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CultureIQ Raises $3M To Help Companies Improve Their Culture
Dec 10, 10:49PM
CultureIQ announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. Founded by former SecondMarket CFO Greg Besner, the New York City-based startup offers what it calls “culture management software.” That includes tools for surveying employees and analyzing the results in real-time, as well as a “culture strategy group” that helps customers explore programs… Read MoreY Combinator Expands Open Office Hours To A Different Community Every Month, Starting With Veterans
Dec 10, 9:30PM
After launching its Open Office Hours program in September, YC is expanding the program and turning it into a monthly thing. The announcement comes after a pilot program where over 650 Black and Latino founders applied, and YC partners met with 50 teams teams in 2 days of office hours. Michael Seibel, the YC partner leading Open Office Hours, said “Silicon Valley investors often say… Read MoreEsper Helps Assistants Manage Their Bosses' Time
Dec 10, 9:21PM
We’ve seen startups try to replace or automate the work of executive assistants, but Esper is trying to do something different — it aims to help those assistants make smarter decisions. Esper CEO Andrew Lee was previously founder at JamLegend and then, post-acquisition, a product manager at Zynga. The company has raised $2 million from Joe Lonsdale (a founder at Palantir and… Read MoreAtlassian Closes Up 32%, Valuing The Company At $5.8B
Dec 10, 9:06PM
Potentially the last tech IPO of the year ended its first day of trading with a bang. Atlassian, a maker of collaboration and software development tools, ended the day up about 32%. With that rise, Atlassian — which raised money at a $3.3 billion valuation before going public — is now worth nearly $6 billion, making it one of the strongest IPOs of the year. Atlassian’s… Read MoreFour Fault Lines That Are Reshaping The Audio Landscape
Dec 10, 9:00PM
Digital audio listening is in the midst of a historic transition from standalone usage through dedicated hardware and applications to embedded experiences — something that will reshape the $65+ billion global audio sector. We have already seen early signs, with audio embedded in smartphones becoming the dominant digital listening experience. Read MoreThe Essentials Of Hiring An Exceptional Startup Team
Dec 10, 9:00PM
For early stage companies to be successful, founders need to develop a thoughtful recruiting process, and need to do it early on. Read MoreNetflix Beats HBO, Traditional Broadcasters With The Most Golden Globe Noms
Dec 10, 7:25PM
Streaming services made a strong showing when the nominations for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Netflix dominated the TV category with a total of eight nominations, closely followed by HBO – which now competes with an over-the-top service of its own. HBO and Starz earned seven nods, while Amazon and FX received five each. Read MoreApple TV Now Has Over 2,600 Apps, Largest Category Is Games
Dec 10, 6:47PM
A new report out today details the growth of the Apple TV App Store in the month or so it’s been live, noting that the store has already grown to include 2,624 applications, the majority being games. At the current rate of growth, the store is estimated to reach 5,000 apps a month from now, and as high as 10,000 applications by early next year. The data was collected by appFigures, which… Read MoreGoogle Fires At Sonos, Adds Multi-Room Support To Chromecast Audio
Dec 10, 6:14PM
Back in September, Google came out of nowhere with Chromecast Audio. The idea: take the Chromecast concept (tap a button, send a video to your TV and control it from your phone) and make it audio-only, letting you add some Wi-Fi-enabled smarts to any stereo system you’ve already got wired in your house. Read MoreFunction Of Beauty, Backed By Y Combinator, Offers Customized Shampoo And Conditioner
Dec 10, 6:10PM
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the myriad of options in the haircare section of your local store, but it turns out that of all those products, the formula within most shampoo and conditioner doesn’t vary much across brands. A new Y Combinator company, Function of Beauty, is looking to change all that. The company lets the user choose a scent and describe their own hair type,… Read MoreYahoo Launches A Video Guide App For Cord Cutters
Dec 10, 6:07PM
Yahoo today is hoping to capitalize on the cord-cutting trend and consumers’ growing attachment to streaming video services with the launch of a new app called Yahoo Video Guide. The app, available now on iOS and Android, will help you find new movies and TV shows to watch on HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other services, then allow you to launch titles directly in the video apps you… Read MoreGradle Grabs $4.2 Million To Expand Commercial Company Around Open Source Build System
Dec 10, 6:00PM
Surely by now we know that every company is a software company, and as more companies focus on software development, it is increasingly difficult for them to manage the complexity around coordinating builds and creating executables. That’s where the open source Gradle tool comes in — and it got $4.2 million today to continue to expand the commercial company behind the open… Read MoreTRData Wants To Be 'Bloomberg For Emerging Markets'
Dec 10, 5:20PM
TRData, a London-headquartered startup with a development team based in Ukraine and the majority of customers in Russia, makes for an interesting European tech story. Read MoreAutomattic Releases WordPress App For Windows Desktop
Dec 10, 5:19PM
It didn’t take long. A little bit more than two weeks after launching an OS X app, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is launching a Windows version. Like on OS X, this app takes advantage of the complete rewrite of WordPress.com. Read MoreStreamroot Makes Video Streaming Cheaper Thanks To Peer-To-Peer
Dec 10, 5:00PM
Talk about “peak hours” with any engineer who is working on a video streaming website, and it will send shivers down their spine. French startup Streamroot is making sure that everything will run smoothly when it comes to bandwidth, delivery time, adaptive bitrate and all the other key technical words in the world of online video streaming. In particular, Streamroot uses… Read MoreGoogle Launches Faster, More Flexible Version Of Its Cloud SQL Database Service
Dec 10, 5:00PM
Cloud SQL, Google’s fully managed MySQL database service on its Cloud Platform, is getting a major upgrade today with the beta launch of version two of the service. The original Cloud SQL launched back in 2011 and hit general availability a full two and a half years later. Google says that after today’s update, Cloud SQL will feature throughput rates that are up to seven times… Read MoreSimilarWeb Buys Quettra To Move Deeper Into Mobile Analytics And Big Data
Dec 10, 4:58PM
Yet more consolidation is happening in the world of analytics. Today Israeli web analytics and traffic measurement startup SimilarWeb announced that it has acquired Quettra, a provider of mobile analytics and measurement tools founded by Ankit Jain, the former head of search and discovery in the Google Play store. Quettra was a relatively young startup. It only came out of stealth last year… Read MoreGoogle's Plan To Accelerate The Mobile Web Will Go Live In February
Dec 10, 4:50PM
Google’s plan to accelerate the mobile web – also known as the “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project” or AMP, for short – now has a launch date. The company said this week that it will begin directing traffic to its sped-up AMP pages in Google Search starting in late February 2016. In addition, Google notes that Pinterest is already testing AMP pages in its mobile… Read MoreHipchat-Maker Atlassian Begins Trading Up 32% at $27.67, Valued At $5.8 Billion
Dec 10, 4:46PM
After pricing its IPO at $21, above the expected range of $19 to $20, Atlassian began trading up 32% at $27.67 in its debut on the Nasdaq today. This gives the company a valuation of $5.8 billion. The Australia-based unicorn, whose backers include Accel and T. Rowe Price, raised capital at over a $3.3 billion valuation in the private markets. In the wake of companies like Square and Box… Read MoreHouzz Brings New Collaboration Tools To Its iOS Apps
Dec 10, 4:30PM
Houzz, the popular service for giving you house envy and connecting you with the right home professionals to cure it, is launching an interesting new feature for its iOS users today. The new Sketch feature makes it easier for homeowners to annotate photos on the service to discuss their remodeling ideas with their housemates and professionals. The company also today announced that it now… 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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