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Smartphones Are Helping This Nonprofit Keep A Generation Of Memories Alive
Apr 03, 10:45AM
Each day, we talk to lots of people: meetings with coworkers, dinnertime chats with family or friends, messages on social media. When was the last time, however, you had a long conversation with someone about the things that really matter to both of you? Read MoreDeadline For The Europas Awards Extended To April 10, TechCrunch Partnering
Apr 03, 10:34AM
The deadline for nominations for The Europas Awards 2015, the European Tech Startup Awards & Invitation-Only Conference, has been extended to April 10. You can nominate a startup or a person to win an award via this form (previous entries submitted via AngelList will still be counted, so there is no need to re-submit your entry). The Europas will be held on June 16, 2015, in London. Read MoreBe Your Own Bank
Apr 03, 9:30AM
Digital currencies have come and gone in the past, and despite the astonishing rise of bitcoin’s popularity over the past eighteen months, the majority of the population has yet to board the bitcoin bandwagon. One of the things that has plagued digital currencies in the past, has been the perception that they are a solution in search of a problem. Does anyone really need digital… Read MoreCodie Joins The Ranks Of Toys Aiming To Help Kids Learn Coding
Apr 03, 9:00AM
Codie is a programmable robot that’s controlled via an app, using a visual programming language simplified into draggable blocks to make it easy for kids to play with. Its target age group is 8- to 12-year-olds, and parents willing to shell out on a toy that promises to held their kids think like programmers. Read MoreBanking On Southeast Asia's E-Commerce Future
Apr 03, 4:00AM
China’s e-commerce, m-commerce and payments lead the world. It is the largest e-commerce market (KPMG), and is home to Alibaba, with its US$25 billion IPO, the largest in history. Alipay, China’s answer to PayPal, is the world’s largest online payment service. Tencent, the fifth largest internet company after Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and EBay, has the largest… Read MoreSeatGeek Raises $62 Million In A Series C Led By Technology Crossover Ventures
Apr 03, 1:39AM
Online ticket sales startup SeatGeek has raised $62 million in Series C funding. Co-founder Jack Groetzinger confirmed to TechCrunch that the round was led by Technology Crossover Ventures, with participation from previous investor Mousse Partners as well as Accel Partners and Causeway Media. This brings the funding total up to $103 million now. According to one source that puts the… Read MoreSources: Shyp Is Raising $50 Million At A $250 Million Valuation
Apr 03, 1:15AM
TechCrunch is hearing from several sources that on-demand shipping startup Shyp is raising around $50 million at a valuation of $250 million. Shyp allows its users to take a photo of an item they want to ship, and then sends someone to pick up the item and deliver it. Shyp packs the item and determines which carrier will be cheapest and most reliable. The whole process costs $5, plus… Read MoreSony Is Buying OnLive's 140 Cloud Gaming Patents And Other Tech, OnLive To Close April 30
Apr 02, 11:02PM
A final coda to the opera that has been OnLive — the cloud gaming company that was once estimated to be worth $1.8 billion but, saddled with debt, went through a dramatic round of layoffs before a surprise sale for $4.8 million. Sony Computer Entertainment is now buying various assets of the company, including 140 U.S. and international patents for cloud gaming services.… Read MoreY Combinator-Backed PicnicHealth Nabs $2 Million In Seed To Build Out A Virtual Healthcare Records Platform
Apr 02, 10:58PM
PicnicHealth launched out of Y Combinator last summer with a service that promised to help chronically ill patients gather all their records from all their doctors and put them in one easy-to-access online profile. The startup has now raised $2 million in seed funding to build that service out and hire more team members. Read MoreFreestyle Capital Locks Down $60M For Its Third Fund, Adds Jenny Lefcourt As Its Third Partner
Apr 02, 10:00PM
Freestyle Capital, a venture shop based in California, has locked down a $60 million third fund. The new infusion brings the firm’s total capital raised to $126 million. In addition to its new traunch, Freestyle has brought Jenny Lefcourt into its ranks as its third partner. The two founding Freestyle partners — Josh Felser and Dave Samuel — are regular judges at… Read MoreMicrosoft Brings Collaboration To New Office Tool Sway
