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Quip, The Mobile-First Word Processing App, Adds A Desktop Version
Jul 08, 3:27PM
When Quip was first debuted to the world in two years ago by its co-founder, former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, its unique selling point was that it was a “mobile first” word processor, built for the always connected, always collaborating smartphone and tablet generation. Fast forward to today, and things are evolving — or taking a step back, depending on how you look at it:… Read MoreJay Z's Tidal Catches Up To Competition With Launch Of A Family Plan
Jul 08, 3:02PM
Jay Z’s hyped music streaming service Tidal, which focuses on high-fidelity streams and exclusive content – including most recently, Price tunes – is attempting to catch up to the competition today with the debut of its own “Family” plan. The plan, which is comparable to that from Spotify, lets additional family members sign up and receive 50 percent off… Read MoreRoniin, a Newfangled Startup Factory in Chicago, Emerges with $3 Million in Funding
Jul 08, 3:01PM
Over the last decade of so, Paul Lee had enjoyed a nice career as a venture capitalist. Last year, an idea began to nag at him, though, and in November, he left his job of several years, as an investor at Lightbank in Chicago, to pursue it with two other former Lightbank colleagues, Ryan Jeffery and Kathryn Saluke, and their friend Arman Ghosh. The fruit of their labor: nine-month-old Roniin,… Read MoreSony Pictures Television Buys IMS, The Ad Partner For Apple, Twitter, And More In Latin America
Jul 08, 2:48PM
Some more consolidation in the world of digital advertising and specifically how emerging markets are being targeted. Sony Pictures Television is buying a majority stake in Miami-based Internet Media Services (IMS), a company that has built out a digital advertising business in Latin America based on working as the exclusive partner to sell ads from large advertisers for platforms like… Read MoreCapital One Acquires Oakland-Based Design And Development Firm Monsoon
Jul 08, 2:06PM
Capital One has now made another acquisition aimed at improving its product design capabilities with today’s announcement that it has bought Oakland, California-based Monsoon, a design studio, development shop, marketing house and strategic consultancy. The 40-person Oakland team, which has done work developing apps and sites for companies like Yammer, Zazzle, the NBA, HP, Cisco… Read MoreDigitalOcean Raises $83M Series B Round Led By Access Industries
Jul 08, 2:00PM
DigitalOcean, the fast-growing cloud infrastructure service for developers, today announced that it has raised a $83 million Series B round led by Access Industries, with participation from previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, which led the company’s $37 million Series A round last year. Access Industries previously invested in the likes of Rubikloud, ironSource, Beats and Cyanogen.… Read MoreRental Platform Zoomcar Nabs $11M To Launch In More Indian Cities
Jul 08, 1:55PM
Zoomcar, a Bangalore-based self-drive car rental platform, has picked up $11 million in fresh funding from Sequoia Capital, Empire Angels, and NGP. The new capital, which brings its total raised so far to $22 million, will be used by Zoomcar to add 7,000 new cars to its fleet, which currently numbers 1,500, and launch in 15 more cities. The company already has 250 pickup spots in Bangalore… Read MoreApester Raises $5M To Bring Its Polling Tools To More US Publishers
Jul 08, 1:49PM
Apester is announcing that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. We wrote about the company back when it was a social game startup called Qmerce. Now it offers tools for online publishers to create polls, surveys, personality tests and video quizzes, then embed them in their articles. Read MoreMicrosoft Writes Down $7.6B Of Its Nokia Acquisition, Announces 7,800 Layoffs
Jul 08, 1:43PM
Microsoft’s signaled and expected goodwill impairment, relating to its previous purchase of the majority of Nokia’s hardware assets, took place this morning — with the software company erasing $7.6 billion from its books. Read MoreLola, Offering Safer Tampons As A Subscription, Picks Up $1.2 Million In Seed Funding
Jul 08, 1:02PM
There is now a subscription service for just about anything, and feminine hygiene products are no exception. There is HelloFlo, Le Parcel, Juniper and the list goes on and on. But scheduled deliveries does not a great service make. Lola, a new startup that just picked up $1.2 million in seed funding, is looking to differentiate not through merely scheduling deliveries, but by enhancing… Read MoreDynatrace Wants To Link Performance Monitoring With Customer Experience
