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Bonobos’ SF Engineers Split Between NY Relocation And New Company Led By CTO Mike Hart | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | ‘ newly hired San Francisco engineering team is fracturing, but there’s no disaster. Bonobos CTO has departed the company to become a co-founder, along with Cory Hicks, of a brand-new business. After cooking up some hot new personalization technology at Bonobos, Hart and five other engineers from the team will be spi... |
Kicking Off Our Flip Off — Meet The “TechCrunch Weekly” Magazine On Flipboard | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | Flipboard this week that allows anyone to make a “Magazine,” which is a curated collection of stories based on any topic that you can think of. The company has shared that over since the feature launched. We’ve decided to put together our own magazine called “ ,” which will be full of the best TechCrunch stories fr... |
Ask A VC: AngelList’s Naval Ravikant On The Currency Of Silicon Valley And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series, where we put VCs in the hot seat. Ravikant talked about the currency of Silicon Valley, which he says is deals shared, talent referred, and acquirers introduced. He explains that AngelList, a service he co-founded that matches early-stage startups with... |
Facebook’s Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | Constant, close contact with your friends. That’s the promise of a “Facebook phone.” The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement that sources tell us pushes your social life to you so fetching it isn’t interruptive. The news feed brought us ambient intimacy, but Facebook’s homescreen could turn that soc... |
LivingSocial Co-Founder And CTO Aaron Batalion To Leave The Company | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | , the co-founder and CTO of daily deals site , is leaving the company. He announced his departure in published Friday afternoon. Here is the full text of his blog post: “Moving on to new adventures… What an incredible journey it has been since June of 2007, when the four of us knew only our direction, but definitely... |
Microsoft: jQuery 2.0 Will Add Full Support For Windows Store Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | The , the popular JavaScript library, will drop support for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t very bullish about getting developers to use jQuery 2.0 and HTML5 to develop “a new wave of jQuery-based Windows Store applications.” As Microsoft today, , the company’s wholly owned open... |
Gillmor Gang Live 03.29.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | – Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Treasure Data Projects 500 Percent Growth This Year, Launches New “Plazma” Distributed Database | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | It’s only been six months since cloud data warehousing company , but they’re already reporting some impressive growth figures. achieved month-to-month profitability last year, and they’re well on track to achieve a 500 percent increase in revenue this year. They’ve also amassed 50 high-profile clients, which includ... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Fitbit One, Aria Smart Scale And A Ticket To Disrupt NY | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | Happy Friday, everyone. As you know, we love giving things away here at TechCrunch, and this week, we have a and an to give away. But that’s not all! is right around the corner and tickets are going super fast, so we want to give away another ticket to a deserving person who would like to attend (and then party wi... |
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Video Q&A Startup VYou Is Shutting Down Its Consumer Site To Focus On White-Label Opportunities | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | Video question-and-answer site launched with a unique premise, allowing users to create video responses to questions posed to them by other community members. But now, about two-and-a-half years later, the company is sending an email to its community members informing them that its site will be shut down next week. I... |
Jun Group Launches HyprMX To Help Mobile Publishers Manage Their Video Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | Video ad distribution company has launched a new, wholly-owned subsidiary called , offering mediation tools for mobile publishers and developers manage video ads from multiple sources. HyprMX CEO Corey Weiner said that Jun Group runs its ads through hundreds of publishers, and it found that some of those publishers ... |
Backed Or Whacked: Baubles For Your Bike – Part I | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | Back in , Backed or Whacked looked at three crowdfunding projects that were aimed at getting novel takes on bicycles off the ground, or at least on the ground. But not every crowdfunded bicycle project involves reinventing the wheels. In fact, bike accessories have been such a popular target for crowdfunding efforts t... |
