It’s happening, folks. Following reports from as late as yesterday, HTC has announced that Google is acquiring talent from the Taiwanese phone maker to further its product development efforts, in a $1.1 billion deal. Many of the the employees from HTC who are joining Google have … | Continue reading
Google and HTC have entered into an agreement where certain HTC employees will join Google. As part of the transaction, HTC will receive $1.1B USD in cash from Google. Google will also receive non-exclusive license for HTC’s intellectual property. HTC says many of the employees w … | Continue reading
Curiously enough, it was none other than Apple that tipped us off that The Witness [$9.99] would be hitting the App Store super soon, and much as I speculated earlier today, "soon" means... Right now. The Witness launched on iOS at $9.99, which is far cheaper than the Steam versi … | Continue reading
Google is making another big buy into smartphone hardware — or at least the people responsible for creating it. The company has just confirmed that it plans to acquire part of HTC’s mobile division team for $1.1 billion. “These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks we’ve alrea … | Continue reading
Snapchat doesn’t technically have a developer platform, but that hasn’t stopped other startups from taking advantage of its new feature for attaching links to your Snaps and Stories. Sarahah was the first, allowing people to ask fellow Snappers for open-ended anonymous feedback. … | Continue reading
San Francisco blockchain startup ChainLink has pulled in $32 million through its presale and initial coin offering, which closed yesterday. The company provides middleware to enable “smart contracts” running on a blockchain to access external data. Smart contracts, or self-execut … | Continue reading
Do you have a marketing strategy that provides the confidence you need to make key decisions regarding this aspect of your business? Are you willing to consider each and every marketing method, even if it initially appears outdated? Most companies understand the importance of cre … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that the high cost of living is making some tech workers think twice about living in the Bay Area. But much of the appeal of living somewhere outside of the Bay Area isn’t about getting a higher paycheck, but rather — as we’ve talked about before in the Heartland T … | Continue reading
On the heels of its $70 million Series C, an expansion to new markets, and a partnership with Blink Fitness, the popular workout subscription service ClassPass is now beginning to experiment with variable pricing. The test was revealed by new ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman, speaking … | Continue reading
Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt … | Continue reading
It’s been the talk of the summer in Silicon Valley. CEOs at Uber and SoFi lost their jobs after whistleblowers came forward, alleging sexism and harassment. Powerful venture capitalists, including Dave McClure from 500 Startups lost their jobs after women, including Sarah Kunst, … | Continue reading
Eric Liu (Citizen University)If you happen to be in Redlands, California, on Thursday evening, September 21, I suggest you go by the headquarters of the tech company Esri to hear a talk by my friend Eric Liu, on the practical possibilities for civic engagement in our politically … | Continue reading
With Android, Google has already won the mobile war... at least, when it comes to software. Android is the world's most popular mobile operating system and is installed on 64.76 percent of phones and tablets worldwide, twice the size of iOS, according to NetMarketShare.Google's n … | Continue reading
Finding top talent is much easier for our recruiters at F-Secure in Finland, for a pretty obvious reason. “We have a strong brand in Finland,” Johanna Kurki, F-Secure’s Global Cyber Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Lead, explained in a new report called Milton Insights IV: … | Continue reading
Alchemist Accelerator, known for its specialty in working with enterprise startups, held its 16th demo day at Microsoft’s offices in Mountain View, California. 18 startups pitched ideas ranging from more traditional marketplaces to frontier aerospace technology. Addressing the p … | Continue reading
Today at Disrupt, 21.co CEO and co-founder Balaji Srinivasan outlined his company’s unusual evolution and announced the launch of a new system for kickstarting the site’s user base by incentivizing people with tokens for doing things like signing up, getting verified and perform … | Continue reading
If your wallet is full of crumpled cash and countless credit cards, then you’ve probably felt like throwing these all out one day. However, what are you supposed to use instead? Cryptocurrency? Well, not a bad idea. However, there are so many traps and pitfalls. Fortunately, the … | Continue reading
Papyrus, the world’s first fully comprehensive and scalable decentralized ecosystem for advertisers, publishers, developers and users built on top of Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts, on Tuesday 19th September announced Bounty program. Papyrus aims to develop a disruptive … | Continue reading
The Hedge Token team will revolutionise the way investors, evangelists and speculators view and interact on crypto markets by creating Indices (like the S&P 500), Crypto Traded Indices™ (Crypto Exchange Traded Funds) and a suite of crypto-derivative hedging instruments – accordin … | Continue reading
The Sloclap studio is pushing out an update to Absolver that will make changes to every aspect of the online melee adventure. This patch is available now, and it also includes six masks that tie into other games from publisher Devovler Digital. This comes as the game has already … | Continue reading
ICOs — or initial coin offerings — are emerging as a route for startups to raise money from a wide pool of investors through cryptocurrency networks. Now, one of the biggest and best-known accelerators in the world is mulling a way to use cryptocurrency networks and the blockcha … | Continue reading
The fintech revolution continues apace, and while many startups are hoping that newer and better tech will help them take business away from traditional banks, today a company has received a large round of funding to help those incumbent institutions better compete.10x Future Te … | Continue reading
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 we sat down with three experts from the esports world to explain why you should start paying attention to the industry. To kick it off, Heather Garozzo, a former competitive Counter Strike player and current Director of Fan Marketing for Team … | Continue reading
