May 16, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch May 16, 2014 Word Lens wowed when it debuted back in 2010, with its tech that could translate the wording on signs captured with your smartphone’s camera automatically. Now, Quest Visual, the maker of that app, has been acquired by Google, the company...
Apr 8, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch April 8, 2014 Social writing platform and writer’s network Wattpad has been at it for a while now, and they’ve quietly amassed a massive user base that engages regularly with the site, posting their own stories and reading the stories of others, all the...
Mar 4, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch March 4, 2014 Toronto-based startup Slyce has raised a new round of $10.75 million in funding, led by Beacon Securities, and including PI Financial, Salman Partners, Harrington Global and more. The company builds image recognition tech, and wants to be the...
Feb 20, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch On the web, no one can hear you converse – or perhaps they can, but it’s not terribly easy to surface them and have a sustained, engaged dialogue around any particular topic. Threaded comment streams do this to some extent, as do forums, message...
Feb 18, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch These days, many hotel interactions with their guests happen through third-party platforms: The Travelocities, Yelps, and Foursquares of the world get the feedback that hotels need and depend on, and this generally happens in a public forum. One-to-one...
