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Cheers Raises $2.5M Series A To Expand Its Positivity Network And Make The Case To Brands | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | , the app and social network built around , has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by MindFund and including Charles River Ventures, Trinity Ventures, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and others. The startup launched just over a year ago in February, and is still very much experimenting with its positivi... |
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Home Cleaning Service Pathjoy Becomes Homejoy, Raises $1.7M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | Pathjoy, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that makes it easy and affordable to have your home cleaned, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. It’s taking on a new name that sounds like a better fit for its mission — goodbye Pathjoy, hello . The funding came from , , Mike Hirshland/ , Max Levc... |
Microsoft Adds Android Support To Windows Azure Mobile Services | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | Last year, Microsoft , a cloud backend for mobile applications. But at the time, it only supported Windows 8, and the team then added iOS and Windows Phone 8 support a short while later. , Android users can also connect their apps to Azure Mobile Services and use the platform to store their structured data, use its... |
Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz ‘Decode’ Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s Farewell Memo — On Rap Genius | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | When invested into this past fall, they were keen to that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics, and extend to other forms of wordplay — literature, historical texts, political speeches, and the like. The venture capital firm has really put their mouths where their money is. and have b... |
This Facebook-Twitter Marriage Proposal Shows Social Media Might Not Be Killing Romance After All | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PniRBD1Kx1U] There’s this video making the San Francisco and tech industry this weekend, of Facebook staffer proposing to his longtime girlfriend, Twitter employee . It’s called the “ ” since Park incorporated the products built at both his and Wong’s day jobs into the whole... |
The Story Behind Qualtrics, The Next Great Enterprise Company | Derek Andersen | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | I met Ryan Smith about nine years ago in a college apartment in Provo Utah. We were both attending school, and after asking him what he was working on he replied, “I’m building an online research company with my dad called Qualtrics.” Nine years later Qualtrics has 5,000 customers, $70MM in funding, and turned down a $... |
What Games Are: Real-Money Gaming Is Really Boring | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | It seems that the United States may be becoming more open to the idea of real-money online gaming. Real-money gaming has been very successful in certain areas, and among investors it tends to be contrasted against trends like social games in very positive terms. The average lifetime value of a real-money player is gene... |
Kleiner Perkins Has Now Put Over $450 Million In Nearly 40 Mobile Investments | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | This week, Kleiner Perkins partner joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series. As we discussed on the show, Kleiner Perkins has been making a solid bet on mobile for the past few years. In fact, we’ve confirmed with the firm that it has put more than $450 million in 40 mobile companies. As Murphy... |
If You Are Reading This Here You Have Already Failed At Unplugging | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | Are you noticing that some things are a bit different today? People in cafes are actually talking to each other, no laptops in sight? Drivers at stoplights are accelerating as soon as the light turns green, without that “oops I was this text” lag? Don’t panic, you haven’t been somehow transported back to 1995 (though... |
Gillmor Gang: Pinch and Spread | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — spent a beautiful Bay Area day chatting amiably about Android, Apple, and the GUI formerly known as the Lock Screen. With notifications becoming the default interaction point with email, social, and app inputs, the Gang is s... |
Iterations: Much Ado About Yahoo! | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | TechCrunch Over the past few weeks, I’ve been genuinely surprised by the depth and reach of the reaction to any moves made by Yahoo! As someone who hasn’t been around the this place for too long, my sense is Yahoo!, despite its recent history of countless missteps, is still vitally important to the cultural memory of... |
A Look At Karma, A Tiny Wi-Fi Hotspot On A Mission | Scott Merrill | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | We wander the streets with tiny computers in our pockets and in our hands. We talk casually to these computers, just like Captains Kirk and Picard talked to the computers on their Enterprises. With the push of a button, our computers give us unprecedented access to the bulk of human knowledge. These computers sometimes... |
