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CrunchWeek: Apple Releases New Stuff, HBO Streaming And The Gang Talks Dreamforce | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | This week we discuss all the iPads and other announcements out of Apple, the shows we are excited to watch on HBO sans cable and that time we met will.i.am and when Arianna Huffington told us to do a “digital detox” at a technology conference. Our video producer Felicia Williams joins Kyle Russell and myself this wee... |
Watch These Tiny Robots As They Fly Well With Others | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpO8DpeYC2k&feature=youtu.be] The quadccopters at the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab are truly trained to follow the golden robot rule: fly with others as you’d fly with yourself. Thanks to researchers Yash Mulgaonkar, Gareth Cross and Vijay Kumar, we can see how close the... |
Odrive Offers A Dropbox-Style Interface For Browsing Your Online Photos, Documents, And More | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | If you’re tired of logging into different websites every time you want to access your Facebook photos, your Google Drive documents, your Instagram photos and so on, may be the application for you. It’s a desktop app created by startup — it uses Oxygen Cloud’s file syncing technology, but odrive differs in that it’s ... |
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One Year Into Title II Of The JOBS Act | Rob Leclerc | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | The first rule of raising capital is: you do not talk about raising capital. That was the de facto credo of nascent startup companies looking to secure investors before the fall 2013. Then on September 23, 2013, the SEC the new Title II rules of the JOBS Act, which permitted the general solicitation and advertising... |
ModCloth Hit By Second Round Of Layoffs | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | E-commerce retailer has laid off additional staff across engineering, creative, product, producer, social teams and more in a second wave of layoffs. The news which, at the time, affected around 70 employees, or a little under 15 percent of its then 500-person-plus workforce. ModCloth confirmed the new layoffs to T... |
Tumblr Debuts Its First Desktop App On The Mac App Store | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | On the heels of the release of Apple’s new Mac OS, , blogging platform Tumblr has its first official desktop application with the launch of a Tumblr app for the Mac App Store. The app allows users to post to their personal Tumblr blogs from anywhere on the Mac, whether that’s content like links, images or videos you... |
Twitter’s Music Strategy: No App, Just Better Listening | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | Music is a special kind of content, and people discover it on Twitter. That’s why building a music experience was a boondoggle, and treating music like any other piece of media within Twitter sells it short. These insights have led Twitter to a better strategy since , according to a source at the company: Just impro... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.17.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Apple Begins Taking Pre-Orders For iPad Air 2 And Mini 3 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | Apple revealed new iPad models on Thursday, and they all go on sale starting . Today is just the beginning of pre-sales, with iPads officially shipping to pre-order customers and arriving in stores sometime “late next week,” according to Apple. Pricing for the new iPad mini, which is essentially the same as the existi... |
Jolla Does Angry Birds Themed Android Launcher To Fling Its Sailfish OS Further | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | , the Finnish smartphone startup that expanded the MeeGo open source project into its own Sailfish OS, has released its first Android launcher — to give users of Google’s mobile platform a taster of what its alternative OS has to offer. Jolla co-founder Marc Dillon, now its COO, previously the startup was building an... |
MasterCard Will Borrow A Touch ID Trick For Fingerprint Scanning Credit Card | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | Apple isn’t the only company using biometrics to authenticate payments and purchases – Apple Pay partner MasterCard wants to make fingerprint scanning something even people without an iOS device can use to digitally ‘sign’ for contactless transactions. The credit card company is launching the “world’s first” with tec... |
Amazon Brings Grocery Delivery To Brooklyn | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | Amazon announced this morning it’s bringing its grocery delivery service to Brooklyn, confirming of a New York area expansion. Initially, the service will be available to Prime members in Park Slope, but the company says it will soon expand the service to additional ZIP codes in Brooklyn. There’s no word yet on whe... |
