TechCrunch Disrupt in London is on December 5-6! One month to go! It will be the place to come talk about new technology, your startup, other startups, everyones startups! Grab tickets here. So many speakers have already been announced. But, yes, there are even more to come. Today we’re delighted to say Shahar Waiser, founder of Gett, is also joining. Gett founder & CEO Shahar Waiser… Read More
While Uber and others fight over private car transportation, there remains an elephant in the room which has simply not been disrupted yet and which actually carries far more people on the planet: Buses. You may laugh at the idea, but we are not talking about creating an ‘Uber for buses’ here. The complication for passengers is not the bus coming to you, but the ability to… Read More
The two-day conference (preceded by a two-day hackathon), kicks off on December 5 in the former Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena, and wraps the following day with the finals of Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000 in cash. Deep learning legend Dr. Michael Lynch will talk about the future of AI and investing. The founder of hot London startup Citymapper,… Read More
TechCrunch Disrupt in London is fast coming up on December 5-6, and the speakers just keep coming. Today we’re delighted to say Taavet Hinrikus is also joining. Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise, the international money transfer platform. At TransferWise, he looks after marketing, product development, PR, and investor relations. He Hinrikus also serves as an Advisor at… Read More
These days you tend to hear about Russia in terms of its government hacking the US election. But some canny Russian developers have put their skills to something more productive: monitoring the TV appearances of world leaders. A team of Russian developers have released an AI powered algorithm that tracks all world leaders activities in all media. Based on the information the Verso service… Read More
With a women’s fertility declining just as they enter the full flush of their careers alongside their male counterparts (usually from the mid 20s to 30s) egg freezing has been on the rise. In 2014 only 6,200 women in the US opted to freeze their eggs to preserve their fertility. It took Apple’s and Facebook’s announcements of egg-freezing benefits — and perhaps a… Read More
