The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is disrupting New Orleans tonight, which means there is no better time for you to register for tickets than right now. What is a TC Meetup + Pitch-off, you ask? Excellent question! More than a handful of ore-selected companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of esteemed judges. Those judges will hold a quick Q&A after… Read More
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SendGrid CEO Sameer Dohlakia said he thinks of the company’s new product, Threads by SendGrid, as “the anti-spam.”
Basically, Threads allows customers to set up automated emails that get sent based on user activity — so you could send an email whenever a customer views a specific web page, uses a specific feature or performs a certain action in your mobile app. Read More
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Burner, the app that lets you create disposable phone numbers you can use for a variety of purposes including online ads, while traveling, for business projects, dating profiles, and more, has been, until now, a fairly utilitarian sort of messaging app. You could create number, call, text and check voicemails, but not much else. Today, that changes with the launch of… Read More
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Cynics have denounced uBeam’s ultrasound wireless charging at-a-distance technology since its first prototype in 2011, in part because it refused to share the particulars for fear of competitors copying it. But today, its founder Meredith Perry unveiled extensive details, research, and safety information about how uBeam works, and will soon be able to simultaneously charge and send data… Read More
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“Yeah!” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said excitedly in response to a big question for his company: is Facebook working on augmented reality? “It’s a bit further out,” he followed up during a talk about virtual reality at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. Facebook’s intentions in virtual reality were already clear after buying… Read More
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Pypestream, a new startup from AdGenesis/Genesis Media co-founder Richard Smullen, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Jonah Goodhart, co-founder of Moat and of early-stage investment firm WGI Group. Goodhart told me that Pypestream is trying to solve a big problem: “The call center as a model is absolutely broken.” In other words,… Read More
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The ongoing concerns surrounding the YouTube Kids application – including its inability to completely filter out inappropriate content, as well as the way it blends content and commercial advertising in ways that may be difficult for children to understand – have now reached the U.S. Senate. Read More
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Software is eating the world, but who’s setting the table? Engineers, and everyone needs them. But companies that hire freelance programmers are realizing an ugly product is as broken as buggy code. The talent crunch around engineers has now spawned a parallel desperation for designers. Toptal wants to answer that call by routing designers with spare cycles to companies in need after… Read More
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Delivery Hero, the European online take-out ordering behemoth that was recently valued at $3.1 billion by investors, is busy building a new logistics and food delivery company. 
Sony has announced it has acquired Belgium-based SoftKinetic, a maker of 3D sensing computer vision technologies including Kinect-style depth cameras, CMOS depth chips and gesture-tracking middleware.