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Kickstarter Chairman Perry Chen’s Next Act Is The Non-Profit Website Dollar A Day | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | and assuming the role of chairman at the wildly successful crowdfunding company, Perry Chen’s next online act is launching , a site aimed at educating the public on the wide world of non-profit giving and volunteering. Dollar a Day began as a mostly volunteer project that Chen started with a few other friends from the... |
Facebook Apologizes To LGBT Community And Promises Changes To Real Name Policy | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | After weeks of backlash over Facebook’s real name policy, namely from members of the LGBT community who have had their Facebook pages suspended due to drag names, Facebook has met with members of the community and apologized for any hardship they might have caused. Facebook’s VP of Product today on Facebook apologizi... |
A New App Called Offtime Helps You Unplug Without Missing Out | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Apparently, navel-gazing about how much time you’re spending on your phone is a thing now. We’ve already seen iOS apps like and appear to shame you into self-restraint by alerting you to how many minutes you spend staring at your little screen every day, or how many times per day you pull out your phone and take a ... |
#GapGate Widens As Samsung Responds Saying Some Space Is To Be Expected | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Korean owners of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 have noticed that their brand new devices sport an unusual feature – a . The Gal Note 4, which hasn’t reached our shores, sold out on launch day. Now the gap appears to be a perfectly normal occurrence. Samsung even addresses the gap in their documentation, noting that so... |
The Windows 10 Technical Preview Expires In 196 Days | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Downloading the Windows 10 technical preview? You won’t be able to use it . That’s jolly, because the consumer-facing preview that will follow the current build will be out long before then. But it’s worth keeping in mind: Microsoft is working towards a mid-year release of Windows 10, so the April date is in within th... |
Fab’s Jason Goldberg Talks Design And The Art Of The Pivot At Disrupt Europe | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | . You can grab your ticket . A free Hackathon kicks off the event, which . Then, on the following Monday and Tuesday, we’ll have Startup Battlefield and an awesome lineup of speakers and panels. Among them will be , co-founder and CEO of design portal Fab, and now Hem. Goldberg knows a thing or two about starting co... |
Google Drops Compute Engine Prices By 10 Percent | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | Earlier this year, Google massive price drops for all of its cloud computing services that were quickly matched by Amazon, Microsoft and others. Today, during Google’s event, the company’s senior VP Urs Hölzle announced yet another — but smaller — round of price drops centered around the company’s cloud computing... |
Skylanders Trap Team Review: Good Storytelling And Simple RPG Mechanics Succeed | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 1 | The ‘Toys to Life’ category has been a much-needed savior for the gaming and toy industry alike, bolstering sluggish sales for both by anticipating a huge demand for real-life action figures that can be ‘brought to life’ for use in digital games. Activision’s series pioneered the concept, and the originator is back w... |
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Google Voice Finally Supports MMS On AT&T, Sprint, And Nearly 100 Other Carriers | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | If you’ve ever tried to receive a picture message with your Google Voice number, you might’ve noticed something rather crucial: it… probably didn’t work. For the most part, MMS heading into the service would just vanish into the ether. No longer! According to a Plus post , Google Voice MMS work now on “AT&T, Sprint,... |
Ambi Climate Gives Any Air Conditioner Nest-Like Powers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | wants to democratize smart home climate control with a device that brings learning climate management to standalone window air conditioner units, central air systems, freestanding systems or the single room machines more common in Europe and Asia, so long as the existing system can work with an IR-based blaster or rem... |
RosterBot Launches Mobile Apps To Organize Little League And Pickup Games | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Nearly six years after its , and five months after raising $1 million in seed funding, the online organizational tool for little league and pickup games, has launched a mobile app for and . The company’s founders and met in a pick-up hockey league and developed the service as an online tool to organize pick-up h... |
