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Watch Oculus VR's Special Rift Event Live Here At 10 AM PT
Jun 11, 2:02PM
Oculus is hosting a special, pre-E3 press event today in San Francisco, and the festivities kick off at 10 AM PT. The stream above will provide live video from the show starting at that time, so you can follow along with all the announcements. This is probably going to be the day Oculus takes a lot of the remaining mystery out of its much-anticipated consumer launch, which is happening early… Read MoreStartups Are Hard In 100 Different Ways
Jun 11, 2:00PM
The most important part of your startup is your brain. If your brain is not okay, then you are not okay and your startup will also not be okay. As a founder, your brain’s most common state will be stressed out. Anxiety, worry, and sleeplessness are expected. This is because you are trying to do something big with limited resources and time. Read MoreProduct Hunt Levels Up With A Gaming Category
Jun 11, 2:00PM
Product Hunt, the platform for upvoting the top tech products, is making its first expansion outside of tech into gaming and has pulled in game publication Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick to head up the new category. The Product Hunt Games section will look similar to the main list of the top tech products of the day on Product Hunt, but filled with new gaming products… Read MoreFormer Ad Exec David Jones Launches $350 Million "Brandtech" Group
Jun 11, 1:17PM
Former advertising executive and mad men wunderkind, David Jones, is launching a new $350 million investment and development firm focused on “brand tech”. After all, since software is eating the world, it was only a matter of time before advertising (perhaps the world’s second oldest profession?) started eating software. Read MoreDetour, Andrew Mason's Audio Tour App, Goes Global And Expands To 6 More Cities
Jun 11, 1:06PM
As the summer travel season goes into full swing, a travel app that hopes to give you a new way of experiencing physical spaces is growing. Detour — an immersive city guide app constructed around GPS-triggered audio and smart, witty narratives — is expanding beyond its existing footprint of San Francisco and Austin to cover New York and five international cities: Barcelona,… Read MoreAmazon Ebook Contracts Face EU Antitrust Probe
Jun 11, 11:35AM
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Amazon’s ebook distribution practices. The commerce giant is currently the largest distributor of ebooks in Europe. Initially, the EC’s investigation will focus on the largest markets for ebooks in the European Economic Area, namely ebooks in English and German. Read MoreMenlo Ventures Brings On Matt Murphy
Jun 11, 11:30AM
Matt Murphy, who left his role as a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers earlier this year, is joining Menlo Ventures as a managing director. Murphy will be focusing on enterprise infrastructure and mobile first apps that apply to either consumer or the enterprise. In terms of the “mobile first apps” part, he pointed to applications like Slack and DocuSign as… Read MorePersonali, A Service That Works To Optimize Discounts Online, Raises $12M
Jun 11, 11:30AM
Personali, an online service that retailers can use to adjust prices and discounts in real time, said it has raised $12 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Retailers can integrate Personali code into their online commerce presence. When a customer visits a page, the retailer will check with the rules that Personali has created for a specific product, which is based on things… Read More
Former Kleiner Kid Matt Murphy Heads To Menlo Ventures
Jun 11, 11:30AM
Matt Murphy, formerly of Kleiner Perkins, is joining Menlo Ventures. The latter firm is currently investing a new $400 million fund. Murphy led Kleiner’s investment into Aerohive Networks, which is currently public, and has been involved with Egnyte, a firm that is looking to go public next year. Kleiner has become best known recently for gender bias suit filed by former denizen… Read MoreReddit Bans Five Harassing Subreddits, Its Trolls Respond Exactly As You'd Expect
Jun 11, 9:33AM
Reddit, the hugely popular online community know as the ‘front page of the internet’, has dropped the hammer on five groups on its site judged to be in violation of its policy against harassing users. Read MoreGoogle's New Sidewalk Labs Project Will Use Tech To Improve Life In Urban Areas
Jun 11, 7:31AM
Google is best known for internet search and services but the company also runs a host of other projects that use technology to solve other kinds of problems. The latest of these — known as ‘moon shots’ — is Sidewalk Labs, a company that is dedicated to improving life in cities and urban areas. Read MoreMessaging App Firm Line Launches Paid-For Music Streaming Service In Japan
Jun 11, 5:14AM
Messaging app Line began testing music streaming when it launched a $2 per month service in Thailand in May, and today it has introduced a larger service in its native Japan. Read MoreBreathalyzers, Selfies And Body Sweat? A Wallet Password Replacement Showdown
Jun 11, 1:00AM
If you hate typing long passwords into super small screens, I have good news: smart people are trying to fix the problem. Yes, the whole rigmarole of creating a word that has at least one capital letter, one number and one special character could soon be history. For the mobile payment industry, this is exciting news because people won’t use mobile wallets if they have to enter a… Read MoreIn The Information Debate, Openness and Privacy Are The Same Thing
Jun 10, 11:37PM
Rather than positioning privacy and openness as opposing forces, the fact is they’re different sides of the same coin – and equally important. This might seem simple, but it might also be the key to moving things forward around this crucial debate. Read MoreHere's How Apple Designs Experiences For Devices That Don't Exist Yet
Jun 10, 10:42PM
Apple famously keeps info about upcoming products locked down on a need-to-know basis, but that doesn’t mean it waits until hardware is fully-formed before creating software for it. Nor does it create either hardware or software in a vacuum, building one independent of the other. So how does it go about coming up with and prototyping product ideas with limited info or access to… Read MoreTickets Are Available For The 10th Annual Summer Party At August Capital
Jun 10, 10:00PM
TechCrunch’s annual summer soirée is coming. It’s hard to believe we are 10 years old, but we celebrated that this weekend, and now we want to take the party down south for our annual get together with our friends at August Capital. They will host TechCrunch and hundreds of local investors, founders and developers at its sunny (and hot) deck on Sand Hill Road. Read MoreHomeKit In iOS 9 Supports Custom Triggers, Apple Watch Without iPhone And More
Jun 10, 9:12PM
Apple’s HomeKit is getting some great new abilities in iOS 9, including new features developers can use to improve their connected home apps, and things that make using HomeKit easier and more feature-rich for everyday users. One of the more impressive new features is the implementation of custom triggers; in iOS 8, Apple let developers use time-based triggers, and geo-fences, so that… Read MoreA Periodic Table Of Wearable Technology
Jun 10, 9:00PM
There is a surprisingly rich ecosystem of devices, a plethora of uses, and importantly, a wealth (both in quantity and value) of markets that are investigating the value of wearables in the enterprise. To capture the different hardware types, uses, and common capabilities we’ve seen applied to wearables, our Periodic Table of Wearable Technology groups together the major elements of… Read MoreBox Spikes 9% On Strong FQ1 Revenue Growth, Improving Margins
Jun 10, 8:14PM
Today following the bell, Box reported its fiscal first-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $65.6 million and adjusted earnings per share of negative $0.28. The street had expected Box to lose an adjusted $0.31 per share on revenue of $63.7 million. The company had forecasted between $63 million and $64 million in revenue. The company’s shares, up sharply in regular… Read More21 Photos From TechCrunch's 10th Birthday
Jun 10, 8:11PM
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