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The Kingmaker Strategy: Pioneered By The Chinese Internet Giants, Coming To America? | Jeff Richards | 2,014 | 11 | 15 | A few weeks ago, Chinese e-commerce giant made a number of announcements at its annual developer conference. Several announcements surrounding its mobile strategy related to a Silicon Valley startup called . What is a $200 billion+ e-commerce giant doing with a startup based in Mountain View, Calif.? It’s the late... |
Most People Prefer The iPhone 6, But The 6 Plus Is Selling OK, Says Analyst | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 11 | 15 | Turns out you weren’t the only one that thought the new iPhone 6 Plus is just too big to carry around as a normal phone. A new study suggests [ ] that the sales of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are largely driven by the 4.7-inch model. However, while forming less of the sales figures, the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus has still cap... |
As Developers Depart, Google Glass Is Ready To Become This Era’s Segway | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 11 | 15 | Just over 18 months ago Google Chairman Eric Schmidt he found having to talk to Google Glass out loud “the weirdest thing” and admitted that there would be “places where Google Glass are inappropriate.” Well, hello! I think the average person could have told Google this long before they spent millions developing the ... |
Google Is Driving A Bus Across Bangladesh To Help 500,000 Students Learn About The Internet | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Google is literally hitting the road to promote the potential of the internet in Bangladesh. , an educational program aimed at teaching key digital skills to more than half a million students in the South Asian country. There are some outlandish programs to help connect the world’s population — including , , and —... |
Sony Is Launching Its Own Internet TV Service, PlayStation Vue, In Early 2015 | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Sony is the latest contender to throw its hat into the content streaming ring after it plans for PlayStation Vue, a cloud-based service that includes programming from 75 channels. PlayStation Vue will be able available for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. The TV service, which Sony said will initially be availabl... |
Korean Internet Giant Daum Kakao Launches Its Own Mobile Payment Platform | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | , one of the largest Internet companies in South Korea, has launched a mobile payment platform called BankWalletKakao as it addresses concerns about its ability to grow in international markets. Daum Kakao was by the merger of Daum, one of South Korea’s largest Internet portals and search engines, with Kakao, the mak... |
Steve Ballmer’s Harvard Donation Will Allow It To Add 12 New Computer Science PROFESSORS PROFESSORS PROFESSORS | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made a massive gift to his alma mater, Harvard, that will enable its computer science faculty to grow 50 percent by adding 12 new professors. Ballmer that his goal is to see the university’s computer science department rival its peers at MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and maybe... |
Uber Launches Wallet-Based Payment System In India To Comply With New Regulations | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | a wallet-style payment system in India in response to that require all online transactions to pass through domestic payment systems. The new payment method now allows customers to essentially pay with their debit card or net banking account, in addition to a credit card as before. Cash payments are still not support... |
DJI Introduces The $2,800 Inspire 1 Transforming Drone | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | DJI is the leader in drones and the company just introduced a radical new model. The Inspire 1 builds upon the success of the Phantom and integrates some of the magic found in the firm’s professional-level drones, including the ability to stream 1080p video up to a mile away. At $2,800, the Inspire 1 isn’t cheap, but i... |
A Quick Look At Google Inbox | Brian Clay | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | A few weeks ago I managed to get my hands on Google’s new app, . So far I love it, but it’s not quite ready to be my go-to email app for a few reasons. First, let’s start off with the good. The UI is faster and smoother than the standard Gmail app. It is also more one-hand friendly, which is a necessity if you’re ro... |
Viddsee Launches An iOS App To Bring Short Films From Asia To Your Phone | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | If you’re ever caught with a little free time to fill, perhaps during your commute or while lazing around on the sofa at home, wants to help you fill it with the best short films from Asia. The Singapore-based startup just launched an that showcases more than 700 films from independent filmmakers across the continen... |
Gogobot Gets $20 Million In Strategic Investment Led By HomeAway | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Travel discovery startup has spent the last several years helping users to find places to go and things to do, but to date it’s mostly done that by word of mouth. Today the company is announcing that it’s received some strategic backing from HomeAway, which should help it expand its marketing and distribution efforts... |
