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Replicated Emerges With $1.5M Seed Round And Beta Customers
Jun 23, 2:51PM
Replicated, a company that wants to help SaaS vendors ship an on-premises version of their applications more easily, made a series of announcements today including a $1.5M seed round and several Beta customers. The company is taking advantage of Docker containerization technology to build a solution that enables developers to code once and ship two identical versions of the product —… Read MoreHow Clifford Stoll Sells Klein Bottles From Under His House
Jun 23, 2:46PM
Clifford Stoll wrote one of my favorite books, The Cuckoo’s Egg, and then went a little goofy about the future of the Internet. But that’s OK because Cliff now sells Klein Bottles, “a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down,” from his home. The most interesting thing, however, is… Read MorePlacemeter Uses Computer Vision To Help Businesses And Cities Measure Vehicle And Pedestrian Traffic
Jun 23, 2:00PM
If you own a business, you probably want to know how many people walk into your stores. If you’re a city, you may want to know how many people use a given sidewalk or drive down a certain street. You could measure all of this with some basic sensors or WiFi pinging, but that’s either not very accurate or difficult to install. New York-based Placemeter, which is coming out of… Read MoreShuddle's New Ridesharing App Lets Teens And Tweens Book Their Own Rides With Parents' Permission
Jun 23, 1:54PM
Shuddle, a car service founded one of the co-founders of Sidecar which focuses on providing rides to busy families – including kids and seniors – is today launching a new mobile application called ShuddleMe which allows teens and tweens to schedule rides for themselves. Because of the ages of the clientele, these rides are only booked after a parent or caregiver provides… Read MoreAmazon Echo Connected Speaker Goes Up For U.S.-Wide Pre-Order, For $180
Jun 23, 1:39PM
Amazon has opened up U.S. availability of its connected speaker-cum-virtual-assistant, the Echo. Previously it was limiting who could buy it to invite-only. It’s now put the speaker on general pre-order release, for $180, with a shipping date of July 14. The Echo is still only available in the U.S. Read MoreSense360 Launches Out Of Stealth To Make Your Apps Smarter
Jun 23, 1:30PM
Sense360, the company that received $2.75 million in seed without ever telling us publicly what it is that they do, has just come out of stealth with the launch of their SDK. The idea behind Sense360 is actually quite simple, though execution of that plan is anything but. Essentially, Sense360 has found a way to combine all kinds of data from the sensors in a smartphone, paired with location,… Read MoreCracking The Code Of Consumer Electronics Repair, iCracked Looks To Expand
Jun 23, 1:16PM
Known for its on-demand phone repair services, startup iCracked has even bigger ambitions. The company is on its way to being a full-service consumer electronics sales service, and it’s starting by automating the entire smartphone trade-in process, from contract renewal to data transfer. Read MoreIly Is A Modern Family Phone To Stay Connected With Your Family
Jun 23, 1:01PM
Meet Ily, a brand new take on personal communication between family members. Ily is a new connected device for your home as well as a smartphone app. Developed by New York-based startup Insensi, Ily doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. This all-in-one communication box does a few things really well, and makes sense for all family members, from kids to grandparents. “When I was working… Read MoreTask Manager Todoist Releases Completely Revamped Android App
Jun 23, 1:01PM
Popular task manager Todoist just received a major Android update with a completely overhauled user interface and very efficient new features. First, the company switched to Material design in order to make a more polished app that fits in better in Google’s operating system. Second, the company added natural language processing as well as intruitive gestures in order to manage your… Read MoreVerizon Completes Its Acquisition of AOL For $4.4B
Jun 23, 12:51PM
Well, that was fast: Verizon has just announced that it has completed its acquisition of AOL, owner of TechCrunch, purchasing all outstanding shares for $50 per share in cash for a total price of $4.4 billion. The sale was originally announced just over a month ago. As Verizon said at the time of the original announcement that it was buying AOL, Tim Armstrong, AOL’s CEO, will continue… Read MoreJelli Raises $21M From Intel, iHeartMedia, UMG And More For Its "AdWords For Audio" Platform
Jun 23, 12:05PM
Jelli, makers of an ad platform for radio broadcasters to digitise how they fill space on their airwaves — think “AdWords for audio” — has raised a $21 million round of funding to grow its business as it prepares to expand to other kinds of audio services — specifically streamed music. The Series B round comes from a mix of strategic backers and top shelf VCs… Read MoreWith A Fresh $15 Million, Olapic Will Replace Brands' Stock Photos With Your Instagram Pics
Jun 23, 12:00PM
Olapic, which helps brands boost sales with user-generated images from social media, has raised $15 million in new funding. Olapic aggregates images submitted by users on various social media channels such as Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. Then, using a curation algorithm and human editors, Olapic identifies which images are best suited to specific use-cases for each brand. Read MorePersonal Concierge App Goodservice Nabs $1.6M From Sequoia To Expand In India
Jun 23, 11:54AM
Goodservice wants to give users in India a personal assistant in their smartphone. The Mumbai-based app just scored seed funding of $1.6 million from Sequoia Capital, which it will use to increase the size of its engineering and operations teams. Read MoreU.K. Spy Oversight Court Rules GCHQ Acted Unlawfully Again
Jun 23, 11:52AM
The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the judicial oversight body which handles complaints relating to domestic intelligence agencies, has ruled that GCHQ acted unlawfully in the handling of intercepted communications data in another case brought by civil liberties groups, including Liberty, Privacy International and Amnesty International. Read MoreYotpo Raises An Additional $15M, Adds Former GoDaddy CEO To Board
Jun 23, 11:00AM
Yotpo, a platform that helps businesses with original content marketing, just announced the closing of a $15 million funding round. This brings total funding so far by the company to $30 million. Read MoreSnowflake Raises $45M Series C Round For Its Data Warehousing Service, Comes Out Of Beta
Jun 23, 11:00AM
Snowflake, a novel data warehousing service that’s run by former Microsoft server and tools executive Bob Muglia, is coming out of beta today. In addition, the company today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series C round led by Altimeter Capital, with participation from previous investors Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing VC. At first glance, data warehousing… Read MoreSpanish On-Demand Cleaning Startup Wayook Quietly Picks Up Backing From Axon Partners Group
Jun 23, 10:52AM
Wayook, the Spanish on-demand cleaning startup, has quietly raised its first funding round: a modest €640,000 from Axon Partners Group. The investment closed a few weeks back but went mostly under the radar, which is synonymous of Wayook as a whole. Read More'Spotify For Business' Creator Soundtrack Your Brand Gets $11M From Telia, Spotify And More
Jun 23, 10:49AM
While Spotify has been building up its own war chest in preparation for the battle with Apple and others to win more music streaming consumers, it’s also funding a smaller company that’s focused on building up another side of its revenue strategy: businesses and enterprises. Soundtrack Your Brand — makers of two services called Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise that… Read MoreAPI-Based Money Mover Currency Cloud Taps Sapphire Ventures And Rakuten For $18M
Jun 23, 8:57AM
Startups that help people send money to each other or pay for goods and services online have been growing like weeds, fuelled by consumer demand, increasingly ubiquitous connected devices to make and receive the funds, and VCs eager to profit from their growth. Now a startup that has built technology to power fintech startups is raising some money of its own. Currency Cloud, a UK-based… Read MoreSoutheast Asian Restaurant Booking App Offpeak Gets $800,000
Jun 23, 6:16AM
Offpeak, a Malaysia-based restaurant booking startup, has raised a Series A round of $800,000 led by Gobi Partners. The company will use its new capital to expand into Southeast Asian cities, starting with Bangkok, and find more restaurant partners. 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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