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Cruise Raises $12.5M From Spark, YC's Sam Altman For Self-Driving Cars; Poaches Tesla's Lead on Autopilot
Sep 18, 7:14PM
A few months ago, I took a ride down the 101 in an Audi that had been modified to self-drive down Bay Area highways. It was a company called Cruise that was started by the founder of Socialcam, Kyle Vogt, who had done undergraduate research a decade ago in autonomous vehicles. After hitting one out of the park with consumer mobile apps when Socialcam sold to Autodesk for $60 million, Vogt… Read MoreAdi Tatarko Is In The Houzz For TC Disrupt
Sep 18, 6:45PM
Founders often like to say that they are passionate about their companies, but it’s not always a sure bet that your labor of love can be converted into a grand slam success. Yet that is exactly what has happened with Houzz, a home decorating and remodelling online community and marketplace. Started by Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen in 2009 as a site where the pair could… Read MoreReiterating The IRS, A U.S. Government Agency Declares Bitcoin A Commodity
Sep 18, 6:25PM
Is bitcoin a currency or a commodity? According to the United Stated Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), bitcoin is the former. Its recent decision mirrors former verbiage by the IRS declaring bitcoin to be, as TechCrunch reported at the time, “property, not currency.” What’s going on? Read MoreDiary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 11: Adding Showtime To Your Cord-Cutting Mix)
Sep 18, 5:55PM
2015 has been a good year to be a cord cutter. There are more ways than ever to watch television and movies over-the-top without a subscription to a cable or satellite TV service. And now, some of the premium cable TV channels you used to have to watch via your set-top box are available via online and mobile streaming, as well. Earlier this year, we took a look at HBO’s newer option for… Read MoreA Year In Review: The Disrupt Startup Battlefield 2014
Sep 18, 5:55PM
It’s been a year since 2014 Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield companies took the stage to compete for the coveted Disrupt Cup, a $50,000 prize, and the attention of media and investors. This is how far they’ve come in a year. Read MoreJames Currier And Stan Chudnovsky Take The Wraps Off Their New Incubator, NFX Guild
Sep 18, 5:21PM
A new Bay Area accelerator, NFX Guild, has emerged on the scene with plans to run a three-month-long program twice a year for between 10 and 15 companies. It has a novel approach, too. For one thing, there is no publicly available application process. Startups will be referred to NFX by “scouts,” after which a select number will receive invitations into the program. The scouts… Read MoreHotspot Shield Launches VPN Plugins For Chrome And Firefox To Help People Liberate Their Internet Browsing
Sep 18, 5:11PM
A free and unrestricted internet can be a dangerous place, but it’s always important for the tools that prevent government or corporate censorship of the web to stay one step ahead of the blockers. Hotspot Shield, the world’s largest VPN Proxy service with over 350 million downloads to date, just launched a pair of web browser plugins for Chrome and Firefox browsers that will… Read MoreThe Teenaged Maker Who Was Arrested For Building A Clock Is Switching Schools
Sep 18, 4:17PM
CNN is reporting that Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, has switched schools. He is leaving MacArthur High School and he and his parents are choosing another school where, we assume, he won’t be arrested for curiosity. Read MorePurch Acquires Active Junky, A Loyalty Platform For Outdoor Gear
Sep 18, 4:09PM
Purch, owner of tech and science sites like Tom’s Guide and Live Science, is announcing that it has acquired Active Junky. Active Junky partners with outdoor gear retailers to offer its members cashback rewards and other deals. The acquisition allows Purch to move into a new publishing category, and also provides the foundation for a broader customer loyalty program. Read MorePresidential Candidate John McAfee To Talk At Disrupt SF
Sep 18, 4:04PM
The eccentric millionaire John McAfee will be joining us on Disrupt TV Live at TechCrunch Disrupt SF next week to discuss his presidential ambitions and new political party. The developer of the first commercial anti-virus program announced his White House bid earlier this month. Never one to conform, McAfee will run for his newly created Cyber Party, which promotes privacy and aims to… Read MoreCaterWings, Rocket Internet's Latest Food Startup, Targets Corporate Catering Industry
