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HTC Hints It's Looking At Mobile VR

Feb 27, 2:35AM

HTC One M9 Rear + Camera Despite not unboxing a new high end smartphone at Mobile World Congress this week, embattled mobile maker HTC has told TechCrunch it’s not ready to admit premium defeat — saying it has a new flagship device coming soon… Read More



Color Switch Falls To The No. 2 Games Slot (But Is Still As Addictive As Ever)

Feb 27, 12:29AM

colorswitch Did you hear about that crazy-popular game that sat in the No. 1 Games spot on iTunes for more than a month and a half? I’ll give you a hint, it has color in the title. Color Switch is a tap-based obstacle game that adds an additional level of difficulty because you are constantly changing colors. The game offers three modes: race, challenge and continuous play. And if you are feeling… Read More



LinkedIn And The Golden Age Of American Education

Feb 27, 12:00AM

Graduating students smiling and laughing with diplomas A new book declaring the end of the golden age of economic growth has set the wonky world of economics aflame. Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth juxtaposes the world-altering impact of 19th-century inventions with a disbelief that today’s digital transformation might foster growth on the same scale as refrigeration, aviation or the birth of telecommunication. Read More



Highlights From Mobile World Congress 2016

Feb 26, 11:08PM

Screen Shot 2016-02-25 at 2.49.44 PM This week, we went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2016. We covered a panel about mobile ad blocking, Mark Zuckerberg talked about Free Basics and encryption, Samsung announced the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, we went hands on with the modular LG G5, and oh, by the way, tablets are dead. Here’s everything you need to know from the event. Read More



11 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week

Feb 26, 11:06PM

New York police officers stand outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue while monitoring a demonstration, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in New York.  Protesters assembled in more than 30 cities around the world to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass murders in California. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) This week the Apple vs. FBI battle raged on, we went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, Facebook changed up the Like button, and more. Here are the top stories of the week. Read More



Digg CEO Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg and The Evolution Of Content and Content Monetisation

Feb 26, 10:00PM

95237680_af7f91c779_b Gary Liu on why Digg’s struggles, evolution, and the need for content creators to change in as ad dollars diminish. Read More



This BB-8 Is Made Entirely Of LEGO Parts And Actually Rolls Like BB-8 Should

Feb 26, 9:50PM

bb8 Ready for your semi-regular reminder that some people are just way, way too clever? These folks managed to make a BB-8 model…. completely out of LEGO parts. And it actually rolls. And its head actually stays in place on top, as BB-8’s head should. Read More



Venmo Halts New Developer Access To Its API

Feb 26, 9:46PM

venmo-grave1 This is not how you run a platform. Developers remember. Pull the rug out from under them once, and they’ll be reluctant to stand with you in the future. So despite having a record-setting January with $1 billion transferred in its peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo just shot itself in the foot. After six years of providing an API for developers to build experiences atop its money… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 02.26.16

Feb 26, 9:12PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our LIVE chat on Chat Center (during the LIVE show broadcast only) Our show G3 – a women’s roundtable discussion …tech + culture + opinions on Facebook HERE G3 records live today at ustream.tv/g3 at… Read More



What Does A Downturn Mean For Tech Regulation?

Feb 26, 9:00PM

nomoney All it takes is a quick look at the market to see that we are in for a bumpy ride — and a longer-term downturn may be imminent. Tech is not immune to that, which means we’ll see a hit to valuations, VC funding and fundraising. Lots of experts have talked about what that might mean for activity in the tech sector broadly. But what does it mean for the intersection of regulation… Read More



Tribeca Venture Partners Closes Its Second NY-Focused Fund

Feb 26, 8:22PM

EN2A8291 Tribeca Venture Partners, a New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2011, is today announcing that it has closed its second fund with $107 million — significantly more than its $65 million debut fund. That’s good news for New York startups. In a conversation earlier this week with Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem — Tribeca’s co-founders and its sole… Read More