Oculus Mobile SDK Goes Live For VR Developers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Oculus VR has been working with Samsung to make mobile virtual reality a reality, and just today Samsung detailed launch information for the for its Galaxy Note 4 handset. The Gear VR set is power by Oculus Mobile software, and so Oculus is launching the official today to help prepare some apps for the new platform.... |
Samsung’s Gear VR Headset Will Cost $200, Ship In Early December | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Remember the Gear VR, Samsung’s Oculus-inspired virtual reality headset? Rather than plugging the headset into a computer or console, you’d slip a phone (just the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, for now) into the headset and it’d act as the display, power source, and brains of the operation. Take the idea of Google Cardboard an... |
Google Starts Rolling Out Android 5.0 For Older Nexus Devices | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Good news! After a few delays caused by last-second battery bugs, Google is now rolling out Android 5.0 (aka Lollipop) to many of its previously released Nexus devices. Starting today, users of the Nexus 4, 5, 7, and 10 should start seeing Lollipop hit their handsets. The not-so-good news: It’s rolling out in waves, an... |
Microsoft Updates Windows 10’s Preview With Gesture Support, OneDrive Tweaks And Bug Fixes | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | As , Microsoft released a new build of for users who are in the “Fast” update cycle for the company’s next operating system. The build that users requested, including new animations for minimizing applications, and the ability to change what buttons appears on the Start bar. On the new feature front, three-finger ... |
Family Believes Missing Engineer’s Body Was Found In San Francisco Bay | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | The family of missing tech worker Dan Ha has announced that a body matching his description was found in the San Francisco Bay this Tuesday morning. No one had seen or heard from Ha, an iOS developer for Bay Area startup Metromile, since Halloween night. Metromile CEO Dan Preston about his disappearance, while friend... |
Investors Fav Twitter’s Instant Timeline Onboarding And Retention Fix, Shares Soar 7% | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Wall Street wants more Twitter users, so when the company revealed a powerful way to gain and keep them on its analyst call, investors boosted its 7.53% up to $42.57. An upcoming feature called will equip new users with a feed full of high-quality content upon signup, proving Twitter’s worth until users can volun... |
Samsung’s Gear VR Headset Goes On Sale Next Month | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Samsung has good news for those looking to try virtual reality on-the-go. At its developer conference this morning, the company announced that an Innovator’s Edition of its will go on sale early next month. The South Korean electronics giant failed to give an exact date or price for the headset, though it reiterated ... |
FCC Denies Break With President On Net Neutrality, Says “All Options On Table” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Today, the FCC’s Special Counsel for External Affairs tweeted that reports of a rift between the President and the agency’s views on net neutrality were overblown. Sohn made it clear, however, that the FCC is weighing options that are different from what the President proposed : WaPo took comments out of context. D... |
Facebook Launches “Say Thanks,” A Personalized Video Creation Tool For Thanking Your Friends | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Clearly, Facebook wants more users building and sharing videos on its service. Today, the company announced “ ,” a new tool that lets you quickly put together personalized video cards using a combination of pre-built themes and your own posts and photos. The end result is an easily shareable — if a bit cheesy — customi... |
Samsung’s New Smart TV Development Platform Runs On Tizen | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | Samsung is hoping to make it easier for developers to build apps for its smart TV devices. As part of that effort, the consumer electronics giant has decided to enable developers to leverage the to do so. Today at the Samsung Developer Conference, Samsung exec Eric Anderson talked up the company’s , which will repla... |
MLB Runs Its Massive Statcast Tool In The AWS Cloud | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 12 | recognizes it’s a software-defined world and as such over the last several years, it’s been moving quickly to create applications to enhance the fan experience and let them watch and interact with MLB properties, wherever they are on whatever device they wish to use. But MLB is also a statistics-driven game so the lea... |
U.S. Authorities Are Reportedly Gathering Phone Data Using Fake Celltowers On Planes | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | more than 18 months ago, but the rate at which we learn new information about government spying programs shows little sign of slowing. Witness today, claiming that the U.S. Justice Department is “snagging [mobile data belonging to] a large number of innocent Americans'” via technology that can identify criminal susp... |
