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Nintendo Partners With DeNA To Bring Its Games And IP To Smartphones
Mar 17, 7:44AM
Nintendo is finally bringing its games and characters to mobile after the company announced an alliance with Japanese mobile gaming firm DeNA. Read MoreRakuten To Put Its Bitnet Investment To Work And Accept Bitcoin Worldwide
Mar 17, 7:33AM
Rakuten, Japan’s largest online retail firm, has announced that it will begin accepting bitcoin across its global marketplaces. Read MoreSotheby's Will Soon Let You Take Part In Its Auctions Right From eBay
Mar 17, 5:45AM
eBay pushed into collectibles and live auctions last year and now the U.S. retailer is adding a notable name to its list: prestigious auction house Sotheby’s. The duo have teamed up to live-stream auctions from Sotheby’s and allow prospective buyers to place bids in real-time via eBay. Read MoreAdobe Launches Document Cloud, A Subscription Service For Acrobat, EchoSign And New Apps
Mar 17, 4:57AM
Over the last two years or so, the news around Adobe has mostly focused on its Creative Cloud, so it’s easy to forget that the company also has a huge business in the document business with Acrobat. Now, it’s putting renewed emphasis on this side of its business with the launch of its Document Cloud. Read MoreChromecast Now Lets You Pause And Play With Your TV Remote
Mar 17, 2:14AM
Google’s Chromecast turns the phone in your pocket into a really, really great TV remote — which is great, until your TV remote is nearby, but your phone for some reason isn’t. Surprise! Chromecast suddenly lets you pause and un-pause videos with your TV’s infrared remote. Read MoreEx Machina Director Alex Garland Talks Artificial Intelligence And His Unsettling Robot Ava
Mar 16, 10:56PM
If you were looking for love in Austin this weekend, you might have run into Ava — a chatbot on Tinder created to promote the South by Southwest premiere of a new science fiction film called Ex Machina. Regardless of what you think about the campaign (I didn’t have a problem with it, but then I’ve always found Tinder chats to be awkward and slightly surreal), it certainly… Read MoreMcDonald's Teams With General Assembly For Employee Training Pilot
Mar 16, 10:26PM
McDonald’s announced a partnership with General Assembly today at South by Southwest. They are launching a pilot program in which a small subset of McDonald’s employees can take one of two GA courses and receive a monthly stipend for the duration of the courses. The idea is take qualified people who can’t afford to take the classes, but could have technology skills,… Read MoreMango Health's Drug Prescription, Health Apps Eye The Ideal Spot On The Apple Watch
Mar 16, 10:18PM
Stacked with execs from the mobile and social gaming industry, Mango Health has been taking the behavioral mechanics that make games addictive and applying them toward more intractable problems in the world of healthcare. Two years ago, they launched a mobile app that helps patients with drug adherence, or whether they’re managing to take their medications every day. Since the the app… Read MorePinterest Raises $367 Million, Pushing It Past $1 Billion Raised In All
Mar 16, 10:12PM
Remember Pinterest’s massive $200 million Series F round last year? They’re coming back for more — lots more. According to a just-released filing, Pinterest is looking to raise over half a billion dollars — and it’s already over halfway there. Pinterest has already raised $367 million dollars in this latest round, and they’re still open to raising another… Read MoreFriendsy Is Tinder For College Students Only, Created By Two Princeton Students
Mar 16, 10:06PM
During his freshman year at Princeton, Michael Pinsky went to the student lounge to watch a Yankees game. Knowing there were plenty of other fans on campus, he was certain it would be packed. But the lounge was empty except for Vaidhy Murti, another fan, sitting on an adjacent couch. The two began to talk, becoming fast friends. But the pair realized it doesn’t always work that… Read MoreYaytop Helps You Phone-A-Friend Before You Post A Pic To Instagram
Mar 16, 10:02PM
Last Spring, University of Michigan students Niko Natsis and Aaron Nussbaum noticed that some of their friends and siblings would send their pictures to each other on iMessage in order to give edits that would do better on social networks. The pair decided to build Yaytop, an app that lets you quickly ping friends for help with edits before you post to Instagram or Facebook. Read MoreDesign Principles For Building Better Wearables
