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Aerones makes really big drones for cleaning turbines and saving lives
Mar 17, 4:25PM
Enthusiasts will talk your ear off about the potential for drones to take over many of our dirtiest, dullest and most dangerous tasks. But most of the jobs we've actually seen drones perform are focused on the camera — from wildlife surveying to monitoring cracks on power plant smokestack. Aerones is working on something much […]
Tinder owner Match is suing Bumble over patents
Mar 17, 2:47AM
Drama is heating up between the dating apps. Tinder, which is owned by Match Group, is suing rival Bumble, alleging patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. The suit alleges that Bumble “copied Tinder’s world-changing, card-swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise.” The lawsuit also accuses Tinder-turned-Bumble employees Chris Gulczynski and Sarah Mick of copying elements of the design. […]
Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked on the Trump campaign
Mar 17, 2:15AM
Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election. In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Facebook […]
VR startup Upload shuts down its offices as funding from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey runs out
Mar 17, 12:04AM
Upload, the VR startup which was rocked by a sexual harassment suit exactly one year ago, is shutting down both its San Francisco office and its 20,000 sq. foot Los Angeles co-working space as it struggles to secure new funding, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. All of the company's LA employees were laid off yesterday. The […]
Qualcomm's former exec chair will exit after exploring an acquisition bid
Mar 16, 11:35PM
There’s a new twist in the BroadQualm saga this afternoon as Qualcomm has said it won’t renominate Paul Jacobs, the former executive chairman of the company, after he notified the board that he decided to explore the possibility of making a proposal to acquire Qualcomm. The last time we saw such a huge exploration to […]
Education quiz app Kahoot raises another $17M at a $100M valuation
Mar 16, 10:29PM
When we wrote about gaming startup Kahoot passing significant milestones of 70 million users on 51 million educational quizzes in January, we mentioned that the Oslo, Norway-based startup was closing another round of funding. Now, that has come to pass: Kahoot has announced that it has raised $17 million, at a valuation that sources close to […]
Suspicious likes lead to researcher lighting up a 22,000-strong botnet on Twitter
Mar 16, 9:30PM
Botnets are fascinating to me. Who creates them? What are they for? And why doesn't someone delete them? The answers are probably less interesting than I hope, but in the meantime I like to cheer when large populations of bots are exposed. That's what security outfit F-Secure's Andy Patel did this week after having his curiosity piqued by a handful of strange likes on Twitter.
Enterprise subscription services provider Zuora has filed for an IPO
Mar 16, 9:07PM
Zuora, which helps businesses handle subscription billing and forecasting, filed for an initial public offering this afternoon following on the heels of Dropbox’s filing earlier this month. Zuora’s IPO may signal that Dropbox going public, and seeing a price range that while under its previous valuation seems relatively reasonable, may open the door for coming […]
Zscaler soars 106% on first day of trading
Mar 16, 8:08PM
It was a big debut for enterprise cloud security company Zscaler, which saw its shares skyrocket 106% on its first day of trading. After pricing at $16, shares opened at $27.50, and closed at $34. This was also well above the original expected price range for its IPO of $10 to $12. The company ultimately raised […]
Tingles is an app devoted to ASMR videos
Mar 16, 8:03PM
The Tingles team has not done much in the way of promotion, but the app has already built a fairly sizable following in its community. That's one of the nice things about a targeted product — it spreads fast. In the year since Slovenian co-founders Gasper Kolenc and Miha Mlakar launched, the service has focused […]
The Third Age of credit
Mar 16, 8:00PM
Society is beginning to wake up to a tremendous shift in one of the most fundamental underpinnings to how we live our lives: the credit system. Even though it's not commonly known, credit infrastructure has existed about as long as civilization itself. In one way or another, credit systems have always formalized the one essential basis for relationships between people: trust.
FTC shuts down crypto Ponzi schemers
Mar 16, 7:18PM
The FTC has announced that they’ve issued temporary restraining orders and frozen the assets of a team of three defendants who pitched investment advice as the Bitcoin Funding Team and My7Network. The FTC claims that the defendants “promised big rewards for a small payment of bitcoin or Litecoin.” From the report: According to the FTC, […]
The next frontier for robotics? Jazz marimba
Mar 16, 6:38PM
Watch out all you well-paid, fat-and-sassy jazz marimba players: Shimon, the marimba playing robot, is after your jobs. Shimon is the brainchild of the Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech and I’ve been following his career for a few years now. In this video, taken at the Ferst Center Presents as part of Atlanta Science […]
GrokStyle's visual search tech makes it into IKEA's Place AR app
Mar 16, 6:35PM
GrokStyle's simple concept of "point your camera at a chair (or lamp, or table...) and find others like it for sale" attracted $2 million in funding last year, and the company has been putting that cash to work. And remarkably for a company trying to break into the home furnishing market, it landed furniture goliath IKEA as its first real customer; GrokStyle's point-and-search functionality is being added to the IKEA Place AR app.
SpaceX is making big money moves
Mar 16, 6:23PM
Planning a Mars mission, a global telecommunications network for inexpensive internet service and creating an interplanetary hedge against World War Three isn’t cheap, so it’s no wonder that SpaceX is closing on $500 million in new cash through a financing round led by Fidelity, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the round. Responding to clamoring […]
Anker's Nebula Capsule portable projector is a pocket powerhouse
Mar 16, 5:04PM
Anker is a device maker that’s rapidly become a go-to brand for affordable, quality accessories include cables, chargers and backup batteries. More recently, it’s started to branch out into additional areas, including projectors through its Nebula brand. The Nebula Capsule is the latest product from that line, a super portable projector with an Android-based OS, […]
Village Global raises $100M seed scout fund from Zuck, Bezos…
Mar 16, 5:02PM
It takes a village to grow a startup, so Village Global is offering access to a deep network of top tech execs to lure founders to its seed fund. Today, Village Global announced it’s raised $100 million for that fund that was first unveiled in September. In exchange for equity, portfolio companies get investment plus […]
NexGenT wants to rethink bootcamps with programs for network engineering certifications
Mar 16, 5:00PM
Developer bootcamps — several-month training programs that are designed to help people get up to speed with the technical skills they need to become a developer — exploded in popularity in the early part of the decade, but there’s been a bit of a shakedown on the space recently. And that could be a product […]
Small businesses love free stuff, so Gusto is giving them free HR Basics
Mar 16, 4:32PM
Gusto, formerly ZenPayroll, is the rare startup unicorn that has stayed relatively mum on its product and growth — its last press release, for instance, was more than a year ago. The company's core offering remains payroll for small businesses, and it has been working to expand its customer base across the nation, including having […]
Zoosk relaunches dating app Lively as a way to meet new people while playing trivia games
Mar 16, 4:32PM
Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of trivia applications like HQ Trivia, dating app maker Zoosk has just released an experimental app that combines trivia with the potential for meeting someone new. The app is a relaunch and complete makeover of Zoosk’s Lively, which first debuted in July 2016 as a dating app that used […]
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