Apr 02, 8:53PM
Remember Sway? It’s a recent addition to Microsoft’s Office suite, blending together note taking, presenting, and now, collaboration. The software is notable in that it was launched first in-browser, a step away from the traditional, desktop-focused Office apps like Word and Excel. Sway was opened to the general public in December of 2014. At the time, Microsoft noted that it… Read MoreWhat The Kapors Have Learned From Years Of Working On Diversity in Tech
Apr 02, 7:32PM
Almost one year ago, Google released its diversity data, kicking off a wide-ranging industry conversation about why tech companies and venture capital firms are so unrepresentative of the racial and gender make-up of the rest of the U.S. Dozens of other companies followed Google’s suit while the issue of gender in the venture world has been on the front burner with the Ellen Pao… Read MoreApply For TechCrunch's Paid Summer Internship
Apr 02, 7:31PM
We’re looking for college students who love startups and reading TechCrunch to join our team as paid summer interns. This isn’t your typical internship. As soon as you set up your company email address, TechCrunch will let you write and publish your own stories. Whether it’s a big funding announcement or profiles of the next Y Combinator batch, you’ll be talking to some… Read MoreUsing Gaming To Flip The Script On Autism
Apr 02, 7:00PM
What happens if we flip the conversation and say that kids with autism are more likely to be “motivated by” or “proficient with” video games and technology? We need to reframe the conversation and consider how to use an interest in technology as a springboard to skill development and, for some, employment. Read MoreBrace Yourselves, The Net Neutrality Legal Challenges Are Coming
Apr 02, 6:08PM
On Wednesday afternoon the Federal Communications Commission filed its net neutrality order to the Federal Register, an FCC official confirmed to TechCrunch. Once published by the Register, the filing opens the gates to an inevitable outpouring of legal challenges from net neutrality opponents. The FCC’s filing comes a week-and-a-half after the agency was slammed with the first… Read MoreGovernment And The Fast Pace Of Innovation
Apr 02, 6:00PM
We live in a society of instant gratification: Just about anything can be delivered; any job “task-rabbited”; and many things can even be instantly live-streamed. How does this square with the typically slower pace of government? Government cannot be as nimble as the commercial sectors by design, and this can often be for good reason. Read MoreMicrosoft Debuts Office Lens, A Document-Scanning App For iOS And Android
Apr 02, 5:19PM
Microsoft today launched Office Lens, a mobile document scanner app that works with OneNote, for iOS and Android smartphones. The app, which allows users to snap photos of paper documents, receipts, business cards, menus, whiteboards, sticky notes and more, was first launched a year ago as an application designed only for Windows Phone devices. But in conjunction with the company’s… Read MoreUK's myDogBuddy Merges With Spain's Bibulu To Become Europe's Largest Dog Sitting Marketplace
Apr 02, 5:14PM
The U.K.’s myDogBuddy, which offers a marketplace that connects dog owners with local dog sitters, has merged with its Spanish rival Bibulu, to become what it claims is the largest offering of its kind, citing a combined 10,000 local dog sitters registered with the platform. The merger also sees a rebranding of the combined entity to the much simpler DogBuddy.com domain. Read MorePinterest Debuts A New "Pin It" Button Designed To Speed Up Bookmarking
Apr 02, 5:00PM
Last summer, Pinterest acquired a visual discovery site called Icebergs, and today that team is showing off what it’s been up to, having since relocated from Spain to San Francisco. While over the past several months, Pinterest’s focus has been on improving search and discovery on its site, the former Iceberg team members have been working to improve the process involved with… Read MoreHarperCollins Is Taking Aim At Amazon As Contract Lapses
Apr 02, 4:49PM
Publisher HarperCollins is trying to go its own way as its contract with Amazon lapses this year. The company, which received the same renewal contract as the other big publishers, namely Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan, seems to be holding off in order to both try its hand at online book sales and flex a bit of muscle against the Bezos book empire. HC has been fairly successful… 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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