Evernote Saw First Signs Of Hacking On Feb. 28: Emails, Passwords And Usernames Accessed But Not Your Data Or Payment Details | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | is requiring its nearly 50 million users to reset their passwords after the popular personal note-taking app became the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts. The breach follows malicious activity at , and in recent weeks. Phil Libin, Evernote’s CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an email eve... |
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Counterfeit Is The New Real | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | Here’s a rather unfortunate development: The proliferation of recording devices and instant distribution is matched by our ability to falsify the information they produce. While they don’t exactly cancel each other out, they do have the awkward effect of turning an age of the most rigorous documentation into an age of ... |
Why Nokia Is Calling “Here” Here, The Curious Rebranding Of Their Maps Product | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | As Nokia tries to separate out its mapping business and make it a standalone entity earning more than 1 billion euros per year, it has stripped its name entirely out of the unit. This past week, the company — as in HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit. Yes, it does sound a bit strange. The that partners like Amaz... |
It’s The End Of The News As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 3 | 2 | The downside to pet projects is that they invariably teach you something you didn’t really want to know. This time, it was that most of the people who do what I do are doomed. Let me explain. Mostly for fun, I’ve recently built a I call Scanvine, which ranks and and by how often they’re shared on social media.... |
March Madness Gets A Full Court Press From The Tech World, As Pickmoto, IFTTT, & More Cater To Hoop Lovers Online | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | As you’ve no doubt heard by now, March Madness is upon us, with the NCAA tournament officially kicking off tomorrow. Yes, March Madness brings April gladness, as the saying goes. In fact, difficult as it may be to fathom, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament turns 75 years young this year. There are many ways to celebr... |
Game Of Thrones Creator George R.R. Martin Blames Australians, Distribution Delays For Show’s Most-Pirated Status | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Game Of Thrones is one of the most popular shows on HBO, but it’s also become the most-pirated series around the world. In an interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher Wednesday evening, Game Of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin lamented the rampant amount of piracy that the show faces, particularly in internatio... |
U.S. Department Of Defense Reportedly Planning To Buy 650,000 iOS Devices After Nixing BB10 To Cut Costs | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | The U.S. Department of Defense will order 650,000 iOS devices to replace older BlackBerry devices that are incompatible with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system after the sequester is over, . The DOD will order 120,000 iPads, 100,000 iPad minis, 200,000 iPod touches, and 210,000 various iPhones models. Electronista... |
Google’s Play Store Android App May Soon Get Another Facelift | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Google’s been awfully busy these past few weeks, but it seems that between (and pissing off most of the Internet in the process) and rolling out new services like the company has been working on a redesigned version of the Google Play Store for Android. That’s what the folks at claim, anyway. They appear to have ... |
YouTube Announces That It Has Hit One Billion Monthly Users, Which Is Roughly Ten Super Bowl Audiences | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Today, that it has hit a billion monthly users, which is an extremely insane metric. We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these numbers are something that even TV networks dream of. The great part for YouTube is that this means that online video ad spend will go up ... |
Payroll For Collaborative Consumption Startups Gets Easier With New Braintree-Venmo Service | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Braintree’s seems to be paying off once more for the Accel-backed company. The company is launching an easier way for collaborative consumption startups — which could include Braintree’s best-known clients like Uber and Airbnb — to pay their contractors or users. Basically, the headache is this: these companies work ... |
To Improve Conversations, Facebook Will Launch A Reply Feature And Most Active Threads On Pages And Popular Profiles | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | is preparing to roll out a new feature on Pages and popular Profiles that will help increase interactions with fans and readers: Replies. Up to now, visitors could comment on a post but others, including the Page owners themselves, would not be able to respond directly to them in cases of multiple people commenting on... |
British Airways Launches UnGrounded ‘Innovation Lab In The Sky’ To Solve Problems By Putting Techies On Planes Together | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | British Airways today announced the first of its innovation lab flights that will assemble 100 Silicon Valley luminaries on a flight to London to devise a platform for connecting tech talent with big problems around the world. A partnership with the UN, the inaugural UnGrounded flight will fly on June 12th with 100 l... |
