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IBM’s Ginni Rometty Reveals Watson’s Future | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | IBM CEO Ginni Rometty took to the stage at the to showcase updated Watson technology. You may know Watson as the bot that beat humans on Jeopardy!. However, since that time, Big Blue has been improving the program in ways that could help the computer not just learn, but also reason, according to Rometty. Part of her ... |
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Microsoft To Hold Cloud Event In SF On October 20 With CEO Satya Nadella | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | Mark your calendars: Microsoft is coming to town. Again. On October 20, Microsoft’s cloud crew, and , will be in San Francisco to talk about the “cloud” and “Azure.” We don’t have much more than that at the moment, frustratingly. Microsoft is continuing its of coming to the Bay Area, and San Francisco specifically... |
Social Curation Platform Storify Gets A Redesign With Support For Group Collaboration | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 7 | , a service that allows users to curate tweets, photos, and other social media posts to create a coherent story, is getting a new design. More than just giving the product a new look, the redesign supports an important new feature — the ability for multiple journalists or other Storify users to collaborate on stories t... |
Tesla’s Newest Car Is AWD And Goes 0-60 In 3.2 Seconds | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | Whoops! While people are still filing their way into the building where Elon Musk will “unveil the D”, it looks like word just trickled out a bit early by way of a broken news embargo. We’re at the event and will report back on the news as it breaks, but here’s what we know so far. |
A Conversation on Future Urbanism, Tech Hubs | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | It was a really interesting selection of panelists with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, and Zappo’s CEO Tony Hsieh, who has been struggling to revive downtown Las Vegas, at yesterday in San Francisco. I just wish the conversation were more interesting. Vanity Fair architectural critic and mo... |
Apple’s Jony Ive Is Not Flattered By Xiaomi | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | At the Vanity Fair Summit, Jony Ive just gave his much-anticipated panel, “Genius by Design.” Ive spent a significant chunk of his time on stage talking about Apple’s design process in broad strokes, touching upon the evolution of ideas and the process by which the team makes decisions on when to make changes to their ... |
Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap [Updated] | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | After opprobrium rained down from the sky following his comments regarding how women should approach asking for a raise, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella quickly released a memo to Microsoft employees — it was released to the public as well — backtracking on his remarks. Here it is in full: All – Today I was interviewed o... |
Battery East Group Wants To Help Early Shareholders Cash Out As Startups Put Off IPOs | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | The is a small confab in San Francisco that specializes in secondary offerings, the sale of stock from inside shareholders, early employees and the like that want malleability for their equity before a traditional liquidity event. In human terms, it means that the Group helps people sell their startup stock either ... |
Sound And Architectural Vision | Sam Stubblefield | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | In the race to build the newest, coolest and greenest tech offices, architects and their clients are sparing no expense on the best materials and features. Curved glass? . Rooftop parks? . But many of these buildings omit one of the most important architectural materials of all time: sound. As sound expert , archi... |
HubSpot Spikes 20% Over Its IPO Price In Strong Debut | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | HubSpot is . After raising its IPO price range, the company pulled the trigger above that level, . That’s a far cry from the original low-end of its first proposed price range of $19. The markets welcomed the company’s offering, pushing its shares up more than 20 percent at the time of writing. Yahoo Finance ; the c... |
Nvidia Shield Tablet Review: A Great Android Tablet, With Big Bonuses For Gamers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | its bench in terms of gaming devices, and the new Shield Tablet is an impressive new addition to the roster. While you’ll note some trade-offs in terms of the size and weight of the device versus the trend towards ever-slimmer, lighter gadgets, it’s a powerful tablet, and a powerful value proposition, even if gaming i... |
Amazon’s Fire HD 7 Is A Low-Priced Tablet For The Avid Reader | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | The Fire HD 7 is the latest in the long-running Fire line of LCD ereaders. Amazon has taken great pains to make this new model lighter, smaller, and more robust and, for my money, I’d say that this $139 reader is the best on the market, barring the e-ink line. Let’s look under the hood. Meet the new Fire, (almost) ... |
