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Gillmor Gang LIVE 04.17.15
1:02 pm PDT • April 17, 2015
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Join a live chat session amongst Gang members and…
Media & Entertainment
Microsoft Promises ‘Universal’ Office App For Phones Running Windows 10 This Month
10:29 am PDT • April 17, 2015
Microsoft promised this morning to release by the end of April a set of Office applications that it calls “Universal” for smartphones running Windows 10. The company has a two-prong…
Startups
Trio Lets You Mash Up Your Own Media With GIFs, Vines, Music And More
10:26 am PDT • April 17, 2015
If you spend entirely too much time creating, searching for and sharing the best GIFs and Vines with your friends, then you might get a kick out of a new…
How A Founder Can Think Like An Investor At The First Outside Round Of Funding
10:00 am PDT • April 17, 2015
The mean case can cost a founder up to $200k in self-funded investment and up to 24 months before they are ready to test outside funding. It is a nontrivial…
Startups
Coin, The One Credit Card To Rule Them All, Is Finally Shipping
9:02 am PDT • April 17, 2015
The Coin (promising to let you combine all your credit/debit/loyalty cards into a single piece of tech) has delayed for so long that you might have forgotten that you ordered…
Media & Entertainment
Twitter Makes It Easier For Developers To Add Timelines To Mobile Apps
8:16 am PDT • April 17, 2015
Twitter this week rolled out new features to its mobile developer platform, Fabric, aimed at expanding access to Twitter timelines from third-party applications. With an update to Twitter Kit, the…
Startups
Three Weeks After Launch, Vessel Gets Another $57.5 Million In Funding Led By IVP
8:00 am PDT • April 17, 2015
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has an ambitious plan for transforming the way we think about online video. His new startup Vessel is taking some of the same basic concepts…
Naspers Drops Off $40 Million For Brazilian Mobile Conglomerate Movile
7:30 am PDT • April 17, 2015
The on-demand delivery market has now raised more money in the first four months of 2015 than it did in all of 2014, and the latest beneficiary is the Brazilian…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon Shuts Down TestDrive, The Appstore Feature That Let You Try Apps Before Downloading
7:05 am PDT • April 17, 2015
Amazon is shutting down TestDrive, one of the differentiating features of the Amazon Appstore which allowed consumers to test out new applications ahead of purchase. The feature was introduced back in…
Google Says “Vast Majority” Of Ads On Its Platforms Will Be Encrypted By June 30
7:05 am PDT • April 17, 2015
Google has been gradually moving all of its online services to HTTPS encryption — you may even remember the excitement wayyyy back in 2008, when Gmail switched to HTTPS. In…
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With Quickie, Make A Quick 5-Second Video Call With Your Friends
5:28 am PDT • April 17, 2015
Meet Quickie, a nifty little iOS app to make 1-on-1 video calls that automatically end after a few seconds. You might use Quickie to tell a joke to a friend…
French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings
4:11 am PDT • April 17, 2015
In France, the upper house of parliament yesterday voted to support an amendment to a draft economy bill that would require search engines to display at least three rivals on…
Like the football phone or the Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio, humankind has always dreamt of melding two technologies together to create a synergistic improvement on our meager, exhausting existence.…
If you find yourself staying out too late with nothing in your brain, perhaps you could use the Soundbrenner Pulse. This haptic smartwatch won’t make calls or manage your calendar…
Join Us At The TC Pitch-Off In Budapest And Zagreb
12:24 am PDT • April 17, 2015
Ahoy, Hungary and Croatia, TC is in town and we’d love to see you. As part of Startup AddVenture, we’ll be holding a mini pitch-off in Budapest and Zagreb. We’ve…
Startups
Snapchat Is Paying Ex-Apple Exec Scott Forstall 0.11% To Be An Advisor
3:40 pm PDT • April 16, 2015
A leaked email from the Sony Pictures hack indicates Snapchat set aside .11% of its stock for former Apple head of iOS Scott Forstall to be an advisor. Michael Lynton,…
Media & Entertainment
Glossier CEO On Building A Skincare, Cosmetics Empire Online At Disrupt NY
2:47 pm PDT • April 16, 2015
The world’s major cosmetics companies like L’Oreal and Shisheido are at least a century old. But a New York-based startup from a former fashion assistant at Vogue and W is making waves.…
Photo-sharing startup EyeEm has raised $18 million to accelerate the expansion of its recently launched photo marketplace, CEO Flo Meissner announced on Medium this afternoon. EyeEm’s marketplace leverages the app’s…
The Rolling Robot From The Star Wars Trailer Actually Exists And It’s Awesome
2:25 pm PDT • April 16, 2015
Remember that incredibly neat soccer-ball lookin’ robot from the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer? The fans started debating about it pretty much immediately, as they tend to do. How…
Establishing Trust In The Bitcoin Ecosystem
2:00 pm PDT • April 16, 2015
On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto proposed “a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust.” Yet, it can be fairly argued that trust, or a lack thereof, has been…