With $2M In Funding, AirMedia Aims To Be The Syndication Platform For Premium Video | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | With more viewers than ever tuning into digital video services, premium publishers are looking for more ways to get in front of those audiences. With a syndication network built specifically for video, a startup called hopes to find new distribution for premium publishers. AirMedia was founded by RealGravity execs Lu... |
The Spirit Of Coopetition Is Alive And Well In The Cloud | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | Increasingly, companies that compete directly with another have been announcing major partnerships, and we saw a couple of good examples this week with Microsoft and Salesforce and IBM and SAP. Not coincidentally in my view, they both involved the cloud. That’s because companies may want to compete, but customers want ... |
Blog So Hard MotherF’ers Wanna Distribute Premium Digital Content, Connect With Advertisers, And Engage With An Audience At Scale | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | So I’m currently hanging out in the AOL offices here in London, . To their credit, the and crew have been great. I have a nice desk, a coffee machine nearby, and even a can of cold Coke to drink. Sitting at this fine desk, however, I ran into a bit of sticker shock. Observe: You can’t make that up. It’s literally ... |
Shave Like The Ancients Did With The Beluga Razor | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | As you prepare to apply your Barbasol and your hair pomade while whistling a bit of Benny Goodman, what razor to do you reach for? Do you grab a seven-bladed monstrosity, cast in bright orange plastic and chrome and made to last three shaves? No. You reach for a single blade beauty, a razor that can shave four star gen... |
Snapchat and Spiegel’s Interesting Call on the Hong Kong Demonstrations | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | I don’t mean to pile onto Snapchat in the middle of the #Snappening. But I thought there was something interesting that went missed in During the Hong Kong demonstrations that blew up this month, he and his team briefly discussed turning the protests into an ‘Our Story,’ and then decided to do it. ‘Our Story’ is a f... |
Google And Microsoft Battle For Market Cap Supremacy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 17 | — Google and Microsoft are currently locked in a dogfight to be the second-most valuable technology company in the world. Following Google’s less-than-awesome earnings report, combined with a pre-market rise from Microsoft, the two tech giants are neck-and-neck for market cap supremacy. Apple and Exxon Mobil will still... |
The NSA Won’t Disclose What It Leaked To The Public | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | The NSA doesn’t like leaks that much. But it does like leaks when it chooses to leak, as then it gets to exert influence over the media, and thus potentially shape the public narrative. And as , not everything initially marked TOP SECRET//COMINT//NO FORN needs to stay that way. But that doesn’t mean to say that the NS... |
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Kmart Hacked | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | First it was Target. Then it was Home Depot. And now? Kmart. In the latest of what seems like an endless series of massive retailer hacks, Kmart has just disclosed (on a Friday afternoon when no one is really paying attention) that their payment systems were compromised throughout September and early October. Time to c... |
Glimpse Pivots To Privacy-Focused Group Messaging For Teens | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | is going through some major restructuring, with one co-founder departing as the startup shifts gears from general-purpose photo and video messaging to focus on groups and teens in particular. The biggest news is that co-founder and CTO Pax Dickinson (former CTO at my previous employer, Business Insider) is leaving t... |
Netflix Now Finally Works On Linux | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | Remember that Netflix streaming would soon finally, work on Linux? (That is, it’ll work without requiring a bunch of trickery to convince Netflix you’re running something else.) Tada! . There are a few caveats, though… First, it’s not working on Linux distros — just Ubuntu for now. If you’re on Debian, or Gentoo, ... |
CrunchWeek: Airbnb Is Legal, Satya Nadella’s Unfortunate Statement, And The Snappening | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | We’ve got some big topics to talk about on CrunchWeek: the San Francisco in the city, , and Snapchat users sharing photos using a few third-party clients CrunchWeek regulars and were joined by TechCrunch writer , who attended the Board of Supervisors discussions and |
Glu Mobile Releases Diner Dash On iOS And Android | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | , the same company behind , just released Diner Dash in the and on . Originally published by San Francisco-based , Diner Dash has received over 550 million downloads, making it one of the most popular downloadable video games ever. Glu acquired PlayFirst for $12 million in stock this last spring and the new game o... |
