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Microsoft Says It Isn’t Abandoning Xbox Music, Promises It Will Suck Less Shortly | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | During , CEO indicated that his company would “streamline” its work in music and video. That was in some cases to imply that was walking away from Xbox Music, its beleaguered competitor. Not so, it turns out. Today Microsoft’s tweeted that Xbox Music was not dead, and that the company will release an update ... |
The Server Needs To Die To Save The Internet | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | the Internet we deserve? There’s an argument to say that yes, we absolutely do. Given web users’ general reluctance to pay for content. We are of course, . Just not with cold hard cash, but with our privacy — as digital business models rely on gathering and selling intel on their users to make the money to pay (the i... |
Microsoft Parodies “I’m Sexy And I Know It” And It’s The Worst | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | The OneNote team has been active lately, across all platforms, and hosting a that included an . Then they decided to reach. Small tip: If you are technology team in any capacity, either a , , or a software development team, leave the and the . Otherwise you end up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf... |
Twitter’s Diversity Report Is More Of The Same | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | on Wednesday afternoon after mounting pressure from civil rights groups — and they’re pretty bad if you’re not a white or Asian guy. Overall, Twitter’s employees are 70 percent male and 30 percent female. However when you look specifically at employees in tech, the gender gap grows, and 90 percent are male. (Source:... |
Facebook Share Price Hits All-Time High Of $75 After Hours Thanks To Strong Q2 Numbers | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | stock infamously took a in the months following its public debut after analysts wondered if the social network was too overhyped in its IPO and employee share lockups expired. But those days now seem a distant memory. On the back of a strong Q2 report, Facebook stock is at an all-time high in after-hours trading. ... |
Facebook Says Messenger And Payments Will Eventually “Overlap” But Don’t Hold Your Breath | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | Facebook does plan to , but it’s going to take its time to do it right. Regarding Messenger, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on that “over time there will be some overlap between that and payments”. He stressed that “The payments piece will be a part of what will help drive the overall success and help people share with ... |
American Users Spend An Average Of 40 Minutes Per Day On Facebook | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | American users spend way more time on the social network than exercising. Mark Zuckerberg said today on call that “people on Facebook in the US spend around 40 minutes each day using our service”, while the CDC recommends Americans exercise 21 minutes a day but only 20% of people meet that goal. Zuckerberg said tha... |
Hands On With The Production Version Of The Myo Gesture Control Armband | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | is a Waterloo-based startup with a very ambitious goal – to change the way we interact with our everyday computing devices. To that end, they’ve developed the , a gesture control device that fits around the meaty part of your forearm and detects slight muscle movements, arm rotations and even electrical impulses as... |
Tech Leaders Tell Interns What They Wish They Knew At Age 20 | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | Hundreds of Bay Area interns lined up on Tuesday to hear some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley share what they wished they knew when they were 20 at a recruiting event called . co-founder , co-founder , co-founder , early PayPal and investor , co-founder , VP of Engineering and founder were ... |
Facebook Sets Revenue Per User Records Around The World In Q2 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | just turned in a , with its revenue and earnings per share both beating analyst expectations. The company reported sequential-quarter user figures that were soft, but Facebook’s stock is now in the green after-hours. Driving its strong financial performance in the period was high average revenue per user, or ARPU. Fa... |
New Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Prepares To Take The Helm | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | It’s been a whirlwind few months for . It began as executive and head of products at SAP at the beginning of May and it has continued as he prepares to take the helm at on August 1st. When I spoke to him at the end of May, , he seemed at peace with his decision to leave in spite of the abrupt way that it happen... |
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Facebook Beats In Q2 With $2.91 Billion In Revenue, 62% Of Ad Revenue From Mobile, 1.32B Users | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | earnings beat projections for the 8th quarter straight with $2.91B in revenue and $0.42EPS . The service is growing about twice as fast on mobile compared to its services as a whole. Facebook now has 1.07 billion mobile monthly users, and 654 million daily mobile users. That helped it bring in 62% of its ad revenue f... |
Uber Releases Windows Phone App, Dozens Of Seattle Users Rejoice | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | is pretty much everywhere these days, as its on-demand ride service is available in more than 150 cities in 40 countries around the world. But until today, there was one place you couldn’t find Uber — in the . The four-year old startup has , succumbing to the platform boredom that comes when you’re already on device... |
