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WeVideo has rebuilt its browser-based video editor using HTML5 instead of Flash. For many of you, the whole debate about HTML5 versus Flash may seem like a weird flashback to 2010. But Flash is taking a while to die completely — Google Chrome, for example, continues to phase out Flash gradually. CE... - The new collaboration economy
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London-based ticketing startup Dice, which sells mobile tickets without booking fees and with a current focus on millennials wanting to discover new bands to go see live, has closed a $6 million Series A funding round. Read More - Truecaller lands pre-install deal with Huawei as it crosses 90M monthly users
Truecaller has landed a partnership with Huawei which will see its caller ID and smart phone book app pre-loaded on the fast-growing Chinese company’s overseas smartphones. Read More - Crunch Report | WhatsApp Shares user data with Facebook
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- NASA completes another splashdown test on Mars-bound Orion spacecraft
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- SpaceNet satellite imagery repository launched by DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA on AWS
- Kids app maker Duck Duck Moose joins Khan Academy
Sequoia-backed kids educational startup Duck Duck Moose is heading to Khan Academy, to add preschool learning to the non-profit’s digital education offerings. The startup’s 21 mobile apps aimed at children ages two and up are now available for free as a part of the move, which is not technically be... - Responding to the demand for reliable data collection in Africa, mSurvey raises seed funding
mSurvey, a Kenya based startup specializing in mobile data collection, has raised seed capital as it looks to expand its survey business in partnership with retailers in sub-Saharan Africa. Safaricom, Cross Culture Ventures, and the Virgin Group’s Alpha Angels joined an investment round in the four... - The ethics of transhumanism
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- Volkswagen’s 2019 electric car said to get 300 miles on a 15-minute charge
- Spiri’s on-demand carpooling service will use custom EVs and let drivers ride free
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- India’s MobiKwik lands $40M from NASDAQ-listed payment firm Net1
- How rival challenger bank Starling pranked Mondo on day new name Monzo was unveiled
- Rheo, a personalized video app designed by ex-Apple product vets, scores $2.3 million
A personalized video channel for Apple TV, Rheo, has now closed on $2.3 million in seed funding, the company announced this week. It has also updated its application and expanded its content lineup, thanks to a new deal with Vimeo which brings the network’s catalog of short videos, including its “S... - Mobile ad startup AppLovin in talks for $1.5 billion acquisition
Mobile ad startup AppLovin is in talks with a Chinese buyer for an acquisition of around $1.5 billion, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company. We have not confirmed the identity of the acquirer. The deal is not yet finalized and details may change. Founded in 2012 by CEO Adam F... - Google hires Airbnb’s Shaun Stewart to help bring self-driving cars to market
- Disrupt SF Hackathon ticket release, plus a special hackathon track
- Rackspace to go private after $4.3B acquisition by private equity firm Apollo
- Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder
- MIT’s shape-shifting 3D-printed objects could improve medicine and solar-power
- FOX Sports Go hits Apple TV, allows viewing of four games at once
- Announcing the Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield competition judges
- Russia’s Google equivalent is building a self-driving shuttle
The Google equivalent in every major market where Google doesn’t really play is making a self-driving car of some kind, and Russia is the latest to join the fray. Yandex is the company in question, which operates Russia’s leading search engine, along with a host of other going concerns. Add to that... - Plowz and Mowz raise $1.5 million from LA-based Science for on-demand landscaping services
Launching with a marketplace for landscaping, snow plowing and other home care and repair services, Plowz & Mowz has raised $1.5 million from the Los Angeles-based startup studio Science and undisclosed angel investors. On the heels of the firm’s successful exit from Dollar Shave Club, Science ... - Facebook ditches helpful Trending Topic descriptions for global scale
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- Google Wallet debuts automatic transfers so you can skip “cashing out”
- Flirtey flies pies for Domino’s in New Zealand
- StudySoup raises $1.7M to help students buy and sell class notes
- WhatsApp-Facebook data-sharing deal probed by UK privacy watchdog
- Crunch Report | Justin Kan Talks YC
Justin Kan swings by the TC studio to talk YC, Snapchat and a new app he is working on, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is working on a proposal to retain foreigners who build startups, a new type of shape-shifting material is created out of MIT, three tech stories about cars, and Rackspac... - Spotify might not suppress search, but that doesn’t mean artists with exclusives get treated equally
Accusations that Spotify has been punishing artists for signing exclusives with other streaming services hit the internet in full force this morning, originating from a Bloomberg article. When confronted by TechCrunch, a Spotify spokesperson gave the same response they have been giving since the s... - The monetization promise and pitfalls of Pokémon Go
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- Microsoft announces new resources to reduce hate speech
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- Student projects leapfrog governments and industry in ‘Data Science for Social Good’ program
- Tracking Instagram’s money-flipping scammers
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