Peach Is A Flash Sales App With An Auction-Based Twist | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | There are already a gabazillion flash sale sites and apps available, but the Berkeley, California-based founders of believe that there is still room for innovation in the world of online impulse buying. Instead of just offering discounted goods, Peach lets customers name a price for its merchandise, most of which is ... |
SXSW Wants More Control Over Downtown Austin And Permit Limits On Unofficial Events | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | The free alcohol may not flow so abundantly at SXSW 2015. Event organizers have asked the city of Austin to cut down on the amount of permits it hands out to unofficial meet-ups, sessions and parties that run in tandem with the main festival. It cites overcrowding and too much free booze from parallel events as safety ... |
Mind Candy Reports Losses As Moshi Fades And It Pins Hopes On Warriors | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | As was widely predicted after ’s Moshi Monsters smash-hit game failed to make the shift from Web to mobile in any meaningful way — apart from a few cursory apps — its financial results looked dismal. The company has announced that it lurched to a net loss of £2.2 million ($3.5 million) in 2013, after making an £8 mill... |
Say Media Is Selling Off Its Content Sites, Including ReadWrite and xoJane | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | owns sites like xoJane, ReadWrite, — but the company doesn’t plan to own them for much longer. [ Fashionista is actually owned by Breaking Media. Sorry — I was confused by the fact that it’s listed in but that list also includes sites that the company is partnered with but doesn’t own.] CEO Matt Sanchez that th... |
Ex-Reddit CEO Wanted To Move The Company To Daly City Instead Of SF [Updated] | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | As we , Reddit CEO Yishan Wong has resigned from the company after what Y Combinator President Sam Altman called a “disagreement with the board” about the location of Reddit’s new office. If that reasoning sounds a bit strange to you, you’re not alone. Folks around the Internet are asking why someone would up and leav... |
Sintratec Is Going To Build The First Sintering Desktop 3D Printer | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | A is planning to release the world’s first sintering 3D printer for the desktop. Sintering, which is the process of building a 3D object by shooting lasers at a layer of nylon powder, is one of the best ways to make high resolution objects that are completely solid. The company is planning to launch the soon and wi... |
The Prynt Case Turns Your Smartphone Into A Polaroid Camera | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | Hot off of their demo day presentation last week, hardware startup was nice enough to drop by TechCrunch HQ to show off the latest prototypes of their smartphones cases, which contain built-in printers so you can instantly get a copy of that selfie with your best friends. The small French startup has been working o... |
Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare Review | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | , Activision is taking the extremely successful Call of Duty mostly to places it’s already been, which is to say this is a game about war, shooting, explosions and guns. But it’s also taking a stab at some realistic futurism with the ‘Exo’ suits your character gets to wear, which augment your ability to navigate your e... |
TubeMogul Soars 14% After Reporting Strong Q3 Revenue Of $27.4M, Smaller-Than-Expected Loss | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | Rising nearly 6 percent in regular trading, TubeMogul spiked 16 percent in after-hours trading after better-than-expected revenue, profit and guidance. The company had revenue of $27.4 million in the quarter, compared to of $21.77 million. The quarter’s tally was up 112 percent from the year-ago quarter. TubeMogul’... |
NSA Surveillance Faces Senate Test | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | The United States Senate could vote on the USA FREEDOM Act as soon as next week, pushing the surveillance reform bill ahead this year. That would buck that the Act was not a legislative priority, likely ending up shelved until the next Congress. There is still some fight in this Congress after all. Exiting Senate Maj... |
Reddit CEO Resigns, Alexis Ohanian Returns As Chairman | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | If there’s one constant in life, it’s change, and the fourth quarter of 2014 has brought , the massively popular aggregation site that could. So here’s some more news: Reddit CEO Yishan Wong has resigned, COO Ellen Pao has become interim CEO and co-founder Alexis Ohanian has returned to the company he founded in 2005 ... |
Google To Stop Letting Developers Use Google Wallet To Sell Digital Goods | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | Back in 2012, Google launched an API that allowed developers to use the Google Wallet service to sell digital goods — things like music, or levels in a web game, or subscriptions to online magazines. If you’re using that API, it’s time to find a replacement. Google has just announced that they’re killing it off in the ... |