Apple’s Long-Rumored Game Controller May Soon See The Light Of Day | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | I’ve long believed that touchscreens leave a certain something to be desired when it comes to playing games, and if a new (and very curious) report holds true, Apple may feel the same way. According to , Apple has been meeting with developers on-site at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to talk a... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: 3D Printing, Ouya, And The Facebook Fone | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 29 | This week on the we celebrate episode number two of everyone’s favorite audio file! We also talk about 3D printing, the console, and the Facebook Fone AKA the FF. This week we are joined by our quiet intern, Michael Seo. We are slowly by surely working the kinks out of this process, so bear with us. However, we inv... |
Don’t Let Your Hype Write A Check That Your Product Can’t Cash | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | Everywhere you went around Austin this past week, there were people queuing up for things, the GroupMe Grill, the Twitter party, Salt Lick BBQ. One startup fête was so packed even a founder couldn’t get in immediately. “If only all these people were daily active users,” one person at the same party quipped, on the ap... |
Smartwatch Developers Rejoice! Pebble Will Release Proof-Of-Concept Watchface SDK In Early April | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | After much fanfare the Pebble smartwatch made the leap from fanciful concept to full-fledged product earlier this year, but now that units have started to ship and people have started to wear them, what’s Pebble’s next step? Why, enticing developers, of course. Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky noted in a released earlie... |
Gillmor Gang: Attention Surplus Disorder | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — enjoys a week of actual tech news for the first time in quite a while. Samsung’s latest big screen phone comes with a suite of Android add-ons, some of which tickle @scobleizer’s shiny bone while making it clear his rationale ... |
HealthTap’s Q&A Service Sees 7.5M Uniques Per Month, With MDs Spending An Hour Per Session Providing 581M Answers | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | What do you do when you have a health question? You likely either search Google or WebMD, try to call your doctor, or set up an appointment. For most people, the latter two options would be preferable, because, after all, you’re more likely to trust a human being than Dr. Robot or some crowdsourced health resource. Of ... |
Dennis Crowley Of Foursquare On Social Search, Platforms And Rivals | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | TechCrunch interviewed CEO Dennis Crowley a couple of weeks ago during in Barcelona (referenced ). It was his third time visiting and speaking at the event, and perhaps Foursquare’s most engaged visit of all in terms of going there. Crowley says that, all told, he met with 33 different companies this time around. ... |
Foursquare Aims At A Moving Target As It Tries To Close Another Round Of Funding | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | This year’s SXSWi did not herald the next Big Thing in tech, as some , but it wasn’t always this way. In 2010, a year when people were a bit more optimistic about the new new thing, Foursquare was the boss. First appearing in , by 2010 it came into its own as the with its app based around checking into places and t... |
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Who’s Afraid Of Google Glass? | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 3 | 16 | “First you see video. Then you wear video. Then you eat video. Then you be video.” — , Sheesh. A whole lot of people who presumably have never actually seen Google Glass in action appear to be really upset. “People who wear Google Glass in public are assholes,” Gawker’s Adrian Chen. “You won’t know if you’re being ... |
Sprint Nextel and SoftBank Agree Not To Use Huawei Equipment After Merger | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Sprint Nextel and SoftBank have pledged not to use equipment from Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies after they merge. Congressman Mike Rogers, a Republican state representative from Michigan who leads the House Intelligence Committee, said today that the two companies told him they would not use ge... |
Backed By General Catalyst Partners & First Round Capital, Chloe & Isabel Offers A Modern, Tech-Savvy Take On Direct-Selling | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | When many people think of direct-selling, they envision Tupperware parties or pink-suited women lugging cases of cosmetics door-to-door. New direct-selling companies, however, are using social media to disrupt the industry. is part of the currently re-defining direct selling, and giving people with an entrepreneuria... |
Office-As-A-Service RocketSpace Doubles Real Estate To Accomodate Bigger Startups | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Startups around the world are desperate for office space in the San Francisco Bay Area, so tomorrow will announce the lease of a new 50,000 sq. ft. office so it can house startups with up to 60 employees instead of capping them at 30. Along with this RocketSpace Suites project, the “office-as-a-service” plans to lock... |
