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Opternative sues Warby Parker for allegedly stealing its online eye exam
Eyewear e-commerce giant Warby Parker is accused of signing partnership contracts and NDAs with online eyeglass prescription test startup Opternative, then stealing the technology to launch its own competing “Prescription Check” feature. That’s according to a legal complaint filed by Opternative last month that was unsealed today as the lawsuit unfolds. Read More
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Indiegogo is now an e-tailer, too
Indiegogo, the nine-year-old, crowdfunding site, is changing things up, it announced today. Not only can startups now raise money through the site, but in what seems like a natural evolution, they can now sell what they make once their goods are in production. In what seems a bigger twist, the San Francisco-based company will also now sell other items, too, opening its new platform —… Read More
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Upload exec tasked with turning things around at the troubled VR startup has already quit
The executive tasked with building back community trust in Upload, the VR startup shaken by a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee earlier this summer, has quit less than six weeks after officially announcing she had joined the team as COO, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. Anne Ahola Ward joined as COO of Upload, which runs co-working spaces in its LA and SF offices as well as… Read More
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Crunch Network
Mapping the blockchain project ecosystem
It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees without a comprehensive view of what the proverbial forest looks like. As a result, here’s a compiled a list of all of the decentralized blockchain-based projects that I have been following, and was able to dig up through research, along with recommendations from friends in the ecosystem. Read More
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Netflix’s original content costs are ballooning
Netflix today once again showed that its subscriber growth is on a tear — especially its growth internationally — but a note in the report may indicate one of the biggest challenges the company faces going forward. Netflix took home 20 Emmy awards this year, and that’s thanks to its enormous investments in original content. Shows like “Stranger Things,”… Read More
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Alphabet’s Project Wing now delivers burritos by drone in southeastern Australia
It’s been a while since we last heard from Project Wing, X’s moonshot drone delivery project. But after a few fallow months, the team posted an update today and it looks like the project has made quite some progress. Alphabet’s X unit is now testing the Project Wing drones in southeastern Australia, where its flying machines are making deliveries right to its… Read More
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Netflix crushes its own expectations for subscription growth again
Netflix is still on its rounded-up-to-pretty-great run as it continues to add more and more subscribers, and once again is outstripping its own estimates for growth. Today the company said it added 5.3 million new total subscribers, with 850,000 coming in the U.S. and 4.45 million coming from international markets. Netflix is spending very aggressively on original content, and so far it looks… Read More
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Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run
Facebook wants tbh to be its next Instagram. Today, Facebook announced it’s acquiring positivity-focused polling startup tbh and will allow it to operate somewhat independently with its own brand. Read More
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Silenced by ‘free speech’
There’s a fundamental incongruency between being pro ‘free speech’ and operating a global social network for civil public discussion. Twitter is struggling with it. Facebook is struggling with it, too. And it can’t be solved by a little more transparency or by hoping average citizens will do the right thing. The principle of free speech on which the United States… Read More
Latest TC Videos
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The end of oversharing
The early 2000s were the era of user-generated content. Companies like Associated Content and Shareasale rewarded content producers richly – one friend of mine made millions on YouTube in 2004 because he was one of the few serial content producers on the platform. The future was going to be broadcast in all of its gritty glory. Bloggers would win forever and ever. The voices of the… Read More
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Airbnb eyes expansion with affiliate program for sites with 1M+ users, new API
While Expedia and Priceline roll out ways to encroach on Airbnb’s space with their own private home listings for travellers, the $31 billion venture-backed Airbnb is also looking at new ways to boost its own traffic and bookings. Airbnb is now rolling out a new call for affiliate partners, where high-traffic sites with over 1 million visitors can embed Airbnb property listings and… Read More
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MIT’s The Engine wants to fuel bold tech ideas in Boston
Boston and its surrounding universities are jam-packed with big ideas, but the problem is that many of them never get out of the lab. MIT president Rafael Reif recognized this and decided the city needed an engine to push those ideas and The Engine — part venture capital firm, part business incubator — was born. When smart people are working on hard problems inside a lab, they… Read More
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7 huge business storylines for this quarter’s earnings season
It’s that time of the year again: earnings season. It’s a finance nerd’s dream, but for the rest of the world, it’s important because some of the biggest technology companies in the world spill their guts to the public. We get to see who’s winning, who’s losing and what’s going wrong. So, on that note, here are a few big story lines we’re… Read More
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The HOLD 10 Index is a passively managed fund of the top 10 cryptocurrencies
This year the market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has grown from about $13 billion to well over $150 billion, fueled by infusions of capital from all different types of investors. But regardless of this extreme growth, it’s still very complicated for most people to invest in cryptocurrency. So one startup is launching a private index fund designed to let you passively hold a… Read More
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North Korea reportedly hacked UK’s Channel 4 over ‘slanderous’ TV series
North Korea’s cyber forces may never top the scalp of hacking Sony, an attack that successfully derailed plans to release a movie viewed as critical of the country, but the totalitarian state also performed a similar hit on British broadcaster Channel 4, it has emerged. A detailed New York Times report on the development of North Korea’s cyber hacking prowess, which was once… Read More
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Here’s what you can do to protect yourself from the KRACK WiFi vulnerability
Security researcher Mathy Vanhoef publicly disclosed a serious vulnerability in the WPA2 encryption protocol today. Most devices and routers currently rely on WPA2 to encrypt your WiFi traffic, so chances are you’re affected. Read More
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LimeBike
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WIFIPLUG
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Chope Group
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Gushcloud
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VersaPay
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- HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Categories: payments, service industry, enterprise software
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Janasense
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LevelTen Energy
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KrazyBee
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eROCKIT
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- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
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Collectly
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BikesBooking.com
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- HQ: Dublin, Dublin
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CASI Pharmaceuticals
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RenewBuy
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CoinLoan
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Firefly Media
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TreasuryXpress
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Clash Royale Deck
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Connexin
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V2 Retail
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CyberX Project
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Neurotech International
- $4.0M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Perth, Western Australia
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Frame
- 6.0M GBP
- HQ: London, England
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Bim App
- 2.5M EUR
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
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Arkite NV
- 1.6M EUR
- HQ: Genk, Limburg
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Fat Macy's
- 35K GBP Equity Crowdfunding
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Get It There App
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Vision Credit
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Botskill
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Botskill
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