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The hunted becomes the hunter: how Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The paperwork would itself arrive shortly after from a registered agent in a thick white envelope. The claim: patent infringement. The firm going after Cloudflare: Blackbird Technologies, a three-year-old, Boston- and Chicago-based firm founded by two former attorneys [...]

London fintech Curve closing in on $10M Series A

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Curve, the London fintech that offers a platform that lets you consolidate all your bank cards into a single Curve card and manage your money, is on the verge of closing $10 million in Series A funding. Read [...]

Facebook Messenger globally tests injecting display ads into inbox

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Messaging is the center of mobile, and Facebook wants ads in front of all those eyes. After seeing “promising results from Australia and Thailand”, Facebook Messenger is expanding its display ad beta test that lets businesses buy space [...]

Datatron raises $2.7M to help companies query real-time and historical data

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Fresh out of 500 startups, Datatron has raised $2.7 million in seed financing for its data savvy assistant Emma. But under the somewhat trite coating of an assistant, Datatron is a making it easier for employees to gather [...]

Audi’s new A8 will have Level 3 autonomy via ‘traffic jam pilot’

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The new Audi A8 revealed by the automaker today features a new level of self-driving for production vehicles – Level 3 autonomy, which actually allows drivers to stop monitoring the vehicle under certain conditions – and where allowed [...]

Siri usage and engagement dropped since last year, as Alexa and Cortana grew

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Siri remains the most popular virtual assistant with 41.4 million monthly active users in the U.S., according to a new report from measurement firm Verto Analytics out this morning, but it has seen a 15 percent decline since [...]

Hyperledger Fabric releases version 1.0 of open source distributed ledger

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hyperledger Fabric, the open source distributed ledger project from Hyperledger, reached a significant milestone today when it released version 1.0. Hyperledger Fabric is a distributed ledger, an open source blockchain. The blockchain has been typically used to prove [...]

Inside the Q2 2017 global venture capital ecosystem

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

One thing is clear: The market for startup equity is on firmer footing now than it was three months ago. With two successive quarters of growth, both in the number of deals struck and the amount of money [...]

Score a prime 2-for-1 deal on Disrupt SF tickets today

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s certainly hard to resist the siren song of online deals on Amazon Prime day, so while you’re at it, why not also grab a deal on a great tech conference – TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Today only, we’re [...]