Facebook Retargeting Startup Perfect Audience Launches A Reporting API For Agencies And Developers | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | When Y Combinator-incubated launched last year, its stated goal was to make it easy for small advertisers (startups, small agencies, and others) to run retargeted ads on Facebook. Turns out, however, that there’s been much broader interest in the startup’s tools, with customers including enterprise companies and larg... |
Ears-On With Spotify Social, The New “Follow” Feature Now Available To Everyone | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Spotify today confirmed to TechCrunch that it has finally completed the rollout of its new social following features that model music discovery after offline behavior — where you find songs through tuned-in friends and influencers. Here’s our hands-on demo and review of Spotify’s move to discovery through actual huma... |
ImageBrief, A Crowdsourcing System For Stock Photos, Closes $700,000 Round | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | , a request-based stock photo marketplace that aims to give Getty a run for its money, has raised a $700,000 round from Square Peg’s Paul Bassat and Justin Liberman as well as other Australian investors. The company, originally based down under, has thus far raised $2.2 million. Imagebrief uses a real-language search a... |
The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 2: Guilt And The Myth Of Doing It All | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | As we mentioned yesterday, we took an in-depth look at COO new book with a number of Generation Y women who are part of the Silicon Valley’s rising new guard. You can watch the first segment of the conversation, where we addressed fear and its effect on our careers It was a four-part discussion in all, and w... |
GoPro Sends Reviewer A DMCA Takedown Notice, Internet Explodes — But Wait! It Was An “Unfortunate Miscommunication” | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Word travels fast on the Internet. Especially when you don’t want it to. Early this morning, (a hybrid blog/photography store/photo sharing social network) replaced a review of GoPro’s Hero 3 with the text of a DMCA takedown they’d received. “@GoPro is bullying us with DMCA. We’ll have to remove this article soon”, t... |
Google’s Keep Could Take On Both Pinterest And Evernote, If It Gets The Google+ Social Plumbing | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Google today, after it . The product is as expected, a place to save notes, lists or photos on the fly, for safe…keeping. One of the things that jumped out at me after giving it a quick try is that you can switch to a layout that’s very similar to Pinterest, another app that wants you to hoard a bunch of things. The... |
TC Cribs: HotelTonight’s Sleek New San Francisco HQ — And Dangerously Well-Stocked Bar [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | It’s time for another episode of , the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the hallowed gates of the tech industry’s hottest companies to get a first-hand look at what they’re really like. This time, we headed to the shiny new San Francisco headquarters of , the company that makes the for booking same-day ho... |
Google’s Keep Note-Taking Web And Android App Gets Its Official Public Launch | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | After a , Google Keep, the note-taking app from the search giant, is now live. Google has officially unveiled , complete with a video detailing how it works, and there’s an , available through Google Play for devices running Android 4.0 and up. Keep was created by Google to satisfy the need of having to take down in... |
Vine, Tribeca Film Festival Launch #6SecFilms Vine Competition For Viners Obsessed With Vining Vines | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | Vine has steadily made waves ever since its launch in January. First it was a porn scare, and then it was widening growth against competitors like SocialCam and Viddy. And throughout it all, we’ve watched stars like Adam Goldberg vine their hearts out. But with today’s announcement that Vine is powering a new , the ap... |
Oracle Q3 Misses Wall Street Expectations With $9 Billion Revenue, 65 Cents EPS | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | this afternoon announced the financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2013, a report that seems to have disappointed stock market investors who were projecting a stronger performance from the company. The enterprise-focused software and hardware technology giant said it earned $9 billion in revenue during... |
VC Firm E.ventures Makes Its Internal Tracking Tool, The Daily Gieselmann, Available To All | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 20 | A few years ago, co-founder Tom Gieselmann decided to try to use data to give his firm a competitive advantage. And so he built a tracking tool to keep tabs on how different web properties were growing over time. , named after its founder, has been used by the company internally over that time. But it’s now being op... |
Microsoft Opens Online Flagship Store On Tmall, The ‘Amazon Of China’ | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Microsoft launched its in China today on Tmall.com, in a move that could help bolster the market share of its hardware, including tablets and smartphones in that country. Operated by Alibaba Group, Tmall.com is China’s largest consumer e-commerce platform, with more than 50,000 merchants. According to market research ... |
