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MLB’s iBeacon Project Enters Phase Two With Interactive Ballpark Attractions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 10 | was among the first to on a wide scale, installing them in 28 MLB ballparks across the U.S. last year to help iPhone owners check-in to games automatically and collect special offers. Now, the project is entering phase two, with a debut project at this year’s All-Star Game at Target Field that uses combined with i... |
Online Clothing Resale Store Twice Rolls Out Same-Day Pickup With Twice Local | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 10 | Online fashion marketplace , which buys gently worn, quality women’s clothing from consumers then resells it via its own website, mobile and tablet applications, is today expanding into the offline world with the launch of a new service called . Following a similar trend among “push button services” that allow you to... |
Misfit Moves Further Away From Hardware And Into Platform Territory With New Beddit Integration | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 10 | The hardware wearable business is a tough gig, and today brings another reminder: Fitness and activity tracking startup has announced a new partnership with , a hardware maker that builds a smart sleep-monitoring system. The deal brings a co-branded device to Misfit’s lineup of offering, allowing the Misfit app to... |
Google, Microsoft, IBM And Others Collaborate To Make Managing Docker Containers Easier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 10 | It’s not often that you see this combination of backers, but today, , , , , , and all banded together to support for managing Docker containers. Docker containers are quickly becoming the go-to technology for building and running distributed applications. Every major cloud vendor has gotten behind the Docker... |
How Smart Lending Dumbed Down | Julia Kukiewicz | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | Between 2008 and 2010, was doing something mind-bendingly stupid: sending letters from fake law firms to borrowers behind on their loans. It sounds like a bad office prank. They even took the firm names from employees — except when you consider that they did it 45,000 times and that it will cost them £2.25 mill... |
How The Big 5 Publishers Hobbled The Amazon Unlimited Launch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | Unlimited was dubbed the of books. That is correct as long as you imagine a consisting of an endless array of low-budget indie releases and some major small-studio films. In truth, Amazon’s new features no books by , an issue on which has remained mum. I’ve asked Amazon for clarification but haven’t heard bac... |
Immersive Infections | Adam Kujawa | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | Using your imagination, put yourself on top of a tall mountain, watching the most beautiful sunset over the clouds, all while mounted on your trusty dragon. Now you’re on a spaceship, traveling at hyperspeed toward an unknown planet full of mystery and danger. Finally you’re sitting across the table from your spouse ... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want to Miss This Week | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | The week of 7/12 – 7/18 was a busy one for TechCrunch. Here’s the best of the best from this week. As a bonus, we also put together a gallery that features “ ” As it turns out, the average age of peak innovation is 40. Mark Zuckerberg and the other young superstars are the exception. 11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t W... |
We Can No Longer Unbundle Microsoft Office | Tom Limongello | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | It’s summertime, so we know there’s pressure to ‘unbundle’ ourselves from work as much as we can. Yet when something comes up, we are reminded of how little unbundled mobile apps offer in terms of productivity. Sure, ’s illustrates how 20 years of Internet history has brought innumerable benefits of software unbun... |
With 1M Sold In The Last Quarter, Google’s Chromebooks Are A Hit With Schools | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | During its earnings call this week, announced that it — and its partners — sold a million to schools in the last quarter. Overall PC sales worldwide were about , according to Gartner’s latest numbers, so a million sales just to the education market is a pretty good number. In the early days of Chrome OS, it ofte... |
Gillmor Gang: Yotifications | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Alexia Tsotsis, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — react with nervous jokes as all eyes turn to the success of Yo, the single-minded communication app that has one thing on its little mind. But wait a minute, what’s surreally going on here as BetaWorks’ John Borthwick lea... |
Supposed iPhone 6 Display Cover Faces The Sandpaper Test | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ANcWQEUI8&w=854&h=510] The leaked component that’s being touted as the front screen of the upcoming iPhone 6 got a good workout in a video test by regular MKBHD (Marques Brownlee) when it first broke cover, and now Brownlee is back with a new video that takes the durability ... |
