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Marketplace app Mercari nabs $75M to become Japan's first unicorn
Mar 02, 2:09AM
Mercari, a peer-to-peer marketplace app, has claimed the title of Japan’s first startup unicorn after raising 8.4 billion yen (about $75 million) at a valuation of over $1 billion. This is the Tokyo-based company’s first Series D and brings its total funding to 12.6 billion yen (about $111 million). Read MoreThe future of on-demand: Where are we going, and are we getting a Lyft?
Mar 02, 1:00AM
If the on-demand economy was a young pup in the late 2000s, then it has since evolved into a much more sophisticated animal: strong, resilient and capable of adapting to its environment. This movement was bred from the human desire for immediacy. Agile startups evolved quickly with real-time feedback, all conjoined by the central pillar of this new industry: the smartphone. Read MoreAccelerator NFX Guild unveiled its second startup batch today: Here's who just graduated
Mar 02, 12:17AM
The year-old Bay Area accelerator NFX Guild presented 16 companies to a crowded room of 200 investors down on Sand Hill Road today, and the room was reportedly very energized. Little wonder. NFX was founded by seasoned entrepreneurs and operators James Currier, Stan Chudnovsky and Gigi Levy Weiss. Its companies are referred to the outfit by a network of 42 scouts — some of… Read MoreNASA astronaut Scott Kelly breaks American spaceflight record
Mar 02, 12:08AM
When former International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly steps out of a Soyuz descent module on the Kazakhstan steppe at around 8.30PM PST later today, after 340 days on the International Space Station, he will have spent more continuous time in space than any other American astronaut. You probably best know the 52-year-old former United States Navy test pilot from his prolific… Read MoreGetting predictive about politics (and everything else)
Mar 01, 11:45PM
Nearly seven decades after the Chicago Tribune’s infamous presidential race headline, we’re still seeing incorrect predictions in political races. Take the 2016 Iowa caucus for example, where Ted Cruz triumphed despite expert predictions to the contrary. It’s enough to make you wonder: What data is used to create these predictions? And with today’s technology, why… Read MoreNanigans brings its social ad tools to Twitter
Mar 01, 11:28PM
Social marketing company Nanigans announced today that it’s launching support for Twitter. Nanigans is best known as a Facebook ad automation tool, but CEO Ric Calvillo said last year that one reason for raising the company’s $24 million Series B was to expand beyond Facebook. He’s also started to make good on that by launching on Instagram last August. Read MoreStrange sensations: HTC's brave new virtual world
Mar 01, 11:21PM
The first thing I notice is a feeling of weight on my face. Followed by a sensation of standing in boundless space. A monochrome 360-degree vanishing point vista winks into view. I look around, blinking into the far distance and very quickly my adjusting eyes fill with grit… Welcome to the weird world of 21st century virtual reality. Read MoreDaqri acquires 1066 Labs to power its augmented reality smart helmet
Mar 01, 10:20PM
Augmented reality smart helmet company Daqri announced today that it had acquired 1066 Labs, a leading head-mounted display manufacturer focused on serving enterprise clients with augmented reality solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2007, 1066 Labs manufactures a variety of “see-through components” for head-mounted displays and has worked on implementing… Read MoreSlack will soon start testing voice and video chat
Mar 01, 10:16PM
Slack is gunning for Skype and Google Hangouts with the 2016 product roadmap it revealed today. The biggest change coming: the ability to seamlessly turn a text chat into a voice or video chat will begin testing “very soon”. This builds on Slack’s January 2015 acquisition of Screenhero, when it said these features would eventually be released. At its customer conference in… Read MoreViolence in the West Bank after Waze led Israeli soldiers into Palestinian danger zone
Mar 01, 9:28PM
A battle broke out just outside of Jerusalem Monday after GPS mapping app Waze led Israeli soldiers into the Kalandia Palestinian refugee camp. According to several reports, two armed soldiers from the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Okets unit were traveling in a military vehicle along a route they thought was within the Israel border. Palestinians immediately started throwing rocks and a… Read MoreMeet the foxes behind LA's latest startup gem
