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East London Kids To Be Offered Training Loans To Learn Coding
3:49 am PST • November 25, 2014
A new digital skills training fund will be piloted in the U.K. in January which will offer loans to non-graduate young people from East London with the dual aim of…
EU’s New #VATMOSS Rules Could Create A #VATMESS For Startups
3:07 am PST • November 25, 2014
New EU VAT regulations could end up being extremely onerous for early-stage tech startups and could drastically slow sales of digital products in the 28-member state block. The new rules…
Media & Entertainment
India’s Nimbuzz Plans New Emerging Market Apps, Starting With Android Call App Holaa
1:53 am PST • November 25, 2014
It’s nearly a month since Nimbuzz, the mobile messaging service that’s particularly popular in India, was bought by UK telecoms company New Call in a $250 million deal. Today, Nimbuzz…
Tencent Becomes HBO’s Exclusive Online Distributor In China
12:49 am PST • November 25, 2014
Tencent is now HBO’s exclusive online partner in China, the two companies announced today. That means Tencent (which, along with Alibaba and search giant Baidu, is one of China’s largest…
Media & Entertainment
News Corp Makes First Investment In India, Putting $30M Into Real Estate Site PropTiger
12:14 am PST • November 25, 2014
In addition to helping tell the news with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, U.S. media giant News Corp also makes news with strategic investments. Today the company announced…
Nest And Asian Insurance Giant AIA Launch Startup Accelerator In Hong Kong
11:25 pm PST • November 24, 2014
Hong Kong’s close proximity to manufacturing hubs like Shenzhen, China, and its small but growing startup ecosystem will make it a fertile growing ground for wearable tech startups. At least…
CloudFlare Will Offer A Local Version Of Its Web Security Service In China In 2015
10:26 pm PST • November 24, 2014
CloudFlare is bringing its internet security and performance service to Mainland China. The company is planning to launch to launch 12 data centers on Chinese soil over the next six…
Media & Entertainment
Universal Studios Buys Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Movie From Sony For A Reported $30M
8:04 pm PST • November 24, 2014
Aaron Sorkin’s much-anticipated Steve Jobs movie is now a Universal Pictures project, after the studio stepped in take over from Sony Pictures which ended its two-year development of the title…
iHear Medical, which makes affordable hearing aids that users can customize at home, has raised $5 million in a Series C round led by Lighthouse Capital, a Shanghai-based venture capital…
Since the Oculus Rift first made waves with its successful Kickstarter, there’s been a consistent line of criticism based in the notion, “why would it work this time?”
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Regin Spying Software Has Been Attacking Governments And Corporations Since 2008
1:45 pm PST • November 24, 2014
Symantec has found an unusual new threat called Regin aka Backdoor.Regin. The software, which is essentially a very powerful Trojan Horse, appears to have been circulating in the wild since…
Startups
Built In Brooklyn: FlyCleaners Saves You A Trip To The Laundromat
1:41 pm PST • November 24, 2014
For this episode of Built in Brooklyn, producer Steve Long and I visited the Bushwick garage of FlyCleaners, an on-demand laundry service — and Steve even went for a ride…
TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM 102 Indie Is Back
1:36 pm PST • November 24, 2014
TechCrunch Radio is back in full force and that means we need YOU! What is TechCrunch Radio, you ask? Well, it’s an hour of weekly bliss brought to you by…
Fluc Raises $2.3 Million To Improve The Logistics Of Food Delivery In More Markets
12:30 pm PST • November 24, 2014
Fluc raised $2.3 million in seed funding to expand its business and keep moving into new markets. The new financing came from investors that include Sherpa Ventures, WI Harper, Charlie…
Pathgather Raises Looks To Bring Social Networking To Learning Management
11:48 am PST • November 24, 2014
Companies feeling they aren’t getting enough out of their learning management systems now have a new tool that may help with the recent financing and launch of Pathgather. In the…
Media & Entertainment
Black Friday Starts Early This Year, With Pre-Thanksgiving Sales Up 19% Over 2013
11:18 am PST • November 24, 2014
Holiday shopping got an earlier start this year with a number of retailers including Walmart, Target, Amazon, Staples, Lowe’s, Sears and several others launching “pre-Black Friday” deals, or kicking off…
Startups
Let’s Pivot Again — Handmake Me Is An Ethical Marketplace For Handmade Gifts
11:12 am PST • November 24, 2014
Call it a pivot. Or failing and starting over. But, either way, some of the most successful startups and tech companies have done it. After all, the entrepreneurial road can…
Media & Entertainment
Vainglory Review: A Solid MOBA On Your iPhone
11:10 am PST • November 24, 2014
Now we’ve had a chance to actually try out Vainglory in real-world settings: on my apartment’s decent Wi-Fi setup and on an actual iPhone 6 Plus. As it turns out,…
Have you ever heard anyone excited to get Comcast service? Of course not. That’s like being excited for a hernia operation. Here’s my hernia operation: every year or so I…
Chrome Will Start Blocking All Remaining NPAPI Plugins In January
10:08 am PST • November 24, 2014
Starting in January 2015, Google’s Chrome browser will block all old-school Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI) plugins. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, given that Google started its efforts to…
