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Healthcare wearables level up with new moves from Apple and Alphabet
Feb 04, 8:33AM
Announcements that Apple has partnered with Aetna health insurance on a new app leveraging data from its Apple Watch and reports that Verily — one of the health-focused subsidiaries of Google‘s parent company — Alphabet, is developing a shoe that can detect weight and movement, indicate increasing momentum around using data from wearables for clinical health applications and […]
Hulu teams up with that world record Instagram egg to raise awareness of mental health
Feb 04, 6:19AM
Remember that egg that became Instagram’s most-liked post? It used its recently-acquired fame to shed light on mental health and the pressures of social media. The account now has 10 million followers — its record photo has over 52 million likes — and it put that audience to use with a 30-second video that aired on […]
Spotify, eBay set standard for fertility benefits, study finds
Feb 04, 12:23AM
FertilityIQ's survey also indicates some companies implicated by the #MeToo movement improved their fertility benefits in 2018.
Bud raises $20M to connect banks to fintechs and other financial service providers
Feb 04, 12:01AM
Bud, the U.K. fintech that helps banks connect their apps and data to other fintech companies and financial service providers, has closed over $20 million in further funding. The Series A round sees the company pick up backing from a number of banks: HSBC (which, via First Direct, it also counts as a customer), Goldman […]
As rocket companies proliferate, new enabling tech emerges as the next wave in the space race
Feb 03, 10:44PM
Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Slingshot Aeropsace, SpaceX and Virgin Orbit have raised billions of dollars to create new vehicles to launch payloads into space, but as the private space industry develops in the U.S. investors are beginning to back enabling technologies boost the next wave of innovation. Whether it’s satellite manufacturers, new propulsion […]
Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality
Feb 03, 8:35PM
The electric scooter CEO shed light on the issues plaguing the micromobility industry and what's next for the high-flying startup.
Watch the tech-centric Super Bowl ads from Amazon, Microsoft and others
Feb 03, 5:30PM
Another year, another batch of Super Bowl commercials from tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. In fact, Amazon will have different ads focusing on different areas of the business: one highlighting products that won’t be taking advantage of its voice-powered assistant Alexa, and another previewing “Hanna,” an upcoming show on Amazon Prime. Microsoft, meanwhile, […]
Coastal startups don't have a monopoly on raising big at early-stage
Feb 03, 4:51PM
Early-stage startups throughout much of the U.S. are able to raise larger sums today than any other point in at least a decade, and there are more early-stage rounds than ever.
The infrastructural humiliation of America
Feb 03, 2:00PM
I’m flying back to the USA today, and as an infrastructure aficionado, it’s nice to be going home, but I’m dreading the disappointment. I just spent two weeks in Singapore and Thailand; last year I spent time in Hong Kong and Shenzhen; and compared to modern Asia, so much American infrastructure is now so contemptible […]
Here's the first trailer for the VR sequel to Groundhog Day
Feb 02, 5:00PM
Sony Pictures is taking audiences back to Punxsutawney… this time in virtual reality. Whether it’s an abomination and a perversion of one of the best movies in the Bill Murray oeuvre or a great way to immerse a viewer in one of the most perfectly realized worlds brought to the silver screen (I unrepentantly love […]
Austin in January: Cash rich and maturing
Feb 02, 4:48PM
2019 has been good to the Austin startup scene so far.
Facebook warned over privacy risks of merging messaging platforms
Feb 02, 4:10PM
Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has asked the company for an “urgent briefing” regarding plans to integrate the underlying infrastructure of its three social messaging platforms. In a statement posted to its website late last week the Irish Data Protection Commission writes: “Previous proposals to share data between Facebook companies have given rise […]
Startups Weekly: Even Gwyneth Paltrow had a hard time raising VC
Feb 02, 1:00PM
This week in startups: Celebrities mingle with VCs at the Upfront Summit, Pinterest preps banks for IPO and Sam Altman has a grand new idea.
Japan's "Society 5.0" initiative is a roadmap for today's entrepreneurs
Feb 02, 1:00PM
Mark Minevich Contributor Share on Twitter Mark Minevich is a digital fellow at IPSoft. Japan, still suffering the consequences of its 'Lost Decade' of economic stagnation, is eyeing a transformation more radical than any the industrialized world has ever seen. Boldly identified as "Society 5.0" Japan describes its initiative as a purposeful effort to create […]
Apple's long-time Siri leader reportedly no longer in charge
Feb 02, 12:36AM
The man who has headed up Siri at Apple since 2012 is no longer at the helm, according to The Information. Bill Stasior remains at the company in a different role, the report states. We’ve reached out to Apple for comment. Stasior joined Apple to take over Siri in 2012 after being poached from Amazon’s A9 […]
UPDATE: Snopes quits and AP in talks over Facebook's fact-checking partnership
Feb 01, 11:55PM
Two of Facebook's four fact-checking partners in the U.S. have left the program as of the beginning of this year: Snopes, which recently rebuffed reports that its relationship with Facebook was strained, and the Associated Press. Both confirmed they are leaving the program, but left the possibility of future collaboration open.
This light-powered 3D printer materializes objects all at once
Feb 01, 11:20PM
3D printing has changed the way people approach hardware design, but most printers share a basic limitation: they essentially build objects layer by layer, generally from the bottom up. This new system from Berkeley, however, builds them all at once more or less by projecting a video through a jar of light-sensitive resin.
LittleBits lays off employees as it shifts focus toward education
Feb 01, 11:03PM
New York City open-source maker startup LittleBits began to lay off staff last month, TechCrunch has learned. The loss of jobs comes as the company looks to shift more focus toward the K-12 market. Education-specific offerings have been lucrative for the company in its eight-year existence, but recent products have found the company embracing licensed […]
Twitter bug makes it look like random retweets are appearing in your timeline
Feb 01, 8:09PM
A number of Twitter users have been complaining that tweets that were retweeted by people they don’t follow are now showing in their timeline. The issue, thankfully, is not related to a new Twitter algorithm or recommendation system, as some had feared. Instead, the company confirmed that a bug affecting Android users was mislabeling the […]
Foxconn says Wisconsin factory plans are back on after talk with Trump
Feb 01, 8:03PM
It seems Foxconn's plans for a $10 billion Wisconsin plant are back on. After a couple of years of back and forths, the manufacturing giant says it's recommitting to plans for a plant in the upper Midwest. A statement today cited a phone call between chairman/founder Terry Gou and Donald Trump. "After productive discussions between […]
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