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To Push Moments, Twitter Starts Shoving The Notifications Tab To The Side

Dec 04, 9:49PM

twitter-lightning-glacier3200 If you’re a Twitter for the web user (or Android) like I am, then you know exactly where all of the tabs are that you need to speedily read tweets, replies and so forth. Twitter, monkeying around with the service as they do, has started experimenting with switching some places of the tabs you use the most. The “Notifications” tab sits nicely next to “Home” on the… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.04.15

Dec 04, 9:12PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1pmPT/4pmET. Read More



Why Decision Science Matters

Dec 04, 9:00PM

keychoice Nearly everyone is familiar with the DirecTV commercials in which actor Rob Lowe and NFL quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tony Romo appear as unflattering alter-egos of themselves — “peaked in high school” Rob Lowe, “bad comedian” Eli Manning, “artsy craftsy” Tony Romo, etc. The burgeoning adoption of data science in companies like Uber, Netflix and… Read More



A New Service Called CoinCube Can Help Manage Your BTC

Dec 04, 7:35PM

giffer-1 In the future, all currencies will be crypto. And you’ll need someone to manage all that crypto cash. That’s what CoinCube is trying to do: a way to manage cryptocurrency investments intelligently. Created by Robert Allen, Eric Kittell, Jibben Nee and Giovanni Meacci, the system is still in its relative infancy. They have about a 100 users with $430,000 in assets under management,… Read More



22-Year-Old Launching Harlem's First VC Fund

Dec 04, 7:16PM

cofound harlem John Henry, the 22-year-old founder of accelerator program Cofound Harlem, has announced Cofound Ventures, Harlem’s first venture capital fund. Cofound Ventures, which will officially launch next year, is looking to raise a total of $8 million, with $3 million going toward running the nine-month accelerator and funding startup stipends, and $5 million toward further funding Cofound… Read More



TalentSky Is Building A Professional Network With A Focus On Verified Skills

Dec 04, 6:46PM

talentsky Rick Devine has spent more than a decade as an executive recruiter, and even introduced Steve Jobs to his eventual successor Tim Cook back in 1998. Now he’s working on a startup called TalentSky, aiming to address some of the big problems he sees in the hiring landscape — specifically, the big “skills gap,” where employers can’t find job applicants with… Read More



Insert Snarky Subtweet About Twitter Trademarking Subtweet

Dec 04, 6:05PM

8476805037_2f8f0576c3_o Yes. This a trademark application filed on October 30th for the term “subtweet.” Twitter has filed a trademark for the term "subtweet." pic.twitter.com/ivE9hLDm2R — Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) December 4, 2015 If you’re not sure what a subtweet is, then well…I’m not sure I can help you all that much. Basically, when someone talks trash about… Read More



It's The Last Day for Crunchies Nominations

Dec 04, 6:00PM

Crunchies Statues This is it! The last hoorah, do or die time, use it or lose it — your last chance to nominate a winner for the coveted Crunchies Awards. We will celebrate the best and brightest in the global technology world on February 8th, 2016 at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. The Crunchies Awards categories for 2015: Best New Startup of 2015 Best Overall Startup Fastest Rising… Read More



7 Unexpected Virtual Reality Use Cases

Dec 04, 6:00PM

shutterstock_323723186 Some amazing and inventive new ways to use VR technology are already appearing that could dramatically impact people in their daily lives. Read More



Cruise.me Sets Sail To Make Young Folks Like Cruises

Dec 04, 5:45PM

IMG_0261 Cruises, for the uninitiated, are trips on a boat where you eat too much, watch an Abba musical, and get the stomach flu. But they can be so much more and that’s why Cruise.me launched: to prove that cruising isn’t just for old folks and masochists. The creators, Stephen Chip and Nindy Dhiens, first built AbbeyLabs in South Florida. The team realized that a) South Florida is a… Read More



