October 2015
INNOVATE2016: FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel On Key Issues In 2016
Data privacy, technological unemployment and the Internet of Things will play an increasingly central role in the upcoming election.
Apple Says Battery Performance Of New iPhones’ A9 Chips Vary Only 2-3%
Apple has addressed the spate of chatter about differences in performance between A9 chips used in its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. We’ve known for a while that some A9 chips…
Wi-Fi Calling Finally Comes To The iPhone For AT&T Customers
After being promised Wi-Fi calling for over a year by Apple and AT&T…it’s finally here. It’s available for iPhone 6, 6+ and 6S and 6S+ AT&T customers with iOS 9.…
Cassidy the Kitten was born without hind legs and was left for dead in a forest until he was found and sent to a shelter in Vancouver. The shelter nursed…
Trove Lets You Customize Gold and Silver Jewelry Using 3D Printing
Launching today, Trove is a platform that lets users customize and buy personalized, 3D-printed jewelry. Based in NYC, the company has raised a $640k seed round from Resolute Ventures and Uprise Ventures. Although…
Makerbot Lays Off 20% Of Employees, Restructures Brooklyn Offices
Makerbot CEO Jonathan Jaglom has announced that they are laying off about 20% off the company’s 400 staff or about 80 people. The move follows a previous round of layoffs…
How Telerobotics Can Reshape Our Workspace
At a conference last October, I encountered a fascinating “creature” named AVA that I mentioned in a blog post shortly afterwards. Though extraordinarily helpful in keeping a conversation going with…
Lyft Announces ‘Instant’ Driver Payments Alongside Hertz And Shell Partnerships
Hundreds of Lyft’s top drivers and a couple dozen press crowded into Lyft headquarters today to hear the peer-to-peer ridesharing network rolled out a bunch of announcements meant to make life…
Our Cousin Jared
When you spend most of your time working in the technology space you tend to track things like fancy product releases, funding announcements, valuations, liquidity events and so on and…
Mobile Searches Surpass Desktop Searches At Google For The First Time
Google’s search chief Amit Singhal said for the first time this summer, more Google searches were completed on mobile devices than desktop computers. Singhal said Google fields more than 100…
EMC-Dell Rumors Could Be About Storage Giant Exiting On Its Own Terms
Rumors that Dell is going to buy Massachusetts-based storage giant EMC, first reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, have been flying fast and furiously. The deal could be valued as…
Netflix Just Raised The Price Of Its Most Popular Plan
Surprise! Netflix just got more expensive. The service’s most popular plan now costs $9.99. Existing customers will have a grace period, but the price is effectively immediately for new subscribers…
Box Spikes 6% On News That CEO Aaron Levie Recently Purchased 15,000 Shares
Shares of Box, an enterprise collaboration shop, traded sharply higher today following news that the company’s CEO, Aaron Levie, recently purchased 15,000 shares. At a price, according to an SEC filing,…
Amazon Launches AWS IoT — A Platform For Building, Managing And Analyzing The Internet Of Things
Make way for another big player entering the Internet of Things space. Amazon today is announcing its long-awaited IoT platform for AWS at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas. As Amazon describes…
Bitcoin Hardware Startup 21 Hires The Top Bitcoin.org Developers, Opens Education Portal
21 is a mysterious Bitcoin hardware and mining startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz that unwrapped its first product earlier this year. A few weeks ago, they unveiled and began pre-selling a…
AWS Launches Container Registry To Simplify Container Management
Amazon announced Amazon EC2 Container Registry, a tool designed to simplify container management for developers today at the Amazon re:invent conference, Last year Amazon announced EC2, its container service, which provides support…
Amazon Launches AWS Mobile Hub To Help Mobile Developers Build Back-End Processes
Amazon today announced the launch of its AWS Mobile Hub based on AWS Lambda at its re:Invent developer conference, a new tool that makes it easier for mobile developer to…
Local Discovery Aggregator PHIND Launches Major Update, Secures $755k Seed Funding
Sometimes you just don’t know what to search for. Maybe you’re trying to identify a landmark or find out some details about a cool-looking restaurant. Rather than search the web with…
TomTom Is Applying Its GPS Technology To Self-Driving Cars And Fitness Watches
[tc_aol_on code=”519138863″] GPS device maker TomTom has moved beyond turn-by-turn directions into smartwatches and embedded car software that could be used for self-driving vehicles. The portable mapping device maker announced in…
AWS Announces X1 Instances For EC2 With 2TB Of Memory, Launching Next Year
Amazon today announced a massive new instance type for its AWS EC2 compute service. The new X1 instances will feature 2 terabytes of memory. That’s a huge increase from what…
HBO NOW Goes Live On Roku
As some noticed when Roku this week announced its upgraded 4K-ready streaming media player, the Roku 4, the product packaging featured a highly-anticipated addition to Roku’s channel lineup: HBO NOW.…
After nearly two years, Sony is slashing the price of its latest gaming console by $50 just in time for the holidays. The PlayStation 4 now costs $349 in the…
New Clip From “Steve Jobs” Movie Asks, “What Do You Do?”
If you’ve watched the trailers for the soon-to-be-released movie “Steve Jobs,” you might remember hearing snatches of a heated conversation between Steve Wozniak and Jobs. Now Universal Pictures has released a…
The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is disrupting New Orleans tonight, which means there is no better time for you to register for tickets than right now. What is a TC…
Swiftkey Releases Predictive Keyboard Built On A Neural Network
Building what amounts to a neural network inside a platform has long been one of the goals of computing and many a startup, but in the main they remain the…
Munchery Hires La Boulange Founder Pascal Rigo To Improve The Customer Experience
On-demand food delivery startup Munchery just hired Pascal Rigo, the founder of upscale bakery La Boulange, which Starbucks bought for $100 million in 2012. As part of the deal, Rigo…
Online video-sharing site Vimeo is increasing its investment in original programming, the company announced this morning, as it detailed its plans for three more original series, including a second season…
Flatiron School Launches Full Online Curriculum With Learn Verified
Flatiron School, an accelerated educational program for web and mobile development, is switching up its model with the launch of Learn Verified. Traditionally, the Flatiron School has taught courses in…
SendGrid Launches Threads, A Triggered Email Service For Marketers
SendGrid CEO Sameer Dohlakia said he thinks of the company’s new product, Threads by SendGrid, as “the anti-spam.” Basically, Threads allows customers to set up automated emails that get sent based…
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Defends Verizon’s Data Collection For Advertising
AOL* CEO Tim Armstrong on Wednesday night defended the user data tracking practices his company is set to adopt next month as part of its acquisition by Verizon. Earlier yesterday TechCrunch reported…
