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Tackling A $5.5 Trillion Market, Betterment Enters The 401(k) World
Betterment, the New York-based automated asset management company, is announcing a 401(k) retirement service, called Betterment for Business, aimed to make it easier for employers to establish, administrators to manage, and employees to monitor retirement savings plans. Read More
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Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About ‘Hey Siri’ And Live Photo Features
Though Apple has long been vocal about its stance on security and privacy, it has recently begun utilizing that stance as a sales tool. If you’d like to keep personal data — anonymized or not — to yourself as much as possible, the company has messaged, then you should invest in Apple hardware. Read More
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Study: Free Stuff Won’t Convince Bloggers To Write About Your Startup
Once upon a time a startup sent me a full gasoline can full of coffee beans. These beans, once infused by the malodorous fumes of the plastic container, were useless. The can, which was fairly small, was never used and eventually recycled. In the end, a PR company probably charged a startup $10,000 to send me and about 200 other bloggers trash. The pitch was memorable in itself but I cannot… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Slack, Diversity, And Have You Heard Of Apple?
Welcome back to CrunchWeek, friends. We are glad that you are here. Very glad in fact, because the TC crew has new digs. New in that we just rebuilt a large chunk of the office — not new in that it’s the same space as before. But now it’s better, so we dragooned Megan Rose Dickey and Lucas Matney to come in and chat about the week’s most important stories… Read More
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Welcome To Hipster Hell, Tumblr Now Has Its Own Clothing Line
If the pervasiveness of shitty memes on the web weren’t enough, it seems they’re soon going to be inhabiting the real world… worn by people walking on the streets of Earth. Tumblr just announced a new clothing line designed by 10 different Tumblr artists at New York Fashion Week, The New York Times reports. Read More
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Rep A Cause With Facebook’s New Temporary Profile Pics
Your profile picture is the message you send most. There’s no easier, more ubiquitous way to raise awareness for a cause then splashing your pic rainbow for gay rights or green to promote the Arab Spring. Now Facebook is giving people a tool to leverage this tiny billboard. With its new Temporary Profile Picture feature that’s slated for a broader rollout, you can change your pic… Read More
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Crunch Network
Performance Evaluations In A Results-Focused Culture
Netflix’s culture deck has been a source of inspiration for many businesses since it was first published five years ago. In it, Netflix argues that companies must find a balance between flexibility and responsibility: Afford employees the freedom to thrive and they will reward the company with outstanding performance; emphasize purpose, honesty and good judgment to attract top-tier talent. Read More
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The Nest Is Being Robbed
Another day, another Tweetstorm by Chris Sacca about Twitter’s CEO situation. His tune is the same, with the volume turned up ever so slightly. Most importantly, the signal he’s sending out is very similar to an S.O.S. Since July 1st, Twitter’s interim CEO has been Jack Dorsey, and the chatter around who would be the next permanent CEO, succeeding Dick Costolo, has been nonstop. Read More
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Translation Startup Unbabel Unveils New Smartcheck Technology
Unbabel, a startup backed by Y Combinator, that combines human editing and machine learning into an online translation platform, announced a new feature today called Smartcheck. The system consists of a translation service built on top of an intelligent translation engine. Translators sign up for work, then customers looking for translators can search by language, business skills and so forth. Read More
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.11.15
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang chatroom (during live show broadcast) on Chat Center Gillmor gang on Facebook HERE Gillmor gang Studios presents G3 – Tech – Women – Opinions G3 on Facebook HERE Read More
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3D Touch Will Change The Way You Use Your iPhone
Don’t call it Force Touch — Apple’s new flagship feature 3D Touch is a completely different software implementation of the technology that is already available on the Apple Watch and the new MacBook trackpad. 3D Touch is by far the most important improvement in the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. It’s going to change the way we interact with our phones. Read More
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Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
Calling all entrepreneurs! The TC Radio Pitch-Off goes down every Tuesday at 6pm on TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Insight 121, and we need you to make it happen. Each week, five early-stage startups are selected to participate in the pitch-off, wherein they’ll have exactly sixty seconds to pitch to a panel of esteemed judges, including local VCs and (ahem!) John Biggs and myself. After… Read More
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Crunch Network
Legendary Productivity And The Fear Of Modern Programming
JavaScript master Douglas Crockford once said that software is the most complex thing that humans have ever created. It’s made up of intricate bits and bytes pieced together like virtual puzzles. The greatest programming minds are capable of using software to multiply massive integers that are bigger than the universe. Read More
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Toutes Les Pommes
