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RIP Threadflip
Jan 13, 12:26AM
Threadflip, an online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing is no more as of Wednesday at midnight. An email sent to users explains the startup founded in 2011 will shut down operations and roll into clothing rental startup, Le Tote. With Threadflip, users were able to take photos of their items and list them for sale via its app. The company covered shipping costs but took… Read More
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Announces $100M Philanthropic Education Fund
Jan 13, 12:08AM
Reed Hastings took to Facebook Tuesday to announce that he would be personally funding a new $100 million philanthropic fund, focusing exclusively on education-related projects and organizations. The mission on the website’s homepage details a commitment to enhancing the educational experience of children. Currently, too many children do not have access to amazing schools. Our aim is… Read More 
Uber Might Owe Tens Of Thousands Of California Passengers $1.8 Million In Class Action Lawsuit
Jan 12, 11:30PM
Several Uber customers in California received notice today they’re involved in a class-action lawsuit against the rideshare giant. Uber agreed to the terms of a $1.8 million suit alleging it inappropriately charged customers an “airport fee toll” late last year. Read More 
Unlocking Trapped Engineers
Jan 12, 10:00PM
Millions of software engineers are caged. Their talent remains unseen behind the iron bars of the misconception of a shortage of software engineers. An estimated one million technology jobs will go unfilled by 2020, according to a report put forth by Microsoft in 2012. Publications like The Wall Street Journal and even the White House repeatedly cite this projection, ringing a nationwide… Read More 
Visa Checkout Announces Walmart, Starbucks As Merchant Partners
Jan 12, 9:36PM
Today, Visa Checkout announced that some major new companies would se starting to utilize the service. Starbucks, Walgreens, NFL Shop, HSN and Match.com have all signed on and will be joining Checkout’s more than 250,000 merchants using the express online payments service. Walmart.com integration will also be coming later this year, according to the company. The online payments… Read More 
Citrix Is The Latest Enterprise Tech Firm Under Pressure From Activist Investors
Jan 12, 8:45PM
Technology companies, particularly those with an enterprise bent, appear to be coming under increasing pressure from activist investors who want to squeeze out profits at the cost of products and jobs. Last year EMC pressed by an activist investor eventually sold the company to Dell for $67 billion. Citrix is the latest company facing this issue –and from the same investor as it… Read More 
Skype Brings Group Video Calls To Mobile Devices
Jan 12, 8:40PM
In celebration of its 10-year anniversary, Skype announced today the launch of free group video calling on Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows 10 mobile devices. The feature has been available for a couple of years on the desktop, for both Mac and PC, but had yet to make its way to mobile. Read More 
Google Focuses On Virtual Reality With New Lead For Cardboard
Jan 12, 7:54PM
According to a report by Re/Code, Google is doubling down on virtual reality, with its VP for product management, Clay Bavor, dropping his responsibilities for other apps like Gmail and Drive to focus solely on Cardboard and VR. Bavor has been with Google for over 10 years, so trusting this budding unit with him is a massive signal that Google is in it to win it as far as VR goes. Its success… Read More 
Meet Square's Gloria Kimbwala, An Engineer Dedicated To Advancing Diversity In Tech
Jan 12, 7:07PM
She went through Square’s College Code Camp exactly two years ago. Today, she’s running it. Code Camp, now in its sixth session, is a five-day program at Square designed to immerse young female computer science or engineering majors in coding workshops, leadership sessions and a hackathon. Kimbwala attended Code Camp when she was pursuing her master’s degree, in which she… Read More 
Get Your Crunchies Tickets Now, And Remember The Crunchies Of Yore
Jan 12, 7:00PM
The 9th Annual Crunchies are a little over a month away, and we’re gearing up to make this show one of the best ones yet. In the lead up to the Crunchies, we thought it’d be fun to take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of the Crunchies of yesteryear to see what the startup and tech scenes were like in the past. In this piece, we’ll look at the second and third… Read More 
Lyft Announces Partnership To Help Seniors Without Smartphones Get Around
