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- Should you raise equity venture capital or revenue-based investing VC?
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 06:20 PMDavid Teten
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Eminem’s publisher accuses Spotify of copyright infringement in new lawsuit
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 06:49 PMEminem’s music publisher Eight Mile Style has filed a lawsuit against Spotify, accusing the service of “blatant copyright infringement” in streaming “Lose Yourself” and other Eminem songs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - BuzzFeed’s new MoodFeed recommends content based on how you’re feeling
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 12:23 PMBuzzFeed is offering readers a new approach to finding content that fits the way they’re feeling right now.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bring your posse to Disrupt SF 2019 with group discounts
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 01:05 PMDisrupt San Francisco 2019, our flagship event on October 2-4, features three full days of programming, more than 10,000 attendees, over 1,200 exhibiting startups and sponsors — and that’s just for starters.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Classic Hangouts will hang in there a bit longer
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 01:19 PMEarlier this year, Google said it would transition all Hangouts users on G Suite to Hangouts Chat and Meet by October 2019 and then retire the classic version of Hangouts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google updates to a cleaner, simpler Play Store design [Updated]
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 03:00 PM[Update: the Music tab has been relocated] Google’s Play Store has gotten a big visual makeover, the company announced today, with changes that include a cleaner look-and-feel, new navigation, an easier way to to see app information and more.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Peak Design’s Travel Duffel 35L is as simple or as powerful as you need it to be
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 04:08 PMA good, solid duffel bag is a mainstay for many travelers — especially those who like packing up a car for a weekend away, or frequent flyers who disdain the thought of checking a bag.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- After a breakout year, looking ahead to the future of podcasting
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 05:30 PMJustine Moore
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - PayPal-backed money lender Tala raises $110M to enter India
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 07:00 AMTala, a Santa Monica, Calif.-headquartered startup that creates a credit profile to provide uncollateralized loans to millions of people in emerging markets, has raised $110 million in a new financing round to enter India’s burgeoning fintech space.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hear THX’s new Deep Note right here
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- T-Mobile customers report outage, can’t make calls or send text messages
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 06:36 PMT-Mobile customers across the U.S. say they can’t make calls or send text messages following an apparent outage — although mobile data appears to be unaffected.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ThredUp, whose second-hand goods will start appearing at Macy’s and JCPenney, just raised a bundle
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 08:08 PMThredUp, the 10-year-old fashion resale marketplace, has a lot of big news to boast about lately. For starters, the company just closed on $100 million in fresh funding from an investor syndicate that includes Park West Asset Management, Irving Investors and earlier backers Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Upfront Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Redpoint Ventures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Dropbox, Nike, Salesforce, MailChimp, Google and Pepsi welcome their new hires
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 01:02 PMVladimir Polo
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google denies reports of unannounced changes to Android app review process
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 01:11 PMMultiple reports this week claimed Google had quietly rolled out a more in-depth app review process to all developers — changes designed to keep the Play Store safer from spam, malware and copycat apps.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 02:56 PMAfter two days of founders tirelessly pitching, we’ve reached the end of YC’s Summer 2019 Demo Days. TechCrunch witnessed more than 160 on-the-record startup pitches coming out of Y Combinator, spanning healthcare, B2B services, augmented reality and life-extending.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Second docking adapter for commercial crew vehicles installed on International Space Station
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 03:21 PMThe International Space Station is now more than ready for crew-carrying spacecraft flown by commercial companies to pay it a visit: The second planned International Dock Adapter (IDA) was installed on the Space Station during a spacewalk by NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan earlier today.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 04:48 PMSplunk, the publicly traded data processing and analytics company, today announced that it has acquired SignalFx for a total price of about $1.05 billion. Approximately 60% of this will be in cash and 40% in Splunk common stock.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Kobiton raises a $5.2M Series A round for its mobile testing platform
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 06:00 AMKobiton, an Atlanta-based mobile testing platform that helps developers test their apps on real devices using the open-source Appium automation framework, today announced that it has raised a $5.2 million Series A round.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Box introduces Box Shield with increased security controls and threat protection
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 08:19 AMBox has always had to balance the idea of sharing content broadly while protecting it as it moved through the world, but the more you share, the more likely something can go wrong, such as misconfigured shared links that surfaced earlier this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cosi raises €5M for its ‘full-stack’ hospitality alternative to boutique hotels
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 08:42 AMCosi, a new Berlin-based startup operating in the hospitality space with an alternative to boutique hotels and managed short-stay apartments, has picked up €5 million in seed funding pre-launch.
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- Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 06:23 PMFirst of all, keep it out of the light. It hates bright light, especially sunlight, it’ll kill it. Second, don’t give it any water, not even to drink. But the most important rule, the rule you can never forget, no matter how much it cries, no matter how much it begs, never feed it after midnight.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Deadline extended one week: apply to Hardware Battlefield @ TC Shenzhen
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 12:20 PMWhether you’re a time-crunched procrastinator or a last-minute decision-maker, we have great news for early-stage hardware startup founders! You get one more week to apply to compete in Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen on November 11-12 in China.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple exec Susan Prescott is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 12:50 PMSusan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of markets, apps and services, has been at Apple since 2003.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Daily Crunch: DoorDash acquires Scotty Labs
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 01:19 PMThe Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Twitter picks up team from narrative app Lightwell in its latest effort to improve conversations
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 01:24 PMTwitter’s ongoing, long-term efforts to make conversations easier to follow and engage with on its platform is getting a boost with the company’s latest acquihire.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - YC is doubling down on these investment theses in its most recent batch
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 04:01 PMNearly 200 startups have just graduated from the prestigious San Francisco startup accelerator Y Combinator . The flock of companies are now free to proceed company-building with a fresh $150,000 check and three-months full of tips and tricks from industry experts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Porsche invests in ‘low visibility’ sensor startup TriEye
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 04:32 PMPorsche’s venture arm has acquired a minority stake in TriEye, an Israeli startup that’s working on a sensor technology to help vehicle driver-assistance and self-driving systems see better in poor weather conditions like dust, fog and rain.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple, Google and Mozilla block Kazakhstan’s browser spying tactics
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 06:00 AMApple, Google and Mozilla have taken the rare step of blocking an untrusted certificate issued by the Kazakhstan government, which critics say it forced its citizens to install as part of an effort to monitor their internet traffic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watch live as NASA astronauts spacewalk to install a new automated docking ring on the ISS
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 07:31 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Waymo releases a self-driving open data set for free use by the research community
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 09:00 AMWaymo is opening up its significant stores of autonomous driving data with a new ‘Open Data Set’ it’s making available for the purposes of research.
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