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What if you went to start your car and Apple Watch stopped you? Yes, Apple Watch, with your permission, knew you had spent time at a bar, monitored your heartbeat and other physiological data and saw changes indicating that you had been overdrinking. When you walked to your car, it connected to the CarKit-powered entertainment system, understood your situation and disabled the car’s… Read More... →

The rumors were almost true: Foursquare today announced it’s raised an “oversubscribed” $45 million round from existing investors Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, plus new investor Morgan Stanley. News of this surfaced last month, and with it, Foursquare reportedly cut its valuation by more than half from $650 million (an unconfirmed figure) to $250 million (also […]... →

Foursquare has been a fantastic idea in search of a business plan for as long as its been alive. Efforts to monetize the platform via ads in its app (now apps) have not made the grade. Now, the last of the cool standalone Web 2.0 companies has a new hit revenue stream in its business and enterprise location services and it’s looking to capitalize on that with some restructuring and… Read More... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Data analytics startup Looker raises $48 million, led by Kleiner Perkins Looker, a startup selling data analytics software, is announcing today a $48 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The […]... →

The Salesforce AppExchange turned ten years old today and it represents quite a milestone for enterprise software development. In fact, the app store concept that Salesforce developed pre-dated Apple’s consumer app store by a couple of years. It’s safe to say that when Salesforce launched the AppExchange a decade ago, a place where you could sell and distribute the apps you built… Read More... →

Hardware is going through the first phase of a shift from desktops and smartphones to, maybe, virtual and augmented reality. And Microsoft wants to help developers get involved as soon as possible. With the goal of bringing in more developers to work on its augmented reality HoloLens headset, Microsoft has a new video that should […]... →

Is sitting at a computer all day making you fat, but standing desks are too expensive? The Hootsuite CEO’s nifty new side project could save your spine and slim your belly. Oristand is a $25 standing desk made of cardboard. Just unfold the contraption, stick it atop your normal desk, and you can work without hunching. Some employees at Hootsuite were already bolting little Ikea shelves… Read More... →

The Obama Administration has announced that the United States Department of Transportation will be making it easier for companies to innovate around driverless vehicles. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said that the president proposed spending nearly $4 billion over the next decade to make autonomous cars safer. “We are on the cusp of a new era […]... →

Twitter today announced that its Answers tool for application monitoring now supports Apple’s Mac OS X desktop operating system. Support for the Apple TV’s tvOS operating system is now available in beta. Among other things, Answers can track app usage app installs by way of Twitter. Answers has been available from Twitter for iOS and […]... →

Every car manufacturer now has an autonomous driving program, but the rules and regulations around actually driving autonomous cars on public roads remain scattershot. Now, the U.S. government is starting to work on a national policy for autonomous cars and it’s also promising to invest $4 billion over the course of the next ten years “to accelerate the development and adoption… Read More... →

Action cameras are like tablets. Lots of people want ONE. But very few need to constantly update to the latest model. I suspect this is why GoPro’s sales are slowing, it’s reduced sales forecasts, and it had to lay off 7% of its employees this week. It’s hitting market saturation. Many of the people likely to buy a GoPro already have one and don’t need another.… Read More... →

Radio host Colin Cowherd doesn’t like it, but corporations that specialize in traditional sports are taking more and more interest in competitive gaming. And now that includes Disney’s flagship cable sports network. ESPN is the latest company building a team to cover esports. The network has hired veteran writers Rod “Slasher” Breslau, formerly of TheScore […]... →

PewDiePie is launching his own multi-channel network called Revelmode. You may remember that PewDiePie was part of Maker Studios, Disney’s successful MCN. PewDiePie isn’t really parting ways with Disney as PewDiePie is working with Maker Studios for this new MCN. Revelmode is an imprint of Maker Studios with Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie in charge. Read More... →

Leslie Miley, the engineering manager who left Twitter over the way senior executives at the company were talking about diversity, is now the director of engineering at a recruiting software startup called Entelo. Entelo, which has over 350 customers, including tech companies like Box, Facebook, Uber, Tesla, Zenefits, Pinterest and Yelp, is a software platform that helps businesses recruit… Read More... →

Крупнейший мировой онлайн-кинотеатр Netflix, который запустился в России и еще 129 новых странах 6 января 2016 года, запретит пользователям обходить территориальные ограничения для доступа к фильмам и сериалам, открытым в других странах. Об этом в блоге компании сообщил вице-президент Netflix Дэвид Фуллагар.... →

Fugue (the company previously known as Luminal), today announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The Frederick, MD- and Washington, DC-based company’s previous investors, including Core Capital, are also part of this round. Luminal’s main product was always Fugue (which is still in closed beta), so it’s… Read More... →

– Я хочу сделать *** [отличную] вещь. Но не знаю, как. – Давай сделаем вот так. – Неее, так мне не нравится. – А как надо сделать? – Не знаю, как. Но должно быть *** [отлично]. Знакомый разговор, да? 1. Предприниматели отличаются от обычных людей тем, что они в каждый момент времени знают «как», а не только знают «как не». 2. В любой момент времени у них есть план. Они имеют свое мнение и знают «как». Они понимают, что надо иметь любое решение сегодня, чем великолепное решение, но завтра. 3. Их мнение может... →

It’s obvious that college students love their phones. Which is why WayUp, formerly Campus Jobs, has today unveiled an iPhone app, giving students the opportunity to apply for jobs directly from their smartphone. WayUp originally launched as CampusJob, offering a marketplace where employers could post job listings and students could load up profiles and hunt for jobs during the semester… Read More... →

It’s been a big week for Skype. The company announced group calling on mobile, integration with Outlook mobile, and today it’s rolling out to Slack, too. Available now in preview mode (meaning a beta release), the new Slack integration allows team members using Slack’s real-time communication software a way to quickly start either a voice or video call from within the… Read More... →

If you get hurt and show up unconscious at the hospital, they likely have no idea what medications you’re on, your medical history, or where you’ve been treated. Medal wants to fix that so all your medical records are united in one place and can be securely accessed by your doctors whenever necessary. While insurance companies and hospitals have worked for years on so-called… Read More... →