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Impossible Foods, a four-year-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company at work on a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants, has raised $108 million in new funding from a powerful group of backers. Investors in the round, which was led by UBS, include Viking Global Investors and earlier backers Khosla Ventures; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates; and Horizons Ventures, which… Read More... →

Some downsizing is on the cards for Gilt Groupe, the fashion flash-sales site that has been valued at $1.1 billion. TechCrunch has learned that the company is cutting 45 jobs, including its CMO Clay Cowan and head of international business Marshall Porter, as it tries to turn profitable by next year. TechCrunch first heard of the layoffs from two sources before confirming the details with… Read More... →

Since the beginning of modern agriculture, farmers and entrepreneurs alike have been sharpening their focus and looking at ways to apply technology to compensate for the mercurial behavior of Mother Nature and the vagaries of food prices and government policies. Now, in the second millennium, we are challenged in new ways to increase productivity while minimizing inputs, managing costs and… Read More... →

Elon Musk and Sam Altman discussed everything from alien life to nuclear fusion on stage at the Vanity Fair Summit on Tuesday, including how soon we can expect to get our cars to drive us places at the touch of a button. “Self-driving cars are going to get here much faster than people think,” Altman said. He thought we’d see them in three to four years. Musk, who heads… Read More... →

Microsoft this morning announced a grip of new hardware, including Surface products, high-end smartphones, a wearable, Windows 10 for the Xbox One and its first laptop. The laptop, called the Surface Book, stunned in an event marked largely by products Microsoft watchers were expecting. TechCrunch presumes that you did not wake up early in the morning to watch a livestream of the event, so… Read More... →

Posted by ryanwashereThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc.In my 28 years on this planet, I've come to accept two things as fact: The sun rises every morning. Marketers screw everything up. Because of fact No. 2, I had to stop selling SEO. Why? Here's an interaction I used to have five times a day. *Phone rings* Me: "This is R... →

On Monday, November 30, 2015 , in accordance with the deprecation schedule , v201408 of the DFP API will be sunset. At that time, any requests made to v201408 will return errors. If you're still using v201408, now's the time to upgrade to the latest release and take advantage of new features like line item level reconciliation (see our guide here ). To do so, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes,... →

The appointment of Jack Dorsey as CEO of Twitter makes a difference to marketing people, as many believe he represents their best hope for a more brand-friendly platform. Dorsey, a Twitter cofounder, was named CEO Monday. He previously held the role until 2008, before being replaced by Ev Williams, with Dorsey moving to chairman of […]... →

Enterprise storage company Pure Storage has raised $425 million after pricing its IPO on the NYSE at $17 per share, reports the Wall Street Journal. The company is trading under the ticker, “PSTG.” The Mountain View-based company competes with Dell, EMC, HP and others to provide flash storage products for businesses. Pure Storage warned in its filing that some of its… Read More... →

As China learns and the rest of the world is reminded that having established a stock market, Beijing cannot control it simply by diktat and investors and buyers who deal with China are feeling less secure. Read More... →

AdmitSee, a two-year-old, 10-person, San Francisco-based startup, has just finished raising $1.8 million in seed funding to take on pricey college admissions consultants. If things work out as planned, it could be taking on LinkedIn next. AdmitSee was founded in 2013 by former University of Pennsylvania classmates Lydia Fayal and Stephanie Shyu, who’d observed — along with… Read More... →

More ad-blockers means more content moving to paid (and privacy-guaranteed), and more consumers eventually paying. Read More... →

Riddle me this. Why won’t people just ignore Twitter’s new Moments tab? How will Moments make money? Will Twitter pay publishers that create them? Today Twitter launched Moments, its way to easily follow current events that could help it seduce new users and revive those who never got hooked. But there’s a lot of uncertainty about what it will mean for Twitter’s… Read More... →

Такси-сервис Gett запустился в пяти новых российских городах, включая Сочи, Ростов-на-Дону, Самару, Екатеринбург и Красноярск. Об этом vc.ru сообщили представители компании.... →

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GM and Ford released statements to TechCrunch indicating that in their vehicles, Android Auto has very limited access to vehicle information. This comes after claims published by Motor Trend magazine that stated Porsche opted to not include Android Auto over the data collected by Google’s in-car infotainment system. Read More... →

This week’s Cribs episode takes us to the pup-friendly headquarters of peer-to-peer dog sitting platform DogVacay. Sometimes referred to as “the Airbnb for dogs,” DogVacay’s office space is next to where Hollywood produces many of the industries blockbuster hits in Culver City, California. The office dog is a now a part of many office environments, but it’s a… Read More... →

We are constantly bombarded by nonlinear success stories: The Facebook-MillionsOfDownloads-Airbnb-10,000Followers-ExponentialGrowth-AcquiredFor$200M-Snapchat-Uber-Zilla is stomping through our tech magazines/Twitter feeds/life every day. Our poor brains. We can’t help it, but this becomes the baseline for success. This is what our brain holds ourselves accountable to. Read More... →

Edward Snowden said he wants to return to the United States — even if that means serving jail time. The former government contractor fled the U.S. in 2013 after he leaked classified NSA documents to reporters. Snowden said in an interview with the BBC that aired Monday that Department of Justice officials had not responded to his offer. 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. Code42 raises $85M to prevent company data from being held hostage Code42, a security startup that recently raised $85 million in investor funding, is focused on preventing just such a scenario. The endpoint security […]... →