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Google Super Successful At Spinning Europe’s Right To Be Forgotten Ruling As Farce | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | Blink and you’ll still see it. Google’s strategy to spin the European Court of Justice’s as ‘unworkable’ is in full swing. The ruling, made in late May, requires Google to process requests by private individuals to de-index outdated or irrelevant personal information when a search is made for their name. The data is ... |
Apple Poaches Patrick Pruniaux, Watch Brand Tag Heuer’s VP Of Sales | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | has hired another luxury brand exec away from an established brand. Patrick Pruniaux, VP of sales for watch company Tag Heuer, will join Apple on Monday after seven years in the world of luxury timepieces. Pruniaux, second from the right in the above photograph, joins the company just as talk of an iWatch has risen to... |
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Meet The Winner Of PragueCrunch III: Cloudfender | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | This man is very happy. He’s , one of the contestants in last night’s PragueCrunch pitch-off and a proud drinker of fine Czech beer. He is just one of the cool people we met in Prague last night. The pitch-off, judged by , our own Natasha Lomas, and , also made this man very happy. We listened to eight startup found... |
Everyone Has Seen Fireworks, No One Needs Your Photos | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | Here’s a novel idea for watching the fireworks: use your eyes. See, the Fourth Of July is when we celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing up . But when the urge to pull out your camera phone strikes you, instead, leave it in your pocket, throw your arm around the person next to you, and just be present in the mom... |
An E-Commerce Site Where You Can Haggle Down The Price | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | What are American holidays without shopping deals, right? A new kind of site has launched out of Y Combinator just in time for the most American holiday of them all. Founders Andrew Kurland and Joe Marrapodi created their e-commerce negotiation site, , out of frustration. The two were spending too much time trying to ... |
Rovio Owner Backs Teller, A Startup Aiming To Make Email Work Better When You Check It Less Often | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | If you’re in the U.S., you’re probably taking a well-deserved break from work and all the accompanying email today for the July 4th holiday. But when you return, your inbox is going to be a nightmare. An unsorted, unfiltered, unorganized mess. A new startup called wants to help with that. The company also has a small... |
On The Hunt For Better Margins, Fab Debuts Hem, A New Furnishings And Design Brand | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | Just two weeks after Fab.com announced the — a Helsinki, Finland-based maker of furniture, lights and other home deco products — the online design store is moving swiftly to the next stage of its new strategy to focus more on original goods: it’s launching , a new line of customizable, “affordable” furniture and pro... |
A Drone Over PragueCrunch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | When I held the first in I didn’t expect much. I loved the city but I wasn’t sure what sort of start-up ecosystem it had. But, in those strange days when and money was contracting, I found everything about the Czech Republic amazing. The people were friendly and had some amazing ideas and their energy was infecti... |
Lessons From Sourcebits’ Road To Acquisition | Ashwin Ramasamy | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | , an enterprise mobility and telecom software services company, , a design-led engineering company that builds mobile apps for enterprise and consumer markets. The acquisition seems to be for capabilities. In a tough hiring market, teams with execution maturity at an enterprise level make perfect sense. The sale als... |
The Government Once Built Silicon Valley | Vitaly M. Golomb | 2,014 | 7 | 4 | In May, I received an invitation to participate in the “Startup Global Design Workshop” hosted by the White House Business Council and Business Forward. The organizations are working on bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and Washington. Currently, small-to-medium-sized enterprises are responsible for 98 percent of ... |
Israeli High Tech Gets Aggressive | Adam Fisher | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | Israel has always taken a disproportionate share of global media attention. This has long held true in international politics, where Israel would prefer a little attention, but also in high tech where the media attention on startup success has often been overstated and anecdotal. For the better part of a decade, Is... |
The New Fast Food | Matt Mireles | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | I was trying to understand why food startups are so hot when I ran across the following two charts. In the image, you’ll notice that I circled a line labeled “P/E.” In the language of finance, P/E is short for “price-to-earnings ratio,” which is the relative value of a company’s stock price to its profitability (aka ... |
