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New Form Digital Is The New Hollywood, Combining New And Old Media For Online Distrubution
Sep 15, 7:02PM
New Form Digital is a video distribution and production company backed by Discovery, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard. But, as the name implies, the company has stepped away from traditional channels and blurs the line between new and old media. New Form approaches both sides of the media business with the same goal – generating audience and revenue online. It works with popular YouTubers,… Read MoreLast Call For Disrupt SF Hackathon Tickets, Plus Sponsor Prizes
Sep 15, 7:00PM
We’re excited to be hosting this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon. We’re less than a week away from the main event and are giddy with excitement. Throughout the week, we’ll be releasing information about the event, and we figured where better to start than with details about spectator tickets, our sponsors and their awesome prizes. Read MoreSnoop Dogg Is Rollin' Down The Street To TechCrunch Disrupt SF
Sep 15, 7:00PM
The man (the legend, rather) needs no introduction, though that’s exactly what Snoop Dogg is going to get at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. Snoop will be joining us onstage for a fireside chat with Ted Chung, who is also the founder of Cashmere Agency and co-managing member of Snoop’s VC fund called Casa Verde Capital. We’ll be discussing his foray into the tech world, with… Read MorePrivate Social Networking Service Grou.ps Regroups To Focus On Health And Fitness
Sep 15, 7:00PM
White label social networking service Grou.ps is now closed for new signups as the company is changing its strategy from being a general private social networking service to focusing solely on the health and fitness industry. The company is also changing its name from Grou.ps to GymGroups. Grou.ps was one of the first private social networking services on the market — together with… Read MoreStripe's John Collison Talks Stripe Relay And Bringing New Tools To Retailers
Sep 15, 6:56PM
Stripe yesterday rolled out a set of new tools called Stripe Relay geared at helping retailers essentially put buy buttons in multiple platforms. This offers retailers a big opportunity to reduce the clunkiness of a buying experience that requires jumping through mobile websites, according to Stripe’s John Collison. We sat down with him to find out more about Relay and how the company… Read More
Sony's "Project Morpheus" Virtual Reality Headset Is Now Just "Playstation VR"
Sep 15, 6:56PM
No one really expected Sony’s upcoming VR headset to keep its “Project Morpheus” code name when it eventually made it to the shelves — but no one knew what its actual name would be… until now. Alas, just about anyone with three guesses and a brain could have worked out the name that Sony’s marketing team ended up at: Playstation VR. It’s less creative… Read MoreSnapchat Acquires Looksery To Power Its Animated Lenses
Sep 15, 6:31PM
In a suspicious turn of events, Selfie animation app Looksery has disappeared from the App Stores just as Snapchat launched a new animated selfie feature called Lenses that appears to be built on Looksery’s technology. It would seem that Snapchat acquired Looksery. [Update: Snapchat has just confirmed to me that it has acquired Looksery.] Now, a Ukrainian news outlet Ain.ua has… Read MorePushup Social Adds Social Media To All The Things
Sep 15, 6:26PM
Deep in the wilds of St. Louis, a little company run by Dan Lohman, Yomi Toba, and Jan Christian Andersen wants to add all the social media things to all the web things. How? With Pushup Social. Pushup Social essentially adds a social media page to your web page. For example, the Endangered Wolf Center created a social community that lets them share photos, Instagram content, Tweets, and… Read MoreBill Gurley On Some High-Flying Startups and Their Economics: It's the "Same Shit" as in '99
Sep 15, 6:01PM
Today, at an interview sponsored by the Benchmark-portfolio company SailThru, legendary VC Bill Gurley appeared on stage with Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang to discuss the future of e-commerce. Gurley spent much of the talk addressing the importance of personalization and the opportunity that companies miss when they focus on acquiring new customers rather than optimizing their services for… Read MoreJeff Bezos' Blue Origin Heads To Florida To Take On Elon Musk's SpaceX
Sep 15, 5:49PM
Today, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled plans around setting up a rocket manufacturing plant in good old Florida. The news was announced in Cape Canaveral, of course. The company that Bezos is using to take on SpaceX is called Blue Origin and he plans on investing $200M into getting it off of the ground…so to speak. New Shepard, a Blue Origin rocket, is already being developed… Read MoreAlphabet Hires Director Of The National Institute of Mental Health For Its Life Sciences Team
