Tiger Global Raises $2.5 Billion For New Deals

Investment firm Tiger Global has aggressively pursued new deals this year, and now it has a lot more cash to do so. According to an SEC filing, the firm closed $2.5 billion in new funding, that comes

Mobile Marketplace Carousell Raises $6M Series A Led By Sequoia Capital

Carousell, a mobile app marketplace that lets sellers upload items with a few taps on their smartphones, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. The Singaporean startup’s e

Microsoft Appears To Pre-Announce Its Purchase Of Email Startup Acompli

Whoops. Welcome to literal fait accompli. A short, unfinished blog listed as written by Microsoft corporate vice president Rajesh Jha hit the RSS wires earlier today. Here’s what it looked like

9 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

It's been a shorter week because we're heading out early for Thanksgiving festivities, but a newsworthy one nonetheless. We give you our best stories of the week (11/22-11/26).

The Snowden Effect, Quantified

The failure of the USA Freedom Act in the Senate earlier this month was a disappointment to many in favor of reforming the National Security Agency. The bill, far from perfect, and certainly incomplet

Jigglist Lets You Find Places For Meetups Without Leaving Your Group Chat

Jigglist is a group chat app centered around finding places to go that are appropriate for the group that will attend.

How To Opt Out Of Twitter’s New Thing That Tracks Which Apps You Install

Twitter is <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/twitters-new-app-tracking-capabilities-will-enhance-user-timelines-benefit-advertisers/">now keeping track</a> of which apps you have on your phon

Twitter’s New App Tracking Capabilities To Help Personalize User Experience, Benefit Advertisers

Starting today, Twitter users on iOS and Android devices will be alerted to a change in the type of data the social network is collecting on them, and will be offered the option to opt-out by adjusti

Gift Guide: The Razor Crazy Cart

While I did say that the Razor Crazy Cart was, well, crazy, it’s well worth a closer look if you have the space and safety equipment to send your kids careening around your driveway at about twe

Cooling Tablet Market Turns To Low-End Devices For Growth

Never in tech history have so many bought so much in such a short time. There was a memorable tweet sent in the final days before the first iPad was released: Someone in tech — and I forget thei

Quikkly Wants To Be A Better QR Code

You’ve all used a QR code, right? Those weird-looking barcodes you’re supposed to scan using a mobile to open a related web link. Nope? I thought not. For one reason or another, the techno

Applause Raises $765K From Salesforce CEO For Its Revamped Weight Loss App

If you’re worried about blowing your diet over the holidays – or perhaps, thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to “eat healthy” (you know, again) – an app

Expressiv Is An Irish MIDI Guitar With Some Groovy Light Effects, Man

Hey, man, is that a MIDI guitar with amazing internal lighting effects? Well turn it up! Hot on the heels of the GTar and the Jamstik we present the Expressive, a guitar designed by Rob O’Reilly

GoPro Could Go Robo With Consumer Drones Launching Next Year

GoPro is working on a lineup of consumer drones to supplement its action camera lineup, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new product category would offer aerial drones like the Parrot Bebop a

Firefox Redesigns Its Search Interface Ahead Of Yahoo Switch

Last week we learned that Mozilla had made a pact with Yahoo to switch Firefox's default search engine to a yet-to-be launched new version of Yahoo's Bing-powered search experience. At that time, we a

Unity Finally Releases Its Long Promised User Interface Creator

At long last, Unity has shipped version 4.6 of its visual game development system — and with it, the long promised UI editor.

Emojiary Is A Mobile Diary App Where You Visualize Your Feelings With Emoji

Regularly journaling your thoughts and feelings is a good way to “check in with yourself,” raise your self-awareness and connect with your intuition, but it can also be a time-consuming ac

Google.com Domain Should Be Covered By Search De-Listing, Say European Regulators

Google has kicked against it. Eric Schmidt was doing so in public only last month. But European regulators are now stipulating the so called 'right to be forgotten' ruling should apply to search resul

iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Are Shifting Reading Away From iPad, Study Finds

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it seemed likely that the larger screens on the devices would naturally lead to them assuming some of the functions of the iPad, giving users fewer reasons

Social Marketing Startup Tiger Pistol Raises $3.1M As It Plans For US Growth

<a target="_blank" href="https://tigerpistol.com">Tiger Pistol</a>, a startup offering social marketing tools for small businesses, is announcing that it has raised $3.1 million in Series A funding.
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