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State Lawmakers Create Coalition To Overhaul Digital Privacy Laws
Jan 21, 12:49AM
State lawmakers and the District of Columbia have put together a group of bills pushing for legislation to protect our digital privacy. The coalition of 16 states and D.C. say surveillance technology and a lack of regulation has given Big Brother too much power when it comes to monitoring online information. “A bipartisan consensus on privacy rights is emerging, and now the states… Read MoreUber's Standalone Food Delivery App Is Coming To The U.S.
Jan 21, 12:41AM
Uber is gearing up to launch a standalone app for UberEATS, the company’s prepared food delivery service, in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Houston, Seattle and Dallas, the Wall Street Journal reports. The app is expected to be available for both iOS and Android by the end of March. Uber also plans to expand its delivery hours in those cities.… Read MoreAnxiety Party
Jan 21, 12:00AM
We have a somewhat unusual design team at GV. There are six of us. Four product designers, a researcher and a team coordinator. Each of us held fairly senior design positions previously, and we each have a lot of experience. Because we’re all experienced, we function as peers — no one is at the helm… or maybe we all are. Read MoreThere Is Real Fraud In The Underground Market For In-Game Virtual Goods
Jan 20, 10:00PM
The recent announcement from Activision Blizzard to acquire King Digital Entertainment, maker of the hit game Candy Crush, for a staggering $5.9 billion is an acknowledgement of the promising (and profitable) future of mobile games. The global gaming market is projected to reach $91.5 billion in 2015. While PC and console games are still mainstream, mobile is the fastest growing segment… Read MoreJack Dorsey Has A Lot Of Work To Do
Jan 20, 9:26PM
Twitter stock is seeing a mini-rally today after hitting an all-time low yesterday, on rumors that News Corp was eyeing a tie-up with the company. Twitter didn’t comment on the report, and News Corp apparently denied the rumor, but the fact that the rumor surfaced and picked up speed so quickly points to just how precarious the company feels right now as a public stock and perhaps as… Read MoreSoftware Testing Tool Developer QASymphonyRaises $5M
Jan 20, 9:00PM
QASymphony, which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capital on product development and marketing. Read MoreAstronomers Find Evidence Of A Ninth Planet
Jan 20, 8:43PM
Two astronomers at Caltech have found evidence that indicates the presence of a ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, it would transform the model of our solar system as we know it. While the proposed planet has yet to be directly imaged, its gravitational influence on other known objects has allowed astronomers to detect its presence and determine its characteristics. Read MoreAnnouncing the Judges for The NFL And TechCrunch 1ST and Future pitch-off
Jan 20, 8:00PM
In case you missed it, the NFL, TechCrunch and Stanford GSB have teamed up to create 1ST and Future, a pitch-off competition featuring startups in three categories, Stadium of the Future, Bringing Home the Game and Tomorrow’s Athlete. Today, we’re announcing the judges. Read MoreKeep An Eye On Sidecar's Patents
Jan 20, 7:58PM
A day after the news broke that General Motors was picking up assets from failed Uber competitor Sidecar, today the startup’s CEO finally confirmed the details directly in a blog post and provided a few more details about the deal. A “key component to the transaction,” writes CEO Sunil Paul, was Sidecar’s patents, for which GM has taken a license, but “Sidecar… Read MoreInvestments In Virtual And Augmented Reality Hit Nearly $700M in 2015
Jan 20, 7:01PM
The virtual fire continues to heat up beneath the AR/VR industry with investments continuing to build and soar. According to a report from Digi-Capital, AR and VR investments are taking off pretty rapidly with nearly $700 million being invested into the space in 2015. The overall trends show investment steadily rising. The report notes that there “have now been 6 straight quarters of… Read MorePunch Is A Clever Lockscreen Messenger App For iPhone…That You May Never Get To Use
Jan 20, 6:47PM
Apple’s App Store rules are designed to maintain a level playing ground for developers and keep them from overtaking the operating system’s interface or feature set in ways Apple did not intend. But at times, the rules also bump up against innovative leaps in terms of how we could use our smartphones. Case in point: a walkie talkie-like messaging app called Punch has come up with… Read MoreYik Yak Launches On The Web
Jan 20, 6:31PM
Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based social network that has taken college campuses by storm, has today launched a web client. The company has been working on the web version of the app for the past few months in a closed beta, and is now ready to unveil it to the public. Read MoreSundance VR Trend Piece
Jan 20, 6:10PM
So about this time of year my inbox gets flooded with junk from Sundance. Reps, PR, invites to parties. Raise a chalice with Matt Damon and Stella Artois at Sundance! [Sure, why not]. Raise a glass with Canon [sense a trend?]. See the Extraordinary Difference Vaseline is Making [what?]. You get the picture. But for the last couple of years, the big inbox trend for Sundance has been VR. In… Read MoreMeet The Tech Vying For The Crunchie For Best Technology Achievement In 2015
Jan 20, 6:00PM
The 9th Annual Crunchies are fast approaching, with the event best described as the Oscars of Startup and Technology taking place on February 8 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. Some of your favorite startups, entrepreneurs and investors will be competing to win a coveted Crunchie award in one of 12 categories up for grabs. Read MoreBotify Grabs $7.2 Million To Turn You Into An SEO Wizard
Jan 20, 5:49PM
French startup Botify just raised a $7.2 million Series A round from Idinvest and Ventech. The company uses a software-as-a-service approach to make it as seamless as possible to crawl your website and give you insights into your search engine optimization strategy. Yet, Botify isn’t about making optimizations for you. Instead, it gives you data so that you can make optimizations. Botify… Read MoreUrban Transport App Citymapper Snags $40M From Index, Benchmark, Yuri Milner, Others
Jan 20, 5:45PM
People who don’t take Uber frequently take the bus. And those Europeans folks now include some rather high profile investors in London-based urban transport startup Citymapper — who have just poured $40 million into a new Series B round for its app which algorithmically knits together different transit options to help city dwellers quickly figure out how to get from A to… Read MoreGoogle Expands Its VR Field Trips Program "Expeditions" With An App For Classrooms & More Virtual Tours
Jan 20, 5:20PM
Google is expanding its Expeditions program, the company’s effort to bring virtual reality-based field trips to the classroom, with the launch of a dedicated Android application for schools and educators who want to take their students on virtual adventures by way of mobile devices. Additionally, Google says it’s rolling out two more “Expeditions” – that is,… Read MoreAt The World Economic Forum, A Study Of Disruption And Its Discontents
Jan 20, 5:00PM
Merriam Webster definition of disruption: To cause (something) to be unable to continue in the normal way: to interrupt the normal progress or activity of (something) The theme for this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos is “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”, which is an attempt to frame the disruption happening everywhere today as part of a larger paradigm shift. This… Read MoreHyper Aims To Be Your New Chat-Based Travel Agent
Jan 20, 5:00PM
Hyper is a new travel startup betting that the secret ingredient to a great travel booking experience is interacting with another human being. In other words, founders Minqi Jiang and Peter Zakin (who previously worked at Google and Venmo, respectively) are aiming to give users the experience of having a personal assistant who helps you book your flights and hotels, but via a chat interface.… Read MoreTechCrunch Davos Coverage Going Live
Jan 20, 4:35PM
TechCrunch has arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos to cover the intersection of technology, innovation and public policy. Watch us today (in just a few short minutes) as we interview luminaries like Arianna Huffington, Jimmy Wales, and Planet Labs co-founder and chief executive Will Marshall. We’ll be talking about the future of finance with MasterCard’s president of… 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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