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Mozilla launches Firefox Focus, a private web browser for iPhone
Nov 17, 4:05PM
The makers of Firefox are today introducing a new mobile web browser for iOS users that puts private browsing at the forefront of the user experience. Called Firefox Focus, the mobile browser by default blocks ad trackers, and erases your browsing history, including also your passwords and cookies. The end result is simplified browser that may load web pages more quickly, the company… Read MoreDog Parker, because even your dogs deserve a smart home
Nov 17, 4:00PM
Everyone says that dogs are a huge responsibility, but it’s hard to feel the weight of that responsibility until you own one. Dog Parker, a new startup out of ERA, is looking to take out some of the stress of owning a dog in New York. As you might imagine from the name, Dog Parker is a service that lets you park your dog outside of a grocery store or coffee shop while you are inside.… Read MoreEero's WiFi system adds Alexa commands
Nov 17, 3:42PM
A week or so after Luma announced Alexa integration, it’s Eero’s turn. It’s not really all that surprising that the former got the head start here, of course – after all, the company lists Amazon among its big investors, but in the push to make its AI assistant a ubiquitous presence in high tech homes, the retail giant isn’t likely to turn down too many… Read MoreApple to offer free 'Hour of Code' workshops for full week
Nov 17, 3:37PM
Apple has opened up registration for its Hour of Code workshops in partnership with Code.org. This year, Apple will host Hour of Code workshops every day for one week — in conjunction with Computer Science Education Week — from December 5 to December 11 at all of its nearly 500 Apple retail stores across the world. In the past, Apple offered just one day’s worth of… Read MoreMi Box is an affordable 4K HDR streamer, but dragged down by Android TV
Nov 17, 3:21PM
The Mi Box is Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi’s play to take on devices like Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, and Fire TV. Priced at only $69, and sporting features like integrated Google Cast and voice search, the 4K- and HDR-supporting device seems worth a look. But at the end of the day, Mi Box is still an Android TV player, and subject to limitations of that platform, which are… Read MoreSprinklr acquires LittleBird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter
Nov 17, 3:09PM
New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based LittleBird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas. LittleBird was founded in 2011 to help researchers quickly find the top experts and influencers on any given subject via Twitter. It raised $4.8 million in venture capital to build its analytics platform from Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Oregon Angel Fund and… Read MoreSnapchat's Spectacles vending machine lands in Santa Monica
Nov 17, 3:03PM
Another day, another seemingly random location drop for Snapbot, your friendly neighborhood Snapchat Spectacles vending machine. Today’s lucky destination is Santa Monica, bucking the recent trend of out-of-the-way spots for one just up the coast a bit from its original Venice Beach location in LA. Snap, Inc. began selling Spectacles without much in the way of warning last Friday,… Read MoreApple patent shows Siri inside iMessage to help with scheduling, payments and more
Nov 17, 3:01PM
Google’s smart virtual helper Google Assistant is finding its way into everything from the company’s chat app Allo to Pixel smartphones and its Amazon Echo rival, Google Home. Now it appears that Apple is considering following suit in at least one of those areas. A newly unearthed Apple patent indicates the company is looking into integrating Siri into its own messaging platform… Read MoreTray.io raises a $5m Series A, led by Mosaic Ventures, to sort out the mess in the Cloud
Nov 17, 3:00PM
The adoption of the Cloud is booming (of course). But at the same time SaaS services are exploding. That means companies need developer resources to integrate all these inter-locking services. But there’s a problem. They spend huge amounts of time and money manually transferring data between services and are, once again, hamstrung by a lack of developer resources. Playing in this… Read More
Uber's new restaurant guide uses trip data to tell you where to eat
Nov 17, 3:00PM
Uber’s trip data tells it a lot about how to optimize its services, including routing and pickup spots, but the info also reveals incidental patterns that don’t necessarily apply to its core goals of delivering transportation services, but that are useful nonetheless. That’s why it’s putting some of its data to work with its new Uber Restaurant Guide, a Michelin for… Read MoreSlow Ventures launches a new $145M fund and adds Scott Marlette as a partner
