Colleen Taylor
Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch and TechCrunch TV.
Previously she worked as a reporter for GigaOM, the Financial Times’ Mergermarket newswire, and the semiconductor industry newsletter Electronic News.
Disclosure: Colleen holds a small amount of shares in AOL, which were awarded as part of her employment contract with TechCrunch. She personally does not hold shares in any other public company. Colleen’s spouse is employed as a software engineer for Google; he holds stock in the company as part of this employment.
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Theorem Has Created A New Way To Buy And Sell Online
You might think that haggling or negotiating is something that died out a century ago, or that happens today only in bustling outdoor markets and bazaars. But if you think about it, you haggle in your head all the time. You look at a shirt online and say to yourself, “Hrm, that’s a good deal” or “Nope, too much.” If something you like is too pricy, you wait it out… Read More
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Online-Only Fashion Startup Cuyana Partners With Real Simple Magazine
Cuyana, the San Francisco e-commerce startup that makes responsibly produced apparel and accessories, has inked a yearlong partnership with Real Simple magazine to make a total of four collections targeted at the magazine’s readership. In an interview this week, Cuyana co-founder Karla Gallardo told me that both companies will share the revenue on products sold under the partnership. Read More
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Avvo, The Online Legal Advice Marketplace, Lands $37.5M Led By Tech-Focused Hedge Fund Coatue
Avvo, the Seattle startup that runs an online marketplace for people seeking legal advice, has raised $37.5 million in new funding. The round, which counts as Avvo’s Series D, was led by Coatue Management, the New York hedge fund that has become known in recent years for heading up big investments in West Coast tech companies including Snapchat, Hotel Tonight, Box, Lyft, and others. Also… Read More
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Y Combinator Adds Four New Partners, Including Stripe CEO Patrick Collison
Y Combinator is announcing today the addition of four new partners to its roster, as part of its larger push for more growth under new president Sam Altman. Altman announced in a blog post this afternoon that YC’s current outreach director Kat Manalac has been promoted to take on a partner position at the organization, and joining YC as part-time partners are Stripe CEO Patrick Collison… Read More
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Box Debuts ‘Box Open Source’ To Share Its Internal Tools With The Larger Developer World
Box today unveiled a new initiative called Box Open Source for sharing its own homegrown open source engineering tools with the larger programming community. The project was announced this afternoon in a company blog post accompanied by a tweet from Box CEO Aaron Levie. In a joint phone interview today, Levie and Box’s principal technical operations developer Benjamin VanEvery said that the… Read More
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Digital Postal Mail Startup Zumbox Hits The Deadpool
Zumbox, the startup that created a service to deliver postal mail digitally in a paperless format, is shutting down. The company announced the shutdown in an email sent this week to users of the service, which was first posted by InfoTrends writer Matt Swain. Zumbox is recommending that users export their digital documents by Monday April 14th — less than a week from today. It’s a big… Read More
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Automattic Acquires Longreads, The App For Discovering And Reading Long-Form Content Online
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired Longreads, the platform for discovering and reading long-form writing content on the web. Financial terms have not been disclosed. In an email to TechCrunch, Longreads founder and CEO Mark Armstrong (pictured here) said that the Longreads service will continue to function exactly as it did before the acquisition. Joining Automattic, he… Read More
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Dropbox Announces ‘Project Harmony’ To Bring Collaborative Features To Microsoft Office
At a press event this morning in San Francisco, Dropbox unveiled a new feature called “Project Harmony” which brings new collaboration tools for Dropbox users while they’re editing documents in Microsoft Office applications including Powerpoint, Word, and Excel. Project Harmony, which will be launched to users “later this year,” will let Dropbox users see when other… Read More
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Omada Health Raises $23M Series B Led By Andreessen Horowitz For Digital Health That Actually Works
Omada Health, a San Francisco startup that makes digital health therapy programs for people with type 2 diabetes and other serious but potentially treatable issues, has raised $23 million in new funding. The new investment, which is Omada’s Series B, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Andreessen Horowitz partner Balaji Srinivasan joining the startup’s board of directors. Also… Read More
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The ‘World’s Largest Tetris Game’ Was Played On A Philadelphia Skyscraper This Weekend
