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Group Commerce Startup Massdrop Is Working With Its Users To Design New Products
Dec 30, 12:05AM
Massdrop‘s investors have argued that the group commerce site is more a community than a straightforward marketplace. Here’s one way that Massdrop is doing things differently — a new initiative called Massdrop Collabs. The startup has built specialist communities for folks such as audiophiles and mechanical keyboard fans, and it offers group-buying opportunities to those… Read More
Flaming Wreckage Of Clinkle Rebuilds As A Referral Service
Dec 29, 11:41PM
Clinkle imploded after employees quit en masse in May, protesting how its young CEO Lucas Duplan was mismanaging the $30 million-funded payments startup. But Duplan won’t quit. TechCrunch has attained emails showing Duplan is pivoting Clinkle away from its former ultrasound payments and loyalty debit card products. Now Clinkle is an SDK called Treats that other apps can integrate to… Read More 
Microinsurance Is The Answer To The Insurance Industry
Dec 29, 10:00PM
Let’s be real. The insurance industry has barely evolved since Benjamin Franklin introduced the concept in the late 1700s. You’d think after three hundred years and a market size of $1 trillion in the United States alone, insurance companies like MetLife and AIG would have nailed it. But they haven’t. Instead, they’ve left millions of Americans paying toward… Read More 
Gabriel Stricker Returns To Google To Lead Policy And Communications For Fiber
Dec 29, 8:09PM
During all of Twitter’s changes this year, one move stuck out as quite significant…its Chief Communications Officer Gabriel Stricker announced that he was leaving the company. A “shift in strategy” is the way the story went. Before Twitter, Stricker held down the role of “Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs” at Google. We’ve learned… Read More 
Sidecar Is Calling It Quits On Rides And Deliveries
Dec 29, 8:07PM
Sidecar, the on-demand car service that was supposed to compete with Lyft and Uber, is shutting down at the end of this year, Sidecar CEO Sunil Paul wrote on Medium. In August, Sidecar basically threw in the towel on ride sharing and put a lot of effort into delivery services, with most of the company focusing on delivery-related services. But it looks like that didn’t work, either.… Read More 
This $19,000 Hoverboard Will Let You Ride For Five Minutes At A Time
Dec 29, 6:25PM
Given that no real, average human is scooting to first period on a hover board, there sure are quite a few of them hovering about on the internet, from the almost-real to the shamefully (and dangerously) misnamed. But a company called Arca is looking to offer the real deal, with pre-orders up on their website. The ArcaBoard is massive, which is exactly what is required of a device that will… Read More 
A Wake-Up Call To Fight Government Surveillance
Dec 29, 4:00PM
Look around any crowded place nowadays and it’s quite clear that many of us have literally become prisoners of our own devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops — anything and everything with an Internet connection. Our lifestyles practically require us to always be on, and connected to everyone else. Read More 
Yarn's App Lets You Share Short Clips From Movies, TV Shows And Music Videos
Dec 29, 3:44PM
GIF-sharing is so 2015. Or at least, a startup called Yarn hopes that will be the case. The team’s recently launched mobile app offers a different way to have fun while messaging your friends, by offering a way for you to search for and discover short clips from movies, TV and music videos that you can then pop into your conversation. Today, Yarn only supports Facebook Messenger, but… Read More 
SmartThings And Samsung Team Up To Make Your TV A Smart Home Hub
Dec 29, 3:09PM
Samsung and SmartThings are buddying up to introduce Samsung’s latest line of Smart TVs, complete with SmartThings platform integration so folks can use their TVs as an interface to control the home. There is no shortage of internet-connected devices out there, from standard security systems and smart lighting systems all the way to the connected kettle. But a connective language that… Read More 
Samsung Pay Will Launch Online Payments In the U.S.
