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Rwanda's Not-So-Improbable Ambition To Be A Startup Hub of Africa
Dec 16, 10:57PM
It’s an odd feeling to come from California, one of the world’s most prodigious economies where the infrastructure and public systems are simultaneously falling apart in plain view, and arrive in the tiny, landlocked East African country of Rwanda. The first thing you notice is how exceptionally clean the streets of Kigali appear. That’s because of a ban on… Read MoreWhy Pandora Shares Are Going Crazy
Dec 16, 10:40PM
Music listening service Pandora saw a dramatic dip and then a dramatic 22% spike in after-hours trading Wednesday, as investors were reading the tea leaves and then learned of the royalty rate decision. Investors had been waiting all year for the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision, which determines how much Pandora and other digital radio services, including iHeartRadio, will be… Read More9 Of The Best Performing Tech Stocks In 2015
Dec 16, 9:25PM
In a year when the stock market has essentially been flat, a few tech companies have killed it on the public markets. Companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix created tremendous shareholder value this year, and their public market valuations are showing it. Click through to read about nine of the best performing public technology companies of 2015. And, stay tuned for the next… Read MoreCAH's Max Temkin On 'Secret Hitler' And Making Fun Games For Money
Dec 16, 9:13PM
If you’re a maker, getting people excited about what you’re doing can be difficult — no matter what it is you’re making. One guy, Max Temkin, has been “lucky” enough to strike gold with his project Cards Against Humanity. His next act? A game called “Secret Hitler.” In case you haven’t heard about it, it’s a card game for 5-10 players… Read MoreHow To Make Calculated Decisions When Forming Your GP Entity
Dec 16, 9:00PM
You just turned 30 and are either a successful entrepreneur who made a fortune developing a very popular gaming app, or you’re one of the early employees at an emerging technology company that just achieved “unicorn” status. In either scenario, you’ve made your fortune. And having reached a very important milestone in your life, you’re eager to see how the other… Read MoreAmazon Leads $23M Investment In India-Based Home Services Startup Housejoy
Dec 16, 7:38PM
Amazon has led a $23 million investment in India-based Housejoy, a startup that — as the name not so subtly suggests — is much like Homejoy, the home services on-demand company that closed its doors this summer. The U.S. e-commerce giant was joined in the Series A round by existing investor Matrix Partner, and new backers Vertex Ventures, Qualcomm and Ru-Net Technology Partners. Read MoreBucket, A Travel Planner That Automatically Creates Recommendation Lists, Expands Nationwide
Dec 16, 7:37PM
Early Facebook employee and longtime travel aficionado Julia Lam began studying consumer travel habits over a year ago to see how people planned their vacations and business trips. What she found was that people were often using a mess of Chrome tabs and text files. So she started Bucket with former Facebook engineer John Sichi to create an automated text parser that will pull out… Read MoreYou Can Now Order Ubers (And Soon Lyfts) In Facebook Messenger To Prove You're On Your Way
Dec 16, 7:00PM
Facebook Messenger now lets you order “Transportation”, starting with Uber and with more services on the way. Facebook’s twist is that ordering a car via Messenger alerts those in your chat thread that you have indeed grabbed a ride…instead of you lying that you have while still in your pajamas. Read MoreFacebook Filters Out Sadness And Adds Editing To Your Year In Review Photoset
Dec 16, 7:00PM
Facebook broke some hearts in 2014 when its algorithmically-selected Your Year In Review photosets accidentally included depressing photos of people’s exes, blocked friends, and deceased loved ones. To avoid the same bad feels, Facebook “applied a unique set of filters” to prevent these people from showing up in this year’s stylized vertical card of 10 photos. If… Read MoreHit Or Miss, A Tinder-Like Curated Fashion Shopping App, Looks To Keep Shopping Simple
Dec 16, 6:57PM
Amber Reyngoudt and Dave Peck want to figure out how to perfect the mobile shopping experience — and they thinks it’s flipping through fewer products, not more. Skull Ninja Labs’ first product is Hit or Miss — a tinder-like interface where users can swipe through a curated set of products and quickly build a profile of the things they like. But the catch is that the… Read MoreThe Latest Gear VR Ad Follows A Very Important, And Necessary, Narrative
