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Join The Industry Is Linkedin For Bartenders and Chefs

Jul 01, 3:06PM

unnamed While LinkedIn has made it easier to apply and search for jobs while maintaining a professional online presence, the formalness of the platform means it isn’t suited for some non-white-collar industries. Join The Industry (a recent winner of the TC Radio Pitch-Off) is a professional network exclusively for the service and hospitality industry. The website lets employees showcase… Read More



Buy Tickets Now For The Summer Party At August Capital

Jul 01, 3:00PM

august capital summer party TechCrunch’s annual summer soirée is almost here. As in years past, August Capital will graciously host TechCrunch and hundreds of local investors, founders and developers at its sunny office on Sand Hill Road. All are welcome to the July 31 event, but space is limited. Tickets, which you can buy here, are $85 each and include drinks and food. Read More



Join Us At Our TC Pitch-Off Next Week In Budapest

Jul 01, 2:17PM

budapest On July 10, 2015 I’ll be rolling into Budapest to hold our first official TechCrunch Pitch Off in the city of my forefathers (my grandfather’s name was actually Nagy!) We’ll be inviting eight startups on stage to compete to win a table at TechCrunch Disrupt or, for second place, two tickets to the event in SF on September 21-23. You can grab tickets here. To apply for the… Read More



Smart Android Launcher Yahoo Aviate Gets Overhauled, Accused Of Being A "Google Now Clone"

Jul 01, 2:08PM

yahoo-aviate Yahoo’s Aviate Android launcher, which the company acquired for $80 million in order to own a piece of the growing mobile ecosystem, as it doesn’t have its own mobile operating system or hardware in play, has seen continued development in the months following the deal. The latest addition to this intelligent homescreen application is something Yahoo is calling the… Read More



Splacer, With $1.4M In New Funding, Is Airbnb For Event Spaces

Jul 01, 2:00PM

e3F7nidKuMhyPzdchfvsZIY3LHNj2dlvge0onYMHmYo Splacer, the Tel Aviv-based marketplace for listing and renting out creative event space, today announced that it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding led by Carmel Ventures. A number of angel investors, including Shlomo Kramer, Sam Ben Avraham, and Eyal Shaked, also participated in the round, Alongside the funding announcement, Splacer is also going live with a beta product in New York… Read More



Tour Booking Startup ZOZI Raises $30 Million From Richard Branson, Others To Expand Its Reservation Platform

Jul 01, 2:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-06-30 at 10.24.00 PM ZOZI, a startup that hooks merchants up with those seeking travel experiences using proprietary software, has closed on $30 million in Series C funding. Pritzker Vlock Ventures led the round, with participation from Sir Richard Branson, Par Capital Ventures, 500 Startups, Dolby Family Ventures and Bridge Bank also participated. ZOZI raised $21.3 million in previous rounds, bringing the total up… Read More



India Now Uber's Second Largest Market Following Expansion To 7 New Cities

Jul 01, 1:15PM

uber headquarters Uber is continuing its focus on Asia after announcing that it will expand into seven new cities in India, taking it to a total of 18 locations in the country. Read More



Minute Is a Video Watching App For The ADD Generation

Jul 01, 12:24PM

Viral video has become a big business. Companies like Vodio and 5by have come in to serve this space, ‘viralising’ short form video, especially for mobile. Now Minute, a new startup, has developed a new Android and web application that draws on big data and crowd data to determine the most viral part of an online video. It then turns these moments into short Vine-like clips. The… Read More



PubNub Gets Another $20M To Scale Up Its Low-Latency Messaging Network

Jul 01, 12:10PM

pubnub PubNub, a startup out of San Francisco that has built a data network focused on messaging for apps, IoT hardware and other low-latency services, has raised another $20 million in a Series C round of funding. It seems that 20 million is the magic number for PubNub at the moment: the company — which works with some 2,000 businesses and partners including high profile names like… Read More



Sweetgreen Harvests $35 Million To Satisfy Millennial Salad Cravings

Jul 01, 11:30AM

sweetgreen Trendy farm-to-table salad shop sweetgreen has raised $35 million in additional venture funding to scale its healthy and affordable restaurant chain nationwide. The most recent cash infusion, led by T. Rowe Price with participation from prior investor Revolution Growth, brings sweetgreen’s total venture funding to $95 million. Headquartered in D.C., sweetgreen was launched eight years… Read More