Pioneering App Mag, The Magazine, Is Shutting Down In December | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | , , is shutting down in December. The magazine, which carried tech stories from prominent authors, is now owned by writer who explained that the title, while profitable from day one, just wasn’t picking up subscribers fast enough to remain viable. Fleishman wrote: Arment, who designed and created the framework on wh... |
The Key To Raising Your Seed Extension Round | Jonathan Friedman | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | Given the growth in seed funding driven by the combined forces of the “ ” and increasing activity by angel investors (often via ), it’s become increasingly common to meet so called “ ” looking to raise seed extension rounds. These companies often have good teams that have achieved solid initial traction, but were as... |
Facebook Mobile’s New Collage Design Highlights Your Best Photos | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | Not every photo is worth exactly 1,000 words. That sweet pic of you skydiving is a lot more interesting than your lunch. So today Facebook profiles on and apps are getting a new collage design for photos that enlarges your most-Liked pics, Facebook tells me. There’s also a new “Uploads” tab that shows all the photo... |
With Its iOS Update, StumbleUpon Becomes A Mobile Chat App | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | , an older web brand still best known for its content discovery service that helps introduce web surfers to new and interesting websites (or maybe for getting , then again, by eBay), is now taking a big step to make its app more relevant for the mobile era. In an update to the out now, the company is introducing s... |
Box Acquires Y Combinator-Backed MedXT To Bolster Its Healthcare Push | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | Box, an enterprise-focused cloud storage and productivity company, announced this morning that it has acquired Y Combinator-backed , a firm that provides a cloud-based file storage system for medical imaging. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition fits into Box’s to pursue a number of industry vertica... |
mParticle Raises $1.5M, Aims To Become The Platform For Mobile Data Integration | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | Mobile data startup has raised $1.5 million in an additional round of seed funding. The company, which says it previously raised $4.5 million, is working to become the data integration platform for mobile developers. In other words, instead of installing a bunch of different s to collect data, app developers can jus... |
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Children’s Clothing Marketplace Totspot Raises $1.8M | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | 500 Startups graduate is announcing today that it has raised $1.8 million in seed funding to expand its mobile marketplace for parents to buy and sell children’s clothing. The startup lets parents post pictures of goods they’d like to sell, a price, and simple description, and then takes a 20 percent commission when ... |
Mobile Ad Startup AppLovin Acquires German Ad Network Moboqo | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | is setting up its European expansion by acquiring German-based mobile ad network . Palo Alto-headquartered AppLovin helps mobile developers find new customers by targeting ads at people similar to the existing user base, then it continues engaging those customers with personalized, retargeted ads. Co-founder and CEO ... |
Internet.org Offers $1M Prize For Apps That Make People In India Want The Web | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | “A recent survey that we did shows that 69% of people in India who are not connected, if you ask them why they’re not connected, what they say is that they don’t know why the Internet would useful for them”, today at the Internet.org summit in New Delhi. That’s why to build apps that convince Indian farmers, migrant... |
Microsoft Promises Its Surface Project Is Here To Stay | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made that his company’s Surface project is here to stay, hoping to convince potential business customers that investing in the tablet-hybrids won’t leave them in the lurch. Out this morning from Microsoft’s chief is a quote calling the Surface Pro 3 an “enterprise-class device,” saying tha... |
Firechat Gets Verified Accounts As Usage Skyrockets During Hong Kong Protests | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 9 | , ‘s mobile chat app that uses to let you chat with the people around you even when there is no Internet connection, has seen a wherever there is a government that wants to suppress free speech. In Hong Kong, for example, the company saw 460,000 downloads in the last week and the service hosted over 5.1 million ch... |
Hands On With Microsoft’s New Fitness Wearable, The Band | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Dropping out of left field like a foul fly ball from the Kansas City Royals this week, the Microsoft Band was a surprise. Part fitness band, part computer, part mobile Twitter and stock-checking smartgadget, the Band is a mix of things. And it pretty much works. It’s still a bit clunky, as you might expect from first... |