The Most Important M’s In M-Commerce | Phil Carter | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | A few customer groups are driving a disproportionate share of growth in smartphone use and mobile transactions. For entrepreneurs looking to build the , it pays to understand who these groups are, what their mobile activity looks like, and how to best serve them. When it comes to finding customers in mobile commerce, ... |
Eigenmorality And The Dark Enlightenment | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | This is a post about good vs. evil and right vs. wrong, but don’t worry, it’s highly technical. Let’s start with Stormfront, the white-supremacist hate site that attracts circa 300,000 unique American visitors per month, and the recent of its members (and ) by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in the . Some numbers you prob... |
Blockchain Releases New Android Wallet App To Put Bitcoin Into Everyone’s Hands | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 7 | 19 | Popular bitcoin wallet provider is releasing a major new version of its , allowing you to store, receive and send bitcoins directly from your Android phone. The key thinking behind the update is to make bitcoin more accessible. It hides the complexity of the protocol in order to encourage mainstream user adoption. “... |
BMW Vs. Tesla: A Real Live Innovator’s Dilemma | Peter Yared | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | Jill Lepore genereated quite a fracas in Silicon Valley with her that questions disruptive innovation and posits that large incumbent companies often survive and subsume disruptive technology with small incremental gains. Fortunately, we have a live Petri dish: is an ongoing case study of a legacy manufacturer fa... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want to Miss This Week (7/25) | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | It was earnings week at TechCrunch, so most of the coverage was dominated by reports about Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and Pandora. Fortunately there were a ton of other great stories from our writers. Here are the top stories from 7/19 to 7/25 on TechCrunch. A few other notable stories that didn’t qui... |
Why A Stupid App Like Yo May Have Billion-Dollar Platform Potential | Sangeet Paul Choudary | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | Yo! Is tech turning too stupid for its own good? Attempts at building better healthcare systems do not get the kind of investor interest that a new app called Yo seems to be getting. While the whole world was deriding (and downloading) Yo, the company quietly (well, not quite so quietly) raised further funding at a $... |
Startups Are Finally Hacking Healthcare | Tim Chang | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | New companies are going around the traditional “front door” of FDA approval, insurers and healthcare institutions by launching ‘Healthcare 2.0’ companies that target consumers and self-insured employers, upending the health sector through the use of innovative digital and social technologies. At a recent forum we hos... |
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Hacking In The 80’s, Your Summer Movie Guide | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | We learn the best way to win the system in WarGames is to never let Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy start hacking in the first place, Ferris Bueller’s parents should have just bought him a car, not a computer (he hacks into the schools’ mainframe and erases the number of days he’s been absent), and that it’s way more... |
The First Trillion-Dollar Startup | Rhett Morris | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | In 1957, eight entrepreneurs decided to do something that seemed crazy. They launched a new tech company called in a small town south of San Francisco. The entrepreneurs had a difficult start, but Fairchild eventually became the first major computer chip company in the region. Although many people are familiar with ... |
How Informed Consent Has Failed | Mary DeRosa | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | The quote above from Chief Justice Roberts in has implications far beyond the holding of that case. In rejecting the government’s strained analogies to wallets and address books, the Chief Justice recognized that technology has fundamentally changed things. Smartphones are and the law can no longer ignore that diffe... |
How To Save Books | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was a time of triumph, it was a time of disaster, it was the publishing industry in 2014, just after mighty fired a new salvo in its by its $10/month Kindle Unlimited book subscription service. At first glance this might have seemed and … Looking throug... |
A Microsoft Surface Revenue Bet | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | After the , I tweeted that I thought it would do pretty well in the market. I should have clarified that I meant that in the context of prior Surface sales, but I can’t edit tweets after the fact, so here we are. Valleywag’s didn’t agree, and so we made a friendly wager on the matter. https://twitter.com/alex/status... |
