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Tomorrow is the last day to save $1,000 on Disrupt SF tickets
With Disrupt SF 2017 just a few short weeks away, the window to purchase early-bird Disrupt tickets is quickly closing. You have until the end of day tomorrow, August 18, to get tickets for just $1,995 apiece, a full $1,000 less than what you’ll pay if you wait until Saturday. Read More
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A defense company put a machine gun on a drone
Duke Robotics, a military contractor, has produced a video for their unique and uniquely dangerous new tool, TIKAD. This drone platform looks fairly basic – a custom multi-rotor drone with a chassis on the bottom to hold what looks like a stripped down machine gun, sniper rifle, or grenade launcher – but what it suggests about the future of warfare is pretty scary. A gimbal at… Read More
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Facebook downranks video clickbait and fake play buttons
Ever gotten tricked into clicking a fake play button on Facebook that opens a link instead of starting a video? I did, repeatedly, and wrote a story in 2014 titled “Yo Facebook, Ban Links With Fake Video Play Buttons”. Now Facebook is doing just that. Today it started downranking the News Feed presence of links that display a fake play button in the preview image, as well as… Read More
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B2B platform Releaf helps African businesses by taking the guesswork out of networking
Releaf is a new B2B marketplace that wants to help African businesses prosper by helping them find partners they can trust. The startup, which is currently taking part in Y Combinator, has signed up about 1,000 businesses since its public launch in Nigeria on August 3. Read More
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Coup launches new electric scooter service in Paris and faces off with Cityscoot
Coup is launching its second city for its electronic scooter-sharing service. You can now find hundreds of Coup scooters in Paris. The company is going to compete with Cityscoot, a similar service that has been around for a while. While the city’s bike-sharing service has been around for a decade in Paris, scooter-sharing is something new. Coup has acquired around 600 electronic… Read More
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Tesla and GE are installing solar rooftop systems on 50 Home Depots
Tesla’s energy unit is working with GE’s Current to install solar systems on 50 Home Depot locations in the U.S. The installation is part of a plan on Home Depot’s part to move more of its stores to clean power, with a goal of generating 135 megawatts of clean energy from its locations by 2020, Bloomberg reports. The power generated from the installations will be sold back… Read More
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Crunch Network
Can Didi out-network Uber to win the global ridesharing market?
News from the ridesharing industry seems to come in one of two flavors. There’s salacious coverage of the cultural and leadership woes of the industry’s reigning champion, Uber. And, every month or so there’s a story about another nine-figure investment/buyout in the sector. We’re going to focus on investment activity and the structure of its investment network in… Read More
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ZeroCater expands from meal catering to office snacks
San Francisco-based ZeroCater is one of a growing number of startups hoping to disrupt the lunch rituals of businesses by providing catered lunches to small and medium-sized businesses in cities around the country. One way the company is seeking to differentiate itself from competitors is with a new offering to stock client’s shelves with produce and snacks. Read More
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Fat Lama is a platform to lend and borrow anything
Part of YC’s Summer ’17 class, Fat Lama wants to be a rental marketplace for anything. Launched late last year in London, the startup has gained early traction among professionals needing short-term rentals of creative gear – like drones, cameras or DJ equipment. But the platform is also filled with weirder goods – like a tuxedo, camper van or popcorn machine. Items… Read More
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Watch the new trailer for The Defenders before it hits Netflix on Friday
If you’re a fan of Marvel’s Netflix television universe, you’ve got to be excited about ‘The Defenders,’ the mini-series arriving on the streaming subscription platform on Friday, August 18. In case you’re not hyped enough, however, Netflix has released one final trailer to whet your appetite. This trailer is mostly about Sigourney Weaver lecturing… Read More
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Nintendo’s Splatoon 2 Switch bundle will be a Walmart exclusive
Want those snazzy neon green and pink Switch controllers you’ve been coveting? In the U.S. and Canada, you’ll have to head to Walmart to pick up the Splatoon 2 Switch console bundle – at least initially. The bundle, announced today by Nintendo, will include Neon Pink and Neon Green right and left Switch controllers, as well as Splatoon 2, the console and the dock, along with… Read More
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Crunch Network
Can the security community grow up?
