Independent retailers often have a hard time finding and retaining qualified employees. TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant Staffly, a startup created by husband and wife team Bjorn and Marissa Ovick, wants to make it easy for them to fill their staffing needs. Staffly has created a digital temp agency of sorts in which retailers find staff, employees find work and Staffly runs… Read More
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There is little doubt that IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system is an incredible piece of technology, It’s capable of searching across vast repositories of unstructured digital data and returning answers remarkably quickly. But it won’t be replacing humans anytime soon, Dr. John Kelly who leads the Watson team at IBM told TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm today at… Read More
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Is it time to stick a fork in bitcoin? The digital currency has been making the news for a couple of years now. Yet, many are taking a step back and wondering whether bitcoin as we know it will still be around in the future. Wences Casares from Xapo, Nathaniel Popper (author of Digital Gold), and Bobby Lee from BTCC (formerly BTC China) took the stage with our own John Biggs at Disrupt SF to… Read More
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Drew Houston is in a challenging position. One of the vanguards of online storage, Dropbox critics will argue the company now finds itself under attack from all sides — with companies like Apple and Google offering free online storage and companies like Box offering business collaboration tools. It has to not only continue to grow its businesses, but tell the world what… Read More
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Today at Disrupt SF 2015, Zenefits’ Parker Conrad joined our own Matthew Lynley on stage to dig into how the startup has managed to become one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
Zenefits is notable here in the TechCrunch house as it first launched its product at Disrupt NY in 2013 when it was a finalist in our Startup Battlefield. Read More
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Portea Medical, a startup that provides in-home healthcare in India, has raised a $37.5 million Series B led by returning investor Accel. The round’s other participants include International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, Qualcomm Ventures, and Ventureast. Read More
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Apple just released the final version of watchOS 2. The updated operating system is now available to download for everyone. It is available as an over-the-air update. You may not see the update right away as it takes a few minutes to hit all the servers. Apple may also be using a queue system to ensure speedy downloads. Read More
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Monese, which sees a throttled launch today, could grow the banking pie in the U.K. and European Union. That’s because the London and Tallinn, Estonia-based company is targeting immigrants and expats who might otherwise find it difficult to open a bank account outside of their originating country. Read More
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Disrupt SF started off with a bang this morning with a fireside chat including Ron and Topher Conway, both investors with SV Angel. TechCrunch founder and CrunchFund investor Michael Arrington peppered them with questions about the landscape of Silicon Valley. 
How do you design a VR game that’s less likely to make a player’s stomach churn? Turns out you need to put some pretty strict limits on how they can interact within the alternative world you’re inviting them to step into…