Zuora’s Journey To Managing The Subscription Economy | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | The idea for subscription billing startup was born in Marc Benioff’s office. In 2006, K.V. Rao, then a WebEx senior engineer, was meeting with Benioff and Salesforce CMO Tien Tzuo. Tzuo made a comment that subscription billing was a hard problem for Salesforce, and Rao agreed that WebEx also felt the same challenge. ... |
Gillmor Gang: Pass the Buck | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — spend a late Thursday afternoon on experiments, office shake ups, and a potential bank shot from an old monopolist. With the world going cup crazy, you wouldn’t fault those who traded tech for TV and shelter from the tweetstor... |
Google Now Is The Killer App For Android Wear | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | Google’s I/O keynote may have been a bit of a jumble of different product announcements — many of which won’t be available until later this year — but was what most people in the audience wanted to hear about. While there is plenty of Android in Google’s smartwatch operating system and while developers will be able t... |
Lessig’s Mayday Hits $5M Fundraising Goal To Elect Pro-Campaign Finance Reform Politicians | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | Lawrence Lessig’s just raised a lot of money…to help get the money out of politics by campaigning to . This morning the Super PAC hit its $5 million grassroots fundraising goal thanks to 47,000 supporters, which will be matched by $5 million in donations from wealthy tech luminaries. Combined with the $1 million it ... |
Who Watches The Watchmen? | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | In honor of the Fourth of July, let’s talk a little about how horrifically paranoid and counterproductive the US government has become. And I’m not even talking about Congress! Instead I mean our old friend the , who, , have been singling out for special treatment anyone who displays any interest in tools which might... |
Hackers Target Silk Road Auction Participants In Scam | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 5 | The folks at are reporting a fascinating phishing attack on leaked list of auction participants for the Silk Road bitcoins. The list, which appeared after a member of the failed to use BCC, identified all the parties attempting to bid on the bitcoin seized during a raid on the Silk Road marketplace. It has been a u... |
Microsoft Goes After Botnet, Tanking No-IP’s Dynamic DNS Service For Regular Users In The Process | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Microsoft seized 23 domains this week from No-IP, a provider of dynamic DNS services, after filing a civil suit alleging that the domains in question were used to distribute malware. The domains, , were used 93 percent of the time for distributing the Bladabindi and Jenxcus malware families. A court granted Microsoft ... |
The EFF Sues The NSA For Details On How The Government Discloses Security Flaws | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the National Security Agency (NSA) over government disclosure of security flaws that have been uncovered by the intelligence community. In the wake of the Heartbleed fiasco, and that the NSA both knew about the vulnerability and had exploited it, the Office of the Directo... |
Amazon Stands Up To FTC Demands For More Parental Controls | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Amazon is refusing to comply with a request from the Federal Trade Commission to implement stricter controls that would prevent children from making in-app purchases. The FTC is demanding Amazon implement a “consent” model similar to the one Apple conceded to earlier this year, . Amazon believes it already has impleme... |
Salesforce Mobile Reports And Dashboards Provide In-depth Knowledge On The Fly | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | today announced a new mobile reports and dashboards tool that runs on their mobile Salesforce1 platform. The goal of the product is to give salespeople access to information on the go, presented to them in a customized fashion to meet the unique needs of each individual user. Salesforce customers have told them, it’s ... |
Charles River Ventures Raises $393 Million For Its 16th Fund | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | , the early stage venture capital firm that’s jointly based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Silicon Valley, has raised $393 million for a new investment fund, according to documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund, Charles River Partnership XVI, is the sixteenth to be raised by the 44-year-old f... |
Facebook’s Head Of Policy On Emotion Experiment: “That’s Innovation” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | While Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg for its being “poorly communicated”, another this kind of research makes the product better, and “it’s concerning when we see legislation that could possibly stifle that sort of creativity and that innovation.” Facebook’s head of global policy management Monika Bickert showed li... |
