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From Model T To 4G: How Connectivity Is Revolutionising The Car | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | The car industry is on the verge of its biggest transformation in over a century. Connected cars are set to revolutionise the car as we know it, with the overall number of vehicles with built-in connectivity expected to make up 90 per cent of the total market by 2020. Not since the Model T Ford became the first mass-pr... |
I Just Used Nimbl To Get 40 Bucks Delivered To The AOL Office | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | And now there’s an Uber for cash. I first became aware earlier this afternoon, when I saw some about it on Twitter. The idea, basically, is that you can use the app to call a Nimbl “runner”, who will bring cash to your location. The idea might seem a little silly at first, like the latest startup catering to lazy... |
SF Housing Interests Unite Against Proposed Airbnb Legislation | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | A broad group of protesters representing various San Francisco housing interests met on the steps of City Hall today to express their opposition of proposed legislation that would allow residents to rent out their homes on a short-term basis. “Raise of hands, who here has shared their home?” asked Fernando Marti, the c... |
When Anna Met Jony | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | The fashion industry is secretly sick of being underestimated and under-intellectualized. There’s a pivotal scene in “The Devil Wears Prada” where Meryl Streep gives her assistant Andy a talking-to about the hypocrisy inherent in her disdain for fashion — as it’s given life to the blue drab sweater she is wearing. And ... |
CrunchWeek: Windows 10, Reddit Raises A Fat Round, And Netflix Backs Adam Sandler | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | It’s that time of the week again: we’re back with a whole new episode of CrunchWeek, filmed right here at TechCrunch HQ in San Francisco. With our unique combination of awesome senses of humor and insight into the world of tech, we’re here to keep you entertained informed. This week, , Reddit raised a huge round (a... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.03.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. |
Airbnb Lifestyle: The Rise Of The Hipster Nomad | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | For the past year, I’ve lived exclusively in temporary housing I’ve found on sites like Airbnb. I didn’t set out with this goal in mind, but it just sort of happened. And now that it’s happened, I’m starting to wonder whether I really want to go back to a pre-Airbnb life. It all started about a year ago, when my husban... |
Fly Or Die: Apple iPhone 6 Plus | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | There is quite a bit of controversy surrounding the new . It’s the new of Apple’s product line, bigger, thinner and more beautiful than ever. However, the size may just be detrimental to people who have smaller hands and can’t easily handle the large, slippery iPhone. And then there was all the , which turned out... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | From the Windows 10 launch to genetically modified babies and Elon Musk tweeting about his “D,” we give you our top articles from this week (9/27-10/3). You don’t want to miss these. 1. was revealed at an event in San Francisco, and you bet we were there. Yes, you heard that right: Microsoft is calling their new OS W... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Gapgate, Garmin, And Jamstik | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | We’re off and running this week with the latest TC Gadgets podcast. Garmin announced a new smart watch called the . We take a look at that, as well as Garmin’s earlier smart watch offering, the VivoFit. We’re also curious about what’s going on with , on the Galaxy Note 4 smartphones. Meanwhile, the is finally shipp... |
Yahoo Acquires Mobile Messaging App MessageMe | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | Yahoo has acquired mobile messaging application , a Whatsapp-like service with $11.9 million in reported outside funding. The deal, we’re hearing from multiple sources, is a talent acquisition falling into the “single-digit” millions. [ : We’re hearing now that the deal may actually better than this. Word is the deal ... |
500 Startups Promotes Bedy Yang And Khailee Ng To Managing Partner | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | Seed-stage investment firm is announcing today the promotion of two members of its investment team from partner to managing partner. By promoting Bedy Yang and Khailee Ng, the firm is also showing its commitment to investing in startups in Latin America and Southeast Asia. 500 Startups has always talked about the div... |
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Robocoin Announces A New Wallet Service To Meld The Physical With The Virtual | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | Robocoin, maker of ATMs, has announced a new service called Robocoin Wallet. The service, which acts as a bitcoin wallet directly connected to the company’s public ATMs, allows you to store your BTC and send and receive cash via the Internet or directly through their service. The wallet essentially removes the final ... |
