Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
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On mobile, everything wants to be a messaging app – even Pinterest, it seems. But in Meetup’s case, the addition of a new Messages feature makes sense. Most people are…
Zend, the commercial company behind the popular scripting language PHP, announced today, it was launching a PHP development service in the AWS marketplace, effectively making it a Platform as a Service…
Startups
VMFive Wins TechCrunch Beijing’s Startup Competition With App Advertising Platform AdPlay
6:06 am PDT • August 12, 2014
More than 200 companies representing a wide array of mobile and hardware technology entered TechCrunch Beijing’s (organized with TechNode) startup competition, but VMFive stood out with AdPlay, which lets users…
Hardware
Xbox One Getting Mobile TV Streaming, Plus DLNA And USB Playback
5:40 am PDT • August 12, 2014
Microsoft is still listening to fans when it comes to adding features to the Xbox One. A new update that will begin rolling out to people in the early access…
Biotech & Health
How Apple’s HealthKit Could Offer General Wellbeing As A Platform Advantage
5:15 am PDT • August 12, 2014
Apple’s HealthKit is coming in iOS 8, and reports about the current beta version of the software paint it mostly as an empty vessel waiting for developers to build hooks…
Media & Entertainment
From Window Shopping To Retail Clicks: Mannequins With Beacon Tech Trialled In UK
5:13 am PDT • August 12, 2014
Mannequins that send details of the clothes they’re displaying to nearby shoppers’ phones are being trialled in three UK bricks-and-mortar stores.
Enterprise
CyberLightning Raises $4.2M To Bring 3D Interface To Industrial ‘Internet Of Things’ Monitoring
4:00 am PDT • August 12, 2014
When you think about the Internet of Things (IoT) you likely think of consumer hardware products like smart thermostats, WiFi lightbulbs or Quantified Self gadgets, such as various fitness trackers…
Media & Entertainment
Yo, The One-Word Messaging App, Updates So It’s Not Quite So Absurdly Simple Anymore
2:29 am PDT • August 12, 2014
One-word messaging app Yo is growing up, fueled by its recent $1.5 million in seed funding at a $10 million valuation. The startup has now released an update (v1.1.0) to…
Biotech & Health
Collective Health Wants To Replace The Health Insurance Industry With A Software Program
9:14 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
“Did you know you can actually negotiate and get a better deal at the doctor’s office if you offer to pay up front?” co-founder and CEO of Collective Health Ali…
Enterprise
VMware Vets Get $4.5M In Series A To Launch Private Cloud Management Platform
9:01 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
Back in 2009 I saw a talk by then VMware CTO Steve Herrod, now a partner at General Catalyst Partners, who described a private Amazon Web Services-like environment where users could provision services…
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Tech Companies, ACLU Voice Support For Facebook In Data Search Warrant Case
7:56 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
A group of tech giants and civil liberties groups voiced their support on Friday for Facebook as it continues its legal battle to return private data collected in a set of…
The Road To Disrupt: A Look At Ansa, The Off-The-Record Messaging App
4:45 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
On this week’s installment of the Road To Disrupt video series, we meet our final Startup Battlefield company, Ansa. Built for more utility that that other ephemeral messaging service, Ansa…
Hardware
Apple’s Next iPad Could Sport Anti-Reflective Coating For Easier Daylight Use
4:29 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
Apple has a new iPad that has just gone into production, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The next Apple tablet will reportedly will reportedly come in both 9.7-inch…
Startups
Australian Telco Telstra Acquires Video Distribution Startup Ooyala
4:12 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
Streaming video distribution and monetization platform Ooyala is being acquired by Australian telco Telstra, which will invest $270 million to reach a 98 percent ownership stake in the company. This…
Snapchat is now the third most popular social app among millennials, according to a recent report by comScore which finds that Snapchat has 32.9% penetration on these young users’ mobile…
Startups
Silbert’s Bitcoin Opportunity Fund Drops $250K On India-Based Unocoin
3:57 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
Despite some early moves that raised questions about Bitcoin’s legality in the country, the Indian market and its sheer size is still enticing to investors. Barry Silbert, a longtime Bitcoin…
Now Launching Out Of Y Combinator, Theorem Aims To Be The Priceline For Fashion
3:40 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
At first, what Theorem does sounds like what a lot of other companies do: It’s an online marketplace for well-made, higher-end clothing and accessories. But Theorem comes with a very…
Startups
Four Of The Best Investors In The Game Will Talk Trends At Disrupt SF
2:16 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
We’ve had a lot of exciting guests cross our Disrupt stage — there was the time we had the HBO crew from Silicon Valley do an interview, and Ashton Kutcher…
Startups
YC-Backed Rigetti Computing Raises $2.5M To Create Commercial Quantum Systems
1:19 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
Once confined to research labs and science fiction, quantum computing is finally reaching a point where researchers aren’t simply trying to find out what’s possible, but looking at how they…
Startups
Glowing Plant Is One Of Y Combinator’s Very First Biotech Startups
12:40 pm PDT • August 11, 2014
Long known for backing software plays, Y Combinator is starting to dip its toes into biotech. In its latest batch is a new synthetic biology startup called Glowing Plant that…
