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India’s Answer To Uber, Ola Takes $210M Led By Softbank At $1B Valuation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | is doubling down on India, quite literally. The Japanese tech powerhouse, flush with billions from its extremely lucrative Alibaba investment, is today confirming that it has led a $210 million investment in , an Uber-style service in India that aims to use technology to shake up and dominate the car-for-hire and wid... |
T-Mobile CEO John Legere Says Without The iPhone, A Carrier “Is Shit” | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | It probably goes without saying, but: carriers love them some iPhones. For anyone who comes into the store with an iPhone in mind, the two-year contracts pretty much write themselves. Carrier execs would rarely speak too bluntly about that fact, though; Apple is already chipping away at their stronghold (see: Apple tak... |
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple Pay Activated 1M Cards In 72 Hours | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | This evening at a Wall Street Journal technology conference, said that in its first 72 hours, activated 1 million cards. That figure indicates that Apple Pay is picking up traction outside of the technology, early-adopter set. Apple Pay competes with rival offerings from Google, among others, alongside traditional ... |
India’s Snapdeal Snaps Up $627M Led By SoftBank To Supercharge Its Marketplace | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | A big day for e-commerce startups in India, and a double boom for Japan’s . , founded four years ago as a marketplace for third party retailers in India to sell goods online, has raised an additional $627 million from SoftBank Internet and Media to continue building out its business in the country, both organically a... |
Kim Kardashian West On Oversharing, Adopting New Platforms, And BlackBerry | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | If you told a random member of the tech media a year ago that one of the biggest names interviewed by Kara Swisher at her own conference in 2014 would be Kim Kardashian West, you’d probably receive a dumb look and a quick dismissal. Yet that’s exactly what happened at today’s , where the reality TV and social media st... |
Twitter’s Next Targets For Monetization Are Logged-Out And Casual Visitors | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Twitter reported 284 million average monthly active users in its , but with growth down over the last month, the company diverted attention away from MAUs during its call by focusing on another, much bigger number: that of Twitter visitors who are either “logged out” or not registered at all. “Are they monetiseable?” ... |
Twitter Has No Short-Term Plans To Monetize Vine | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Twitter has no short-term plans to monetize Vine, a social product that it purchased in its infancy. The information was shared during the company’s earnings call, following a quarterly financial report that included stronger-than-expected third-quarter performance but soft guidance and user growth that investors found... |
Wealthfront Closes A Big New Round As Competitors Crowd The Wealth Management Market | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | The automated wealth management firms ( ) that are bringing algorithmically enhanced services to the stodgy world of retirement planning are gearing up to go Terminator as competition intensifies. In what’s sure to be the first shot in a salvo of big new rounds for these (no-longer) startups, Palo Alto, Calif.-based ... |
Nextbit Unveils A Dead-Simple Way To Sync, Store Data Across Multiple Mobile Apps, Devices | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8QmTsDi74&w=560&h=315] The last time I talked to Nextbit, from Accel Partners and Google Ventures and had put together a veteran team made out of early Android folk who helped build Google’s mobile OS into what it is today. But they refused to share anything about what they ... |
This Is What The Apple Watch Interface Looks Like On An iPhone | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Ever since Apple announced the , it’s been easy to let the imagination wander a bit. It’s the first product out of Apple in a long time, perhaps since the iPhone, that feels truly exciting and new. Much of that is thanks to the user interface, which has a very distinct look from the UIs of the iPhone, iPad or even Mac... |
Twitter Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $361M, But Slowing User Growth Drags Its Shares Down 8% | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Following the bell, Twitter its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $361 million and earnings per share, on a non-GAAP basis, of $0.01. The street had expected Twitter to report adjusted profit of $0.01 per share on revenue on $351.35 million. Twitter, which broke from the market by falling near... |
So-Called “Twitter Tax Break” Netted City More In Mid-Market Tax Revenue | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | In hindsight, it was one of the more controversial decisions the city has made in years. Back in 2011, on a quiet threat that Twitter for nearby Brisbane or South San Francisco, the city decided to offer a temporary exemption on it 1.5 percent payroll tax to entice companies to move into a set of very specific buildi... |
