- Tickets to Startup and Hardware Alley at Disrupt London 2016 are now available
Listen up, startups in the U.K. and around the world. Disrupt London 2016 is right around the corner, and we’re happy to announce that tickets to display your company in Startup and Hardware alley are now available. You can get your hands on Startup and Hardware Alley tickets here. Read More - Rakuten buys struggling bitcoin startup Bitnet to create a ‘blockchain research lab’
Rakuten has confirmed that it has acquired the assets of Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup it invested in, which will be used to create a ‘bitcoin lab’ for the Japanese retail giant. Read More - Crunch Report | Uber’s self-driving cars
- What the Fitbit lawsuit means for clinical researchers
- Espresa wants to help companies pamper their employees
- Amazon now lets you rent its virtual desktops, Amazon WorkSpaces, by the hour
Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces. Instead of paying monthly for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to at any time, companies can now choose to pay and use WorkSpaces on an hourly basis. The new billing sys... - YouTube opens a Creator Store retail shop at Google’s London offices
There’s more than one way to monetize your online video content. Sure, you can go the old fashioned route, making ads and clicks and such — but just wait until your preferred platform opens a one-off store front where you can pedal your wares for the real money to roll in. Following the recent unve... - GuestReady provides Airbnb hosts with the services to professionalize their rental
- Will the Internet of Things make us superhuman?
- Pandora may finally launch on-demand streaming
- Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is now available
- Watch NASA astronauts spacewalk to install a new dock for the International Space Station
- Foodpanda is selling its Indonesia business and rethinking the rest of Southeast Asia
- Ticwatch 2 team clarifies which apps its Kickstarter smartwatch will initially support
- Weekly Roundup: Uber’s venture into self-driving cars, Gawker acquired and NSA targeted by hackers
This week, Uber revealed imminent plans to get passengers into self-driving cars, Gawker died, Snapchat made a big acquisition and an early stage SF venture firm may be imploding. Get the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, if that’s your thing. Read More - London’s Octopus launches new accelerator to capitalize on FinTech boom
Accelerators have been all the rage for the last 10 years in tech, but VC funds tend not to launch them in addition to their normal investment strategies. However, London-based Octopus Ventures is taking a different tack. Its new Octopus Labs will concentrate on FinTech startups specifically, with ... - The Megaprocessor is an awe-inspiring multi-ton CPU project
- Hudly wants to bring your favorite apps to the car with an aftermarket HUD
- Quero Education, an online college marketplace in Brazil, looks to educate U.S. investors
- Frank Ocean drops Endless visual album on Apple Music
- Today is the last day to save $1,000 on Disrupt SF tickets
- Samsung leads India’s smartphone market, as Apple’s iPhone SE fails to take off
- Dyson’s 360 Eye robot vacuum succeeds by seeing more
- Apple just dropped iOS 10 beta 7 for developers and public testers
Apple keeps releasing new iOS 10 betas ahead of the final iOS 10 release in September. The company just issued the seventh beta for both developers and public beta testers — the public beta’s version number is one digit behind, so it’s public beta 6, but it’s the same version. Head over to the Sett... - Tech companies assemble the Robocall! Strike! Force! to take on scammers
Look out phone scammers. Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Samsung and Microsoft are coming for you. The big names are among 30 tech companies that have joined up to form the Robocall! Strike! Force! (our exclamation points). Other notable names on the list include BlackBerry, LG, Qualcomm, Siriu... - Cadillac’s new Escala concept reveals design evolution inside and out
- Looklive helps men shop by mimicking celebs’ styles
- New lithium metal tech can create ultralight car batteries and thinner phones
- MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model
- Canvas is the collaborative Markdown editor I’ve been waiting for
- AOL’s Tim Armstrong and Verizon’s Marni Walden are coming to Disrupt SF
- Video-call-your-Doctor startup KRY raises €6.1M Seed led by Index and Creandum
- Google will phase out Chrome apps for Windows, Mac and Linux
First, if you’re using Chrome apps on Windows, Mac or Linux, I’m sorry for your loss. Second, please take some solace in the fact that you really were one of a kind. As Google noted in a blog post today, active usage numbers were pretty low for the offering. Today, approximately 1% of users on Wind... - Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.19.16
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Read More - Amazon’s latest original pilots now streaming, including ‘The Tick’
- Steve Jobs enters the International Photography Hall of fame alongside Annie Leibovitz and Ken Burns
- Reimagining the ecosystem for identity verification
- Mimo’s new app teaches you how to code on your iPhone
- There’s an Apple-1 up for auction
- More new Pokémon revealed for Sun and Moon, and one is a pile of sand
- UK spy agencies’ use of mass surveillance backed by external reviewer
- Is big data in big trouble?
We recently saw two critical developments in the big data and analytics space. Tableau released earnings and missed their forecast by $0.05; their stock dropped 5 percent. Then Hortonworks announced a revenue miss that sent the stock into a downward spiral. What’s going on with the business intelli... - Lyft pauses Carpool service
Well, that was fast. Less than five months ago, Lyft launched a Carpool feature for people commuting outside of San Francisco city limits. The idea was that people would pick up passengers on their way to work and make anywhere from $4 to $10 per ride. The service, which was only available in the S... - InsiteVR grabs $1.5M in seed funding to bring 3D models to life in VR
- Nova Credit launching from Y Combinator to give immigrants access to U.S. credit
- Snowden docs link NSA to Equation Group hackers
- Making earphones customized for hearing ability, Even tunes up $2 million
- Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles
- Trans women and non-binary femme tech entrepreneurs have a new legal resource
- Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles
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