The Amazon Fire Phone Is A Shopper’s Delight But Not Much Else | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | For the better part of a decade, Amazon has been rolling out e-readers, tablets, and a box that you hook up to your TV while building up a library of content available on all of them. Now they’re hoping they can replace the device you always have on you and spend the most time on: your smartphone. It’s a bold move. At ... |
Kumo Is Raising $50 Million To Break The TV Bundle | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | Despite , the hope of disrupting the TV industry is still alive in the tech world. A new startup led by is in the process of raising $50 million to fill that void. The startup is called , and it’s still in stealth, so details are limited. However, a source very close to the matter told TechCrunch that Kumo hopes to... |
Thiel Fellow’s Elegant Sleep Tracker, Sense, Crushes Kickstarter With $120K In A Few Hours | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 23 | James Proud, a former Thiel fellow, who co-founded the company behind The Sense at his Potrero Hill headquarters. When I first took a look at Sense, a smart sleep sensor , it reminded me of two things. and Google’s old, discontinued Nexus Q product. “Those are two of my favorite things,” said , a former who went ... |
There’s No Crying In Inside Baseball | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | Many of you have likely read in a series of profiles of Kara Swisher, the grizzled WSJ reporter who struck out with Walt Mossberg to found . If you haven’t, you should, because it’s pretty good. Swisher is an amazing reporter, and someone who I personally respect a great deal. Featured in the story is a panel from t... |
Sean Parker Provides Bulk of Funding To Pro-Parking, Pro-Car Ballot Initiative in SF | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | The tech industry’s political orientation around transit is decidedly incoherent. On the one hand, you have that could in dense, urban environments. Then you have scores of small startups like , , , and that are creating for-profit routes or shared rides around the Bay Area at hours when local public train s... |
Samsung In Talks To Scoop Up SmartThings For Around $200 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | Google has , Apple has HomeKit and Samsung has… , we’re hearing. The deal was completed for around $200 million dollars, though it might have been less according to one source. (Update: The deal is not done yet, says another.) : SmartThings has been . is in the , and allows you to connect devices like lights and do... |
Tesla’s $35,000 Car Will Be Called The Model 3 | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | At one point, third car — the one they’re trying to get to the market for around $35,000 — was called the Model E. Then Ford , given that they’ve got (and a trademark or two) for cars with a similar name. So Tesla is changing it up. Their third generation car will be called, appropriately, the Model 3. (Which, if ... |
Sling Media Introduces $150 Slingbox M1 Box, Upgraded SlingTV UI, And A Desktop App | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | is one of those companies that every now and then you forget about, but they just keep chugging along and occasionally putting out new products. Founded a full decade ago, the company is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of cable and satellite vendor , and yet it’s still building new stuff to get its user base excited. T... |
The $5 Million Cooler | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | Forget potato salads. There’s a new Kickstarter superstar: . It’s just a cooler yet so much more. It already has over $5 million in funding on Kickstarter with 45 days left on its campaign and is about to break into top 5 most-funded projects. It’s just the coolest! Excuse the infomercial talk, but this thing has ev... |
Reddit, Privacy Groups Call On Obama To Reject Cybersecurity Bill | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | A coalition of 30 companies and privacy groups, including and search engine , on Tuesday demanded that . The bill has come under fire for its loose limits on sharing information about cyber threats without properly filtering personal information from it among government agencies, including the (NSA). The controve... |
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Says Disappointing Earnings Were Just A “Short-Term Setback” | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | After , CEO spent a good portion of today’s analyst call making the case that she can still turn the company around. Mayer said that Yahoo was “not satisfied with our results this quarter.” However, she also argued that “a transformation of this size and scale will take multiple years,” and that this was just “a s... |
It’s Hardware Alley Time! | John Biggs | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | It’s Hardware Alleyin’ time and we want to see you in San Francisco for Disrupt SF 2014, our annual celebration of all things startup. It’s a great time. You get to meet great funders and VCs, and I’d love to meet you. Hardware is my favorite thing in the world and you’re some of my favorite people. What is ? It’s a c... |
3 Years Later, Google+ Drops Its Dumb Real Name Rule And Apologizes | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | Since launched, many have complained about the service’s requirement that users use their real names. Complaints grew ever louder once started pushing users to use Google+ for YouTube comments. Don’t like your legal name? Using another name for safety or personal reasons? Just don’t want the Internet at large knowin... |