Nintendo 3DS Hacked To Work With A Gamecube Controller To Make Smash Bros Less Blister-Inducing | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | The new Super Smash Bros for Nintendo’s 3DS is pretty excellent — but for anyone who grew up playing the series on a full-sized controller, the 3DS’ control layout isn’t exactly… optimal. Blisters and tough-to-reach shoulder triggers aside, some players have managed to within a few weeks of the game’s demo release. F... |
HP Pops 4.7%, Picks Up More Than $3B In Market Cap On Breakup News | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Unlock that value. Following news and confirmation that HP , investors sent its shares soaring more than 5 percent, to $36.87, at the end of regular trading. That’s a of around $3 billion. Investors are enthused that the company is working to unlock whatever value may have been hidden inside of the conglomerated fir... |
Alleged iPhone 6 Prototype Fetching Over $100,000 On eBay | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | How much would you pay for an iPhone prototype? $1,000? $10,000? How about $100,000? A 64 GB iPhone 6 said to be a prototype model . The seller claims that Verizon shipped him the device by mistake. iOS is not installed on the device. Instead, the interface shows a proprietary developer’s mode. He claims (and his pict... |
The Washington Post Is Now Free On Amazon Kindles | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | The Washington Post as a free app on Amazon Kindle Fire tablets. The announcement comes a little more than a year after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos the the newspaper. According to a in Bloomberg Businessweek, the app was developed by a group inside the Post called Project Rainbow. The project, led by , will offer a cur... |
Foundation: Foursquare’s Product Future | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | In our latest interview, I sat down with Dennis Crowley at Foursquare’s New York headquarters. Dennis was on our Foundation series , and we discussed some of the exciting changes that have taken place since then, including the . We also explored the direction consumer reviews are taking, and Foursquare’s focus on... |
Of Course There Is A Gold BlackBerry Passport | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Nothing screams spreadsheets and secure communication more than . We reached out to BlackBerry to confirm the authenticity and availability of the device, but have yet to hear back. |
This App Avoided Being Made Useless By Using The iPhone’s Charger (But Not For Charging) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Remember Cycloramic? It was one of . It allows you to take hands-free 360-degree selfie panoramics by using the iPhone’s vibrating motor to propel it around your desk. A key component of this trick, though, was that the last few iPhones have had squared edges. Those edges allowed the phone to be placed upright for pro... |
Vistaprint Buys $25 Million Minority Stake In São Paulo-Based Printi | Julie Ruvolo | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Global printing heavyweight Vistaprint has acquired a $25 million minority stake in Brazilian web-printing startup . The purchase marks Vistaprint’s entry into Latin America, after assuming market leadership in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Vistaprint bought out all of Printi’s investors’ stake and a portion of the found... |
What Is Happening To Bitcoin Right Now? | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | We’re back, baby! Almost! After a over the weekend, the price of is slowly inching up this afternoon after an interesting 31,000 BTC sell-off that blew up the market early this morning. The “wall,” which appears to have been instigated by a single owner or a group which they’re calling the “Bitcoin Whale,” appear... |
Tesla Wants To Sell You A Used Model S | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | The only thing better than a new Tesla is a cheap Tesla, and the company reportedly is set to unveil a program to address the sticker shock and it isn’t a cheaper car. It’s used cars. Certified pre-owned vehicles are big business for luxury automakers. Speaking to automotive News, Tesla vice president of communications... |
500px Announces Adobe Creative SDK Integration | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Photo-sharing service that it’s one of the first developers participating in the , which allows app developers to integrate Creative Cloud services into their mobile apps. This will allow 500px iOS users to edit photos in 500px using tools from the Photoshop and Lightroom apps for iOS and upload them to the cloud ... |
Beepi Gets $60M More In Funding For Its Peer-To-Peer Car Marketplace | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Auto sales marketplace is looking to grow fast and it’s raised a bunch of money to do so. The company announced today that it closed on a fewer than six months after launch. Beepi wants to simplify the way pre-owned cars are bought and sold for a new generation of consumers. Rather than getting ripped off by a deal... |
Gmail Gets An iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Update | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | In my initial review of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I didn’t spend too much time dwelling on third-party app compatibility. That’s because A) I was content with the way iOS handled upscaling lower-resolution apps, and B) I was primarily spending time in first-party software. But using Gmail on both devices via the native ... |
