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Impossible Foods goes to the grocery store
Jul 31, 5:18PM
After receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration, Impossible Foods has cleared the last regulatory hurdle it faced to rolling out in grocery stores. The company is targeting a September release of Impossible products on grocery store shelves, joining its competitor Beyond Meat on grocery store shelves. The news comes as the company said […]
Prodly announces $3.5M seed to automate low code cloud deployments
Jul 31, 5:11PM
Low code programming is supposed to make things easier on companies, right? Low code means you can count on trained administrators instead of more expensive software engineers to handle most tasks, but like any issue solved by technology, there are always unintended consequences. While running his former company, Steelbrick, which he sold to Salesforce in […]
Google's Titan security keys come to Japan, Canada, France and the UK
Jul 31, 5:01PM
Google today announced that its Titan Security Key kits are now available in Canada, France, Japan and the UK. Until now, these keys, which come in a kit with a Bluetooth key and a standard USB-A dongle, were only available in the U.S. The keys provide an extra layer of security on top of your […]
DeepMind touts predictive healthcare AI 'breakthrough' trained on heavily skewed data
Jul 31, 5:00PM
DeepMind, the Google-owned UK AI research firm, has published a research letter in the journal Nature in which it discusses the performance of a deep learning model for continuously predicting the future likelihood of a patient developing a life-threatening condition called acute kidney injury (AKI). The company says its model is able to accurately predict […]
Direct-to-consumer lingerie brand Lively acquired for $85M
Jul 31, 4:39PM
Lively, a lingerie business founded and led by former Victoria's Secret executive Michelle Cordeiro Grant, has sold to intimate apparel brand Wacoal for $85 million. The deal includes up to an additional $55 million in performance-based payouts. Lively, headquartered in New York, had raised $15 million in venture capital funding, including a $6.5 million Series […]
Consumer internet companies are easy to understand, but hard to create
Jul 31, 4:30PM
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell once said that the best video games are easy to learn and nearly impossible to master. A related concept holds for building foundational consumer internet companies.
Clearbanc co-founder and president Michele Romanow is coming to Disrupt SF
Jul 31, 4:01PM
Raising venture capital isn't easy; for some, it's impossible. Clearbanc offers startups a fundraising alternative, and in just a few short years, it’s become a household name in Silicon Valley circles. The company disrupts the startup funding process by providing companies cash to buy ads in exchange for a revenue share so those companies aren’t […]
Investors bet another $50M on Clearbanc's revenue share model
Jul 31, 4:00PM
That company disrupting venture capital just raised more venture capital. Clearbanc has attracted $300 million, including a $50 million equity investment led by Highland Capital with participation from Arcadia, iNovia and Emergence Capital, and another $250 million from limited partners for its third fund. Clearbanc declined to disclose its valuation, but noted the company was […]
Luna Labs creates playable ads, directly from Unity
Jul 31, 3:58PM
It seems obvious that the best way to advertise a game is to let people play the game itself — and we’ve covered other startups tackling this problem, such as AppOnboard and mNectar. But Luna Labs co-founder and CEO Steven Chard said that for most developers, the creation of these ads involves outsourcing: “It might […]
Why AWS is building tiny AI race cars to teach machine learning
Jul 31, 3:56PM
The AWS DeepRacer is an almost toylike 1/18th scale race car. It comes with all of the sensors and software tools to help developers build machine learning models to drive the car around a course — or really do anything else they want it to do. The $399 DeepRacer launched at AWS’s massive re:Invent show […]
Verizon adds Washington, DC, Atlanta, Detroit and Indianapolis to list of 5G cities
Jul 31, 3:36PM
This morning Verizon (TechCrunch’s parent company) flipped the 5G switch on four additional cities. Washington, DC, Atlanta, Detroit and Indianapolis join Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Providence in getting coverage for the carrier's growing next-generation network. All of the usual caveats apply here. While the list of cities continues to grow, coverage varies from city […]
Sex tech companies and advocates protest unfair ad standards outside Facebook's NY HQ
Jul 31, 3:31PM
A group of sex tech startup founders, employees and supporters gathered outside of Facebook’s NY office in Manhattan to protest its advertising policies with respect to what it classifies as sexual content. The protest, and a companion website detailing their position we reported on Tuesday, are the work of “Approved, Not Approved,” a coalition of […]
Netflix's 'The Irishman' gets its first trailer starring a digitally de-aged De Niro
Jul 31, 3:05PM
There's plenty of reason to be excited for “The Irishman.” The Netflix-backed film teams Martin Scorsese with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci for a biopic based on the lives of organized crime-linked union figures Frank Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa. But it's the effects that have everyone talking. Granted, that's not the kind […]
Hello Heart raises $12 million for at-home monitoring and behavioral treatment for hypertension
Jul 31, 3:00PM
Leveraging new remote sensing and monitoring technologies and the willingness of corporate insurance programs to provide more preventative treatment to reduce long-term costs, Hello Heart has raised $12 million in new financing to further develop its business. The money came from Khosla Ventures and previous backer Blue Run Ventures. The company said it will use […]
Snapchat launches 'instant' tool for creating vertical ads
Jul 31, 2:48PM
Snapchat is hoping to attract new advertisers (and make advertising easier for the ones already on the platform) with the launch of a new tool called Instant Create. Some of these potential advertisers may not be used to creating ads in the smartphone-friendly vertical format that Snapchat has popularized, so Instant Create is designed to […]
DJI aims for the best first-person drone experience with new goggles, controller and more
Jul 31, 2:13PM
New gear from DJI will equip you with everything you need to become the best first-person drone racer that’s ever graced the Earth — you’ll be the Anakin Skywalker of FPV drone racers. The company is launching a new suite of products specifically to make the most of Digital First Person Viewing (FPV) when operating […]
Samsung targets iPad Pro with the Galaxy Tab S6
Jul 31, 2:00PM
Once again, the rumors proved to be true, with Samsung going straight from the S4 to S6 for its premium tier. Vaguely confusing naming conventions aside (there’s also the lower-cost S5E), the company's got another solid entry on its hands, going after the same slice of creatives targeted by the iPad Pro and various Surface […]
Security lapse exposed weak points on Honda's internal network
Jul 31, 1:33PM
An exposed database at automotive giant Honda allowed anyone to see which systems on its network were vulnerable to unpatched security flaws, potentially giving hackers insider knowledge of the company’s weak points. The server contained 134 million rows of employee systems data from the company’s endpoint security service, containing technical details of each computer and […]
Porsche Digital expands US presence beyond Silicon Valley with new Atlanta office
Jul 31, 1:21PM
Porsche Digital, the subsidiary of car maker Porsche, is opening its second U.S. location after launching its first in 2017 in Silicon Valley. The second North American office for this software and digital product-focused wing of Porsche will open in Atlanta, which is also the seat of Porsche’s North American car business. Porsche Digital cited […]
Jamf acquires Digita Security to gain native Mac security
Jul 31, 1:01PM
Jamf has been widely known as an enterprise Mac deployment and management tool company, but it has been looking for ways to expand beyond those core capabilities. One thing it heard from customers was that there was a dearth of native Mac security tools. It checked that box today, announcing it has acquired Digita Security, […]
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