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New Relic Beats In Its FQ2 With Revenue Of $42.9M, And A Lower-Than-Expected Per-Share Loss Of $0.17

Nov 05, 9:37PM

Wall Street Today following the bell, New Relic reported the results of the second quarter of its fiscal 2016, including an adjusted per-share loss of $0.17, off revenue of $42.9 million. The street had expected New Relic to lose an adjusted $0.22, on revenue of $41.20 million. The firm, down over a point in regular trading, is essentially unmoved in after-hours trading. Using normal accounting… Read More



Announcing The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards

Nov 05, 9:32PM

crunchies award statues It’s that time again! Our annual awards show is coming back around again for 2016. But for our 9th annual Crunchies Awards, we’ve decided to do a few things differently, and we think you’re going to like them. This year, the Crunchies will be held at a new venue, the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, at 8:00pm on February 8th, 2016. There are also changes with how… Read More



Oprah's Favorite Things Is Here And Now It's All In One Place On Amazon

Nov 05, 9:30PM

Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 1.24.24 PM Oprah has been sharing her “Favorite Things” list with us every holiday season for the last 20 years. But this year the “queen of television” penned a deal with Amazon to offer an easy way to buy all those items on her list in one place. “…this year’s list might just be my most versatile and fun ever,” Oprah said of her 87 picks, also featured in… Read More



Enter A World Of Crazy Sensual Mix-Ups With A DIY Synesthesia Mask

Nov 05, 9:26PM

F80I9WQIF9T8EBQ.MEDIUM Synesthesia aka the mixing of the senses is a super power to be feared. But while many synesthetes have boring talents – imagining numbers as colors, for example – this DIY hack lets you turn color into scents, thereby unlocking the rainbow of potential fruit flavors. The system works by reading colors on various surfaces and then responding with a certain smell. A fan wafts the… Read More



Instacart Adds Coupons Through Its New "Deals" Platform

Nov 05, 8:28PM

grocery_being_delivered_instacart Grocery delivery services are convenient, but they’re not always affordable. In addition to slight mark-ups on the cost of the products themselves, services typically require delivery fees and/or membership fees. Today, Instacart is rolling out a new option that could help reduce the expense of using its service for price-conscious consumers: Instacart Deals. Essentially an online… Read More



Google Calendar For The Web Gets A Trash Can

Nov 05, 8:01PM

trash_gif You set up a meeting, drop it into Google Calendar. Then someone says “let’s do it another time” and you delete it. Then they say they’re available again. What do you do? You create a new entry. Until now. Today, the Google Apps team released a small but handy feature for the web version of Google Calendar — a trash can. You can now view, permanently delete or… Read More



How To Hire Female Engineers

Nov 05, 8:00PM

womanengineer “I’m worried about my company becoming too dude-ish,” the founder said. “How do I hire more women engineers?” I gladly took that call. A leader’s job is to build the team with as few blind spots as possible (“diverse by construction”), then guide them to their potential. The founder who called me worries that in the competitive war for talent… Read More



JavaScript App Platform Meteor Announces Scholarship For High School Girls To Learn How To Code

Nov 05, 7:04PM

women of color in tech coding JavaScript framework startup Meteor has a new scholarship program in partnership with the Flatiron School to teach computer science to high school girls from underrepresented backgrounds. As part of the scholarship, Meteor and Flatiron are giving 15 students free access to a 12-week web development and design course. The course, which is valued at $1,500, teaches students HTML5, CSS3,… Read More



Kickbooster Will Pay You For Sharing Your Favorite Crowdfunding Campaigns

Nov 05, 6:50PM

Kickbooster-SceneDashboard Affiliate marketing is extremely hit or miss. Most times, participants are being paid to spread the word about products they couldn’t care less about, resulting in a poor experience for all parties involved. Enter Kickbooster: an affiliate network for crowdfunding campaigns. After signing up, users can share links to interesting campaigns, and receive a 10 percent referral fee when… Read More



Lytro Introduces 'Immerge' For Cinematic Virtual Reality

Nov 05, 6:29PM

Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 10.15.12 AM Camera maker Lytro is hopping into virtual reality. Today, it announced a product called “Immerge” which the company describes as “world’s first professional light field solution for cinematic VR.” What does that mean exactly? Well Lytro wants to provide tools to shoot live action virtual reality. It built its “light field” solution from the ground up.… Read More



