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Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble

Aug 28, 6:00PM

shutterstock_137342978 Service marketplaces have recently become Silicon Valley darlings. The marketplace model has been a popular way for VCs to efficiently tap into the local economies at scale, specifically the $800 billion home services space. It’s a model that dates back to the initial concept of Yellow Pages in 1883. And it makes sense — giving homeowners a convenient way to find local… Read More



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

Aug 28, 5:50PM

weekly roundup USE This week’s headlines saw the stock market plunge, Facebook’s new digital personal assistant, the launch of YouTube Gaming, and more. These are the stories to catch you up on tech news. Read More



NYC Taxis Are Testing An Uber-Like App Called Arro

Aug 28, 5:47PM

11607374294_722daea471_k The battle between yellow cabs and Uber cars is about to get that much spicier. According to Crains New York, a new app called Arro is being beta tested among 7,000 yellow and green taxis in the NYC area, allowing potential passengers to e-hail a regular cab instead of an Uber. The app should roll out fully in a couple of weeks and spread to all 20,000 green and yellow taxis in the city. The… Read More



Twitter: We're Upping Our Female Employees to 35 Percent in 2016 (Along With Other Changes)

Aug 28, 4:47PM

twitter-balance Like a lot of tech companies in Silicon Valley, Twitter last year published numbers about the different backgrounds and cultures of its employees, and its numbers were revealed to be rather white and very male. Specifically, as of last July, 70 percent of its employees were men, and 72 percent of its managers were white. Mother Jones called the numbers “embarrassing.” Twitter… Read More



The Perfect Storm Bass Preamp Contains Secret Soviet Technology

Aug 28, 4:40PM

ef3b3c1ce280a772bb22171f6844bc46_original There’s a lot about this Kickstarter project to dissuade me from writing about it. First, this is a bass preamp, a little box that sits between the bass player and the amplifier. It is a device that is interesting only to a certain subset of musician and it is expensive – $1,495 for the early bird models. Heck, it doesn’t even look like it will hit its goal. But the… Read More



Namely, The All-In-One HR Platform, Hires Radhika Samant And Teresa Dietrich

Aug 28, 4:38PM

namely Namely, a startup that does all the heavy HR lifting for you, is today announcing two new strategic hires in the form of Radhika Samant and Teresa Dietrich. Samant was previously CFO at EnterpriseDB, where she led human resources and operations and was integral in raising $60 million in funding, as well as growing out the team. Dietrich, on the other hand, was SVP of technology operations… Read More



FAA Starts Beta Testing App That Tells Drone Pilots Where They Are Allowed To Fly

Aug 28, 4:35PM

sevengables Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would soon start beta testing an app that would help drone flyers understand where they can and — more importantly — can’t fly. Today, the FAA announced a few more details about the app and launched the first beta version of the aptly named B4UFLY app for iOS. Read More



Today Is The Final Day To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets

Aug 28, 4:00PM

TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 - Day 1 After a one-week extension, today is the absolute last day to get your early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2015, so if you want to secure your spot to the hottest show in tech while saving a serious amount of cash in the process, be sure to get your tickets now. Read More



The OnePlus 2 Returns With Another Indie Phone Powerhouse

Aug 28, 3:46PM

OnePlus 2 On Shelf If you’ve been out of the Android game for a while you’d be hard-pressed to understand why people love OnePlus so much. These phones, conceived by the folks who initially launched Oppo, are aimed at the Android connoisseur, if such a person exists, and they have a rabid fanbase of folks who clamor for units with every launch. It’s hard to find them, you’ll probably… Read More



Android Wear Device Supports iOS, Per This Pre-Order Page

Aug 28, 3:33PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-28 at 11.31.10 AM Apple Watch not for you? The Amazon preorder page for the Huawei Watch states that the device will support iOS. Now, at this point, it’s unclear if this is a typo or unreleased information — let’s hope it’s the latter. So far iPhone owners have had a limited amount of smartwatches to choose from, say just the Apple Watch and Pebble devices. Likewise, there are dozens… Read More



Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman Exits Company Following Ashley Madison Hack

Aug 28, 2:34PM

noel-biderman1 Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman is stepping down, the company announced this morning. Avid Life Media, or ALM, operates the dating site for cheaters, Ashley Madison, which was affected by a massive hack that exposed the account details of 37 million users, along with sensitive company information contained in emails. Among other things, those emails revealed that Biderman himself… Read More



Chrome Will Begin Pausing Flash Ads By Default, Starting In September

Aug 28, 2:11PM

html5_top Google’s Chrome web browser keeps getting better. According to a new post on Google+, the company says that, starting on September 1st, Chrome will begin to pause many Flash ads by default in order to improve performance for its users. This change was first announced in June, and initially rolled out to the beta version of the Chrome desktop web browser. At the time, Google noted that… Read More



Thread, The U.K. Online Personal Styling Service For Men, Scores $8M Series A

Aug 28, 12:40PM

Thread Using a mixture of algorithms and human stylists, London-based Thread works on the premise that a lot of men hate clothes shopping, however much they like stylish attire. The online styling service claims 200,000 customers since it was founded in 2012 and has this week hit a significant funding milestone with the closure of an $8 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital. Read More



10 Things I Learned Interning At A Singaporean VC Firm

Aug 28, 12:30PM

shutterstock_269742941 You see a lot as an intern at a venture capital shop. Over the past three months I worked as an intern at the southeast Asian-focused venture firm Tigris Capital, under the tutelage of general partner William Klippgen. Read More



Vive VR Headset Full Consumer Launch Slips To Q1 2016

Aug 28, 12:22PM

HTC-Vive You wait years and years for virtual reality to become a thing, and then suddenly a truck load of VR headsets pile into the tech hype cycle almost at once (thanks Oculus). But if you’re a consumer wanting to get eyes into this next-gen VR hardware you’re likely still waiting to live the daydream. Read More



ReBoard Is An iOS Keyboard With Third-Party App Shortcuts

Aug 28, 10:33AM

ReBoard ReBoard is a just launched iOS keyboard app from an indie dev team in India that’s targeting productivity-focused folk, by adding the ability to reach out to other apps right from the keyboard. So instead of having to double tap out of whatever messaging app you’re using to go hunt for that YouTube link, for instance, you can do a look up right from the keyboard. Read More



Aging2.0 #30in30in30 World Tour Wants To Find The Best Startups For Seniors

Aug 28, 9:54AM

seniors shutterstock Consumers in their twenties to early fifties are usually considered the most attractive age demographic because of their spending power. Unfortunately, this means that older people are often underserved by companies even though they make up more than 16 percent of the world’s population. Aging2.0 wants to change that. Read More



Cheetah Mobile Will Launch Its Online Advertising Platform In India

Aug 28, 8:14AM

cheetah shutterstock Best known as an Android utility app maker, Cheetah Mobile is now focused on global growth for its mobile advertising business. The Beijing-based company announced today that it will launch its advertising platform in India next month. Read More



DeNA's Mirrativ App Livestreams Any Game Or App On Your Android Device

Aug 28, 8:06AM

Mirrativ - app screen YouTube isn’t the only one to introduce a live-streaming app this week. Just days after YouTube Gaming was outed, Japan’s DeNA — a prolific producer of games itself — has entered the scene with its own take, called Mirrativ. Read More



iZettle Gets $67M To Expand From Mobile Payments To Small Business Financing

Aug 28, 7:00AM

cYn8okcNG665Iv0HkJ8ph-TlcbQXRYcninzdbuHmfKU European mobile payments player, iZettle, is expanding into what amounts to small business loans — announcing a capital advance product, called iZettle Advance, which will be available to select iZettle customers who need funds to grow their own businesses. So it’s basically moving onto even more of the territory where traditional banks fear to tread. Read More




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