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Jeb! Gets! Phone! Call! On! His! Apple! Watch!

Jan 14, 12:48AM

jebbbb The walking embodiment of the “I’m a PC” guy just discovered that his Apple Watch can make phone calls and he couldn’t be more excited :D Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was doing an interview with The Des Moines Register when his Apple Watch started going crazy. USA Today caught a video of Jeb’s reaction. “My watch can’t be… Read More



Babylon, The U.K. Digital Doctor App, Scores $25M To Develop AI-Driven Health Advice

Jan 14, 12:00AM

Ali Parsa - babylon Hot on the heels of PushDoctor’s $8.2 million Series A, another U.K. startup playing in the digital health app space has picked up funding. Babylon Health, which like PushDoctor, lets you have video consultations with a doctor (and a lot more), has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Investment AB Kinnevik, the Swedish listed entrepreneurial investment. Read More



Car Buying Platform Carwow Raises £12.5M Series B Led by Accel

Jan 14, 12:00AM

Carwow founders Carwow, the U.K. site that claims to offer a better way to buy a new car, has stopped off for some further funding. The four year-old startup has raised a £12.5 million Series B led by Accel, who I understand tried but failed to get in on the last round. Read More



AWS Now Gives A Discount To Developers Who Reserve Instances On A Regular Schedule

Jan 13, 11:47PM

aws_logo Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform is introducing a new pricing tier today that will make its service more affordable for customers who only need to run their cloud-based applications during certain hours of the day or only on certain days of the month. Read More



Uber And Lyft And The Debate Over Fingerprints In Austin

Jan 13, 11:00PM

shutterstock_264764873 It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city’s job. In a sane world a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving. Ridesharing policy is increasingly being framed as either/or brinksmanship, presenting a false choice. I reject that polarity, and I urge you to as well. Read More



Wealthfront Launches Portfolio Review, An Advisory Tool For Avoiding Fees And Maximizing Savings

Jan 13, 10:57PM

moneywaiter Wealthfront, the robo-advisory wealth management service, is offering a tool of its own to help people get a window into the money they’re losing on fees. Read More



Startups.co Acquires Zana, A Site For Educating Entrepreneurs

Jan 13, 10:46PM

startups - zana + startups image Startups.co has been busy buying services like like Zirtual and Clarity.fm to build a network of connected products for entrepreneurs. Next up: Zana, a site that says it’s “democratizing entrepreneurship.” The acquisition was reported last week by Columbus Business First. Startups.co CEO Wil Schroter told me today that the deal was a mix of cash and stock, with a price in… Read More



Uber To Allow Some People With Nonviolent Convictions To Become Drivers

Jan 13, 10:20PM

Ride_Request Uber is going to ease up on some of its driver-screening requirements in California in order to make room for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today. Under Proposition 47, a California ballot measure that passed in 2014, people with low-level, nonviolent felonies for things like theft, check fraud and possession of drugs can apply to remove… Read More



GoPro Stock Drops 23% After Announcing Layoffs And Disappointing Q4 Guidance

Jan 13, 10:06PM

gopro-earnings GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34 percent to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly jumped to 11.20 before trading was halted. The company has a market cap of about $2 billion in after-hour values. This came after the company announced it expects fourth quarter revenue will be… Read More



PrintABowl 3D Prints Beautiful "Elevation" Devices For Your Pleasure

Jan 13, 9:51PM

printa-portfolio-squad-reflections If you enjoy a bit of the old Weed O’ Gandalf then you’re going to get a kick out of these smoking systems by PrintABowl. This company makes specially -designed smoking paraphernalia that is 3D printed using a ceramic molding method. While the bongs themselves aren’t 3D printed – that would be a bit difficult given the state of things – the molds used to make them… Read More



Southeast Asia's GrabTaxi Opens Office In Seattle To Attract U.S. Engineering Talent

Jan 13, 9:30PM

grabtaxi thailand GrabTaxi, the billion-dollar ride on-demand service that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is opening its first office in the U.S. as it seeks to widen its hiring efforts. Read More



Programming Trends To Look For This Year

Jan 13, 8:00PM

shutterstock_323723186 There has never been a more exciting time for technologists and developers worldwide. The number of active development languages and frameworks, as well as development tools and learning avenues, continues to soar. Despite all these resources at our fingertips (or perhaps because of this abundance), it may not be obvious where industry trends are leading us. In my role as a coding bootcamp… Read More



>From AI To Robotics, 2016 Will Be The Year When The Machines Start Taking Over

Jan 13, 8:00PM

Terminator-Salvation For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve.  And, as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its development follows the same curve, so we are seeing exponential advances in technologies such as sensors, networks, artificial intelligence, and robotics.  The convergence of these technologies… Read More



Apple Watch Scooped Up Over Half The Smartwatch Market In 2015

Jan 13, 7:36PM

0910_apple-iwatch_2000x1125-1940x1091 Despite a late arrival to the wearables market, Apple claimed the top spot in terms of device sales, according to new research from Juniper out this week, which stated that the Apple Watch accounted for over 50 percent of smartwatch sales in 2015. Even more impressive is the fact Apple’s Watch only launched at the end of April – meaning it claimed the majority of the market… Read More



In Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data Collection

Jan 13, 7:31PM

al franken In a letter sent Wedesday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) sought to raise questions regarding Google’s use of data gathered from their EdTech initiatives. While I commend Google’s foray into education technology (“EdTech”), I am concerned about the extent to which Google may be collecting K-12 students’ personal data and using… Read More



CoinDesk Gets Acquired By Digital Currency Group

Jan 13, 6:25PM

bitcointug CoinDesk, one of the leading bitcoin news sites, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group according to a post on the company’s site. A source close to CoinDesk tells TechCrunch the price of the deal was around $500-600k. The bitcoin news site, which launched in 2013, had raised around $2 million in undisclosed funding from investors and according to our source had been trying to sell… Read More



Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Best Overall Startup Of 2015

Jan 13, 6:00PM

crunchies There are only a few short weeks until the 9th Annual Crunchies show on February 8 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. At the show, some of the best and brightest startups and leaders are contending for the opportunity to win a Crunchie in one of the 12 categories up for grabs. Read More



You Can Now Visit The World's Largest Model Railroad In Street View

Jan 13, 5:15PM

miwula-making-of-1025  Over the years, Google has taken Street View to a number of exotic places. Today, it’s stepping things down by launching a set of Street View images for the world’s largest model railway, the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. Miniatur Wunderland isn’t your average model railway exhibit. We’re talking 13,000 kilometers of track, almost a thousand trains,… Read More



Outlook's Mobile App Gets Integrated With Skype For Easier Access To Calls And Meetings

Jan 13, 5:07PM

Skype-and-Outlook-top-features-1-1024x565 Following yesterday’s news of its planned support for group calling on mobile, Skype just launched an integration with Microsoft’s mobile email and calendar application, Outlook. In the updated iOS app, a new setting allows you to turn on a “Skype Meeting” option when you’re either creating or editing an event within Outlook. By doing so, Outlook… Read More



The 50 Unicorns Hiring The Fastest And The 50 Losing The Most Employees

Jan 13, 5:07PM

sad paper unicorn A recruiter who asked not to be named separately tells us that the grocery delivery company Instacart has parted ways with numerous recruiters in anticipation of a hiring slowdown. Instacart’s VP of People, Matt Caldwell, confirms that the company is no longer using contract recruiters and is slowing down its total number of full-time hires, but says that’s a reflection of… Read More




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