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Uber Drivers Deemed Employees By California Labor Commission

Jun 17, 2:30PM

uber-like black car It would appear that the California Labor Commission has ruled that Uber drivers are employees. As it stands now, Uber employs its drivers as third-party contractors, operating as a logistics company that provides access to customer demand and directions, transactions, etc. for the drivers. This ruling changes all that, turning Uber into a transportation startup instead of a logistics… Read More



Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership And Internal Structure As Its Fiscal Year Comes To A Close

Jun 17, 2:20PM

Satya Nadella This morning Microsoft announced changes to its organizational structure and leadership team. Some of its most senior executives are departing, and the company is shifting internal teams in what the company described as a change to better match its personnel to its strategy, according to a memo published both internally and externally by its CEO, Satya Nadella. It’s worth noting that… Read More



No, It's Samsung, Not Swiftkey, That Is To Blame For This Keyboard Security Scare

Jun 17, 2:16PM

Samsung store Shutterstock The media is blowing up right now at a startup called Swiftkey which was named in an announcement at a Black Hat conference about a bug in most Samsung smartphones that could allow hackers to attack the phone and spy on users. Researchers at cybersecurity firm NowSecure found the a bug in many Samsung smartphones last Fall. Although Samsung told NowSecure in March that it had sent wireless… Read More



BitTorrent Shoot Lets You Privately Share Photos And Videos With Friends

Jun 17, 1:59PM

Shoot-image A new mobile application from BitTorrent called Shoot wants to make it easier to move batches of photos or big video files between mobile devices – even when you’re sharing between iOS, Android and Windows Phone smartphones. The app’s biggest advantage, beyond its cross-platform support of course, is that it leverages BitTorrent’s Sync technology to move the files.… Read More



Ubo, A Parking Valet App For Beijing's Harried Drivers, Raises $900,000

Jun 17, 1:56PM

Beijing Commuting in Beijing is an endurance test, but a startup called Ubo wants to make life a little easier for drivers. The app connects users with valets at service stations in the city, who then drop off the car at a parking spot. Ubo has just raised $900,000 in funding from HGDS Capital, bringing its total funding so far to $1.42 million. Read More



Join Us June 23 For The First Summer TC Pitch Off In Warsaw

Jun 17, 1:53PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-17 at 9.52.40 AM Come one, come all to the first summer TC Pitch Off in Warsaw on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 8:30 PM to Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 2:00 AM (CEST). We’ll be taking over the Champions Sports Bar in the Marriott in downtown Warsaw and we’ll have a full pitch-off at the event and throw back some brews. The kind folks at Bitspiration have organized some subsidized beers for us although… Read More



Sean Parker's Brigade App Enters Private Beta As A Dead-Simple Way Of Taking Political Positions

Jun 17, 1:30PM

brigade-screenshot Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he’s wanted to change: American democracy. Now he, Matt Mahan, and a team of engineers and product talent who have long worked at the intersection of technology and policy, are unveiling Brigade for the first time. It’s an app… Read More



Kindle Announces New $119 Paperwhite E-Reader With A Font That's Easy On The Eyes

Jun 17, 1:28PM

717FQzJaLpL._SL1000_ Amazon has just announced the availability of a new $119 Paperwhite e-reader with a 6-inch 300ppi display and a new font and book layout system that will make it easier to dig into The Martian during summer vacation. The reader will ship on June 30 and is available for pre-order now. It also includes a backlight and is available with or without cellular data and Amazon’s advertisement… Read More



News Reader Pulse Updates Apps, Now Serves You Stories Based On Your LinkedIn Life

Jun 17, 1:24PM

linkedin pulse new The arrival of Apple’s News app, question marks over the future of Flipboard, and Facebook’s news publishing moves are putting a renewed focus on how we as consumers read news online and how that will be developing in the future. Now one of the earlier movers in the world of news aggregation is making its own updates to try to answer that question. Pulse, the news reading… Read More



Doctor On Demand Pulls In $50 Million To Continue Expansion Of Its Virtual Doctor Visit Platform