Stream Live Video From A GoPro With Livestream’s Latest iOS App | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Believe it or not, GoPro cameras just got a bit more functional . The company just added the ability to stream live video using its iOS app. Just think, now, thanks to Livestream, you can stream all of your hot skateboarding skillz live. It’s easy enough, too. The app is free yet Livestream charges for the most popula... |
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Watch What Happens When Someone Dumps Tens Of Thousands Of Bitcoin At Below-Market Rates | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | Recently, an individual or group put an estimated 30,000 bitcoin onto the market at a price of $300 per coin. It isn’t clear who was behind the sale, or what their motives were, but the sale meant millions of dollars in revenue for whomever pulled the trigger. Given the number of coins that were made available at the $... |
eBay To Host Live Art Auctions On New Site | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | In July, eBay a partnership with noted auction house Sotheby’s to help bring its inventory of art, antiques and collectibles online via a new live auction format with real-time bidding. At the time, eBay said Sotheby’s was the “anchor tenant” to trial this new format on eBay.com. Today, the company is expanding on th... |
ShipHawk Raises $5 Million To Provide Large-Item Shipping With No Sticker Shock | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 6 | When shipping small items, it’s no problem to use services like FedEx or UPS, but what if you have a large, heavy, or unusually shaped item? When you have an item that doesn’t easily fit in a box, you need to work with specialized carriers, but they generally aren’t easy to find or very transparent with their pricing. ... |
Sundar Pichai’s Ascension At Google Could Herald New Platform Unification | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | In a sweeping transfer of power, . Pichai, a well-known Google executive, will add control of Google+, search, maps, infrastructure and ads to his portfolio, which already includes Chrome’s browser and operating system efforts, Google Apps and Android. When Pichai took over Android from Google’s Andy Rubin, TechCrunch... |
Sidecar Tests A New “Commute” Service, With Discounts When You Pay For A Week Of Morning Rides | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Ridesharing service just invited me to beta test a new feature called Sidecar Commute. Here’s how it works, as explained on : You pay $35 for a one-week Sidecar Commute Pack, then you can request a ride every morning that week, and you’ll get a $15 credit for that ride. If I’m doing my math right, that means you cou... |
Don’t Open Random PowerPoint Presentations From Strangers Right Now (Or Ever, Really) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Heads up! In what feels like a throwback to the late 90s/early 2000’s, Microsoft has discovered one bug in Microsoft Office. Executed properly, the bug could be exploited to take over your entire system running just about any version of Windows. You can find Microsoft’s on the bug here, but here’s the bulk of what ... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.24.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare and Steve Gillmor. |
First Look At 3D Camera App 3DAround | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | What if you could shoot those cool 360-degree, swivel-around photos you see on ecommerce sites or in The Matrix with just your smartphone? Then you’d be using the that launches next month from , which gave TechCrunch an early peek. Simply hit record, revolve your camera phone or tablet around an object, and 3DAround... |
Google Rolls Out An Invite System For Its New Email App, Inbox By Gmail | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Good news, you don’t have to to . You just have to know someone who got in. Today, Google announced by way of its “Inbox by Gmail” that each Inbox user will now receive three invites they can hand out to friends. Hilariously, the invite button emoji is a golden ticket. If you aren’t seeing this option yet in your ... |
You Can Now Build Oculus Rift Projects In The Free Version Of Unity | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | guys how do I virtual reality send help — Greg Kumparak (@Grg) Hey, you! Yeah, you! The one with the awesome idea for something that to be built in virtual reality! Remember a few weeks back, when Oculus mentioned that its development tools would soon work with the free version of the Unity game engine, rather than... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: iPads, Disrupt London, And iPads | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | You might have heard that Apple released some new iPads last week. A lot of them. Plus, TechCrunch ventured across the pond for Disrupt London, where a number of incredible hardware startups debuted their wares. It was a long, but awesome, week. We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , ... |
