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19:37 08.03.2016

Subleases spike in number as SF startups downsize

In January, office rents in San Francisco eclipsed those of New York to become the most expensive in the country. Two months later, there are signs the San Francisco may not maintain its dubious position for long. The biggest indicator? There’s suddenly 1.7 million square feet of sublease space available in San Francisco, up more than 60 percent from 1.1 million in November, according… Read More... →

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19:20 08.03.2016

Google rebrands Skybox as Terra Bella, will launch ‘more than a dozen satellites’ over the next few years

Google today announced it is rebranding satellite startup Skybox Imaging as Terra Bella. The name comes with a new vision: “As Google revolutionized search for the online world, we have set our eyes on pioneering the search for patterns of change in the physical world.” Google acquired Skybox in June 2014 for $500 million. More […]... →

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19:20 08.03.2016

Following YouTube Red, video subscription service Vessel goes ad-free for paying subscribers

Vessel, the video subscription startup headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announced this week that it’s moving in a new direction in terms of the advertising displayed on its service. In a move that recalls YouTube’s venture into ad-free viewing with the debut of YouTube Red, Vessel is also making its service ad-free for all its paying subscribers. Meanwhile, those who… Read More... →

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19:01 08.03.2016

Matcherino lets esports fans create their own grudge matches with crowdfunded prizes

Matcherino has figured out a way to get spectators and pro gamers alike more engaged in esports. It has created a platform where fans can nominate players for show matches and then does everything to make that match happen. It essentially formalizes the process of staging grudge matches and drawing attention to them, and it […]... →

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19:00 08.03.2016

Data from 100M smartphone sessions exposes a major mobile design flaw

EXCLUSIVE: For a tech-savvy person like you, dear VentureBeat reader, the magnifying glass icon suggests the presence of a search feature when viewing a mobile website. But it appears that you are in the minority when it comes to knowing what to do when you see that most Sherlockian of icons. In fact, the magnifying glass isn’t the […]... →

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19:00 08.03.2016

Highlight’s new Shorts app lets you meet people based on photos they’ve taken

Four years ago, Highlight debuted at South by Southwest’s interactive conference during a time when location-based meetup services were enjoying a surge of interest. Today, it has launched its second app, called Shorts, which is based on the same concept but with a twist: iI is now focused exclusively on your mobile device’s camera roll. They […]... →

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19:00 08.03.2016

Share ALL your photos with Shorts, Highlight’s pivot to voyeurism

No one else ever sees most of your camera roll. But if you’re brave enough, your close friends might enjoy seeing every photo, video, and screenshot, not just the best ones. So call it creepy or the next frontier in social media, but that’s what Shorts does. It’s the new iOS app from the makers of Highlight, the hyped location app startup of 2012 that fizzled out and is… Read More... →

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19:00 08.03.2016

Atlassian releases its first diversity report, shows the company is mostly white and male

Atlassian, the enterprise software company behind HipChat and JIRA that went public back in December, just released its first-ever diversity report. There’s really nothing surprising nor commendable about it, but I’m all about releasing these reports for the sake of transparency. Quick note: Atlassian’s headquarters are in Sydney, Australia, but the numbers around race… Read More... →

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18:40 08.03.2016

Lookout’s new Apple Watch app will help you find your lost iPhone

Mobile security firm Lookout has introduced today what may be one of the more practical applications for Apple Watch. Its new smartwatch app will help you to not lose your phone, by alerting you if you’re about to leave your phone behind, as well as help you locate a lost or stolen phone by pointing you to its last known location. The app can also be used to trigger a “scream”… Read More... →

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18:36 08.03.2016

Employee health startup Yomp is acquired by Reward Gateway

London-based health startup Yomp, which raised $315,000 (£200,000) from five angel investors last year, set out to be a heath and wellness platform which ‘gamified’ company employees into healthy habits, thus increasing productivity, reducing absenteeism, you know the drill. It’s now been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Reward Gateway, the ’employee… Read More... →

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18:30 08.03.2016

The land that kills its tinkers

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” — H.L. Mencken “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” –Sun Tzu… Read More... →

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18:15 08.03.2016

Amazon debuts its first live show that lets you shop while you watch

Amazon’s foray into fashion continues today with the launch of what will be the company’s first daily live show, called Style Code Live, which will feature fashion and beauty tips and advice from style experts and viewers. However, the more interesting aspects to the new program will be the ability to shop the products while you’re watching, access links to those products… Read More... →

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18:10 08.03.2016

Китайская компания OnePlus заплатила $300 тысяч за появление своих смартфонов в «Карточном домике»

Китайский производитель смартфонов OnePlus заплатил $300 тысяч за то, чтобы устройства бренда появились в четвертом сезоне сериала «Карточный домик». Об этом сообщает издание The Verge.... →

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18:09 08.03.2016

Playbuzz makes it easier to skip the boring parts with Video Snaps

Tired of watching (relatively) lengthy online videos when there’s only 10, 30 or 60 seconds that you really care about? Well, viral publisher and publishing toolmaker Playbuzz has a solution called Video Snaps. Basically, the Snaps product makes it easy for a publisher or anyone else to take an existing video and divide it into different segments, so viewers can go directly to the… Read More... →

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18:05 08.03.2016

Entrepreneur First bags the Moonfruit founders as GPs in its new $56M fund

As well as it’s biggest ever Demo Day, Entrepreneur First, the UK accelerator which has designs on becoming the ‘Y Combinator of Europe’ today added former serial entrepreneurs Wendy Tan White and Joe White as General Partners. It’s understood that the husband and wife team — who co-founded the web site builder Moonfruit which was sold to Yell in 2012 for $37m in… Read More... →

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18:00 08.03.2016

Solar Financing Platform Wunder Raises $3.6 Million

Wunder Capital, a provider of solar financing for medium-sized businesses, has raised $3.6 million in a new round of financing. In all, the company has raised $4.7 million from Techstars Ventures, Fenway Summer Ventures, and FinTech Collective, alongside existing seed investors. Wunder, a financial services company for the solar industry, graduated from Techstars in 2014. The founders of… Read More... →

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18:00 08.03.2016

Microsoft joins the open-source Eclipse Foundation

Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation — the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools. With this, Microsoft is joining other Eclipse sponsors like Google, Novell, IBM, Debeka, and Oracle. Given that Microsoft offers its own IDE in the form of Visual Studio, today’s… Read More... →

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18:00 08.03.2016

Internet gambling starting to emerge in Africa

The Internet and gambling know no borders. So it’s not surprising that online gambling is emerging in Africa. It’s hard to measure how much is happening with Internet gambling, but it has grown large enough to have its own event in Lagos, Nigeria. Clarion Events announced this week that it is staging a conference on […]... →

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18:00 08.03.2016

Please welcome Lora Kolodny, Stefan Etienne, Signe Brewster and Kristen Hall-Geisler to TechCrunch

It’s a new year and we have some fresh faces for TechCrunch — faces whose interests run the gamut from robotics to venture to gadgets and photography to science to transportation and beyond. First up, Lora Kolodny joins us as Emerging Technologies Editor later this month. Lora was previously a TC-er and is returning to the fold. She recently spent four years as a venture capital… Read More... →

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17:54 08.03.2016

Truecaller is killing Truedialer, will merge features into its flagship app

Last year we reported that Truecaller — the popular, smart phonebook app and startup — was looking to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. But while there has been no development on that front, the startup has been on a consolidation kick as it aims to become cash-flow positive. After confirming 30 layoffs in December, today the company announced that it is… Read More... →

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