Bitcoin: How An Unregulated, Decentralized Virtual Currency Just Became A Billion Dollar Market | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Hang around in the tech industry long enough and you or someone you know will be heard saying, “that’s so crazy it just might work.” Two years ago, if you’d have told me that an open-source, P2P currency would soon be a thriving, billion-dollar market, I would’ve told you that you were on a lonely bus headed to CrazyTo... |
OUYA’s Julie Uhrman Unveils The Android Console’s Interface And Games | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Today is a big day for , the Kickstarter-backed, Android-based game console. The company is announcing that its $99 console will be available on June 4 ( ), and it’s also holding a big unveiling party in San Francisco tonight. We actually met with founder and CEO Julie Uhrman yesterday, and she gave us a quick peek ... |
Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Brings The Universe To Your Fingertips | Greg Barto | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | The Microsoft Research team is building an epic map of the universe using data and photographs collected from the many telescopes around the world, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They call it . There are roughly 300 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and about the same number of galaxies in our universe ... |
Delicious Becomes A Bit More Social Again, Adds Twitter And Facebook Logins | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | It’s recently been very quiet around , the social bookmarking service Yahoo bought in 2005 and then in 2011. Back then, the AVOS team said it was relaunching Delicious “ ,” but Delicious hasn’t made all that many waves since then, nor has it added all that many features to the relaunched service. But after four mont... |
Under Amazon’s Wing, Goodreads Plans Closer Integration While Retaining Its Indie Status | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Following this afternoon’s announcement that , I had a few minutes to talk to the Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon VP of Kindle Content Russ Grandinetti. They stayed pretty vague about the two things I was most curious about — how the deal came together, and the specifics of the planned Kindle/Goodreads integrat... |
Jack Dorsey Fights Robots In His Own Unauthorized Comic Book | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | He might not be bulletproof, but simultaneously running Twitter and Square qualifies Jack Dorsey as a superhero. This week a new unauthorized comic book about him was released, called “Jack Dorsey: Co-Founder of Twitter #1”. Check out these page scans posted by that preview his quest to recover stolen quantum network... |
Facebook To Reveal “Home On Android” Sources Say Is A Modified OS On HTC At 4/4 Event | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Facebook just invited press to an event at its headquarters on April 4th to “Come See Our New Home On Android”. Sources tell us it will be a modified version of the Android operating system with deep native Facebook functionality on the homescreen that may live on an HTC handset. The evidence aligns to say this is the ... |
The $99 OUYA Console Will Make Its Retail Debut In The US, UK And Canada On June 4 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Didn’t get a chance to back the ambitious to lock in your pre-order? Considering how much press the thing has gotten, you don’t have much excuse for missing that particular window, but never fear — OUYA intends to sell the $99 pint-sized gaming gadget through retail partners like Amazon, Gamestop, and Best Buy starti... |
A Look At The ‘Downtown Project’ That Wants To Bring A Tech Renaissance To Old Las Vegas [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | You’ve probably heard something about the , the $350 million initiative spearheaded by CEO that’s aiming to bring a renaissance of sorts to Downtown Las Vegas, the several miles away from the touristy . But unless you’ve been there and seen it with your own eyes, it’s hard to really grok what’s happening there ... |
Social App MeetMe Introduces In-Feed Advertising With Flurry Partnership | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Social discovery service is ramping up the advertising in its smartphone app. CEO Geoff Cook told me via email that the app was already running ads, for example at the top of the screen, but its mobile monetization efforts have been more focused on payments. The new ads, which are being introduced through a partnersh... |
Well-Funded Gaming Startup Booyah Confirms Layoffs And New CEO Brian Morrisroe As It Shifts Focus To Tablets | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | It looks like some changes are afoot at , the location-based gaming company best known as the maker of the . MyTown and MyTown 2 attempted to evolve the location-based check-in model in gaming, allowing users not only check into locations within a city-building sim, but also scan and check into products in the real w... |
Dwolla Is Latest Victim Of DDoS Attacks – Site & API Down For Second Day | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | While the media to debate the severity of the denial-of-service attacks taking place across the web this month, they appear to have claimed another victim: payments startup announced today that it, too, is now experiencing a distributed denial-of-service event (DDoS attack). The attack, which is still underway, beg... |
Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Today, Amazon has . Specific terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and it should close by the end of Q2. Goodreads had raised $2.75 million in funding from the likes of True Ventures since launching in January 2007. , the site had over 10 million members and had catalogued more than 360 million books, adding 22 million... |
Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M At Valuation Around $800M | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | Supercell is a . Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo, they don’t like to talk much about anything beyond making games and about the company culture they’re deliberately cultivating. All of this belies what has become a phenomenal business over the last nine months — one th... |
After Raising $2.1M, TiKL Opens Their Mobile Chat/Voice Calling API To Developers | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | For a company that has somehow stayed mostly off the tech press’ radar, TiKL has had a pretty friggin’ good year. With $0 spent on marketing, its two mobile apps, TiKL Touch To Talk and Talkray, have nabbed a total of 28 million downloads. After taking part in Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 class, they raised a $2.1 millio... |
SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | The SEC today paved the way for a new era of venture capital investing by it won’t pursue enforcement action against , whose platform lets any accredited investor fund startups in exchange for equity. Before, some thought FundersClub’s founders could face jail time for violating finance laws. FundersClub’s model coul... |
“In The Studio,” Live Nation’s Joel Resnicow Muses About The State Of Digital Music | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 3 | 28 | TechCrunch “In The Studio” welcomes a digital media who has hustled his way up through the music world by interning for Rolling Stone, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum, MTV Networks (through Viacom), Hulu, and Twitter, worked as an editor and analyst for ABC News and Fuse TV, and eventually embarked down the p... |
Jawfish Games Goes For Real, Synchronous Multi-Player On iOS (Really!) | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Although playing against someone else in real-time has a kick that nothing else can quite mimic, turn-based multiplayer games have thrived on iOS and Android. That’s partly because slower data connections prevented studios from having enough confidence that they could provide a fast, twitchy user experience. At the sam... |
Messaging Service WhatsApp To Extend Subscription Model To iOS This Year, But Don’t Hold Your Breath For A Desktop App | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | , the popular mobile messaging app that eschews advertising in favor of a paid model, is getting ready to bring its iOS app in line with the apps it makes for other platforms by turning it into an annual subscription service. Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s CEO, says that the company is planning this year to shift its iOS app to ... |
Uber, Lyft, SideCar, And The So-Called Safety Problem | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Uber is unsafe. Lyft, SideCar, and other ride-sharing services are unsafe. At the very least, there is the question of their safety for passengers. And why? Because they represent a new type of technology, a new way of doing things, and that is inherently scary. Never mind that it’s more difficult to commit a crime usi... |
Sharp’s Financial Woes Continue As It Misses Deadline For $120M Qualcomm Investment | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | In another setback for the Japanese electronics giant, for the second half of a $120 million investment from Qualcomm after failing to complete a plan to begin fabricating power-saving screens. Though jointly-developed by the two companies, the screens are based on developed by Sharp, Japan’s leading LCD maker. Qua... |
Note-Taking Service Google Keep Briefly Appears Before Disappearing Again | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Note-taking app Google Keep briefly went live earlier today at before disappearing, but not before and took screenshots. A Google spokesman said the company has no comment. As Android Police notes, Google Keep resembles , which allowed users to clip and organize information from the Web but , and Evernote (which w... |
Military ID Verification Service, Troop ID, Raises $2.1 Million | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Iraq War veteran and founder Blake Hall has scored a cool $2.1 million from notable investors, such as David Tisch and Mark McLaughlin. The former elite soldier has raised a total of $5.7 million for his identity service that verifies military credentials and partners them with brands. [vimeo 49918152 w=400 h=300] “T... |
Samsung Grows An Ego | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | For the first time in the six years of the iPhone’s life, Apple seems to be going on the defensive, and with good reason. Apple’s global marketshare is slowly shrinking alongside the growth of Android, and Samsung is leading the way as smartphone king, shipping over 50 million Galaxy S IIIs since the phone launched. A... |
