software News of 08/21/19

GitHub Adds 21 New Partners To Its Free Student Developer Pack

For a few years now, GitHub has been running a program that gives students around the world free access to GitHub Pro and various free and discounted services from other partners as part of its GitHub Education program. In total, over 1.5 ...

Join The New Stack For Pancake & Podcast With Q&A At TC Sessions: Enterprise

Popular enterprise news and research site The New Stack is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 for a special Pancake & Podcast session with live Q&A, featuring, you guessed it, delicious pancakes and awesome panelists! ...

Twitter Blocks State-Controlled Media Outlets From Advertising On Its Social Network

Twitter is now blocking state-run media outlets from advertising on its platform . The new policy was announced just hours after the company identified an information operation involving hundreds of accounts linked to China as part of an ...

Twitter Says Accounts Linked To China Tried To ‘Sow Political Discord’ In Hong Kong

Twitter says a significant information operation involving hundreds of accounts linked to China were part of an effort to deliberately “sow political discord” in Hong Kong after weeks of protests in the region. In a blog post, the social ...

Ally Raises $8m Series A For Its OKR Solution

OKRs, or Objectives and Key Results , are a popular planning method in Silicon Valley. Like most of those methods that make you fill in some form once every quarter, I’m pretty sure employees find them rather annoying and a waste of their time. ...

‘Breaking Into Startups’: Torch CEO And Well Clinic Founder Cameron Yarbrough On Mental Health & Coaching

Chad M. Crabtree Contributor Share on Twitter Chad M. Crabtree is the editor-in-Chief at Career Karma Career Karma, covering the Future of Work, Tech Education, and Startups. There has long ...

Shell’S First Electric Vehicle Fast Charger Lands In Singapore

Royal Dutch Shell, the energy giant known for its fossil fuel production and hundreds of Shell gas stations, is creeping into the electric vehicle-power business. The company’s first DC fast charger launched Monday at a Shell gas station in ...

The Five Great Reasons To Attend TechCrunch’S Enterprise Show Sept. 5 In SF

The vast enterprise tech category is Silicon Valley’s richest, and today it’s poised to change faster than ever before. That’s probably the biggest reason to come to TechCrunch’s first-ever show focused entirely on enterprise . But here are ...

Week In Review: Snapchat Beats A Dead Horse

Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. ...

8 Million Android Users Tricked Into Downloading 85 Adware Apps From Google Play

Dozens of Android adware apps disguised as photo editing apps and games have been caught serving ads that would take over users’ screens as part of a fraudulent money-making scheme. Security firm Trend Micro said it found 85 individual apps ...

Media Software Plex Launches A New Desktop App For Mac And Windows

Plex today is launching a new desktop application for Mac and Windows , with the goal of eventually replacing Plex Media Player as the company’s only desktop solution. The app’s arrival also signals a change in direction for the ...

How Facebook Does IT

If you have ever worked at any sizable company, the word “IT” probably doesn’t conjure up many warm feelings. If you’re working for an old, traditional enterprise company, you probably don’t expect anything else, though. ...

Elon Musk: Spotify Is “Coming” To Tesla Vehicles In North America

Tesla owners in the U.S. and Canada may finally get that free Spotify Premium integration they’ve been asking for. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Wednesday night that Spotify premium integration is “coming.” Musk, who ...

VMware Says It’S Looking To Acquire Pivotal

VMware today confirmed that it is in talks to acquire software development platform Pivotal Software , the service best known for commercializing the open-source Cloud Foundry platform. The proposed transaction would see VMware acquire all ...

Every TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 Ticket Includes A Free Pass To Disrupt SF

Shout out to all the savvy enterprise software startuppers. Here’s a quick, two-part money-saving reminder. Part one: TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 is right around the corner on September 5 , and you have only two days left to buy an ...

Procore Brings 3d Construction Models To IOS

Today, Procore , a construction software company, announced Procore BIM (Building Information Modeling), a new tool that takes advantage of Apple hardware advances to bring the 3D construction model to iOS. Dave McCool, senior product manager at ...

Facebook Collected And Transcribed Users’ Audio Without Permission

“The future is private.” Clearly, Facebook still has a way to go. Facebook has become the latest tech giant to face scrutiny over its handling of users’ data, following a report that said the social media giant collected audio ...

The ClockworkPi GameShell Is A Super Fun DIY Spin On Portable Gaming

Portable consoles are hardly new, and thanks to the Switch, they’re basically the most popular gaming devices in the world. But ClockworkPi’s GameShell is something totally unique, and entirely refreshing when it comes to gaming on the ...

Clumio Raises $51m To Bring Enterprise Backup Into The 21st Century

Creating backups for massive enterprise deployments may feel like a solved problem, but for the most part, we’re still talking about complex hardware and software setups. Clumio , which is coming out of stealth today, wants to modernize ...

Roblox Announces New Game Creation Tools And Marketplace, $100m In 2019 Developer Revenue

A week after gaming platform Roblox announced its new milestone of 100 million monthly users — topping Minecraft — the company said at its fifth annual developer conference that its developer community is on track to earn $100 million ...