Microsoft Launches New Office 365 Subscription Plans For Small And Midsize Businesses | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | Microsoft is new for companies with fewer than 250 employees that will slowly replace the company’s existing plans for small and midsize businesses. The company had already outlined some of these changes , so this week’s announcement doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Here is what these new plans look like: Companie... |
Narrative’s Clip-On Camera | One Lap | Rob Coneybeer | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | In this week’s episode of One Lap, Martin Källström of Narrative joined me at Thunderhill Raceway. I met Martin earlier this year while he was visiting San Francisco from Sweden. During our meeting he asked me for suggestions on how to spend a Saturday in the Bay Area. I immediately suggested that he join me at Thund... |
Estify Raises $1.5 Million To Roll Out Insurance Software For Auto Repair | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | After spending two years developing a product to automate the integration of car insurance damage estimate data for repairs between insurance companies and body shops, has raised $1.5 million to bring its technology to market. There’s a rift between insurance companies and repair shops, explains Jordan Furniss, one o... |
Childish Gambino Name-Drops A Bunch Of Techies In His New Mixtape | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | Rapper (also known as Donald Glover, former cast member of cult sitcom “Community”) just dropped an 18-song mixtape, his first big release since last year’s hit album “Because The Internet.” That wouldn’t generally be something we write about, but at the end of tape Glover name-drops seven members of the tech communi... |
Little Moe Is A Robot That Hunts And Kills Ebola | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 3 | A San Antonio-based company called has risen to media prominence recently thanks to their ultraviolet pulse robot called Little Moe. The robot can enter and clean a hospital room in five minutes and destroy the virus by fusing its DNA. You can watch the cute local news piece about the below. The technology isn’t part... |
Instagram Cuts Off Kevin Rose’s Photo App Tiiny From Its Social Graph | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | This is how social graph politics works. Building community on a new social app is tough because you need your users to be able connect with their friends. Some apps cross-reference your phone’s contacts, but others piggyback on APIs of top social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram so you can find your frie... |
A Few Thoughts On Windows 10 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | Microsoft’s must patch the consumer-facing flaws present in Windows 8.x, and also into the modern era of computing. Couple that to the larger Windows trend of platform unification that Windows 10 will be the apparent culmination of, and you have what must be one of the most audacious software projects ever attempte... |
Why We Should Treat Teachers Like Software Engineers | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | America is widely considered a global leader in economics, business, and culture. But when it comes to education, the U.S. seems to be falling behind. In the 2012 PISA results, we 27th in math, 17th in reading, and 20th in science. Our high school graduation rates are ranked internationally. A month ago, I had th... |
Bowflex Max Trainer M5 Review: Connected, Intense Exercise In A Relatively Compact Package | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | A blogger’s life is not the most active lifestyle possible for a human; tech bloggers probably get the most exercise walking to and from the post office to retrieve packages they missed at home or to ship things back out. If you don’t have a standing desk, you probably barely even rise out of your seat at a job where t... |
Redbox To Kill Off Its Streaming Service Next Week | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | Well, that didn’t last long. 18 months after opening its doors to the public, Redbox Instant (the online streaming arm of those Redbox kiosks you see in grocery stores around the country) is shutting down. The service will officially hit the lights and kill the servers on October 7th. News of the shutdown comes by way ... |
Online Native Ads Are Held To Higher Standards Than Those On TV | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | National news programs have garnered news of their own recently for adopting native advertising as a source of income. “Good Morning America” recently aired interviews with the new Under Armour spokespeople, Lindsay Vonn and Gisele Bundchen, but only those who waited until the very end of the segment witnessed the “bro... |
