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What A Truly Diverse Tech Company Would Look Like
Jul 28, 4:30PM
A lot of the conversation about diversity in tech revolves mostly around the lack of women and minorities. But diversity is much more complex than that. It’s not just about increasing the number of women in tech. Nor is it just about increasing the number of blacks and other racial minorities at tech companies. Read MoreThe New Moto X And Moto G Are Incredibly Cheap Yet Powerful Phones
Jul 28, 3:59PM
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Motorola has just unveiled its new lineup of smartphones, the Moto G, Moto X Style and Moto X Play. While these phones are mostly updated versions of their previous iterations, Motorola is sticking with its key advantages — price, customization and less bloatware. Read MoreGoogle Search Now Shows You When Local Businesses Are Busiest
Jul 28, 3:57PM
Google Search got a small, but notable, update today which focuses on helping users determine when it’s the best time to visit a nearby business. After performing a search for a business on Google, then clicking the title to see details like its address, phone number and open hours, for example, Google will also now show you “popular times” for the business in question.… Read MorePebble CEO Eric Migicovsky Will Join Us At Disrupt SF
Jul 28, 3:52PM
Imagine you’ve just run the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all time. What do you do next? If you’re Pebble CEO and founder Eric Migicovsky, you come back and do it all over again three years later, raising nearly twice as much as the first time. Then you come to TechCrunch Disrupt and talk with us about it. I’m super excited to announce that Eric will be joining us… Read MoreGE FirstBuild Launches Indiegogo Campaign For Next Generation Icemaker
Jul 28, 3:13PM
It’s the biggest innovation in ice in nearly twenty-five years, according to General Electric (a company that knows a thing or two about ice). It’s called the Opal, and its a portable ice machine that’s makes a new shape of ice — nugget ice. Read MoreTrello Launches Enterprise Service With Single Sign-On Support, Brings Two-Factor Authentication To All Users
Jul 28, 3:00PM
Trello, the kanban-style project management service that was spun out of Fog Creek Software last year, launched its enterprise service today. While the company quietly introduced this new service tier a few months ago and started testing it with a number of customers, it’s only now making it official. Read MoreTripping.com Raises $16 Million To Be The Kayak For Long-Term Rentals
Jul 28, 3:00PM
Tripping.com, a search engine for long-term rental properties, has secured $16 million in new funding to build out its one-stop shop for vacation homes. While a variety of hotel booking platforms, as well as Airbnb, have the short-term vacation rental space covered, Tripping is geared toward longer trips, with an average stay of just over a week. Steadfast Venture Capital led the Series B… Read MoreBlogging Platform Medium Takes A Firmer Stance On Harassment And Revenge Porn
Jul 28, 2:44PM
It’s time to clean up the Internet, apparently. Blogging platform Medium this week joined Google and Microsoft as well as other social platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and more recently Reddit, in taking a firmer stance on how it will handle online harassment, including the posting of confidential and personal information and revenge porn. According to new rules posted on the… Read MoreAmazon Takes On Product Hunt, Shopify With Launchpad, An All-In-One Marketing And Sales Portal
Jul 28, 1:40PM
Product Hunt has made a splash as a new place for startups to market new products, Shopify offers a way for them to easily start selling their products online, and Shyp takes the pain out of sending things from point A to B. Now it looks like Amazon is preparing to one-up their respective concepts. Today it unveiled Launchpad, a platform for hardware and physical goods startups to… Read MoreVero Launches A "Relationship-First" Social Network
Jul 28, 1:30PM
The creators of Vero are betting that there’s room for a new kind of social network — one that’s a bit more attuned to the nuances of real-world relationships. Like other social media services, Vero allows users to share movies, music, photos and so on. Where it gets a little different is in the privacy around that sharing. Read MoreMessaging App Viber Buys Nextpeer To Add Social Features To Its Gaming Portal
