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Bloomberg Beta On Investing In The 'Future Of Work'
Feb 02, 1:27AM
The future of work is increasingly top of mind for tech investors, who have a range of opinions about whether and how to address the growing income inequality that appears driven, in some part, by the winner-take-all dynamics of technology and globalization. Longtime VC Steve Jurvetson told this reporter back in September that income inequality will “kill us long before climate… Read MoreWatch This Trained Eagle Take Down A Flying Drone
Feb 02, 12:56AM
As more and more civilians start flying drones, there will probably be an exponential rise in situations where authorities need to quickly take down a poorly-navigated drone hovering above a stadium or government building. But, since drone companies have yet to provide any sort of backdoor to manually takeover the device’s controls, authorities are on their own in figuring out… Read MoreNASA's Super Guppy Gives Mars-Bound Spacecraft A Lift
Feb 02, 12:53AM
Today the Orion capsule, NASA’s spacecraft designed to bring humans to Mars, starts its next phase of development at Kennedy Space Center. The remarkable part is that just this morning, that large spacecraft was at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. In order to carry Orion from New Orleans to Cape Canaveral, NASA recruited their Super Guppy aircraft. The Super Guppy has… Read MoreMeet The Competitors Vying For The Crunchie For VC Of The Year
Feb 02, 12:36AM
We’re getting ready for the 9th Annual Crunchies here at TechCrunch, where some of the brightest startups, companies and leaders hope to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the 12 categories up for grabs. Among that mix are those who write the checks to get these startups off to a good beginning – venture capitalists. Below are the VCs who have been selected as finalists for… Read MoreEvernote Will Shut Down Market, Its E-Commerce Effort, On Wednesday
Feb 01, 11:51PM
Some more news from Evernote — the note-taking app and startup of the same name — that speaks to the company’s current rough patch: today it announced that as of Wednesday at 6pm Pacific, it will shutter Market, the e-commerce platform where it sold Evernote swag and Evernote-integrated office products, in an attempt to create another revenue stream around its more… Read MorePager Expands Its On-Demand Doctor Service By Letting Users Chat With Nurses
Feb 01, 11:32PM
Pager isn’t just a doctor-on-demand service anymore. We’ve mentioned the New York City-based company as part of a broader group of startups aiming to bring doctors to patients’ homes, and to be clear, you’ll still be able use the app to set up medical house calls. Now, however, that’s just one part of a broader experience. Read MoreWhatsApp Hits One Billion Users, Remains In Search Of Revenue
Feb 01, 11:26PM
You know what’s cooler than a (several hundred) million users? A billion users. Just over a week after announcing the scrapping of the Facebook-owned messaging service’s $0.99 annual fee, WhatsApp announced today that the product now has 1 billion users. The timing of the WhatsApp news may have been calculated: it comes on the same day that Google announced 1 billion users of Gmail. Read MoreGmail Now Has More Than 1B Monthly Active Users
Feb 01, 10:04PM
During its earnings call, Google today announced that Gmail now has more than 1 billion monthly active users. That’s up from 900 million the company announced during its I/O developer conference last May and up from 425 million in 2012. With this, Gmail joins six of Google’s other popular projects, including Search, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube and Google Play that all also have… Read MoreAlphabet's "Other Bets" Cost It Almost $3.6B Last Year
Feb 01, 9:33PM
Alphabet — the company formerly known as Google — reported some pretty good earnings today. For the first time, the company also broke out its revenue and loss from its “other bets” outside of the core products that still make up its Google subsidiary. These other bets generated $448 million in revenue in 2015 but Alphabet’s operating loss for those bets was… Read MoreSafe Harbor Deadline Passes Without A New Deal On Transatlantic Data Flows — Yet
Feb 01, 9:12PM
A deadline to agree a new deal to govern transatlantic data transfers has passed without agreement on a new, safer ‘Safe Harbor’. But talks are continuing — and Věra Jourová, the EC commissioner heading the negotiations from the European side, said today that a deal “is close”, although she emphasized that “an additional effort is needed”. Read MoreVerizon's New "Free View" Lets Consumers Turn On Free Trials Of Premium Channels At Any Time
