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You can now stream Android games to Facebook Live from your PC

Sep 22, 1:39PM

screen-shot-2016-09-22-at-9-36-04-am Game streaming is something that everyone working in streamed video wants a part of, and now Facebook Live can stream Android games (and other apps) via the BlueStacks desktop emulator for PC and Mac. The integration is pretty smart, and while it was previously available for Twitch, the addition of Facebook Live support means mobile games streamers can potentially reach a different, more… Read More



Scale Model, the betaworks-backed tool for audience targeting, goes self serve

Sep 22, 1:23PM

scalemodel1 Scale Model, the betaworks-backed marketing platform for better audience targeting, has today announced the launch of its fully-baked V2. Scale Model hooks into the Twitter Ads API to help brands and influencers better understand their audience, and the way that their own follower community, or sub-communities, interact with one another. Upon the initial launch, Scale Model was building out… Read More



Bumble will soon let users get verified in an effort to squash impersonators

Sep 22, 1:00PM

Caucasian men playing with fake mustaches in city For some reason certain people feel the need to create a dating profile using someone else’s pictures. Whether it’s done to impersonate someone else, bully someone or even just pull a prank, it happens more than you’d think. Luckily Bumble thinks they have found a pretty innovative way to stop it from happening, at least on their platform. The female-led dating app just… Read More



And now there are 500K active advertisers on Instagram

Sep 22, 1:00PM

instagram icon 2016 iOS For those of you following Instagram’s ad business, my headline might seem a bit familiar — yes, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service announced another advertiser milestone back in February, but at the time there were only 200,000 advertisers, less than half of the 500,000 advertisers that Instagram says it has today. To be clear, the company says that’s the number of… Read More



Tinder invests in Vina as it inches toward friend-finding

Sep 22, 12:58PM

sean-olivia Tinder, the dating app to rule them all, has today announced that it participated as an investor in Vina’s latest funding round. Vina, a social network where girls can meet and nurture new friendships, recently raised a $1.4 million seed round from Greylock, NEA and Wildcat Venture Partners. Tinder, as it happens, also participated in the round, investing a “meaningful… Read More



The new PAX 3 lets you vape both loose-leaf flower and concentrates

Sep 22, 12:00PM

screen-shot-2016-09-22-at-7-53-00-am Pax Labs, makers of some of the world’s most popular loose-leaf flower and nicotine vaporizers, has today announced a new flagship vaporizer in the form of the Pax 3. Not only is Pax 3 the third generation of Pax’s flagship device, but it also happens to have three ovens for dual-use among both loose-leaf flower and concentrates like oil. “One of the greatest challenges at Pax… Read More



PAX Labs unveils the PAX Era, a new oil vaporizer

Sep 22, 12:00PM

screen-shot-2016-09-22-at-7-58-16-am These days, it’s not uncommon to see folks using oil pens instead of lighting up a good old-fashioned joint. PAX Labs, the makers of the Pax vaporizer line and the JUUL e-cig, are today answering the call. Meet the PAX Era. Built in the likeness of the Juul, the PAX Era is a high-quality, temperature-controlled portable oil vaporizer that uses pods to ensure a great user experience. With… Read More



Polaroid's digital camera with a built-in printer is best avoided

Sep 22, 11:28AM

polaroid-snap Polaroid’s shiny new camera with a built-in Nink printer, the Snap Touch, is available on pre-sale today, although if my experiences with it at Photokina are anything to go by, it’s probably not worth your hard-earned cash. Run the other way, and buy yourself an Instax Mini 70 instead, for the same price. Read More



Operator harnesses chatbots, humans, and $15M to sell US goods to China

Sep 22, 11:01AM

operator-china With a little personal shopping assistance, Operator thinks Chinese citizens will pounce on American products sold through its conversational shopping app. The promise of becoming the guided commerce layer connecting China with the US has earned the two-year-old a $15 million series B round at a $100 million pre-money valuation. “We’re making commerce borderless”, Operator… Read More



CrunchMatch is coming to Disrupt London to match investors with startups

Sep 22, 11:00AM

CrunchMatch London 2016 At Disrupt London, this coming December, it will be easier than ever for investors to find companies that fit their investment strategy. For the first time TechCrunch is bringing its CrunchMatch program to Europe where startup founders will be matched with venture capitalists ready to write checks and make investments. Read More