Apple’s ConnectED Program Participation Brings Macs, iPads And More To Underserved Schools | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Apple’s $100 million commitment to President Obama’s ConnectED program has resulted in Macs, Apple TV, and iPads being introduced to 114 schools, the bulk of which cater to students who qualify for free or discount lunch programs, meaning the investment is overwhelmingly going to school boards that wouldn’t necessarily... |
Automatic Launches License+, A Coaching Program For Teen Drivers And Their Parents | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | The first few months — or years, really – of being a new driver can be a nerve-wracking experience for teens and, of course, their parents. Young drivers are still developing their skills, and likely to make mistakes not only related to how few road hours they’ve logged, but because – meaning – like gunning it to 7... |
Buffer Wants To Raise $3.5M At A $60M Valuation — Here’s The Term Sheet | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | , a social media management company, is raising a $3.5 million Series A round of capital. Most of the money will go to its founders and some early employees. $1 million of the total will be afforded to operations. To date, . Buffer, which has monthly revenue of just under $400,000, is profitable. The company wants to ... |
Credorax Raises $40 Million To Become A Payment Acquirer For The Internet Age | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Managing the arcane arts of processing transactions for online purchases is a complicated job. Once a shopper enters the numbers on their card, the expiration date on their credit card, and their zip code, a complicated machinery of transaction processors springs into action representing both buyer, seller, and process... |
Facebook Keeps Top Spot For Social Referrals, Twitter Drops Further Behind Pinterest | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | Twitter confounded expectations when it reported healthy revenue and good user growth numbers; now all eyes will be on to see if they repeat the beat. But as the social network continues to build out its business as a platform — as a medium not just for people to Tweet about their annoying commute to work, but as a ... |
Twitter Becomes Its Own Second Screen With Dockable Videos That Play While You Browse | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 27 | You could call it Picture-In-Twitter. Last week Twitter launched its , and similar functionality is appearing for video so you can keep watching clips as you browse Twitter on iOS and Android. As demonstrated by a I spotted, the Twitter Player card lets you view a video full-screen or tap to dock it to the bottom of... |
If We Build IoT, They Will Come. Right? | Jim Hunter | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | It looks like this IoT trend is starting to catch on with the developer community. At least, that’s a conclusion one could draw from the reported results of a new . Of the 1,400 developers who participated in this survey, 40 percent said they were either working on applications for connected devices for the (IoT) no... |
How Tech Can Foster Financial Capability For The Underbanked | Mattias Kraemer | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | In 2014, the financial services industry is looking to technology as a vital link between financial capability and under-resourced communities. Investments in these technologies are imperative to alleviate economic disparity and create better, safer options for the underbanked. Bridging the fiscal divide is a challenge... |
SoundCloud Posted A $29M Loss In 2013 On Revenues Of $14M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | , the popular online music and audio sharing platform, is now exceeding 175 million listeners each month and is on track to reach 200 million. But its rapid growth has seen the company’s costs run away from its revenues. According to recent annual filings for 2013, Soundcloud posted turnover of €11.2 million ($14.1 mil... |
8 Things About Hardware Crowdfunding We Learned From 20 Campaigns | Cyril Ebersweiler | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | So far HAX startups have run , making us the . As active participants and keen observers, we identified a few ideas that could help creators, backers, media and investors. Will the world beat a path to your door with a new smartwatch, 3D printer or drone? Unless you have something much better or very different, it wi... |
Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid Of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook And Google | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | According to Edward Snowden, people who care about their privacy should stay away from popular consumer Internet services like Dropbox, Facebook, and Google. Snowden conducted a remote interview today , where he was asked a couple of variants on the question of what we can do to protect our privacy. His first answer c... |
Netflix Raises The Price For Those Who Want Ultra HD Video | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | Are you thinking about buying a TV that can handle the absurdly high-def resolution that is 4K? The good news: Netflix is slowly but surely getting more 4K videos! They’ve got Breaking Bad in 4K! House of Cards in 4K! And…er… The Smurfs! The not-so-good news: if you want 4K content, you’re going to have to cough up som... |
