Soylent, a three-year-old startup that makes meal replacement solutions, has suspended sales of its “Soylent Bars,” which have reportedly caused customers gastrointestinal sickness including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Soylent was founded by Robert Rhinehart with the goal of creating meal replacement products that meet all
Warner Bros. is closing a deal to acquire Machinima, an online content network for video game enthusiasts, at a price of $75 million, according to reports from The Information and other sources. Machinima was founded in 2000 by Allen Debevoise and is headquartered in West
Gaming veteran Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, and inventor Jason Crawford announced this week the launch of Modal VR™, a virtual reality technology solution company that the duo built specifically for enterprise users. [caption id="attachment_4642" align="alignleft" width="300"] Modal VR Hardware Set | Credit: modalvr.com[/caption] The Modal
Vault RMS, a technology platform that tracks firefighters’ exposure to toxic substances, announced last week that it was accepted into the Department of Homeland Security’s 2016 EMERGE accelerator program. The EMERGE program was founded by Dr. Reginald Brothers, under-secretary for science and technology at the U.S.
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) yesterday announced it has partnered with research company PitchBook Data, Inc., to launch the PitchBook-NCVA Venture Monitor, an informative new quarterly report that offers a comprehensive portrait of the venture capital landscape. The first-edition report replaces an older quarterly
On Tuesday, more than 1,000 attendees and 50 speakers, among them Southern California’s most celebrated founders, executives and investors, gathered at the scenic Skirball Cultural Center in Bel Air for the first Startup Grind regional conference to be held in the SoCal’s booming startup scene.
Since 2007, the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) conference series has been a leading industry event for digital marketing professionals around the globe, with regional events in New York, London, Munich, Paris and Jerusalem. Unlike marketing conferences that serve primarily as sales avenues for vendors and
According to multiple news sources, social media giant Facebook has acquired a two-year-old San Carlos-based startup called Nascent Objects, which helps hardware developers create market-ready products and gadgets in unusually short amounts of time. The startup invented what it claims is the “world’s first modular
The Battlefield has now been cleared, and the winner is… Mobalytics. At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, which took place Monday to Wednesday at Pier 48, the winner of the tech showcase of the year is a gaming analytics platform that brings personal improvement to the world
Today at TechCrunch’s Disrupt San Francisco, Reid Hoffman and Josh Elman of Greylock Partners shared their views about the most compelling emerging trends they are following in the startup world. Not surprisingly, self-driving technology is front and center. “It’s clear that the self-driving revolution is