TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield finalists are BloomLife, Pillar Technologies, Siren Care and Stratio

 Over the past two days, 13 startups have taken the stage at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield. Now our…

SmartyPans tracks your meal’s nutrition as you cook it

 As you can probably guess from the company’s name, SmartyPans is building a smart frying pan…

Uru finds the best places to introduce ads in online videos

 New York City-based startup Uru is working on a new way for video publishers to make…

The Dodo is alive and well with 1 billion monthly video views

 Looks like people really do like animal videos. The team at The Dodo (an online publisher…

Backtrace, a debugging startup led by former AppNexus engineers, raises $5M

 Debugging startup Backtrace I/O was launched to solve a real problem that its founders faced when…

Nielsen will acquire Tribune-owned Gracenote for $560M

 Tribune Media Company announced today that it has agreed to sell Gracenote (which provides metadata around…

Personalization company Dynamic Yield raises $22M and adds Baidu as an investor

 Dynamic Yield, a company offering tools to help online businesses deliver personalized experiences, has raised $22…

‘Rogue One’ transports viewers to a bigger Star Wars universe

 For months, I insisted that I wasn’t going to see Rogue One. I was kind of…