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Mobile Marketplace Carousell Raises $6M Series A Led By Sequoia Capital

46 minutes ago by Catherine Shu

Carousell, a mobile app marketplace that lets sellers upload items with a few taps on their smartphones, has raised $6 million Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. The Singaporean startup’s existing investors, Rakuten Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, 500 Startups, and serial entrepreneur Darius Cheung, also returned for this round, which brings Carousell’s total raised so far… Read More
Microsoft Appears To Pre-Announce Its Purchase Of Email Startup Acompli

2 hours ago by Alex Wilhelm

Whoops. Welcome to literal fait accompli. A short, unfinished blog listed as written by Microsoft corporate vice president Rajesh Jha hit the RSS wires earlier today. Here’s what it looked like: It led to the following URL: http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/25/microsoft-acquires-acompli/. In case you missed it, the URL slug says “Microsoft Acquires… Read More
9 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

4 hours ago by Anna Escher

It’s been a shorter week because we’re heading out early for Thanksgiving festivities, but a newsworthy one nonetheless. We give you our best stories of the week (11/22-11/26). Read More
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The Snowden Effect, Quantified

6 hours ago by Alex Wilhelm

The failure of the USA Freedom Act in the Senate earlier this month was a disappointment to many in favor of reforming the National Security Agency. The bill, far from perfect, and certainly incomplete in its scope was thought of by some as a possible first step. To others, it was a way for Congress to pass something that merely looked like reform. It didn’t advance after a procedural… Read More
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Jigglist Lets You Find Places For Meetups Without Leaving Your Group Chat

6 hours ago by Kyle Russell

Jigglist is a group chat app centered around finding places to go that are appropriate for the group that will attend. Read More
How To Opt Out Of Twitter’s New Thing That Tracks Which Apps You Install

7 hours ago by Greg Kumparak

Twitter is now keeping track of which apps you have on your phone, and sending that data back to the mothership (birds nest?) Here’s how to turn it off. Read More
Advertising Tech
Twitter’s New App Tracking Capabilities To Help Personalize User Experience, Benefit Advertisers

7 hours ago by Sarah Perez

Starting today, Twitter users on iOS and Android devices will be alerted to a change in the type of data the social network is collecting on them, and will be offered the option to opt-out by adjusting their settings. The data in question is a list of the apps you have installed on your mobile device – a collection of data Twitter is calling the “app graph.” The company… Read More
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Gift Guide: The Razor Crazy Cart

7 hours ago by John Biggs

While I did say that the Razor Crazy Cart was, well, crazy, it’s well worth a closer look if you have the space and safety equipment to send your kids careening around your driveway at about twenty miles per hour. That’s right: this is your dream go-kart from the folks who made the Razor scooters and, if you have the space and helmets it’s the best fun your kids will have… Read More
Gadgets
Cooling Tablet Market Turns To Low-End Devices For Growth

7 hours ago by Alex Wilhelm

Never in tech history have so many bought so much in such a short time. There was a memorable tweet sent in the final days before the first iPad was released: Someone in tech — and I forget their name and can’t find the tweet, sadly — noted in less than 140 characters that they were about to embark on their last weekend before they would never have to have another without… Read More
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Quikkly Wants To Be A Better QR Code

7 hours ago by Steve O'Hear

You’ve all used a QR code, right? Those weird-looking barcodes you’re supposed to scan using a mobile to open a related web link. Nope? I thought not. For one reason or another, the technology, which was originally developed for the automotive industry to track parts in vehicle manufacturing, has never really gained critical mass from a consumer point of view. Enter Quikkly… Read More

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Applause Raises $765K From Salesforce CEO For Its Revamped Weight Loss App

9 hours ago by Sarah Perez

If you’re worried about blowing your diet over the holidays – or perhaps, thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to “eat healthy” (you know, again) – an app called Applause, now seed funded by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, may help. The startup aims to bring to market a more lightweight food and activity tracking service combined with virtual… Read More
Expressiv Is An Irish MIDI Guitar With Some Groovy Light Effects, Man

9 hours ago by John Biggs
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GoPro Could Go Robo With Consumer Drones Launching Next Year

10 hours ago by Darrell Etherington

GoPro is working on a lineup of consumer drones to supplement its action camera lineup, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new product category would offer aerial drones like the Parrot Bebop and DJI Phantom and Inspire 1. The drones would reportedly retail in the $500 to $1,000 range, and come with GoPro action camera tech onboard, which is a natural fit given that outfitting drones… Read More
Firefox Redesigns Its Search Interface Ahead Of Yahoo Switch

10 hours ago by Frederic Lardinois

Last week we learned that Mozilla had made a pact with Yahoo to switch Firefox’s default search engine to a yet-to-be launched new version of Yahoo’s Bing-powered search experience. At that time, we already noted how easy it is to switch between search engines in Firefox and now the organization is making it even easier with the launch of a new search experience in the Firefox… Read More
Unity Finally Releases Its Long Promised User Interface Creator

11 hours ago by Greg Kumparak

At long last, Unity has shipped version 4.6 of its visual game development system — and with it, the long promised UI editor. Read More
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Emojiary Is A Mobile Diary App Where You Visualize Your Feelings With Emoji

11 hours ago by Sarah Perez

Regularly journaling your thoughts and feelings is a good way to “check in with yourself,” raise your self-awareness and connect with your intuition, but it can also be a time-consuming activity that most of us don’t have time for, given our busy lives. A company called All Tomorrows wants to change that, by offering a quick and arguably more fun way to track your feelings… Read More
Europe
Google.com Domain Should Be Covered By Search De-Listing, Say European Regulators

11 hours ago by Natasha Lomas

Google has kicked against it. Eric Schmidt was doing so in public only last month. But European regulators are now stipulating the so called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling should apply to search results displayed on Google.com, not just on European sub-domains such as Google.co.uk. Read More
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iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Are Shifting Reading Away From iPad, Study Finds

12 hours ago by Darrell Etherington

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it seemed likely that the larger screens on the devices would naturally lead to them assuming some of the functions of the iPad, giving users fewer reasons to turn to their tablets. Now, data from save-for-later reading and video app Pocket finds that indeed, users of Apple’s newest, larger smartphones do spend more time perusing their… Read More
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Social Marketing Startup Tiger Pistol Raises $3.1M As It Plans For US Growth

12 hours ago by Anthony Ha

Tiger Pistol, a startup offering social marketing tools for small businesses, is announcing that it has raised $3.1 million in Series A funding. The company started in Melbourne, Australia, and I first covered it in 2012, when it left beta testing. Since then, Tiger Pistol (named after the tiger pistol shrimp) has moved its headquarters to Los Angeles, though it retains an office in Melbourne. Read More
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Microsoft-Backed Inlope Is An Interest-Based Local Social Network

12 hours ago by Natasha Lomas

Is there room for another social network in your life? Inlope, a Munich, Germany-based startup which was founded last year and has just launched its app reckons so. And it’s not alone — having persuaded Microsoft to cover its costs for a year while it seeks to scale its idea into a living and breathing local social network. Read More