Amazon Launches Its Fastest EC2 Instances Yet | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | Amazon today announced its . The new so-called c4 instances will feature a 2.9 GHz Haswell processor (with bursts up to 3.5 GHz with Turbo boost) with up to 36 virtual CPUs and up to 60 GiB of RAM. Intel exclusively developed the Haswell processor for Amazon. The company tuned the processor to exactly match Amazon’s r... |
Kanvas Debuts An iOS Keyboard That Lets You Send Decorated Photos, Stickers And GIFs…Or Even Just Text | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | , a photo-editing app that lets users add text, stickers, drawings and music to images as well as stitch together photos, GIFs and videos, is now bringing its set of creative tools to a new application for iOS users: As you may guess by its name, the new app is an iOS 8-compatible keyboard app that lets you quickly a... |
Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | announced a new service today called Lambda, a stateless event-driven compute service for dynamic applications that doesn’t require provisioning of any compute infrastructure. As AWS’s CTO Werner Vogels pointed out, this will enable programmers to reduce their overall development effort. You simply write the code and ... |
BBM Meetings Turns The Messenger Into A Cross-Platform Virtual Conference Service | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | BlackBerry is rolling out a number of new enterprise-focused features and partnerships today, which is a sign that CEO John Chen is on the right track when it comes to effecting a workable turnaround for the beleaguered Canadian tech firm. Part of that is a new feature for BBM which should prove popular with enterprise... |
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BlackBerry Teams With Samsung To Beef Up Android Security With Knox And BES12 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | BlackBerry is to make Android security more robust, using its own Knox solution for Galaxy devices, as well as BES12, BlackBerry’s enterprise device management and enterprise mobility solution. The partnership is significant on both sides, and gives Samsung and BlackBerry a way to dig in and protect market position a... |
iOS App Install Tracking Comes To Google Analytics | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | Google Analytics is getting a powerful new feature, the company today: the ability to track iOS app installs. The new reporting function, which allows customers to better measure marketing campaigns related to acquiring mobile app users, now works with those who advertise via Google AdWords as well as third-party mob... |
The Scout Alarm Is Always Prepared To Keep Your Home Safe | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 13 | floor walkup in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The building is old — I have to hide from hot water in the shower whenever a neighbor flushes their toilet and my floor is legitimately slanted toward one side of the house. My across-the-hall neighbor has come home to a broken-in, robbed apartment three times. In short, I am the pr... |
Uber Integrates With Spotify To Let Passengers Become Backseat DJs | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | is adding a new feature to its mobile app that could allow passengers to play DJ while they take a ride with one of its drivers. Thanks to an integration with , Uber will soon make music a central part of its ride-hailing service. Some screenshots obtained by TechCrunch show how the service will likely work. In the f... |
Bitcoin Startup Coinbase Is Raising Another $50 Million | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | Bitcoin startup is seeking to raise another round of funding, which could add $50 million in new capital before it’s finished. According to sources, however, the company has faced headwinds in the fundraising process that may limit the total amount raised. Sources tell us Coinbase is raising $50 million of new capita... |
Senator Ted Cruz Dishes Once Again On That ‘Net Neutrality’ Thing | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | The good from Texas tackled net neutrality again today, with a bit more tact than earlier this week when he called it “ .” It wasn’t immediately clear at that point what the connection between the Affordable Care Act and the preservation of the open Internet was, precisely, but the comment . Today, at a Texas incuba... |
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | This week’s tech highlights included a few big moves from Microsoft, President Obama’s stance on net neutrality, the MBA Bubble, and more. Here are the stories you don’t want to miss this week (11/8-11/14). Google announced that the company has agreed to a for the next 60 years. Regarding the deal, NASA Administrato... |
Yik Yak Is Close To Closing On Roughly $75 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | Thank the for turning into the newest technology craze and an . Only a year after its launch, the app is now close to closing on roughly $75 million in new financing, according to several sources with knowledge of the company. With a focus on local and anonymous messaging for college students, Yik Yak has overta... |
With theBomb, The Makers Of theChive Aim To Create A Viral Video Hub | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | , the startup behind the popular photo site , is moving into the viral video business with the launch of a new property, . Even if you’re not a regular Chive visitor (or, to use the parlance of the site, a Chiver or a Chivette) you may be familiar with one of the site’s publicity stunts from wayyyyy back in 2010, w... |
