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Applications for betaworks newest accelerator, Visioncamp, open September 6
On the heels of formally announcing betaworks ventures, the startup shop is today introducing its third ‘camp’. betaworks Visioncamp is the latest accelerator-style program out of betaworks, and will focus on ‘camera-first’ applications and services, including augmented reality and computer vision. The program will include mentorship from the leadership at betaworks… Read More
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CoreOS’s Tectonic container platform gets full support for Microsoft Azure
CoreOS today announced the general availability of Microsoft Azure support for its Kubernetes-based Tectonic container management platform. It previously only fully supported container deployments on bare metal servers and AWS. Beta support for Azure launched in March and with this new release, Tectonic now offers hybrid support for multi-cloud deployments across its three supported… Read More
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Alibaba leads $1.1B investment in Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Tokopedia
Alibaba has continued its push into Southeast Asia after it led a $1.1 billion investment in Tokopedia, an e-commerce firm based in Indonesia. A valuation for the deal was not announced, but the companies did say that Alibaba has become a minority shareholder. Tokopedia, which was founded in 2009, operates a marketplace that allows small retailers and large brands to sell to consumers in… Read More
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Codacy, a platform that helps developers check the quality of their code, raises $5.1M
Codacy, a startup based in Lisbon, Portugal that offers what it calls an “automated code review platform,” has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. EQT Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Faber, Caixa Capital, Join Capital, and Seedcamp. Read More
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Alibaba’s profit doubles to $2.1B after another huge quarter of business
Alibaba had another blockbuster quarter of business as its profits almost doubled. The Chinese e-commerce giant reported net profit of 14 billion RMB ($2.1 billion) for its recent quarter that finished June 30 — that’s up 96 percent year-on-year. Total revenue grew 56 percent to reach 50.2 billion CNY ($7.4 billion), easily exceeding estimates, with the firm reporting 466… Read More
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Android newbie HMD’s Nokia 8 flagship lets you livestream ‘frontbacks’
Rebooting the venerable Nokia smartphone brand has not been a rush job for HMD Global, the Foxconn-backed company set up for the purpose of licensing the Nokia name to try to revive the brand’s fortunes on smartphones. But after starting with basic and mid-tier phones, it’s finally outted a flagship Android handset. Read More
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Google is testing a data-friendly version of its Search app
Google might soon release a data-friendly version of its search app for mobile. That’s because the company is currently piloting such an app in Indonesia, as the eagle-eyed team at Android Police first spotted. “Search Lite” — which TechCrunch understands is not the name of the app, but it is certainly an accurate description of it — is essentially a modified… Read More
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Digi.me and Personal merge to put you in control of the nascent ‘personal data ecosystem’
Digi.me and Personal, two companies that broadly play in the personal data space by offering apps to securely store and share various data about yourself, are announcing a merger. Terms of deal remain undisclosed. Read More
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Nielsen announces new division to measure e-sports sponsorships
Another sign that e-sports are turning into a big business: Nielsen is launching a new division focused providing research and consulting to the industry. The measurement firm already has a unit focused on gaming — in fact, Nicole Pike, Nielsen’s vice president of gaming, said Nielsen Esports was created in response to growing interest from the firm’s gaming clients. One of… Read More
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Uber’s new head of Asia is a former Goldman exec who once climbed Mount Everest
Regular run-ins with government regulators and battles with well-funded local rivals have made Asia challenging terrain for Uber. The challenge is such that it’s fitting that the U.S. ride-sharing giant has hired a man who once scaled the summit of Mount Everest to lead its business in the region. Brooks Entwistle, a former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia, was announced today… Read More
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Tim Cook ‘disagrees’ with Donald Trump’s response to Charlottesville violence
Apple CEO Tim Cook has criticized U.S. President Trump’s reaction to the violent events that took place over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one woman dead. “I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights. Equating the two… Read More
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Startup initiatives from Down Under may offer inspiration to the failing US Postal Service
Earlier this week, the US Postal Service reported another dismal quarter of financial results. It’s the latest in a string of bad news for a national service that has been in slow decline since private carriers began emerging to challenge its dominance in the marketplace, and email rendered the written letter all but obsolete. According to a report from ABC News the Postal Service last… Read More
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Crunch Report | Apple Spending $1 Billion on Original Content
Apple is spending $1 billion to acquire original content, Workday acquires Pattern, Google Home now lets you make free phone calls and Andrew Ng is starting an AI fund. All this on Crunch Report! Read More
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Tech is not winning the battle against white supremacy
Content warning: This post contains racial slurs, homophobic language and very graphic depictions of racism and violence. If you were just paying attention to press releases, this week it’d be easy to believe that tech companies are winning the war on hate. Responding to the violence in Charlottesville, Mark Zuckerberg solemnly reflected that there is “no place for hate in… Read More
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Run to the rock
The past week has been a tough one for lovers of freedom. Slippery slopes have been slid down and a side of the human mind that once remained in shadow has reared its head. Charlottesville is just the first step down a dark road. In real life, on the public square, our support of freedom of speech and public assembly – a freedom that has long helped hater and lover alike – is… Read More