Ambi Climate Wants To Make Summers In Asia More Bearable | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Created by a Hong Kong startup, is the latest entrant in the smart air conditioner market. The smartphone-controlled device is designed to work with split-unit air conditioners that have an infrared sensor and use machine learning to keep your home at a comfortable temperature while reducing energy consumption. Ambi ... |
Airbnb Drops Homejoy From Cleaning Trial, Handybook Remains On In Three Test Markets | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Earlier this year, began testing for hosts that would be offered at a slight discount to traditional maid services they’d book themselves. The idea was to improve the quality of the guest experience while offering a perk to hosts who frequently make their homes available to strangers. On the flip side, it had the p... |
Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi Raises $40M Series D To Expand In Asia, Latin America | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 7 | 26 | , Rocket Internet’s taxi calling app, announced today that it has raised a Series D round of $40 million, led by with participation from , the investment arm of German retail giant Tengelmann Group. This brings Easy Taxi’s total as Rocket Internet seeks to establish Easy Taxi’s presence in emerging markets and def... |
Microsoft Open Tech Brings Support For More Open-Source Projects To Azure | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | At O’Reilly’s in Portland, Ore., today, Microsoft’s subsidiary two new partnerships that bring support for more open source technologies to the Microsoft Azure platform. Developers will now be able to use Azure with , for example, a service for creating machine images for multiple platforms from one source config... |
How Monsieur Shook Up Disrupt SF With Its Bartending Robot | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | And we’re back with episode two of our video series, which shows the good, the bad, and the ugly moments startups go through when competing in the Disrupt competition. After enduring a few too many run-ins with the slow service at Applebee’s, the founders of set out to shake up the bartending industry. In case ... |
Fly Or Die: LG G Watch | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Like anything in this world, the has its pros and its cons. It’s LG’s first venture into smartwatch territory, meaning that the company is just now figuring out its design aesthetic in the space. That said, it looks and feels surprisingly nice, with options for both black and gold. The G Watch also has pretty solid... |
World Cup Provides A Boost To Netflix Due To Smart TV Adoption In Latin America | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | It might seem counter-intuitive, but will probably get a boost from the viewership of live sports — at least in Latin America. That’s because, in preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, a large number of consumers in the region upgraded their TVs to Internet-connected sets that can access its on-demand streaming ser... |
Another Screen Shot Of The Upcoming Windows Start Menu Leaks | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Another week, another leak. Today we have a new, of the upcoming return of the Start Menu to . I won’t bore you; here it is: For reference, here’s the — keep in mind the design similarity and implied customizability of the Menu: And finally, what Microsoft showed off at Build: It appears that leaks are pointing in... |
Watch iOS 8’s Latest Beta Transcribe Voice To Text In Near-Real Time | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av0ysFyXAlY&w=640&h=390] Apple’s iOS 8 beta 4 just hit the interwebs today, and among the new features found therein, there’s a cool new visualization of the iOS dictation feature (seen in the video above) that shows your words being transcribed almost in real-time as you say ... |
Microsoft Starts Pre-Orders For The Surface Pro 3 Docking Station | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | revealed its Surface Pro 3 earlier this year, and now there’s a new accessory up for sale, following the official shipping launch of the new Surface last month. The new gadget is a , which provides a host of external input and output ports for the Surface Pro 3, including three USB 3.0 ports, a 10/100/1000 Gigabit Eth... |
Netflix Passes 50M Subscribers As It Reports Better Than Expected Q2 Revenue Of $1.34B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | This afternoon following the closing bell, announced the financial results of its second quarter, including revenue of $1.34 billion and earnings per share of $1.15. Analysts had expected Netflix to report $1.33 billion in revenue and $1.16 per share in earnings. The company, which traded up around 1.7% during regula... |
An iPad App To Make All Your Selfies Go 3D | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Itseez3D, the first app to partner with computer vision technology company , can turn any picture you take with your iOS camera into a 3D object. Naturally, of the good sir : And I was convinced to get as well:
