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Lystable gets $11M Series A to push its gig economy SaaS in the US
Jun 22, 8:37AM
Ahoy there gig economy… Lystable, which makes a software tool focused on helping businesses manage freelancers, has closed an $11 million Series A round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and Goldcrest Capital. Spring Partners also participated in the round. Read MoreKwik raises $3 million to take on Amazon Dash buttons
Jun 22, 5:11AM
Amazon Dash buttons have been gaining traction and Kwik thinks there is room for a competitor. The Tel Aviv-based startup has designed a similar product and is working with Domino’s, Budweiser, Huggie’s and other brands to make it as easy to order pizza as pressing a button — literally. And the team is announcing that Norwest Venture Partners is leading a $3 million seed… Read MoreCrunch Report | Tesla Offers to Acquire SolarCity
Jun 22, 3:50AM
Tesla offers to Buy Solar City for 2.7 Billion dollars, Twitter launches to App Twitter engage for Analytics, Instagram hits 500 Million Monthly Users, Twitter video gets an update, Apple kids coding camps coming to stores. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Tesla gets more than solar panels with offer to acquire SolarCity
Jun 22, 2:06AM
News of an offer from Tesla to acquire SolarCity came mostly unexpected to traders earlier this afternoon. In a rapid “knee-jerk” reaction, traders bid up SolarCity by 13 percent and sent Tesla tumbling down 12 percent. It is typical for the stock of an acquisition target to spike while the acquirer’s stock falls according to Michael Morosi of Avondale Partners. SolarCity… Read MoreNIH grants $2.3M to development of FeverPhone, a portable disease diagnosis kit
Jun 22, 2:02AM
Quick diagnosis of bloodborne diseases can very much be a matter of life and death, but bouncing results off a hospital can take hours or days — so the NIH and Cornell University are working on a device called the FeverPhone that could cut that time to as little as 15 minutes. Read MoreAustin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group
Jun 22, 1:48AM
Austin’s transportation saga just keeps getting more interesting. Last week, we wrote about a 30,000 member Facebook group that had formed in Austin to help facilitate ride requests in the absence of Uber and Lyft. Riders posted requests, drivers responded, and people got where they needed to go. One problem – the drivers and riders were not using an official service to… Read MoreResolving homelessness in the digital era
Jun 22, 1:00AM
The explosion of tech companies setting up headquarters in major cities has encroached on the homeless population. Like San Francisco, the tech industry is growing rapidly in Seattle, and we too have the same dilemma. But unlike San Francisco, we have the opportunity to get ahead of this issue and truly make a difference. Read MoreAn excerpt from Eliot Peper's cyberpunk novel Cumulus
Jun 21, 11:54PM
Eliot Peper has been lauded as the heir to William Gibson’s throne. He is a writer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco and is latest book, Cumulus, has become an online hit. The energy of his writing and the strength of his characters is palpable throughout the story — a world in which surveillance is constant and inescapable is fast coming true. What follows is an excerpt… Read MoreA federal safety board just OK'd the first CRISPR trial to genetically alter humans
Jun 21, 10:58PM
In the spring of 2015, a group of Chinese scientists modified the DNA of 54 embryos using CRISPR/Cas 9 technology. Twenty-eight of those embryos were successful, but 26 — nearly half of them — failed, setting off a heated debate throughout the scientific community on the ethics of altering human genes. Regulators don’t currently allow the use of CRISPR on human DNA in the… Read MoreISS installs networking tech that may soon connect the whole Solar System
Jun 21, 10:55PM
When you really need to get a signal in from Pluto, a direct connection isn’t always possible. Oh sure, when it’s a big project like New Horizons, you can make sure the line is clear and someone’s listening — but for routine updates from a Neptune orbiter or power-starved comet lander, there’s Delay Tolerant Networking, which just got its first big installation on… Read MoreThese guys built the 'World's Largest Nerf Gun' and it shoots massive darts at 40 mph
Jun 21, 10:32PM
Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to Nerf battles — but… well, this one wins. It’s a four foot tall recreation of the Nerf N-Strike Maverick — one of the greatest Nerf guns of all time. Oh, and it works. It shoots massive darts* at around 40 miles per hour. Read MoreHardware Battlefield competitor Foobot wants to reduce pollution in your home
Jun 21, 10:15PM
The last we heard from AirBoxLab, the company was presenting an indoor air quality monitor called Alima in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014. In the two years since that event, the company has rebranded the Alima as the Foobot, raised €2 million and shifted focus from simply monitoring air quality to improving it. When Foobot released a direct to consumer product back in… Read MoreColumbus, Ohio rumored to secure a total of $140 million in grants as the U.S. DOT Smart City winner
Jun 21, 9:54PM
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting this afternoon that Columbus OH is the winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge beating out San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Kansas City, Denver and Pittsburgh and will receive $140 million in grants and matches. I reached out to local and state offices for confirmation but have not received comment at this point. Read MoreDFJ Growth is targeting a new, $500 million fund
Jun 21, 9:19PM
DFJ Growth, the 10-year-old growth-stage arm of the 30-year-old Sand Hill Road firm, is raising a new $500 million fund, suggests an SEC filing first flagged by Fortune. The timing fits the narrative of many Silicon Valley venture firms, many of which have been returning to their LPs in two years’ time, rather than a more traditional three or four years. Indeed, the firm raised its… Read MoreElon Musk's Tesla offers to acquire Elon Musk's SolarCity for $2.8B
Jun 21, 9:19PM
The great Elon Musk empire is uniting. Today his electric car and battery company Tesla announced its offer to acquire his solar panel installation company SolarCity. Together the companies could allow you to outfit your home with solar panels that power a giant battery for everything inside, as well as your electric car. The deal still has to be approved by SolarCity and its board. If it… Read MoreAphex Twin commissions 12-year-old YouTuber to direct first video since 1999's 'Windowlicker'
Jun 21, 9:05PM
If you follow your dreams, and film it, and put it on YouTube, there’s a chance Richard D. James will see it and commission you to direct the first Aphex Twin video in 17 years. That’s the lesson learned by young Ryan Wyer, of outer Dublin, who was not even close to being born when the seminal “Windowlicker” came out in 1999. Read MoreSee Jane Go is bringing women-only ride hailing to the West Coast
Jun 21, 8:57PM
Earlier this spring, Safeher (the ride-hailing service formerly known as Chariot for Women) established itself in the Boston area as a safer service for women drivers and passengers. Now See Jane Go is starting a similar service for women in the greater Los Angeles area this summer. Its public launch is today, with a commercial launch coming at the end of July. William Jordan founded the… Read MoreGradifi partners with Radius Bank to offer MasterCard to ease student loan debt
Jun 21, 8:29PM
Gradifi founder Tim DeMello doesn’t have an outbound sales team. That’s how big the student loan problem is. When Boston-based Gradifi first launched its student loan paydown plan, 456 companies reached out wanting to sign up for the benefit. Employers want to attract and retain employees and, unfortunately, one of the best ways to do that right now is by offering student loan… Read MoreVerizon buys Telogis to drive deeper into the connected vehicle market
Jun 21, 8:26PM
With a lot of tech companies and automakers staking their claims in the connected car space, now there are signs that others are looking to move in, too. Today, telecoms giant Verizon announced that it is acquiring Telogis, a California-based company that develops cloud-based solutions for mobile workforces, and specifically telematics, compliance and navigation software used by Ford, Volvo,… Read MoreThe Apple App Store graveyard
Jun 21, 8:00PM
People just don’t seem to have the same excitement lately about Apple’s App Store or the Google Play platform. The air of hopelessness that surrounds the mobile app ecosystem is obvious and demoralizing. 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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