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9 Gifts For The Smartest Smart Home
Dec 01, 11:02PM
Choose from 16 million shades of color, make grandpa feel more secure by showing him who’s at the door when he’s not even there and get the house turnt with a rendition of Alvin and the Chipmunk’s “All I want for Christmas” at the moment your visiting family steps in the door with these hand-picked devices we think you’ll enjoy giving or getting this… Read More
Only One Week To Submit Your Application For 1st And Future
Dec 01, 11:00PM
There is exactly one week until applications close for 1st and Future, the startup competition that TechCrunch is staging with the NFL and Stanford University on February 6 at Stanford’s CEMEX Auditorium. Get your application in today. Four startups will compete for top honors in each of the competition’s three categories: Tomorrow’s Athlete, Bringing Home the Game and The… Read MoreWhy Israel Will Probably Never Have A Tech Giant And Why That's Not Something To Regret
Dec 01, 11:00PM
For many years, Israelis used to lament that the local tech scene, while considered second only to Silicon Valley and generating many successful startups, has never been able to grow a world tech leader such as Nokia. Why don’t we have our own “Nokia?” people used to ask — while pointing a finger at entrepreneurs and investors alike. Read MorePerion Acquires Digital Ad Company Undertone For $180M
Dec 01, 10:54PM
Israeli marketing company Perion Networks announced today that it has acquired Undertone, a New York City-based digital ad company in a $180 million cash deal. According to the release, $91 million will be paid once the acquisition closes, with the rest paid out over the next few years. Undertone says it brought in $104 million in revenue during the first nine months of 2015, with 75 percent… Read MoreAutodesk Launches 3D Cloud Development Platform And A $100 Million Investment Fund
Dec 01, 10:00PM
Autodesk is an old school software company, having launched in 1982 and gone public in 1990, but that doesn’t mean it’s too fixed in its ways to try something new. Today, the company is launching a new Platform as a Service it’s calling Forge.com and a $100 million fund to help prime the development pump. It will essentially make 3D development and displaying available… Read MoreMark Zuckerberg Is Now A Dad, Pledges To Give Away 99% Of His Shares
Dec 01, 9:39PM
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said he and his wife would give away 99 percent of their shares to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.” His shares are currently worth around $45 billion. Read MoreBlack Friday Shoppers Spent 5 Hours At The Mall, Says Foursquare
Dec 01, 9:10PM
Black Friday shoppers spent an average of 4.9 hours out at brick-and-mortar shops, according to data from Foursquare. Long lines meant that each shopper only visited 2.8 stores. The location-tracking service says it was also able to determine that Best Buy JCPenney, and Macy’s saw the biggest increase in foot traffic on the big day. Dick’s Sporting Goods and Sports Authority… Read MoreCommuniGift Launches With A New Way For Kids To Give To Charity
Dec 01, 9:00PM
With the goal of making every kids’ birthday a dream come true, Los Angeles-based CommuniGift has launched a new business to promote charitable giving just in time for the holidays. The company, founded by four undergrads from the University of North Carolina, has identified a novel way of connecting would-be donors with those in need. Their method? The birthday party. Working… Read MoreStringr Raises $1.5M To Build A News Footage Marketplace
Dec 01, 8:51PM
News startup Stringr is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in funding. Co-founder and CEO Lindsay Stewart previously worked as a TV news producer for ABC, Bloomberg and Fox News, and she said the service was “really born out of this newsroom need of getting footage quickly, in a transparent way.” For example, if there’s a big tornado, TV stations are going to want… Read MoreSamsung Launches Web Browser For Gear VR
Dec 01, 8:12PM
You’re strapped into a virtual reality delight and you want to Google something. What do you do? Now you can use a web browser built and optimized specifically for the Samsung Gear VR. The company announced the web browser today, and it’s called simply “Samsung Internet for Gear VR.” Read MoreBehind The Prezi Pixels
Dec 01, 7:51PM