The app works by mounting the Structure Sensor to an iPad and then roving the camera eye every which... |
Facebook’s $2 Billion Acquisition Of Oculus Closes, Now Official | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | now owns . The of the virtual reality pioneer announced in March has been approved by regulators and today become official. The FCC’s anti-trust team greenlighted the deal in April. Now it has passed the California Department Of Corporations fairness hearing and will go into effect. The exact price of the acquisitio... |
The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Though the app stores continue to fill up with ever more mobile applications, the reality is that most of these are not sustainable businesses. According to a new report out this morning, half (50%) of iOS developers and even more (64%) Android developers are operating below the “app poverty line” of $500 per app per m... |
RadiumOne Issues Not-Quite-Apology For Ousting CEO Who Pled Guilty To Domestic Violence | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Ad platform RadiumOne and its former CEO have issued a that is intended to “bring an end to all disputes they have had.” RadiumOne in April following media criticism of his of misdemeanor battery and domestic violence battery. “The Board did not intend to hurt Gurbaksh,” the statement reads. The words “sorry” o... |
Latest iOS 8 Beta Update Includes Tips, An App That Shows Features You Might Miss | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Announced , iOS 8 slightly refines the look debuted last year while adding a bunch of new features like the ability to interact with notifications, smoothly transition between working on your phone and laptop, and new ways to message people. Since its announcement, Apple has steadily rolled out these new features and ... |
Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, reporting 450 million monthly active users and search and display mobile ad revenues growing 100%. In CEO Marissa Mayer’s words, Yahoo is a “mobile first company.” Now, sources say that Yahoo has closed in on an acquisition that could potentially boost its ... |
Tango Luring Developers To Its Platform With New $25 Million Global Games Fund | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | Months after raising more than , is looking to stand out in the messaging app space by built on its network and even make investments in exceptional developers. This comes a bit more more than a year after to third-party game developers with the release of its software development kit. At the time, the company s... |
Watch Two Teams Of Gamers Compete For $6.5M Right Now | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 21 | It’s Monday which means you, my friend, deserve a break. As it turns out, today is the final day of , a Dota 2 — that’s a video game, in case you are quite behind — tournament that has a total prize pool of more than $10 million. The finals, which are live right now, will divvy up to the two winning teams. Whichever... |
General Harmonics Is Basically Pied Piper From “Silicon Valley” | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | is a small startup from Canada that’s looking to revolutionize the way we stream media. And rather than risk sounding like I’m writing some kind of self-parody, I’ll be blunt about it: they’re basically Pied Piper from HBO’s Silicon Valley, only with a few decades more experience and technology that’s way farther alon... |
4 MusicTech Insights From Wall Street Journal Writer Taylor Swift | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | When millions of people point camera-phones at you while you sing, you learn a thing about music and technology. You could laugh at pop starlet Taylor Swift for her fluffy teddy bear of a column in the today, or chide the WSJ for printing it, but there are some poignant nuggets of knowledge in there. Swift (and her g... |
Airbnb Showdown On San Francisco’s November Ballot Averted For The Time Being | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | It looks like Airbnb is going to get a reprieve on facing a huge regulatory showdown on November’s ballot in San Francisco. A former planning commissioner and affordable housing activists that would have clarified rules on short-term rentals throughout the city. It would have been far stricter than a set of rules sup... |
TubeMogul Wants To Go Public For $11-$13 Per Share, Raising Up To $93.4M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | When TubeMogul , it indicated that it would offer up to $75 million of its shares for sale. That figure was soft. Today, TubeMogul — $11 to $13 per unit — meaning that it could sell up to $93.4 million of its stock in the flotation. The company’s revenue has grown quickly, as had its losses until recently. It record... |
Seeing Opportunities In The US, itBit Relocates To NYC, Names New CEO | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | As the local governments across the U.S. begin taking the first steps to embrace bitcoin, startups like are working feverishly to stake their claims. The company, which raised to launch a bitcoin exchange for institutional investors, is relocating from its current base in Singapore to New York in order to get in on ... |
