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Венчурная компания Леонида Богуславского ru-Net возглавила инвестиционный раунд индийской компании  Faasos, которая занимается доставкой еды.   Объем раунда составил $30 млн. В сделке также приняли участие текущие инвесторы  Sequoia Capital и Lightbox Ventures. Оценка Faasos составила $130-160 млн. Всего компания привлекла $50 млн. В феврале этого года Sequoia Capital и Lightbox Ventures вложили $20 млн в Faasos.  Привлеченные средства будут пойдут на расширение, покупки, увеличение ассортимента внутренних ... →

Whether you’re a sports fan or not, it’s hard not getting excited around bowl season in College Football. More exciting than that is watching all of the teams push their own candidates for the Heisman Trophy, given out to this year’s best NCAA Football player. Stanford, as techy as they get, decided to take their pitch for everyman Christian McCaffrey into virtual reality:… Read More... →

Behavioral Economic principles sometimes feel manipulative. How can they play a role in user-centered product development and marketing? Read More... →

The latest company to tilt against the lending windmill with a solution for borrowers who might not have the best credit rating — or who might not have any credit rating or credit history at all is Backed. Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: “What do we need?” “STUFF!” “And when do we need it?” “RIGHT NOW!”... →

New York-based SocialFlow has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The startup, which helps media organizations including The Wall Street Journal and BBC optimize their effectiveness on social media, has closed a round led by Gefinor Capital. A competitor of HootSuite, SocialFlow works with media outlets, including TechCrunch, to ensure that articles get shared… Read More... →

If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, I’d love to have a Facebook Messenger chat with Miss Piggy from The Muppets” now is your time to strike. Well, it’s not Miss Piggy really…it’s AI pretending to be Miss Piggy. Sad, I know. But it’s as close to chatting with her as you’ll ever get. Grab the friends and the kids and their friends and… Read More... →

About two weeks ago, we got an email inviting us to an event. All it said: it was about Star Wars, and it would take place in Los Angeles. Where in LA? They’d tell us right before it all went down. What was the actual event? They couldn’t really say, but we’d want to be there. No video allowed for most of it. No geotagging our location in pictures. I knew it wasn’t a… Read More... →

Google today announced that it has brought the Safe Browsing web security feature of Chrome to Android. The feature is turned on by default for Android devices running Play Services version 8.1 and version 46 of Chrome or later. This might sound trivial, but Safe Browsing needs to stay comprehensive and up to date in […]... →

Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt London Startup Battlefield, EnergyElephant presented its “energy analysis” service to a crowded hall of investors, developers and entrepreneurs. The startup, bootstrapped to date, takes in a company’s energy use information — a bill, in other words — and then provides analysis that it expects the customer to leverage into savings. Read More... →

A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 today, with a plan to crowdfund its first product, a voice-controlled robot assistant called Olly, early next year. 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. Andreessen Horowitz leads $10M round for on-demand developer startup Gigster Andreessen Horowitz led a $10 million investment into Gigster to help fuel the startup’s on-demand software development service, Gigster announced today. Y Combinator, SV Angel’s […]... →

Do you still use one generic password to login across multiple websites? Even though it’s a pretty awful habit, you’re probably not alone. Most of of us now have hundreds of accounts for different sites across the internet. That means unless you use a password manager, its practically impossible to remember a unique password for each site. Here’s another solution for… Read More... →

An Istanbul-based startup called Twentify took the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 to talk about their gig-finding app Bounty, which helps people find nearby small jobs they can do for extra cash. As the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley Wild Card position, the co-founders only had a few hours notice to prepare their presentation before today’s… Read More... →

Компания Dropbox объявила о прекращении работы email-клиента Mailbox и фотосервиса Carousel. Оба проекта были созданы из стартапов, которые выкупила Dropbox в 2012-2013 годах.... →

Google’s Safe Browsing technology is now enabled by default on Android to protect mobile Chrome users from accessing phishing sites and web pages that harbor malware. Until now, Safe Browsing was only available to desktop users, as well as for Chrome users on Android who turned on Google’s optional data compression service. Indeed, for those mobile users, Safe Browsing has already… Read More... →

Парижский апелляционный суд оштрафовал сервис вызова такси Uber на 150 тысяч евро за предоставление пассажирам услуг перевозки без лицензии таксистов, сообщает ТАСС.... →

Computer vision technologist Chris Carson built a portable device to turn any regular vehicle into a connected car. Called the Caruma, Carson likens it to a Fitbit, but for driving. The Caruma tracks mileage, driver performance, trip history and GPS location information. The device also comes with built-in dual high definition video to record what’s happening simultaneously from inside… Read More... →

“Retail is detail,” says Yoobic co-founder Fabrice Haiat. Read More... →

Подобное общение «топов и менеджеров» с рядовыми юзерами хотят ввести на регулярной основе... →