For President Obama, A Net Neutrality Reprise | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | President Obama’s recent comments in favor of strong net neutrality regulations ignited a fresh round of media coverage: He’s opposed to Internet fast lanes! Hold loose everyone, we’re in charted waters. The president’s remarks illustrate the fact that the ultimate net neutrality decision is out of his hands, resting i... |
This Is Withings’ Vision For The Future Of The Home | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | Slowly but surely, has been building up its product portfolio to provide a truly holistic approach to gadgets and digital services. Recently, the French company brought over its latest products, outfitted a snazzy New York city hotel room, and gave us a sweet little tour of what the perfectly connected home looks... |
Correction: 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship Did Not Up Age Limit To 23, But Maybe It Should | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | [ : Despite sending out emails and updating its site to ask people 23 and under to “apply” for its $100,000 stipend to skip college, the Thiel Fellowship tells us it’s is not accepting anyone older than 20. We reported earlier it was taking people up to age 23. Apparently those over 20 are only eligible for the Thiel S... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.10.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | – Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, David Ossman, and Steve Gillmor. |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Tesla, Amazon Fire 7, And Withings Home Monitoring | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | Tesla just announced new and Matt can’t shut up about it. Meanwhile, Amazon announced a new and found to be quite the solid little reader. He argues, however, that it isn’t a tablet. We also take a look at the newest stuff from Withings, including the Home monitoring system, as well as rumors around Coin’s imminen... |
Ubooly Cuddly Learning For Kids | One Lap | Rob Coneybeer | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | Carly Gloge and her team at are pioneering a new product category – interactive toys that leverage the capabilities of modern smartphones. I’ve always been intrigued by Ubooly, because their initial products convert commodity, widely available smartphones into fun and accessible toys for children. With well-written... |
The Year Of The Corporate Divorce | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | It’s been a good time to be a corporate marriage counselor, and an even better time to be a corporate divorce attorney. Just in the last two weeks, we learned that , HP is into separate companies, and . Like two embittered high school sweethearts who later learn that things aren’t working out well together, these c... |
Stratos Raises $5.8M To Build An All-In-One Connected Credit Card | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | Meet , another startup aiming to disrupt the staid credit card industry by building and producing an all-in-one, connected credit card. The Michigan-based company recently announced its $5.8 million in funding and is charging forward with manufacturing. Stratos was founded in Ann Arbor, Mich. in 2012, and the team rec... |
Months After Its “Upgrade,” Simple’s Online Bank Is Still Broken | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | Simple is no longer “simple.” Nearly two months after to its systems and infrastructure, online banking service Simple is still recovering from a series of glitches that have affected every aspect of money management from bill payments to being able to see a correct available balance to refund delays, credits appeari... |
Monsieur, The Drink Robot, Raises $2 Million | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | A robotic bartender named and his human partners have raised $2 million in seed investment from BIP Capital with Base Ventures, Paul Judge, TechSquare Labs, NFL star Derrick Morgan, and NBA star Glen Davis. The funding will go towards building more Monsieur drink robots for bars, restaurants, and my bedroom. “We are ... |
As Account Management Gains Importance, Gainsight Raises $25 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | The software business model has changed and that change has put more emphasis on keeping customers and keeping them happy than in the past. Gone are the days when a software business could sell an installation and then wait for a customer to call with a problem. The service model that has swept the software industry (b... |
So Long #Gamergate. What Did You Teach Us? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | The hashtag is still going, as are the fervent speculations and plans for operations on 8chan and Reddit, but the movement that is #Gamergate is exposed for what it always was: A core of angry men hidden within a softer (and far more naive) crowd that liked to think of itself as diverse. The shield dropped when someone... |
Tinder Spammers Move To SMS After Improvements To Dating App’s Security | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 10 | Dating app Tinder for had been flooded with – fake accounts that flirt with users in order to redirect them to adult sites, and yes, take their money. This summer, security firm Symantec , and later, Tinder addressed the issue with a technical update. That update, it appears, effective at cutting down the in-app... |
