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Chat app Line begins offering delivery on-demand services

May 16, 6:58AM

LINE_MAN_03 The future of mobile messaging is pointing towards serves, but don’t assume that only applies to digital offerings like money transfers and shopping. Japan’s Line, one of the world’s most used chat apps, has just made a move into on-demand services. Read More



Didi Chuxing, China's largest taxi on-demand firm, denies plan for U.S. IPO in 2017

May 16, 6:18AM

taxi china Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing firm that leads Uber in China, has denied that it plans to go public in the U.S. next year following a report from Bloomberg. Read More



Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

May 16, 4:17AM

amazon.com cyber monday warehouse Amazon will soon roll out its own private-label brands of common household items like coffee, diapers, and other perishable groceries, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The offerings will consist of perishable goods like baby food, tea, coffee, spices, and non-perishables like laundry detergent. These products will live under brand names like Happy Belly, Wickedly Prime,… Read More



Earthquakes and hand grenades

May 16, 4:00AM

earthquake When you pull the pin on a hand grenade, you have four seconds from the time you release the spoon — the aluminum lever that holds down the fuse trigger — until it explodes. Four seconds can be a very long time. Read More



This VR photography demo is like Pokemon Snap for action sports

May 16, 3:25AM

Screen Shot 2016-05-11 at 9.39.34 AM Who remembers Pokemon Snap? The game was released in 1999 for N64 as a rail “shooter”, and let you take pictures of Pokemon while riding through different courses. But while your path through each level was predetermined, the photographs were not. Meaning users had free control of the camera and absolute discretion in what they could photograph and which type of shot to use.… Read More



How expiring patents are ushering in the next generation of 3D printing

May 15, 10:30PM

3d print Although there is still a lot of hype surrounding 3D printing and how it may or may not be the next industrial revolution, the cost of printing continues to drop while the quality of 3D prints continues to rise. This development can be traced to advanced 3D printing technologies becoming accessible due to the expiration of key patents on pre-existing industrial printing processes. Read More



Why haven't there been more unicorn mergers?

May 15, 10:00PM

double-unicorn Last year was a massive year for mergers, with industry giants like Dell and Aol finally closing deals that were large enough to make 2015 a record-breaking year. Predictions mostly held that 2016 would be another huge year for mergers, as they are one of the best ways to continue growing share price after a prolonged bull market. Read More



DogVacay's Aaron Hirschhorn on how founders can control the relationship with VCs

May 15, 9:30PM

dogvacay Fundraising is a game of competition. VCs compete against other VCs to fund the latest startups. Startups compete with other startups to attain funding from the brand name VCs. So, to be successful fundraising, “the founder must create a competitive process between VCs,” according to Aaron Hirschhorn, the founder of DogVacay, in our latest interview Read More



3 ways startups are fighting for digital and physical security

May 15, 7:00PM

dark alley Internet accessibility for all people, of all ages and in all places has unleashed unprecedented resources and opportunities. It also unlocked our digital and physical security. The sacrifice of safety is an unintended consequence of the Internet age. Can the tools that caused this vulnerability be reappropriated to make us safer? Read More



INNOVATE2016: Why the internet has failed and how to fix it

May 15, 4:30PM

4095031235_3a97b8765b_b Power now resides with massive centralizing corporations like Google and Facebook and thus the Internet no longer reflects the interests of its users. So, the digital revolution has pretty much failed, according to Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger. But not all is lost. Wenger has a three part solution to fix the future – all of which rests of putting power back into the hands… Read More



How threat intelligence sharing can help deal with cybersecurity challenges

May 15, 3:00PM

cyber-security-data-sharing In the ever-shifting landscape of cyberthreats and attacks, having access to timely information and intelligence is vital and can make a big difference in protecting organizations and firms against data breaches and security incidents. Malicious actors are getting organized, growing smarter and becoming more sophisticated, which effectively makes traditional defense methods and tools… Read More



After losing his leg, a Syrian war survivor turns to tech to 3D print prosthetic limbs

May 15, 2:30PM

Asem Tedx Berlin Asem Hasna, 22, heard dead silence for five minutes after a shell blew his left leg off in a small town southwest of Damascus in April 2013. A mathematics student turned volunteer paramedic Hasna had opened the ambulance door after loading injured rebels from the battlefront in Khan El Shih when Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian military forces had shelled the area. Read More



There's an online soccer game used to fight gender based violence

May 15, 11:30AM

Screen Shot 2016-05-15 at 3.23.42 PM The online game BREAKAWAY culminates with a girl being abducted, forced into a locker and left there after continual bullying and abuse. But the game is not glamorizing gangs, instead it’s trying to teach boys and girls between the ages of 9 and15 what constitutes –- or doesn’t constitute — a healthy, equal attitude towards girls and women. Read More



Smart-home technology must work harder to create smarter consumers

May 15, 3:00AM

data-house Attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year were confronted with a head-spinning volume of smart-home devices. From $5,000 refrigerators that can communicate when you’re running low on milk and eggs, to the ability to control lights, locks and thermostats from your mobile app or TV screen, these products and technologies all show very nicely — until the point… Read More



Highlights from Disrupt NY 2016

May 15, 12:45AM

Beam wins Disrupt NY 2016 The doors to TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 opened May 9 at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The three-day conference hosted 2,300 attendees and hundreds of thousands more tuning in online. Indeed, Disrupt NY 2016 was the first media conference to stream on Facebook Live in full, making it one of our most watched events ever. In the much-anticipated Startup Battlefield, 22 competitors pitched… Read More



What startups are saying about raising cash in Latin America

May 14, 10:00PM

buenosaires You don’t have to look hard to see why the startup community in Latin America has long faced a lack of capital and resources to fuel significant growth. Many Latin American entrepreneurs have endured decades of political and economic hardships that left the investment landscape in a less than desirable state — especially for emerging startups. Read More



The drone race is on

May 14, 7:00PM

phantom drone We’ve seen an increase in drone investments on a huge scale, many new entrants into the field, and more mainstream companies getting into the marketplace. So, no, drones are not a fad, they’re here for good and here are a few examples of why this trend is here to stay. Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.14.16

May 14, 5:14PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Doc Searls, frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session begins at 10:00amPT/1pmET today today. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Read More



NYC presents more opportunities than challenges for foreign ad firms

May 14, 3:00PM

nyc times square illustration With digital ad spending expected to surpass the spend on television advertising next year, the Big Apple overflows with adtech startups. Many of these startups are coming to New York from abroad. Despite the challenges of setting up shop in such a huge and saturated market, these foreign startups believe that the opportunities NYC presents are greater than its challenges. Read More



Author Raj Raghunathan talks about what it takes for smart people to be happy

May 14, 1:40PM

aad7dc1e9d4624f28670388866fa64551433879957_l In my on-going Technotopia series I’ve been talking to designers, coders, and journalists. This time I talk to business professor Raj Raghunathan author of If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy, a book about finding happiness when you’re already firing on all cylinders in a hard-charging career. Raghunathan’s book shows us that there is little correlation… Read More




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