Jul 28, 1:09PM
Viber, the messaging app with 600 million+ users acquired last year by Japan’s Rakuten for $900 million, is today making its first acquisition, specifically aimed at building out its new games business. It is paying $9 million for Nextpeer, a social gaming startup based in Israel that offers games developers an SDK to incorporate social gaming features into their apps. Rakuten… Read MoreMedical Office Software Maker Kareo Raises $55M
Jul 28, 1:01PM
Kareo, a startup that provides small medical practices the tools they need to run their business, has pulled in $55 million in funding to accelerate expansion in doctors’ offices across the country. Montreux Equity Partners, a late-stage health tech fund, led the round, with participation from Silver Lake Waterman as well as all previous investors including Greenspring Associates… Read MoreGoogle Now Lets Developers Bring Their Own Security Keys To Compute Engine
Jul 28, 1:00PM
Starting today, developers who use Google’s Compute Engine infrastructure as a service platform will be able to bring their own security keys to the service. Google argues that using these customer-supplied encryption keys, which are now in public beta, give its users more control over their data security. By default, Google encrypts all of the data on its service with an AES-256 bit… Read MoreStock Video Service VideoBlocks Courts Universities And Students With A Free Semester
Jul 28, 1:00PM
VideoBlocks, a subscription service and marketplace for stock video footage, is giving universities and students a chance to try it out for a semester before they pay for it. The company is also offering a $10,000 to two universities for research in how the availability of digital content — like the kind available through VideoBlocks — affects how students learn in digital… Read MoreMacroFab Raises $2M In Seed Funding To Help Hardware Startups Manufacture PCB Boards
Jul 28, 11:30AM
MacroFab, a platform to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture PCB boards, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Techstars Ventures. Any company that has worked with manufacturers to produce PCB boards knows how hard it can be. The process is old fashioned and time intensive, with lots of back and forth between the manufacturer and client. Prototyping PCBs is also very… Read MoreYozio Raises $7M Series A To Help Apps Gain Users Through Organic Channels
Jul 28, 11:30AM
Yozio, which helps developers acquire more mobile users without spending tons of money on app-install ads, will expand its growth platform after landing a $7 million Series A. The round was led by Foundation Capital, with participation from firms including Illuminate Ventures, Webb Investment Network, and AME Cloud Ventures. Read MoreFrench IoT Startup Smiirl Raises Seed Round, Launches Twitter And Instagram Counters
Jul 28, 11:16AM
French hardware and IoT startup Smiirl hit pretty early on the idea of a mechanical Internet of Things-styled ‘Like’ counter for Facebook that bridges the digital and physical worlds, enabling businesses to proudly display their ‘social proof’. Read More$10 Million For UpCounsel Means Small Businesses Can Hire BigLaw Attorneys
Jul 28, 11:00AM
UpCounsel, a marketplace for legal services, has pulled in $10 million in new funding to provide small businesses with attorneys at a fraction of the cost of a big law firm. Menlo Ventures led the Series A round, with participation from previous investors Homebrew and Metamorphic Ventures, which brings the company’s funding total to $13.9 million. When businesses hire a lawyer from a… Read MoreOliver, A New Apartment-Finding App, Cuts Out The Middlemen
Jul 28, 8:13AM
If you’ve ever tried to find an apartment in a popular city like San Francisco, New York, or Chillicothe you’re probably familiar with magical beings called brokers. These creatures take a cut of your rent while doing surprisingly little and it’s high time they are “disrupted.” How, you ask? Oliver. Oliver is the latest effort to cut out the middleman. The app… Read MoreDidi Kuaidi, Uber's Biggest Rival In China, Launches Personal Chauffeur Service
Jul 28, 8:00AM
Enjoy the convenience of Uber but own a car? There might be something in China for you. Didi Kuaidi, Uber’s biggest rival in the world’s most populous country, has launched a personal chauffeur service, its latest in a series of efforts to diversify its business. 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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