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Strangify your life with the Stranger Things title generator


techcrunch-rocks The meme of the moment is here and it’s pretty creepy. As our own Romain Dillet points out the title artistry for the Netflix series Stranger Things is surprisingly beautiful and compelling. Now the good folks at design studio Nelson Cash are letting make our own. While many of the titles I’ve seen so far aren’t very scary it’s still fun to make the thing say funny… Read More

Wheelys raises $830K from the crowd to bring coffee-bikes to the world


wheelys-eiffel-tower Wheelys Café just raised a large chunk of equity funding on Swedish crowdfunding platform FundedByMe to expand to more countries and pour gas on its already explosive growth around the world. The young company has had an illustrious history already, with a stint in Y Combinator, a successful Indiegogo campaign and now a vastly overfunded equity crowdfunding campaign. Read More

Casper makes dog beds now


DogBedLaunch_Facebook_1200x627 110 protoypes, 460 hours of lab testing and 11 months of sleep studies later, Casper is ready to starting shipping out dog beds. The mail order mattress startup that is almost single-handedly propping up the world’s podcasters now offers its service to canine companions for $125 a pop. The Casper Dog Mattress model is remarkably similar to the company’s human offering, with… Read More

Women 2.0 has new leadership, and is launching a tech recruiting service


The Women 2.0 Awards recognize women for their work in tech and venture capital. Women 2.0, a for-profit for-good media business that works to bring women into the tech industry and help them succeed there, has appointed Kate Brodock as President and Elisa Miller-Out as COO, according to founder Shaherose Charania.
 
Charania will maintain a board seat, she said. The changing of the guard comes for Women 2.0 after a phase of scaling back.
Founded in April 2006… Read More

Wozniak: Silicon Valley is not worried about Silicon Valleyish tech hubs springing up in other places


A wide-ranging interview with one of the most important people in the history of technology In the history of tech, there are very few people who made more impact than Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak. Today in Singapore, the man credited with inventing and developing the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, spoke at a media roundtable,...

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Former Google and Amazon exec Vivek Jain joins Housing as Chief Product and Technology Officer


Till date, the online realty startup has raised over US$100 million in capital from SoftBank, Nexus, Falcon Edge, Qualcomm, Yuri Milner etc. SoftBank-backed online real estate company Housing.com has appointed Vivek Jain as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Jain will focus on strengthening the product and engineering aspects of the business to help steer Housing...

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