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Airbnb Confirms Its Massive $1.5 Billion Raise
Dec 07, 9:51PM
Back in June, the WSJ reported that Airbnb had raised a massive $1.5 billion round of funding. Today, the company confirmed those reports by way of SEC filing. The total offering and sold amount is $1,499,937,904.00 for those keeping score. Airbnb’s valuation is now at or above $25 billion, which is just staggering. It sounds like Airbnb is going to focus on strengthening itself… Read MoreThe Disrupt London 2015 Battlefield Finalists Are Jukedeck, Lystable, MAX, And Yoobic
Dec 07, 9:46PM
Disrupt London Day One was a smashing success, and included speaking appearances from Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, former Arsenal footballer and sports broadcaster Thierry Henry (yep, there was plenty of football on our stage), Postmates’ Bastian Lehmann, and a host of investors from Sonali De Rycker to Andy McLoughlin to David Hornik. But the magic truly begins when the… Read MoreVirtuality Reality And The Future Of Music
Dec 07, 9:00PM
Pretty soon, you’ll be able to strap on a headset and spend a day immersed in the life of almost anyone on earth. Want to be Kanye West for a few hours, performing for a crowd of tens of thousands or hanging out with your beautiful family? Just pop on a pair of virtual reality goggles and get ready to live a superstar’s life. Of course, virtual reality (VR) can be used for much… Read MoreGoogle Calendar Gets Reminders
Dec 07, 6:46PM
Gmail has had a “to-do” feature for the longest time but it was pretty useless, as it was a simple stand-alone one-off feature that probably graduated from Labs at one point. It was never integrated and luckily the team is fixing that today. Google is rolling out the ability to add reminders in Google Calendar for iOS and Android (web soon). Why this took so long is a pretty… Read MoreStanford Uses Virtual Reality To Make Its Heisman Pitch For Christian McCaffrey
Dec 07, 6:32PM
Whether you’re a sports fan or not, it’s hard not getting excited around bowl season in College Football. More exciting than that is watching all of the teams push their own candidates for the Heisman Trophy, given out to this year’s best NCAA Football player. Stanford, as techy as they get, decided to take their pitch for everyman Christian McCaffrey into virtual reality:… Read MoreHow Startups Should Use Behavioral Economics
Dec 07, 6:30PM
Behavioral Economic principles sometimes feel manipulative. How can they play a role in user-centered product development and marketing? Read MoreBacked Raises $1.5M To Tackle Credit By Letting Sponsors Vouch For Thin-File Borrowers
Dec 07, 6:30PM
The latest company to tilt against the lending windmill with a solution for borrowers who might not have the best credit rating — or who might not have any credit rating or credit history at all is Backed. Read MoreSocialFlow Raises $7.5 Million To Help Media Companies With Social
Dec 07, 6:17PM
New York-based SocialFlow has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The startup, which helps media organizations including The Wall Street Journal and BBC optimize their effectiveness on social media, has closed a round led by Gefinor Capital. A competitor of HootSuite, SocialFlow works with media outlets, including TechCrunch, to ensure that articles get shared… Read MoreGo Chat With Miss Piggy On Facebook Messenger
Dec 07, 6:12PM
If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, I’d love to have a Facebook Messenger chat with Miss Piggy from The Muppets” now is your time to strike. Well, it’s not Miss Piggy really…it’s AI pretending to be Miss Piggy. Sad, I know. But it’s as close to chatting with her as you’ll ever get. Grab the friends and the kids and their friends and… Read More67 Photos From Inside Disney's Secret Star Wars Press Event
Dec 07, 6:10PM
About two weeks ago, we got an email inviting us to an event. All it said: it was about Star Wars, and it would take place in Los Angeles. Where in LA? They’d tell us right before it all went down. What was the actual event? They couldn’t really say, but we’d want to be there. No video allowed for most of it. No geotagging our location in pictures. I knew it wasn’t a… Read MoreEnergyElephant Wants To Help Every Business Save Money On Their Energy Bill
Dec 07, 6:05PM
Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt London Startup Battlefield, EnergyElephant presented its “energy analysis” service to a crowded hall of investors, developers and entrepreneurs. The startup, bootstrapped to date, takes in a company’s energy use information — a bill, in other words — and then provides analysis that it expects the customer to leverage into savings. Read MoreEmotech Is Building Olly, A Robot Assistant With Personality
Dec 07, 5:51PM
A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 today, with a plan to crowdfund its first product, a voice-controlled robot assistant called Olly, early next year. Read MoreQwertycards Is A Wallet-Sized Card That Generates Secure Passwords
Dec 07, 5:43PM
Do you still use one generic password to login across multiple websites? Even though it’s a pretty awful habit, you’re probably not alone. Most of of us now have hundreds of accounts for different sites across the internet. That means unless you use a password manager, its practically impossible to remember a unique password for each site. Here’s another solution for… Read MoreBounty Is An App That Connects Smartphone Users With Nearby Gigs
Dec 07, 5:37PM
An Istanbul-based startup called Twentify took the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 to talk about their gig-finding app Bounty, which helps people find nearby small jobs they can do for extra cash. As the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley Wild Card position, the co-founders only had a few hours notice to prepare their presentation before today’s… Read MoreGoogle Turns On Safe Browsing In Chrome For Android
Dec 07, 5:30PM
Google’s Safe Browsing technology is now enabled by default on Android to protect mobile Chrome users from accessing phishing sites and web pages that harbor malware. Until now, Safe Browsing was only available to desktop users, as well as for Chrome users on Android who turned on Google’s optional data compression service. Read MoreThe Caruma Aims To Be A Fitbit For Cars
Dec 07, 5:29PM
Computer vision technologist Chris Carson built a portable device to turn any regular vehicle into a connected car. Called the Caruma, Carson likens it to a Fitbit, but for driving. The Caruma tracks mileage, driver performance, trip history and GPS location information. The device also comes with built-in dual high definition video to record what’s happening simultaneously from inside… Read MoreYoobic Wants To Ensure Product Marketing Is Done Right On The Sales Floor
Dec 07, 5:15PM
The serial entrepreneurs behind Yoobic have kept it all in the family over the course of three startup companies. The three brothers, Fabrice, Avi, and Gilles Haiat, began their entrepreneurial journey with a maintenance service management business. Over time that evolved into their second and most successful venture, doing buildi Read MoreFailing To Find Users, Dropbox Will Shut Down Mailbox In February 2016 And Carousel In March
Dec 07, 5:01PM
Dropbox, the file hosting and cloud storage company with 400 million users, has been struggling to hold up its $10 billion valuation in the face of scrutiny from investors and observers, and now it looks like the other shoe is dropping as the company streamlines its business. The company is shutting down Mailbox and Carousel, its email and photo apps. Sources tell us the plan will… Read MoreMovebubble Makes Renting Suck Less
Dec 07, 4:57PM
If you’ve lived in a big city where renting (versus owning) is a popular option for residents, then you likely know the endless struggle of trying to find a place to live. The listings that often intrigue you are no longer available, and in London, around 50 percent of listings posted to websites are stale, left only for marketing and data capture purposes. Movebubble, a company… Read MoreNeed Music For A Video? Jukedeck's AI Composer Makes Cheap, Custom Soundtracks
Dec 07, 4:44PM
Everyone can shoot video but few can record or afford a legal soundtrack. Until now. With Jukedeck’s new artificial intelligence music composition technology, creators can get a cheap, royalty free soundtrack custom-made for their video. Jukedeck users don’t even need musical talent. They just select the mood, style, tempo and length, and Jukedeck returns a unique song to match… 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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