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What marketers can learn from the economy of convenience
Mar 26, 2:00AM
If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let’s just say the idea that I can hold this thing, this little cloth rectangle of varying denomination, and exchange it for tangible goods and services is, at the very least, a system of belief. How we carry our money, and how we’ve evolved to think… Read MoreDARPA kicks off $2m Grand Challenge focused on intelligently splitting up radio spectrum
Mar 26, 12:12AM
DARPA has a new Grand Challenge underway, but it’s not an automation moonshot like the self-driving car challenges of the early 2000s or the recent Robotics Challenge. The Defense Department’s R&D wing wants to revolutionize something with a bit less sex appeal, but plenty of real-world applications: radio frequency spectrum splitting. Read MoreLive is having a moment
Mar 26, 12:00AM
Twitter, which turned 10 this week, has apparently made Live its entire organizing principle. At an all-hands meeting last month, Mark Zuckerberg declared live video a top priority for Facebook. Clearly, Zuck’s directing his fight toward Twitter’s Periscope, a mobile live streaming app which itself competed fiercely with Meerkat. Read More2020 is set to be the biggest year yet for Mars exploration
Mar 25, 11:18PM
2020 is set to be a good year for Mars exploration. The United States, China, the United Arab Emirates, Europe and Russia all have planned Mars missions that are scheduled to launch, or likely to launch, in that year. There have been more than 40 missions to Mars throughout history. Some of these missions were failures, while others completed their goals and are no longer operational. Today,… Read MoreBillionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund
Mar 25, 9:52PM
Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of PayPal, will remain at the helm, with partners Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nolan, Luke Nosek and Brian Singerman. Founders Fund is known to focus on cutting-edge investments in space,… Read MoreMicrosoft apologizes for hijacked chatbot Tay's 'wildly inappropriate' tweets
Mar 25, 9:46PM
The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft’s Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true that Hitler did nothing wrong? After a day of silence (and presumably of penance), the company has undertaken to answer at least some of these questions. Read MoreBeware the pitfalls of Silicon Valley
Mar 25, 9:00PM
A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled “Will Facebook Enslave Us?” captures a sentiment prevalent among companies around the world: admiration for Silicon Valley — albeit, with a dash of fear. International media outlets eagerly cover disruption developing in labs up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Boards of directors are spending hours debating how… Read MoreGillmor Gang LIVE 03.25.16
Mar 25, 8:07PM
Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording shas concluded for today Gillmor Gang LIVE chat during show recording Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE G3 on Facebook HERE G3 archives on Ustream Read More500 Startups brings its 'Distro Dojo' program to LA for post-seed startups looking for big growth
Mar 25, 8:00PM
500 Startups has been aiming to globalize its brand and work toward attracting the attention of young, cool companies outside the Bay Area echo chamber. This has taken 500’s investments into distant corners of the world, with dedicated funds and accelerators scoping out what has amounted to a prolific number of investments. Today, TechCrunch has learned that 500 Startups is launching… Read MoreWith Privacy, you can create virtual debit cards to protect your online payments
Mar 25, 7:57PM
Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate a virtual burner card every time you need to enter your credit card number on the web. Your actual credit card number stays safe, and you get more control over your online subscriptions. Read MoreToyota and Lexus will have standard automatic braking by 2017
Mar 25, 7:33PM
Last week, NHTSA and IIHS announced that 20 auto manufacturers and three agencies had agreed to include automatic emergency braking (AEB) as standard equipment by 2022. Toyota was one of those 20 companies, but this week they upped the AEB ante: Nearly every Toyota and Lexus model and trim level will have standard AEB by 2017. That’s next year. Many models already offer AEB as part of… Read MoreGoogle launches the Android Experiments I/O Challenge for open-source app developers
Mar 25, 6:07PM
Google is launching the Android Experiments I/O Challenge today in an effort to bring more interesting open-source apps to its Android Experiments showcase. The three winners of the challenge, which will run until April 13, will get a trip to this year’s Google I/O developer conference. The five runners-up will get Nexus 6Ps (which, in turn, makes me think Google’s I/O giveaway… Read MoreAfter numerous delays, Microsoft finally starts shipping its $22K Surface Hub
Mar 25, 4:54PM
If you’re in the market for a giant 84-inch 4K touchscreen computer (and have about $22,000 set aside for that), today is a good day. After numerous delays, Microsoft today started shipping its Surface Hub to business customers. Surface Hub comes in both the giant 84-inch version and a smaller 55-inch HD edition for a relatively affordable $8,999. You’ll still need a stand for… Read MoreSnapchat briefly snags the number one spot on U.S. App Store for the first time
Mar 25, 3:54PM
Snapchat, the rapidly growing social application favored by mobile’s youngest users, has hit a notable milestone: for the first time ever, its iOS application reached the top of the iTunes App Store, where it briefly become the #1 overall free application in the U.S. While Snapchat is almost always in the top five or ten, the highest rank it had achieved previously in the U.S. was… Read MoreNetflix is making videos look like garbage on AT&T and Verizon
Mar 25, 3:52PM
If you’ve tried streaming Master of None from your tablet running on Verizon on AT&T, chances are it looked like a big pile of unwatchable pixels. It turns out Netflix is quietly capping videos on these networks so that you don’t burn through your entire data cap in just a few hours. How bad do these videos look like? Netflix is streaming videos at a resolution of 360p with… Read MoreSnapchat reportedly acquires Bitmoji maker Bitstrips for $100 million
Mar 25, 3:48PM
Fortune is reporting that Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging platform that has today become the number one free app on the App Store, has agreed to acquire Bitstrips, the folks behind popular emoji-creation service Bitmoji. Though we haven’t received confirmation from Bitstrips or Snapchat, Fortune’s sources say that the deal is “in the ballpark” of $100 million. The… Read MoreImmediately's Branko Cerny on the rise of bottom up sales and the importance of branding
Mar 25, 3:30PM
In contrast to the more traditional top down, generally involving the sale to a CIO or VP, the bottoms up sales approach enable each employee to be a credit card carrying decision maker. Read MoreTinder rival Bumble is majority-owned by European dating behemoth Badoo
Mar 25, 3:12PM
It was already on public record that Andrey Andreev, the low-profile Russian founder of European dating behemoth Badoo, is an investor in female-led dating app Bumble, the Tinder competitor founded by ex-Tinderer Whitney Wolfe. However, TechCrunch can now reveal a number of previously unreported details of Wolfe and Andreev’s partnership. Read MoreStudent founder turns down Microsoft and Google to build Bae, an app for black singles
Mar 25, 3:04PM
Over 30 million Americans have used an online dating service or mobile dating app, according to Pew Research Center. Yet Black online users face apparent bias: Data collected from 25 million OkCupid accounts demonstrated that when users rated their matches they penalized Black men and women. Bae :: Before Anyone Else, a mobile dating app created by Jordan Kunzika, Brian Gerrard and Justin… Read MoreSwitcher Studio turns your iPad into a live video editing studio
Mar 25, 3:02PM
While improvements in camera-phone technology have led to our mobile devices slowly but surely replacing clunky single-purpose cameras, most heavy editing and production still has to be done on desktops. This is especially true for live video, which often requires a full mixing board and production studio. Enter Switcher Studio, a mobile production suite that lets you use an iDevice for live… 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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