The Groups App I Wish Facebook Would Build | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | About once a week, if not more, I find myself typing these words or something similar on Facebook: Or, Or sometimes, just If any of these phrases sound familiar, you’re probably also a member of several Facebook Groups like I am. Over the years, has evolved beyond being a private place for a few friends to chat o... |
AT&T Breaks The Apple SIM’s Best Feature, Locks It Down If You Pick AT&T | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | The idea behind the Apple SIM that comes in the new iPads : one SIM, many carriers. Whenever you want to switch carriers, you’d just pop into settings and pick the new one. If you want to bring your own SIM, you can — but otherwise, everything happens through software. No swapping SIMs, no ordering new SIMs, no hassle... |
Yep, Apple Will Shut Down Beats Music App And Roll It Into iTunes | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Last month I reported that and likely add streaming music to iTunes. Apple denied, specifically, that Beats Music would be shut down. Shortly thereafter, ‘unnamed sources familiar with the matter’ conveniently surfaced to engage in about whether Apple might modify Beats Music over time, including its brand. As we n... |
The Queen’s First Tweet Is A Royal Mystery | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Think about your first tweet. Mine was sent from a desktop, but I’m sure plenty of people sent their first tweet from a smartphone. But before you can ever send a tweet, you have to sign up for an account. And, of course, you have to type out an actual message. Only then can you press that little blue Tweet button and... |
Terminal’s Containers Pioneer A New Way Of Developing Apps From The Cloud | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BukjPONmO1w] , a San Francisco-based startup founded by some ex-Facebook and Google technical talent, is trying to transform the way we do software development. They’ve built system supporting containers, or ultra-fast virtual machines that will let developers write, ship and co... |
IBM Earnings Reflect Just How Difficult Transformation Really Is | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | The news came out this week that . Unfortunately for IBM it marked the of falling revenue, indicating that maybe something’s not quite right at Big Blue. IBM’s earnings illustrate the challenge they face as they transform themselves into a cloud-centric company. It could be that it will take some time for that trans... |
Amazon Quietly Launches A Functional App Store Within Its Main Android Application | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Until recently, if you wanted to install an application from Amazon’s own Appstore onto your Android device, you would have to install separately. And this is a bit of a hassle, since from Google Play. But last month, Amazon quietly rolled out a new feature within its main Amazon application on Android which now in... |
Nintendo’s Extended Amiibo Video Is Weird And Long But Good | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3c_JDDp99k&w=854&h=510] Nintendo has a new online ad for its Amiibo ‘toys-to-life’ mobile figures, and the spot depicts the lengthy journey of one young player looking to upgrade his collectible character in order to win over the favours of one of his older brother’s friends. T... |
How To Tell If You’re Burning Money Too Fast | Joe Floyd | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Questions about cash burn have blazed through Twitter like wildfire. Entrepreneurs are asking us: How do I know if I am burning money too fast? Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all answer for an entrepreneur on what level of burn is appropriate for their startup. However, every entrepreneur should consistently ... |
Looksery Launches A Video Chatting App That Makes You Look More Attractive | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | Want to look more attractive on video? Or just different? Earlier this year, a company called for a new kind of mobile video chat application that allows users to look more attractive on video using special effects that can remove blemishes, let you change your eye color, slim your face, and more. The app, which is... |
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Socar, Korea’s Answer To Zipcar, Raises $18 Million But Isn’t Looking Overseas Just Yet | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | South Korea is known for advanced technology and hardware companies like Samsung, LG and others. But startups? Certainly the country has produced few fledgling tech companies, though there are increasing signs that things are changing: the latest being — a startup comparable to Zipcar — raising this month. That rou... |
Japanese Hobbyists Build A Working Transformer | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 24 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjr9Ert7K-Y] Eee-urrk-urrk-urrk-urk! A pair of Japanese hobbyists have built a transforming robot that can walk or, when in sports car form, drive around autonomously. It’s called the and is four feet tall. The goal, apparently, is to make a full-sized transformer… just becaus... |