Who To Follow On Twitter, According To Marc Andreessen | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Well-known and investor Marc Andreessen has produced a list of his favorite people to follow on Twitter. He was prompted to do so by an article in The Information called by Jessica Lessin, who questioned if the industry leaders most often quoted by the media (she cited Andreessen, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel) really... |
PSA: You Won’t Be Able To Upgrade The New Mac Mini’s RAM Yourself | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | If you’ve ever owned a Mac Mini, there’s something you should probably know about the recently-announced : the RAM? It’s soldered to the board now. In other words, you won’t be able to upgrade it yourself. Past generations of Mac Minis allowed the user to crack open the case and install RAM they’d sourced themselves (... |
Loly Adds A Supersized Emoji Sparkle To Your iPhone | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Move over boring old static smiley face and wine glass emoticons, Loly is a new, bigger, prettier emoji app . Online fashion pioneer created the new app to fill a need for the “chic and stylish” to have a better way to express themselves. Pell is the founder of early e-commerce fashion site Splendora. That got acqui... |
A User’s Guide To Disrupt London 2014 | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Hard to believe that Disrupt London opens tomorrow! As always, TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of folks who promise to make your experience at the conference better than ever. Our wifi is sponsored by . You can find it using the network name “Cushman And Wakefield.” : is pleased to sponsor our fun-fi... |
Inside The Spotify – Echo Nest Skunkworks | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Pig, and it’s ProTools for playlists. Punch in parameters like “danceability”, date ranges, or emotions and Truffle Pig spits out a set of top jams that would fit your “Lovesick 90s Party Starters” playlist. Truffle Pig is just one of the new musical inventions dreamed up at the sonic skunkworks born from . Deep insi... |
Infected Flight Wins The Disrupt Europe 2014 Hackathon Grand Prize, Appilepsy And Seeusoon Are Runners Up | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | more exciting than this. Yesterday, we welcomed hundreds of hackers at Old Billingsgate in London for the Hackathon. They all have worked tirelessly for the past 24 hours in an awesome dungeon-like venue to come up with a neat, funny and smart hack. We could all feel the excitement in the air when the 89 teams took ... |
Movie Nights Lets You And Your Friends Find And Agree On A Film To Watch | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Trying to figure out what film I want to watch at home from the thousands I can pick on various VOD services is a pain. The only thing more annoying is trying to find one that my husband and I can both agree we want to watch (love you, Marc). A app presented today at TC’s Disrupt Hackathon called Movie Nights has creat... |
Iranian Users Petition Microsoft For Greater Windows Support | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system preview has , and tens upon tens of thousands of votes on its . Curiosuly, one dominating theme has emerged over the past few days: Requests for better support in Iran. The Verge’s wrote a post last week , noting that users are asking Microsoft to include support for the Per... |
Newsly Hack Is Tinder For News Articles | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Tinder’s interface for quickly filtering people you might like to date from those you definitely don’t is being applied to all sorts of other sorting tasks. We’ve had , for instance. And here at the Disrupt Europe 2014 hackathon in London we’ve just seen a Tinder for news stories, called Newsly, presented on stage. ... |
Passage Replaces Your Passwords With Images | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | , from the Edinburgh-based team behind , replaces your passwords with images. So instead of typing in a password, you simply hold a previously registered image up to your screen — maybe a photo of your family you have on your desk or your driver’s license. The team, which built this service over the course of the la... |
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Watch The Disrupt: London Hackathon Judging Live Stream Right Here! | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 19 |
I’m tired and I didn’t do anything. After coding for 24 hours, the participants of the first TechCrunch Disrupt: London hackathon will now present their creations on the massive Disrupt stage. From developer geek to investor chic, these judges are ready for anything and will assess hackathon participants on a sc... |
Pizza, Beer, Glory, And The All-Night London Hackathon | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Here in London, the hackathon is racing towards its conclusion, with its participants all prepping their presentations for judging later today. Last night, however, around midnight, fueled by a recent infusion of pizza and beer, TechCrunch went around to ask a few questions and cause a little mayhem. Between a spid... |
