Tuesday, March 08, 2016

8 March - Pale Moon Aggregator

English: I took photo with Canon camera in Lub...English: I took photo with Canon camera in Lubbock, TX. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Landscape of the skyline of Lubbock, Texas tak...Landscape of the skyline of Lubbock, Texas taken from the shoulder of Interstate 27. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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  • New rules for hiring executive candidates  When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about how to run a company and immediate personal rapport. Yet, despite both women recognizing they could form a strong team, when Lee offered her the position...
  • Google ordered to hand over names of fake reviewers in Dutch court case  Fake reviews have been an occasional and frustrating by-product on sites like Google, Yelp and Amazon for years. But a recent case in the Netherlands highlights how one company affected by them fought back. A nursery in Amsterdam has won a case against Google in a civil court in the city this month...
  • Meet Tovala, a smart oven that aims to perfectly cook ready-made meals in under 30 minutes
  • Spot launches to help users share recommendations on local gems and travel tips
  • The future of work is 5 billion customers looking for a good job
  • Gigwell rescues concert bookers from PDF hell
  • Meet the 25 startups that pitched at Entrepreneur First’s latest Demo Day
  • 21 Women Disrupting Tech
  • Google is using machine learning to teach robots how
  • Controversial people-rating app Peeple goes live, has a plan to profit from users’ negative reviews  Peeple, the controversial people-rating application that lets its users rate and review anyone, is not a hoax or vaporware, as many suspected following the media backlash surrounding the unveiling of the company’s intentions last fall. The Washington Post even called the app “terrifying,” given tha...
  • The world’s top VR director Chris Milk will wow us at Disrupt NY  New mediums mint new rock stars, and for virtual reality it’s Chris Milk. From surreal dreamscapes to #BlackLivesMatter protests to Jordanian refugee camps, he’s created some of the most mind-bending and inspiring VR experiences yet. I knew he was the real deal when I got hit by a train that turned...
  • For less than $1,000 you can now pull up your entire genome on your smartphone
  • Olive branches, rubrics and the state of faster payments in the U.S.
  • Come meet our writers at TechCrunch’s SXSW party and panels
  • littleBits’ new STEAM kit for students emphasizes invention
  • Pinterest opens up its ads manager tools to smaller and medium-sized businesses
  • Google renames its satellite startup, Skybox Imaging, to Terra Bella and adds focus on image analysis
  • Subleases spike in number as SF startups downsize
  • Following YouTube Red, video subscription service Vessel goes ad-free for paying subscribers  Vessel, the video subscription startup headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announced this week that it’s moving in a new direction in terms of the advertising displayed on its service. In a move that recalls YouTube’s venture into ad-free viewing with the debut of YouTube Red, Vessel is also mak...
  • Share ALL your photos with Shorts, Highlight’s pivot to voyeurism  No one else ever sees most of your camera roll. But if you’re brave enough, your close friends might enjoy peeking at every photo, video, and screenshot, not just the best ones. So call it creepy or the next frontier in social media, but that’s what Shorts does. It’s the new iOS app from the makers...
  • Atlassian releases its first diversity report, shows the company is mostly white and male
  • Lookout’s new Apple Watch app will help you find your lost iPhone
  • Employee health startup Yomp is acquired by Reward Gateway
  • The land that kills its tinkers
  • Amazon debuts its first live show that lets you shop while you watch
  • Playbuzz makes it easier to skip the boring parts with Video Snaps
  • Entrepreneur First bags the Moonfruit founders as G
  • Solar financing platform Wunder raises $3.6M  Wunder Capital, a provider of solar financing for medium-sized businesses, has raised $3.6 million in a new round of financing. The company has raised $4.7 million from Techstars Ventures, Fenway Summer Ventures, and FinTech Collective, alongside existing seed investors. Read More
  • Microsoft joins the open-source Eclipse Foundation  Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation — the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools. With this, Microsoft is joining other Eclipse sponsors like Google, Novell, IBM, Debeka, and Oracle. G...
  • Please welcome Lora Kolodny, Stefan Etienne, Signe Brewster and Kristen Hall-Geisler to TechCrunch
  • Truecaller is phasing out Truedialer, will merge features into its flagship app
  • Zenstores scores £400K to help online sellers ship
  • Will Uber save e-commerce in Mexico?
  • Pandora raises its social media game with AMPcast, DIY audio messaging for artists
  • The Panoporter gives you a 360-degree view of your world
  • Here’s the future of augmented reality, according to i
  • Spotinst, which helps you buy AWS spot instances, raises $2m Series A  Spot instances on AWS can help you save quite a bit of money over paying for a regular virtual machine on EC2. In return, though, these machines may shut down at any time when demand for regular machines increases. Spotinst helps business manage both the cost and management of these spot instances,...
  • The thing about cycles  The Internet is awash with gloom-and-doom predictions about the death of many unicorns, a down market for investing in startups, falling public company multiples and a massive disconnect between private and public valuations. Read More
  • Review: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are the phones we’ve craved
  • Pay for gas on ExxonMobil app with Apple Pay
  • Seoul-based Polaris Office launches its enterprise productivity suite in the U.S.
  • Square launches payments in Australia, its first country expansion in nearly three years
  • UK spy chief calls for tech sector co-operation to combat “abuse of encryption”
  • 500 Startups’ latest move in Asia is a $10M micro-fund in Vietnam
  • UK’s Atom Bank makes first acquisition, Grasp
  • Veeqo acquires London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright  Veeqo, the Wales-headquartered company that offers e-commerce inventory software, has acquired London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright to bolster its shipping features. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, though I understand the acquisition includes ParcelBright’s tech and customer base...
  • Google in talks with telecoms to pilot Project Loon in India  Google is currently talking with several Indian telecoms to help launch Project Loon, which uses balloons instead of cellular towers to provide affordable Internet access in remote areas. According to an article in the Economic Times, the company is in discussions with BSNL and other companies to p...
  • Alibaba’s Ant Financial raising new funding at $60B valuation ahead of IPO
  • Skype can now translate spoken Arabic in real time
  • Justice Department appeals pro-Apple decision in New York iPhone case
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