Amazon Fire Phone Flops | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Given that Amazon was tanking the price of the Fire Phone down to 99 cents after launch (leading to many a “Fire sale!” joke), this probably won’t come as much of a surprise: the Fire Phone isn’t a success. On the Amazon earnings call today, Amazon noted that the company was taking a $170 million writedown “primarily... |
Here’s A Sneak Peek At MotionSavvy’s UNI Sign Language Interpretation Device | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | , the San Francisco startup working on tech to help the deaf communicate, has to commercialize its first product, UNI. The UNI app works with Leap Motion technology to translate each sign from American Sign Language into audible words on a tablet. We when it launched out of the program back in June. The team at Mo... |
Australian Service Directory Site Oneflare Raises $876,000 For International Expansion | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | , a local services marketplace based in Sydney, Australia, has raised an additional $1 million AUD (about $876,000), bringing its total funding so far to $1.5 million AUD (about $1.3 million). Investors include Les Szekely of Equity Venture Partners, Garry Visontay, of the Sydney Seed Fund and Dr. Jeffrey Tobias of The... |
Amazon Tanks 10% After Reporting Larger Than Expected Third Quarter Loss | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Amazon lower than expected revenue in its third quarter, and a larger than expected loss. Analysts the company to lose $0.74 on revenue of $20.84 billion. Instead, Amazon lost $0.95 per share on revenue of $20.58 billion. That per-share loss works out to a net loss for the firm of $437 million. Shares in the firm t... |
Microsoft Up 3% After Reporting Better Than Expected FQ1 Revenue Of $23.20B, EPS Of $0.54 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | After gaining more than 1 percent in regular trading, Microsoft its fiscal first quarter 2015 earnings: Revenue totaled $23.20 billion in the period, leading to profits of $0.54 per share. The revenue figure represents a 25 percent year-over-year increase, a large piece of which is due to the Nokia hardware acquisiti... |
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PlayStation 4 Update Coming On 10/28 Lets You Play Games With Friends Who Don’t Own A Copy | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Back in August, Sony started teasing a new feature it calls “Share Play.” Though we’re still waiting to see just how well it works, the idea itself is wonderful: once enabled, you can let your friends play your games with you (or by themselves, even) from across the vast Interwebs without them actually owning a copy of... |
Researchers Want To Send Us To The Moon Using Robots And Oculus Rift | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHz-g0omves&feature=youtu.be] A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Daniel Shafrir, and his team want to do something incredible: they want to send a rover to the moon and then let us, the Earthlings, control it and look out of its stereoscopic cameras as it tumbles around... |
Surface Revenue, Redux | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | In about an hour, Microsoft will release the results of its most recent quarter, the first quarter of its fiscal 2015. The company is expected to report revenue of $22 billion, and earnings per share between and , depending on which set of averaged estimates you trust. That will all come shortly. For now, let’s talk... |
With 40 Million Downloads, betaworks-Backed Dots Gets A Refreshed Logo | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | , the betaworks-backed gaming studio led by Paul Murphy and Patrick Moberg, has today announced a rebranding for the company. The new logo takes inspiration from Charles Eames, according to a , and uses colors from the first iteration of Dots while incorporating the newer, and more popular, TwoDots game into the compa... |
Join Me Tomorrow In Krakow | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | I’ll be speaking at an event held by , a group of amazing programmers who are working to bring everyone onto the STEM wagon. The event will be held at Przemysłowa 12 in Krakow, Poland at 7pm. You can . I’ll also be attending and judging , the biggest student Hackathon in Poland. This event will include “DARMOWE JEDZ... |
Jonny IV Wants To Be Nasty Gal For Men | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Today marks the launch of yet another ecommerce brand focused on men’s apparel, as joins ranks with Buck Mason, Frank & Oak, and many others. Founded by Eugene Kang, the former head of ecommerce at Forever 21, Jonny IV is different from other brands in that it focuses on street wear as opposed to a single look, like ... |
Slack Is Raising Another Round At Up To A $1B Valuation | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | , the enterprise collaboration platform co-founded by Stewart Butterfield of Flickr fame, continues to defy its namesake: we have heard from sources that the company is raising a new round of funding at a valuation of between $800 million and $1 billion, just six months after The total raise is said to be eight figure... |
