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- DraftKings raises $150M in new funding just in time for the NFL season
DraftKings has closed $150M in new funding this morning, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The round was led by Washington D.C-based Revolution Capital, the venture firm helmed by AOL founder Steve Case and Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis. As part of the deal, Revolution Growth... - TV streaming app Molotov is now available on the iPhone
French startup Molotov has been available in France for a couple of months already, and it is rolling out new platforms. After launching on the iPad, the Apple TV and computers, the company is launching its iPhone app. Android devices and recent connected TVs from Samsung and LG are up next. Compar... - Kickstarter now accepts crowdfunding projects from Hong Kong and Singapore
- ZTE moves on to phase two of its crowdsourcing CSX project
- ZTE dubs its new 5.2-inch handset “Mini”
- Jabra joins the fully wireless earbud game
Jabra’s still probably best known for its headsets/teleconferencing devices, but the company’s been making a fairly aggressive push into consumer headphones of late. Of particular interest is the fitness space, leveraging its Bluetooth expertise into rugged, fitness-friendly earbuds. You probably c... - Ad-blocking browser Brave launches payments, so you can support sites with cash, not ad clicks
The ad-blocking web browser Brave, co-founded by Mozilla’s former CEO Brendan Eich, is today rolling out its grand experiment “Brave Payments,” which will encourage web users to reward their favorite sites by automatically and anonymously sending them Bitcoin-based micropayments. The idea here is f... - Twitter adds new ways to monetize live video via Periscope
- Withings adds heart-rate monitoring to its analog fitness watch
- HP does the modular thing with a new desktop
- Amazon ends its student loan partnership with Wells Fargo, six weeks after launch
- Netatmo launches valves to turn your dumb, dumb radiator into a smart one
- Sun and Moon’s early purchase bonus is a pre-Snorlax Pokémon
- Facebook clones Snapchat once again with new ‘instant video’ feature for Messenger
- Blue’s Yeti USB mic will ship with a copy of ‘Watchdogs 2’ for some reason
I’ve always considered Blue’s USB microphones a podcasting tool — and I suspect Blue has, as well. They’re easy to use, they sound good and they’re affordable. Heck, I recorded my bit of the last TechCrunch podcast on a Snowball. The mics have also made a splash in the gaming community, presumably ... - ROLI acquires software instrument maker FXpansion as it rolls-up music tech
ROLI, which makes the Seaboard (new type of keyboard musical instrument), has acquired FXpansion, a maker of software instruments, for an undisclosed sum. London-based FXpansion already makes sounds and effects for ROLI’s growing collection of hardware and software products. FXpansion’s virtual ins... - GoPro’s Karma drone gets its debut on September 19
- Google Play’s beta testing program “Early Access” opens to more developers
- Niantic responds to Senate inquiry into Pokémon Go privacy
- Pokémon Go lands Japanese mobile operator SoftBank as sponsored location
- 3Doodler targets architects and designers with a new professional 3D printing pen
- Sen.se releases a peanut-shaped temperature sensor
- Propeller launches new CRM tool that puts sales workflow front and center
- ISKN’s smart drawing pad learns a few new tricks
Didn’t see this coming. The big trend at this year’s IFA (once you factor out the eight billion fitness bands and Bluetooth headphones, at least) is apparently drawing pads. Wacom, Lenovo and now a new version of the Slate from French startup ISKN are working hard to bring the pen and paper kicking... - Microsoft zaps Windows 10 Anniversary Update login freezing bug
The Anniversary Update for Windows 10 brought a lot of nice features, including OS-level Ink features for stylus devices. But it also brought some nasty bugs along for the ride, including, but not limited to, a login problem that caused users to encounter a total OS freeze when running a PC that ha... - Here’s what we know about the SpaceX explosion
- Sennheiser debuts a bunch of new headphones at IFA
- The Apple Watch 2 could have a bigger battery for a GPS chip
- Why not buy a set of wireless speakers to match your furniture?
- Apple is going to remove abandoned apps from the App Store
- Montblanc enters the 21st century with a fancy digital pen
- Mark Zuckerberg is “deeply disappointed” by the Internet.org satellite explosion
- No, Palo Alto isn’t going to ban coding
A report in The New York Times on a culture clash taking place in Palo Alto set off a bit of speculation as to the possibility of “a ban on coding,” as the article put it. Well, don’t worry. That’s not going to happen. Read More - Robots and on-board ovens deliver on Zume’s promise of better pizza
Today, in a world of bacon-wrapped crust and custom-modified Chevys with pizza warmers, being excited about pizza is just not as easy as it used to be. Zume Pizza founder Julia Collins and her Elon Musk-esque approach to pizza doesn’t care much for the rest of the pizza industry. In her mind, the p... - Star Trek and Harry Potter have ruined business travel
- Samsung investigating reports of Galaxy Note 7 explosions
- Glitzy watch manufacturer MB&F announces the Balthazar clockwork robot
- Blue Apron’s “Farm Egg” makes me question everything
- At Pear Demo Day, 13 companies to watch
- Bradley Tusk, Hemant Taneja and Ted Ullyot are talking policy at Disrupt SF
- Get ready for new Beats (wireless?) headphones at the iPhone event
- Crunch Report | Space X Rocket Explodes at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral, DraftKings raises $150 million, Periscope adds a new way to monetize, Facebook launches Instant Video, and Apple is set to clean its abandoned apps from the App Store. All this on Crunch Report. Read More - Tech and government: The state of our union
Tech innovators tend to operate with an ethos that they consider diametrically opposed to that of government, frequently leading to friction. Given the current regulatory, legal and political climate in our country, and while technology becomes increasingly more pervasive in our society, there is a... - A totally real conversation between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about a rocket
- Apple patches zero-day vulnerabilities in Safari and OS X
- Intel could put fireworks out of work, gets FAA permission to fly drone fleets at night
- Despite looming jail time, Gurbaksh Chahal is back as Gravity4 CEO
- How CIOs climb from the back room to the boardroom
- We’re one step closer to the Holodeck with this 20-camera 3D body-capture setup
- 43 million passwords hacked in Last.fm breach
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