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Jeb! Gets! Phone! Call! On! His! Apple! Watch!
Jan 14, 12:48AM
The walking embodiment of the “I’m a PC” guy just discovered that his Apple Watch can make phone calls and he couldn’t be more excited :D Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was doing an interview with The Des Moines Register when his Apple Watch started going crazy. USA Today caught a video of Jeb’s reaction. “My watch can’t be… Read More
Babylon, The U.K. Digital Doctor App, Scores $25M To Develop AI-Driven Health Advice
Jan 14, 12:00AM
Hot on the heels of PushDoctor’s $8.2 million Series A, another U.K. startup playing in the digital health app space has picked up funding. Babylon Health, which like PushDoctor, lets you have video consultations with a doctor (and a lot more), has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Investment AB Kinnevik, the Swedish listed entrepreneurial investment. Read More 
Car Buying Platform Carwow Raises £12.5M Series B Led by Accel
Jan 14, 12:00AM
Carwow, the U.K. site that claims to offer a better way to buy a new car, has stopped off for some further funding. The four year-old startup has raised a £12.5 million Series B led by Accel, who I understand tried but failed to get in on the last round. Read More 
AWS Now Gives A Discount To Developers Who Reserve Instances On A Regular Schedule
Jan 13, 11:47PM
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform is introducing a new pricing tier today that will make its service more affordable for customers who only need to run their cloud-based applications during certain hours of the day or only on certain days of the month. Read More 
Uber And Lyft And The Debate Over Fingerprints In Austin
Jan 13, 11:00PM
It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city’s job. In a sane world a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving. Ridesharing policy is increasingly being framed as either/or brinksmanship, presenting a false choice. I reject that polarity, and I urge you to as well. Read More 
Wealthfront Launches Portfolio Review, An Advisory Tool For Avoiding Fees And Maximizing Savings
Jan 13, 10:57PM
Wealthfront, the robo-advisory wealth management service, is offering a tool of its own to help people get a window into the money they’re losing on fees. Read More 
Startups.co Acquires Zana, A Site For Educating Entrepreneurs
Jan 13, 10:46PM
Startups.co has been busy buying services like like Zirtual and Clarity.fm to build a network of connected products for entrepreneurs. Next up: Zana, a site that says it’s “democratizing entrepreneurship.” The acquisition was reported last week by Columbus Business First. Startups.co CEO Wil Schroter told me today that the deal was a mix of cash and stock, with a price in… Read More 
Uber To Allow Some People With Nonviolent Convictions To Become Drivers
Jan 13, 10:20PM
Uber is going to ease up on some of its driver-screening requirements in California in order to make room for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today. Under Proposition 47, a California ballot measure that passed in 2014, people with low-level, nonviolent felonies for things like theft, check fraud and possession of drugs can apply to remove… Read More 
GoPro Stock Drops 23% After Announcing Layoffs And Disappointing Q4 Guidance
Jan 13, 10:06PM
GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34 percent to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly jumped to 11.20 before trading was halted. The company has a market cap of about $2 billion in after-hour values. This came after the company announced it expects fourth quarter revenue will be… Read More 
PrintABowl 3D Prints Beautiful "Elevation" Devices For Your Pleasure
Jan 13, 9:51PM
If you enjoy a bit of the old Weed O’ Gandalf then you’re going to get a kick out of these smoking systems by PrintABowl. This company makes specially -designed smoking paraphernalia that is 3D printed using a ceramic molding method. While the bongs themselves aren’t 3D printed – that would be a bit difficult given the state of things – the molds used to make them… Read More 
Southeast Asia's GrabTaxi Opens Office In Seattle To Attract U.S. Engineering Talent
Jan 13, 9:30PM
GrabTaxi, the billion-dollar ride on-demand service that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is opening its first office in the U.S. as it seeks to widen its hiring efforts. Read More 
Programming Trends To Look For This Year
Jan 13, 8:00PM
There has never been a more exciting time for technologists and developers worldwide. The number of active development languages and frameworks, as well as development tools and learning avenues, continues to soar. Despite all these resources at our fingertips (or perhaps because of this abundance), it may not be obvious where industry trends are leading us. In my role as a coding bootcamp… Read More 
>From AI To Robotics, 2016 Will Be The Year When The Machines Start Taking Over
Jan 13, 8:00PM
For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve. And, as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its development follows the same curve, so we are seeing exponential advances in technologies such as sensors, networks, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The convergence of these technologies… Read More 
Apple Watch Scooped Up Over Half The Smartwatch Market In 2015
Jan 13, 7:36PM
Despite a late arrival to the wearables market, Apple claimed the top spot in terms of device sales, according to new research from Juniper out this week, which stated that the Apple Watch accounted for over 50 percent of smartwatch sales in 2015. Even more impressive is the fact Apple’s Watch only launched at the end of April – meaning it claimed the majority of the market… Read More 
In Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data Collection
Jan 13, 7:31PM
In a letter sent Wedesday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) sought to raise questions regarding Google’s use of data gathered from their EdTech initiatives. While I commend Google’s foray into education technology (“EdTech”), I am concerned about the extent to which Google may be collecting K-12 students’ personal data and using… Read More 
CoinDesk Gets Acquired By Digital Currency Group
Jan 13, 6:25PM
CoinDesk, one of the leading bitcoin news sites, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group according to a post on the company’s site. A source close to CoinDesk tells TechCrunch the price of the deal was around $500-600k. The bitcoin news site, which launched in 2013, had raised around $2 million in undisclosed funding from investors and according to our source had been trying to sell… Read More 
Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Best Overall Startup Of 2015
Jan 13, 6:00PM
There are only a few short weeks until the 9th Annual Crunchies show on February 8 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. At the show, some of the best and brightest startups and leaders are contending for the opportunity to win a Crunchie in one of the 12 categories up for grabs. Read More 
You Can Now Visit The World's Largest Model Railroad In Street View
Jan 13, 5:15PM
Over the years, Google has taken Street View to a number of exotic places. Today, it’s stepping things down by launching a set of Street View images for the world’s largest model railway, the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. Miniatur Wunderland isn’t your average model railway exhibit. We’re talking 13,000 kilometers of track, almost a thousand trains,… Read More 
Outlook's Mobile App Gets Integrated With Skype For Easier Access To Calls And Meetings
Jan 13, 5:07PM
Following yesterday’s news of its planned support for group calling on mobile, Skype just launched an integration with Microsoft’s mobile email and calendar application, Outlook. In the updated iOS app, a new setting allows you to turn on a “Skype Meeting” option when you’re either creating or editing an event within Outlook. By doing so, Outlook… Read More 
The 50 Unicorns Hiring The Fastest And The 50 Losing The Most Employees
Jan 13, 5:07PM
A recruiter who asked not to be named separately tells us that the grocery delivery company Instacart has parted ways with numerous recruiters in anticipation of a hiring slowdown. Instacart’s VP of People, Matt Caldwell, confirms that the company is no longer using contract recruiters and is slowing down its total number of full-time hires, but says that’s a reflection of… Read More 
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