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Gillmor Gang: Foxy Lady

Aug 08, 5:00PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 7, 2015. Thanks to Twitter and a mid-debate nap, the shape of the 2016 race begins to come into focus. Meanwhile, our Facebook overloads map out the new Show Biz Rules. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More



Plate IQ Turns Paper Invoices Into Predictive Insights

Aug 08, 4:00PM

invoices YC-backed Plate IQ is using smartphone tech to tackle a recurring paper-based pain-point for small and medium-sized restaurants — namely the stack of invoices they get from food suppliers every week. Read More



ZenHub Brings Its Project Management Service To GitHub Enterprise

Aug 08, 3:30PM

hero-background ZenHub, a service that helps engineering teams manage their GitHub projects through Trello-like drag-and-drop task boards, was previously only available for regular GitHub accounts. Starting now, however, enterprise users who use the on-premise GitHub Enterprise service, will also be able to use ZenHub. This new enterprise version of ZenHub is one of the first collaboration and project… Read More



Cities As Platforms

Aug 07, 11:00PM

stik-skyline Take a look at the last decade’s fastest-growing companies. You’ll notice they have one thing in common: They’re all platforms.YouTube was not the first video-hosting site, but it was the first to disrupt the stagnating online broadcasting model, creating a platform with digital engagement at its core. And the catalyst for Google’s exponential growth trajectory was when… Read More



Ad Tech Startup C1X Raises $5.1M

Aug 07, 10:35PM

c1x C1X is announcing that it has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Mukundu Kumaran spent seven years as an engineering director at Yahoo. He said that during that time, he saw the complexity of the ad-tech industry, and now his vision at C1X is “to simplify how the basic advertising transaction works.” Read More



Apple's App Store Saw $1.7B in Billings And Broke Customer Records In July

Aug 07, 10:28PM

apple china Perhaps to counter concerns over iPhone sales and China, Apple this week released numbers related to the App Store’s growth that demonstrate the very real impact China is having on its app ecosystem and developer community. The company said that, in July, it had its largest number of transacting customers with over $1.7 billion in billings. In addition, the same month broke records… Read More



Hack The Planet! (Before It's Too Late)

Aug 07, 9:43PM

1024px-The_Last_HOPE Greetings from the gaudy hellscape of Las Vegas, and that overcrowded maelstrom of surly hackers known as DEF CON! What follows is a brief rundown of the talks here (and its big corporate sister Black Hat) that seemed particularly interesting. Short version: software is eating the world; software can be hacked; ergo, the world can be hacked. Be afraid. Read More



CrunchWeek: Earnings Beatdown, Twitter's Palace Intrigue And VR Goes Full Weird

Aug 07, 9:29PM

crunchweek-4-3 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s recurring roundup of the biggest tech stories of the week. This week our humble band delved into recent earnings by Etsy and Fitbit, Twitter’s share price declines, hints about the social company’s next CEO, and, of course, that VR thing you might have heard of. Read More



A Look Back At Earnings

Aug 07, 9:10PM

Wall Street Tired of earnings and financials and share price changes and non-GAAP operating margins and future cash positions? Too bad. It’s earnings season in the markets, and that means that the tech companies we can spell and have heard of are collectively spilling their guts about their recent performance. For some firms, this means recurring record highs. And for others, recurring record lows. Read More



Apple's Next iPhone Rumored To Debut On September 9th

Aug 07, 8:45PM

iphone I’m not a betting man — but if someone were to say “Quick! When will Apple announce the next iPhone?!”, I’d say September. It’s… just what they do. Sure enough: word around the rumor mill is now that the next announcement will come on September 9th. Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.07.15

Aug 07, 8:45PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Our LIVE CHATROOM here Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our sister show – G3 – on Facebook HERE G3 All Episodes Archive on Ustream HERE Read More



Smartwatches Decimated Traditional Watch Sales Last Month

Aug 07, 8:41PM

wristwatches An NPD survey is suggesting that the Apple Watch has pushed watch sales to the lowest point since 2008. NPD has found that watchmakers sold $375 million worth of watches in July, down 11 percent from last year. This decline is the largest since a similar decline in 2008 due to the financial crisis. Read More



Watch This Human-Controlled Robot Crush Cans And Punch Through Drywall

Aug 07, 8:15PM

robit 1 “The way I like to think about this project is that we’re trying to put a humans brain inside of the robot” Don’t worry: it’s less techno-horror-movie-esque than it sounds. We’re getting closer and closer to robots that can roam about on their own. DARPA’s Atlas robot is climbing stairs and opening doors; Google’s Small Dog is running around… Read More



How Consumer-Focused AI Startups Are Breaking Down Language

Aug 07, 8:00PM

Two artificial intelligence faces facing one another. Language is a distinctly human trait. Or is it? A new wave of consumer-focused startups are now developing artificial intelligence programs that can mimic, adapt and interpret the complex semantic patterns that were previously unrecognizable to logical, mathematically driven machines. Read More



Rand Paul And Chris Christie Spar Over NSA Surveillance

Aug 07, 7:08PM

17145284373_1f83b971d7_k Last night, Fox News hosted one of the most ridiculous, deeply entertaining GOP Presidential debates I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing a drinking game to. In the midst of the Moscow Mules, Lagunitas and amazing Trump-isms came a pretty heated (and unexpected) shouting match between former Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul regarding the spying capabilities of the NSA.… Read More



This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: HTC, OnePlus, Drifter, And Robot Sex

Aug 07, 7:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-07 at 2.51.41 PM It’s earnings season, and HTC is having a rough few years quarter. Meanwhile, OnePlus released the OnePlus 2, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 seems to have leaked all over the place. Plus, the Drifter waterproof speaker (with its own operating system) is now available for pre-order. We discuss all of this, and our future romantic relationships with robots, on the latest episode of the… Read More



Opera Acquires Bemobi, A Netflix-Like Subscription Service For Premium Apps

Aug 07, 6:58PM

Bemobi_-_Soluções_Corporativas_Mobile_and_NetNewsWire__1739_unread_ Browser maker Opera today announced that it has acquired Bemobi — a subscription-based mobile-app-discovery service with a focus on the Latin American market. Opera expects the acquisition to close in the third quarter of 2015. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Read More



Verizon Kills Off Subsidies And Contracts, Simplifies Data Plans

Aug 07, 6:47PM

Verizon Verizon announced a brand new line-up of monthly plans for new customers. Following T-Mobile’s model, plans are now a bit cheaper and easier to understand. But you should expect to pay more for your phone as Verizon (TechCrunch’s parent parent company) will sell you unsubsidized phones. Read More



13 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week

Aug 07, 6:20PM

weekly roundup USE This week Apple.com got a significant redesign, a Time magazine cover featuring Palmer Luckey went viral, Netflix announced a huge perk for its employees, and we found out what it’s like to use Amazon Dash buttons. Here are the stories of the week. Read More



Researchers Teach Robots To Avoid Childhood Bullies

Aug 07, 5:57PM

robotdap Kids are mean. Just ask any robot. Robotics engineers have discovered a tendency for little kids – kindergarteners and grade schoolers – to be abusive towards robots when they’re not near their parents. To prove this, the researchers sent a wheeled robot out into a mall and watched it perambulate around foot traffic. When a little kid approached with his or her parent, the… Read More




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