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The Smart Home Is A Huge Accessibility Boon
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Nasty Gal Lays Off Up To 10% Of Its Workforce
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The Oculus Story Behind Samsung Gear VR
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EyeEm Challenges Flickr For Providing New Media With Relevant Images
While services like Getty are available, I’ve personally never spent a dime for an image in an article I’ve written — it’s always been easier to do a quick search on Flickr or to shoot my own photos. Photo-sharing service EyeEm wants to offer publishers an option somewhere in between Flickr and paid photo services, and it’s partnering with the Huffington Post to… Read More -
TC Cribs: Lending Club’s Hole-In-One San Francisco HQ
Welcome to another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that gets nosy and tours the inside of tech companies’ offices. This time, we headed over to Lending Club, the startup that’s built an online marketplace for financial lending. Lending Club is a company that straddles the worlds of tech and banking, and that duality is pretty apparent when you go inside their San… Read More -
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
On the eve of Disrupt, we reflect on the top stories from 8/30-9/5. Here are the 11 best stories from the past week. We announced the full agenda for Disrupt SF. We also put together a massive gallery of speakers attending the event. We’re kicking off Disrupt with the Hackathon on Saturday. A bunch of celebrity nude pictures (including Jennifer Lawrence) surfaced this week after… Read More -
Yahoo Acquires, Shuts Down Luminate, An Interactive Image Platform
Another acquisition today from Yahoo to beef up its advertising and media business. It is buying Luminate, a startup founded by LiveOps, Netscape and Yahoo alums that has created a platform for interactive, tagged images — or, as we have called it in the past, an AdSense for images. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Luminate’s homepage, have not been disclosed. Read More -
CrunchWeek: Samsung’s Gadgets, iCloud Hacks, And Sarah Goes To Burning Man
Happy pre-Disrupt Friday, everyone, I hope you are well rested for next week’s fun. Today on CrunchWeek Sarah Buhr, Jordan Crook, and myself sat around the white table to dig into the biggest stories of the week: Samsung’s raft of new hardware, the issues with cloud security and iCloud itself, and, of course, Sarah’s recent expedition to the desert. Read More -
12 Of Marc Newson’s Most Iconic Designs
Legendary designer Marc Newson is joining Apple as senior vice president of design under Jonathan Ive’s. It’s been said that Newson and Ive has been friends for years and have worked together one several projects before including the 1.5 ton (RED) desk revealed last year. What follows is a sampling of Marc Newson’s design timeline starting with the always-incredible… Read More -
Alibaba Proposes To Go Public For As Much as $66 Per Share, Valuing The Firm At More Than $160B
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant run by Jack Ma, has submitted F-1 paperwork to the SEC with the expectation that it will go public on September 8 under the NYSE symbol BABA. The filing appeared on SEC.gov today. 20.1 million shares will be on offer. Japanese investor Softbank currently owns 34 percent of the company while Yahoo owns 22 percent. The initial price is expected to hit at… Read More -
The One Where Grover Norquist And I Decompress From Burning Man
The Libertarian-leaning Republican leader of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist went back to Washington, D.C. this week after his first visit to Burning Man. The two of us were able to catch up this week and decompress – a word burners use to describe how they adjust back into life after experiencing Black Rock City. This was both our first time at Burning Man. This is our… Read More -
Google Starts Selling Glass ‘Explorer Edition’ On The Play Devices Store
Google is selling the Glass Explorer Edition on its Play devices store, still for $1,500, with your choice of a free frame or sunglass shade in the mix. The Glass model listed is still very much Google’s experimental product, but the descriptions in the listing make it sound more like falling into the category of an “Explorer” is now more about how many extreme sports… Read More -
It’s Time For VCs To Run To Their Bubble Bunkers
Techstars, one of the most prominent accelerators in the world, announced yesterday that it was introducing what it called “an equity back guarantee.” The idea is that founders who join the program can ask for their equity to be returned (or a percentage of it) shortly after their Techstars batch ends if they feel that the accelerator didn’t provide them with sufficient… Read More
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