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Bubble 2.0?

May 17, 1:00AM

bubbles Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen weighed in on the prospects of an equity bubble at a meeting with International Monetary Fund Director Christine Ladarde earlier this month. The danger warnings beat to the drums of Mark Cuban’s worse than 2000 prediction because the tech sector was singled out as the asset class with overinflated valuation. Read More



Bridging The Gap Through Quality STEM Initiatives

May 16, 9:00PM

too many students, especially those from underserved backgrounds, don’t have access to technology at home. And few schools, even ones in affluent communities, teach kids the skills they’ll need to get jobs in the technology sector. Fewer than 5 percent of all U.S. high schools, for example, offer AP computer science classes. Read More



Workflow Hints At The Future Of The Watch As A Computing Platform

May 16, 8:21PM

Workflow Apple Watch app Workflow, an app originally built to let you automate frequent tasks on your iPhone or iPad, is one of the few apps available on the Apple Watch that seems like it’s only a few iterations from the form it will have when the Watch is an established platform. Read More



Gillmor Gang: Newspaper Taxis

May 16, 5:28PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 15, 2015. I read the news today, oh boy… on Facebook. And if you believe that, I’ve got an AOL to sell you. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Kristie Wells, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Gillmor. @stevegillmor, @scobleizer, @jtaschek, @kteare… Read More



A Mission Of Excellence

May 16, 5:09PM

8659810975_25333ba9df_o Changing the world. You do it every time you walk on a sidewalk kicking dirt (entropy!) and every time you join a startup in San Francisco. Many of the Valley’s top companies have had such broad cri de coeurs. Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Facebook’s is to “make the world more… Read More



A Shared Future, A Global Economy Of Haves And Servants

May 16, 4:00PM

sharing Many highflying companies are pushing logistics, services, and payment options to our new “sharing economy.” We see these firms and sectors as largely driven by macroeconomic trends. The American middle class is in steep decline. This has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Read More



Why I'm Still Wearing My Apple Watch

May 16, 3:05PM

apple-watch-weather-tight As TechCrunch’s resident watch nerd, I have been asked many times if I’m swapping my Omegas and Seikos and JLCs for the Apple Watch. And I have. I honestly have. I’ve worn the Apple Watch every day since I got it and I don’t know when I’m going to strap on a mechanical next. It’s the saddest thing in the world for me to say but, after years of calling each… Read More



Tencent Leads $750K Investment In Wound-Care Startup, Tissue Analytics

May 16, 3:00PM

Tissue Analytics Another investment for Chinese Internet giant Tencent: it’s led a $750,000 seed funding round in Baltimore-based Tissue Analytics, alongside existing investor DreamIt Health — the Philadelphia-based accelerator program for medtech startups which Tissue Analytics went through last July. Read More



Infosys CEO On Mission To Transform His Company Into Design Thinkers

May 16, 1:05PM

Team working on hackathon project. What he means by that is thinking beyond the boundaries of the defined process to look for something new — to think more like a startup. Sikka says his first nine months have been amazing, but very different from his experience working at SAP for 11 years. The company handles many different tasks, and one thing that bothered him was that people only seemed to work to the specifications… Read More



After Revolution 2.0

May 16, 1:00PM

tahrir-wire Remember 2011? The Arab Spring, a.k.a. “Revolution 2.0″? Four governments were overthrown, and the stage was set for further social-media-fuelled protests: Brazil. Ukraine. Turkey. It seems awfully apparent, now, that Facebook and Twitter can serve as a potent catalyst of eruptions of revolutionary fervor– –and equally apparent that that isn’t nearly enough to… Read More



Using Technology To Humanize Finance

May 16, 10:00AM

humanlending “Banking is necessary – banks are not.” Bill Gates said this in 1994. It was a bold statement to make at the time, and one that some have associated with the start of a transformation in financial technology. Now, two decades later, we are seeing this revolution unfold before our eyes. Catalyzed in large part by the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, a new financial order… Read More



Why Every Enterprise Startup Needs A New York City Presence

May 16, 2:00AM

newyorknotte4 I recently wrote about The State of Enterprise Tech in NYC in order to showcase New York’s growing enterprise startup ecosystem. In highlighting the 70+ enterprise startups headquartered in the city, however, I left out the important and growing constituency of companies opening satellite offices inNew York with headquarters elsewhere. This faction of startups is reacting to the… Read More



Clinkle Implodes As Employees Quit In Protest Of CEO

May 16, 12:21AM

Clinkle Employees Quit Seven employees quit the frequently mocked payment rewards startup Clinkle simultaneously today due to frustration with its 24-year-old CEO Lucas Duplan, according to multiple sources close to the company. Duplan, pictured above, is said to have withheld information from employees about acquisition talks with Apple that the team hoped would result in a sale. He’s believed to have… Read More



CrunchWeek: Reddit Goes Nice, Facebook's Publishing Push, And Have You Heard Of Verizon?

May 15, 10:49PM

crunchweek-4-3 Happy Friday friends, and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. This week, camped out on the fourth floor of our office with the CrunchBase crew, Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr, and your humble supplicant found some red chairs, mics, and shot a show. On the docket: Reddit’s new anti-harassment policies, Facebook’s publishing efforts and, of course, Verizon buying… Read More



TC AppleCast 15: Stealing Time And WWDC Predictions

May 15, 8:47PM

TC-applecast16-9 On this week’s AppleCast, we discuss the overblown reaction to the news (gasp!) that people might steal your Apple Watch. There’s also more news coming in about potential Apple TV features, and the rumor mill in general is heating up ahead of WWDC, so we make some predictions about what we’ll see there, in terms of Apple TV, WatchKit and other potential developments.… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.15.15

May 15, 8:00PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT/4pmET. LIVE CHAT during the live broadcast Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our sister show – G3 – on Facebook (check it out!) G3’s archives on Ustream Read More



YC-Backed New Story Crowdfunds Houses For Homeless Families

May 15, 7:59PM

IMG_2928 New Story is a startup in Y Combinator’s current batch that raises funds to build homes for those who lost theirs due to a natural disaster, starting with Haiti. Co-founder Brett Hagler got the idea during a volunteer trip to help those hit by the 2010 earthquake that left thousands of Haitians without homes. Read More



HelloFresh Is Delivering 4 Million Meals Per Month

May 15, 7:11PM

hellofresh HelloFresh has just shared that it is now selling 4 million meals per month. The company says that this is more than the company sold in the entire first half of 2014 combined. HelloFresh is a food delivery service that competes directly with Blue Apron and Plated, delivering pre-portioned and planned meals at your door each week for you to cook. The space is so hot right now, with Blue… Read More



This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Verizon On The Horizon

May 15, 7:00PM

gadgets150515 Can you hear me now? Hopefully you can after a month of silence out of the TC Gadgets Podcast team. But freshly acquired by Verizon, we’re back and ready to chat. The deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, is valued at $4.4 billion. I don’t want to ruin the surprise of the podcast, so I’ll just ask you to direct your attention to the player below. Check out… Read More



Aliada, A Housekeeping Service With A Social Justice Slant, Raises $800,000

May 15, 6:44PM

Screen Shot 2015-05-15 at 2.05.11 PM Aliada, a housekeeping booking service based in Mexico City, is offering a new, socially responsible model for one of the most maligned segments of the on-demand economy. Read More




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