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On-Demand Food Startup Sprig To Start Classifying Its Contractors As Employees
Aug 06, 5:00PM
Healthy food delivery startup Sprig just became the latest on-demand startup to decide to classify its workers as employees instead of independent contractors. That means Sprig will soon offer its hundreds of contract workers employment at the company. Over the past few months, startups like Instacart, Shyp and Luxe have all switched their workers to W-2 employees rather than independent… Read MoreOnline Designer Bag Reseller Rebagg Gains $4 Million In Seed Funding To Take On TheRealReal
Aug 06, 5:00PM
Rebagg, an online resell marketplace for designer handbags, has closed on $4 million in seed from General Catalyst, Metamorphic Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Founder Collective, Big Sur Ventures-Necotium and FJ Labs. There’s no shortage of second-hand markets for handbags and other items. Great finds can be snatched up in local brick and mortar consignment shops or online sites like… Read MoreIBM Buying Merge Healthcare For $1B To Bring Medical Image Analysis To Watson Health
Aug 06, 4:46PM
IBM announced a huge deal today, agreeing to pay a billion dollars for Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging company it plans to fold into the Watson Health unit. Merge’s technology is in use in 7500 healthcare facilities in the US, according to information supplied by IBM. The firm processes billions of images such as x-rays, MRIs and CT scans with 30 billion images processed to-date,… Read MoreTesla's Robotic Metal Snake Charger Is "For Realz"
Aug 06, 4:35PM
Tesla is coming off of a rough earnings day, but that didn’t stop the company from showing off some awesome stuff. Today, the company tweeted out a demo of something its founder and CEO Elon Musk has talked about before. At the time it sounded crazy, as most of Musk’s ideas do. In fact, see my response to it back in December: @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/T6WXHyQ4L4 — drew… Read MoreMicrosoft Outlook For Apple Watch One-Ups Apple's Native Email Client
Aug 06, 4:31PM
Microsoft Outlook is now a fully-featured Apple Watch app. An updated version of the iOS application released today added the new smartwatch functionality, which includes the ability to quickly glance at your inbox from the Apple Watch face, access pre-written replies, emoji and voice dictation, get custom notifications, schedule items for later, and more. The iOS and Android versions of… Read MoreFemsplain Rolls Out A Community Platform For Feminists
Aug 06, 4:18PM
Femsplain bills itself as a “community-driven publisher,” and it’s looking to build that community with a new initiative called Femsplain Beta. The feminist site was launched last year, raised more than $30,000 via Kickstarter (I was a backer) and has already published personal articles from more than 250 female contributors. Those stories cover topics like cancer, kids… Read MoreListen to Elon Musk's Awkward Silence After A Question About Tesla's Self-Driving Fleet
Aug 06, 4:14PM
Yesterday on Tesla’s earnings call, Adam Jonas, an analyst from Morgan Stanley, asked Elon Musk about the company’s future plans to either sell cars to Uber (prompted by Travis Kalanick’s recent remarks), or develop their own autonomous transportation company. Musk’s response? Silence. As we all know, sometimes silence says a lot. Read MoreShotput Wants To Be The AWS For Logistics
Aug 06, 4:08PM
“We’re in a unique, extremely unsexy industry,” explained James Steinberg, who founded Shotput with fellow Northeastern University graduate Praful Mathur around 18 months ago. Part of Y Combinator’s summer 2015 class, Shotput provides an end-to-end product delivery and fulfillment suite to customers. Started as a response to the frustration the cofounders experienced… Read MoreDinner Lab Raises A $7M Series A To Expand Its Social Dining Club
Aug 06, 4:00PM
Dinner Lab, a membership-based club that gives you access to private dinner parties in unique locations throughout your city, announced it is has raised a $7 million Series A led by James River Capital. The company also received follow-up funding from all current investors, including Dr. John B. Elstrott, the Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods. This latest round comes about a year… Read MoreBox Metadata Update Part Of Broader Strategy To Attract Large Customers
Aug 06, 4:00PM
Box announced a major update to its metadata feature today, a move that is part of a broader strategy to attract and keep larger customers. The update includes three major pieces: first of all it provides the ability for administrators to create and distribute metadata templates via the Box Admin console. Next, it provides APIs for attaching metadata information to applications built using Box. Read MoreClutter On-Demand Storage Service Expands To Bay Area, Raises $1.3 Million
