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New rules for hiring executive candidates
Mar 09, 3:00AM
When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about how to run a company and immediate personal rapport. Yet, despite both women recognizing they could form a strong team, when Lee offered her the position, Dalrymple decided it was too early in her search and turned down Lee. Read MoreGoogle ordered to hand over names of fake reviewers in Dutch court case
Mar 09, 12:12AM
Fake reviews have been an occasional and frustrating by-product on sites like Google, Yelp and Amazon for years. But a recent case in the Netherlands highlights how one company affected by them fought back. A nursery in Amsterdam has won a case against Google in a civil court in the city this month, in which Google was not only forced to take down several negative fake reviews that… Read MoreMeet Tovala, a smart oven that aims to perfectly cook ready-made meals in under 30 minutes
Mar 08, 11:50PM
Tovala is a new startup out of Y Combinator that came up with what they hope to be a less expensive alternative to professional combination ovens. The Tovala is a smart oven that can bake, boil and steam meals at up to 550 degrees Fahrenheit in 10 to 30 minutes. The meals come prepackaged from Tovala or can be made using a crowdsourced recipe platform. Tovala utilizes a combination of dry and… Read MoreSpot launches to help users share recommendations on local gems and travel tips
Mar 08, 10:42PM
Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public. The company emerged from “startup studio” Expa. It’s also announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Expa, SV Angel, Ram Shriram, Tim Ferriss, Fenwick & West and others. When I spoke to founder Luke Groesbeck last summer, he… Read MoreThe future of work is 5 billion customers looking for a good job
Mar 08, 10:30PM
Imagine a much better world — the people-centered economy — where three billion workers have jobs tailored to fit their unique sets of skills, talents, passions, where they work with people they are inspired by and productive together with, where they engage in the most meaningful and fruitful opportunities that can be found for them. Read MoreGigwell rescues concert bookers from PDF hell
Mar 08, 10:22PM
It’s dumbfounding how an industry as huge as live music still relies on a patchwork of backwards, outdated technologies. Word document offer letters, PDF riders, endless back-and-forth emails, spreadsheets, physical checks. Fax! It makes the whole process a headache that takes forever when organizers could be focusing on making the experience better for attendees and making performers… Read MoreMeet the 25 startups that pitched at Entrepreneur First's latest Demo Day
Mar 08, 9:49PM
By all accounts, the London startup scene was abuzz with Entrepreneur First‘s latest Demo Day today, as 25 startups — up from 9! — took to the stage to pitch their wares. The so-called ‘talent first’ investor targets the best technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them through a 6 month program where they form teams and in turn found startups. Read More21 Women Disrupting Tech
Mar 08, 8:15PM
Happy International Women’s Day. This year, the theme is “Pledge For Parity,” meaning committing to achieving equality around status and pay. Last year, the World Economic Forum predicted that it would take until 2133 to achieve worldwide gender parity. Meanwhile, many tech companies are still dominated by men. In honor of this day, we’d like to highlight some… Read MoreGoogle is using machine learning to teach robots how to grasp random objects
Mar 08, 7:10PM
Using your hand to grasp a pen that’s lying on your desk doesn’t exactly feel like a chore, but for robots, that’s still a really hard thing to do. So to teach robots how to better grasp random objects, Google’s research team dedicated 14 robots to the task. Read MoreControversial people-rating app Peeple goes live, has a plan to profit from users' negative reviews
Mar 08, 7:06PM
Peeple, the controversial people-rating application that lets its users rate and review anyone, is not a hoax or vaporware, as many suspected following the media backlash surrounding the unveiling of the company’s intentions last fall. The Washington Post even called the app “terrifying,” given that the app didn’t plan to allow users to opt out of being reviewed… Read MoreThe world's top VR director Chris Milk will wow us at Disrupt NY
Mar 08, 7:01PM
New mediums mint new rock stars, and for virtual reality it’s Chris Milk. From surreal dreamscapes to #BlackLivesMatter protests to Jordanian refugee camps, he’s created some of the most mind-bending and inspiring VR experiences yet. I knew he was the real deal when I got hit by a train that turned into a thousand birds in a vision he designed. As the founder and creative director… Read MoreFor less than $1,000 you can now pull up your entire genome on your smartphone
Mar 08, 7:00PM
Veritas Genetics was one of the first companies to sequence the entire human genome for less than $1,000 in 2015. It’s now taken that technology a step further by delivering the results of your entire genome in an app. To put in context just how radical this is, consider the first attempt at whole human genome sequencing required $3.7 billion to produce in 2001. It wasn’t until… Read MoreOlive branches, rubrics and the state of faster payments in the U.S.
