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Snapchat Partners With Three Non-Profits To Launch A 'Safety Center'
Feb 11, 5:02AM
Tuesday was/is* Internet Safety Day (*depending on your location) and Snapchat took the opportunity to raise awareness of safety on its service after it introduced its own ‘Safety Center’ resources site. Read MoreChina, India, Russia and Mexico Are The Top Emerging Markets For Online Media Companies, Says Ernst & Young
Feb 11, 4:24AM
While the U.S. still has the highest earning potential for both online media and entertainment companies, emerging markets like China, India, Russia, and Mexico are quickly catching up. A new report by Ernst & Young says growth will be fueled by rapidly increasing Internet penetration. There are expected to be two billion broadband connections by 2016 in the emerging markets covered by… Read MoreTwitter Suddenly Locks Thousands Of Accounts [Update: Now Fixed]
Feb 11, 12:12AM
Did you just get an e-mail from Twitter letting you know that your account had been locked? You’re not alone — not at all. There seems to be a MASSIVE spike in the number of users complaining about their accounts being locked right now. It’s unclear whether this is intentional on Twitter’s part, or if it’s an automated tool getting a bit overzealous. Read MoreFates Forever-Maker Hammer & Chisel Raises Additional Funding From Tencent, Benchmark
Feb 10, 11:54PM
Hammer & Chisel, the core gaming startup founded by Jason Citron, an early pioneer in smartphone gaming, just raised additional funding from Tencent, Benchmark Capital and YouWeb’s 9+. Citron previously founded and then sold mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint for $104 million. Hammer & Chisel’s first game was a MOBA or multiplayer online battle arena title called… Read MoreThe FCC Bickers As Its Net Neutrality Vote Looms
Feb 10, 11:37PM
It’s go time at the FCC, which is set to vote on new net neutrality regulations on February 26. Today, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai held a press conference during which he repeatedly dinged the FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for not releasing the more than 300-page proposal in question ahead of the vote. The proposal contains just eight pages of regulation; the rest discusses legal… Read MoreThe Impending Opportunity In Real Estate Technology
Feb 10, 11:00PM
Things are starting to simmer in real estate technology. The first phase of technology development in the category, which was primarily focused around listing services for the residential side of the market, has paved the way for industry leaders to broadly reconsider how technology can make their lives better. Read MoreWatch SpaceX Try To Launch The DSCOVR Mission Rocket Live Here [Update: Launch Aborted]
Feb 10, 10:20PM
Just this past weekend, SpaceX attempted to launch a massive rocket into space with the Deep Space Climate Observatory (or “DSCOVR”) satellite in tow. Alas, the mission was scrubbed at the last second due to radar tracking issues. Then it got postponed again yesterday due to weather. But fear not! They’re trying again. Right now, in fact. And you can watch it live here. Read MoreIt's Time To Rethink Our Smart Things
Feb 10, 10:09PM
There was a section so common in big name CES tech presentations that it was almost comical. After announcing some widget or the other, a cheerful CEO would stand on stage and talk about how smart everything would soon become thanks to the SmartAppliance Framework or some such nonsense. The television can talk to the fridge which in turn can tell the washer to turn on. You can connect your… Read MoreA Security Researcher Just Dumped 10 Million Real Passwords
Feb 10, 9:54PM
Security researcher Mark Burnett released a torrent of 10 million passwords and usernames, a trove of comparatively anonymized data that he sourced from open websites from around the web. The passwords and usernames are older and most probably dead and, most importantly, Burnett sourced them from websites that were “generally available to anyone and discoverable via search engines in… Read MoreTrue Facet Raises $1.7 Million For Its Secondhand Jewelry Marketplace
Feb 10, 9:30PM
As Valentine’s Day approaches TrueFacet is looking to expand its onlline marketplace for secondhand jewelry with $1.7 million in fresh financing. Backing the company’s vision of a transparent market for secondhand jewelry are a slew of well known investors. Maveron, Social Leverage, Founders Coop and Trilogy out of Seattle have all bought in to it’s founder’s vision of… Read MoreApple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey
Feb 10, 9:19PM
Tim Cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference today: Apple is putting a massive $848 million into solar energy. According to Cook, Apple is putting $848 million into building a 1300-acre solar farm in Monterey, California, in partnership with Arizona-based First Solar. As part of the deal, Apple will get electricity from the farm at… Read MoreUrban Engines Takes The Power Of Its Transit Platform To Consumers With A Smart Offline Maps App
Feb 10, 9:06PM
As a part-time urban planning nerd, I love visualizations of buses, trains and cars pulsating through cities. Now with more data available through smartphones, emergent logistics platforms like Uber and eventually Internet-connected and self-driving cars, it’s inevitable that software will become indispensable in managing and making mass transit more efficient. Read MoreGoogle I/O 2015 Set For May 28-29, Tickets To Be Sold Lottery-Style Again
Feb 10, 8:50PM
Last year, Google introduced a new requirement for attending their annual I/O conference: a bit of luck. To account for massive demand on tickets, attendees must be selected at random in a lottery just to get the chance to buy a ticket. Love it or hate it, that system is back this year. Google has just announced the first details for Google I/0 2015: The conference itself will run from May 28-29. Read MoreSnapchat Cuts Off Sharing From Music Video App Mindie
Feb 10, 8:44PM
Hackers have screwed Snapchat several times and now the startup is taking aggressive action to keep it from happening again. Yesterday, Snapchat cut off access from music video sharing app Mindie citing its security policy. The company confirmed the enforcement to me, and said it reset the Snapchat passwords of anyone who’d given Mindie their credentials. Unfortunately, that’s left… Read More'Humanity' Raises A $9M Series B To Build Out Its Workforce Platform
Feb 10, 8:18PM
Humanity.com, which bills itself as a workforce-management platform, has secured $9 million in a Series B round of funding led by MHS Capital. Also participating were Point Nine Capital in Germany, Klever Internet Investments, Team Builder Ventures and Boku CEO Mark Britto. This round follows a $3.2 million round in September 2014. Read More
Twitter's Own CFO Just Had His Twitter Account Hijacked
Feb 10, 8:12PM
Twitter has a bit of a security problem. Taylor Swift, Chipotle, Newsweek — it seems each day brings another hijacked account or two. Today’s latest slip-up: Twitter’s own CFO, Anthony Noto. For about 20 minutes this morning, Noto’s account was blasting out a massive torrent of spam. It looks like the account was hijacked somewhere around 11:10 a.m. PT and recovered… Read MoreMicrosoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley
Feb 10, 6:46PM
Y Combinator and Microsoft announced a program this week that will pour free access to the Azure cloud computing platform onto the incubator’s current class of startups. The deal includes $500,000 in credits to Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure, and three years of access to its Office 365 suite of productivity tools. Half a million worth of Azure usage is nothing to… Read MoreCapital Float, An Online Lending Platform For Indian Entrepreneurs, Scoops Up $13M From Sequoia and SAIF
Feb 10, 6:30PM
Capital Float, a financial tech startup that wants to make it easier for small businesses in India to get loans, has raised a $13 million Series A led by SAIF Partners and Sequoia Capital. Existing investor Aspada also returned for the round. Read MoreSamsung Edits Orwellian Clause Out Of TV Privacy Policy
Feb 10, 6:07PM
Following a storm of criticism relating to a creepy-sounding privacy policy covering its smart TVs, Samsung has today published a rebuttal and a more detailed explanation of the workings of its under-fire voice recognition feature. It has also edited the wording of its privacy policy to avoid sounding quite so eerily similar to George Orwell’s 1984 dystopia. Read MoreWar Of The Wallets
Feb 10, 6:00PM
“Being a contender in the mobile payment space is becoming a coveted position by businesses large and small. A largely fragmented with several unexpected turns over the years, the digital wallet battlefield has recently been showing signs of maturation, which tells us that the market is starting to consolidate and that prominent players may soon emerge. 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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