Dec 16, 6:54PM
Whether you can find a Samsung Gear VR in time for the holidays or not, the company behind the mobile virtual reality accessory keeps releasing ads that follow a very important narrative for the future of VR. The ad is extremely well done, and focuses on games this time. As I’ve noted, most of the questions that people ask about VR is “can I do this?” or “can I do… Read MoreApple Music Rolls Out "Star Wars" Radio
Dec 16, 6:46PM
What’s this? Another major tech company has found a way to capitalize on consumers’ fervor for the new “Star Wars” movie? Shocking! The latest to join the fray is Apple, which has today added a new “Star Wars”-themed radio station to its streaming music service, Apple Music. The station, now appearing under Apple Music’s “Featured”… Read MoreAfero Is An IoT Dev Platform Play Built By Danger Co-Founder Joe Britt
Dec 16, 5:00PM
Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for Microsoft of course, but Danger co-founder Joe Britt is doing just fine. In fact he’s uncloaking his new startup today — one he’s presumably been ploughing some of his unspent Danger money into. Read MorePhilips Hue Reverses Decision To Block Third-Party Light Bulbs
Dec 16, 4:31PM
Philips shipped a controversial firmware update for its Philips Hue bridge yesterday. The company decided to block third-party light bulbs to fix interoperability issues. Today, the company announced that this move was a mistake. A future update will reverse the change. Read MoreBringg Raises $5 Million So Any Business Can Offer An Uber-Like Experience
Dec 16, 4:30PM
If on-demand is the future of delivery, a startup called Bringg aims to help established businesses better compete with the likes of Amazon and Uber going forward. The company has now raised $5 million in Series A funding to further develop its web and mobile platform that businesses to move into the on-demand era by providing features like real-time driver tracking, dispatching,… Read MorePastebin, The Text Sharing Website, Updates With An Emphasis On Code
Dec 16, 4:19PM
Pastebin, now home to 95 million “active” pieces of text, has gotten a complete overhaul including a new mobile friendly site that lets coders share snippets of text on their phones. Sites like Pastebin have long been a programmer’s scratchpad, allowing coders to send snippets back and forth in real time. Until now, however, the site has been difficult to use on… Read MoreRethinking The Role Of Tech Companies In The Refugee Crisis
Dec 16, 4:00PM
The urgent humanitarian situation in Europe has pushed the ongoing global refugee crisis to the forefront of U.S. consciousness. There are currently 60 million people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes because of war, conflict or persecution. Lots of people in the U.S. want to do something about this, but don’t know where to start. Read More360 Capital Partners Closes New $38 Million Seed Fund
Dec 16, 3:56PM
With $330 million under management (€300 million), 360 Capital Partners has been quite active in the French tech ecosystem. Today, the venture capital firm announced a brand new $38 million fund (€35 million) focused on seed investments. Paul Degueuse, who has been working for the company for a few years now, becomes a General Partner and is in charge of this new fund named ‘360… Read MoreYour Mouse Knows When You're Mad
Dec 16, 3:51PM
Did you know that when you get frustrated with your computer you move your mouse more slowly? Your computer knows. In fact, researchers at BYU have figured out tell-tale signs of frustration, anger, and confusion in users just by looking at their mouse movements. The team discovered that when users were “upset or confused” the mouse did not move in a curved path or straight across… Read MoreFormer FourSquare COO Evan Cohen Checks Into Lyft As New Director Of East Coast Operations
Dec 16, 3:51PM
The fuzzy pink ridesharing platform Lyft has hired Evan Cohen to head up its East Coast operations. Cohen left his position as chief operations officer at Foursquare in June of 2014. He was one of a number of executives to exit the company over the past year and a half and did so shortly after Foursquare split its product asunder and launched the check-in app Swarm. Cohen brings more than… 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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