Category: Tech news

 WeWork, the NYC tech darling valued at $5 billion, has today officially announced a partnership with Chase to offer WeWork members discounted rates and premium customer service with Chase Payments services (called Paymentech). Members who set up payments services for their businesses can bring in any three invoices from their current payments provider and WeWork, in conjunction with Chase,… Read More

 Lily is marketing to the family who wants an extra hand for documenting gatherings. Read More

 Serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan has founded a number of businesses, including Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, database firm MongoDB, and wedding registry startup Zola. That experience has given him more insight than the average CEO as to what goes into designing and setting up a new office space. And today, that insider knowledge is being translated into Ryan’s latest company: a visual… Read More

 On-demand transportation an logistics company Uber could raise another $1.5 billion to $2 billion in funding, adding to an already massive war chest as the company expands into new markets and new verticals around the world. Read More

 Mobile link sharing is a clumsy rigmarole of app switching and copy & pasting. So to get more people posting links, Facebook is testing an in-app keyword search engine that lets you find websites and articles to add to your status updates. Alongside buttons to add photos or locations, some iOS users are seeing a new “Add A Link” option. Just punch in a query, and Facebook will… Read More

 Pinterest confirmed that it has padded its Series G funding a bit and is carrying out a new secondary sale that will allow employees to cash in some of their shares. As first reported by Re/code, the social sharing startup raised an additional $186 million in funding as part of its Series G round, bringing the total amount raised in that financing to $553 million. Read More

 The launch of the Apple Watch represents the latest proof point that we’re only going to have more devices to consider when designing mobile apps. Not only does it represent a huge opportunity for more personal experiences, but it presents user interface designers with the increasingly complex challenge of scaling themselves to design for Web, mobile, tablets and wearables. Read More

 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 8, 2015. My Watch finally shipped, MacBook Nirvana, and @Scobleizer’s Oculus obsession. But enough about me… Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Gillmor. @stevegillmor, @scobleizer, @dbfarber,… Read More

 TechCrunch TV talked to a long list of New York startups during Disrupt NY, but we were also joined by a local nonprofit called Brooklyn on Tech.
As co-founders Jessica Santana and Evin Robinson explained in the video above, they both grew up in Brooklyn themselves. Read More

 Before I dive into the many ways that Peter Thiel gets the lean methodology as wrong as a glowing review of 50 Shades of Grey, let me say this: He is one incredibly savvy dude. Most of the time, Thiel undoubtedly deserves his confidence in his business intuition. Sometimes, however, he does not. His total, utter misunderstanding of Lean Startup methodology springs to mind. Read More

 We’re back from Disrupt NY, where we stayed up all night for the Hackathon, conducted numerous on-stage interviews with tech figures and heard from hundreds of startups on the products they’re building. We congratulate the Hackathon winner, Witness, and the Startup Battlefield winner, Liquidity, for taking home the grand prizes. Read More

 I write to you from Aqaba, Jordan, a town made famous when conquered by “Lawrence of Arabia” and Faisal al-Hashimi 99 years ago, at a confluence where today four nations divide a mere 25 miles of coastline. So I have travel much on my mind. And it seems to me that the influence of travel on technology has hit another inflection point, and traditional travel companies have much… Read More

 Hello dear friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s kinda-weekly bitcoin podcast. This time around the Skype booth, main host John Biggs and myself dug into the Winklevoss twins’ love of bitcoin, consumer interest in the cryptocurrency itself, and something technical that we probably got around half right. We apologize for the minor hiatus. It’s been… Read More

 Hello from far-too-hot New York City, where Jonathan Shieber, Ingrid Lunden, and myself found a few chairs, a few beers, and a few topics to dig into as Disrupt came to a conclusion. This time around, we dealt with massive capital rounds, Oculus’ recent news, and this thing called New York City. There is more footage that followed this session, involving an increasingly large cadre… Read More

 The creator of SimCity, Will Wright, has come out with a new app called THRED — and it isn’t a game.
Instead, Wright describes it as a natively built way to browse “the World Wide Web” in a more pure sense. The THRED app is essentially a collection of pieces of content that range anywhere from games, photos, locations and such strung together in a thread in a cover… Read More