As The Valley Burns Up, Boston Readies Its Next Act | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | You wouldn’t think that you could fix the bicycle. It’s just two wheels, a seat, and a set of pedals, plus or minus some fancy materials and high-quality tuning. But for the engineers and designers at Cambridge-based Superpedestrian, that base is just the start for what they hope will be the next generation of urban tr... |
Gillmor Gang: Good Vibrations II | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, October 3, 2014. @stevegillmor, @scobleizer, @dbfarber, @kevinmarks, @kteare Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor |
Rep. Waxman Proposes A Third Approach To Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | , the net neutrality debate continues. Out Friday was a letter from that would lean on both proposed sources of governmental authority to enforce an open Internet. Rep. Waxman wants to use both Title II, and Section 706. At issue is the fact that there exists tension between advocates of net neutrality in terms how... |
Five Things Startups Need To Do To Attract Advertising Pounds, Dollars And Euros | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | There is a culture in Silicon Valley and its offshoots around the world that says if you build it they will come. That if your tech is smart enough then consumers, brands, fame, fortune and ultimately millions and billions will come your way. To put it simply, once you’ve got VC backing, every other industry will just ... |
The Bitcoin Selloff Continues | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | Bitcoin, the best-known cryptocurrency, recently slipped under the $400 mark, a former price floor that some viewed as a bulwark against further price pressure. Currently , bitcoin is down $29.06 in the past 24 hours, or around 7.9 percent. From its all-time highs, bitcoin is down around 70 percent. For historical con... |
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Us vs. Them: What’s Wrong With You People? | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | Internet, we need to talk. In a nuanced, thoughtful, intelligent way. I don’t want this to turn into some kind of knee-jerk confrontation. But it will, won’t it? You’ll end up while frothing at the mouth, won’t you? That’s what you do. Every. Single. Time. What’s with you, Internet? Why can’t we just agree to disag... |
Square Closes $150 Million Round At $6 Billion Valuation | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 5 | Square just closed the Series E round it had been raising. showed the e-commerce payments company was set to raise at least $100 million, but the deal wasn’t done just yet. Now a Square spokesman has confirmed the raises to , led by new investor the (GIC). This puts Square at A $6 billion valuation. Goldman Sachs a... |
Everything You Need To Know About iOS 8 Keyboard Permissions (But Were Afraid To Ask) | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 4 | most exciting thing about iOS 8 — — is the side-door it opens into Apple’s walled garden to allow keyboard app makers to come on in for the first time. No longer is it true that outlandish Qwertys with a twist are barred from Apple’s kingdom. If you want a , well now you can. Or one that auto predicts emoji so you ... |
Bitcoin Falls Under $300 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 5 | $300, it’s the new $400. managed to push the price of bitcoin below the $300 mark this morning, around two weeks after the cryptocurrency . Here’s a screenshot from from earlier today: A chart of the decline: (In the ensuing bit, bitcoin has managed to re-crest the $300 level, a price range that it has largely kept... |
Digital Dark Matter: The Unseen Forces That Influence Innovation | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 5 | Around AD 150, the Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemy compiled a model of the universe that accurately predicted the movements of the sun, moon, planets, and stars. It was a remarkable achievement, diminished only by the fact that it happened to be entirely wrong. Rather than a relatively simple heliocentric model wh... |
Google Plans To Hire Security Guards As Employees, Not Contractors | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 5 | Google plans to hire more than 200 security guards, making them full- and part-time employees of the company, and therefore eligible for company benefits. Previously, Google’s guards were provided by an outside contractor called Security Industry Specialists. The news was reported Friday in and . A company spokesper... |
‘Gamification’ Is Dead, Long Live Games For Learning | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 5 | When I entered the games for learning business a little over two years ago, there was one word everyone wanted to talk about: “Gamification.” I was asked about gamification by top philanthropists, accosted at the Game Developers Conference about the subject, and even had to drive by a gamification billboard every eveni... |
Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 5 | Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, and video taken using iOS app exploration developer tool Cycript by Stanford computer science student . Messenger’s payment option lets users send money in a message similar to how they can send... |