With Laplock, You Get A Text Message When Somebody Unplugs Your Laptop | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | Fresh off the , is a nifty little app developed at our TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in London. Martin Saint-Macary and Ivan Maeder worked tirelessly for the past 24 hours to build an easy-to-use software lock for your Mac. Here’s how it works. At heart, Laplock is a menubar app for your Mac. You install it, enter ... |
Andrei Cherny’s ‘Aspiration’ Brings The Investment Tools Of The 1% To The Other 99% | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 19 | At 39 years old, has , consulted with Fortune 100 companies, worked as a state prosecutor, served as a Naval reserve officer, founded a , and a couple of . Now he’s adding entrepreneur to the list. In November Cherny will launch , a company which aims to democratize broad swaths of the financial services indust... |
Elon Musk Compares Building Artificial Intelligence To “Summoning The Demon” | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-qEiB6a5f4&w=640&h=390] This past week, Tesla CEO/Living, Breathing Tony Stark/Space X Founder Elon Musk was interviewed at the MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium. While the whole interview is worth watching (and is embedded above), one answer to a question from the audience ta... |
Mobile Games Need Their Artists | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | Across 2013 and into 2014 the stories around games went in many directions, to Steam and Steam Machines, to consoles, to VR and microconsoles. It could be said that a considerable degree of the anima behind those stories was driven by hunts for the next big break in video game platforms. Where, people asked, would anot... |
PhotoSpotLand Wants To Help You Take Better Photos | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | Our smartphones now allow us to take more photos than ever before, but even as those cameras get better, they still don’t allow you to take DSLR-quality images. For that, you still need big sensors and the right kind of lens for the right kind of situation. is a new service for those of us who still like to travel wi... |
This Scientist Is Using Open Sourced Software Techniques To Turn Bugs Into Patent-Free Drugs | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs. Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes will prove we can use a compound sequenced from microscopic bug cultures to treat cancer. It’s a... |
Whisper Suspends Editorial Team Involved In Guardian Visit | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | Anonymous messaging app has suspended its editor-in-chief and other staff members after Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller wrote a letter Whisper execs to an in-person meeting to discuss the app’s privacy practices. “While Whisper provides users a unique social experience, the allegations in recen... |
About That Microsoft Quarterly Report | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | Microsoft’s . The fiscal quarter, corresponding to the calendar third of 2014, brought stronger than expected revenue and profit. The company’s cloud business continued to grow, Windows Phone put points on the board, Surface took off and Office 365 picked up a grip of new paying users. Put more simply, devices and ser... |
The ChronodeVFD Resurrects Old Displays For A Cool New Watch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | I am, as you may know, a sucker for watches that use older display technologies (see also ). For example, by freelance engineer uses a vacuum fluorescent display tube, an early form of digital display that cast a bright blue light and was first used in 1980s-era electronics. They will be familiar to folks who owne... |
Fab And Mind Candy Founders Talk About Their Companies’ Struggles And New Directions | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | I’m finally getting over my post-Disrupt Europe jet lag, and I guess that means the conference is old news. But before we leave it in the rearview, I wanted to highlight a couple of backstage interviews that you might have missed if you weren’t watching the live stream — specifically, my conversations with Fab’s Ja... |
iPad Air 2 Review: The Best Tablet Available, Now More Portable And Powerful | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | update includes a redesigned iPad Air, just one year after the device was first introduced. Typically, Apple keeps the outside case design on mobile gadgets around for two years before switching things up, so the new slimmer Air is a remarkable feat in terms of hardware engineering. The new iPad also now comes in a go... |
Carvey Is A Powerful CNC Machine For The Rest Of Us | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Robotic CNC machines – cutting systems that use spinning tools to swipe through metal, wood, and plastic – are cool but ugly. Most of them are as big as a fridge and designed to carve out objects in a few minutes but none will sit quietly on your desk and do its business with aplomb and elegance. Now, however, there’s ... |