Sep 18, 3:00PM
Rocket Internet has its fingers in pretty much every part of the online food ordering and delivery pie. Heck, it even has a special division, the unimaginatively-named Global Online Takeaway Group, where its rolled up a number of those companies. But one slice it has yet to serve is corporate catering — until now, that is. Read MoreShelfie Is Shazam For Your Bookshelf
Sep 18, 2:42PM
If you’re like me, you have a lot of Mad Magazine books from the 1970s, a classic copy of Oui from 1979, and three Hungarian cookbooks. In other words, you’re a well-read individual. But how do you get those books onto your reading device? Shelfie, that’s how. Read MoreNew Chromecast Rumored For Later This Month
Sep 18, 2:11PM
Hot on the heels of Apple’s newly announced, more powerful Apple TV and Amazon’s just launched 4K-ready Fire TV (and Fire TV gaming edition), Google is also prepping the release of the next version of its streaming media stick, Chromecast. At least, that’s the latest report emerging from 9to5Google, which got its hands on leaked documents which describe an updated… Read MoreBeyond The $1K Genome: DNA 'Writing' Comes Next
Sep 18, 2:00PM
The “$1,000 genome” has been one of the most visible tech goals in the last 10 years, even sporting its own XPrize for a short time. It refers to the ability to “sequence”, or de-code the total genetic information encoded in the DNA (genome) of a single human, at a cost of $1000. It’s a daunting task, given that the genome is made up of three billion base pairs… Read MoreBumpn Uses 3D Touch To Let Users Show How Much They Like A Photo
Sep 18, 2:00PM
3D Touch may have just found its killer use case. Now on the App Store, bumpn is a photo-sharing app that will let users take advantage of 3D Touch to show how much they “like” a photo. Instead of simply clicking the like button, users can give a photo anywhere between 1-100 hearts. Read MorePadlet Raises $1.2 Million For Its Easy-To-Use, Collaborative Website Builder
Sep 18, 1:49PM
While there’s no shortage of online website builders today, most are focused on providing professionals or small business owners with an easy-to-use set of tools to quickly create their own web page without having to hiring an outside development firm. A company called Padlet, however, has gone in a different direction. Its simple and collaborative website creation platform can be used for… Read MoreClover Health, A Data-Driven Health Insurance Startup, Raises $100M
Sep 18, 5:02AM
Clover Health, an insurance startup based out of San Francisco, is hoping that with its data-driven approach it can rebuild healthcare for senior citizens from the ground up. It wants that by tracking all the inputs of a person’s medical history from insurance claims and determining who the highest-risk patients are. Clover Health then works with those patients to help them become… Read MoreRecruiting Startup Hired Has A New CEO
Sep 18, 12:54AM
There’s been a bit of a leadership shuffle at Hired: President Mehul Patel has been promoted to CEO, while the previous CEO, founder Matt Mickiewicz, has become chief product officer. Patel (who has also worked at Lyft, Oracle, CNET and Kaggle, and who joined Hired two years ago), told me this isn’t as big a deal as you might think. In fact, he said there was a longtime transition… Read MoreDave McClure Says "Bazillion Dollar Club" Is Not Just Another Contrived Reality Show
Sep 18, 12:52AM
Dave McClure is back on your TV this fall in yet another reality show focused on startups in Silicon Valley. Enter the ‘Bazillion Dollar Club. Call it a sign of the times. In the last tech boom, people joked that when you saw someone build an incubator for incubators, things were upside down. Can you even name all the TV shows focused on the technology industry? The founder of 500… Read MoreServy Raises $800K To Let Restaurants Offer Discounts In Exchange For Feedback
Sep 18, 12:20AM
Servy, an app that lets restaurants offer a partial discount in exchange for private feedback, has just closed $800K in seed funding. Investors include RiverPark Ventures, Beacon Fund, Food-X, DreamIt Ventures, and Nick Kenner, CEO and Founder of Just Salad. Most online restaurant reviews are either written because of a fantastic or awful experience. Either way, these reviews live online… 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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