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Kabbage's SMB Loan Platform Moves Into Asia Pacific As A White-Label Service
Mar 24, 10:11AM
Kabbage has taken root in the U.S. and UK markets as a platform where small businesses can quickly apply for and receive working capital loans — with Kabbage making fast decisions about eligibility through a mix of smart algorithms and online and offline data sources. Now the startup is growing its business on two fronts. It’s kicking off a new white-label offering where… Read MoreZipMatch Lands $2.5M To Expand Its Property Portal Beyond The Philippines
Mar 24, 7:01AM
ZipMatch, an online property portal in the Philippines, is the latest startup in Southeast Asia to receive investment from Monk’s Hill Ventures and its $80 million fund. The prominent VC firm led a $2.5 million Series A round, which included participation from existing investor 500 Startups, that will go towards strengthening ZipMatch’s domestic business and expanding in… Read MoreFormer Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's Vessel Launches To The Public
Mar 24, 7:00AM
Vessel, the new online video subscription service built by some of the early team at Hulu, is launching to the public today. The service — which provides early access to videos from YouTube stars through a monthly subscription fee — has been in private beta since the beginning of the year. It is now available to everyone on both the web and iOS. Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and… Read MoreIndia's Supreme Court Strikes Down Controversial Internet Censorship Law
Mar 24, 6:41AM
Today is a good day for freedom of speech in India. The country’s Supreme Court voted against a law that leaves citizens facing jail for content that they post online. Read MoreAlibaba Makes Strategic Investment In Israeli Venture Firm JVP
Mar 24, 6:25AM
Two months after making its first investment in Israel, Alibaba is digging deeper into the country’s startup ecosystem. Venture capital firm JVP (Jerusalem Venture Partners) announced yesterday that it will partner with the e-commerce giant to give financial support to promising startups. The amount of money both companies will invest together was not disclosed. Read MoreZillow Launches Agent Finder To Help You Find The Best Realtor In Your Area
Mar 24, 4:00AM
While Zillow is primarily a site for browsing real estate listings, it’s also a referral service for real estate agents. Today, the company is launching its new Agent Finder, an updated tool for finding the right agent in your neighborhood that’s now available on the company’s website and through its mobile apps. The new tool takes into account ratings from Zillow’s… Read MoreNetflix Goes Live In Australia And New Zealand, Its First Launches In Asia Pacific
Mar 24, 3:31AM
Netflix spoke of aggressive international expansion plans in January, and the first step of its two year plan was taken today when the service launched in Australia and New Zealand. Read MoreOur 10 Favorite Companies From Y Combinator Demo Day (Day 1)
Mar 24, 2:34AM
It’s Day 1 Of Y Combinator’s two-day Demo Day for the Winter 2015 class. Over 50 companies presented today — and while they all had great things going for them, a few of them really stood out to us. Here’s a quick run-through of our Top 10, in no particular order… Read MoreReddit Now Lets Other Sites Embed User Comments
Mar 24, 2:11AM
After a few months of beta testing, Reddit has officially launched embeddable comments. Like Twitter’s embedded tweets feature, embeddable comments makes it easy for other sites to feature comments from Reddit users. Instead of cutting-and-pasting a comment or linking back to it, writers just have to click on its permalink and select “embed” for its code. Read MoreTwitter's New "Quality Filter" Starts Rolling Out To Verified iOS Users
Mar 24, 1:20AM
Twitter can be a cesspool of bullying, which CEO Dick Costolo admitted in an internal memo has cost the microblogging platform users. Over the past few months, however, the company has taken several major steps to stop trolls. The latest is a new “quality filter” that lets verified users weed out problematic tweets from their notifications. Read MoreHere Are The Companies That Presented At Y Combinator Demo Day 1
Mar 24, 12:54AM
It’s that time again! Today was Demo Day 1 (of 2) for Y Combinator’s Winter 2015 class — when investors and reporters get their first in-person look at many of the startups that YC has been incubating for the past few months. Want to see what debuted? We’ll have a list of our favorites soon — but if you want something more exhaustive, we’ve got the whole… Read MoreTwitch Resets All User Passwords After Suffering Data Breach
Mar 24, 12:24AM
Twitch, the immensely popular livestreaming service for gamers that was acquired last year by Amazon in a nearly $1 billion deal, confirmed today that it has suffered a security breach that may have resulted in unauthorized access to a number of user accounts. The company is now forcing all of its users to change their passwords. Twitch alerted users to the breach in a blog post on its… Read MoreSlack's In Talks With Coatue, Others For Another Round At A $2.5B Valuation
Mar 23, 11:40PM
Slack, the communication platform that has taken the workplace world by storm, is on a roll of another sort. After announcing a fundraise of $120 million at a $1 billion-plus valuation less than six months ago, TechCrunch has heard that the company is talking to investors for yet another round, this time at a valuation of around $2.5-2.6 billion. Investors that we have heard involved in… Read MoreWhy Don't Makers Have Higher Social Status?