Mar 16, 10:00PM
We are seeing a wave of wearable products coming to market. According to IDC research, 19.2 million shipments this year will build to a global market of 111.9 million units by 2018. There is no doubt that the long-predicted rise of wearables is upon us. Pioneers like Pebble are now being joined by Google’s Android Wear platform, the Apple Watch and Microsoft Band, and new form factors… Read MoreShift Labs Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Make Medical Devices For Healthcare's Future
Mar 16, 9:56PM
Shift Labs is a small startup launching this spring out of Y Combinator with a lofty tagline: to be “the Nest of medical devices.” But as ambitious as that goal may sound at first, when you take a closer look at Shift Labs, it doesn’t sound that crazy after all. In fact, it seems almost inevitable. If you’ve spent any time in a hospital, you’ve likely noticed that… Read MoreBuzzFeed's CEO Says Modern Media Is About Pushing Actual Content, Not Links
Mar 16, 9:51PM
“Because so many publishers build their businesses on banner ads, they have to get people back to their site to make money” says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. But that misses much of the value of social media. “You should be using this distribution channel to show them content, not just a pointer to some other space.” During his talk to a massive SXSW crowd, Peretti… Read MoreHere's How Microsoft Will Fit Windows 10 Inside Inexpensive Devices
Mar 16, 9:27PM
Microsoft detailed its efforts today to reduce the footprint of Windows 10, a forthcoming operating system that the software company hopes will run across devices of every screen size. Fitting Windows onto smaller devices, however, is a challenge, given that the operating system isn’t known for having a diminutive footprint. Windows 10 has two chief methods built into it to reduce its size. Read MoreFintech Startup And YC Alum GoCardless Loses Second Co-Founder
Mar 16, 9:16PM
Fintech startup and Y-Combinator alum GoCardless, which offers a simple way for online businesses to set up and accept direct debit payments (that is, money that comes straight out of your bank account), has lost another of its three original co-founders. Read MoreCablevision Becomes First Pay-TV Provider To Offer HBO NOW To Broadband Customers
Mar 16, 7:59PM
Following Apple’s announcement last week that it would be the first device maker to offer HBO’s new standalone streaming service, HBO NOW, to U.S. consumers, HBO today revealed that New York-based Cablevision Systems will become the first pay-TV provider to do the same for its broadband customers. That is, those who subscribe to Cablevision’s Optimum internet service… Read MoreThe Net Neutrality Drinking Game
Mar 16, 7:19PM
The FCC is about to be taken out back by Congress for a quick word. The independent federal agency’s recent vote to pass new net neutrality regulations has stirred some discontent among the congressional majority in both houses, resulting in a full dance card for FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler, who will take part in five subsequent hearings over the next several weeks. The first is… Read MoreTechCrunch Meetup And PitchOff In Dubai On March 30th
Mar 16, 7:09PM
TechCrunch is headed to Dubai on March 30th and 31st and we want to see you there. We’re going to hold a quick meetup there, just before the awesome Step Conference. The goal is to find some amazing startups for our Disrupt conference. After last year’s successful TechCrunch Meetup in Beirut, we thought this year we would mix it up a bit and host the TechCrunch Meetup and PitchOff… Read MoreYC-Backed Industrial Microbes Is Engineering Bacteria To Produce Chemicals >From Natural Gases
Mar 16, 7:08PM
The trio of synthetic biologists behind Industrial Microbes, a new East Bay-based startup backed by Y Combinator, have had years of experience in working with biofuels. They met at LS9, a biofuels startup that took more than $80 million of venture investment through the height of the cleantech wave and sought to create fuels from specially engineered bacteria. From a venture perspective, LS9… 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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