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Men's Personal Shopper Modomoto Acquires The Cloakroom In Roll-Up
Feb 03, 12:45AM
Eventually the whole Shoedazzle / Birchbox etc business model (get outfits, try them out, keep what you like, return the rest) would make it to the men’s market and we’ve seen many such models launch. The twist is that this time is personal, with (I never really believe this, but let’s go with it) an online personal shopper picking out a style for you every time. But I digress. Read MoreMarc Benioff Offers Some Insight Into Thinking Behind SteelBrick Purchase
Feb 03, 12:09AM
When Salesforce announced it was buying quote-to-cash vendor SteelBrick for $360 million at the end of last year, it came as a surprise. CEO Marc Benioff offered some insight into why he made the purchase at today’s Salesforce Lightning CRM launch event. The move has to be seen in the light of comments made at a Dreamforce press event last fall with Keith Block, who was named COO today. Read MoreGV's Approach To Healthcare Investing: An Interview With Dr. Krishna Yeshwant
Feb 03, 12:00AM
Healthcare investments are booming, and don’t seem to be slowing down. According to CB Insights, digital health funding hit nearly $5.8 billion in venture funding last year, surpassing the previous record of $4.3 billion in 2014. One of the top venture firms, GV (previously known as Google Ventures) recently came out with their year in review, revealing that more than one-third of… Read MoreMicrosoft Is Acquiring London's AI-Driven SwiftKey For $250M
Feb 02, 11:40PM
Microsoft is understood to be acquiring London-based SwiftKey, the startup which employed artificial intelligence to create a ground-breaking predictive smartphone keyboard, according to sources. The Financial Times is reporting that the deal is “around $250m”. TechCrunch understands the figure is just under that amount. Read MoreLegacy Republic Unveils Studio, A Portable Scanner For Family Photo Albums
Feb 02, 11:27PM
Legacy Republic is removing a big hurdle in its photo digitizing process — putting albums in the mail. YesVideo launched its Legacy Republic initiative back in 2014. The idea is to recruit a freelance workforce of so-called Legacy Makers who help families digitize their photos. Through digitization, the company says it can preserve memories and make it easier to share those pictures… Read MoreHere's What Watching The Super Bowl With Microsoft's HoloLens Could Look Like
Feb 02, 11:07PM
Watching sports could soon be a very different experience — at least if it’s up to Microsoft and the NFL. Before you know it, a holographic player could be charging through your walls and replays could play in 3D on your coffee table. Microsoft today released a new concept for its HoloLens augmented reality goggles that shows off its vision for what the combination of sports and… Read MoreTreat Takes On DryBar With Unlimited Blowouts At Partner Salons
Feb 02, 10:39PM
“No cuts. No color. Just blowouts.” It’s the DryBar promise and has made the beauty chain one of the largest blowout bars in the U.S. But an L.A.-based startup called Treat hopes to tackle DryBar where it believes it is weakest – more blowouts for the same price. Think of it as a sort of ClassPass for getting your hair done. Treat hooks customers up with an unlimited… Read MoreZagg Acquires Mophie For $100M+
Feb 02, 10:20PM
Here’s a bit of breaking news for your Tuesday afternoon: ZAGG, best known for its line of Invisible Shield screen protectors, is acquiring Mophie, makers of the popular JuicePack line of smartphone battery cases. Zagg will pay $100M for Mophie up front, plus a flexible 12-month earn-out based on Mophie’s performance over the next year. ZAGG says they expect the deal to close… Read MoreImage Recognition Invades Shopping As Curalate Raises $27.5M
Feb 02, 10:14PM
Pinterest. Instagram. Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s Curalate’s job. The image recognition marketing startup just raised $27.5 million led by NEA, bringing it to $40 million in total funding. Read MoreYahoo Signals Its Core Business Could Be For Sale By Exploring "Strategic Alternatives"
Feb 02, 10:06PM
Well, we sort of expected this one to happen. After its core Internet business has continued to flounder, Yahoo says it is now exploring “strategic alternatives,” which could imply a number of things — including selling off its core business to another company, as was previously reported. “The Board also believes that exploring additional strategic alternatives, in… Read MoreTinder Owner Match Group Reports First Earnings Since Separating From IAC