BlackBerry Explains The Passport, Its Square Tablet… Phone Thing | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | BlackBerry previously gave us a sneak peek at a device that’s as category-busting as the revolutionary Padfone, called the Passport. I expressed my regarding the wisdom of the design decisions made in creating this 4.5-inch square thing with a hardware keyboard then. But now it’s BlackBerry’s turn behind the Passpor... |
The Privacy Implications Of NSA Searches Should Not Be Minimized | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | The Obama administration on Sunday attempted to downplay the about the NSA’s broad data sweeps under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA). In response, officials that “the agency routinely filters out the communications of Americans and information that is of no intelligence value.” The admini... |
Box’s Q1 Revenue Nearly Doubles As Its Losses Expand A More Modest 13% | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | This afternoon, Box pulled the trigger on its , detailing its fiscal first quarter financial performance. For the three-month period, Box had revenue of $45.3 million, and a loss of $38.5 million. The revenue figure is up 93.6 percent, and the loss total is up a more modest 13 percent. So Box managed to nearly double ... |
Keith Rabois’ Homebuying Startup OpenDoor Raises $9.95M From Everyone | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | Well. It seems like a lot of Valley investors want to see the process of buying homes become a lot more efficient. After Khosla Ventures VC and to make buying homes as simple as clicking a few buttons, a horde of Valley angels and VCs started circling. The company, now called , just closed $9.95 million in what appe... |
Compromise Will Shape The Wearables Market | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | Just as fitness apps and wearables are , the is giving consumers their first maybe-viable smartwatches. In the coming months and years, this new category will force consumers to make a similar decision as that between Microsoft’s unified approach to operating systems and Apple’s intentional divergence of iOS and Mac ... |
Facebook Tries Being A TV Channel With New Mobile Video Player | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | If you watch one of a friend’s videos, Facebook will now try to get you to watch more with a new carousel of suggested videos that appears after you view one in the mobile News Feed. Reminiscent of YouTube’s Related Videos, Facebook confirms the existence of this fresh laidback experience in Facebook for iOS that I spo... |
Isis Mobile Wallet Rebrands To Distance Itself From Militant Group ISIS | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | , the mobile wallet platform backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon here in the U.S., has decided to rebrand after its name became synonymous with “ ,” an Islamic militant group linked to sectarian violence against civilians and government forces in Iraq and Syria, the company is announcing today. That the two organizati... |
Microsoft Brings Yammer To More Office 365 Plans For Free | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | Microsoft is to more of its Office 365 SKUs, making the latter a more tempting offer. Educational and medium-business packages of Office 365 now come with Yammer. Microsoft added the social product to enterprise Office 365 SKUs late last year. Office 365 is Microsoft’s answer to the modern software world. Office, lon... |
Box Picks Up $150M More As It Waits For Favorable IPO Winds | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | Box, a file-storage and management firm, has raised another $150 million from TPG and Coatue, . The company had , making its total funding in excess of $550 million. TechCrunch has confirmed the amount through a source. Previously, Box , with its S-1 document detailing rapid revenue growth. Its top line expanded fro... |
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Germany Unhappy With U.S. Over Allegations Of A Double Agent Assisting In Continued Spying | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | The U.S. got caught to spy on the German group created to investigate the U.S.’s spying on Germany — at least according to the most recent crop of embarrassing allegations into the . And German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not pleased. Earlier today in China, the chancellor that if the allegations prove true, they ... |
3D Camera Startup Matterport Raises $16 Million Series B Led By DCM | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | 3D camera marker wants to give customers the tools they need to make photo-realistic models of real-world spaces. And to do so, the company has raised a new $16 million round of financing. The funding was led by DCM, with AME Cloud Ventures also participating. Other investors include Lux Capital, Felicis Ventures, ... |
