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In June of last year, VC Experts discovered a filing that suggested ZocDoc, a roughly eight-year-old, New York-based online medical care schedule service, was raising a new round of funding worth $152 and that valued the company at $1.6 billion. That round has closed with $130 million, at a current valuation of $1.8 billion, the company announced today. It was led by Atomico and the… Read More... →

Microsoft today detailed an update to its Office for iOS apps that tighten the integration that Outlook has with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new versions have been on Apple’s App Store since last week, but we’re only hearing about them now because Microsoft’s Office team apparently can’t write as quickly as it can code. […]... →

One of my favorite things to do is to watch and see what emojis become candidates for Unicode updates (don’t judge). Sometimes they’re really great and sometimes they’re well…obnoxious. Two years ago, the word “selfie” was added to the Dictionary, which made my day really awful until I saw that “twerk” was also added. Then it turned into the… Read More... →

Nine in 10 parents believe that teaching computer science is a good use of school resources. Two-thirds of parents believe CS education should be mandatory in schools. Eight percent of students think they will learn about CS in the future. Three out of four principals say their schools offer no CS coding or programming classes (and for reasons I can’t quite fathom, lots of schools… Read More... →

In its quest to add a little fun through your (literal) journey through life, Swarm is launching version 3.0 of the app, bringing in a special new game that lets you compete with your friend network. In short, the Swarm leaderboard rewards users with coins for checking in at various places. Some check-ins might be worth only one coin, whereas others can be worth 10 or more, based on factors… Read More... →

What do you look for in an app? It might be something useful that helps to organise your life, it might be to connect with friends and family, or perhaps it’s a diverting game to while away the daily commute. But would you ever look for art on the App Store? Stepping beyond the gallery, artists have been making fruitful use of the medium for some time now to produce a range of art apps… Read More... →

A new version of the bluetooth tracker tag Tile just dropped on Amazon, Tile’s website and a host of T-Mobile stores. The updated item tracker now boasts a ring that’s three times louder and has added a super dandy new feature called Find Your Phone. I am notorious for losing things amongst my friends, so when Tile launched its successful 2013 Selfstarter campaign (which went on… Read More... →

This is the final part of the three-part Adaptive Content series on The Mainframe. Hosts Tony Clark and Chris Garrett discuss how you can use adaptive content to create richer content experiences that work for attraction, retention, and conversion. In this episode: The priority content areas you should focus on Where to start, and what you need to pull together How to utilize the assets you have,... →

LawDingo users, meet DocDingo, CashDingo and PsychDingo. As I’ve written in the past, the Y Combinator-incubated startup promises to connect you with a lawyer instantly, usually over the phone. The idea is to help users get legal advice quickly and affordably, and to help lawyers reach new customers, even if they’re on the other side of the state. Read More... →

A few short weeks ago, Yuri Milner announced to the world that he’d be investing $100 million to find extraterrestrial intelligent life. Today, TechCrunch has its own announcement: Yuri Milner will be joining us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September. Milner is one of the biggest names in tech venture capital, founding DST Global after finding success as the CEO of… Read More... →

Payment processing service Stripe today announced that its tool consumers can use to check out and make purchase online can now work in a few languages other than English. Developers can now program Stripe’s checkout tool to work in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish. That might sound like a nice update to […]... →

When a small team of software engineers first started working on Flu Trends in 2008, we wanted to explore how real-world phenomena could be modeled using patterns in search queries. Since its launch , Google Flu Trends has provided useful insights and served as one of the early examples for "nowcasting" based on search trends , which is increasingly used in health, economics , and other fields . Over time, we've used search signals to create prediction models,... →

Writing is weird. Unlike speaking, it's not something we do naturally. And unless we train ourselves out of it, that weirdness renders some creative, but wooden and dense prose. Speaking is a natural act. Every single human being has the ability to do it. And at a very young age. The reason why, says cognitive scientist and linguist Stephen Pinker, is because we have a language instinct. We master this instinct as we imitate sounds made by mom and dad, brother and sister,... →

Android Wear’s watch faces are getting a bit more interesting today. Developers were always able to display a lot of information on their watch faces, but users couldn’t interact with them. Starting today, however, you’ll be able to install interactive watch faces that allow you to pull up more information and launch apps with a tap right from the watch face (and… Read More... →

Принтеры Carbon3D отличаются от традиционных 3D-принтеров альтернативной технологией печати... →

Что заботит российских стартаперов — выдержки из реальных разговоров с предпринимателями в Москве... →

EXCLUSIVE: A startup called Meep is launching today with a new mobile app that reads news articles aloud so you can listen while you drive or do other activities. You can follow certain topics and thereby customize the stream of stories. “The easiest way to explain it is that it’s like a Pandora for news,” Meep […]... →

Without a doubt, Google Photos wants to be home to all of your photos. Whether you have a thumb drive, CD, DVD or undeveloped film laying around, the team wants you to consider uploading them to the service. Why? Because that’s when they can make the “magic” happen. Right now, Google Photos will wade through all of your treasured visuals and turn them into animations and… Read More... →

Flipboard is rolling out an update to its iOS and Android apps today giving users more control in the types of content they’re seeing. With this feature, the company is further integrating technology from Zite, the competitor it acquired in 2014. There are more than 72 million monthly active users on Flipboard, flipping 8.2 billion […]... →

Adobe announced today that it will be rolling out some app updates to help marketers create eye-catching social photos and videos. The company said an update to its Adobe Social mobile application will tie it more closely to Adobe’s Creative Cloud via the Aviary Photo Editor. Aviary’s tools will now be available through the Adobe Social […]... →