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Haystack’s New App Wants To Be Your Digital Business Card - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

Over the years, a number of startups have attempted to kill the business card, but these antiquated pieces of paper have managed to stick around, despite our move to a digital age. However, that doesn’t mean people will stop trying to end the reign of the business card once and for all. The latest example? A newly launched mobile application called Haystack combines the ability for users… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Bezar, Bradford Shellhammer’s Reimagined Fab.com, Goes Live Today - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

Bezar, the curated online marketplace that takes after its predecessor Fab.com, is going live today with twelve designers across four categories: art, accessories, house, and jewelry). Bezar was founded by Bradford Shellhammer, cofounder of Fab.com who left in November of 2013, and took much of the “special sauce of Fab.com” with him when he left. I’ve visited… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Sling TV Arrives On Xbox One - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

Sling TV, the over-the-top streaming service that brings live content without the big price tags of cable bundles makes the leap to Xbox One today. The Sling TV offering provides access to a variety of channels, including AMC, TNT, ESPN and ESPN2 for only $20 a month, plus more options via inexpensive add-on packs. Xbox One support was announced back in January, but the arrival of the… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Join TechCrunch And The Europas To Help Us Pick The Best Euro Startups - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

The Europas European Tech Startups Awards has become an annual celebration of Europe’s hottest tech companies. From its humble beginnings in a small bar in central London by our own Mike Butcher in 2009, The Europas has grown into a major media event and a gathering of the key startup players in Europe. It’s an independent, editorially-driven awards show, judged by respected members… Read More - TechCrunch24

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This Wearable Game For Visually Impaired Kids Aims To Help Cognitive Development - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

A Mexican educational psychologist duo has teamed up to build toys for blind or visually impaired kids. The first device they’re building is a wearable game called Smash-a-ball — pictured above in prototype form — which is being designed to help kids’ cognitive development. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Mozilla Alum Jay Sullivan Lands At Groupon As Its New Head Of Product - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

Jay Sullivan, once one the more public faces of Mozilla and for a while its interim CEO, has surfaced again: he has joined local commerce and daily deals site Groupon as its SVP of consumer product, overseeing all tech products such as Groupon’s mobile apps and its website. He will be based out of Palo Alto and will report to Groupon’s CTO Sri Viswanath. His appointment is coming in… Read More - TechCrunch24

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App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Will Include Age-Based Ratings - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

Google Play, Google’s marketplace for Android applications which now reaches a billion people in over 190 countries, has historically differentiated itself from rival Apple by allowing developers to immediately publish their mobile applications without a lengthy review process. However, Google has today disclosed that, beginning a couple of months ago, it began having an internal team… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Glooko Gets $16.5M Injection For Its Diabetes Management Platform - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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Diabetes management startup Glooko, which sells a unified diabetes data management healthcare service, which includes Bluetooth-enabled hardware to import blood glucose readings from a range of (proprietary) glucose meters to make it easier for doctors to remotely monitor patients, has pulled in a $16.5 million Series B round. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Apple Web Television Service Would Awaken A Sleeping Apple TV Giant - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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Apple is set to launch a dedicated streaming TV service beginning in September, according to the Wall Street Journal. The offering would boast around 25 channels, including major broadcasters like ABC, CBS and Fox and would likely be priced around $30 or $40 a month, with an initial unveil in June (most likely at WWDC). This follows an announcement from Apple at last week’s event that… Read More - TechCrunch24

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More Rain For Cloud Business Intelligence As Birst Raises $65M - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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Birst, a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform, has raised another $65 million in funding — a Series F round that CEO Jay Larson said will be “the last one” before it gears up for an IPO. “We think it will not be this year, we’re not giving specific direction,” he told TechCrunch in an interview. “But the combination of the size of the… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Nintendo Teases NX, Its Next Dedicated Gaming Console - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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Nintendo is being unusually candid about its product roadmap, with news that it will work on mobile titles with partner DeNA, and a reveal of its next console project – or at least the fact that it’s working on one. Nintendo’s Chief Executive Satoru Iwata told a press conference today that its next-generation console will be called NX, and is currently under development with… Read More - TechCrunch24

