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The 2016 International CES trade show is going to be big again. Perhaps not as big as last year’s 176,000 attendees, but likely above 150,000, according to Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association, the trade group which puts on the show. If the show gets smaller, Shapiro said, it will be deliberately so, as […]... →

Last week at Disrupt SF 2015, I ran into the folks behind Sereneti Kitchen, a company that I’ve known since it launched at our Hardware Battlefield in Vegas earlier this year. Then, its technology had promise, but less polish. In the interim, the firm went through the Highway1 accelerator and wanted to show off what it has been up to. Read More... →

Uber has over 5,000 drivers and 500,000 users since launching in Brazil a year ago, and aggression by politicians and taxi drivers alike has been mounting in lockstep with its growth. Read More... →

Sprint may be preparing to make some major cuts, including layoffs, as it struggles to rebuild its network and gain ground on rival carriers. A Dow Jones report this afternoon says the carrier will cut between $2 billion and $2.5 billion in costs in next 6 months, as well as cut an as-yet unknown number of […]... →

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As consumers, we can probably agree that bank profits are, well, gross. In the second quarter of this year alone, U.S. lenders wrung a record $43 billion from their customers. It’s the kind of stat that a small but growing two-year-old, L.A.-based investment company called Aspiration is increasingly using to gain new customers. In the words of cofounder and CEO Andrei Cherney,… Read More... →

Sad news for those who like free stuff – Klout Perks, the swag offered by social media scoring platform Klout, has quietly shut down. Lithium Technologies, the company that bought Klout more than a year ago confirmed it ended the Perks program in a statement to TechCrunch today. “Klout’s real strengths lie in its algorithm and wealth of social data,” wrote… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Cloud service desk software provider Freshdesk is announcing today that it has acquired Frilp, a small startup with an app that lets users seek and receive expert help from friends. All 19 employees of Frilp — which stands for “free help” — have joined Freshdesk’s development center in Chennai. The beta Frilp app for Android […]... →

When a new technology comes out, people are generally good at seeing through the hype that is associated with it. Many technological inventions, after all, are not immediately revolutionary — despite what clever marketers might want you to believe. However, people are often bad about seeing through the outsized claims from another type of clever marketer: professional privacy advocates… Read More... →

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Should I use a script? It's one of the most common questions The Showrunner hosts Jerod Morris and Jonny Nastor get from aspiring first-time Showrunners. In this week's episode, they analyze when it's right to use a script ' and when it's not. But they start with a fun question that was posed in their Showrunner Course forum ' based on a dream someone had: if your house was being flooded, and you could only save what you could carry, what items would you grab?... →

Does the idea of a transforming vegetables into noodles sound weird but kind of appetizing? Well, that’s what a startup called Hungryroot is offering, and now it’s expanding. The company launched earlier this year with operations in New York’s Long Island City. Co-founder and CEO Ben McKean told me Hungryroot recently opened a similar facility in San Francisco — so it… Read More... →

One of the “big three” credit bureaus, Experian, says data on 15 million T-Mobile customers were lifted from its servers. Experian said its consumer credit database was not accessed in the incident, and no payment card or banking information was obtained. Developing . . .... →

At an event in New York, LG showed off its recently announced V10 smartphone, its latest phablet. Though the phone features a lot of bells and whistles, the major points of interest are its multiple cameras and something called “the second screen.” The phone is a sleek stainless steel titan with a 5.7-inch display and an 808 Snapdragon processor. The curved back fits […]... →

Imagine the Snapchat selfie Lens above branded with Iron Man 4. How much would Marvel pay to let Snapchatters Iron Man themselves and send these pics and videos to friends the weekend the movie opens? Apparently as much as $750,000 for one peak day like a holiday, according to a report of an upcoming new Snapchat ad format from the Financial Times. And imagine how much more Marvel would pay… Read More... →

Can we lobby for the future? Garrett Johnson, the founder of the conservative think tank Lincoln Labs, thinks that we should. Read More... →

You may run into some trouble playing games on an Xbox device today. Xbox Live is down for a number of gamers, according to complaints on social media. This outage is preventing many from accessing online features like multiplayer for games like Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare or Destiny. Others are having trouble launching primarily […]... →

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Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat is reportedly working on a new advertising unit that will let brands insert marketing messages into your selfies. Sources tell The Financial Times that the company is working with advertisers on its “sponsored lenses” which could be out this Halloween. Costing up to $750,000 for a brand to reach Snapchat’s entire audience […]... →