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Messaging app Line files for IPO on NYSE on July 14, Tokyo on July 15, aims to raise $1B

Jun 10, 8:27AM

line messaging app As long expected, Japan’s Line Corporation, the company behind the popular messaging app Line, today announced that it has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange in the U.S. and the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan, respectively on July 14 and July 15. The company today set the dates in a news release announcing that the Tokyo exchange has already approved its listing of… Read More



Samsung Pay sets launch date for Singapore, its fifth country

Jun 10, 5:13AM

Samsung Pay After months of pre-announcements, Samsung Pay has finally cemented a launch date for Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia. The mobile payment service will debut there on June 16 for people who have a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Read More



Crunch Report | First Project Tango Phone

Jun 10, 3:00AM

Phab 2 pro is the first project tango phone to hit the market, Moto Z is a modular phone that can be everything form a loudspeaker to a projector, You can now leave video Comments on facebook, If you’re under 18 years old you’re no longer allowed on Tinder, and Microsoft offers a Free trial of Minecraft for Teachers. All This on Crunch Report Read More



Why transparency would have saved us from the 2008 financial collapse

Jun 10, 2:00AM

transparent hallway From my desk at Bear Stearns, where I’d traded mortgage-backed securities for years, I watched as the financial and housing markets crashed in 2008. A few months later, there was no Bear, and my new desk was at J.P. Morgan. It’s easy to think the crisis was a result of “Wall Street got drunk,” as George W. Bush admitted. But I saw a different cause: the financial… Read More



Forge locks down $4.5M Series A to help gamers capture awesomeness

Jun 10, 1:43AM

leagueoflegends Sometimes entrepreneurship is about starting battles and other times it’s about finishing them. Jared Kim has been on a mission to cut the frustration out of sharing gameplay with friends since he was 19. Forge, his second play in the space, closed a $4.5 million Series A yesterday led by True Ventures. This round matches a $4.5 million seed his company received back in March. Read More



Jake Winebaum explains how cutting his teeth as a serial entrepreneur led him to launch Brighter

Jun 10, 1:30AM

smiley-face-wallpaper-widescreen-001 Serial entrepreneur Jake Winebaum discusses the road to launch Brighter, his dental benefits startup. Read More



How Twitter secured accounts after user credentials were sold online

Jun 10, 1:02AM

twitter-140-media Rumors of a Twitter breach started circulating yesterday afternoon, fittingly, on Twitter. Security researchers cautioned users to change their passwords and enable two-factor authentication, a feature that requires a user to verify their identity at login with a pincode sent to a trusted device. But the rumors were wrong — at least partially. Although millions of Twitter handles and… Read More



UNU set to forecast tech trends after accurate Oscars, Kentucky Derby predictions

Jun 10, 12:03AM

UNU queries a "swarm" to make tech, sports and other predictions. Can AI outpace the expertise of vaunted futurists like Mary Meeker or Ray Kurzweil? The artificial intelligence system called UNU is slated to answer questions tomorrow about technology and its long-term impact on humanity via a Reddit AMA (“ask me anything” interview). The same system accurately predicted Oscars winners, and the top four horses to win at the Kentucky Derby… Read More



Hands-on with Moto's modular Moto Z and a few of its crazy accessories

Jun 09, 11:55PM

moto z The Tango-powered (and weirdly named) Phab 2 Pro wasn’t the only crazy phone on display at Lenovo’s Tech World today. Joining it on stage was a new handset from Lenovo’s sister company, Motorola: the Moto Z, a modular smartphone that can use backpack-like accessories to double as everything from a small boombox to a portable projector. We only got a few minutes with the… Read More



Up close and hands-on with Lenovo's augmented reality Tango phone

Jun 09, 11:50PM

phab2 Earlier today, Lenovo unveiled the world’s first smartphone fueled by Google’s Project Tango (or just “Tango,” as it’s now known) computer vision efforts. The big new thing? Really, really awesome augmented reality capabilities, all based on the phone’s ability to recognize what’s around it. Think video games that come to life in your living room,… Read More



Larry Page has dueling flying car companies, but it's self-driving tech that will get them off the ground

