July 13, 2016
The transportation industry is associated with high maintenance costs, disasters, accidents, injuries and loss of life. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world are losing their lives to car…
Where are they now? 1st & Future alum Radd3 raises $2.2M from HTC
In coordination with Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium, TechCrunch partnered with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the National Football League on 1st & Future, a competition for startups looking…
ColorTV raises $1.5 million to bring advertising to the connected TV
As platforms like Apple TV, Android TV and others pick up traction, it’s worth wondering about the evolution of the biggest advertising industry in the world: TV advertising. $176 billion…
Tesla is doing its part to slash the sticker prices on its vehicles. On Wednesday, the electric-vehicle automaker introduced its Model X 60D, which carries a starting price tag of…
Probably could have seen this one coming from a mile away. XYZprinting, the Taiwanese company that’s made a name for itself with its user-friendly and reasonably priced da Vinci line,…
DigitalOcean launches block storage and lets you store terabytes of data
DigitalOcean has become a popular cloud hosting provider over the years. But many customers have relied on third-party solutions to host large sets of data. DigitalOcean is launching block storage…
London’s Behavox offers surveillance software to help financial institutions remain compliant
Behavox is a London-based startup that has built “compliance surveillance software” to enable financial institutions to search and interrogate huge amounts of employee-generated data in real-time, such as emails, text…
Nissan’s highway self-driving system hits Japanese roads in August
Nissan has a new autonomous driving system called ProPILOT, and it’s coming to its first production vehicle in August. ProPILOT, a self-driving feature designed for use in single-lane highway driving…
If the shoe fits, keep it! That’s the goal of True Fit, which helps shoe and apparel businesses cut down on e-commerce returns.
Digital toxic waste (or why metadata shouldn’t live forever)
Despite increasing privacy concerns the tech industry continues to collect and store massive amounts of metadata associated with every digital transaction. These extensive historical accounts of personal or business activities…
Pokémon Go isn’t a global phenomenon just yet as the game has only been available in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. But the game is preparing for its European…
SirionLabs raises $12.25M to help big firms get smarter with their suppliers
SirionLabs, an India-headquartered company that uses tech to help companies manage their contracts and relationships with suppliers, has completed a $12.25 million Series B round. The round, which takes SirionLabs…
Nokia and Samsung announce expanded patent licensing deal
Nokia and Samsung are cozying up together for the second time this year after the duo announced an expansion of the patent licensing deal that they agreed back in February.