Navigating The Entrepreneur’s Path | Tim Chen | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | The mystique around starting your own business is thick. The romanticized view of founders slaving away in garages ready to unleash their “great idea” upon an adoring public and fawning investors is the stuff of American dreams. The reality is businesses are often born in desperation, fueled by loneliness and doubt. ... |
Ron Conway’s Advice For Young Founders At YC’s Startup School | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | The first panel of today’s event at the Flint Center for the Performance Arts had Paul Graham interviewing SV Angel’s Ron Conway. Given the audience — which based on some chatting before the event, consisted of many Stanford students and high schoolers in the South Bay Area — Graham’s line of question primarily had t... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | Here are the top TechCrunch articles from the past week (10/4-10/10). 1. Tesla unveiled its latest in a series of 3 models based on the company’s Model S: the 60D, 85D, and highest-end P85D. The stunning all-wheel drive car . We also gave you rundown of how the company got to where it is now, with 2. After 6 years o... |
Gillmor Gang: Back to Mono | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — go forward into the past with the Firesign Theatre’s David Ossman. The occasion: Doc Searls’ exploration of the state of on our cars’ digital dashboard. The transformed the world of comedy records and, along the way, predicted/invented a vision of th... |
The Answer Engine: How Humans Can Provide Better Knowledge Than Algorithms | Michał Borkowski | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | When you have a question you need answered, do you ask a friend or a robot? The answer to that question used to be easy. But the rise of Siri, Yahoo and Google has ushered in an era in which we turn not to experts but to search engines for answers. By failing to solicit human responses in the pursuit of information, ... |
Apple Pay And Digital Currency Mean Time Is Running Out For Physical Cash | Ilya Subkhankulov | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | Since the advent of electronic payments, there has been a clear shift away from cash and checks. Credit and debit cards, and more recently prepaid debit cards, have been a staple of many consumers’ daily lives. With the announcement of Apple Pay, Apple is betting that consumers want an even more convenient way to pay i... |
The Internet Of Someone Else’s Things | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | . Rejoice! …Mostly. It will open our collective eyes to petabytes of real-time data, which we will turn into new insights and efficiencies. It will doubtless save lives. Oh, yes: and it will subtly redefine ownership as we know it. You will no longer own many of the most expensive and sophisticated items you possess. Y... |
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Now Recognizes Same Sex Marriage | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | The debate wages on at the U.S. Supreme Court over gay marriage, but not in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. Players can pick a dress, a ring and whichever sort of partner they prefer to tie the knot with. Just like in Kim’s real life, those in the game can now experience the wedding of their dreams in Florence, Italy, too. ... |
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Skylable Secures Investment From Sunstone For Open Source Storage | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 10 | 11 | In the rarified world of ‘private data clouds’ a handful of companies dominate. On the open source side, Red Hat for $175m and Gluster for $136m. Then there was EMC, which . Now a UK company thinks it has come up with a new kind of open source storage technology designed to build private data clouds. claims it has ... |
AdPushup Raises $632,000 For Its Banner Ad A/B Testing Platform | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | New Delhi-based startup , which provides A/B testing that integrates with ad networks, has raised $632,000 in its angel round of funding. Participants include Kima Ventures, Wingify founder Paras Chopra, SlideShare co-founder Amit Ranjan, LinkedIn director of technology Jonathan Boutelle, Yahoo! principal data enginee... |
Chat App Line’s Revenue Doubles Year-On-Year To Reach $192 Million In Q3 2014 | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Days after Facebook revealed that WhatsApp, its , for the first half of this year, — a rival app with 500 million registered users — has that its revenue doubled year-on-year during Q3 2014. Line, which does not reveal its overall profit/loss figures, says it made $192 million (20.9 billion yen) in the most rece... |
Fiverr Goes Global With New Languages, Local Offerings | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | After raising , , the low-cost online marketplace for services of any stripe, is . The company is spending money to roll out new international sites. Starting with Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese website versions, the US-based company wants to take its network of professional and creative service providers gl... |
