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Slack Integrates With Google Calendar To Add Events To Channels
Jul 23, 4:20PM
Slack will now integrate with Google Calendar, letting events automatically post reminders inside slack channels. Here’s how the integration will work: After linking a Google account to Slack, you can choose any calendar and instruct it to post to certain Slack channels. For example, you could have events from your company’s development deadline calendar post reminders to the… Read MoreTwitter Makes It Easier To Target Ads Around Big Events
Jul 23, 4:00PM
Twitter is announcing a straightforward way for advertisers to join in the social media conversation around major events. Not that the service has lacked ads around, say, the Super Bowl. But Ameet Ranadive, the company’s senior director of revenue products, said that until now, buying those ads has been a “very manual” process, with advertisers piecing together the right… Read MoreIBM Acquires Database-As-A-Service Startup Compose
Jul 23, 4:00PM
IBM today announced that it has acquired Compose, the Y Combinator-backed database-as-a-service startup originally known as MongoHQ. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Compose had raised $6.4 million since it launched in 2010 — most of it in a Series A round in 2012 that was led by Trinity Ventures. And IBM spokesperson tells us that Compose, which has offices in… Read MoreGoogle Brings Its 360-Degree Movies App, Spotlight Stories, To iOS
Jul 23, 3:59PM
Google Spotlight Stories, a mobile app featuring immersive, 360 degree animated films originally developed by Motorola ahead of its 2011 Google acquisition, has now made its way to iOS devices. The app had been available on Android phones since fall 2013, when Google first introduced the new mobile storytelling format to consumers. The app itself is intended for entertainment purposes, as… Read MorePicasa Desktop Users Prompted To Move To Google Photos Backup Instead
Jul 23, 2:52PM
As part of the transition to Google’s new photo hosting and sharing service, Google Photos, launched this May, users of Google’s older Picasa desktop software are now being prompted to upgrade to Google Photos Backup for saving their images to Google’s cloud storage. The change could signal the beginning of a plan to migrate Picasa users over to the newer Google Photos… Read MoreJapan's Nikkei Buys The Financial Times Group From Pearson For $1.3B
Jul 23, 2:25PM
Some more M&A afoot in the media industry. Pearson has sold the Financial Times Group to Japan’s Nikkei Inc for £844 million ($1.3 billion) in cash. The news comes after a morning of fervent speculation that the Financial Times was on the block, with some speculating that Axel Springer would be the buyer. In addition to the iconic pink newspaper, the group includes the FT.com… Read MoreCentro Acquires Facebook Ad Startup GraphScience
Jul 23, 2:21PM
Ad tech company Centro is announcing that it has acquired social ad startup GraphScience. Founded in 2001, Centro has built a platform for digital marketers to manage their campaigns. GraphScience, meanwhile, allows advertisers to create and optimize personalized Facebook ads. With the acquisition, Centro can significantly expand its social media capabilities. Read MoreHometeam Emerges From Stealth To Bring Better In-Home Care To Seniors
Jul 23, 2:13PM
Hometeam, a New York-based startup providing in-home care to seniors, is publicly launching today after operating in a stealthy beta for two years. Powered by $11 million in funding from Lux Capital, IA Ventures, and Recruit Strategic Partners, Hometeam was founded by Josh Bruno, a former investor at Bain Ventures, in 2013. Since then, the company has placed over 250 caregivers in hundreds… Read MoreWith $20M In The Bank, JetSmarter Is Building The Uber Of The Skies
Jul 23, 1:09PM
JetSmarter, a private air transportation startup, wants to make commuting by private jet a reality for all travelers. With $20 million in Series B funding from The Saudi Royal Family, music and entertainment moguls including Jay-Z, and executives at companies such as Goldman Sachs and Twitter, the company will take a big step closer to that goal. Originally launched in 2013 as a booking… Read MoreGoogle Offers To Give Away Patents To Startups In Its Push Against Patent Trolls
Jul 23, 1:03PM