Checking Facebook Has Become Too Much Like Checking Email, And The News Feed Redesign Might Fix That | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Do you enjoy checking email? Probably not, since the word “checking” is something that sounds like work. Whenever you have to continually go back to a place to see if anything new is there, it starts taking a toll on you. Checking things is boring. I spent some time at Facebook last week to learn more about the changes... |
Sometimes, I Like To Wait | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | So I finally finished watching the first season of this weekend. Which is crazy, right? It’s been a full month and a half since all 13 episodes went live on Netflix. How could I wait so damn long to finish the story, especially since traveling to South by Southwest meant that I had to wait before I could find out w... |
What Games Are: Where Did Wii U Go Wrong? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Two years ago I was very excited by the possibilities of the Wii U. I instantly fell in love with the idea of the tablet/joypad game controller and saw all sorts of possible uses. It seemed like it might well be the console that could do it all, from first-person shooters to real-time strategy, and also lots of funky s... |
Good Riddance, Google Reader | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | turned into a zombie a long time ago and it’s good that Google finally . For years, Google Reader has been sitting on Google’s servers without any appreciable updates. Sure, it got a bit of a facelift , but it only lost functionality since Google decided to rip out its social features in an effort to drive people to... |
Focusing On The Google Reader Shutdown | Taylor Buley | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Last week Google announced the shutdown of Google Reader as part of its company wide bid to “focus” on “fewer products.” “We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go,” wrote the company in a . comScore estimates that as many as 665,000 different people used the mobile app in recent months... |
Facebook Opens Early Adopter Club To Reignite Mobile Experimentation | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Ditching HTML5 cost Facebook the flexibility to tinker and quietly try out design or feature changes on subsets of users. But now it can experiment again. Thursday a beta club offering some Android users early access to new features. Thanks to silently downloaded software updates, Facebook can field test evolutions o... |
Apple’s Forward Stance | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Apple doesn’t need a miracle, but clearly the marketing department thinks the company needs to step things up. To wit: Apple’s latest , which touts “There’s iPhone. And then there’s everything else.” It’s a brassy, ballsy statement worthy of Steve Jobs himself and it seems to show an Apple undaunted yet clearly aware ... |
Line: We’re A Social Entertainment Platform, Not Just A Free Calls Messaging App | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Line, an app made by , which has grown rapidly, amassing over 100 million users since its launch in summer 2011, is typically labelled as a messaging app – and compared to the likes of WhatsApp, Viber and Skype because it offers free calls and texts. But in reality Line’s feature set positions it closer to being a soc... |
YC-Backed Lollipuff Is An eBay-Like Marketplace For Authenticated Designer Clothing And Accessories | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | One of the main problems with buying designer clothing off of eBay and other auction sites is that there is really no guarantee that the item you are purchasing is actually what it appears to be. Despite a crackdown by eBay on counterfeit designer goods, the site still has a problem with fakes (though eBay will refund ... |
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CrunchWeek: Google Kills Reader, Samsung’s Galaxy S4, Dropbox’s $100M Mailbox Buy | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | Watch the video embedded above to hear , , and I discuss Google’s decision app (and the tech press’ about the decision), the new , an apparently with a very , and the surprise Friday announcement that , the 13-person startup behind the super popular Mailbox app, for some . |
Iterations: The Improbable, Captivating Pivot From Orchestra To Mailbox | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 3 | 17 | TechCrunch On Friday, Dropbox’s acquisition of Mailbox marked the first time the tech community lit up in amazement and awe of a consumer transaction since Facebook acquired Instagram back in April 2012. The attention is well-deserved. For a variety of reasons beyond the high ticket price of the deal, the acquisition... |
Philips Debuts Open APIs And An iOS SDK For Hue Connected Lighting System | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | Philips Hue is a lighting system that changes the definition of what your standard home lighting setup is, and now there’s an for the innovative Wi-Fi-connected bridge and bulbs, so that third-party apps and hardware can pick up what Philips has started. To be clear, people have developed apps for the Philips Hue sys... |