Contextly Expands Its Content Recommendation Platform To Include Videos And For-Sale Products, Too | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | With the latest expansion of its content recommendation tools, startup isn’t just pointing visitors to relevant articles, but videos and products, too. Co-founder and CEO Ryan Singel ( ) told me that this is “doubling down” on the company’s current strategy. , he’s taking a different approach from content recommendat... |
Changing The Rules Of E-Commerce | Tim Chang | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | In late summer, Mayfield and CRV co-hosted a dinner for entrepreneurs at e-commerce 2.0 companies, including Brit& Co, Dolls Kill, Dropship, Indiegogo, Kiwi Crate, LeTote, Massdrop, Pebble, Peek, Poshmark, The Hunt, Tophatter, Touch of Modern, Trendalytics, Udemy and Urban Remedy. These executives discussed the facto... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Between the portal to hell opening in our comments section, Elon Musk’s AI demons, and metallic 3D printed guns, it’s been a scary Halloween week here at TechCrunch. We give you our best stories of the week (10/25-10/31). 1. During an interview at an MIT symposium, . When asked about his views on artificial intelligen... |
CrunchWeek: Google Hunts For Cancer, Microsoft’s Fitness Band, And Kim Kardashian Goes To A Tech Conference | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Alex Wilhelm, Kyle Russell and I discuss Google[x]’s new nanoparticle project to hunt down cancerous cells, Alex shows off his shiny new fitness tracker from Microsoft, and the scary comments we received after Kim Kardashian showed up at a tech conference. Also, Happy Halloween! We all put on cat ears just for you. |
One Lap: The Orange Chef Preps At Full Speed | Rob Coneybeer | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Every industry is ripe for disruption, and food preparation is no exception. Traditional recipes are static and driven by standard portion sizes. With experience, a good chef knows how to properly modify recipes according to objectives of taste and healthiness. But this process today is driven by intuition based on y... |
Lyft’s Former VP Of Ops Stephen Schnell Defects To Uber | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Uber’s putting that to good use poaching execs from its top competitor. After earlier this month, Uber has now scored Lyft’s former VP of Operations to work on international supply growth, according to Schnell’s LinkedIn. Bloomberg reporter tweeted about the move earlier. Schnell worked at Lyft since March 2013... |
Trent Reznor’s Apple Special Project Is In “The World” Of Music Delivery | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Musical magic man Trent Reznor is working with Apple on something or other, after the Beats Chief Creative Officer came on board following the acquisition. He says that Apple was interested in working with Reznor directly in “designing some products” following the deal in an , and also say that the partnership would f... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: HP Sprout, New Fitbits, And Other Wrist-Worn Tech | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Fitbit announced a , including the Fitbit Charge and the Fitbit Surge, both of which we’re excited about. Plus, HP is doing all kinds of weird things, not least of which is the announcement of an odd new computer, projector type device called . Plus, we’re still fascinated with the so we’re talking about all things... |
Mad Genius Radio Feels Like A Smarter Version Of Old-School Radio | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | is taking a somewhat old-school approach to streaming music. In a world where most radio services use correlation algorithms to figure out what you want to hear, based on beats per minute and cadence and genre, without really thinking about the right rotation of new and old music. Thus, the stations you end up listeni... |
Net Neutrality’s Future Remains A Glorious Muddle | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | The FCC is expected to vote on new neutrality rules in December. What those rules will entail remains a high-stakes parlor game. Out this week from the Wall Street Journal’s was indicating that, similar to some plans proposed by extra-governmental individuals and groups, the FCC is considering a ‘hybrid’ approach t... |
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Has Crashed | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | This morning, Virgin Galactic tweeted that their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane had experienced an “in-flight anomaly” We have now confirmed that SpaceShipTwo has crashed during a test flight due to currently unknown causes. A press conference is planned with more details at 2 pm pacific. SpaceShipTwo was designed primarily f... |
Evernote Rolls Out Its New “Work Chat” Feature | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Evernote has rolled out a new “Work Chat” feature to its web and mobile applications which allows users of its online note-taking and collaboration software to discuss ideas and projects directly in the Evernote interface itself, instead of having to shift those conversations over to email. Additionally, when you email... |
