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HTC Hints It's Looking At Mobile VR
Feb 27, 2:35AM
Despite not unboxing a new high end smartphone at Mobile World Congress this week, embattled mobile maker HTC has told TechCrunch it’s not ready to admit premium defeat — saying it has a new flagship device coming soon… Read More
Color Switch Falls To The No. 2 Games Slot (But Is Still As Addictive As Ever)
Feb 27, 12:29AM
Did you hear about that crazy-popular game that sat in the No. 1 Games spot on iTunes for more than a month and a half? I’ll give you a hint, it has color in the title. Color Switch is a tap-based obstacle game that adds an additional level of difficulty because you are constantly changing colors. The game offers three modes: race, challenge and continuous play. And if you are feeling… Read More 
LinkedIn And The Golden Age Of American Education
Feb 27, 12:00AM
A new book declaring the end of the golden age of economic growth has set the wonky world of economics aflame. Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth juxtaposes the world-altering impact of 19th-century inventions with a disbelief that today’s digital transformation might foster growth on the same scale as refrigeration, aviation or the birth of telecommunication. Read More 
Highlights From Mobile World Congress 2016
Feb 26, 11:08PM
This week, we went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2016. We covered a panel about mobile ad blocking, Mark Zuckerberg talked about Free Basics and encryption, Samsung announced the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, we went hands on with the modular LG G5, and oh, by the way, tablets are dead. Here’s everything you need to know from the event. Read More 
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Feb 26, 11:06PM
This week the Apple vs. FBI battle raged on, we went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, Facebook changed up the Like button, and more. Here are the top stories of the week. Read More 
Digg CEO Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg and The Evolution Of Content and Content Monetisation
Feb 26, 10:00PM
Gary Liu on why Digg’s struggles, evolution, and the need for content creators to change in as ad dollars diminish. Read More 
This BB-8 Is Made Entirely Of LEGO Parts And Actually Rolls Like BB-8 Should
Feb 26, 9:50PM
Ready for your semi-regular reminder that some people are just way, way too clever? These folks managed to make a BB-8 model…. completely out of LEGO parts. And it actually rolls. And its head actually stays in place on top, as BB-8’s head should. Read More 
Venmo Halts New Developer Access To Its API
Feb 26, 9:46PM
This is not how you run a platform. Developers remember. Pull the rug out from under them once, and they’ll be reluctant to stand with you in the future. So despite having a record-setting January with $1 billion transferred in its peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo just shot itself in the foot. After six years of providing an API for developers to build experiences atop its money… Read More 
Gillmor Gang LIVE 02.26.16
Feb 26, 9:12PM
Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our LIVE chat on Chat Center (during the LIVE show broadcast only) Our show G3 – a women’s roundtable discussion …tech + culture + opinions on Facebook HERE G3 records live today at ustream.tv/g3 at… Read More 
What Does A Downturn Mean For Tech Regulation?
Feb 26, 9:00PM
All it takes is a quick look at the market to see that we are in for a bumpy ride — and a longer-term downturn may be imminent. Tech is not immune to that, which means we’ll see a hit to valuations, VC funding and fundraising. Lots of experts have talked about what that might mean for activity in the tech sector broadly. But what does it mean for the intersection of regulation… Read More 
Tribeca Venture Partners Closes Its Second NY-Focused Fund
Feb 26, 8:22PM
Tribeca Venture Partners, a New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2011, is today announcing that it has closed its second fund with $107 million — significantly more than its $65 million debut fund. That’s good news for New York startups. In a conversation earlier this week with Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem — Tribeca’s co-founders and its sole… Read More 
Luxe Could Be Getting $50M From Hertz At $110M Pre-Money Valuation
Feb 26, 7:50PM
Luxe is in talks with a strategic investor that will infuse the company with “tens of millions” in new financing from Hertz, our sources tell us. One source tells us that the round could be around $50 million at a pre-money valuation above $110 million. This source also suggested that existing investors may participate in this round. Our understanding is that the round is still… Read More 
Augmented Reality Computer Vision Startup Wrnch Gets $1.8M Series A Led By Mark Cuban
Feb 26, 6:13PM
Talk to anyone in the AR space right now and the phrase “democratizing x” is bound to arise two or three dozen times. Wrnch CEO Paul Kruszewski says that concept is especially true for the computer vision space, with war chest-toting companies like Magic Leap powering their own technologies while dramatically smaller teams are left to piecemeal their own solutions. Today… Read More 
Social Media Marketing Company Clickable Acquires Talkwheel
Feb 26, 5:38PM
Talkwheel, a company that offers a unique way to visualize customer conversations, has been acquired by Clickable. I last wrote about Talkwheel in 2014. The company aggregates the online conversation around a given company or topic in a circular format — it’s supposed to help you follow these often complicated and dispersed conversations. The format can then be embedded on a… Read More 
Dragon Front Is Like VR Magic: The Gathering
Feb 26, 5:30PM
Tower above your army of monsters, lean across the battlefield and make your opponent’s face explode. That’s Dragon Front, a virtual reality card game coming to Oculus Rift. While many VR games see you flailing your arms or head about, or swinging swords and shooting bows and arrows, Dragon Front is decidedly more chill. That’s not to say it’s boring. In fact,… Read More 
Google.org Awards $3 Million To Racial Justice Organizations In SF Bay Area
Feb 26, 5:00PM
Google.org has awarded a total of $3 million in grants to San Francisco Unified School District’s My Brother and Sister’s Keeper program (MBSK), Oakland’s Roses in Concrete Community School, Beyond 12 and Equal Justice Initiative, all of which are local organizations working to eliminate racial bias either in the education system or in local communities. Back in November… Read More 
Zenefits Is Laying Off Roughly 250 Employees
Feb 26, 4:46PM
Zenefits is laying off around 17 percent of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales division, according to an email sent to the company by CEO David Sacks. “When I became CEO of Zenefits, I promised on Day 1 to reset our culture, refocus our strategy on serving small businesses, and create a new beginning for success in the… Read More 
Spark, The Mailbox Alternative, Lands On The iPad
Feb 26, 4:23PM
Spark, the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct Mailbox, has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app sports a number of popular features, including read later and mailbox organization. However, the system also creates read receipts and allows you to send emoticon replies to messages. The app has been updated to support… Read More 
Birdly Wants To Help Call Your Customer Data By Talking To A Slack Bot
Feb 26, 4:11PM
The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an app like Expensify is now Birdly, a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesforce and Zendesk. “It was really difficult for companies to adopt [the app] because you had to… Read More 
Lessons In Moving Your Startup Overseas To Silicon Valley
Feb 26, 4:00PM
As a CEO and immigrant worker (take that, Trump!), I always get asked about moving my company to Silicon Valley. I usually answer that I believe you can build a world-changing organization anywhere, but the job is always easier at your industry’s center of gravity. For fashion, it’s Paris; for finance, it’s London; for tech, it’s Silicon Valley. Read More 
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