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Health Insurance Provider Anthem Reports Massive Data Breach
Feb 05, 7:48AM
The nation’s second largest health insurer, Anthem, alerted its customers on Wednesday that hackers had stolen the personal information of likely tens of millions of customers. Personal information including addresses, birthdays, medical identification numbers, social security numbers and some income data belonging to both current and former customers were swept up in the cyber… Read MoreUK Telecom BT Confirms Acquisition Of Mobile Carrier EE
Feb 05, 7:48AM
As expected, UK telecom BT has agreed to buy mobile carrier EE for £12.5 billion. BT confirmed that it was in talks to buy EE, the largest carrier in the UK, last month. EE’s existing shareholders, Orange and Deutsche Telekom, will sell all of their shares in the business to BT. After the deal is in finalized Deutsche Telekom will hold a 12 percent stake in BT, while Orange will… Read MoreE-Commerce Sales in China Will Reach $1 Trillion By 2019 Thanks To Mobile, Says Forrester
Feb 05, 6:07AM
A new report by Forrester finds that online spending in China will reach one trillion dollars by 2019. The growth will be fueled by mobile apps and improving logistics networks, which have helped e-commerce companies reach new customers in smaller cities. This is good news for Alibaba, which saw its shares fall after its latest earnings report triggered concerns about the impact of its… Read MoreGoogle Search Results Will Reportedly Include Tweets In Real-Time Again Soon
Feb 05, 2:04AM
Twitter is reported to have struck a significant partnership with Google on the eve of its latest financial results. Bloomberg reports that the two companies have agreed a deal to put tweets from Twitter back into Google’s search results sometime “in the first half of this year.” Read MoreCongress Takes Up Email Privacy Reform. Again.
Feb 05, 1:59AM
Two bills, one apiece in the upper and lower chambers of Congress, were introduced today aimed at reforming email privacy. They mark another attempt by the nation’s legislative bodies at reforming the requirements that the government must meet to read your digital missives. Read More
Humans 3.0 Paints Our Techno-Future As Very Bright
Feb 05, 12:40AM
Are we hurtling towards technological dystopia, or a futuristic fantasy world in which our hardware and software innovations provide a human experience that excels in almost every way compared to that which we know today? That’s the basic question at the heart of Peter Nowak’s Humans 3.0 , a survey of our technical development, which incorporates some futurism peering forward… Read MoreTechCrunch Meetups Are Coming To Atlanta And Boston
Feb 04, 11:29PM
The TechCrunch Meetups in Atlanta and Boston are approaching rapidly, which means that you need to move fast if you don’t want to be left out. In case you haven’t heard of the TC Meetups before, here’s a quick refresher: We’ve been running regional TechCrunch Meetups for the past three years in various cities across the globe. The purpose is to bring together the… Read MoreThese Utah College Students Have Millions Of Dollars To Invest In Your Startup
Feb 04, 10:45PM
Twenty-one-year-old Dominic Callas is not your typical venture capitalist. The Westminster College student spends 20-30 hours a week sourcing and researching possible deals at an $18 million venture fund run almost entirely by students. University Venture Fund, where Callas works, is a venture capital firm based in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The fund lets college students… Read MoreTechCrunch Meetup In The City Of Seoul, April 16th
Feb 04, 10:00PM
Get your Gangnam face on! We’re bringing our world-famous TechCrunch Pitch-Off event to South Korea, namely, Seoul on April 16th, 2015. Details on the venue and location will be released in due course. Apply here to pitch. Presented by Campus Seoul, a Google Space, the evening event (lasting roughly from 6pm to 10.30pm) will feature speakers from the Seoul startup scene (we like how… Read MoreManufacturing Shouldn't Be A Dirty Word For Today's STEM Talent
Feb 04, 10:00PM
When most people hear the word “manufacturing,” a few images tend to come to mind: low skill, wrench-turning, physically draining work; dirty, grease-stained workplaces; a male-dominated workforce. For whatever reason, these stereotypes persist, and they are antiquated and misleading. Read MoreYC-Backed Meadow 'Ubered' Over A Doctor To Give Me A Medical Marijuana Evaluation
Feb 04, 9:40PM