Super-Agent Andrew Wylie Calls Amazon An “ISIS-Like Distribution Channel” | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | Andrew Wylie is a major book agent who many in the milquetoast publishing industry call the “jackal.” His fiery pronouncements are much-read in certain circles and his latest one, in a speech given at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors, is a doozy. Wylie, who sees Amazon as a threat to all that is good and hol... |
Your Next Passport Could Be On The Blockchain | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | A blockchain tinkerer named Chris Ellis has created a system to build an actual digital passport that, through use of the blockchain and some encryption, will allow you to identify yourself online and off. Called World Citizenship, the project and shows some definite promise. “The goal of this project is to learn a... |
App Annie Fills The Void Left By Facebook’s Onavo Acquisition With Its New Company Smart Sense | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | When last year, it was only a matter of time before someone rebuilt its service. And that seems to be just what the now-leading mobile app analytics firm has done. The company, which used some portion of its $39 million in funding to its competitor Distimo earlier this year, has quietly released a new app called ... |
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This Ambulance Drone Can Fly Into Trouble With First Aid | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc] A Dutch engineer has created a flying defibrillator for emergency situations. The drone, called the Ambulance Drone, would be stationed at various points in the city. In an emergency, people on the scene can call it in and it arrives a few seconds later. The built-i... |
“VideoSelfie” Scores $1.2 Million For Its App Offering Real-Time Filters, GIFs And More | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | But I thought we were recording our video selfies on Instagram and Snapchat now? A soon-to-launch mobile application called VideoSelfie, whose founders participated in the 500 Startups accelerator last year, has raised $1.2 million for its forthcoming mobile application that lets you edit your videos (of yourself, duh)... |
Why Online Retailers Continue To Open Brick-And-Mortar Stores | Mike Kercheval | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | In an age when new technology and the growth of pure online-only retailers have industry analysts questioning the future of brick-and-mortar stores, what are online retailers doing to grow their businesses and gain market share? Why, opening up physical storefronts of course. The benefits that physical spaces provide... |
Former Grooveshark Execs Raise $950K For E-Commerce Customer Intelligence Startup Tandem | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 31 | A team of early employees who left the company a couple of years ago to pursue their own startup ambitions have raised a little under a million for , a service that helps e-commerce companies better understand their customers shopping behavior and interests by combining analytics data, surveys and sales information.... |
Samsung Announces The Galaxy A5 And Galaxy A3, Its “Slimmest Smartphones To Date” | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | to introduce more desirable phones when it revealed its disappointing Q3 2014 earnings yesterday, and it has wasted no time doing so after the Galaxy A5 and the Galaxy A3 — two metallic devices that it calls its “slimmest smartphones to date.” The Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 both dispense with the Korean company’s tradi... |
Novelty T-Shirt Maker Print Syndicate Raises $4.25M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Print Syndicate, an e-commerce store that sells printed T-shirts and other fashion and home decor goods, has raised $4.25 million in Series A funding led by Data Point Capital. Other investors include Groupon founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell’s Lightbank Capital, and Tech Fund, which was launched by Zappos found... |
Meet Samantha, Ethan App’s Sister | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Samantha is a girl living in New York City. She’s old enough to drink and experienced enough to give love advice. But other than that she prefers to keep it anonymous, like Gossip Girl. Our first convo went like this: Burrito in bed with a dog. Seemed human enough. Samantha builds on the , a simple messaging app that ... |
In The Best Conditions, iOS-Exclusive Vainglory Is A Top-Notch MOBA | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | A few weeks back I drove down to the San Mateo headquarters of , the developer behind , one of the prominent multiplayer online battle arenas built specifically for tablets (and, as we discovered at September’s iPhone event, the iPhone 6). There, I met with the studio’s founders as well as several other developers an... |
