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The 3 Percent – Why Tech Has A Diversity Problem
Jul 16, 3:35PM
While there’s a lot of talk today about the 1% and their concentration of wealth, I want to take some time to discuss another number — it’s the 3% and how that number relates to our diversity problem in tech. Why the 3%? Three percent is the graduation rate of Theodore Roosevelt High School, the high school I graduated from in Bronx, NY, in 1997. Read MoreXiaomi Outs A New 48-Inch Smart TV Set And — Surprise — A Water Purifier
Jul 16, 3:30PM
China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third largest seller of smartphones with a valuation of over $45 billion, continued its push into the home with two new products unveiled today. The company outed a new version of its smart TV, alongside a water purifier, a new entry in its ever-increasing collection of connected home devices. Read MoreGet Your Prescription Meds Delivered On-Demand With Zipdrug
Jul 16, 3:19PM
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While on-demand startups have made it easy to get your food delivered or clothes washed, there has yet to be a company that lets you skip the monthly 45-minute wait in the pharmacy line. Just launched in NYC, Zipdrug is a on-demand prescription drug delivery service that will bring you your meds with the tap of a button. The first time users boot up the app they are prompted to enter… Read MorePeter Rojas Leaving Aol Alpha For betaworks
Jul 16, 3:09PM
With Gizmodo, Peter Rojas set a state for talking about technology and gadgets like human beings. That would be a nice feat once, but he did it again with Engadget, Joystiq and gdgt. Now, he’s leaving Verizaol* for an entrepreneur-in-residence position at startup birthing matrix and investment firm betaworks. Rojas came to Aol via the acquisition of gdgt, which betaworks invested in… Read MoreHer, The Queer Dating App For Women, Goes Live Across The United States
Jul 16, 3:00PM
Her, the queer dating app for women, has today announced that it will be available nationwide. Her is a dating app that puts a strong focus on content, specifically curated for and dedicated to queer women, whether they’re bi-curious or as gay as a rainbow. Her was previously available in seven cities across the country, only activating those cities after a certain threshold of… Read MoreVirtual Desktop Startup Workspot Scores $5M To Target The World's Biggest Companies
Jul 16, 3:00PM
Workspot, an aptly-named virtual desktop startup, is planning to improve its tech and expand its enterprise sales team after raising $5 million in new funding led by Helion Ventures, with participation from Translink Capital and Qualcomm Ventures. Read MoreGoogle Signs On As OpenStack Sponsor, Will Contribute Container Tech
Jul 16, 3:00PM
Google is joining the OpenStack Foundation as the open source project’s newest corporate sponsor, the two organizations announced today. Google, which has informally collaborated with OpenStack on a number of projects like the Murano application catalog and in the Magnum container orchestration service in the past, will contribute engineering resources to the project. Read MoreMoov Now Is An Artificially Intelligent Personal Trainer
Jul 16, 2:59PM
For those of us who can’t stay motivated to work out on our own, Moov is launching Moov Now, the next generation of its wearable fitness tracker and artificially intelligent personal trainer. Moov is a wearable band that pairs with an app to train users on five sports — running, cycling, swimming, cardio boxing, and a seven-minute bodyweight workout that you can do in your… Read MoreNow You Can Split Checks Through Dining App Reserve
Jul 16, 2:31PM
Reserve, a startup that helps with restaurant reservations and payments, is adding what it says has been the most-requested feature from both diners and restaurants. The app emerged from startup studio Expa. If you’re trying to get a reservation, you specify time window and party size, and the app provides you with a list of curated partners. If it can’t get a reservation at the… Read MoreHBO NOW Arrives Today On Amazon's Appstore And Google Play, And Soon, Android And Fire TV Devices
Jul 16, 2:22PM
HBO’s over-the-top streaming service aimed at cord cutters, HBO NOW, is today becoming available on Android devices and Amazon Fire tablet devices, the companies are announcing this morning, and will soon arrive on Fire TV, Fire TV Stick and Android TV streaming media devices in the “coming weeks.” The move signals the end of the Apple exclusivity window for the service. Read MoreMain Street Hub Snags $25M Investment For Small Biz Marketing Platform
