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Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Launch Sound Ventures, The Successor To A-Grade Investments
Mar 15, 3:35AM
Most people probably know Ashton Kutcher for his success in television and film, but he’s not-so-quietly also become a pretty successful investor in startups as well. So successful, in fact, that Kutcher and investment partner Guy Oseary have convinced a group of limited partners to put money into a new firm Sound Ventures. Read MoreInsiteVR Makes It Easy To Bring 3D Models Into Your Virtual World
Mar 15, 1:48AM
As we all entire the bright VR future we find ourselves at an impasse: we all have amazing 3D models we want to see appear before us like tiny digital floating incubi but how do you get those selfsame models into your randomly generated digital pleasure palace? That’s where YC company InsiteVR comes in. Founded by Columbia roommates Angel Say and Russell Varriale, the project started out… Read MoreAnti-Robot Protest Held At SXSW
Mar 14, 10:11PM
A small group of protesters held signs and handed out t-shirts to protest robots today at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. What did they have against robots you might ask? Well, they are (apparently, seriously) concerned that robots could one day surpass human intelligence and they were genuinely anxious about this. A spokesperson for the group told TechCrunch they hoped to raise… Read MoreGetting Into An Accelerator Is More Than Just Luck
Mar 14, 9:00PM
Everyone is familiar with Y Combinator and TechStars, but not as many people know about Seedcamp. It is arguably the most prominent startup acceleration program in Europe and it has helped some of the world’s top startups get off the ground, including TransferWise, GrabCAD FrontBack and Editd. Read MoreWhat Will Meerkat Do Without Twitter?
Mar 14, 7:43PM
That’s the danger of building on someone else’s platform. You never know when they’ll pivot into your business and steamroll you. Last night, that happened to Meerkat. The livestreaming app was built entirely on Twitter, piggybacking on it for identity, communication, and distribution. Yesterday morning, Twitter confirmed reports that it had acquired an unlaunched competing… Read MoreEmpathy Machines
Mar 14, 7:01PM
The annals of live video are littered with cautionary tales. For every hype-driven social video startup that had a coming out party at South By Southwest, there is a matching tombstone. On The Talk Show earlier this week I talked to host John Gruber about Meerkat. One of the concepts I floated on there is something I’ve been thinking about for a bit: The idea of services like Snapchat… Read MoreThis Game Turns Google Autocomplete Into A Game Of Family Feud
Mar 14, 6:15PM
Damn, this is more fun than I would’ve expected. Do you ever type things into Google just to see what whacky stuff pops up in the autocomplete box? GoogleFeud takes that concept and turns it into a Family Feud-style game. How well do you know the hivemind? GoogleFeud provides the first half of a search query, and you fill in the rest. Your goal is to guess as many of the most popular… Read MoreWebsite Hackers Slip Under The Radar With Impersonator Bots
Mar 14, 6:00PM
It was late December when we were contacted by a financial service provider who began noticing a spike in online registration requests. Rather than resulting from end-of-the-year sales efforts, this spike was caused by a targeted spam attack that flooded the organization with fake registration forms, most of which looked reputable enough not be discarded on sight. The reason for concern was… Read MoreGillmor Gang: Majority Report
Mar 14, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Peter Schwartz, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Salesforce SVP of Strategic Planning Peter Schwartz joins the Gang to contrast the world he helped create for Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report with the soon-to-ship world of Apple Watches. Plus, the latest G3 with freelance reporter Shalene Gupta on Ellen Pao’s defense in the… Read MoreResearchKit An "Enormous Opportunity" For Science, Says Breast Cancer Charity
Mar 14, 4:00PM
This week Apple bundled a big announcement inside it’s long awaited Apple Watch ‘Spring Forward’ event. Namely the launch of ResearchKit: an iOS software framework that lets people, currently U.S.-based only, volunteer to join medical research studies. This is arguably a lot more interesting than expensive, Internet-connected wrist wear. Read MorePebble Time Kickstarter Drew 167% More Money Per Hour The Day After Apple's Event