Flipboard’s New App Gets Personal By Making Topics The Center Of Attention | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | has been working hard over the last few years to build an app that makes reading stories on mobile and tablet devices as engaging as flipping through a magazine. With the latest version of its app, users will be able to find and discover content that is relevant to their interests, through the introduction of topics t... |
Xiaomi Now The World’s Third Biggest Smartphone Maker, Says IDC | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Xiaomi is now the world’s third largest smartphone maker, due in large part to the success of its high-end Mi4, says . This is also the first time that Xiaomi has broken into the research firm’s list of the top 5 smartphone makers in the world. Samsung remains at the lead despite declining shipment volume, followed by... |
Looks Like Microsoft Just Leaked Its Own Fitness Band [Update: It’s Now Official] | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Whoops! Before Microsoft even got a chance to announce that they’re making a fitness tracking band (a la Jawbone Up, Fitbit Force, etc.), the device’s companion syncing app has found its way onto the . Spotted first , the app spills lots and lots of details about the unannounced wearable. About an hour after Microsof... |
MPAA Bans Google Glass And Other Wearable Cameras From Movie Theaters Because Duh | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | I’m pretty neutral on the whole face-computer thing. Would I buy Google Glass? Nah. But if you want to roll around looking like a broke-ass Robocop, we can still be friends. But you should take it off your face at certain times, particularly when seeing a camera strapped to your noggin would irk people out. Bathrooms. ... |
Even With The Novel Sprout, HP Just Can’t Win | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | By all accounts HP announced something truly innovative today. The is a mind-blowing mash-up of desktop computer, 3D scanner and touchscreen. It effectively pushes the desktop medium forward more so than anything produced in recent memory. But the Sprout is from HP. Imagine if Apple had announced the Sprout. The medi... |
Verizon Ventures Seeks To Double Portfolio And Investment Capital | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | , the venture capital arm of the Internet, phone, and wireless networking services company, will look to double its portfolio and the capital it invests in startup companies, TechCrunch has learned. Speaking ahead of his participation in the Made In NY Media Center Demo Day, Verizon Ventures associate director of corpo... |
Microsoft Fires Another Set Of Employees, Continuing Its Announced Layoff Strategy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Microsoft took an axe to another slice of its employees today, cutting around 3,000 jobs . TechCrunch heard through a separate source that the layoffs were imminent, but was not able to confirm their size. The company released a short statement indicating that it has nearly wrapped “all [of] the 18,000 reductions anno... |
Twitter Sees Two More Exec Departures, Including VP Of Engineering Jeremy Gordon | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Two more executives have left Twitter: Jeremy Gordon, the vice president of engineering, and Adam Kinney, a senior manager who led the company’s analytics team. The news was . That report also cited an unnamed source who claimed that some of the company’s engineers are concerned about a lack of clarity in Twitter’s pr... |
YouTube Can Now Play Videos At A Buttery 60 Frames Per Second | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | After years of capping video playback at 30 frames per second, it looks like YouTube is finally upping the bar. Back in June, YouTube that 60 FPS video playback was on the way in “the coming months”. Alas, the only examples of this to pop up since were a handful of EA game trailers that YouTube handpicked to showcase... |
Baidu Posts Mixed Q3 Earnings, Sending Its Shares Sideways | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Today Baidu its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $2.203 billion and GAAP earnings per share of $1.79. The market the Chinese company to earn $1.69 per share on revenue of $2.22 billion. Excluding the costs of share-based compensation, Baidu earned $1.90 per share (non-GAAP). The company, wh... |
Steve Ballmer’s Fergalicious Clippers Future | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Steve Ballmer showed up in all his glory for the close of the conference today. It all started out kinda just like the GIF you see above. And then before things really got going, the newly christened owner of the Los Angeles Clippers delightfully announced that Fergie had recorded a song just for the team. Naturally,... |
Made In NY Media Center Members Demo New Tech | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Three years after it first won the request for proposal to launch the promoting companies and projects working at the intersection of arts and technology, the Independent Filmmaker Project is celebrating its first anniversary with its second demo day. With $3 million in support from the , the , and the , and priva... |
