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10 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow

May 03, 4:00AM

10commandments Having launched over 35 startups in our decade of operation, we’ve been fortunate to be involved with our share of ‘unicorns’ (Palo Alto Networks, Nimble Storage) and really nice white stallions (Sumo Logic, Trifacta and Snowflake Computing). Given the wide range of companies we’ve worked with—and their equally wide range of success/failure—we’re… Read More



Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO, Dies Unexpectedly

May 02, 10:52PM

dave goldberg Silicon Valley and the wider world of technology are mourning the very sudden death of Dave Goldberg, a long time entrepreneur and investor, CEO of SurveyMonkey, husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, father and friend to many. The news was made public earlier today in a Facebook post from his brother Robert. “It’s with incredible shock and sadness that I’m letting our… Read More



Welcome To The Disrupt NY Hackathon

May 02, 9:54PM

Hackathon NY 2015 01 Let the coding begin! Over a 1,000 hackers have filed into The Manhattan Center and is diligently banging out code and tearing apart APIs. Over the next 24 hours these teams will work furiously, powered by Red Bull and Nerf Gun tomfoolery, to create a stunning application or hardware project. Starting tomorrow at 11:30, these teams will present on the massive Disrupt stage. The presentations… Read More



The Big Reverse Of The Web

May 02, 8:00PM

uturn Here is one idea that arrived before its time: the push-based web, where information comes to us, versus the search-dominant web we’re most familiar with. Those who are looking at the push web in the context of a new mobile and connected device-centric world might be having a real 90s flashback (remember PointCast?), except this time the push web could take off and transform the economy… Read More



Gillmor Gang: Watch Not Watch

May 02, 5:59PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 1, 2015. @Scobleizer gets his Watch, @borthwick on TwitterGate, and why negative filtering is the New Deal. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Kristie Wells, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Gillmor. @stevegillmor, @scobleizer, @borthwick, @kteare Read More



Rise Of The Quants — Again

May 02, 1:15PM

equations I graduated from Stanford in the late 1980s with a dual degree in engineering and economics, and, like so many others of my day, I was drawn to Wall Street. Reaganomics was in full swing, Bloomberg terminals were still in their early days and popular culture was full of colorful characters like Gordon Gekko. Read More



Death To C

May 02, 1:00PM

death_to_smoochy Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It’s a classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its sequel, that bloated mess C++, which shares all the faults I’m about to describe.) It is blindingly, quicksilver fast, because it’s about as close to the bone of the machine as you can get. It is time-tested and ubiquitous. And it is… Read More



TC AppleCast 13: Life With Apple Watch

May 01, 10:53PM

TC-applecast16-9 On this week’s AppleCast, we get into the Apple Watch experience, since we’ve both now been actively using them for at least a few days. We expand on our thoughts regarding the device at length in our extensive review, but here on the podcast, we talk about very different aspects of the device, including how first-hand experience differed from what we thought we’d find… Read More



Protecting Users' Location Data From An Unconstitutional Search

May 01, 10:00PM

map points location Location data is highly sensitive. It contains information about where we live, our daily habits and our network of friends. We discover new places to go; avoid traffic on the way there; swipe to meet new friends once we’ve arrived; and even turn up the thermostat before we get home. When data knows this much about us it requires careful protection. Read More



CrunchWeek: Secret's Demise, Botched Earnings, And Microsoft Goes Viral

May 01, 8:53PM

crunchweek-4-3 Hello from New York, friends, where TechCrunch’s staff has taken up residence to put on a small confab that you might have heard of. This week, the lovely Anthony Ha, the brilliant Colleen Taylor and myself are on hand, and on foot, to dig our way through the week. This time around, Microsoft managed to go viral by promising to guess your age, Twitter and LinkedIn hit the skids after… Read More



The User's Guide To Disrupt NY 2015

May 01, 8:44PM

TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 - Day 1 The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Conference is almost upon us and we’ve partnered with some amazing companies to make your experience this year better than ever. Read More



IAC-Owned Ask.fm Acquires Recipe Network Foodily

May 01, 8:36PM

fruit vegetables heart IAC-owned social network Ask.fm has acquired the entire team behind recipe network Foodily, the companies are announcing today, which includes those focused on product, engineering and design. These nine team members will now be tasked with the continued development of Ask.fm’s Q&A platform, while the Foodily website and mobile app will be maintained by a separate division within IAC. Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.01.15

May 01, 8:07PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today – Friday, May 1, 2015. LIVE chat during LIVE recording session Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our sister show, G3, on Facebook Our sister show, G3’s archives on Ustream Read More



Hobnob Lets You Create Personalized Event Invites To Send By Text

May 01, 6:36PM

hobnob There are a number of services today that allow you to create and send digital invitations to birthdays, parties and other events, where the invites themselves are sent out via email, social networks, or even by postal mail if you choose. But a new application called Hobnob, launching now, is designed instead to support invite delivery entirely via SMS and MMS. This means recipients will… Read More



EyeWire Is Making Neuroscience Research Cool Again

May 01, 6:00PM

14792084041_e99fc6f67f_k Thanks to a little startup sprouting up from Boston, I was able to map out a small section of a neuron through EyeWire, a company that’s gamifying its neuroscience research in order to enlist the help of people from all over the world. To understand how the brain works, scientists need to figure out how electrical impulses travel through its vast network of 85 billion neurons,… Read More



Apple Confirms Tattoos Can Affect Apple Watch's Heart Rate Sensor Readings

May 01, 5:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-05-01 at 12.55.56 PM Apple has updated its Apple Watch support documentation, confirming that the device may have issues when worn by users who have wrist tattoos. The changes were added following a series of reports from new Apple Watch owners who found that their tattoos seemed to interfere with the smartwatch’s ability to track their pulse, or cause other problems. Apple now says that permanent and… Read More



Meet The Disrupt NY 2015 Speakers And Judges

May 01, 5:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-03-05 at 11.23.59 AM Disrupt NY is just a few days away, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak throughout the three-day-long conference. You can still buy general admission tickets for Disrupt NY here. You can find full details about the event here. These are the speakers we are proud to announce and when you can expect to see them take the… Read More



Deep-Learning, Image-Analysis Startup Descartes Labs Raises $3.3M After Spinning Out Of Los Alamos National Lab

May 01, 4:55PM

descartes_headshots_proofs-56 After being incubated in a government lab for seven years, Descartes Labs — a deep-learning image analysis startup — has raised $3.3 million of its own funding and spun off as a private company. Descartes Labs is focused on taking satellite imagery, turning it into something coherent and analyzing it for useful data. Descartes Labs formally spun out of Los Alamos National Labs… Read More



Acceleprise Accelerator Aims $3.5M Fund At Early Stage Enterprise Apps

May 01, 4:07PM

View of woman's legs pressing gas while shifting in a car. Acceleprise Ventures, a San Francisco-based incubator anchored by investor Sean Glass, announced a new $3.5 million fund with a pronounced enterprise app bent. It also announced 10 newly funded companies. The company works with 8-12 pre-seed B2B companies per round to help them grow from acquiring their first customers “to building scalable and repeatable processes that can fuel… Read More



Microsoft Acquires Surface 3 Pen Tech From N-trig

May 01, 3:57PM

Surface Pro 3 #05 Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of pen technology used in the Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3, from supplier and longtime partner N-trig. The Israeli company is a key patent-holder for digital stylus and writing recognition tech, as well as the supplier behind the pen input technologies used by both Microsoft and many of its OEM partners. So this brings in-house one of the technologies… Read More




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