Ticket Resale Marketplace StubHub Goes Through A Big Fat Round Of Layoffs | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Online ticket marketplace recently went through a big round of layoffs, which the company confirmed to us by email today. A source tells us the cuts were made after the company failed to meet its parent company’s expectations, due to changing dynamics in the market for secondary ticket sales. StubHub wouldn’t comment... |
App: A Documentary About The Human Side Of The App Revolution | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Those interested in how our culture shapes and is shaped by the software we use every day should check out a documentary project on Kickstarter that hopes to give an in-depth look at the impact apps have had since their introduction with the original iPhone in 2007:
Though they don’t expect to complete the pro... |
Fitmob Launches MobTribes, Gets Into The Personal Training Market | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Some people are paying up to $120 per session to get yelled at twice a week. Those people have personal trainers. , the company known for funny group fitness workouts like “Weapons of Ass Reduction” and “Drop it Like a Squat,” is now getting into the game with the launch of a new personal training program called . It... |
Tetris Gets Hacked Onto The Only Thing It’s Not Already On: A Playable T-Shirt | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Tetris. Since its debut in 1984, it’s found its way onto nearly every possible platform. Game consoles. Graphing calculators. . Now its found its way onto the most elusive and coveted platform of all: some dude’s chest. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsi3bIHlKv4&w=640&h=390] In honor of Tetris’ 30th anniver... |
Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Yahoo’s spring cleanings have extended into the summer months, the company today, detailing a series of product changes and closures, many of which are nearly obsolete, obscure, or just unpopular. But among the more high-profile of these closures is , the maker of smart email and contacts management apps that were a... |
Microsoft Presses Ahead With Office For Android | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Prepare another entry into your File Of No Surprise: Microsoft is moving ahead with its efforts to bring the highly lucrative Office franchise to Android tablets. According , Microsoft is currently prepping a private beta of the new software. A has been mostly taken offline since the news broke. A full Office suite ... |
Microsoft Acquires SyntaxTree To Offer Better Unity Support In Visual Studio | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Microsoft today that it has acquired SyntaxTree, the France-based company behind , a popular plugin for developers that use the cross-platform Unity framework to write their games. As S. “Soma” Somasegar, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of its Developer Division, notes, the company plans to integrate UnityVS ... |
Former Microsoft Engineers Launch Pixotale, A Social Networking App For Visual Storytelling | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | A pair of ex-Microsoft engineers, Robert Mao and Haitao Li, have launched what they describe as a new social network based around photos and videos with , an app that aims to re-imagine long-form storytelling for the mobile era. Mao, previously having spent five years with Microsoft Research, says that to create , th... |
Facebook Acquires LiveRail For $400M To $500M To Serve Video Ads Everywhere, Improve Its Own | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Facebook has video ad tech startup , which connects marketers to publishers on web and mobile to target 7 billion video ads to visitors per month. A source tells us Facebook paid between $400 million and $500 million for LiveRail, but Facebook refused to comment on the terms. [Update 3:30pm PST: Another source now t... |
The EFF Calls Gov Report Supporting Surveillance “Legally Flawed And Factually Incomplete” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with a from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) concerning government surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The current report generally upheld the program, offering a few motes of potential reform as suggestions. Th... |
Massachusetts Open Cloud Project Hopes To Create Ad-Hoc Infrastructure Marketplace | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies — Amazon, Google and Microsoft — but a public/business/academia partnership called the is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors... |
Smart Garden Sensor Edyn Moves Past Kickstarter Goals, Eyes Android | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | A month ago, I called Edyn that tracks light, humidity, temperature, soil nutrition and moisture data for gardeners. The company, which first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, beat their initial $100,000 goal for a . They’ve got close to $300,000 from backers and have made a few adjustments to the product ba... |