The Tale Of The Talented Mr C. — Who Used TechCrunch To Get Into A 5-Star Hotel

Jul 01, 11:16AM

Talented Mr. C “Good Evening,” began the polite email. “I recently transitioned into the role as Foreign Media Specialist for TechCrunch magazine here in San Francisco. As part of my new position I will be traveling first to South East Asia to show potential Tech Executives various locations to take Personal Vacations, Tech Conventions, Weddings, and to host Corporate Vacation Getaways. On… Read More



Why You Should Advertise Your App On Television

Jul 01, 11:00AM

tvapps From ad networks and exchanges to demand-side platforms and other app publishers, app marketers have left no stone unturned when it comes to finding new mobile channels on which to advertise their apps. And yet, as the market matures and evolves, most developers are finding mobile as a channel to be saturated, competitive and increasingly expensive. Read More



India's Housing.com Fires Its Maverick CEO Who Gave Away His Shares

Jul 01, 10:36AM

yadav It’s funny how things can change so quickly. Just two months ago, Rahul Yadav, the young co-founder of CEO of SoftBank-backed Housing.com, was heralded as a role model for India’s startup space after giving away his entire shareholder to the company’s staff. Read More



Setback For European Facebook Privacy Class Action, As Austrian Court Rules Lawsuit Inadmissible

Jul 01, 9:42AM

class_action_app_english An ongoing Facebook class action suit in Europe over alleged privacy violations took a significant step back today. A regional court in Austria, where the suit was originally filed, ruled the it inadmissible, with the court saying it has “no jurisdiction” over the matter. The case, originally filed in August 2014 by Europe v Facebook, currently has 25,000 claimants signed up,… Read More



Rocket Internet And Kinnevik Add $167M More To GFG, Roll In 2 Brazilian Fashion Portals

Jul 01, 6:55AM

Screenshot 2015-07-01 13.47.44 Rocket Internet’s Global Fashion Group (GFG), an umbrella group that houses the German company’s fashion-focused e-commerce services, is making a double announcement today after it secured €150 million ($167 million) in fresh funding and made two acquisitions in Brazil. Read More



Apple Music Hits The Right Note On International Availability And Pricing

Jul 01, 4:29AM

42 Apple Music It’s still early days for Apple Music, the newly launched streaming service, as the world chews over its user interface, initial service issues, that Beats 1 radio station and other unexpected factors. But two areas where the U.S. company has hit the right notes are international availability and pricing. Read More



Planting The Seed: Silicon Valley, Mind Control And Finding Order In Chaos

Jul 01, 4:00AM

dandelionseed “The seed that we planted in this man’s mind may change everything.” – Dom Cobb (Inception). While this quote reads to most with only a Leonardo DiCaprio-style swagger, it is rapidly becoming the prophecy of many innovators. From Silicon Alley to Silicon Valley, investors are captivated by startups leveraging research in cognitive science to affect user behavior. Read More



Sony Launches A Crowdfunding Site For Projects From Its Employees In Japan

Jul 01, 3:37AM

Screenshot 2015-07-01 10.27.37 Sony has dabbled in crowdfunding in the past — an e-ink watch and mesh sensor kit — but now the Japanese company is making a big play in the space after launching its own site for crowdfunded projects. Read More



A Former Stanford Dean On The Danger Of Overparenting By Parents – And Startups

Jul 01, 1:11AM

shutterstock_158537876 In her new book, “How to Raise an Adult,” former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen Julie Lythcott-Haims argues that overparenting has grown to worrying extremes over the last decade-plus and that unchecked, it will be the ruin of society as we know it. She noticed it in her own parenting, in fact. “There was a time when I was a finger-wagging dean, then realized:… Read More



YouTube Brings 60fps Video Streams To Its Android And iOS Apps

Jun 30, 11:45PM

4481461680_845dd529ca_o Over the last few months, Google’s YouTube launched both 60fps video on the desktop and — later — for live video streams. Starting today, you can also watch the service’s smooth 60fps videos in its iOS and Android apps. Read More




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