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Snowden Attacks “Anything Goes” Privacy Intrusions Of British Spy Agencies | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | In what amounts to a wake up call directed at a British public generally considered apathetic on privacy issues, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that U.K. spy agencies are using digital technology to conduct mass population surveillance without any checks and balances at all — overreaching and encroaching o... |
Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Still Selling Like Hot Cakes | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 12 | The UK designed microcomputer, which has triggered all sorts of creative single board computing projects — most recently being repurposed as the heart of a — continues to sell in far greater quantities than its creators ever imagined. Sales of low cost, open source microcomputer have now passed 3.8 million, accordi... |
Swipe And The Silicon Valley Idea Machine | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Three years ago, a few months after the Arab Spring demonstrations forced a collapse in the Egyptian government, twenty-year-old Marwan Roushdy spontaneously entered a Startup Weekend competition in Cairo and won. It was a mobile app that connected users to emergency hospitals in the immediate area, and it was called I... |
US Government Says No Single Entity Or Nation Will Control The Internet | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | The U.S. in favor of a multistakeholder model for Internet governance today. Speaking before the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker the United States will “not allow the global Internet to be co-opted by any person, entity, or nation seeking to sub... |
Dorian Nakamoto Is Suing Newsweek | John Biggs | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, the man Newsweek claimed was the mysterious founder of , has created a asking for donations in his fight to sue the magazine after he was allegedly “targeted and victimized by a reckless news organization.” The site, , is an effort to hold the magazine accountable for “confusing” the 65-yea... |
Popcorn Time Finds A New Home After The EURid Pulled Its Domain | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | When your product streams pirated content, it’s safe to expect some complications along the way. The Time4Popcorn fork of the popular Popcorn Time project recently had to find a new domain following the sudden removal of time4popcorn.eu. But the developers tell me this latest kerfuffle won’t stop the development of the... |
Anki Drive Finally Works With Android | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Good news! works with Android. Bad news! It only works with a few Android devices. This update comes just in time for the holiday shopping season. Since its high-profile launch last year, the clever Anki Drive has only worked with iOS devices because, mainly, the product requires Bluetooth Low Energy support, which i... |
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai Urges Girls To Participate In Code.org’s Hour Of Code | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Young Pakistani activist and winner Malala Yousafzai has thrown in her support for Code.org’s program to get young women and girls into computer science. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFdncBMDtP8] Just days after becoming the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history, Yousafzai took to YouTube to implo... |
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Flickr Now Lets You Turn Your Photos Into Wall Art | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Flickr as of late has been making moves to compete with newer startups, like 500px for example, that cater to professional photographers. This summer, it to get photographers’ work featured on news sites, including Yahoo’s own properties, and today . For now, this program is about allowing users to turn their own ... |
Facebook Stickers Are Now Available In Comments On Timelines, Groups And Events | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Facebook Stickers – the Facebook Messenger users take advantage of to spice up their conversations – are now rolling out to a wider audience. Facebook announced today that stickers will be available on comments found on people’s Timeline posts, Group posts and Event posts. To access the stickers, users tap the smiley... |
Microsoft And Salesforce Promise Windows, Office And OneDrive Integration | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | It turns out that Microsoft and Salesforce were serious when the two firms to integrate their products earlier this year. Today at the Dreamforce conference, the companies announced that a Salesforce1 app for Windows Phone will be released the second half of 2015, that Office will see integration with the Salesforce ... |
Former Millennial Media Exec Marcus Startzel Is The New CEO At Ad Attribution Startup MediaGlu | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Marcus Startzel has held some big roles at big companies — he was most recently the chief revenue officer at Millennial Media, a mobile advertising company that , and before that, vice president of sales at AOL Advertising. Now he’s taking the reins at a startup that’s a bit smaller. In fact, that’s the entire six-per... |