Feb 02, 10:00PM
Match Group reported its first quarterly earnings since separating from IAC last fall. The company, whose properties include dating sites Match.com, Tinder and OkCupid, saw its revenue rise 12% to $268 million, yet fell short of analyst expectations of $277 million. Shares fell about 3% in after-hours trading. The company posted adjusted fourth quarter earnings of 24 cents per share,… Read MoreSalesforce Announces Latest Lightning CRM Release With SteelBrick Integration
Feb 02, 9:56PM
This afternoon at a big presentation in San Francisco, Salesforce announced a new version of the Lightning CRM platform that includes built-in Wave analytics, intelligent email from its RelateIQ purchase in July, 2014 and configure-price-quote features from its SteelBrick acquisition at the end of last year. In addition, the company announced a new built-in phone tool which allows sales people… Read MoreYahoo Plans To Cut 15 Percent Of Workforce, Reports $4.5B Writedown On Tumblr, Americas And Europe
Feb 02, 9:55PM
Yahoo confirmed plans today to lay off approximately 15 percent of its workforce. The company made the announcement in conjunction with its its fourth quarter earnings, where it reported revenue of $1.27 billion and earnings per share of 13 cents. That’s ahead of revenue estimates — had analysts had predicted revenue of $1.19 billion and EPS of 13 cents. The Wall Street… Read MoreIAC Misses Expectations With Q4 Revenue Of $848.7 Million
Feb 02, 9:40PM
IAC just reported its Q4 2015 earnings, missing analysts expectations with revenue of $848.7 million and earnings of $0.75 per share. Analysts were expecting earnings of $0.93 cents per share on revenue of $865.49 million. Last year, IAC spun off its dating services, Match Group, which then went public itself in Q4 2015. Although Match Group reported its own results today, IAC included… Read MoreFacebook Opens Up Registration For Its F8 Developer Conference
Feb 02, 8:35PM
Each year, Facebook holds a big ol’ developer conference where it announces a few new products, host a bunch of sessions for developers to learn how to work with the various products under Facebook’s watch (WhatsApp, Oculus, Facebook itself, etc.), and everyone drinks a little too much under the guise of networking. Read MoreUber Dribbbles Up A New App Icon
Feb 02, 8:31PM
Read More3D Is The New 2D
Feb 02, 8:00PM
User interfaces traditionally have been 2D for desktops and the web. Mobile phone apps, while supporting 3D for specific cases like games, also have been 2D. The Flat UI design movement, although incorporating subtle elements of 3D, has only reinforced that 2D is the main and most optimal interaction mechanism for existing computing devices. Conversely, full 3D has always occupied niches, such… Read MoreWharton Professor Adam Grant On Creativity And The First Mover Myth
Feb 02, 8:00PM
Adam Grant, a best-selling author and the youngest tenured professor at Wharton, is back with a new book that hits both real and virtual bookshelves today: “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.” We talked about the book yesterday with Grant, who, despite being just 34, has already been teaching for a dozen years, including earlier at UNC Chapel Hill. (According to his… Read MoreTwitter Starts Taking Its Logged-Out Users Seriously
Feb 02, 7:41PM
Twitter announced two updates today that should make it easier to use for logged-out users — a group of people the company has generally not taken as seriously as it should. First of all, Twitter is now rolling out its updated homepage, which makes it easier for logged-out users to drill into interesting messages, pictures and videos on the platform without having to sign up for it, to… Read MoreBatch Now Integrates With Firebase To Create A Parse Alternative
Feb 02, 7:37PM
Following Facebook’s shutdown of Parse, many mobile app developers are looking for alternatives. Google’s Firebase is among the most popular ones. It’s a solid back-end-as-a-service that can store and sync data instantly with your apps. But the only issue is that it doesn’t support push notifications. 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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