March 24, 2016
The top 8 startups from Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2
Supersonic planes, food harvesting robots and instant HIV diagnosis were some of the ideas that wowed us on Demo Day 2 for Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch. We…
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March 24, 2016
Here are the 59 startups that demoed at Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2
“Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner Paul Buchheit said were demoing today at Y Combinator’s…
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The top 7 startups from Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 1
We asked investors what their favorite startups were from the 60 that launched at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 1. After huddling with our writers and adding our…
Read articleMarch 15, 2016
Crate raises $4M seed round for its next-gen SQL database
Crate, the winner of our TechCrunch Disrupt Europe startup Battlefield in 2014, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round for its open-source SQL database technology.…
Read articleMarch 14, 2016
Google launches new services for Android game developers
Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference. They include tools for managing virtual goods…
Read articleMarch 11, 2016
Obama: ‘We don’t want government to look into everyone’s phones willy-nilly’
Encryption with a backdoor accessible to very few in important situations is what President Barack Obama says he suspects is the answer to the digital privacy versus security…
Read articleMarch 11, 2016
White House draft policy wants federal agencies to find open source religion
By now, the advantages of open source are there for all to see. When you give people access to the underlying code, good things happen. People find bugs…
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Instagram kills newly launched ‘Being’ app, which saw 50K downloads its first week
In case there was any doubt where Instagram was drawing the line when it came to its shutdown of third-party feed reading apps, it appears that its decision to…
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MIT spin-out Thunkable hopes its drag-and-drop app builder can be a money-spinner too
Bagging lots of users is a challenge one of the startups in Y Combinator’s 2016 winter batch is worrying about a bit less than the average. The two-man…
Read articleMarch 3, 2016
LinkedIn open-sources its WhereHows data discovery and lineage portal
LinkedIn today open-sourced WhereHows, a meta data-centric tool the company has long used internally to make it easier for its employees to discover data the company generates and to…
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