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The Health Sector Needs Tech Giants
Feb 15, 1:00AM
Big companies around the world have made – with varying degrees of success – plays at breaking into the health sector. Google and Apple are prime examples. Today, there are several technology and retail giants moving into health and healthcare that will surely cause disruptions, and push the sector further faster towards healthier populations that are being cared for in… Read MoreGravitational Helps Deliver Software On-Prem And In Cloud From Single Code Base
Feb 14, 9:29PM
Gravitational, a graduate of the Y Combinator 2015 class set out solve a very difficult problem for companies — how to deliver software in the cloud and on-premises from a single code base. Without a solution like the one from Gravaitional, companies would have to maintain two sets of code, which is simply too costly for most companies to pull off. That meant these companies were… Read MoreThe New Face Of Behavior Change
Feb 14, 9:00PM
In 1994, I eagerly accepted my first full-time position in research at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Part of my job was to find patients willing to participate in a prostate cancer study. After meeting these men, I got a glimpse of how their diagnosis had changed their lives. Specifically, I observed a stark difference in behavior between sick and healthy patients. Read MoreView-Master Shows Off Updated Version Of Its Iconic Virtual Reality Viewer
Feb 14, 8:19PM
Mattel’s View-Master Virtual Reality headset is getting some new upgrades that will likely cement it as one of the best Cardboard viewers on the market when it launches this fall. It was just last week that the viewer earned the milestone designation of being the first piece of virtual reality-focused hardware to be sold in-store and online by Apple. Now, the company is showing off… Read MoreApple May Ditch Samsung For Next iPhone Chip
Feb 14, 8:05PM
Apple and Samsung have been asymmetric competitors for years, fighting to grab smartphone market share and partnering when it comes to chips. According to a recent report from The Electronic Times, TSMC (the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) will be the only company manufacturing the A10 for the next iPhone. Samsung won’t be working with Apple for the next iPhone. Read MoreBlack Future Month And The Tech Community Redrawing Silicon Valley's Racial Lines
Feb 14, 8:00PM
this color barrier in tech — the product of implicit and explicit bias and a valley phenomenon known as ‘pattern matching’ coupled with long time systemic issues of educational and economic access in black communities — is starting to collapse. Read MoreWorse Than A Cold Call? Polar Bear Pitching In The Arctic Circle
Feb 14, 6:30PM
Strong in tech, but lacking in either sunlight or warmth, the third annual Polar Bear Pitching competition, which took place on February 10–11, has found a perfect home in the city of Oulu, which lies 600 km north of Helsinki (and is reminiscent of the fictional depiction of the real city of Fargo, N.D.). Read MoreThe Apple Watch Is On Sale Again, But It Doesn't Mean A Watch 2 Is Coming Just Yet
Feb 14, 5:29PM
The Apple Watch is now available with a $100 discount at Best Buy, B&H and possibly other stores. For instance, the 38mm Sport model now costs $249 and the 42mm version costs $299. You might think that it means that the Apple Watch 2 is right around the corner, but it’s unlikely. Read MoreThe Land Of Milk, Honey And Fraud Prevention
Feb 14, 4:00PM
Israel has become a hotbed for startups in the fields of identity verification and fraud prevention. The IDF Unit 8200 develops systems for gathering intelligence, automatically sifting through data to flag dangers, and escalating serious threats for manual review. Read MoreMaking Sense Of The Valuation Disequilibrium
Feb 14, 2:00PM
To bring the market back into equilibrium more quickly, VCs, particularly growth-stage VCs, owe it to entrepreneurs to offer candor and transparency about how we think about valuing companies. Read MoreListen To The Apprentice's Vana Koutsomitis Talk Online Dating, And Doing Reality TV
Feb 14, 9:30AM
It’s Valentine’s Day, so what better time to interview Vana Koutsomitis, the self-proclaimed dating expert and finalist of this year’s U.K. version of The Apprentice. Read MoreImagining Snapchat's Future
Feb 14, 7:00AM
Snapchat could be used by over 1 billion daily active users in time and substantially accelerate how many videos and photos people share and consume. But there’s more to be done and questions to be answered. Read MoreThe Great Tech Freakout: An Overview
Feb 14, 12:07AM
Well if you were looking for lousy news this week, you didn’t need to search long to find it. Days after some hair-raising price falls for publicly traded LinkedIn and Tableau Software (they tanked 43 percent and 49 percent, respectively, on February 5), a broader swath of public and private tech companies prepared to take their lumps. They came quickly, too. Zenefits, the… Read MoreHow DHL Pioneered The Sharing Economy
Feb 14, 12:00AM
DHL, the international express delivery company, started its business by offering free plane tickets to people on the street. For the trouble of giving up their baggage allowances, passengers were handed a free round trip plane ticket to Hawaii. Founded as a courier service in 1969, DHL used the spare capacity in travelers’ luggage to transport high value documents. To understand why it… Read MoreThe Probable, The Possible, The Delusional
Feb 13, 9:00PM
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed before a joint session of Congress that before the end of the decade America would put a man on the moon. This was not an empty political promise to get elected, but a commitment of a sitting President boldly exposing himself to political ridicule in the face of failure. If we can take ourselves back to that moment, it would be fascinating to… Read MoreSeeing Beyond The Hubris Of Facebook's Free Basics Fiasco
Feb 13, 8:00PM
What Zuckerberg and his U.S. team didn’t understand was that in India you can buy computer tablets and smartphones for as little as $50, and that 100MB of data—which is more than a Free Basics user will consume in a month—costs much less than a dollar. Read MoreWhat New Mobile Hardware To Expect At MWC 2016
Feb 13, 6:00PM
Mobile World Congress, the biggest tradeshow specifically focused on mobile, kicks off in just over a week’s time in Barcelona so here’s a quick rundown of some of the big hardware-focused announcements we’re expecting to land during the best part of a week of fully mobile-focused news… Read MoreIt's True, Black Female Founders Receive Basically Zero Venture Capital
Feb 13, 5:16PM
In “The Real Unicorns of Tech: Black Founders Women,” a recent report by #ProjectDiane, you’ll come across several startling statistics like, for example, of all venture deals from 2012 to 2014, only 0.2% (24 of 10,238 deals) went to went to black female founders. In researching the state of black women in tech, #ProjectDiane examined over 60,000 startups and identified just… Read MoreHow To Expand Your Marketplace To LA
Feb 13, 4:00PM
“The theme of LA is diversity.” That is what DoorDash’s Kevin Huang told me in our conversation about how expanding on-demand marketplaces into LA differs from other markets. As an LA-based enterprise and marketplace investor, one of the most common questions I get from entrepreneurs is how to expand marketplaces into LA. While this includes all the usual difficulties of… Read MoreWhen Data Goes Bad
Feb 13, 2:00PM
So I know this guy Sulemaan from my Toronto days. Really good guy, despite being a Spurs fan. Sulemaan has a son, Syed, who is flagged as a security risk, a suspected terrorist, every time he flies. Syed is six years old. This is, of course, completely insane. But the data has been parsed; the algorithm has spoken; and so others must suffer from the idiocy of those who built the system. 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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