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OKPanda Takes In Another $1.6M For Its English Language Learning App For Asia
8:00 am PDT • August 17, 2014
OKpanda, whose language learning app targets the lucrative English language learning market in Asia, especially focusing on Japan, has closed a new $1.6 million seed funding round.
Media & Entertainment
Three Trends That Will Make A Difference In Mobile Payments
9:00 pm PDT • August 16, 2014
In the summer of 2008, I was in Paris delivering a mobile payments presentation to the CEO of a French bank. At the end of the meeting, he asked me…
Turn Any YouTube Video Into A GIF By Just Adding “GIF” To The URL
5:33 pm PDT • August 16, 2014
Want to turn something on YouTube into a GIF, but don’t want to futz with downloading third-party apps or digging around for an online converter? Here’s a handy, easy to…
No Rest For The Innovators
3:00 pm PDT • August 16, 2014
If you are in the software business, you have to be cringing at the satirical portrayal of our industry in today’s entertainment media. In HBO’s “VEEP,” Julia Dreyfus’ character Selina…
Gillmor Gang: What’s That Sound
10:00 am PDT • August 16, 2014
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — struggle with the news and raw emotions of the death of Robin Williams and…
Bridging The STEM Talent Gap Is Not About Degrees, But Skill Sets
8:00 am PDT • August 16, 2014
In 2013, there were 2.5 times as many entry-level STEM-related job postings as there were STEM graduates, according to a study by Burning Glass Technologies. The new U.S. News/Raytheon STEM…
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
7:58 am PDT • August 16, 2014
From the ice bucket challenge to a nuclear fusion startup, here are our best stories from the week of 8/9 to 8/15. The ALS ice bucket challenge has swept the…
Yes, Rapportive Is All #$%@ed Up Right Now
6:19 am PDT • August 16, 2014
It was bad enough that LinkedIn bought the incredibly useful Gmail widget maker Rapportive, which offers a lightweight CRM tool that shows your contacts’ social accounts and recent updates, then…
Do Software Engineers Get Enough Respect?
6:00 am PDT • August 16, 2014
“For software engineers, life must seem like it keeps getting better,” cheerleads CNet. Glassdoor agrees: our median salary is now $85K, and six figures in San Francisco. And everyone predicts…
Media & Entertainment
Pokémon Will Finally Come To The iPad, As A Virtual Card Game
6:29 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
Pokémon, the game franchise that I love more than most real things in the actual world, is coming to the iPad. I would weep for joy were the news not…
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Google Buys Jetpac To Give Context To Visual Searches
5:50 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
Google just acquired the team behind Jetpac, an app that utilizes public Instagram data to determine things like the happiest or drunkest city. Jetpac launched in 2012 as a social…
We rarely talk about bags on TC these days (except during Bag Week) but here’s a crowdfunding project that I think would be perfect for all of us multi-phone, laptop-toting…
CrunchWeek: Amazon Takes On Square, Tech CEOs Get Dunked, BurritoCannon Comes True
3:45 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
We’re in the mid-August tech news cycle (AKA, it’s pretty slow), which made for some interesting topics for this week’s episode of CrunchWeek. Pour yourself a nice cold spiked lemonade,…
How People Are Filling In When AI Can’t Do The Job
3:00 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
Despite the nifty-ness of having your phone tell you to leave work 15 minutes early to make it to your flight or Siri and Cortana cracking the occasional joke, the…
Media & Entertainment
Unseen, An Anonymous Photo Sharing App For Colleges, Raises $2.1 Million
2:51 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
An Austin-based company called Bearch has raised $2.1 million in seed funding for its anonymous photo-sharing app Unseen, which has been trending on college campuses. Investors in the round include…
FCC Extends Net Neutrality Comment Period
2:42 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Friday it would extend the net neutrality reply comment period from September 10 to September 15. The commission has already received more than 1.1…
Transportation
Tesla Extends All 85kWh Model S Drivetrain Warranties To 8 Years And Infinite Miles
1:28 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk just announced via Twitter and the company blog that the drivetrain warranty for the 85 kWh Model S has been extended, giving it an…
The Guy Who Kickstarted Potato Salad Wasn’t Just Trolling Us All
1:12 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
It’s come to our attention that PotatoStock is a go. Zack “Danger” Brown, a Columbus, Ohio native, previously confirmed that he will put the proceeds raised from his potato salad…
Gillmor Gang Live 08.15.14
1:03 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today
Media & Entertainment
What Studying Students Teaches Us About Great Apps
1:00 pm PDT • August 15, 2014
With over a million apps in each the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, there’s an app—or 10—for practically everything a consumer needs. So why is it in…
