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Uber And Ola Ordered To Stop Operating In New Delhi Until They Obtain Taxi Licenses
Mar 25, 9:15AM
Car-hailing apps Uber and Ola have received a new warning from the New Delhi transport authorities, ordering both to stop operations until their applications for taxi licenses have finished processing. Read MoreBT Confirms New BT Mobile 4G Service On EE's Network
Mar 25, 9:11AM
Ahead of closing its deal to buy EE for £12.5 billion, BT is laying the groundwork for its new mobile business, and quad-play strategy, today: the company has now officially launched BT Mobile — a 4G service that will run on EE’s network, for now by way of an MVNO deal, with pricing starting at a competition-busting £5 per month. “Offering BT customers the UK’s… Read MoreFacebook F8 App Confirms Messenger As A Platform, Parse For IoT?
Mar 25, 7:56AM
A notification just sent out by the official app for Facebook’s F8 conference later today reads “The Garage and Demo areas are now open! Just revealed: Parse for IoT, Messenger as a Platform, and the Teleportation Station.” The alert seen by Multiple people seems to indicate that Facebook will reveal a version of its mobile app building suite Parse for “Internet… Read MoreYelp Hooks Up With Startups To Offer A Larger Selection Of E-Commerce Bookings
Mar 25, 4:47AM
As part of its ongoing efforts to transform itself from a reviews site into an e-commerce platform, Yelp announced today that it has partnered with startup Vimbly to offer activities bookings on its site and apps. Other startups it will work with include GolfNow for golf outings; online florist BloomNation; Vagaro, which books spa treatments; and TableList, which Yelp says is its first… Read MoreTeabox Raises $6M To Grow Its Global Tea-Commerce Business
Mar 25, 3:25AM
Teabox, an India-based company that sells tea online to a global audience, has brewed up a fresh $6 million funding round to grow its business in key overseas markets. Read More47 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2
Mar 25, 3:07AM
Y Combinator got so big, it had to split its Demo Day in two. During today’s second wave we saw a variety of promising biotech, marketplace, enterprise, and financial tech startups. Yesterday we chronicled 50 consumer, B2B, developer, and hardware companies. With bigger and bigger batches, the on-stage pitches are getting more bombastic as YC’s startups compete for attention. Yet… Read MoreTech Bubble? Maybe, Maybe Not
Mar 24, 11:00PM
I’ve heard people wonder if we’re in a bubble with regard to startups. Is it as bad as the 2000 dot-com bubble? Might it actually be worse? I thought it would be worthwhile to look at the available data to see if we can figure this out with more than just a personal opinion. After all, I’m responsible for running Google Ventures, and data are important to us, as is the answer. Read MoreApple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
Mar 24, 10:08PM
Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it’s no longer offering downloads of its database software. Financial terms of the deal were not available. CEO David Rosenthal was previously VP of Engineering at Omniture and co-founded the company with COO Nick Lavezzo… Read MoreApple Watch, Shmapple Watch. Here's A Watch That's Full Of Ants!