Blek Comes To Android, And I Get Stuck On Level 23 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | Earlier this year, iOS game Blek drew critical cheers and enthusiastic reviews from gamers. Android fans who watched from the sidelines but haven’t yet actually Blekked can now . The game uses a curious drawing mechanic as its only moving part basically, allowing the player to sketch a line with their finger that then... |
Mac OS X Gets The Dark Theme We’ve All Been Waiting For In Yosemite Preview 3 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | Apple’s desktop operating system got a little more fashionable with the new seeded to developers today. The update, which can be installed by registered developers who have the existing preview version on their machines through the Mac App Store, lets users enable Dark Mode, a highly coveted feature that impressed wh... |
Aereo, The Company Without A Plan B, Finds A Plan C | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | When was and , it seemed as if the TV streaming service was out of options. But on Wednesday, Aereo lawyers indicating that the company now considers itself a cable provider. It now believes that it should not have to stop its services because, if it can obtain a license, it is entitled to the same protections u... |
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Meetups: London, July 11 And Berlin, July 17 | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 7 | European startups! , our stupendous conference, is coming to London in October. To tell you all more about it, we’re taking TechCrunch on the road this summer. For starters, we’re having some big TechCrunch Meetups this Friday at , July 11, and Thursday, July 17. In Berlin we are partnering with the excellent a... |
Finally, A Way To Find Movies Worth Watching On Netflix | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | is like the candy dish at your grandmother’s house. Most of the movies are crap, but you know, buried somewhere in there, is something worth your time. is a site dedicated to finding the Werther’s Originals in Netflix based on ratings. It’s simple enough: Set the filter to exclude movies rated under a certain amou... |
US Gov Declassifies 3 FISA Court Orders Commanding The Collection Of Telephone Metadata | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | Today on the , the United States government three declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) primary orders regarding the controversial telephony metadata program that collects information about the phone calls placed by Americans. ( , , .) The telephony metadata program, revealed last year in the... |
Fuel-Cell Cars Are Going To Get A Big Boost In California Next Year | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | We , but thanks to investments from the and Toyota, we’ll have something just as futuristic: the makings of a functioning hydrogen economy in California. That month, will open 19 new hydrogen fueling stations in the state of California with $27.2 million in grant funding from the and a $7.2 million loan from . ... |
HotelQuickly Raises $4.5 Million To Double-Down On Last Minute Hotel Booking In Asia-Pacific | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | Last-minute hotel booking app — whose founding team includes two ex-Rocket Internet executives — has raised a further $4.5 million in funding as it doubles-down on the Asia-Pacific market — and, perhaps in the longer-term, keep San Francisco-based and heavily funded at bay when and if it enters the region. The Seri... |
Lyft Will Move Ahead With NYC Launch Despite Regulatory Pushback | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | On-demand ride-sharing startup will move ahead with its this Friday, despite warnings from the local taxi regulator that its service is not authorized to operate in the city. Two days before launch, is already facing regulatory hurdles in New York, as the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission has said the company ... |
Twitterball | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | In the old days of — at least ‘old’ by Silicon Valley 2.0 standards, which is anything over five years — you could count on a couple of things. First, Twitter would go down almost every time people started really seriously using it. There’s a reason ‘fail whale’ is still part of our vocabulary. The second is that eve... |
Forget “OK Glass,” MindRDR Is A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | has made a name for itself (somewhat ) as head-mounted hardware that you can control with your voice and a sliding finger. Now, a team based out of interactive studio in London, is launching a new app that it hopes will kickstart an even more seamless way of interacting with the device: with the power of your mind.... |
mNectar Raises $7M For New Kinds Of Mobile Ads That Let People Test-Drive Apps | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | First, there were teeny mobile banner ads pioneered by companies like , which Google bought for $750 million. Then there were full-screen interstitial ads. Those gave way to mobile video ads and then Facebook’s behemoth of a targeted mobile ad network. So what’s next in mobile advertising? A company called is bettin... |
Homestar Runner Will Return! | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | The system… is down.
The system… is down.