Only two days left to save big on Disrupt London tickets

Sep 22, 10:00AM

Pay attention, European startup fans. TechCrunch Disrupt London 2016 is fast approaching, and soon thousands of entrepreneurs, investors and tech enthusiasts will make their way to London’s Copper Box Arena for the show. If you want to be among them, you have just two days left to score deeply discounted, extra early-bird tickets to Disrupt, and you can get your tickets for… Read More



Handmade, Amazon's Etsy rival, expands into Europe

Sep 22, 9:55AM

screen-shot-2016-09-22-at-10-48-36 Amazon continues to try to turn the screws on its competition through its scale, and now it’s the turn of Handmade, the e-commerce giant’s marketplace for arts and crafts that competes most closely with Etsy.  Today, Amazon announced that Handmade would expand to Europe, starting first in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK, where some 30,000 “genuinely handmade… Read More



Mike Lynch, Autonomy Founder and now VC, will appear at Disrupt London

Sep 22, 9:00AM

dr-mike-lynch-headshot-horiz TechCrunch Disrupt London is coming! From December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena, you see see incredible speakers and visit the enormous Startup Alley, as well as the famous Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000. Grab early-bird tickets for Disrupt London here. Read More



PicsArt drizzles Prisma-style magic on your pics and videos

Sep 22, 8:05AM

magicvideo-208 PicsArt today launched a brand new pair of apps for iOS, adding Prisma-like effects for photographs and videos to the visually stimulating toolbox that lives inside your phone. The company also launches a Remix Me feature, turning photo adjustments into a social experiment not entirely unlike what we saw with the now-defunct Dubble app. Read More



Ghostdrone has one-year klutz-insurance and beginner-friendly controls

Sep 22, 8:00AM

img_2779 Not one for the self-conscious, Ghostdrone 2.0 VR from Ehang adds a new twist to flying an UAV around. Rather than using a traditional controller, to fly the Ghostdrone VR, the user dons a headset to get a point-of-view perspective of what the drone is seeing. The drone is controlled by gestures, touch commands and tilting of a smartphone, while the camera is controlled by the headset. Read More



Airware buys Redbird to build a full-stack drone services empire

Sep 22, 7:01AM

redbird “I want to be the global leader. I don’t want to build the non-relevant European or French player.” That’s why Emmanuel de Maistre just sold Redbird, his drone-powered analytics provider for construction and mining companies, to US drone services giant Airware. Together they can sell packages of aerial vehicle hardware, flight software, data collection, cloud… Read More



Virtual reality in Japan

Sep 22, 4:30AM

unnamed-5 I spent a week in Tokyo last month as a speaker at the CEDEC gaming conference. Had you asked 10 year old me about Japan, I would have conjured up images of Godzilla, Dragon Ball Z, and ninjas. Funnily enough, day trips to Akihabara and Harajuku brought some of these to life through arcades, cosplayers, and stores full of manga collectibles. Walking around Tokyo, I saw virtual reality poised… Read More



Crunch Report | Chan Zuckerberg $3 billion investment to cure disease

Sep 22, 3:00AM

Apple might buy McLaren, YouTube implements a new site moderation platform, Netflix to triple the amount of original content that it produces, Lemonade wants to change the way people get renters and homeowners insurance, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invests $3 billion to cure disease. All this on Crunch Report. Read More



McKinsey says digital finance adoption could add trillions to high growth economies

Sep 22, 12:30AM

money-earth Adoption of digital finance could add $3.7 trillion dollars to the GDP of emerging markets economies, including $1.1 trillion in China alone, according to a new McKinsey & Company report. The strategy consulting firm’s Global Institute released  Digital Finance For All: Powering Inclusive Growth in Emerging Economies, at a New York event featuring a keynote by Gates Foundation… Read More



Weebly updates its website builder with a focus on e-commerce and marketing

Sep 22, 12:26AM

Weebly Co-Founder and CEO David Rusenko. Weebly launched a new version of its platform today. While the company started out as an easy-to-use website creator and editor (I used it to build my own website), CEO David Rusenko said that with Weebly 4, “We feel like for the first time we’re past a website builder — it’s something substantially different.” To be clear, the website editor is still a core part… Read More




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