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Periscope Is Secretly Building An Apple TV App

Sep 08, 6:30PM

Apple TV Periscope Periscope is developing an app for the new Apple TV, according to multiple sources. It will allow users to watch livestreams on their television that are broadcasted from Twitter’s Periscope app. You could consider it a coming of age moment, considering the acquired startup’s website is Periscope.tv Tomorrow, Apple will unveil an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that includes an Apple… Read More



Microsoft Details Surface Enterprise Push Ahead Of Apple Event

Sep 08, 6:01PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-08 at 10.49.03 AM Ah, the Apple press cycle, when other technology companies either try to preempt Cupertino’s news, or bury their own nasty bits inside of the media whirlwind. Today, Microsoft announced several things relating to the enterprise that come, it appears, only a few dozen hours before Apple announces a new iPad, aimed at corporate customers. The Redmond-based software shop has formed a deal… Read More



Drupal And WordPress Hosting Service Pantheon Launches New Enterprise Product

Sep 08, 6:00PM

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Pantheon, a well-funded website hosting and management platform for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it is launching a new enterprise service. Pantheon Enterprise builds on the company’s experience in building and running its service for agencies that handle the sites of multiple clients. That service now hosts the sites of more than 1,500 of Pantheon’s agency… Read More



Help Us Rename Our 'Collaborative Consumption' Category Because It No Longer Makes Sense

Sep 08, 5:36PM

helpwanted Halp! For years, TechCrunch has had a “Collaborative Consumption” category, which included companies like Airbnb, Uber, etc. But as time passes, and more and more ‘on-demand’ companies move from 1099 to W2, the term ‘collaborative consumption’ begins to make less and less sense. Internally, we floated the idea of changing the name of that category to… Read More



TC Cribs: Trulia's Cozy New Office Made Us Feel Right At Home

Sep 08, 5:18PM

trulia-logo This week’s Cribs episode brings us to Trulia’s newly designed real estate headquarters in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Zillow snatched up the rival real estate site earlier this year in a stock-for-stock purchase of $2.5 billion. But Trulia quietly worked behind the scenes to make its workplace a comfy experience for employees who call the SF office home. Located near… Read More



India's Taxi-Hailing Firm Ola Adds Shuttle Service In A Bid For More Scale

Sep 08, 4:46PM

Olacabs - Picture While Uber dukes it out in China against Didi Kauidi, a homegrown rival in India is also piling pressure on the U.S.-based transportation app with global ambitions. Ola, a taxi app backed by the likes of Softbank and DST Global (coincidentally also both backers of Didi Kauidi), is launching a new shuttle service to complement and expand on its taxi offering, with rides costing under $1.… Read More



Rating The Websites Of The 2016 Democratic Political Candidates

Sep 08, 4:35PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-02 at 4.46.52 PM I asked four web design, branding and marketing exerts to review and rate the sites of the leading Republican candidates. Now we’re taking a look at the sites of the top four Democrats in the race and putting them through the same process. Read More



Tech's In Vogue This Year…Literally

Sep 08, 4:15PM

IMG_5060 I know this might be shocking to you, but I’m not a fashion expert. I’m lucky if I can find two matching socks to wear. Most of the time I give up and don’t. However, it looks like the rest of the tech world is looking to up its fashion game, namely Apple and Amazon. Read More



Chat App Kik Introduces QR Codes To Connect Users And Brands

Sep 08, 4:11PM

kik codes Mobile messaging company Kik recently landed investment from Tencent at a billion dollar valuation, and now it is borrowing a hallmark of the Chinese company’s blockbuster WeChat app: QR codes. Read More



ShapeShift, A Cool Cryptocurrency Converter, Clinches $1.6 Million In Cash

Sep 08, 4:10PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-08 at 11.43.19 AM Do you need Clams? Nucoin? ShapeShift.io is here to help. This oddly simple system is a universal and anonymous cryptocurrency converter created by one of the pioneers in bitcoin, Erik Voorhees. How does it work? You request a certain cryptocurrency – Litecoin, for example – and give the service a deposit address. Then you simply deposit another currency – Bitcoin, for… Read More



