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Saturday, April 8, 2017

Spotify Premium Director Robert Lamvik leaves company for meditation app Headspace

Meditation app Headspace recently brought on Robert Lamvik, Spotify’s now-former director of its premium service, and Dr. Megan Jones Bell, former chief science officer at mental health startup Lantern. Their respective roles at Headspace are head of growth and chief science officer — two new roles at the company. Read More

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Postepic wants to liberate all those interesting text snippets you have languishing on your camera roll and turn them into visually appealing quotations ready for social sharing. But is there mainstream appetite for an ‘Instagram for book quotes’? Read More

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Postepic wants to liberate all those interesting text snippets you have languishing on your camera roll and turn them into visually appealing quotations ready for social sharing. But is there mainstream appetite for an ‘Instagram for book quotes’? Read More

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Spotting sockpuppets with science

If you’ve ever ventured into the comment section of a website or spent any time on forums or social media, you’ve probably encountered sockpuppets, fake accounts controlled by a single person — though it’s possible you didn’t know it at the time. New research may help ID these overeager commentators automatically, which is good news for engendering sane… Read More

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Benchmark partner Peter Fenton, who had been on Twitter’s board since 2009, will not seek re-election after his term expires in 2016 according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. To be sure, Fenton was expected to depart the company’s board once his term expires according to reports going back to when Twitter was searching for a permanent CEO. Twitter, at… Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2oL7YBM Peter Fenton is leaving Twitter’s board of directors Matthew Lynley http://ift.tt/2o71dqX
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Adidas unveiled their latest 3D-printed shoe last night, the Futurecraft 4D. The shoe is a huge improvement on their last 3D-printed runners, which were more of a concept than an actual product. The new version is better suited for mass production – Adidas plans on selling 5,000 pairs this upcoming fall, which will scale up to more than 100,000 pairs by the end of 2018. While the… Read More

http://ift.tt/2oKFBUE Adidas’ latest 3D-printed shoe puts mass production within sight http://ift.tt/2oREvTG

The last time I wrote about Save, the French startup had just raised $16.7 million to prove that you could scale smartphone repair services. It’s been a roller coaster ride since then as the company had to claim insolvency. After this process, Remade Group is picking up Save’s business and employees. While the startup managed to grow quite rapidly, it was hard to keep up with the pace. Read More

http://ift.tt/2ohbC5C Smartphone repairing startup Save gets picked up by Remade Group http://ift.tt/2ohftiP

Facebook today rolled out an improvement to its Instant Articles feature that now lets publishers include call-to-action units in their articles to better connect with readers, including those that encourage email sign-ups and Page Likes. The company also announced it’s testing two more units for publishers interested in offering free trials of their digital subscriptions and another… Read More

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Amazon pulls Diapers.com and other Quidsi apps from the app store

{rss:content:encoded} Amazon pulls Diapers.com and other Quidsi apps from the app store http://ift.tt/2oJmMkG http://ift.tt/2oJvJKJ April 07, 2017 at 05:28PM

At the end of March, Amazon announced it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other e-commerce sites operated by Quidsi – the company Amazon acquired for $545 million back in 2010. However, it didn’t offer any details as to when those sites would eventually shutter their doors. But it now appears the first steps towards closure have been taken – all the Quidsi… Read More

Mic has raised $21 million in new funding, which co-founder and CEO Chris Altchek said will accelerate the digital publisher’s investment in video news. The company says it currently reaches 66 million unique readers and viewers each month, and that 75 percent of its daily views coming from video — particularly impressive when you consider that it launched its first video… Read More

http://ift.tt/2pa4qWc Millennial-focused publisher Mic raises $21M, with Time Warner Investments joining the board http://ift.tt/2oMJvMj

It’s no secret that data is the hot new revenue source for automakers, who are seeing additional profit opportunities bloom as vehicles become more connected and they can retrieve a ton of useful data that’s incredibly valuable when deployed correctly. Israeli startup otonomo has been on top of that trend since its founding in 2015, with nine automakers worldwide using its platform… Read More

http://ift.tt/2oIMZQo Otonomo raises $25M to help automakers make money from connected cars http://ift.tt/2o5iyR0

Welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the financial side of technology. This week Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and your servant sat down with Gene Munster, best known for his bullish takes on Apple as an analyst. Munster is now a venture capitalist at Loup Ventures, where he’s a managing partner. As a group we dug into Lyft’s… Read More

http://ift.tt/2m6li35 Equity podcast: Lyft’s new anti-Uber warchest, and Gene Munster on IPOs and Apple http://ift.tt/2o5e1yf

