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Airbnb Lifestyle: The Rise Of The Hipster Nomad
1:30 pm PDT • October 3, 2014
For the past year, I’ve lived exclusively in temporary housing I’ve found on sites like Airbnb. I didn’t set out with this goal in mind, but it just sort of…
Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.03.14
1:03 pm PDT • October 3, 2014
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session for today has concluded.
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
12:26 pm PDT • October 3, 2014
From the Windows 10 launch to genetically modified babies and Elon Musk tweeting about his “D,” we give you our top articles from this week (9/27-10/3). You don’t want to miss…
500 Startups Promotes Bedy Yang And Khailee Ng To Managing Partner
12:00 pm PDT • October 3, 2014
Seed-stage investment firm 500 Startups is announcing today the promotion of two members of its investment team from partner to managing partner. By promoting Bedy Yang and Khailee Ng, the…
There is quite a bit of controversy surrounding the new iPhone 6 Plus. It’s the new golden child of Apple’s product line, bigger, thinner and more beautiful than ever. However,…
Hardware
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Gapgate, Garmin, And Jamstik
12:00 pm PDT • October 3, 2014
We’re off and running this week with the latest TC Gadgets podcast. Garmin announced a new smart watch called the Forerunner 920XT. We take a look at that, as well…
Yahoo has acquired mobile messaging application MessageMe, a Whatsapp-like service with $11.9 million in reported outside funding. The deal, we’re hearing from multiple sources, is a talent acquisition falling into the “single-digit”…
Robocoin Announces A New Wallet Service To Meld The Physical With The Virtual
11:36 am PDT • October 3, 2014
Robocoin, maker of Bitcoin ATMs, has announced a new service called Robocoin Wallet. The service, which acts as a bitcoin wallet directly connected to the company’s public ATMs, allows you…
Enterprise
Microsoft Launches New Office 365 Subscription Plans For Small And Midsize Businesses
11:13 am PDT • October 3, 2014
Microsoft is rolling out new Office 365 plans for companies with fewer than 250 employees that will slowly replace the company’s existing plans for small and midsize businesses. The company had…
Narrative’s Clip-On Camera | One Lap
10:52 am PDT • October 3, 2014
In this week’s episode of One Lap, Martin Källström of Narrative joined me at Thunderhill Raceway. I met Martin earlier this year while he was visiting San Francisco from Sweden.…
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Childish Gambino Name-Drops A Bunch Of Techies In His New Mixtape
10:52 am PDT • October 3, 2014
Rapper Childish Gambino (also known as Donald Glover, former cast member of cult sitcom “Community”) just dropped an 11-song mixtape, his first big release since last year’s hit album “Because…
Estify Raises $1.5 Million To Roll Out Insurance Software For Auto Repair
10:45 am PDT • October 3, 2014
After spending two years developing a product to automate the integration of car insurance damage estimate data for repairs between insurance companies and body shops, Estify has raised $1.5 million…
A San Antonio-based company called Xenex has risen to media prominence recently thanks to their ultraviolet pulse robot called Little Moe. The robot can enter and clean a hospital room…
Apple is reportedly holding an event for the iPad, OS X Yosemite and new iMacs on October 16, according to a report from Re/code today. The event will be held…
Now that the market has had time to begin digesting the new bits that Windows 10 will unveil in the middle of next year, it’s important to place the operating system…
Hardware Battlefield Is Returning To CES Where One Startup Will Win $50,000
9:30 am PDT • October 3, 2014
Hardware Battlefield is back! For the second year in a row, TechCrunch is bringing our premiere launch competition to the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. The winning startup gets…
Media & Entertainment
Roughly Half Of Users Are Finding Apps Via App Store Search, Says Study
9:20 am PDT • October 3, 2014
The battleground for app discovery in the leading mobile app stores, iTunes and Google Play, has more to do with where an app ranks in the search results, than where…
Sourcery Raises $2.5M To Connect Kitchens And Local Food Suppliers
9:00 am PDT • October 3, 2014
Sourcery, an online wholesale food supplier director and payments processor, is today announcing that it is exiting stealth and has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform…
The Man Who Scans The Interwebs So You Don’t Have To
8:52 am PDT • October 3, 2014
The man behind the popular NextDraft newsletter, Dave Pell has a slight smirk on his face as he slowly makes his way out of his dimmed SOMA office to greet…
If you are a Windows 8.1 user, the VLC team has a little gift for you this Friday: An app. As Neowin notes, if you have the former edition installed, you…