Dec 29, 7:50AM
Samsung Pay plans a major expansion in the United States next year. Users will be able to make purchases on websites with Samsung Pay, which puts it into more direct competition with services like Paypal, Reuters reports. The mobile wallet platform will be also available on lower-end Samsung smartphones, not just flagship models like the Galaxy S6 Edge. Read More 
Scorecard: 2015 Digital Media Predictions
Dec 29, 1:00AM
Last year on TechCrunch I made eight predictions about digital media. This post compares those predictions to the reality that is digital media in 2015. Read More 
Twitter Hires New VP Of Diversity And Inclusion From Apple
Dec 29, 12:44AM
Twitter has hired Jeffrey Siminoff to replace Janet Van Huysse as the company’s new vice president of diversity and inclusion. The news was announced on, yep, Twitter, by its head of human resources, Brian Schipper. Siminoff, who starts in January, seems like a great fit for this role. He’s joining Twitter from Apple, where he was the director of worldwide inclusion and… Read More 
18 *More* Female Founders Who've Had A Very Good 2015
Dec 28, 10:46PM
Last week, we wrote of 18 female founders about whom the TechCrunch staff happened to find ourselves discussing recently. When we ran that list of rising stars, we asked you for your own ideas about women whose companies have taken off in 2015, and you quickly reminded us of many more people we might have featured in that original list. Herewith (and with thanks to many of… Read More 
What Will The Internet Of Things Be When It Grows Up?
Dec 28, 9:00PM
An old proverb advises, “Keep a thing seven years, and you’ll find a use for it.” Well, it’s been about seven years since there were officially more “things” connected to the Internet than people. It looks like they’re keepers, and we’ve found countless uses for them. Now that the IoT seems to be firmly embedded in our lives, 2016 may be that… Read More 
Report: Apple Devices, "Phablets" Dominate Holiday Sales
Dec 28, 9:00PM
More consumers were unwrapping new “phablet” devices this holiday season, according to a report out this afternoon from Flurry. The big-screened form factor, whose name is a mashup of “phone” and “tablet,” accounted for 27 percent of a new device activations in the week leading up to Christmas – a doubling of its share from the year prior, and up from… Read More 
Trademark Filings Point To More Beats Radio Stations Coming To Apple Music
Dec 28, 6:47PM
Just-spotted trademark applications from Apple-owned Beats Electronics, LLC point to Apple’s plans to introduce more live streaming radio stations to its Apple Music service to accompany its 24-hour station, Beats 1. It appears Apple’s radio lineup may be expanding to include Beats 2, Beats 3, Beats 4, and Beats 5, according to the applications filed with the U.S. Patent and… Read More 
Live Studio Turns Your Videos And GIFs Into Live Photos
Dec 28, 5:41PM
A good handful of apps have emerged to expand the capabilities of Live Photos introduced in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, including a tool to turn Live Photos into GIFs, a Live Photo editor called Alive and another app known as Lively. A fourth option from an indie student developer is Live Studio which – though a slightly less-polished app overall – offers a few unique tricks… Read More 
Even In The Face Of Ebook Hegemony Used Bookstores Are Still Popular
Dec 28, 5:23PM
In an article that should bring you and yours a bit of holiday warmth, the Washington Post has found that despite Amazon used bookstores are still thriving – for now. They have found that various factors including the aging of the Baby Boom generation, the headwinds of digital adoption, and the general need for a place of community have all led to a resurgence in used bookstores. The… Read More 
Announcing The 9th Annual Crunchies Finalists
Dec 28, 5:00PM
After a multitude of worthy nominations, TechCrunch is proud to announce the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards finalists. Take a peek below at the full list of finalists for each award category. There are 12 categories that recognize a variety of significant accomplishments by the startup community, ranging from Fastest Rising Startup and Best Founder to our inaugural Include Diversity Award. When… Read More 
RoboFisher Will Let You Fish In Even The Harshest Of Storms
Dec 28, 4:13PM
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s inability to fish in thee! In northern, colder climes, fish, as we all know, tend to freeze right in place and take nutrients in through their skin because they have their pores open all the time. But what if you want to go catch some of those fish? Robofisher has the answer. This service allows you to rent time on a fishing… Read More 
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