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Whole Foods sunsets rewards ahead of Amazon Prime integration
Apr 18, 6:23PM
In-store Echoes were clearly just the beginning of Whole Foods' Amazon integration. Now that the massive online retailer owns your go-to chain for flax, kale and kombucha, it’s time to really roll it into Prime. This week, Whole Foods alerted shoppers via an email spotted by Market Watch that it's going to sunset both its […]
A minor cryptocurrency partners with a major porn network. What could go wrong?
Apr 18, 6:19PM
Yesterday brought some interesting news in the cryptocurrency space. In a move that is at once sleazy and ridiculous, PornHub and its tech arm Mindgeek announced a partnership with the creators of VergeCoin (XVG), an anonymized cryptocurrency in the vein of Monero that is currently trading at 7 cents, down from an all-time high of […]
Indian online insurance startup Coverfox lands $22M led by World Bank's IFC and Transamerica
Apr 18, 6:00PM
Coverfox, one of a handful of companies aiming to digitize insurance in India, has landed fresh funding via a $22 million Series C round that will be used to push into more rural parts of the country. The investment is led by IFC, a sister organization of World Bank, and U.S. insurance firm Transamerica, with participation […]
ReviveMed turns drug discovery into a big data problem and raises $1.5M to solve it
Apr 18, 5:31PM
What if there's a drug that already exists that could treat a disease with no known therapies, but we just haven't made the connection? Finding that connection by exhaustively analyzing complex biomechanics within the body — with the help of machine learning, naturally — is the goal of ReviveMed, a new biotech startup out of MIT that just raised $1.5 million in seed funding.
Only two weeks left to score the best pricing for Disrupt SF passes
Apr 18, 5:25PM
Entrepreneurs know the stress that comes from bootstrapping a tech startup on a shoestring budget — and a frayed one at that. That's why we're reminding you that you can still save big bucks on passes to San Francisco Disrupt 2018, which runs from September 5-7. The Super Early Bird price offers up to $1,800 […]
Stripe debuts Radar anti-fraud AI tools for big businesses, says it has halted $4B in fraud to date
Apr 18, 5:02PM
Cybersecurity continues to be a growing focus and problem in the digital world, and now Stripe is launching a new paid product that it hopes will help its customers better battle one of the bigger side-effects of data breaches: online payment fraud. Today, Stripe is announcing Radar for Fraud Teams, an expansion of its free […]
GoPro launches TradeUp program to swap old cameras for discounts
Apr 18, 5:00PM
GoPro is willing to take that old digital camera stuffed in your junk drawer even if it’s not a GoPro. Through a program called TradeUp, the camera company will discount the GoPro H6 Black $50 and Fusion $100 when buyers trade-in any digital camera. The company tried this last year for 60 days, but as […]
Grasshopper, a learn-to-code app from Google's Area 120 incubator, goes live
Apr 18, 4:44PM
Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper. At launch, the app teaches would-be coders how to write JavaScript, via short lessons on their iPhone or Android device. The goal is to get coders proficient in the basics and core concepts, so they can […]
Snapchat now lets advertisers sell products directly through Lenses
Apr 18, 4:42PM
This week Snapchat is rolling out Shoppable AR, a new feature that makes it even easier for advertisers to sell goods through sponsored lenses. The new offering builds on top of the Sponsored Lenses the service rolled out in late-2015, which let advertisers create branded filters, bringing product placements to selfies. Now companies can essentially […]
YouTube TV adds its first digital-only networks with launch of two channels from Cheddar
Apr 18, 4:05PM
The first digital media networks have popped up on YouTube TV, with the addition of two new channels from the startup Cheddar. Earlier this month, Digiday had reported how YouTube’s streaming television service, YouTube TV, would soon gain new channels from a variety of digital media publishers, including Cheddar, Tastemade and The Young Turks Network. The […]
YouTube promises expansion of sponsorships, other monetization tools for creators
Apr 18, 3:11PM
YouTube says it’s rolling out more tools to help its creators make money from their videos. The changes are meant to address creators’ complaints over YouTube’s new monetization policies announced earlier this year. Those policies were designed to make the site more advertiser-friendly following a series of controversies over video content from top creators, including […]
Mobile money-saving app Qapital raises $30 million to spend on growth
Apr 18, 2:33PM
Qapital, one of a slew of mobile applications trying to make it easier for users to save money (and spend it more wisely), has raised $30 million in fresh financing as it expands beyond savings to offer investment advisory services. Since its launch in the U.S. in 2015, Qapital has amassed roughly 420,000 users that […]
Yahoo Mail launches new wave of updates with faster loads, photo themes, RSVPs, improved OOO
Apr 18, 2:13PM
While many are on the lookout for a new, big revamp of Gmail, its smaller competitor Yahoo Mail today jumped in first with its own set of updates, covering both new personalization features and faster performance times. The changes come about 10 months after Yahoo Mail rolled out its own major redesign, and are an […]
Microsoft Translator gets offline AI translations
Apr 18, 2:00PM
Chances are you mostly need a translator app on your phone while you are traveling. But that’s also when you are most likely to not have any connectivity. While most translation apps still work when they are offline, they can’t use the sophisticated — and computationally intense — machine learning algorithms in the cloud that […]
You can now play Star Wars AR Holochess on your iPhone
Apr 18, 1:57PM
As the future of technology continues to give us plenty of things we wish it hadn’t, we’re still managing to get some simple pleasures out of the way. Star Wars Holochess can now be played on the iPhone in your pocket in full augmented reality glory. The game may have only occupied a few seconds […]
Cloud Foundry Foundation looks east as Alibaba joins as a gold member
Apr 18, 1:30PM
Cloud Foundry is among the most successful open source project in the enterprise right now. It’s a cloud-agnostic platform-as-a-service offering that helps businesses develop and run their software more efficiently. In many enterprises, it’s now the standard platform for writing new applications. Indeed, half of the Fortune 500 companies now use it in one form […]
With loans of just $10, this startup has built a financial services powerhouse in emerging markets
Apr 18, 1:29PM
Peris Kimeli and Betsy Cheruyot were students at Kenyatta University thinking about launching a business when they applied for their first loans from the mobile lending company, Tala. Hoping to get a clothing business off the ground and make some money to live on while going to school, the two young Kenyans downloaded the Tala […]
Cloud.gov makes Cloud Foundry easier to adopt for government agencies
Apr 18, 1:15PM
At the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, the team behind the U.S. government’s cloud.gov application platform announced that it is now a certified Cloud Foundry platform that is guaranteed to be compatible with other certified providers, like Huawei, IBM, Pivotal, SAP and — also starting today — SUSE. With this, cloud.gov becomes the first government […]
Squarefoot raises $7M to give offices an easier way to find space
Apr 18, 1:00PM
While smaller companies are seeing a lot of new options for distributed office space, or can pick up a couple offices in a WeWork, eventually they get big enough and have to find a bigger office — but that can end up as one of the weirdest and most annoying challenges for an early-stage CEO. […]
StudioBricks is a Barcelona-based startup that sends you a studio in a box
Apr 18, 12:46PM
My friend Rick is a voice-over artist and works in Ohio — right along the flight path for jets taking off and landing at the Columbus airport. As a result, he said, he had to record late at night when the airport closed, a limitation that he found exasperating. Enter StudioBricks, a cool startup from […]
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