Search engines on large e-commerce sites often spit up a lot of results, which is great if you want to browse, but otherwise annoying. Twiggle thinks it has the solution. Internet conglomerate Naspers agrees, because it has led the Tel Aviv-based startup’s $12.5 million Series A. … | Continue reading
Rackspace was one of the founders of the OpenStack cloud computing platform project (together with NASA) and the company has long offered enterprises the option to manage their private OpenStack deployments for them. For the most part, that meant those companies had to build thei … | Continue reading
GPS navigation. Entertainment systems that offer streaming music. Bluetooth door locks. As vehicles are increasingly connected to the internet, they also become vulnerable to hacker attacks. Now, a Tel Aviv-based startup called Karamba Security has raised $2.5 million in seed fun … | Continue reading
Hey. You. On the computer. You heard about this Star Wars thing? I’m told it’s pretty popular with the kids these days. It’s a movie series, you see, about ——JUST KIDDING, HOLY CRAP EVERYONE, NEW STAR WARS TRAILER. Read More | Continue reading
Reddit’s long-awaited native mobile applications – the first-ever to be built by the company in-house – have now launched. Available today for both iOS and Android, the new Reddit app will not only serve as the official means for accessing Reddit on mobile amid a sea of third-par … | Continue reading
Japan-based messaging app kicked off its move into chat bots today, beating Facebook to the punch in the process, but it has been a challenging week for the company, which rumored to be pursuing an IPO, in two of its most important markets. Read More | Continue reading
While Siri now lives on the phones of hundreds of millions of Apple users, and a few people are responsible for helping get the now ubiquitous assistant off the ground. One of those people is Dag Kittlaus, co-founder and CEO of Sir and now co-founder and CEO of Viv, a new platfor … | Continue reading
The OpenStack Foundation today launched Mitaka, the thirteenth release of its open source enterprise cloud platform. In many ways, this new release shows the growing maturity of the project, which was originally incubated in 2010 by Rackspace and NASA. Instead of lots of major fe … | Continue reading
RiskRecon, a startup that helps companies make objective security assessments of third-party cloud vendors, emerged from stealth today with a $3 million seed round led by General Catalyst. Several unnamed private investors also participated in the round. I’m guessing one of those … | Continue reading
If you’re like me, you bought an Apple Watch before Apple announced the Hermès special edition in September, but you’ve fallen in love with the Apple Watch Hermès since then — yes, the Hermès Watch looks awesome. And yet, it’s hard to justify buying a new Apple Watch if you alrea … | Continue reading
Angel investors who wish they could invest alongside top-shelf VCs like Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock and 500 Startups finally have an opportunity to do just that. Crowdfunder today announced the world’s first VC Index Fund, which enables smaller investors to get involved with mu … | Continue reading
Clutter, the on-demand storage space looking to take on the likes of MakeSpace, has today announced the close of a $20 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital. Sequoia also led a $9 million Series A for Clutter back in October. The premise behind Clutter is simple. Almost e … | Continue reading
The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel suggests Apple had a tougher time shifting its devices over Chinese New Year than in prior years, with the market watcher noting no growth in marketshare for iOS over the three months ending February 2016 — the first time si … | Continue reading
The bots are coming! Facebook is hotly tipped to open its Messenger platform for bots at its F8 next week, and that’s appears to have trigger numerous rivals into moving first. Kik launched its bot shop earlier this week, and now Japan’s Line has followed suit. Read More | Continue reading
Google’s goal is to be completely powered by renewable energy within a decade. Today it announced an investment that might make that ambitious goal a little easier. The company has put an undisclosed amount of seed funding into the Center for Resource Solutions so the non-profit … | Continue reading
Intercom, a startup helping businesses talk to their customers, has raised an additional $50 million in funding. Intercom’s products cover everything from website chat to marketing to customer support. When the company raised funding last year, co-founder and CEO Eoghan McCabe (p … | Continue reading
After sounding a dour note in its last earnings report, Samsung Electronics issued unexpectedly upbeat quarterly guidance today. The company said it expects to report consolidated sales of about 49 trillion won and operating profit of about 6.6 trillion won in the first quarter o … | Continue reading
What happens when you put a technology company together with a drug company and try to come up with unique new ways to understand Parkinson’s disease? You end up with a project that uses sensors on the body and in the home to provide continuous measurement of a patient’s symptoms … | Continue reading
Fintech is in the midst of a golden age of investment and innovation. According to KPMG and CB Insights, investments in fintech startups doubled between 2014 and 2015, to $14 billion. However, comparatively little of this money has been focused on the $138 billion market opportun … | Continue reading
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tech industry. Yet the way IoT is evolving raises serious concerns: There are too many complexities, moving parts, diversities and competing trends and technologies that must be managed when developing IoT … | Continue reading
To attempt to create a program that successfully imitates the style of one of the greatest painters of all time is hubristic and doomed to fail, but those characteristics are just like catnip to the men and women at the bleeding edge of tech — and the result of their labors is re … | Continue reading
Smartling, the translation tech company, has acquired TechStars alumni Jargon on Crunchbase which makes tools for mobile developers who want to “localize” their apps for different international markets, and the devices and app stores that are relevant in each one.New York-based S … | Continue reading
Is Yik Yak a thing anymore? Not so much, according to download stats, traffic charts, surveys, and a source that says the college app’s monthly user count has been declining. That source with intimate knowledge of the company also tipped me off that Yik Yak‘s original CTO Tom Che … | Continue reading
Ask most writers and editors and I’ll bet they agree: Writing headlines is hard. It’s not easy to come up with something exciting and attention-grabbing that also conveys the important information about a story in just a few words. Meanwhile, brands and marketers are creating mor … | Continue reading
