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Pingpad update brings organizational layer to Slack
One of the primary benefits of using Slack is the ability to communicate and share information across a company, but as usage scales it can sometimes lead to information overload and an inability to keep work organized. Pingpad released an update today to bring an organizational layer to Slack that could help teams keep their project information more orderly inside the communications… Read More
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EEVO, a startup powering VR apps for the BBC and others, raises $1.3M
EEVO’s goal, in the words of co-founder and CEO Alejandro Dinsmore, is “democratizing the creation and delivery of immersive experiences.” In other words, the Brooklyn startup aims to help publishers and other content creators build virtual reality experiences for smartphones without making a big investment. Read More
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Data Artisans announces commercial Application Manager for open source Apache Flink
Data Artisans, the business arm of open source tool, Apache Flink, announced an early-access release of the commercial version of their platform today that includes a new tool for managing streaming applications.
Kostas Tzoumas, CEO at Data Artisans, says managing applications on a real-time streaming product presents some serious challenges for customers, and the new Application Manager is… Read More
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The downside of writing up demo days
Tech writers are invited to a lot of demo days, as you might imagine. Sometimes, these presentations are very long, with many startup teams taking the stage to pitch to investors and the media. Sometimes, they’re shorter, featuring a more concentrated group of founders. But always, the pitches are fairly short. In fact, most incubators or accelerators take their cue from one of the… Read More
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Linxo raises $24 million for its app that brings bank accounts together
French startup Linxo just raised $24 million (€20 million) from three financial institutions — Crédit Agricole, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and MAIF. The company is building a sort of Mint for the French market. Banking apps suck in France. Most of them are just a wrapper around a mobile website. It takes them years to adopt new features, such as fingerprint readers, widgets and more. And… Read More
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Crunch Report | So About That Equifax Hack
Today’s Stories Here comes the class action lawsuit after Equifax’s massive hack FBI probes Uber’s use of software to target rival Lyft Facebook plans to spend up to $1B on original shows in 2018 Spotify is starting a music event as Apple ends its music festival Credits Written and Hosted by: Anthony Ha Filmed by: Luke Miller Edited by: Joe Zolnoski Notes: Tito Hamze is… Read More
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Copycats versus disruptors in Latin America
A majority of the most successful startups coming out of Latin America have fallen under the “copycat” business model. On the other hand, there’s been a rise in truly disruptive ideas coming out of Latin America, as well. Certainly, “copycat” startups can be innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors. Read More
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A Stanford professor’s advice on surviving the a**hole at your startup
If you’ve never worked for a complete jerk, consider yourself lucky. Roughly one in five people polled say they’ve experienced bullying in the workplace — and 61 percent of the time, the bully is the person to whom an employee reports directly. None of this is news to Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. We talked with Sutton yesterday about what it means to be an asshole, how to… Read More
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It’s time to build our own Equifax with blackjack and crypto
The private data of 143 million Equifax “customers” is now available for download. Have no doubt: This means you will be hacked. This means your SIM card can be spoofed. This means someone will try to get into your email and online accounts. This means someone will try to open a credit card in your name. This crass, callow, and lazy treatment of our digital data cannot stand.… Read More
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Equity podcast: Roku is going public, 23andMe raises $200M and Juicero is dead
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast.
This week Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof, and myself — Alex! — sat down with Micah Rosenbloom, an investor with Founder Collective to sit down and chew over the week’s news.
We managed to not talk about Uber this episode, which was a welcome respite from the last few months during which we… Read More
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