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Introducing TechCrunch's Brand-New Apple TV App!

Feb 05, 12:36AM

tctvOSgif I’m excited to announce that TechCrunch Video has arrived on Apple TV, and now available to download in the App Store! The app features our entire VOD library as well as our growing list of live streaming events, just in time for 1st and Future this Saturday February 6th, and the 9th Annual Crunchies on Monday February 8th. TechCrunch Video is helpfully featured in… Read More



SETI Scientist Explains Why We Haven't Found Aliens Yet

Feb 04, 11:57PM

SETI telescope The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is a field of science that’s been around for over 60 years. While SETI tools and strategies have improved immensely over that time, we have yet to find definitive evidence for intelligent alien life in our universe. TechCrunch spoke with famed astronomer Jill Tarter, to understand how the search has changed over the years and why… Read More



Announcing TechCrunch Include Hub, A Home For Our Diversity And Inclusion Program

Feb 04, 11:45PM

include-featured2 TechCrunch has been running a program called Include for a while now. In its first phase, it offered diverse entrepreneurs, founders, organizations focused on inclusion and technologists a variety of benefits like monetary support and free or discounted tickets to our Disrupt events. Last year, we announced  Include 2.0, the next phase of our diversity program, which brought office… Read More



CustomInk Acquires Represent, A Custom Merchandise Marketplace for Influencers

Feb 04, 11:21PM

unnamed CustomInk, a leading player in the online custom apparel space, has announced it is acquiring Represent, a Los Angeles-based social commerce startup. Sources close to the acquisition tell us the price tag was approaching $100 million, with it being a cash and stock deal. Founded in 2014 by Bryan Baum, Andrej Pancik, and Leo Seigal, Represent is similar to CustomInk in that it lets anyone… Read More



LinkedIn Tumbles 30% On Earnings Guidance

Feb 04, 9:31PM

linkedin-earnings LinkedIn reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell Thursday. While the company beat analyst estimates on both income and revenue, the stock quickly tumbled 27 percent in after-hours trading, due to a disappointing outlook and earnings guidance. The job networking site said that revenue for first quarter of 2016 is expected to be $820 million and adjusted earnings per share will be 55 cents. Read More



Curioos Opens Up Marketplace For Its Digital Art Platform

Feb 04, 9:28PM

ProductZoom-1 Curioos has been selling art prints from digital artists for a few years now. But it’s been a cumbersome work to add new artists to the website. That’s why the company is automatizing the listing process by switching to a marketplace approach. Any digital artist can now submit their work and get revenue from Curioos prints. Read More



3 Nearly Free Growth Hacks

Feb 04, 9:00PM

small change “Growth hacking” is a term that people seem to think means “magically market any product or company for free.” I wrote a post called What is growth hacking? to clarify the difference between efficient, effective marketing and mythical marketing pixie dust, yet still people don’t seem to understand. Before I give you three tips for powerful, nearly free marketing,… Read More



With Soundsgood, Create And Publish Playlists On All Streaming Services

Feb 04, 8:44PM

Speaker Meet Soundsgood, a French startup that wants to make it easier to publish playlists on the web. While it’s never been a better time to create a playlist on a streaming service and share it with readers and followers, everybody uses a different streaming service. Soundsgood works with Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud with more integrations in the works. Read More



Applications For The TC Pitch-Offs In Boston And Atlanta Close In One Week

Feb 04, 8:31PM

TC meetup pitch off USE The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is headed to Boston and Atlanta, and time is running out to apply to participate. Ten companies from each glorious city will have exactly sixty seconds each to pitch their product to a panel of expert VC judges and the audience. Judges will hold a quick Q&A following each rapid-fire presentation and ultimately determine a winner. First place gets a table… Read More



INNOVATE2016: Darrell Issa On What Washington DC Can Learn From Silicon Valley?