iPad Mini 3 Review: Apple’s Small Tablet Stays Mostly The Same | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | 3 is one of two new tablets launched last week at a special event in Cupertino, and it is definitely the one that got the least attention from Apple’s product development team over the past year. The has an all-new processor, new screen manufacturing tech, a new camera, and more. The iPad mini 3, by contrast, gains ... |
Myriam Joire AKA tnkgrl Is Out At Pebble | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 26 | Myriam Joire, evangelist for the wearables company Pebble, has been fired from her position. She was Tech Evangelist at the company and spoke at a number of events, including an event in Amsterdam and another in London this week. “Wow! I just found out that I’m no longer with Pebble,” she said in a tweet. Joire, also k... |
Our Four Favorite Companies From The 500 Startups Demo Day | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Time just keeps flying by, as it’s already demo day for ‘s . We spent the better part of this afternoon watching the companies in the accelerator’s latest batch put their best face forward for a group of investors at Microsoft’s campus in Mountain View, Calif., and we’ve rounded up the most exciting companies that pr... |
Hands-On With The Nexus 6 And Android Lollipop | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Smack dab in the middle of last week, Google announced two new pieces of shiny: the Nexus 6 phone, and the Nexus 9 tablet. Alas, both announcements came by way of blog post, rather than the standard fanfare-filled physical event — meaning no one actually got to the devices. Until now! While the amount of time I got... |
Hands-On With The Nexus 9 Tablet | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | The Nexus 9 in a nutshell: it’s big, and it’s beautiful. I got to spend a few fleeting minutes with the device this afternoon, and though we plan to have a full review in the coming days, I thought I’d share my initial thoughts. Like the jump from Nexus 5 to Nexus 6, there’s a pretty huge spike in quality and build f... |
Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52. Revenues including acquisition costs were $1.15 billion. Yahoo’s stock was ... |
Apple Adds Guide On iCloud.com Browser Security In Wake Of China Hack | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Apple has released an updated with instructions on how to avoid man-in-the-middle type attacks like those affecting customers in China reported over the past couple of days. The support site says that Apple is “deeply committed to protecting [its] customers’ privacy and security,” and that it is “aware of intermitten... |
On The Heels Of Apple Pay, Jumio Launches A Card-Scanning Mobile Checkout Product For Retailers’ iOS And Android Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Computer vision startup , best known for its payment card and ID-scanning technologies which allow end users to hold up their cards to a mobile device’s camera to simplify the process of entering in that data on small screens, is rolling out a new product today designed to improve the mobile checkout experience for re... |
BlaBlaCar’s CEO Shares The Company’s 10-Year Journey And Global Expansion Plans | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Taxi apps and ride-sharing companies may have gained mainstream appeal over the past couple of years, but their arrival has been a long time coming. That’s certainly the case for , a France-headquartered startup that was started 10 years ago and to expand its business from Europe into the rest of the world. In an al... |
Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Google today announced that it has acquired , a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly. Firebase currently has almost 110,000 registered developers on its platform and the Firebase team says that the service will continue to work as... |
Building A Fintech Startup In Europe | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Today on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, Taavet Hinrikus from TransferWise, Damian Kimmelman from DueDil, and Jeff Lynn from Seedrs took the stage to talk about the state of fintech startups in London. These companies took us through the current landscape, regulatory issues, and why it’s a good time to build a fi... |
Product Hunt Gets Social With Twitter-Like User Profiles, Following Features And Notifications | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Product Hunt, the aggregation site currently focused on surfacing new tech products and startups, is now turning itself into something of a social network this morning with the launch of redesigned user profiles, following features and notifications. The new profiles offer a variety of information about the poster, i... |
The Ultimate Vision For Homejoy Is Not Just Cleaning, According To CEO Adora Cheung | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | On-demand home services company has been providing cleaning services over the last few years, but it’s hoping to expand into several other verticals. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, co-founder and CEO Adora Cheung said the company would continue to test out other services in its different markets. Today Homejoy i... |
