head News of 06/16/19

Norrsken Opens East Africa Startup Fund And Hub In Kigali

Startups in East Africa have a new source for investment and mentorship. Sweden’s Norrsken Foundation —a coworking space and investment fund based in Stockholm — opened its tech fund and entrepreneurship hub in Rwanda today to support ...

Some Sage Security Advice After Radiohead’S Unreleased Music Hack

Bad news: Radiohead was hacked. Last week, a hacker stole the band’s lead singer Thom Yorke’s private minidisk archive from the band’s third album and subsequent major worldwide hit, OK Computer . The hacker demanded for ...

Colombian Point-Of-Sale Lender ADDI Nabs $12.5 Million From Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz <3 Latin American startups. Latin America is the only region outside of the U.S. where the venture firm is routinely investing capital and it has just made another commitment, doubling down on its early stage support for the ...

Sennheiser Debuts Its First Wireless Gaming Headset, The GSP 670

Sennheiser debuts its first wireless gaming headset, the GSP 670 image During Computex last week, Sennheiser gave media a sneak peek at its first wireless gaming headset, the GSP 670 , slated to ship starting at the beginning of next month. The GSP 670 retails for €349 (about $393), significantly pricier then ...

Zynga Launches Battle Royale Game As A Snap Games Exclusive

Zynga launches battle royale game as a Snap Games exclusive image Zynga the casual games developer which once rode Facebook’s platform to popularity and riches is now turning its attention to Snap for growth. Today, the gaming company is launching its new battle royale game, Tiny Royale, exclusively on ...

Oppo And Xiaomi Tease Under-Screen Selfie Cameras For Smartphones

Oppo and Xiaomi tease under-screen selfie cameras for smartphones image The next innovation in mobile is peeking its head for all to see today after Chinese companies Oppo and Xiaomi both showed off under-screen cameras. Apple’s notch set the ball rolling as a new way to pack a front-facing camera without ...

Medivis Gets FDA Approval For Its Augmented Reality Surgical Planning Toolkit

Augmented reality is coming to the operating room theater sooner than anyone may have predicted. Medivis , which launched its product suite earlier this year , has now received approvals from the Food and Drug Administration and will begin ...

Bose Previews Voice Controlled On-Ear Headphones And A Pair Of Wireless Earbuds

Bose just announced a trio of new headphones today. The company used the opportunity to primarily focus on the dryly named Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which purport to sport “the biggest leap forward in headphones since the iconic ...

These Johns Hopkins Students Are Slashing Breast Cancer Biopsy Costs

These Johns Hopkins students are slashing breast cancer biopsy costs image Over 2 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 . And while the diagnosis doesn’t have to be a death sentence for women in countries like the United States, in developing countries three times as many women die from the disease. ...

TC Sessions: Mobility Announces Its July 10 Agenda

TechCrunch Sessions is heading to San Jose on July 10 and we’re thrilled to announce our jam-packed agenda, overflowing with some of the biggest names and most exciting startups in the transportation industry. With Early Bird ticket sales ending ...

OnePlus’ New $99 Earbuds Promise Long Battery, Better Sound

OnePlus’ original Bullets weren’t the sexiest of earbuds, but they were a solid workhorse offering for those who prefer a yolked design to fully wireless. And like the rest of OnePlus’ offerings, the price was right. Announced today ...

InnoVen Capital, One Of Asia’S Most Prominent Venture Debt Firms, Adds $200m More To Its Kitty

InnoVen Capital, one of Asia’s most prominent venture debt firms, adds $200M more to its kitty image Founders might not believe it, but managing a venture capital firm isn’t all that dissimilar to a startup. Case in point today: InnoVen Capital, one of Asia’s most prominent venture debt firms, has pulled in $200 million in new money to ...

Google And Qualcomm Launch A Dev Kit For Building Assistant-Enabled Headphones

Google and Qualcomm launch a dev kit for building Assistant-enabled headphones image Qualcomm today announced that it has partnered with Google to create a reference design and development kit for building Assistant-enabled Bluetooth headphones. Traditionally, building these headphones wasn’t exactly straightforward and ...

The Headphone Jack Is Back For The Google Pixel 3a

The headphone jack is back for the Google Pixel 3a image Hello old friend. I knew you would be back. I didn’t know how or when, but I knew we would be reunited again. It turns out all it would take was a cratering smartphone market to bring you back around. Google, of course, famously stood its ...

Journey Launches Its Real-Time Group “Peloton For Meditation”

Journey launches its real-time group “Peloton For Meditation” image Sitting silently with your eyes closed isn’t fun but it’s good for you…so you probably don’t meditate as often as you’d like. In that sense it’s quite similar to exercise. But people do show up when prodded by the ...

Microsoft Announces The $3,500 HoloLens 2 Development Edition

Microsoft announces the $3,500 HoloLens 2 Development Edition image As part of its rather odd Thursday afternoon pre-Build news dump, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The company announced the much-improved HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona earlier this year, but it’s not shipping to ...

A New Era For Enterprise IT

A new era for enterprise IT image Aaron Levie Contributor Aaron Levie is the Chief Executive Officer of Box . More posts by this contributor Now the cloud wars (really) begin The Industrialist’s Dilemma Amidst the newly ...

av8 Ventures Launches With $170m To Invest In Digital Health, Mobility And Enterprise Tech

AV8 Ventures has closed on €150 million (about $170 million) for its debut early-stage venture capital fund to invest in seed and Series A startups in the U.S. and Europe focused on the “machine-enabled future.” Allianz, a German ...

Want To Know Where Epidemics Are Flaring Up Around The World? Metabiota Has The Tool For You

In an effort to inform the public of the health risks breaking out all over the world (or just to scare the bejeezus out of already paranoid people) the startup Metabiota has released a free-to-use epidemic tracker for all of the outbreaks ...

Didi Steps Up Financial Drive As It Courts Car Leasing Companies

Didi Chuxing is making a further push into the financial arena as it looks to diversify its business amid huge losses . We reported in January that the company, which controls a dominant slice of China’s ride-hailing market, released ...