If, or more accurately, when your company is hit by a cyber attack, do you have what you need to recover? Do you know what kind of losses you can afford to absorb in your bottom line? How do you manage your risks? Have you thought about whether you need cyber insurance? Read More | Continue reading
In the grand scheme of things, it appears we have just reached the point of a new evolution in retail. Read More | Continue reading
Apple today announced Swift Playgrounds for the iPad, a new project that aims to teach kids to code in Swift. When you first open it, Swift Playground presents you with a number of basic coding lessons, as well as challenges. The interface looks somewhat akin to Codecademy, but i … | Continue reading
At today’s WWDC Keynote, Apple has swung open the gates for developers. Not only has Apple opened up Siri to third-party developers, but the company is also letting third-party devs into sacred space: messages. With iMessage Apps, users can simply open up an app drawer from right … | Continue reading
Apple today has made a big change to its suite of native applications for iOS devices, like Mail, Stocks, Compass, Calculator, Watch, Weather and others: it’s now making these available as standalone downloads in the iTunes App Store. What that means for end users of iOS devices … | Continue reading
Today Apple showed off a brand-new version of Apple music, which the company said was built “from the ground up” with simplicity in mind.The company also boasted that the service now has 15 million paid subscribers. While most are happy with the content provided by Apple Music, t … | Continue reading
Today at Apple’s WWDC 2016 conference, Apple SVP Craig Federighi announced a major update to Apple’s Internet of Things platform, HomeKit. The big news is Apple built a dedicated app to control all the devices in a person’s home. This will let homeowners use one app to control li … | Continue reading
Remember that photo you took at a restaurant a few years ago? The one of the fancy dessert you want to show to a friend in the bar? In the past, you’ll have had to scroll through a thousand photos; a real conversation stopper. With the new Photos app in iOS 10, Apple is firing up … | Continue reading
Apple redesigned the lock screen with iOS 10. With “Raise to Wake” you can see your lock screen without touching your phone. Your phone wakes up. This move was needed as Touch ID had become so fast with the iPhone 6s that you wouldn’t see your notifications on your lock screen. N … | Continue reading
Apple is taking on TimeHop, Facebook On This Day, and Google Photos Assistant all at once with its new iOS 10 feature Memories that’s a tab inside Photos. Using local, on-device facial recognition and AI detection of what’s in your images, it can combine photos and videos into th … | Continue reading
Sure the Xbox One S was the big news from today’s event, but Microsoft had one major surprise up its sleeve: Project Scorpio. Xbox head Phil Spencer took the stage one final time to announce the “latest addition to the Xbox One family” with a dramatic trailer offering glimpses of … | Continue reading
As widely expected, Apple is lavishing TLC on its voice assistant, Siri, at this year’s WWDC. The company has announced it will be letting developers bake Siri’s voice functionality into their apps — so users will be able to tap into third party services just by saying ‘Hey Siri… … | Continue reading
Online shopping is about to get even easier.At WWDC today in San Francisco, Apple finally announced that Apple Pay is coming to the web. Mac users will be able to pay online in Safari using Apple Pay, and authenticate their purchase using Touch ID on their phone or watch.Previous … | Continue reading
Apple just unveiled macOS 12 at WWDC, the next version of Apple’s operating system. Among other things, the company announced a brand new way to unlock your Mac. Instead of typing your long and boring password dozens of times a day, your Mac will be automatically unlocked if you’ … | Continue reading
If Apple’s naming scheme was starting to bother you (with iOS, tvOS and watchOS working under different naming rules from OS X), fret no more. As the company announced today, OS X is getting a new name that brings order to Apple’s nomenclature. Behold the new name of OS X: macOS. … | Continue reading
Move Loot, the online secondhand furniture marketplace that offered a full-service pickup, delivery, storage and listing service for buyers and sellers, has been having a lot of issues recently. The company claims that an acquisition is in process and will complete in a few weeks … | Continue reading
Apple just announced minor updates to the operating system that powers the Apple TV. The news comes from Apple SVP Eddy Cue from the company’s developer’s conference WWDC.The future of TV is App, Apple often says, and today’s update reinforces that mantra. Today’s news brings mor … | Continue reading
Storehouse, an aesthetically-pleasing and exceedingly well-designed mobile app for sharing multimedia stories, announced today that it will be sunsetting services for its users on July 15. Furthermore, CEO Mark Kawano tells me that the entire team at the app, currently eight empl … | Continue reading
Apple just turned the Apple Watch into an SOS button at WWDC. With watchOS 3, you can long press the side button to start a call with the emergency services. When you hold the side button, a countdown starts. If you keep pushing, a call starts and you can talk with the emergency … | Continue reading
Want to stand out while staying inside, playing video games? Microsoft’s got you covered. Along with that shiny new “robot white” Xbox One S, the company unveiled Xbox Design Lab, a site that lets users customize their controller’s color. That includes pretty much every part of t … | Continue reading
Today at WWDC, Apple launched the third version of watchOS, and it’s all about speed. The company is really touting how fast apps will now run, a much needed improvement from the lagginess of the first and second versions of the operating system. In fact, the company says that ap … | Continue reading
Katie Jacobs Stanton has accepted the role of chief marketing officer at genomics startup Color. The former Twitter exec left her role at Twitter in February and considered a number of options before landing at the genetics services company. Color was founded by early Twitter ve … | Continue reading
This morning at Apple’s annual WWDC event, CEO Tim Cook gave attendees an update on the sizable growth of its App Store and the developer community in general. Today, he announced the company hit a new milestone with the App Store: there are now 2 million apps on the App Store – … | Continue reading
