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Traveling Spoon, An Airbnb For Home-Cooked Dinners Globally, Launches With $870K In Funding
Sep 16, 7:02PM
When abroad in China or India, I sometimes take a couple of hours to seek out a cooking lesson from a local. It’s the way I’ve learned how to make hand-made roti, pork buns and papaya salads. But these experiences are one-offs and you’ve got to do your own scouting to figure out who offers them. Aashi Vel and Steph Lawrence, who met at UC Berkeley’s school of business,… Read More>From Plaxo To Docker, Ben Golub Talks Innovation And Mentorship
Sep 16, 7:00PM
In this podcast, Golub talks with Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha about picking apricots in Silicon Valley, learnings from the challenging Plaxo journey, his excitement around leading Docker, the current climate for entrepreneurs, and the value of mentorship. Read MoreLearnUp, A Startup Closing The Skills Gap For Entry-Level Job Seekers, Raises $8M From NEA, Shasta
Sep 16, 6:56PM
In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly what was holding job seekers back amid the recession. One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills employers wanted to see with new and untested… Read More15 Hidden New Features Tucked Away In iOS 9
Sep 16, 6:27PM
After months in beta, iOS 9 hits iPhones and iPads today! Hurrah! Want to be the master of all things iOS 9? We’ve compiled a list of some of the neat but not-so-obvious features, many of which are tucked away enough that that you might not otherwise stumble upon them on your own. We’ll expand this list throughout the day as we poke out the new features. Let us know if you find any… Read MoreHappyFresh Lands $12M To Expand Its On-Demand Grocery Service In Southeast Asia
Sep 16, 5:46PM
HappyFresh, the grocery delivery service that opened its doors in Southeast Asia earlier this year, has landed a $12 million Series A round to develop its service and further expand across the region. Read MoreY Combinator Launches "Open Office Hours" To Give Diverse Founders Access To Its Partners
Sep 16, 5:30PM
Y Combinator is piloting a new program called “Open Office Hours” The aim is to connect with founders from underserved communities and give them direct access to YC partners either in-person or via Skype, depending on where the founders are based. YC’s office hours effort is led Michael Seibel, the founder whose startup Twitch sold to Amazon for $970 million and whose… Read MoreLumity Raises $14M To Crunch Data And Devise Better Health Insurance Plans For Companies
Sep 16, 5:30PM
Lumity, which devises and recommends health care plans to employers by comparing employee profiles against its own historical data, said today that it has raised $14 million. Social+Capital led the round, with True Ventures and Rock Health participating. Read MoreEnvoy, A Part-Time Concierge Service For Seniors, Raises $3M
Sep 16, 5:28PM
Envoy, which provides early elderly care with a concierge service for tasks like delivering groceries, has raised $3 million and is launching today. Envoy’s pitch is that it provides a one-to-one concierge with seniors that don’t quite need full-time assistance, but periodically need help with tasks like running errands and for in-home help like plumbing. These tasks are… Read MoreOscar Mayer Releases Sizzl, A Dating App For Bacon Lovers
Sep 16, 5:16PM
Apps like Tinder have gained popularity by shallowly focusing purely on physical attractiveness. It’s unfortunate, but also understandable. How is one supposed to boil down something as complex as the ideal personality of one’s perfect mate with an app? Well, Oscar Mayer believes it has found the perfect equation for this and it all comes down to bacon. Read MoreUber Hits Roadblock In India After Being Denied Permission To Operate In Delhi
Sep 16, 5:11PM
The Government of Delhi rejected Uber Technologies’ application to run taxis in the state on Tuesday, the latest roadblock the ride sharing service has hit in its foray into the Indian market. While the Press Trust of India reported Uber’s rejection late on Tuesday, the company has not yet acknowledged that a decision has taken place. “We haven’t received any… Read MoreiOS 9 Now Available To Download
Sep 16, 5:05PM
