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Terms And Conditions Are The Biggest Lie Of Our Industry
Aug 21, 5:21PM
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Chrome Extensions Are Coming To Firefox
Aug 21, 4:57PM
Mozilla today announced major changes to how Firefox will implement add-ons going forward. The most important of these is the adoption of a new extension API that will be largely compatible with the one currently in use by Blink-based browsers like Chrome and Opera. This so-called WebExtensions API will ensure that developers will only have to make a few small changes to their code for… Read More
Today Is The Last Day To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets
Aug 21, 4:00PM
Today is the last day to save $1,000 on tickets to the hottest show in tech, so you need to head over to our ticketing page right now and get your tickets to Disrupt SF 2015. We’re thrilled with the lineup of speakers we have in store for you. Disrupt will feature some of the best and brightest minds in tech, from smart investors and venture capitalists like Vinod Khosla, Jon Callaghan… Read More
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Aug 21, 3:54PM
This week, Amazon came under fire by The New York Times for harsh work culture allegations, Google surprised the world with a new router, and data from an extramarital affairs site was leaked online. These are the stories to catch you up on all-things tech. Read More
QuizUp Looks To Gamify Corporate Learning With QuizUp At Work
Aug 21, 3:07PM
Work isn’t all about fun and games, but QuizUp is trying as hard as it can to change that. The popular and frustratingly addictive trivia game is announcing a new initiative today to change corporate learning with QuizUp at Work. The program allows corporations to take the fun and competitive nature of QuizUp and combine it with helping employees learn about company programs, products… Read More
The Internet Is Awful
Aug 21, 3:03PM
We were on the coast of Croatia when we saw our first nude sunbather. He was an older gentlemen who probably looked good in a suit but now, skin pruned from the water and his body hair plastered to a half-wiry/half-fat frame, he looked like a drowned cat with an impressive appendage. We kept sailing and saw more of them – an obese woman who showed us her backside as she lolled in the sun,… Read More
Reserve Acquires Set For Service, A Startup Offering Guest Management Tools For Restaurants
Aug 21, 3:00PM
Reserve, a “dining concierge” startup that helps users with restaurant reservations and payments, has acquired bootstrapped New York City company Set for Service. Set for Service offers a web and iPhone app (pictured below) that serves as a CRM system for restaurants like Eleven Madison Park, Brooklyn Fare and dell’anima, allowing them to track details and feedback from… Read More
SmartThings Support Is Coming To Amazon Echo
Aug 21, 2:22PM
It would appear that Amazon has plans to team up with SmartThings to power various home automation features with the Amazon Echo, the voice-powered personal assistant device. According to a Google web cache of the SmartThings blog, the Amazon Echo will soon be able to power any SmartThings-compatible devices in the home through a simple shout-out to Alexa. That includes non-SmartThings items… Read More
Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Seeks A Broader Audience, Including Traditional VCs
Aug 21, 1:37PM
Many crowdfunding startups now make it easier for founders to reach a bigger audience of investors. The question is whether investors are as keen to continue funding crowdfunding sites. OurCrowd may find out soon. The two-and-a-half-year-old, Jerusalem-based hybrid platform enables accredited investors to back startups through its site, as well as makes direct investments in each of those… Read More
Samsung Is Really Really Really Keen To Convert iPhone Owners To Its Smartphones
Aug 21, 10:54AM
Got an iPhone? Got a dollar? That’s all you need if you want to take one of Samsung’s newest smartphones for a thirty day, “no obligation” spin. Read More
Uber Plans To Go Public In 18-24 Months, According To Leaked Presentation
Aug 21, 10:06AM
Uber could become a public company as soon as next year or 2016, according to a leaked document published in a report from Reuters. The news agency gained access to a presentation that Uber is showing to potential investors in China as part of a new funding round for its international business. Read More
Uber And Ola Add Free In-Car WiFi To Their Taxi On-Demand Services In India
Aug 21, 6:56AM
There’s good news if you’re a ride-sharing app regular in India and sick of struggling with the country’s sometimes (/often) patchy mobile internet coverage. Both Uber and Indian rival Ola have revealed that they will begin offering in-car connectivity to customers for free. Read More
Hail Creates Content For Multiple Online Publishing Platforms With One Click
Aug 21, 5:05AM
If you work on any kind of online content, you know it’s not enough to hit publish and then sit back waiting for traffic. Links have to be shared to Facebook and Twitter, excerpts posted to Tumblr, and newsletters formatted and emailed. For organizations with limited resources, this is a huge drain on time. Hail wants to simplify the process. Read More
After Years Of Restraint, Facebook Tries Allowing GIFs In Ads And Page Posts
Aug 20, 11:12PM
Facebook refused to fill its site with flashy animated banner ads for a decade. Zuckerberg thought these interrupted the user experience, and could stunt growth. But after reaching near ubiquity and acclimating users to video ads, today the company tells me it’s relaxing its standards and starting to allow businesses to post GIFs as ads and Page posts. Wendy’s and… Read More
Optimizing South Korean Technology For American Users
Aug 20, 11:00PM
Navigating culture and business practices can be a trying task for any company going global. For tech companies, this often can mean coping with varying degrees of Internet connections from different service providers. If one is not careful, this could be an insurmountable hurdle. Success or failure can depend on a company’s ability to quickly adapt and prepare for the unexpected. Read More
Watch A Girl Named Isabella Unpack A New 3-D Printed Arm
Aug 20, 10:44PM
At this point in the 3D-printing game it should be obvious why the tech exists and why we should all own 3D printers: because they can change lives. Nowhere is that point hammered home more than in videos featuring the E-nable arms. In this latest video a girl named Isabella gets an amazing purple and pink 3D-printed hand from a volunteer named Stephen Davies who built and delivered the arm… Read More
Twitter Collapses To Record Lows, Tests IPO Price As Tech Stocks Slump En Masse
Aug 20, 10:08PM
In the post-IPO market, Twitter is sucking air. At least it isn’t alone. Alibaba also set a record low today. After repeated quarterly reports detailing slowing, anemic user growth, shares in Twitter today reached a new nadir: the firm’s IPO price. Twitter went public at $26 per share. It skyrocketed from that dollar point, eventually managing a $39.93 billion market… Read More
The Second Coming Of Deep Linking
Aug 20, 9:00PM
For developers and users, mobile deep linking has been a fantastically anticlimactic technology. Deep linking has existed since iOS 2.0, a time when fewer than 1 in 10 of us had a smartphone and Facebook had around 80 million users. Over the last seven years, many companies have riffed on the theme of deep linking. Read More
Our 9 Favorite Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2
Aug 20, 8:58PM
Yesterday’s Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day had a little something for everyone, with everything from condom delivery to server vulnerability monitoring thrown in the mix. Of the 52 that debuted yesterday, 9 really stood out to us and others we spoke to. Click through to see our Top 9 from the day. Read More
New York City's Tech Industry Is 62 Percent White, 60 Percent Male
Aug 20, 7:45PM
New York City’s tech industry is mostly white (62 percent) and male (60 percent), according to a recent analysis from the Center for an Urban Future. The fact that white men make up the majority of NYC’s tech force isn’t a huge surprise, but what’s interesting is how those figures compare to the diversity stats big tech firms like Apple, Amazon and Google have reported… Read More
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