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Fossil Group Buys Health-Tracking Wearable Startup Misfit For $260M
Nov 12, 10:05PM
Watchmaker Fossil Group said today it would acquire Misfit, which creates various wearable and sleep trackers in addition to a health-tracking platform, for $260 million. Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit, will serve as Fossil’s CTO. Misfit makes devices like the Shine, a wearable fitness and sleep tracker that costs $99 that the company says has a 6-month battery life. The company came out with… Read MoreVevo Follows YouTube Music's Debut With An Upgraded Music App Of Its Own
Nov 12, 9:30PM
Following today’s launch of the anticipated YouTube Music application, music video streaming app Vevo, which distributes videos to YouTube and counts Google as an investor, is also introducing a new experience of its own. The company today is rolling out a completely revamped mobile app, initially on iOS, which reimagines the Vevo application as one that’s focused more heavily… Read MorePseudo-Therapy Apps: The Fad Diet Of Mental Health
Nov 12, 9:00PM
Psychotherapists help people discover the root cause of symptoms like anxiety and depression by bringing attention to issues and patterns that may lie outside of awareness. These things may be difficult to recognize or acknowledge on your own. Psychotherapy helps you question the status quo and, if you want to, change it. However, psychotherapy takes work — it’s not a quick fix. Read MoreINNOVATE2016: Ben Jealous On DC's Closed Doors And The Democrats' Sharing Economy Problem
Nov 12, 8:30PM
Democrats are spending too much time defending Wall Street and traditional cab companies than, for example, acknowledging how empowering the peer-to-peer revolution is for Uber drivers or Airbnb renters. Read MoreTwitter Doing More With GIFs, Introduces Feature Called "ScratchReel"
Nov 12, 8:14PM
Twitter tweeted out a new toy for you to play with for video called “ScratchReel.” Basically, it lets you scrub a short GIF back and forth for cool effects. Check it out here (to see the actual effect you have to visit the native tweet): Spotted a ScratchReel yet? Scrub back & forth to help the @WSL surfer escape the tube!
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Only on Twitter, dude. Read MoreFirst Impressions Of YouTube's New Music App
Nov 12, 7:45PM
Today YouTube launched an official music app. With YouTube Music, you’ll get a new experience, designed to make discovering music on YouTube easier. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, considering the popularity of music videos on the site, which boasts access to a potential audience of over 1 billion people around the globe. Read MoreGoogle Improves Comic Book Reading Experience In Play Books For Android
Nov 12, 7:00PM
Google today launched an upgrade to its Google Play Books store for Android that will make it easier to read comics on your phone and tablet. The company also today introduced personalized comic recommendations to make it easier to find similar series, as well as a set of curated series pages for comics in the Play Store. Read MoreHired, The Jobs Marketplace, Now Includes Freelance Workers
Nov 12, 6:57PM
Hired, a jobs marketplace for “knowledge workers,” thinks it has struck on a new way to grow its business: by adding freelancers to it roster. It’s “not a big shift from our mission,” says Mehul Patel, who was promoted from president to CEO of the 157-person company in September, while previous CEO Matt Mickiewicz became chief product officer. “Our mission is… Read MoreTinder Ditches Moments
Nov 12, 6:20PM
Just yesterday, Tinder launched an update that adds employment/education information into the user’s profile as well as a revamped inbox, placing new matches in the top bar and current conversations in the lower part of the screen. With the inbox revamp, Moments, the app’s Snapchat-like photo-sharing tool, is retiring. Moments launched back in the summer of 2014 with the goal… Read MoreFacebook Unleashes VR-Style 360 Videos For Ads And iOS
Nov 12, 6:01PM
Zuck says VR is the future and Facebook is wasting no time building it into the News Feed and starting to make money off it. By embracing the format, Facebook can stay fresh for consumers by offering the most vivid way to connect with places you can’t go. Meanwhile, attracting organic VR videos will provide cover so it can slip VmaRketing into the feed. Read MoreUpthere Launches Its Home And Camera Apps Into Beta
Nov 12, 6:00PM
The company that built the “computer in the cloud” from scratch to take the heavy lifting away from our devices, Upthere, has launched their apps into beta, letting in those who signed up for an invite in slowly. Upthere Home and Upthere Camera for iOS, Android and Mac are now live, and I’ve been playing with them for a better part of the last week. The service is free during… Read MoreWith One Cash, Tip $1 To People You Love, Or Make It Rain
Nov 12, 6:00PM
From the team who brought you Mindie, One Cash is a new payment app for iOS, but with a twist. This time, it isn’t about paying back your friends like countless of other apps. It’s all about tipping $1 to people you admire. Here’s how it works. Read MoreGiffage Launches The Only Gif Keyboard You'll Ever Need
Nov 12, 5:28PM
Gifs are a diverse bunch, there’s one like ten million for everything you could ever think of but they’re pretty hard to find and the process for posting them is a little harder than it should be. That’s why gif keyboards are so popular – they allow rapid access to the Internet’s library of moving images and you don’t have to go far to find them.… Read MoreFileThis 2.0 Will Organize Your Statements And Bills, Remind You When To Pay
Nov 12, 5:27PM
As more consumers shift to using online services for managing their banking, bills, payments, and more, some of our most important personal and financial documents are scattered across a number of websites – sites which don’t always maintain thorough archives of our past statements. A service called FileThis has been working to address this problem by offering a utility that… Read MoreGmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
Nov 12, 5:21PM
Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its servers, but for the longest time, the standard practice for sending email between providers was to leave them unencrypted. If somebody managed to intercept those messages, it was pretty trivial to… Read MoreYouTube Launches Its Long-Awaited Music App
Nov 12, 5:00PM
You’ve probably been watching music videos on YouTube since its inception. The platform has also served as the go-to place for wannabe musicians to be found, but it’s never catered to that specific vertical. The team rolled out YouTube for gaming last month and today it is launching YouTube Music for iOS and Android. The enhanced, paid, experience is free during a 14-day trial.… Read MoreLivingSocial Co-Founder Aaron Batalion Joins Lightspeed Venture Partners
Nov 12, 5:00PM
Eight years ago, Aaron Batalion and three friends created a Facebook app called “Hungry Machine.” It was pretty successful…so successful that it turned into LivingSocial, which was one of the first startups to raise a “magical” billion dollars. (I refuse to use the creature’s name to describe this “club.”) Read MoreAll Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due To Expired Security Certificate
Nov 12, 4:35PM
Oops! A number of users have been reporting error messages and other issues with software downloaded from the Mac App Store that prevented them from using their apps. The warnings prompted them to delete and then re-install their apps, but this was not necessarily correcting the problem, customers found. The issue, as it turned out, was related to Apple’s failure to renew… Read MoreAttending CES? TechCrunch Wants To See Your Company
Nov 12, 4:31PM
CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge contingent to the show again this year and want to see your gadgets, toys and products. TechCrunch cares much more for the hardware startups than the big CE players. We want to see the future FitBits and… Read MoreCola Is Building A Platform To Help You Send Fewer Text Messages
Nov 12, 4:29PM
As text messaging takes over more of my communication, I find myself on lots of long and complicated chats where I’m trying to plan and coordinate with multiple people. Now a startup called Cola aims to replace all that back-and-forth with a set of interactive “Cola Bubbles.” 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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