Betaworks Studios, a subsidiary of New York seed fund Betaworks, has raised $4.4M.
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Vizion.ai launches its managed Elasticsearch service
Setting up Elasticsearch, the open-source system that many companies large and small use to power their distributed search and analytics engines, isn’t the hardest thing. What is very hard, though, is to provision the right amount of resources to run the service, especially when your users’ demand comes in spikes, without overpaying for unused capacity. […]
View More Vizion.ai launches its managed Elasticsearch serviceWhat’s the cost of buying users from Facebook and the other ad networks?
This post reveals the cost of acquiring a customer on every ad channel my agency has tested.
View More What’s the cost of buying users from Facebook and the other ad networks?Mailchimp and Shopify break up
Shopify and Mailchimp today announced that the Mailchimp app, which let its users use their Shopify data to create targeted email campaigns, for example, is no longer available in its marketplace. The reason for this, Shopify says, is that it “had growing concerns about Mailchimp’s app because of the poor merchant experience and their refusal […]
View More Mailchimp and Shopify break upStreaming site Kanopy exposed viewing habits of users, researcher says
On-demand video streaming site Kanopy has fixed a leaking server that exposed the detailed viewing habits of its users. Security researcher Justin Paine discovered the leaking Elasticsearch database last week and warned Kanopy of the exposure. The server was secured two days later on March 18, a spokesperson told TechCrunch. “We are currently investigating the […]
View More Streaming site Kanopy exposed viewing habits of users, researcher saysTC Sessions: Mobility, a one-day session event on the future of transportation
The way people and packages move from Point A to Point B is in the midst of a remarkable transformation driven by technological innovations in AI, robotics, electric battery development, digital platforms and manufacturing. A mobility revolution is in the making. And TechCrunch is here — and we’re not just along for the ride. We’re […]
View More TC Sessions: Mobility, a one-day session event on the future of transportationGoogle’s new Stadia gaming platform is all about streamers
Google unveiled its new Stadia game streaming service today and while we’re still waiting to hear more details about how (and when) consumers will be able to access the service, it’s clear that Google clearly kept game streamers in mind when it designed this new service. Indeed, it’s the first modern gaming platform that was […]
View More Google’s new Stadia gaming platform is all about streamersFifty years of the internet
Leonard Kleinrock Contributor Share on Twitter Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. When my team of graduate students and I sent the first message over the internet on a warm Los Angeles evening in October, 1969, little did we suspect that we were at […]
View More Fifty years of the internetFacebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos
Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos from its site within the first 24 hours after a shooter livestreamed his attack on two New Zealand mosques, killing 50 people. In a series of tweets, Facebook’s Mia Garlick said a total of 1.2 million videos were blocked at the point of upload. Videos that included “praise […]
View More Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videosThe “splinternet” is already here
Keith Wright Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Wright is a Villanova School of Business instructor of Accounting and Information Systems, founder of Simplicity On-Demand LLC and former Senior Vice President for Global Sales Operations for SAP. There is no question that the arrival of a fragmented and divided internet is now upon us. The “splinternet,” […]
View More The “splinternet” is already hereFacebook, Instagram and Messenger are down for some users
Facebook and its related family of apps appear to be down for most users right now. There’s not much more information to share at this point, but the web is freaking out (as is to be expected). Facebook has confirmed the outage and we’ll update as we get more information. We’re aware that some people […]
View More Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are down for some usersInventor of the World Wide Web says it needs to be ‘changed for the better’
Since the internet began 30 years ago, it has transformed the world in some amazing ways, but its founder, Tim Berners-Lee, has a few warnings. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Www, World Wide Web, Black Mirror, and Tim Berners Lee
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