Google Chromebooks Go Global: Now Available In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland And The Netherlands | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Google has learned all that it needs to learn about the reception of its Chromebook laptops in the U.S. and UK and of Acer, HP and Samsung flavors of its device in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. As we’ve spent time with and OS, it has become apparent that the goal of the operating ... |
1Q Global PC Shipments Will Be Even Worse Than Expected, Thanks To Slowness In China, Says IDC | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Global PC shipments are expected to decline even more due to slower-than-expected growth in China, the world’s top PC market, during the first quarter of 2013, according to . 1Q shipments will decline by 7.7 percent, two percentage points more than what IDC had expected as vendors and the supply chain adjust to the W... |
Bowers & Wilkins Intros The Zeppelin Air And Z2 Wireless Speakers With iPhone 5 Owners In Mind | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Bowers & Wilkin’s is one of its best products, but as times evolve, so does the company and its products. That’s why the British Speaker manufacturer is introducing the Zeppelin Air wireless speaker and the brand new Z2. Not too long ago, B&W released the A5 and A7 speakers, for consumers who are truly wireless. Ne... |
Facebook Hires Co-Founders Of Trustworthiness Verification Startup Legit | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | , a startup working on a universal reputation system that could help sharing economy services verify whether users are trustworthy, has its team will join Facebook. Specifically, co-founders Jeremy Barton and Rob Boyle will now work for the world’s top social network. Legit’s exit blog post from a few days ago offers... |
Singaporean-Finnish Startup Nonstop Games Raises $2.9M For Core Gaming On iOS, Android | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | , a Singaporean-Finnish gaming company (yes, really), just picked up $2.9 million from two Scandinavian venture firms, Creandum and Lifeline Ventures, to build out core games for iOS and Android. The company’s team has an interesting backstory. was a head of studio at one of Europe’s biggest social gaming companies W... |
Google’s New Nexus 10 Tablet Commercial Focuses On Its Multiple Account Feature, And That’s An Advantage | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Google has been on a bit of a roll with its commercials lately, especially for its gadgets. Today, the company unleashed its latest commercial for the , its iPad competitor. The video tells the story of a couple who has just found out that they’re having a baby. Google has woven the Nexus 10 Wi-Fi-only device into t... |
Welcome Back, Me! | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | My phone buzzes. It’s a message from Eric Eldon. He, Alexia, and I had been talkin’ for a few weeks about the idea of me returning to TechCrunch, and we’d just locked in the following Monday — that is, today — as my (re)start date. “Start thinking about your intro post,” read the text. So I thought about it. A lot. I d... |
Security Expert Brian Krebs Faced A Real-Life SWATing After Posting About Russian Cybercrime Site | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Security writer Brian Krebs’ phone was spoofed and by hackers who apparently took offense at his investigations into various online hacking organizations. His website also suffered a denial of service attack for a short period. The attacks came after Krebs wrote about that specialized in selling credit reports and ... |
How A YouTube Sensation Beat Justin Timberlake And The Music Industry | James Altucher | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | I wish I had been smarter when I was 23 years old. I did everything wrong: I felt like I needed a college degree. I felt like I needed a graduate degree (I was thrown out of graduate school ultimately). I felt like I needed a publishing company to “choose me” to be a writer. I felt like I needed a big corporation to hi... |
The Basis B1 Fitness Band Is Amazing But Still Needs Polish | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Being as chiseled as I am is tough. You have to eat right (brownies only every other day), exercise (take the stairs to the attic), and keep tabs on things like your heart rate and body temperature while playing Sim City. That’s why the Basis is one of the best “general purpose” body monitors I’ve seen. The band, which... |
Philadelphia Startup SnipSnap Finally Brings Its Mobile Coupon Clipping App To Android | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | The team at has been quietly plugging away on an Android version of its popular mobile coupon app for what seems like ages now, but the wait for all you cost-conscious Android devotees is over. After some seven months in development, the Philly-based startup has finally pushed its eponymous app into the . If you’ve ... |
iPhone Still Ranks Far Above Samsung Galaxy Line In Mobile Ads, Says Velti | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | A lot of headlines have focused on the new Galaxy S4 as a potential iPhone challenger in terms of hype and mindshare, but mobile ad firm offers a different perspective in its February summary of global exchange data from its network. The company still sees iOS and iPhone dominating among mobile advertisers, despite t... |
