Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
The Latest
Venture
CrunchBase Grows Its Global Reach, Adding Incubators, VC Partners And A New Leaderboard Feature
10:36 am PDT • September 10, 2014
Everyone knows CrunchBase as the leading site for all the information that investors and the startup community may need. But now the site that’s given you so much for so…
Tinder Is Raising From Benchmark At A Valuation North Of $750 Million
10:10 am PDT • September 10, 2014
Mobile dating app Tinder is in talks to raise a big round of funding from Benchmark, according to sources. We’ve heard the deal, which could still fall through due to…
Disrupt SF Social Contest #3: Selfie Disrupt
9:47 am PDT • September 10, 2014
Do you have the courage to break rules in the name of innovation? Drastically rupture the status quo? Do you want to see tech done better? Are you really, really good at…
Startups
Rocket Internet Confirms It Will Hold An IPO Later This Year
9:43 am PDT • September 10, 2014
After much speculation, German super-incubator and clone factory Rocket Internet has confirmed that it plans to launch an initial public offering later this year on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Rocket…
Watch The Disrupt SF 2014 Live Stream Right Here!
9:03 am PDT • September 10, 2014
Looks like we made it. Look how far we’ve come, baby. Disrupt Day 3 is here, which means that the fun comes to a close at the end of the…
Startups
WhatWine Scans A Restaurant’s Wine List To Pair Your Dish With The Right One
9:00 am PDT • September 10, 2014
I’ll confess, I know very little about wine, except that too many glasses of cheap red plonk can make you very sick as a 14-year-old child. WhatWine, a new app…
Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls
8:00 am PDT • September 10, 2014
For the last few years, it has always felt like Google Voice, the company’s VoIP calling solution, was on its way out. Instead, the video-centric Hangouts was getting all of…
Enterprise
With Stash Data Center, Atlassian Brings Git To Large Enterprises
8:00 am PDT • September 10, 2014
With Stash, Atlassian has been offering a Git-based code-management solution for quite a while now. Up until now the company was mostly going after relatively small teams with this service,…
Tempo’s Smart Calendar Launches Further Into Europe With Local Languages
6:00 am PDT • September 10, 2014
The calendar app market has been getting crowded with apps like Cue, Sunrise, Timeful, Accompli, Lowdown and others vying for attention. One that I’ve been using has been Tempo, mainly…
Transportation
Peer-To-Peer Airport Car Rental Startup FlightCar Raises Another $13.5M Led By GGV Capital
4:30 am PDT • September 10, 2014
FlightCar wants to enable its users to rent out their cars at airports all around the country, and today is announcing that it has raised an additional $13.5 million to…
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London
Your Network Is Already Hacked, But LightCyber May Be Able To Save You
4:30 am PDT • September 10, 2014
The Tel Aviv-based security startup LightCyber has some bad news for enterprises — their networks have already been compromised. But the new security technology vendor, which just raised $10 million…
This year’s Audience Choice at Disrupt SF has a WHALE of a tale to tell you. Called FishingBooker.com, this Belgrade-based company is streamlining the process of booking fishing boats. Yes.…
Startups
The Disrupt SF 2014 Battlefield Finalists Are Alfred, Partpic, PatternEQ, Shipstr, Stack And Vinli
11:22 pm PDT • September 9, 2014
In our new conference venue at Pier 48, 26 battlefield competitors (and two Audience Choice winners) have pitched their hearts out onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF these past two days.…
Startups
RezGuru By TableGrabber Helps Restaurants Take A Smarter Approach To Pricing And Reservations
6:00 pm PDT • September 9, 2014
TableGrabber aims to help restaurants fill their empty seats, and to that end, it’s launching a new platform today called RezGuru at the Disrupt SF startup battlefield. The goal, as…
Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.09.14
6:00 pm PDT • September 9, 2014
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Benedict Evans, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. Click here for our Friendfeed live show chat You…
Hardware
Up Close And Personal With The iPhone 6 And 6 Plus On Video
5:57 pm PDT • September 9, 2014
Apple’s new iPhones are now a known quantity, but perhaps you haven’t yet had a chance to get a more intimate look at them. We had an opportunity to try…
Startups
FOVE Uses Eye Tracking To Make Virtual Reality More Immersive
5:42 pm PDT • September 9, 2014
FOVE wants to ramp up by the virtual reality experience by creating the world’s first consumer-oriented headmount display to use eye tracking. The Tokyo-based startup was founded by CEO Yuka…
Sciencebite Is Metasearch For Scientific Expertise
5:42 pm PDT • September 9, 2014
A great startup idea often has a chunk of science at its core. But getting the discrete worlds of industry and academe to combine is not as easy as it…
So here we are, in the hours after the official launch of the Apple Watch, and we need to address just what the watch means for Switzerland. When I first…
YouTurn is probably wincing that I compare their app to the extremely popular Hyperlapse. In my defense, there are similarities that simply must be noted — primarily that the app…
