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Apple’s Thanksgiving ad is mostly about the AirPods
Every year, Apple airs a new ad in the U.S. for Thanksgiving. Compared to other Apple ads, this is less about showing product features and more like a greeting card. This year is no different — you still see a lot of AirPods. Apple’s new ad is called “Sway” and takes place in the streets of Prague. A woman starts playing Sam Smith’s “Palace” on her… Read More
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AltSchool wants to change how kids learn, but fears that it’s failing students are surfacing
Business Insider recently reported that numerous families have grown frustrated with the education their children are receiving at AltSchool, an ambitious San Francisco-based edtech company that four years ago began opening physical grade schools and promising a personalized learning approach that would far surpass the standardized education most kids receive. Read More
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Snips lets you build your own voice assistant to embed into your devices
French startup Snips is now helping you build a custom voice assistant for your device. Snips doesn’t use Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service or Google Assistant SDK — the company is building its own voice assistant so that you can embed it on your devices. And the best part is that it doesn’t send anything to the cloud as it works offline. If you want to understand how a… Read More
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Net Neutrality advocates plan protests for December 7 at Verizon stores
On December 14, the FCC will vote on whether or not to roll back Obama-era policies protecting a free and open internet. In fact, during yesterday’s announcement of the upcoming vote, the FCC neglected to mention the historic 22 million comments on the issue, the majority of which were opposed to its rollback. Read More
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FCC releases final draft of ‘Restoring Internet Freedom,’ which would not do that
The FCC yesterday announced a December 14 vote on “Restoring Internet Freedom,” an order that, far from restoring freedom to the internet, would allow it to be restricted in new and harmful ways. Actually, when you think of it as restoring internet freedom to ISPs and cable companies, it makes a lot more sense. At any rate the Commission has released the text of the order, as promised. Read More
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Facebook will show which Russian election troll accounts you followed
Facebook is building out a tool to show which Facebook Pages or Instagram accounts associated with Russia’s Internet Research Agency election troll farm you Liked or followed. Launching by the end of the year as part of the Facebook Help Center, the tool will show a list of all the IRA accounts you followed. The IRA is a group based in St. Petersburg, Russia with ties to the Kremlin. Read More
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Apple could use machine learning to shore up LiDAR limitations in self-driving
Apple has a new paper published in Cornell’s arXiv open directory of scientific research, describing a method for using machine learning to translate the raw point cloud data gathered by LiDAR arrays into results that include detection of 3D objects, including bicycles and pedestrians, with no additional sensor data required. The paper is one of the clearest looks yet we’ve had… Read More
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Minted rolls out an on-demand photography service for around $100 per session
When you go through a big life event — say a milestone birthday for a parent or a wedding — there are probably going to be a lot of mini-events that happen before and after the big one. But you might not think to hire a professional photographer for them and stick with a couple phone cameras because it can be tough to find those photographers. So Minted, a company that’s… Read More
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Salesforce keeps rolling with another monster quarter, as it sets $20 billion revenue goal
Ho hum, Salesforce announced its quarterly earnings yesterday and the news was all good once again with revenue up 25 percent to $2.68 billion. The company has blown through its $10 billion yearly revenue goal and has boldly set one for $20 billion by FY2022. I wouldn’t put it passed them. The company also announced some big executive moves. More on that later Salesforce is the anti-IBM. Read More
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With Ethereum wallets under constant attack, Jibrel Network decided to build their own
Since blockchain technologies appeared people have been trying to figure out how to put traditional assets like currencies, bonds and other financial instruments onto it in a way which has regulatory compliance and is secure. If you could do that you could sell securities in a legitimate way, thus disrupting large swathes of the asset management industry. In case you didn’t happen to… Read More
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UK Budget courts tech sector with $663M in investments in AI, 5G networks and more
With the UK government continuing to face down criticism over how it is handling plans to remove the UK from the European Union, today the country’s Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered an annual Autumn Budget that underscored its continuing push to win over the tech world. In a wide-ranging speech laying out proposals for investment and taxes for individuals and businesses, the… Read More
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Senator Schatz on net neutrality: “This has to be a real political movement”
Following the news yesterday morning that the FCC will be voting on the proposal to kill net neutrality come December 14, officials and advocacy organizations have been issuing statements left and right decrying the impending upending of the internet as we know it. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) is among them, but took a moment to talk with TechCrunch about his misgivings in a bit more detail. Read More
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Early-bird ticket pricing for Disrupt Berlin ends at midnight tonight
All good things, as they say, must come to an end. That definitely holds true for early-bird pricing on Disrupt Berlin tickets. In just a few short hours — at midnight tonight, local Berlin time to be precise — the general admission ticket price increases 30 percent. Read More
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Lyft gets approval to test self-driving cars on public roads in California
Lyft is the latest company to be added to the ever-growing list of those permitted to test their self-driving technology on California state public roads. The California Department of Motor Vehicles added Lyft to the list recently (via Axios), following Lyft’s foundation of a self-driving technology development center earlier this year, and its announcement that it would work on both its… Read More
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PacketZoom lands $5M Series A investment to speed up mobile apps
PacketZoom, a startup that helps app developers speed up and optimize app delivery on mobile devices, announced a $5M Series A today. The round was led by Baseline Ventures with participation from First Round Capital, Tandem Capital and Arafura Ventures. Today’s investment brings the total raised to over $9M, according to Crunchbase. The company combines a content delivery network (CDN)… Read More