A Few Days With The Pebble Time Round

Nov 05, 6:09PM

Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 9.38.32 AM I’ve never worn a Pebble smartwatch for an extended period of time before. In fact, I’ve never really worn a modern smartwatch for an extended period of time, either. So when my colleague Drew Olanoff asked me to give the Pebble Time Round a whirl, I was of course skeptical of my need for a smartwatch. The Pebble watches have been some of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns… Read More



Oakland Startup, The History Project, Raises $2M To Build Digital Time Capsules of Family, Personal Histories

Nov 05, 5:57PM

Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 7.27.07 AM After years of working in mobile advertising, founder Niles Lichtenstein discovered a box of records from his late father. That compelled him to start putting together memories and online histories earlier, by documenting his mother’s life history and how he first met his wife. That developed into an interactive timeline where he collected songs from when he started dating his wife… Read More



Bid Management Platform For Building Contractors BuildingConnected Raises $8.5 Million In Series A

Nov 05, 5:49PM

lunch-atop-skyscraper-new-york-construction-workers-crossbeam BuildingConnected is a platform to help construction firms manage the details of a job, with the aim to help save time and money on building projects. Today, the startup announced it had raised $8.5 million in Series A financing from Crosslink Capital, Homebrew, Freestyle, Bee Partners and Brick and Mortar. BuildingConnected pulled in a seed round of $2.2 earlier this year, bringing the… Read More



TechCrunch Giveaway: Skulpt Aim Fitness Tracker, Apple Watch Sport & CES Tickets

Nov 05, 5:30PM

unnamed We’re giving away the perfect package for fitness enthusiasts. The folks at Skulpt want to give one TechCrunch reader a Skulpt Aim fitness tracker ($199 value), an Apple Watch Sport ($349 value), and two Exhibitor Plus passes to CES 2016 ($200 value). Read More



Postmates Founder Bastian Lehmann To Speak At Disrupt London

Nov 05, 5:28PM

screenshot-2015-03-31-12-28-20 We’re continuing to announce speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an amazing slate of global startups, investors, influential speakers, VIP guests and more. Bastian Lehmann Bastian is the CEO of Postmates, the on-demand delivery company he co-founded in 2011. The idea for Postmates was originally conceived in 2005… Read More



YouTube Adds Support For VR Video To Its Android App

Nov 05, 5:23PM

JUMP_WT_660_WHT Google’s YouTube app for Android now supports virtual reality (VR) video in combination with its Cardboard VR viewer. VR video takes the 360-degree videos you may already be familiar with a step further by using VR techniques like stereopsis and binocular disparity to give you a stronger feeling of immersion (which is what VR is all about, after all). Read More



Netatmo, France's Answer To Nest, Raises $32M To Build Its Smart Home Business

Nov 05, 5:16PM

Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 16.55.20 France has developed something of a name for itself as a center for IoT startups, and today another mover and shaker in the space is making some waves. Netatmo, a Paris-based designer of stylish connected home devices like smart thermostats and security cameras — think France’s answer to Nest — is announcing that it has raised €30 million ($32 million). Read More



Walgreens Becomes First Retailer To Integrate Its Loyalty Program With Apple Pay

Nov 05, 5:16PM

apple pay walgreens Drug store chain Walgreens announced this morning its loyalty program will now be available through Apple Pay – making it the first U.S. retailer to integrate their customer rewards platform with Apple’s mobile payments service. The added support will allow the chain’s over 85 million Balance Rewards members the ability to use Apple Pay at checkout using either their iPhone… Read More



Our Pick Of 21 Interesting Startups From Web Summit

Nov 05, 5:11PM

CTC0gJaW4AA1StC As Web Summit in Dublin wraps up another gang-busting year of packing out the pubs and bars, and bringing the traffic to a halt (some 30,000 people attended this year), TechCrunch took a turn around some of the stages to hunt down any interesting startups we could find. It’s a little tough to take in the hundreds of startups that exhibit very day, but we thought we might have a little… Read More



Hivemapper, The Waze For Drones, Lands $3M Seed Led By Spark Capital

Nov 05, 5:05PM

Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 11.45.37 AM Flying a drone is kind of like driving a car that only has a windshield. You can only look in one direction at a time, and when the drone gets out of visual range, the user is left with a single view through the lens of a camera. Hivemapper, a company that just raised a $3 million Series A led by Spark Capital, is looking to make that a bit safer. You can think of Hivemapper as a Waze for… Read More




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