Charlie Briefs You On Your Upcoming Meetings By Emailing You One-Pagers On Attendees | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | A new web application called has raised a seed round of $1.75 million led by Lightbank Capital. The product emails you short, automatically generated one-pagers detailing what you need to know about the people you’re about to meet with, based on your Google Calendar entries. If this idea rings a bell with you, it’s b... |
Twilio Project Turns 2048 Into A Multiplayer Game That You Play By Text | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Remember all of the wonderfully entertaining frustration that was Twitch Plays Pokemon? Take that concept and turn it on its head. Wrap it around a puzzle game instead of a side-scroller, and have players text in commands rather than input them via chat. The end result: The idea? Many players, all trying to play the s... |
TestFlight Beta Testing Goes Live For All iOS Developers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Apple has pushed its TestFlight Beta testing service live for everyone, the company revealed on its developer news portal today. Registered developers can now invite up to 1,000 beta testers to try out their iOS apps, using emailed invitations sent via the iTunes Connect portal. TestFlight, the , allows developers to ... |
Q&A With Facebook’s Josh Miller On Why His Rooms App Isn’t Anonymous, It’s The Early Web Reborn | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Is the anonymous Facebook app people were ? “No. Unequivocally No…because you cannot be anonymous in our app,” tells me. The Branch founder turned Facebook product manager’s new forums app Rooms launches today, and he says lessons from Tumblr, Twitter, Snapchat, and the early days of the web guided its constructio... |
Facebook Launches Pseudonymous App “Rooms” That Lets You Create Forums About Any Topic | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | It’s not quite anonymous, but forums standalone app is Facebook’s first product that allows you to ditch your real name. Rooms lets you set up a mobile-only in-app discussion space about any topic, customize the look and moderation settings, set a screen name for the room, and choose who to invite to share text, phot... |
Hardware Battlefield Applications Close In A Week | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Stop procrastinating and fill out your application for . The show is set to be even better than last year with participating startups getting free exhibition space at the 2015 International CES and competing for $50,000 and the coveted Metal Man trophy. For the first time, TechCrunch has partnered with the CEA to be a... |
Android Wear Update Adds Offline Music, Bluetooth Headphone And GPS Support | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | Android Wear is getting its , with features that make smartwatches using Google’s wearable operating system more standalone devices, including music syncing and GPS location support. That means if you leave your watch at home while you go out for a jog, you’ve still got access to sweet jams, and your watch can still t... |
Mint’s Aaron Patzer Launches Beta Version Of An On-Demand Answers App With $4 Million In Funding From Shasta And First Round | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 23 | , the founder and former CEO of Mint is placing his next bet with the on-demand info space. He and co-founder (another former Minter) are launching the beta of , an app that gives you advice from a curated set of experts. The app is currently focusing on the home improvement space and in alpha testing phase with a b... |
Sequoia-Backed Behalf Buys Stuff For Small Businesses Looking To Grow | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | Between small loans needed to pay salaries in a pinch and those raised by entrepreneurs looking to open a new store in a franchise or move to a bigger office, small businesses often need a bit extra capital to expand. Despite when small businesses have reliable income, lenders want to charge high interest rates on loan... |
Will.i.am’s New Wearable Can Call And Text Without A Phone | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am revealed his new wearable device and company to the world in a keynote today. He’s been talking about this device for a while now, referring to it as more of a fashion technology than a watch. And he’s right. The device, called the PULS, is much more than a watch. It’s definitely a w... |
Will.i.am’s Plan To Bring Fashion And Technology Together With The Creation Of i.am+ | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | Many know will.i.am as a musician and frontman for the Black Eyed Peas, but he’s more than embedded himself in technology in the last several years. He’s invested in several startups, appeared at the FIRST robotics competition, Intel made him the Director of Creative Innovation, and he just revealed his new wearable te... |
