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What Is 21.co Really Building? An Excerpt From Digital Gold
May 18, 1:00PM
Today we’re thrilled to offer an exclusive excerpt from Nathaniel Popper’s Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, the definitive book about bitcoin. In this chapter we learn, in detail, the secrets behind the mysterious 21.co. Originally called 21e6, the company grew out of a Stanford dorm room to become one of the… Read MoreThe Shortlist Is Out — Vote Now In The Europas Awards For European Tech Startups
May 18, 11:09AM
Voting in The Europas, the European Tech Startups Awards, has gone live. This is the final shortlist from which the winners will be chosen by a combination of industry votes and judges. You can vote here. The awards are supported by TechCrunch, the official media partner. Held annually, The Europas are the main European Awards for technology startups. The whole thing comes together on a… Read MoreElectroloom Is A 3D Fabric Printer In The Making
May 18, 10:56AM
Electroloom is a prototype 3D printer that uses an electrospinning technique to turn a liquid (currently a custom polyster/cotton blend) into a seamless fabric — spraying the solution onto a shaped mold to create a garment without the need for assembling via stitching. Read MoreZeek Lets You Buy And Sell Unwanted Gift Vouchers
May 18, 10:43AM
If you’ve ever received a gift voucher for a store you rarely or never shop in, then Zeek could prove useful. The marketplace and mobile app lets you buy and sell unwanted store credit, including gift vouchers, credit notes, gift cards and e-vouchers. Read MoreChinese Taxi App Yidao Yongche Hints At Deal With Uber
May 18, 10:20AM
Uber appears to be on the cusp of a deal with a rival ride-sharing app in China that could boost its presence in the country. Read MoreAlibaba's Taiwan Operations Face Another Regulatory Headache
May 18, 9:33AM
Alibaba is once again facing legal issues in Taiwan. The company has been ordered to shut down the local branch of Taobao, its business-to-consumer marketplace, within six months and pay a fine of NTD$240,000 (about US$7,888). Read MoreThe Humble QR Code Is Being Disrupted… And Going Dotless
May 18, 9:31AM
Many in the West are still dumbfounded that QR codes are a thing. Well, heads-up, the humble QR code as you know it is being disrupted. At least that’s according to Visualead, an Israel-based startup backed by Alibaba that announced a new ‘dotless’ format today. Read MoreBaidu, China's Leading Search Engine, Makes Strategic Investment In Content Recommendation Platform Taboola
May 18, 9:00AM
The companies declined to name the exact amount of the deal, but said that it is in the “multi-millions.” Taboola serves up the links in the “Around The Web” and “Recommended For You” sections you see at the bottom of articles on sites such as The Atlantic, Business Insider, and Mail Online. Baidu’s stake is a follow-on to the $117 million Series E… Read MoreGoogle Introduces Two New Sub-$250 Chromebooks In India
May 18, 7:58AM
Mobile is the big tech focus for India — with initiatives like Facebook’s Internet.org and Google’s Android One, to name but two — but that isn’t stopping Google from introducing new budget Chromebook laptops in the South Asian country. Read MoreLG's G4 Flagship Smartphone Begins To Go On Sale Worldwide
May 18, 2:53AM
LG revealed the G4, its newest flagship device, in April, and now the 5.5-inch screen device is rolling out for sale across the world. Read MoreWhy Today's Automobile Industry Looks A Lot Like IBM in 1985
May 18, 1:00AM
With the number of mobile phone subscriptions shortly expected to exceed the total global population, what is the next great connected device going to look like? Hint: It’ll have four wheels. Gartner predicts that there will be 250 million connected cars on the road by 2020. That means one in every three cars on the road will be connected. Read MoreThe First Trailer For Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Movie Feels Pretty Social Network-y
May 17, 11:17PM
Aaron Sorkin has been talking about his screenplay about Steve Jobs’ life for several years now, and it’s had a bumpy path to production — but now we’ve finally got some official footage, with Universal Studios has releasing the first trailer. Read MoreApple Is Mapping Out Better Navigation With The Acquisition of GPS Firm Coherent Navigation
May 17, 9:54PM
Apple’s Maps navigation technology still lags behind Google Maps. Nearly twice as many iPhone owners prefer to get directions and look up addresses on the Google version, compared to Apple’s native Maps app, according to recent ComScore numbers. But it seems Apple is making moves to improve those usage numbers. The global tech giant confirmed earlier today that it bought the… Read MoreThree Things To Consider Before Investing In Ad Tech
May 17, 9:00PM
Amid a talent and investor drought and growing challenges with fraud and ad-blockers, ad tech is in an unusual place. People aren’t putting money in ad tech, and the players are playing a bloody game. Yet ad tech revenue is projected to reach $100 billion in five years. Read MoreGiant Robots, A Motorized Rhinoceros And A Banana Piano – What We Loved At Maker Faire
May 17, 8:32PM
The tenth annual Maker Faire is in full swing this weekend in San Mateo, California, bringing out steampunks, robot enthusiasts, and little engineers in training from all over Silicon Valley. Here we present to you some of the inventions, in no particular order, that piqued our interest this year. Read MoreWhy Is The University Still Here?
May 17, 5:12PM
Universities are supposed to be dead. These bastions of higher learning have been on Silicon Valley’s hit list for much of the past decade, and disruption phasers targeting the industry have certainly been set to kill in the years since the global financial crisis. And yet after years of efforts, we have arrived in 2015 and almost nothing seems to have changed about the way we get our… Read MoreMobile First, But What's Next?
May 17, 2:00PM
The ascendance of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data is having a profound impact on the lives of workers. Yet many of the business applications that run on their smartphones and tablets still fail miserably to take full advantage of this revolutionary shift. Even services that tout themselves as “mobile first” often fall short of delivering novel functionality that… Read MoreBubble 2.0?
May 17, 1:00AM
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 MoreBridging 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 MoreWorkflow Hints At The Future Of The Watch As A Computing Platform
May 16, 8:21PM
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 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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