LovePalz, The Real-Time Virtual Sex Toy For Long-Distance Couples, Will Launch On March 29 | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | , the virtual sex gadget designed for long-distance couples, has finally set a launch date for both its products and Web-based control center. On March 29, you can get your hands (and other parts) on Hera and Zeus, the two devices designed by Taipei-based company . The titillating wireless gadget has been generating b... |
Samsung Tops China’s Smartphone Market For The First Time As Sales Triple, Says Strategy Analytics | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | Samsung Electronics topped China’s smartphone market for the first time in 2012, according to data from Strategy Analytics ( ). The Korean tech behemoth nearly tripled its sales in the world’s largest market for smartphones: in 2012, it sold 30.06 million smartphones in China, up from 10.9 million handsets a year earli... |
Alibaba Names Insider Jonathan Lu As New CEO, Replacing Founder Jack Ma | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | , China’s e-commerce giant, today named insider Jonathan Lu Xaoxi as its new CEO — filling a hole that he would be stepping down from the position. The move is another step in the company’s wider restructuring, which saw the creation of some to account for the company’s various interests, which range from the Taoba... |
SXSW Keynote Speaker Olivier Bau Talks About Creating Invisible Objects Using Electricity | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | Electrostatic interfaces – systems that make your fingers “feel” textures on a smooth metal plate – have been around for a long time. They haven’t quite caught on because the sensation is a little creepy and it’s not quite foolproof. However, a researcher at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, , has created... |
The Weekly Good: ProBueno Lets You Offer Up Your Talents And Skills For Good | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | Imagine that you’re a pretty good drummer, you’re in a band, and you’d like to give lessons. You could charge for these lessons, of course, but you’re really into helping out charities. A site called is a marketplace, founded by MIT alums, to shop your talents in exchange for charitable donations. When you think abou... |
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Michael Arrington Is Newest Aol CEO’s Favorite TechCrunch Writer | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | Much like this Aol added another layer of management last week. Aol Brands got its own CEO, , to round out the triumvirate of Aol Networks CEO Ned Brody and interim Membership CEO Bud Rosenthal. And, in an impressive sleight of hand, the company also , with COO Artie Minson out, perhaps due to Patch’s performan... |
The Implications Of The Interface That Watches You | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | This coming week, we’re likely to get a peek at , and by most accounts, it’ll have an to detect when you’re paying attention to what’s on the small screen, and when you look away. There’s no word on just how specific it will be, but others are prepping tech that detects eye movement with a high level of accuracy to d... |
Just 3 Weeks After Launch, Mailbox Is Already Delivering 50 Million Messages A Day | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | Since , email management app has been a pretty big hit — so big that more than 1.25 million people have signed up for the waiting list. The downside to that early success is that new users are added to a waiting list as Mailbox tries to keep up with demand. The company has processed about 500,000 applications so f... |
Senator Moran On Filibustering Drone Policy And How To Influence Congressmen | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | Senator Jerry Moran ( : A) left his tie back in Washington, D.C., and sat down with me for an informal, yet candid discussion at the SXSW Interactive conference. The folksy Kansas representative has been one of the Senate’s few tech wonks, spearheading a bill to for immigrant entrepreneurs, the Startup Visa Act 3.0. ... |
WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg On Working From Home, Making Money Without Ads, And More [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | And there was quite a bit to talk about. Mullenweg has some pretty informed opinions on the recent hot topic , as 130 of the 150 people who work for ( ‘s parent company) work remotely from outside of the company’s San Francisco headquarters. And with his growing activity investing both in and along with the ... |
SXSW Has Become The Bootcamp For Tech’s Soldiers | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | When you get the smartest people in technology to distill a year’s worth of knowledge into hour-long talks and minute-long chats, the less informed masses are brought up to speed. Rather than wait for the past to proliferate, SXSW lets the crowd grasp today so tech’s leaders can focus on tomorrow. Not everyone can see ... |
Hangtime Looks To Be The Watercooler For Events At SXSW And Beyond | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | OK, so maybe this year. But that isn’t stopping several startups from trying. One startup called , from serial entrepreneur , is looking to be the comprehensive Rolodex of events at SXSW and beyond. It pulls in events from Facebook that you have permission to see, ranks them by overall popularity, popularity among ... |