Back in April, Google launched a pop-up, temporary marketplace for companies to sell patents, with Google being the sole buyer. Today, the search and mobile giant is expanding that marketplace in the other direction: Google has started a program for startups to give away up to two non-organic patent families off Google, as well as potentially make offers to buy patents from it in the future. Read MoreGoogle's Nearline Cold Data Storage Service Hits General Availability, Adds On-Demand I/O
Jul 23, 1:00PM
Earlier this year, Google announced its new low-cost Nearline cold storage service and today, the company is taking it out of beta and making it generally available. Unlike some of its competitors like Amazon Glacier, where accessing data in cold storage can take hours, Nearline promises to make data in its archive available within seconds. Now that the service is out of beta, Google considers… Read MoreEbay-backed Asian E-commerce Company Giosis Lands $82.1M Series A
Jul 23, 12:37PM
Giosis, the eBay-backed company behind e-commerce platform Qoo10, will boost its operations in Asia after landing a $82.1 million Series A led by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). Ebay (which owns a stake in Giosis as a joint venture with Korean shopping site Gmarket), Saban Capital Group, UVM 2 Venture Investments, Brookside Capital, and Oak Investment Partners also participated in the… Read MoreSales Lead Analytics Startup Leadspace Raises $18M
Jul 23, 11:30AM
Leadspace, a company that brings in sales leads and scores them to better help marketers determine which ones to prioritize, said it raised $18 million. Leadspace plugs into marketing software like Marketo and Salesforce, pooling the data from the leads that marketers generate with other publicly-available data — such as from social networks. It then gives marketers a way to score… Read MoreGinkgo Bioworks Takes On Zymergen With $45 Million In Series B Funding
Jul 23, 11:30AM
Boston biotech startup Ginkgo Bioworks just gained an extra $45 million in Series B funding from an “oversubscribed” list of investors. The startup raised $9 million in March, so that gives the startup $54 million in total funding thus far. Biotech startups went from far and few to red hot in the last couple of years, thanks to new techniques, automated robots, lowered… Read MoreYour Future Music Playlist Could Know How You Feel
Jul 23, 10:03AM
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have linked musical taste to thinking style, with possible implications for how future algorithms might better tailor music recommendations. Not to mention the flip side: how music streaming services could psychologically classify their users, based on what they like to listen to. Read MoreEuro SaaS Startups Would Be Idiots Not To Know Notion After New $150M Fund
Jul 23, 9:57AM
The scale of the opportunity in Cloud computing and SaaS was underlined today with the news that Notion Capital has closed its third fund with a first round of $120m, with a final close of $150m expected. Funds under management will therefore be over $300m. Partners and brothers Ben and Jos White formed Notion in 2008 after selling MessageLabs to Symantec for $700m, one of Europe’s… Read More
Microsoft Targets Revenge Porn With Link Removal Form
Jul 23, 8:20AM
Falling in step with various recent industry moves, Microsoft has set up a formal process for removing links to so-called ‘revenge porn’ from its Bing search engine, allowing victims to notify it via a dedicated web form to have access to the content cut off. Read MoreLine Launches Lightweight Version Of Its Chat App For Emerging Market Android Phones
Jul 23, 7:10AM
Line, the mobile messaging company from Japan, is borrowing a strategy from Facebook after it launched a lightweight version of its service for Android devices in emerging markets. Read MoreRocket's Oliver Samwer And Citymapper's Azmat Yusuf Join Disrupt London
Jul 23, 7:00AM
We’re delighted today to announce the next round of speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an outstanding slate of global startups, influential speakers, guests and more. Oliver Samwer, Co-founder – Rocket Internet Oliver Samwer is one of the most successful Internet entrepreneurs ever, having built and exited… Read MoreWalmart Takes Full Control Of Yihaodian, Its Online Retail Business In China
Jul 23, 6:35AM
Walmart is increasing its efforts in China’s e-commerce space after the world’s largest retailer took full ownership of Yihaodian, its online retail business in the country. 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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