Iyzico, a Turkish online payments company and potential Stripe competitor, closes $15M Series C
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Iyzico, the Turkish fintech startup to let e-commerce sites and other apps easily accept online payments, has closed $15 million in a Series C round, $12 million of which was announced earlier this year. Joining the...
Cloudera finally ready for the public stage
Author: Ron Miller / Source: TechCrunch When I first met Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly in 2015 at the Intel Capital Summit, we were about to go onstage for a fireside chat to discuss, among other things, Intel’s massive investment in his company. While onstage,...
But wait, there’s an IPO: Austin’s Ronco files for public offering
Source: statesman To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 10.2.0 or greater is installed. Ronco Brands, a new Austin-based holding company for the maker of the Veg-o-Matic food processors and other iconic gadgets sold on late-night infomercials with...
How AI can ‘change the locks’ in cybersecurity
Author: Scott Miserendino / Source: VentureBeat Image Credit: Sergey Nivens / Shutterstock Some of the world’s best-known brands have invested millions of dollars in information security. So have their adversaries. But malicious actors are counting on the...
Developers are getting Bixby running on older Samsung phones
Author: Jordan Novet / Source: VentureBeat That was fast. Bixby, Samsung’s new virtual assistant for the company’s new Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone, is now working on older Samsung phones running Android 7.0 Nougat. But not officially. A person who goes by...
Apple’s latest iPad is the tablet equivalent of the iPhone SE
Author: Jordan Novet / Source: VentureBeat The numbers for the iPad aren’t good. Revenue and unit sales were both down again, as usual. But that does not mean Apple has given up on its tablet. First Apple fleshed out the product line with two high-end iPad...
A Google X employee collapsed on the job, and coworkers say corporate culture is to blame
Author: Julie Bort / Source: VentureBeat On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of...
AWS QuickSight now lets you export data in CSV format
Author: Jordan Novet / Source: VentureBeat Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a small but helpful update to Amazon QuickSight, its web-based business intelligence (BI) tool for visualizing data. Now it’s possible...
18 Ways to Improve Your Resume (Infographic)
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur Having a standout resume is not easy. But if you’re on the market for a new job, it’s a necessity. Once you’re able to impress a potential employer on paper, you’ll be able to get your foot in the door and land an...
VRPhysio enables patients to do physical therapy in virtual reality
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat Evan Orr needed physical therapy, but he found out the hard way that it wasn’t easy to do. Physical therapy is always a big part of rehabilitation, but no one wants to do the exercises. It’s hard to book an...
Hacking pioneer John Draper, aka Cap’n Crunch, needs funds for medical help
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat John Draper, a legendary “phone phreaker” known as Cap’n Crunch, had surgery last week to deal with a degenerative spine disease, and his friends are raising money on GoFundMe for the medical bills. Draper worked...
Going public: Denver-based Frontier Airlines files for IPO
Author: Emilie Rusch / Source: The Denver Post DENVER, CO – JANUARY 16: A Frontier airplane taxis to a runway on the west side of Denver International Airport January 16, 2015. Frontier Airlines announced Friday that it is outsourcing over 1300 reservations...
The 10 biggest European tech stories this week: Uber, Square, Picnic, and more
Author: Robin Wauters / Source: VentureBeat This week, Tech.eu tracked 9 technology M&A transactions and 96 tech funding deals totalling €460 million (about $491 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech...
Connecticut may become first U.S. state to allow deadly police drones
Author: Reuters / Source: VentureBeat NEW YORK (By Barbara Goldberg, Reuters) – Connecticut would become the first U.S. state to allow law enforcement agencies to use drones equipped with deadly weapons if a bill opposed by civil libertarians becomes law....
What World of Warcraft can teach central banks
Author: Reuters / Source: VentureBeat Image Credit: GamesBeat (Reuters) – Central bankers can learn from the computer gaming industry as they try to communicate with a public that often has little idea what they do, the Bank of England’s chief economist Andy...
Google Assistant can now read Bible passages to fit your mood
Author: Khari Johnson / Source: VentureBeat Nearly 20 new services have been made available to Google Home users this week, including lots of ways to control smart home devices and the best Bible-reading action to date. (Actions are like voice-only apps for...
Microsoft is killing Access Services for SharePoint Online in April 2018
Author: Jordan Novet / Source: VentureBeat Microsoft announced earlier this week that it will discontinue Access Services for SharePoint Online in 2018. Leading up to that, people will no longer be able to launch new Access apps in SharePoint Online,...
Analyst backs Intel’s claim that Moore’s Law isn’t slowing
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat In the past couple of years, there were a lot of stories about how Moore’s Law was slowing down. That was a reason for financial panic, as it suggested that technological progress was slowing and that the global...