Adobe Partners With Google To Release Open-Source Font For Chinese, Japanese And Korean Languages | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | and today announced the launch of a new open-source font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages that covers 65,535 glyphs, making it one — if not — largest font to cover these languages. The font, which was optimized for both print and screen, is now available for free through Google Fonts and through Ad... |
Intel Rises 4% After Reporting Q2 Results, Including Better-Than-Expected Revenue Of $13.8B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | Intel’s came in above , with the chip company reporting revenue of $13.8 billion, and earnings per share of $0.55. The street had expected to earn $.52 on revenue of $13.69 billion. Intel had previously to $13.7 billion, with a margin of error of up to $300 million. It met that mark. What drove the quarter for t... |
Tim Draper’s Ballot Initiative To Split California Into Six States Moves Forward With 1.3M Signatures | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | announces the turn-in of 1.3 million signatures. 2016 here we come! — Six Californias (@SixCalifornias) Venture capitalist said he’s submitted the 1.3 million signatures to get an initiative on the ballot in 2016 that would split California into six separate states. Draper’s argument is that California state govern... |
Apple Teams Up With IBM For Huge, Expansive Enterprise Push | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | has announced a strategic partnership with that will see the enterprise giant transfer over 150 of their enterprise and IT apps and tools to Apple platforms natively, and will also have IBM selling Apple iPhones and iPads to its business clients all over the world. In an interview with , Apple CEO and IBM CEO bo... |
Yahoo Gets To Keep More Of Its Stake In Alibaba | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | As part of , Yahoo revealed that Alibaba is allowing it to keep a greater portion of its stake when it issues its initial public offering. Yahoo will be required to sell 140 million shares in the Chinese e-commerce company, compared to the That previous deal was already a huge win for Yahoo, as it brought the number ... |
Ex-Ford CEO Alan Mulally Joins Google’s Board Of Directors | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | That didn’t take long. Former President CEO has found a new parking spot at after just retiring from Ford Motor Company earlier this month. Google has just announced the appointment of to its Board of Directors and will serve on Google’s Audit Committee. His appointment was effective July 9, 2014. Mulally joins G... |
VCs Find Fertile Ground In Women’s Health | Christine Magee | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors , but they’re fully attuned to the women’s health market. Mobile health apps have become increasingly popular as consumers seek to monitor every aspect of their lives through their mobile devices. In the past few quarters, apps targeting women’s health are topping the charts ... |
Yahoo Misses In Q2 With Revenue Of $1.04B, EPS Of $0.37 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | Today after the bell, its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue (excluding traffic acquisition costs, or TAC) of $1.04 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.37. Revenue including TAC was $1.08. Analysts had expected the company to earn $0.38 on revenue of ex-TAC of $1.08 billion. , which s... |
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Harnessing Big Data For Social Good, YC-Backed Nonprofit Bayes Impact Launches | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 7 | 15 | , and , the three founders of latest nonprofit, , aren’t your typical entrepreneurs. The engineer, data scientist, and investor had previously worked on or analyzed investments in some of the toughest problems facing all technology companies in the Internet era — how to get more people to click on more stuff. But... |
Software Entrepreneurs Must Go Mobile-First Or Die | Roger Lee | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | Seven years ago when the iPhone was first introduced, smartphones were a novelty. Now they’re the default method of computing for most people. As of late last year, Americans spent 34 hours a month on their mobile devices, compared with just 27 hours accessing the web via a computer, according to Nielsen. This mobile... |
Predicting A Future Free Of Dollar Bills | Simon Black | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | Picture the scene. It’s 2020. You’re at the checkout in a convenience store with a carton of milk. But you’ve got no cash and you’ve left your cards at home. No problem. You scan your right index finger; the green light flashes. Purchase approved and you leave. Easy. Is this a realistic vision of the future, or are ... |
Curated Food Delivery Startup Caviar In Talks To Be Acquired By Square For $100 Million | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | Curated food delivery startup is in talks to be acquired by in a deal that could be worth at least $100 million, according to several sources. While we’ve heard the deal is slated to take place over the next couple of weeks, these things could always fall apart. is one of many new startups that seeks to enable cus... |
Humans And Computers Will Come Together For Middle Work | David Greenbaum | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | Jon Evans’ post “ ” on TechCrunch warns of mass penury for this generation and the next as the dual horseman of the techno-apocalypse, robots and software, strip humans of their ability to make a living. Essentially, he predicts machines and algorithms will consume jobs faster than we can create them. Don’t believe t... |