Flight Attendants Union Sues The FAA Over Use Of Electronics In Flight | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | About a year ago, the regarding the use of portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing. For the first time in years, travelers could boldly and proudly listen to music or play Two Dots or mindlessly click into social apps (forgetting there’s no service in the sky) without fear of reprimand from flight atte... |
For Two New Apps Called “Push” And “Drop,” The Push Notification Is The App | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Two new applications, and , want to save you from having to download multiple news apps or browse dozens of websites just to keep up with the topics that interest you. But what makes these two apps different, when compared with news aggregators or other mobile news readers (aka RSS readers), is that they primarily f... |
We’ve Got Questions For Tim Armstrong At Disrupt Europe | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Yes, we’ve invited our boss to our conference, but he has a lot to say for himself. I mean, we too want to know if Aol, and by transitive property TechCrunch, is being sold to Yahoo, am I right? , CEO and Chairman of TechCrunch’s parent company, , will be joining us for a fireside chat on Monday, October 20th. Armstro... |
What To Expect From Apple’s iPad And Mac Event | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Apple has a second big event planned for this fall, and it’s happening . The event promises to deliver a few different new product announcements, likely including new iPads, and new Macs, as well as the public introduction of OS X Yosemite, Apple’s next major desktop operating system. What we know so far suggests the ... |
Windows 10 Attracts 1M Testers In Two Weeks | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Microsoft that it crossed the 1 million tester mark for the technical preview of its . I had expected a higher number would opt for the new code, given how extensively the media (guilty) covered the rollout of the nascent operating system. According to the company, more than 200,000 “pieces of user-initiated feedbac... |
Lyve’s New App Lets You Access All Your Photos And Videos From Any Device You Own | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Accessing your entire photo and video collection from any device can still be a challenge today, especially if you have your media spread out across a variety of local hard drives as well as various cloud services where you have to pay for storage – potentially limiting how much of your collection is hosted online at a... |
Google Sheets Gets Smart Autofill To Predict Unknown Values | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | Google Sheets, the company’s online spreadsheet, is getting quite a bit smarter with the launch of the . Smart Autofill can look at the existing values in a spreadsheet and then, with the help of the Google , automatically divine the data for missing values in a column. Essentially, the algorithm learns as much a... |
Loopd Launches Location-Tracking Tools For Conferences, With Backing From Tim Draper And Marc Benioff | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | If you’ve ever finished a busy day at a conference — either manning one of the booths or just as a regular attendee — and then found yourself struggling to remember who the heck you actually talked to, a startup called may be able to help. The company is officially launching its proximity-based marketing platform tod... |
Wayfair and HubSpot IPOs Could Be Just The Beginning For Boston Startup Scene | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | While Silicon Valley firms hold back on their IPOs and there’s , two Boston-based startups had highly successful IPOs less than a week apart. Just over a week ago, furniture shopping service in its IPO, then of its own a week later. I think it’s safe to say the Boston startup scene is on its way. Scott Friend, a m... |
Bono Apologizes For Putting Free Music On Your iPhone | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Were you one of those people that U2 would ever dare give you free stuff that you didn’t ask for? Bono is sorry. Blaming it all on a “drop of megalomania, a touch of generosity, and a dash of self-promotion,” Bono admitted in a Facebook fan interview today that they probably crossed some previously undrawn line when ... |
Moolah, The Divisive Startup Heavily Involved In The Dogecoin Community, Is Closing Down | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | , a digital currency startup that had a particularly prominent role in the development and demise of dogecoin, has that it will shut down at the end of October. The company, which is just 10 months old and provides a range of services for virtual currencies like bitcoin and dogecoin — including a currency exchange — ... |
Meet The Disrupt Europe: London Hackathon Judges | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 10 | 13 | The Disrupt Europe Hackathon kicks off this weekend at Old Billingsgate in London! Coders and designers will have precious few hours to hack a project together before presenting to our illustrious group of judges. And just who are these judges you may ask? From developer geek to investor chic, these judges are ready fo... |