Nov 17, 3:00PM
Slow Ventures — a previously small-ish fund founded by former Facebook employees — is raising a much larger fund as it looks to grow into something more like a traditional venture firm. Founded by Kevin Colleran and Dave Morin — with former Facebooker Sam Lessin also recently joining — Slow Ventures has raised $145 million for its latest fund. While Slow will continue… Read MoreManaged By Q inks exclusive deal with Staples
Nov 17, 3:00PM
Managed By Q, the office management platform for products and services, has today inked a new deal with Staples. As part of the partnership. Staples customers will now have access to Managed By Q’s full suite of services, including IT specialists, handyman, cleaning services and even workplace yoga. The idea here is two-fold: Staples’ small- and medium-sized business clients will… Read MoreCodeFights raises $10M Series A round for its skills-based recruiting platform
Nov 17, 3:00PM
CodeFights brings together coding challenges and skills-based recruiting. The company, which competes with the likes of HackerRank, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round led by e.ventures. As CodeFights CEO and founder Tigran Sloyan told me, the company’s user base has grown 10x since it announced its $2.4 million seed funding round last April. He attributes… Read MoreAOL lays off 500 employees after adding 1,500 employees over the last 12 months
Nov 17, 2:25PM
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong just announced internally that there will be layoffs across AOL’s global workforce (AOL is TechCrunch’s parent company). The company will focus on mobile, video and data across two business units — media and platforms. While the company doesn’t say exactly how many people will be affected by these layoffs, it is going to impact different teams… Read MoreQualcomm's Snapdragon 835 will be built with Samsung, featuring faster and safer charging
Nov 17, 2:16PM
Qualcomm’s got a new chip just over the horizon, built in collaboration with Samsung, utilizing the electronics giant’s 10-nanometer FinFET process that promises to improve performance and energy over the Snapdragon 820 and 821’s 14nm FinFE. The new chip will replace the 821 as Qualcomm’s flagship when it starts arriving in devices at some point during the first half… Read MoreCoca-Cola made a selfie bottle but luckily humans only have 1,000 years left
Nov 17, 2:02PM
Coca-Cola may be thinking of Snapchat Spectacles with its latest marketing ploy, a selfie snapping bottle that features a camera in what can only be described as a bottle boot with USB out for transferring your images. The red bootie shoots a selfie whenever it tips past a 70-degree angle, giving you a down-angle image of your face as you slurp that sweet sugar sauce down your gullet. The… Read MoreKubernetes founders launch Heptio with $8.5M in funding to help bring containers to the enterprise
Nov 17, 2:00PM
For years, the public face of Kubernetes was one of project’s founders: Google group product manager Craig McLuckie. He started the open source container management project together with Joe Beda, Brendan Burns and a few other engineers inside of Google, which has since brought it under the guidance of the newly formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Beda became an entrepreneur in… Read MoreMeet the new Nom, a food lover's photo sharing dream
Nov 17, 1:59PM
People will never stop talking about what’s for dinner on the internet. The massive reach and engagement of new media properties like Tastemade, which offers short video cooking lessons, or BuzzFeed’s Tasty channel are proof the trend is still going strong in the U.S. So perhaps it’s no surprise to see YouTube cofounder Steve Chen, and former YouTube engineering lead Vijay… Read MoreThe Great Brexit Standoff — Korski, Hilton and Burbidge duke it out at Disrupt, Dec 5-6
Nov 17, 12:44PM
The issue of Brexit looms large not just over the UK, but Europe and the US as well, as startups and investors juggle the daily changing headlines with their overall strategy. That’s why we’re making it one of the major themes of TechCrunch Disrupt London (Dec 5-6) (grab your tickets here). As part of this, not only are we running two major panels on the issue, but we’re… Read MoreTesla Model S P100D to get a 2.4-second 0-60mph time via an Easter Egg
Nov 17, 12:43PM
Tesla easter eggs are a lot more interesting than most of those found in video games: case in point, its next one will boost the acceleration of the P100D variant of its Model S up to a 2.4-second 0-60mph time with Ludicrous Mode, with a quarter mile achievable in as little as 10.6 seconds. The P100D Model X will also get a slight boost, with 0.1 second shaved off both times. The current… 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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