to find out this morning when Mailbox, my email client for both mobile and desktop, for some reason decided to stop working. And I suddenly was no longer a pro at handling email. Read MoreNSA Created Search Engine Tool To Share Communication Records With Government Agencies
Aug 25, 8:41PM
A set of classified documents published by The Intercept on Monday shows how the National Security Agency (NSA) makes more than 850 billion records about various forms of communications available to other U.S. governmental agencies through a portal similar in look and feel to a traditional web search engine. The search tool, called ICREACH, provides access to all communications… Read MoreThis Lizard-Inspired Robot Does A Barrel Roll
Aug 25, 8:12PM
In today’s episode of “Post Featuring A Robot Doing A Barrel Roll,” we present the FlipBot, an RC car that uses the tricks used by real lizards to flip in midair. It’s essentially a car with a tail. When the FlipBot takes a sweet jump, the tail spins quickly to twist the body of the car in the air while the tail essentially remains in the same position. Given that… Read MoreAmazon's Twitch Acquisition Is Official
Aug 25, 8:08PM
After months of rumors suggesting that Google was prepped to snatch up Twitch, word broke this morning that Amazon had crashed the party and was about to acquire Twitch themselves. Sure enough, the Amazon/Twitch deal is done. Read MoreAmazon Will Buy Twitch For Over $1 Billion
Aug 25, 7:28PM
Amazon, not Google will be the corporate host of Twitch, the popular game streaming service. The deal, which was first reported by The Information and confirmed by our sources, will likely be announced today. The final price tag will top $1 billion we’ve heard. Google was widely expected to purchase the firm for around $1 billion and that deal was generally thought to be sewn up. That… Read MoreGold Dealer Drops Credit Card Payments For Bitcoin
Aug 25, 6:49PM
The world of gold bullion sales is often peopled by the odd and interesting. Joseph Castillo is one of the latter. The owner of Agora Commodities, his company now only accepts Bitcoin for online sales, a move that has reduced fraud and improved his service. Castillo talked to Coindesk about his decision, saying that “What we had to do to protect ourselves against card fraud, we no… Read MoreFacebook Says It's Cracking Down On Clickbait
Aug 25, 6:14PM
If you’re tired of headlines declaring that “you’ll never believe what happened next!”, it looks like Facebook feels your pain. The company said in a blog post today that it’s trying to cut back on “click-baiting headlines”, which it defines as “a headline that encourages people to click to see more, without telling them much information about… Read MoreGoogle Brings Native MS Office Editing Features To Its iOS Productivity Apps, Launches Slides For iOS
Aug 25, 6:08PM
Google is closing the loop on bringing support for natively editing Microsoft Office files to all of productivity apps today. The company’s iOS apps for Docs and Sheets are getting a couple of minor new features and design updates today, but most importantly, these apps will now also be able to natively open, edit and save files from Microsoft’s Office suite. After launching the… Read MoreFacebook To Embarrass Celebs At Emmys By Making Them Shake A Big "Facebook Mentions" Tablet
Aug 25, 5:43PM
Not content to cede the battle for TV’s second screen to Twitter, at tonight’s Emmy’s, Facebook in partnership with Access Hollywood, is unleashing something it called the “Mentions Box” on the celebs walking down the red carpet. This box is really just an oversized Facebook-branded tablet, which celebrities will shake to reveal a fan’s question.… Read MoreMobileIron Pops Following Positive Analyst Note
Aug 25, 4:53PM
MobileIron, a recently public tech company that still loses money, is spiking today after Deutsche Bank reiterated a buy rating on its shares. The company, which focuses on mobile device management, according to the bank, should benefit from a boost stemming from companies moving off of BlackBerry. BlackBerry, a long-suffering mobile brand, could take a dent if Apple boosts… Read MoreVMware Partners With Docker, Pivotal And Google To Bring Container Support To Its Platform
Aug 25, 4:32PM
VMware today announced that it is partnering with Docker, Google and Pivotal to bring support for Docker containers to its platform. In addition, the company said that it will work with the Kubernetes community to bring that project’s container management solution to enterprises. Read MoreLeap.it Wants To Open A New Front In The Battle For Search
Aug 25, 4:04PM
For the nearly the last ten years, Mike Farmer has been trying to unseat Google from its perch as the king of search. Now, four years in to his second search startup, Farmer thinks he may have found the next leap forward. From its base in Kansas City, Kan., Farmer’s Leap.it is looking to wrest the search crown from Menlo Park, Calif.’s dynamic duo with the help of an unlikely group… Read MoreIndiegogo Campaign Hacked This Weekend, But Wasn't Part Of A Widespread Attack
Aug 25, 3:55PM
A campaign page on Indiegogo was hacked over the weekend, making it appear as if the Indiegogo team itself had taken down the campaign and closed the page. However, the hack does not appear to be indicative of a wider breach of Indiegogo security. Instead, it seems the hackers were able to guess the account password which allowed them to make edits to the page. Indiegogo says that after… Read MoreThe "Robo Brain" Will Use The Internet To Teach Robots
Aug 25, 3:38PM
If you’re wondering when Skynet went live, look no further. Last July, Cornell researchers turned on Robo Brain, a system that scours the Internet and teaches robots how to think. While we’re a few years late (this was supposed to happen on August 4, 1997), the Robo Brain is actually working. By taking images and concepts available on the public web, Robo Brain can teach robots… Read MoreRoomlia Takes On HotelTonight With Mobile Hotel Reservations App
Aug 25, 2:57PM
Today Roomlia has launched into the App Store to provide the fastest hotel booking on mobile. Started by two former Expedia employees, Michael Reichartz and Jim Ferguson, Roomlia offers discounted hotel rooms up to seven days in advance with only a few clicks to complete booking. Unlike Expedia and its counterparts, Roomlia links you directly with your chosen hotel the moment you book, as… 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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