- AmazonFresh drops to $14.99 per month for Prime members
Amazon has just announced a price reduction for its online grocery shopping service, AmazonFresh, that will bring the subscription service down to $14.99 per month for Prime members. Effectively, this change makes adding optional grocery delivery a new perk for those who subscribe to Amazon’s annua... - Animoto gives businesses an easy way to create social videos
Animoto is launching a new product for businesses that want to post their own marketing videos for Facebook and other social networks — but don’t necessarily have the team or the skills needed to create something slick. The company already offers products that automatically assemble your photos and... - Wacom’s got a couple of new Windows 10 pro pen tablets
- Google Pixel, Google Assistant, Google Home and more Google: Listen to TCBC Episode 5 with Frederic Lardinois
- Lets meet in São Paulo, Brazil tomorrow
- Instagram Stories has 100 million daily active users after just 2 months
Instagram Stories is benefitting from the large active user base Instagram itself enjoys, and now has 100 million daily active viewers. That’s two-thirds of the daily active user population for Snapchat, which reported 150 million global active users across its entire platform in late September. Ev... - TechShop will open a 15,000 square foot location in Brooklyn next year
After years in the works, it’s finally happening: TechShop is opening up a Brooklyn location, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. It should be officially announced later today. For those unfamiliar with the chain: TechShop is something of a do-it-yourselfer’s paradise. You pay them a monthly member... - Google and Monotype unveil the Noto Project’s unified font for all languages
- 4K Hitachi TVs with Roku built-in are coming to a Sam’s Club near you
- BotFactory raises $1.3 million to help you build circuit boards on your desktop
- China’s Didi looks to Silicon Valley for talent to build its own self-driving car
- Enterprise messaging app Symphony adds voice, video and key app integrations
- Duolingo’s chatbots help you learn a new language
- Car rental comparison site HappyCar picks up €2.6M funding as Rocket Internet’s GFC quietly exits
- Zuckerberg teases a prototype standalone Oculus VR headset
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage today at the Oculus Connect developers conference and showed off a taste of the company’s mobile VR future. The hallmark feature of the new prototype standalone headset is positional tracking. In a brief demo video, the headset appeared to be a modifie... - Twitter shares drop 20% as takeover rumors fade away
Twitter has performed incredibly well on the stock market for the past couple of weeks. But the honeymoon is over as it’s back to reality and correction time. Twitter shares are currently down 20.06 percent to $19.88 compared to yesterday’s closing price of $24.87. So what happened? Recode has publ... - Oculus demos augmented social virtual reality with facial expressions
- Watch the trailer for our new series ‘Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin & The Blockchain’
- Capital One acquires online price tracker Paribus
- Google opens computer science lab in Oakland for young people of color
- OpenStack’s latest release focuses on scalability and resilience
- Oculus will bring VR to the web with ReactVR and Carmel VR browser
- Toca TV is a new streaming service just for kids
- Senators ask FCC to investigate Stingray surveillance tech
A group of Democratic senators asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate cell site simulators like Stingrays to determine if the surveillance devices used by local law enforcement agencies are disrupting cellphone service for ordinary consumers and 911 calls. The senators are also ... - Snap is reportedly preparing for an IPO that could value it at $25B or higher
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or higher. The company most recently raised $1.8 billion in a financing round in May this year. The compan... - Facebook and Oculus commit $250M+ for VR content, diversity, education
- You can now run the Oculus Rift on a $500 PC
- Prisma adds art filtered video, GIFs coming next
- Oculus shows off Facebook Messenger video calls in virtual reality
- Oculus Touch motion controllers ship December 6 for $199
- The data revolution
- Emburse looks to give third-party developers ways to easily issue prepaid debit cards
- ASUS’s Zenvolution event features four upcoming devices and one awkward portmanteau
Zenvolution doesn’t really roll off the tongue. But hey, you come for the gadgets – the clever word play is really just a bonus, at best. And the company certainly has a lot to showcase on that front, covering all of the requisite bases with a new laptop, phone, tablet and watch. Let’s start with t... - Yep, there’s now a subscription handbag service: Ivory Clasp
There are subscription services for clothes, shoes, accessories, makeup, and even tampons, so why not one for handbags? That’s the premise, at least, behind a new startup called Ivory Clasp, which is promising to offer quality, stylish handbags that retail for over $100 for just $45 per month. The ... - News in VR with RYOT
- Coupa up 87% in software IPO
- Sony packs more power into its compact cameras with the RX100 V and a6500
- Flex raises another $3 million to replace tampons
- Palmer Luckey absent from Oculus conference keynote after troll scandal
- Trying on Nike’s limited edition, self-lacing ‘Back to the Future’ shoes
- Kodak teases a new phone for an October 20 reveal
- Crunch Report | Snap Possibly to IPO in March
Snap is reportedly preparing for an IPO that could value it at $25B or higher. Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple’s Siri. Zuckerberg teases a prototype standalone Oculus VR headset. Netflix signs deal with theater chain to put original films on the big scree... - Report: Verizon wants $1 billion discount after Yahoo privacy concerns
It’s bad news for Yahoo. The company is in the midst of finalizing its sale to Verizon, but recent revelations about hacking and spying may be costing them a pretty penny. A story from the New York Post alleges that Verizon is now asking Yahoo for a hefty $1 billion discount to finalize what was su... - Watch an Uber self-driving car give two Pittsburgh Steelers a ride
- Spotify and Apple Music get unofficial mixes, the best part of SoundCloud
- Buying Washio’s assets, Rinse cleans up part of the on-demand laundry market
- In buyers’ market, acquirers look to lock in management teams longer
- Toppling democracy one byte at a time
- Co-founder Antti Pasila becomes CEO at programmatic ad company Kiosked
- Facebook invents “virtual reality emoji” gestures
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