CrunchWeek: Obama On Net Neutrality, Microsoft Open Sources .NET, And Twitter Meets Wall Street | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | On this week’s episode of CrunchWeek, I was joined by TechCrunch writer and editor to talk about the biggest surprises in the tech scene. We discussed President Obama finally , rather than as an “information service.” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler , which must be frustrating for the President who appointed him. Next... |
Facebook Cracks Down On Non-Ad Promotional Feed Posts, Bait-And Switching Pages That Bought Likes | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | “BUY THIS!” “INSTALL NOW!’ “CONTEST!” Facebook is about to that with these kind of words to the News Feed. Facebook will show them to a lot fewer of their fans, even if the Page paid for ads to get those fans. After a study of 500,000 users found they wanted to see less promotional content, and that the majority of... |
Jukely Offers Unlimited Concerts For $25 A Month | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | A music startup out of New York could give StubHub and other ticketing sites a run for their (proverbial) money. It’s called Jukely and in their city for just $25 a month. “We asked how much people would pay — $100? No. $50? Still too high. Then we asked if they’d pay $25 and that seemed to spark their interest,” Juk... |
Atlas Wearables Raises Another Million For Its Smarter Fitness Tracker, Starts Shipping This Winter | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | Wearables are a crowded market, but in the fitness-tracking niche, many of the top devices today are still just glorified step trackers with fancier software and a few more bells and whistles. A company called wants to push the fitness-band market forward with a device that’s able to track which exercise or activity ... |
Clover Lets You Order A Date Like You Would A Burrito | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | New dating app is a sort of but with the “algorithmic matching” included in other online dating sites like eHarmony. The twist? It aims to make it as easy to order a Friday night date as it is to summon your next burrito. “Our new on-demand service will find people that actually want to meet you and you’ll be able ... |
The FCC Responds To AT&T’s Net Neutrality Saber Rattling | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | AT&T that it would “ ” the rollout of fiber Internet connections to dozens of cities, due to uncertainty in the market caused by potentially stiff net neutrality rules that may be put into place. The president recently by calling for reclassification of broadband under Title II. The news from AT&T that it would hal... |
BlackBerry To Ship A Classic BlackBerry With Modern Software In Mid-December For $450 | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | Did you used to carry a BlackBerry, but have since moved on to an iPhone, Android, or well… pretty much anything else? Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, pawing at the air for the glorious click of that wideset physical keyboard? Good news! As we , BlackBerry has been working on a “Classic” handset that m... |
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Scaled Inference Lands $8M From Khosla To Build A Cloud-Based AI Platform For All | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | — a startup founded by two ex-Googlers that is building a cloud-based platform for third parties that want to use artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to run their apps and services — has raised another round of funding to continue its development and hiring, a Series A round of $8 million from Khosla Ve... |
Judge Puts Pressure On Apple By Consolidating Lawsuits Over Undelivered Texts | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | Yesterday, Judge Lucy Koh made a ruling that affects two separate lawsuits filed against Apple involving the company’s alleged failure to deliver text messages to the intended recipient after users switched from iPhones with iMessage to Android. The first case was filed in May by plaintiffs Adam Backhaut, Joy Backhaut,... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nexus 6, Scout Alarm, And Other Fun Toys | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | The fall weather and the swift approach of the holiday season has us aspiring for some of our favorite things and settling in for a cold winter. Darrell is unimpressed with the , but I’m loving my new, configurable . Matt is , and John’s excited about some special . We discuss all this and more on this week’s episo... |
A Gift Guide For The Young At Heart | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | Some people never grow up. They might age, go into debt and get mortgages, but they don’t get older in spirit. And that’s great! What follows is a gift guide for a person still holding onto their inner child. They’re gifts for the young at heart and the person not afraid to let loose. Or you know, for kids. The 8BITDO ... |
