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Odysee Automatically Saves Your Mobile Photos And Videos To Your Home PC
A new application launching today called Odysee offers a different way for consumers to back up photos and videos from their smartphones. Instead of backing up to the cloud, which can be both pricey and sometimes even insecure, with Odysee, content is backed up to your home computer. For free! Well, it’s free until next year when the $5/year pricing plan kicks in. It’s like… Read More -
Feet-On With Boosted Boards’ New Faster And Cheaper Electric Skateboards
If you want to ride a magic carpet, the Boosted Board is the closest you’ll get until they make that hoverboard run on asphalt. And now there’s an even more powerful model for climbing epic hills or hitting 22mph, and a stripped down model for casual boarders on a budget. Y Combinator-incubated Boosted Boards launched it Kickstarter back in November 2012 and finally shipped its… Read More -
SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since Halloween Night
Dan Ha, an iOS developer at a San Francisco startup called Metromile, has been missing for almost a week. According to the CEO of the company, Dan Preston, who reached out to TechCrunch to help find his employee, Ha went home sick on Thursday afternoon and no one has seen or heard from him since Friday night, October 31, at 8pm. Read More -
Benchmark Backs Real-Time Data-Processing Startup Confluent
Companies nowadays are creating huge amounts of data, but harnessing it and making it useful still remains a problem for many businesses. A new company called Confluent, which was founded by members of LinkedIn’s data infrastructure team, hopes to solve that problem by building commercial tools around some open source software they developed. Read More -
Just In Time For The Car-less Generation, Bus And Train Ticket Aggregator Wanderu Raises $5.6M Series A
Boston-based travel startup Wanderu, which aims to become something of a Kayak.com for booking bus and train tickets – a market which doesn’t yet have a leading aggregation site – has now raised $5.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Metamorphic Ventures, and was said to be over-subscribed. Also participating were Alta Ventures, Craig Lentzsch (former… Read More -
Lisbon’s Codacy Wins The Web Summit Pitch Competition
Dublin’s Web Summit has accelerated into SXSW territory this year, scaling to over 22,000 attendees. Unlike other tech conferences, which put the startups centre stage, Web Summit has gone for scale, with side stages where 200 companies pitched over the three days of the conference. Portuguese company Codacy won the ‘BETA award’ for its platform, which automatically… Read More -
Please And Carrots Debuts Subscription-Based Toys, Expert Advice For New Parents
Busy parents who don’t have the time to shop for the best developmentally-appropriate and educationally-focused toys for their little ones now have a new option. A company called Please and Carrots is today launching a subscription-based toy company that sends a quarterly box of toys to parents of children from 0 to 3 years old, which includes only those items that have been curated… Read More -
Lytro Hits Up The Enterprise With The Introduction Of The Lytro Platform And Dev Kit
Lytro has been around for three years building a brand new type of camera with light field technology, and while the tech itself is quite incredible, transforming that into a viable business has proven difficult. Until now, the company has been selling special cameras, the original Lytro and the newer, photographer-friendly Illum. It’s a difficult business that is in fast flux, given… Read More -
Scribd Expands Its Subscription E-Book Service With 30K Audiobooks
It was just over a year ago that Scribd officially unveiled a Netflix-style subscription e-book service. As of today, subscribers will have access to 30,000 audiobooks, too. Co-founder and CEO Trip Adler said that this isn’t just about attracting audiobook fans to Scribd, but also introducing readers who aren’t audiobook fans to the format. After all, he noted that the… Read More -
Showpad Closes Additional $8.5M For Its Mobile-First Software To Enable Sales Reps To Be More Productive
Showpad, the Belgium and San Francisco-based startup that provides mobile-first software to help support sales teams with up-to-date information and the materials they need to close more sales, has raised an additional $8.5 million in funding. Investment comes from Dawn Capital, who led the round, along with previous investor Hummingbird Ventures. Read More
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