What To Expect At Apple's 'Hey Siri' Event

Sep 08, 4:01PM

apple-wwdc-20150029 Tomorrow’s Apple event is going to be a behemoth. First, it’s going to take place in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, which seats a huge crowd of 7,000 people. Second, rumor has it that Apple is going to touch on many product lines — the iPhone obviously, but also the Apple TV, the iPad and the Apple Watch. Here’s what to expect. Read More



Jawbone Adds Passive Heart Rate Tracking And Auto Sleep Mode To Its Wristbands

Sep 08, 4:00PM

UP3 new color Jawbone is releasing a firmware update that will add passive heart rate and an automatic sleep mode to their wristbands. The UP2, UP3, and UP4 trackers are also getting a facelift in the form of new colors and, for the UP2, a new design with thinner straps. Read More



Adblock Plus Finally Lands On iOS And In Google Play — As A Browser App

Sep 08, 3:43PM

Adblock Plus iOS browser Popular desktop ad-blocking software Adblock Plus, which has some 50 million+ monthly active users worldwide, has finally launched an iOS app. It’s also managed to convince Google to allow its ad-blocking browser for Android back in the Play Store, noting that this is the first time since March 2013 it’s been allowed in the Google-controlled Android app store. Read More



Emergence Capital, Long a Top SaaS Investor, Shifts Focus to the Next Big Thing

Sep 08, 3:31PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-07 at 8.43.58 PM Since its founding a decade ago, Emergence Capital Partners has become among the startup industry’s most highly regarded investors in enterprise software-as-a-service companies. Fact is, few firms are as specialized. But the approach has paid big dividends. In fact, in 2013, Emergence saw one of the industry’s biggest returns with the IPO of Veeva Systems, an enterprise cloud… Read More



Raspberry Pi Now Makes A Touchscreen Display So You Can Build Your Own PiPad Pro

Sep 08, 3:25PM

front-centred So you decided to stick to the Raspberry Pi architecture and have completely eschewed the Orange Pi? Good for you. In honor of your decision I offer a new $60 Raspberry Pi touchscreen that can turn your single board computer into a fun-sized multi-touch tablet. The officially licensed product connects to the RaspPi’s DSI and DPI connectors to avoid using the precious HDMI connector and… Read More



Kokoroe Lets You Find Your Next Ukulele Or Math Teacher

Sep 08, 3:19PM

Elise Beatrice Raph Kokoroe French startup Kokoroe is a marketplace for any kind of course. On the company’s website, you can find a guitar teacher or a photography teacher and book a course in a few clicks. Teachers can also find students and manage their planning on the same website. Read More



Verizon's Mobile Video Service Go90 Launches Into Beta

Sep 08, 3:05PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-08 at 11.00.55 AM Verizon’s new mobile video service dubbed Go90 is launching this week, a report from The New York Times confirms. Verizon tells us the service is actually debuting into beta with Verizon Wireless customers and subscribers from other carriers starting today, with a broader rollout planned for the end of the month. The service, whose name refers to flipping your mobile device… Read More



Eden Raises $2 Million To Expand On-Demand Tech Help Service

Sep 08, 3:02PM

45 - eden Eden, the on-demand tech help service launched out of Y Combinator, has today announced a new chunk of cash to be added to its previously announced (rolling) seed round. This brings Eden’s total funding to $3.3 million, with this most recent $2 million adding to the $1.3 million the company received in July. Eden is a service launched out of the most recent Y Combinator class that… Read More



Capriza Update Helps Surface Important Information

Sep 08, 3:00PM

Signs -- complex and simple -- pointing in different directions By now, we all probably know the cloud and mobile have simplified many of the applications that have been used inside of companies for years. Yet as revolutionary as the cloud and mobile have been in the enterprise, they didn’t solve the problem of the sheer amount of functionality, even a cloud app like Salesforce.com offers users. As applications grow, over time they layer on more… Read More



Okta Joins Unicorns With $75M Round And Looks Towards IPO

Sep 08, 2:40PM

Man holding tablet with cloud hovering over it. Okta, the cloud identity management company, announced a $75 million round.  Okta was valued at $1.2 billion in this deal, meaning it has entered the hallowed halls of the Unicorn club, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the deal. CEO Todd McKinnon told TechCrunch that actual price is a tad below that reported figure at $1.175 billion. While being a Unicorn… Read More




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