Let’s Have A Chat About Virtual Reality
“Virtual reality” according to Wikipedia: Virtual reality (VR), which can be referred to as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated life, replicates an environment that simulates physical presence in places in the real world or imagined worlds and lets the user interact in that world. Virtual realities artificially creates sensory experiences, which can include sight… Read MoreWatchwith Raises $8M For Its In-Program Video Ads
Watchwith, a startup offering an alternative to the standard pre-roll and mid-roll ads that delay or interrupt online videos, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. The company says its technology can analyze the content of a video, then use that data to find the right moments to place “interactive overlay” ads. So instead of interrupting a video, these ads just sit… Read MoreDigg Raises $4M Series A From Betaworks Backer Digital Garage
More interesting developments for Digg, the Internet curation site founded way back in 2004 that was acquired and relaunched by Betaworks in 2012. The site has announced a “Series A” of $4 million, and it has named its COO Gary Liu as new CEO, effective immediately. This is essentially Digg’s second Series A — the company in its previously independent state had… Read MoreVarsity Tutors Raises $50 Million In Series B
Varsity Tutors, the platform that connects elite tutors with students, has just closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Technology Crossover Ventures and Adam Levine, frontman for Maroon 5 and judge on The Voice, as well as education executive Stuart Udell. Varsity Tutors is based out of St. Louis and looks to pair students with the most brilliant tutors available — folks… Read MoreToday Is The Final Day To Save £400 On Disrupt London Tickets
We’ve extended the deadline, you’ve procrastinated. That’s okay, but now is the time to act as today is the last day to get early bird tickets to Disrupt London before the price jumps from £800 to £1,200 tomorrow. Seriously, no more extensions will be offered, so drop what you’re doing and head on over to the Disrupt London ticketing page to get your tickets to the… Read MoreNextBank Aims To Be The First All-Bitcoin Financial Institution
Woe betide traditional banking because Dimitry Voloshinskiy and his team are on the prowl. Voloshinskiy is the founder of the NextBank Project, an attempt to create a truly bitcoin-based bank. The team has raised $950,000 so far using personal money and angels, and they hope to attract more. Read MoreTinder Ditches Moments
Just yesterday, Tinder launched an update that adds employment/education information into the user’s profile as well as a revamped inbox, placing new matches in the top bar and current conversations in the lower part of the screen. With the inbox revamp, Moments, the app’s Snapchat-like photo-sharing tool, is retiring. Moments launched back in the summer of 2014 with the goal… Read MoreUpthere Launches Its Home And Camera Apps Into Beta
The company that built the “computer in the cloud” from scratch to take the heavy lifting away from our devices, Upthere, has launched their apps into beta, letting in those who signed up for an invite in slowly. Upthere Home and Upthere Camera for iOS, Android and Mac are now live, and I’ve been playing with them for a better part of the last week. The service is free during… Read MoreWith One Cash, Tip $1 To People You Love, Or Make It Rain
From the team who brought you Mindie, One Cash is a new payment app for iOS, but with a twist. This time, it isn’t about paying back your friends like countless of other apps. It’s all about tipping $1 to people you admire. Here’s how it works. Read More
FileThis 2.0 Will Organize Your Statements And Bills, Remind You When To Pay
As more consumers shift to using online services for managing their banking, bills, payments, and more, some of our most important personal and financial documents are scattered across a number of websites – sites which don’t always maintain thorough archives of our past statements. A service called FileThis has been working to address this problem by offering a utility that… Read MoreLivingSocial Co-Founder Aaron Batalion Joins Lightspeed Venture Partners
Eight years ago, Aaron Batalion and three friends created a Facebook app called “Hungry Machine.” It was pretty successful…so successful that it turned into LivingSocial, which was one of the first startups to raise a “magical” billion dollars. (I refuse to use the creature’s name to describe this “club.”) Read MoreCola Is Building A Platform To Help You Send Fewer Text Messages
As text messaging takes over more of my communication, I find myself on lots of long and complicated chats where I’m trying to plan and coordinate with multiple people. Now a startup called Cola aims to replace all that back-and-forth with a set of interactive “Cola Bubbles.” Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie
Everybody knows hiring is difficult for tech companies. The Huffington Post called the shortage “devastating,” and the Obama administration’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology predicted a shortfall of 1 million technical professionals by 2020. What’s more, 90 percent of executives report that they struggle to recruit and retain tech talent. But as an… Read More Rocket Fiber Launches 100Gb/s Internet Service In Downtown Detroit
Downtown Detroit has a new ISP: Rocket Fiber is today detailing its upcoming fiber optic internet service, which it brags are 1,000 times faster than the current average internet connectivity in Detroit. Businesses can sign up for 100Gb/s service while consumers are limited to 10Gb/s in residential buildings. This service doesn’t come cheap, though. It costs $70 a month for one gig… Read MoreProduct Hunt Redesigns The Homepage To Aid Discovery Beyond Tech
It’s been two years since the launch of Product Hunt as a listicle for discovering tech products. Today the site gets a brand new design to reflect the addition of games, podcasts, books, collections and live categories since that time. Product Hunt added the games category earlier this year and has since expanded to up-voted lists for books, podcasts and the live section – a… Read MoreShopify’s New App Sello Allows Anyone To Create An Online Store From Their Phone
E-commerce company Shopify is launching a new app called Sello. Sello product director Christopher Lobay said that even though Shopify has made it easier for businesses to build online stores, it now wants to go further by “democratizing” the selling process and “removing all the intimidation” that might prevent someone from selling products online. Read MoreEyefi Acquires OkDoThis To Creatively Challenge And Inspire Photographers
Eyefi, the makers of cloud-connected mobile SD cards for photographers, has today announced the acquisition of OkDoThis. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. OkDoThis is an app that launched back in the summer of 2014 that was meant to inspire photographers to take creative pictures through challenges. The challenges on the platform are posted by the community, and could sound… Read MoreReddit Replaces Its Confusing Shadowban System With Account Suspensions
Reddit has replaced shadowbans, which made posts from users who broke the site’s rules invisible, with account suspensions. The community, which had 202 million unique visitors last month, implemented shadowbans to hide spam quickly, but the system was frustrating for individuals since they often had no idea if they had been shadowbanned. Read MoreEventBoard, A Smart Conference Room Booking Startup, Raises $6.5M
Eventboard, a company that provides software to make conference rooms more efficient, may be based in Salt Lake City, Utah, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t found its way into the guts of Silicon Valley. “We’re right downtown, we have a lot of presence in Silicon Valley and San Francisco specifically, but we’re building a company that is on par with a lot of the… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Your Firm Is Missing Out On The Biggest Investment In History
Looking for an untapped market for a great new investment? Try 50.4 percent of the population. Today, women are the largest emerging investible class across the globe. Only 2.7 percent of venture capital-funded companies have a female CEO, and even in the 36.2 percent of non-farm businesses that are woman-owned, women only earned 11.3 percent of the revenue. Read More
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