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Betterment Acquires ImpulseSave, The App That Encourages You To Save Money Rather Than Spend It
8:48 am PDT • October 18, 2013
ImpulseSave, the startup that launched last year at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 with a mobile app aimed at encouraging people to put away money in their savings accounts, has been…
Startups
Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Partners With MyFitnessPal To Add BMI Data To Babymaking
7:00 am PDT • October 17, 2013
Glow, the fertility tracking app co-founded by Max Levchin, is announcing today that it’s inked a partnership with MyFitnessPal, the popular diet and exercise tracking app. Starting today, users of…
Startups
Stitch Fix, The Online Personal Shopping Startup, Sews Up $12 Million Series B Led By Benchmark
6:00 am PDT • October 17, 2013
San Francisco startup Stitch Fix has closed on $12 million in a new funding round led by Benchmark as it looks to scale its tech-powered personal shopping and delivery service…
TC Cribs: The Lights, Cameras, And Classrooms At CreativeLIVE’s San Francisco HQ
3:29 pm PDT • October 15, 2013
Typically, TechCrunch Cribs goes inside tech companies to show a side of them that cameras don’t often see. But this episode took us to the San Francisco office of CreativeLIVE,…
Path Axes 20 Percent Of Staff In A ‘Realigning Of The Company’
2:21 pm PDT • October 15, 2013
Mobile-only social networking app Path laid off 13 staffers today, axing 20 percent of its workforce. Rumors of the layoffs have been percolating around the tech industry this afternoon and…
CrunchWeek: Facebook And Google’s Big Privacy Changes, Zulily’s IPO, And All The Latest Twitter Talk
3:00 pm PDT • October 12, 2013
Need a 12 minute break from raking leaves, drinking cider, and carving pumpkins (and whatever other autumnal chores are taking up your Saturday)? Well I’ve got just the thing for…
How Harvey Mudd Transformed Its Computer Science Program — And Nearly Closed Its Gender Gap
5:42 pm PDT • October 10, 2013
Harvey Mudd is known as one of the most elite science, engineering and mathematics colleges in the world. But historically, its computer science department hasn’t exactly been known as a…
Pet Boarding Marketplace DogVacay Fetches $15 Million Series B Led By Foundation Capital
7:30 am PDT • October 10, 2013
DogVacay, the Los Angeles-based startup that operates a pet boarding marketplace that’s been dubbed the “Airbnb for dogs,” is announcing today that it has raised $15 million in new funding.…
What Do You Love About Writing Code? We Ask, Software Engineers Answer
8:09 pm PDT • October 7, 2013
The annual Grace Hopper event for women in computing is billed not as a conference, but as a “celebration.” So when TechCrunch TV headed to Minneapolis this past week to…
Why Tech’s Hottest Companies Want To Hire More Female Engineers
12:29 pm PDT • October 6, 2013
Judging by the job fair section at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing held this past week in Minneapolis, it was very clear that all the hottest…
Inside The Grace Hopper Celebration, Where Thousands Of Women Are United By Tech
4:47 pm PDT • October 4, 2013
“Life changing,” “amazing,” and “shockingly wonderful” are not often terms that are typically used to describe industry conferences. But that’s exactly how people talk about the Grace Hopper Celebration, an…
TC Cribs: ModCloth, Where Playing Dress-Up Is All In A Day’s Work
2:00 pm PDT • October 2, 2013
It’s not often that visiting a tech startup makes you want to amp up your wardrobe. But that’s exactly the feeling you get when you step inside the headquarters of…
CrunchWeek: Microsoft’s New Surface 2, BlackBerry’s $4.7B Buyout, Big Changes In Fundraising
3:00 pm PDT • September 28, 2013
Happy Saturday! It’s time once again for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together to chat it up about some of the…
Hands On With The New And Improved Screenhero, The App That Takes Screen Sharing To The Next Level
11:00 am PDT • September 26, 2013
If you think screen sharing has already been mastered by the likes of WebEx and GoToMeeting, you probably haven’t tried Screenhero yet. ScreenHero, which launched earlier this year out of…
JumpCam, Backed With $2.7M, Debuts Its Snappy Mobile App For Making Collaborative Videos
7:00 am PDT • September 26, 2013
If you’ve been to a nice wedding, anniversary, or milestone birthday party lately, you’ve probably seen this kind of video: A montage of friends and family from all over the…