Japanese 3D-Printed Gun Maker Is Sentenced To Two Years In Jail | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Yoshitomo Imura, an employee at the Shonan Institute of Technology in Japan, was arrested last may for printing and firing a 3D-printed gun called the ZigZag. He printed three guns in total and was arrested for running afoul of Japan’s strict gun laws. The prosecutors warned that Imura’s actions were a threat and felt ... |
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2014 Is… Crate | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | incredibly fierce at the inaugural TechCrunch Disrupt London. At the very beginning, there were 15 amazing companies presenting in front of multiple groups of industry leaders serving as judges. The startups were competing for £30,000 and the highly coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors... |
Google Updates Play Music With Songza-Style Functionality | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | For the first time since , Google is integrating the technology into its Google Play Music service. The updated service gives you access to expertly curated playlists based around date, time, weather, and what Google thinks you might be up to. Starting today, Play Music users will be able to access thousands of differ... |
Life360 Acquires Two-Month-Old HelloWorld | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Today, location-sharing startup HelloWorld is announcing that it has been acquired by for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. That’s a pretty fantastic exit, given the fact that the startup was and built by 5 recent- and soon-to-be-grads who have raised no capital from angels or traditional investors. HelloWorld found... |
Yelp Strikes Hotel Bookings Partnership With Hipmunk | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | Yelp has partnered with to allow people to book hotels within the business review platform. While this is not the first time Yelp has offered a way for users to purchase from businesses right on its site, it is the first time it’s done this with hotel bookings. Yelp says the idea is that people will book a place to s... |
San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb With 7-4 Vote, Lots of Amendments | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | After six years of operating in San Francisco, Airbnb will finally become legal on its own home turf. The city’s board of supervisors voted to legalize and regulate short-term stays through a controversial piece of legislation that has been two years in the making and comes in the midst of one of the city’s most acute ... |
Staples Becomes The Latest Retailer Affected By A Payment Card Data Breach | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 21 | If you’ve shopped at a major retailer in the U.S., chances are your payment card data has been stolen at some point. Today, it appears you may be able to add Staples to the growing list of retailers who have discovered fraudulent activity related to a data breach in their stores. In Staples’ case, however, the company ... |
Facebook Launches Hyper-Local Ads Targeted To People Within A Mile Of A Business | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Facebook’s mobile ubiquity and push for always-on location sharing came to fruition today with the that could convince people to visit stores they’re nearby. Soon, brick-and-mortar businesses will be able to target ads to anyone who lives or was recently within a specific distance of their store. Advertisers can set ... |
Twitter Sues The Government Over Data-Request Disclosures | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Twitter wants you to know that it is serious about data request transparency, and that is a darn fine good thing. The social company is suing the government for the right to share, in more granular detail, the requests for user data that state makes. The United States government would like such data to be opaque. Twitt... |
Dot & Bo Adds Media Vet Nancy Tellem To Its Board As It Looks To Combine Content And Commerce | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | You might know online retailer mostly as a website for purchasing stylish home furnishings, but the company wants to be much more than that. In particular, it wants to be seen as a next-generation content and commerce destination — what you might think of as a kind of QVC for millennials. Dot & Bo already has the com... |
Belkin Breaks Its Routers Worldwide, Issues Temporary Fix [Update: Fixed!] | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | For some reason Belkin routers cannot connect to the Internet. Starting around midnight EDT, users took to Twitter en mass all pointing to their Belkin routers as the source of their connection woes. At 9:30am PDT Belkin acknowledged the issue and an hour later, . Belkin has yet to reveal the cause of the mass outage ... |