4tiitoo’s eyeCharm Kinect Add-On Lets You Control Computers With Your Eyes | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 10 |
After I shelled out something like $200 for a Kinect bundle that I ended up shoving in a closet, the team at may have finally given me a reason to dig the thing out. The Munich-based company recently kicked off a to let Kinect owners control their PCs with little more than some subtle glances, thanks to a $5... |
Marvel Adds A Dynamic Soundtrack To Its Digital Comics With Project Gamma | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | The digital team from is at South by Southwest Interactive this year to show off some new comics-reading experiences that they’ve created. At their session today they’re demonstrating a technology that’s currently called Project Gamma. Basically, it’s a way to add music to the experience of reading a digital comic ... |
Iterations: The Diamond Is In The Comments | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | TechCrunch . People often ask me some variant of this question: “What’s a startup out there that will be a great investment hit but no one really thinks of that way yet?” There are many possible answers, but I’ll focus this week’s column on one: . Now, there are many smart folks who believe online comments are eithe... |
Jifiti Lets You Teleport Products To Your Friends…Sorta | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | The idea for came about because Shaul Weisband — one of the creators of the app and company behind it — wanted to “teleport” gifts to friends. While teleportation is still not really possible, the team at Jifiti has done the next best thing and is aiming to incorporate this into a new way of shopping. And I think ret... |
Makerbot’s Bre Pettis And OK Go’s Damian Kulash On The Addictive ‘Rush’ Of Making Stuff That Works [Video] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRClg2MQ1M]
One of the reasons that coming to continues to be worthwhile despite is that it still attracts some of the most intelligent and fascinating people to the same place at the same time. Getting to bump into brilliant people leads to some wonderful conversations, an... |
An Interview With Firefighter, Techie, And E-Publisher John Sundman On What It Takes For Creatives To Make It In A Start Up | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 10 | is best known for his seminal dot-com-boom cyberpunk novel, but in his long career he has been a truck driver, a fireman, a construction worker, and an early employee at Sun Microsystems. Sundman’s cult following has brought him world-wide acclaim. Now, however, he’s working at a startup. Tasked with managing softwa... |
Jawbone Releases Android UP App, Makes Wristband Available In European Apple Stores | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Jawbone today that its app for , the company’s movement-tracking wristband, is now available as a free download for Android on Google Play. The $129 UP was previously only compatible with iOS. The wristband can also now be purchased in European Apple stores, and will be made available in Asia and Australia next mont... |
China Telecom’s 4Q Earnings Boosted Above Analysts’ Estimates Thanks To iPhone Usage | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | China Telecom, the third-largest telecommunications company in that country, better-than-expected 4Q profit as customers using the iPhone helped boost sales of wireless data. Net earnings fell 17 percent to 2.36 billion yuan ($380 million USD) from 2.84 billion yuan a year earlier, but outperformed the 2.04 billion y... |
Amazon Launches ‘Send to Kindle’ Button For Web Developers & WordPress Blogs | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Amazon just , which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for and . The button is also now available on , , and . The , which Amazon with its Send to Kindle button for Google Chrome, is being positioned as an alternative to content-clipping services like Pocket and Instapaper, making it e... |
Survata, VidIQ, And Five Other Startups Take The Stage At Founders Den Demo Night | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | I’m at Demo Night, where seven startups are making their pitches to investors, press and other members of the tech community. As with most other demo events, these aren’t launches per se (we’ve covered most of the companies already), but it’s a good opportunity for us to highlight these startups and the fact that the... |
Google Embeds March Madness Bracket In Search, Because Screw Sports Sites | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Who wins basketball games is an immutable fact. No one owns that information, so why should some random sports sites get the windfall of traffic as millions of sports fan search Google for the NCAA March Madness bracket? In Google’s latest application of making the world’s information universally accessible, it’s now ... |