The system… is no longer down? Back in April, Homestar Runner . It was the tiniest of updates and the site went quiet again shortly thereafter, but the Internet’s collective 90s kid heart still jumped for joy. Was this a dry run? Were they playing with the idea of bringing H... |
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Bitcoin Foundation Hires Lobbying Group To Take The Cryptocurrency To Washington | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | Today the Bitcoin Foundation that it has retained a lobbying group to press its interests in the nations capital. The selected firm, Thorsen French Advocacy, will “introduce Bitcoin and the foundation to Capitol Hill offices,” according to the foundation. Consider it a sign of the times. Lobbying and political activi... |
Leaked Documents Show How Yelp Thinks It’s Getting Screwed By Google | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | Documents leaked to TechCrunch from inside allege that Google is manipulating its search results to favor content over Yelp content. The materials accuse of blatantly highlighting its own products in searches made in the US but not in Europe in order to avoid angering EU regulators who are reviewing Google antitr... |
Connected TV Market Crosses 1B Devices As Google Pins Its Hopes On Android TV | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | A new report from puts the global market for connected TV devices at over 1 billion currently installed units, which include smart TVs, set-top boxes like the , game consoles, connected Blu-ray players and more. The market is predicted to double in size between now and 2018, reaching the 2 billion mark, with smart T... |
Advocacy Groups, Lawmakers Condemn NSA Surveillance Of Muslim-Americans | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | Response to a detailing surveillance of Muslim-Americans by the U.S. government has been swift and negative, with condemnation piling up from privacy and religious organizations alike. Delivering on a long-held promise, journalist today the names of five prominent Muslim-Americans who were under governmental surv... |
Googler, And Former DARPA Director, Regina Dugan Joins Zynga’s Board Of Directors | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | is announcing a new addition to its board of directors — , vice president of engineering and head of the Advanced Technology and Projects group at Google. In a memo sent to the company’s employees, CEO said Dugan will be “a true catalyst for creative thinking at Zynga.” As , Dugan’s team is working on projects lik... |
Tinder’s Sean Rad To Join Us At Disrupt SF 2014 | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | , the co-inventor of the hottest dating game in the land, will be joining us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 to chat about the success of and its plans for monetization. Tinder is also currently the subject of served by its former VP of Marketing , which we have The app in its present iteration has been arou... |
Android Wear Needs To Be More Thoughtful About Bugging You | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | Upon picking up the from Google’s I/O developer event recently, I immediately thought that I’d be making a permanent switch from the , my current watch. It’s thinner, has a step counter, and a sensor for getting your resting heart rate — not quite as advanced as what the Basis is packing, but I’m not a fitness nut. ... |
Ultratext Is A Simple GIF-Making App That Works With iMessage | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | There’s nothing more obnoxious than texting someone who doesn’t respond (at least somewhat) promptly. And their excuse? “ Ha, no more, my so-called friends, no more! A new app called will help get their attention by letting you easily create colorful, flashing GIF messages you can quickly send via iMessage. The app ... |
PayPal Makes Good On Its Braintree Acquisition With Launch Of New Developer Tools, The Braintree v.zero SDK | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 9 | Payments gateway is making its first significant product announcement since its by last year, with the launch of a jointly developed Braintree SDK (software development kit) for developers. The new toolset is being called the “Braintree v.zero SDK” to indicate how it’s been rebuilt from the ground up, and is said ... |
Ezeecube Is A Stackable, All Inclusive Media Center For Your Home | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | wants to be the all-in-one media hub for your home. You can use it to wirelessly back up photos and other files from all your mobile devices and cameras, while removing duplicates and organizing with its photo management software. It also functions as a home media cloud so you can access your files anywhere, while str... |
Crave’s Vesper Is A Vibrator That Hides In Plain Sight | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | In a market filled with , stands out by making vibrators that are not only elegant and discreet, but also multifunctional. For example, , the first vibe it produced, charges through USB and can also be used as a thumb drive. Now , which , has released its newest product, , a small vibrator that also doubles as a ... |
Y Combinator-Backed ListRunner Eliminates Hospital Paperwork | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | A majority of a doctor’s time is spent jotting down notes about a patient for the next doctor on duty over and over again with a pen and paper, according to . His new Y Combinator-backed startup, , promises to eliminate this paperwork with a mobile app. You’d think this problem would have already been solved with mo... |