Top Hat Monocle Takes Its Classroom Response System International, Signs Up 25K Students In Asia-Pacific Region | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | , the Toronto, Canada-based service that provides a web-based clicker and online homework tool that aims to make large lecture-based classes more engaging, just announced that it is expanding its reach to the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Australia and New Zealand. The company also announced that more than 25,00... |
EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down Over “Shortcomings” In Financial Performance | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | EA’s CEO John Riccitiello has just submitted his letter of resignation to the company’s board. He’s stepping down on March 30 and Larry Probst is stepping in as Executive Chairman. Probst will lead the hunt for a permanent CEO. The company announced the changes shortly after markets closed in New York and EA’s shares a... |
Zynga Looks To Revive Draw Something With A Sequel That’s Much More Of A Social Network | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Zynga’s biggest acquisition to date — — was the one it ended up being the most pilloried for. At its peak, Draw Something was beating Zynga’s longstanding Words With Friends franchise, a sore point for a company that positioned itself as the dominant social gaming company in the world. After it was acquired, the hit... |
Twitter Now Lets Its Self-Service Advertisers Access Advanced Campaign Tools, Target Based On Interests, Device Or Sex | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | Twitter wants brands to be able to target their ads effectively, otherwise why would you spend money to spray and pray your message to every single person on the network? Since the micro networking site can trap a lot of information about you based on who you follow and what types of posts you interact with, it only ma... |
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Cheezburger’s Ben Huh On Why Founders And Companies Should Be More Funny [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 18 | We sat down with Huh this past week at the festival in Austin, Texas to hear a bit more about what it means to be funny at work. Watch the video embedded above to see Ben talk about his personal definition of what humor is, why businesses should make fun of themselves more often, how people who aren’t necessarily ... |
New U.S. Cyber-Security Law May Hinder Lenovo’s Sales Growth | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | The President Barack Obama signed this week didn’t just prevent a government shutdown. It also requiring that U.S. government technology purchases first go through a cyber-espionage review process–a move that could potentially impact the sales of Chinese tech companies like Lenovo, which relies on sales to U.S. gov... |
Chinese Consumers Scoff At The State-Run Media’s Heavy-Handed Swipes Against Apple | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | Tim Cook has , but the government is not as besotted as Chinese consumers. China’s state-run media has taken several swipes at Apple this month, moves which may be part of a (heavy-handed) public relations strategy to pave the way for locally grown operating systems as the Chinese government seeks to move its IT indus... |
ZTE Posts Second Straight Net Loss Of $183M In Q4 On Emerging Market Woes | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | As it already warned, ZTE posted its second-straight quarterly loss, due to vastly trimmed margins in emerging markets, as well as contract delays and falling handset sales in China. It made a net loss of 1.14 billion yuan ($183 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, compared with its net income of 991.16 million ... |
Questionable Entries Prompt Google To Retract Some Glass Explorer Invitations | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | Google made plenty of nerds happy earlier this week when it began reaching out to the that would have the privilege of spending $1,500 on the company’s head-mounted Glass display, but that thrill wound up being short-lived for some. About seven hours after announcing that the outreach to would-be Glass Explorers beg... |
Boundless Vows To Continue Disrupting The Textbook Market, Even As Second Founder Departs, Litigation Drags On | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | Since emerging on the scene in early 2012, the Boston-based has been on a mission to give students of all ages a free, open-source digital alternative to the pricey world of hard-copy textbooks. But when you try to rock the boat, the powers-that-be will likely have something to say about it — especially when thousand... |
Surprise: Europe’s King Now Has Nearly As Many Daily Users As Zynga | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | Around four years ago, said he was close to selling , the arcade gaming company that he had co-founded and bootstrapped six years earlier. The company, which has a destination site at , had lost about 45 percent of its traffic as one of its biggest partners Yahoo! Games cut back. Facebook, the next big platform Kin... |