There are a number of ways that Microsoft plans to take advantage of its $26.2 billion LinkedIn acquisition, ranging from data-gathering to getting a foothold in social to plans for re-imagining the recruitment and talent management businesses and more. But one of the more straig … | Continue reading
That’s “S” for “slim.” Or maybe “svelte.” Or “skinny.” Or…”something.” As anticipated and later full-on leaked, the Xbox has slimmed down just in time for swimsuit season with the One S. Microsoft revealed the upgraded console this morning at its E3 kickoff event here in Los Ange … | Continue reading
After years wining and dining clients as a high-end real-estate wheeler dealer Tablelist founder Julian Jung was well aware of the trials and tribulations involved in giving prospects the good life and conspicuous consumption they wanted.So the entrepreneurially minded Jung start … | Continue reading
Social publishing platform Wattpad is announcing one of the first partnerships as part of its new Wattpad Studios program — the company has struck a deal with Turner to help generate ideas for shows on Turner networks, starting with the upcoming Tales from the Crypt revival on TN … | Continue reading
Making it easier to type using emoji is something a number of companies are working on. Microsoft’s SwiftKey is testing an app that offers emoji suggestions as you type, for example. Google’s iOS keyboard app Gboard debuted with emoji search. Now there’s an app for Android users … | Continue reading
Microsoft is holding its annual Xbox media briefing in Los Angels ahead of E3. So if you don’t care about Apple’s WWDC, you’re in for a treat. You can watch the live stream right here.The keynote is scheduled to start at 9:30 AM in Los Angeles, 12:30 PM in New York, 5:30 PM in Lo … | Continue reading
Snapchat is ready to make the big bucks with a slew of important updates to its ads offering. They’ll give advertisers the spotlight, buying flexibility, return on investment opportunities, and measurement to throw huge budgets at Snapchat’s 150 million daily users.Here’s a break … | Continue reading
As Rafiki once said, it is time. The Austin Meetup goes down tomorrow, and we couldn’t be more excited to have some of the brightest new startups in the area pitch on our stage. And now, with great pleasure, it’s time to introduce the judges who will join us on stage and help us … | Continue reading
See you tonight in Warsaw, guys! We’ll be having our semi-annual mini-meetup at Campus Warsaw and I’d like to see you there.The Warsaw event will be held on June 13 at Campus Warsaw 27/31 Ząbkowska. It starts at 8pm and we’ll have five startups pitching on stage.The Krakow event … | Continue reading
European privacy campaigner Max Schrems’ legal challenge to Facebook has already been credited with the demise of a fifteen-year-old data transfer arrangement between the region and the U.S. last year, causing huge uncertainty for transatlantic data flows after Safe Harbor was su … | Continue reading
Telling a story, selling a product and leading a user inside a VR ad environment was previously uncharted territory. While exploring this new medium, we quickly realized that VR holds a huge opportunity for all types of advertisers — if they understand how to harness it. Read Mor … | Continue reading
The TechCrunch Summer Party is a thing of tradition and we hope you can make it out this year. Like in year’s past we’ll gather on the spacious grounds of August Capital in Menlo Park and enjoy an evening of cocktails and the spirit of entrepreneurship.Tickets are very limited an … | Continue reading
On a day with a couple of huge deals being announced, we have a much more modest one. OneLogin announced it was buying Portadi, a San Jose startup that launched at the beginning of 2015, for an undisclosed amount of money. In a market with better financed competitors like Okta wi … | Continue reading
Nameless.tv is bringing some of the communal feeling of watching regular TV — you know, the sense that people are watching along with you – to the experience of streaming online videos. “Watching videos alone is boring,” argued CEO Kareem Rahma. The New York-based startup was pre … | Continue reading
Huge news today in the world of M&A in enterprise and social networking services: Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, for $26 billion, or $196 per share, in cash. The transaction has already been approved by both boards . L … | Continue reading
Men have a critical role to play in bringing about gender equality in the tech community, if we get our act together… Read More | Continue reading
I grew up with guns. One gun, my grandfather’s WWII Colt M1911, looms large in my memory. My father tells the story of one night when Grandpa got drunk and shot a hole in the wall of his small house in Martins Ferry, Ohio. The tale was a warning: don’t be stupid. I took it to hea … | Continue reading
Carro, a Singapore-based online marketplace for buying and selling cars, has landed $5.3 million to expand its service across Southeast Asia. Read More | Continue reading
The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware and software has raised a $50 million round to keep up the pace. Meta, which makes a headset/glasses that are part-AR viewer, and part- … | Continue reading
Microsoft has a new Xbox One to showcase at E3 later today, and here’s what it’s going to look like. Rumors of a slimmer, cheaper Xbox One have been quite persistent for the past few weeks. And the NeoGAF forums leaked two i Read More | Continue reading
Symantec announced over night it had purchased Blue Coat Systems for $4.65 billion with the hopes of creating an enterprise security juggernaut. As part of the deal, Blue Coat CEO Greg Clark will take over the same role at Symantec. It was a stunning turn of events for Blue Coat, … | Continue reading
The limited partner world of finding and selecting venture funds to invest in is similar to what venture capitalists go through with startups. Read More | Continue reading
Scott Thrift takes the long view on things. The Brooklyn-based artist has been making crazy clocks for most of this decade, starting out with the incredible ThePresent seasons clock and culminating in something he’s calling Today. His Kickstarter project for the new clock has alr … | Continue reading
Japanese mobile messaging app Line is banking more than $20 million per month selling sticker packs, which typically trade for $1-2 for sets of 6-12, according to data from the company. Read More | Continue reading