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Real estate site Redfin files for IPO

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Redfin, the popular real estate listings site, has filed for IPO. The Seattle-based company unveiled its filing, suggesting that it will raise $100 million, a placeholder that is subject to change. The timing of the filing implies that [...]

Google.org, BlackRock and others commit $2.2 million to Fast Forward’s nonprofit tech accelerator

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As impact investing gains traction in the market, a new accelerator for tech nonprofits called Fast Forward has raised $2.2 million in philanthropic funding from the nonprofit arms of some of the world’s largest companies and financial services [...]

Snapchat bought the AR location intellectual property of startup Drop

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Snap Map is Snapchat’s plan to tie together its online content with ways to augment your offline reality, and its got the patent to back it up. Augmented reality location startup Drop tells TechCrunch that Snap Inc acquired [...]

Elon Musk says The Boring Company’s first car elevator is nearly operational

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Elon Musk’s tunnel venture The Boring Company is plugging away on its first tunnel section, and it’s not just a hole in the ground – the multi-co. CEO noted on Twitter that the car/pod elevator that will be [...]

Chat app Kakao raises $437M for its Korean ride-hailing service

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Korea’s Kakao, the country’s top mobile messenger company with some 50 million monthly users, has continued to diversify its business with a move to spin-out the unit managing its mobility services, which include a ride-hailing app that is [...]

Equity podcast: Sexual harassment takes down Binary Capital and Blue Apron’s lackluster IPO

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s recurring venture capital-focused podcast that, against odds laid by its arcane subject matter, is still on the air. (Thanks!) This week was a corker. To help out our regular contingent Matthew [...]

Toyota completes first in-home Human Support Robot trial in North America

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Toyota recently wrapped up its first in-home trial in North America of its Human Support Robot platform. The robot, which goes by HSR for short, is one of the mobility assistance bots that the automaker is developing for [...]

Confluent achieves Holy Grail of ‘exactly once’ delivery on Kafka messaging service

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Confluent, the commercial company behind the open source messaging tool, Apache Kafka, announced a new feature this week that should please Kafka users — the ability to send a message using Kafka “exactly once.” That may not sound [...]

Expect more details on Tesla Model 3 launch this Sunday

June 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Elon Musk should have more to share about the coming Tesla Model 3 launch on Sunday, July 2. The CEO responded to a Twitter follower seeking more concrete information about the Model 3’s exact release date. Musk and [...]