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Digital ad revenue up 19 percent in first half of 2016, according to IAB report
Nov 01, 3:20PM
Digital advertising spend increased to $32.7 billion during the first six months of 2016, according to the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (a trade group for digital publishers and advertisers). That’s up 19 percent from the same period last year, and it represents an all-time high. David Doty, the IAB’s executive vice president… Read MoreInstagram tests shoppable photo tags
Nov 01, 3:00PM
Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That’s why today it will start showing shoppable tags on photos from 20 retail brands like Kate Spade and JackThreads to iOS users in the US. The retailers tag products in their photos, which are hidden behind a “Tap to view products” button. After selecting their product… Read MoreSpotify app control rolls out in Sonos public beta
Nov 01, 2:47PM
Slowly but surely, Sonos is opening itself up to third party functionality, much to the delight of those frustrated by the audio company’s fairly unpopular proprietary offering. A few months back, the company promised that it would launch a Spotify app control via its public beta. The feature, initially set for an October release, is now available to all those who sign up with the… Read MoreDJI Osmo vs GoPro Karma Grip: A tale of two gimbals
Nov 01, 2:43PM
Action cameras are great. Shaky videos are not. Enter gimbals. Long a tool of professionals, these handheld devices keep the camera steady and smooth out the shot. DJI launched its Osmo handheld gimbal in 2015 and GoPro just released its first alongside the Karma drone. We took both to South Korea and put them to the test. In the end, both work great and produce quality video that’s… Read MoreMinecraft: Education Edition officially launches
Nov 01, 2:42PM
Following months of testing and free trials for early adopters, Microsoft announced this morning that its learning-focused version of the popular Minecraft game, Minecraft: Education Edition, is now available for purchase. The game is available in 50 countries and in 11 different languages, the company said, and will include the Classroom Mode companion app that lets teachers manage settings… Read MoreHipchat's VoiceMyBot tests the waters for Amazon Echo in the workplace
Nov 01, 2:22PM
Hipchat, the workplace collaboration platform from Atlassian that competes against the likes of Slack, Yammer and (soon?) Skype Teams, is today announcing a new service that — figuratively and literally — speaks to a new way of using not just Hipchat, but another popular tech product, the Amazon Echo. The company is announcing a new integration called VoiceMyBot, which lets you… Read MoreMobile internet use passes desktop for the first time, study finds
Nov 01, 2:20PM
More users around the world are accessing the internet from mobile devices than from desktop computers for the first time, according to internet monitoring firm StatCounter. The combined traffic from mobile and tablet devices tipped the balance at 51.2 percent, vs. 48.7 percent for desktop access, marking the first time this has happened since StatCounter began tracking stats for internet… Read MoreDiscovery teams with MLB's streaming partner on European partnership
Nov 01, 2:19PM
Discovery Communications has teamed up with the MLB’s streaming partner, BAMTech, which also powers the streaming services HBO NOW and PlayStation Vue, to launch a new venture in Europe. Called BAMTech Europe, the technology provider will work with content owners, broadcasters and other over-the-top service providers in the region. The new company’s first client is… Read MoreClassy raises $30 million to help nonprofits raise donations, make a greater impact
Nov 01, 2:08PM
A San Diego startup called Classy has raised $30 million for software-as-a-service that helps nonprofits raise donations online, and keep supporters engaged in a good cause for the long run. Specifically, Classy helps 501c3 or other nonprofit organizations to run crowdfunding, online and mobile campaigns, awareness and fundraising events all under one roof. This makes it possible for nonprofits… Read MoreThe TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Seoul was a hit!