TechCrunch Is Hiring A Product Manager | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | If you’re a product-oriented person who has always wanted to work on a product that is all about other products but at the same time is very much a product of its own that needs a great product vision — you’re in luck! TechCrunch is in the hunt for a product manager, one who knows the difference between Product Hunt, C... |
Facebook And Apple Offer To Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Facebook and Apple are making it easier for female employees to delay having kids and focus on their careers instead. Both companies have now offered to pay to freeze their eggs. Many tech companies offer wild perks such as unlimited vacation, a casual work environment, and meals from five-star chefs. Google even offer... |
Bag Week: Herschel Heritage BackPack Plus | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Chances are, you’ve seen someone wearing a Herschel backpack. They have signature leather elements including zipper pulls and straps, depending on the series, and they always bear the company’s old-timey logo in a small white patch somewhere you can reasonably expect it to get seen. The Heritage backpack is one of the ... |
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Ubooly Acquired As It Rebrands To Focus On Building Smarts Directly Into Toys | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Ubooly is demoing on stage at , but it’s not the company it was when it entered the program. The startup has renamed itself to “Smart Toy,” which better encompasses its vision of interactive toys with computing intelligence beyond just its initial product, which was also called . But it’s also no longer a startup – o... |
EMC Cloudscaling Purchase Is One More Attempt To Stay Relevant | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | While rumors have been flying that with fellow computing giant HP, it threw a bit of a curve this week when it bought cloud startup . Just when you’re thinking EMC might be irrelevant, it makes a move that suggests the company is still forging ahead. While is at its core a storage company, it owns lots of enterpri... |
Uber-For-Weed Startup Meadow Lights Up In San Francisco | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | That’s because as a longtime medical marijuana user, he has an almost weed sommelier-like care and taste in finding quality product. His new company lets medical marijuana users quickly order and receive medical marijuana in less than an hour through a mobile app. Meadow and other startups like are emerging as the ... |
Unsticker.Me Rids Your Facebook Of Stickers | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Remember the good old days? Back when posting a funny image or doodle in a Facebook comment thread meant having to go for one, rather than just opening up Facebook’s sticker catalog? It feels like it was Hah. Just kidding. I love these damned stickers. I put them on everything. I’d put stickers on my stickers if I c... |
King Digital Falls To 50% Of Its IPO Price | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Today , progenitor and purveyor of the formerly ubiquitous game Candy Crush closed at $11.25. That figure is precisely half of its IPO price of $22.50 per share. The company , and has had a rough life in the intervening period. A implies that the company has only managed to trade above its IPO price for the briefes... |
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Pleads Guilty To Two Counts Of Wire Fraud | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Motionloft founder and former CEO Jon Mills has , according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. In doing so, Mills has admitted to spending $765,000 of investors’ money while telling them the company was about to be acquired. As we reported last year, Mills , offering them an opport... |
Teen Social Network Let Raises $600K | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | , a teen social networking app with a focus on gamification, is announcing that it has raised $600,000 in seed funding. That’s not a huge amount of money, but the funding is interesting in the context of Let’s history. When I first met founder Pascal Lorne a few months ago, he told me that when , it wasn’t reaching th... |
Hailo Says There Won’t Be Any Licensing Deal For Toronto, New Focus Will Be On Growth In Asia | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Earlier today, Hailo revealed that it would be closing its North American operations. The closure announcement from Hailo included its operations in Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Montreal and Toronto, but Hailo North America President and Toronto office lead Justin Raymond told TechCrunch that in the Cana... |
Intel Reports Better-Than-Expected Q3 Revenue Of $14.55B On Strength Of Recovering PC Market | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Following the bell, Intel its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $14.55 billion and earnings per share of $0.66. Analysts and the street had expected that Intel would earn $0.65 per share on total top line of $14.45 billion. In its , Intel earned $0.55 per share on revenue of $13.8 billion. Th... |
