TeamSnap Online Sports Management Platform Acquires Weplay For An Undisclosed Amount
# 2013-05-21 04:14:56, TechCrunch
TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents and coaches to help facilitate coordination for events, games, practices, etc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.Burstly Debuts Its Testing-To-Revenue Restructure, Opens SkyRocket Monetization To All
# 2013-05-21 03:30:03, TechCrunch
Burstly's grand vision coming out of its TestFlight acquisition is getting full reveal today with the announcement of the company's new corporate structure, which rebrands Burstly's monetization tools as SkyRocket, and opens them up to all mobile developers and publishers with a new self-serve optio...Sprint Ups Its Offer For Outstanding Clearwire Shares To Around $2.5B
# 2013-05-21 03:28:03, TechCrunch
More developments in the Sprint acquisition foodchain saga. As expected, Sprint is upping its offer for outstanding Clearwire shares to $3.40 per share, working out to an offer of about $2.5 billion. This comes after originally making an offer of $2.2 billion, based on $2.97 per share.3 Mindbending Ways Apple Dodged $13.8B In Taxes
# 2013-05-21 02:45:28, TechCrunch
Kudos to Apple's finance lawyers, who are the Cirque Du Soleil of legal contortionism. On the eve of live testimony from CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Phillip Bullock, head of Apple's tax operations, a scathing congressional investigation of Apple's tax dodging strategy reveals how the com...New U.K. Edtech Entity To Spend Up To $77M Acquiring European E-Learning Firms Over Next 18 Months T...
# 2013-05-21 02:34:45, TechCrunch
Expect a swathe of consolidation in the European e-learning sector in the coming months. Edxus Group, a new London-based corporate operating edtech company, is planning to plough in €50-60 million ($64-$77m) over the next 18 months to develop and acquire European e-learning businesses and build ou...Brightpearl Raises $8 Million Series B For Its Cloud Software To Help Retailers Manage Sales Across ...
# 2013-05-21 02:08:26, TechCrunch
In what is effectively a follow-on round, Brightpearl, the cloud software provider for multichannel retailers, has raised $8 million in Series B funding from previous backers Eden Ventures and Notion Capital. Both Eden and Notion seed-backed the UK company, before adding a further $5 million Series ...Unity Game Engine Goes Free For iOS, Android And BlackBerry 10 Developers
# 2013-05-21 02:03:34, TechCrunch
The barrier to entry for the Unity game rendering engine for developers on iOS and Android has gotten lower, as use of Unity tech is now free on both mobile platforms. Unity CEO David Helgason announced the changed terms today during the Unite Nordic trade conference, according to Pocket Gamer's Kei...With A Media-Rich Platform To Stand Out From The Messaging Pack, MessageMe Hits 5M Users In 2.5 Mont...
# 2013-05-21 02:00:46, TechCrunch
Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today, the company is officially confirming the news, along with some more details on how it's been doing in the 2.5 months since it launche...ConsultingMD Lands $10M From Venrock To Bring Speedy Referrals And Second Opinions Online
# 2013-05-21 01:15:00, TechCrunch
When it comes to diagnoses and the possibility of undergoing serious medical procedures, we want second opinions (and trustworthy referrals) whenever we can get them. With 30 to 40 million Americans slated to receive insurance for the first time next year thanks to Obamacare -- and with millions exp...Can We Say Crowdfunding Bubble? U.K. Charity Launches Directory To Help Navigate Nation's 30+ Local ...
# 2013-05-21 01:08:19, TechCrunch
How many crowdfunding platforms is evidence of a crowdfunding bubble? Well, when an organisation feels the need to launch a directory to list and detail all of the options in a single market it's perhaps a sign that exuberance for crowdsourced financing is running a little high. Nesta, a U.K. innova...Science-Backed Ecommerce Recommendation Startup Uncovet Raises $1.3M
# 2013-05-21 01:00:58, TechCrunch
Uncovet, a startup that wants to be the recommendation engine for indie designer clothing and accessories, has raised $1.3 million from Javelin Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and L.A. angel investor Paige Craig.Newspaper Companies Invest Another $9M In Local Deal Startup Wanderful Media
# 2013-05-21 00:00:06, TechCrunch
Wanderful Media has raised another $9 million from the long list of media companies that were already backing the startup and its local deal service Find&Save. The announcement comes after the relaunch of Find&Save last month. The service allows readers to browse deals aggregated from newspaper cir...Opera's WebKit-Based Android Browser Exits Beta To Battle Apps For Users' Attention
# 2013-05-20 22:48:44, TechCrunch
Browser maker Opera's first WebKit browser has exited beta. The full launch for the browser previously code-named Ice adds a few additional minor updates to the meaty feature-set demoed at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow back in February. The Android browser represents a huge shift for Opera as ...Scopely Boosts New Zealand Studio Rocket Jump's Mini Golf Matchup To Over 10M Downloads In A Month
# 2013-05-20 22:10:33, TechCrunch
Game developer Rocket Jump had already proved its mettle with the hit Major Mayhem. But the company's location in Wellington, New Zealand meant its team often felt isolated from the resources they needed to build an even bigger hit. Enter Scopely, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming platform founded...MavenSay Enjoying Sudden Popularity In Social Media-Hungry Indonesia