Scan Makes A QR Identity Play | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 7 | 2 | , a company that’s trying to link physical businesses to users with QR codes, is stepping into the identity and payments space. The new version of Scan’s app adds a ‘Code Wallet’ that can be used to store codes you scan or use a lot. It can also store your personal identity code, which you can generate on the device. I... |
Threadflip Raises $13 Million in Series B, Plans To Grow Workforce by 40% | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | , the online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing, announced $13 million in Series B funding today. led the round, with participation from previous investors , and . This latest infusion now brings the total funding for Threadflip up to $21.1 million. will use the cash to hire at least 20 more merchandis... |
The Seven Constants Of Game Design, Part One | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | There are infinite paintings, but also a more finite sense of what is a great painting versus not. Similarly there are infinite games, but also a sense of what works and what doesn’t. The boundless space of video games is bounded and their limitless possibilities have limits. There are, it seems, rules to game design. ... |
Taptalk Taps Phone Contacts To Add Friends, And A New Game Emerges | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | One of the issues I’ve been grappling with with the social photos and location app, is that although it’s super simple and addictive — way more so that Snapchat I’d say — adding friends until now has been a chore. You had to literally type people’s handles in to the app. But, good news fellow Taptalkers! A new update... |
Political Leaders Rebuke Microsoft’s Mass Layoffs | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | have picked up negative attention from governmental authorities and leaders, even as the cuts have been by investors and the broader market. The software company accreted more than 20,000 employees when it . In the wake of that deal’s closing, Microsoft announced 18,000 cuts to its staff, including 12,500 in its ... |
#Love: My First Experience With Internet Porn | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | existed since the dawn of time, but it has never been as widely available and accessible as it is today. That’s largely due to the internet, which provides a launch pad for our curiosity no matter the topic. But with sex, a topic relatively more private and intimate, the internet can serve as an important resource for... |
This Little Box Hijacks Your Chromecast, Rickrolls Your Living Room | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7nqP8AvXUg&w=764&h=430] You’re sitting in your living room. All you want to do is watch some on your day off… but your refuses to respond. All it will do is play Rick Astley’s over… and over again. It might be this little box’s fault. Built by as a proof of concept, his... |
TiVo Founders Shutting Down Qplay Video Service Fewer Than 6 Months After Launch | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | , the video streaming app and device from a couple of TiVo co-founders, is closing down next Friday. The shutdown marks a short life for the service, which launched in February this year with a and just last month. The company was founded in August 2012 by and Jim Barton, who brought DVRs into the mainstream with... |
Why Marco Arment Built A Podcast App | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | Developer isn’t exactly a household name, but that could depend on your household. As a frequent podcaster and writer, he’s taken on a somewhat polarizing role as a commentator on the Apple developer ecosystem. As a developer, he was ’s first employee and went on to create the still popular (now owned by Betaworks... |
The Problem With Founders | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | a company.” The ultimate panacea to all of life’s problems, the one solution to rule them all. I have personally received Silicon Valley’s most popular advice line more times than I can count, and my friends seem equally likely to have this help foisted upon them. Feeling bored at work? Just go start a company. Feelin... |
Snowden Calls On Developers To Champion Privacy By Design | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 7 | 20 | Speaking at the conference taking place in New York this weekend, NSA whistleblower put out a call for developers to build systems that protect privacy and constitutional rights by design. He also revealed his own intention to work on developing privacy protecting technology. Snowden was speaking via videolink from... |
Waiting For VC | James Altucher | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | I spoke to the VC on Wednesday. He said he would have his decisions “fast.” He said the great thing about his VC firm (as opposed to all of those “others”) is that it has absolutely no problem making a quick decision. “Our lawyers are all ready. The deal is boilerplate. We can send the money to you right away.” Now it’... |
Bebo Founder Michael Birch Sends Cease And Desist To Airbnb For Infringement On “Genital Marketing” | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | Bebo founder just sent Airbnb what seems to be a hilarious tongue-in-cheek , citing the “phallic nature” of the . new logo has been a sort of Rorschach test for all of Silicon Valley, as it has been referred to as . To add to the hilarity, Birch sent out a tweet this afternoon that calls out Airbnb for infringing... |