Apple has just released iOS 9. The update is now rolling out to eligible devices. It’s available both over-the-air in the Settings app, and by plugging your device into iTunes for a wired update. If you don’t see the update right away, don’t panic as it could take a few minutes. If you can’t download it right away, it’s because Apple now has a queue system for… Read MoreiOS 9 Review: A Powerful iPad Experience And Many Refinements Make iOS Flow Better
Sep 16, 5:04PM
Apple has been relentlessly releasing major iOS updates every year for the past 8 years. And it doesn’t look like the company is going to slow down any time soon as iOS 9 once again brings many improvements both small and large, including many subtle refinements that make your iPhone and iPad feel better and get things done faster. I’ve been playing with iOS 9 for more than a… Read MoreVinebox Offers Wine By The Glass As A Monthly Subscription
Sep 16, 5:00PM
There are plenty of subscription services out there that will hit you with a box of various wine bottles, but none offer subscription tastings by the glass. Until Vinebox. The new startup has just launched to offer subscription wine by the glass for $35/month, with each box containing three separate tasting vials of wine that are measured to the standard 100ml cup. These wines come from… Read MoreCrunchBase Introduces a Detail-Rich "Leaderboard" for the Unicorn Obsessed
Sep 16, 5:00PM
These days, everyone seems to have a unicorn list. And why wouldn’t they? The number of privately held companies to pass the billion-dollar valuation mark has soared so dramatically in recent years that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of them or make sense of their unprecedented financing rounds. Will most of them explode? Are private and public markets converging in a… Read MoreTwitter And Bloomberg Expand Partnership To Bring More Data To Terminal Users
Sep 16, 5:00PM
Tweets move markets. As silly as you might think Twitter can be, with all of its Kardashian drama, there is important information flowing within those 140-character chunks. The example I’ve always used to illustrate this is the fake White House tweet with the quick (but massive) market dip immediately after: The key to making sound financial decisions is having as much information on… Read MoreWrite As Many Words As You Need To
Sep 16, 4:54PM
Heya, this is the web, welcome. There is a lot of room here for activities. So much room, in fact, that you could write as many words as you want and it would literally never fill up all of the space inside.* You could write a 50,000 word review of an operating system. You could write a zero-word commentary piece on an acquisition or a currency. And you could even write something about… Read MoreMicrosoft Brings Send, Its Short-Form Email App, To Android
Sep 16, 4:49PM
Earlier this summer, Microsoft announced Send, a project for Office 365 users that aims to bring together the best of email and instant messaging. At the time, the service was only available on iPhone, but starting today, Android users will also be able to give it a try. Read MoreHershey's Chocolate 3D Printer Whips Up Any Sweet Design You Want
Sep 16, 4:31PM
Hershey’s chocolate scientists are now 3D printing uniquely designed candy. The confection company is taking its CocoJet 3D printer from 3D Systems to different exhibits throughout the U.S. to show chocolate lovers how this futuristic candy machine creates uniquely delicious designs. Consumers interact with a library of 3D graphics on an iPad to get the machine to form a number of… Read MoreFullscreen Announces Its Own Streaming Service Targeting The YouTube Generation
Sep 16, 4:18PM
Confirming reports from last spring, YouTube multichannel network Fullscreen announced today its plans to launch its own streaming service aimed at an audience who grew up using mobile devices. The news was delivered by way of a company blog post from Fullscreen Founder and CEO George Strompolos this morning, which offers light details about the new service in terms of the content it… Read MoreGoogle Fiber Installers On Time For 96% Of Appointments, Call Center Hold Times Under A Minute
Sep 16, 4:11PM
As Google Fiber grows out its operations into other cities, things will get more difficult as far as keeping up with demand. Until then, Google would like you to know that its installers are on time 96% of the time and the average hold time on the phone is just a shade above 30 seconds. If that’s not a shot at Comcast, I don’t know what is. Now please come to the rest of us.… 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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