Daily Archives: December 7, 2015



Screen Shot 2015-12-07 at 10.40.06 AM Gmail has had a “to-do” feature for the longest time but it was pretty useless, as it was a simple stand-alone one-off feature that probably graduated from Labs at one point. It was never integrated and luckily the team is fixing that today. Google is rolling out the ability to add reminders in Google Calendar for iOS and Android (web soon). Why this took so long is a pretty… Read More

Google Calendar Gets Reminders



Screen Shot 2015-12-07 at 10.24.33 AM Whether you’re a sports fan or not, it’s hard not getting excited around bowl season in College Football. More exciting than that is watching all of the teams push their own candidates for the Heisman Trophy, given out to this year’s best NCAA Football player. Stanford, as techy as they get, decided to take their pitch for everyman Christian McCaffrey into virtual reality:… Read More

Stanford Uses Virtual Reality To Make Its Heisman Pitch For ...


 New York-based SocialFlow has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The startup, which helps media organizations including The Wall Street Journal and BBC optimize their effectiveness on social media, has closed a...

SocialFlow Raises $7.5 Million To Help Media Companies With Social



 New York-based SocialFlow has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The startup, which helps media organizations including The Wall Street Journal and BBC optimize their effectiveness on social media, has closed a...

SocialFlow Raises $7.5 Million To Help Media Companies With Social


Screen Shot 2015-12-07 at 10.07.45 AM If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, I’d love to have a Facebook Messenger chat with Miss Piggy from The Muppets” now is your time to strike. Well, it’s not Miss Piggy really…it’s AI pretending to be Miss Piggy. Sad, I know. But it’s as close to chatting with her as you’ll ever get. Grab the friends and the kids and their friends and… Read More

Go Chat With Miss Piggy On Facebook Messenger



Olly A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 today, with a plan to crowdfund its first product, a voice-controlled robot assistant called Olly, early next year. Read More

Emotech Is Building Olly, A Robot Assistant With Personality


Olly A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 today, with a plan to crowdfund its first product, a voice-controlled robot assistant called Olly, early next year. Read More

Emotech Is Building Olly, A Robot Assistant With Personality




twentify (3 of 6) An Istanbul-based startup called Twentify took the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 to talk about their gig-finding app Bounty, which helps people find nearby small jobs they can do for extra cash. As the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley Wild Card position, the co-founders only had a few hours notice to prepare their presentation before today’s… Read More

Bounty Is An App That Connects Smartphone Users With Nearby ...