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Tinder Social, helping friend groups plan their night out, launches globally
Jul 21, 10:00AM
Get ready for a new era — Tinder is about to launch Tinder Social globally. What is Tinder Social, you might ask? Well, Tinder Social is exactly the social planning app that has failed in the past, but backed by the world’s biggest young adult dating app. Tinder, the dating app to rule them all, has long teased other verticals for meeting and creating connections with the people… Read MoreStack Overflow goes beyond Q&As and launches crowdsourced documentation
Jul 21, 10:00AM
Since its launch in 2008, Stack Overflow has become the go-to community for discussing programming-related questions. Now the service is launching a new product that aims to harness its community to build a repository of peer-reviewed technical documentation. Stack Overflow Documentation wants to be a complement and maybe even a replacement for existing instruction manuals and… Read MoreInkbox's short-term tattoos raise $1M from Alison Sweeney, Jeff Probst and more
Jul 21, 10:00AM
Inkbox’s two-week tattoos made waves when the company debuted its product on Kickstarter last year – Toronto-based founders Tyler and Braden Handley raised nearly $300,000 for their organic limited-time body art invention, which was a refinement of their original product offering that cut application time to just 10 minutes. A year later, they’ve raised $1 million in seed… Read MoreHopsy debuts a countertop beer tap designed by the makers of Nespresso
Jul 21, 9:45AM
Bay Area-based (where else?) craft beer delivery service Hopsy has employed KRUPS, the German appliance maker behind the Nespresso, to create a countertop beer tap device for the home. The company has already made a few beer-centric devices, most notably the Beertender, designed to work Heineken kegs. Hopsy’s HomeTap utilizes a two-liter beer bottles that plug into the appliance,… Read MoreIndia's Mywish Marketplaces raises $15M to expand to new financial products
Jul 21, 8:48AM
Fintech companies are beginning to make a significant impact to how people live in Asia. Mywish Marketplaces, one of the more mature startups in what is admittedly a very broad sector, has raised $15 million to push its financing business into new areas. Read MoreNumber26 is now a true bank as it now has a full banking license
Jul 21, 7:33AM
Berlin-based startup Number26 is trying to reinvent the bank. This might sound crazy, and that's why the startup has processed step by step. After partnering with Wirecard for the banking back end, attracting 200,000 users and raising tens of millions of dollars, the company now has a full banking license to operate in Europe. Read MoreTesla and Uber have more in common than you might think
Jul 21, 6:45AM
Elon Musk’s new master plan catapults Tesla into a new market; car-sharing. While the idea of Tesla car-sharing seems new, it is not the first time the company’s cars, coupled with autonomous technology, have come up in discussions about the sharing economy. Back in 2015, Steve Jurvetson, a partner at Uber investor DFJ, told an audience that Uber’s Travis Kalanick had… Read MoreMan behind web's biggest illegal film site arrested following (legal) iTunes purchase
Jul 21, 6:06AM
Here’s a dose of irony for you this fine day: the internet just lost its most prolific source of illegal movies after its founder was nabbed after buying something legally, on iTunes. Read MoreOmise lands $17.5M Series B to expand its Stripe-like service in Southeast Asia
Jul 21, 4:35AM
Omise, a Bangkok-based payment enabler much like Stripe, has raised a $17.5 million Series B round to expand its reach across Southeast Asia. Read MoreWebsite-building platform Brandcast raises $13.9M
Jul 21, 3:33AM
Brandcast, a startup allowing marketers and designers build mobile-friendly websites without having to write code, announced today that it has raised $13.9 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Shasta Ventures with participation from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Correlation Ventures. (Brandcast co-founder and CEO hayes Metzger previously worked at Salesforce, and Benioff had… Read MoreCrunch Report | Early Niantic "Pokemon GO" Investor
Jul 21, 3:20AM
Tito Hamze sits down for an interview with early Niantic investor Cyan Banister, Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for $1 billion, Facebook Messenger hits 1 billion users, Pokemon Go launch is postponed in Japan, and Swiftkey releases an emoji prediction app. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
The 7 steps of Elon Musk's "Master Plan"
Jul 21, 2:26AM
Why did Tesla buy SolarCity? To make your solar panel roof battery power your self-driving electric pickup truck. Elon Musk just revealed the second phase of his “Master Plan” and we broke it down so you can see the future too. Read MoreMusk's Master Plan has solar for everyone, but investors aren't buying the dream — yet
Jul 21, 2:05AM
The Tesla “Master Plan Part Deux” published tonight by founder Elon Musk proposes quite a lot of major projects, but perhaps the most far-reaching of them all is the plan to put solar on every roof and a battery in every garage. And to do that, he not-so-subtly hints, Tesla and SolarCity will need to be more than friends. Read MoreElon Musk addresses concerns around Autopilot and its 'beta' label
Jul 21, 2:01AM
Elon Musk’s Tesla’s ‘Master Plan, Part Deux’ contains his strongest response yet to concerns around Autopilot, the subject of an ongoing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation. Unsurprisingly, Musk is standing by the merits Autopilot and its impact on driver safety. “According to the recently released 2015 NHTSA report, automotive… Read More40 years after the first landing on Mars, this NASA scientist looks to resurrect Viking 1's analog data
Jul 21, 1:24AM
It’s been four decades since the Viking 1 lander touched down on Martian soil, the first lasting human presence on the surface of the Red Planet. It beamed its unprecedented data back to NASA, where it was stored on the hot new format of the day: microfilm. Now one scientist wants to bring these analog records into the digital world — for posterity and for science. Read MoreElon Musk reveals Tesla's master plan
Jul 21, 1:08AM
Elon Musk plans to steer Tesla towards fully autonomous driving, car sharing, and cargo transport, according to the long awaited blog post on the company’s website. A fully solar power ecosystem driven in-part by SolarCity will help Musk and Co. get there. Musk has been teasing the master plan part II for days. What would be in it? Would Tesla cars fly? Would they go to space? What… Read MoreTesla has a transport truck and a city bus replacement in the works
Jul 21, 1:03AM
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk delivered part 2 of his “master plan” today, and two big parts of it are new vehicles, but not consumer models: Tesla is working on both a heavy-duty semi truck and a “high passenger-density urban transport” that would operate in cities and fit the role of a bus in city settings. In the post describing this next stage to the now-famous… Read MoreWhy and how chatbots will dominate social media
Jul 21, 1:00AM
Since the early 2000s, brands have experimented with social media platforms to communicate with customers and prospects — first through weblogs, then eventually through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Although the capabilities and sophistication have continued to evolve, social media has remained a platform to facilitate human-to-human communication. Then the robots moved in. Read MoreExpedia acquires travel photography community Trover
Jul 21, 12:41AM
Online travel agency Expedia has acquired Trover, an app and website where people share their travel photos. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “At Expedia, it’s fair to say we believe in the power of travel,” an Expedia spokesperson wrote in an email to TechCrunch. “It can transform people. So an important part of our job is to inspire travelers. One way we… Read MoreAmazon patent proposes drone perches atop streetlights and other protruding infrastructure
Jul 21, 12:30AM
Pop quiz, hot shot: You’re a delivery drone with a flight duration of 20 minutes with your current payload, but because of delays (use your imagination) you’re never going to make it in time. What do you do, hot shot? What do you do? You land on a streetlight that’s been converted into a drone charger! Thank goodness Amazon patented those. 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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