Dell Now Accepts Bitcoin For All Online U.S. Purchases | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | Dell in the United States for online purchases of its products. The move is a win for CoinBase, which today announced that it was the integration partner for the personal computing company. Overstock.com and online technology marketplace TigerDirect also accept the cryptocurrency. The price of bitcoin, long a drive... |
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Netflix Plays With The Idea Of A Private Viewing Mode To Keep Your History And Recommendations Clean | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | While Netflix tends to stray away from hosting stuff that could be considered straight-up porn, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing on there that you wouldn’t want sitting in your viewing history ’til the end of time. Maybe you want to watch on your lunch break without catching flack for it from your buddies later. May... |
Comments To The FCC Regarding Net Neutrality Slow As Deadline Approaches | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | The (FCC) initial comment period regarding its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on net neutrality regulations ends in around seven hours. Instead of seeing a final surge in submissions, however, it appears that the influx in missives from the public to the agency is slowing. According to the FCC’s most recent fig... |
Higgle Lets Like-Minded Shoppers Name Their Price When They Buy Together | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | is a recently launched website where consumers can set the price that they want to pay; in exchange, all they need to do is convince enough friends to join in. is both the name of the company and the term it uses for the discount offers that consumers can make to merchants on the site, combining haggling and bulk dis... |
CrunchWeek: Microsoft’s Big Layoffs, Airbnb’s New Logo Controversy, Yo Funding | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | Watch , , and I talk about all of that in the episode of CrunchWeek embedded above. |
Gillmor Gang Live 07.18.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | – Danny Sullivan, Alexia Tsotsis, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor.
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Here’s What’s New In The Xbox One August Update | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | Each month since launch, the has received a software update meant to teach the console a few new tricks. So far, these updates have primarily served to fix bugs, tweak the UI, and reintroduce things that were inexplicably absent after the jump from Xbox 360 to Xbox One — things like , , and . The best news of the ... |
Y Combinator Adds New Slate Of Partners | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | Silicon Valley startup accelerator announced this morning that it has added to its team with . founder , App.net founder , and Talkbin founder have all joined the organization as full-time partners. Caldwell and Younis had previously been working as with while Ohanian had as its “ambassador” to the East C... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Summer Doldrums | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | As you may expect, the summer can be a slow period for tech journalists. But since we’re obsessed with startups, there’s still plenty of new stuff to discuss this week on the TC Gadgets Podcast. For one, we look at the new , as well as a new piece of hardware called the , which lets you send messages on your phone wi... |
Levi’s Stadium, The New Home Of The San Francisco 49ers, Is Geek Heaven | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | When the San Francisco 49ers take the field for their first preseason home game on August 17, fans will have a lot to cheer about. Not just because the team, which finished last year with a 12-4 record and made it into the NFC Championship game, is back — but also because they will be playing in a brand new stadium. ... |
Yo Raises $1.5M In Funding At A $10M Valuation, Investors Include Betaworks And Pete Cashmore | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | , the simple app that just sends a “yo” to your friends, has closed $1.5 million in seed funding with a $10 million valuation and is finally ready to talk about its investors. They include Betaworks, Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, and the founders of China’s Tencent, among others. Yo previously confirmed it had raised $1.2 ... |
Google Previews A ‘Material Design’ Inspired Look For Chrome OS | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | All of properties will eventually bear a look inspired by ‘ ‘ and Android L, and is part of that sweeping visual overhaul, too. A new by Google “Happiness Evangelist” François Beaufort today (via ) shows a very early design inspired by the card-style multitasking view that made an appearance in Android L, the ne... |