Trulia Falls 6% After Reporting Disappointing Q3 Revenue Of $67.1M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | s shares are down in after-hours trading following the company’s third quarter earnings report that included in-line losses, and a revenue disappointment. The company lost $0.08 per share on a non-GAAP basis in the period from revenue of $67.1 million. Investors had the $0.08 per-share loss, which works out to a defi... |
MobileIron Spikes 5% After Reporting Better Than Expected FQ3 Revenue, Lower Than Expected Loss | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | MobileIron is having a strong after-hours session, after it reported its fiscal third quarter financial performance, including non-GAAP revenue of $33.7 million, GAAP losses per share of $0.20, and non-GAAP losses per share of a more modest $0.15. The market had the mobile device management company to lose $0.25 per ... |
Joker Lets You Instantly Stream Perfectly Legal And Legitimate Torrent Files | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | Let’s say there’s a torrent online you would like to view. After all, torrents themselves are perfectly legal. Instead of downloading the torrent, paste the link to the torrent in Joker.org and watch the content instantly. Watch out, Popcorn Time. The Joker is here. Using Joker.org to watch a torrent is stupid easy. Gr... |
Here’s What Google’s LEGO-Style Phone, Project Ara, Looks Like Right Now | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | It’s been a few weeks since we’ve heard much about Project Ara, Google’s effort to build a phone out of components that can be swapped out, piece-by-piece. Google showed off the device a bit back at I/O and, alas, things got a bit during the presentation. In a new video released today, the Phonebloks team shows the A... |
MCX Says QR Payments App Will Pivot To NFC If Necessary, Won’t Fine Retailers Who Break Exclusivity | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 29 | In a virtual press conference today, ‘s CEO Dekkers Davidson said “We’re agnostic about technology. We started with QR code-based technology that allows us to go to market broadly. If we need, we can pivot to NFC.” That means if retailers strongly prefer the NFC system used by Apple Pay to , CurrentC could switch to ... |
Hundreds Protest At San Francisco City Hall After Soccer Conflict With Dropbox, Airbnb Employees | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | A week after between a handful of local teenagers and Dropbox and Airbnb employees went viral, , asking for the city’s parks to be freely open to the public. The city’s parks and recreation general manager acquiesced, dropping the reservation requirement at night for that specific park in the Mission District. For b... |
Twitter’s Music Card Now Plays In Its Mobile Apps And Supports iTunes Previews | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Twitter with its Twitter Music service, but everyone’s favorite 140-character social network is keen as ever to light up users’ timelines with the sound of music after it to its music card. The company already has a card that lets you play tracks in-tweet when you post a link to Soundcloud, but it now supports mobi... |
Why The Future Of Digital Security Is Open | Lou Shipley | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | The topic of digital security often brings to mind the image of bleak and dark future, where computers, mobile devices and other systems are riddled with malware and cyber criminals lurk, ready to steal our data and crash our systems. We have good reason to be nervous. We’ve seen plenty of cyber-security breaches in ... |
Microsoft’s CEO Apologizes Again For Comments On Women, Promises New Diversity Efforts | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | The executive quickly followed his initial comments , and . Today Nadella went further in an internal memo that included a new apology and a set of notes explaining what he intends to implement at Microsoft regarding diversity. The full memo, (TechCrunch confirmed with Microsoft that the text is real), is worth rea... |
The Current State Of The Apple SIM, And Its Possible Future | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Apple unveiled new gadgets on stage today, but they didn’t discuss one of its most interesting new innovations – the Apple SIM. As detailed earlier by TechCrunch, the new , which include AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint in the U.S., and EE in the U.K. So far, those are the only carriers who have signed on, but Apple is likel... |
Tagged Ditches IPO Plans, Acquires Tinode And Renames Itself If(we) | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Social networking site Tagged is no longer going for an IPO. Instead it’s renamed itself , acquired little known messaging app startup for an undisclosed amount and has completely changed direction to become a social app incubator. If(we) is essentially a brand new company, now acting as a parent brand to Tagged and ... |
Alpine’s Slick New Headphones Make You Feel Your Beats | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | I’ve spent the better part of today playing with the new , a $299 pair of cans that promise to make you feel your music with the company’s “Full Frequency Immersion” technology. An Alpine spokesperson told me that the product is “targeted to millennials,” which I assume means that they’re designed to give the “oh my g... |
