• Scholarships are the new sweepstakes Crunch Network

    Scholarships are the new sweepstakes

    One million dollars. A student will earn that much more in life with a four-year college degree as opposed to just a high school diploma. That’s according to a recent study from Georgetown University, which offers just such a degree. But most students need financial aid. And when it comes to financial aid, there are basically two kinds: the kind you pay back and the kind you want. You want… Read More

  • How activist DeRay Mckesson’s Twitter account was hacked

    How activist DeRay Mckesson’s Twitter account was hacked

    Even though several huge data breaches have recently exposed hundreds of millions of social media login credentials online, users aren’t re-setting their passwords — which means you’ll probably continue to see celebrities’ social media accounts getting hijacked.
    Racial justice activist DeRay Mckesson became the most recent example of a high-profile account breach… Read More

  • 13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week

    13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week

    Gawker files for bankruptcy, Verizon inches closer to buying Yahoo, what to expect at Apple’s WWDC conference next week and more headlines to stay on top of this week’s tech news. Read More

  • The future of the IoT job market Crunch Network

    The future of the IoT job market

    Since the dawn of technology, we’ve been afraid of technology eliminating our jobs. Look at the birth of the steam engine. When it was invented in the late 1700s, people believed its arrival signaled the end of manual labor and thousands of hardworking individuals would be out of jobs. Instead, it created completely new jobs in new industries. Nearly 250 years later, in a world defined… Read More

  • Andreessen Horowitz officially closes its newest fund with $1.5 billion

    Andreessen Horowitz officially closes its newest fund with $1.5 billion

    In March, we told you that Andreessen Horowitz was targeting $1.5 billion for its fifth and newest fund. This morning, the seven-year-old Sand Hill Road firm is confirming that it has closed on that amount, having secured the capital commitments from its previous investors. The announcement comes a little more than two years after the firm closed its fourth, multi-stage venture capital fund… Read More

  • Mozilla’s multi-process architecture project cleared for takeoff

    Mozilla’s multi-process architecture project cleared for takeoff

    Attention. Project code-name Electrolysis is a go. Mozilla’s long-running project to bring multi-process architecture to hundreds of millions of Firefox users has finally met release criteria for a full-scale rollout. Nearly every other browser on the market has adopted multi-process architecture, splitting tabs and extensions into separate processes. For the average non-technical… Read More

  • What to expect at Apple’s WWDC keynote

    What to expect at Apple’s WWDC keynote

    Apple is about to kick off its annual developer conference in San Francisco on Monday. As usual, the company will get things going with a good old keynote filled with secret and not-so-secret announcements. Here's what I expect to see. A good chunk of the conference should be about iOS and OS X updates. Usually, Apple showcases some of th Read More

  • Slack is down, so enjoy your three-day weekend

    Slack is down, so enjoy your three-day weekend

    Chat and collaboration app Slack is experiencing serious outages today, but we’re not sure of the nature or extent of the disaster, because status.slack.com is also inaccessible! What? This is like a fire station burning down! (Update: It’s back up, hurray!) Read More

  • Gawker files for bankruptcy

    Gawker files for bankruptcy

    Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy today, according to documents filed in a Southern District of New York court. The filing comes as Gawker’s legal battle with the wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) drags on. Hogan sued Gawker after the site published a clip of his sex tape and a blog post analyzing it; his lawsuit, as well as others against Gawker, have been funded by… Read More

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