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The Benefits Of Digital Drawing
Feb 25, 2:00AM
According to a 2015 study of more than 4,000 designers conducted by Subtraction.com and Adobe’s Khoi Vinh, 64 percent of designers still prefer pencil and paper to begin the creative brainstorm process. Paper is virtually always accessible and offers simplicity. Plus, pen on paper has been the traditional medium budding artists are taught from the beginning, making it easy to generate… Read MoreDrawbridge Is Building A Business Beyond Ad Targeting
Feb 25, 12:47AM
Drawbridge isn’t just an ad-tech company anymore. We’ve written about how the company, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, has built technology to determine when the same person is using multiple devices — so data from one device can be used (in an anonymized way) to target ads another. However, CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan said that… Read MoreBullish: LGBTQ People In Tech
Feb 24, 10:30PM
Welcome back to another episode of Bullish! This time, I sat down with Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford to talk about LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) inclusivity in the workplace. Although some tech companies have released data around people of color and female representation in their workforce, only one company, Slack, has actually released data around LGBTQ… Read More
Forge Looks To Make It Easy To Save Short Clips In Gaming Sessions
Feb 24, 10:23PM
Jared Kim might not be the best gamer — but he still wants to be able to share highlights from his sessions, and save them to remember them in the future. So much so that he decided to take a second crack at the premise with Forge, a new service entering beta today that helps gamers find short clips of the action and share them on different networks. Read MoreGoogle Fiber Is Coming To Certain Areas Of San Francisco
Feb 24, 9:36PM
Google announced plans today to bring its lightning-fast Google Fiber service to “some apartments, condos and affordable housing properties” in San Francisco, notably utilizing existing fiber instead of building their own fiber-optic network as they have in the past. A blog post detailed that the move was done in an effort to bring the service to residents more quickly. San… Read MoreCaptain401, A Service For Spinning Up And Managing 401(k) Plans, Raises $3.5M
Feb 24, 9:22PM
At Roger Lee’s last startup, he wanted to set up a 401(k) plan for his employees. He soon realized how frustrating and outdated the process was; it required stacks of paperwork and even faxing documents. That’s what prompted him to start Captain401, a service built for quickly spinning up 401(k) plans for small- to medium-sized businesses that aims to be less complicated. The… Read MoreComputer Science Is Now A High School Graduation Requirement In Chicago's Public School District
Feb 24, 9:15PM
Following a unanimous vote by the Chicago Public School Board of Education, computer science will become a graduation requirement for all high school students in what is the nation’s third largest school district. Starting with next school year’s class of freshmen (class of 2020), students in Chicago Public Schools will be required to complete curriculum around computer… Read MoreIn Advance of Next Fund, Andreessen Horowitz Brings Aboard Martin Casado As GP
Feb 24, 9:00PM
Andreessen Horowitz’s team continues to grow and change. Today, the Sand Hill Road firm is announcing the appointment of its newest and ninth general partner: Martin Casado, the cofounder and CTO of Nicira and a pioneer of so-called software defined networking; Nicera was among the first companies to decouple software from networking hardware, allowing companies to see greater… Read MoreMicrosoft Is Buying Mobile Cross-Platform Development Company Xamarin
Feb 24, 8:39PM
Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Xamarin, a company that allows developers to build fully native apps across several platforms from a single shared code base. Microsoft and Xamarin have worked closely together since a global partnership was announced in 2013 to make it more simple for mobile developers to build native apps on platforms in Visual Studio. A possible… Read MoreAstro Digital Releases Platform For Anyone To Analyze Satellite Imagery
Feb 24, 7:57PM
Astro Digital, a satellite imaging and imagery analysis company, released the newest version of their image processing software today. Anyone can access their software, for free, and retrieve satellite imagery of any area on Earth. The company also offers an API that developers can use to incorporate satellite data into their products. The software itself compiles global satellite imagery… Read More500 Startups Launches A Pair Of $25M Funds Focused On India, FinTech