Snapchat Reminds Us That Users Are To Blame For Photo Leaks | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | In response to —now called “The Snappening” in homage to the recent leak of celebrity nudes — a has been posted on the company blog regarding the unlawful use of its unofficial API. And in classic Snapchat fashion, the company is taking almost zero responsibility. Last week, a third-party application called Snapsav... |
Investors Say Logistics Companies Are In For The Long Haul | Christine Magee | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | In a world where consumers are increasingly expecting frictionless, tech-enabled services, snail mail is just not cutting it. Just about anything can be ordered from a smartphone, but shipping it across the country takes days and often costs a small fortune. A variety of logistics startups have cropped up to tackle sho... |
Tune Into TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM 102 Indie Tonight | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Tonight, John Biggs and I head uptown to the Sirius XM headquarters once again for the live airing of our latest media venture, . We’ll be live for an hour discussing the latest trends and topics in tech news, and then we’ll be joined by FirstMark Capital partner Amish Jani as we dig into our weekly TC Radio Pitch-Off... |
HighQ Takes On The Enterprise Collaboration Space With An Eye Toward Data Sovereignty | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | London-based is opening a new data center in Australia, growing its bid to provide locally supported enterprise collaboration and file-sharing products. The company has quickly expanding revenues, and a key offering: If you use HighQ, the U.S. government will likely have a harder time than usual getting its hands on ... |
Hillary Clinton Urges Community To Close The Tech Gap In Our Own Backyard | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | Hillary Clinton took to the stage at Tuesday to discuss the economic divide around the world and in San Francisco’s own backyard. “We need to make sure the benefits of tech outweigh the pitfalls, and that tech is most evenly distributed,” the potential 2016 Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State told th... |
How Product Hunt Hopes To Avoid The Pitfalls That Wounded Quora And Buried Digg | Dan Kaplan | 2,014 | 10 | 14 | When Ashwinn Krishnaswamy and two of his buddies were living with their parents and working out of a basement in the suburbs of Philadelphia, they had only their development skills, a solid sense of product design, and a simple idea in their heads. The way friends and peers discuss articles and web pages, they figure... |
Ant Financial: The Greatest Victory Is That Which Requires No Battle | Christoffer O. Hernæs | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Not long after the Alibaba IPO, eBay announced that it aims to spin off PayPal as a separately traded company. The rumors of , and one of the contenders is Jack Ma’s Alipay, now called Ant Financial. A deeper insight into Alipay is interesting in light of the potential changes similar players like . Enough has been... |
Chicago And Big Data | Nick Rojas | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | As a civilization, we may not be getting smarter. However, the technologies we use certainly are. Since the introduction of the smartphone, we’ve witnessed the emergence of smart homes, smart power grids, and even smart for helping fans find parking spaces. Lately, the trend has been to go big. Infrastructure appli... |
Tim Armstrong Doesn’t Say The Wrong Thing About Women In The Workplace | Fara Warner | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | In the past few weeks and months, conversations about women in our industry have run the gamut from companies such as Apple and Facebook so they can put off having children and Satya Nadella’s to the data-rich, but solution-poor disclosure of just how few women are at the top of tech. But Tim Armstrong showed other... |
SOSVentures Takes On Y Combinator With A Pure Biotech Accelerator | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | International VC firm is capitalizing on the now buzz worthy biotech investment trend with the creation of , the first accelerator to focus on just life sciences. raised a few eyebrows when it accepted five biotech companies out of the 80 startups in its program this last summer. That was a first for the Silicon Val... |
When Should Startups Hire A CFO? | Christian Gheorghe | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Many founders and CEOs of startups don’t spend a lot of time thinking about CFOs. When it comes to finance for a startup, founders focus on more pressing needs: What’s my burn rate? How long is my runway? How does our annual recurring revenue (ARR) look? How much more money do we need? As an entrepreneur who has sold t... |
Vint Launches A Monthly Subscription Service Offering Unlimited On-Demand Fitness Training | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Two months after , is introducing a new way for users to set up 1-on-1 or group workout sessions with trainers in the form of a $120 monthly subscription that lets you arrange as many meetups as you’d like. The subscription service, known as , encompasses all of the workouts available on Vint today. That means you ... |