Jun 09, 11:40PM

flying-car-robot1 The notion of such aerial vehicles has always fascinated, but the pesky need to pilot the things has generally grounded it — as if the engineering and legal challenges weren’t enough already. But autonomous driving technology may be the missing piece that leads us to the place where, yes, we won’t need roads. Read More



What autonomous driving is — and isn't — in 2016

Jun 09, 11:02PM

SAE Levels of Autonomy When Honda announced that its latest Civic sedan would have a full suite of state-of-the-art driver assist features for $20,000, The Wall Street Journal called it a self-driving vehicle. While the Civic can do a lot, it cannot drive itself. Yet. So what are we even talking about when we talk about autonomous or self-driving vehicles? Lucky for us, engineers are on top of this. In January… Read More



Venture capital pioneer Tom Perkins dies at 84

Jun 09, 10:24PM

tom-perkins Thomas Perkins, who co-founded venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has died of natural causes. He was 84 years old. Before becoming an investor, Perkins founded a laser company called University Labs, and was the first general manager of Hewlett-Packard’s computer division. He co-founded Kleiner Perkins with Eugene Kleiner in 1972, helping to lay the foundation… Read More



Predicting the next Slack: Finding sticky cloud apps with cult-like followings

Jun 09, 10:00PM

marshmallow clouds While it seemingly came out of nowhere, Slack’s meteoric rise was no coincidence. Between its early focus on winning over developers who quickly became incredibly effective evangelists and its aggressive moves to integrate with other popular business apps, Slack provided a distinct model for others to follow. So who is following such a model, and what does their growth look like? Read More



Jennifer Lawrence tapped to play Elizabeth Holmes in new movie about Theranos

Jun 09, 9:48PM

Jennifer Lawrence playing Elizabeth Holmes Out of all the federal regulations turmoil, questionable test results and threats to oust her from her own company, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is getting a silver screen lining — Jennifer Lawrence will play her in an upcoming movie. Deadspin reports “The Big Short” director Adam McKay will be making the film about the 32-year-old founder and her one drop medical… Read More



OpenVote launches a publishing platform, crowd-voting tool for political debate

Jun 09, 9:29PM

Screen Shot 2016-06-09 at 2.13.21 PM OpenVote, the political startup from early Facebook designer Bobby Goodlatte and Sean McCann, is unveiling a larger publishing platform where people can debate policies and pledge their votes. Before becoming a prominent designer at Facebook, Goodlatte grew up with politics in his family. For almost all of Goodlatte’s life, his father has served as a Republican Congressman. While he and… Read More



Facebook now lets users comment with a video

Jun 09, 8:28PM

facebook icon on ios Facebook launched video comments today, a feature that acknowledges the meteoric rise and continued growth of online video creation and consumption. By 2020, internet video traffic will represent 82% of all consumer internet traffic, according to forecasts from the Cisco Visual Networking Index. It could also help Facebook catch up, yes catch up, to Snapchat in terms of daily videos viewed on… Read More



Modular phones are here, like it or not

Jun 09, 8:28PM

modular phone Call me old fashioned, but I like my phones in one piece. But that’s not the future according to LG. Or Motorola. Or Google’s Ara team. These companies see consumers swapping widgets and gizmos on and off their phone like it’s some sort futuristic communication device. That’s crazy. I don’t like it. Get off my lawn. Lenovo just introduced the Moto Z with Moto Mods. Read More



Lollicam is a real-time mobile video tool for adding cinematic effects to selfies

Jun 09, 8:11PM

Lollicam When will teens get tired of taking selfies? Probably never given the myriad ways they can augment what nature gave them thanks the power of the smartphone in their pocket. And YC-backed Lollicam is another app to add to the teen face morphing arsenal. Read More



Motorola's new Moto Z line features swappable modular smart backs

Jun 09, 7:11PM

377403 Anyone else starting to get the feeling that all of these modular smartphones are becoming interchangeable? Not in the sense that you can swap products cross-platform, of course. That’s not how proprietary hardware works. The latest take on the compelling (though far from mature) space are two new Moto Z handsets, which were introduced practically concurrently with Lenovo’s… Read More




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