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INNOVATE2016: Toward A More Creative Political Class
Oct 15, 8:30PM
The great challenge for American politics and politicians in the 2016 election, is to break out of the zero-sum game mentality of Washington DC. Read MoreSelf-Professed 'Apple Retail Store Enthusiast' Gary Allen Passes Away
Oct 15, 8:24PM
One of the things that I worry about the most is not having a hobby…a healthy passion to immerse myself in. Sure, I love technology, but it’s also my job. Gary Allen, a self-professed “Apple Retail Store Enthusiast” passed away at age 67 after a fight with brain cancer on Sunday, according to a report by the Washington Post. An interesting point that WaPo points out is… Read MoreBox's New Platform Product Is Now Generally Available
Oct 15, 8:12PM
Box’s platform product, the aptly named Box Platform, is now generally available as it announced at its recent conference. Box recently hired Jeetu Patel away from EMC to run the new service. If you thought that Box already had a platform, hang tight. Box now comes in a number of flavors. There is Box proper, a SaaS product that Box itself hosts, and companies can purchase on a… Read MoreHow Facebook Moments Is Solving The "Other People's Photos" Problem
Oct 15, 8:05PM
Could Facebook’s experimental group, Facebook Creative Labs, finally have a hit on its hand with its private, photo-sharing app Facebook Moments? The early data looks promising. The app, which lets you get photos from friends and share photos in return, while also organizing them privately on your phone for safe-keeping, seems to have solved one of the long-standing challenges with… Read MoreTheranos Refutes Claims Its Blood-Test Tech Is Unreliable
Oct 15, 7:26PM
Theranos has refuted claims made in a scathing Wall Street Journal report that the company was struggling with results of its blood-test technology; that some results of tests were way off; and that Theranos was only using its tech for 15 tests and instead outsourcing most of the 240 total it offers to other machines from outside manufacturers. Read MoreFlipboard Cofounder Evan Doll Has Left The Company
Oct 15, 7:16PM
Cofounder Evan Doll is no longer at Flipboard, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch and has just announced in a blog post. He will be joining Redpoint Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. His role as head of Flipboard’s head of client engineering will be taken over by Troy Brant, who has been handling the job lately. In addition to the blog post from CEO and co-founder Mike… Read MoreThe 5-Step Uber Playbook That Will Disrupt The On-Demand Economy
Oct 15, 7:00PM
Most people are familiar with Uber as the ridesharing king; it has taken the world by storm, with much fanfare. Less has been written about its new family member, UberEATS, which now delivers lunch within 10 minutes by the push of a button. What’s interesting about the two ventures is the playbook that Uber uses to identify, design and market them in their Uber world. Perhaps we ought… Read MorePassive Fitness Tracking App Human Is Now Much Easier On Your Battery
Oct 15, 6:59PM
Human has been relentlessly updating its passive activity tracking app for the past two years. But today’s update is the biggest to date with many under-the-hood improvements and new user-facing features. In particular, Human is now much easier on your battery and more accurate as well. Read MoreVidMob Raises $2M To Build A Marketplace Where You Can Find Professional Video Editors
Oct 15, 6:59PM
So you’ve shot some cool video footage — congrats! But if it needs any editing, you’ve still got a lot of work ahead of you. Or you could try out a startup called VidMob, which is building a marketplace for professional video editors. The company has been beta testing its products, with plans to launch an iOS soon, and an Android app later on. Read MoreI, For One, Welcome Our Sphere-Shaped Quadrupedal Robot Overlords
Oct 15, 6:40PM
If you’ve ever wondered what you’ll eventually find inside your body cavity when the robots take over, meet QRoSS by Takeshi Aoki, Satoshi Ito, and Yosuke Sei from the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. This robot consists of a rounded roll cage and four legs hidden inside its body. You can throw the ball into a room where it can roll around and then, when it needs to move… Read MoreSkype Now Lets Anyone Join A Chat – Even If They Don't Have An Account
Oct 15, 6:36PM
Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a Skype account – to use the service via the Skype for Web interface. Invitees won’t have to create an account or download an app, but can instead join a chat as a guest simply by clicking a… Read MoreEmergent VR, A Smartphone-Based VR Video Capture And Viewing Startup, Raises $2.2 Million
Oct 15, 6:14PM
Emergent VR, a startup that promises full video capture for virtual reality headsets like the Gear VR, has raised $2.2 million from Accel Partners, Rothenberg Ventures and Google Ventures. Emergent VR’s play is that it can build a simpler experience for users who want to capture video that can be viewed through VR devices. The three Emergent VR demos Wilkins showed me indicated that… Read MoreDropbox Announces Paper, A Google Docs Competitor
Oct 15, 5:29PM
Dropbox is going head-to-head against a very popular web app, Google Docs. Dropbox Paper is a collaborative document editing platform in your browser. It lets you edit a document in real time with your Dropbox contacts. Here’s how it works. Read MoreA Brief History Of Snapchat
Oct 15, 5:14PM
Our story begins at Stanford University, where the idea for an ephemeral photo sharing app is brought to life by three founders. Read MoreNBCU Debuts "SeeSo," A New Subscription Streaming Service For Comedy Fans
Oct 15, 4:51PM
The number of niche video streaming services continues to grow in the shadow of major players like Netflix, Amazon, HBO and Hulu. Today, NBCUniversal tossed its hat into the ring with the debut of “SeeSo,” an over-the-top, ad-free subscription based streaming service that will focus exclusively on comedy. The service, which will soon be available on the web, on mobile, and… Read MoreYouTube Gaming Adds Mobile Streaming And Twitch-Like Features
Oct 15, 4:37PM
Slowly but surely, YouTube is building a serious Twitch competitor. With YouTube Gaming, you can live stream and watch your favorite streamers play video games. Launched in August, YouTube just announced a first major update. Read MoreTechCrunch Giveaway: iPhone 6s
Oct 15, 4:07PM
In order to help spread the word about 3CX’s new iOS platform, the company is giving away a new 16GB iPhone 6s to a TechCrunch reader. Read MoreTwitter Unveils New Reports For Businesses To Track Whether Their Ads Worked
Oct 15, 4:04PM
Twitter is giving advertisers a new way to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. The company is making this data available through what it’s calling conversion lift reports. Those reports are supposed to measure whether Twitter ads actually lead to an improvement in whatever business metric you’re focused on, whether it’s website clicks/signups, mobile app installs… Read MoreGoogle Brings App Engine And Cloud Datastore To Its New East Coast Region
Oct 15, 4:01PM
It’s only been two weeks since Google first launched some of its core Cloud Platform services in its South Carolina data center (the ‘us-east1 region’ if you want to be precise). At the time, the two most glaringly missing service in this new East Coast region was Google App Engine. But as the company announced today, App Engine is now available in this region, together with… Read MoreFacebook Working On Fix For iOS App Battery Drain Issue
Oct 15, 4:00PM
Facebook has confirmed it is investigating reports of excessive battery drain caused by its iOS app apparently continuing to run processes in the background — even with background app refresh disabled. 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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