Mar 24, 9:19PM
Assume, for sanity’s sake, that this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. If we begin our exploration of the Ant Watch on that basis we are able to suspend, for a moment, our disbelief and consider deeply and truly the madness of wearing a watch full of ants on your wrist. Read MoreZendo Is My New Favorite Secure Messaging App
Mar 24, 8:36PM
How does a new secure messaging app stand out in such a crowded space? By making something that’s super easy to use. And also by using a type of encryption that technically cannot be cracked. Yet which has been overlooked by cryptographers for decades… Read MoreWatch This Amazing Fan-Made Star Wars TIE Fighter Short Film
Mar 24, 6:19PM
If you’re excited about the forthcoming cinematic universe Disney appears to be planning around Star Wars, then this amazing seven-and-a-half-minute short created by a fan over four years should do a lot to help tide you over. The animated film was created by Paul Michael Johnson, and animated in the style of epic 80s anime series’ like Mobile Suit Gundam, Patlabor and many… Read MoreGet Your Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon Tickets Now
Mar 24, 6:03PM
That’s right. You read correctly. Tickets are now available for the Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon. The event takes place May 2nd and 3rd at the Manhattan Center in good old New York, New York. Get them now! The weekend long hackathon kicks off on Saturday, May 2nd at 12:30pm. On Sunday, just over 20 hours of building, teams will have 60 seconds to present their projects to our panel of… Read MoreFacebook's Timehop Clone "On This Day" Shows You Your Posts From Years Ago
Mar 24, 6:01PM
Facebook’s experimented with ways to surface old Memories since 2010. But after seeing Timehop hit 6 million daily users on mobile, Facebook is officially launching a competing nostalgia feature called “On This Day.” It shows users their Facebook posts from the current date in past years, like photos from exactly one year ago, or status updates from four years ago. Rolling… Read MoreCities Take Lead On App Development
Mar 24, 6:00PM
What kinds of apps do cities need? This is a key question that cities have been asking themselves and answering in a range of ways in recent years. Before we even can truly answer that question though, it’s key to understand the important role of cities in everyday life. We wake up in our home in a city, walk in a city, bike in a city, commute to work or school in a city, frequent… Read MorePresident Obama Taps Twitter Vet Jason Goldman As White House's First Chief Digital Officer
Mar 24, 4:59PM
President Obama announced this morning that Jason Goldman, a longtime tech industry executive best known for his work alongside Ev Williams during the formative years of products such as Blogger, Twitter, and Medium, has been named the White House’s first-ever “Chief Digital Officer.” The news was first reported by Politico. Goldman will be overseeing the White… Read MoreLogMeIn's Rescue Lens Lets Customer Support Reps See The Problem Through Your Smartphone's Camera
Mar 24, 4:23PM
LogMeIn, the makers of a variety of remote access solutions for business and personal use, is today launching a new service that will allow any company to provide video-assisted customer support, using only the camera on a customer’s iOS or Android mobile device. The idea is that a customer support representative would be able to tap into a live feed in order to remotely help with… Read MorePigeon.ly, A Startup Focused On Serving The U.S. Prison Population, Joins Y Combinator
Mar 24, 4:00PM
Ever since he was a teenager, Frederick Hutson has had a knack for business. When he was 19, he built a window-tinting business that he then turned around and sold for $50,000. At 21, he saw his friends struggling with an illegal marijuana business and figured out how to efficiently traffic the drug across borders. They used shipping containers and vacuum-sealed everything. Read MoreNew Ransomware Encrypts Your Game Files
Mar 24, 3:56PM
If you’re in love with your Diamond Armor and Sword combo, you might want to back up your computer. A new form of ransomware called TeslaCrypt has been found that primarily targets game files. This means when it attacks it will encrypt all of your saved game files and ask you for about $1,000 to access them again. Usually your only TeslaCrypt is targeting files associated with games… Read MoreMeerkat's Ben Rubin To Join Us On TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM Tonight
Mar 24, 3:54PM
Tonight is a very special edition of our weekly TechCrunch Radio show, as we’ll be having Ben Rubin, CEO and cofounder of Meerkat, join us on the show to discuss what’s going on with his virally sensational live broadcasting service. And just like clockwork, we’ll be hosting the TC Radio Pitch-off where five companies will have sixty seconds each to impress a panel of… Read MoreInklet Adds Pressure Sensitive Drawing To Macs With Force Touch Trackpads
Mar 24, 3:10PM
A new app update from Ten One Design available today brings pressure sensitive input via the new Force Touch trackpad to any drawing app on your Mac. Inklet 1.6, the latest version of adds support for the pressure sensitivity features of the new Mac input hardware, which ships on the most recent 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, as well as the upcoming all-new 12-inch MacBook. Inklet has been… 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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