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Alibaba And Lending Club Launch Financing Program For U.S. Businesses
Feb 03, 6:52AM
Alibaba.com and peer-to-peer financing site Lending Club have inked a strategic partnership designed to get more U.S. businesses to buy inventory from the e-commerce giant’s wholesale marketplace. The two will offer a new financial service called the Alibaba.com e-Credit Line that will let American companies apply for credit lines of $5,000 to $300,000 through the site, which they can… Read MoreUber Is Finally Applying More Stringent Driver Background Checks In India
Feb 03, 6:13AM
It took a tragic incident, but Uber is finally raising the intensity with which it checks the background of prospective drivers in India. Read MoreAnyPerk, A Platform For Delivering Perks To Employees, Raises $8.5M In Series A Funding
Feb 03, 5:18AM
In the tech industry at least, it seems like the pressure for companies to provide “perks” to their employees has never been higher. But oftentimes, startups don’t have the ability to provide the same level of perks as larger established corporations do. That’s where AnyPerk, a startup itself, wants to help. AnyPerk, which makes a platform aimed at letting companies of… Read MoreTablet Shipments Fell 12% In Q4 2014, Its First Decline Ever, Says Canalys
Feb 03, 4:45AM
As phablets become more popular, consumers are waiting longer to upgrade their tablets or eschewing them altogether. As a result, worldwide tablet shipments plunged 12 percent year-over-year to 67 million units in Q4 2014, which research firm Canalys says marks its first ever decline after several quarters of slowing demand. Read MoreFirstCry.com, A Mumbai-Based Baby Products Store, Nabs $26M In New Funding
Feb 03, 3:44AM
FirstCry.com is the latest Indian e-commerce company to scoop up funding. The startup, which is based in Mumbai, announced that it has raised $26 million led by Valiant Capital Partners. Existing investors also returned for the round, which brings the total FirstCry has raised so far to $55 million. India’s e-commerce market is one of the fastest-growing in the world and expected to be… Read MoreSamsung Looks Set To Unveil The Galaxy S6 On March 1
Feb 03, 1:30AM
It’s February, which means Samsung is back in tease mode as it prepares to introduce the latest smartphone in its flagship Galaxy S family. That device looks like it will be unveiled March 1 in Barcelona, Spain, at the same time as Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry’s big trade show. Read MoreApparently Super Bowl Fans Really Like Cars And Chips On Social Media
Feb 03, 12:23AM
We’ve gotten to the point where pretty much every social media and advertising company has to release its own report about Super Bowl ad trends and effectiveness. One of the more interesting ones was a collaboration between Chute and Ditto. The two startups work on visual content (Chute gives marketers tools for harnessing user-generated content like photos, while Ditto is more focused… Read MoreTeen Can Play Guitar Thanks To A 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand
Feb 02, 10:42PM
Diego Corredor wanted to play guitar but lost his right hand at birth. While he could use a prosthesis to grab a glass of water or pick up objects, he wasn’t able to hold a pick and strum the strings. Then a group of makers at 3D Gluck came along. The team worked with Corredor, who lives in Colombia, to build a custom prosthetic that he could use to play guitar. Because it didn’t… Read MoreOnce Reviled For A Screed On The Homeless, Greg Gopman Looks To Make Amends
Feb 02, 10:25PM
I remember meeting Greg Gopman for the first time several years ago at a Facebook mobile hackathon. He had just moved from Miami and was in full-on hustler mode. Newcomers to the Valley are a varied sort. Some are idealists, spewing truisms from Steve Jobs keynotes. Some see stories about billion-dollar acquisitions and have pretty thinly-concealed ambitions of validation through funding… Read More'Neflix For Lego' Pley Launches A Kit Crowdsourcing Platform And Raises $10M
Feb 02, 10:21PM
While Lego’s own crowdsourcing platform exists, letting users submit ideas for community voting, eventually resulting in some being made, the process is slow and somewhat difficult to navigate. Now Lego set sharing platform Pley is debuting a crowdsourced set creation platform called PleyWorld that can see a submission go from concept to shipping product in as little as two weeks,… Read MoreVisual Effects: The Gender Bias Behind The Screen