Wealthfront Launches Wealthfront.org To Give Web-Based Investment Tools To Non-Profits
10:18 am PDT • September 25, 2013
Automated investment services company Wealthfront has made its name as an alternative to traditional financial advisory services for individuals, especially “Generation Y” techies just starting to pull their nest eggs…
DogVacay, The ‘Airbnb For Pets’, Debuts Its Native iOS App For Booking Dog Sitters
8:39 am PDT • September 23, 2013
DogVacay has been assigned a tagline by the press that sounds a little ridiculous when you hear it — “the Airbnb for pets” — but the business itself is actually…
Poshmark, The Mobile Marketplace For Women To Sell And Swap Clothes, Crosses 1M Items Sold So Far This Year
7:50 pm PDT • September 22, 2013
App downloads are key metrics for all mobile-focused startups, but not many early-stage companies in the space can cite revenue-generating figures alongside their user growth. But Poshmark, the mobile marketplace…
TC Cribs: eHarmony’s Santa Monica HQ, Where Love Is Definitely In The Air
2:30 pm PDT • September 17, 2013
Welcome to a brand new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what it’s like for…
A Visit To Goldbely, The Fancy Food Delivery Startup That Just Gobbled Up $3M Led By Intel Capital
10:30 am PDT • September 17, 2013
Goldbely, the startup that delivers signature foods from regional establishments (think: Skyline chili from Cincinnati, Lou Malnati’s deep dish pizza from Chicago, and so on) to hungry people throughout the…
Polyvore Expands Beyond Fashion (And Into An Older, More Moneyed User Base) With New Home Decor Section
6:00 am PDT • September 17, 2013
Polyvore has made its name as a site for creating collages that represent the lifestyles they want to lead, complete with beautiful outfits accessorized down to the right handbag and…
Expedia And Zillow Founder Rich Barton Wants To Fund ‘Power To The People’ Startups
5:00 pm PDT • September 14, 2013
Rich Barton may still be best known for his role as a founder at pioneering web properties such as Expedia and Zillow, but in recent years he has emerged as…
CrunchWeek: The New iPhones, Twitter Preps For An IPO, And Tech Execs Talk NSA
3:00 pm PDT • September 14, 2013
What a busy week it’s been for the tech industry — and what better way to cap it off than by shutting down all your electronic devices and meditating alone…
Naval Ravikant On How AngelList Syndicates Can Shake Up The World Of Venture Capital ‘Scouts’
11:56 am PDT • September 14, 2013
Since its inception in 2010, AngelList has steadily transformed the way people think about gathering funding for their technology startups. But so far, nothing AngelList has done has garnered as…
Trance Wants To Make It Easy For Great Dancers To Show Off Their Moves
4:46 pm PDT • September 8, 2013
Dance is a creative art that has always had real mainstream appeal. But while big general platforms like YouTube and Twitter are decent for showcasing dancers, they’re not ideal. Dance…
An App For Kids, By A Kid: Meet The 9-Year-Old Co-Creator Of ‘Super Fun Kid Time’
3:03 pm PDT • September 8, 2013
The best way to build a great product is to really understand the problem it is trying to solve. The latest awesome example of this is Super Fun Kid Time,…
Tutorspree, The Tutor-Matching Startup Backed By Sequoia And YC, Shuts Down
11:05 am PDT • September 8, 2013
Tutorspree, the New York-based tutor-matching startup that had been dubbed the “Airbnb for tutoring” when it launched out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2011 class, is shutting down. The company’s three…
The Data Visualization Technology That Makes The America’s Cup Accessible To The Rest Of Us
1:19 pm PDT • September 5, 2013
The experience of watching televised sporting events has evolved dramatically in recent years, with data visualization technology making it much easier for spectators at home to understand what’s really going…
Foursquare Automates Process Of Becoming A ‘Superuser’
11:05 am PDT • September 5, 2013
It’s become clear in recent years that Foursquare’s real strength is its database of more than 55 million places. Foursquare’s database API serves as the “location layer” for many other…
Rapt.fm Launches In Beta To Enable Live Rap Battles To Happen Anytime, Anywhere
10:16 am PDT • September 5, 2013
We first met Detroit-based startup Rapt.fm back in November 2012, when we were swinging through town for the TechCrunch Northern Meetups. It’s safe to say that Erik Torenberg was the…
