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Lexus Teases A Real, Liquid Nitrogen-Cooled Hoverboard
Jun 24, 2:32PM
Well everyone’s now racing to make a hoverboard because we decided some time in the last couple of years that proving Back To The Future II prescient was the best way to highlight technological achievement. Lexus is the latest to throw its hat into the ring, posting a teaser for its own hoverboard technology with at the promise of a long, drawn-out staged reveal. To its credit, Lexus has… Read MoreGroupon's New Apple Watch App Alerts You To Nearby Deals, Lets You Buy From Your Wrist
Jun 24, 2:20PM
Groupon’s deal-finding iOS application was updated today to include support for Apple Watch. Like many Watch apps, Groupon takes advantage of its ability to tap into a user’s location by way of their connected iPhone, then uses this awareness to alert you to deals available near you. Unlike with Groupon’s mobile application, whose home screen features deals in your general… Read MoreShyp Nabs Foursquare's Varun Shetty To Run Business Development
Jun 24, 2:00PM
Shyp, an app that enables customers to summon a courier and ship an item, has hired Foursquare’s Varun Shetty to run the company’s business development operations. Shetty’s primary focus for now will be building relationships with retailers with the company’s returns product. Customers can summon a Shyp courier to return a product through a dedicated interface in the… Read MorePromisePay Raises $2M to Help Online Marketplaces With Payment Processing
Jun 24, 2:00PM
One of the biggest issues with online marketplaces is that buyers and sellers rarely know or trust one another, which often leads to disputes between the two parties. PromisePay aims to fix this issue by providing marketplaces with a payment platform to manage the entire transaction. The company just announced that it has raised an additional $2 million from strategic investors like… Read MoreBowling Central Will Turn Your Apple Watch Into A Wii Remote For Apple TV
Jun 24, 1:07PM
The upcoming Apple Watch software update gives third-party developers access to the hardware’s accelerometer data, and that’s the feature one company is using to add Wii-like motion controls to their Apple TV gaming title. Rolocule Games is already testing a working version of an update for Bowling Central, one of its games designed with AirPlay streaming from an iPad or iPhone to… Read MoreMashape Launches API Analytics Platform
Jun 24, 1:00PM
Mashape today announced the launch of its analytics service for APIs. Over the years, the company built out its own analytics service to monitor the over 13,000 APIs the company serves. Now, it’s spinning this service out to allow developers and devops teams to understand their own APIs’ performance better — even if the API isn’t hosted by Mashape. As Mashape CEO… Read MoreRunning Out Of Money Isn't A Milestone
Jun 24, 1:00PM
Nearly all startups use the same methodology to figure out when to raise their next round of capital. The founder projects the planned burn rate and estimates the day they will run out of cash. Then they subtract a margin for fundraising approximately four months from the date the company’s bank account will be empty, and declares the difference the fundraising-process start date. Read MoreHackerOne Bags $25M As Security Info Sharing Mainstreams
Jun 24, 11:37AM
HackerOne, makers of a bug bounty platform where companies pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in their products, announced a $25 million Series B round today. The round was led by NEA. Benchmark, its lead Series A investor, also participated along with several prominent individual investors including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Digital Sky Technologies Partner Yuri Milner, Dropbox… Read MoreVenueNext Raises $9M To Create Apps For Stadiums
Jun 24, 11:30AM
Have you ever been hungry at a sporting event but didn’t want to deal with the lines? Well VenueNext has raised $9 million to roll out an app for your lazy ass. From mobile ordering to in-stadium directions, VenueNext is a technology platform that is working to change the way fans experience live venues. The company just closed its Series A, with participation from strategic investors… Read MoreGoogle Among Top Lobbyists Of Senior EC Officials
Jun 24, 10:48AM
How many meetings has Google gained with top European Commission officials since December? According to data compiled by anti-corruption advocacy organization Transparency International’s EU office, the figure is 29 — making the company second only to the pro-business BusinessEurope European lobby group. Read MoreLenovo Announces A $130 Windows PC In A Stick
