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Shopline Raises $1.2M To Bring Sophistication To Social Media Commerce In Asia
Feb 09, 6:10AM
Shopline, a startup that wants to bring more sophistication to the ‘blog shops’ that have sprouted up alongside the rise of social media in Asia, has landed $1.2 million to develop its service and expand across Southeast Asia. Read MoreIs Premium Mobile Gaming Viable?
Feb 09, 5:30AM
We can look at success stories and naysayers, but the question of whether a real push into premium on mobile is utterly open. In this post/thought-experiment I’m asking some of the key questions and wondering if there are any answers. Read MoreApple, The Record Label?
Feb 09, 4:12AM
You better believe that when Apple’s streaming music service comes out later this year, it’s going to come hard. Apple’s MO is to arrive late but with superior firepower, as it did with the iPhone and will with the upcoming Apple Watch. What does that mean for its quest to steamroll Spotify, Google Play, Deezer, and everyone else in streaming? I’d bet part of it will be… Read MoreAlibaba Invests $590 Million In Chinese Smartphone Maker Meizu
Feb 09, 3:18AM
Alibaba is stumping up more than half a billion dollars to kick its mobile phone division, which has yet to make any headway, into gear. The NYSE-listed e-commerce giant today announced a $590 million investment in Chinese phone-maker Meizu. Read MoreA New Renaissance For Startup Funding
Feb 09, 2:00AM
Only once before has a market been so excited to fund agile, adventurous new startups. According to CB Insights, a database that keeps track of investments in private companies, private and corporate investors put a massive $47.3 billion into startups in 2014. The only time investment capital came close to such a peak was in 2001, during the dotcom bubble, when investors poured $36.2 billion… Read MoreThe Year That Tech Needed The Art Industry
Feb 09, 1:00AM
Wandering the halls at CES this year, you would have been forgiven for thinking it was still 2014. Bluetooth speakers crowded the shelves, wearables were everywhere, and wherever you looked there was another blistering 4K display. Screens from Samsung, LG and others dominated the eye space with multicolor demos, yet we’re still to see 4K content that really makes us feel a deep longing… Read MoreEmail Marketing Startup Iterable Raises $1.2M
Feb 08, 11:00PM
Iterable has raised $1.2 million for what it says is a comprehensive platform for email marketing. CEO Justin Zhu told me that he came from Twitter, while his co-founder Andrew Boni came from Google. At both companies, they saw the impact that email marketing can make, but they also saw some of the challenges that marketers can face trying to personalize and test campaigns. Read MoreDavid Cross Is Letting Fans Name Their Price And Download His First Film Creation Hits On BitTorrent
Feb 08, 10:53PM
Actor David Cross is foregoing the usual indie film distribution model for his darkly satirical film HITS. He’s letting the public pay whatever they want to download it on BitTorrent for the first two weeks, starting this Friday, February 13. But is this really the best way to distribute something that the film’s producers have worked so hard on? Cross and his producers said… Read MoreHuge Hackathon In West Africa Hopes To Produce The Next Wave Of Startups
Feb 08, 8:46PM
The most talented and ambitious entrepreneurs in West Africa are being encouraged to join a new hackathon program this month in Accra, Ghana, which hopes to spin out a wave of new tech startups geared to African needs. The Hack for Big Choices is a non-profit which hopes to impact the fast-developing West African economies by helping to create what it calls ‘sustainable start-ups’. Read More
Will There Really Be An Uber For Everything?
Feb 08, 8:00PM
Editor’s Note: Brian Ascher joined Venrock in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow and is currently a Partner based in Venrock’s Palo Alto office. Though people have turned on them lately, I love using Uber. From the very first time (September 28, 2010 to be exact) I saw the little town car icon crawling across the map coming towards my little green dot, I knew taxi cabs, airport car… Read MoreWatch SpaceX's DSCOVR Mission Launch Live Right Here [Update: Scrubbed Until Tomorrow]
Feb 08, 7:33PM
Update: The launch is now postponed until tomorrow evening due to recurring radar tracking issues. We’ll be sure to keep you up to date with when you can catch it then. SpaceX is aiming to launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory, also known by the acronym DSCOVR, today during a launch window that kicks off at 6:10 PM ET (and you can watch live above). The NASA-contracted mission is… Read MoreStartups, A Rich Man's Game
Feb 08, 5:45PM
Despite the Silicon Valley echo chamber, starting a company remains easily among the most risky career moves for workers. The stress of the job can easily lead to burnout or long-lasting mental health issues. Failures, despite being lauded in some corners, still too often harm a founder’s future career prospects. But the greatest risk of building a new company is almost certainly financial. Read MoreDriverless Cars On The Road To Fender Benders
Feb 08, 4:00PM
This year, California will allow the testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads. Driverless cars will log thousands of miles this year – an Audi A7 already made a safe 550-mile trip from Silicon Valley to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. However, it’s only a matter of time before a driverless car gets into a fender bender. Read MoreToday In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung's Eavesdropping TV
Feb 08, 2:28PM
As the number of connected devices — aka the Internet of Things, aka the sensornet — proliferates so too does the number of devices leaning on voice recognition technology as an interface to allow for hands free control. But the potential privacy intrusion of voice-activated services is massive. Read MoreGoogle Acquires Odysee, An App For Private Photo/Video Backup And Sharing, Team Joins Google+
Feb 08, 11:34AM
Google may be soon adding more offline and private sharing features to its Google+ Photos service. It has acquired Odysee, an iOS and Android app that let users automatically back up photos and videos taken on their cameras or tablets to their home computers. It also let users set up private, automatic sharing with other people, and it had an API for integrating the service with other… Read MoreHey LA Startups! — Pitch A TechCrunch Writer This Sunday
Feb 08, 2:47AM
Hey Los Angeles! A TechCrunch writer (me) is visiting your fair city and is ready to uncover some startups. Come pitch me tomorrow, Sunday (8th Feb) at Alfred Coffee (in the alley) on 8509 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, 90069 between 3pm and 5pm. I’ll take real short pitches and can follow-up later. Who knows, you may end up on TechCrunch. Fill out this form so we can email you if… Read More
First Rule Of VR: Don't Break The Presence
Feb 08, 2:00AM
Virtual reality is poised to fundamentally transform personal entertainment as we know it, potentially delivering a long-term impact that may exceed today’s most “disruptive” new technologies. Strapping on a VR headset will catapult the user into a new realm of lifelike entertainment experiences that will seem believable — and very real, within seconds of putting them on. Read MoreYC-Backed Yhat Gives Data Science Teams A Head Start
Feb 07, 11:07PM
Yhat founders Greg Lamp and Austin Ogilvie were working with a team of data scientists at OnDeck, a successful small business loan startup, when they noticed a problem. The data science team was coming up with cool ideas, but the engineers couldn’t implement these applications, as fast as they could produce them, simply because they lacked the tools to do it. That’s when they… Read MoreA Word On The Crunchies
Feb 07, 9:54PM
If you have not already heard, we hosted the Crunchies awards show at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall last Thursday. Some elements of the show have been criticized for being inappropriate. If you were present, or watching the livestream, you might have been startled, if not offended, by some of the remarks that the host, standup comedian T.J. Miller made on stage. It’s also… Read More
The Army Of Ghostwriters Behind King Content
Feb 07, 9:00PM
Before I quit ghostwriting, I wrote for publications like Forbes, Inc., The Next Web, and even TechCrunch. I worked as a behind-the-scenes magician, penning content that helped CEO’s and companies gain internet fame and glory, all the while wondering how much I was selling out by giving away my byline. 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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