SysCloud Raises $2.5M To Help Businesses Keep Their Google Apps Accounts Safe | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | , a service that offers a comprehensive suite of services aimed to keep companies’ Google Apps accounts safe and backed up, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million Series A round led by new investor Inventus Capital Partners and previous investor KAE Capital. While SysCloud currently specializes in Google App... |
The Point Will Watch Your House While You’re Away | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | When you leave home, who makes sure all of your newspapers, back issues of TV Guide, and take-out containers are safe? If all goes according to plan, has got your back. The point is essentially a simple sensor that listens for loud noises – glass breaking, doors opening – and senses motion. If anything happens you’ll... |
The Application Deadline For Hardware Battlefield Is Saturday | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 11 | 14 | Procrastination is a bitch. But fame and fortune is on the line here. Get your application in for Hardware Battlefield by Saturday night for your chance to win $50,000, exhibition space at the International CES in Vegas and our amazing Metal Man trophy. For the first time, TechCrunch has partnered with the CEA to be an... |
Marketplaces Are Eating Firms | Josh Breinlinger | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | If , then marketplaces are one of the agents of destruction. Marketplaces are eating every type of firm on the planet. Let’s look at where the feasting is happening. With the majority of the work going to individual freelancers rather than small agencies around the world, is killing the traditional outsourcing fi... |
Is It The Beginning Of The End For Cable Or Just A New Beginning? | Braxton Jarratt | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | In mid-October, HBO dropped a bombshell — albeit a long-rumored one — with the news that it would some time in 2015. The media and Game of Thrones fans everywhere immediately went into overdrive, analyzing every last one of the scarce details to death (What content will be included? How much will it cost? Should I ... |
How To Raise Venture Capital In A Frothy Market | Brian Brown | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | Raising venture funding may have just gotten a little tougher. A major investor recently announced that venture capitalists are “taking on an excessive amount of risk right now – unprecedented since ’99.” Marc Andreessen recently that valuations seemed to be getting “warm.” Add to this the public market jitters, with... |
Google’s Nexus 6 Might Be Too Big For Right Now, But Right-Sized For The Future | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | As Greg Kumparak noted in the , the phone is very large. Too large, in fact, for most humans. Back when it was just a rumor that Google would be picking Motorola to provide the Nexus 6 hardware, and that it would indeed be a monster with a 6-inch display, I lamented the phabletization of the Nexus line before it was e... |
Colombia Is One Of Latin America’s Most Promising New Tech Hubs | Conrad Egusa | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | , the idea that Colombia would become a burgeoning hub for any dynamic industry beyond its notorious drug trade would have struck most observers as far-fetched. As recently as the turn of the century, conventional wisdom had it that the tropical, Andean nation was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Fast forward t... |
Debunking The 7 Myths of Marketing In The Enterprise | Mamoon Hamid | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | Over the last few months enterprise giants and have put on shows featuring the likes of Hillary Clinton and Bruno Mars reminding all of us in the enterprise world that marketing matters. While most enterprise startups will never reach these levels of budget and glamour, this time of the year does serve as a remin... |
Elon Musk Testing ‘X-Wing’ Fins For Reusable Rockets, Seafaring Spaceport Drones For Landing | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | Let’s face it: Elon Musk is probably a time traveller sent back to help us leave earth behind and achieve the next phase of human evolution. The inventor and entrepreneur issued a minor tweet storm today, in which he detailed a new SpaceX program to test the function of “X-Wing” style grid fins that could help spacecra... |
Gillmor Gang: Cash or Charge | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Hard not to talk about Uber, given the clash between hubris and transformational momentum. The Gang swims in a sea of messaging apps, Facebook passport control, Google InBox immigration. Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, wai... |
Patrons Aims To Hook Your Office Up With Live Performances | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | is an app makes it easy to hook your place of business up with a band that has a little bit of free time before a performance. The idea is that the artist can pick up an extra gig while in town for another performance. It’s an offshoot from live music booking marketplace . According to founder , you can also book yo... |
Adobe’s Cloud Photoshop Suggests We May Finally Realize The Dream Of Streamed Computing | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | I’ve been writing about tech for nearly a decade now, and in that time, one thing has always seemed perpetually promising, and yet also ultimately unsatisfying: remote streaming consumer computing. I’m not talking about remotely connecting to your work PC to grab a couple of files, but actually using programs interchan... |
