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Shift Messenger, Designed To Help Co-Workers Share Schedules, Raises $1.5M Series A
May 27, 1:27PM
Managing and trading shifts is one of the most onerous tasks faced by retail employees, especially since many don’t have set hours. Shift Messenger, a Y Combinator alum, launched earlier this year to give workers a communication tool specifically designed to help them manage their schedules. Now the startup has raised a $1.5 million series A round. Read MoreAirware Launches Commercial Drone Fund
May 27, 1:01PM
Airware makes a flexible drone operating system. But it needs to bundle up with industry-specific hardware and software makers to sell a whole commercial drone package to big construction, oil, and insurance companies. So today, Airware is announcing the Commercial Drone Fund, which will invest $250,000 to $1 million in dozens of early stage startups that are building out other components of… Read MoreMetal 3D Printing Startup MatterFab Raises $5.75 Million From GE Ventures
May 27, 1:00PM
MatterFab wants to change the way metal 3D printing is done, by making the process more scalable and affordable. It’s raised $5.75 million in funding to continue to refine its 3D printing technology and get its printers onto the production lines of industrial manufacturers. Read MoreYC-Backed Gradberry Unveils A Recruiting AI That Analyzes Engineering Candidates And Their Code
May 27, 1:00PM
How much of the hiring process can you automate? That’s a question that a couple of YC-backed companies are striving to answer in the technical recruiting space. Gradberry, a recruiting platform that counts 3,000 engineers as users, is launching TARA, an artificial intelligence engine that scans candidates’ code and shortlists worthy ones automatically. “The whole idea… Read More
U.K. Government Confirms Push For More Comms Data Capture Powers
May 27, 12:20PM
As expected, the newly elected U.K. Conservative government has confirmed its intention to push for broader powers to capture online communications, announcing a forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill in its legislative plan for the five-year Parliament, revealed today in the Queen’s speech. Read MoreWith $2.5M In Funding, Mapsense Launches Developer Tools For Analyzing And Visualizing Location Data
May 27, 11:30AM
A new company called Mapsense is trying to help developers make sense of location data they’re collecting with a set of tools they can use to overlay information gleaned from users on top of various different demographic maps available on its platform. Read MoreCampanda, The Booking Platform For RVs, Scores €5M Funding
May 27, 10:59AM
Berlin-based Campanda, which offers an online booking site for RVs (that’s motorhomes and trailers, to you and me) has raised €5 million in further funding. Read MoreLocation-Based Marketing Startup Ubimo Gets $7.5M To Create Ad Campaigns Using Real-Time Data
May 27, 8:54AM
Many brands now rely on location-based marketing, which sends consumers ads based on which stores or venues are nearby. Founded by former Googlers, Ubimo incorporates additional data points, including weather and local events, to make ads more relevant and result in higher conversion rates. Read MoreJobandtalent Gets $25M To Steer Its Linguistic Analysis Recruitment Platform Toward The U.S.
May 27, 8:24AM
Recruitment startup Jobandtalent, which uses linguistic analysis to alert candidates to jobs they might otherwise have missed, has topped up its Series A funding round with another $25 million — bringing the total to $39 million. Read MoreAs Agriculture Tech Heats Up, Farm Management Startup VitalFields Scores Further $1.2M Funding
May 27, 7:35AM
Perhaps spurred on by Monsanto’s acquisition of Climate Corporation in 2013, the agriculture tech (or agtech) space looks set to continue heating up, not leasts in the eyes of investors. Today, Estonia-based farm management startup VitalFields has raised an, albeit modest, Series A round of $1.2 million. Read MoreBusiness Currency Exchange Startup Kantox Raises $11M Series B
May 27, 7:00AM
Another London-headquartered fintech startup, albeit one with a development and marketing team in Spain, has raised more capital of its own. This time it’s the turn of Kantox. Read MoreDon't Hold Your Breath For The Apple Watch Snapchat App
May 27, 1:20AM
After answering questions about media, messaging and what he thought about diversity in tech at the Code conference in Southern California today (spoiler alert: he didn’t reveal much), Snapchat* CEO Evan Spiegel was asked whether, in all its efforts, Snapchat had plans for an upcoming Apple Watch app. He said no. “We ended up waiting to do Snapchat on the watch. Why would you look at… Read MoreSnapchat Considers Losing A Finger
May 27, 12:33AM
You might not have to hold your finger on the screen to view your snaps in the future, says CEO Evan Speigel. “It’s annoying to hold your finger there,” said Spiegel, talking about the difficulty of longer video content on Snapchat. Because there’s a screenshot API now, Spiegel says that their initial ‘hack’ of having a user hold a finger on the screen… Read MoreFacebook Tinkers With iPhone Design That Copies Path's Flyout Buttons
May 27, 12:22AM
Resistance is futile when it comes to Facebook. If your feature benefits the social network’s 1.44 billion users, it doesn’t care if you built it for a smaller audience first. Whether it’s Twitter’s Follow button and verified profiles, or Snapchat’s disappearing photos you can draw on, Facebook will quickly try to assimilate the competition. Read MoreVox Media Acquires Re/code
May 26, 11:37PM
Digital media conglomerate Vox Media has acquired Re/code, the technology industry news publication led by renowned tech journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. The news was first reported today by the New York Times. Financial details of the size of the deal, which was reportedly all-stock, have not been disclosed. Re/code launched in January 2014 by Swisher and Mossberg and a number… Read MoreThe TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Coming To Austin And Seattle In June
May 26, 10:01PM
TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle on June 23 and June 25 respectively, and we’re stoked to see what some of our favorite cities have to show us. We’ll be holding the world famous TechCrunch Pitch-Off, where about ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product live on stage. Alongside the input of the audience, local VCs and TechCrunch editors will hold… Read MoreThe Bank Of Facebook
May 26, 10:00PM
Technology is changing one of the most fundamental mediums that touch every person on the planet: money. Bitcoin’s rise showed us how much demand there is for a globally accepted digital currency. However, all the things holding bitcoin back — merchant acceptance, instant transactions (bitcoin takes about an hour), and security — are actively being created by the… Read MoreTC Cribs: Lumosity's Brilliant SOMA Office
May 26, 8:33PM
Today’s episode of Cribs takes us to the San Francisco headquarters of Lumosity, the company that makes online games aimed at keeping your brain alert and healthy. Lumosity’s games are rooted in academia, through neuroscience and biology research, and that influence is also reflected in the design of its office: Lumosity HQ feels like a mix between a state of the art science lab,… Read MoreWorkday Falls 5% Despite Beating Market Expectations In Its FQ1
May 26, 8:23PM
Following the bell, Workday reported the results of the first quarter of its fiscal 2016. The company lost $0.02 per share during the period, using adjusted metrics, on revenue of $251.0 million. Investors had expected the company to lose an adjusted $0.08 per share on revenue of $245.0 million. In its sequentially preceding quarter, Workday had top line of $226.3 million. The company, up… Read MoreOculus Acquires Surreal Vision To Bring The Real World To VR
May 26, 7:57PM
Oculus VR announced the acquisition of Surreal Vision today, bringing the company’s expertise on recreating real-time 3D representations of the outside world into virtualized environments. This means making things like virtual telepresence possible, letting you “be there” without actually being there. Based on info shared by Surreal Vision regarding the acquisition, it… 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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