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Nasty Gal Founder Sophia Amoruso Steps Down As CEO
Jan 13, 6:11AM
Sophia Amoruso, founder of Nasty Gal, is no longer CEO of the fashion site. The company’s president and chief product officer, Sheree Waterson, will take over the position and also join its board. Read MoreNoSQL Pioneer Basho Scores $25M To Attempt A Comeback
Jan 13, 5:00AM
Basho was once a rising star in the NoSQL space, but over time other vendors began to move in, and it lost a step or two — then came a big turnover of key personnel last year. With company ready to start anew, CEO Adam Wray says a new $25M cash infusion should help get the company moving. Private equity firm Georgetown Partners, a previous investor, is supplying the Series… Read MorePC Shipments Are Slowly Recovering, Says Gartner
Jan 13, 3:36AM
Over the past two years, the growing popularity of mobile devices has eaten into PC sales. A new report by Gartner, however, shows that shipments may continue to enjoy a very slow but steady uptick this year as tablet sales hit a peak. The research firm found that worldwide PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014 grew one percent year-over-year, the first increase since 2012. Read MoreAppVirality Raises $465,000 To Give Developers User Growth Tools
Jan 13, 1:55AM
AppVirality, an Indian startup that wants to make it easy for developers to increase their user base, announced today that it has raised $465,000 in seed funding. The company, which took part in Microsoft Accelerator last year, will use the capital for product development and hiring. Read MoreA Tarnished Uber Tries To Woo The Press
Jan 12, 11:18PM
Tonight we might get a glimpse of the kinder, gentler Uber, but we won’t be able to talk about it. The startup has endured months of disastrous press coverage, including Uber exec Emil Michael saying the company should smear journalists that criticize it. Now the company has emailed reporters saying “The Uber Communications Team invites you to join us for drinks” at a San… Read MoreInvestors Must Confront The On-Demand Economy's Legal Problem, Part 1
Jan 12, 11:00PM
Chances are, no venture capital pitch deck you’ve ever seen had a slide entitled “Worker Classification.” And yet, many companies in the “sharing economy” or “on-demand economy” (ODE) rely on workforces whose legal status may be in jeopardy. Read MoreCan You Tell If These 10 Ridiculous App Ideas Are Real Or Fake?
Jan 12, 10:29PM
An app that measures your sexual performance? An anti-drunk dialer? A set of Rorschach tests that tell you how stoned you are? Watch the video above to see if you can tell which of these absurd startups are fake and which are real…signs the tech industry has lost its mind. I played this “App Or Crap” game on stage in front of a live audience as a guest on The Kinda Late… Read MoreTinder Acquires Ephemeral Messenger Tappy
Jan 12, 9:53PM
Tinder has just closed its first acquisition. The IAC-backed startup has purchased Chill, creators of Tappy, as part of a strategic acquihire. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tappy is a mobile messenger that uses photos and ephemerality to put a new face on text messaging. All messages disappear after 24 hours, and Tappy’s conversations must begin with a photo. From there, you… Read MoreBuilt In Brooklyn: HappyFunCorp Helps Startups Build New Products
Jan 12, 9:39PM
For the tenth and final episode of Built in Brooklyn, we tried to do something a little different — instead of visiting another startup, we talked to the team at HappyFunCorp, a design and engineering firm that’s helped a bunch of local startups get off the ground. HappyFunCorp’s clients include New York City companies like Boxee, CoPromote, Paperless Post, and SimpleReach.… Read MoreTen One Design Mountie Review: Your Mobile Workstation, Upgraded
Jan 12, 9:35PM
The first week of 2015 was CES for me, which meant working out of a suitcase in a bizarre fantasy land hewn from hard desert rock, grit and little else. My home office is a veritable oasis of displays and screen real estate, while my mobile CES office most definitely is not. Luckily, this year, I had a review unit of the Ten One Design Mountie on hand, and it made a big difference in my… Read MoreMarkForged Shows Us 3D-Printed Parts That Even Fezzik Couldn't Break
Jan 12, 9:25PM