Shutterstock Launches Offset, A New Brand For Its Curated Collection Of Licensable Images | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | The leading online stock photography company launched a in January, which allowed users to search through the site’s 22 million images with keywords and specific colors. Today Shutterstock officially announced Offset, its new brand for its collection of top notch images that have been specifically curated for creat... |
Introducing MOX, A 24/7 Dance Music Web TV Channel | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | “Electronic dance music is what rock ‘n’ roll was decades ago. It’s a ‘fuck you’ to your parents.” “A lean-back, TV-like experience on the Internet is the future of television.” MOX.tv is a web tv channel built on these two ideas that’s coming out of stealth today. It broadcasts dance music videos, concerts, and news h... |
AlumniFunder Launches A Crowdfunding Platform Where Alumni Can Back Student Entrepreneurs | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | launched in beta this week with a simple mission: Help create a deeper relationship between current students and alumni, while supporting collegiate entrepreneurship and creativity. To do that, AlumniFunder wants to give alumni a platform by which they can invest in innovative projects created by students at their alm... |
BioShock Infinite Creator Ken Levine Says He Doesn’t Believe In Utopias (Including Peter Thiel’s) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | When my friends found out that I was going to interview ‘ Ken Levine, who led the development of the acclaimed video game , as well as its just-released sequel , everyone said I had to ask him about , a group that has been jokingly referred to as “ .” The institute was co-founded and funded by famed entrepreneur ... |
Amazon Studios Greenlights ‘Betas’, Another Comedy Show About Silicon Valley | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | Still feelin’ all ragey about the way Bravo portrayed the Valley in ? Worried Mike Judge won’t do it right (wait, does Mike Judge ever do anything not-right?) with his upcoming HBO comedy series? A new challenger approaches! Amazon has just announced that they’ve greenlit a pilot of ‘Betas’, a show about “four comp... |
Google Launches Maps Engine Lite, Makes It Easy To Create Advanced Custom Maps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | For years now, Google has offered its to enterprises that want to visualize their custom geospacial data. Starting today, anybody will be able to use a subset of this functionality, thanks to the of (beta). This new tool, Google says, will allow any mapping enthusiast to “create and share robust custom maps using... |
Store Charging Patrons $5 For ‘Just Looking’, To Offset Losses From Internet Shoppers | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | To make up for pesky competition from the Internet, the owner of an Australian retail store is $5 for “just looking”, in order to offset losses from shoppers who browse and then buy online. “If you’re going to be asking bucketloads of questions, you’ve got to pay for the information,” Celiac Supplies owner, Georgin... |
Encoding.com Adds Dynamic Text Overlays To Its Cloud Encoding Platform | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | You might think that video encoding — and specifically cloud-based video encoding — is a commoditized market. After all, it’s difficult to differentiate a service that basically just takes one big file and makes it into a lot of different smaller files to be watched on a lot of different devices. With that premise, the... |
Google Street View Launches Imagery Of Deserted Town Next To Fukushima Nuclear Plant | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | Two years after the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Google has made available of Namie-machi in the Fukushima exclusion zone. The area encompasses Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant, which after the disaster was . The 360-degree panoramic imagery, showing ruined buildings on empty streets, is both eerie and h... |
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Google Gives Tablet Video Viewers A Taste Of Its Knowledge Graph With Play Movies & TV Update | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | We’ve all been there: you’ll be watching a movie when someone familiar enters the frame, and you just can’t place a name to the face. Well, if you’re watching said movie on an Android tablet, those days may soon be over. Google has just pushed out an update to its app lets users tap into the search giant’s Knowledge ... |
Duo Is A DIY 3D Motion Sensing Controller | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | The is a 3D motion sensing controller, much like the and the – but with a DIY twist. Whereas the Leap Motion Controller comes in a small and elegant package, the Duo is meant to be tinkered with. A $20 contribution on their Kickstarter page is enough to nab detailed instructions, a comprehensive list of the off-t... |
Google Glass Will Be Made In The U.S.A., Report Claims, At An Assembly Facility In Santa Clara | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 27 | Google Glass, the advanced head-mounted computing project the company is gearing up for a possible launch later this year, will be assembled in the U.S., according to a new report from the . The assembly will take place in a facility located in Santa Clara and managed by partner Hon Hai Precision, also known as Foxcon... |
