Hi there!
Here's the latest feed from TechCrunch.
Add feeds@feed2email.net to your contact list to make sure you receive all your emails
Make sure to visit feed2email.net to get more feeds sent to your inbox.
To find out which feeds you are subscribed to, or to get further help, just reply to this email.
Air Traffic Control Is Getting A Much-Needed Upgrade
Aug 16, 5:00PM
Air traffic control (ATC) towers are an omnipresent feature of modern airports, second in recognition only to airliners themselves. Towers, though, represent only a small part of the vast network that routes aircraft from point to point. Like erstwhile pets, aircraft are shepherded and guided by a variety of different powers as they fly over the United States. Read More
The Burgeoning Invisible App Market
Aug 16, 3:00PM
Today’s “invisible app” market could be classified as a passing trend, but it might also be the beginning of a significant multi-year shift in how we transact when we’re away from our computers. This shift applies to mobile devices, email, home devices like the Amazon Echo and even wearables like the Apple Watch. Read More
The Promise Of 5G
Aug 16, 3:00AM
The evolution of personal communication has fundamentally altered the everyday lives of most people on our planet. Armed with a smartphone connected to a seemingly infinite ocean of information, entertainment and applications, many of us cannot remember a time when we weren’t dependent on our mobile devices and networks for most of our daily needs. Read More
Politicized "Gig Economy" May Make Changing Status Quo More Difficult
Aug 15, 11:00PM
The so-called “sharing economy,” which some affectionately (or pejoratively) describe as the “gig economy,” is becoming a highly politicized issue in the 2016 presidential election. As the “sharing economy” capitalizes on crowdsourcing everyday tasks or “gigs,” lawmakers and politicians alike are chiming in. The issue of whether to classify… Read More
MyOptique Buys Two More Eyewear Brands To Grow In Europe
Aug 15, 11:00PM
Index Ventures-backed veteran online glasses retailer MyOptique Group has expanded its customer base with two new acquisitions: German rival 4care, which owns Lensbest.de; and the U.K.-based premium eyewear e-tailer, Eyewearbrands. Read More
The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off In NYC Is On Like Donkey Kong
Aug 15, 10:54PM
We’re so close! The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is in three days and time is running out to buy tickets. What is the TC Pitch-off, you ask? Ten pre-selected companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their products to a panel of expert judges. Judges include Greycroft’s Alan Patricof, Foursquare’s J Crowley, FirstMark’s Amish Jani, Quire’s Erin… Read More
Disney Announces Star Wars-Themed Attractions, Thereby Ensuring Force Will Be With Us All
Aug 15, 9:10PM
Disney has announced that they will add multiple Star Wars-themed attractions to their two parks. You’ll be able to visit 14 acres of space worlds including a “never-before-seen planet,” a “trading port” (where you’ll be able to buy sweatshirts), and even a ride that lets you drive the Millennium Falcon. “I am thrilled to announce the next chapter… Read More
Tune In To TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM This Tuesday!