Aug 06, 3:38PM
Clutter, the on-demand storage service based out of Los Angeles, has today announced that it has expanded its offering to cover all of the San Francisco Bay Area. The company also announced that it has raised an additional $1.3 million in funding, bringing total funding to $3.3 million. The idea behind Clutter is simple. Through a website, users can put in an order to have anything stored… Read MoreNBA Champion And Finals MVP Andre Iguodala Will Speak At Disrupt SF 2015
Aug 06, 3:38PM
The Golden State Warriors were the hometown favorite here in Silicon Valley during their championship run, so naturally we’re ecstatic to announce that NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala will be joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco to discuss the life of basketball and business. Sometimes it’s one in the same, sometimes it’s separate. Iguodala, who also played for my… Read MoreThe DistroKid Music Distribution Service Has Launched An Indie Artist To The Top Of The Charts
Aug 06, 3:05PM
Philip Kaplan’s startup, the DistroKid, has had it’s first major success story. The hip hop group Jack & Jack have hit #12 on the Billboard Top 200, a first for an indie group. I asked Kaplan about how to make a band successful in the Internet age and what it means for indie musicians. TechCrunch: So what happened exactly? What does this mean? Kaplan: For the first time in… Read MoreHBO NOW Adds Support For Google's Chromecast
Aug 06, 2:56PM
HBO’s over-the-top streaming service may not be making money just yet, but it is rapidly expanding its footprint. Starting today, the service will support Google’s Chromecast for streaming from your mobile device to your TV, according to the update text in the iOS version that just arrived on the iTunes App Store. The Android app has not yet been updated, as of the time of writing,… Read MoreSnobswap Raises A Million To Bring Brick-And-Mortar Consignment Shops Online
Aug 06, 2:24PM
A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age, Snobswap, has raised over a million in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury online mall.” While today, these mom-and-pop shops would have to set up their own online stores using a platform like Shopify, for example, or perhaps market their items via social media… Read MorePornhub Launches An Unlimited Streaming Service, Pornhub Premium
Aug 06, 2:10PM
It’s been generally accepted since the days of the 9600 baud modem that all Internet porn should be free. However, with the rise high quality video and new streaming systems, we can change that universal truth to “all bad porn on the Internet is supposed to be free.” The good stuff costs money. Enter Pornhub Premium [seriously NSFW], a “higher-class experience for those… Read MoreFundera, Funding Circle And Others Introduce The Small Business Borrowers' Bill Of Rights
Aug 06, 2:00PM
Today in Washington D.C., a coalition of lenders, credit marketplaces, brokers, non-profits and others (including Fundera and Funding Circle) have introduced the “Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights,” aimed at eliminating predatory lending to small businesses. You might think that the world of small business loans is highly regulated, but in actuality the more robust… Read MoreBuzztime Restaurant Entertainment System Launches Payments Functionality
Aug 06, 1:55PM
NTN Buzztime, the service that puts trivia games and entertainment in the palm of restaurant diners and bar patrons hands, has today announced the ability to pay their bill through the Buzztime tablets. This means that Buzztime’s tablets, which are provided to restaurants and bar owners that sign up for the service, will now display menu information for that establishment along with… Read MoreMirantis And CoreOS Launch Enterprise-Grade OpenStack And Kubernetes Integration
Aug 06, 1:00PM
OpenStack company Mirantis and CoreOS today announced that they have teamed up to integration Mirantis’ OpenStack distribution with CoreOS’s Tectonic container platform. Together, the two companies will now offer enterprises the ability to use both OpenStack and Kubernetes, the Google-incubated container management and scheduling tool, on a platform that offers… Read More500px Revamps Its App To Better Appeal To The Instagram Crowd
Aug 06, 1:00PM
500px, the online photo-sharing community which recently raised another $13 million to challenge Flickr and Getty, is today rolling out a significant change to its mobile application. Beginning with an update on iOS, the company has completely redesigned and rebuilt its app from the ground up, in an effort that’s focused on making its app better appeal to a more mainstream… 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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