You never think about it until it’s too late. Say you’ve built an amazing company selling the stoat-hair drink coasters from Iceland. Your ecommerce and marketing game is on point, your website is ready, and you get your first order. You realize that you don’t have any boxes. Your stoat-hair coaster business is ruined. Luckily there’s Packhelp. Packhelp is a Polish… Read More

http://ift.tt/2p8m3FE Packhelp raises €350,000 to make your boxes pretty http://ift.tt/2nKwz4Y

On Wednesday I had the unique pleasure of hanging out with a a bunch of Macedonian startup founders and was very impressed. The Balkans have long been a promising spot for startups – the cost of living is low and the talent level is high – and this visit was unique in that everyone was fully prepared to pitch on a global scale. The winners of the pitch-off were Letz, a cool… Read More

http://ift.tt/2p8clTS A look inside the Skopje startup scene http://ift.tt/2oHJEke

A VC once told me that fear was the best sales tool ever invented. That was in reference to the hockey stick growth his cybersecurity startup was seeing, thanks to a raft of stories in the media regarding high profile cases of companies being hacked. But might the same be said of banks and the pending threat of fintech? Arguably, they have much to fear. Read More

http://ift.tt/2njtwFC Meniga helps incumbent banks keep fintech fear at bay http://ift.tt/2njy3I5

SkyX drones are half-helicopter, half-plane and built to fly long distances

A Markham, Ontario startup called SkyX Ltd. emerged from stealth today to share details about its unique industrial drone designs with TechCrunch. The company’s SkyOne drones take off and land like a helicopter, but fly more like an airplane, with a range of over 25 miles (40 km) per charge. For drone industry nerds, this means they have both VTOL and fixed-wing elements. A range… Read More

http://ift.tt/2o7YPSk SkyX drones are half-helicopter, half-plane and built to fly long distances http://ift.tt/2nQeVNX

Okta is setting an increasingly ambitious target for its IPO, now officially pricing it at $17 per share set for its debut tomorrow — and looking to raise as much as $187 million in the hopes that it can capitalize on the newly-open IPO window. There’s been a wave of companies going public in the past quarter alone, with Snap having a largely successful IPO and Yext filing to… Read More

http://ift.tt/2o2KVzb Identity management software provider Okta seeks to raise $187M with IPO pricing http://ift.tt/2oFXZOg

A huge number of toys today include high-tech and interactive components that keep kids in front of screens. But when it comes to health and educational development, multiple studies have found that kids benefit from things like building with blocks, playing with both hands, and looking away from screens for 20 seconds at least every 20 minutes. A startup called Osmo, which launched at… Read More

http://ift.tt/1P3GsCN How Osmo decides to make its tangible, high-tech toys http://ift.tt/2nPWvgp

Adobe Research demos new app that may one day allow you to take better selfies

{rss:content:encoded} Adobe Research demos new app that may one day allow you to take better selfies http://ift.tt/2oJniie http://ift.tt/2oecCrf April 06, 2017 at 08:14PM

Adobe has a tendency to show early demos of the technologies it’s working on but isn’t quite ready to launch publicly yet. The latest of these is a selfie app from Adobe Research the company outed on its YouTube channel earlier today. The iOS app, which doesn’t currently have a name as far as we can see, uses a number of the machine learning smarts the company has developed… Read More

Today Facebook begins fighting misinformation with news literacy education, in addition to product features. This week, users in 14 countries, including the U.S., will see an alert above the News Feed several times over the next few days that links them to Facebook’s Help Center where they can read “Tips to Spot False News.” Read More

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Renaud Laplanche had a terrible no good very bad 2016. But the founder and longtime CEO of Lending Club is back with a new lending startup called Upgrade, along with the support of investors who’ve provided the company with $60 million in funding. Read More

http://ift.tt/2o1E0X7 Lending Club founder Renaud Laplanche is back with a new startup and $60 million in funding http://ift.tt/2nh3McZ

Write “You owe me $20” and Messenger will suggest you use its payments feature. If someone says “goodbye”, Messenger will recommend a “bye-bye” GIF. That’s how Facebook’s new M Suggestions work. Facebook’s artificial intelligence assistant will privately interject these recommendations above the message composer in your Messenger… Read More

from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2nh7inr Facebook Messenger’s AI “M” suggests features to use based on your convos Josh Constine http://ift.tt/2o1UJcV
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He may have shared the world’s worst handshake with its prime minister, but President Trump is still big in Japan. Starting in late March, a set of splashy ads depicting Trump appeared in train cars and metro stations around Tokyo. Read More

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