Mar 14, 3:56PM
The Pebble Time Kickstarter gained some momentum thanks to Apple’s special Watch event Monday. The new smartwatch from the smartwatch pioneer was drawing in funding at a rate of around $6,000 per hour on Sunday, March 8, which rose to $10,000 per hour on Monday, March 9 (when the event took place), and capped out at $16,000 per day on average during March 10, the day following… Read MoreReimagining The Network For A Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Mar 14, 3:00PM
You’re only as strong as your weakest link, and that’s the Internet’s biggest problem today. For more than two decades the very backbone of theInternet — the network — has subsisted in the shadows, pinned beneath the weight of a fast-growing Internet economy and a powerful cohort of incumbents with much to lose. Since the early days of SaaS, the tech world has set… Read MoreCreeping Towards Hardware As A Service
Mar 14, 1:00PM
There seems to be cool new hardware everywhere I look these days. Swimming drones. Crash-proof flying drones. Creepy robots. Kickstarters like Hackaball, “a smart and responsive ball children can program to invent and play their own games.” Startups like Orion Labs, with their Star-Trek-esque Onyx communicator. Read MoreTwitter Starts Breaking Meerkat Features By Limiting Social Graph Access
Mar 14, 2:57AM
Talk about timing: Twitter confirms they’ve bought Meerkat-competitor Periscope, and but a few hours later Twitter makes a move that kills off a few Meerkat features. Meerkat is a fast-rising, Twitter-centric live video broadcasting platform that seems to be gaining quite the fanbase since launching just a few weeks back. Viewers of your livestream can tweet at you and have those… Read MoreEv Williams' VC Firm Obvious Ventures Has Raised $77.7 Million For Its First Fund, Filing Shows
Mar 14, 12:29AM
Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm started by Twitter and Medium co-founder Ev Williams, has raised a total of $77.7 million for its inaugural fund, Obvious Ventures I, according to a regulatory document filed today. Obvious Ventures, which counts longtime tech entrepreneur James Joaquin and executive-turned-investor Vishal Vasishth as co-founders, was unveiled in December 2014 with… Read MorePinterest's Head of Partnerships To Speak At Disrupt NY
Mar 14, 12:10AM
Bookmarking site Pinterest has established itself as one of the top social networking sites on the web with some 70 million unique visitors per month, according to comScore. But the company, whose last funding round valued the business at $5 billion, is still in the early days of experimenting with its revenue model, and building out relationships with advertisers and partners. Playing a key… Read MoreSeinfeld Will Be Streamable Online Soon, Hopefully
Mar 13, 11:22PM
I’ve never watched more than one or two random Seinfeld episodes. I know, I know. I’ve always meant to watch the whole series, really — but it’s not (legally) streamable anywhere, outside of a few random episodes. So I don’t bother. This may change soon. Word has it that Sony is finally getting around to licensing the streaming rights. Read MoreThis Guy Turned A Quadcopter Into A Star Wars Speeder Bike And It's Amazing
Mar 13, 9:54PM
Okay, this is the last quadcopter-to-“Star Wars Universe”-thing we (or at least I) will post*, I promise. BUT SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT THIS THING. It is perfection. About 30 seconds into the video, I actually stood up and whooped. Read MoreBalanced To Close Its Payment Platform, Strikes Transition Deal With Rival Stripe
Mar 13, 9:00PM
The march of consolidation in the world of e-commerce has claimed its latest victim. Balanced, a payments platform for peer-to-peer marketplace businesses, is closing its doors after failing to grow fast enough, or as co-founder Matin Tamizi describes it, “reach the escape velocity necessary to be a large, innovative, independent player in the payments space.” The company,… Read MoreReadMe Creates Crisp Documentation For Developers Using Your APIs
Mar 13, 8:55PM
Y Combinator-backed ReadMe wants to make it easy for any company to provide quality documentation for developers who might be interested in using their APIs. With the prevalence of APIs, it’s easier than ever to integrate features from your favorite apps and services into your own work. If you’re one of those companies looking to get your APIs in the hands of third-party… 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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