Nov 01, 2:04PM
Oh what a night! The TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Seoul was a night to remember, with a packed house, an amazing panel of speakers and judges, and some of our best-yet pitch-off companies. Konolabs, an AI-powered scheduling assistant won first place in the pitch-off, with Daebaki and Zungle coming in second and third respectively. You can read more about them here. I also thought you might like… Read More
Alcatel's new Windows phone is a T-Mobile exclusive
Nov 01, 2:02PM
Alcatel’s new Windows phone is coming exclusively to T-Mobile on November 10 here in the States, priced at $470. And the company’s cramming the package full of free stuff, including a pair of VR goggles built specifically for the device, a 45-day free trial of Hulu Plus, a 30-day trial of Microsoft’s Groove music service and a copy of Halo: Spartan Assault, all aimed to get… Read MoreSony's profit down 86% but its costly mobile business has been shored up
Nov 01, 1:55PM
Sony’s profit dropped 86 percent year-on-year as the strong performance of the Japanese Yen, fallout from the Kumamoto earthquake and company restructuring weighed on its Q2 2016 earnings. Read MoreNarrative's CTO outlines the company return
Nov 01, 1:36PM
“Despite what some people tend to write about Narrative, we’ve never really had a problem with the market,” explains Björn Wesén. “We couldn’t produce to meet the demand, so we don’t really know where the market cap is for our product. We feel like the product didn’t really get a chance to come out. It’s very frustrating to build something and… Read MoreAirPR raises $5M to bring more data to PR
Nov 01, 1:32PM
AirPR is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding. The company started out as a marketplace that matched up startups with public relations professionals, but is focus has since shifted to building analytic tools that measure the impact of PR — in fact, it sold the marketplace side of the business last year. AirPR has now raised a total of $10 million. The Series B… Read MoreGoogle launches Tango AR smartphone system
Nov 01, 1:00PM
After more than two years of tinkering and finessing, today Google finally officially launched its Tango smartphone augmented reality system to the masses. Right now, it’s only available onLenovo’s $499 Phab2 Pro, which arrives in stores in the US today, but you can expect to see this in a bunch of Android phones in the next year or so. About 35 applications are launching with… Read MoreMarc Andreessen joins board of Dialpad, the desk phone killer
Nov 01, 1:00PM
Silicon Valley’s most talkative investor will bring his enterprise experience and connections to the makers of UberConference. Office cloud communications startup Dialpad today announced that Marc Andreessen is joining its board of directors. “The company’s hit its stride” Andreessen tells TechCrunch. He calls DialPad “A complete cloud, mobile business… Read MoreBrad Garlinghouse takes over as CEO of payments startup Ripple
Nov 01, 1:00PM
After running Ripple for around four years and overseeing the company’s growth through around $94 million in financing, CEO Chris Larsen will be stepping down. Larsen will become executive chairman of the company — a common move in CEO transitions. But COO Brad Garlinghouse, previously CEO of Hightail as well as a former AOL and Yahoo senior executive, will be taking over the role… Read MoreKickstarter launches a livestreaming feature
Nov 01, 1:00PM
It was just a matter of time, really. Facebook, Twitter and their ilk have been pushing live streaming in a big way of late, and certainly that brand of interactivity makes sense in the context of a service like Twitter. While it’s not technically a social network in the purest sense, Kickstarter could benefit a lot from that sort of prolonged customer engagement, both as campaigns look… Read MoreA rolling, connected tape measure
Nov 01, 1:00PM
If you’re designing a piece of hardware to help design hardware, it certainly helps to have a few prominent projects under your belt. The team behind InstruMMents is responsible for a few, including, perhaps most notably, the Misfit Shine, the modular activity tracker that seemingly came out of nowhere and eventually got snapped up by Fossil. As with the Shine before it, the 01… Read MoreBlackBerry teaming up with Ford for broader use of QNX in connected cars
Nov 01, 12:58PM
BlackBerry’s QNX division is one of the Canadian company’s rare bright spots: The software maker’s operating system is a key ingredient in the infotainment offerings of a large number of automakers (BlackBerry says it’s currently running in over 60 million vehicles), and it’s now going to become even more integral to Ford’s connected cars. Ford and… 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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