Technology will change where we live

 Governor Jerry Brown has recently proposed legislation that would streamline the path for large scale development across California. It could have a huge impact on growing housing supply in San Francisco specifically, which suffers from NIMBYism and a lengthy, local review process for building developers. Read More

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Five companies considered buying LinkedIn

 A new SEC filing posted Friday gives more clarity about what led up to Microsoft acquiring LinkedIn for over $26 billion. And they prove that Microsoft wasn’t the only prospective buyer. It shows that the talks between LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella began on February 16 of this year, just 12 days after the earnings debacle where LinkedIn shares plummeted. And… Read More

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Invoxia’s Voice Bridge puts your landline in your pocket

{rss:content:encoded} Invoxia’s Voice Bridge puts your landline in your pocket http://ift.tt/29cnYTQ http://ift.tt/2990b5n July 02, 2016 at 01:24AM  If you’ve ever wished you could roll out a five-mile extension cable for your home phone so you can get your calls when you’re out and about, Invoxia’s new Voice Bridge may be the solution to your globetrotting woes. It’s a virtual phone that connects your landline to your Wi-Fi, making it available via an app. Read More

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Apple fires back at Spotify, calling out ‘rumors and half-truths’ over App Store rejection

{rss:content:encoded} Apple fires back at Spotify, calling out ‘rumors and half-truths’ over App Store rejection http://ift.tt/29hzKz3 http://ift.tt/1HvgHeF July 01, 2016 at 08:40PM  The dispute between Apple and Spotify over subscription revenues continues today with a letter from the former accusing the latter of using “rumors and half-truths” to advance “unfair and unreasonable” demands. Read More

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Knocki turns your tables and walls into smart device controllers

 By most standards, Knocki has had a home run Kickstarter campaign, blowing way past its $35,000 target with more than $1.1 million committed. But it sounds like CEO Jake Boshernitzan is still hoping for more support in the campaign’s final hours (it’s scheduled to end at 3am Eastern on Saturday). After all, he said that Knocki deliberately set the campaign target on the low… Read More

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Virtual reality training ramps up for the 2016 NFL season

 Football is a downright violent sport. If players aren’t injured in the games themselves, there’s a chance that they could be hurt in practice. It happens all the time. While there’s no substitute for actual football practice, there is a technology enjoying rapid growth in the NFL and it involves taking contact-free virtual reps: virtual reality training. Read More

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Announcing the judges for our Berlin Meet Up + Pitch Off this month

 It’s July which means TechCrunch’s Berlin Meet Up + Pitch Off is now just two weeks away. But don’t worry, there’s still time to bag a ticket to the event — just follow this link. Tickets cost €10. And yes there will be beer. We have now assembled our panel of judges who will be casting their expert eyes over the ten(ish) startups that will be taking to… Read More

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Facebook has funds frozen in Brazil in another WhatsApp encrypted data dispute

 Around $6 million in Facebook’s Brazilian bank account has been frozen on court order in another dispute about encrypted data involving local police authorities and Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp, according to the local Globo G1 news service. Read More

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Facebook simplifies confusing chatbots with buttons, not text commands

 “What do I type?” is the big question making chatbots hard to use. So today Facebook Messenger is giving chatbot developers new “Quick Reply” buttons and persistent menu options to make their bots easier to navigate. Messenger bots can also now send videos, audio, GIFs, and files so they can encompass wider range of use cases. People can now rate bots with one to five… Read More

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Facebook simplifies confusing chatbots with buttons, not text commands

{rss:content:encoded} Facebook simplifies confusing chatbots with buttons, not text commands http://ift.tt/299HWOP http://ift.tt/2997GM8 July 01, 2016 at 09:57AM  “What do I type?” is the big question making chatbots hard to use. So today Facebook Messenger is giving chatbot developers new “Quick Reply” buttons and persistent menu options to make their bots easier to navigate. Messenger bots can also now send videos, audio, GIFs, and files so they can encompass wider range of use cases. People can now rate bots with one to five… Read More