On Saturday night, a 29-story Philadelphia skyscraper hosted what’s purported to be the “world’s largest game of Tetris,” and likely the world’s largest videogame overall. A team led by Drexel University computer science professor Frank Lee hacked into the LED lighting system of the Cira Centre building in downtown Philadelphia to create a larger-than-life Tetris game… Read More
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Hands On With Wello, The iPhone Case That Monitors And Tracks Your Vital Signs
If you’re like most people, you only check in with your vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulmonary function, heartrate, ECG, blood oxygen levels, and the like) when you go to the doctor. But what if you could obtain that data more often through a single device that’s almost always in your pocket or purse? You might be much more in tune with your body and how it responds to… Read More
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With $1.9 Million In Funding, 3Gear Systems Is Building Gesture Control That Actually Works
3Gear Systems is one of the startups building gesture control technology, and it's soon coming to market with a tiny, camera-controlled device that can track your hands' movements and control our PC based on what they're doing. And it's raised $1.9 million in funding from investors that include K9 Ventures, Intel Capital, and CrunchFund to push that vision forward. Read More
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TC Cribs: Chairish HQ, A Former Whiskey Distillery Turned Home Decor Hotspot
Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that gives you an inside look at the offices of the tech industry's hottest companies. This time, we visited the San Francisco headquarters of Chairish, the online marketplace where people can buy and sell pre-owned home furniture. Read More
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Spritz Launches SDK To Bring Its Speed-Reading Technology To Websites And Apps
It was only a month ago that a small startup out of Massachusetts called Spritz released a demo of its technology that purports to help people read text twice as fast as normal. In the weeks since then, the video has gone viral, and more than 10 million people have asked the same question: “When can I use this myself?” Since Spritz is a proprietary technology, not an app on its own… Read More
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Inside Jobs: How True & Co.’s Head Of UX Blends Psychology With Technology
The technology industry today has job titles that you don't really find anywhere else. User experience, or "UX", is one of them. It seems like every tech company is hiring in "UX design" and "UX research", but it's hard for outsiders to know what exactly it is that they do. For today's episode of Inside Jobs I sat down with Sarah Harrison, who has built her career in UX at a number of key tech… Read More
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After Stepping Aside From Y Combinator, Paul Graham Hands Over The Reins At Hacker News
As part of his departure from day-to-day operations at Y Combinator, Paul Graham announced today that he’s also handing over the reins of Hacker News, the technology and entrepreneurship-focused social news website that he built and has run through YC since 2007. In a simple and straightforward blog post, Graham announced that YC outreach director Kat Manalac and YC partner Garry Tan will be… Read More
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Box CEO Aaron Levie Takes To Quora About His (Sorta) Small IPO Stake: It’s All Gravy
Reporters and industry watchers go nuts when an S-1 is filed for an initial public offering because there are always a few surprises to be found while digging through the numbers. The Box IPO filing this past week was no exception. Along with details on Box’s revenue (growing quickly) and bottom line income (still in the red), the filing revealed that Aaron Levie, Box’s well-known and… Read More
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Watch How Matterport’s Camera Captured A 3D Model Of TechCrunch HQ
Historically, creating an accurate 3D model of a physical space has been a time-consuming and expensive process that cost tens of thousands of dollars and required teams of people and days, if not weeks, to complete. But a startup called Matterport has dramatically changed that, with a $4500 camera that the company says can capture fully immersive 3D models of physical objects and spaces in a… Read More
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TrueVault Raises $2.5M To Make It Easy For Healthcare Apps To Be HIPAA Compliant
TrueVault, the healthcare app data security startup that launched this week out of the most recent class of Y Combinator, has closed on $2.5 million in seed funding. The money will be used to further develop TrueVault’s “database as a service,” which provides a secure API for healthcare apps to use when storing sensitive patient data. Such data security is critical for healthcare… Read More
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Hands On With Bellabeat, The App That Lets Moms-To-Be Hear And Share Baby’s Heartbeat
It was just over a month ago that Bellabeat, the startup that aims to be the go-to quantified self app for pregnancies, launched its flagship “connected system” for tracking pregnancies that lets expectant moms hear, record, and share their baby’s heartbeat using just a handheld gadget and a smartphone. It turns out that since then the project has been greeted with enthusiastic… Read More