OS X Yosemite Is Now Available To Download | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Apple’s new OS X Yosemite operating system is now available, as a free download from the Mac App Store, and you . The new version of OS X should work on any Mac that was running OS X Mavericks, and provides a host of new features, like Continuity, which lets you start activities on your iOS 8 devices and pick them up ... |
TC Cribs: Eventbrite’s New Bright And Shiny HQ | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Welcome back to a new episode of Cribs! This time around, we headed over to , the company behind the very popular ticketing and live events platform. If an Eventbrite Cribs tour sounds familiar, it may be because we have done one before. But that was almost three years ago, way back , and a lot has changed since t... |
Video: Up Close And Personal With The New Retina iMac And New iPads | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Apple’s new iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 and 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display were all unveiled today at a special event in Cupertino, and we had the chance to spend some time with them, albeit just a little for now. The new hardware impressed, and we’ve got all the details on their specs and availability. Check out th... |
Playlists.net Acquired By Warner Music Group | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | In early July we reported that Spotify community and playlist sharing site was in acquisition talks, with one suitor — a prominent music industry company — in the lead. Well, today comes official confirmation that the UK startup has indeed been acquired by WEA, the artist and label services company owned by major r... |
MVP (The Show): HBO To Cut The Cord, Nexus 6 & 9, Skype Qik And More | Ryan Block | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/172363031″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_artwork=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I assume you hang out at TechCrunch because, like me, you love technology products. My... |
Google Drops 3% After Reporting Weaker-Than-Expected Third Quarter Revenue, Disappointing Non-GAAP EPS Of $6.35 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Today following the bell, Google its third-quarter earnings: The company had gross revenue of $16.52 billion, revenue net of traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC) of $13.17 billion, GAAP earnings per share of $4.09, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $6.35. Analysts had expected Google to on a non-GAAP basis, on net e... |
Apple Announces Too Many iPads | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | If you’re in the market to buy a new iPad, your choices just became dizzying. As expected, Apple this morning at its news conference in Cupertino, but it didn’t retire some of its older products to make way for the additions. How many iPad models can you choose from now? Five? And that’s not even counting the fac... |
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Apple Built A SIM Card That Lets You Switch Between AT&T, Sprint, And T-Mobile | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Whoaaa — here’s an interesting bit that went unmentioned in today’s Apple announcement: Apple has seemingly built a SIM card that lets you jump between AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile without having to swap it out (or, more annoyingly, track down/purchase a new SIM card when you want to switch carriers). Instead of swapping... |
Mailcloud Raises $2.8m For Real-Time Email And Messaging For Teams | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | , where users connect their email account and organise their entire history of emails, files and content into folders sorted by person, has raised seed funding, bringing its total funding to $2.8 million. The funding is from Octopus Investments, with Bessemer Venture partners completing its first seed round in Europe. ... |
Hands On With The New iMac With Retina 5K Display | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | Apple’s newest , which Apple says is the highest resolution display on the planet. The new screen is, as you might expect, gorgeous at first sight, and prolonged exposure only heightens the experience. And even as someone who’s used to using a Retina MacBook Pro as his main machine, it’s a big step up. The screen show... |
Twitpic Couldn’t Find An Acquirer, Will Shut Down After All On Oct 25th | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | The reports of Twitpic’s survival were greatly exaggerated. it had found an acquirer to save it from death following a trademark complaint from Twitter, the photo sharing service today on October 25th. Users can now until the 25th, at which point they’ll vanish into the void. Twitpic founder Noah Everett wrote on... |
OS X Yosemite Review: Apple’s Mac OS Gets A New Look And Killer Mobile Crossover Features | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | operating system is out today, and the final version of the major software update includes lots of changes for your Mac. It’s still OS X, though – Yosemite hasn’t gone so far afield that people used to Mavericks or Mountain Lion will feel adrift, but it comes with some impressive new additions and feature tweaks that ... |