Canva Courts Design Pros With New Social Features And A Marketplace For Their Work | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | US-Australian startup wants its easy-to-use design platform to literally be the for design professionals, and its injecting a dose of social into the mix after public user profiles, a Twitter-style following system, and a real-time content stream. The update, which rolled out to the web version of the service fir... |
Every Company Needs A Chief Digital Officer | Neha Sampat | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | In an increasingly digital world, where everything from marketing to R&D and customer service is becoming digital, the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is more important than ever in helping drive company growth and a better connection with customers. Recently Gartner for 2015 citing the impact of the digital business s... |
Evernote Updates Its Penultimate App Following Criticism, Showing Tech Firms Do Listen | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 22 | Here’s a positive story about tech companies and their awareness of the outside world, just in case . for its Penultimate digital handwriting app for the iPad that it hopes will end more than a week of frustration for its users. , which lets you create notes and designs as if you are using paper, more than two years... |
Samsung Electronics Sells Assets In Defense, Chemical Units, Plans To Reinvest Capital In Core Business | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Samsung Electronics that it will sell stakes in Samsung Techwin and Samsung General Chemicals to Hanhwa Corp. in order to raise money for new investments. Like Samsung Electronics, Samsung Techwin, a defense firm, and Samsung General Chemicals are subsidiaries of South Korean mega-conglomerate Samsung Group. Samsung ... |
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Den Is A New UK Home Automation Platform, Raising Crowd Financing | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | It’s strange, because until now most home automation system which involve accessing the power outlets seems to have been designed for nerds to show off their ‘touch sensitive’ switches. But it’s taken a 19-year-old from Kent, England to produce a power socket aimed at the mainstream UK market which carries a , that lo... |
Zuck Will Do Another Public Q&A In December | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Do you have a question that you’re dying to ask Mark Zuckerberg? Did you miss your shot during the ? Fret not. It seems the “Q&A With Mark” concept is set to become a regular occurence. Earlier this morning, Facebook announced that a second Q&A event will occur on Dec. 11th at 2PM pacific. Meanwhile, they’re offering ... |
This Is The First Thing To Be 3D Printed In Space | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Imagine you’re an astronaut on the International Space Station. Congratulations! Childhood-you would be so proud. You’ve been sent a 3D printer. So… what do you print first? A ? ? TechCrunch editor ? Nah – this is space. If Sandra Bullock has taught me anything, it’s that . Here’s the first thing 3D printed in spac... |
Singaporean Mobile Game Developer Inzen Raises $748,000 To Tackle The Chinese Market | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | , a Singapore-based mobile game developer, has raised a Series A round of $935,000 SGD (about $748,000). The company is setting its sights on China as it prepares to launch a new portfolio of titles for international markets next year. Its latest funding round, which brings the total Inzen has raised to $1,485,000 SGD ... |
Grab Your Cameras, We Are Little Brother | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Dystopian futures have always imagined governments oppressing us with surveillance. Under the all-seeing, all-hearing eyes and ears of Big Brother, free will is curtailed and only “approved” behavior is allowed. Edward Snowden revealed this was no conspiracy theory, and we wouldn’t have to wait for the future. We’re al... |
Hollywood Comes Back To Silicon Valley With A New SyFy Reality TV Show | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Hollywood just can’t get enough of geeks coding in hoodies. Following the successful first season of Mike Judge’s HBO brilliant farce Silicon Valley, NBC Universal techie network SyFy will try to show what being inside the tech bubble is like. SyFy has that will follow teams of startups through the accelerator proc... |
TC Droidcast Episode 28: Android Wear Weary, Go For GRID Gaming | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | On this week’s Droidcast, Chris Velazco joins us from a bathroom, Kyle Russell contributes from New Hampshire, Greg Kumparak rises from his sick bed, and Darrell Etherington hosts from the permanent midnight of Canada. Up for discussion are two new Android Wear devices, the LG G Watch R and the Asus ZenWatch, as well a... |
Grabyo Secures $2M From Celeb Sports Stars For Rights-Friendly Social Video | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Video-focused startup , which has a second-screen offering and partners with TV broadcasters to allow TV viewers to legally share real-time clips of its content, has landed $2m in funding from a clutch of globally recognised sports stars. UK Premier League Soccer stars Cesc Fabregas and Robin Van Persie, New York Red ... |
