Colin Kroll, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of the HQ Trivia app, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his apartment, TechCrunch has confirmed. A spokesman for the NYPD told us that a female called 911 for a wellness check on Kroll’s apartment and he was found dead inside at 08:00 hours […]
View More HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead of suspected overdoseCategory: Yahoo
Google has acquired one of India’s most popular train tracking apps
Google is increasing its efforts in India after it snapped up the team behind popular transportation app ‘Where is my Train.’ The app claims 10 million registered users and, as the name suggests, it helps commuters track arrivals and departures as well as buying seats. That’s no small job given that India is estimated to operate […]
View More Google has acquired one of India’s most popular train tracking appsFarmstead is an ambitious grocery delivery startup with plans to defeat Instacart
The Y Combinator graduate has raised $2.2 million for its AI-powered Bay Area grocery delivery service.
View More Farmstead is an ambitious grocery delivery startup with plans to defeat InstacartAlibaba-backed parenting site Babytree starts taking orders for downsized IPO
A lot of Chinese millennials may be delaying or opting out of childbearing, but those who have committed to parenting often go all out to ensure their children grow up healthy and do well in school. One company capitalizing on China’s booming mother and infant industry – which is expected to double in market valuation […]
View More Alibaba-backed parenting site Babytree starts taking orders for downsized IPOCVCompiler is an robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
Machine learning is everywhere now, including recruiting. Take CVCompiler, a new product by Andrew Stetsenko and Alexandra Dosii. This web app uses machine learning to analyze and repair your technical resume, allowing you too shine to recruiters at Google, Yahoo, and Facebook. The founders are marketing and HR experts who have a combined fifteen years […]
View More CVCompiler is an robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitiveBlockchain gaming gets a boost with Mythical Games’ $16M Series A
Mythical Games is betting user-generated content and intimate ties between players, content creators, brands and developers is the future of entertainment.
View More Blockchain gaming gets a boost with Mythical Games’ $16M Series AOath is dead. Long live Verizon Media Group/Oath
Friends, readers, internet browsers, lend me your ears; I come to bury Oath, not to praise it. The subsidiary brands that companies own live after them; Their terrible rebranding is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Oath . The new Verizon chief executive, Hans Vestberg, told you Oath was ambitious: If it […]
View More Oath is dead. Long live Verizon Media Group/OathYahoo agrees $50M settlement package for users hit by massive security breach
One of the largest consumer internet hacks has bred one of the largest class action settlements after Yahoo agreed to pay $50 million to victims of a security breach that’s said to have affected up to 200 million U.S. consumers and some three billion email accounts worldwide. In what appears to be the closing move to […]
View More Yahoo agrees $50M settlement package for users hit by massive security breachNe-Yo wants to make Silicon Valley more diverse, one investment at a time
Ne-Yo made his first investment in the coding academy Holberton School about a year ago. This month, he visited the campus for its grand opening and spoke to TechCrunch about his Silicon Valley ambitions.
View More Ne-Yo wants to make Silicon Valley more diverse, one investment at a time‘Brotopia’ inspired OODA Health to raise its $40.5M round only from firm’s with female partners
OODA Health, a startup developing technology to make the U.S. healthcare payment system more efficient, has raised $40.5 million in a round led by Oak HC/FT and DFJ.
View More ‘Brotopia’ inspired OODA Health to raise its $40.5M round only from firm’s with female partnersAltaba to settle lawsuits relating to Yahoo data breach for $47 million
Altaba, the holding company of what Verizon left behind after its acquisition of Yahoo, said it has settled three ongoing legal cases relating to Yahoo’s previously disclosed data breaches. In a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former web giant turned investment company said it has agreed to end litigation for $47 […]
View More Altaba to settle lawsuits relating to Yahoo data breach for $47 millionIt’s the end of crypto as we know it and I feel fine
Watching the current price madness is scary. Bitcoin is falling and rising in $500 increments with regularity and Ethereum and its attendant ICOs are in a seeming freefall with a few “dead cat bounces” to keep things lively. What this signals is not that crypto is dead, however. It signals that the early, elated period […]
View More It’s the end of crypto as we know it and I feel fine