Jul 08, 1:00PM
Dynatrace released the latest version of its application performance monitoring (APM) product today, which it hopes will shift the company from pure monitoring into the realm of customer experience. Although this is a major release with many new features, it centers on the Customer Experience Cockpit, which is effectively a dashboard that lets users see a User Satisfaction Rating along… Read MoreBabbel Raises $22M Series C Round For Its Language Learning Service
Jul 08, 1:00PM
The Berlin- and New York-based language learning service Babbel today announced that it has raised a $22 million funding round led by Scottish Equity Partners. Other participants in this round include previous investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, and VC Fonds Technology Berlin. The company, which was founded in 2007, says it plans to use this new round to drive further… Read MoreVideoStitch Grabs $2.25 Million To Produce 360 Video In Real Time
Jul 08, 12:30PM
French startup VideoStitch just raised $2.25 million from Alven Capital for its video editing software solution. This isn’t your average video editing software, as the company is able to output a live 360 feed using multiple action cameras, making it perfect for virtual reality headsets. Read MoreConfluent Closes $24M Series B Round For Its Apache Kafka-Based Stream Data Platform
Jul 08, 11:30AM
The open source Kafka real-time stream data service was incubated at LinkedIn over five years ago. Since then, Kafka has become an official Apache open-source project and the original developers left LinkedIn last year to launch Confluent, an enterprise startup that — unsurprisingly — focuses on Kafka. Read MoreGoogle Should Give U.S. Citizens More Privacy Rights, Says Consumer Watchdog
Jul 08, 9:59AM
U.S. consumer rights organization, Consumer Watchdog, has lodged a complaint with the FTC that Google is being “unfair and deceptive” by not extending the sorts of individual privacy rights it now offers Europeans — under Europe’s May 2014 ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling — to its U.S. users. Read MoreUber Is Now Testing "Suggested Pickup Points"
Jul 08, 9:17AM
Uber is going to tell you where you should get picked up. A few days after I wrote a story recommending that Uber launch a feature called “Suggested Pickup Location”, I’ve spotted the company testing a feature called “Suggested Pickup Points” in San Francisco. When dragging the pickup pin, the feature explains that passengers can “save time at these… Read MoreYouTuber PewDiePie Responds To Haters After They Discover He Made $7 Million Last Year
Jul 08, 8:33AM
Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie is the king of the YouTubers. He’s a YouTube star with 9 billion views and Expressen, a Swedish newspaper, estimated that he made $7 million last year on advertising, a feat that is no longer an outlier in the burgeoning world of online stardom. In the video Kjellberg described his 5 year career as a YouTube star whose entire oeuvre is dedicated to playing… Read MoreAdobe Is Patching A Hole The Hacking Team Used To Exploit Flash
Jul 08, 8:15AM
Many companies have best practices and the Hacking Team, the “computer security experts” who sold hacking tools to various federal and state agencies around the world, are no exception. Their database of information includes a number of interesting hacking tips, including mention of a 0-day, unpatched hole in Adobe Flash that the company is currently closing. Security researcher… Read MoreChina's Wozlla Lands $2M For Its HTML5 Game Development Platform
Jul 08, 7:28AM
Native apps may be the current vision what mobile games and apps should look like, but a number of companies are pioneering HTML5-based web apps as a more rounded alternative. One such company, China-based game development firm Wozlla, has landed a $2 million investment from PE firm Greenwood Asset Management to open its development technology to third-party developers worldwide. Read MoreAlibaba Puts Another $207M Into SingPost And $100M+ In Flash Sales Site Mei.com
Jul 08, 7:12AM
As Chinese stocks continue to tumble, Alibaba, one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is spreading its bets and upping its investments in companies that focus on cross-border commerce and making its e-commerce operations more efficient. 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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