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Hard-Core Career Advice For A 13-Year-Old

May 31, 11:00AM

teenjobladder I’m ashamed because I felt the need to brag to my 13-year-old. But she asked for it. My daughter Mollie had a homework assignment for her guidance class that had her ask me what I do for a living. This put me in a weird position. I do a lot of things. I didn’t know how to tell her. Read More



London Is Redefining Tech Startups Through Adventurous Capital

May 31, 6:00AM

london-rainmaker-loft London hit an important milestone this month, but you may have missed the news as it emerged with a characteristically British lack of fuss. For the first time, the city’s technology startups attracted in excess of half a billion dollars of VC funding in a single quarter – $646.98 million for the period January to March 2015. Read More



A Fundraising Template Every Entrepreneur Can Use

May 31, 2:00AM

funding Raising massive rounds these days is so commonplace that most of us tune out fundraising news altogether. The fundraising environment has changed so dramatically over the past four years, it’s almost incomprehensible to those of us who lived through it. Read More



The Obsession With Silicon Everywhere

May 31, 12:05AM

DSC01059 There are many commentators who argue that there is a bubble in Silicon Valley today. They may or may not be right, but there is certainly a bubble in places named after the preeminent global tech ecosystem. Silicon Border. Silicon Hills. Silicon Steppe. Silicon Prairie. Silicon Roundabout. Silicon Gulf. Silicon Avenue. Silicon Canal. Silicon Alley. Silicon Beach. Silicon Forest. Philadelphia… Read More



Push For Greater State Surveillance Powers Could Have Chilling Effect On U.K. Tech Sector

May 30, 10:00PM

Westminster The U.K. government is lining up a new piece of legislation to expand the state’s digital data capture powers. The incoming bill, the Investigatory Powers Bill, was announced in the Queen’s speech this week. It has not yet been published in draft form so specific details of what is being planned remains unclear, but in recent times the Conservative party has been banging the drum… Read More



Millennials Are Destroying Banks, And It's The Banks' Fault

May 30, 7:05PM

3537904106_b38647c9b0_o Millennials are rejecting home ownership across the land. Millennials aren’t buying crap anymore, destroying businesses that, well, sell crap. Millennials are changing the workplace to be, I kid you not, more friendly to “millennial values.” Millennials this, millennials that, and those are just some of the stories published this week on this critical, hot-button issue.… Read More



Berlin And Tel Aviv Should Work Better Together

May 30, 6:00PM

tel aviv skyline “Germany is the fourth-largest GDP in the world and only an hour timezone away from Israel, and yet most Israeli entrepreneurs strive to collaborate with San Francisco, with 10 hours difference, and 20 hours flight. This is silly,” Eden Shochat recently said to me during a coffee in Herzliya, the “Palo Alto of Israeli Silicon Valley.” Read More



YC Grad Yhat Scores $1.5M In Second Seed Round

May 30, 5:09PM

zeros and ones on a blue background. When Yhat, the company that has developed solutions to help organize data scientist teams, graduated from the Y Combinator, winter 2015 class, the founders had a goal to raise a million dollars to keep growing the company when they returned to New York. They may have aimed too low.  The team actually was able to raise $1.5 million in their oversubscribed round, thanks to the interest in… Read More



Gillmor Gang: Medium Fries

May 30, 4:59PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 29, 2015. Google I/O, cross-platform Web/App mashup, and more media meltdown. Situation Normal. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Kristie Wells, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Gillmor. @stevegillmor, @dbfarber, @scobleizer, @jtaschek, @kevinmarks / @tinagillmor Read More



A Look At The Future Of Shopping Inside A Startups Lab In This San Francisco Mall

May 30, 3:34PM

Silicon Valley is full of big, disruptive ideas. Now a certain mall in downtown San Francisco would like to capitalize on some of that innovative gold in the hopes that it will bring online shopping into the physical realm. So it built a tech space for startups. Bespoke is 35,000 square feet of co-working and event space with an open floor plan, comfy couches, startup offices, Rubik’s… Read More



The Founder And The Inferiority Complex

May 30, 3:00PM

inferiority I’m a serial entrepreneur with an inferiority complex. I was diagnosed by an overly-cheerful psychiatrist about a year ago as I was getting help for anxiety and depression, which were a result of this underlying disorder. This is how I’ve overcome it. Read More



Take A Walk With Us Through Google I/O 2015

May 30, 1:41PM

IMG_0483 What’s it like to be at Google I/O? Here’s a walking tour of this year’s show floor at Moscone West, from registration all the way up to the inner den of the press room. Read More



The War On Crypto Terror

May 30, 1:00PM

information-awareness Governments are scared of software. This month, the Commerce Department proposed to classify “intrusion software” as dual-use civilian/military technology; the UK announced a law which will require “Google, Facebook and other internet giants” to “give British spies access to encrypted conversations”; and the Justice Department claimed APIs should be… Read More



The Unbundling Of Finance

May 30, 12:00AM

financeopenmobile In a world where everything is being unbundled, allowing consumers to pick and choose from things like television shows and college courses, financial services are becoming a la carte as well. People, particularly millennials, are moving away from single monolithic banking institutions serving the majority of their financial needs to hand picking the specialized services that work for them. Read More



CrunchWeek: Path Found A Buyer, Google Overhauls Android, And What An Apple Car Might Look Like

May 29, 10:38PM

crunchweek-4-3 This has been quite the week in news. A bunch of tech companies got snatched up, including Path. The once Silicon Valley app darling just sold itself to some Korean company called Daum Kakao. Google IO kicked off with a bunch of reveals big and small. And rumor has it Apple is getting into the car business. Will we soon be driving giant iPhones? Find out all that and more with our host this… Read More



This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Google I/O

May 29, 10:17PM

gadgets150529 Google I/O blasted us in the face with news, mostly around the new and improved Android M. Greg was live at the Moscone Center in San Francisco the whole time and reported back to John and I (stuck in New York) as Matt continued the struggle with his microphone. Google Now on Tap, which reads the text on the screen and taps Google Now for relevant info, has Greg jazzed, as does… Read More



Should Your Uber Driver Know Exactly Where You Are? They Could Soon

May 29, 10:00PM

uber-location “Where are you? I’m outside. Do you see me? Where should I meet you?” These kinds of frustrating calls with your Uber driver could be a thing of the past. Today Uber updated its privacy policy, saying it will now ask to pull people’s exact location while the app is running in the foreground or background. Read More



Salesforce Acquires Smart Calendar Startup Tempo, App Will Shut Down On June 30

May 29, 9:10PM

tempo.ai My favorite calendar app, Tempo, just announced that it has been acquired by Salesforce.com. The company was incubated by SRI International, the birthplace of the voice-powered (and Apple-acquired) assistant Siri. When Tempo launched two years ago, founder and CEO Raj Singh pitched it as another type of assistant that automatically brings up relevant information for your meetings Read More



The Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison

May 29, 8:39PM

maxresdefault The alleged owner of the Silk Road, an online black market, has been sentenced to life in prison by Judge Katherine B. Forrest in a Federal District Court in Manhattan. He was found guilty on seven charges, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, narcotics conspiracy and money laundering. Read More



This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: A Conversation With Nathaniel Popper

May 29, 8:17PM

Screen Shot 2015-05-29 at 4.02.08 PM This week on TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast, our own John Biggs sat down with Nathaniel Popper, author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, a new book focused on the cryptocurrency. Read More




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