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TechCrunch Invades Seattle Tonight!
Jun 25, 2:58PM
Dear city of Seattle, This is a love letter. Because I love you. Wow. Seattle, you're more gorgeous then I remember. — Jordan Crook (@jordanrcrook) June 25, 2015 Which is why I have come to this beautiful town, bringing with me TechCrunch writers Greg Kumparak and Frederic Lardinois, and a full-fledged Pitch-Off. We’ll be hitting Showbox SoDo at 6pm tonight, where ten… Read MoreU.K. MPs Debate Judicial Authorization For Intercept Warrants
Jun 25, 2:45PM
The U.K. parliament is today debating issues around the forthcoming new Investigatory Powers Bill, ahead of a draft bill being introduced this autumn. MPs asked the Home Secretary whether the government had made a decision on a key recommendation in the recent independent review of surveillance capabilities by QC David Anderson — namely that interception warrants should be signed off… Read MoreLittleBits Raises Big $44.2 Million Round
Jun 25, 2:00PM
LittleBits, a 3.5-year-old, New York-based maker of electronic components that both children and designers can snap together to create everything from toy robots to lightweight industrial products, has raised $44.2 million in Series B funding led by DFJ Growth, with managing director Barry Schuler joining the board. Morgan Stanley, Alternative Investment Partners, Grishin Robotics and Wamda… Read MoreAmazon Unbundles Alexa Virtual Assistant From Echo With New Dev Tools
Jun 25, 1:43PM
Amazon has provided a strong answer to a desire I expressed only yesterday for broader software and hardware support for Alexa, its virtual assistant, and Echo, the speaker hardware that is the first platform wherein Alexa can be found: Today, Amazon announced an Alexa API set to let third-party developers easily build support for the system into their own apps; Alexa Voice Service, for… Read MoreHere's How To Use Siri Commands On iOS Devices With HomeKit Accessories
Jun 25, 1:17PM
The first HomeKit accessories launched earlier this month, just ahead of Apple’s WWDC event (at which Apple also announced new HomeKit features coming in iOS 9). Now, new additions to Apple’s HomeKit support page tell users how to use Siri, the voice-powered assistant included on iOS devices, to control their HomeKit devices, including thermostats, smart outlets, lights and… Read MoreDeskdoo Gives You A Virtual Desktop For All Your Business Needs
Jun 25, 1:13PM
The vision of a virtual desktop right in your browser has long danced in the heads of IT administrators and most solutions were interesting but underpowered. Now thanks to HTML5, however, it’s a lot easier to recreate a desktop experience in the browser, as Deskdoo proves. Poland-based Deskdoo gives you and your employees a sort of central repository for almost anything. You can… Read MoreMatterport Captures $30M To Scan Rooms Into Virtual Reality
Jun 25, 1:02PM
This $4500 camera turns the real world into the virtual one. Today, Matterport’s hardware is a hit with real estate agents. But fueled by the $30 million Series C it just raised, Matterport’s software and partnership with Google’s Project Tango could let you wave your phone around to create VR tours of anywhere you want. For example, here’s Matterport’s VR version… Read More
Jumptuit Makes Sure All Your Content Are Belong To You
Jun 25, 1:00PM
Do you ever find yourself searching for a specific photo or song, only to realize it’s either stuck on a different device or hidden away in one of your many cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive? Launching today, Jumptuit is an app that will give users a single access point for accessing content across all of their devices and storage services. The app, which is… Read MoreInvoca's Inbound Sales Call Analytics Plots IPO With New CEO
Jun 25, 1:00PM
In anticipation of a likely 2017 IPO, Invoca, a call marketing automation company based in Santa Barbara, Calif., announced Thursday that it has hired Mark Woodward to lead the company as CEO. Woodward, an entrepreneur who has served as CEO for two other public companies, E2open and Serena Software, was appointed by the founder and current Chief Executive, Jason Spievak, to “drive the… Read MoreApple Researching Geofencing Tech That Could Make Errands Easier
Jun 25, 12:53PM
Apple has a new patent application (via AppleInsider) that could make it easier to manage shared household tasks like picking up groceries or remembering to grab a bottle of wine on the way home. The patent request describes a way in which one user can grant access to their location data to another, sort of like how they currently can in Find My Friends, but with additional features that can… Read MoreFrench Anti-Uber Protest Turns To Guerrilla Warfare As Cabbies Burn Cars, Attack Uber Drivers
