Mar 13, 2015 | News, North America
Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from Lightspeed and Redpoint since getting off the ground around 2005, but will now be shut down. Some, but not all,...
Jan 5, 2015 | News, North America
TechCrunch Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps. Wit.ai’s platform will remain open...
Nov 20, 2014 | News, North America
We’ll need to produce 70% more food by 2050 to sustain a world population expected to grow to 10 billion. Yet agriculture startups struggle to get the funding, manufacturing, and test facilities needed to build tech that could boost food production. To fix that...
Aug 13, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Uber, Pinterest, Snapchat, and BuzzFeed all share a not-so-secret weapon in the talent wars: Greenhouse. The recruitment optimization SAAS turns hiring into a science, and guides them through where to source job candidates, what to ask interviews, how to...
Aug 8, 2014 | News, North America, Western Europe
TechCrunch MagForce injects iron oxide nanoparticles into a patient and then vibrates them with a magnetic field to generate heat that helps kill cancer cells. It sounds like science fiction but it’s real. That’s why Peter Thiel‘s late-stage investment firm Mithril...
