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Uber Delivered Puppies On Demand To TechCrunch Ahead Of Super Bowl Weekend
Feb 04, 1:23AM
Uber has big plans for Super Bowl 50 this weekend. The rideshare platform will pick up passengers at designated areas throughout San Francisco and route them in a way that will hopefully help avoid all the traffic congestion that is already starting to happen before the big game. It’s also offering something very fun and fluffy ahead of the big day today – puppies on-demand.… Read MoreConfirmed: Practice Fusion Lays Off 25% Of Workers To Create Positive Cash Flow
Feb 04, 1:16AM
Practice Fusion, a startup digitizing electronic health records (EHR) for hospitals and healthcare facilities confirmed to TechCrunch that it has trimmed a quarter of its workforce today in an effort to become cash flow positive. The layoffs were across the board, including engineering, product, marketing, and customer success departments and affect roughly 74 people. CEO Tom Langan announced… Read MoreBuilding A Framework For Sustainability
Feb 04, 1:00AM
Platforms are what make the technology world go ’round. Great platforms create value for technologists everywhere — be it a technology-specific platform like what Google has newly open-sourced through Tensor Flow, a customer-specific platform development environment like Salesforce or a truly horizontal platform like what Amazon offers through AWS. This value stems from the fact… Read MoreNo, Amazon Is Not Planning A Network Of 300-400 Bookstores
Feb 03, 10:57PM
Yesterday, a report surfaced in the Wall Street Journal claiming that online retail giant Amazon was planning to launch as many as 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores. The report set off a stream of stories about the news; chatter slamming the idea of a company that’s precipitated the collapse of bookstores building them itself; and even some stock movements for Amazon’s… Read MoreApplause Connects Brands With Livestream Stars
Feb 03, 10:20PM
We’ve seen startups helping brands tap influencers to promote themselves on social media platforms like Vine and Instagram, so it might be time for a new influencer marketing startup, Applause, that’s focused on live video — particularly Twitter’s Periscope app. It’s certainly a platform that CEO Jon Jacques is familiar with. In addition to working for a couple… Read MoreCisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion
Feb 03, 9:57PM
Cisco announced today it was buying Jasper Technologies, developers of an Internet of Things cloud platform for $1.4 billion. With Jasper, Cisco gets a company that understands the burgeoning Internet of Things market. While the IoT term gets bandied about quite a bit, it simply means connected machines talking to one another over the internet. This could be industrial automation equipment on… Read MoreStruggling GoPro Falls 10% On Earnings Miss; Announces New CFO
Feb 03, 9:54PM
Sales of action camera maker GoPro fell short of Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, with the company reporting a loss of 8 cents per share, whereas analysts were predicting an average of 0 cents. Fourth quarter revenue also fell short, coming in at $437 million, but investors had been forecasting $496 million. This is also down 31% from the $634 million in the same period the year… Read MoreWatching Technology Trends Emerge In Africa
Feb 03, 9:36PM
With so much happening in the African tech market these days, it’s hard to keep track. Here’s a handy guide we’ll try to put out every month on the biggest news in one of tech’s most exciting (and earliest) emerging markets. Read MoreLet's Be Honest About The Problems With Blockchain And Finance
Feb 03, 9:00PM
Strange times we live in. The world’s biggest financial players and analysts are buzzing about an invention that became famous partly by promising to destroy them. In just a few months, blockchain went from the cause célèbre of crypto-anarchists and tech evangelists to the biggest idea in mainstream banking. Read MoreiPhone 7 Could Have A Flush Rear Camera
Feb 03, 8:56PM
Chances are you hate this protruding camera module pictured above on your current iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s. According to a new rumor on the iPhone 7 design (via Mac Rumors), the next iPhone could have a flush rear camera. The antenna bands across the back would also disappear. Read MoreGoogle Expands Its Self-Driving Car Pilot To Kirkland, Wash.
Feb 03, 8:30PM
Google today announced that it is expanding its self-driving car testing program to Kirkland, Washington. So far, Google’s cars have driven 1.4 million miles around the company’s hometown of Mountain View, California and — more recently — in Austin, Texas. “We have strong roots in Kirkland having established an office here a decade ago,” said Jennifer… Read MoreNew Apple Patent Covers Hovering Gestures For iPhone Displays
Feb 03, 8:18PM
3D Touch was just a first step. AppleInsider has spotted a new patent that would add a proximity sensor layer into your iPhone display. It would open up a brand new field of interactions for your phone with new hovering gestures. Read MoreFAA Reauthorization Bill Still Leaves Much To Be Desired For Commercial Drone Operators
Feb 03, 8:14PM
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is due for reauthorization and the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee introduced the first draft of the FAA bill today. While the efforts to reform the air traffic control system will likely take center stage in the discussion around the bill, it also includes a number of items around the commercial use of drones. While the bill represents… Read MoreInstagram Extends Video Ads To 60 Seconds To Score TV Dollars
Feb 03, 8:10PM
Instagram today announced that it began running its first 60-second video ads, starting with T-Mobile and Warner Brothers. Until now, the maximum length for video ads was 30 seconds, already longer than the 15-second videos users are allowed to post. Instagram tells me that “We recognize that advertisers have a variety of creative resources and want to bring more choice to help them… Read MoreGoogle Boots Ad Blockers From Google Play
Feb 03, 7:40PM
Earlier this week, Samsung rolled out support for ad blocking in the new version of its web browser for mobile devices, the Samsung Internet Browser. Third-party developers quickly responded by launching ad-blocking mobile apps that work with the browser. Now those developers are finding their apps are being pulled from the Google Play, and their updates are being declined. The reason? It… Read MoreApple Beefs Up Its Security Team By Hiring Zero-Day Exploit Team
Feb 03, 7:27PM
Remember Thunderstrike 2? Last summer, Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson unveiled a serious zero-day vulnerability in OS X letting malware creators completely brick your Mac without any way to reset it to its factory status. And it looks like Apple didn’t just fix the vulnerability — it has also hired the team behind this exploit to work on security. Read MoreTrans*H4CK Founder On Equity In Tech And The Need For Queer Inclusivity
Feb 03, 7:00PM
Trans*H4CK, a series of hackathons for transgender and gender non-conforming people, recently launched a Q&A web series featuring trans people in tech. I recently sat down with Trans*H4CK founder Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler to chat about diversity, racism, unconscious bias and more. Below is our conversation, which has been mildly edited for clarity. Megan Rose Dickey: What is diversity? Dr. Read More
Students, Time To Get Your Tickets To Disrupt NY 2016
Feb 03, 7:00PM
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the hottest conference in startups and technology? We have set aside a number of tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt NY exclusively for students, and you can snag one for just $300 with a valid university ID and your current transcripts. Read MoreZillow Gets Naked
Feb 03, 6:40PM
Online real estate site Zillow today announced that it has acquired Naked Apartments for $13 million in cash. While the name makes it sound like some kind of kinky cleaning service, it’s actually an apartment rentals platform with a focus on New York City. The acquisition is expected to close in the next few weeks. Read MoreGenentech Offers $50K For Startups Working On New Cervical Cancer Prevention
Feb 03, 6:39PM
Genentech is looking to reach out to the startup community with a new competition called the Quest Award offering $50,000 in prize money for technologies that are fighting cervical cancer. 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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