As the times change, the security community needs to adapt. We live in an imperfect world, as Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer of Facebook pointed out in his recent BlackHat 2017 keynote address. Instead of trying to punish each other, hackers and innovators need to work closely to ensure a higher order. Other security thought leaders have echoed similar sentiments. Amit… Read More
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Ripcord’s $40 million Series B will pay for more file digitizing robots and human jobs
Bay Area startup Ripcord just scored a $40 million Series B, following its successful launch earlier this year. By all accounts, the company has apparently hit the ground running with its decidedly unsexy goal of using robots to digitize paper records for large corporations and organizations. According to CEO Alex Fielding, Ripcord already has a number of Fortune 100 companies on board… Read More
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Teen bitcoin millionaire Erik Finman is launching Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ into space
Erik Finman made headlines earlier this summer for becoming a bitcoin millionaire at the tender age of 18. He now tells TechCrunch he’s working on a project with NASA to launch a mini satellite into space with the recordings of regular folks, tech leaders and top artists — including pop idol Taylor Swift. The launch is in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Carl… Read More
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Skype’s much-debated redesign hits the desktop
In June, Microsoft introduced a completely revamped version of its Skype app, designed with a heavier focus on media-sharing, and other social expression tools, like emoji, reactions, and even a Snapchat-like stories feature. Now that new experience is rolling out to desktop users, but in a more limited fashion, Microsoft announced this morning. The new desktop app introduces an updated… Read More
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Amazon opens up access to developer tools for adding Alexa to commercial products
Amazon wants to make its virtual assistant Alexa available on more devices, instead of just its own hardware. To that end, the company today is broadly opening up access to developer tools that will allow commercial device makers to build products powered by Alexa. With the launch of the Alexa Voice Service Device SDK toolset, companies can add a fully functional version of Alexa to their… Read More
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Essential Phone now available to order, ships soon to pre-sale customers
The Essential Phone has arrived, a bit later than originally announced. The first smartphone from the new company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin is now available to order, via Essential’s own site, Best Buy, and Sprint. The phone is still listed as a pre-order in all three spots, with shipping information to be conveyed later, but this is the closest people have been able to get… Read More
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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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China Unicom
- $12B
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: wireless, mobile, telecommunications
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Investcorp
- $0K
- HQ: Manama, Al Manamah
- Categories: financial services
- Investors: Not available
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Tokopedia
- $1.1B
- HQ: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya
- Categories: marketplace, shopping, internet, e-commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Codacy
- $5.1M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: software, saas, b2b, developer tools
- Investors: Not available
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Atreca
- $35M
- HQ: San Carlos, California
- Categories: therapeutics, biotechnology, health care
- Investors: Not available
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BotsAndUs Ltd
- 100K GBP
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: machine learning, robotics, hospitality, events, artificial intelligence, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Intec Pharma
- $58M
- HQ: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim
- Categories: biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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otelz.com
- $3.6M
- HQ: Istanbul, Istanbul
- Categories: tourism, travel
- Investors: Not available
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Ripcord
- $40M
- HQ: Hayward, California
- Categories: office administration, digital media, software
- Investors: Not available
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Kiadis Pharma
- 15M EUR
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: pharmaceutical, biopharma, biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Tifosy
- Not available
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: sports
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Simpl
- Not available
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: payments, fintech
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for; to (do) Centers
- Not available
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: shipping, cloud computing, customer service, logistics
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HiScene
- $15M
- HQ: Pudong, Shandong
- Categories: augmented reality
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DisLedger
- Not available ICO
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: financial services, communities, information technology
- Investors: Not available
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SQand
- $500K
- HQ: Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Netology Group
- $20M
- HQ: Moscow, Moscow City
- Categories: internet, career planning, education
- Investors: Not available
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Unisound
- 300M CNY
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: natural language processing, cloud data services, speech recognition
- Investors: Not available
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Jincor
- Not available ICO
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: cryptocurrency
- Investors: Not available
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Margdarshak Financial Services
- $3.0M
- HQ: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
- Categories: finance
- Investors: Not available
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BOTique.ai
- Not available
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: artificial intelligence, enterprise software
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Swarna Pragati Housing
- 500M INR
- HQ: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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Social Finance Israel
- $20M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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clevergig
- Not available
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Komed Health
- 500K CHF
- HQ: Not available
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modum
- $1.2M ICO
- HQ: Not available
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Xeniapp Inc
- Not available
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LVL Technologies
- $6.8M
- HQ: Not available
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- Investors: Not available
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Zeitus
- $50K
- HQ: Not available
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- Investors: Not available
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The Parfait Co
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