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Zendesk Spikes 12% After Its Q3 Earnings Top Expectations And Its Q4 Guidance Lands Above Street Estimates

Nov 03, 9:32PM

zendesk-earnings Today following the bell, Zendesk reported its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $55.7 million, and adjusted earnings per share of negative 0.05. Investors had expected the company to lose $0.09 per share off revenue of $52.24 million. Up around a point in regular trading, Zendesk is north more than 12 percent in after-hours trading following its earnings… Read More



Zynga Beats Expectations On Earnings, Posts A $3M Profit

Nov 03, 9:31PM

zynga-earnings Zynga today beat analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings, bringing in about $176 million in bookings with flat earnings, and revenue of $196 million. Analysts were expecting a loss of one cent per share for the company’s earnings. It’s an interesting time for Zynga’s earnings report. Activision Blizzard just yesterday said it would acquire King Digital, the… Read More



Tesla Misses In Q3 Earnings, With Adjusted Revenue Of $1.24 Billion And A Drop $.058 In EPS

Nov 03, 9:30PM

Tesla Tesla missed the street in its reported Q3 earnings today, including non-GAAP revenue of $1.24 billion and non-GAAP loss per share of $0.58. Analysts expected a non-GAAP loss per share of $0.50. The company’s non-GAAP revenue also missed analyst estimates of $1.26 billion. But the real story here is on the amount of cars delivered this year. Tesla produced a total of 13,091 and… Read More



Etsy Meets Expectations In Q3, Stock Drops 8% After Hours

Nov 03, 9:14PM

etsy-earnings Following trading today, Etsy reported its Q3 financial performance, including revenue of $66 million, and earnings loss per share of $0.06. The Street expected Etsy to lose $0.06 per share, off revenue of around $66.17 million. So that’s a “met expectations.” The company reported 1.5M active sellers and 22.6M active buyers. The company was up 3.18% today, trading at just… Read More



Uber Tempts Commuters To Drop The Keys With Flat-Fee Out-Of-Town Carpools

Nov 03, 9:04PM

Uber Pool Why drive yourself when it might be cheaper to coast to work in the back of an Uber? Today Uber launched the beta of a new flat-fee long-distance uberPOOL option aimed at commuters. It offers pre-priced shared trips into bustling San Francisco from the outlying cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, and San Jose from 6am to 10am. For example, the Palo Alto to SF ride this morning was set at $20.… Read More



Copyright Captures APIs: A New Caution For Developers

Nov 03, 9:00PM

copyrightfence Google v. Oracle. It’s a sensational case. A battle of tech heavyweights — and a software copyright case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Millions of dollars are at stake. And the ramifications for software entrepreneurs are significant. Read More



Marc Andreessen and Sheryl Sandberg: Tech Is Not Driving Income Inequality

Nov 03, 8:11PM

marc andreessen and sheryl sandberg This morning at Fortune’s Global Forum conference in San Francisco, Fortune interviewer Alan Murray got quite an earful from the guests on his panel: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen, who pushed back hard on the notion that technology is exacerbating income inequality. It was a riveting chat that touched on what’s next… Read More



LeafLink Raises $750K To Become Salesforce For The Cannabis Industry

Nov 03, 8:02PM

perspective LeafLink, an NY-based wholesale management platform for the cannabis industry, has closed a $750k seed round led by group of NY angel investors. The software platform is designed to support participants in a B2B supply chain, providing basic tools designed to save money for retailers and allow producers to get better pricing for their product. These tools will include a centralized location… Read More



On My Hearts And Stars

Nov 03, 7:35PM

hearts-stars-dark We often forget that Twitter, more Web 2.0 media company than startup, is almost ten years old. We also forget that it has a global user base of just over 300 million people. But we can’t forget that Twitter is in trouble. Audience growth is at a crawl, which poses a threat to the publicly traded company as it tries to capture mindshare and advertising dollars in competition with… Read More