New Search Engine Unmasks The Hackers | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | Indexeus.net looks like it could have been a project. With a slick design, snappy copy, and a -based payment system, it looks unusually legit. But what the site is hiding is the produce of hundreds of hacking efforts from around the web. I’ve left out the link because it’s unclear if the site may deliver malware now... |
TubeMogul Surges 48% In Its Debut After Cutting Its IPO Price | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | is having a strong first day of trading as a public company, rising nearly 50 percent in midday trading. The company went public for $7 per share, and is currently trading in the $10.30 range. The IPO, however, came with caveats. The $7 per share price was dramatically under its initially proposed pricing range of $11... |
MatterFab Launches To Make Metal 3D Printing Affordable | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | When most people think of 3D printing, they usually think of the plastic trinkets that come out of machines. But increasingly, there’s interest in being able to 3D print items out of metal, which allows for more heavy-duty industrial applications of the technology. Metal 3D printers exist now, but they can be expensi... |
If You Are Lazy Or Incompetent, Unofficial Cardboard Offers A Perfect Google Cardboard Clone | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | There’s nothing that rankles me like a chance to try out some cool new tech squandered – and that’s what happened at Google I/O this year. I managed to snag some face-on time with Google Cardboard, the surprise gift for attendees that consists of a simple folding cardboard harness for your Android device and some conca... |
The Brandery Accelerator Launches Its Latest Class | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | , has accepted its latest clutch of startups, and they’re pretty interesting. The class included companies developing products ranging from a location-based iPhone app that’s looking to make Yelp hyperlocal on mobile devices, a company making a wearable device programming toolkit, to a water use sensor and mobile app... |
India’s Gigstart Looks To Be The Platform To Hire Live Acts, Musicians | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | India continues to cultivate a small, but fast-growing startup ecosystem. New Delhi’s is building a platform where people can book live artists and performers for parties and weddings. As you might know, Indian weddings are pretty elaborate and take place over many days. The country hosts 10 million weddings per yea... |
Premium Not Freemium: iPad Game Monument Valley Passes 1M Downloads | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 7 | 18 | Going against the freemium gaming grain, , the sumptuously designed, premium priced iPad game which launched back in and snagged its makers an Apple Design Award at this year’s WWDC, has now passed one million downloads, TechCrunch can reveal. The title is normally priced at $3.99/£2.49 — although it’s currently half... |
The Seven Constants Of Game Design, Part Two | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | I discussed how video games are both unbounded and bounded by “creative constants”, by which I mean inescapable factors that simultaneously limit and empower the game designer. I discussed the first three – Fascination, Imperfection and Urgency – and promised more to follow. So let’s continue: The rules of soccer are ... |
Enterprise Investments Surge To Over $5.4 Billion | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | After years of backing headline-grabbing consumer internet deals, it seems that venture capitalists are paying more attention (and more money) to the seemingly staid and stodgy enterprise technology companies (the businesses that sell technology to make businesses work better). Their mission: to explore new ways of org... |
#Love: In The Time Of Spotify | David Cotrone | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | has appeared in The Rumpus, Thought Catalog, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. He lives in New York. If you look closely at what I’ve built—at my playlists, all of them public—you can see me. You only have to search my name and you’ll see it all right there: what’s in my head. I’m 23, and my idea of love isn’t far from ... |
The Return Of The Desktop Productivity App | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | Sunrise. Evernote. Feedly. Wunderlist. Mailbox.* Those apps are all an integral part of my personal productivity suite, the tools that I use on a day-to-day basis. Without a desktop version, those mobile clients are useful but not transformative. But with multi-device access, they have become difficult to replace. I’m ... |
The VP of Devil’s Advocacy | MG Siegler | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | In the 2013 film, , Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is riding through the streets of Jerusalem as Jurgen Warmbrunn (Ludi Boeken) explains how the city was able to avoid the zombie apocalypse: The tenth man. If nine of us look at the same information and arrive at the exact same conclusion, it’s the duty of the tenth man to dis... |