Jun 25, 12:17PM
Today’s taxi driver protest is getting out of hand. According to the police, 2,800 taxi drivers are protesting today against UberPOP, the European equivalent of UberX. With UberPOP, everybody can become an Uber driver, and taxi drivers see the service as unfair competition. Yet, this doesn’t really explain why cabbies are now attacking Uber drivers, burning and breaking cars. Read MoreWith $13 Million From Maveron, Eargo Is The Hearing Aid Of The Future
Jun 25, 12:00PM
After five years of research and $13 million in venture funding, Eargo has created a hearing device that people actually want to wear. Launching out of beta today, Eargo’s invisible, rechargeable hearing aid is modeled after the fishing fly, of all things. It’s made out of flexi fibers — small pieces of soft, medical-grade silicon — which suspend a tiny speaker in… Read MoreAmazon Tests Local Pickup With Seattle-Based Deals Service "Treasure Truck"
Jun 25, 12:00PM
Amazon announced this morning the launch of a unique – if somewhat odd – new service it’s calling “Treasure Truck,” which introduces a different way for customers to shop from Amazon.com. The company is driving around a truck filled with in-demand, limited-quantity products on sale for that day only. The service is live in Seattle for now, as part of a limited… Read MoreEminem Is Zane Lowe's First Interview On Apple's Beats 1 Radio
Jun 25, 11:54AM
Beats 1 is a key part of Apple Music, the service launching next week on June 30. The 24-hour live global music station has a trio of star DJs at the helm, including Zane Lowe, BBC alum who is helming Beats 1’s launch. Lowe took to Twitter to reveal that Eminem would be his first guest on the show, representing a pretty substantial ‘get’ for the station’s inaugural… Read MoreUSAA Leads $24 Million Round For Connected Car Platform Automatic
Jun 25, 11:30AM
Automatic, the connected car platform whose sensor and app combination is sometimes referred to as a “Fitbit for your car,” announced this morning $24 million in Series B funding, led by the investment arm at USAA, a top insurance and financial services provider for military families, which today counts 11 million members. Also participating in the round were new investors CDK… Read MoreRedis Labs Raises $15M Series B For Its In-Memory, NoSQL Database Service
Jun 25, 11:30AM
Redis Labs, a company that offers enterprise-grade services around the open-source NoSQL Redis database and memcached object caching system, today announced that it has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures. Silicon Valley Bank also participated in this round. Read MoreSame-Day Shopping App Curbside Picks Up $25 Million More
Jun 25, 11:30AM
Palo Alto-based Curbside, a company offering a mobile app that allows shoppers to buy from local retailers like Target and Best Buy then pick up items at stores without exiting their car, is today announcing the close of $25 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures, and includes participation from prior investors Index Ventures, Yahoo co-founder Jerry… Read MoreFrance Adopts Extensive Surveillance Law
Jun 25, 11:25AM
Oh, irony. Only a day after WikiLeaks revealed that the NSA has been spying on the past three French presidents as well as many French officials, France’s lower house adopted the very controversial surveillance law. According to politicians from all parties, France needs a comprehensive intelligence law following Charlie Hebdo’s attacks. Yet, in many ways, this law is even broader… Read MoreNow They've Gone And Stuck Android Onto A Graphing Calculator
Jun 25, 11:21AM
Today in our ongoing series of people putting one thing into another thing, we present Android running on a Texas Instruments TI-Nspire CX, a robust graphing calculator popular with the pre-calc set. The calculator has about 100MB of storage and 64MB of RAM but has enough power to run Android 1.6 aka Donut. Obviously you’re not going to make very many calls using your graphing calculator… Read MoreBacked By Spark Capital, Andela Will Develop A Continent Of Tech Talent
Jun 25, 11:00AM
Genius is evenly distributed; opportunity is not. That truth is the driving principle behind Andela, a startup currently building a network of top tier computer science education programs across the African continent. 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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