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Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company PageCloud
Feb 20, 1:00AM
The beauty of content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Wix, Weebly and others is in the ability to create and build a complete website using just your browser. Designers are given the flexibility to make changes to their websites using simple browser-based tools, which means they don’t need to learn desktop tools like Dreamweaver or Photoshop or web programming languages like… Read MoreApple Executives Detail Scope Of FBI Request And Company's Motivations For Not Complying
Feb 20, 12:07AM
In a call with reporters today, Apple executives spoke in response to a motion the Justice Department filed today to force Apple to comply with a request from the FBI to provide access to the iPhone of Syed Farook taken as evidence in the case of the San Bernardino terrorist killings. Read MoreThe Mobile Electorate
Feb 20, 12:00AM
In 2008, Barack Obama redrafted the electioneering script, becoming the first presidential candidate to use social media as a political channel. His opponents’ failure to grasp the significance of social media proved as catastrophic as Richard Nixon’s dismissive attitude to television in 1960 — an attitude that probably cost him the 1960 election to the more telegenic John F. Read MoreSalesforce Acquires PredictionIO To Build Up Its Machine Learning Muscle
Feb 19, 11:23PM
Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its technology in machine learning and big data analytics: the company has acquired PredictionIO, a startup based out of Palo Alto that had developed an open source-based machine learning server. Salesforce plans to use some of the tech to build out Salesforce’s own machine learning capabilities as part of SalesforceIQ, both in-house… Read MoreExtra Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt NY Extended To February 24
Feb 19, 11:00PM
Don’t ever say we aren’t flexible. You needed a few extra days to commit to clicking the buy button on tickets to Disrupt NY 2016, and we’re happy to give that to you. We’re extending the deadline on our extra early-bird tickets to next Wednesday, February 24, so you have a few extra days to save $200 before early-bird pricing takes effect next week. This is the only… Read MoreVirgin Galactic Unveils New SpaceShipTwo, The VSS Unity
Feb 19, 10:20PM
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today. This is the latest version the company has revealed to the public since their deadly crash during a test flight with the previous version. In a tweet, Virgin Galactic specified that the new vessel , the VSS Unity, was actually named by Stephen Hawking who also expressed enthusiasm for the future of… Read MoreFacebook Now Lets You Use Multiple Accounts On Messenger For Android
Feb 19, 10:14PM
Lets say you’ve got kids. They like Messenger for talking with other kids about Minecraft or bubble gum or whatever kids talk about these days. You’re happy to let them use Messenger in the evenings, but they’re not quite old enough for a phone of their own just yet. What to do? Facebook has simplified things a bit, adding support for multiple Messenger accounts on one device. Read More
Donald Trump Says You Should Boycott Apple
Feb 19, 9:51PM
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Apple over its fight with the FBI. As you can see in the footage below (reportedly shot at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina), Trump was discussing the need to bring overseas jobs back to the United States when he gets sidetracked by mentioning Apple. “What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until… Read MoreApple vs. FBI
Feb 19, 9:40PM
http://techcrunch.com/tag/apple-vs-fbi/ Read MoreThe Next Billion-Dollar Insurer
Feb 19, 9:00PM
Venture capital-backed insurance success stories have risen at a regular drumbeat over the last few years: 2011 brought the billion-dollar Esurance acquisition, 2012 brought the wildly successful Guidewire IPO, 2013 brought the large Climate Corp. acquisition and 2014-2015 brought Zenefits to prominence. Each of these companies pulls a piece of the insurance industry kicking and screaming into… Read MoreBox's Aaron Levie Defends Apple Amid FBI Controversy
Feb 19, 8:52PM
Box CEO Aaron Levie spoke to TechCrunch about the ongoing saga between Apple and the FBI. “Apple’s response to the government is something we completely wholeheartedly agree with,” said the CEO of the cloud storage company. “The world is going to get more complex, so you can’t create weaknesses in software that then will become vulnerabilities in the… Read MoreAnnouncing The Judges For The TC Pitch-Offs In Boston And Atlanta
Feb 19, 8:40PM
The Pitch-offs in Atlanta and Boston are but a few days away. You already know the stellar companies pitching at our events, but today is the day you find out who will cast judgement on those startups and determine a winner. Without any further ado, here are the judges for the Boston and Atlanta meetups: Boston Gaurav Tuli, F-Prime Capital Gaurav Tuli is a Principal at F-Prime Capital,… Read MoreJustice Department Files Motion To Force Apple To Comply With Backdoor Request
Feb 19, 8:11PM
And we’re back with another episode of our favorite privacy saga between Apple with the FBI. This time, the Department of Justice gets involved. The department has filed a motion asking Apple to comply with the FBI order. Read MoreThe Other Justin Keller Schools Tech Bro With Same Name On Homelessness In SF
Feb 19, 7:19PM
Remember the tech bro who wrote an open letter imploring San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to make the homeless go away? His name is Justin Keller and that has caused quite a few social problems for another guy in SF with the same name. Many have deemed what the Keller known as tech bro wrote to be a callous attitude toward the city’s homelessness problem, “…I know people are… Read More13 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Feb 19, 7:11PM
This week, Apple battled with the FBI amid an order to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists involved in the San Bernardino shooting, Kanye West made waves in the tech world when his new album launched exclusively on Tidal, the new Samsung Galaxy phones leaked and much more. These are the top tech stories from this week. Read MoreU.S. Government Says Hoverboards Are Verboten
Feb 19, 6:55PM
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has deemed hoverboards “unsafe” and, in a letter released by the organization, all hoverboard manufacturers to gain UL certification before selling more boards. #hoverboards Makers, importers and retailers put on notice https://t.co/UEvHCBxSf5 pic.twitter.com/jfG9kIiovC — U.S. CPSC (@USCPSC) February 19, 2016 “Consumers… Read MoreSmartwatch Shipments Have Overtaken Swiss Watches For The First Time
Feb 19, 4:59PM
So it begins: “worldwide smartwatch shipments” have hit 8.1 million units in Q4 2015 compared to 7.9 million for Swiss watch shipments. Strategy Analytics, a research firm, has found that smartwatch shipments “rose a healthy 316 percent from 1.9 million in Q4 2014.” Apple has an estimated 63 percent of the global market followed by Samsung’s 16 percent.… Read MoreMicrosoft Launches Plumbago, A Paper App Competitor That Lets You Sketch & Handwrite Notes
Feb 19, 4:49PM
Microsoft’s Office suite already has a popular note-taking app with OneNote, but today the company is turning its attention to how note-taking should work on tablets that support stylus and touch-based input. The company has now released Plumbago, a digital notebook application for Windows 8.1 and 10 tablets that allows users to handwrite text, highlight, plus sketch and draw using… Read MoreOptimizing Analytics On Time Series Databases
Feb 19, 4:00PM
When Matthew Fontaine Maury was restricted to a desk job because of a leg injury, little did he know that he was showcasing an impressive example of crowdsourced, open source and big data time series analysis. Soon after his injury he devoted his time to studying navigation, meteorology, winds and currents. He studied thousands of ships’ logs and charts and analyzed more than a billion… Read MoreGrab Your Tickets To The TechCrunch Meetup During Mobile World Congress
Feb 19, 3:37PM
TechCrunch is holding a Meetup during Mobile World Congress, on the evening of Wednesday Feb. 24. Grab your tickets here. Please add your email here to get news about the TechCrunch Meetup or to apply to pitch. In your pitch you need to say if you have funding or not. Be concise and to the point, covering the problem you are solving, your solution, go-to-market strategy, competition and team… 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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