Jun 17, 1:00PM

the-doctors-sample-visit Telemedicine startup Doctor on Demand announced that it has raised $50 million in Series B funding and signed up it’s 200th customer today. The funding will be used to continue to grow the service as well as sign up new partnerships. Doctor on Demand provides customers one-on-one sessions with physicians either through and individual account or through employer partnerships such as… Read More



Brightwheel Brings Preschool Into The 21st Century With $2.2M In Seed Funding

Jun 17, 1:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-17 at 12.10.17 AM Brightwheel, a mobile platform for early education, is launching today with $2.2 million in seed funding to provide both teachers and parents of young children with peace of mind. Read More



Salesforce Revamps Its Marketing Cloud With New Connections To Sales, Service And Display Ads

Jun 17, 12:12PM

salesforce.com_topic - NOT FOR FEATURED IMAGE Salesforce.com is announcing a new version of its Marketing Cloud. The company is unveiling the new features today in New York City at its Connections event for digital marketers. It’s adding new features to its Journey Builder, a drag-and-drop tool for managing customer interactions, and to Active Audiences, which connects customer data to online ad campaigns. Read More



You Can Now Reserve An Apple Watch To Buy In-Store

Jun 17, 12:11PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-17 at 8.02.38 AM Apple Watch has been severely supply constrained since launch, but you can now finally get one in a physical Apple retail store. The Apple Store website now supports online reservations of the Watch, letting you see if models are available in any stores near you and ensuring that if the model you’re after is there, staff will set it aside and have one waiting for you when you can come in.… Read More



Planted Launches iOS App To Help Non-Technical Millennials Find Startup Jobs

Jun 17, 12:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-17 at 1.13.02 AM For those who just graduated college with a computer science degree, landing a job at a startup shouldn’t be too difficult. For non-technical graduates, however, it’s not so simple — nearly half of all recent college grads are underemployed. Planted, formerly known as Lynxsy, is launching its iOS app today to help non-technical Millennials find jobs with startups. It pairs… Read More



Rejecting M&A, FreedomPop Raises Another $30M For Its Free Mobile Service

Jun 17, 11:59AM

freedompop FreedomPop is taking another step ahead today in its bid to build out a global mobile business based on free voice, text and data bundles and upselling additional services. Amid months of M&A rumors, the startup has raised another $30 million in funding — money that CEO and co-founder Stephen Stokols says will help FreedomPop grow its businesses independently. “We had a lot… Read More



Minio Lands $3.3M Seed Round To Build Out Open Source Storage Project

Jun 17, 11:40AM

Servers reaching to cloud. When venture capitalists open their wallets and hand out $3.3 million for a seed round, you have to the figure the new company has some industry veterans with startup experience, and such is the case with Minio, an open source cloud storage product being built by veterans from Gluster. Gluster was purchased by Red Hat in 2011 for $136 million. The round is being led by Nexus Venture… Read More



Gogoro Reveals Its Upcoming Electric Smartscooters Will Cost From $4,100

Jun 17, 8:47AM

Gogoro Gogoro, the Taiwan-based startup that raised $150 million in stealth mode before unveiling its flagship electric scooter, has finally revealed how much the vehicles will cost. Read More



Nowy Friends Is A P2P Social Radar App That Does Not Log Your Location

Jun 17, 8:08AM

Nowy Friends This Swiss startup has built a social radar app with a pro-privacy twist: instead of tracking users via GPS, or other location triangulating technologies, it’s opted to use peer-to-peer proximity to power nearby notifications for smartphone users without storing their location data on its servers. Read More



Alibaba's Logistics Arm Launches Distribution Centers For Fresh Groceries In Three Major Chinese Cities

Jun 17, 7:09AM

fridge groceries Alibaba’s logistics arm is opening refrigerated distribution centers for fresh groceries in three major Chinese cities. Located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the warehouses will not only allow Alibaba to meet growing demand for grocery deliveries, but also help it better compete against rivals like JD.com, which has invested heavily in its own logistics system. Read More



Sharp's New Screen Tech Promises To Make Smartphones Even Thinner And Lighter

Jun 17, 6:26AM

iPhone 6 03 Think smartphones are thin enough already? Well, they might be about to get thinner still, if Sharp has its way with a new type of screen that it has begun manufacturing. Read More




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