Indochino is following up on the recent appointment of a new CEO with a big new round of funding. The company, which allows you to purchase made-to-measure menswear on its website and in physical showrooms, is announcing a $30 million strategic investment from China-based clothin … | Continue reading
It’s been nine months since Facebook launched its Lite app for Android devices that are working with 2G-like speeds. Since it was first released in India and The Philippines, it’s garnered over 100 million users across 150 countries and supports more than 50 languages. The lightw … | Continue reading
Public libraries are often overlooked, but they can be just as essential as tech companies to making sure the Internet is accessible to all. India’s Nasscom Foundation, which wants to improve computer and other tech services at libraries throughout India, announced this week that … | Continue reading
There’s something magical in the water, or the snow, in Finland. Helsinki-based Supercell announced some astounding financial results for 2015 based on revenues from its three hit mobile games: Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Hay Day. The company made profits (before certain item … | Continue reading
An Indian white hat hacker from Bengaluru was awarded Rs 1 million (approximately $15,000) after he found a bug in Facebook's login system. Anand Prakash found a security issue that enabled hackers to access a user's photos, message and debit and credit card details.See also: Fac … | Continue reading
iFlix, the video streaming service rivaling Netflix in Southeast Asia, has landed $45 million in fresh funding from UK broadcaster Sky. Read More | Continue reading
Tokyo-based LifeRobotics, the Japanese startup behind a cooperative working robot called Coro, announced today that it has closed a series A round having fundraised about 5 million yen ($4.4 million). The company had secured 270 million yen ($2.2 million) before they announced th … | Continue reading
Mexico leads Latin America when it comes to pay TV subscriptions, with more than 19 million in Q3 2015. That is nearly one-fourth of all Latin American pay TV subscriptions. | Continue reading
For the better part of last year, Salesforce audited its pay structure to identify and correct wage gaps found between male and female workers. And a blog post released today shows that the company has had to correct salaries to the tune of $3 million. “We have made equality a co … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Two years ago, TurboTax had fewer than 200,000 customers filling out their taxes on their mobile phone. It was a tiny percentage of its 31 million users — and completely unsatisfactory for Nat Rajesh Natarajan, senior VP for product and engineering at Intuit, the parent … | Continue reading
Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public. The company emerged from “startup studio” Expa. It’s also announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Expa, SV Angel, Ram Shriram, Tim Ferriss, Fenwi … | Continue reading
Selerity, a content recommendation solution, announced today a $4.2 million investment from Citi. The New York-based startup, which says that it offers personalized content recommendation functions for enterprise applications, also announced that finance consultant Jeff Penney of … | Continue reading
Spotinst, an infrastructure as a service platform for enterprises of all sizes, closed a $2 million series A round led by PICO Venture Partners, the startup announced today. The Tel Aviv-based Spotinst says it offers a cloud optimization service that “chooses the most effective c … | Continue reading
We are big fans of LittleBits here at TechCrunch. The company, which raised $44.2 million last year, offers a number of different sets that teach kids (and grown-ups) about programming and electronics — and lets them get creative with their new skills. Today, the company introduc … | Continue reading
Financing startup Wunder announced today that it snagged a $3.6 million investment to help fund solar-energy technology projects. Wunder, which graduated in 2014 from Techstars‘ accelerator, says it offers “two solar investment opportunities; the Wunder Income Fund and the Wunder … | Continue reading
Pinterest, a visual-centric social media platform, has seen explosive recent growth. It reached 100 million active users last year, becoming one of the most important social media channels after giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The average Pinterest user is a woman … | Continue reading
In January, office rents in San Francisco eclipsed those of New York to become the most expensive in the country. Two months later, there are signs the San Francisco may not maintain its dubious position for long. The biggest indicator? There’s suddenly 1.7 million square feet of … | Continue reading
Google today announced it is rebranding satellite startup Skybox Imaging as Terra Bella. The name comes with a new vision: “As Google revolutionized search for the online world, we have set our eyes on pioneering the search for patterns of change in the physical world.” Google ac … | Continue reading
Wunder Capital, a provider of solar financing for medium-sized businesses, has raised $3.6 million in a new round of financing. In all, the company has raised $4.7 million from Techstars Ventures, Fenway Summer Ventures, and FinTech Collective, alongside existing seed investors. … | Continue reading
Last year we reported that Truecaller — the popular, smart phonebook app and startup — was looking to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. But while there has been no development on that front, the startup has been on a consolidation kick as it aims to become cash-flow p … | Continue reading
While Spotify is acquiring startups expand its messaging and social features, Pandora is also raising its game in the artist-to-fan communications sphere for musicians to better target Pandora’s 80 million users. Today, the music streaming company is launching a service called AM … | Continue reading
500 Startups is continuing its efforts to tap on Asia’s fast-growing startup scene after the U.S.-headquartered VC firm announced a $10 million fund in Vietnam. Read More | Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt’s SSL certificate service launch marked a milestone for the open Web last year when it became the first major service to offer valid certificates for free. Now, just a few months past general availability, the group has passed more than 1 million issued certificates … | Continue reading
500 Startups announced today that the launch of a $10 million micro-fund that will invest solely on Vietnamese startups. It’s the latest in a series of such investment vehicles the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program has created in the past year. The organization plans to fu … | Continue reading
