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Charity Donation App Tinbox Wants Brands To Fund Free Giving

Apr 01, 9:33AM

Tinbox Paris based startup Tinbox, which was founded in January last year by a couple of friends at Warwick University in the U.K., is aiming to make a business out of letting people donate freely to charities of their choice via a mobile app. Read More



Signal Gets $1.8M For Its NLP Market Intelligence Platform

Apr 01, 9:00AM

Signal Sorting the signal from the noise is an increasingly tedious task for anyone spending time online. London-based startup Signal is using that as an opportunity to build a business out of automating real-time information gathering and filtering so its customers don’t have to. Read More



Meet The Smartest Emoji In The Chat Room

Apr 01, 7:40AM

emoji-grid1 The hotly contested digital sticker space has a new face in it today: Sm@rt Stickrs is a startup that’s aiming to elbow its way into your messaging affections with a new type of emoji that gets smarter the more you use it. Read More



Partech Doubles Down On Seed With New $65 Million Seed Fund

Apr 01, 7:01AM

Partech Shaker It feels like Partech Ventures announced its first seed fund (Partech Entrepreneur I) just yesterday — the Paris-based venture capital firm is already announcing a new $65 million (€60 million) seed fund called Partech Entrepreneur II. “This is the biggest dedicated seed fund in Europe focused on digital startups,” Partech General Partner Romain Lavault told me. “We… Read More



Alibaba Rival JD.com Launches Crowdfunding Site For Startups

Apr 01, 6:05AM

renminbi China’s largest e-commerce companies are eager to leverage their millions of users and hoards of data for new projects. For example, Alibaba’s other businesses include healthcare management, financial services, and cloud data. Now JD.com, its smaller but still formidable rival, is branching out into crowdfunding for startups. Read More



Technology Is The Path To Turkey's Future

Apr 01, 6:00AM

turkeybridge While most tech followers might not know it yet, there’s a new country emerging as a leader in technology. Turkey’s rapid economic growth, even in theface of the global economic downturn, has made it a model for dozens of countries across the world looking to develop everything from a robust banking system to health care reform. While this growth was impressive, it has set up… Read More



Lessons In Designing Great Enterprise Software

Apr 01, 4:00AM

enterprisesoftware As people are bringing new expectations of a quality user experience into the workplace, delivering a consumer grade experience is becoming critical for all business software, and is increasingly a fundamental way for software makers to compete in the market. While most software makers are increasingly aware of this truth, the challenge today is how to effectively make the transition to… Read More



Line's COO Officially Takes Over As CEO To Turn The Messaging App Into A Mobile Services Platform

Apr 01, 3:49AM

line store Three months after announcing the transition, Line has officially received shareholder approval to appoint Takeshi Idezawa, the messaging app’s former chief operating officer, as its chief executive officer. The company said that Idezawa will take over the reins from its previous CEO, Akira Morikawa, today. Read More



Why The Kleiner Perkins-Social+Capital Deal Fell Apart

Apr 01, 2:33AM

Screen Shot 2015-03-31 at 6.14.06 PM In January, reports surfaced that Social+Capital was in “acquisition” talks with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Those talks fell apart. So what happened? TechCrunch has heard from a few people familiar with the discussions about what might have led to the deal falling through. Read More



This Is Why #Brands Should Not Make April Fools' Jokes

Apr 01, 12:29AM

microsoft-data Welcome to the stupidest week on technology’s religious calendar: April Fools’ week. This isn’t the worst week. That slot remains filled by the Vegas confab that shall not be named. But be prepared for the next bit to be bored by trivial jokes, written by committee, and then signed off on by PR teams to ensure that any soul that might have been present in the words has… Read More



Don't Read The Comments — Let Diffbot Analyze Them Instead

Mar 31, 10:54PM

diffbot Diffbot’s mission, according to CEO Mike Tung, involves “teaching a robot how to read and understand web pages.” Today it expanded that understanding to include forums, comments, reviews, and other online discussions. When Tung talks about understanding web pages, he means turning the content into structured data — say, looking at an article and identifying the title… Read More



