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- Network Locum bags $7M to grow its doctor-staffing platform
London-based healthcare startup Network Locum, which has built a staffing platform and workplace management software targeting the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), has closed a £5.3 million ($7M) Series B funding round, led by U.K. fund BGF Ventures. Read More - Echobox raises $3.4M to let publishers intelligently share content to Twitter and Facebook
Now calling itself an artificial intelligence (AI) service for the online publishing industry — because, why not? — Echobox, which has developed tech to help publishers share content on the likes of Twitter and Facebook in a more intelligent way, has closed $3.4 million in new funding. Read More - Apps for planning your vacation
- Your federal government drives innovation by investing in moonshots
- Techstars’ David Cohen on fund strategy
- How our Founding Fathers raised a Series A
For some of us, hot dogs, patriotic songs and fireworks are enough. We here at TechCrunch expect more of our readers. Why be satisfied with fireworks when you could literally launch a Kickstarter into the sky. If you’re like me, you were likely quite disappointed to find out that Hamilton wasn’t ab... - Augmented reality has no clothes
AR/VR continue to buzz hotly as contenders for the next wave of computing. Tech-industry pundits predict enormous future markets based on speculation that AR will replace the smartphone. The technology looks promising, but other smartphone killers haven’t panned out. Perhaps the industry is again e... - Trump tweets at “dishonest media” in Star of David kerfuffle
- Zore X is a smart gun lock that raised almost $250K on Indiegogo
- Natural Cycles gets $6M to convince more women to ditch the pill
- You’re doing DevOps wrong
- Family-photo-sharing platform Togethera shutters after low growth numbers
- Novelist Eliot Peper talks about fiction as a foreign country
- Opinion: Brexit is a tragedy, but it could be the making o
- Stripe brings its Connect marketplace platform to Europe, Stripe clone Paymill finds a buyer
As the number of apps and sites for buying and selling goods and services continues to grow, we’re seeing a shakeout among the companies that help make those wheels of commerce turn, with the biggest of the lot continuing to scale up and those that have failed to grow getting swallowed up. Stripe, ... - Twitter estimates that it has 10 million users in China
A source inside Twitter told TechCrunch that the company estimates that it has around 10 million users in China. That gives us a glimpse at the potential number of people using VPN software to avoid China’s internet censorship system. Read More - The user guide to early stage fundraising
- Silent Circle silently snuffs out its warrant canary — but claims it’s a “business decision”
- Mogees Play turns any surface into a music and gaming device
- Finally, a service that tests and ranks the best VPNs for China
- Wi-Fi sharing community Instabridge picks up backing from Draper Associates
- After five years, Juno arrives in orbit around Jupiter
- Emerging markets’ challenge to Silicon Valley
- On-demand staffing startup HourlyNerd lands $22 million Series C
HourlyNerd, a Boston-based startup, aspires to be more than an on-demand staffing service for skilled employees. It wants to be a full-service platform for large companies to change the way they think about employees. “If you think about a company today, it’s structured in the same way as 100 years... - Nissan expands its free charging promotion as electric car competition from Tesla and others heats up
To say that Nissan is watching Tesla’s every move would be an understatement. The Japanese automaker started this month with a splash, announcing it is expanding its No Charge to Charge promotion to include 11 new markets, such as Las Vegas, Cleveland and the car capital of Detroit to name a few. T... - Juno lead Scott Bolton talks up the tech of NASA’s Jupiter orbiter
- iOS 10 beta 2 is now available to developers
- DeepMind partners with NHS eye hospital to conduct AI research
- Skype Meetings is Microsoft’s new free video conferencing tool for small businesses
- BlackBerry confirms it will can its Classic smartphone
- Startups need to respect the laws of retail physics
- Apple is building organ donation into iOS 10
- New transmission
What’s the first car you remember wanting? Was it a reasonably priced mid-sized sedan with ample leg room for passengers in the back? Was it a small, well-equipped compact SUV with room for all the kids’ bags and all-wheel drive for better control in adverse conditions? Was it even a two-door sport... - Twitter adds former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor to its board
Twitter announced today that Bret Taylor is joining its board of directors. Taylor is best-known as one of the founders of social networking startup FriendFeed — and then as the chief technology officer of Facebook, which acquired FriendFeed in 2009. After departing Facebook three years later, he b... - Bose’s QuietComfort headphones go wireless without missing a beat
- LzLabs launches product to move mainframe COBOL code to Linux cloud
- Suiteness wants you to stay in suites instead of regular hotel rooms
- The worth of your professional profile, network and personal data
- China invests in the hunt for aliens with world’s largest radio telescope
- Spotify > YouTube as audio streaming surpasses music videos
- Theranos faces congressional inquiry over faulty blood
- Crunch Report | Largest Radio Telescope Ever Built
The largest radio telescope is built in China, Blackberry discontinues its “Classic” SmartPhone, There is now a China VPN ranking service, Apple builds organ donation into iOS 10, Theranos faces a congressional inquiry. All this on Crunch Report. Read More - Five days of Etsy payment processing outages have merchants flipping
Those hoping to snag some handmade July 4th cookies and home-made vegan sunblock might have woken up to an empty stomach and sunburn after a serious payment processing outage on e-commerce site Etsy. Over the last five days, a large number of Etsy transactions have been disrupted by “third party” p... - Bulgaria now requires (some) government software to be open source
- Drivers are warming up to autonomous cars. Mostly.
- Homee raises $5M from Founders Fund and Tinder CEO to help you furnish your place
- Twilio now helps AWS send texts
- Students’ 3D-printed fungarium and Martian mini-farm win NASA ‘Star Trek Replicator Challenge’
- Cybersecurity startup Darktrace intercepts $64M in fresh funding at a valuation of over $400M
- FBI recommends no charges for Hillary Clinton over us
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