Nominations For The 9th Annual Crunchies End Today, Get Them In Now

Dec 04, 5:00PM

crunchies awards We’re just a few months away from the 9th Annual Crunchies, and your window to nominate your favorite tech startups, entrepreneurs and investors is closing today. Yes, today is the final day to get your nominations in, so be sure to head to our nominations page to support the best companies and people in the industry. Read More



Tea Making Robot Teforia Brews Up $5.1 Million In Seed Funding

Dec 04, 4:25PM

teforia Teforia, the startup that promises its machine makes the perfect cup of tea every time has pulled in $5.1 million in a deal to help it take on the brewed beverage technology space. The company launched a rather successful pre-order campaign for what some would deem a pricey device. Teforia pulled in roughly $300,000 total for an initial price of $649 per machine during that campaign.… Read More



Motus Wearable Sensors Bring Biomechanics Out Of The Lab And Into The Ball Park

Dec 04, 4:08PM

David Price throwing for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2015. Baseball has always been a sport driven by numbers, and with modern Sabermetrics, it’s even more so. Motus has developed a system using biomechanics to measure stress on a pitcher’s elbow or a change in batter’s swing. Today it introduced a new 5-sensor package, which brings this advanced technology out of the lab and onto the field. With this package of sensors, which… Read More



A User's Guide to Disrupt London 2015

Dec 04, 4:05PM

Hard to believe that Disrupt London is just around the corner! TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of sponsors who promise to make your experience at the conference better and better.     Official Event App: Download the beta version of our Disrupt app to connect and message with other attendees at Disrupt. (Note: you can only message attendees who have also downloaded… Read More



Step Inside Gaming Company Razer's Largest Concept Store To Date

Dec 04, 4:01PM

batch_IMG_0053 High-end gaming firm Razer opened its third such store — which is purely for showing off its products, not actual retail sales — in Bangkok, Thailand, recently and we went along to check it out. Razer, which was valued at more than one billion US dollars following an investment from Intel last year, has concept stores in Taiwan and Manila, but its new addition in Bangkok is its… Read More



The Next Delivery Battlefield

Dec 04, 4:00PM

2drones With e-commerce booming and the holidays rapidly approaching, retail and tech giants alike are asking Santa for new ways to delight customers and increase sales. In the U.S., nearly half of all holiday shopping will be done online, according to the National Retail Federation. With this rising demand, consumers want fast, affordable and easy deliveries. That’s why key players in… Read More



Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Will Join Us At Disrupt London

Dec 04, 2:56PM

photo-jefflawson We’re only a few days away from Disrupt London. For the first time at any Disrupt, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson will join us to talk about what it’s like building a developer-centric communications startup that now has a valuation over a billion dollars. Before founding Twilio, Lawson was at Amazon, where he was one of the first product managers in the AWS team. He was also the founding… Read More



The Real Obstacle To Becoming A VC Is Financial, Not Gender, Inequality

Dec 04, 2:50PM

maxresdefault (2) Start your own venture firm. That’s the advice that one of the industry’s first female VCs, Kathryn Gould, gave to other women, and it came to mind yesterday as I watched an interview given to journalist Emily Chang this week by longtime Sequoia Capital investor Michael Moritz. Chang asked Moritz about Sequoia’s responsibility to hire women, as Sequoia has no female… Read More



SeamlessDocs Raises $5 Million Series A To Bring Government Forms Online

Dec 04, 2:42PM

seamlessdocs SeamlessDocs, the document automation portal for governments, has announced the close of a $5 million Series A funding round led by the Govtech Fund The startup originally launched as Bizodo out of the ERA Accelerator and has since re-branded and re-focused on bringing governments into the now-paperless world we live in. SeamlessDocs takes what has traditionally been an offline experience… Read More



For The Good Of Tech

Dec 04, 2:30PM

category-social We love tech, and we especially love tech for good. Come join us for the Oscars of the tech world, the Crunchies Awards, on February 8, 2016. There are only two days left until the nominations for the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards close, and we want to hear from you. Read More




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