Andy Rubin Is Leaving Google To Start A Hardware Incubator | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Andy Rubin, best known for his work on Android at Google, is leaving the company. According to , Rubin will build an incubator for what it describes as companies working with “technology-hardware” products. Google confirmed the departure to us with a prepared statement from Google CEO Larry Page: “I want to wish Andy a... |
Equity Crowdfunding Service Seedrs Acquires Junction Investments, Plots US Expansion | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | , a company based in London that deals with equity crowdfunding, has an eye on the U.S. market. Today, it announced that it has acquired , which is based in California, and operates in a similar market space. As a company, Seedrs is most interesting for its ability, with certain caveats, to accept small dollar amounts... |
Myths And Misconceptions Of Our Wearable Future | Hamid Farzaneh | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Wearables as a second brain. The Internet of Self and Things. One trillion sensors…. There’s no doubt that a sensor-laden world is the buzz of the town. The next Big Thing. In fact, there is buzz that many consumers probably dismiss it as hype. Yet, in spite of all this hype, as a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley’... |
Trialfire Begins Selling Code-Free Analytics Service For Apps And Websites | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Toronto-based startup is launching a service so companies can track customers as they interact with applications and websites without the need for data analysts and technical support. The company’s new software allows companies to collect every user click, navigation and entered field, without the need for fancy codi... |
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GoPro Shares Spike As It Handily Beats Street Estimates | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | GoPro’s earnings for the third quarter were pretty as a picture for the company’s investors, with earnings coming in above analysts’ expectations For the quarter, GoPro racked up sales of $280 million, up 45.7 percent from the $192.1 million reported in the third quarter of 2013. Adjusting for generally accepted accoun... |
Ask Mark Zuckerberg Anything During His First Public “Community Q&A” On Facebook Nov 6 | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Most people have a burning question to ask about Facebook, whether they’re one of its 1.35 billion users or not. So taking a cue from Reddit’s Ask Me Anything sessions, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is upping the transparency and will play customer support himself on November 6th when he does Facebook’s first . The h... |
Our New Show “Built In Brooklyn” Takes You Inside Brooklyn Startups | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | We’re announcing a new show called Built in Brooklyn, and its main goal is simple — to showcase a bunch of cool Brooklyn startups. This has been in the works for months, but I’m glad we’re announcing it today — exactly one year after I moved from San Francisco to New York City. I ended up in the Williamsburg neighb... |
LinkedIn Q3 Beats The Street, Sales Of $568M, EPS $0.52 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | In a quarter that has seen a mixed set of results for social networks and , today reported its quarterly results, handily beating analyst estimates on sales of $568 million, up 45% compared to a year ago and sales of $393 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52. But it also posted a wider net loss of $4.3... |
Groupon Q3 Beats The Street On Sales Of $757.1M, EPS Of $0.03 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Still pushing hard on its strategy to be more than just a site for daily deals, e-commerce powerhouse Groupon today, reporting revenues of $757.1 million on non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.03, but a negative EPS of $0.03 on a GAAP basis. Analysts were a non-GAAP EPS of $0.01 on revenues of $748.76 million. Groupo... |
Autodesk Invests $100 Million Toward The First 3D Printing Fund | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | is opening a $100 million 3D printing fund, called , to give money to startups and designers in the 3D printing space. The company is now encouraging those interested in developing hardware, software, materials, marketplaces and maker spaces to apply to participate in the Spark Investment Fund’s investment portfolio.... |
Immediately Is An Email App For Sales Reps That Tracks When Messages Are Read | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | SquareOne, an email startup that earlier this year, has now pivoted to become , an email app designed with the needs of sales reps in mind. The new app, which is currently live on the web and on iPhone, is an email client application offering features like reminders, templates, scheduling and Salesforce sync, as wel... |
University Beyond Raises $300K Seed To Hook Up Brands And College Kids | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Plenty of companies are looking to give brands and recruiters a way to connect with the ultra-valuable, soon-to-be-working, super influential college demographic, and has just raised $300,000 in seed funding to do just that. The round was led by , with participation from two unnamed angel investors. The idea behind ... |