Tesla Motors Just Invited Press To Come Look At Its New D | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | Tesla Motors just sent out invites to a press event on October 9th in Los Angeles, presumably to unveil the new ‘D’ car that founder Elon Musk . Now, we officially have an event, to be held at Hawthorne Airport. The D is rumored to be a new vehicle in Tesla’s lineup, with the on a (D)ual motor all wheel drive versio... |
How A Trillion-Dollar Market Remains Hidden In Plain Sight | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 5 | Remember the ? Someone was hiding money all over cities, leaving people to find it on their own. It got a lot of attention early on and got me thinking that there is a lot more out there than random $50 bills and whatnot. As an investor, we look for huge markets that either have remained hidden or are just starting to ... |
Nobody Can Win The Cloud Pricing Wars | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | Earlier this week, cloud platform . The cost is getting so low, it’s almost trivial for anyone to absorb the costs of running infrastructure in the cloud, but you have to wonder as the cloud pricing wars continue, how low can they go and if it’s a war anyone can win. The end game is obviously zero, but these companies... |
Design Firm Adaptive Path Acquired By Capital One | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | , a San Francisco-based design and user experience consultancy, has been acquired by financial firm Capital One. That’s not the most obvious acquirer, but , Adaptive Path co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Jesse James Garrett said that after talking to a number of potential acquirers in the years since it was found... |
Lynxsy Launches A Mobile Recruitment App For Job Hunters | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | With planned layoffs and , the job market in America seems to have finally crawled back from the darkest days of the Great Recession. And as the jobs market heats up, a whole host of apps have launched with new ways to help recent grads and current employees find the perfect job. One tool that recently launched from... |
GoPro Drops Following News That Its Founders Will Move 5.8M Shares To Charitable Group | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | GoPro’s stock is down dramatically today, off more than 6 percent, after it was announced that its founding team will move more than 5.8 million shares to a charitable group. Immediate punditry a way around the normal lock-up period that prevents insiders from selling shares in newly public companies for a set period... |
Back To The Magic With The Formlabs Form 1+ | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | 3D printers has been the Formlabs . Using a unique technology in home printing, stereolithography, the Formlabs folks have created a usable, fun, and surprisingly versatile home 3D printer that produces pro-quality pats. Now that printer has gotten better. First, a bit of explanation that I added to my original . Th... |
Platforms Triumphed While Content Wasn’t Even Looking | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | Microsoft is buying Mojang (makers of Minecraft) for . That’s really impressive when you consider that Mojang has been around for only a few years. The deal is one more step in a recent triumph of platform companies – a triumph of recognizing that what people really want is to contribute and participate, not merely co... |
Netflix’s Exclusive Content Push Continues With A Foray Into Film | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | Over the last few days, Netflix has announced a couple of deals that will bring a series of films to its streaming video platform over the coming years. The partnerships represent a new form of “exclusive” content for Netflix, and what could be seen as a new outlet for film production studios. But they probably won’t c... |
Expert Witness For Silk Road Suggests FBI Lied About How They Accessed Back-End Servers | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | According to a court document released today, expert witness Joshua J. Horowitz, a , believes the FBI is not telling the whole truth when it comes to how In the document, reproduced below, Horowitz says that his “practice is concentrated on criminal defense matters that require expertise in technology and computer so... |
Will Tesla Finally Unveil An Insane Model S Supercar? | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | What would happen if Tesla added a second powertrain to the Model S? If the car had two electric motors and the batteries needed to power everything properly? If the drag coefficient was improved, making the already sleek Model S even more slippery? If the chassis was tuned for improved performance and sticky tires add... |
Marketing Automation For Mobile Company Appboy Grabs $15 Million More | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | , a marketing automation company for mobile apps has raised $15 million in Series B funding, in a round the company says was “oversubscribed.” Early Marketo investor InterWest Partners led the round, and is joined by existing investors Icon Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital, T5 Capital and IDG Ventures. As a part of t... |