Feb 04, 8:30PM

4378369172_2aa70eba21_b According to nine-term San Diego Congressman, Darrell Issa, the 21st century has started everywhere…. except Washington DC. Read More



Tango's New CEO Takes Its Struggling Messaging App Back To Basics

Feb 04, 8:01PM

tango-music-pix Tango’s new CEO isn’t wasting any time making changes to reverse the declining fortunes of the messaging app company. Co-founder Eric Setton, who made the jump from Tango CTO to CEO one month ago, announced this week that the company is splitting its service into two to rediscover the core chat experience that made it successful. Read More



Box KeySafe Aims To Simplify Encryption Key Management For SMBs

Feb 04, 8:00PM

Set of keys on an old ring sitting on a warn wooden table. Box announced a new product today called Box KeySafe that should help simplify encryption key management, putting it in reach of small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) who require encryption, but want to avoid the complexities associated with Box’s higher end Enterprise Key Management product. Many highly regulated industries have wanted to move to the cloud, but security and… Read More



La Belle Assiette Grabs Another $1.5 Million For Its On-Demand Chef Service

Feb 04, 7:05PM

La Belle Assiette French startup La Belle Assiette just raised another $1.5 million (€1.3 million) to expand its services. The company has become a leading on-demand chef service in Europe, and is now looking at other opportunities in the events catering industry. Read More



Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson On Why Talk Of "Lowering The Bar" Is Inherently Racist

Feb 04, 7:00PM

joelle emerson Implementing unconscious bias trainings at tech companies has become a thing over the last year or so. Part of that is thanks to Paradigm, a consulting startup that work with tech companies like Slack, Airbnb and Pinterest to help formulate strategies around diversity and inclusion. Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson recently stopped by TC’s studio to chat with me about those unconscious… Read More



CoreOS's rkt Container Engine Hits 1.0

Feb 04, 6:55PM

rkt-1.0-banner CoreOS‘s container runtime competitor rkt hit version 1.0 today and according to the company, it’s now ready for production use. Version 1.0 introduces a number of new security features and, going forward, any changes to the command line interface and on-disk format will be backwards compatible. Rkt currently supports both applications packaged as CoreOS App Container images and… Read More



You Misunderstand Foursquare. It's comScore, Not Instagram

Feb 04, 6:54PM

foursquare-angled Foursquare is not a consumer social app business, it’s a data company. And only when it admitted that to itself and revalued as such was it able to pull in more capital and keep chugging. Today at LA’s Upfront Summit, Foursquare’s lead investor from Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson stuck up for the startup while trying to make people understand how it’s… Read More



Bringing Silicon Valley To Congress

Feb 04, 6:41PM

uncle-sam-we-want-you1-kopie_1 It’s imperative to find and develop systems that enable higher levels of participation. Read More



Justin Kan Is Hiring Someone To Revive Justin.tv On Snapchat

Feb 04, 6:17PM

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20:  Justin Kan, from Y Combinator, on stage during the 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt Europe/London at The Old Billingsgate on October 20, 2014 in London, England.  (Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch) *** Local Caption *** Justin Kan Justin Kan, the founder of Justin.tv — the online video portal that eventually became video game streaming giant Twitch — is restarting the service on Snapchat 18 months after it was shut down. Read More



Android Wear Gets Speaker Support And New Gestures, Voice Input Options

Feb 04, 5:50PM

CaYrvIGUcAAbLok Google launched an update to Android Wear today that brings a couple of new features to the smartwatch platform. Maybe the most interesting of these is Android Wear’s ability to use the speakers that are now inside some of the newest watches. If you own a Huawei Watch or an ASUS ZenWatch 2, for example, you’ll now be able to go full Dick Tracy and make and take calls right from… Read More



AltspaceVR Social Platform Launches On Samsung Gear VR

Feb 04, 5:31PM

5_DiscoverAndAttendEvents GG Virtual reality can sometimes appear like it’s a pretty isolating platform. Visually, people experiencing VR certainly aren’t in the most approachable position and right now the tech is new enough that it rarely seems accessible to those who are vaguely curious. That being said, there are plenty of companies succeeding in strengthening the social potential of VR. One of the… Read More




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