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What Los Angeles Is Missing
Oct 10, 8:00PM
L.A. tech has clearly hit its growth inflection point, but the City of Angels has yet to get its startup wings. Here’s the good news: In 2014 alone, we raised more than $3 billion, saw more than $5 billion realized capital across over 80 exits and became the fastest growing startup region in the U.S. Read MoreDropping Protections For Internet Platforms Will Result In Greater Harm
Oct 10, 7:00PM
Online harassment is a serious problem for every member of the online community, including companies like Change.org. While the majority of petitions are deeply inspiring stories of people power, we occasionally get a sobering reminder of the worst of the Internet when we see petitions calling for acts of suicide, or petitions used by students to bully their classmates. We also hear… Read MoreThe White House Backs Down On Phone Encryption
Oct 10, 5:27PM
In a victory for tech firms, the Obama administration will not force firms to breach the security of their products in order to provide information to law enforcement. The decision comes after a year after encryption introduced on iPhones and some Android phones sparked a debate between law enforcement and tech companies over access to phone data. With iOS 8, most data stored on the phone… Read MoreGillmor Gang: Batting Practice
Oct 10, 5:13PM
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Peter Rojas, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Wednesday, September 30, 2015. This Gang immediately preceded the Notification Summit at betaworks in New York. It also starts the flow of sessions of the Summit, as summarized by John Borthwick’s post on Medium. Plus, the latest G3: Kristie Wells, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway,… Read MoreKibo iOS App Lets You Hide Messages In Your Messages
Oct 10, 5:00PM
Just when you thought the wonderful world of digital messaging couldn’t get any more rich and layered, along comes another app to prove there are more ideas in the digital sphere than can be contained within the average web user’s philosophy… Just don’t call Kibo a messaging app. Read MoreFour Reasons Why Sports Startups Are Scoring Big
Oct 10, 3:00PM
When a professional sports team wins a title, it makes the front page of The New York Times. When Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots, controversially may (or may not) have deflated some footballs during a crucial game against the Indianapolis Colts, it was reported by every news media and became a trending topic on Twitter. Sports are a major part of our culture, and its… Read MoreSeries A 101
Oct 10, 1:00PM
In my prior life as a seed investor, I helped many companies raise Series A, some raise B and a few raise C. First time founders often ask about the process, once it’s clear there’s likely to be one, and while I always had a view from the outside, alongside or sometimes with the Venture firms, now that I’m a VC with my own Series A Term Sheet (TS) signed, I thought… Read More
T-Shirts And Tech: Solving The Sartorial Equation
Oct 10, 2:00AM
I don’t normally pay much attention to fashion. I’m not a fashion blogger. I don’t read fashion articles. If I think something looks good, I wear it. That being said, there’s a really interesting trend in tech whereby dressing down is dressing up. If you show up to a VC pitch on Sand Hill Road wearing a suit, you’d look out of place. I’ve seen the same… Read MoreSiliconvicts Are The Tech Slogan T-Shirts You've Always Talked About Making
Oct 10, 1:02AM
Remember all those jokes about Silicon Valley you always said you’d put on t-shirts? Siliconvicts Clothing Co., a shirt company from Malibu, just beat you to it. With slogans ranging from ‘Unicorn Hunter’ to ‘Coding Is My Cardio’, recent Stanford grad Cameron Lindsay’s side project will probably be the source of your next favorite t-shirt. Sitting on… Read MoreCrunchWeek: Jack Has A Moment, Microsoft Goes Big, And Pandora's Selling Tickets
Oct 09, 10:58PM
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta crunch down on Friday. Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about Jack Dorsey’s return to Twitter and the launch of Moments, Microsoft’s massive hardware event and Pandora scooping up TicketFly. Also, our host Matt Lynley continues… Read MoreIs China Coming Around On Cybersecurity?
Oct 09, 10:23PM
The Chinese government arrested hackers at the request of the U.S. government just two weeks before Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the United States. The arrests, reported by the Washington Post on Friday, signal slight progress with China on cybersecurity. They came amid high tensions as the Obama administration threatened to impose harsh economic sanctions on China in the wake of… Read MoreCode Tenderloin Connects Tech Companies With The Community
Oct 09, 10:04PM
Seymour, who spent 18 years homeless on the streets of the Tenderloin, leads walking tours through the Tenderloin and recently started Code Tenderloin to help people in the community get jobs at tech companies. “I see it as a need for the most unrepresented people in the city of San Francisco, who are struggling in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin,” Seymour told TechCrunch.… Read MoreWhat Car Dealers (Still) Think About Elon Musk and Company
Oct 09, 9:59PM
There’s no end to talk about electric and self-driving vehicles in Silicon Valley, but most of the country seems perfectly happy continuing to buy traditional cars. In fact, new cars sales in the U.S. will probably surpass 17 million units in 2015. The last time we saw those kinds of numbers was back in 2005, says Max Zanan, a longtime New York-based automotive retail expert whose job it… Read MoreOpen Bionics Creates Disney-Inspired Bionic Hands For Amputee Kids
Oct 09, 9:20PM
Bionic hands startup Open Bionics now makes Iron Man and Elsa-themed hands and arms for the smallest of amputees – kids. Open Bionics hopes to get kids excited about their prosthetics with designs from Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars. “[Kids] won’t have to do boring physical therapy, they’ll train to become heroes,” reads the Open Bionics website about the… Read MoreSell SaaS, They Said … It Will Be Easy, They Said
Oct 09, 9:00PM
It has never been easier for customers to buy software. A couple of clicks or taps, depending on your device of choice, and you can be up and running with even the most sophisticated enterprise business applications. The result of all of those fast, easy transactions is impressive: According to Goldman Sachs, SaaS revenue is predicted to reach $106 billion in 2016, a 21 percent increase… Read MoreSF Nerds Can Now Impress Dates With UberSELECT
Oct 09, 8:44PM
UberSELECT, Uber’s higher-end car offering has finally rolled out to those in San Francisco. The service allows folks in the 7×7 to choose luxury cars for their ride, including BMW 3-Series, Audi A4, and Mercedes C-Class, according to a post on Uber’s blog. UberSELECT rolled out to other cities around the world such as Toronto and Seattle earlier this year but was not… Read MoreOneGo Goes Nationwide With Its Subscription Plans For Unlimited Flights
Oct 09, 8:29PM
OneGo promises to give subscribers unlimited flights for a monthly fee. I first wrote about the company in June — at the time, its offerings were limited to a West Coast flights. More recently, it’s added plans covering the different regions of the United States, as well as a nationwide plan for $2,950 per month. Read MoreDell Files IPO for Cybersecurity Unit
Oct 09, 8:02PM
Dell Inc. has filed confidentially for an IPO for its SecureWorks cybersecurity unit, TechCrunch has confirmed. The IPO is anticipated to happen before the end of the year. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, SecureWorks could be valued at up to $2 billion. The report said that SecureWorks is working with Bank of America and Morgan Stanley to manage the IPO. Dell acquired SecureWorks… Read MoreMore Funding Won't Magically Fix Your Startup
Oct 09, 8:00PM
Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. Read MoreThe Dog Ate Our Homework, Google Drive Is Down (UPDATED)
Oct 09, 7:31PM
UPDATE: All services have returned and a Google spokesperson provided us with the following statement: Google Drive, Docs editors and Classroom have been restored for 99.5% of affected users as of 1:01 PM Pacific, and for the remaining 0.5% of users by 2:10 PM Pacific. During the event, our top priority was to restore service. We are now turning our attention to understanding what caused… 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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