Y Combinator-Backed GetGoing Helps You Find Big Discounts On Airfare — If You Let It Choose The Destination | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | Sure, socially-powered recommendations or good old-fashioned serendipity can be useful tools for discovery, but, when it comes to deciding where you’re going to take the family on vacation, you’re probably not going to just throw a dart at a dartboard and wing it. You’re probably going to spend some time researching an... |
Pinterest Launches New Data Analytic Tool For Businesses As It Prepares To Monetize | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | Pinterest has started rolling out Pinterest Web Analytics, a tool that will allow businesses to see how many visitors the content-sharing service is referring to their sites. The first feature, which shows data on how many people have pinned from a site, the number of views each pin has, and how many users have visited... |
Enterprise Software-Defined Storage System SwiftStack Raises $6.1M From Mayfield | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | Enterprise storage company has raised $6.1 million in Series A funding led by Mayfield Fund with additional participation from Storm Ventures and UMC Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $7.6 million SwiftStack is building a software-defined storage solution specifically for object storage. The platfor... |
Russia’s Avito Becomes World’s 3rd Biggest Classifieds Site After $570M Deal With Naspers | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | South Africa’s Naspers has agreed to merge its two Russian online classified Web site with Avito in a $570 million deal that will make Avito the world’s third biggest classified site after Craigslist and China’s 58.com. As part of the deal, Naspers’ Web sites Slando.ru and OLX.ru will be merged into the Avito brand, .... |
TCTV Presents Highlights From The SXSWi Trade Show | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | From to , the SXSWi trade-show floor is a mixed bag. While not everything lent itself to an in-depth visit with the TCTV camera, we did find a few interesting companies in the mix. The trade show is an interesting admixture of media companies (WordPress had a nice presence) and apps alongside hardware and software... |
The Gigabot 3D Lets You Print Things That Are Bigger Than A Few Breadboxes | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | Austin-based re:3D just started a campaign for the Gigabot, a large-format 3D printer designed to build things on a 24x24x24 inch built envelope, allowing you to make much larger objects than you can with similar printers like the . You can get the bot kit for $2,500 or a pre-assembled unit for $4,000. The company w... |
Gina Bianchini On Leaning In So Hard You Fall Flat On Your Face | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | , the community website dedicated to women (and men) leaning into their ambitions, recently launched in conjunction with of Sheryl Sandberg’s conversation-sparking book Lean In. LeanIn.org co-founder , who is also the CEO of and an advisor to the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, says ... |
With Spotify On The Web Horizon, Rdio Takes Its Browser-Based Music Service To 7 New Markets; Now Reaching 24 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | The land grab for online music streaming services continues. On the heels of that is planning to take its web-based music player global to complement its desktop and mobile apps, competitor is extending its own browser-based music-streaming service to . Today, the company — founded and backed in 2010 by Skype/Ka... |
Agile Project Management Software Development Company Rally Software Files For $70M IPO | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | , a company that provides Agile project management applications for software development, has filed its initial S-1 for a public offering. According to , the company will raise as much as $70 million in the offering (but often these numbers are just placeholders). Rally’s products and services help businesses implemen... |
Google Shopping Express Test Partners Include Target And Other Local SF Stores | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | We’ve been getting all sorts of new info since we first ran our story about ,” its same-day and competitor. While we originally reported that the service would be $10 or $15 cheaper than Amazon Prime – so $69 or $64 a year – we’re now hearing that the pricing is still in flux. While Google irons out the kinks, we’... |
AnyPerk Raises $1.4M From Digital Garage And Others To Help Startups Offer Perks To Employees | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | which aims to provide companies and startups with discounts on web services and employee perks, is announcing $1.4 million in new funding from Digital Garage, Ben Lewis (a founder of Tapjoy and Karma), Michael Liou, CyberAgentVenture and Shogo Kawada (founder of DeNA). AnyPerk is an easy way for any company to provide... |
Google Details Glass Mirror API At SXSW, Shows Off Gmail, NYT, Evernote And Path Integrations | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | At SXSW this afternoon, Google provided developers with a first glance at the Google Glass Mirror API, the main interface between Google Glass, Google’s servers and the apps that developers will write for them. In addition, Google showed off a first round of applications that work on Glass, including how Gmail works on... |
