Apple’s Beats Purchase Could Have Saved HTC
In what would have been a truly strange storyline, Apple would have effectively saved one of its chief rivals from collapse -- had HTC held onto its controlling stake in Beats Electronics. The Financial Times is reporting today that Apple is close to acquiring Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion, its largest purchase to date. HTC used to have a controlling position in Beats Electronics but since… Read More-
Subscription E-Book Service Oyster Crosses 500K Titles, Plans An Android Launch This Year
Oyster, a startup that offers offers unlimited access to its collection of e-books for $9.99 per month, has crossed a nice milestone — it says its library now includes 500,000 books, compared to 100,000 when it launched in September of last year. The company also said it recently expanded its partnership with HarperCollins, bringing 10,000 more of the publisher's titles (including Beautiful… Read More -
SCiO Shows Off Its Molecular Food Scanner In TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hardware Alley
Dror Sharon, the CEO of ConsumerPhysics, was showing off a prototype of his handheld "food scanner" at TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Hardware Alley this week, called the SCiO. The device is a pocket-sized spectrometer that analyzes the molecular structure of an object by first shining a light on the item in question, then identifying the food based on its unique wavelength's signature. What makes the… Read More -
BitPay Is Raising $30M At A $160M Valuation From Index, Richard Branson
We’re hearing that BitPay, a platform that processes payments in bitcoin for merchants, is raising the field’s biggest round yet. The company is raising $30 million on a roughly $160 million valuation in a round led by Index Ventures, with Richard Branson and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang participating. BitPay declined to comment. With BitPay’s previous funding round, the… Read More -
Japanese Man Arrested For Printing His Own Revolvers
Police arrested a 27-year-old university official from Kawasaki City, Yoshitomo Imura, after he posted a video of himself firing a 3D-printed six shooter called the Zig Zag revolver. Imura was employed at the Shonan Institute of Technology and owned a $500 home 3D printer. Read More -
Snapchat Settles With FTC After Being Dishonest With Users About Privacy
Snapchat has entered into a consent decree with the FTC to address concerns over the company's privacy policy, app description, and in-app notifications after Snapchat was at the center of a huge data breach last year, exposing 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers. According to the FTC, the security breach was in direct contradiction to promises made by the service around security and… 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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- Investors New Enterprise Associates, NBGI Ventures
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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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Mission Control Technologies
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WebCurfew
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RF Surgical Systems
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Zapstitch
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- Round Seed
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Caspida
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- Round Unattributed
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
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CarNinja
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
- Size $108K
- Round Unattributed
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Nova Towers Holdings I
- Size $19.6M
- Round Partial
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
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Tyrogenex
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- Round Partial
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Xcovery
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- Round Partial
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X2 Biosystems
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Smava
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OMsignal Opens Pre-Orders For Smart Shirts That Track Activity, Fitness And Stress
After raising $1 million last year and debuting its smartwear clothing-embedded sensor tech, Montreal-based OMsignal is now ready to start accepting orders from customers. Its first product is the OM shirt, with four new models going up for pre-order today including an undershirt, sleeveless shirt, t-shirt and long-sleeved shirt for men. Each of these new shirts tracks your heart rate, breathing… Read More -
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 Is… Vurb
It’s been a long, tough road, but it’s finally time to crown the winner of the Disrupt Battlefield. This year’s batch was truly awesome. Twenty-seven startups took the stage to present. The six finalists were Boomerang Commerce, ISI Technology, Mimi, Mink, ShowKit, and Vurb. It was an amazing batch with multiple hardware startups, innovative business models and good… Read More -
Yahoo Is Doubling Down On Mobile — Again
“Mobile is doubling on every traffic metric we have,” she said. But it doesn’t mean that Yahoo’s mobile strategy is already successful. Yahoo ended 2013 with no apps in Apple’s top 100. In other words, producing massive mobile hits is a long and difficult process. That’s why Mayer promoted Adam Cahan to be in charge of all things mobile. If things go well, it… Read More -
Marissa Mayer Explains Yahoo’s New Video Strategy
Speaking on stage at Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer explained the strategy behind the company's new foray into producing original television content. "Can you tell me what Yahoo is?" TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington asked, bringing up the old question of whether Yahoo is a tech or media company. 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 -
Mink Is A 3D Printer For Makeup
3D printing is all the rage these days, but for now, it's mostly centered around little plastic doo-dads. The Mink, launching today on the Disrupt NY stage, is a bit different. The little printer lets users choose any color on the web, or in the real world, and using simple already-existing software, print that color into a blush, eye shadow, lip gloss or any other type of makeup. Read More -
Vurb’s Contextual Search Engine Blows Away Those Stupid Lists Of Links
Search is outdated. Google steers you to right section of the library, but doesn't answer your question or compile that answer with others to help you make a decision. Luckily, today Vurb is launching its reinvention of search results in the form of a web and mobile contextual search engine. Rather than requiring multiple searches in different tabs, Vurb collects all the relevant info on one page. Read More -
Snakable’s New USB Charging Cable Will Never Need Duct Tape
If you’ve ever owned a USB charging cable (and if you’re reading TechCrunch, odds are you have), then you’ve encountered the problem that Snakable wants to solve. That is, after repeated use, the cable breaks, the wires are exposed, and then, more often that not, the cable itself becomes unreliable, requiring you to jiggle it in order to get your device to start charging. Read More -
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)
Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse people who have helped create it. At least that’s the story you’ve read in hundreds of articles lately. It doesn’t have to be this way. But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making… Read More
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