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Come To The TechCrunch Virtual Reality Meetup In LA On Sept 18th
The night before the Oculus Connect conference, TechCrunch is bringing together the virtual reality community for an evening of cool demos, free drinks, and a chance to meet TechCrunch’s writers and VR startups in the space. Register here for the TechCrunch Virtual Reality Meetup.
From 6:30pm to 9:30pm at the The Mondrian Hotel’s beautiful Skybar in West Hollywood, come mingle… Read More
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With ArtCling, You Can Commission Art That Sticks To Your Walls
Earlier this year, I wrote about ArtCorgi, a startup that makes it easy to commission custom artwork. Now the company is launching a new site called ArtCling, which takes a different approach to actually getting that art up on your walls. ArtCorgi co-founders Malcolm (CEO) and Simone (COO) Collins (yes, they’re a couple — Malcolm actually proposed to Simone using commissioned… Read More
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On-Demand Home Services Startup Handybook Hires Amazon Exec Jeff Pedersen To Be Its CFO
Customers are becoming increasingly comfortable with the idea of booking services on the web and on their phones, so companies like Handybook are taking off. It’s for that reason that the on-demand home services startup has decided to hire former Amazon exec Jeff Pedersen as its new CFO. Read More
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Kevin Rose’s New App Tiiny Lets You Share Little Photos That Disappear In 24 Hours
Digg, Milk, and Revision3 founder Kevin Rose recently left Google Ventures to start a new mobile development house called North, and now we have some details on the firm’s first app, Tiiny, which will launch soon. The basic idea is that Tiiny lets you share thumbnail-sized photos and animated GIFs to a grid of pics on your friends’ phones, and they disappear 24 hours later. Rather… Read More
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A Run Through The Chinese Pavilion At TechCrunch Disrupt SF
At the Chinese pavilion we ran through those on show:
Ogora helps developers add VOIP voice calls to their apps with one line of code.
Sensoro is an iBeacon startup which senses the surrounding environment.
An image recognition startup that can also recognise objects exhibited, allowing you to search on keywords on the web and in app.
ClearClouds is a cloud service company providing data… Read More
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Cloudike Provides White Label Cloud Storage For Carriers Like LG
Services like Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive are so ubiquitous in the U.S. that it’s easy to forget there are many markets around the world where personal cloud storage is still relatively novel. Cloudike, which is part of ASD Technologies and based in Korea, Russia, and San Jose, California, wants to grab those users by offering white-label cloud storage for mobile service providers… Read More
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Looop, An Online Learning Platform For Employees, Raises $2M To Enter The UK
Australia’s Looop provides a mobile-friendly platform to enable small-to-medium sized business to deliver training online. Today, the company is disclosing a $2 million seed round from an undisclosed education investor, specifically raised to fuel expansion into the UK. Read More
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WhatWine Scans A Restaurant’s Wine List To Pair Your Dish With The Right One
I’ll confess, I know very little about wine, except that too many glasses of cheap red plonk can make you very sick as a 14-year-old child. WhatWine, a new app from serial entrepreneurs Cedric Maloux and Matthew Gertner, who previously founded AllPeers together, could help fill in a few of my gaping sommelier blanks. Read More
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RezGuru By TableGrabber Helps Restaurants Take A Smarter Approach To Pricing And Reservations
TableGrabber aims to help restaurants fill their empty seats, and to that end, it’s launching a new platform today called RezGuru at the Disrupt SF startup battlefield. The goal, as laid out by co-founders (and siblings) Sonia and Pawan Marwaha, is to adjust things like pricing and reservation availability in a way that maximizes revenue. For example, a restaurant might be so crowded… Read More
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FOVE Uses Eye Tracking To Make Virtual Reality More Immersive
FOVE wants to ramp up by the virtual reality experience by creating the world’s first consumer-oriented headmount display to use eye tracking. The Tokyo-based startup was founded by CEO Yuka Kojima and CTO Lochlainn Wilson and is launching today on the Disrupt SF stage. Read More
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