GUEST: Technology has become a part of every aspect of our lives, even in the places we least expect. The grocery store has a mobile app. The local bank has a chatbot. Strollers in the mall have touchscreens. The checkout counter is DIY. The parking lot has a security robot. Are … | Continue reading
Earlier today at Disrupt, Kirsten Green, founder of the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm Forerunner Ventures, sat down for a quick conversation about her work. Green has become one of the most sought-after e-commerce investors in the country, thanks to bets on compa … | Continue reading
The story goes that, during the Battle of Jericho, God directed seven priests to blast notes from their ram's horns as they circled the city, and the sound from those horns wobbled the walls of Jericho until they crumbled. This, almost certainly, did not happen. But sound has lon … | Continue reading
In a fairly epic new Vanity Fair profile, the magazine reports that Peter Thiel is the frontrunner to become the chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), a meta intelligence entity that functions independently from the nation’s spy agencies. Read More | Continue reading
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GUEST: There are 1,110 cryptocurrencies registered on Coinmarketcap.com; nine of them have a market cap of above $1 billion, and 377 have a market cap of above $1 million. This naturally begs questions like “Does the world need all these cryptocurrencies?”, “Will the one with the … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingForeign Policy: President Trump’s aggressive speech to the UN General Assembly is getting criticism from around the world—not only from the governments he criticized, but also from some U.S. allies. His emphasis on American interests over global interdependenc … | Continue reading
There are tons of companies trying to solve the problem of managing, monitoring and paying musicians for the songs they make. The latest entrant into this competitive marketplace is HAAWK, which just scored $2.5 million in new financing for its technology. Read More | Continue reading
GUEST: I was target of a review bombing campaign years ago, when I released Telepath RPG: Servants of God on Desura. I had committed the sin of pricing a role-playing game higher than what some players wished to pay, and the offended crowd took it upon themselves to down-vote the … | Continue reading
Uber’s first-ever chief brand officer, Bozoma Saint John, spoke today at TechCrunch Disrupt about the challenges ahead of her in her new role focused on transforming the Uber brand. The executive, who most recently led the global consumer marketing division for Apple Music and i … | Continue reading
Next month, Switzerland's hospitals will be equipped with a potentially revolutionary autonomous drone delivery network. Healthcare providers and a Menlo Park, California company called Matternet have teamed up to implement the system across the country. And on Wednesday, Mattern … | Continue reading
I've been dying to get my hands on Morphite [$7.99], the new action adventure title from developers Crescent Moon Games, Blowfish Studios, and We're Five Games, ever since I gazed upon its luscious low-poly environments when it was originally announced back in May of last year. I … | Continue reading
BlackBerry will team up with automotive company Delphi to provide some much needed support for self-driving cars — but the project won't have anything to do with old-school smartphone service. The two companies signed a commercial working partnership that will bring BlackBerry's … | Continue reading
Stormbound: Kingdom Wars is a collectible card game that lets you build a powerful deck and vanquish your foes in offline or PVP sessions. | Continue reading
In an age where voice assistants can play music, give directions, and define words, it’s no surprise that home lighting is becoming a leading use for this new category. Philips Hue takes your lighting setup to the next level. By using your voice to ask Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency trading is one of the core drivers of the blockchain space’s growth. After all, when every crypto-asset is capable of being transacted on an open market, the movement and circulation of value are only natural. It also serves to distribute an asset to potentially an … | Continue reading
What has Apple really done to improve Siri? To be honest, I’m not sure. After testing it for an entire day since Tuesday’s iOS 11 release, mostly on an iPad 9.7-inch and an iPhone 7 Plus, it’s obvious Siri is not a major priority for the company, even if some of the features are … | Continue reading
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Remember how we told you to turn off your Bluetooth? Well, iOS 11 just made that a lot harder. Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth used to be as simple as swiping upwards and pressing two buttons on your control panel. Those buttons still exist in your new and improved (but slightly … | Continue reading
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, the mobile take on the highly anticipated PC and console game with the same name, continues its development while in soft-launch, and today we got to see a trailer that shows off its Nemesis system, the gameplay twist that made the PC version of the g … | Continue reading
Colophon How does this marvelous web site work? Site Generation and Hosting This website it hosted on GitHub Pages , which integrates Jekyll, a static site generator. You can find the source for the site at http://github.com/sduff/sduff.github.io. Previously, I had written a cust … | Continue reading
Rescue teams across central Mexico are scrambling to find survivors trapped under debris after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck near the capital, Mexico City, killing hundreds of people. Photo: Associated Press | Continue reading
Knightscope, the robot security company famous for the R2-D2-like machine that recently drowned itself in a mall’s pool, has just unveiled an off-roading robot. The Silicon Valley company calls this model the K7. With its four wheels and high clearance, the K7 — which measures i … | Continue reading
It’s a rough time to update your graphics card due to surging prices caused by cryptocurrency mining and video memory prices, but that doesn’t mean you can’t put that money toward other upgrades. For example, AOC, one of the big names in the gaming-monitor space, has a new produc … | Continue reading