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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 […]... →

Most 3D printer apps are fairly basic – mostly they’re used to monitor print jobs. MatterHackers has just released the MatterControl Touch T10, a 10-inch, $299 tablet that allows you to place items, edit them, and even print them on the fly using an powerful Android-powered tablet. Because the device is dedicated to 3D printing it can slide 3D models and around and resize them on… Read More... →

То что невозможно продать нашим зрителям — продали производителям электроники для России, например Sony.... →

Whether you side with Hufflepuff or Slytherin, it sucked that you could only get Harry Potter ebooks from a special service called Pottermore… until now. The company has is now selling these books for $9 on the Kindle and Nook and for a very interesting reason: the goblins at Gringotts realized Pottermore didn’t have much money left. Harry Potter ebooks have long been part of… Read More... →

SOLS, a company using 3D-printing technology to make custom shoe insoles, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce, or 14 employees in total across all teams, TechCrunch has confirmed. The staff reductions come just ahead of a forthcoming product announcement due a few weeks’ time, as well as further efforts aimed at broadening SOLS’ product offerings, says co-founder and CEO… Read More... →

You may have heard the rumors, Apple might be doing away with the headphone jack on the iPhone to push forward the wonderful world of wireless listening. Awesome, right? Well, hold on. First off, as per usual, Apple has said nothing to confirm or deny this, so it’s just a rumor. Still, we’re treated with baffling headlines like this: This confusion is causing a bit of an uproar… Read More... →

(By Jessica Toonkel for Reuters) — The National Football League is planning to livestream all three games scheduled to be played in London next season, and Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc subsidiary Google are among the technology companies in talks to buy the rights to conduct the streams, said two sources familiar with the situation. Last […]... →

It’s that time of month again: micro meetup time. I’m holding two small meetups in Manhattan and Brooklyn: a mini pitch-off on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 and a BTC event on Thursday, January 14, 2016. These are informal affairs and to get the NYC startup world together in one place and eat pizza. You can RSVP here for the pitch-off and here for the BTC meetup. Attend one or both… Read More... →