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How The Digital Health Revolution Will Become A Reality
Oct 07, 8:00PM
To outlive the hype that comes with being Silicon Valley’s latest trend, and actually improve care for patients and consumers, health tech will require more than a just a funding pipeline. The good news is that all the pieces are in place — the problem, the appetite for a solution and the tech — to bring healthcare into the modern age. Read MoreSenator Nelson Tells Google To Do More To Control Content In YouTube Kids App
Oct 07, 7:17PM
The ongoing concerns surrounding the YouTube Kids application – including its inability to completely filter out inappropriate content, as well as the way it blends content and commercial advertising in ways that may be difficult for children to understand – have now reached the U.S. Senate. Read MoreTechnology On And Off The Runway At Fashion Week
Oct 07, 7:07PM
When we think of Fashion Week, we think of long-lines, exclusive parties, and endless train of models. This year you can add technology to the list Read MoreMassive Freelance Engineer Marketplace Toptal Now Sells Designers
Oct 07, 7:00PM
Software is eating the world, but who’s setting the table? Engineers, and everyone needs them. But companies that hire freelance programmers are realizing an ugly product is as broken as buggy code. The talent crunch around engineers has now spawned a parallel desperation for designers. Toptal wants to answer that call by routing designers with spare cycles to companies in need after… Read MoreYou Can Now Back Up WhatsApp Messages, Photos And Videos To Google Drive
Oct 07, 6:58PM
The only thing that I really worry about when I drop my phone into a tub of water is if I’ve backed everything up. More specifically, did I back my messages up. There is so much important information that flows through my text messages, it’s scary. Today, Google Drive announced adoption of a feature that’ll be rolling out over the next couple of months that will let you back… Read MoreIsraeli Container Security Startup Scalock Lands $4M Series A Investment
Oct 07, 6:00PM
Israel has become known for its security startups, and Scalock, a company that wants to secure the burgeoning container space, announced a $4 million Series A round today. The funding was provided by Israel venture capitalists TLV partners, a new fund launched earlier this year by veterans of the Israeli VC scene, Rona Segev and Eitan Bek. The company is run by two security industry… Read MoreAmazon Shuts Down Its Music Importer Software, Points Users To Amazon Music App Instead
Oct 07, 5:31PM
Streaming has been eating away into digital and CD sales for years, as consumers turn to online services like Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio, and now Apple Music, among others, to listen to their favorite songs and artists. Alongside this shift, it seems that users are becoming less interested in managing their collection of MP3’s, in favor of getting the tracks they… Read MoreAmazon Inspector Finds Security Issues For You
Oct 07, 5:25PM
Today at Amazon re:invent, Amazon announced a new service called Amazon Inspector that analyzes your AWS instances and reports back with any security or compliance issues it finds. This provides a valuable service for Amazon customers who may be worried about security, especially those that are new to cloud services. The service does a complete review of your Amazon cloud and reports back… Read More3D Printed Dolls And Jedi Mind Control Devices: A Look At Disney's Second Accelerator Batch
Oct 07, 5:00PM
The first batch of startups in Disney’s startup accelerator produced successes like the BB-8 droid from Sphero and Naritiv, a marketing platform that nabbed a deal with Snapchat. Sphero produced the BB-8 droid in anticipation of the upcoming Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. But it was a fated meeting with Disney CEO Bob Iger that gave the Sphero robotics team an idea to create the… Read MoreSunshine, A Crowd-Sourced Weather App, Goes Live
Oct 07, 4:56PM
When it comes to the weather, there is no lack of applications to choose from to get your information. But there is very little diversity when it comes to those apps. A new startup, called Sunshine, is looking to change all that. Using information delivered from the barometer sensor in the phone, as well as user-generated reports of local weather, the app is trying to change the way we… Read MoreGiphy Wants To Become A Full-Fledged, Gif-Based Media Company