CAA, William Morris, Kevin Rose & More Back Hot Online Classroom CreativeLIVE, Flickr Founder Joins Board | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | , the startup looking to bring a live, online classroom to creative entrepreneurs, announced today that it has raised $8 million in series A financing from Creative Artists Agency, William Morris Endeavor, CrunchFund and Google Ventures. The new investors join Greylock in backing CreativeLIVE, which , bringing the sta... |
BandPage Helps Any Musician Get Richer By Selling One-Of-A-Kind Experiences To Top Fans | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | Whales are big spenders, the ones that prop up casinos and social games. In music, whales are bands’ rabid fans. ‘s new “ ” feature lets artists sell them seats on stage, unique merch, or even a trip to the bowling alley with the band. The shift from MP3s to streaming means monetizing the long tail that earns musician... |
Sprint To Get A ‘Version 2.0’ Of The All-Touch Z10 Later In 2013, Reports Claim | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | It was something of a black eye for BlackBerry when it came out that Sprint wouldn’t be carrying the all-touch Z10 BB10 smartphone. A huge relaunch, integral to the company’s future success, and one of the four major U.S. carriers was taking a pass on the first hardware. But the carrier is going to sell the keyboard-to... |
More Layoffs And Downsizing At Vostu, South America’s One-Time Frontrunner in Gaming | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | , the onetime darling of the social gaming world in South America, appears to have just had a fresh round of layoffs over the last few weeks. Multiple sources who have worked with the company said that Vostu laid off about 100 people and is now down to somewhere between 50 and 70 employees. Vostu has not replied to mu... |
Julie Uhrman Recalls Being ‘Scared Shitless’ When She Launched OUYA’s Kickstarter Campaign | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | When launched campaign for its Android-based gaming console, CEO Julie Uhrman said she had “no idea” whether it would succeed. “I was scared shitless,” she said. Uhrman, who gave a keynote interview this afternoon at South by Southwest Interactive, admitted, “our path to market was unique” (though thanks to Kicksta... |
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Unicorn Apocalypse Is Real And It Sucks | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | Unicorn Apocalypse, the mobile game Samsung promoted in its TV ads that began airing at the , isn’t fictional after all – it’s a real, playable game . Generally speaking, the Samsung ads, designed by an agency called 72andSunny, were both relevant and memorable – they even featured cameos from Tim Burton, Seth Rogen ... |
After Previously Blocking It, Microsoft Now Enables Flash By Default On IE10 For Windows 8 And RT | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 11 | Today, Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8’s Metro/Modern UI mode and on Windows RT and only allows sites on Microsoft’s curated Compatibility View (CV) lists to play Flash content. Tomorrow, : all Flash content will run by default and the CV list will now be used to block sites from playing Flash content. Windows 8 u... |
Sequoia Capital In Singapore After A Year, Has Yet To Invest In A Local Startup | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | When landed in Singapore quietly in 2012, the buzz around town was that a big-name US fund being in the country was going to really jolt the market and provide serious cred to the startups here. The Indian team running operations here, however, appears to have spent the last year of its time in the island state helpi... |
The Dash Car Dongle Wants To Make You A Better Driver By Syncing With Your iPhone | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 29 |
I love my tiny little Mazda, but I’ll be honest — I still don’t completely understand how it . That’s never really bothered me before (I’d much rather geek out over a phone or something) but a from a has me itching to pay more attention to what’s really going on under the hood. Long story short, Dash combin... |
Business Insider’s Owen Thomas Is In Talks To Be The New Editor At ReadWrite | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | My old boss is very close to becoming the new editor-in-chief at the -owned tech site , according to sources with knowledge of the company. I’m hearing that it’s not quite a done deal, but that it’s looking very likely. Naturally, I called Owen to ask if this was the case, but he declined to comment. A SAY spokespe... |
With Alternative Offers From Blackstone & Icahn On The Table, Dell Filing Shows It Will Push Ahead With $24.4B Silver Lake Merger | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | Dell that it has filed its initial proxy materials with the SEC in connection with a merger agreement between Dell, its Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders would received $13.65 in cash for each share of stock, which would be valued at about $24.4 billion.... |
Stranded In SF? Corral Rides Shows Uber, Lyft, Sidecar And Muni In One App | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | Super Awesome SF Party A has just ended, and you need to figure out how to get to Super Awesome SF Party B … and preferably by spending as little money as possible. So what do you do? Muni? Uber? Lyft? Sidecar? Hoof it? You could switch between half a dozen different apps and try to figure out which of the options is... |
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