Apple Pay’s First TV Ad Is A World Series Spot From MasterCard And MLB | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvzdvf7rzQ8&w=640&h=390] Apple’s new payment system is live, and Apple Pay has already garnered more attention than most mobile payment efforts to date. It also has a new ad, which aired yesterday during the opening game of the 2014 World Series, from payment partner MasterCard.... |
Hands On With Google Inbox: Useful Email Triage Tools For A Mobile Workflow | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Google’s is now available, and we have access to the limited release, which is being distributed via Google’s tried-and-true invite system. While many will have to wait to check it out for themselves, our first impressions might help you decided whether you want to even try chasing down an invite. First, this is a go... |
Verizon Leads Flint Mobile’s $9.4M Round As Payment Service Comes To The Web | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | , a point-of-sale mobile payments solution originally built around snapping photos of your credit card instead of dongles or using other hardware to make payments, is today announcing that it has raised another $9.4 million in funding led by new, strategic investor Verizon via its Verizon Ventures arm; as well as an ex... |
Boostable Gets $3.2M, Its Ads Get More Sales For Your Event, Crowdfund, Or Online Store | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | doesn’t have to sell its ads. Marketplaces sell them for it. Ticket, crowdfunding, and ecommerce marketplaces make money when their users sell things, so they’re incentivized to route traffic to the listings they host, which is exactly what Boostable’s easy-peasy ad-buying tool does for marketplace sellers do. So the ... |
Foundation: Biz Stone On Moving From Artist To Entrepreneur | Contributor | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | In our latest Foundation interview, I sat down with CEO and co-founder Biz Stone. We discussed his entrepreneurial roots, leaving college to jump into the world of art and design, and embarking on a social startup in the early days of the web. Biz on shifting from an artist to a tech entrepreneur: |
Progress Software Buys Telerik for $262.5M As Buying Spree Continues | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | In a deal today involving two companies with links to the Boston area, which helps companies build business software, announced it was buying for $262.5M. Telerik’s portfolio includes a .net toolbox, a mobile development platform and a CMS called Sitefinity, as well as access to a developer community of over 1.4M p... |
Twitter Launches Digits, A New Way To Sign In To Apps Without Using Passwords | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Today, Twitter announced the launch of a new service called , aimed at application developers looking for a simpler, password-free login option for their mobile applications. The news was revealed this afternoon at Twitter’s first annual developer conference called Flight, which served not only as the launchpad for ,... |
Twitter Introduces Fabric, A Toolkit For Developers To Build Apps On Its Platform | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | At Twitter’s Flight conference this morning, Dick Costolo’s introduced Fabric, a set of APIs aimed at developers to encourage them to build apps and services on top of the Twitter platform. In the build up to introducing the new APIs, Costolo said that Twitter “wanted to approach this not from the perspective of what w... |
Google’s Inbox is A New Email App From The Gmail Team Designed Not To Be Gmail | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Google has introduced a , from the same team that builds Gmail, but intended as something completely different from Gmail. Inbox is the app, and it looks like it might owe some inspiration to Mailbox, and to Google Now. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzNTjpUMOp4] The new Inbox app is available to a limited u... |
Amazon Gets More Enterprise-Friendly With Launch Of AWS Directory Service | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Amazon has been moving into the enterprise world with , its own , its , and not to mention the cloud computing behemoth that is Amazon Web Services. Today, the company is making the combination of on-premise and cloud resources, easier to manage with the launch of . The service can additionally support the needs of... |
Amazon Rewards Visa Card Will Support Apple Pay In The Future | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Amazon has confirmed to TechCrunch that its Rewards Visa Card will indeed support Apple Pay, and that the company is working on making this happen. The Rewards Visa Card is powered by Chase, which is already one of the payments companies working with Apple on Apple Pay at launch. While Amazon has confirmed that it is w... |