Evernote Unveils Evernote Context, An AI Play That Surfaces Content From Outside Sources As You Write | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | Today, — the note-taking and storage app now with 100 million users — announced one of its latest and biggest steps forward in its bid to develop services that will not just keep people using its app to store notes and thoughts regularly, but to use it for ever more purposes: it’s launching — an AI play that will s... |
Selfinception: Frontback Adds Selfie Comments | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | All your selfies are belong us. photo-sharing app just received a major update. You will now be able to leave comments on a Frontback post — but not just text comments. With Frontback React, you take a selfie of your reaction and adds a few words. It’s perfectly in line with the of the app. While I very irregular... |
Evernote Launches New Web Client | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | The web client is about to get a big refresh, CEO Phil Libin announced during his keynote at today’s EC4 conference. By Libin’s telling, the team realized that the user experience was “clunky,” and sought to make a simpler interface that “melts away” as you write. The new web app uses a lot more white space throughou... |
Twitter For Mac Gets Multiple Photo Sharing, Support For Photos In Messages | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | Twitter’s native application for OS X users has just been updated with a small handful of photo-sharing features and other improvements that bring the desktop application more in line with what’s available on the web and on mobile. Most notably, the app now supports the ability to tweet out multiple photos in one updat... |
Evernote Market Has Sold $12M In Products Since Launch | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | CEO Phil Libin gave us an update on the company’s digital marketplace for productivity hardware and accessories, , at today’s EC4 conference in San Francisco, Calif. He began by noting that the company opened Evernote Market hoping that it would simply break even. Sold more than $12 million in product since launch, v... |
Keep Calm And Attend Hardware Alley In London | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | It’s Hardware Alley time again and we want to see you at ! The alley, which runs during the last day of Disrupt, features all of my favorite startups – the hardware ones – in glorious Technicolor. What is ? It’s a celebration of hardware startups (and other cool gear makers) that features everything from robotic dron... |
Facebook Announces Stricter Guidelines For Research And Experiments On Its Users | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | After a study on whether turned into a PR disaster, Facebook has now set up a on its users, and to centralize all the academic work done on its enormous data set. Facebook admitting to screwing up with the , explaining “We were unprepared for the reaction the paper received when it was published and have taken t... |
WhoWeUse Launches A New App For Local Service Recommendations | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | , a new mobile app delivering recommendations on local services from your social network, . As local services ratings and recommendation companies like Angie’s List thanks to rumors of a prospective sale to potential buyers like Amazon, Google, or Home Depot; it’s clear that companies still need a good referral for h... |
GrabTaxi Raises $65 Million To Increase The Competition With Uber In Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | You’d be forgiven for thinking that the taxi app war is exclusively a U.S. phenomenon, such is , but similar rivalries are actually ongoing across other parts of the world. The battle is heating up in Southeast Asia today, after — a Malaysia-headquarted company that is active in six countries — announced a $65 milli... |
Lever Raises $10M From Matrix To Build An All-Encompassing Human Resources And Hiring Platform | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 2 | There are plenty of old-school software platforms for hiring and talent management like Taleo, which is owned by Oracle. But a new startup called , backed with $10 million from Matrix Partners, thinks that it might be time for a change. They’ve built a full suite of human resources software that’s meant to help compan... |
Mirantis Scores $100M To Continue Quest To Be Enterprise OpenStack Leader | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | jumped on the OpenStack bandwagon a few years ago when most companies had never heard of it, and it has ridden the wave as the project has grown increasingly popular with each passing year. Today, the company announced $100M in Series B funding to continue its quest to be the leader in enterprise OpenStack, a chunk of... |
Yahoo In Talks To Buy Video Ad Platform BrightRoll For Around $700M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | has been building up its video and video advertising content, and we have heard that it may make another key acquisition in the area to further raise its game. The company is in talks to acquire , the cross-platform digital video advertising service. TechCrunch has heard that term sheets have been signed, and that th... |