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FiftyThree Lands $30M From NEA To Build Creation Tools For Enterprise And Education Users - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

FiftyThree has spent the last several years making products to increase creativity among users. Now the company has an eye on producing new tools not just for the consumer market, but that enterprise and education users could also leverage. To help with that, the company is also announcing that it has raised $30 million in new financing from New Enterprise Associates. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Dataminr Confirms $130M Raise To Take Its Social Media Data Analysis To New Verticals - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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Dataminr, a startup that parses and crawls the vast glut of real-time information that gets posted on social media sites like Twitter to extract key developments for public safety, bankers and news organizations, has confirmed that it’s another $130 million in funding. The funding — a Series D led by Fidelity — will be used to expand into new enterprise verticals, with… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Nintendo Partners With DeNA To Brings Its Games And IP To Smartphones - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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Nintendo is finally bringing its games and characters to mobile after the company announced an alliance with Japanese mobile gaming firm DeNA. The duo announced a collaboration that will see them jointly develop games for “smart devices.” Also forthcoming will be a service that lets users play games across a variety of devices. The alliance will see both sides make 22 billion… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Rakuten To Put Its Bitnet Investment To Work And Accept Bitcoin Worldwide - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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Rakuten, Japan’s largest online retail firm, has announced that it will begin accepting bitcoin across its global marketplaces. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Sotheby’s Will Soon Let You Take Part In Its Auctions Right From eBay - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

eBay pushed into collectibles and live auctions last year and now the U.S. retailer is adding a notable name to its list: prestigious auction house Sotheby’s. The duo have teamed up to live-stream auctions from Sotheby’s and allow prospective buyers to place bids in real-time via eBay. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Adobe Brings PDFs To The Cloud With Its New Acrobat DC Service - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

Over the last two years or so, the news around Adobe has mostly focused on its Creative Cloud, so it’s easy to forget that the company also has a huge business in the document business with Acrobat. Now, it’s putting renewed emphasis on this side of its business with the launch of its Document Cloud. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Chromecast Now Lets You Pause And Play With Your TV Remote - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 17, 2015 from

Google’s Chromecast turns the phone in your pocket into a really, really great TV remote — which is great, until your TV remote is nearby, but your phone for some reason isn’t. Surprise! Chromecast suddenly lets you pause and unpause videos with your TV’s infrared remote. While it doesn’t seem that Google has officially announced the functionality, I’ve… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Ex Machina Director Alex Garland Talks Artificial Intelligence And His Unsettling Robot Ava - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

If you were looking for love in Austin this weekend, you might have run into Ava — a chatbot on Tinder created to promote the South by Southwest premiere of a new science fiction film called Ex Machina. Regardless of what you think about the campaign (I didn’t have a problem with it, but then I’ve always found Tinder chats to be awkward and slightly surreal), it certainly… Read More - TechCrunch24

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McDonalds Teams With General Assembly For Employee Training Pilot - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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McDonald’s announced a partnership with General Assembly today at South by Southwest. They are launching a pilot program in which a small subset of McDonald’s employees can take one of two GA courses and receive a monthly stipend for the duration of the courses. The idea is take qualified people who can’t afford to take the classes, but could have technology skills,… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Mango Health’s Drug Prescription, Health Apps Eye The Ideal Spot On The Apple Watch - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

Stacked with execs from the mobile and social gaming industry, Mango Health has been taking the behavioral mechanics that make games addictive and applying them toward more intractable problems in the world of healthcare. Two years ago, they launched a mobile app that helps patients with drug adherence, or whether they’re managing to take their medications every day. Since the the app… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Pinterest Raises $367 Million, Pushing It Past $1 Billion Raised In All - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

Remember Pinterests massive $200 million Series F round last year? They’re coming back for more — lots more. According to a just-released filing, Pinterest is looking to raise over half a billion dollars — and it’s already over halfway there. Pinterest has already raised $367 million dollars in this latest round, and they’re still open to raising another $211… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Friendsy Is Tinder For College Students Only, Created By Two Princeton Students - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

