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Slack Wins A Crunchie For Fastest Rising Startup

Feb 10, 1:34AM

Slack Crunchies engineers Slack is growing up and to the right and as such a rapid climber won a Crunchie last night for Fastest Rising Startup at TechCrunch’s 9th annual awards show. Slack also claims to have a more diverse workforce than any other startup and smartly chose to send four of its engineers – all of them black and female – to accept the award on stage. One of the women Slack sent to… Read More



The Ultimate Ad

Feb 10, 1:00AM

advertisementtv If Mad Men is to be believed, the difference between a successful brand and a failure is the perfect ad: one witty line, the perfect image; an overall feeling that captures and captivates the target audience and converts them into customers. The world hasn’t changed that much since the Mad Men days (though we’re thankful for somewhat more egalitarian work environments). Read More



Anchor Launches To Take Radio To The Next Level

Feb 10, 12:33AM

Anchor_iPhone_Logo_1200 Welcome to the next generation of broadcasting. New York-based Anchor, which launched today for iOS, is offering a new, easier way to record and transmit interactive audio content. Read More



Study: Music Is The Food Of Love

Feb 10, 12:09AM

giphy In what is probably one of the most unique studies involving iBeacons, music, and sex anyone has ever done, a researcher (in connection with Apple Music and Sonos) has found that music in the home increases togetherness, closer “proximity,” and leads to 67% more sex worldwide. Now before you say “Hey, this is just Apple and Sonos trying to sell us product” understand… Read More



A Recap Of The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards

Feb 09, 10:46PM

Screen Shot 2016-02-09 at 12.54.30 PM The 9th Annual Crunchies took place at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco last night. Host Chelsea Peretti had us laughing before our presenters came on stage to announce the winners of this year’s Crunchies. Follow along for some of the highlights of the show, including an operatic musical number, our favorite speeches and some of your social media posts. Read More



SolarCity Beats Q4 Estimates, But Stock Plunges 30 Percent On Soft Outlook

Feb 09, 10:35PM

solarcity-earnings-red SolarCity, which is down more than 50 percent over the past year, just released its Q4 2015 earnings. The market has reacted negatively, with the stock trading down about 30 percent after-hours at a price of around $17.50 per-share. While Q4 revenue of $115M and loss of $2.37 per share beat estimates of $111M in revenue and a loss of $2.59 per share, the company’s Q1 2016 forecast… Read More



U.S. Version Of Politwoops Comes Back Online To Track Politicians' Deleted Tweets

Feb 09, 9:47PM

politwoopsUS Politwoops, a service that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets in an effort to hold elected officials accountable for the statements they make on social media, is now back online in the U.S. The restoration of the service, announced today by the Sunlight Foundation, follows Twitter’s earlier decision to restore Politwoops’ access to its API after previously having… Read More



Fox Marks Down Its DraftKings Investment By 60 Percent

Feb 09, 9:46PM

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, an ad for daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings is displayed in a subway station in Philadelphia. A state judge has barred daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel from doing business in New York.  The order issued Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, by state Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez also denied the country's two biggest daily fantasy sports sites' attempts to block the state's attorney general enforcement action. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia) Twenty-First Century Fox, which invested $160M in DraftKings over the summer, has written down the investment by about 60 percent, according to its 10-Q filed today. Specifically, Fox noted that “based on information concerning DraftKings’ current valuation in a recent financing transaction, the Company determined that a portion of its investment in DraftKings was impaired and… Read More



The Money In Open-Source Software

Feb 09, 9:00PM

moneywave It’s no secret that open-source technology — once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters — has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Despite the growing popularity of open-source software, though, many open-source companies are… Read More



Fintech Savings Service Qapital Launches Android App

Feb 09, 8:00PM

moneytrees Qapital, the financial management service integrated with most banks, is launching its Android app today. First available only in iOS, the new service offers the same breadth of functionality to new Android customers which comprise the bulk of mobile phone users in the world. For investors and boosters like acclaimed behavioral economics researcher Dan Ariely, the launch of the new Android… Read More



The Trashbot Will Eat And Sort Your Garbage

Feb 09, 7:49PM

shutterstock_320894498 Robots need excitement. If their lives don’t provide instead they’ll incite violence. Common sense. Simple common sense. But robots also need trash. That’s why the Trashbot is so cool. This robotic trash can will automatically sort all of your garbage, pitching metals into one can and non-recyclables into another. The project is still in its relative infancy but it’s… Read More