And The TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Finalists Are Crate, Disease Diagnostic Group, Oscult And PhotoMath | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | people have walked through door at this year’s conference in London. We had everyone from Elvis impersonators to people dressed up as chickens participate, as one does at a tech conference. Highlights included with Josh Constine about the high growth future of Aol, and what he learned after the mistake of firing Te... |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Addresses The iPad’s Continued Lack Of Sales Growth | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | During today’s earnings call for Apple’s fiscal Q4 2014, CEO Tim Cook took time to address the iPad’s performance at length. Cook referred to a lot of the general kinds of negative feeling around iPad performance circulating around media and analysts, and brought up his own perspective on the product category. “I take ... |
In Oakland, A Sign of Some Very High Times | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | Two years ago, this building in downtown Oakland was the part of the country’s first major cannabis growing educational institution, Oaksterdam University. After federal agents from the IRS and DEA raided the home of founder and marijuana legalization activist Richard Lee, he stepped down and the university gift shop p... |
App Store Downloads Top 85 Billion, Revenue Up 36 Percent Year-Over-Year | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | Apple CEO Tim Cook announced today during the company’s earnings call that Apple’s cumulative App Store downloads have now topped 85 billion up from 60 billion around a year ago. The number was announced alongside news of , and its record-breaking sales of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices. For additional context, at ... |
Apple’s Huge Q4: $42.1 Billion In Revenue, $8.5 Billion In Profit | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | Today after the bell, Apple reported its fiscal fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $42.1 billion, and earnings per share of $1.42. Analysts had Apple to report profit of $1.31 per share, on revenue for the period of $39.85 billion. During the fiscal quarter, Apple had net profit of $8.5 billio... |
We Tried Out Apple Pay In The Real World | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | , and with it comes the ability to use Apple Pay on the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. We decided to try it out by going to two nearby businesses that already accept Apple’s NFC-powered mobile payments: Walgreens and McDonald’s. Getting my 6 Plus ready for Apple Pay took less than a minute. I opened the Passbook app, tapped the... |
Apple Sold 39.3M iPhones During The iPhone 6 Launch Quarter, 12.3M iPads And 5.5M Macs | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | Apple’s , and boy did they sell a lot of iPhones. The hardware quarter saw 39.3 million iPhones sold, along with 12.3 million iPads and a very respectable 5.5 million Macs, with the fading iPod category bringing up the rear with 2.6 million sales. iPhone growth year-over-year is the most impressive stat here, and it’s... |
Here’s What You Need To Know From Microsoft’s Cloud Event | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | Today in San Francisco, Microsoft’s CEO and his lieutenant Scott Guthrie detailed the status of their company’s cloud efforts, breaking out a few growth metrics, and announcing several new features that they hope will spur growth. Microsoft is hellbent to be a winner in the cloud space. With self-claimed $4.4 billion... |
Smartsheet Helps Businesses Visualize Themselves | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | , the spreadsheet-based project and work management platform, is now making it easier for companies to understand how their employees actually work (and who they mostly work with). Companies mostly use the service to manage their projects and help employees collaborate. Because of this, the service knows quite a bit ab... |
iMac With Retina 5K Display Review: Meet The Best Desktop Computer Available | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | has the best display ever on a computing device. Let’s just get that out the way right at the start: You won’t find a better screen anywhere else, period. The 27-inch, 5120×2880 screen has a PPI of 218, or roughly equivalent to that of the MacBook Pro with Retina display, but the specs on paper, while impressive in th... |
What You Need To Know To Get Started With Apple Pay | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | Apple Pay is now available for anyone to use, provided they’ve got all the prerequisites, both for physical stores and for online transactions. But you can’t just walk up to your local brick-and-mortar store and wave your iPhone and walk out with whatever you want – that would be theft. Instead, you’ll need the followi... |
