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Jobandtalent gets $42M Series B after pivoting to mobilize hiring for SMEs

Jun 14, 8:00AM

JobAndTalent As the nature of work shifts, so too must recruitment startups. To wit: JobAndTalent, a startup in the space that, for the past several years, has been touting its matching technology to automatically surface potential job candidates for employers (and vice versa). Read More



Google launches Springboard, an AI-powered assistant for its enterprise customers

Jun 14, 7:38AM

google-springboard Google has unwrapped two significant announcements for its enterprise customers, the most notable of which is the rollout of Springboard, a new service that makes searching from Google Drive, Calendar, Docs, Gmail and other Google enterprise services a cinch. Read More



LEAGUE takes small business health benefits digital with $25M Series A

Jun 14, 7:01AM

shutterstock_2727319 Canadian startup LEAGUE closed a $25 million Series A from OMERS Ventures this morning. The company aims to put the power of customizing healthcare coverage into the hands of employees without burdening them with traditional complexities. Read More



Twitter chairman: Even painful political tweets have a place

Jun 14, 4:13AM

US Internet giant Google senior vice president Omid Kordestani announces Google and Japanese mobile communication giant NTT DoCoMo partnership which include providing Google's search and other services on the NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet service in Tokyo 24 January 2008.  (Photo: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) Twitter chairman Omid Kordestani says that even the harshest, most painful political tweets have a place on Twitter — whether we like it or not. “How do you personally react to that, it’s painful to read these tweets — that’s our society, you have to have room for all these voices,” Kordestani said at the Bloomberg technology conference. “The discourse… Read More



Crunch Report | Apple WWDC 2016

Jun 14, 4:10AM

Today was Apple’s World wide developers conference 2016, App Store has a ton of downloads and contiues to grow, over 50 Billion dollars paid to developers, Siri had an update, Apple TV gets Siri Integration, Apple Pay now is on the Web, IOS 10 gets released, OSX becomes macOS, Apple Music gets a redesign, Messages get a lot of new features, Apple releases a program to teach kids to code… Read More



Behold the Xbox One S and Design Lab controllers in all their glory

Jun 14, 3:56AM

Xbox One S Earlier today, they were but flashes on the big screen at Microsoft’s big E3 kickoff event. Now they’re pieces of metal and plastic in the same venue that hosted the aforementioned event (presently the site of an Xbox mixer with, mercifully, with an open bar). The Xbox One S console is, of course, noticeably more svelte than its predecessor – 40-percent so, in fact. The… Read More



PlayStation VR is arriving October 13th, priced at $399

Jun 14, 2:08AM

potato quality I mean, I’m as excited about The Last Guardian as the next unwashed blogger, but you didn’t really think we were going to get out of tonight’s pre-E3 Sony press conference without a little hardware news, did you? And it’s 2016, after all, so it’s time for Sony to join the Oculus Rifts and HTC Vives of the world with its own VR offering. Read More



The Last Guardian is definitely (probably) coming to PS4 this October

Jun 14, 1:45AM

Last Guardian Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Several times, year after year. But Sony kicked off this year’s big pre-E3 press conference with yet another glimpse at the long awaited game, The Last Guardian. But the company had a little something extra up its sleeve this time: an honest-to-goodness release date. Read More



The new world order for open-source and commercial software

Jun 14, 1:00AM

trainconverge We have been living through another cold war. Not geo-political — digital. Open-source software versus commercial software has long been on the brink of going nuclear, fought in the shadows with enormous stakes and conflicting ideologies. But suddenly… perestroika! The wall quietly fell. It did not end in absolute victory, or a stalemate; convergence is a more apt term. Read More



Here are the most well-designed apps of 2016, according to Apple

Jun 14, 12:48AM

DSC_0119 Once a year, Apple stops its Worldwide Developer Conference to recognize a handful of apps for being particularly well designed. The prize? A shiny statue, a full suite of Apple hardware, and the right to say that one of the most respected companies in the world thinks you’re a good designer. For app developers and designers, it’s one of the finest honors that money can’t… Read More



