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Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company
Jun 29, 2:38PM
Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal and Uber Europe GM Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty were both taken into custody today in Paris. The news was first broken by the AFP. The police started investigating on Uber in November 2014 and raided Uber’s office in Paris in March 2015. The two executives were charged with two different allegations. First, according to them, Uber is running illegal taxi… Read More
Everledger Is Using Blockchain To Combat Fraud, Starting With Diamonds
Jun 29, 2:18PM
The wild valuation swings of Bitcoin are something of a sideshow when compared with the potential of the underlying blockchain engine. Focusing on the utility of this distributed, consensus-based technology is exactly what London-based startup Everledger is doing. Read More 
Google Expands Its Educational Platform "Classroom" With A New API, Share Button For Websites
Jun 29, 2:06PM
Google Classroom, the company’s educational initiative that launched last year to allow teachers and students to communicate and collaborate with each other using Google tools and services, has today received a number of new features, the most notable being a new Classroom API for admins, and a Classroom share button. The latter lets developers or schools simplify sharing content… Read More 
Researchers Use Femtosecond Lasers To Display Touchable Images In The Air
Jun 29, 1:47PM
A Japanese company called Aerial Burton has been using lasers to ionize air molecules in midair for a few years now, thereby creating bright pixels that float in space. Using the original system, however, you were essentially creating floating plasma which could burn you if you touched it. Now, however, the company has reduced the power necessary to generate the images by using femtosecond… Read More 
Where Computer Science, Engineering, and Math Majors Want to Work
Jun 29, 1:24PM
If 17-year-old Google is at all worried that it’s losing its mojo, it should find some new data highly reassuring. According to a survey of 19,000 students across 340 universities around the world, Google is still their top choice when asked where they’d want to work. Their other top picks, in descending order: Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. The survey was conducted by… Read More 
Local Services Marketplace UrbanClap Gets $10M Series A To Expand Throughout India
Jun 29, 1:10PM
UrbanClap, which claims to be India’s largest mobile-based services marketplace, wants to become even bigger. The New Delhi-based startup recently scored a Series A investment of $10 million from returning investors SAIF Partners and Accel Partners, which it will use to grow across the entire country, improve its app-based platform, and increase its company size from 100 employees to 500. Read More 
Apple Music Launches With iOS 8.4 At 8 AM PT On June 30
Jun 29, 12:35PM
Apple Music is coming tomorrow, and Apple Music Senior Director and former beats CEO Ian Rogers wants you to be ready, so he has revealed the specifics of when it’ll star rolling out. The official launch time for Apple Music is June 30 at 8 AM PT, per a Rogers’ blog post and Facebook event, at which time iOS 8.4 will be made available for users to update their devices. iOS 8.4… Read More 
When Facebook Grappled With The Ultimate Build Versus Buy Decision
Jun 29, 12:33PM
A company like Facebook encounters that kind of choice constantly, but back in the 2009/2010 timeframe, it had an extraordinary one. It was growing faster than just about any company on the planet and was having issues keeping up with that scale. That’s when it decided it had to start designing its own hardware and building its own data centers to meet the company’s very… Read More 
SlashDB Can Turn Any Data Source Into A Website
Jun 29, 12:15PM
Most programmers like two things: pizza and things that make their work easier. That’s why I was especially interested in SlashDB, a product that purports to turn any data source into accessible XML, JSON, or HTML. Created by programmer Victor Olex, the system allows you to connect almost any data to the web in a few seconds with a REST API. “SlashDB is an automated web API for… Read More 
SmartUp App Virtually Mentors New Entrepreneurs And Could Lead To Funding
Jun 29, 12:13PM
Everyone knows there are entrepreneurs all over the world now, not just in developed countries. Why? Because the internet and technology has empowered so many. Indeed, a 2013 survey put out by Babson and the LSE found that the size of the global market for learning about entrepreneurship and business was about 550+ million people. And that was just in the top 20 countries by population. But… Read More 
The Race To The Bottom Is Now Hitting Professional 3D Printers
Jun 29, 10:23AM
The eagle-eyed among you will notice something interesting about the Riverside Photocuring 3D Printer pictured above. Almost all of the design – from the removable build plate to the jolly front button – is a direct homage to the Formlabs Form 1. One could assume, therefore, that the Riverside should (and does) print 3D objects as well as the Form 1 and should be a comparable product. Read More 
Drippler Scores $4.5M Series A To Deliver Smartphone News And App Recommendations
Jun 29, 10:14AM
Drippler, the iOS and Android app that delivers news about your smartphone and recommends new apps, has raised a $4.5 million Series A round. Read More 
Uber's Biggest Rival In China Claims It Handles 3 Million Rides Per Day
Jun 29, 9:58AM
Uber surprised China watchers this month when it was revealed that the company is processing one million rides per day in the country. That impressive number, which leaked out via a letter to investors, is now dwarfed by arch rival Didi Kuaidi’s claim that it is seeing three times as much demand in the country. Read More 
Redfin's Irrational Moment
Jun 29, 5:00AM
Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman recalls a tense board meeting when his company discussed eliminating its customer commission refund in the latest Greymatter video from Greylock Partners. Typically in real estate transactions, the seller of a home pays a commission of 5% which is split between the seller’s agent and the buyer’s agent. Traditional brokerages keep all of their commission. Read More 
The Sorry State of "Games Are Art" In 2015
Jun 29, 4:30AM
With Apple’s banning of games wholesale because of a flag we have yet another example of how games are censored more than other media, how games are devalued and treated as second class media citizens. This at a time when experimental games are under threat from all quarters. Games should be treated as equals. Read More 
Where Are The Invisible Apps?
Jun 29, 3:00AM
More than a year ago, Matthew Panzarino wrote an article on TechCrunch in which he described a new type of mobile app experience that he coined the Invisible App. He predicted that we would imminently see the rise of a huge number of apps that would live in the background, anticipating our needs based on sensor and contextual data, and do things for us before we even had to ask. What an… Read More 
Uber Ruling Is A Harbinger Of The Need For Employment Law Change
Jun 29, 12:00AM
The recent ruling by a hearing officer with the California Labor Commission in a case involving an Uber driver is bad public policy. The issue this ruling addresses — whether the driver should be classified as an “employee” or “contractor” — is of crucial importance to Uber and all the on-demand companies that use a similar business model. Read More 
Onefinestay, A High-End Airbnb Rival, Confirms $40M Raise From Intel Capital, Hyatt And More
Jun 28, 11:41PM
As Airbnb closes in on a major round of financing that will reportedly value it at $24 billion, smaller startups riffing on the same model of renting out private homes are also heating up. Onefinestay, a five year-old business out of London that focuses on renting out private luxury homes, has raised $40 million — a Series D round of funding that the company plans to use to keep… Read More 
Moving The Economy Beyond The Turing Test And Man Vs. Machine
Jun 28, 11:11PM
We need economics that sees dollars as means and improving the connection between people as the meaning. Read More 
SpaceX's Failed CRS-7 Mission Had Something To Do With An "Overpressure Event"
Jun 28, 9:46PM
It’s not entirely clear what happened during the launch of SpaceX‘s Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS-7) mission Sunday morning. A SpaceX cargo ship set out to deliver samples and supplies to the astronauts onboard the International Space Station for its seventh resupply mission this morning. Sadly, that rocket and all supplies exploded mid-air, shortly after blast-off at 10:22… Read More 
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