During his freshman year at Princeton, Michael Pinsky went to the student lounge to watch a Yankees game. Knowing there were plenty of other fans on campus, he was certain it would be packed. But the lounge was empty except for Vaidhy Murti, another fan, sitting on an adjacent couch. The two began to talk, becoming fast friends. But the pair realized it doesn’t always work that… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Yaytop Helps You Phone-A-Friend Before You Post A Pic To Instagram - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

Last Spring, University of Michigan students Niko Natsis and Aaron Nussbaum noticed that some of their friends and siblings would send their pictures to each other on iMessage in order to give edits that would do better on social networks. The pair decided to build Yaytop, an app that lets you quickly ping friends for help with edits before you post to Instagram or Facebook. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Design Principles For Building Better Wearables - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

We are seeing a wave of wearable products coming to market. According to IDC research, 19.2 million shipments this year will build to a global market of 111.9 million units by 2018. There is no doubt that the long-predicted rise of wearables is upon us. Pioneers like Pebble are now being joined by Google’s Android Wear platform, the Apple Watch and Microsoft Band, and new form factors… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Shift Labs Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Make Medical Devices For Healthcare’s Future - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

Shift Labs is a small startup launching this spring out of Y Combinator with a lofty tagline: to be “the Nest of medical devices.” But as ambitious and obtuse as that may sound at first, when you take a closer look at Shift Labs and what it’s doing, it doesn’t sound that crazy after all. In fact, it seems almost inevitable. If you’ve spent any time in a… Read More - TechCrunch24

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BuzzFeed’s CEO Says Modern Media Is About Pushing Actual Content, Not Links - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

“Because so many publishers build their businesses on banner ads, they have to get people back to their site to make money” says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. But that misses much of the value of social media. “You should be using this distribution channel to show them content, not just a pointer to some other space.” During his talk to a massive SXSW crowd, Peretti… Read More - TechCrunch24

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Here’s How Microsoft Will Fit Windows 10 Inside Inexpensive Devices - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

Microsoft detailed its efforts today to reduce the footprint of Windows 10, a forthcoming operating system that the software company hopes will run across devices of every screen size. Fitting Windows onto smaller devices, however, is a challenge, given that the operating system isn’t known for having a diminutive footprint. Windows 10 has two chief methods built into it to reduce its size. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Fintech Startup And YC Alum GoCardless Loses Second Co-Founder - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

Fintech startup and Y-Combinator alum GoCardless, which offers a simple way for online businesses to set up and accept direct debit payments (that is, money that comes straight out of your bank account), has lost another of its three original co-founders. Read More - TechCrunch24

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Cablevision Becomes First Pay-TV Provider To Offer HBO NOW To Broadband Customers - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

Following Apple’s announcement last week that it would be the first device maker to offer HBO’s new standalone streaming service, HBO NOW, to U.S. consumers, HBO today revealed that Cablevision Systems will become the first pay-TV provider to do the same for its broadband customers. That is, those who subscribe to Cablevision’s Optimum internet service – but not its… Read More - TechCrunch24

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The Net Neutrality Drinking Game - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

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The FCC is about to be taken out back by Congress for a quick word. The independent federal agency’s recent vote to pass new net neutrality regulations has stirred some discontent among the congressional majority in both houses, resulting in a full dance card for FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler, who will take part in five subsequent hearings over the next several weeks. The first is… Read More - TechCrunch24

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TechCrunch Meetup And PitchOff In Dubai On March 30th - http://techcrunch.com/2015...

Mar 16, 2015 from

TechCrunch is headed to Dubai on March 30th and 31st and we want to see you there. We’re going to hold a quick meetup there, just before the awesome Step Conference. The goal is to find some amazing startups for our Disrupt conference. After last year’s successful TechCrunch Meetup in Beirut, we thought this year we would mix it up a bit and host the TechCrunch Meetup and PitchOff… Read More - TechCrunch24

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