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Honor, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company focused on caring for seniors as babyboomers tip over into retirement, is making its contractor workforce into a full-time one. The care workers, called CarePros within the company, will have the potential for stock options. “I really don’t want two classes of people in our company. Everyone is in it to help the elderly and everyone… Read More... →

State lawmakers and the District of Columbia have put together a group of bills pushing for legislation to protect our digital privacy. The coalition of 16 states and D.C. say surveillance technology and a lack of regulation has given Big Brother too much power when it comes to monitoring online information. “A bipartisan consensus on privacy rights is emerging, and now the states… Read More... →

Uber is gearing up to launch a standalone app for UberEATS, the company’s prepared food delivery service, in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Houston, Seattle and Dallas, the Wall Street Journal reports. The app is expected to be available for both iOS and Android by the end of March. Uber also plans to expand its delivery hours in those cities.… Read More... →

Google today launched Chrome 48 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with custom notification buttons and the removal of RC4 encryption. You can update to the latest version now using the browser’s built-in silent updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome. Chrome is arguably more than a browser: With over 1 billion users, it’s a major […]... →

Posted by ajfriedThinking in templates We all judge people on first impressions. When we see someone for the first time, we're quick to decide what type of person they are — based on the clothes they wear, how they style their hair, and anything else we notice that immediately puts them in a group. It’s certainly not fair, but it’s human nature. And I'd like to keep my faith in humanity and argue that lots of us try NOT to prejudge others. Google is judging you Believe it or not, Google is the same. It judg... →

We have a somewhat unusual design team at GV. There are six of us. Four product designers, a researcher and a team coordinator. Each of us held fairly senior design positions previously, and we each have a lot of experience. Because we’re all experienced, we function as peers —  no one is at the helm… or maybe we all are. Read More... →

A couple hours ago, Google's Andrey Lipattsev a Search Quality Senior Strategist participated in a Q&A with Bill Slawski, Ammon Johns...... →

The recent announcement from Activision Blizzard to acquire King Digital Entertainment, maker of the hit game Candy Crush, for a staggering $5.9 billion is an acknowledgement of the promising (and profitable) future of mobile games. The global gaming market is projected to reach $91.5 billion in 2015. While PC and console games are still mainstream, mobile is the fastest growing segment… Read More... →

Three weeks after Sidecar announced plans to shutter its on-demand delivery service, co-founder and chief executive Sunil Paul has come forward with an explanation. In a post on Sidecar’s site, Paul blamed his company’s failure on Uber and its “win at any cost” mentality, thanks to the $8.61 billion in capital it has raised to date. “We were unable to compete against Uber, a […]... →

Twitter stock is seeing a mini-rally today after hitting an all-time low yesterday, on rumors that News Corp was eyeing a tie-up with the company. Twitter didn’t comment on the report, and News Corp apparently denied the rumor, but the fact that the rumor surfaced and picked up speed so quickly points to just how precarious the company feels right now as a public stock and perhaps as… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Join two powerhouse models of user engagement — CBSi and Thrillist — in this live webinar as they reveal the mobile strategies they’ve used to catapult user engagement by 300%. Register here for free. The ultimate goal for any marketer is creating loyal customers hungering for more. To achieve this in today’s digital-driven world, you need to unravel the holy grail of engagement, […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

QASymphony, which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capital on product development and marketing. Read More... →

Two astronomers at Caltech have found evidence that indicates the presence of a ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, it would transform the model of our solar system as we know it. While the proposed planet has yet to be directly imaged, its gravitational influence on other known objects has allowed astronomers to detect its presence and determine its characteristics. Read More... →

Facebook has released several updates to its Mentions iOS app designed to make celebrities and public figures more comfortable in using it. The company has added support for landscape videos, improved filtering, and the ability to reply to messages. Launched in July 2014, Facebook Mentions is a product that lets public figures manage their online […]... →

GUEST: Between last Thursday and Saturday, Bitcoin lost over 13% of its value to settle at below $365 for the first time since early December last year. That’s a long fall from the net gain of 35% last year that made it the “best performing currency of 2015.” This is despite the fact that global stock, […]... →

In case you missed it, the NFL, TechCrunch and Stanford GSB have teamed up to create 1ST and Future, a pitch-off competition featuring startups in three categories, Stadium of the Future, Bringing Home the Game and Tomorrow’s Athlete. Today, we’re announcing the judges. Read More... →

A day after the news broke that General Motors was picking up assets from failed Uber competitor Sidecar, today the startup’s CEO finally confirmed the details directly in a blog post and provided a few more details about the deal. A “key component to the transaction”, writes CEO Sunil Paul, was Sidecar’s patents, for which GM has taken a license, but… Read More... →

Cumulus Networks, a startup selling a version of Linux for data center networking hardware, has closed a $35 million round of funding. The valuation of Cumulus has fallen below what it was two years ago for an earlier round, cofounder and chief executive JR Rivers told VentureBeat. Participants in the round include Andreessen Horowitz, Battery […]... →