LG Shipped A Record 16.8 Million Smartphones In Q3 2014, Up 39% Year-On-Year | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | Samsung is under-pressure as , but things couldn’t be going much better for fellow Korean phone-maker LG, which just that it shipped a best-ever 16.8 million smartphones in Q3 2014. LG Mobile, which is just one branch of the larger LG Electronics corporate company, saw its quarterly shipments jump 39 percent year-on... |
Hands On With The iPad Air 2 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 16 | The feels a lot like the old iPad Air, and that’s a good thing, But it’s amazing the difference that shaving just a little more off of the thickness of the device can do, in terms of its overall presence in the hand. This iPad Air definitely feels more portable, and I’d imagine will be a lot more comfortable to hold ... |
Discount Ticket Seller ScoreBig Scores $18M Series D | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | , the online ticketing company, has raised a total of $18 million in Series D funding. In a , the company said that Heart Ventures was the lead investor and that George Kliavkoff, the co-president of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, is the latest addition to ScoreBig’s board of directors. The capital will be used ... |
Facebook’s Slowing User Growth And Weak WhatsApp Revenue Send Shares Down 9% | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | Wall Street wants growth, or else. of 4.8 percent yesterday down from 6.3 percent last quarter and got hammered with a 9.8 percent share price drop today. And now, Facebook’s this quarter, and now in after-hours trading. Meanwhile, Facebook broke out financials of its $22 billion WhatsApp acquisition for the firs... |
Code School Brings Its Instructional Videos For Developers To iOS | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | , the online learning destination that grew out of founder Gregg Pollack’s longtime efforts in creating and sharing technical content with a developer audience, has now made the leap to mobile. With the new iOS application, developers can watch Code School’s over 300 instructional videos covering JavaScript, HTML/CSS, ... |
Apple Closes At New All-Time High Of $106.74 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | Slight amendment: Apple closed today at an all-time high. The company traded for a higher per-share price before its split, but today marks Apple’s highest close . The company traded in the low 90s following the split, putting its current value up more than 10 percent since the division. Apple ended today worth $618... |
WhatsApp’s First Half Of 2014 Revenue Was $15M, Net Loss Of $232.5M Was Mostly Issuing Stock | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | Facebook disclosed financials of its $22 billion acquisition of for the first time today, and it looks like the 600 million user messaging app’s revenue is still small. In the six months ending June 30, 2014, WhatsApp brought in $15.921 million in revenue, but had a net loss of $232.5 million. However, $206.5 million... |
Seen.co Secures $1.25M From Horizons Ventures And KEC To Capture Live Social Events | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | As a graduate of The New York Times Company’s “timeSpace” accelerator, New York startup has been plying its wares since 2012, when capturing real-time events via social media was still relatively new and chaotic. They pitched it as a space in between Twitter and Google News. A number of competitors have arisen to als... |
Facebook Beats In Q3 With $3.2B Revenue, User Growth Up A Slower 2.27% QOQ To 1.35B | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | For the ninth consecutive quarter, Facebook beat projections thanks to 1.12 billion mobile users contributing 66 percent of its ad revenue. Facebook racked up $3.203 billion in revenue with a $0.43 EPS in Q3 2014. Total user count grew 2.27 percent to 1.35 billion monthly users, but that’s slower than its 3.125 perce... |
Google[x] Reveals Nano Pill To Seek Out Cancerous Cells | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | Detecting cancer could be as easy as popping a pill in the near future. Google’s head of life sciences, Andrew Conrad, took to the stage at the conference to reveal that the tech giant’s secretive lab has been working on a wearable device that couples with nanotechnology to detect disease within the body. “We’re pas... |
Hands On With The Motorola Droid Turbo From Verizon | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | The latest Droid device is now fully , and it’s truly a beast. The most prominent and highlighted feature of the phone, its ability to charge quickly and last for up to 48 hours, is hard to test properly in a matter of hours. However, the look, feel, and general build of the device is already making an impression on m... |
Apple VP Greg Joswiak On iPhone 6 Plus Sales, iOS 8 Bugs, And Apple’s Watch | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | In a panel led by Ina Fried and Walt Mossberg at Recode’s , Greg Joswiak opened with a brief explanation of his role as VP of iPhone, iPod, and iOS Product Marketing. He said it’s about taking the technical details and helping the marketing and sales teams construct the story that will appeal to consumers at a deeper ... |
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Tumblr Rolls Out Auto-Playing Video Ads To Users’ Dashboards | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | Tumblr’s auto-playing video ads will begin rolling out to users’ dashboards today, in a pilot program that includes participation from ten big-name brands such as CW, Lexus, Universal, JCPenney, Hulu and others. The video ad test follows last week’s news of an updated video player offering auto-play capabilities and .... |
