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A panel discussion on finding a balance between security and privacy here at Disrupt New York 2016 touched on various aspects of a complex topic, including strategies for securing customer data and the big risks posed as more types of devices come online. Read More... →

HTC is officially struggling once again. The Taiwan-based tech company’s latest financials show its sales dropped a staggering 64 percent over the past year. Read More... →

theSkimm founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin came onstage at Disrupt NYC today to tell us how to capture one of the most coveted audiences in media – millennials. Part of it is serving up digestible news that matters to 20 to 30-somethings and being honest about the way you advertise to them. For those who are unfamiliar, theSkimm is a new kind of email newsletter changing the… Read More... →

Giphy co-founder and CEO Alex Chung talked about Giphy’s current state at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Giphy now serves over a billion GIFs a day and has raised around $75 million. And yet, the startup doesn’t generate any money for now. But it doesn’t mean Giphy isn’t already thinking about it. Read More... →

PayPal is changing its purchase protection rules to reflect increasing risks associated with crowdfunding. The new language, which will go into effect in June, state that “payments on crowdfunding platforms” will no longer be eligible for Purchase Protection. What does this mean? It means you won’t be able to yell at PayPal if the atomic jetpack you backed on Kickstarter… Read More... →

The launch of the Cloud Native Foundation (CNF) last July caused a few stirs because it brought together a very wide range of companies, including AT&T, Box, Cisco, CoreOS, Docker, Google, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Twitter and VMware. The idea behind the foundation is to “harmonize emerging technologies and foster innovation in container packaged, dynamically scheduled, and… Read More... →

If you have a solid content marketing asset to publish, you’d better use lots of great tools to promote your piece as well as to monitor those helping you promote it. If you archive all the tweets sharing your content, you’ll be able to identify your most powerful (and successful) promoters: These are your first targets to reach out to further build the relationship and turn them into your brand... [Read More...] The post Who Tweeted My Article? Archive Your Promoters in Excel and Google Spreadsheet appeare... →

TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 20 startups selected to participate in the Disrupt NY 2016 Startup Battlefield. Over the next two days, these companies will compete on tech’s biggest stage for $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup. Read More... →

MTV gave us a blast from the past last month when it streamed nonstop Prince videos as a memorial to the musician’s untimely death. But, as it turns out, we will start seeing a lot more music video programming on another platform very soon. Spotify — the music streaming startup with some 75 million users — today announced a line up of 12 new “concepts”… Read More... →

We’ve got a big day ahead of us, so buckle up! Live from Red Hook in Brooklyn, Disrupt NY is unfolding before our very eyes with badass speakers, awesome demoes and, of course, the world-famous Startup Battlefield. Read More... →

A Google Webmaster Help thread has reports dating back to March 1st of a bug with the iOS App Indexing SDK from Google that would drain the power from apps, even when they are in standby mode. The bug was just fixed recently in version 2.0.3 of the SDK for iOS...... →

Lending Club shares are down more than 25% — shaving off hundreds of millions of dollars off the company’s roughly $2.5 billion market cap — after it announced its CEO would resign following an internal review of $22 million in near-prime loan sales to a single investor. Renaud Laplanche will leave the company after a review of a loan sale that didn’t meet the… Read More... →

Following the launch of a built-in VPN service in its web browser last month, Opera this morning debuted a free and unlimited mobile VPN app for iOS devices. Called Opera VPN, the app is designed to protect users’ privacy – it removes ad blockers, for example – but it’s also marketed towards those who want a way to work around restricted internet access, such on… Read More... →

In a Google hangout from Friday on Google+, Google's John Mueller said Google is looking for ways to break down both voice search and AMP traffic in the Google Search Analytics report...... →

Paul Shapiro notified me on Twitter that Google is showing a search carousel under Reddit search results. At first I thought it was the Google Live carousel feature but it looks more like the carousel under the snippets that typically is reserved for news oriented sites...... →

@rgomezric spotted Bing testing tweets, similar to how Google shows them...... →

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CoreOS, the company behind the container-centric CoreOS Linux distribution and Tectonic container management service, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B round led by GV, the fund formerly known as Google Ventures. Other investors include Accel, Fuel Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and the Y Combinator Continuity Fund. In total, the company has… Read More... →

Bango, the U.K.-based mobile payments company that provides tech to enable consumers to charge app store purchases directly to their phone bill, has acquired the U.S.-based carrier billing service BilltoMobile from Danal Inc. Read More... →

In another sign of the challenges facing food delivery startups in India, HSBC said in a recent report that it believes Zomato’s valuation is $500 million—half of the $1 billion valuation the company reportedly was pegged at after its eighth round of funding a year ago. Read More... →