Glamsquad Raises $7 Million For On-Demand Hair Styling And Beauty Services | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | New York-based , an on-demand beauty business now headed by Gilt Groupe co-founder Alexandra Wilkis Wilson as co-founder and CEO, has now raised $7 million in Series A funding in a round led by SoftBank Capital. The company launched in January of this year in New York, and is now one of several services that bring p... |
U.K. Government Keeping An Open Mind On Bitcoin, Says Digital Economy Minister | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | Ed Vaizey, the U.K.’s minister for the Digital Economy, has said the government is keeping an open mind about digital currencies as it continues a review of Bitcoin and its ilk which kicked off this summer. The minister was speaking during a wide-ranging on-stage interview with TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher, taking place y... |
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Fitness Tracker Moov Raises $3 Million For Its Wearable A.I. Coach | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 10 | 22 | The crowdfunded fitness tracker , built by former Apple engineer and HALO game designer Nikola Hu, Microsoft Research vets Meng Li (now Moov CEO) and Tony Yuan, has raised $3 million in new funding in a Series A round led by Banyan Capital. The additional capital follows Moov’s earlier raise of $1 million via a crowdf... |
Security Will Need Big Insight, Not Just Big Data | Neill Occhiogrosso | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | In looking for new opportunities in security and many other sectors, we look for the echoes of the current IT mega-trends: cloud, mobile, big data. These trends, and especially the interactions between them, are dramatically changing security needs. Add to that the changing profile of would-be hackers — now a frighte... |
CurrentC Is The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | Long before , big brick-and-mortar retail chains were conspiring to sidestep the typical 2% to 3% fees they’re charged by credit card companies when consumers pay with credit. A company called (Merchant Customer Exchange), spearheaded by Walmart, was started to build a mobile payment solution that would become an ap... |
Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks To An Agreement With Twitter | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | And in a somewhat happy turn of events, Twitpic has that it has reached an agreement with Twitter to keep Twitpic photos and links alive, giving Twitter control over the domain and the full photo archive. However, the agreement also states that Twitpic will no longer be taking any new photos or data and will exist in... |
Top The Charts With Your Mobile Game App This Holiday Season | Xavier Bourlard | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | The holiday season is fast approaching, and for mobile gaming studios it’s make or break time. How can you earn one of the coveted spots in Apple Store’s Top 10 list without exhausting your marketing budget? Below are five steps to help you develop an effective strategy for getting your mobile game apps noticed by co... |
Gillmor Gang: Room to Grow | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, October 24, 2014. A heavy news week crescendoed with Facebook’s release of its Rooms iOS app, topping Twitter’s Fabric platform , Google’s InBox, a big Microsoft quarter, and the refactori... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | As we return from Disrupt London, we give you the stories you won’t want to miss from the past week (10/18-10/24). 2. Columnist Jon Evans explored the concept of : the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up. There are so many options for developers now, a... |
Google’s New Skybox For Good Program Gives Real-Time Satellite Imagery To Nonprofits | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | On the heels of acquiring satellite startup , Google and Skybox have the Skybox for Good program, which will provide real-time satellite imagery to organizations and programs that save lives, protect the environment, promote education and positively impact humanity, according to the official blog post. The program l... |
U.K. Startup Swytch Is Building An App To Open Up The ‘Burner’ Phone Number Market | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | The telco industry has resisted change for years. That anti-innovation attitude, coupled with the rise of smartphones and fast data networks, provided ample opportunities for over-the-top startups to circumvent moribund and expensive telco offerings with VoIP and messaging apps that were both less expensive and more fe... |
Bitcoin 2.0: Sidechains And Ethereum And Zerocash, Oh My! | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 10 | 25 | Strange, interesting, and wildly ambitious things are afoot in the world of Bitcoin and blockchains. I give you Zerocash, a completely anonymous currency; Ethereum, a blockchain platform designed to decentralize much of the Internet; and , a proposal to accelerate the evolution of Bitcoin itself. Any one of these coul... |
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Gillmor Gang Live 07.03.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Find our Facebook page here |
