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Crunch Network
Outdoor Advertising Is The New Black
Big cities like San Francisco and New York are digital meccas, home to many of the world’s largest technology startups — and to hordes of smartphone-toting, app-using consumers. But when it comes to making a name for themselves, many of the companies hoping to influence these techie urbanites are going decidedly analog. In these cities, and others, it’s hard to miss the… Read More
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Crunch Network
Edtech Should Focus On Teacher Evaluation And Accountability
The rise of the edtech industry has completely transformed the K-12 experience for students. But what about teachers? Shouldn’t technological innovation be used to improve teacher performance, just as it is doing for students? With a recent shift in education policy and reform focusing on teacher evaluation and accountability, this is a hole in the education technology market with… Read More
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The Playstation VR Games Sony Announced Today Look Amazing
During its Playstation Experience (PSX) event in San Francisco today, Sony unveiled some new information about the Playstation VR and showed off some new titles. Unfortunately we’ve gotten no more information on dates…with it coming in early 2016. However, the games we saw during today’s keynote look fantastic. Sony showed off new titles like Eagle Flight from Ubisoft… Read More
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Crunch Network
Having Success With Code Bootcamps: Hiring Lessons For Employers
And we’re back, with the second of three posts on having success with code bootcamps. Having explored whether coding bootcamps work for hiring top tech talent (hint: the answer is yes), we turn to tips for hiring bootcamp grads. From my experience, here are the top hiring lessons your company needs to learn. Read More
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Gillmor Gang: Slippery Slope
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek. Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, December 4, 2015. The Gang abandons tech for presidential politics as Trump turns TV into his own private social network. Plus, the latest G3 with Mary Hodder, Halley Suitt Tucker, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor… Read More
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The Disrupt Hackathon Takes Over London’s Copper Box Arena
Our Disrupt London hackathon is officially underway. More than 1,000 people have registered to compete — by this time tomorrow, they’ll form teams, build new products and present them on-stage. We’re in a new venue this year, the Copper Box Arena, originally built for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The doors opened at 12:30pm, but before then, the most dedicated hackers braved… Read More
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Crunch Network
Down Round Doom? The Data Says No
A recent discussion on the tech IPO market yielded the comment “all IPOs this year were down rounds.” Square’s recent IPO priced below its last private offering, spurring Khosla (a Square investor) partner Keith Rabois to comment to The Wall Street Journal that “the steroid era of startups is over.” But the data on IPO down rounds, a concept we first reported on… Read More
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Google Adds More Music, TV And Movie Content To Mobile Search, Including Recommendations
An update to Google search rolling out to mobile users is putting a greater emphasis on music and media, including recommendations on songs, TV shows, movies, and more. Now, when searching for things like singers, actors, films and other related items, Google will return enhanced results that provide information like lyrics, covers, or song recommendations for music searches, as well as details… Read More
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Jompeame Wants To Reduce Poverty In South America Through Crowdfunding
Jompeame (Jumpstartme in Spanish) is a new crowdfunding site aimed at helping the impoverished in Latin America. “Our mission initially is to change the lives of at least 5 people in this condition every week, in every country we expand to,” said co-founder and CEO Katherine Motyka. The site is currently raising money to launch formally but they’ve already raised $25,000… Read More
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Augmented Reality Wizards Blippar Will Unveil New Tech At TechCrunch Disrupt London
What if you could learn about anything just by taking a photo of it? Blippar already has 3 million people doing that every month plus another 62 million signed up. Now Blippar is ready to unveil the next phase of its technology and business, and it’s going to do it onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt London. Read More
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Crunch Network
This War On Math Is Bullshit
The smoke had barely begun to clear from the horrific attacks in Paris, in a neighborhood where I used to live, before the usual suspects started trying to twist the facts to fit their authoritarian agenda. CIA director John Brennan was only one of many posturing grandstanders hoping to use the slaughter as a political tool to attack secure encryption. Read More
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Crunch Network
Candidates Need To Address The Tech Industry In The 2016 Election
The technology industry is of vital importance to our national economy. And it faces real problems that the next president will have to address. So where are the candidates? Read More
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Crunch Network
The STEM Skills Gap Is Only As Real As The Purple Unicorn
TEKsystems recently put out a report showing that approximately 80 percent of all IT professionals believe that a skills gap exists in tech industries today. Backed by claims of mass projected growth in the field that the U.S. won’t be able to fill, as well as multiple articles and resources written on how to bridge the gap, it’s hard to argue that it’s not real. Obviously… Read More
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Crunch Network
The New American Dream: My Life As A Minority Startup Owner