Oct 07, 4:45PM
Giphy, which launched out of betaworks in 2013 as a search engine for gifs, is evolving into something much bigger. In the last year, we’ve seen Giphy launch a standalone mobile app for creating your own gifs, called GiphyCam. We’ve also seen Giphy partner with tech companies like Facebook and Slack for seamless gif sharing. Meanwhile, Giphy offers original content through… Read MoreAmazon Launches Snowball, A Rugged Storage Appliance For Importing Data To AWS By FedEx
Oct 07, 4:43PM
Amazon surprised developers today with the launch of Snowball, a new physical appliance that will allow AWS users to ship huge amounts of data for import into AWS by shipping the device back and forth between their offices and the AWS data centers. Read MoreAWS Introduces Kinesis Firehose To Move Sensor Data To Cloud
Oct 07, 4:39PM
Today at AWS re:invent, Amazon introduced a new service called Kinesis Firehose to move data streaming from sensors and other locations directly to the cloud. As Andy Jassy, SVP at AWS, pointed out, the company launched Kinesis a few years ago to take this kind of streaming data and build custom applications on top of that to handle the data. Amazon found that was taking customers far too… Read MoreAnnouncing The Startups Pitching At The NOLA TC Meetup + Pitch-Off (Judges, Too!)
Oct 07, 4:36PM
TechCrunch is back on the road again with the upcoming New Orleans Meetup + Pitch-Off, in conjunction with Nola Tech Week, and we’ve finally made selections on which startups will have a chance to hop on stage and pitch. Seven companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges and a ready-and-waiting audience in a fight to win the opportunity to… Read MoreAmazon Launches QuickSight Business Intelligence Service For AWS
Oct 07, 4:15PM
At its annual re:Invent developer conference, Amazon today announced a new business intelligence service for its AWS platform. The new service, called QuickSight, will help AWS customers start visualizing their data within 60 seconds. Read MoreAmazon's AWS Is Now A $7.3B Business As It Passes 1M Active Enterprise Customers
Oct 07, 3:55PM
Today Amazon’s AWS business kicked off its big Re:Invent conference with some stats that speak to how the company’s enterprise division continues to dominate the cloud-based data services space. Andy Jassy, the SVP of AWS, today said that AWS has passed over 1 million active customers — those being businesses, not individuals. AWS revenues are booming, too: Overall, AWS is now… Read MoreJet, Now Raising, Ditches Its Membership Fees But Says Profitability Still On Track For 2020
Oct 07, 3:44PM
Jet.com, the discount shopping site promising to take on Amazon by competing on lower prices, has made a fairly radical change to its business, the company announced this morning. Instead of charging members an annual fee of $50, similar to the fee associated with Amazon’s “Prime” membership program, Jet says it will now drop the fee entirely. Read MoreHulbee Bags $9M To Grow Its Pro-Privacy Search Engine
Oct 07, 3:39PM
Swiss-based semantic search company Hulbee, which launched a consumer search engine in the U.S. this August, has closed a $9 million angel funding. It’s positioning its consumer search offering as a pro-privacy alternative to mainstream search engines like Google, with a pledge that unlike those guys it does not track users. Read MoreThe Ascent Of Ad Blockers Clears The Way For More Engaging Adtech
Oct 07, 3:00PM
Consumers hate ads. Why? Ads are often irrelevant, boring and annoying. This ad-hate wouldn’t be a problem but for the fact that ads pay for mostly everything we watch, listen to, read and otherwise enjoy. Read MorePro.Com Launches Text-A-Pro For Flat-Rate Pricing On Handy Tasks
Oct 07, 3:00PM
Pro.com, the handywork/installation site that instantly offers price estimates and connects you with a contractor, has today launched a brand new feature to the service. Called Text-A-Pro, the feature allows users to simply text message their task into the system and be sent a flat-rate price and a connection to a contractor who is available during the preferred time. Pro has always… 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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