Interactive presentation startup Prezi has been in quiet mode lately, but invited us behind the scenes to discuss its startup roots in Budapest, Hungary, and juggling two offices in different time zones. Prezi pulls in clients the likes of Salesforce, Lufthansa, Marriott and IBM to create unique presentations. It has also seen an explosion in growth since hitting the scene in Silicon Valley… Read MoreYour PS4 Just Became A Tiny Bit More Powerful
Dec 01, 7:39PM
Chances are you haven’t realized it, but your PlayStation 4 got a little bit more powerful. The PlayStation 4 comes with an octa-core CPU. Until now, game developers could leverage 6 of them while the other 2 ran the operating system. But Sony recently unlocked the 7th core for games, or at least part of it. Read MoreShyp Now Ships Your Goods Straight From eBay
Dec 01, 7:16PM
Just in time for the high holy season of giving and getting packages from far away, on-demand shipping startup Shyp is taking advantage of one of the biggest online outfits in need of delivery for those packages – eBay. Much like when PayPal first offered a third-party payment system for the the e-commerce site, Shyp hopes to be the third-party shipping provider, with a promise to sellers… Read MoreCyber Monday Beat Forecasts With A Record $3.07 Billion In Sales, 26% From Mobile Devices
Dec 01, 7:15PM
Yesterday’s Cyber Monday sales event was already poised to break records with a forecasted $3 billion in sales, making it the largest online sales day in history. It ended up beating those estimates, however, according to the final numbers provided by Adobe’s Digital Index today: the company says that $3.07 billion was spent online yesterday, a 16 percent increase year-over-year,… Read MoreHumility, Accountability And Creative Thinking Can Fix IT Security
Dec 01, 7:00PM
The state of cybersecurity has reached full-blown systemic failure. The narrative goes something like this: Companies are spending massive amounts of money on technologies that don’t seem to be living up to their marketing messages. According to Gartner, $80 billion will be invested in IT security products in 2015 alone. Yet breaches persist. While it’s always easier to point out… Read MoreMicrosoft Tries To Declare A Christmas Truce With Apple
Dec 01, 6:52PM
Microsoft has put out a TV commercial for the holidays. In it, some things happen…mostly singing. There are employees, kids and other things going on in a New York City setting. Apple’s back yard on 5th Ave, to be specific. My colleague Alex and I hopped into Slack, watched it together and shared our thoughts. We think that Microsoft is trying to say that they’re friends, or… Read MoreMeet The Disrupt London 2015 Speakers And Judges
Dec 01, 6:41PM
Disrupt London is almost here, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak at what will surely be the best Disrupt Europe yet. The two-day conference kicks off on December 7 in the Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena and wraps the following day with the finals of Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000. Read MoreIf You've Named Your Baby After An Instagram Filter, You're Not Alone
Dec 01, 6:24PM
A site that says that they know lots about babies called BabyCenter.com (great name for a baby site) shared their top ten names of 2015 for both male and female little-ins. Some of the names are what you’d expect. I encounter many a Jackson-baby and Mia-baby these days. However, Time points out that some names are trending. Specifically, names of Instagram filters. You know. The thing… Read MoreAdobe Puts Another Nail In Flash's Coffin
Dec 01, 5:43PM
Flash is dying of a slow, painful death. Adobe, the company behind Flash, just made clear once again that Flash isn’t the future by renaming one of its apps. Adobe Flash Professional is now called Adobe Animate CC. Read MoreThe Huffington Post Editorial Staff Moves Forward With Union Plans
Dec 01, 5:42PM
The editorial team at the Huffington Post has officially asked management to recognize the Writers Guild of America, East as its union. In recent months, the newsrooms of several digital media organizations (including Gawker, Salon and ThinkProgress) have unionized with the Writers Guild. A similar effort has been underway at The Huffington Post — which, like TechCrunch, is owned by… 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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