Investors pour $2 million more into booze marketplace Drizly

 Boston-based Drizly used to be known as the on-demand delivery app for alcohol. More recently, the company evolved into a marketplace that helps brick-and-mortar liquor stores to connect with and sell to customers nearby through web and mobile commerce. The Drizly app shows shoppers different prices on the beer, wine and liquor that they’re looking for at local shops, along with… Read More

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Watch BlackBerry unveils a brand new phone live right here

{rss:content:encoded} Watch BlackBerry unveils a brand new phone live right here http://ift.tt/2kX0Z7z http://ift.tt/1RarLSq February 25, 2017 at 06:24PM  TCL, the company that now makes BlackBerry phones, is holding a press conference at MWC in Barcelona. The conference starts at 7 PM CET (6 PM GMT, 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST). We already got a sneak peek at the device during CES back in January. And it’s everything BlackBerry fans love — yes, I’m mostly talking about the physical keyboard. You can check it out live via… Read More

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Everything we know so far about Uber’s sexual harassment scandal

 Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti’s story of sexual harassment and HR complicity at the company has drawn a lot of attention from the outside world as many relate to her frustrations and the broader systemic culture of sexism that manifests itself across the tech industry. In the days since Rigetti published her account, decisions have been made both inside and outside of… Read More

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DARTdrones pitches Shark Tank to build a flight school for drone pilots

 Entrepreneurs who pitch on ABC’s Shark Tank typically make packaged goods and apparel. Occasionally, the high tech breaks through. XCraft, the company behind the PhoneDrone Ethos, scored a rare investment from all of the judges on the ABC show last spring, for example. And tonight, drones are once again flying “in the Tank” as DARTdrones seeks funding to build… Read More

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Facebook’s mobile prodigy launches video charades game

 Michael Sayman was just 17 when Facebook hired him, but he’d already built 5 apps. Now 7 years after his first launch, the Facebook product manager has just released Show & Tell, which turns selfies and visual communication into a game. You’re given an emotion to act out, you send the video to friends, and they try to guess what you’re feeling. “I made 4 Snaps about… Read More

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Facebook’s mobile prodigy launches video charades game

{rss:content:encoded} Facebook’s mobile prodigy launches video charades game http://ift.tt/2lCWYnC http://ift.tt/2lD0e2l February 24, 2017 at 10:13PM  Michael Sayman was just 17 when Facebook hired him, but he’d already built 5 apps. Now 7 years after his first launch, the Facebook product manager has just released Show & Tell, which turns selfies and visual communication into a game. You’re given an emotion to act out, you send the video to friends, and they try to guess what you’re feeling. “I made 4 Snaps about… Read More

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SoFi confirms $500 million in new funding as it pushes beyond lending

 Online finance startup SoFi got its start refinancing student loans but gradually has been adding other services to members. To expand into new regions and move closer to becoming a full-service financial services company, SoFi has confirmed that it raised an additional $500 million in equity financing led by Silver Lake. Read More

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SoFi confirms $500 million in new funding as it pushes beyond lending

{rss:content:encoded} SoFi confirms $500 million in new funding as it pushes beyond lending http://ift.tt/2lilFmq http://ift.tt/1NsjHrI February 24, 2017 at 08:00PM  Online finance startup SoFi got its start refinancing student loans but gradually has been adding other services to members. To expand into new regions and move closer to becoming a full-service financial services company, SoFi has confirmed that it raised an additional $500 million in equity financing led by Silver Lake. Read More

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Communication platform Layer raises $15M and acquires interactive messaging startup Cola

 Layer, the messaging platform that won TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield back in 2013, is making two big announcement today: It’s raised $15 million in Series B funding, and it’s acquiring another startup, Cola. Layer makes it easy for businesses to add messaging capabilities to their  iOS, Android and web products — customers include Trunk Club, Staples and Udacity.… Read More

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RCS, Google’s answer to iMessage, expands to 27 more carriers and OEMs

