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Wingly is carpooling for private planes
Sep 07, 1:30AM
Don't call Wingly the "Uber of the Sky" — Wingly co-fonder Emeric de Waziers would like to nip that little misinterpretation in the bud as the French startup looks to expand into the U.S. If anything, the startup's mission is more akin to carpooling for small aircrafts, helping pilots fill up empty seats in small […]
Google's newest app Blog Compass helps bloggers in India manage their sites
Sep 07, 1:20AM
Google has been heavily focused on serving the needs of Indian web users with the recent launch of apps like Tez for payments, Areo for food ordering, Neighbourly for communities, data-friendly versions of apps like Search and YouTube, and others. Now, the company is launching an app to serve the need of Indian bloggers with an […]
Kinta AI uses artificial intelligence to make factories more efficient
Sep 07, 1:11AM
Kinta AI aims to make manufacturers smarter about how they deploy their equipment and other factory resources. The company, which is presenting today at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, was founded by a team with plenty of experience in finance, tech and AI. CEO Steven Glinert has held management and AI roles at fintech […]
Mira launches a device for more accurate fertility testing in the home
Sep 07, 12:55AM
Mira, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, is a new device that aims to help women who are struggling to conceive. The Mira Fertility system offers personalized cycle prediction by measuring fertility hormone concentrations in urine samples, telling women which days they’re fertile. The system is more advanced and accurate than the existing home test […]
Crossing Minds would like to recommend a few entertainment options
Sep 07, 12:48AM
Crossing Minds, which is launching in our Disrupt SF 2018 Battlefield today, is an AI startup that focuses on recommendations. The company’s app, Hai, provides you with a wide range of entertainment recommendations, including books, music, shows, video games and restaurants, based on the data it can gather about you from services like Spotify, Netflix, […]
Unbound makes pleasure fashionable
Sep 07, 12:32AM
Unbound founders Polly Rodriguez and Sarah Jayne Kinney have long and varied careers. Rodriguez worked for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill on Capitol Hill before heading to Deloitte Consulting and dating startup Grouper. Kinney was a graduate of University of Cincinnati worked at Puma and then at Esquire and O, Oprah’s magazine. She worked shooting products for […]
Former Facebook security chief says creating election chaos is still easy
Sep 07, 12:17AM
As someone who’s had a years-long front-row seat to Russia’s efforts to influence U.S. politics, former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has a pretty solid read on what we can expect from the 2018 midterms. Stamos left the company last month to work on cybersecurity education at Stanford. “If there’s no foreign interference during […]
Slack is having connection issues again (Update: It's back)
Sep 07, 12:01AM
This is officially a trend. This afternoon, Slack reported connectivity issues through its official status channel. We can confirm. Roughly half of our messages are going through. And yes, it's super duper annoying. We're very sorry for the interruption. We're currently investigating connectivity problems, and we're working as quickly as we can to get everything […]
Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones
Sep 06, 11:35PM
UL, the company behind the tablet and phone performance benchmark app 3DMark, has delisted new Huawei phones from its “Best Smartphone” leaderboard after AnandTech discovered the phone maker was boosting its performance to ace the app’s test. The phones delisted were the P20, P20 Pro, Nova 3 and the Honor Play. “After testing the devices in […]
JUST's plant-based eggs are coming to a grocery store near you
Sep 06, 11:31PM
Vegans, rejoice! JUST’s sustainable egg alternative is set to arrive in stores this fall. The vegan foods company, formerly known as Hampton Creek, will sell the egg-free and dairy-free “egg” in certain grocery store chains across the U.S. JUST co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick, whose company was valued at $1.1 billion last year, says fans […]
Twitter brings Bookmarks to the web with a new design, now in testing
Sep 06, 10:57PM
Twitter is testing a new experience for web users, the company announced in a tweet on Thursday. A small number of Twitter users will see the updated version of Twitter for web, which will include access to Twitter’s Bookmarks feature, and scrolling through Twitter’s Explore section, the tweet said and a spokesperson confirmed. However, Business […]
Popbase helps YouTube stars build closer relationships with their fans
Sep 06, 10:19PM
Entertainment has changed. New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the […]
Look out US main-street banks, the Revolut is coming
Sep 06, 10:15PM
Revolut, the new-generation smartphone-based bank which is blowing up Europe right now, has confirmed its intention launch in the United States and Canada later this year, taking its interesting combination of personal banking, crypto wallet and fee-free stocks trading app to main-street North America. Co-founder and CEO Nik Storonsky said the company now has a […]
Google's Pixel 3 launch event will happen on October 9th
Sep 06, 10:00PM
Google’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are hardly a secret at this point, having leaked out again and again over the last few weeks. But they’re still not quite official. The phones just took one big step closer to real, with Google sending out invites for a “Made By Google” event that will almost […]
Kadho debuts Kidsense A.I., offline speech-recognition tech that understand kids
Sep 06, 9:56PM
Kadho, a company building automatic speech recognition technology to help children communicate with voice-powered devices, is officially exiting stealth today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 where it’s launching its new technology, Kidsense Edge voice A.I. The company claims its technology can better decode kids’ speech as it was built using speech data from 150,000 children’s voices. […]
Lori Systems is launching a service with the Kenyan government for last-mile haulage from railroads
Sep 06, 9:41PM
For Lori Systems chief executive and co-founder Josh Sandler, deals like the one between his company and the Kenyan government to solve last-mile solutions around the national railroad are about far more than just logistics. Sandler, whose family battled apartheid in South Africa as social workers, township doctors and (more dangerously) as financiers for the […]
Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO
Sep 06, 9:34PM
Now valued at $5.6 billion, zero-fee stock trading app and cryptocurrency exchange Robinhood is starting preparations to go public. Just a year and a half ago, it was still largely under the radar. But then it raised a $110 million Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation in April 2017 and then just a year […]
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos: Being a CSO can be a 'crappy job'
Sep 06, 9:28PM
Alex Stamos has been at the helm of some of the world’s most powerful companies for the past half-decade and is widely regarded as one of the smartest people working in the security space. Now, just a month into his new gig as an academic, he can look back at his time with a dose […]
CB Therapeutics' lab-grown cannabinoids could unlock new medicines and make others affordable
Sep 06, 9:21PM
Marijuana may still be on shaky legal ground, but the therapeutic benefits of the psychoactive molecules — cannabinoids — inside the plant are solidly established. Unfortunately, cultivation of that plant is resource-intensive and yields only tiny amounts of some useful medicines. CB Therapeutics, a new biotech company launching today at the Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield, […]
YouTube TV now lets you pause your subscription for up to 6 months
Sep 06, 9:20PM
YouTube TV introduced a new feature to its service Thursday that allows users to pause their service between four-week and six-month periods at any time, as reported by Android Police. Unlike canceling and reopening your YouTube TV account, which users can also do at any time, the new pause option allows YouTubers to return to […]
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