Mar 23, 8:25PM
Matt Burns wrote about a situation at his son’s school last week that could have happened almost anywhere in the United States. The school had organized a career day, and his son, who is seven years old, told his teachers he wanted to be a video game designer one day. His teacher’s response was not to be enthusiastic, but rather to dismiss the goal, saying that his son should… Read MoreAmazon Prime Music Takes On Pandora With Addition Of "Prime Stations" On iOS
Mar 23, 6:58PM
Prime Music, Amazon’s free music streaming service for Prime members, has been upgraded on mobile today with a new feature that will see the service better competing with similar offerings like Pandora or iTunes Radio, for example. The company has now introduced “Prime Stations” for users of its iOS application, which are are ad-free streaming music stations that offer… Read MoreThis Amazingly Limber Bionic Arm Connects To Your Smartphone
Mar 23, 6:28PM
A Japanese company called Exiii has created a sub-$300 bionic arm that connects to your cellphone in order to perform some surprisingly limber maneuvers. The arm uses 3D printed parts to make it easy to build and assembled and it can be repaired or reprinted in multiple colo Read MoreMicrosoft Signs 11 Agreements With OEMs To Bring Office To More Android Handsets And Tablets
Mar 23, 6:14PM
Microsoft has broadened a previously announced agreement with Samsung to preinstall its software on the latter firm’s hardware it announced today, and landed nearly a dozen separate, similar arrangements with other OEMs including Dell. As a company, Microsoft is pursuing an increasingly cross-platform software strategy, one in which it is content to ensure that its applications are… Read MoreFour Patents That Changed Enterprise Storage
Mar 23, 6:00PM
Sports fans get very excited about Final Fours — whether it’s the new four-team playoff in college football, the semi-finals competitors at Wimbledon or, most famously, the remaining competitors in NCAA basketball’s March Madness. As we are in the midst of this year’s tournament, I started pondering a Fab Four, if not the Final Four, of the world’s impactful… Read MoreTwitter Teaming With Foursquare For Location Tagging In Tweets
Mar 23, 5:03PM
Twitter is bringing the ability to tag specific locations to Tweets via official apps and the web, through a partnership with Foursquare. The company tweeted about the upcoming feature today, showing a video of how it’ll work in iOS. Coming soon! We’re working with @foursquare so you can tag specific locations in Tweets: https://t.co/MwlLz5Pfvq pic.twitter.com/jATzXvbuV6 —… Read MoreInstagram Launches Layout, Its Own Photo Collage App
Mar 23, 5:00PM
Instagram today announced the debut of a new application called Layout, the company’s next standalone creation tool outside of its flagship photo-sharing application. With Layout, Instagram users will be able to quickly build collages using their mobile photos, which they can then choose to share to Instagram, Facebook, or elsewhere. Collage-making is already a popular activity on… 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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