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The Top 9 Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1
Aug 19, 5:47PM
Smart mattress covers, RNA diagnostics photosynthetic grow lights were amongst the big ideas that shone brightest on stage at Demo Day 1 for Y Combinator’ Summer 2015 batch. 50 startups presented on the record, including a massive influx of hardware companies and biotech firms. You can read about all of them here. Click through to see TechCrunch’s picks for the top 9 startups from… Read More
TechCrunch Is Hiring A Mobile Product Team
Aug 19, 5:30PM
At TechCrunch, we cover the latest in mobile, and it’s time for us to devote the same intensity to creating new TechCrunch apps on mobile platforms. To accomplish that, we aim to build out a mobile app product dream team. TL;DR: We’re hiring! Read MoreDemonsaw Uses "Social Cryptography" To Share Files And Data Anonymously
Aug 19, 4:33PM
While Demonsaw sounds like it would be an amazing metal band, it’s actually a sharing system built by a senior programmer at Rockstar Games. The creator, Eijah, was part of the core team for Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3 and is also a dedicated privacy activist. Demonsaw is his solution to the age-old problem of sharing information anonymously. “Privacy is very important to me. Read MoreMicrosoft Launches Third Technical Preview Of Windows Server 2016, Adds Built-In Container Support
Aug 19, 4:14PM
Microsoft today published the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. As promised, this is also the first version of Windows Server to natively support Windows Server Containers — that is, Microsoft’s version of Linux containers that can be managed both through Powershell and Docker’s command-line tools. Read MoreAirbnb On Building A Global Company
Aug 19, 4:05PM
The RISD grads were so passionate about their idea that they bootstrapped their company with a binder full of credit cards and sold politically themed cereal boxes during the 2008 presidential campaign – called Obama O’s and Captain McCains – for $40 a box. Read MoreOnly 3 Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
Aug 19, 4:00PM
Disrupt SF is right around the corner, and the deadline for getting early bird ticket pricing to the show ends this week. You seriously don’t want to miss out on the opportunity to save $1,000 on tickets to the hottest show in tech — an event you totally are going to go to anyway. Read MoreHere's Samsung's Answer To The Apple Watch
Aug 19, 3:41PM
Last week, Samsung held a big conference in New York. While many anticipated the announcements of the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+, the company also teased a new upcoming device — the Samsung Gear S2. This new smartwatch looks nothing like the Samsung Gear S. It’s a smaller, more fashionable watch that will go head-to-head against the Apple Watch. Read MoreGuardant Health And Flatiron Health Team Up To Cure Cancer With Big Data
Aug 19, 2:51PM
Every year, 8 million people around the world die from cancer, and 14 million people find out they have the disease. Guardant Health and Flatiron Health are joining forces in an aim to cut those numbers down using big data and analytics. The two highly venture-backed oncology startups are creating a database of genomic information, clinical trials, and drug treatment results that will… Read MoreAmerica's Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil Is Coming To Disrupt SF 2015
Aug 19, 2:49PM
White House Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for data policy DJ Patil is coming on stage with us at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. We’re excited to have him come and chat with us about his role as the first national data scientist. President Obama appointed Patil to his current position this spring. Patil was formerly the head of data science at LinkedIn but came… Read MoreSpredfast Acquires Shoutlet For A Social Marketing Team-Up
Aug 19, 2:05PM
Spredfast has acquired another social marketing company, Shoutlet. While the two companies are in the same industry, Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron (pictured above) said that when he looks at their products, he sees “a lot more complements than overlaps.” In particular, he said Spredfast has focused on helping companies find and create content for social media, while Shoutlet’s… Read MoreThis Week On Bullish: The Digital Divide
Aug 19, 2:00PM
Happy Wednesday, friends, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, a new show from TechCrunch designed to force me to wear makeup at least once a week. This time ’round we’re talking about education, technology, and how they don’t always end up together. How much do we invest in technology in our school districts? How can we get more tech into our classrooms? And,… Read MoreSoftBank CEO In Waiting Nikesh Arora Buys $483M Of Stock In 'Personal Bet'
Aug 19, 1:50PM
SoftBank’s Nikesh Arora — the man who Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son is backing as his replacement at the Japanese company — is doubling down on his employer after he agreed to buy 60 billion JPY ($483 million) in company shares from his own pocket. Read MoreHumin Launches Knock Knock, An App For College Kids To Contact Each Other Without Exchanging Numbers
Aug 19, 1:30PM
Ankur Jain, the founder of Humin – an app that aims to organize your contacts better than your smartphone – is sitting across from me in a conference room in downtown San Francisco and knocking on his own smartphone. Two strong thumps to the glass screen and a comic book styled app called Knock Knock opens up and begins to search for other users around us. Knock… Read MoreFanDuel Acquires Sports Analytics Company NumberFire
Aug 19, 1:17PM
Fantasy sports company FanDuel is acquiring numberFire, in a deal that co-founder and CEO Nigel Eccles told me will help FanDuel pursue a vision that goes beyond fantasy sports. “Our ambitions have really broadened,” Eccles said. “We’ve started to think of ourselves less as a fantasy sports business — we want to make sports more exciting.” Read MoreWhere Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Competitor Cinder
Aug 19, 12:30PM
Disrupt SF 2015 is right around the corner, so we thought we’d catch up on one of last year’s Battlefield contestants — Cinder. Cinder didn’t win the competition, but they’ve been doing some pretty good things since the show. Here’s a bit more about the company and what they’ve been up to since Disrupt SF 2014. Read MoreFull Ashley Madison Hacked Data Apparently Dumped On Tor
Aug 19, 12:25PM
Hacked data from online extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has apparently been leaked online, after a threat by a group of hackers to do so earlier this summer if the service did not shut down (which it has not). Read MoreFly Or Die: OnePlus 2
Aug 19, 12:23PM
In December of last year, a new, mysterious phone entered the oligarchy of the smartphone world. It was called the OnePlus One, and it made a hell of a splash as one of the more capable indie phones of the year. More recently, the same company has followed up with a sequel, aptly naming it the OnePlus 2. In terms of specs, the phone has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, dual-SIM, and a 13-megapixel… Read More
More Than Just A Period Tracker, Kindara Raises $5.3M To Understand Women's Health
Aug 19, 12:08PM
Kindara, a startup that helps women track ovulation cycles and fertility, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding to bring big data to women’s health. Boston Seed Capital led the seed round, with participation from SOS Ventures, Good Works Ventures, PV Ventures, MENA Venture Investments, and 62 Mile Ventures. Husband-and-wife team Will Sacks and Kati Bicknell launched Kindara in 2012 as… Read MoreXiaomi Bakes Opera's Data Compression Tech Into Newest Version Of MIUI Android
Aug 19, 11:37AM
Xiaomi may be best known for its competitively priced smartphones, which have soaked up marketshare in China at the expense of Samsung and other Android makers, but it also has its own version of Android. Today, the Chinese company unveiled the latest iteration of its MIUI platform, which was first created back in 2010 before Xiaomi had begun selling phones and now counts 150 million users. Read MoreAlienVault Secures $52M Round With Eye Toward IPO
Aug 19, 11:30AM
AlienVault, a company that delivers a hybrid threat management solutions combined with a crowd-sourced threat intelligence platform, announced a $52 million investment round today. The company boasts 24,000 registered users with 2200 paying customers and has been adding 300-400 customers every quarter. Investors liked the growth trajectory and decided to pursue a round, company CEO Barmak… 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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