Tokyo-based Repro, the provider of mobile analytics tool under the same name, announced today that the company has fundraised 300 million yen (about $2.6 million) from Jafco, Voyage Ventures, and several angel investors. This follows their previous funding round where they raised … | Continue reading
Crimson Hexagon is announcing that it has raised $20 million in additional equity funding. Founded in 2007, the Boston-headquartered company helps brands and ad agencies track conversations across social media. It says its customer base has grown by more than 65 percent in the la … | Continue reading
It’s time for some wild speculation Minecraft, the phenomenally successful block-building survival game, is going to get a new enemy (called “mob”) in its next major update. Considering the game has sold around 80 million copies, every little change like this is a big deal for th … | Continue reading
More people play Supercell games every day than live in London, Beijing, Delhi, New York City, Tokyo and Moscow combined. | Continue reading
Music listeners are cheapskates. Few will pay Spotify or Apple $10 a month even to stream almost every song ever. Meanwhile, radio services Pandora hardly scrape by on the meager ad rates after they pay out royalties. So if Pandora wants to resuscitate the battered corpse of Rdio … | Continue reading
A 99 million-year-old baby chameleon was found in a lump of amber in Myanmar, according to a study published in Science Advances on Friday. That makes it the oldest known chameleon fossil ever discovered, researchers say. Because of its age, the lizard is being referred to as a " … | Continue reading
For the past three years, Verizon has been using a so-called ‘supercookie’ to track users and sell this information to outside advertising partners. Now, the FCC is levying a $1.35 million fine and requiring Verizon to offer consumers the ability to opt-out of its various trackin … | Continue reading
Facebook is using artificial intelligence to give it a better sense of where human populations are across the world. The technology is allowing the social networking company to create “much more accurate population maps” across 21.6 million square kilometers of Earth compared to … | Continue reading
Google never “got” social. For all the resources thrown at it, Google+ just never quite felt human. But luckily Google just hired the guy behind 4Chan — a site that epitomized the good, the bad, and the ugly of humanity on the Internet. Chris Poole (screen name: MOOT) started 4Ch … | Continue reading
Ryan Leslie gave every fan his phone number. It’s (915) 600-6978. But instead of a million unwanted phone calls, it’s making him money and giving him deeper intelligence about his listeners than anyone in the music business.That’s why A16z’s Ben Horowitz, Betaworks, and more inve … | Continue reading
In a recent Hangouts chat with backers, Coolest Cooler CEO Ryan Grepper says his company needs another $15 million to fulfill all orders. Should Coolest LLC get its $15 million, Grepper says it will be split evenly between production and shipping of existing orders, building out … | Continue reading
Verizon is settling with the FCC over its use of an ad targeting technology known as a "supercookie," which tracks the websites visited by phones on its network. Supercookies allow websites to better target ads to visitors with Verizon cellphone service; but those visitors — for … | Continue reading
Supercell chief executive Ilkka Paananen announced today on Twitter that the Finnish company has hit 100 million daily active players who play its four games. That is a huge accomplishment, considering the company has just 180 employees. Supercell has four releases on the top-gro … | Continue reading
Dropbox today announced a new milestone: Half a billion users. The company has thus added 100 million users over the last nine months — Dropbox passed the 400 million user milestone in June 2015. These most recent 100 million users have come from all over the world, with Dropbox … | Continue reading
Data insight and management startup Zaloni announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million series A round led by Sierra Ventures. Based in Durham, North Carolina, the startup said it will use the funds to further develop Zaloni’s software and its data lake management solution. … | Continue reading
Gross? Well, that gross idea just pulled in a $4 million Series A round from AccellFoods, existing investor Collaborative Fund and a bunch of angels including Nas and Tim Ferris. The team behind the creepy crawlies as food company previously raised $1.6 million, adding up to $5.6 … | Continue reading
This year, more money will be spent on political ads – $11.4 billion – than ever before. According to Borrell Associates around $1 billion of that will be spent on digital media, and half of that on social media. Compare that digital media spend to the $22.25 million spent in 200 … | Continue reading
Google received just over 75 million DMCA-related takedown requests in the month of March, representing a new high as content owners seek to keep pirate websites out of search results and invisible to people searching for leaked album downloads, movies, and other media. The rate … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON (By Lawrence Hurley, Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Apple Inc’s challenge to an appellate court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, meaning it will have to pay $450 million as part of a settlement. Th … | Continue reading
Augmented reality and virtual reality have been the subject of a lot of hype from proponents who advocate its inevitability as a mainstream platform. With over $1.1 billion invested in the space in the last two months according to Digi-Capital, it seems that the growing class of … | Continue reading
Augmented reality and virtual reality investment reached $1.1 billion in the first 2 months of this year, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. That figure is impressive because it beats the $686 million in AR/VR investments for all of 2015, and this is the first time that AR/V … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on Apple's ebooks price-fixing case, locking the company in to a $450 million settlement, Reuters reports.After a major Justice Department investigation found that Apple had conspired with book publishers to raise the price of eboo … | Continue reading
The e-book pricing lawsuit that’s been ongoing since 2012 has finally reached its end today, with Apple being told that it must pay $450 million to settle by the Supreme Court. The Department of Justice alleged that Apple conspired with Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & S … | Continue reading
Staff Finder, the European on-demand marketplace for temporary staffing, has closed a funding round led by One Peak Partners and Goldman Sachs Private Capital. Terms of the investment isn’t being disclosed, however sources tell TechCrunch that the round is in the region of €20 mi … | Continue reading