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Uber data breach “raises huge concerns”, says UK watchdog
The fallout from Uber’s disclosure yesterday of a massive data breach affecting 57 million users and drivers that it concealed for a year continues: The UK’s data protection watchdog has put out a strongly worded statement saying the company’s announcement “raises huge concerns around its data protection policies and ethics”. Read More
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Facebook’s ad system shown failing to enforce its own anti-discriminatory policy
Results from a new ProPublica investigation suggest the tech giant is failing at even simple self-policing. Read More
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Announcing our Disrupt Berlin Hackathon judges and the third release of free hack tickets
The third time could be the charm if you haven’t yet scored your free tickets to the Disrupt Berlin Hackathon. Today, we’ve released a third batch of tickets to the most exciting, grueling, 24-hour test of a developer’s chops. Tickets are available on a first-come-first-served basis, so get your tickets now before they’re gone for good. Read More
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Ten years on: Seedcamp outs new £41M seed fund and says it’s ready to invest in tokens
The London-based VC firm recently sold its first two funds to Draper Esprit, and today is announcing the first close of a new £41 million fund, double the size of its last. This year the VC is also celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Read More
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New York attorney general slams the FCC for ignoring net neutrality comments investigation
If the FCC’s refusal to acknowledge the vast public outcry against its plan to gut net neutrality isn’t enough of an outrage, its total disinterest in investigating how that same comment system may have been gamed by fake users posing as real Americans adds a bit more insult to injury. Suspicions arose earlier this year that a person or an organization of some kind was… Read More
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MyRepublic
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- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: internet, telecommunications, isp
- Investors: Makara Capital
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WebEngage
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- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
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SmashToast, Inc.
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- HQ: Springfield, Illinois
- Categories: hardware, consumer electronics, smart home, ios, big data, software
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Fastbrick Robotics
- 35M AUD Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Perth, Western Australia
- Categories: mechanical engineering, robotics, 3d technology, industrial engineering ... See More
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Jincor
- Not available ICO
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: cryptocurrency
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ADAY
- $2.0M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: internet, manufacturing, fashion, e-commerce
- Investors: SoGal Ventures
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200crowd
- 300K EUR Seed
- HQ: Brescia, Lombardia
- Categories: software, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, hardware
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MiStay
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- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: travel, information technology, travel accommodations
- Investors: Axilor Ventures
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doopoll
- Not available
- HQ: Cardiff, Cardiff
- Categories: market research, internet
- Investors: Development Bank of Wales
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BitCAD
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- HQ: Walnut, California
- Categories: cryptocurrency, biometrics, security, fintech
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Truweight
- Not available Debt Financing
- HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Categories: health care
- Investors: BlackSoil
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adLift
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- HQ: Tehran, Tehran
- Categories: advertising platforms, digital media, advertising, video advertising
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Mantis Industries LLC
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- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: food and beverage, manufacturing, wholesale
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English Helper
- $2.6M
- HQ: Westwood, Massachusetts
- Categories: education, higher education, training
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GoBolt
- Not available Debt Financing
- HQ: New Delhi, Delhi
- Categories: logistics, railroad, transportation
- Investors: BlackSoil
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Frontera
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- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: angel investment, venture capital, emerging markets, business intelligence ... See More
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Digital Sandbox
- $4.0M
- HQ: Mclean, Virginia
- Categories: software
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Olvin
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- HQ: London, England
- Categories: saas, machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, b2b, business ... See More
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Mobycy
- $500K Seed
- HQ: Gurgaon, Haryana
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Scorum
- $800K ICO
- HQ: Minsk, Minsk
- Categories: media and entertainment
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BioVersys AG
- 5.0M CHF
- HQ: Basel, Basel-Stadt
- Categories: biotechnology
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Voycer AG
- 1.1M EUR
- HQ: Munich, Bayern
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AssetX
- $1.5M ICO
- HQ: Orlando, Florida
- Categories: cryptocurrency, real estate investment
- Investors: Overseas Capital Group
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Duradry.com
- $500K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: personal health, beauty
- Investors: Private Undisclosed
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Encounter Telehealth
- $410K Seed
- HQ: Omaha, Nebraska
- Categories: health care
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CircleLoop
- 1.5M GBP Seed
- HQ: Preston, Lancashire
- Categories: telecommunications
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Nacuity Pharmaceuticals
- $2.0M
- HQ: Fort Worth, Texas
- Categories: health care
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Prometheon Holdings
- Not available Private Equity
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: travel, tourism
- Investors: SSG Capital Management
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PCX Holding
- $1.7M
- HQ: New Canaan, Connecticut
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Kanvasenja Creative Media
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