Tag: company
Crypto Wallet Abra Opens Door to More European Users
Crypto wallet and exchange startup Abra is opening up a new channel for deposits: European bank accounts. Residents in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), as well as additional nations in the European Union, can now transfer euros or other national currencies directly...
The emerging plan to save the American labor movement
The Center for American Progress (CAP), one of Washington, DC’s most influential liberal think tanks with deep ties to the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign, has proposed a big idea for raising Americans’ wages. A paper by CAP’s David...
Starry CEO Chet Kanojia will discuss the future of home networks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF
Starry wants to change the way the home internet is delivered. Founded in 2014, the Boston-based startup takes an innovative approach to the space by beaming broadband speed internet through the air, using millimeter waves. The company’s novel technique has...
5 Home-Studio Must-Haves: Technics, DJTechTools, Genelec, Apogee, Roli
Engineer your tracks for total dance floor domination with this home studio gear. 1. Technics SL-1200GR Direct Drive Turntable The 1200 turntable is the machine that birthed hip hop and fueled EDM’s rise. This modern redo of the decades-old design...
Used car site Vroom is raising $70M six months after a big round of layoffs
After cutting a big portion of its staff in March, Vroom is back pitching investors. Yesterday, the site for buying and selling used cars filed to raise $70 million in new equity funding. Vroom has already secured $30 million of that $70 million...
A Pennsylvania AMI Smart Meter Survey Reports Horror Stories
By Catherine J. Frompovich Pennsylvanians literally have been screwed figuratively by their state legislature and legislators regarding the totalitarian approach and mandate to retrofitting health-harming utility [electric, natural gas and water] AMI Smart Meters, specifically through committee procedural actions of...
How Silicon Valley should celebrate Labor Day
Ask any 25-year old engineer what Labor Day means to him or her, and you might get an answer like: it’s the surprise three-day weekend after a summer of vacationing. Or it’s the day everyone barbecues at Dolores Park. Or...
Former Ripple CTO’s Blockchain Project Coil Enters Closed Beta
Coil, a new company founded by Ripple's former chief technology officer Stefan Thomas, has launched a closed beta. The project – which aims to allow web content creators to better monetize their work – was announced in May, when Thomas...
Jamie Oliver spent $16.5 million to save his failing business. Here’s what it taught him
Celebrity chef, bestselling author and restaurateur Jamie Oliver has his fingers in plenty of pies. But like most serial entrepreneurs, he's been burned a fair few times. In 2015, he revealed that he'd messed up around 40 percent of his...
Yahoo Finance Now Allows Trading of 4 Cryptos on Its iOS App
Yahoo Finance, one of the world's largest news sites for real-time stock quotes and market information, has added a new feature to allow cryptocurrency trading on its platform. According to a blog post on Thursday, the company has enabled the function...
Why California’s Privacy Law Won’t Hurt Facebook or Google
California, that innovative economic juggernaut that so often takes the regulatory lead on matters such as automobile emissions, is once again establishing the ground rules to a vital industry. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), signed into law by Governor...
To boost Amazon Pay in India, Amazon reportedly acquired Tapzo, an ‘all-in-one’ aggregator app, for $40M
On the heels of Google rebranding Tez to Google Pay in India, and Walmart acquiring a majority stake in e-commerce marketplace Flipkart, Amazon is also making a run in India to hone in on the country’s growing economy. According to...
Bernie Sanders Is Officially Getting Under Jeff Bezos’s Skin
Left by Michael Kovac/Getty Images; Right, by Steve Rogers Photography/Getty Images. While Donald Trump zeroes in on Facebook and Google, Bernie Sanders has for months been waging war against another tech giant. In statement after statement, the progressive senator from...
Lab-grown meat and the fight over what it can be called, explained
Lab-grown meat. Cultured meat. Cell-based meat. Clean meat. It’s all the same thing: meat grown from just a few cells from an actual animal. And although it’s years away from your supermarket, its potential to radically change animal agriculture as...
Sennheiser announces $300 wireless earbuds
I suspect $300 wireless earbuds might have been a bit more easy to swallow back when the technology was still something of a novelty just a few years ago. Now that these devices are fairly ubiquitous, however, it’s going to...
Xiaomi partner says US-China trade war will not impact its business ‘at all’
Chinese wearable technology company Huami is expressing confidence as it expands globally amid the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. The wearable technology company based in California and listed on the New York Stock Exchange makes Xiaomi's Mi Band. Huami also sells...
Crypto Exchange Huobi Acquires Public Firm for $70 Million
Crypto exchange Huobi has completed an acquisition deal to become the largest shareholder of a public firm listed in Hong Kong, inching a step closer to a possible back-door listing. Pantronics Holdings, the acquired firm, released a statement on Aug. 29...
Bessemer is reportedly raising $1.6B for its tenth fund
Bessemer Venture Partners is gearing up for its next billion-dollar fund. The early-stage venture capital firm, which had filed to raise new capital in early August, has reportedly set a $1.6 billion target for its tenth flagship fund, an amount...
Labor Board Backs Engineers Who Were Fired for Unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board is joining the fight by a group of engineers who want to form a union at a small San Francisco software company. The NLRB Tuesday issued a complaint against Lanetix, alleging the company violated federal...
The Atlantic Hires Alex Hardiman As Chief Business and Product Officer
Washington, D.C. (August 29, 2018)—The Atlantic’s president Bob Cohn announced today that Alex Hardiman, currently the head of news products at Facebook, will be The Atlantic’s chief business and product officer. In this role, Hardiman will guide audience experience and...