The ‘AI arms race’ is about more than who will lead the industry

How Gaingels’ investor Lorenzo Thione is navigating the latest Golden Age of artificial intelligence.

Airtable’s Howie Liu to join us at Disrupt 2020

Collaborative enterprise software is absolutely booming, and Airtable is riding that wave in a very real way. The company, which offers a flexible, collaborative database product, has raised more than

CrowdFlower announces a scientific advisory board as it works to combine AI and crowdsourcing

When crowdsourced labor company CrowdFlower recently raised funding from Microsoft, co-founder Lukas Biewald told me his team was focused on technology that allows businesses to supplement algorithm

Apply now for Include Office Hours with First Round Capital!

TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening this October 10th! Phin Barnes and Bill Trenchard from First Round Capital in San Francisco will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback

The startup redemption of Famous

"It might shock you, but I let go of pretty much everybody. When we went from 34 employees to 4, everyone was sh*tting Twinkies. Everyone was scared to death." For Steve Newcomb, the founder and CEO o

Tech comes out against Donald Trump

During the primary season, tech industry leaders kept fairly quiet on the subject of the presidential race and its most notorious contender, Donald Trump. A few investors snarked about him on Twitter,

$30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots

Famo.us' 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted out of its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It

CrowdFlower Launches Open Data Project Covering Everything From Climate Change To #ThatDress

Crowdsourcing company <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crowdflower.com">CrowdFlower</a> allows businesses to tap into a distributed workforce of 5 million contributors for basic tasks like sentimen

BrightSky Labs Will Make It Easy To Share Videos From Your GoPro

BrightSky Labs wants to liberate the videos that people shoot with their GoPros, and make it easier to find and share on all your favorite social networks. The company is in the early stages of buildi

Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Accel’s Ping Li And Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow

This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, Accel Partners' <a target="_blank" href="http://www.accel.com/#people/ping-li">Ping Li</a> and Foundation Capital's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fo

Getaround Strikes Deal To Offer Discounted Leases For Smart Cars Listed On Its Rental Platform

Getaround, in conjunction with a Smart car dealership in San Francisco, is offering a <a target="_blank" href="http://u.getaround.com/smart/">pretty sweet deal</a> on new leases of cars that its membe

GitHub Co-Founder And CEO Tom Preston-Werner To Speak At Disrupt SF

Fresh off GitHub's Crunchie award for "<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/github-wins-the-2012-crunchie-for-best-overall-startup-may-the-fork-be-with-you/">Best Overall Startup</a>", we're ple

Famo.us, The Framework For Fast And Beautiful HTML5 Apps, Will Be Free Thanks To “Huge Hardware Vendor Interest”

<a target="_blank" href="http://famo.us/">Famo.us</a>, the Javascript framework that's designed for building crazy rich (yet still fast) interfaces in pure HTML5, is making two announcements out of th

Steve Newcomb’s Famo.us Raises $4M To Power Fast, Beautiful Apps In HTML5

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.famo.us/">Famo.us</a>, which offers a JavaScript framework that's designed to power HTML5 apps that are faster and better-looking than what's currently possible, ha

Famo.us Reveals More Details About Its HTML5 Turbo-Charger

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/famo-us-is-a-gaming-engine-for-3d-interfaces/">Last month</a> as part of our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Coverage, we wrote about <a target="_blank" href=

HyperFair Raises $1.1 Million — Ready For Your Trip To A Virtual Trade Show?

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.hyperfair.com">HyperFair</a>, a startup with a platform for running online trade shows, says it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The idea of a virtual tr

Beyond Their 10 Blue Links, Google’s And Bing’s Search Strategies Diverge

Not too long ago, Google and Bing seemed fully focused on adding as many social features to their search engines as possible. For Google, that meant adding lots of Google+ features and for Bing it mea

Famo.us Is A Gaming Engine For 3D Interfaces

<a target="_blank" href="http://famo.us/">Famo.us</a>, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco and brought to you by the same guy who founded <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchb

Parking Payment Startup QuickPay Raises $3.5M, Powerset Founder Barney Pell Becomes CEO

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.qpme.com">QuickPay</a>, a startup that helps drivers find and pay for parking, has brought on a new CEO — Barney Pell, the founder of semantic search company Powe

Enterprise Perks Management Startup ChoicePass Acquired By Salesforce, Will Shut Down June 30

Corporate perk management platform <a target="_blank" href="http://choicepass.com/home/">ChoicePass</a> has been <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.choicepass.com/2012/06/18/choicepass-team-joins-sa
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