The FTC Sues AT&T Over ‘Unlimited’ Data Claims | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is for having “misled” millions of customers who purchase “unlimited” data plans for their phones, only to have the carrier later drastically reduce the amount of information they could access. According to the FTC’s complaint, AT&T throttled millions of customers tens of millions o... |
China’s Chukong Partners With Facebook, Mobile Startups To Offer Developers A Full Suite of Support | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | While giants like Facebook and Twitter try to package their acquisitions like crash-testing service Crashlytics or mobile-backend-as-a-service Parse into a suite of services that will entice app makers into their fold, gaming companies are doing the exact same thing for their communities. China’s Chukong has added Face... |
Matomy Media Acquires Austrian Mobile Ad Platform MobFox For $17.6M | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | In a move to increase its mobile capabilities, Israel’s is to acquire Austrian mobile-advertising specialist for $17.6 million in cash and shares ($10.1 million in cash and $7.5 million respectively). The move boosts Matomy’s 2014 revenue from mobile-related activity to 20 percent from 7 percent, the company said. ... |
YouTube Introduces WatchMe For Android To Bring Live Broadcasting Capabilities To Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | YouTube is bringing its live broadcasting capabilities to the world of third-party app developers starting today with the launch of the new open source project called “ .” The project, available on , offers a reference app designed for the Android operating system that creates a YouTube Live Streaming Event. The app a... |
EMC Frantically Pivots To The Cloud | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | announced some big changes today including the purchase of three cloud companies, a new hybrid cloud product and a reorganization designed to emphasize the cloud. For those of you who don’t speak technology-buzzword English, the Hybrid Cloud is an approach where some of your computing is done in an on-premises data ce... |
Wranx Applies Spaced Repetition To B2B Learning | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | U.K. startup is applying a learning technique called spaced repetition to the b2b space to help businesses train their staff more effectively. This technique will be familiar to users of language learning apps such as or indeed . It basically refers to spacing out learning in order to help the brain remember bette... |
Why Is Kim Kardashian At A Tech Conference?! | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | Because she is co-creator of one of the most popular apps of 2014. Because she is poised in cold hard cash from a mobile app this year. Because at $700K a day in earnings , she is still more successful than most startup founders, at least from a revenue standpoint. Yesterday, Kim Kardashian at the Re/Code conferen... |
W3C Declares HTML5 Standard Complete | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 28 | More than four years ago, Steve Jobs and heralded HTML5 as the way to go. You could be forgiven if you thought the — the follow-up to 1997’s HTML 4 — has long been set in stone, given that developers, browser vendors and the press have been talking about it for years now. In reality, however, HTML5 was still in flu... |
Bag Week: Herschel Little America Mid-Volume Select Backpack | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | The new Herschel fall lineup includes the Heritage we reviewed earlier in bag week, but there are also new looks for the Little America. The smaller mid-volume version of this bag, in a , might be more the speed of those with smaller backs, or who just don’t need a massive amount of storage space, and the signature Li... |
Bitcoin 2.0 Crowdfunding Is Real Crowdfunding | Sandrine Ayral | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | In the past few months we’ve been hearing a lot about how bitcoin’s underlying technology is going to revolutionize not only our monetary system, but also notary services, DNS, authentication, intellectual property ownership and data storage. While most of the products and services that were supposed to emerge on top... |
One Year In, Keepy Reaches 500K Users And Introduces Video To Its Family Timelines | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | One year since , is announcing that more than 500,000 users are sharing content with their families on its service. In a phone call with TechCrunch, Keepy CEO Offir Gutelzon said that the company hit the 500,000 figure within the last few weeks. He also gave numbers on how the company is doing at bringing in interna... |
Watch TechCrunch Play Bayonetta 2 | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | : Well that was fun! You can watch a replay of our hour-and-a-half long session in the embed below. In about an hour, TechCrunch is officially launching by streaming , the somewhat controversial action game that’s coming exclusively to Nintendo’s Wii U a week from today. As with its prequel, Bayonetta 2 puts players... |
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