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I Am Cardboard, makers of a variety of Google Cardboard viewers, recently delivered their new DSCVR Headset (pronounced “Discover”) after a recent, successful Kickstarter campaign. They are showing this new headset from the floor of the South Hall at CES 2016. Read More... →

The Seattle City Council recently passed a first-in-nation local ordinance that seeks to allow ridesharing and taxi drivers to unionize and collectively bargain. The city is trying to solve a problem created under federal law that doesn’t permit companies to provide benefits and protections to independent contractor workers like private for-hire drivers. Read More... →

The competition was very fierce for the third edition of our Hardware Battlefield. 14 shockingly good hardware startups competed to win the coveted Metal Man trophy. These companies had a very special CES experience as they all pitched in front of multiple groups of judges on stage at the Sands Expo. The startups were competing for $50,000 and being named the winner of the Hardware Battlefield. Read More... →

Stables full of startups are being turned into glue, whether they’re mythical beasts, donkeys in party hats, or just baby horses. The latest forced to do layoffs is Maker Media, the champion of the do-it-yourself movement. 10 years and $10 million later, multiple sources tell me that Maker Media laid off 20% of its staff today. When asked, Maker Media confirmed to me that 17 people… Read More... →

SpaceX has confirmed that they will attempt another, more difficult, rocket landing on their next launch January 17th. Their Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with NASA’s Jason-3 satellite on board. This time the rocket will be returning to a “drone ship” (an autonomous floating platform) in the ocean rather than a launchpad on… Read More... →

Mixpanel laid off 18 people yesterday, representing less than 10 percent of its 230+ person team. “This is obviously a deeply tough decision,” said CEO Suhail Doshi. “By no means do we intend to hire people only to let them go … We’re very sorry that it happened.” The news was first reported in VentureBeat, which quoted Doshi as saying, “We just… Read More... →

PRESS RELEASE: Clearside Biomedical, Inc., a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company developing innovative first-in-class drug therapies to treat blinding diseases of the eye, today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form...... →

In 2015, the investing community sat up and took notice of edtech. LinkedIn acquired Lynda, and ever since, more analysts have been meticulously studying the growth of edtech funding and innovation. With $1.85 billion raised in 2015, and a nod from Mary Meeker’s 2015 report, more people are starting to realize that the Internet has just begun to impact education. Read More... →

Chat chat chat, talk talk talk. We love it, you love it. Messaging apps are the hot for 2016 (again) and there’s seemingly a niche platform for all of us. There’s also big platforms for the rest of the world like Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, Snapchat and Hangouts (and tons more). One new app, Peach, is pretty interesting. Peach was created by the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann. Read More... →

Yesterday we checked out an event hosted by Lenovo and Google, where the duo announced that Lenovo would be making the first Project Tango Phone. While we found out that the device would ship this summer and cost under $500, we didn’t get many other details on the device. However, the company gave us a chance to play with Project Tango’s developer kit, which, is a tablet… Read More... →

This week, we’re bringing you not one, not two but three episodes of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, live from CES. Every morning, we look back at the news coming out of the show. In case you missed it this morning, have a look at this morning’s show to get our take on the iPhone headphone jack rumors, Google’s Project Tango coming to your phone, the Faraday Future awkward… Read More... →

Famed accelerator Y Combinator has grown a lot under the direction of Sam Altman, who was appointed president roughly two years ago. It’s grown so much in fact that Altman, known for constantly iterating on YC’s model, says it’s now too big for him to manage as closely as he once did, so he’s shifting more responsibility to a number of his longtime colleagues. Paul… Read More... →

Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Ari Weinstein, Matthew Panzarino, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT. Our free, open chat room for communicating during the live show Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our sister show – G3 – on Facebook HERE G3’s entire show archives on Ustream Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Today Twitter closed the day trading below $20 a share — an all-time low for the company and a threshold that makes Twitter’ financial situation feel all the more dire. Three days ago, CEO Jack Dorsey offered soft confirmation that the company is considering expanding its famous 140-character limit — the one set in place due to the historical […]... →

Self-driving drone Lily has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders by the end of 2015, with 60,000 units already sold. While that’s not as massive as Apple Watch pre-sales (1.2 million sold in the first day), it’s still a pretty good indicator Lily is onto something. The little flying bot… Read More... →

Happy New Year! We took a short break for the holiday season, but now we’re back! Between stuffing their faces with turkey, spending time with family, and kicking their feet up, our users have been posting plenty of awesome threads to start 2016 with a bang. The big news in social media is that Twitter wants to increase their character limit. We’ll share a great WebmasterWorld thread about that, as... [Read More...] The post Pop-Up Penalties, Twitter 10k, and Adsense: Weekly Forum Update appeared first on I... →

Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman announced today that the company is undergoing a structural transformation, placing a partner in charge of each of its individual business units. While Altman remains president of the entire organization, he has ceded direct authority over individual programs to others. Paul Buchheit is replacing him as managing partner of the core YC program, while Kevin […]... →

Despite the glorified status that entrepreneurship has obtained in modern culture, it’s a huge pain in the pass. The work is long. The lows are low. Showering? Good luck with that. One of the worst parts about being an early-stage founder, however, is realizing just how little you really know about the broader ecosystem that you’re supposed to navigate your way through — and… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Data analytics startup Mixpanel yesterday laid off nearly 20 employees, primarily in sales, VentureBeat has learned. The layoffs, which multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed to VentureBeat, don’t spell doom for the company. One person familiar with the matter described the layoffs as a healthy cost-cutting effort. In total, Mixpanel let go of 18 […]... →