The Next Tesla Will Start At $35,000, But Don't Expect To Pay That Price

Feb 09, 7:42PM

FILE - In this April 1, 2015, file photo shows the Tesla Motors new showroom in Salt Lake City. State lawmakers said Wednesday, May 20, 2015 they hope to work out a compromise law this year that would allow Tesla Motors to start selling its electric cars at its $3 million showroom in Salt Lake City. Two weeks before the showroom's planned opening in March, the Utah attorney general's office ruled that it couldn't sell cars under state laws barring a manufacturer from owning more than 45 percent of any dealership. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Tesla has yet to unveil the Model 3, but the company just confirmed that it will be available starting at $35,000. The Model 3 has long been rumored to cost about this price, and today, Bloomberg is quoting a Tesla spokesperson who confirmed the starting price. At that price, the car will retail at a price point slightly higher than the average car sells for in the States. It will retail… Read More



GitHub Updates Its Enterprise Product With Clustering Support, Updated Design

Feb 09, 6:30PM

2b38e278-8c46-11e5-8a25-06aa80342ad1 GitHub Enterprise, the company’s on-premises solution for managing code, is getting a major update today. It comes at a time when there seems to be some upheaval in the company around the importance management has been putting on this product. The marquee feature of GitHub Enterprise 2.5 is support for clustering. With this, businesses can now set up a cluster of GitHub Enterprise… Read More



Oculus-Ready PC Bundles From ASUS, Alienware, Dell Pre-Sell For $1499 Next Week

Feb 09, 6:20PM

kv Oculus wants to make it easy to get everything you need to dive into virtual reality. Thanks to team-ups with ASUS, Alienware, and Dell, Oculus will open pre-sales of Oculus-ready PC bundles starting at $1499 on February 16th at 8am PST. Buying as a bundle gets people a $100 to $200 discount on the PCs. The bundles include an Oculus Rift, a gaming PC powerful enough to run it, motion sensors,… Read More



LendEDU Is Making Student Loan Refinancing Easier

Feb 09, 5:30PM

Screen Shot 2016-02-09 at 12.25.06 PM When 21-year-old college students Nate Matherson and Matt Lenhard started their first business for tutors, they didn’t really know that they would soon embark on a journey to help solve the $1.2 trillion student loan problem in the U.S. Launched out of their University of Delaware dorm room, their first business was designed to help college tutors. The two even made it into an… Read More



Gmail Now Warns Users When They Send And Receive Email Over Unsecured Connections

Feb 09, 5:06PM

gmail-autocomplete Google is marking Safer Internet Day, which falls today, by introducing new authentication features to Gmail to help better identify emails that could be harmful or unsecured. Read More



Social Video Streaming App TiZR Picks Up Backing From Spinnin' Records

Feb 09, 4:31PM

2 - Friends menu With Twitter-owned Periscope, Facebook’s latest video efforts, and, of course, Meerkat, is there any space left for a new social video streaming app? Read More



DFJ Raises $350 Million For Its 12th Early-Stage Fund

Feb 09, 4:24PM

VentureTeamDFJ_hr (1) Sand Hill Road venture firm DFJ is announcing a new, $350 million fund this morning — the firm’s 12th early-stage vehicle. We chatted with managing director Josh Stein yesterday about the effort, which he says took about two months from start to finish. The biggest takeaway: Expect more of the same from the firm, which typically plugs between $10 million and $15 million into… Read More



Lully Launches The Sleep Guardian Plus To Reduce Night Terrors

Feb 09, 4:23PM

lully1 When we last covered Lully, the YC-Backed startup had just announced the close of a $2.1 million seed round for operations surrounding their flagship product called The Sleep Guardian. That product launched in June of 2015. Today they are launching an updated version—The Sleep Guardian Plus. Read More



Google Reverses Its Decision To Ban Ad Blocking Apps From The Google Play Store

Feb 09, 4:11PM

adblock-general Google appears to have reversed its earlier decision to ban ad blockers from the Google Play store – a move which had seen the company pulling apps like Adblock Fast and stalling the updates for others, like Crystal’s ad blocker. Now, following an appeal from Rocketship, the developers behind Adblock Fast, Google has re-approved and republished its app to Google Play. The… Read More




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