Thailand’s Omise Lands $2.6M To Expand Its Payment Gateway Across Asia

Omise, a Thailand-based payment enabler, is in the money today after it raised a $2.6 million Series A round to develop its payment gateway system and expand across Asia.

IBM Announces Marketing Partnership With Facebook

IBM and Facebook are teaming up to offer marketers new integrations between the two platforms. IBM said customers will now be able to buy Facebook ads with combined data from Facebook and IBM's Mar

HeyLets, A Personalized Location Discovery App, Raises Seed Funding

With the number of location discovery apps out there already, the question might not be “Where should we go?” but “Why make another one?” The developers of HeyLets, however, believe there is s

Announcing The TechCrunch 2015 Disrupt Battlefield Finalists

We’re now on the flip side of our 17th TechCrunch Disrupt conference. In the past two days, over 2,100 people have passed through the Manhattan Center for TechCrunch Disrupt NY, with dreams o

Despite A Creeping Recession In Europe, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Are Developing

It’s not news that the Eurozone is in one of the worst economic and political shapes it has been in thus far. Greece’s future remains uncertain. Italy’s economy has failed to significantly rebou

Phind Is Shazam For Location — Snap A Photo, Pull In All The Info, Book Stuff

You find yourself traveling abroad or in a strange city and need to work out where you are and what’s around you. What do we all do? It’s a familiar process. You take out your smartphone and open

CoroNet Wants To Keep Your Gadgets Away From Dangerous Networks That Steal Your Data

You sit down at your local coffee shop and fire up the WiFi. Everything <em>seems</em> to work just fine. The network name is the same; all of your pages load — there's no real indication that an

Peruse Reads Your Spreadsheets So You Don’t Have To

The time-consuming tedium of file search is San Francisco-based startup Peruse's jumping-off point. It's aiming to simplify locating files by changing how people search so they don't have to remember

Apple Details Its ‘Made For Apple Watch’ Third-Party Band Program

If you were hoping to build a third-party band for Apple Watch, then you now have some resources about the official way to make that happen. Apple posted details about its ‘Made for Apple Watch&

ShoCard Is A Digital Identity Card On The Blockchain

Meet ShoCard, a startup that stores your identity onto bitcoin's blockchain so that you can prove your identity whenever you need to. ShoCard wants to replace cumbersome bank and credit card identific

France Is One Step Closer To Adopting Extensive Surveillance Law

Following Charlie Hebdo’s attacks, the French Government has been tirelessly working to draft and vote a new intelligence law that goes way too far. Today, the lower house of the French Parliame

Salesforce Shares Pop As Rumors Of Microsoft Buying The CRM Shop Circulate

Shares of Salesforce popped today following a report that Microsoft is a potential candidate to purchase the public company best known for its work in customer relationship management. Salesforce, wor

Recruit Acquires Majority Stake In European Hair And Beauty Marketplace Wahanda For $171M

Wahanda, the European hair and beauty marketplace, has seen an exit of sorts. Japan's Recruit Holdings, which already owned 10 percent of the London-based startup, has acquired a further 70 percent sh

ContainerShip Wants To Help You Move Your Containerized Apps Between Clouds

Today at Disrupt NY, ContainerShip took the stage to show off its technology built to help companies better deploy containerized applications to different hosting services. ContainerShip is part of a

Relevancy Data Improves Ad Targeting By Analyzing The Content Of Online Videos

I bet we've all had moments when we've stared at a random, irrelevant ad and wondered: "Why the heck am I being forced to watch this?" Well, a company called <a target="_blank" href="http://relevancy

Zendesk Reports $42.2M Revenue, $0.10 Loss Per Share For Q1 2015

Online customer service company Zendesk today reported earnings for its first financial quarter of 2015. The company reported revenue of $42.2 million, up 68 percent from the year-ago-quarter. In the

Groupon’s Shares Gyrate In Wake Of Profit Beat, Revenue Miss In Q1

After the bell today, Groupon reported its first-quarter financial performance. The company, best known for its discount coupons to local businesses, earned an adjusted $0.03 per share on $750.4 milli

This Pressure-Sensing Stool Wants You To Sit Better

Bootstrapping Dutch startup Zami Life is aiming to engineer posture problems out of the office worker's life with an ergonomic stool that has a curved seat. The shape of the seat is designed to encour

Pangea Delivers Data-Over-Voice Infrastructure In Emerging Markets

One of the most interesting problems facing the technology industry is getting the billions of unconnected people around the world online. Facebook and Google think aerial drones are the answer, wi

Carly Fiorina Just Played The Gender Card All Wrong

Wrapping up her interview onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt with presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, TechCrunch's Sarah Lane asked a pretty common question for a candidate running for president -- if yo
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