The New Mobile-Cloud Enterprise | Sravish Sridhar | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | Enterprise IT is undergoing a platform shift from web-based, client-server systems to a mobile-cloud platform. This shift has caught the attention of all the major tech vendors who have either acquired or launched Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Backend as a Service (BaaS) technologies to address this growing opport... |
Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, The Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | If you’re even active on reddit, you probably know of . As far as perusing reddit on iOS goes, it’s pretty much the undisputed champ. It seems reddit would agree. The company has just taken Alien Blue under its wing, acquiring the project assets and hiring its sole developer. We heard whispers of this deal going bac... |
Never Trust A TechCrunch Writer With An AOL Email Address | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | About a week ago I wrote about a sales and marketing company called . It wasn’t a particularly in-depth article — just . But anyway, it happened. Well, apparently the Infusionsoft PR team received this email on Monday: From: Anthony Ha (anthony.j.ha@aol.com)
Date: October 13, 2014 at 9:14:26 PM MST
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Y Combinator-Backed Greentoe Now Lets You Haggle Prices On Your iPhone | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | The online shopping experience is usually one of comparison: You visit numerous sites to find the best deal. Today, e-commerce negotiation site puts a spin on that process with an iOS app that lets you name the price you’re willing to spend on that camera or watch you’ve had your eye on. With the app, you search or f... |
Incubated: Highway1 Takes Hardware Startups From Prototype To Production | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | A few years ago, consumer electronics specialist PCH International decided that it wanted to that has emerged. To do that, it created , an accelerator focused specifically on guiding early-stage hardware companies through the process of building their products and getting them from the prototyping stage to actual ... |
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Is A Nearly Perfect Mini Tablet | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | zeppelins of old, nobody expected the Galaxy Note to fly. The phones were too big, the embedded stylus too silly. I reminded us all of the bad old days when PIMs were black and white and bulky. But Samsung persevered and Apple followed suit and now we enter the era of the phablet, a time of strange portents and weird ... |
Netflix Stock Price Crashes In After-Hours Trading | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | UPDATE: On 10/16/2014, the stock . Netflix today reported a third-quarter profit of $59 million, up from $32 million a year ago. But the company failed to attract as many new subscribers as it had predicted, calling it “over-forecasted” on membership growth. In after-hours trading the stock ( ) plunged more than one h... |
Netflix Says Standalone HBO Was “Inevitable,” Claims Both Services Will Prosper | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | Netflix , but hey, it managed to keep up with today’s news cycle — specifically, next year. CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells managed to squeeze the news into , where they say that HBO’s move was “inevitable and sensible.” The letter acknowledges that Hastings has long portrayed HBO as Netflix’s , a statement ... |
Fly Or Die: Motorola Moto X | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | The is a welcome addition in a world full of big phones. It’s relatively slim and compact and, just like its predecessor, comes with options for customization for the back panel. But going beyond that, the $500 phone comes unlocked and is spec’d to impress, with a 5.2-inch 1080p display, a 13-megapixel rear camera ... |
EBay Beats On EPS Of $0.68, Misses On Sales Of $4.35B; Shares Fall On Lower Forecasts | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | E-commerce giant , soon to be , today its third-quarter earnings. The company reported revenues of $4.4 billion (or, $4.353 billion, to be exact), growing 12% on a year ago, on non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.68. This beat estimates on EPS but narrowly missed on sales (but, yes, beat if you rounded up, as eBay ha... |
Gaming Company Razer Is Now Valued At $1B+ | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | , the San Diego-based high-end gaming tech company, is on a roll. In the wake of the latest models of its thin , a , and preparing for the sale of a new wearable, it has recently closed a round of funding with Intel on at least a $1 billion valuation. The details come by way of a leaked internal memo to staff that was... |
Motorola Announces Which Of Its Phones Will Get Android 5.0 Lollipop | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | Given that Motorola is building Google’s just-announced , it’s probably also a given that Motorola knows their way around , Lollipop. It makes sense, then, that they’re pretty much the first out of the gate to announce which of their phones are getting the update treatment. Though they’re mum on timing, Moto has just... |