Feb 24, 7:56PM
500 Startups is adding a couple new micro-funds as it looks to further grow its investments in India and FinTech Markets. The $25 million funds, named 500 FinTech and 500 Kulfi (after a popular Indian frozen dairy treat), will continue to focus on early stage investments in those spaces. 500 Startups currently has over 80 FinTech investments that have made over the past six years,… Read MoreLinkedIn's First TV Ad Says 3M Members Are Qualified To Become An Astronaut
Feb 24, 7:16PM
Okay, be honest. How many of you dreamed of becoming an astronaut when you were a kid? I certainly did — and in my heart of hearts, I still kind of regret that it didn’t happen. Well, that might not be as unrealistic as you might think, at least according to a new ad from LinkedIn. The company says this is actually its very first TV ad, and it will air during the Academy Awards.… Read MoreApply Now For TechCrunch Include Office Hours With General Catalyst
Feb 24, 7:00PM
The next round of TechCrunch Include Office Hours are here! On March 8th, Niko Bonatsos, Deepak Jeevan Kumar, Armaan Ali, Steve Herrod, and Prateek Alsi of General Catalyst will join TechCrunch editors to provide advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities for underrepresented groups in tech to take… Read MoreYou Can Now Edit And Format Your Google Docs By Voice
Feb 24, 7:00PM
About six months ago, Google introduced voice typing for Google Docs on the web to allow you to dictate your text into a document. Today it’s taking this feature a step further by also allowing you to edit and format your text by voice, too. This means you can now say things like “select all,” “align center,” “bold,” “got to end of line,”… Read MoreRevTwo Brings Real-Time Screen Sharing, Chat, & Voice Calls To Mobile Apps
Feb 24, 6:27PM
What if mobile applications weren’t standalone, isolated experiences, but could actually connect users to each other – or even to the app’s developers – with a push of a button? That’s the vision behind a startup called RevTwo, exiting from stealth today. Its mobile app SDK for iOS lets developers offer a range of in-app support services for an… Read MoreIntel Invests $1.3 Million In CODE2040
Feb 24, 5:00PM
As part of Intel’s $300 million commitment to diversity, the company has announced a multi-year partnership and $1.3 million investment in CODE2040, a non-profit organization that helps get black and Latino/a students of color involved in tech. This comes a little over a month after CODE2040 raised $1.2 million from the Knight Foundation. Read MoreGmail For Android Gets Rich Text Formatting And Instant RSVPs
Feb 24, 5:00PM
Google announced two small but useful updates for Gmail on Android today: rich text formatting and instant RSVPs. Rich text formatting has long been available for Gmail on the web, but this is the first time Google has brought it to mobile. The formatting options are pretty straightforward: You can bold, italic, underline, color and highlight text. Sadly, you still can’t link text in… Read MoreCrossroad Becomes Comet, Raises Funds For Its Collaborative Photo Album App
Feb 24, 4:52PM
Comet is a nifty little iOS and Android app that lets you create and share photo albums with your friends and family. Comet is trying to solve a simple problem, but does it in a compelling way. When you go to a wedding or a road trip, you won’t ever see your friends’ photos as they will stay in their camera roll forever. Comet fixes that. Read MoreMakeSpace Raises $17.5 Million For Hassle-Free Storage Units
Feb 24, 4:41PM
New York-based MakeSpace has secured $17.5 million in funding to accelerate growth in their self-storage business. The startup markets itself as a convenient alternative to traditional storage, by making it easy to access your items without ever taking a trip to the facility. MakeSpace offers competitive pricing and guarantees that the rates will never increase. MakeSpace enables free pickups… Read MoreThere Are Now 200K Advertisers On Instagram
Feb 24, 4:01PM
Instagram announced today that it has 200,000 monthly active advertisers. To compare, Facebook said a year go that it had more than 2 million active advertisers, while Twitter says it has 140,000 130,000. Probably the most impressive thing about the Instagram number is the fact that the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service only had a few hundred advertisers back in June. Much of that growth… 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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