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Listia Isn't Just For Swapping Free Stuff Anymore
Dec 14, 11:29PM
Listia started out as a way for people to swap free stuff, but now its users can actually make money. The new feature takes advantage of Listia’s existing system, where users give away their stuff in exchange for credits. Those credits, in turn, can be redeemed for other products on the marketplace, or for goods available through the Listia Rewards Program. Want to just take cash instead? Read MoreIs Gilt About To Be Acquired By Saks Fifth Avenue?
Dec 14, 11:24PM
Gilt.com, the New York-based fashion discount site, is in talks to be acquired for $250 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The prospective buyer is Hudson’s Bay, which owns Saks Fifth Avenue. An early pioneer in “flash sales,” Gilt sells heavily discounted items from high-end brands. It has been marketed as an avenue for online sample sales and showcases… Read MoreLightsaber Yourself With Facebook's Star Wars Profile Pics
Dec 14, 11:03PM
Show you’re down with The Force this week then hide your Jedi ways with Facebook’s new Star Wars temporary profile pictures. Just in time for the release of The Force Awakens, click here then hit the Try It button and Facebook will let you add a scary red Dark Side cross-guard lightsaber or a benevolent blue over one of your photos. Then you can make it your profile pic and set… Read MoreThe New $7M Xprize Focuses On Mapping The World's Oceans
Dec 14, 10:48PM
The latest Xprize offers a total of $7 million for teams that advance ocean mapping technology. This is part of Xprize’s broader ocean initiative, but Jyotika Virmani, senior director of ocean discovery, noted that the previous prizes focused on ocean cleanup and health. Read More12 Star Wars-Inspired Gadgets
Dec 14, 10:46PM
Whether it’s 3D printing, a Kinect robotics hack or a drone, Star Wars enthusiasts have found ways to emulate their favorite gadgets from the series into functional, real-life apparatuses. These are just a few of them. Read MoreThe 7 Best Tech Zingers Of 2015
Dec 14, 10:15PM
In the U.S. and in the Bay Area particularly, the tech community is widely known as a place where people are quick to celebrate each another and one another’s companies in a virtuous circle of constant back-patting. Read MoreThe Case For An Emphasis On Traffic Management
Dec 14, 10:00PM
Smart cities. Teletopia. Quantified communities. Whatever label you prefer, the concept of cities utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) to create connected communities is an increasingly popular one, gaining more and more attention from city planners and urban developers. Read MoreSocialRank Helps You Understand Your Followers — And Now It's Getting Collaborative
Dec 14, 9:43PM
Hey, it’s great that you’re trying to get more followers, but what about understanding the followers you already have? That’s what New York City startup SocialRank aims to provide, and today it launched a new feature called SocialRank for Teams. If you haven’t used it, SocialRank analyzes your Twitter and Instagram accounts to help you identify things like your most… Read MoreMembo Is The Yik Yak For Trendy Local Discovery
Dec 14, 9:41PM
A lot of local discovery apps are great at telling you what’s been popular in an area for years, but they aren’t so great at helping you find the cool speakeasy that opened up last Tuesday. Membo is a bit of a fusion between neighborhood social networking apps like Nextdoor and local discussion apps like Yik Yak. The service has been letting users chat about their… Read MoreYou're In Trouble If This Pee-Powered Energy System Leaks
Dec 14, 8:34PM
Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre at the University of the West of England has created a bioenergy system that uses urine circulated by your footsteps to power wearable electronics. The system uses energy generators called a microbial fuel cells. They use microbe growth in waste fluids to power small devices like cellphones and lights. A mechanical pump moves urine… Read MorePlot Thickens In Dell-EMC Deal As VMware Announces It's Walking Away From Virtustream Deal With EMC
Dec 14, 8:17PM
Ah, nothing goes easy with that $67 billion Dell-EMC deal, does it? Today the plot thickened a bit more when VMware announced in a filing with the SEC that it was walking away from the agreement with EMC to form Virtustream as a jointly owned company. Re/code first reported this news. This whole deal has from the start been a fairly complex tale, and like the movie Groundhog Day, one we… Read MoreFamilies Get Screwed Sending Dollars To Mexico. TransferWise Does It 4X Cheaper
Dec 14, 7:55PM
Money transfers are a crooked racket. They’re designed to hide just how much cash they steal from immigrant workers sending funds to family back home. Western Union, Moneygram, even PayPal’s Xoom trumpet that they only charge around $5, but quietly pocket people’s money by setting their own unfair exchange rate. TransferWise wants to put an end to all this bullsh*t. Today the… Read MoreDispel's Privacy-As-A-Service Platform Keeps Your Internet Connection Secret And Safe
Dec 14, 7:36PM
Most security services today give you virtual private networks that encrypt your connections (if you work for any sizable company, you probably use some kind of VPN client to log in to your intranet). New York-based Dispel, which is now coming out of stealth after more than two years of development, offers all of these features but then layers a number of other security tactics on top of… Read MoreReddit's Official Android App Is Coming Soon
Dec 14, 7:35PM
If you’ve been using third-party apps or the mobile version of Reddit on your Android device, you’ll be happy to know that the company is finally going to offer an official app for the platform. Over on Reddit last week, the team shared the news: Hi everyone! I’m the product manager for native mobile here at Reddit. As many of you know, the team here has been working hard… Read More9 Etsy-Made Gifts That Keep Holiday Giving Weird
Dec 14, 7:25PM
I’ve always found that the weirder gifts, no matter how much they cost, are the ones that people appreciate the most. Sure, you could send someone a boring gift card or a basic-ass iPhone case, but why? Spend some extra time on the always awesome Etsy and give back to the community while gifting some of the funniest and weirdest stuff you’ll find. And a lot of it is customizable. Read More6 Predictions On Enterprise Software From Scale Venture Partners
Dec 14, 7:00PM
Read MoreGoogle Inbox Gets Sharable Trip Bundles, Improved Photo Attachments
Dec 14, 6:30PM
Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for mobile and the web, has its fair share of marquee features, but one of its most useful is its ability to bundle emails about an upcoming trip into a single Trip Bundle. Today, Google is improving this feature, and on mobile, it’s making it easier to attach multiple photos from all of those trips you take to your emails. Read MoreJ.P. Morgan, OnDeck And The Future of Alternative Lending
Dec 14, 6:30PM
Earlier this month, J.P. Morgan announced a strategic partnership with OnDeck Capital to originate, underwrite, and distribute loans targeted specifically at small businesses. As evidenced by a 28% single-day spike in OnDeck’s share price, this announcement clearly is a big deal to one of the leading FinTech companies today, and has major implications for the future of alternative lending. Read MoreParse Launches SDK Support For Apple's WatchOS 2 And tvOS
Dec 14, 6:00PM
It’s been pretty quiet around Facebook’s Parse developer platform this year. The team launched its Internet of Things service in March and open-sourced its SDKs in August, but otherwise, we haven’t heard much about it. It looks like Facebook is putting a bit more emphasis on the service. The company today announced two new SDKs for Parse: Apple’s watchOS 2 and tvOS. Read MoreGoogle Maps For iOS Now Shows You When Stores Are Busiest, Plus Gas Prices
Dec 14, 5:38PM
Just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping plans, Google has rolled out an updated version of its Google Maps iOS application, which will now show you when stores are the busiest. Armed with this information, you can better plan when to visit the location in question in order to avoid the crowds. The feature is available not only for retail stores, but for any business where customers… 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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