CloudCannon Raises $500K To Make Designing Static Websites Simpler | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | , a simple CMS for web designers and their clients aimed at offering simple visual editing without the need for an advanced technical skillset, is today launching globally from TechCrunch Disrupt: London’s Startup Alley. The company is also announcing $500,000 in new funding, and a partnership with domain name registry... |
Fitbit Won’t Work With HealthKit Because It’s Building An Apple Watch Competitor | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | A few weeks ago, Fitbit that it had no plans to follow the growing crowd of fitness trackers and apps that are rushing to integrate with Apple’s HealthKit and Health app. In response, it seems, Apple has . And now we know why — because Fitbit is building a device that will compete directly with the upcoming Apple Wa... |
OnePlus’ Impressive $299 Smartphone Will Finally Go On Sale To All — But Only For An Hour | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | If you’ve been in the market for OnePlus One, that is available by invite only — thus far — then your luck is in. The startup has that it will make its first smartphone available to all members of the public, but for a one hour window only. The impressive device will be available to buy for an hour on October 27, s... |
The Future Of AI Will Be Stacked | Rick Collins | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | We are entering an exciting period for artificial intelligence. We’re seeing more consumer impacting developments and breakthroughs in AI technology than ever before. And as Nova Spivack , it’s reasonable to expect that major players like Apple, IBM, Google and Microsoft, among others, will lead a fierce consolidati... |
Zap Puts Ads On Top Of Taxi Cabs As They Scoot Around Town | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | Unlike startups Zoom, Pow, Zing, and Schwongooza, Turkish startup is trying to disrupt the on-taxi advertising market. By placing bright LED signs on the top of standard cabs, the company aims to turn dead space into a lucrative advertising spot for drivers and fleets. Founded by Yigit Kipman, Ahmet Bati and Emrecan ... |
CareZapp Is Building A Support Platform For Home Healthcare | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | If you’re hoping to provide home care for a sick or elderly family member, startup is building a technology platform to help. The company just announced its public beta on-stage as part of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Europe. Co-founder and CEO Andrew Macfarlane told me that his interest in the field began with... |
The Best Panels, Talks And Startup Pitches From The First Day Of Disrupt London | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 20 | day one of Disrupt London we thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most interesting panels and projects on stage. While most Disrupts are full of great startups and fun interviews, London has been particularly potent. Our interview with Tim Armstrong answered some interesting questions about the future o... |
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Travel, Retail And Media Are 3 Industries Taking Over The App Store | Bertrand Schmitt | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | Mobile apps have come a long way since Apple launched the App Store in 2008, with over 5 million apps available across the leading app stores. While many factors have contributed to the growth, the ability to reach a global audience with a relatively small upfront investment has certainly been a significant contribut... |
A Guide To Co-Leadership: Why It’s Hard, Why It’s Good, And How To Make It Work | Aaron Schildkrout | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | In September Larry Ellison stepped down from the helm at Oracle and appointed a co-CEO pair as his successors. about the announcement spoke of such dual arrangements in discouraging and doubtful tones. Meanwhile, in NYC, a well-regarded VC recently told me that she thought at least 50 percent of early-stage startup fa... |
iMac With Retina 5K Display First Impressions: A Screen In Which To Lose Oneself | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | Apple’s boasts a screen with an almost preposterous resolution of 5180×2880 pixels, which makes it the world’s highest resolution display. The screen is the key ingredient here, despite changes under the hood, and after a couple of days of use, it’s still the screen that (stating the obvious here) catches my eye. Ami... |
Handbook For A New Era Of Crowdfunding | Sandeep Sood | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | Ever been to Indiegogo? Kickstarter? Spend any cash? What’d you leave with? Why does anyone buy a product that doesn’t exist yet…and may never exist? On the surface, crowdfunding seems to defy logic. Economists find the phenomenon of crowdfunding startling. If you think like an economist, crowdfunding shouldn’t work.... |
Bag Week: Daame Bags | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | While I can’t say that are the best daame bags we’ve tested (see what I did there?), I can say that they are definitely an interesting rethinking of the women’s laptop bag. We tested two types – a wide leather laptop tote and other 13-inch model. I showed both of these to a human woman, my wife, who said that she lik... |