Sunset Overdrive Review: A Genuinely Fun Game, Once You Get Past First Impressions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Microsoft’s console exclusives are arguably what it needs to make up ground on PlayStation, despite its continued hold on the beloved Halo series. Its brand new Xbox One game, , looks in part to be an answer to Sony’s fan favorite Infamous series, since both offer a lot of grinding, wall-climbing and parkour-ish behav... |
Instagram Video Ads Go Live Because Everything Good Must Come To An End | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Instagram has at long last after rigorous testing and hands-on work with brands. And because they are advertisements, none of that rigorous work really matters because we simply hate advertisements. With video ads, the potential for high levels of suckage is high, as brands have a total of 15 seconds to capture you, ... |
Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Google Stars, the bookmarking service from Google, has , but with little fanfare. That Google was working to update its bookmarking service has been known for some time. , a developer who had been digging into the service leaked a copy of the “Google Stars” extension, as it was called at the time, while it was stil... |
NaturalCycles Expands Its Contraception App Subscription Service In Europe | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 30 | Swiss founded startup , which has been testing its contraception app in the Nordics since last December has now opened it up to the U.K. market, making its first move to scale the subscription service which aims to offer women an alternative to hormone based contraception methods such as the pill. The app (on and )... |
10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech | Ruthe Farmer | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | On September 20, announced the campaign, an effort to invite men and boys to join in advocating for gender equality. Actress and UN Women Ambassador Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame gave a to launch the campaign, which has been met with both and from the media. When it comes to the hotly debated issue of wo... |
Vivian Schiller Steps Down As Twitter’s Head Of News | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | Just , Vivian Schiller is stepping down as the company’s head of news. Schiller just announced the move in a series of tweets, where she also announced that Twitter VP of Global Media will take up her responsibilities as part of an internal reorganization. 1/3 Stepping down from Twitter so new global media lead ca... |
The Manual For Verizon’s Next Flagship Droid Phone Just Leaked | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | Word around the ol’ phonegeek rumor mill was that Verizon and Motorola were prepping to release a new high-end Android phone to freshen up the Droid lineup — and whatdya know? The entire manual for just such a phone has leaked. So far, at least, it looks like the rumor mill nailed this one: Just as whispers predicted, ... |
Office’s Place In The New Microsoft | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | In a that you should certainly read, a comment from former CEO Bill Gates is worth considering: “[T]he original idea of having great software people and broad software products and Office being the primary tool that people look to across all these devices, that’s as true today and as strong as ever.” What’s fun about... |
Go To TechCrunch Disrupt Europe: London For Free #TCDisrupt | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | Haven’t gotten your tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt Europe yet? The hottest tech conference of the year is coming to London this October, and to celebrate we’re giving away another free pair of tickets to the main event. All you have to do is enter to win. We’ll randomly select the winning entry, and the winner will be n... |
Chromecast Now Lets You Use Your Own Photos As Its Wallpaper | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | Remember back in April when in the Chromecast implied that things like custom wallpapers and weather forecasts were coming soon? Sure enough, Google has just pushed an update to its iOS and Android Chromecast apps, and these things (and more!) are now live. While there’s nothing too earth-shattering going on here, th... |
Please Stop, HTC. Please. | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | Have a new phone? Better use fashion models to show them off. Because real people wear outfits that look like monochrome jellyfish and never smile and they want… no, … your products. That’s just what HTC did today in an industry that is plagued with gender inequality and “booth babe” marketing. They had models of both... |
HTC Just Launched RE, A Flip Camera For Your Smartphone | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | HTC is indeed launching a camera, as the rumors suggested. The new RE (just RE) resembles a tiny periscope, and it’s not quite a GoPro, but it’s not quite a , either (but it really seems like one). Instead, it’s designed to be a solution not unlike a mobile smartphone camera, albeit without the screen attached. HTC CE... |