Aug 15, 8:45PM
It’s clear, based on the fact that you’re reading this article, that you enjoy visually consuming TechCrunch content. But what if I told you that you could listen to TC on the radio? I’m sure it seems like something out of a dream, but TechCrunch Radio is real and the show airs every Tuesday at 6pm ET / 3pm PT. Even better, TC Radio is home to the TC Radio Pitch-off, where… Read More
Lessons From An Advertising Past
Aug 15, 8:00PM
The Lending Club IPO was a watershed moment for marketplace lending. One of the largest U.S. public Internet offerings ever, its success makes crystal clear that peer-to-peer lending is not only here to stay, but is poised to grow enormously. With this stamp of validation behind it, the next question is: What lies ahead for the future of marketplace lending? Read More
BuildUp Fellows Program Aims To Nurture Underrepresented Founders In Tech
Aug 15, 6:00PM
There’s no shortage of tech accelerators and incubators, with the likes of Y Combinator, 500 Startups and TechStars. All three of them have addressed diversity in their own ways, but more could always be done. Enter the BuildUp Fellows program, an intensive two-week accelerator designed to educate and mentor underrepresented founders, like women, veterans and minorities, in the tech… Read More
Local SF Brewery Creates A Platform To Help The Tech Crowd Choose The Right Beer
Aug 15, 4:06PM
Craft beers aplenty but not sure what your taste buds might like to try? Local Brewing Company is a newly opened brewery in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco with an app for that. Brewmaster and owner of Local Brewing Company, Regan Long, developed a mobile platform to help founders, VC’s and other bar patrons in this tech-heavy area of the city figure out which beer to order.… Read More
Navigating The New Waters Of Fundraising
Aug 15, 3:00PM
As a VC that has been in the industry for 15 years, I have watched many trends come and go. For the first few years of my career, my colleagues and I spent most of our time sourcing these trends and then incubating new innovation right here in Silicon Valley in the labs at IBM and AT&T. Today, however, the most successful venture capitalists all over the world are looking for innovation… Read More
Bluetooth Suppositories And Other Teledildonics You Didn't Know You Needed
Aug 15, 1:00PM
Let us talk frankly about technology and sex, which are, as the old ad has it, two great tastes that taste great together. Let’s talk about vibrators, and teledildonics, and orgasms, and KinkBNB, and VR porn, and “Uber for escorts.” And let’s talk again about how our collective inability to about our collective inability to think about, talk about, and invest in sex in… Read More
Loyalty Bay Raises $1M For Its API To Incentivize With Gifts
Aug 15, 10:18AM
You know those gift cards you see at the checkout counter in various stores? Well, it’s a kind’ve crazy business. Most people, when given gift cards, forget to spend them or that there’s a use-by date. And yet they remain popular, with so many people buying gift cards and vouchers instead of presents. As a result, most of the players make money from non-redemption. This is… Read More
The Future Of Consumer Marketing Is Personal
Aug 15, 2:00AM
Today’s marketing industry is a long way from achieving its end-game of a system that delivers the perfect creative through the best medium at the optimal moment to each individual audience member. To move toward that vision, the industry is evolving from an impression-centric paradigm to a user-centric paradigm. Read More
Obama Is #TeamSpotify, White House Releases Two #POTUSPlaylists
Aug 15, 12:10AM
The Commander and Chief has just made his music streaming service allegiances known. The White House released a pair of playlists Friday morning that were allegedly hand-picked by Obama himself. Were they on Apple Music? Nah. How about Tidal? Forget about it. Two iterations of “The President’s Summer Playlist” were released, with both “Day” and… Read More
Lessons from Seoul's Two Sharing Economies
Aug 14, 10:00PM
As a Fulbright grantee, I spent part of the last year researching the sharing economy in Seoul. One of my main findings? Korea actually has two. The first is small-scale, hyper local and socialist in flavor. The second is the polar opposite of the first, and encompasses Airbnb and Uber, the enormous, multinational corporations that remain those best associated with the term “sharing… Read More
MissTravel Will Find A Sugar Daddy To, Uh, "Sponsor" Your Vacation
Aug 14, 8:52PM
Ever wanted to travel to an exotic island for a week but didn’t have the cash? Well, thanks to MissTravel, that’s not a problem anymore — if, and it’s a big if, you’re a young, attractive woman who’s willing to swipe right on a lonely, wealthy travel companion. MissTravel initially launched as a dating site two and a half years ago, the first in the… Read More
InspiroBot Generates Random Inspirational Images To Make You Seem Deep And Maybe A Little Crazy
Aug 14, 8:45PM
Take a pretty picture. Slap some inspirational words on it. Post it on Facebook, then swim in a river of likes. If this is a thing you do, be afraid: you have been replaced by a robot. A wonderfully random, terrifyingly sentient robot. Meet InspiroBot, an “artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of… Read More
Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead
Aug 14, 8:30PM
Slack! The email killer! It’s going to kill email! Welp, not today. The team clearly listens to its users, as the company announced a new integration (for Standard and Plus plan customers) that’ll make them extremely happy. Email will probably never completely die; it’s how organizations communicate with the outside world. Now you can bring email into your Slack channels:… Read More
If 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.
To stop all future emails from feed2email.net you can reply to this email with STOP in the subject line. Thanks