Jan 12, 6:36PM
Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft have always been awesome at empowering people without viable forms of transportation to get around. A key demographic that’s been left out of reaping these benefits, however, is the nation’s senior citizens. Today, Lyft announced a partnership with the National MedTrans Network that will provide seniors in NYC a simpler way to get rides… Read More 
Delicious, Former Web 2.0 Darling, Is Now Managed By New Alliance, Rolls Back Most Recent Changes
Jan 12, 6:30PM
Once upon a time (maybe around 2004), the social bookmarking service Delicious was the hottest thing on the web. It hit all the right buzzwords of the time (collaborative tagging, folksonomy, AJAX), but like so many other services, Yahoo simply let it whither after it acquired the company in 2005. Since then, it has changed owners twice — first to AVOS, a company owned by the founders… Read More 
Google I/O Will Hit Mountain View On May 18-20 At Shoreline Amphitheatre
Jan 12, 6:09PM
We don’t have too many details yet, but Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai just let the world know where and when Google I/O will take place this year. The conference usually takes place in San Francisco at the Moscone Center, but it seems like the company wanted to bring it closer to them — and have it outdoors. Read More 
The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Coming To Atlanta And Boston
Jan 12, 6:04PM
It’s that time of the year again. After a restful holiday season, filled with Disrupt Europe and CES, we’re ready to hit the road again and visit some of our favorite cities. The first TC Meetups of the year will go down in Boston and Atlanta, on February 23 and February 25 respectively. We’ve visited both cities for the past few years, and have never been let down by the… Read More 
Sketchfab Adds 'View In VR' Button To Its 3D Model Sharing Platform
Jan 12, 5:53PM
In its latest feature expansion, 3D model repository Sketchfab has just added a VR button, allowing owners of Google Cardboard to don their VR goggles to get a more immersive view of the content on its platform. Because 2016 is ‘year of the great VR reboot’, and therefore also the year of the scramble to create VR content. Read More 
SmashFly, A Service That Looks To Snag New Hires More Effectively, Raises $22M
Jan 12, 5:30PM
Mike Hennessy thinks finding potential recruits is just like marketing — you have to keep them interested and snatch them at the right time. That’s why he started SmashFly, a startup that manages inbound interest from potential recruits and keeps them engaged with a company that’s eventually hoping to convert them to an employee. To do that, SmashFly has raised $22 million in… Read More 
The First Virtual Reality Roller Coaster Will Take You To Space
Jan 12, 5:17PM
Following CES in Las Vegas last week, VR is on the minds and lips of everyone in the tech and gaming space. But even though virtual reality is more immersive than any form of entertainment previously known, it still can’t manipulate all the senses at once. Alton Towers Resort has developed a way to make the VR experience even more true to life… By strapping you to a roller… Read More 
HackerRank Makes Technical Recruiting More Transparent
Jan 12, 5:00PM
Recruiting software engineers is a massive headache for both startups and established companies. For a while now, HackerRank has tried to make both applying for these jobs and hiring the right talent a little bit easier. Today, the company is taking a major new step in this direction with the launch of HackerRank Jobs, a job search app that connects companies directly with software engineers… Read More 
Telegram's Troubled Times In The Middle East
Jan 12, 4:45PM
Telegram has been down in Saudi Arabia since Sunday evening and the company has been left bewildered by the abrupt disruption to their platform. “I confirm, Telegram traffic is partly limited in Saudi Arabia since yesterday evening. The reasons are unknown,” Pavel Durov said via Twitter. The reports began to trickle in earlier that day by users as they tried to determine whether… Read More 
VLC Arrives On Apple TV With Support For Casting, Playback Of Local And Network Files
Jan 12, 4:42PM
VLC, the popular video-playing software offering support for a wide range of media formats, is now available for Apple TV. For those with large video collections, that means you’ll be able to play your files on your TV’s big screen without having to convert them to a supported format. One of the more notable features in the new release is that the VLC app now supports… Read More 
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