Pond5, a company allowing users to buy and sell stock videos, photos and other media content, is adding a big name from the advertising world to its board of directors — Torrence Boone, Google’s vice president of global agency sales and services.Boone comes from the ad agency wor … | Continue reading
Romania has long been a hotbed for tech companies outsourcing contact centers, software development and even research and development. Now, Romania is growing its own entrepreneurial culture. Read More | Continue reading
Upvotes! What are they good for? Soon, they might get your very, very early stage company into Y Combinator. The incubator is experimenting with using the Hacker News community to pick startups for its Fellowship program. Read More | Continue reading
Today, GIFs have become a popular way communicate sentiment online and in mobile messaging, where written text doesn’t always do the job. More expressive than an emoji, these looping images let you share a specific thought or feeling with little effort. But today, a new app is la … | Continue reading
Reddit is looking to shape itself a bit more around the needs of the individual user in order to make the community more accepting as a whole. Reddit users will soon be able to block and mute other users on the site so they can customize their experience, the New York Times repor … | Continue reading
The team behind Monstro is launching a new microfund called Monstro Ventures according to co-founder David Prager. For the unfamiliar, Monstro is an ad agency with headquarters in Oakland and another office in Los Angeles, that specializes in video creative, including videos that … | Continue reading
Segment helps developers manage all the analytics data their apps and services generate. Besides fanning out this information to analytics services like Google Analytics and Mixpanel, or marketing tools like Marketo, all this data lands in a data warehouse. At best, though, all t … | Continue reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook is joining the board of directors of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonprofit organization founded by the Kennedy family. Cook has been an outspoken CEO, personally defending equality and civil rights. In December 2015, Cook already received the Ripple of Ho … | Continue reading
On Monday, the Associated Press got early access to a report commissioned by the FAA on how drones flying over or near people should be categorized and restricted. Today, that report was officially released, with all the juicy (and boring) details you’ve come to expect from gover … | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of 360 cameras on the market these days. If you have a desire to shoot immersive video and a ton of disposable income there’s nothing stopping you! The issue is what happens to that content after its captured. I’d say 90% of the photos I take on my DSLR never … | Continue reading
Meet TechCrunch’s writers and fellow Facebook developers the night before the madness of Facebook’s F8 conference begins. Join us at the Southern Pacific Brewing Company at 620 Treat Avenue in SF’s Mission District from 6-9pm on Monday April 11th. You can tell us about your start … | Continue reading
Hungry? Lazy? Domino’s has the app for you. The company today unveiled a new mobile application that lets you place an order simply by launching the app on your phone. No clicking necessary. The delivery chain keeps coming up with new – and yes, sometimes gimmicky – ways to make … | Continue reading
On-demand delivery is something consumers have come to expect. With that in mind, startup Dispatch is building a fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles designed for sidewalks and bike paths. Today, the company announced a $2 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Di … | Continue reading
The advent of email tracking has caused quite a bit of ruckus, and is generally, rather creepy. A NY-based startup called One More Company made an attempt to tackle this head-on with a service called Trackbuster, but now they’re interested in something else: “enhancing emails” by … | Continue reading
As Microsoft works its way toward implementing the security plan that CEO Satya Nadella outlined in a talk last Fall in DC, part of that has been creating tools and part buying them. Today, it announced that Adallom, a company it bought last year was becoming generally available … | Continue reading
The past several months have brought a string of terror attacks and violent incidents, which not only claim lives but cause worldwide feelings of fear and vulnerability. It seems that groups of terrorists like ISIS can strike when and where they want. As the authorities ramp up s … | Continue reading
Raisin, previously known as SavingGlobal, has launched its pan-European savings marketplace, expanding for the first time beyond its home country of Germany and neighboring Austria. And in doing so it’s attempting to crack open the savings deposit market in Europe, taking advanta … | Continue reading
The third largest smartphone maker by global marketshare, China’s Huawei, has just unveiled two new flagship handsets — announcing the 5.2 inch P9 and 5.5 inch P9 Plus at an event in London today. Read More | Continue reading
Amazon’s same-day delivery service is today seeing a notable expansion here in the U.S. The online retailer announced this morning that same-day delivery, which is available to members of its $99 annual Prime membership program, is now live in 11 more metropolitan areas and is ro … | Continue reading
Verizon this morning has made another move to ramp up its media business, and specifically, bring new content to its mobile video streaming service, go90. The company (and AOL parent, which owns TechCrunch), says it will be taking an approximate 24.5 percent stake in the Dreamwor … | Continue reading
TechCrunch is excited to announce next month New York Knicks Forward Carmelo Anthony and former NBC and Bertelsmann exec Stuart Goldfarb are speaking together at Disrupt NY. The pair started investing in tech startups together back in 2013 and have so far recorded several wins. T … | Continue reading
India-focused music streaming service Saavn has dipped its toes into non-music content after it announced its foray into long-form audio programming. Read More | Continue reading
All right all you procrastinators out there — the time to act is now. You have just two days left to get your early-bird tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt NY and save $1,000 in the process.Early-bird pricing for the show ends on Friday, April 8, so you’d better head over to our ticke … | Continue reading
SurveyMonkey has made a name for itself with cloud-based tools that let you build and analyse online surveys. Now the company wants to use its foothold in one area of market research to expand into another. Today, SurveyMonkey is launching a new business offering app analytics, s … | Continue reading