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After 350,000+ Beta Sign-Ups, ProtonMail Takes $2M To Scale Its Encrypted Email
Mar 20, 10:10AM
Swiss based encrypted email provider ProtonMail, which we covered last summer during a crowdfunding campaign where it was promising a “zero access architecture” fit for our post-Snowden paranoia, has taken in its first tranche of VC funding — announcing a $2 million round from Charles Rivers Ventures and Swiss not-for-profit incubator FONGIT. Read MoreCher Wang Appointed HTC CEO, Peter Chou Switches To Product Development Role
Mar 20, 7:18AM
HTC, everyone’s favorite phone-maker underdog, has announced that Chairwoman Cher Wang will replace Peter Chou as the company’s CEO. Read MoreOla, Uber's Big Rival In India, Introduces Food Ordering Service
Mar 20, 7:04AM
Ola, the SoftBank-backed taxi-hailing service in India, is taking a leaf out of the Uber playbook after it launched a food ordering service. Read MoreReuters Is The Latest News Organization To Get Blocked In China
Mar 20, 5:59AM
Reuters has joined Bloomberg, New York Times and Wall Street Journal in being blocked in China. Reuters itself reported that its website was not reachable in the country today. Read MoreThis Box Bruteforces Your iPhone PIN Without Triggering The 10-Guess Limit
Mar 20, 12:36AM
A simple PIN might keep your iPhone safe from the prying hands of a curious toddler or a drunk friend. But slap that thing in a robot that exists for no reason but to try every possible PIN one-by-one, and it’ll crack it right open. These machines have existed for a while, but this one is particularly crazy: if you’ve got your iPhone set to clear all of its data after 10 failed… Read MoreTwin Prime Lands $9.5M To Make Your App Just Work
Mar 19, 11:34PM
You know when you’re looking at your phone and you see five bars and you think you’re golden. Then you try to do something and the app you’re using is just hanging in spite of the bars. Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week, and announced $9.5M in funding, wants to solve that problem. It’s working with app developers to make sure that you don’t… Read MorePolitical Pressure To Pass CISA Quickly Could Pose 'Big Problem' For Civil Liberties
Mar 19, 11:06PM
For years lawmakers and civil liberties advocates have sparred over cybersecurity legislation that would allow companies to share information with government agencies and each other. Now the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, better known as CISA, is back. Despite recent amendments intended to bolster protection of consumers’ personal information, privacy advocates worry that… Read MoreMedium Now Lets You Write Posts From Its iOS App
Mar 19, 10:57PM
Popular blogging platform and publisher Medium has announced that the latest update to its iOS app will finally let users compose posts from their iPhone or iPad. It’s a feature that many fans of the platisher (publorm?) have been begging the company for from day one. It’s landing in the wake of another recent update, which let you start writing an outline or short post in an… Read MoreFacebook Plans To Turn Messenger Into A Platform
Mar 19, 10:23PM
Next week at its F8 developer conference, Facebook will announce new ways for third parties to offer experiences through its Messenger app, according to multiple sources. Facebook hopes to make Messenger more useful, after seeing Asia’s chat apps WeChat and Line succeed as platforms that go beyond just texting with friends. Read MoreI Tried To Interview This Celebrity Dog At SXSW
Mar 19, 10:09PM
Well, okay, I didn’t actually try to interview a dog, because that would be silly. But while attending a pet adoption event at South by Southwest event, I did talk to Courtney Dasher, owner of Instagram star Tuna Melts My Heart. And yes, he’s a dog with an intense overbite. What I wanted to know was: What’s like to own a social media celebrity? (Seriously, Tuna’s got… Read MoreAre Newly Formed Roles In VC Firms Differentiators, Table Stakes Or Total BS?
Mar 19, 10:00PM
In the venture capital world, we’re about to experience an explosion of hiring around one very specific function. These people won’t invest in startups, nor will they analyze companies. They won’t help operate the management company, nor will they focus on LPs. They won’t be EIRs or in-house recruiters or PR consultants or pretty much anything you’re accustomed… Read MoreAnti-Censorship Service Greatfire Is Under Attack
Mar 19, 9:28PM
Greatfire, a service that monitors blocked websites in China, is suffering from a DDOS attack that is sending 2.6 billion requests per hour to its servers – a 2500% increase in traffic – with the aim of destroying the business. The company is currently seeing $30,000 in bandwidth fees per day and but is hoping for amnesty from Amazon who hosts its data. NGO’s use the service… Read MoreHow To Play VC Poker With Billions In The Pot
Mar 19, 9:05PM
As the ranks of super unicorns continue to grow, such as with Pinterest’s shiny new $11 billion valuation, analysts are increasingly scrutinizing these prices and whether they signal a new tech bubble. Bill Gurley, the Uber investor and partner at Benchmark, argued at SXSW this week that there will be “dead unicorns” among some of these high-priced companies. Another angle… Read MoreFAA Grants Amazon Permission To Test Drone Deliveries
Mar 19, 9:00PM
The FAA just released a statement indicated that Amazon now has limited permission to test and develop drones in the United States. It’s not a blank check, though. The FAA gave Amazon strict rules and regulations. Read MoreBooze Delivery Startup Thirstie Raises $1.1M
Mar 19, 8:27PM
On-demand alcohol startup Thirstie has raised a $1.1 million seed round. At this point, there are a bunch of startups that want to help bring booze to your doorstep. Just in the past few months, we’ve written about Minibar and Swill. Read MoreYC -Backed Akido Labs Provides A Standardized API Layer For Hospital App Developers
Mar 19, 8:27PM
Many hospitals in America have made the switch to electronic health records (EHR) systems to manage patient medical information in the last couple of decades. This is supposed to make record-keeping easier and more efficient, but the systems are different for each hospital and often can’t communicate with each other. This makes it hard for health app developers to design apps that run… Read MoreSwifty Teaches Apple's New Programming Language On Your iPhone
Mar 19, 8:19PM
Swifty is an app that provides an interactive set of tutorials that gradually guide you through the basics of Swift on your iPhone or iPad, from the very basics of variables and data types to the essentials of object-oriented programming. Read MoreGraphic India Believes It's Time India Had Its Own Digital Comic Empire
Mar 19, 7:51PM
Graphic India, a Bangalore-based digital media company, has landed $2.8 million in its continued quest to develop a comic book and animation business that represents India and Indian culture. Read MoreWatch Magic Leap's Video Of Seamless Augmented Reality Office Game Play
Mar 19, 7:31PM
Magic Leap is showing what it might look like to use its hardware for augmented reality gaming in the future, with a new demo of what the team is apparently “playing in the office” right now. The interface, which includes non-game interaction and then a short demo of an in-office virtual shooter experience, was created in tandem with Weta Workshop, a concept art studio responsible… Read MoreOn The Growth Of Apache Spark
Mar 19, 7:30PM
Launched in U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark has begun to catch on like wildfire during the last year and a half. Spark had more than 465 contributors in 2014, making it the most active project in the Apache Software Foundation and among big data open source projects globally. 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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