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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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Crunch Report | iOS 10 Available Today
It’s the second day of Disrupt SF 2016. We interview Startup
Battlefield company EverlyWell, iOS 10 is available today, YC MOOCs are
on the way, Alexa App store hits 3,000 skills, and co-working space
Industrious lands a Series B. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
For your videos, Valossa knows if you’re happy or sadVideo analytics platform Valossa just launched Val.ai, a platform to
help video creators, advertisers and other video boffins figure out
what’s going on in video. In addition to computer-vision tricks, the
platform can do sentiment analyses (person is happy / person is sad) and
even heart rate anal...
Giftbit lets retailers create their own e-commerce currency
Giftbit, a company that operates a digital gift card marketplace for
online retailers, is launching a new product today at TechCrunch Disrupt
SF that will enable merchants to easily create their own custom
currency — meaning gift cards, promo codes and refund credits — without
having to build their...
Confide brings self-destructing messaging to iMessage
Confide, the confidential messaging app that launched back in 2013,
has today announced an integration with iMessage in iOS 10. As part of
iOS 10’s new iMessage features, which incorporates apps right within the
iMessage application, Confide users will be able to send
self-destructing messages dire...
With a new CEO, Y Combinator will wind down fellowships and start a MOOC
Y Combinator, which has been expanding rapidly in recent years, is
making broad, organizational changes– for the second time this year.
Most dramatically, Y Combinator will be winding down its YC Fellowships
and launching a MOOC, or massively online open course, in 2017.
Additionally, the venture f...
Defense Department reaffirms its commitment to venture investing
Reiterating its intention to “piggyback” on the work that the
intelligence community has done with In-Q-Tel, the Defense Department
will start making venture investments, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. The initiative will build off of
work that the Central Intel...
Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise welcomes our new robot overlords
Melonee Wise of Fetch Robotics gave her insights on robotics and how
robots are going to enhance our future. Fetch Robotics specialized in
warehouse robots so that humans don’t have to walk around all day long.
But even before Fetch Robotics, Wise has been active in the open-source
community when i...
Reuters is the latest large news agency to embrace content automation
Reuters is the latest major news agency to embrace content automation.
Reuters isn’t replacing human reporters and editors with software and
self-flying cameras quite yet.
But the news organization has struck partnerships with Graphiq Inc. and
Wibbitz Ltd., to automate the creation of simple graphi...
Affectiva partners with Giphy and opens its emotion-sensing API to small businesses
Affectiva CEO Rana el Kaliouby made a pair of announcements at
TechCrunch Disrupt today that should bring the company’s
emotion-detecting systems to quite a few new people. First, the Affdex
SDK and APIs are now free to any company that learns less than a million
dollars a year. Read More
CEO David Sacks on moving on from Zenefits’ troubled past
Zenefits at one point was one of the fastest growing software
companies in the world, rocketing to a $4.5 billion valuation in 18
months. It was on track to generate tens of millions of dollars in
annual recurring revenue. Then, everything went south; regulators
started investigating the company, a...
Pokémon Go will “likely” come to Android Wear
Pokémon Go will come to Android Wear, it seems. At TechCrunch Disrupt
SF this afternoon, John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs – the company behind
the most viral and profitable mobile game of all time – confirmed that
his team will look into bringing game to other mobile platforms which
are interesting ...
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