Twitter Found Love In A Fave-Less Place

Nov 03, 7:02PM

twitter-bird-space3 It’s a function of Twitter’s largely unfiltered feed. It zips by so quickly that even great content can get lost. Your closest friends and sparring partners might easily miss your tweets. And unless you have some level of offline celebrity or an online soapbox, you might never gain enough followers to get your tweets seen before they’re pushed down the timeline. The result… Read More



Jon Stewart Is Coming To HBO In Four-Year Deal Focused On Short-Form Digital Content

Nov 03, 6:48PM

jon stewart HBO, which launched its first over-the-top streaming service this year with the debut of HBO NOW, has just scored a notable new deal with former Daily Show host, Jon Stewart, who will be tasked with creating “timely short-form digital content” for HBO NOW, HBO GO and other platforms, the network announced today. The exclusive four-year production pact will begin with a… Read More



Firefox 42 Launches With Tracking Protection In Private Browsing Mode

Nov 03, 6:37PM

lego firefox After a short beta period, Mozilla today graduated its new Tracking Protection feature for Firefox’s Private Browsing mode into its release channel with the launch of Firefox 42. Read More



SPUN's New App Makes It Easy To Mash Up Videos And Make Your Own Memes

Nov 03, 6:22PM

spun-app Short videos, looping videos and GIFs are some of the hottest types of user-generated content on the web today, and have everyone from Instagram to Twitter and even Facebook and Google getting involved in offering support and tools for creators. Today, a new app called SPUN wants to capitalize on this growing trend by allowing users to mash up videos from their phone along with topical… Read More



GAME Golf Rolls Out A New Live Golf Shot Tracker

Nov 03, 6:13PM

GAME_iOSAndroid_Device_Lockup John McGuire had never golfed before, but he had a background in sports psychology and big data. And it was that combination that eventually drove him to start Active Mind Technology, a sports technology company that first launched with a golf shot-tracking product. Now Active Mind Technology is coming out today with an updated live-tracking golf shot device that attaches to golf clubs and… Read More



Slack Improves Slash Commands So You Can Call A Lyft And More From Inside Slack

Nov 03, 6:00PM

Header 2.0 Slack just unveiled a new way for app developers to create slash commands, letting users interface with their apps from within Slack channels. After being turned on via the “Add to Slack button“, these commands will allow users to do things like call a Lyft or ask FourSquare for lunch recommendations, all from within a channel or private message. For example, a user could type… Read More



Pinterest Starts Rolling Out Buyable Pins On Android Phones

Nov 03, 6:00PM

The Pinterest Shop Pinterest is starting to roll out Buyable Pins on Android phones today, the company said. Buyable Pins let some retailers who are partners with Pinterest and retailers use Shopify and Demandware. The company unveiled Buyable Pins earlier in June earlier this year, with the iPhone getting access to them later that month. The tool lets retailers add a buy button to pins that let users… Read More



Airbnb, Proposition F And The Shared Hypocrisy Of Bay Area Housing

Nov 03, 5:36PM

shutterstock_322845356 In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. That’s no different with Airbnb and Proposition F, merely the latest of San Francisco’s Brobdingnagian sagas over land-use politics that will go down in tomorrow’s election. Read More



Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues

Nov 03, 5:36PM

leslie miley Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, one of the few black engineers in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reasons for leaving have everything to do with the way Twitter is addressing diversity and inclusion. Read More



RelayRides Rebrands As Turo, Raises $47 Million Led By Kleiner

Nov 03, 5:05PM

turo RelayRides, the six-year-old, San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car rental service, has just rebranded itself as Turo. The company is also announcing $47 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The combined announcement is meant to grab attention. Turo doesn’t disclose the number of people using its platform or the number of cars currently available… Read More



Audio-Beacon Startup LISNR Raises $10 Million Series B Round Led By Intel Capital

Nov 03, 5:00PM

Rodney Williams Smart tone startup LISNR just raised a $10 million series B round led by Intel Capital to further advance the product as “a true protocol to connect devices across a number of different verticals,” LISNR co-founder and CEO Rodney Williams told TechCrunch. LISNR’s technology is an audio-based platform for communicating data across devices. Any brand or device that wants to use… Read More




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