Ryan Lawler
Ryan Lawler is a relapsed journalist. He’s writing again at TechCrunch after a brief stint as a Venture Partner at 500 Startups. Ryan has also covered technology and business for publications such as GigaOM, Contentinople, and Light Reading.
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New Zealand High Court upholds Kim Dotcom extradition ruling
Kim Dotcom, founder of Mega and Megaupload, has suffered another defeat in court. In the latest ruling, New Zealand High Court judge Murray Gilbert upheld an earlier decision finding that Dotcom and business associates could be extradited to the U.S. to face charges. Read More
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With $15M in funding, Caavo aims to unify all your streaming TV boxes and services
A startup called Caavo thinks it has a solution to the too-much-TV problem, with a device that brings together all the different streaming boxes and TV services you subscribe to. The company, which has raised $15 million in funding, provides a universal remote with voice control and a unified TV interface so users can search and discover all the TV content available to them. Read More
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Facebook is still figuring out how to tackle fake news
At CODE Media today, Facebook VP of partnerships Dan Rose said combatting fake news is “something that’s really important to us,” but acknowledged that the company is “just getting started” and “there’s a lot of work we can do.” Read More
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To compete with YouTube, Facebook is preparing to launch connected TV apps
Facebook wants its users to upload and consume more videos, and it’s making a couple of changes to the way that it displays and distributes those videos. Today at CODE Media, Facebook VP of partnerships Dan Rose said the company would also launch a series of apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung Smart TV. Read More
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Intuition Robotics raised $6 million for its ElliQ elder care assistant robot
Intuition Robotics, maker of elder care assistant ElliQ, announced today that it has raised $6 million in funding from iRobot and equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. With the funding, the Jerusalem-based company plans to open an office in the Bay Area and begin testing ElliQ with senior citizens in San Francisco. Read More
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Apple Music is at the heart of the company’s strategy for original TV shows
Apple is making a deeper push into producing its own stable of original TV shows, but it probably won’t compete with originals being produced by Netflix or Amazon. At the CODE Media conference today, SVP Eddy Cue explained that the company would be focused on creating content that is different from the competition and takes advantage of its music platform. Apple’s entrance… Read More
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After more than doubling revenue, Duo Security looks ‘Beyond’ the firewall
Few tech categories are growing faster than cybersecurity market, as organizations of all shapes and sizes seek to keep out their data out of the hands of increasingly sophisticated hackers. To help them face that threat, Duo Security is releasing a new suite of products based on a security framework developed by Google. Read More
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Mobile camera lens company Moment is Kickstarting some new hardware
It’s been couple of years since we’ve heard from Moment, which makes a series of mobile phone cases and lenses for photography enthusiasts. Today the company is announcing its latest in hardware — a pair of iPhone cases and a wide-angle lens it’s crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Moment launched three years ago with a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a couple… Read More
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GOAT raises $25M more to expand its mobile sneaker marketplace
Los Angeles-based GOAT has raised another $25 million in funding led by Accel Partners to hire up and expand its distribution capabilities. Read More
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ChitChat is Silicon Valley’s spammiest new app
It began shortly after lunch. The texts appeared, first a trickle. It wasn’t long before the deluge began in earnest. “A friend* added you on ChitChat,” they said. “Tap here … to get it,” they said. WTF is chitchat? — Willis F Jackson III (@wfjackson3) February 4, 2017 What ChitChat is I’m not prepared to say, as I refuse to download it. Read More
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Snap commits $2 billion over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
Most of today’s Snap coverage will be about its revenue and daily average usage numbers, but there was one small tidbit that emerged that will mean big business for the company’s cloud infrastructure partner, Google. In Snap’s S-1 filing, the company announced a license platform agreement it struck with Google for its cloud infrastructure services. Under the terms of… Read More
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Snapchat international user growth slowed in the second half of 2016
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. wanted to present a growing and and highly engaged user base today in its bid to go public. But there are reasons for concern, especially when you look more closely at user growth in Europe and the rest of the world With the release of the company’s S-1 filing today, Snap revealed that at the end of 2016 the company had 158 million daily active users who… Read More
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SoFi buys Zenbanx to offer banking and money transfer services to its users
Online lending firm SoFi announced today that it has acquired Zenbanx, a startup that offers banking, debit, payments and money transfer services to users online and through a mobile app. The combination of the two will allow SoFi to move deeper into the financial lives of its customers. While today it focuses on student-loan refinancing, mortgages and personal loans, integrating Zenbanx… Read More
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Apple breaks iPhone sales record with 78.3 million units sold in the holiday quarter
With another big holiday quarter behind it, Apple saw revenues from its flagship iPhone product rise to $54.4 billion, up from $51.6 billion a year earlier. That revenue growth came as Apple reported units sold rose 5 percent to 78.3 million in its fiscal first quarter of 2017. That was a record for sales, and also beat analysts expectations by a couple of million. Wall Street forecast… Read More
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Algorithmic commerce platform Feedvisor gets $20 million from General Catalyst
Algorithmic commerce startup Feedvisor is growing quickly, now managing more than $2 billion in goods sold through marketplaces like Amazon and eBay. To fuel that growth, the company has raised an additional $20 million in Series B funding led by General Catalyst. The Feedvisor platform uses machine learning to track different market dynamics and optimize the amount of money sellers… Read More
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Dropbox claims $1B revenue run rate
Today at an event in San Francisco in which it announced updates to its Paper app and its Smart Sync feature, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston talked up the company’s revenue growth and self-serve business model. Houston claimed that Dropbox was on pace for a $1 billion revenue run rate and that the company was free-cash flow positive, which could bolster the company’s plans for a… Read More
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Microsoft Q2 earnings edge higher on Office and cloud services growth
Microsoft reported financials for its fiscal second quarter today, posting earnings of $0.83 per share on $26.1 billion in revenue. That compares with Wall Street’s forecast of $0.79 per share on revenue of $25.3 billion for the quarter, and earnings of $0.78 per share on revenue of $25.7 billion a year ago. Read More
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What the AppDynamics sale could mean for other tech IPO candidates
As the first planned public offering of 2017, AppDynamics was supposed to be a bellwether for other upcoming tech IPOs. If it went public and performed well, the “IPO window” would have been wide open, as bankers like to say. That’s because the performance of a big tech IPO is often seen as indicative of investor appetite, and can set expectations for future offerings. Read More
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Breathometer ordered to refund purchases of its breathalyzers as part of FTC settlement
Breathometer, a startup that quickly rose to prominence due to an appearance on Shark Tank, has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in which it will offer refunds for mobile-connected breathalyzer devices the company sold from 2013 to 2015. The two products — the Original ($49) and Breeze ($99) — were marketed as devices that could detect a user’s… Read More
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Quixey alums launch Sigma, a platform to bring merits and certifications online
A new company named Sigma, founded by alumni of mobile app search engine Quixey, aims to take records and certifications currently trapped in the analog world and bring them online. To do so, the company has raised $4.35 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and other investors. The idea originated in late 2014, during a scuba trip in Belize that Sigma cofounder and… Read More
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