At the surface, the products made with a MarkForged Mark One printer don’t look like they’d be very strong. Printed in a crude-looking white and beige filament, the wrenches and tools demoed by founder Greg Mark at CES this year looked like any other 3D-printed object – flimsy and unfinished. However, once you tried to break them, amazement set in. The wrench he built based… Read MoreClimate Change-Denying Senator Ted Cruz Will Oversee NASA
Jan 12, 9:13PM
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will chair the Senate subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, providing him with an oversight role of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA. That slight twinge you felt was the proper emotion. The Senator, by way of a single example, tried to reduce NASA funding to be, in his view, compliant with a Federal spending cut. Read MoreTeddy The Guardian, The Protective Plushie, Gets $400K In Seed Investment
Jan 12, 9:13PM
Teddy the Guardian, unlike his animatronic cousin, Teddy Ruxpin, will not terrify your children. Teddy is actually a vital signs sensor that allows parents to check a child’s temperature and heart rate with a single tap of the bear’s paw. Because it’s also a beloved toy, the child won’t be frightened and doctors and parents can see the results inside a mobile app in… Read MoreDemandware Snags Point Of Sale Provider Tomax To Extend Reach From Web To Store
Jan 12, 8:43PM
Demandware announced today that it bought Tomax, a cloud-based point of sale company for approximately $75M in cash and incentives. According to Demandware CEO Tom Ebling, the acquisition extends Demandware’s reach from eCommerce websites to the brick-and-mortar storefront. Ebling said that they were attracted to Tomax for several reasons. First of all, like Demandware, they are… Read MoreTwitter Is In Talks With India's ZipDial
Jan 12, 8:35PM
We have heard that Twitter is making another acquisition, with international growth and mobile marketing in mind. Sources tell us that Twitter is in negotiations to buy ZipDial, a startup founded in India that has honed in on a mobile use case that is unique to its home market and others like it. People who call numbers but hang up before the call is answered, using the action as a… Read MoreYour Smartphone Can Now Make Up For Your Human Failings With Folding@home
Jan 12, 8:32PM
Like game consoles before them, smartphones can now help swing the karmic balance in your favor while you sleep or charge your device thanks to Folding@home. The project, which uses the processing powers of your mobile device to contribute to important protein folding projects, including cancer research and beyond, is based on open source code from Stanford that has been optimized for… Read MoreFord's AppLink Will Soon Support Third-Party Navigation Apps
Jan 12, 7:10PM
Most cars’ built-in navigation systems tend to be a bit clunky compared to modern smartphone apps like of Google Maps. It looks like Ford is among the first car manufacturers to acknowledge this. The next version of AppLink, its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system, will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the… Read MoreThe Apple Watch Shows Up In The iOS 8.2 Beta Bluetooth Menu
Jan 12, 6:49PM
Apple has a new beta for iOS 8.2 out today, and the software contains a hint that suggests it could launch publicly alongside the Apple Watch. The mention of the Apple Watch is found in the Bluetooth menu, according to 9to5Mac, where a message at the bottom of the devices list directs users to head to a dedicated Apple Watch app in order to pair their new wearable with their smartphone. The… Read MoreBoy Is Presented 3D-Printed Storm Trooper Prosthetic From The 501st, Vader's Own Legion
Jan 12, 6:42PM
In part infinity in our continuing series of heart-warming 3D-printing events, we present Liam and his amazing 3D-printed Clone Trooper arm. A cool dude named John Peterson printed the arm for Liam after learning about E-Nable, a group of volunteers who print arms and hands for kids. Liam’s arm, for example, is a RIT model that works with kids with an elbow but no forearm. Peterson built… Read MoreISIS "Cyber Caliphate" Hacks U.S. Military Command Accounts
Jan 12, 5:58PM
The Cyber Caliphate, a hacker group claiming association with terrorist group ISIS, today seized control of the @CENTCOM Twitter and YouTube accounts that represents U.S. central military command. The hackers tweeted a Pastebin message titled “Pentagon networks hacked. AMERICAN SOLDIERS WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS. #CyberCaliphate”. The message includes links to… 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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