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Y Combinator-Backed Terascore Launches To Help Teachers Bring Testing Online | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Teachers and students have suffered through the same model of educational testing for years. Sure, the SAT has changed — it’s now out of a possible 2,400 points, not 1,600 — but both standardized testing and good old in-class quizzing are still in the dominion of paper and pencil. , a Y Combinator-backed startup that ... |
Groupon Puts Co-CEOs Lefkofsky And Leonsis On Combined Salary Of $410K; Holden Gets $500K Bonus For 2014 & ’15 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | As the last of the dust settles on the departure of founder/CEO Andrew Mason, the daily deals and local commerce service today with the SEC to detail how it would be compensating his interim co-CEO replacements Eric Lefkofsky and Ted Leonsis; and also giving a sweetener bonus to one of its key staff, Jeffrey Holden... |
The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 1: Controversy, Fear, And How To Fight It | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | There has been a about COO new book , which made its on March 11th. Many reporters, thought leaders and others have weighed in on the book and the being born out of it, especially from established women in Sandberg’s generation and above, and that’s been fascinating to watch. But we at TechCrunch wanted to... |
To Expand Into Seattle And Beyond, Postmates Has Raised $5 Million From Founders Fund And Others | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Mobile delivery startup is gearing up for expansion, and it’s raised a bit of funding to help it along the way. The company, which recently , has raised $5 million in new funding to aid in its expansion, TechCrunch has learned. Sources say the round was led by Founders Fund, with follow-on participation from angel i... |
SecPoint Will Allow You To Access The Secretive Silk Road Black Market From Any Browser | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Needs some pharmacologicals? Dirty deeds done dirt cheap? There’s an app (or website) for that. For years, the Silk Road has been a source for black market dealings. Hidden on the Tor network, is technically unreachable from the “normal” Internet without special secure software. Now, however, a few hackers who are at... |
Keyboard Cat Creator Nabs $200K On Kickstarter To Make A Geektastic Card Game | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Remember ? Of course you do. It’s pretty much the Citizen Kane of the YouTube generation. The meme’s creator*, Brad O’Farrel, has managed to raise $200K+ on Kickstarter for , a card game that sits somewhere between Cards Against Humanity and Dungeons & Dragons. In Story War, teams pit mythical creatures against each ... |
ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog , is leaving for a position at marketing software company . We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons’ departure for HubSpot was confirmed by a SAY Media spokesperson: Yes, Dan will be leaving his position as editor-in-chief of ReadWrite effecti... |
Departing Adobe CTO And Cloud Guru Kevin Lynch Joining Apple To Become VP Of Technology | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Now former , the company who famously blocked out Flash on the iPhone and likely precipitated that technology’s long slide into relative obscurity, Adobe has confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement. Lynch once wrote a , but lately his role has been all about ushering Adobe into the future, not dwelling on its past. Ly... |
biNu Opens Its Feature Phone Platform To Third Party Apps, Starting With Romance Publisher Harlequin | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | , a startup that brings apps and content to feature phones and lower-end smartphones, is announcing the first partner in its third-party platform. And that partner isn’t just another tech company — instead, biNu is working with the UK division of romance publisher Harlequin to offer 8,700 books, including the romance t... |
Art-Obsessed 4chan Founder Chris “moot” Poole Opens Up About His New App DrawQuest | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | After spending most of his life tackling the world of digital media, and founder has gone back to basics with a gamified iPad drawing app called . The idea is that you spend most of your childhood representing and expressing yourself through art, whether it be pictures or words or some combination. But after ... |
Adobe Loses CTO But Beats Q1 Estimates: $1.01B Revenue, $0.35 Non-GAAP EPS, 479K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Adobe just announced its , which generally beat analyst estimates. Overall revenue for the first quarter was $1.01 billion and GAAP earnings per share of $0.12 and non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35, ahead of the of $0.31 non-GAAP EPS on revenue of $986 million. Overall operating income was $240.7 million an... |
Halfway Through Its 100 Day Voyage, Checking In With The ‘Unreasonable At Sea’ Startup Ship | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Unreasonable At Sea’s around the world voyage Watch the video embedded above to hear Epstein talk about the perks of the journey so far, how the startup folks are mingling with the Semester At Sea students aboard the ship (and getting some work out of them too), what the biggest lessons and surprises have been so far... |
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