Feb 01, 9:12PM
Traditional cable TV providers are having to up their game as more of their customers cut the cord in favor of over-the-top options. Verizon, in a move meant to better serve and retain those customers willing to pay for a premium cable TV experience, today introduced a new feature called “Free View” for FiOS TV. This option lets consumers control when they’re able to access… Read MoreAlphabet Becomes The Most Valuable Public Company In The World
Feb 01, 9:07PM
Today was a huge day for Alphabet — the first day it finally broke out its “other bets” in its earnings report — and boy did the company not disappoint. The company smashed expectations on both ends, bringing in $21.3 billion in revenue and earnings of $8.67 per share. Analysts were expecting earnings of $8.09 on $20.8 billion in revenue. And with that, Alphabet… Read MorePost-Morin, Path Gets Chatty
Feb 01, 9:04PM
Korea’s Kakao is making a big change to Path eight months after acquiring the social app. Path people can now message each other inside the app, rather than having to open the separate Path Talk app. It could be a move to invigorate users, and streamline the product. While building an entire companion app for chat worked for Facebook, splintering users between Path and Path Talk might… Read MoreYep, Sesame Street Now Has A Venture Fund
Feb 01, 8:25PM
Collaborative Fund is bringing on a pretty big partner for a new seed-stage fund focused on improving children’s lives — and it’s not someone you’d expect to get into the venture capital game. Craig Shapiro’s venture is launching a new $10 million fund that’s tied to Sesame Workshop, creator of Sesame Street and other children’s programming. The fund… Read More3D Touch Opens A New Dimension Of User Interaction
Feb 01, 8:00PM
We spend so much time touching our devices — but what if they could touch us back? Apple’s recent leaps with 3D Touch technology show that this could soon be a reality. Feel a surface texture, communicate with braille, even play an instrument — the tactile capabilities of future technologies are set to transform our digital experiences. Read MoreOpenTrons Aims To Be The 'PC' Of Biotech Labs
Feb 01, 7:46PM
Robotics startup OpenTrons has come up with a way it believes will make wet lab experiments faster and cheaper – automation. Most life science research is still done by hand. This can be a tedious process that OpenTrons hopes to diminish by using robotics and software to complete it. “Basically, if you’re a biologist you spend all of your time moving tiny amounts of liquid… Read MoreBlack Girls Code Founder Kimberly Bryant On Racism And Implicit Bias
Feb 01, 7:08PM
Founded in 2011, Black Girls Code is on a mission to change the face of technology by introducing girls from underrepresented communities to coding. Black Girls Code does this through a series of workshops, hackathons and summer camps. This is part one of a five-part Include series. Come back tomorrow for an interview with Slack engineer, Erica Baker. Read More
To Fight Clickbait, Facebook's Feed Prioritizes What Surveys Say
Feb 01, 6:01PM
Until now, Facebook ranked stories in News Feed with an emphasis on what you click, Like, comment on and share. But thanks to insights from new qualitative surveys where users gave each feed story one to five stars, Facebook is now leaning heavily on a second signal — what you want to see. That could reduce the visibility of stories with sensational headlines, or that overtly beckon you… Read MoreGoogle Search Will Highlight Info About Primary Election Results And Candidates
Feb 01, 5:54PM
The good people of Iowa are heading to their caucuses tonight to declare who they think should get a chance to become the next president of the United States. With primary season officially starting today, Google is also making a bit easier to become an informed voter by adding a couple of election-related features to its search engine. Starting today, you can just do a search for… Read MoreBoon + Gable Hopes To Bring Personal Shoppers To The Masses
Feb 01, 5:44PM
Online shopping continues to rise in popularity, but it’s still tough to know if the items you pick out on a website will work as an outfit in real life. New startup Boon+Gable hopes to change that by sending a personal shopper to your house. Startups like StitchFix and Le Tote act as virtual personal shoppers, sending you recommended items through the mail on a monthly basis. But… 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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