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Small Businesses Need Quick Action On Safe Harbor
Jan 30, 12:00AM
With a January 31 deadline looming and the Judicial Redress Act languishing in the Senate, it is imperative for Congress to act quickly to take an important step in finding a replacement for Safe Harbor and ensuring that small digital businesses can continue to operate in Europe. Read MoreTesla Says CEO Elon Musk Just Bought More of The Company
Jan 29, 11:45PM
Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks shares of his motor company are headed upward. That’s the apparent message reporters received this afternoon from Tesla’s PR machine, which sent out an alert that Musk exercised 532,000 of his options in the company, or about $100 million worth, earlier today. According to an SEC filing, the options were exercised at $6.63 a piece, which would have… Read MoreApple Has Been Directing People Searching For Abortion Clinics To Adoption Centers Since 2011
Jan 29, 11:03PM
Apple is working on changing an algorithm in Siri and Apple Maps that has been directing people to adoption centers when they asked for an abortion clinic. Though the company knew this was a problem since at least 2011, it said at the time that this was a “glitch” and promised Siri would get better. But not much changed in five years. UCSF researcher Alexis Hoffman tested search… Read MoreIs Logistics About To Get Amazon'ed?
Jan 29, 11:00PM
In November 2015, Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services registered with the U.S. government as an ocean shipping provider. So what? Well, Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services is a subsidiary of none other than Amazon. And earlier in the year, Amazon had already expanded its logistics presence with air transportation and trucking. Read MoreDraftKings And FanDuel Lose A Payment Processor
Jan 29, 9:47PM
Update: Title changed to reflect that FanDuel does not use Vantiv for payouts, and offers additional deposit methods besides Vantiv processing. Daily Fantasy Sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel have been dealt another major blow today, but this time it didn’t come from an attorney general or federal court. Instead, it came from the company that is responsible for processing… Read MoreDelivery Startup Doorman Adds Support For E-Commerce Returns
Jan 29, 9:28PM
Doorman can be a useful service for people who hate missing deliveries. Now it can help you get those products in the mail again, too. Rather than coming home from work to find a “missed delivery” slip, Doorman customers can set a delivery time between 6pm and midnight that’s convenient for them (packages get delivered to Doorman first, and then to the consumer). The… Read MoreGillmor Gang LIVE 01.29.16
Jan 29, 9:11PM
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recoding session today at 1pmPT/4pmET. Our LIVE chat on Chat Center Stay tuned after this show for a recording session of G3 at ustream.tv/G3 Read MoreSnapchat Challenges Twitter And Facebook For Sports Talk
Jan 29, 8:33PM
Possession wins trophies or, in this case, ad dollars. That’s why Snapchat stepped up its game late last year by quietly partnering with Stats.com. Now TechCrunch has learned that Snapchat has rolled new Live Score geofilters at every NBA arena and some other matches. They let anyone attending overlay real-time updated score graphics atop their photos and videos. Just last week, Live… Read More15 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Jan 29, 7:49PM
This week we saw a slew of Twitter executives leave the company, a voluntary Apple product recall, quarterly earnings reports from major tech companies and much, much more. These are the stories you need to catch up on. Read MoreGoogle Open Sources Its Seesaw Load Balancer
Jan 29, 7:46PM
Google announced today that it is open-sourcing Seesaw — a Linux-based load balancing system. The code for the project, which is written in Google’s Go language, is now available on GitHub under the Apache license. As Google Site Reliability Engineer Joel Sing, who works on the company’s corporate infrastructure, writes in today’s announcement, Google used to use two… Read MoreCustom Apparel Shop Teespring Lays Off Staff, Exits Providence
Jan 29, 7:23PM
Following last summer’s restructuring, custom T-shirt shop Teespring has laid off under 10 percent of its workforce and is shutting down its Providence office entirely. The company had around 300 total employees ahead of the layoffs, but not all those who work in Providence are out of a job, we understand. Instead, some have been offered the opportunity to relocate to Teespring’s… Read MoreIBM Closes Weather Co. Purchase, Names David Kenny New Head Of Watson Platform
Jan 29, 7:00PM
IBM is taking another step to expand its Watson AI business and build its presence in areas like IoT: today the company announced that its acquisition of the Weather Company — the giant weather media and data group — has now officially closed. IBM is not disclosing the value of the deal: it was originally reported to be in the region of $2 billion, but sources close to IBM tell us… Read MoreApple Acquires Flyby Media, Makers Of Tech That "Sees" The World Around You
Jan 29, 6:05PM
Apple’s VR ambitions continue: according to a new report from the Financial Times, Apple has acquired an augmented reality startup called Flyby Media, which developed technology that allows mobile phones to “see” the world around them. The company, notably, had worked with Google in the past, as it was the first consumer-facing application to use the image recognition… Read MoreOur 2016 Predictions For The IPO Market
Jan 29, 6:00PM
2015 was not a good year for IPOs — it was actually the worst year for tech IPOs since the financial crisis in 2009. More and more startups are opting to remain private for longer periods of time. And while we still haven’t seen any IPOs in 2016, the slowest start since 2009, eventually venture-backed companies need to go public — if only to raise additional financing to… Read MoreSpotify's Video Content Hits iOS A Bit Earlier Than Expected
Jan 29, 4:18PM
Spotify’s foray into video has gone live on iOS a little earlier than expected. On Monday, The Wall St. Journal reported that Spotify had begun to roll out its video product to all users, beginning with its Android app this week. The iOS launch of the new “Shows” section, however, was not expected until “the next week or so,” a spokesperson told us at the time.… Read MoreNothing Like This Has Ever Happened Before
Jan 29, 4:16PM
“Capitalists both in the Old World and the States, even now, have but little faith in California. They regard this country and everything relating to it as one grand bubble, liable to burst at any moment…. This is how it should be. The wealth of California is thereby passing into the hands of young, active, enterprising men, who in an older country and with these same old capitalists… Read MoreThe State of Digital In Iran
Jan 29, 4:00PM
I don’t think anyone really understands the depth of digital upheaval Iran has experienced in the past few years. Social media and e-commerce consumption have both gone topsy-turvy in parallel to an overwhelming migration to smartphone devices. Read MoreFree, Ad-Supported iTunes Radio Is No More
Jan 29, 2:59PM
Ad-supported iTunes Radio stations have today gone off the air. As we reported earlier this month, Apple decided it would shutter its free streaming iTunes Radio offering, a competitor to Pandora, in an effort to boost subscriptions to its paid service, Apple Music. Going forward, the only free radio option is Apple’s Beats 1 radio – the DJ-hosted station, which Apple is now… Read MoreTwitter's Jeff Seibert On Startup Lessons Learned From Being Bought By Unicorns Like Twitter And Box
Jan 29, 2:32PM
Last week I had the chance to speak with Jeff Seibert, senior director of product at Twitter and co-founder of Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter for $259 million) and one of the main individuals leading the new guard at Twitter. Read MoreCronofy, The Calendar API Helping Businesses Keep Customer And Staff Diaries In Sync, Scores $1.6M
Jan 29, 11:00AM
Cronofy, the U.K. startup that offers a calendar API to help businesses and their customers synchronise calendars, has raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Firestartr alongside Amsterdam-based venture capital firm henQ. 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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