Sep 15, 5:29PM
Alphabet has hired the (soon to be) former Director for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH), Thomas Insel for its Life Sciences group, according to a statement from the agency. Insel held the role for 13 years and will be stepping down officially on November 1st. This is a move that signals Alphabet’s interest in mental illness, a problem that is extremely underserved all… Read MoreEPIX Becomes First Network To Offer Offline Video Downloads On Mobile Devices
Sep 15, 5:22PM
Amazon may have made waves earlier this month with news that it would now allow users to watch Prime Instant Video titles while offline, but now other video service providers are beginning to follow suit. The latest to introduce offline viewing on mobile devices is EPIX, the premium cable channel that’s a joint venture between Viacom, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, and MGM. The… Read MoreFLUID Is A Smart Water Meter For Your Home
Sep 15, 5:10PM
Did you take a shower this morning? That’s 30 gallons of water down the drain. Flush the toilet a couple of times? That’s another four or five gallons. Run the dishwasher, too? Add another six gallons, at least. The average American consumes 80 to 100 gallons of water each day — the equivalent of around 700 half-liter water bottles. And that number doesn’t include… Read MorePostmates And Walgreens Team Up For On-Demand Delivery
Sep 15, 5:00PM
Walgreens just announced an official partnership with on-demand startup Postmates to offer same-day delivery for, initially, a flat delivery fee of $4.99. The on-demand delivery service via Postmates will be available at 600 Walgreens (known as Duane Reade in some parts of the U.S.) stores throughout the country. Postmates has always offered on-demand deliveries of items sold at Walgreens,… Read MoreNeighborly Raises $5.5M From Formation 8, Ashton Kutcher To Transform The Municipal Debt Market
Sep 15, 4:54PM
For American cities that need to raise millions or billions of dollars to finance projects from local parks to suspension bridges, the fractal-like complexity of global financial markets means that funding is becoming ever more opaque and distant from the real-world work it supports. A startup called Neighborly is hoping to narrow that gap with a $5.5 million round of funding from Joe… Read MoreOn-Demand Delivery Service Quiqup Picks Up Backing From Delivery Hero And Global Founders Capital
Sep 15, 4:49PM
London’s Quiqup, an on-demand delivery service that competes with Ingite alumni Jinn and U.S. Postmates (if and when it launches in the U.K.), has raised a “multi-million pound” Series A round from take-out ordering service Delivery Hero and Rocket Internet’s investment fund Global Founders Capital. Delivery Hero, of course, is also partially owned by Rocket Internet… Read MoreClass Action Lawsuit Accuses Twitter Of 'Listening In' On Your Direct Messages
Sep 15, 4:38PM
The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Twitter is the target of a class action lawsuit having to do with how private direct messages are treated on the service. While it’s quite obvious that there aren’t humans that work at Twitter reading your direct messages, an algorithm is sweeping over them, to swap out links with shortened T.co (the shortening service owned by Twitter) ones… Read MoreAccenture Acquires Cloud Sherpas To Enhance Cloud Consulting Chops, Especially Around Salesforce.com
Sep 15, 4:36PM
Accenture, the worldwide consulting company, announced today it was buying Cloud Sherpas, a firm that specializes in helping companies incorporate cloud services like Salesforce.com, Google and ServiceNow into the enterprise. Accenture did not disclose the purchase price. It’s not a coincidence that this announcement came as Dreamforce, the enormous Salesforce.com customer conference,… Read MoreConservative Entrepreneurs Want To Force Tech Issues Into GOP Debate
Sep 15, 4:26PM
A group of conservative technologists wants eliminating regulatory policies affecting small businesses to be a key issue in 2016. Lincoln Labs, a conservative technology group pushing for small government, on Monday released a report outlining policies that would limit regulation, intellectual property laws and lobbying practices that the group thinks impede startups. The authors hope by… Read MoreSnapchat Starts Charging $0.99 For 3 Replays, Adds Face Effect "Lenses"
Sep 15, 4:10PM
Snapchat is debuting its first in-app purchase. It’s a new way for it to make money by letting users purchase three extra Replays of Snaps they just watched for $0.99. The company is also adding a new feature called lenses that lets users add animated effects to their face. When in Selfie mode, Snapchat will detect their faces, and users can then tap and swipe to add little overlaid… 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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