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Square's Board Adds Former Brown University President Ruth Simmons
Aug 04, 4:58PM
Square announced a powerful addition to their board today, former Brown University President, Ruth Simmons. Before her 11-year post at Brown, she was the President of Smith College, establishing the first engineering program at an American women’s college. Jack Dorsey, Square’s CEO, had this to say about Simmons in a release: Ruth has inspired generations of young people to… Read MoreChildren's Magazine Highlights Is Moving To Mobile With Help From San Francisco-Based Startup Fingerprint
Aug 04, 3:55PM
You probably remember flipping through Highlights magazine as a child, while in the waiting room of your doctor’s office, perhaps. But now, this longest-running children’s magazine of 69 years is attempting to make an impact on mobile. The company has partnered with San Francisco-based startup Fingerprint to help transition the brand – and the activities that were once… Read MoreGet Ready For A 21.5-Inch iMac With 4K Retina Display
Aug 04, 3:55PM
The 27-inch, 5K retina iMac is a beautiful desktop computer, but it’s a bit too expensive for many people. This is about to change as the latest beta of OS X El Capitan tells us more about an upcoming iMac that features a smaller 21.5-inch display with a 4K resolution — an insane 4096 x 2304 display to be exact. Expect this new computer in the next few months. Read MoreTapHeaven Promises True Automation For Mobile Advertisers
Aug 04, 3:24PM
The pitch for TapHeaven might sound a little familiar. Co-founder and CEO Chris Hoyt said his technology delivers truly automated ad-buying. What makes TapHeaven more than just another ad startup that talks a big game about its technology? Well, it says it’s actually delivering big results with its first dozen pilot partners — many of them, Hoyt said, have seen their user… Read MoreLoyalty Startup Belly Builds On Opportunities Of Apple Partnership, Launches New Marketing Suite
Aug 04, 3:19PM
Fresh off of Apple’s WWDC announcement earlier this summer that they would be partnering with loyalty rewards program Belly as one of their “mobility partners,” Belly announced today that it will be rolling out a major product update to its merchant partners. The update focuses on Belly Complete, a “cohesive suite of loyalty, email, social media, mobile and… Read MoreGenius Launches Android App, Redesigns Home Page And iOS App
Aug 04, 3:12PM
Genius, gone from rap song explanation site to annotator of the entire Internet, has today launched a revamped version of the website, the iOS app, and for the first time ever, an Android app. The redesign brings with it a new brand design, color palette and enhanced song pages, as well as a new featured section for popular songs, across multiple genres, and most popular non-musical content. Read MoreYouTube's Desktop Web Player Gets A New Look
Aug 04, 2:54PM
Does YouTube look different to you today? If you’re noticing that the YouTube player on the desktop seems to have a sleeker look-and-feel, then you’ve probably spotted the update YouTube has just rolled out. The company launched a new HTML5 video player for desktop users, which now features a transparent control bar that disappears when you’re not using it, as well as… Read More
Instacart Makes Its First Acquisition With "Acqui-hire" Of App Maker Wedding Party
Aug 04, 2:21PM
On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has made its first acquisition since raising hundreds of millions in venture funding for its growing business. The company is “acqui-hiring” the team from NEA-backed Wedding Party, a mobile application that allowed wedding guests and friends to contribute their own photos and videos to a shared, digital album. Read MoreRepublic Launches New Platform To Send GOP To White House
Aug 04, 1:00PM
Software is eating the world, and it is continuing its monstrous diet in politics. The traditional shoe leather approach of political campaigning has been replaced by rooms of engineers, AWS instances, and data science APIs designed to maximize votes for the lowest cost. Your “gut” need not apply. The fight for tech supremacy in politics has not been an even fight, with Democrats… Read MoreBerlin's Zeotap Raises $6.4M To Let Telcos Sell Customer Data To Mobile Advertisers
Aug 04, 1:00PM
Apparently, telecom operators are sitting on a huge amount of unique customer data that could provide much-needed revenue by being packaged up and sold to mobile advertisers and content providers to help them better target users. Or so says Zeotap, a startup that provides technology to enable telcos and marketers to unlock this potential treasure trove of user data. Read MoreKobalt's AMRA Inks Its First Licensing Deal: A Global Agreement With Apple Music
Aug 04, 12:34PM
Two months ago, Kobalt — a startup whose technology tracks and collects music royalties from streaming music providers — acquired and revamped and royalty collection agency AMRA to ramp up its music licensing collection activities. Today, it is announcing its first licensing deal: a centralised, landmark licensing agreement with Apple Music. Read MoreGurgaon-based Local Delivery Startup Pickingo Picks Up $1.3M
Aug 04, 11:03AM
Pickingo is the latest hyperlocal delivery startup in India to get funding. The company, which transports items between merchants and customers in six cities, has raised $1.3 million led by Rehan Yar Khan of Orios Venture Partners with participation from Zishaan Hayath. Read MorePanorama Raises $12 Million To Help Schools Understand Their Students
Aug 04, 11:00AM
Panorama Education, a startup that surveys students, parents and teachers to collect actionable data, has raised $12 million in new funding to help school districts make better decisions. Spark Capital and Owl Ventures led the Series A round. Panorama’s seed investors include Y Combinator, Google Ventures, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Startup:Education. Read MoreAlibaba Hires Goldman Sachs Veteran To Grow Its International Business
Aug 04, 10:53AM
Alibaba is continuing its international push after hiring former Goldman Sachs vice president Michael Evans as its new president in charge of global business. Read MoreBattery Attributes Can Be Used To Track Web Users
Aug 04, 10:00AM
A team of European security researchers has published a paper analyzing how the battery life of mobile devices could be used to track web browsing habits of Firefox users on Linux, using the HTML5 Battery Status API. Read MoreGIF Keyboard Maker Riffsy Raises $10M Series A
Aug 04, 7:27AM
GIF keyboard maker Riffsy has raised a $10 million Series A to make sure you never have to communicate using only boring sentences and emojis again. The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from returning investor Redpoint Ventures, as well as Cowboy Ventures and Signia Venture Partners. Read MoreTencent Wants To Buy All Remaining Shares Of Elong, One Of China's Top Travel Sites
Aug 04, 6:43AM
Tencent has made a bid to buy all outstanding shares of eLong, one of China’s biggest online travel agencies (OTA). The maker of WeChat, China’s largest messaging service, already owns shares that give it a 15 percent voting stake in eLong, which said in a statement that it is still considering the offer Read More#ILookLikeAnEngineer Aims To Spread Awareness About Diversity In Tech
Aug 04, 1:17AM
When OneLogin Platform Engineer Isis Wenger agreed to participate in the company’s recruiting campaign, she felt pretty apathetic about it. She also didn’t anticipate the backlash that has come from it. “As a genuine introvert I have never cared much about gaining public attention and I really wasn’t prepared for how much everything blew up,” Wenger told me in… Read MoreSwipe To Patent: Design Patents In The Age Of User Interfaces
Aug 04, 1:00AM
User experience and user-interface design is an emerging field in the technology industry, even more so in the legal world of patents. (Sometimes this field is known by the shorthand UX/UI.) It might surprise you to know that the fastest growing segment of design patent filings is in the UX/UI space. Read MoreUncovering ECHELON: The Top-Secret NSA/GCHQ Program That Has Been Watching You Your Entire Life
Aug 03, 9:26PM
If history is written by the victors, government surveillance agencies will have an awfully long list of sources to cite. Domestic digital surveillance has often seemed to be a threat endured mostly by the social media generation, but details have continued to emerge that remind us of decades of sophisticated, automated spying from the NSA and others. Before the government was peering… 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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