At around 4:30 p.m. yesterday, I went to a website called CannabisMD on my phone, filled out my street address into a form and snapped a photo of my California state driver’s license. About 5 to 10 minutes later, I got a text saying that a doctor was on their way. I hopped on my bike and headed southwest on Market Street, San Francisco’s main thoroughfare, and found Dr. Daniel Price… Read MoreUnder Armour Snatches Up Health And Fitness Trackers Endomondo And MyFitnessPal
Feb 04, 9:30PM
Endomondo, a social fitness network and publisher of mobile apps that allow users to track their workouts and challenge friends, and health tracker MyFitnessPal have been acquired by athletic apparel maker Under Armour, the company announced this afternoon. Endomondo was bought for a purchase price of $85 million and MyFitnessPal was bought for $475 million. Read MoreThe Steve Jobs Movie With Seth Rogen And Michael Fassbender Will Open Oct. 9th
Feb 04, 9:17PM
Michael Fassbender is quite the talented gent. He pulled us in as a young Magneto in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, terrified as a sadistic slave owner in 12 Years A Slave, and proved he could still own the screen while wearing a big ol’ fake head in Frank. But can he pull off Steve Jobs? Hell, can Seth Rogen pull off Woz? We’ll find out in October. After being dumped by Sony and… Read MoreCemetery Drones And On-Demand Cookies: Meet 500 Startups' New Batch
Feb 04, 8:48PM
Diversity of ideas and founders is the 500 Startups way. So it’s fitting that the accelerator’s 11th Mountain View batch would feature an extraordinarily wide range of companies; from those tackling huge problems like recruiting and health in the Arab world, to more “niche to win” businesses focused on picture framing or cookie delivery. Investors I spoke to… Read MoreTech Companies Praise The FCC's Net Neutrality Plan
Feb 04, 7:58PM
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced this morning that he will invoke Title II and reclassify consumer broadband access as a telecommunications service, something that is anathema to Internet providers. As you might expect, the usual rollout of commentary is currently descending in the inboxes of anyone even tangentially related to the issue. I won’t bore you with all of the mess, but a… Read MoreGroupAhead Gives Member-Based Organizations Their Own Mobile App
Feb 04, 7:43PM
There are a number of ways member-based organizations can network online – Facebook, shared calendars, Meetup.com, etc. – but these groups today still struggle to keep members engaged and informed about upcoming events and other activities. A startup called GroupAhead is working to solve those challenges by introducing a platform that allows any organization to have their own… Read MoreRecapping Week Three Of The Silk Road Trial
Feb 04, 7:30PM
Cold winds and snow buffeted the walls of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse last week as jurors heard more of the Government’s case in the trial against Ross WIlliam Ulbricht. In week three, the jury learned how a google search led the IRS to Ross Ulbricht and how activities referenced in emails were also found in chats between Silk Road’s main administrator and… Read MoreMicrosoft Is Acquiring Calendar App Sunrise For North Of $100 Million
Feb 04, 7:02PM
Software giant Microsoft is in the process of trying to reinvent itself, and part of that reinvention evidently involves acquiring startups that have created products that compete with its own. The latest acquisition is calendar app maker Sunrise, which we’ve heard Microsoft shelled out at least $100 million for. Read MoreFieldwire Offers A Task-Management App For The Construction Industry
Feb 04, 6:15PM
Even as other industries adopt technology to improve productivity and make them more efficient, there are some like construction that are still locked into old, mostly manual processes for project management. A startup called Fieldwire wants to change that, with a mobile-first collaboration platform that is targeted at construction workers. Read MoreVilynx Can Now Insert Super-Short Video Ads Into Its Super-Short Video Previews
Feb 04, 6:05PM
Startup Vilynx pitches itself as a way for publishers to attract more eyeballs for their videos through a unique preview format. Now it’s trying help those publishers make money, too, through advertising. The exact look of the previews can vary, but the basic idea is that instead of just using static thumbnail images, Vilynx creates a five-second video preview that can, for example,… 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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