Mar 08, 7:00PM
The nation relies on systemically important market infrastructures. As you may have guessed, these engines of economy are designed to resist change. That’s not a bad thing. A certain amount of insulation protects us from the whims of fads and provides the cornerstones of the economy, like banking, finance and commerce — a confident foundation from which to build their systems. Read MoreCome meet our writers at TechCrunch's SXSW party and panels
Mar 08, 6:55PM
Don’t just drunkenly wander around SXSW. Meet amazing people and catch an unforgettable concert at TechCrunch’s SXSW party. Between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday March 12, join us at Deloitte Digital’s Interplay Lab at The Palm Door at 508 E. 6th St. Only 2 blocks from the convention center! Register here or below to attend for free. Read MorelittleBits' new STEAM kit for students emphasizes invention
Mar 08, 6:22PM
We are big fans of littleBits here at TechCrunch. The company, which raised $44.2 million last year, offers a number of different sets that teach kids (and grown-ups) about programming and electronics — and lets them get creative with their new skills. Today, the company introduced its first STEAM kit. STEAM adds “Arts and Design” to STEM’s science, technology,… Read MorePinterest opens up its ads manager tools to smaller and medium-sized businesses
Mar 08, 6:03PM
Pinterest today is releasing a set of new advertising management tools that were previously unavailable for smaller businesses as its portfolio of advertising products — and revenue potential — continues to grow. All these tools continue to give smaller and medium-sized businesses new opportunities to manage advertisements on Pinterest. Around three-fourths of the content on… Read MoreGoogle renames its satellite startup, Skybox Imaging, to Terra Bella and adds focus on image analysis
Mar 08, 4:50PM
Google today announced that it is renaming Skybox Imaging, the satellite startup it acquired in 2014, to Terra Bella. More than just a name change, though, the company says this switch is also about showing that Terra Bella is not only about putting small imaging satellites into orbit, but now also about analyzing these images. Read MoreSubleases spike in number as SF startups downsize
Mar 08, 4:37PM
In January, office rents in San Francisco eclipsed those of New York to become the most expensive in the country. Two months later, there are signs the San Francisco may not maintain its dubious position for long. The biggest indicator: There’s suddenly 1.7 million square feet of sublease space available in San Francisco, up more than 50 percent from 1.1 million square feet in… Read MoreFollowing YouTube Red, video subscription service Vessel goes ad-free for paying subscribers
Mar 08, 4:20PM
Vessel, the video subscription startup headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announced this week that it’s moving in a new direction in terms of the advertising displayed on its service. In a move that recalls YouTube’s venture into ad-free viewing with the debut of YouTube Red, Vessel is also making its service ad-free for all its paying subscribers. Meanwhile, those who… Read MoreShare ALL your photos with Shorts, Highlight's pivot to voyeurism
Mar 08, 4:00PM
No one else ever sees most of your camera roll. But if you’re brave enough, your close friends might enjoy peeking at every photo, video, and screenshot, not just the best ones. So call it creepy or the next frontier in social media, but that’s what Shorts does. It’s the new iOS app from the makers of Highlight, the hyped location app startup of 2012 that fizzled out and is… 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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