Fates Forever Is League Of Legends Lite For Your iPad | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | Thanks to the of ‘ , the multiplayer online battle arena (or MOBA) genre is the hottest space in gaming. Besides , which has achieved on the PC, a are hoping to by repeating the formula on tablets. Released , is a well-executed attempt to bring the MOBA to tablets. It doesn’t bring every feature in Lea... |
These Guys Turned A Rock Climbing Wall Into A Big Video Game | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | [vimeo 89390488 w=500 h=375] Indoor rock climbing is a pretty excellent sport. It’s great exercise, it works your brain, and you can yourself getting better each time you reach the top. But once you’ve mastered the fastest/hardest/most creative routes up a given wall, that wall becomes… pretty boring. Perhaps a massi... |
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On The Importance Of Forgetting | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | The ongoing debate about Europe’s so-called ‘ ‘ ruling on search engines has shone a light onto a key pressure point between technology and society. Simply put the ability of digital technology to remember clashes with the human societal need to forgive and forget. Our technology now enables total recall of the digital... |
How Can We Make Recruiting Better? | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | Recruiting is broken. In fact, it is so broken that almost no one I have ever talked to about the subject has offered up a point of disagreement. Not one person has said, “I love recruiting” or “We find that recruiting works just great for us.” Among the Valley’s cognoscenti, today’s startup truism is that recruiting i... |
647,000 Comments Have Been Sent To The FCC About Net Neutrality. Keep Them Coming. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU&w=630&h=354] In just a few months, the FCC is expected to enact new rules that would allow (or, perhaps more accurately, fail to ) ISPs to provide “fast lanes” for companies who could afford to cough up the dough. When ISPs are able to decide which site’s data moves... |
The Near-Death And Resurrection Of Teen Social Network Let | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 27 | When I met earlier this week, I expected to get an extended pitch for his social networking startup . And sure, he ran me through Let’s features and pointed to its early signs of success, but he also detailed the bumpy road that he took to get to this point. Lorne two years ago. Afterwards, he said he made a mista... |
Lyft Will Not Launch In New York Today, Company Says It Will Work With Taxi Commission | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | New Yorkers hoping to catch a ride with today are out of luck. The company said via email and that it’s putting off its NYC launch. had earlier this week, and it said yesterday that despite the fact that the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission said the service did not comply with safety and licensing rules. ... |
What Should YC’s Sam Altman Do With These Bizarre Conway, Paul Graham Oil Paintings? | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | trying to figure out what to do with these paintings — Sam Altman (@sama) The Conway painting was , and a YC applicant sent in the one of , according to . I would say auction them off for charity. founder But that could be terribly tacky. Thoughts? For the record, the world of startups and oil paintings are n... |
LastPass Finds Security Holes In Its Online Password Manager, Doesn’t Think Anyone Exploited Them | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | When you’re in charge of keeping many hundreds of thousands of passwords under lock and key, trust is everything. Maintaining that trust means fessing up when things go wrong — even if it’s something you don’t think affected your users. Such is the case today for , a popular password manager for Safari, Chrome, Firefo... |
Landscape Mobile Launches Sight, Raises Seed Round To Visually Archive Articles | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | The good folks at the new Beijing and San Francisco-based startup have launched Sight today, an app that makes it easier to organize articles on mobile devices. Copying and pasting on mobile devices is a huge pain in the caboose, and solves that problem by allowing users to take a screen shot of whatever they’re rea... |
Instagram Direct Isn’t Dead, The Messaging Feature Has 45 Million Users | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | Seven months after , 45 million of 200 million users are actively sending or opening Direct messages, the company tells me. This 23% monthly usage rate indicates Direct is far from stillborn. While I haven’t seen or heard of many friends using the ephemeral private sharing channel, it may be quietly gaining steam wi... |
Crooks Reanimate A Dead Botnet To Target High-Value Bank Accounts | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | In something that sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, hackers have reanimated an apparently dead botnet called Gameover Zeus even as malware researchers dismantled the previous version of the network. The botnet, essentially a collection of zombie computers that can be activated to perform denial of service atta... |
