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Chinese Education App XueXiBao Raises $20M Series B From SoftBank And GSR
Jan 19, 6:47AM
XueXiBao, a homework help app, is the latest educational tech startup in China to receive funding. SoftBank China Venture Capital, an arm of the Japanese telecom giant, and returning investor GSR Ventures led a $20 million Series B in the company. Read MoreXiaomi Buys 3% Of Chinese Games And Software Giant Kingsoft For $68M
Jan 19, 3:21AM
Xiaomi became the world’s third largest smartphone company based on sales last year, and it also began investing in companies. Its early investments have largely been in hardware, but today it diversified into software after buying 2.98 percent of Kingsoft for HK$527 million (~$68 million). Read MoreImmigrant Founders Need Policy Reform To Keep Creating Tech Jobs
Jan 19, 2:08AM
President Obama took executive action last November to further ease policies around skilled tech labor. However, our laws haven’t done much to help the foreign startup founders who create quite a few tech jobs here. A 2008 Kaufman Foundation study concluded that between 1995 and 2005, more than half of all Silicon Valley tech companies were created by immigrant founders,… Read MoreAutonomous Cars Are Closer Than You Think
Jan 19, 12:30AM
“In the next five years, you’ll see somebody introduce autonomous vehicles,” Ford CEO Mark Fields said at a small dinner for press and analysts during CES. He was quick to qualify that statement (only in very defined areas, during good weather, etc.), but that’s one of the few statements that stuck out from the fog of war that is spending a week in Vegas during CES.… Read MoreForeign Founders Should Look Beyond Silicon Valley
Jan 19, 12:00AM
With an increasingly global map of startup hubs, Silicon Valley needs to look not just at the factors bringing talent in, but also the negative factors diverting talent elsewhere. When a hub’s defining trait is optimism, is any time spent thinking of the darker side of foreign founders’ life in Silicon Valley? Read MorePlaxo Co-Founder Minh Nguyen Charged With Murder
Jan 18, 9:00PM
Minh Nguyen, who co-founded the contact management and social networking startup Plaxo (along with Sean Parker), has been charged with first-degree murder, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. DCInno and NBC Washington both reported the victim’s identity as Corey Mattison, who recently married Nguyen’s ex-wife. Read MoreMobile Commerce In 2015
Jan 18, 8:00PM
The past year has represented a tipping point in mobile commerce investment, so as we enter a new year, we wanted to take stock by updating our m-commerce market map and offering our predictions for 2015. Read MoreAliens, Robots, Cheetahs, Oh My! Watch These "Face Hackers" Use Projectors To Modify Their Faces In Real Time
Jan 18, 6:33PM
Happy Sunday! Ready to have your mind blown? By mixing ultra-bright projectors and advanced facial tracking with some damned fine visual design work, these guys are able to use their faces as a canvas some truly wild work. Read MoreApple Cuts Off Developers In Crimea Following U.S. Sanctions
Jan 18, 5:53PM
Tensions between Russia and the U.S. over Crimea are spilling into the world of tech: developers are reporting that Apple is sending out notices of termination to people whose accounts are registered in Crimea, citing sanctions that the U.S. has ordered against the region as a response to Russia annexing it earlier in 2014. This means the developers cannot create nor publish apps… Read MoreRebuilding VC, And Saving Boston Too
Jan 18, 5:33PM
There is a tension at the heart of the startup ecosystem in Boston between glorifying the city’s past as a leader in the Industrial Revolution and acknowledging the city’s current status in the tech world behind Silicon Valley and New York City. No where is that tension more visible than in the relationships between founders and venture capitalists. Founders frequently complain… Read MoreUber's Kalanick Pitches Jobs And The Environment To Europe — If It Loosens Up
Jan 18, 4:53PM
Speaking at the DLD conference in Munich today, Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick sang a rather different tune than he has of late. In recent times, the service has been fighting fires on a number of fronts, from controversies about its relationship with the media, to the safety of its riders, both in the US and in emerging markets. Read MoreAfter The Social Web, Here Comes The Trust Web
Jan 18, 4:00PM
The bitcoin train is really made up of two revolutions in one: Money and finance, based on the bitcoin protocol, and exploiting the “currency programmability” aspects; and decentralized applications, based on the blockchain’s distributed technology capabilities. Read MoreHow The Sharing Economy Will Impact Marketing
Jan 18, 2:00AM
It’s hard to find a space the sharing economy hasn’t touched. We find people “sharing” accommodations and cars, dog sitters and personal assistants, bikes and even wardrobes. The sharing economy allows people to conveniently access goods and services in sustainable ways, to engage in new experiences, and to capitalize on greater economic efficiencies. And this trend… Read MoreTexting Is Familial Glue For The 21st Century
Jan 17, 11:00PM
Complex communication is one of the bedrocks of human civilization. The tools we use – voice and face muscles, smoke signals, quills and ink, emojis – start out as delivery systems for existing ideas. Without exception, those tools end up influencing the ideas themselves. For proof, look no further than the impact of technology on the nuclear family over the past hundred year Read MoreHow This Teen Turned Her High School Internship Into A Game Design Career
Jan 17, 10:11PM
Paulina Raguimov never expected to get paid to make video games when she walked into her high school’s career fair at 16. Read MoreHow Yello Mobile Ate 61 Startups In One Year
Jan 17, 8:11PM
So many eyeballs, so little growth. Or so Yahoo’s recent performance under Marissa Mayer could be summarized. Joining Yahoo as its head in 2012, Mayer quickly made a splash with a rapid series of acquisitions, from the billion dollar purchase of Tumblr to the $30 million acquisition of Summly. The performance of that strategy has been lackluster. While Yahoo has acquired nearly 50… Read MoreApple's Well-Crafted Vanishing Point
Jan 17, 8:00PM
It’s a standard Apple play to shave a few atoms off the waists of its gadgets come refresh time — allowing the company’s marketing department to crow about thinner flagships that also pack more power and boast better screens, or both. Read MoreEvery Song Evan Spiegel's Ever Tweeted, In One Playlist
Jan 17, 7:15PM
Share or subscribe with this link: Snapjams from Evan Spiegel Snapchat wants to be a music app. Leaked emails from the Sony Pictures hack and news reports indicate Snapchat’s been talking with music companies like Sony and Vevo to potentially play songs or music videos in its app. The startup already takes great care in choosing songs for its promo videos, leading me to discover… Read MoreGillmor Gang: Dog Ears
Jan 17, 6:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include the Nesting of Google Glass, Neil Young’s Pono and mixing to the car radio, why Selma got shortchange in the Oscar nominations, Facebook @ Work or not, and some tough notification talk to wind it up. If you miss Scobleizer, watch him join our sister show G3. Read MoreAll That Glitters Is Not Gold
Jan 17, 5:21PM
The latest viral sensation on the world wide web has lost some of its sparkle. ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com (yes, this is what we’ve come to) is up for auction on Flippa with a current bidding price of $61,000. When I first heard about a “Glitter thing” on the internet, I tried to ignore it as best I could. At best, it was the name of a new Sean Parker startup. At… 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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