Everyone Seems Mad At ReservationHop, Founder Admits He Was “Taken Aback” By The Criticism | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | So … have you heard about ? I mean, it’s not quite the hottest topic on Twitter, but among the folks who heard about it, the idea seems to have unleashed . Our own Josh Constine wrote a whole rant about it called “ ” The idea, basically, is that ReservationHop will help users get a table at in-demand restaurants. H... |
Samsung Gear Live Review: Samsung’s Smartwatch First Mover Advantage Helps Its Android Wear Effort | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | of the first to market with an Android Wear smartwatch, and the company arguably has a head start since it’s been making its own smartwatches since last year. The Gear Live owes much to its predecessors, which have run both a modified version of Android and Samsung’s own Tizen, but it manages to feel like much more th... |
HomeAway Mulls Venture Fund As It Hits A Milestone | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | The vacation rental marketplace is pondering a move into backing startup companies. As it of breaking more than 1 million listings on its service, one of the first online marketplaces to challenge the hotel industry may begin making minority investments in companies that would add value to its service. “There are l... |
Stop The JerkTech | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | “Go disr*pt yourself” is what I have to say to founders of startups like ReservationHop and Parking Monkey. They’re emblematic of a compassionless new wave of self-serving startups that exploit small businesses and public infrastructure to make a buck and aid the wealthy. Let’s call these parasites #JerkTech. It’s one ... |
LG G Watch Review: This Early Android Wear Watch Could Use A Bit More Time To Bake | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | of the first to market with an Android Wear smartwatch. Their hardware runs on Google’s smartwatch platform, which is pretty locked down in terms of what kind of customizations Google allows OEM to make. But there’s still plenty of room to shine – and fall short – when it comes to hardware design. LG’s watch seems to ... |
Facebook Becomes A Local Party Discovery Tool With “Events For You” Redesign | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | Just because you weren’t invited, doesn’t mean Facebook can’t help you crash the party. Facebook Events on the web got a today that includes a new “Events For You” tab that recommends gatherings it thinks you’ll enjoy, even if no one invited you, friends aren’t going, and you’ve never been to the venue. Rather than j... |
Foundation: The Squarespace Ideation Narrative | Contributor | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | In our newest Foundation interview, I spend some time with Squarespace founder and CEO . Anthony provides a fascinating look at the Squarespace ideation narrative, and the company’s short-term and long-term goals. Anthony on managing a team at a startup: “You can’t wish trust into existence. Trust is built and sha... |
Music Streaming Eats Downloads With On-Demand Up 42% Over 2013, Digital Sales Down 12% | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | on the first half of 2014 shows digital music consumption rapidly shifting from downloads to streaming. On-demand streaming was up 42% over the first half of 2013, racking up 70 billion play in the first half of 2014. Meanwhile, digital track sales fell 13% to 593.6 million and album sales fell 11.6% to 53.8 million. ... |
California Democrats .Whine Over Proposed .Wine Domains | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | Let’s see if we can do this without making any puns. In May, California Democratic Congressman Mike Thompson to the Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN), asking that .wine and .vin domain not be assigned to “any applicant,” provided that worries concerning protections against cybersquatting ca... |
South Park, Now In Virtual Reality | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | Ready to head on down to (virtual) South Park, and have yourself a (virtual) time? Looking to brush up their virtual reality skills, a team of designers going by the name of has recreated everyone’s favorite quiet little mountain town for exploration with the Oculus Rift. Now, before you dive in: remember that this i... |
Mobile Accelerator Tandem Announces Four New Startups As It Prepares To Double In Size | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | , a Silicon Valley-based accelerator for mobile startups, is unveiling its latest group of companies. The firm says this is its “largest startup class ever” — though that’s not quite as dramatic a change as you might think. In the past, Tandem has accepted three startups in each class. This time, there are a grand tota... |
Peter Thiel Is Returning To Disrupt SF | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | We’re thrilled to announce that legendary founder and investor will be joining us on stage at Disrupt SF 2014. From PayPal to Founders Fund, Thiel has set the bar for success in Silicon Valley, and this will be the second time he’s spoken at our conference. We’re glad he’s back. Thiel made the first outside investmen... |
