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Announcing The Judges For The Disrupt SF 2015 Startup Battlefield

Sep 10, 6:35PM

startup battlefield logo TechCrunch is excited to announce the judges of the next round of Startup Battlefield. These are kind folks tasked with picking the finalists and winner of the startup competition held at Disrupt SF. It’s a big task, but these judges are up to the challenge. Read More



Abra Raises $12M In Series A Funding For Its Bitcoin-Based Remittance Service

Sep 10, 6:30PM

bitcoinoldmoney Abra, a remittance service built on top of the Blockchain, has closed $12 million in Series A funding. Investors in the round include Arbor Ventures, RRE Ventures, and First Round Capital. Total funding to date by the company now totals $14 million. The company’s app, which will launch soon to the general public, lets users around the world transfer funds denominated in any currency at… Read More



Ellen Pao: I Won't Appeal My Case Against Kleiner Perkins

Sep 10, 5:46PM

ellen pao More than three years after former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the storied Sand Hill Road firm, the case is coming to an end. Pao, who was handed a sweeping defeat following a four-week long trial in late March, has decided not to appeal, she said in a statement released earlier this morning. Wrote Pao: “I feel… Read More



You Have One Week(Ish) To Apply To The TC Pitch-Off In Denver

Sep 10, 5:07PM

meetupsjordan Dear Denver, If you happened to miss the original announcement, I’ve got some good news for you. TechCrunch is headed to Denver and we’re bringing with us the world-renowned TC Meetup + Pitch-Off. In conjunction with Denver Startup Week, we’ll be holding our event on Thursday, October 1. So what’s involved with a TC Meetup + Pitch-off? It’s pretty simple. We… Read More



Camera+, The Third-Party Camera App With 14 Million Users, Goes Free

Sep 10, 5:05PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-10 at 12.56.39 PM Tap tap tap, the company behind the popular third-party camera app Camera+, is making its flagship application free today. The app, which has grown over the years to reach 14 million users and $18 million in sales, has capitalized on Apple iPhone users’ demand for an expanded set of photography-related features that take advantage of the high-quality cameras found on their device.… Read More



Facebook Gives Verified Profiles Its Mentions App With "Live" Streaming And Posts Just To Followers

Sep 10, 5:00PM

Mentions for Profile - Live Journalists might start sharing a lot more of their links to Facebook, as now they can finally opt out of spamming their friends and instead only post to their public followers. Today, journalists and other Verified Profiles on Facebook are getting access to the Mentions iOS app previously reserved for Verified Pages, as we reported they would. It includes Periscope-esque Live streaming and… Read More



Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez On The Art Of The Pivot And Ignoring Investors

Sep 10, 4:37PM

compass In this podcast, Marketo chief executive Phil Fernandez talks with Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha about the long march to the initial public offering and the hard choices along the way. Read More



TechCrunch Giveaway: SnapPower Guidelight 10-Pack

Sep 10, 4:00PM

k2uVPCe0O9u8shgOoeM6CTodXc132lQ-0HDrnHzOnJ8,N6FE2MiCMH0DvHcWP79Gah4grFX2QqVbGh8WS9MupiQ It’s time for another TechCrunch Giveaway! SnapPower is giving away a Guidelight 10-pack to 3 TechCrunch readers. What is a Guidelight, you ask? The Guidelight is essentially a super sweet nightlight built into a standard outlet cover plate. It installs in seconds and requires no batteries or wiring. The design leaves both electrical outlets free for use. These Guidelights are… Read More



IBM Buys StrongLoop To Add Node.js API Development To Its Cloud Platform

Sep 10, 3:42PM

ibm-earnings IBM has today made another acquisition to expand its business in cloud services — specifically in the area of enterprise app development. It has acquired StrongLoop, a startup based in San Mateo that builds application development software for enterprises using the open source JavaScript programming language Node.js. This in turn enables enterprises to build mobile and cloud-based… Read More



Android Pay, Google's Apple Pay Rival, Arrives Today

Sep 10, 3:30PM

android-pay Google’s new payments platform Android Pay, a rival to both Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, is starting to roll out, the company is announcing today. The system allows consumers to make purchases at point-of-sale using NFC technology, as well as pay for in-app purchases on Android devices. At launch, the payments technology will work at millions of locations around the U.S., including… Read More