Vusay Keeps Eyeballs Glued By Adding SoundCloudy Timed Comments To Any Video | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | null |
ISIS Tactics Illustrate Social Media’s New Place In Modern War | Jillian Kay Melchior | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | anxiously in his family’s refugee camp in Ainkawa, Iraq, in late September. In just days, he said, he would leave them and return to the front line as a Kurdish peshmerga soldier to fight the self-declared Islamic State. During his last battle, in Aiyrash Village near Qaraqosh, Majid endured heavy fire from snipers an... |
Apple Leaks The iPad Air 2 And iPad Mini 3 | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | After months of speculation and rumors, Apple just released details about the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3. Unintentionally. A day early. Someone is getting fired over this. The devices were supposed to be announced at an Apple event tomorrow, but noticed the two devices listed in the iPad User Guide for iOS 8 within i... |
Facebook Open Sources More Of The Tech Behind Its Paper App | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | It doesn’t look like Facebook’s ever with users, but many developers looked toward it as of what a modern mobile app could look like. To write Paper, Facebook developed a wide variety of proprietary libraries, and it’s slowly making some of them available to outside developers. Earlier this year, for example, Fac... |
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Bag Week: Hex Onyx Origin Laptop Bag | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 15 | You might say, “It’s a bag! How much can someone say about a single bag?” A lot, it turns out, because the Hex Onyx Origin isn’t just any bag. As a staunch backpack fan (not shoulder bags or briefcases), this is the only backpack I’ve ever worn that made me feel like a grownup. It comes in a black canvas color with lea... |
Salesforce Hopes To Ride Analytics Wave With New Business Intelligence Service | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | will unveil a new analytics service tomorrow morning they have dubbed Wave. The product will be introduced by CEO Marc Benioff at the company’s Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, but according to a Salesforce spokesperson, it is already available in the AppExchange now. It was one of the worst kept secre... |
The iPhone 6 Plus Wins The Longer Race | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | Apple’s new iPhones have been available for around a month now, and something interesting has happened with this generation: I’m forced to revisit my and change my initial impression based on later experience. After further testing of the two devices, I find the iPhone 6 Plus has become my smartphone of choice, as a s... |
Facebook’s Internet.org Works With Carriers To Speed Up Networks, Indonesia First | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | has long been promoting the the idea of in emerging countries to drive more Facebook (and wider mobile data) usage. Now, its Internet.org initiative has crafted another way to promote growth: by working with directly with carriers to analyse and fix their networks, with a recent trial in Indonesia — the fourth-bigge... |
T-Mobile’s Free International Data Is Slow, Frustrating And Incredibly Useful | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | It’s been almost exactly a year since T-Mobile launched its but I never had a chance to give it a try until recently. Before my vacation earlier this month, however, I decided to give it a try and got myself a T-Mobile SIM card with a monthly contract to have data during my road trip through New Zealand and — now — w... |
Google Adds European Search De-Listing Requests To Its Transparency Report | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | Google has published some new details about the search index de-listing requests it’s receiving in Europe. The information is being put online in a new section of its where it also details link removal requests it fields from governments and courts, and also copyright requests — the latter forming the vast majority o... |
Tech Stocks Show Weakness Amid Uncertain Global Economy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | Tech stocks fell sharply on Friday, setting a somber mood for the industry this weekend. The carnage was widespread, with giants taking a stumble — Microsoft, -3.97%; Google, 2.92%; Facebook, -3.95%; LinkedIn, -3.84%; Yahoo, -3.65%; and Alibaba, -3.28% — and newcomers joining in the general mayhem. MobileIron fell 6.92... |
Facebook’s Anonymous App Could Kill Trolls With Secret Identity | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | Wack-a-mole. That’s what it’s usually like fighting trolls, bullies, and spammers in anonymous communities. Ban them and they just start new accounts. That’s why the fact that Facebook knows who you really are could be the key to its . You could stay anonymous to other users, but Facebook login on the backend could tr... |
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