With the LinkedIn sale, Frank Quattrone notches another win

Jun 14, 12:30AM

Screen Shot 2016-06-13 at 5.21.15 PM While the tech industry digests the news that LinkedIn is becoming an independently run subsidiary of Microsoft in exchange for $26.2 billion in cash, one renowned figure in Silicon Valley is already publicly celebrating the deal: Frank Quattrone. Read More



Everything you need to know from Apple's WWDC 2016 keynote

Jun 13, 11:11PM

DSC_0085 Apple announced a lot of stuff today at the 2016 WWDC Keynote, much of announced so quickly it seemed like a passing mention. Worried you missed some of it? No time to read a dozen different articles? We get it. Here’s all of the important stuff in one easy to digest list — just tap that arrow to the right, or scroll on mobile. Read More



Spotfund makes micro-donations easier with social-first mobile app

Jun 13, 10:54PM

spotfund Pouring a bucket of ice-cold water over your head, or liking or sharing a charity online might help raise awareness, but what campaigns that go comprehensively viral really need is cold, hard cash. Launched this week, Spotfund has created a site and an iOS app that makes raising $1-$3 donations far easier than before. Read More



iOS 10 beta finally lets you remove all those built-in apps

Jun 13, 10:41PM

I don't think they're dumb exactly but it's dumb that you couldn't remove them for years. Raise your hand if you have a folder on your iPhone or iPad filled with all the built-in apps from Apple that you never use but can’t delete. Oh, all of you? Then you’ll be interested to learn that iOS 10 will finally allow you to remove those pesky apps and reclaim the space they’ve occupied for years. Read More



Ubisoft is bringing Star Trek to VR this fall

Jun 13, 10:26PM

Star Trek VR Well, this just rocketed to the top of our list of most eagerly anticipated VR games in warp speed. At its big pre-E3 press conference, Ubisoft unveiled Star Trek: Bridge Crew, a new title set to arrive on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR this fall. The title was unveiled courtesy of a trailer featuring Trek vets Levar Burton, Jeri Ryan and Karl Urban playing the game together… Read More



The many names of Apple's operating systems, from System 1 to macOS

Jun 13, 10:17PM

aIII It’s been 40 years since the Apple Computer Inc got its start, and to celebrate this momentous occasion, it has renamed (or reverted, as we will see) its flagship personal computer operating system: OS X is now macOS. It’s only the latest change in a rather confusing few decades that saw the OS changing its look and name fairly regularly. Shall we start at the beginning? Read More



Why Apple wants to be the smart home's nerve center

Jun 13, 9:38PM

wwdc On Monday, Apple announced that it would make an app called Home available to users soon, allowing them to connect and control all of their HomeKit-enabled smart home devices from their iPads, iPhones or even Watches. Per an earlier TechCrunch report live from the event, the Home app will let users control a Fantasia-like orchestra of smart gadgets from one place, including… Read More



Apple's latest foray into the enterprise involves deeper integration with Cisco

Jun 13, 9:25PM

shutterstock apple Lost in the hubbub of today’s two hour-plus Apple WWDC keynote was an announcement of deep integration between Apple and Cisco in the upcoming release of iOS 10 — yes, you read it correctly, Cisco. When it comes to enterprise partnerships, IBM has gotten the lion’s share of the attention. More recently, SAP made a high-profile partnership announcement of its own, but… Read More



Branding Brand acquires conversational commerce company WaySay

Jun 13, 8:14PM

Branding Brand Office_01 E-commerce giant Branding Brand announced today that it acquired Waysay, a company specializing in customer engagement tech like marketing automation, in-app messaging and other technologies to help big brands engage and communicate with its customers. Examples of the assistance include offering shopping advice and post-transaction support. Read More



Cyber insurance is changing the way we look at risk

Jun 13, 8:00PM

computerinsurance If, or more accurately, when your company is hit by a cyber attack, do you have what you need to recover? Do you know what kind of losses you can afford to absorb in your bottom line? How do you manage your risks? Have you thought about whether you need cyber insurance? Read More




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