HTC Debuts The “Auto Selfie,” And Duplicates Frontback With New Eye Photo Software | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | HTC is debuting its new “Eye experience” camera software suite. The new camera software has an auto selfie feature, which automatically takes the photo once the phone has been held steady for a couple seconds, and voice commands including “Say Cheese” and “Action” will snap a photo or start recording video automaticall... |
HTC’s Desire Eye Puts Selfie And Back Cameras On Equal Footing | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | HTC’s new Desire Eye is a brand new camera that includes two 13 megapixel cameras, with the same capabilities front and back. Each has a dual color LED flash, similar to that found on the iPhone, and they come in two-color plastic unibody designs. It has IPX67 waterproofing, (which is the same as that found in the Sams... |
Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | Yesterday morning, Belkin routers the Internet. In a statement provided to TechCrunch Belkin identified and outlined steps it will take to prevent it from happening again: “One of our cloud services associated with maintaining router operations was negatively impacted by a change made in our data center that caused a... |
Slack Changes Sign-In Process On Desktop To Remove Team Names [Updated] | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | is one of the hottest startups out there right now, after having won over a wide range of tech companies with its enterprise collaboration tool. Usually that would be a good thing, except that different projects those companies are working on thanks to a “feature” that makes team names visible to unauthenticated use... |
Watch HTC’s ‘Double Exposure’ Phone (And Camera?) Event Live Right Here | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQzqjPx-50Y?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] HTC has an event today, kicking off at 4 PM ET, and it’s called “Double Exposure,” which has led everyone to logically conclude that it’s camera-related. The rumor mill has been actively trying to anticipate what’s coming, and it ... |
Could A Nobel Prize-Winning Innovation Have Almost Been Overlooked By Silicon Valley? | Vinod Khosla | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | I want to congratulate Shuji Nakamura (pictured above), the founder of Khosla Ventures portfolio company , and his fellow collaborators who were awarded the yesterday. They join an esteemed group of Nobel laureates that includes Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr, all of whom have changed the course of huma... |
Airbnb and Uber Face Some Harsh Realities | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | and are maturing startups both facing some hard realities as they grow. While they have found a loyal and happy user base, they are facing tough resistance from not just the taxi and hotel industries they are disrupting, but also political and social resistance from quarters they probably never imagined when they st... |
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Jimmy Buffett Asked Spotify’s CEO For A Raise | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | At today’s Vanity Fair Summit in San Francisco, musical artist Jimmy Buffett made a quick appearance to ask a question from the audience to Daniel Ek, CEO and founder of Spotify: “When can we get a raise?” Buffett opened his question by noting that he’s been in the music business for a while, and that payouts that tric... |
Mobile Dossier Startup Refresh Finds A Revenue Model With Its Salesforce App | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | , the mobile tool for , is now positioning itself to help sales teams be smarter about their clients and potential clients. To do that, the company has created a new product for Salesforce’s AppExchange that will allow users to access detailed information about the people in their professional network. Ever since it l... |
A Brief History Of Tesla | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | public in 2010, it became the first American car company to do so since Ford Motor Company in 1956. Since then, Tesla’s stock has soared as the company keeps rolling out new features and models while simultaneously capturing the imagination of a curious public. What follows is a brief history of Tesla starting at its ... |
FCC Slams AT&T With $105M Settlement For Bogus Customer Charges | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | The FCC slapped AT&T with the largest “enforcement action” in its history, the agency announced today. The total bill, $105 million, will include $80 million in payments to scammed AT&T customers, $20 million to “state governments participating in the settlement,” with the last $5 million going to the FCC itself, it sa... |
Google Launches New $50/Year Chromebooks For Work Subscription Option | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 8 | Google today is a new subscription service for businesses that use Chromebooks. For $50 per year and device, businesses can now subscribe to get access to Google’s advanced Chrome OS management features and support. With this, Google now gives businesses the option to either pay a one-time fee of $150 for access to t... |