# 2013-05-20 18:39:24, TechCrunch
MavenSay, a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans as a result. The company’s Toronto-based co-founder, Jesse Dallal, said the two-month old app got 100,000 downl...Real-Time Parking Startup ParkMe Launches An Android App
# 2013-05-20 18:01:02, TechCrunch
Real-time parking startup ParkMe wants to help find you parking -- in real-time. The company, which originally started out on the Web, has been making a big push behind mobile apps, which is really smart, because most times when you're looking for parking, you're not on a PC, but you have a smartpho...Aiming To Dominate Mobile Ad Attribution, HasOffers Raises $9.4M Round Led By Accel
# 2013-05-20 18:00:25, TechCrunch
HasOffers, a startup that helps mobile app developers see which ad efforts are actually paying off, is announcing that it has raised a $9.4 million round of funding led by Accel Partners. The company was founded in 2009 — the product that it initially built, and the one that's still highlighted o...Google Checkout Nixed In Favor of Google Wallet
# 2013-05-20 15:36:02, TechCrunch
Google Checkout is being sunsetted as the company focuses on shaping Google Wallet into a viable PayPal rival. Google Commerce announced today that Google Checkouts will be retired on November 20.Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment
# 2013-05-20 15:11:14, TechCrunch
Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups). And that description certainly fits Hampton Creek Foods, a startup that wants to move the world from animal-based f...BeatDeck's Free Analytics Show Musicians Who Their Fans Are
# 2013-05-20 14:31:57, TechCrunch
Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator analytics company launching today. BeatDeck plans to license this data to labels and music stores to h...With Site Ai, Automated Insights Provides A Cliffs Notes Version Of Your Web Analytics
# 2013-05-20 14:09:12, TechCrunch
Automated Insights, a startup that translates raw data into plain English, is launching a new product that could make analytics data a lot more accessible. The new product, called Site Ai, pulls data from existing systems (it started with Google Analytics and Clicky, and the company is currently t...Yahoo Drops Flickr Pro To Compete With Facebook, Still Offers Two Paid Tiers For Ad Haters And Power...
# 2013-05-20 12:49:43, TechCrunch
The bookend to Yahoo's Big News Day -- a major refresh of its photo sharing site Flickr -- will see the company drop is Flickr Pro pricing tiers as part of a bid to compete better with Facebook/Instagram and the rest of the crowded market in the online photo space. But it is not getting rid of paid ...Yahoo's Unwatchable Live Stream Proves Its Next Acquisition Should Be A Proper Video Platform
# 2013-05-20 12:02:24, TechCrunch
It's easy to forget that Yahoo has had a long on-again-off-again love affair with online video. Remember Broadcast.com, which kicked off the Mark Cuban Era? But you might not remember that, because other online video platforms long ago left Yahoo in the proverbial dust. Today, as Yahoo streamed its ...Flickr Announces One Free Terabyte Of Storage Space Per User, Officially Beating Everyone
# 2013-05-20 11:43:34, TechCrunch
Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering one full terabyte for users, enough storage space to hold whole swathes of the world’s photos. The service is offering this benefit in addition to its full resolution photo storage service. While the average user will probably not touch the ou...Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage
# 2013-05-20 11:26:46, TechCrunch
The new Flickr is live. Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr acquisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren't related to Tumblr as much as Flickr, the photo-sharing database and social network acquired by Yahoo in March of 2005...Dell Kills Project To Build Out Public Cloud, Sends Layoff Notices
# 2013-05-20 11:20:21, TechCrunch
Dell has decided not to build out its public cloud and will instead rely on partners such as Joyent to provide infrastructure services. A source close to the matter said layoff notices at the company went out on Friday. The group had more than 300 people in it. It is not known who was laid off or of...Yahoo Sets Up Shop In Times Square For Its 500 New York Employees (But Not The Tumblr Team)
# 2013-05-20 11:17:23, TechCrunch
Today has been quite a roller coaster ride for Yahoo -- the company put days of reports and rumors to rest this morning when it confirmed that it would acquire the social blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, and now CEO Marissa Mayer has confirmed that Yahoo's New York employees will now be mo...Inside Microsoft's ‘Geek 2 Chic' Fashion Show, Where Tech Types Strike A Pose For Charity [TCTV]
# 2013-05-20 11:01:52, TechCrunch
The tech-dominated San Francisco Bay Area isn't exactly known as a hub for high fashion -- Facebook's new James Perse staff hoodies are about as fancy as things get around here -- and fashion shows aren't typically in our purview here at TechCrunch TV. So when we were invited to attend the Geek 2 Ch...Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Mayfield Fund's Navin Chaddha
# 2013-05-20 10:09:12, TechCrunch
This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and we’ll ask them during the show.AngelPad-Backed DroneDeploy Wants To Help You Manage Your Legion Of Drones
# 2013-05-20 09:35:17, TechCrunch
The valley has a bit of a thing for drones lately — have you noticed? Airware, which builds brains for commercial unmanned aircrafts, just raised $10.7M. Longtime Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson left his position to go full-time on his DIY drone company, having raised $5 million. Later this ...
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