Luxe Could Be Getting $50M From Hertz At $110M Pre-Money Valuation

Feb 26, 7:50PM

luxe 2 Luxe is in talks with a strategic investor that will infuse the company with “tens of millions” in new financing from Hertz, our sources tell us. One source tells us that the round could be around $50 million at a pre-money valuation above $110 million. This source also suggested that existing investors may participate in this round. Our understanding is that the round is still… Read More



Augmented Reality Computer Vision Startup Wrnch Gets $1.8M Series A Led By Mark Cuban

Feb 26, 6:13PM

wrnchTeam201507 Talk to anyone in the AR space right now and the phrase “democratizing x” is bound to arise two or three dozen times. Wrnch CEO Paul Kruszewski says that concept is especially true for the computer vision space, with war chest-toting companies like Magic Leap powering their own technologies while dramatically smaller teams are left to piecemeal their own solutions. Today… Read More



Social Media Marketing Company Clickable Acquires Talkwheel

Feb 26, 5:38PM

talkwheel screenshot Talkwheel, a company that offers a unique way to visualize customer conversations, has been acquired by Clickable. I last wrote about Talkwheel in 2014. The company aggregates the online conversation around a given company or topic in a circular format — it’s supposed to help you follow these often complicated and dispersed conversations. The format can then be embedded on a… Read More



Dragon Front Is Like VR Magic: The Gathering

Feb 26, 5:30PM

Dragon Front Tower above your army of monsters, lean across the battlefield and make your opponent’s face explode. That’s Dragon Front, a virtual reality card game coming to Oculus Rift. While many VR games see you flailing your arms or head about, or swinging swords and shooting bows and arrows, Dragon Front is decidedly more chill. That’s not to say it’s boring. In fact,… Read More



Google.org Awards $3 Million To Racial Justice Organizations In SF Bay Area

Feb 26, 5:00PM

Pictured left to right: David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Alphabet, with Google.org grantees: Bryan Stevenson, Founder and CEO, Equal Justice Initiative, Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Founder, Roses in Concrete Community School, Oakland, Landon Dickey, Special Assistant for African American Achievement & Leadership, San Francisco Unified School District,  Alexandra Bernadotte, Founder and CEO, Beyond 12, Richard Carranza, Superintendent, San Francisco Unified School District, and Justin Steele, Principal, Google.org Google.org has awarded a total of $3 million in grants to San Francisco Unified School District’s My Brother and Sister’s Keeper program (MBSK), Oakland’s Roses in Concrete Community School, Beyond 12 and Equal Justice Initiative, all of which are local organizations working to eliminate racial bias either in the education system or in local communities. Back in November… Read More



Zenefits Is Laying Off Roughly 250 Employees

Feb 26, 4:46PM

david sacks disrupt Zenefits is laying off around 17 percent of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales division, according to an email sent to the company by CEO David Sacks. “When I became CEO of Zenefits, I promised on Day 1 to reset our culture, refocus our strategy on serving small businesses, and create a new beginning for success in the… Read More



Spark, The Mailbox Alternative, Lands On The iPad

Feb 26, 4:23PM

unnamed-1 Spark, the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct Mailbox, has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app sports a number of popular features, including read later and mailbox organization. However, the system also creates read receipts and allows you to send emoticon replies to messages. The app has been updated to support… Read More



Birdly Wants To Help Call Your Customer Data By Talking To A Slack Bot

Feb 26, 4:11PM

birdly The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an app like Expensify is now Birdly, a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesforce and Zendesk. “It was really difficult for companies to adopt [the app] because you had to… Read More



Lessons In Moving Your Startup Overseas To Silicon Valley

Feb 26, 4:00PM

SFBoat As a CEO and immigrant worker (take that, Trump!), I always get asked about moving my company to Silicon Valley. I usually answer that I believe you can build a world-changing organization anywhere, but the job is always easier at your industry’s center of gravity. For fashion, it’s Paris; for finance, it’s London; for tech, it’s Silicon Valley. Read More




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