This Is CG | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | This is your semi-regular reminder that CGI is at or beyond the point of absurdity, that everything on the Internet is fake, that there is no spoon, etc. Because seriously. Look at that. I think this is the first time I’ve watched a video like this and wandered right on past the , only to plummet backwards into it wh... |
Tesla Will Announce Something Called “The D” On October 9th | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Elon Musk has just tweeted about his plans to announce two things next week: one thing called “the D”, and “something else” that is left shrouded in mystery for now. He did this by saying that it was “time to unveil the D”, later claiming to have no idea that the phrase “unveil the D” would make just about anyone who h... |
Why Your Geography Does Not Control Your Destiny | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Now more than ever, geography no longer controls your in the tech world. While fashion centers around cities like Paris and New York, oil and gas around Calgary and Houston, and cars in Detroit and Tokyo, good software and hardware companies are sprouting up everywhere. The trend is so rampant that “how I built my st... |
YesVideo’s Legacy Republic Is Building A Freelance Workforce To Digitize Family Photos and Videos | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | announced a new initiative today that aims to recruit an army of “Legacy Makers” to help digitize family photos and videos. For those of you who aren’t familiar with YesVideo, the company was founded back in 1999 and focuses on converting videos (in formats like VHS and 8 millimeter film) to digital, then making the c... |
With A New “Experience Studio”, Echo Aims To Bring Its Social Media Curation To A Broader Audience | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | is a startup that’s been helping big companies and their agencies create widgets that highlight social media conversations. Now, with the launch of a new product called the Echo Experience Studio, co-founder and Chief Product Officer Chris Saad said the company has expanded its technology and made it accessible to a m... |
Box Said To Further Delay Its IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Box, an enterprise-facing cloud storage and productivity company, is its initial public offering (IPO). The delay could last until its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends after the first month of the new year. This is viscerally unsurprising given that the company has consistently said that it will go public when it ma... |
Night At The Roculus Makes Bobbing Your Head To “What Is Love” Funny Again For A Minute | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | The 90s may be over… the pogs stuffed in a box in the garage, the bowl cuts shaved, the grungy hemp necklaces thrown away… But we have virtual reality. We can rebuild it. And, apparently, we’re starting by rebuilding the back seat of the car from . As predicted, one of the most popular early uses of virtual reality... |
An Immigrant Experience | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Four times in my life I have been an immigrant: in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Singapore, and currently in San Francisco. Each time I have enjoyed a certain level of comfort (with many of my expenses covered by a company). But, every time, I have still had to grapple daily with language difficulties, cultural gaps, and con... |
Incubated: How StartX Helps Stanford-Affiliated Founders Get Their Companies Off The Ground | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Over the past few years, has emerged to help founders from Stanford build their companies. The accelerator seeks to take advantage of all the resources at the university, as well as the wide range of tech companies nearby, to improve the ecosystem of Stanford-affiliated startups. StartX provides support and resourc... |
Microsoft Woos Enterprise With Start Button In Windows 10 | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Microsoft . Putting aside the fact they skipped version 9, and all of the jokes that could evoke, the announcement appeared to be one long apology to the enterprise. We’re sorry we dissed you in version 8 and we want to beg you to take us back. And we brought your favorite Start button. Remember, the one you’ve lived ... |
Just Say No To This Sexual Consent App | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | It’s an oft-trotted-out tech truism that there’s an app for everything. But when a pitch for a smartphone application for sexual consent lands in the inbox, well yes, it can certainly feel like there is indeed an app for everything. The thing is, some portions of life function far better offline than on. Or, to put it ... |
Science Inc.’s Refame Connects Influencers With Advertisers On Vine And Instagram | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Startup studio is announcing its latest project — , a marketing platform for social apps Vine and Instagram. Science’s approach to startups is pretty diverse — it launches new companies, , and also . In this case, it’s launching Refame as part of , the organization’s division for customer acquisition and marketin... |
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