Jul 16, 2:00PM
Main Street Hub, the Austin-based marketing platform for small business, announced a $25 million Series C equity round today. The funding, led by Vista Equity Partners, follows a $20 million debt round last February and brings the total raised to $65 million. Main Street Hub wants to be the one-stop marketing arm for small business, giving the mom and pop store access to the power of the… Read MorePlated Is Served $35 Million In Series B
Jul 16, 2:00PM
Plated, the NY-based company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes at your door each week, has today announced the close of a $35 million Series B round. Existing investors Greycroft Partners and Formation 8 participated in the financing. Plated launched back in 2012 with a simple vision: reduce waste by delivering perfectly portioned meals (in the form of ingredients and… Read MoreMisfit Debuts The Flash Link, A $20 Activity Tracker That Also Controls Apps And Smart Home Devices
Jul 16, 1:45PM
For a company like Misfit, which got its start as the maker of an attractive health and fitness monitoring device that women would actually like to wear, it may no longer be enough to be just another Fitbit competitor. That’s why the company has been more recently expanding its product lineup to include a range of connected devices, including also a sleep monitoring system and… Read MoreFacebook's Oculus Confirms Pebbles Interfaces Buy To Grow Its VR Footprint (And Fingerprint)
Jul 16, 1:35PM
Facebook’s Oculus division has made another acquisition: the company today has confirmed the acquisition of Pebbles Interfaces, a computer vision specialist based out of Israel. It’s not disclosing the terms of the deal but the WSJ reported it as $60 million, and Calcalist reported that it was in the “tens of millions.” Facebook has now also confirmed the deal to us… Read MoreGoogle's New, Simplified Patent Search Now Integrates Prior Art And Google Scholar
Jul 16, 1:12PM
Google has been a significant player in many facets of the patent world — as a creator, critic, litigator, buyer and big data indexer. Today, it’s taking the wraps off a product that is its flagship in the last of those categories: It’s launching a new version of the Google Patents search, which will now also incorporate related results of Prior Art and Google… Read MoreAncestry.com Welcomes AncestryHealth To The Family
Jul 16, 1:00PM
Family history site Ancestry launched a new generational health database called AncestryHealth today. The news comes right as AncestryDNA – Ancestry’s genetics site that connects those on the platform with distant relatives – announced it now has genotyped more than a million customers. Ancestry.com launched in the early 80’s and went public in 2009. It is now… Read MoreInfinit Launches Premium Plans To Take On CloudApp And Droplr
Jul 16, 1:00PM
French startup Infinit is now competing directly with CloudApp and Droplr with a new premium offering and a streamlined sharing experience. Until now, Infinit was mostly focused on improving the sharing features between Infinit users, but this time the company is focusing on sending big files to non-Infinit users. Read MoreCreated For Amateurs, Online Video Editing Platform Showbox Picks Up $8M Series A
Jul 16, 1:00PM
Showbox’s goal is to be the online editing platform of choice for non-professional video makers. The Tel Aviv-based startup just closed a $8 million Series A, which will be used to on product development and new features. Read MoreMobile Blog JKOnTheRun Is Reborn After The Fall Of Gigaom
Jul 16, 12:51PM
Harken back with me to the heady days of 2004. The century was still young and we humans were yet unsullied by the great iPhoning of mobile technology. A young man, James Kendrick, hat in one hand and valise in the other, had just disembarked from the great ship HMS Mainstream Tech Media and begun writing on a website called JKOnTheRun. In those heady days tech blogs grew fat on the vine.… Read MoreThe Future Of Samsung Could Rest On A Single Vote Tomorrow
Jul 16, 12:45PM
These are trying times for Samsung Electronics, the largest Korean company by market cap and one of the largest technology companies in the world. The once high-flying smartphone maker has hit several road blocks over the past two years, including greater competition from Chinese Android manufacturers that has led to declining profits for several quarters straight. If business challenges… 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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