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Hiri wants to fix the workplace email problem
Jun 07, 8:00AM
Hiri is the latest startup trying to fix email. Specifically, the Dublin-based company is targeting workplace email with an array of features that aim to nudge users to change their email behaviour for the better. For it isn’t email that is necessarily broken but the way we all use and abuse it. Read MoreVerizon will make a $3B second-round bid for Yahoo's Internet business, says WSJ
Jun 07, 4:54AM
Verizon may be moving closer towards purchasing Yahoo’s main Internet assets. According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, the telecommunications giant wants to make a $3 billion second-round bid for Yahoo. Read MoreYC's Instabug raises $1.7M Seed round led by Accel to grow beyond bugs
Jun 07, 4:44AM
I came across Instabug when I was in Cairo in 2013. Little did I know that this plucky startup, born in the Arab Spring, would eventually make it through Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class. Now they have gone on to raise $1.7M in a Seed round led by Accel Partners to expand beyond their original aim of mobile app bug reporting. Other prominent angel investors in the team include Amr… Read MoreCrunch Report | Mark Zuckerberg Hacked
Jun 07, 3:00AM
Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Planner a Trello competitor, T-mobile is giving away a share of the company to all it’s customers, you could potentially even get up to 100 shares, Facebook is disabling messaging in it’s mobile web app, Mark Zuckerberg’s Linkedin Twitter and Pinterest accounts got hacked, and Facebook is announcing a video game streaming deal with Blizzard. All… Read More
Instagram enables iOS share extensions to make posting photos faster
Jun 07, 2:45AM
The latest Instagram update makes it easier to post from other iOS apps. Instagram has enabled share extensions, which means users can now send pictures directly to their feeds from apps like Photos. Read MoreTips for mitigating the risks of rookie founders from Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet
Jun 07, 1:30AM
Ultimately, the checklist for first time founders going out to raise money never ends. However, the common thread throughout is the importance of being strategic. Read MoreWhy the recent hype about insurance tech will be just the beginning
Jun 07, 1:00AM
For those who follow technological innovation, it can often seem like certain areas of investor enthusiasm come out of nowhere — suddenly and with huge momentum. The wave analogy is often used, and not incorrectly — fevered investment propels increasing interest and drives new opportunistic entrepreneurs into a specific industry area, building until it inevitably crashes as… Read MoreBlue Origin continues successful, record-setting year with another NASA contract
Jun 07, 12:56AM
Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos, has partnered with NASA to fly and test technology payloads on suborbital flights with the New Shepard launch vehicle. Bezos’ company is the sixth partner that NASA has selected through the Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Flight and Payload Integration Services program. Blue Origin will compete with the other companies,… Read MoreResearchers find a way to snoop on you through your phone's vibration motor
Jun 07, 12:33AM
Cover up your webcam, disable microphone access and put on your tinfoil hat — but it won’t make any difference, because the Illuminati can get at you through your phone’s vibration motor now. Well, kind of, anyway. Your best defense? Talk in a high voice. Read MoreWaking up with Pavlok's wrist-shocking wearable alarm clock
Jun 06, 11:03PM
I can’t help but think about shock collars when I wrap the bright orange silicone around my wrist. They’ve always seemed fairly cruel. And yet, here I go, putting one on myself — not for barking or wandering out of the yard, but for the crime of having a hard time getting my butt out of bed at 6AM. And while I certainly have more agency in the matter, the comparison… Read MoreHibob raises $7.5M to help SMEs manage their people (and those pesky workplace pensions)
Jun 06, 11:00PM
Hibob — yes we’re running that low on company names — is a new U.K. startup building out a cloud platform that helps businesses manage their people. Read More$30M Stampede 2 supercomputer will provide 18 petaflops of data-crunching power to researchers nationwide
Jun 06, 10:13PM
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Watch out, global supercomputer Top 5, there’s a new contender. Or at least there will be soon, once the $30 million Stampede 2 is up and running. With 18 petaflops peak processing capacity, the new system will stand shoulder to shoulder with Cray’s Titan and IBM’s Sequoia — though a good deal behind China’s Tianhe-2. Read MorePhoto-sharing app for health professionals, Figure1, adds direct messaging
Jun 06, 8:29PM
Figure1, which started out as a photo-sharing app for medical professionals, has quietly added direct messaging to its platform, showing signs the startup wants to be more of a Facebook and less of an Instagram in its field. Toronto- and New York-based Figure1 only allows full access to its platform to users who are verified medical professionals or students, including: doctors, nurses,… Read MoreT-Mobile is giving every customer a share of its stock
Jun 06, 8:23PM
T-Mobile had another of its un-carrier events today, which now have so many regular giveaways they are starting to look like an episode of Oprah. First, the company announced that every current T-Mobile account holder on a postpaid plan will get one share of common stock in the company, which is currently worth about $43. New qualifying customers will also get one share once they sign up… Read MoreSOLS CEO Kegan Schouwenburg on the ups and downs of running a 3D printed orthotics startup
Jun 06, 7:03PM
“Sometimes I think back on that moment and think I must have been utterly insane,” Kegan Schouwenburg says with a laugh. “In retrospect, we were bringing out a new product with a new method in the medical sector, and we were going to work with doctors and sell a product through an app in an entirely new way that people have never used to buy products before.” A veteran… Read More
DOZ launches Quoter, a semi-automated service to get a quote and hire marketing freelancers
Jun 06, 6:08PM
While DOZ has been around for a while, the company is adding a nifty brick to its product offering with an automated tool to get a quote and launch a marketing campaign. Compared to good old marketing agencies, DOZ speeds up the hiring process quite a bit. If you aren’t familiar with DOZ, the best way to describe it is that it’s a marketplace of freelancers who are good at… Read MoreUber intros 'pause,' discounts, and other quality-of-life features on new driver-focused blog
Jun 06, 6:04PM
The debut post on Uber’s new driver-focused “Behind the Wheel” blog brings with it several features those very drivers may find useful — especially when clocking out. Read MoreMicrosoft officially launches Planner, its Trello competitor
Jun 06, 5:38PM
The Microsoft Office lineup is getting a new addition today: Microsoft Planner, team collaboration software that lets you visually organize plans, assign tasks, share files, chat and more. The new app, first introduced into testing last fall, enters a competitive space which includes pro software like Atlassian’s JIRA Core, as well as other easy-to-use tools from startups like Trello… Read MoreMicrosoft bets on Apache Spark to power its big data and analytics services
Jun 06, 5:28PM
Microsoft today announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company today launched a number of Spark-based services out of preview and announced that the on-premises version of R Server for Hadoop (which uses the increasingly popular open source R language for… Read MoreFacebook Live attacks Twitch with game streaming
Jun 06, 5:28PM
If people spend a lot of time doing something on the Internet, you can bet Facebook wants a piece. Its latest conquest attempt is the video game streaming business ruled by Twitch and YouTube. Today, Facebook announced its working with World Of Warcraft maker Blizzard to build social login and Facebook Live video streaming into their games, starting with its new blockbuster Overwatch.… 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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