Stanford Partners With Life Sciences Marketplace Quartzy For Campus Lab Supplies

Sep 10, 3:15PM

Stanford_Arches2.tif Quartzy is a lab supplies marketplace often used among life scientists at various universities, but particularly at Stanford. The academic institution made that relationship official today. Quartzy will now be deployed in labs across the Stanford campus to save the university cash on lab supplies. Read More



Periscope Adds Facebook Sharing, Support For Landscape Broadcasts Ahead Of Its Apple TV App

Sep 10, 3:09PM

1-6Bznr2OvE-Oiflyy4PiQpA Twitter’s live-streaming app Periscope rolled out an update today that introduces support for broadcasting and watching streams while your mobile device is in landscape mode. While addressing a minor inconvenience which before saw users stuck watching video sideways at times (as Periscope only supported portrait mode), the new addition makes even more sense given Periscope’s… Read More



Vivek Wadhwa Joins Board Of French Startup Accelerator TheFamily

Sep 10, 3:00PM

5583198429_550f1b07ef_o French startup accelerator TheFamily has a new board member, entrepreneur turned academic Vivek Wadhwa. He has been involved with many different research centers, including at Singularity University and Duke University. He’s also well-known for his book Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology and is a strong tech diversity advocate. Read More



Microsoft Announces Office 2016 Will Arrive September 22

Sep 10, 2:36PM

microsoft hq Microsoft announced this morning the official launch date for the long-anticipated new version of Microsoft Office. Office 2016 will be broadly available starting on September 22, the company says. Meanwhile, Office Customers with volume licensing agreements will be able to download the software on October 1. Read More



Rakuten's Wuaki.tv Beats Netflix To Offline Downloads, Starting First With Mobile Devices

Sep 10, 1:59PM

UK_Offline-Master_Without_CTA While Netflix has remained firm in its stance against offline downloads of its streaming video catalog, one of its competitors in Europe has jumped ahead of it with its own offering. Wuaki.tv, the online video service owned by Japan’s Rakuten, is launching an offline feature across its European footprint, where its users — currently numbering around 3 million — will be able… Read More



U.S. Consumers Now Spend More Time In Apps Than Watching TV

Sep 10, 1:55PM

ios8 At yesterday’s Apple event in San Francisco, CEO Tim Cook spoke about the need to bring apps to the TV’s big screen, while introducing the new Apple TV. Today, a new report from Flurry also highlights how apps have edged their way further into our lives, noting that, for the first time ever, the time spent inside mobile applications by the average U.S. consumer has now exceeded that… Read More



Okta Beefs Up Multi-Factor Authentication

Sep 10, 1:54PM

Smartphone with code sent for multi-factor identification. Okta, the company best known for cloud identity management, is introducing a new level of multi-factor authentication (MFA) that it is calling Adaptive MFA. It uses intelligence and a rules engine to determine when it’s prudent to ask for a second form of identification. By now we have all heard about the growing list of high profile breaches over the last 12-18 months. Just the… Read More



Curatum Is A Men's Ecommerce Platform That Recommends One Item Each Day

Sep 10, 1:10PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-10 at 9.07.03 AM There’s a running theme in tech. The less choice you have, the easier it is to make a decision. That’s what a new startup called Curatum is banking on. The mobile app is a men’s lifestyle ecommerce platform that uses experts in various fields (fashion, accessories, furniture, books, art, lifestyle) to curate a single item that is served to users each day. The company was… Read More



Wave Broadband Buys Layer42, Expanding Its Silicon Valley Customer Base

Sep 10, 1:09PM

2562530829_99e6411563_b Amid the forest of large cable and telecoms carriers that dominate broadband services in the U.S., a profitable, smaller upstart out of Washington state is making an acquisition of another small player to build out its business in Silicon Valley. Wave Broadband, a gigabit fiber and broadband services company serving both business and residential users, has bought Layer42 Networks, a company… Read More



What's Better? Incentivized Or Non-Incentivized App-Install Campaigns

Sep 10, 1:00PM

incentive The concept of incentivized traffic for app-install campaigns is far from new, but there is still much debate in the industry regarding the advantages comparing rewarded versus non-rewarded campaigns. Read More




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