PullRequest pulls in $8M Series A just months after scoring seed round
PullRequest has been on a whirlwind lately, but it’s the kind that any startup would likely welcome. The company was in Y Combinator last August just trying to learn the startup ropes. By December it...
View ArticleGoogle is testing self-destructing emails in new Gmail
Google is working on a brand new design for the web version of Gmail. Yesterday, I published screenshots of the new design. TechCrunchâs tipster Chaim also discovered an interesting new feature in...
View ArticlePodcasting app Anchor can now find you a cohost
Fresh off its relaunch as an app offering a suite of tools for podcasters, Anchor today is rolling a new feature that will make it easier for people to find someone to podcast with: Cohosts. As the...
View ArticleComcast will start bundling Netflix into its cable subscriptions
Today’s development in weird potential frenemy relationships is an interesting one with Comcast now planning to bundle Netflix into its cable subscriptions, the companies announced today.read more...
View ArticleThe Roadie 2 tuner ups your guitar game
The first Roadie tuner was a modern marvel. An automatic guitar tuning system, the little device connected to your phone to listen to your guitar strings and then set them to the proper tuning using an...
View ArticleAfter bashing Amazon deals, Trump orders investigation of U.S. Postal Service
The president issued an executive order after hours last night, aimed at evaluating the U.S. Postal Service. Citing the mail serviceâs âunsustainable financial path,â Trumpâs order demands a...
View ArticleHere are the 12 startups in Techstars NYCâs Winter 2018 class
The latest startups to participate in Techstars NYC have spent the past week pitching investors, journalists and the broader New York community.read more...
View ArticleU.S. iPhone users spent 23% more in apps in 2017 than the year before
Games, dating apps and streaming services contributed to a rise in consumer spending in iPhone apps last year, according to new data from app store intelligence firm, Sensor Tower. The firm found that...
View ArticleUsers and advertisers are mostly unfazed by Facebook scandal
Facebookâs downfall has, it seems, been greatly exaggerated â at least according to Facebook . Even with the Cambridge Analytica fallout and subsequent #DeleteFacebook campaigns, the site appears...
View ArticleZuoraâs IPO is another step in golden age of enterprise SaaS
Zuroa’s founder and CEO Tien Tzuo had a vision of a subscription economy long before most people ever considered the notion. He knew that for companies to succeed with subscriptions, they needed a...
View ArticleCoinbase acquires decentralized app browser/wallet Cipher Browser
Coinbase announced today that it has acquired Cipher Browser, a decentralized app browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain that it will be using to bolster its own similar product. Terms of the...
View ArticleGoogleâs âSemantic Experiencesâ let you play word games...
Google does a great deal of research into natural language processing and synthesis, but not every project has to be a new Assistant feature or voice improvement. The company has a little fun now and...
View ArticleIs Android Popsicle next?
Barring any sort of major shakeup at Googleâs mobile division, there are two things we know for sure about the next Androidâs name: it will start with the letter âPâ and it will be a dessert...
View ArticleFacebook shouldnât block you from finding friends on competitors
Twitter, Vine, Voxer, MessageMe. Facebook has repeatedly cut off competitors from its feature for finding your Facebook friends on their apps… after jumpstarting its own social graph by convincing...
View ArticleElon Musk says Tesla will be profitable in Q3 and Q4
Tesla is one of the more interesting companies for Wall Street that had an interesting couple of months this year â and it seems even tweets from Elon Musk, who said that the company will be...
View ArticleApple details its crackdown on leakersâ¦in a leaked memo
In an internal memo to employees, Apple threatened severe consequences for leaking confidential company information – reminding staff that those who leak can lose their jobs, have difficult finding...
View ArticleYahoo Japan buys a minority stake in a Tokyo cryptocurrency exchange
Yahoo Japan has gotten its hands on 40 percent of a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange set to launch this fall.read more...
View ArticleAndroid Auto now works without wires if you have the right hardware
Android Auto â Google’s system for powering your car’s dash display from your phone, and the company’s answer to Apple’s CarPlay â is going wireless. You can leave your phone in your bag, and it’ll...
View ArticleElon Musk says âhumans are underrated,â calls Teslaâs...
In a rare mea culpa for the mercurial billionaire, Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that the company has been too reliant on robots for production.read more...
View ArticleWaymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no...
Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous vehicles without safety drivers on some California roads, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It would...
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