My life can be split into two halves, each fulfilling an American dream. The first half I spent on the American dream that was engrained from birth — “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” The second, current half of my life revolves around an American dream that has arisen from our technocratic society — “start your own business.” Every statistic on the… Read More
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To Push Moments, Twitter Starts Shoving The Notifications Tab To The Side
If you’re a Twitter for the web user (or Android) like I am, then you know exactly where all of the tabs are that you need to speedily read tweets, replies and so forth. Twitter, monkeying around with the service as they do, has started experimenting with switching some places of the tabs you use the most. Read More
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.04.15
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1pmPT/4pmET. Read More
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Crunch Network
Why Decision Science Matters
Nearly everyone is familiar with the DirecTV commercials in which actor Rob Lowe and NFL quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tony Romo appear as unflattering alter-egos of themselves — “peaked in high school” Rob Lowe, “bad comedian” Eli Manning, “artsy craftsy” Tony Romo, etc. The burgeoning adoption of data science in companies like Uber, Netflix and… Read More
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A New Service Called CoinCube Can Help Manage Your BTC
In the future, all currencies will be crypto. And you’ll need someone to manage all that crypto cash. That’s what CoinCube is trying to do: a way to manage cryptocurrency investments intelligently. Created by Robert Allen, Eric Kittell, Jibben Nee and Giovanni Meacci, the system is still in its relative infancy. They have about a 100 users with $430,000 in assets under management… Read More
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Jetzy
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- HQ: New York, New York
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Exogenus Therapeutics
- 80M EUR Seed
- HQ: Cantanhede, Coimbra
- Categories: Therapeutics, Biotechnology, Medical
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Proversity
- $1.5M Venture
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Education, Internet, Recruiting
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Vets&Pet
- $35K Seed
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Desino
- 500K EUR Series A
- HQ: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Categories: Assisitive Technology, Assisted Living
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SeamlessDocs
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Government Innovation, Enterprise Software, Project Management
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thinktank.net
- $20M Series A
- HQ: Denver, Colorado
- Categories: Software
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Wigzo Technologies
- $500K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Advertising, Mobile, Email
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ThoughtNIdea Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Software
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LanguaTravel
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Education, Language Learning, Travel
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Modern Movement
- $65K Convertible Note
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: Android, Software, Software Compliance
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Nootrobox
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Dietary Supplements, Nutrition, E-Commerce, Startups
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Feeligo
- 1.5M EUR Venture
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Social Media, Virtual Goods, Monetization
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Teforia
- $5.1M Seed
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: Internet of Things, Tea
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uMake
- $5.2M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Design, 3D Technology, 3D
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Nootrobox
- $2.6M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Dietary Supplements, Startups, E-Commerce, Nutrition
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Onovative
- $1.2M Series A
- HQ: Louisville, Kentucky
- Categories: Marketing Automation, Banking, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
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iSwapp
- $23K Convertible Note
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Mobile Commerce, Marketplaces
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City Bakery
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Prishtinë, Vojvodina
- Categories: Food Processing
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Hitsbook Inc
- $1.2M Seed
- HQ: Madrid, Madrid
- Categories: Online Video Advertising, Social Media Marketing, Entertainment Industry ... See More
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Conservis
- $3.5M Debt Financing
- HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Categories: Software, Agriculture
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PurpleBricks
- 58M GBP Series B
- HQ: Birmingham, Birmingham
- Categories: Business Services, Marketing Automation, Marketplaces
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9Sharp
- 1.5M EUR
- HQ: Montréal, Quebec
- Categories: Information Technology, Social Network Media
- Investors: Not available
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My Sidekick
- $280K Seed
- HQ: Pretoria, NA - South Africa
- Categories: Software
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Shareable Apps
- 3.5M AUD Series A
- HQ: Melbourne, Victoria
- Categories: Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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Prosetta
- $31M Series D
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Biotechnology
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G-RO
- $2.0M Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Travel
- Investors: Not available
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LindaCare
- 1.5M EUR Series A
- HQ: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Rasyonel R&D
- $120K Grant
- HQ: Izmir, Izmir
- Categories: Web Development, Recycling, Embedded Hardware and Software, Internet of ... See More
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Pulmotrace
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