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India’s Treebo Hotels raises $17 million for its budget hotel network
Treebo Hotels has raised $17 million led by Bertelsmann India
Investments (BII) with participation from existing investors SAIF
Partners and Matrix Partners India. Read More
- Apply to The Duke Of York’s next series of Pitch@Palace events
The Duke Of York in England runs a unique series of events called Pitch@Palace which have become a respected fixture in the London startup scene. Application are now open for the next series of events. Entrepreneurs can apply from any of the following areas: • Biotech and Medical Technology • Consu... - Dine In founder appointed GM of UberEATs Singapore to battle Deliveroo once again
- Grab, Uber’s rival in Southeast Asia, is developing a mobile payments platform
- Rocket Internet’s GFG closes $365M down round as external investors shy away
Facebook’s new open source project makes it easier to get started with React
Facebook’s React project is an open source library that allows
developers to quickly build apps and their user
interfaces in JavaScript. But that’s a bit of an understatement, because
besides JavaScript, you also have to learn a lot of tools to simply set
up a React project. While Facebook has talk...
- 100% Fun
If 2016 taught us anything it’s that the internet isn’t fun anymore. It’s not that a soulless network of computers interconnected via TCP/IP was ever supposed to be fun. It’s that eventually fun overlaid itself on that network and created a world where nearly everyone could interact without fear. K... - Apple will sell limited edition Apple Watch bands for the Olympics as sales stall
- Welcome to ‘The Daily Crunch,’ TechCrunch’s new curated daily newsletter
- Dear Google, the future is fewer people writing code
- For Dyson, the 360 Eye robot vacuum is only the beginning
- 7-Eleven delivers by drone in Reno including, yes, Slurpees
- Hands-on with the SpeedX Leopard carbon fiber racing bike
- Israel is opening an innovation center to showcase Israeli technology and inspire young entrepreneurs
‘Star Trek Beyond’ points the 50-year-old franchise back at the stars
Let’s start with the obvious: Star Trek Beyond is a pretty good movie,
but it doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of Trek films like The
Wrath of Khan, The Undiscovered Country and First Contact. Beyond, which
opens today, starts with the crew of the Enterprise in the middle of
its five-year, d...
- Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in a first week ever
Apple has told TechCrunch that Pokémon Go has broken an impressive App Store record. While the game was only available in a few countries at the time, the app has attracted more downloads in the App Store during its first week than any other app in App Store history. Read More - Hacking poverty through mobile tech and social entrepreneurship
- In school or a recent grad? Get your cheap student tickets to Disrupt SF now
- Why did Unilever pay $1B for Dollar Shave Club?
- Gillmor Gang LIVE 07.22.16
- NASA’s Curiosity rover can now pick which bits of Mars to scan on its own
- 3Doodler’s CEO talks about what comes after the crowdfunding
- Verizon is close to buying Yahoo assets: sources
Redbox is giving streaming another shot
After unceremoniously putting the old kibosh on it Instant service
back in 2014, your friendly neighborhood DVD dispenser Redbox is ramping
up to give streaming another go. The movie distributor, whose vending
machines have become a supermarket mainstay across the US, is taking
another shot at Netf...
- Waiting for the right professional network
Today there is enough data available to bring people of similar or adjacent profiles closer, and inform them about signals and contexts where they could either help, pay it forward or seek help. Over a period of time, a community (a micro-market network) will form that will prospect for each other ... - Pokémon Go is doing a lot of good, here are 3 surprising ways
- Judge finds Gravity4 CEO Gurbaksh Chahal violated probation in domestic violence case
- A $99 add-on that promises to bring 3D sound to standard headphones
- Car breakdowns reach record high despite boost in auto technology
- Weekly Roundup: Elon Musk’s master plan, Peter Thiel speaks at RNC and iPhone 7 leak
- RNDMWRK randomizes remote work with subscription spaces
- WikiLeaks publishes 19,252 DNC-related emails packed with personal information
Let’s meet in Chicago for a mini-meetup
I’ll be in Chicago this week and I’d love to meet some startups. I’m
thinking about holding a micro-mini-meetup on Tuesday, July 26 at a
location to be determined. Here’s what I need from you all: Email or
tweet me with recommendations where we can meet. I like to just hang out
in bars but I could ...
- Building as a modular gadget
Researchers and companies have been exploring new ways to improve buildings through analytics software, prefabrication, connected devices, new materials and construction automation. It’s striking that most of these efforts are trying to patch problems within the legacy framework of “permanent” cons... - NASA releases new video showing the globe age one year
- The assimilation of robots into the workforce as peers, not replacements
- The government should be measured in its reaction to the Tesla crash
- Crunch Report | WikiLeaks Publishes DNC Emails
- Bad UX kills
- Running at 150,000 RPM, this tiny motor could help satellites keep on course
- Dots & Co. tweaks the Dots games by adding a friendly companion
Solar Impulse 2 takes off the final leg of its round-the-world flight
In the wee hours of the morning, the Solar Impulse 2 took from Cairo,
embarking on the last leg of its round-the-world journey. The 17th and
final part of the trip is set to end in Abu Dhabi, where it first set
off from in March 2015. The last leg of the journey is anticipated to
take around 48 hou...
- Researchers use neural networks to turn face sketches into photos
We all have a soft spot for Prisma, the app that turns smartphone photos into stylized artwork. But the reverse process — transforming artwork into pictures — is no less fascinating. And it’s not far from becoming real, researchers in the Netherlands said. A team of four neuroscientists at Radboud ... - PonoMusic goes dark for several weeks as the company switches providers
- Don’t make founders’ equity even
- That new ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ series is hitting Netflix
- Four official ‘Star Wars’ drones are arriving this fall
- How much does it matter if your software quality sucks?
- Recasting Silicon Valley’s role in society
- Pop culture stimulates the evolution of the LA tech scene
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