Against Acceleration | Malay Gandhi | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Startups should give up equity for only one of two reasons: work or cash. Startup employees and advisors work in exchange for equity (and salary) and they can be fired if they don’t perform, shutting down their vesting. I’m an advocate of bringing on advisors with defined deliverables, earning somewhere around 100 basi... |
Pomplamoose Details The Cost Of Being An Indie Band | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | In a surprising display of transparency, and Nataly Dawn aka Pomplamoose . The bottom line? The band made $135,983 in income… and incurred $147,802 in expenses. Essentially, they lost a little over $11,000. But what does this mean for a modern Indie band? Conte writes that all is not lost. First, obviously, is the i... |
Dropbox’s Mobile Apps Are Now Integrated With Microsoft Office | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Earlier this month, Dropbox and Microsoft a partnership that would see Dropbox offer better support for Microsoft’s Office Suite, including the ability to edit Office docs from the Dropbox mobile app among other things. Today, those integrations have gone live for users of both the phone and Dropbox applications.... |
Two Rallies | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Today Apple topped the $700 billion value market cap threshold during regular trading, a remarkable achievement. The company’s shares have since slipped some, but it’s impossible to deny the technology giant’s massive rally. Apple, a company that was once small enough to be is now not only the world’s most valuable t... |
Lyft Appeals To More Casual Drivers By Matching Them With Passengers To Share Commutes | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | For years, the founders of had imagined a world in which carpooling would become mainstream, a world in which people wouldn’t necessarily ride alone to work if they didn’t have to. Today they move another step closer to that world with the release of a new feature allowing its drivers to get matched up with passenger... |
Tumblr Overtakes Instagram As Fastest-Growing Social Platform, Snapchat Is The Fastest-Growing App | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | With , Facebook continues to be the world’s largest social network by some margin, but when it comes to picking up new users, it appears to have reached a saturation point. Research out today from the notes that Tumblr’s active user base in the last six months grew by 120%, while Facebook’s grew by only 2%. And in ... |
Inspace Aims To Rocket Us Into Virtual Reality | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | In the yeaaaaarrrr 2000! As I recall, we were all supposed to be flying around with jetpacks and using Minority Report-esque hardware by now, but that still hasn’t come to pass. Thankfully the folks at are on the job. The system, which is mostly software, allows you to see media and information in a three-dimensional... |
Twitter Expands Its Commerce Lineup With Twitter Offers, Which Link To Your Credit Or Debit Card | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Twitter just that it’s testing a new commerce product called Twitter Offers. This follows the announcement of Twitter’s first commerce product back in September, . This announcement’s aimed specifically at businesses advertising on Twitter — through Twitter Offers, those companies will be able to offer cashback rewa... |
Zendrive Lets Ridesharing And Delivery Companies Know If Their Drivers Are Distracted | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | , a startup that to measure drivers’ behavior, today announced , its first paid service. As the name implies, ZenFleets is meant for companies that have a large number of cars on the road at any given time. With ZenFleets, businesses can track where those cars are, but more importantly, the service also tries to fig... |
Lumoid Launches A Peer-To-Peer Marketplace For Short-Term Gadget Rentals | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 25 | Since , gadget rental market has provided a place where camera nerds, amateur photographers, and even drone enthusiasts can try out a bunch of different devices without having to purchase them. Today it’s announcing that it’s also giving users the ability to make a little bit of money by renting out devices they are... |
Snapchat Wanted MessageMe Before Yahoo Bought It For Up To $30-$40M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | Earlier today we reported that messaging app MessageMe was — which MessageMe has now , along with the inevitable news that the app is shutting down, effective November 7. Now we’ve also learned some more details. MessageMe had also been courted by Snapchat as well as an app maker out of Europe, Truecaller. And, afte... |
SureMote Turns Your Android Phone Into A Remote For Any Wi-Fi Connected Device At Home | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–86xsJVA74&w=560&h=315] I don’t think I’ve used a remote control in a year. Perhaps several years. They’re cheap. They get lost easily and sometimes you end up with ten of them. But an Israeli company called Tekoia is trying to consolidate those devices through an app called t... |
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