The Equil Smartpen Puts Your Physical Notes And Doodles In The Cloud | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Despite the convenience of jotting down notes into text files that can be saved to the cloud, many still prefer jotting down their thoughts or quotes from meetings with a physical pen and a piece of paper. The tech industry has responded with various gadgets targeted at those who prefer taking notes the old-fashioned... |
Tune In To TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM 102 Indie Tonight | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | TechCrunch Radio Tuesday begins now. We’ll be back yet again tonight to discuss the goings on of the tech world on TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM 102 Indie. HP is splitting the H from the P (not really, but they are ), and had a weird week, so we’ll probably talk about that. We’re also slightly fascinated by the up... |
IBM Sees Salvation In Watson’s New York Home | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Armed with , an unprecedented degree of autonomy within IBM, and an entire Manhattan city block, IBM launched its media blitz to show the world its vision of a future enhanced and enabled by Watson, its artificial intelligence technology. So today 28 reporters convened on the fifth floor of 51 Astor Place with the IBM... |
Facebook’s Potential Anonymity Project Could Be A Tough Sell | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | A new Facebook app project might try to embrace the kind of anonymous sharing that we’ve seen on apps like Secret and Whisper, according to a new report by . The software would be a standalone application designed for mobile that wouldn’t require users to employ their real names, a policy FB enforces on its main socia... |
Israeli Startup Scene Thriving Despite Conflict | Christine Magee | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Investments in Israeli startups climbed to near record highs in the third quarter, even as the country was in the throes of the worst violence it has seen in years. Venture investments in Israel-based companies have not only increased in number of deals – with a near 40% rise this quarter over last- but more than tripl... |
HAXLR8R Increases Seed Funding For Its Next Round Of Startups | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Hardware accelerator that it plans to offer companies in its next batch and beyond further options when considering taking seed funding and joining its program. Starting with it’s upcoming sixth batch, startup founders will have the option to take $25,000 in exchange for 6% of their companies (the previous rate) o... |
Division Furtive Introduces A Line Of Super-Secret High Tech Watches | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | As an International Man of Mystery I’m often parachuted into dangerous places where I only have my wits, my iPhone, my iPad Mini, my protein bars, my suitcase full of clothes, my special travel socks, my hair gel, my toothpaste, some magazines, and my Advil to protect me. Now I hope to have a watch. Originally announ... |
Warren Buffett Says Hillary Is Going To Run — And Win | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Warren Buffett told 400 of some of the world’s top women in leadership at the in California today that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016. The Oracle from Omaha speculated in an on stage interview with his long-time friend and senior editor-at-large for Fortune, Carol Loomis, that Clinton will wait to anno... |
Scripps Acquires WeatherSphere, Publisher Of 3 Top 10 Weather Apps On iTunes | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | , the company behind the #1 Paid weather application on iOS, and maker of three of the Top 10 Paid weather apps as well as three of the Top 20 Grossing weather apps, has been acquired by the E.W. Scripps Co. The portfolio of apps will live on following the deal’s closure, and will complement Scripps’ existing StormShie... |
Hardware Battlefield Participants To Receive Exhibition Space At CES As They Compete For $50,000 | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | I’m very excited to announce that TechCrunch is now an official media partner at CES 2015, which means big things for our startup competition, Hardware Battlefield. Startups chosen to participate in Hardware Battlefield will now receive exhibition space free of charge in CES’ startup venue, Eureka Park. They will also ... |
This Is The New Squarespace | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | has just announced a brand new version of its product called Squarespace 7. Obviously, the interface of the service (which gives users a full suite of site publishing/e-commerce tools) looks refreshed, but it’s the new features that really differentiate between this and Squarespace 6, launched all the way back in 201... |
It’s Decision Day For Airbnb in San Francisco | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Today, San Francisco’s board of supervisors is voting on how to legalize and regulate short-term rentals on platforms like Airbnb. It’s a critical moment for Airbnb because some of its most attractive and lucrative markets are in the world’s top-tier cities, many of which suffer from chronic housing shortages. San Fran... |
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