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Capitalizing on foundations of innovation

 Two of the most important technological advances, which helped fueled much of the country’s record economic growth in the post-WWII era, were ubiquitous computing devices and modern communications technologies. Most of the companies covered on TechCrunch certainly would not exist if not for the development and commercialization of microprocessors and the Internet. Read More

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Zenefits revalues itself at $2 billion, giving later shareholders more ownership

 Zenefits is executing a change in its current ownership structure that will increase the overall ownership of the company for late-stage investors. in a move that revalues the company’s Series C round at $2 billion and looks to placate investor concerns over the company’s regulatory investigations. It’s another move that new CEO David Sacks is doing in what’s been… Read More

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Apple might buy Jay Z’s Tidal music app

 If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em. Apple is in discussions with Tidal about acquiring its music streaming app, which offers exclusives and early releases from big artists like Beyonce and Kanye West. The Wall Street Journal reports that the talks are still early and might not end in a deal, but Apple wants those exclusives to bolster its Apple Music streaming app that’s… Read More

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Apple might buy Jay Z’s Tidal music app

{rss:content:encoded} Apple might buy Jay Z’s Tidal music app http://ift.tt/295Qogf http://ift.tt/2986VDc July 01, 2016 at 12:42AM  If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em. Apple is in discussions with Tidal about acquiring its music streaming app, which offers exclusives and early releases from big artists like Beyonce and Kanye West. The Wall Street Journal reports that the talks are still early and might not end in a deal, but Apple wants those exclusives to bolster its Apple Music streaming app that’s… Read More

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NFL star Martellus Bennett on his new children’s book and app, Hey A.J.

 It’s not everyday that a 6 ft. 7 in. NFL star says he is going to spend his offseason designing and launching an new interactive children’s app. So to learn more, we sat down with Martellus Bennett, tight end for the New England Patriots and founder of The Imagination Factory, a multimedia production company designed to bring Martellus’ ideas to life. The first product out… Read More

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Facebook throws out the news Paper

 Facebook Paper could have given publishers the reach they lost yesterday in the News Feed, but no one wanted the standalone news reading app. Facebook has pulled the Paper app from the app store and will discontinue support for existing downloads of it on July 29th, according to a message show to all user. Despite it’s eye-catching, progressive design, the experience proved unnecessary… Read More

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Facebook throws out the news Paper

{rss:content:encoded} Facebook throws out the news Paper http://ift.tt/29eGMn7 http://ift.tt/2992adC June 30, 2016 at 11:18PM  Facebook Paper could have given publishers the reach they lost yesterday in the News Feed, but no one wanted the standalone news reading app. Facebook has pulled the Paper app from the app store and will discontinue support for existing downloads of it on July 29th, according to a message show to all user. Despite it’s eye-catching, progressive design, the experience proved unnecessary… Read More

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How Mexico went from telecom laggard to mobile trailblazer

{rss:content:encoded} How Mexico went from telecom laggard to mobile trailblazer http://ift.tt/29jbOJg http://ift.tt/1Qd7WWM June 30, 2016 at 11:00PM  Twenty years ago only one out of 10 people in Mexico had a telephone of any kind. Today, more than 100 million people have cell phones and, more amazingly, more than 70 percent of those are smartphones. To keep up the torrid growth, scrappy competitors are offering smartphones for every budget and plans that let users choose right from their handsets which services they want and how much they… Read More

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Spotify and Apple are staring each other down while flipping the bird

 Figuratively, of course. The companies are at it again, and this time it’s not only bothersome to the businesses themselves, but to the end consumer. Going to the next level in an ongoing spat over Apple’s subscription rules, it would appear that Apple has rejected Spotify’s latest update to its app in late May, citing business model issues. Shortly before that, Spotify… Read More

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