Inside Jobs: Why The Best Software Engineers Never Stop Learning
How often are you so impressed by a website or technology service that you think, “I really want to be a part of that” — so much that you set out to get a job at the company? That’s what happened to Surabhi Gupta, who first became a user of travel accommodations marketplace Airbnb while she was working as a full-time software engineer at Google, and was so enthusiastic… Read More-
NSA Allegedly Intercepts Shipments of Servers To Install Spying Backdoors
Today in a published excerpt of his forthcoming book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald reports, citing documents from 2010, that the NSA intercepts routers and servers being shipped from the United States overseas and compromises them. The document that the revelation is based on, according to Greenwald, will be released tomorrow. Read More -
Original Stitch Is A Shirt Company That Offers 1 Billion Computerized Style Combinations
Menswear, like sewage treatment and rabies, needs to be disrupted. I’ve already seen about a dozen folks trying to change the space, most notably Bonobos and Indochino, but no one has quite cracked the “older, odd-shirt-wearing tech dude demographic.” Until now. Original Stitch is a custom shirt generator with a bit of a twist. Instead of offering a few basic styles, you can… Read More -
Office For iPad Apps Have Racked Up 27M Downloads In 46 Days
In just over a month, Office for iPad has picked up another 15 million downloads of its applications. Microsoft reported 12 million downloads in early April, and 27 million today. That's a massive figure. The apps have been out for 46 days, implying an average daily download rate of 587,000. It will be interesting to see where that number rests in another month -- how much of pent-up demand has… Read More -
The New Dynamics Of Unicorn Startup Acquisitions
The rumors of a possible $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics by Apple spread far and wide last week, and rightfully so. It wouldn’t just be the largest acquisition of all time for the 38-year old computer company -- dwarfing the $429 million received by Steve Jobs’ NeXT in 1996 -- but also the seventh billion- or near-billion-dollar “unicorn” acquisition by the major forces in… Read More -
Shortwave Shows Off Anonymous Chat As Another Consumer Use Case For iBeacons
Apple’s iBeacons are being trialled and demoed in retail settings all over the place, but they’re slowly becoming more interesting to average users, too. A new app called Shortwave offers up an everyday use case for iBeacon tech that could prove either terrifying or exciting, depending on your perspective; the software uses iBeacon protocols to turn your iPhone into a location-based… Read More
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Baoku
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- Round A
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in2nite
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
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AdRoll
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Birchbox
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Airbnb
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Placester
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American Aerogel
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WebCurfew
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RF Surgical Systems
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Zapstitch
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Caspida
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BioPharmX
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CarNinja
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
- Size $108K
- Round Unattributed
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Nova Towers Holdings I
- Size $19.6M
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PaxVax
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- Round Debt_round
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Tyrogenex
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Xcovery
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X2 Biosystems
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Smava
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Very Foundation, Much Wow: A Conversation With Dogecoin’s Jackson Palmer
In my latest Foundation interview, I sit down with entrepreneur Jackson Palmer. Jackson is the brains behind the fast-growing cryptocurrency known as Dogecoin. We discuss the Dogecoin community’s ability to raise money for good (like sending the Jamaican Bobsled team to Sochi), and Jackson’s views on what digital currency will look like in five years. Jackson on how to grow the bitcoin… Read More -
Researchers Teach A Robot To Catch Flying Objects Like Yogi Berra
When the robot uprising begins, don't try to take on our new overlords by throwing assorted household items at them. It won't work, man. IT WON'T WORK. Read More -
This Is How iPad Multitasking Should Look
Even after Jony Ive took the helm of the entire user experience at Apple and redesigned iOS, multitasking has remained an area that leaves us wanting. But a new jailbreak tweak brings all the brilliance of OS X multitasking may be just the ticket. After jailbreaking your iPad and installing the "OS Experience" tweak from Cydia, you'll be able to run two apps simultaneously on the same screen… Read More -
Microsoft Azure Gets New Tools For Hybrid Clouds And Simplified Cloud Storage Service For Businesses
Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a large number of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also bringing a number of new features to its Azure cloud computing services. Among these are the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute for creating private connections between Azure and on-premise… Read More -
Parrot’s Newest Drone Packs A Serious Camera, Extreme Range
Say hello to Bebop, aka the AR Drone 3.0. This is the latest drone from Parrot and it's a big upgrade from the much-loved AR Drone. It's essentially a flying camera that can even pipe imagery directly into an Oculus Rift headset, taking flying in the clouds to a whole new level. Read More -
Why We Can’t Forget About Dre
The potential acquisition of Beats by Apple has captured the public imagination. Though it is not yet official, we’ve spent all weekend making jokes about it on Twitter, shocked at Andre Romelle Young’s uncharacteristic confirmation of the buy, joking that Forbes should change its list because he’s now a billionaire, for some reason. Quite honestly, part of the appeal of this… Read More -
As Mobile Roars Ahead, It’s Time To Finally Admit The Web Is Dying
While discussions about tech bubbles have been heated, few commentators seem to be targeting their invective at the real underlying bubble: the World Wide Web itself is crumbling. Like any outmoded technology, the Web is rapidly losing users as it fails to adapt to disruption from mobile apps and continues to perform poorly – despite incredible optimization efforts – due to a bloated… Read More -
Why Apple Wants Beats
We shouldn't be surprised that the strongest brand in the world is looking to buy another solid brand. Far beyond the guffaws of audiophiles and tut-tutting of those who know what Apple would do, we find a place where a massive investment in Beats would make some sense. Read More -
“I Flew Coach Here” Is The New “I Woke Up Like This”
Money, and the inequality it causes, has been somewhat of a loose theme here at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. From Fred Wilson’s edict that “Money is never the recipe for success” to T.J. Miller’s statement that any group of people with unchecked power, from hedge funders to tech tycoons, deserve to be made fun of if they take themselves too seriously. Nowhere was its influence… Read More -
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