Mar 01, 9:00PM
Scrolling through the @shopboxfox Instagram account is enough to notice the clean-cut aesthetic: feminine, driven, artistic. However, the ladies behind LA’s BOXFOX, Chelsea Moore, Sabena Suri and Jenni Olivero, are channeling much more than their social media accounts let on; they are enhancing strategy and technology to make one of life’s favorite moments, gift giving, easier and… Read MoreMicrosoft's Brad Smith stands with Apple while passionately defending encryption
Mar 01, 8:38PM
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, gave a passionate defense of encryption today, saying his company stood with Apple in its legal battle with the FBI. He made his remarks during a keynote address at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. Read MoreExtensify lets you "tweak" your iOS apps without jailbreaking
Mar 01, 8:28PM
A newly launched “tweak store” called Extensify gives iOS users an alternative to jailbreaking their devices by offering a simpler way to install modified versions of popular third-party applications like Snapchat, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp, Vine, Instagram and others. Unlike with some of the jailbreaking efforts in the past, the Extensify app – basically an app store… Read MoreGoogle invests $30 million in European news tech companies
Mar 01, 7:17PM
Pouring petrol on the bonfire of news tech, Google announced that it has invested more than $30m into projects spanning the European news tech scene. The fund’s goal is to ‘help stimulate innovation in digital journalism’ over the next three years, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO said. This batch of investments is the first from a €150m ($167m) fund the company announced… Read MoreThe presidential candidate who might do the most for your healthcare is not who you think
Mar 01, 6:35PM
Despite many healthcare insurers having decried Obamacare as the end of days, the truth–as measured by both stock prices and revenue results–is the nation’s largest healthcare insurance companies have been steadily growing. Read MorePebble just cut the price of the Time and Time Round smartwatches
Mar 01, 6:19PM
Pebble’s latest smartwatches are now a little less cash. The Time Round is $199 and the Time is $149. At these prices, the Pebble sits more comfortable among its competition. Fitbit’s new Blaze costs $199 and Garmin’s Vivoactive is $219. At $149 rather than $199, the Pebble Time should look a bit more attractive to its target consumers. After all, the Time is a smartwatch… Read MoreFacebook fights Periscope by showing Live videos higher than saved streams
Mar 01, 6:00PM
It doesn’t matter if it was Live if you missed it. And Facebook knows that people watch actually Live streams 3X longer than saved ones. So it’s changing the News Feed to prefer on-going broadcasts. Twitter’s big advantage with Periscope is that they’re both inherently real-time platforms. Periscopes generate notifications for all your followers there, and show up… Read MoreThe hot e-commerce app Wish has "hundreds of millions of users" (plus other fascinating stats)
Mar 01, 5:36PM
Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an increasingly boisterous crowd as their background, Tung managed to ferret out lots of fascinating information from the highly personable Szulczewski, who looked very much the part of… Read MoreCheckbook lets you email anyone a digital check and deposit it free
Mar 01, 5:22PM
If you’re sick of running out of paper checks and stamps or hassling with routing numbers to send zero-fee payments, you can bank on Checkbook. The startup today launches its digital check service where you can send anyone a check with just their email address, and they can deposit it immediately online to get their money or even print it out. What’s remarkable is that… Read MoreFacebook LatAm VP arrested in Brazil over failure to comply with WhatsApp court order
Mar 01, 5:14PM
It looks like Apple isn’t the only tech giant battling against authorities over privacy issues and court orders. Today it emerged that Facebook’s vice president in Latin America, Diego Dzodan, was detailed by police in Brazil in connection with an ongoing investigation involving WhatsApp, a messaging app owned by Facebook that has more than 100 million users in Brazil. Facebook… 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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