Investments In The UK Surge To Nearly $1B As London Is Calling | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | London’s is coming to an end, but the rollick wrought by our roving band of reporters is nothing compared to the party that startups and investors are having in Shoreditch and Camden town these days. For the first half of the year, investors have poured nearly $1 billion into UK-based startups. In all $911 million ha... |
Apple Spent Over $3B With 7,000 U.S. Small Business Suppliers In 2013 | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | Today, SVP of Operations Jeff Williams attended a meeting with President Obama following the company’s . The program, which also includes a financing component, is essentially an agreement by companies like Apple, , and more to pay its small business suppliers faster — so that they can reinvest funds into growth.... |
CrunchWeek: The Latest Tinder Drama, The New New Microsoft, Lyft’s Struggles To Launch In NYC | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | This time, Ryan Lawler, Anthony Ha and I discussed the in the ongoing story about trouble between the co-founders at , the from new CEO , and ‘s its ridesharing service in New York City. |
Rap Genius Raises $40M, Changes Name To Genius, Launches Embeddable Annotations | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | made today to further its goal to annotate the world. The founders tell me it’s raised a $40 million Series B led by and joined by previous investor at a valuation under $1 billion. It also changed its name to and is launching embeddable annotations so any website can hover over text and see explanations and b... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Misfit, Android Wear, And Samsung Earnings | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | After taking a week off for the holidays (sorry about that), we’re back to chat up the latest news in the Gadgets world. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much. That said, had some disappointing earnings, and to get into the platform space. Plus, we simply can’t help ourselves from talking about smart watches, including ... |
Apple Opens Up With A New Blog About Swift, Its New Programming Language | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | Times, they are a-changin’: about that makes it easier to build applications for and . This marks a new period of openness for the famously walled-in tech giant. While it’s certainly not the same as Apple showing off a product before it’s ready to come to market — a fairly standard practice at rival — it shows... |
Yahoo Acquires Video Streaming Platform RayV | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | Following rumors of talks going as far back as May, we’d been hearing whispers all morning that had finally acquired the video broadcasting platform . Sure enough, it’s just been Built in 2005 as something of a competitor, RayV’s specialty lies in delivering high-quality video streams to a lot of people. Yahoo is... |
XKit, The Tumblr Client For Power Users, Arrives On iOS | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | A well-liked extension called , which adds more functionality to the social blogging service, has just made its way to mobile in the form of a paid iOS app. Though there have been of following its acquisition by , the platform today hosts close to 200 million blogs, which are updated over 94 million times per d... |
Twitter’s New Analytics Tell Advertisers And Publishers How Many People Actually Saw Their Tweets | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | If you’re looking for more details about how all of your tweets are doing, today released a new analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter Card publishers, and verified users. The company already gave its advertisers data about tweets that they’d paid to promote, covering things like impressions, replies, and link ... |
Microsoft Acquires Disaster Recovery Service InMage | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | Microsoft today that it has acquired , a business continuity service that helps enterprises migrate their data between public and private clouds, replicate their on-premise assets in the cloud and recover their data in case things go awry. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Microsoft is cle... |
Chinese State Media Renews Anti-Apple Rhetoric, Calls The iPhone A “National Security Concern” | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | has faced a fair amount of state-sponsored criticism in China, a market where the prevailing powers have a stated goal of promoting more home-grown network and IT solutions. The that Apple’s iOS 7 poses a threat to national security because of its ‘Frequent Locations’ feature, which identifies and provides users a m... |
Developer Predicted LeBron’s Move To The Cavs With Website Analysis | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 7 | 11 | LeBron James is going home. just announced that the king will once again don a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey. The move was predictable yet few people knew for sure that he would leave Miami — except LeBron’s web developer. Yesterday, a developer ran on . Reportedly, the results revealed several new unpublished pages ... |
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