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The TechCrunch Podcast: Augmented reality’s promise
Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast, where we take a deeper dive into the hottest topics coming down tech’s pike. In this episode, Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister and Super Ventures managing partner Matt Miesnieks joined TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino to talk the past, present and future of augmented reality. Read More
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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 refurbished batteries get recalled due to overheating concerns
This is probably the last bit of news Samsung wanted to pop up in headlines in the weeks leading up to the Note 8 launch. Though, to be fair, this latest battery recall isn’t on Samsung. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for refurbished Galaxy Note 4 batteries. However, the fault appears to fall at the feet of potentially counterfeited batteries supplied by FedEx. Read More
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Protecting 3D printers from cyberattacks could be as simple as listening carefully
As 3D printers grow smarter and continue to embed themselves in manufacturing and product creation processes, they are exposed to online malefactors just like every other device and network. Security researchers suggest a way to prevent hackers from sabotaging the outputs of 3D printers: listen very, very carefully. Read More
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DigitalOcean and Cloudflare ditch neo-Nazi client, The Daily Stormer
Following the violent far right demonstrations in Charlottesville at the weekend, another two web services companies have terminated their business relationships with the Nazi propaganda website, The Daily Stormer. Read More
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Atlas Venture
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- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: pharmaceutical, biotechnology, health care
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Investcorp
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- HQ: Manama, Al Manamah
- Categories: financial services
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Color Genomics
- $52M
- HQ: Burlingame, California
- Categories: biotechnology, genetics, machine learning, product design
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VividCortex
- $8.5M
- HQ: Charlottesville, Virginia
- Categories: application performance management, analytics, it management, enterprise ... See More
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Kingo
- $8.0M
- HQ: Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Categories: energy efficiency, solar, renewable energy
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SafeTrek
- $2.5M
- HQ: St Louis, Missouri
- Categories: security, mobile, apps
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Takeout Kit
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- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: e-commerce, food and beverage, food delivery
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Artemis Health
- $16M
- HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah
- Categories: analytics, health care, data visualization
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DuPage Medical Group
- $1.4B
- HQ: Downers Grove, Illinois
- Categories: health care, medical, hospital
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BotsAndUs Ltd
- 100K GBP
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: events, machine learning, retail technology, retail, artificial ... See More
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Electric Jukebox
- $14M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: music, consumer electronics, music streaming
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MedAware
- $8.0M
- HQ: Ra'anana, HaMerkaz
- Categories: health care, analytics, big data
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Tailored.to
- $900K
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: digital media, digital marketing, advertising platforms
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Options Technology
- $100M
- HQ: New York, New York
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Axol Bioscience Ltd.
- 2.5M GBP
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: biotechnology, biopharma, medical
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Silentmode Sdn. Bhd.
- $582K
- HQ: Selangor, Selangor
- Categories: software, food and beverage
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Respond Software
- $12M
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: software, cyber security, information technology
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Phil, Inc.
- $10M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: health care, medical device, medical
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for; to (do) Centers
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- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: cloud computing, shipping, customer service, logistics
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RescueDose
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- HQ: Haifa, Hefa
- Categories: robotics, health care, medical device
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Resolve
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- HQ: Melbourne, Victoria
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SQand
- $500K
- HQ: Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi
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Unisound
- 300M CNY
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: speech recognition, cloud data services, natural language processing
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Jincor
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- Categories: cryptocurrency
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RJS Designs, LLC
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- HQ: Watertown, Connecticut
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Dova Pharmaceuticals
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- HQ: Durham, North Carolina
- Categories: pharmaceutical
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Soluis
- 1.0M GBP
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Swarna Pragati Housing
- 500M INR
- HQ: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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Sale Stock Indonesia
- $27M
- HQ: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya
- Categories: retail
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Related Group
- $52M
- HQ: Miami, Florida
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