{rss:content:encoded} RCS, Google’s answer to iMessage, expands to 27 more carriers and OEMs http://ift.tt/2lfy0Ic http://ift.tt/2mjd8kj February 24, 2017 at 06:50AM  While messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat and WeChat rake in ever more users, features and relationships with key brands, and Apple’s iMessage continues to play strong with iPhone users, Google today announced a big step forward in its own strategy to bring a native, enhanced, native messaging service to more Android devices — a play for Google to help carriers… Read More

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RCS, Google’s answer to iMessage, expands to 27 more carriers and OEMs

 While messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat and WeChat rake in ever more users, features and relationships with key brands, and Apple’s iMessage continues to play strong with iPhone users, Google today announced a big step forward in its own strategy to bring a native, enhanced, native messaging service to more Android devices — a play for Google to help carriers… Read More

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Shine gives up on mobile network ad-block threats, wants to play nice

{rss:content:encoded} Shine gives up on mobile network ad-block threats, wants to play nice http://ift.tt/2mrKvR7 http://ift.tt/2lylgiq February 24, 2017 at 09:00AM  So much for sticking “nuclear weapons” in carriers’ dumb pipes. Shine, last year’s enfant terrible of mobile ad blocking is pivoting (again!) — in both tone of voice and business model. It’s also rebranding to, er, Rainbow. Read More

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Apple says iOS 10.2.1 has reduced unexpected iPhone 6s shutdown issues by 80%

{rss:content:encoded} Apple says iOS 10.2.1 has reduced unexpected iPhone 6s shutdown issues by 80% http://ift.tt/2lwUEhW http://ift.tt/2l5qn6p February 24, 2017 at 01:00AM  Apple has been working on a very annoying iPhone shutdown bug and it says that it has come up with a fix of sorts that should mitigate the problem on a majority of iPhone 6 and 6S devices. Read More

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Thistle launches meal kits to make nutritious baby food at home

 Food delivery startup Thistle was never been in the business of making meal kits, those boxes of pre-measured ingredients and recipes to help customers cook at home. The startup’s married cofounders, Ashwin Cheriyan and Shiri Avnery, thought that prepared meals, ready-to-heat or raw and ready-to-eat, were a better fit for their busy customers. Meal kits, they said, felt like time… Read More

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Facebook’s new profile photo flags and Zuck’s idea of ‘community’

 Mark Zuckerberg believes we should be “coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.” That’s why Facebook’s latest feature feels a bit confusing. Facebook has added nearly 200 flags to its Profile Frames feature, which lets you overlay imagery filters atop your profile photo. Facebook first launched profile frames for sports teams in… Read More

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Facebook tests ad breaks in all types of videos, giving creators a 55% cut

 Facebook today announced it’s begun testing ad breaks that interrupt on-demand video with a small set of partners, who will earn a 55% ad revenue share while Facebook keeps 45%. That could change the way creators make video content so they tease viewers enough to sit through the ads, while luring more producers to Facebook. On-demand video publishers will get to select where in their… Read More

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Facebook tests ad breaks in all types of videos, giving creators a 55% cut

{rss:content:encoded} Facebook tests ad breaks in all types of videos, giving creators a 55% cut http://ift.tt/2mgPBQS http://ift.tt/2fjcbpd February 23, 2017 at 06:00PM  Facebook today announced it’s begun testing ad breaks that interrupt on-demand video with a small set of partners, who will earn a 55% ad revenue share while Facebook keeps 45%. That could change the way creators make video content so they tease viewers enough to sit through the ads, while luring more producers to Facebook. On-demand video publishers will get to select where in their… Read More

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Revcontent acquires Rover for better content recommendation tech

 Revcontent, a self-funded company powering content recommendations for publishers like Forbes and The Atlantic, has acquired Rover. That’s not Rover the pet-sitting marketplace, but rather the content discovery app formerly known as Flipora and Infoaxe. CEO John Lemp told me that RevContent is  paying “north of $30 million” in cash and stock for the acquisition, which he… Read More

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DeepCoder builds programs using code it finds lying around

 Like all great programmers I get most of my code from StackOverflow questions. Can’t figure out how to add authentication to Flask? Easy. Want to shut down sendmail? Boom. Now, thanks to all the code on the Internet, a robot can be as smart as a $180,000 coder. The system, called DeepCoder, basically searches a corpus of code to build a project that works to spec. It’s been used… Read More

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