Windows Phone’s Market Share In The United States Isn’t Growing | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | The regarding the United States smartphone market isn’t great for Microsoft. The company’s Windows Phone platform managed no growth, ending the May period with a 3 month market share average of 3.4%, the same level that Comscore reported for the platform in February. Android was flat, Apple picked up 0.6%, and Blackb... |
Bonobos Raises Another $55 Million To Expand Its Online-Offline Shopping Experience | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | Online clothing retailer has raised a $55 million Series D round of funding led by Coppel Capital. With the funding, the company plans to expand its offline presence as a way to introduce new customers to the style and fit of its clothes, while also showing off new offerings to existing customers. While Bonobos launc... |
Atlassian Expands Its Enterprise Offerings With JIRA And Confluence Data Center | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | , the company behind developer collaboration tools like , and , has long had a strong presence , but the company today announced two new products specifically geared at this market. Next week, Atlassian will launch JIRA Data Center, the latest version of its JIRA project management software with high-level custome... |
eBay-Owned E-Commerce Platform Magento Shuts Down Services Aimed At Smaller Retailers | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | E-commerce platform , owned by eBay’s Enterprise division, is closing down two of its products designed to reach small to medium-sized online retailers: and . The company has posted notices and informational guides on both product websites, directing current customers to “Migration Center” dashboards and various FA... |
After Closing $49 Million In Funding, TeleSign Pushing Authentication Services | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | In the age of email spoofing, identity theft, and the myriad sorts of virtual chicanery and flim-flammery, having a service that can verify a person’s identity is vital. As demand for identity verification and and authentication grows, is looking to , shopping for technology acquisitions and new markets for growth. ... |
Video Content Network BuzzMyVideos Launches To Attract International Creators | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | is a new a content network which specialises in international online video content promotion allowing video makers to grow and monetize their video content via a multi-channel network and creators program. It’s now launched out of Beta. The startup has so far attracted over 5,000 video makers (who pay for the tools th... |
Apple’s Hamid Mohammadinia Joins The Vessyl Smart Cup Team | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | Mark One, the makers of the Vessyl smart cup, have brought on as the new VP Engineering. Mohammadinia comes from Apple where he led Design for Manufacturing, with specific participation in the DFM of the iPod and the iPad, as well as other projects from Apple. The was designed over the past seven years to be able... |
Reelagram Turns Instagram Photos Into View-Master Reels | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 3 | Before there was and , there was . Children who grew up in the analog era will have special memories of this stereoscopic viewer and its accompanying cardboard disks featuring images of their favorite characters and scenes from books, TV shows, and movies. Now, a company called is tapping into our collective nost... |
Beast Sensor On Indiegogo Tracks Your Weight-lifting In Real Time | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | In recent years hardware has appeared to track your gym workouts. and are both devices that will measure your reps as you grunt and build those muscles lifting weights. A new kid on the block is and it’s currently trying to raise $60,000 . This little device differentiates itself by being suitable for all exerci... |
Balderton Partner Bonanzinga Steps Back To Pursue Career As An Angel | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | After 7 years as a partner at , Roberto Bonanzinga has taken a step back from the fund. He now becomes ‘Venture Partner’ and will pursue other interests as an Angel investor rather than as a VC. However, in a statement, Balderron said he would “continue to be strongly affiliated with the firm”. Although Bonanzinga wi... |
NearDesk Raises £1M On Crowd Equity Platform Seedrs | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | A sign that equity crowd financing is taking off in the UK is the news that NearDesk — a startup that offers touch-out and rent desk and meeting space by the hour at different locations all around the UK – has broken the record for the amount raised on the Seedrs platform. Originally was looking to raise £600k, but ... |
FuturePerfect Ventures Is A Small Fund Launched To Back Applications For Big Data | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | Looking to harness the flood of data streaming from every networked and sensor-enabled smart device, computer, and machine that circumscribe our modern world, has launched a small venture fund to focus on the bedeviling problem of big data. Founded by , the former director of mobile investments for the Omidyar Netwo... |
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