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When capital prefers venture over public markets
Mar 04, 3:09AM
Market movements in the technology sector — particularly in SaaS tech companies — are causing a stir among investors. It’s always a challenge to estimate valuation ranges for publicly traded companies because these calculations require assumptions of growth. Investors are trying to draw parallels between publicly traded companies and private venture-funded companies, but a… Read MoreIt's the end of "euphoric times" for custom app developers
Mar 04, 2:00AM
For the first time in about eight years, we saw a decline in the small business customer base of app developers (in terms of revenue and per-project value). The primary reason cited is the rise of white labels and SDKs. “Uber for X” toolkits have indeed become a force to reckon with. Small businesses increasingly rely on “ready to use” frameworks rather than opting… Read MoreBox, Google, Facebook, Microsoft come out in support of Apple in "amicus brief"
Mar 04, 1:13AM
In the latest sign of support for Apple’s ongoing security legal battle, Box, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech behemoths have filed an “amicus brief,” meaning that they have aligned interests and want their voice to be heard in the upcoming appeals. This is a different amicus brief than the one filed by Square, Twitter, LinkedIn and others earlier today. The… Read MoreWatch Georgia Tech's Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
Mar 03, 11:58PM
Called the X-Prize for music the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. A group of judges including Jazz great Pat Metheny will pick their favorites and you, the viewer, can jam along on your desk. The entrants include a unique home-brew system that lets pianists play the rhythm guitar, a… Read MoreThis investor has 'hundreds of millions' of dollars to sprinkle around US-based VC firms
Mar 03, 11:58PM
Peakview is the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds in China. It also has millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says. This year. Right now. It’s a very different message than VCs are receiving from many other institutions, judging by our recent conversations with these backers, called limited partners. Read MoreICX Media raises $2.5M to connect video creators with publishers and marketers
Mar 03, 11:45PM
ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of the four co-founders previously worked together at mobile ad company Millennial Media, where Avon was chief… Read MoreComparably launches Glassdoor competitor for salary data
Mar 03, 11:01PM
With $6.5 million in funding from Crosslink Capital, Upfront Ventures, 500 Startups and others, Comparably is launching a platform for employment and salary information. The Santa Monica-based startup says its site will make it easier to find whether or not your salary is competitive amongst industry peers with the same level of experience. The self-reported data can also be sorted by… Read MoreDocker acquires Conductant as it looks to help businesses run large-scale systems
Mar 03, 10:38PM
Docker today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a small startup that focused on orchestration. While you have probably never heard of Conductant — and as far as we can see, the company doesn’t even have a web presence and has never received outside funding — this acquisition brings a lot of talent to Docker. Conductant was founded by Bill Farner and David Chung. While… Read MoreThe singularity is never coming, but it's already here
Mar 03, 9:00PM
When I heard Ray Kurzweil present the concept of the singularity to a small group at TED, the idea that computing power advances would ultimately allow thinking machines to advance beyond humans’ ability to advance them, and eventually allow us to “upload” our own consciousness into an eternal ether, I was so smitten I committed to living long enough to live forever. Read MoreINNOVATE2016: Super pollster Frank Luntz talks about Silicon Valley's language barrier
Mar 03, 9:00PM
What really matters to American voters in the 2016 election? According to Frank Luntz, one of the most respected Republican pollsters, it can summarized in a word: “security”. Read MoreFacer brings its popular watchface customization utility to Apple Watch
Mar 03, 7:26PM
A popular smartwatch customization platform for Android, Facer, has today made its way to iOS and Apple Watch. While there are already dozens of utilities on the App Store that allow users to better personalize their Apple Watch’s home screen, Facer stands out because of its sizable collection of free watchfaces, range of exclusive content, which also includes premium brands and its… Read MoreFacebook Messenger adds music, starting with Spotify song sharing
Mar 03, 6:58PM
First came the Transportation hub with Uber, and now Facebook Messenger is launching “its very first music integration” with Spotify. Inside the Messenger “More” section in chat threads, all iOS and Android users will now find a Spotify option. Tap it and they’ll be shuttled into Spotify’s app where they can “Search for something to share.” Once… Read MoreRingCentral opens its WebRTC API to developers
Mar 03, 6:48PM
RingCentral, which focuses on providing VoIP services to businesses, today announced the beta launch of its WebRTC-based API and developer kit for developers. RingCentral’s one-year-old Connect Platform, which helps developers integrate business communications (including voice, text and — for the older generation — fax) into their business processes, already handles about… Read MoreNeumob hires Netscape, Google veteran Jim Roskind as CTO
Mar 03, 6:15PM
Neumob, which recently raised an $8.5 million Series A round, helps developers speed up their apps with the help of a combination of a content delivery network and a number of network optimization techniques. The company announced today it has hired Jim Roskind as its CTO. Read MoreimDown's mobile entertainment network focuses on one-minute vertical videos
Mar 03, 5:09PM
Thanks to smartphones and the rise of apps like Snapchat and Periscope, vertical videos have gone from being an annoyance requiring a workaround to a popular and often preferred video file format. That shift has inspired a number of startups to focus on the medium, in an effort to carve out a niche in YouTube’s shadow. The latest to join the fray is imDown, a mobile-first… Read MoreFailed Powa Technologies fire sale: Ben White, Greenlight Digital divvy up and buy U.K. assets
Mar 03, 5:04PM
One more chapter in the messy story of Powa Technologies, the payments startup that last raised money at a $2.7 billion valuation but rapidly sank into the deadpool on a flimsy raft of vaporware. Today, accounting firm Deloitte announced that it had secured two buyers for two parts of Powa’s U.K. business. Neither of them was Thompson Investments, the firm that was announced as the… Read MoreLinkedIn open-sources its WhereHows data discovery and lineage portal
Mar 03, 5:00PM
LinkedIn today open-sourced WhereHows, a meta data-centric tool the company has long used internally to make it easier for its employees to discover data the company generates and to track the lineage of its datasets as they move around its various internal tools and services. Now that almost every modern business creates massive amounts of data, simply managing how all this information… Read MoreEvertoon wants you to build funny 3D cartoon videos on your phone
Mar 03, 4:46PM
Niniane Wang was watching the infamous “iPhone vs. Evo” video — a short animated film of two creatures poking fun at the iPhone — on YouTube and was thinking of all the ways a video like that could be more customizable and personalized. It also helped spark the idea for her to start Evertoon, an application launching today that makes it easy to make short,… Read MoreGoogle and J.J. Abrams team up on "Moon Shot," a documentary series about the Lunar XPRIZE
Mar 03, 4:01PM
J.J. Abrams, best known as the co-creator of the TV series “Lost” and director of recent “Star Trek” movies as well as “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” is now bringing his love for space exploration to a new documentary series called “Moon Shot” on YouTube. The series will feature teams competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a $30 million… Read MoreReports of the death of apps have been greatly exaggerated
Mar 03, 4:00PM
One of the problems with technology maturation frameworks like the Gartner hype cycle is that you never know where you stand. That is certainly the case with mobile apps today. Depending on whom you ask, the app economy is either poised for significant growth or about to take a serious nosedive. 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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