Feb 02, 10:00PM
In a year that included the public disclosure of disappointing diversity numbers by major Silicon Valley companies, the frightening Gamergate controversy, and a public airing of emails and salary data at Sony confirming a culture of sexism within Hollywood, the discussion about women across tech industries reached a fever pitch in 2014. If 2013 was the year of the selfie, then 2014 was the… Read MoreLess Than 2% Of Android Devices Are Running Lollipop, Three Months After Launch
Feb 02, 9:25PM
I really, really like Android 5.0 (or “Lollipop”, as it’s known by those of us who probably care too much about these things.) It cemented my preference for Android, and has earned the Nexus 5 another few months as my go-to phone. Alas, most Android devices still aren’t running 5.0. In the grand scheme, really, hardly any are. Read MoreUber Opening Robotics Research Facility In Pittsburgh To Build Self-Driving Cars
Feb 02, 9:23PM
Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh, PA to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch. They say the company has hired talent from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, including lead engineering and commercialization experts. Read MorePitch Your Startup In The TechCrunch Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
Feb 02, 9:06PM
TechCrunch Radio can’t stop, won’t stop. So you should just accept your fate and apply to be in the pitch-off. Or at the very least, tune in on Tuesday evenings to hang out with us. For those of you who don’t yet know, TechCrunch Radio is an hour-long weekly radio show hosted by myself and East Coast Editor John Biggs that airs on Sirius XM 102 Indie and 103 Insight. We… Read MoreApple To Build A $2 Billion Data Command Center In Arizona
Feb 02, 8:36PM
Apple will build a $2 billion global command center located in Mesa, Arizona, the company revealed on Monday (via CNBC). It will employ 150 full-time personnel, and will also result in between 300 and 500 construction and trade jobs, and will play host to the company’s data operations across the globe. Apple’s arrangement involves repurposing a facility that previously housed GT… Read MoreTired of Tindering? Couplelizer Says Date More, Swipe Less
Feb 02, 8:26PM
Couplelize is a debutante dating service that’s taking a slightly different approach vs the existing playing field in a bid to stand out. Specifically it’s aiming to accelerate the ‘going on a date’ component of dating, rather than building a business out of encouraging singles to spend their time vicariously checking people out and checking out who visited/liked… Read MoreThe Internet Applied To Things And The Third Industrial Revolution
Feb 02, 8:00PM
There’s a new vanguard creating the future of the U.S. manufacturing economy. Companies like MakerBot, TechShop and Kickstarter are playing a large part in fixing the breakdown between historical industrialized employment and manufacturing models, which people still depend on for work, and the more flat and networked world in which we now live. Read MoreTinder Plus, The Paid Version Featuring An Undo Button And More, Arrives In U.S. Next Month
Feb 02, 7:17PM
Tinder Plus, the long-awaited “premium” version of Tinder’s service, offering features like an Undo button for errant swipes and a Passport option for searching outside your current geographic region, is nearing launch here in the U.S. for iOS and Android users. Both of Tinder’s mobile apps recently received updates on the respective app stores where the feature was… Read MoreConsumers Vs. Data Science Bad Guys
Feb 02, 7:00PM
It’s interesting as hell that as the world continues to spew vitriol at the creepy collection and abuse of data by governments and big businesses, big data and data science companies are still kicking ass. Fortunately for these businesses, right now governments and Facebook are the badguys, providing super useful and convenient cover. That will change. Read MoreNot Sure What To Wear To The Crunchies? Hopefully This Video Will Help You Figure It Out
Feb 02, 6:30PM
The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards Ceremony is just a few days away, which means it’s time to start thinking about out what you’ll be wearing to the big event. This time of year can cause anxiety for even the most fashionable founders and VCs out there. 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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