Jon Miller is hoping lightning can strike twice in the marketing space. After the success of his previous marketing automation company, Marketo, Miller is returning to the world of targeted marketing tools with Engagio, which just raised $22 million in its latest round of funding. The Series B round, led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from FirstMark Capital and Storm Ventures… Read More
In April, Adobe expanded its Document Cloud service to add support for Box and Microsoft OneDrive, to complement its existing support for Dropbox. This allowed users to work with documents stored in other third-party services when using Adobe’s software, like Adobe Sign or Acrobat Reader, for example. However, that support hadn’t fully made its way to mobile – an issue Adobe… Read More
Chaos Monkeys, written by former Facebooker and current houseboater Antonio Garcia Martinez, is a book about the human side of the Valley. Rich in anecdote, detail, and memory, it tells the story of a little startup sailing between the twin tankers of Twitter and Facebook and, in the end, floundering for a moment before being swept up in their wake. It’s a book every founder should read,… Read More
The TechCrunch Video team is headed to LA. We’ve packed our cameras, grabbed our tripods and are heading to the City of Angels to talk to exciting startups about VR, entertainment and transportation. Read More
For a while, Google, Amazon and Microsoft were constantly undercutting each other’s cloud computing prices, but lately, it’s been pretty quiet on that front. Today, however, Google is firing a new salvo by reducing the price of its preemptible virtual machines (VMs) by up to 33 percent. Preemptible VMs are Google’s version of Amazon’s spot instances for AWS… Read More
It’s called Coffiest. Because, well, it’s more coffee than coffee, I guess. It’s the latest offering from our meal replacing, shipper container living friends at Soylent. It’s got all of the soy and algal oil-based nutrient delivery one has come to expect from the company’s liquid offerings, with a key new addition.
Coffiest is designed for the Soylent devotee… Read More
TechCrunch is proud to announce that two-time NBA MVP and Golden State Warriors point guard, Stephen Curry, will be speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF (Sept. 12-14). In addition to having the most three-pointers in a season and leading the Warriors to the finals in back-to-back seasons, Curry is also an avid philanthropist and tech startup investor. Curry has a window to the startup… Read More
Over the past few years, BitTorrent has worked to move beyond its associations with online piracy by giving tools to musicians, filmmakers and other creators so they can distribute and market their work. Now the company’s taking that mission a step further, by funding the work of a select group of creators. Straith Schreder, BitTorrent’s vice president of creative initiatives,… Read More
GIFs may be a popular way of communicating as the way we talk to each other increasingly shifts to mobile, but really it’s about communicating in some form of video. We’re seeing video become more and more prevalent on mobile devices, and GIFs just happen to be a convenient way of doing that, Riffsy CEO David McIntosh says. At its core, using video to communicate can serve a… Read More
Google is launching a small but interesting update for Inbox by Gmail today. Inbox, Google’s next-gen email client for Gmail users, recently launched a new feature that gives you a quick, glanceable view of what’s in those email newsletters you get every day. Starting today, it’s going to offer a similar view of email updates from source-code repository GitHub and project… Read More
Pond5– a marketplace for stock photography, videos and other digital content– has appointed a new CEO and board director, former Web.com COO Jason Teichman, the company announced today.
Pond5 founder Tom Bennett was not immediately available for an interview about the changing of the guard. Accel Partners’ John Locke, an investor in Pond5’s Series A round, said… Read More
With the Olympics well underway, Google is rolling out a new Trends hub to give folks a bit more insight into what people are searching during the global athletics event. The Trends hub will let users view the trends happening around each sport, as well as general search trends like “Where is the Olympic Torch?” Google has already done a great job of organizing information around… Read More
Berlin-based online education platform iversity looks to have pulled back from the brink of bankruptcy after securing new investment from Holtzbrinck Digital, the Internet investment arm of the education-focused Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Read More
Rocket blast are loud, bright and, well, anything but subtle. That’s the whole point, really. It takes a heck of a lot of firepower to slip the surly bonds of earth and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings (I’m told). Of course, such explosiveness is tough to shoot with a standard camera. So NASA did the NASA thing and built a camera capable of capturing the subtle complexity… Read More
Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-based so-called “talent first” investor that targets technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them through a six-month program where they form teams and in turn found startups, is building its own U.S. based investment team. Read More
Sharing-economy-powered car rental competitor Turo is taking its battle with the incumbents to places few have dared venture. The company used computer vision to determine the color of all the cars in its inventory and is making it possible to select the car for your next adventure based on your favorite color. The company also announced it has doubled the number of cars available on the platform. Read More
Memebox, an e-commerce company specializing in beauty products from Korea, has closed a significant $65.95 million Series C funding round to fuel further expansion. Read More
Google Now, the intelligent personal assistant bundled into Android and Google’s search application, is already adept at bringing you the information you need at the right time, whether that’s traffic alerts, event reminders, sports scores, stock updates, weather, flight info, and much more. But one area where Google Now falls a little short is in customizing the assistant… Read More
Today, Pingpad, which launched last year as a consumer mobile app, did an about-face, announcing it has built a collaboration tool on top of the popular Slack enterprise communications platform. It shut down the consumer mobile app recently to concentrate on this approach.
Ross Mayfield, one of the founders of PingPad, has been around since the earliest days of Enterprise 2.0, founding… Read More
On demand ride provider Lyft is getting physical – creating actual gift cards with $20 in ride credit that people can buy beginning today at participating Starbucks stores across the U.S. The cards also come with a $5 Starbucks gift card as a free bonus, and Lyft passengers will also start being able to earn Starbucks Reward Stars by riding. This isn’t Lyft’s first tie-up… Read More