In case you missed it, which would actually be quite difficult, Apple had a press event this week. The company unveiled new Apple Watch wristbands, a new Apple TV and remote, the iPad Pro (which is massive), the Apple Pencil (lol) and two new generations of the iPhone. Suffice it to say, it’s been a long week, even with Labor Day Monday. We discuss all this and more on this… Read More
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Talking (About Tech Diversity) Is Hard
In the past seven years, diversity in tech has gone from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” to a “desperately need to have”, which is the state we are in now. And though we’ve made some progress, whether it’s more women and people of color being considered for CEO roles, more of us being vocal about our right to be treated as competent members… Read More
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Yahoo’s CISO Ramses Martinez Quietly Left For Apple; CMO Savitt Joins STX As Digital President
Today comes news of not one but two C-level executive shifts at Yahoo. Ramses Martinez, who had been the interim chief information security officer at Yahoo for only a month, quietly left the company in August for a security role at Apple. The news emerges at the same time that news has broken that Kathy Savitt, the company’s CMO and head of its media unit, will leave the company to… Read More
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Online Bank Simple Ditches All Fees
When the online banking service Simple got started, one of its promises to customers was that it would eliminate many of the excessive fees that traditional banks charge while also offering an improved and mobile-optimized banking experience. However, while Simple certainly did away with a number of the most common banking fees – like maintenance fees, overdraft fees, or minimum… Read More
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
This week, Apple held an event in San Francisco during which it announced tons of new hardware, rival transportation apps in Asia battled for more funding, and Periscope added Facebook sharing. This is everything you need to know about tech this week. Read More
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At 10 Years Old, True Ventures Is Killing It
True Ventures turned 10 years old this month, and it has plenty to celebrate. The early-stage venture firm, with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, was the first investor in WordPress parent Automattic, a “unicorn” whose eventual public offering is widely expected. The firm also wrote the first checks to the 3D printing company Makerbot, acquired for $604 million in 2013; ad… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Legend Holdings
- $11M Series D
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Investment Management
- Investors: Not available
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Futurefly
- $2.5M Seed
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Sarmeks Tech
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Lutsk, Volyns'ka Oblast'
- Categories: Portals, Social Games, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Elevate
- $70M Debt Financing
- HQ: Texas City, Texas
- Categories: Financial Services
- Investors: Not available
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StockRadar
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Finance, FinTech
- Investors: Not available
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Mobile Fuel
- $750K Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Atlanta, Georgia
- Categories: Automotive, Gas
- Investors: Not available
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Hillel International
- $16M Grant
- HQ: Washington, District of Columbia
- Categories: Non Profit
- Investors: Not available
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Moff
- $1.3M Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Apps
- Investors: Not available
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PRINTool
- 1.0M RUB Grant
- HQ: Moscow, Moscow City
- Categories: Industrial Automation, 3D Printing, Open Source, New Product Development ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Zapyle
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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VerbalizeIt
- $830K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Curated Web, Messaging, Mobile, Crowdsourcing, Translation, FinTech, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Ownfone
- 786K GBP Angel
- HQ: Islington, Islington
- Categories: Services
- Investors: Not available
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Civil Maps
- $1.5M Convertible Note
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Navigation, Big Data, Maps
- Investors: Not available
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Africa Talent Management
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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G-KEEP
- $300K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Farmers Market, Transportation, Fuels
- Investors: Not available
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Mercato
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: E-Commerce, Local Businesses, Groceries, Specialty Foods, Marketplaces
- Investors: Not available
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Advocate
- $120K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Social Fundraising, Polling, Politics, Professional Networking
- Investors: Not available
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Tappx
- 20K EUR Convertible Note
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: Apps, Mobile, Communities
- Investors: Not available
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EverCloud
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Haifa, Hefa
- Categories: Information Technology, SaaS, Virtualization, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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Chexology
- $1.2M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Events, Information Technology, Storage
- Investors: Not available
