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Daum Kakao Debuts Uber Rival KakaoTaxi In South Korea
9:12 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
Daum Kakao, the maker of South Korea’s most popular messaging app, launched KakaoTaxi in Korea today. The new service is a potentially strong competitor to Uber and is the beginning…
IBM is wasting little time when it comes to the Internet of Things. The company outlined a major Internet of Things strategy tonight with a series of announcements that included a $3B investment…
Media & Entertainment
Japan’s SmartNews Raises Another $10M At A $320M Valuation To Expand In The U.S.
8:59 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
While general sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google stake their claims as news portals, apps focused squarely on reading news continue to duke it out. The latest development comes from SmartNews, a popular…
Alibaba Signs Distribution Deal With BMG, Its First Music Partner Outside Of Asia
7:48 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
In a bid to increase its online entertainment offerings, Alibaba has struck an agreement with music publisher BMG, which gives it access to over 2.5 million tracks. The partnership is…
Welcome Matthew Lynley, Nicole Wilke, Andrew Sweeney And New TCTV Director Sarah Lane
7:06 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
We talk about sharks a lot here at TechCrunch. We sympathize with the sea hunters in a lot of ways. Not everything people say about us is true; we’ve got thick skin;…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook’s Messenger Platform Must Go Beyond Apps And Embrace The Web
7:00 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
Facebook’s move to turn Messenger into a platform for third-parties has been one of the company’s most important decisions to date. Mobile messaging is a pivotal trend that will shape…
Tidal Confirms Partnership With Sprint Owner Softbank For Its Artist Co-Owned Music Service
3:32 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
We are still light on details, but now we know a bit more about Tidal, the high-defintion music streaming service that relaunched today, including a long list of musician-shareholders in…
We toss the word “disruption” around far too frivolously here but I think we’ve finally found a product that deserves to be called amazing, magical, game-changing, and – dare I…
Microsoft Releases Preview Of Its New Browser ‘Project Spartan’ In Fresh Windows 10 Build
2:49 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
Microsoft wasn’t kidding when it promised to ship Windows 10 builds more quickly. Today, less than two weeks after its last iteration, the company has kicked out a new build…
Enterprise
The Next Billion-Dollar Market Opportunity Is Mobile Enterprise
2:00 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
Enterprise mobile applications – like enterprise cloud applications a decade before – are poised to become a $100 billion market opportunity. I’ve worked with enterprise technologies exclusively for more than…
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Facebook Helps Musicians With Subscribe Button For Any Page’s Nearby Events
1:00 pm PDT • March 30, 2015
You don’t want to miss your favorite band’s concert in your town, even if you don’t care to see every one of their News Feed posts. To give you a…
Phhhoto, perhaps the only social network to have first launched as a physical party product aimed at the enterprise, has topped 1 million registered users over the course of the…
Google updated its Gmail app for Android today, and the most important feature is probably the addition of a unified inbox. Most of us probably manage multiple accounts and until…
Security
These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In China
11:44 am PDT • March 30, 2015
“I hope we put ourselves out of business,” said Charlie Smith, the pseudonymous head of Great Fire. And he was serious. After all this Chinese Internet monitoring watchdog GreatFire.org is…
Google has begun showing photos uploaded via Google+ in Google Drive, where they can be managed via a new Google Photos tab, or stored in folders alongside other kinds of…
Enterprise
Andreessen-Backed Teleport Launches A Mobile Search Engine For Globally Nomadic Tech Workers
10:41 am PDT • March 30, 2015
It’s a big hairy vision — knowledge-workers freely migrate around the globe, and city and federal governments compete to lure them. Teleport, a startup founded by early Skype employees around…
Microsoft made good on its promise to add mobile device management (MDM) to its Office 365 productivity service, making the feature generally available today to commercial customers. Microsoft has added,…
Media & Entertainment
Testlio Raises $1M To Provide On-Demand QA Testers
10:22 am PDT • March 30, 2015
Testlio, a startup that provides development teams with dedicated quality-assurance testers, has recently raised $1 million in seed funding to bring on more experts to fill out its “elastic” on-demand…
Startups
Drifty Grabs $2.6 Million To Turn Web Developers Into Mobile App Makers
9:47 am PDT • March 30, 2015
Drifty, a company that has been making it possible for web developers to build and publish native mobile applications that can then be published to the major app stores, including…