See You This Week In Montreal And Toronto

Mar 31, 10:38PM

Here we go! TechCrunch is winging its way to Montreal and Toronto this week for some amazing meetups. We want to see you there so I hope you’ve purchased your ticket, eh. All the pitch-off companies are picked and the judges are in line to offer pithy commentary. The pitch-offs will follow our tried and true formula. We’ll pick 6 to 8 startups per city and they will have 60 seconds… Read More



When April Fools' Day Gets More Love Than Good Policy

Mar 31, 9:00PM

5378384897_2e8c6bfc24_o Here is something to ponder: Silicon Valley will have gotten more work done on its April Fools’ Day jokes tomorrow than Washington has gotten done in the past several years. And that’s scary, for as much as playing PacMan on Google Maps is funny and maybe even endearing, driving on bridges ready to collapse is not. Read More



Etsy IPO Price Expected At Between $14-$16 A Share, Starting Roadshow Tomorrow

Mar 31, 8:46PM

etsy logo Today, Etsy gave a few more key details about its upcoming initial public offering. The company, which is known for its marketplace for handmade and vintage objects and plans to trade on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “ETSY,” said today that its expected IPO price will be between $14 to $16 a share. This puts Etsy’s valuation between $1.55 billion and $1.77 billion. Etsy… Read More



Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock Says AOL's Connected Delivers On The Promise Of Reality TV

Mar 31, 8:18PM

spurlock “Reality TV” is one of those phrases that inevitably begs for scare quotes — with its staged scenes and melodramatic confessions, a reality TV show’s relationship with reality can be … complicated. But Morgan Spurlock, director of documentaries like Super Size Me, suggested that the new online video series Connected might live up to “the promise of… Read More



YC-Backed Neverfrost Wants To Kill Windshield Frost And Keep Rocks From Ruining Your Day

Mar 31, 8:14PM

I’m a fan of all different sorts of rocks. Rock music. Rock gardens. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. But there’s one type of rock that I — and most other drivers, I imagine — hate with a deep, fiery passion: rocks that hit my car’s windshield at 70 mph. Few things so small can wreck your day so suddenly. Everything is going great. The sun is shining. Hell,… Read More



An Action Plan For Getting More Women In Tech

Mar 31, 7:51PM

5866676276_1168444298_b How can more women be encouraged into technology careers? It’s a question that is often put to delegates at tech conferences, but one which continues to be far harder to answer than it is to ask. The problem of gender imbalance in tech is systemic and societal in Western nations. It’s about expectations and aspirations. Read More



Sinch Blasts To $60M Run Rate In 10 Months

Mar 31, 7:22PM

black rotary telephone The race to provide telecom services to developers of every stripe has a number of large, well-capitalized participants. New and quickly growing among the better-known names is Sinch, a company that was spun out of Rebtel just over 10 months ago. According to the firm, Sinch is now generating revenue at a $60 million run rate. Sinch started with certain advantages that are worth noting. It… Read More



As Internal Threats Rise, Investors Back New Security Tech

Mar 31, 6:44PM

13334048894_6e8b421c4e_o Amid this steady drumbeat of technology breaches and security snafus, venture capitalists have spent roughly $6.5 billion on new technologies to combat this menace, according to CrunchBase data. The latest company to benefit from this deluge of dollars, and the one that addresses the issue of bad actors inside corporate networks most directly, is HyTrust, which closed on $25 million. Read More



Google Says 5% Of Visitors To Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed

Mar 31, 6:23PM

nytimes_bad NEW NEW According to a study Google conducted with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, 5 percent of people visiting Google’s sites and services now have at least one ad injector installed. When it comes to malware, ad injectors may seem relatively benevolent at first. They put an ad on your Google Search page that didn’t belong there, for example. That’s annoying,… Read More




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