Jun 24, 9:36AM
If you’ve ever wanted to plug a Windows machine into your TV for a little hot and heavy Excel slinging, you’re in luck. Lenovo has just announced a $130 stick, the Ideacenter Stick 300, that connects to any display via HDMI. These single-stick computers are nothing new but this one has an Intel Baytrail Z3735F CPU, 2GB of RAM, and up to 32GB of storage. It also has a built-in… Read MoreWeathernews Partners With Paris-Based Netatmo To Power Its Crowdsourced Forecasts
Jun 24, 9:15AM
Weathernews Inc. Japan, the owner of Sunnycomb and Weathermob apps, is striking a new partnership with Paris-based Netatmo to use data from its home weather sensors for crowdsourced forecasts. Read MoreGoogle Partners With Broad Institute Of MIT And Harvard To Bring Genome Analysis Tool To Its Cloud Platform
Jun 24, 9:00AM
Google today announced that it has partnered with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to launch a limited alpha of the institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) on Google’s Cloud Platform and make it available as a service. The software, which was developed by the Broad Institute and helps scientists to quickly analyze genomic sequencing data, will be offered to academic… Read MoreWatch Mac OS 7.5.5 Running On An Apple Watch
Jun 24, 8:31AM
Nick Lee, a dedicated programmer with access to WatchOS 2.0, has ported Mac OS 7.5.5 to his wrist. That’s right: the OS you used in the 1990s to make your ‘zine can now boot – albeit slowly – on your Apple Watch. He used Mini VMac, an “early Mac emulator,” and recompiled it for the Watch. Can the Watch actually run these sorts of programs well? Sure. The… Read More500 Startups Arrives In London With "Distro Dojo", A Three-Month Growth Program For Post-Seed Startups
Jun 24, 8:00AM
TechCrunch has learned that Dave McClure and co. are officially setting up shop in London with the launch of “Distro Dojo”, a new three-month program for ‘post-seed’ startups that will be aggressively focused on growth in a bid to help bridge the gap between seed funding, which is arguably becoming plentiful in the U.K., and the so-called Series A “crunch”. Read MoreSean Parker Allots $600 Million To The Sean N. Parker Foundation
Jun 24, 7:01AM
Sean Parker, the tech billionaire, best known for his leading roles at Napster and Facebook has donated more than $600 million to the Sean N. Parker Foundation to date. But up to now he’s been tight-lipped with the press about those contributions. Parker formally announced the existence of his charitable operation today, but he’s been an active donor for the last ten years,… Read MoreBox And IBM Ink Wide-Ranging Cloud Partnership
Jun 24, 4:01AM
IBM is going Levie. This evening, Box and IBM announced a partnership that will see their technologies integrated, and their cloud products commingled. As part of the arrangement, Box will also offer its customers the ability to store their data on IBM’s cloud, which will have — I checked with the firm — 46 data centers around the world by the end of the year. The deal has… Read MoreReliving Reddit's Ten Years Of Viral Moments
Jun 24, 12:18AM
Reddit turned ten-years-old today, and it’s been quite the wild ride since University of Virginia roommates Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded the site in 2005. Reddit has been a major news source for its hundreds of millions of unique monthly users over the past decade, but it has also been the focus of more than a few stories to go viral. Read MoreNew WikiLeaks Docs Claim NSA Monitored Communications Of French Presidents
Jun 23, 9:15PM
It turns out Angela Merkel wasn’t the only state figure from an American ally whose phone calls were being monitored by the NSA. Today, WikiLeaks dropped another bombshell collection of secret government documents, “Espionnage Élysée,” detailing the extent to which the NSA has spied on French officials over the past several administrations. Read MoreNew Study Shows A Rise In Cord Cutting – 8.2 Percent Ditched Pay TV In 2014, Up 1.3% YoY
Jun 23, 9:14PM
There’s been some debate about how many consumers are actually cutting ties with their pay TV providers and replacing them with over-the-top streaming media services – a trend generally referred to as “cord cutting.” But a recent study indicates that the number of cord cutters in North America is, in fact growing – in 2014, 8.2 percent of former pay TV… 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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