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MarketInvoice, the UK invoice finance platform, raises another £7.2M
Jul 18, 9:27AM
MarketInvoice, which plays in the peer-to-peer lending space by enabling U.K. businesses to raise money from institutional investors and high net worth individuals by ‘selling’ outstanding invoices, has raised a further £7.2 million. Read MoreHealth startup Lifesum raises $10M round led by Nokia Growth Partners
Jul 18, 8:36AM
What do you get if you combine the broad trends of smartphones, wearables, Internet of Things, an individual desire for control and healthcare costs for society? You get VCs investing in health-tech startups, that’s what. And the latest evidence of this is Stockholm-based Lifesum raising a $10m funding round led by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), with Draper Esprit, Bauer Media Group and… Read MoreOpera renegotiates its $1.2B sale down to $600M for its browsers, privacy apps, Chinese JV
Jul 18, 7:05AM
Some more developments over at Opera, the browser company based out of Norway. The company announced that an offer to acquire the company for $1.2 billion has now been terminated, and in the meantime, the deal has been renegotiated: the same group will now pay $600 million to acquire only certain parts of Opera’s business. Opera will sell the Qihoo 360-led consortium its mobile… Read MoreArm Holdings confirms Softbank is buying the chip designer for £24.3B in cash in big IoT move
Jul 18, 6:22AM
In the wake of the historic Brexit vote and the fall of the Pound, the UK is now witnessing its biggest-ever technology exit. Today, Arm Holdings confirmed that Japan’s Softbank Group has offered to pay £24.3 billion ($32 billion) in cash to acquire the company — known for its chip designs for mobile handsets (Apple is a customer) as well as for processors to power… Read MoreBaidu invests in ZestFinance to develop search-powered credit scoring for China
Jul 18, 5:52AM
Baidu has made its second investment in a U.S. fintech company inside a month after it put an undisclosed sum of money into ZestFinance, a big data firm specializing in credit scoring. Baidu, which operates China’s dominant search platform, took part in a $60 million round for payments firm Circle in June. Read MoreSpaceX successfully brings a rocket back to land for the second time
Jul 18, 5:27AM
Tonight SpaceX successfully recovered yet another rocket, making it their fifth one in total. Elon Musk’s rocket company launched their two-stage Falcon 9 vehicle from Cape Canaveral at 9:45 pm PT tonight and subsequently recovered the first stage of that rocket back on land. The landing marks the second time SpaceX recovered a rocket on land and their fifth recovered first stage in… Read MoreSoftBank is reportedly bidding to buy chip giant ARM for $31 billion
Jul 18, 3:44AM
SoftBank is bidding to buy chip giant ARM, one of the world’s most influential technology companies, according to multiple media. Read MoreWhy metadata should not live forever
Jul 18, 3:00AM
The surge in encrypted traffic and a wide adoption of end-to-end encryption by mainstream tech companies is a transformative shift in information security. Billions of online users now enjoy default peer-to-peer security, shielding the content of web communications from prying eyes of criminals and corporate surveillance. Yet the industry continues to collect and store massive amounts of metadata. Read MoreOurMine claims credit for attack on Pokemon Go servers
Jul 18, 12:56AM
Having trouble logging in to Pokemon Go this weekend? You’re not alone. A hacking team called OurMine has spent the past several hours hitting Pokemon Go’s login servers with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, leaving some players frustrated and unable to log in to the game. The group said it would not stop the attack until representatives from Pokemon Go contacted them.… Read MoreHow generation Z females could be the answer to tech's gender diversity problem
Jul 17, 11:00PM
While the biggest names in tech strive to close the gender gap and build more inclusive working environments, the pool of talent on offer is predominantly male. The truth is, while retention is an issue, there are simply fewer women opting for a career in tech. But new initiatives and an uptick of Gen Z girls opting for sciences in top-tier universities paints a very different future. Read MoreChivas Regal's "The Venture" rewards social entrepreneurs around the world
Jul 17, 8:46PM
With a dedicated fund of $1M, “The Venture” is striving to enable social entrepreneurs around the world to scale and gain exposure. Read MoreHow to change the world… one bot at a time
Jul 17, 7:38PM
Bots have the potential to transform politics. Read More
Pokemon Go T&Cs strip users of legal rights
Jul 17, 4:37PM
Players of Pokemon Go are not only giving up their right to act like sane human beings in public, as they walk around, zombie-esque, reaching into the phones held in front of their faces, they are also likely to be waiving legal rights if they don’t take a very close look at Niantic Labs’ Terms of Service for the game. Read MoreToo much big data running through my brain
Jul 17, 12:48PM
Big Data by all accounts is supposed to help humans perform better by augmenting our limited brain power. Computers, after all, have the ability to crunch data with lightning speed, something humans just haven’t been built to do. Conventional tech wisdom states that the more data you have, the better the outcome — even if that sounds counter-intuitive. That’s the thinking… Read MoreHow Drake can help you understand your business
Jul 17, 4:00AM
As a founder or someone working in a startup, the main priority is always staying alive. Every ounce of your budget needs to be spent efficiently. It’s all about difficult decisions, and some of them can be messy and complex. With options coming from every angle, you need to find ways to make them as simple as possible. This is where our good friend Drake comes in. Read MoreSimversity's Neeraj Bansal talks about the future of education
Jul 17, 2:35AM
This week on Technotopia I talked to Neeraj Bansal the co-founder of education startup Simversity. He has a deep understanding of what it takes to build an online education platform and he also notes that the only jobs worth having in the future are the ones that can’t be replaced by machine learning. Education right now, he says, is a form of data replication. But when computers and… Read MoreBursting the chatbot bubble
Jul 17, 12:00AM
Chatbots seem to be climbing the proverbial peak of the tech hype curve with every passing day. Popular messaging apps have been attempting to outdo each other in terms of making their platforms open for bot development. The frenetic action notwithstanding, the moot point is whether bots actually solve any real end-user need. The answer is not as clear as the chat platforms would have us believe. Read MoreBig data and its developer fallout
Jul 16, 8:00PM
As the internet social turf wars continue to mature, the land grab is becoming much better understood. With a few companies controlling 95 percent of the social data, the internet is more closed and much more controlled than ever before. Read MoreFinding a film
Jul 16, 4:14PM
Have you ever stopped to think about what it takes to bring an animated fish to life? How a team of people can take a spark of an idea and make it a reality so millions of pairs of eyes can stare in amazement at the big screen? I spoke with Pixar’s president and one of the tech leads on “Finding Dory” to find out more about the creative and technical journey behind the… Read MoreThe email, data and privacy implications of Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn
Jul 16, 2:00PM
We all took a collective gasp when we saw the price tag of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn. Now that the dust has settled a bit, we can pause and reflect on what this means from a data, privacy and email perspective — given that all three are potential strengths, weaknesses and concerns arising from the merger of two giants. 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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