10 Trends Transforming Enterprise IT | Matt Murphy | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | When it comes to corporate IT, revolution is in the air. The way companies buy, build, manage, optimize and secure information technology is changing dramatically. From cloud computing to big data analytics to ubiquitous mobile connectivity, corporate IT systems are getting faster, more efficient, cheaper to operate an... |
#Gamergate Shows Tech Needs Far Better Algorithms | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | If teaches us anything — beyond, of course, vastly obvious observations about the toxicity of certain Internet demographics (which is hardly new news) — it’s that algorithms and formulaic behaviour can and are being gamed. This is especially obvious in this sorry saga (for a detailed breakdown of Gamergate I recommen... |
Are American Tech Companies Disloyal? | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | FBI Director James Comey had some for startups and technology companies about their increasing use of encryption and their responsibilities to law enforcement. Speaking at Brookings, Comey argued that “…if the challenges of real-time interception threaten to leave us in the dark, encryption threatens to lead all of u... |
The Disrupt Europe Hackathon Kicks Off At Old Billingsgate In London | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | The Disrupt Europe hackathon began just a few hours ago at in London. Participants are now gathered in The Vault, the venue’s ominously-named underground area — but earlier, when everyone was still waiting for the doors to open, Mike Butcher and I walked the line and talked to a few of the attendees about why they’... |
Gillmor Gang: Solar Panel | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, October 17, 2014. This year’s Dreamforce 2014 overshadowed another Apple reveal of new hardware and consolidation of the mobile operating system platform. Hilary Clinton set the tone for the week by reminding us that ... |
You Too May Be A Victim Of Developaralysis | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | Dear developers: Do you feel insecure because you’re only fluent in a mere eight programming languages used across three families of devices? Does exposure to yet another JavaScript framework make you shudder and wince? Have you postponed a pet project because you couldn’t figure out which cloud platform would be best ... |
Snapchat Ads Are Probably Cooler Than Facebook’s, But Still Not Cool | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | Prepare for ads on Snapchat, bruh! The company that users will start receiving ads from brands under the Recent Updates section of the app. This is the same portion of the Snapchat inbox where you find , a product that threads together multiple snaps (both video or photo) into one, long snap. The ads are opt-in, in ... |
Convergence In The Internet Of Things Is Priming The Tech World For A Major Cultural Shift | Artyom Astafurov | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | To anyone who is tuned into the tech world, it should not come as earth shattering news that machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the have hit a major convergence point in the tech industry. What is fairly new however is that the two have become so closely intertwined with each other that you can no longer think... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | From egg freezing to Apple’s iPad and iMac debut event in Cupertino, here are the top stories from 10/11 to 10/17. 1. as part of the New Yorker Festival, where he was asked a couple of variants on the question of what we can do to protect our privacy. He explained that in addition to seeking out encryption tools, peo... |
Jack Ma’s AliPay Might Partner With Apple Pay | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Jack Ma and Tim Cook both repeatedly teased a possible partnership between The Paypal-like AliPay and Apple Pay in two separate talks while on stage at the conference in Laguna Beach, California this evening. Cook joked with the WSJ’s editor-in-chief Gerard Baker that he was going to go discuss a marriage between Al... |
Bag Week: The Pad & Quill Attache | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 18 | If life was like Toy Story, and when we fell asleep, all of our inanimate objects suddenly came to life, the Pad & Quill Attache bag would be some super combo of both Woody and Buzz Lightyear. Socially, this bag would be the head honcho. With a beautiful, hand-crafted leather exterior, the Attache laptop bag feels sli... |
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BigPanda Wants To Bring Order To IT Alerts Madness | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Today we have monitoring tools generating logs and logs of data flowing into our data centers, letting us know everything that’s happening down to a detailed level. That’s a good thing, right? Not necessarily, because the more information we need to sift through, the more overwhelming it becomes and the more impossible... |
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