Alibaba Invests $120M In Kabam At A Valuation Above $1B | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | Chinese conglomerate is making another big investment in an American startup. The that the company is investing $120 million in mobile game developer Kabam, best known for such games as and for buying the COO confirmed to me today the $120 million figure and that the investment brought Kabam’s valuation above... |
Strengthened Senate NSA Reform Measure Is ‘A Good First Step’ | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | Earlier this week, Sen. Patrick Leahy introduced a strengthened version of the to praise from tech companies, privacy groups and editorial board. As that initial applause settled, Rep. Zoe Lofgren argued on Thursday that the legislation would only rein in parts of the nation’s intelligence apparatus. The Congresswo... |
Free, France’s T-Mobile, Wants To Acquire T-Mobile For $15 Billion | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | France’s , Free, just announced that it wanted to acquire T-Mobile US. The WSJ first the story. Free then confirmed the bid in a . was already in talks with for a potential acquisition. Now, Free (also known as Iliad) is offering $15 billion in cash for 56.6 percent of the American company at $33 per share. Over... |
eBay Reports More Diverse Staff Than Other Tech Companies | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | eBay maintains one of the highest rates of gender diversity in the tech industry — 42 percent of its total employees are female. Women make up 24 percent of the company’s tech employees. Although this may seem like a relatively low number when considering women make up almost 50 percent of the company’s non-tech emplo... |
GoPro Falls 8% After Reporting Stronger-Than-Expected Q2 Revenue Of $244.6M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | Today marked GoPro’s as a public company. The camera firm traded up more than 3.5 percent in regular hours before its release. GoPro had roughly doubled from its IPO price of $24 heading into reporting its second-quarter financial results. For the second quarter, had revenue of $244.6 million, up 38.1 percent year-... |
Amazon’s Android App Store Opens Up Shop In Egypt, Singapore And 39 Other Countries | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | If you’re thinking about launching your Android app on Amazon’s App Store, your potential market just got quite a bit bigger. This morning, Amazon is rolling out their App Store in 41 new places, bumping the grand total up to 236 countries and territories. At this point, it’s getting tough to think of a region where Am... |
.@HiddenCash Revealed: Making Generosity Go Viral | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | , and you’ll make someone’s day. Teach someone to give, and they’ll make a difference for a lifetime.The anonymous duo behind the didn’t quite realize that was the point when they started hiding envelopes of money and tweeting clues to their locations. With over 700,000 Twitter followers, they’ve become de facto lead... |
Meet EVO, San Francisco’s Answer To The Ultimate Urban Utility Bike | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | Every couple of years, the launches a contest designed to surface new ideas in bike design from teams across the country. The project this year has tasked designers from five cities to build what they believe is the “ultimate urban utility bike.” into the contest is EVO, a collaboration between , 4130 Cycle Works... |
LinkedIn Launches A Standalone Sales Navigator To Help Users With “Social Selling” | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | is fleshing out its tools for salespeople today with a new version of its Sales Navigator. The biggest difference — the Sales Navigator is now a standalone product rather than an additional set of features on the main LinkedIn site. Vice President of Sales Solution and Group Product Manager walked me through the ne... |
Facebook Slingshot’s First Update Makes It Conversational With Reactions To Reactions | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | Facebook’s standalone photosharing app is sidestepping its core mechanic by letting people send that are instantly viewable, thanks to its first update for and that just went out. This solves Slingshot’s biggest problem: the inability to carry on a normal conversation. Finding friends is easier now too thanks... |
LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q2 On Sales Of $534M, EPS Of $0.51 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | With social networks and handily beating analyst estimates for Q2 earnings, today and showed that rising tides are lifting its boat, too. Revenue for the second quarter was $534 million and its EPS (non-GAAP diluted) was $0.51 as the company also raised its guidance for Q3 and the full year. The company’s is ... |
Tesla Beats In Q2 With Non-GAAP Revenue Of $858M On Delivery Of 7,579 Cars | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | just its second-quarter financial results, including non-GAAP revenue of $858 million, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.11. That non-GAAP revenue figure is up 55 percent from the year-ago period. The company delivered 7,579 cars in the quarter, and built 8,763. Tesla indicated that it is “on track” to deliver m... |
Play Chef With Forage’s Twist On Restaurant Delivery | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 31 | San Francisco is a great town for foodies and , the brainchild of founders and has emerged as an option for those who want to cook their favorite restaurant dishes at home. The service, which launches today, gathers all the ingredients used in selected restaurant recipes and hand-delivers them right to your door... |
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