Hardware Is The New Software | Min-Liang Tan | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | . . . . . All hardware companies and each of them accorded multi-billion-dollar valuations either in private investment transactions or acquisitions by some of the largest technology companies on the planet. When the deals first surfaced, more than a few people were puzzled. Hardware hasn’t exactly been sexy for ... |
Gillmor Gang: Taming of the Stream | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | The Gillmor Gang – , , , , and – examine the subtle signs of the gathering storm that is the Uber social network. After years of positioning, acquisition, soaring value payouts, and a winner-take-all sensibility in the tech community, now we’re seeing something different emerging. Among the data points discusse... |
Screenshot Claims To Show Off The Coming Windows 8.1 Start Menu | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | Mostly lost in the noise surrounding the World Cup final, floated around the Microsoft-watching community. The image picked up attention because it contains what some claim is an image of the soon-to-return Start Menu in Windows 8.1. promised that the user interface element . In the ensuing few months there hasn’t ... |
Amazon Web Services Moves Beyond Developer Tools | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | is known for many things, but all of those have to do with developer services like cloud computing instances, databases and storage. Lately, however, AWS is slowly getting more into productivity tools that are meant for end users. ‘s first attempt to get into this market was Amazon Cloud Drive. It launched back in 201... |
The Great Fragmentation: We Are All Weirdos Now | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 7 | 12 | “Technology isn’t a section in the newspaper any more. It’s the culture,” quoth editor-in-chief Ben Smith, prompting some eyebrow-raising by and columnists. And here’s some more from … but my stance is a bit different. “The culture”? That’s an oxymoron. There is no such thing as majority mainstream culture any m... |
With Publicize, Former Tech Blogger Conrad Egusa Offers A More Affordable Approach To Startup PR | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | We’ve written about several attempts to rethink PR for startups, including (which ) and (which ). A new firm called may not embrace the self-serve, tech-centric model quite as a fully, but it does have a pretty appealing price tag — its standard cost is $499 a month, in contrast to traditional firms that can ch... |
Winners Of The TechCrunch London Meetup: GiftGaming, Rook And Keekla | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | The TechCrunch London Summer Meetup rolled into town this week as part of our . We had a bunch of brand new startups apply. The pitch-off was judged by TechCrunch writers Ingrid Lunden and Natasha Lomas and myself, with Andy Chung of and James Governor of , our hosts. We were kindly supported by sponsorship from ,... |
Stream (What It Feels Like To Be At) The World Cup On Snapchat | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | You can watch the World Cup final game on or , but is transporting all its users to Brazil today through clips of people celebrating in the streets or cheering from the stadium. With this bold test of its new collaborative , people in Rio De Janeiro can submit snaps to Riolive2014 which are curated by Snapchat in... |
Silicon Valley’s Dilemma Over Credentials | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | Silicon Valley has been heavily derided by the media these past few months, on everything from and to startups and . Despite the shrill news around “ ,” I believe that Silicon Valley on the whole is fundamentally a decent place, one that tries to create opportunities for the world rather than diminish them. To s... |
Snowden Document Exposes Extensive List of British Spying Tools | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | The Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) — Britain’s National Security Agency (NSA) equivalent — commands a wide-ranging set of tools that enable it to hack into popular social media and communications outlets and plant false information on the Internet, according to a document Monday. The long list of option... |
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German Cartel Office Says Google, Other Tech Giants Could Be Regulated Like Utilities | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | Germany has not been the biggest fan of tech giants that it believes overreach their influence. Now, a report claims that it is considering a new way to deal with them: regulating them like utilities. The Sunday Times that the country’s Federal Cartel Office ( ) has prepared a 30-page proposal with suggestions of how... |
Hardware Case Study: Why Lockitron Has Taken So Long To Ship | Cameron Robertson | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | There has been renewed excitement at HQ in the last few weeks as we pass shipping to our 3,000th backer. Following an incredibly oversubscribed crowdfunding campaign at the end of 2012 — during which we raised over $2.3 million (and garnered 15,000 backers) — we had to adapt our manufacturing plans and shift to vol... |
The Fate of The 98-Year-Old At The Heart of SF’s Anti-Eviction, Tech Protests Is Still In Doubt | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | Mary Elizabeth Phillips, the 98-year-old woman who has been at the heart of San Francisco’s ongoing anti-eviction and tech protests, still faces an uncertain future. After living just a few blocks from Dolores Park for a half-century in the Mission District, the epicenter of the city’s tech gentrification and Google Bu... |
Oculus Spots People Selling Rift Pre-Orders, Cancels Their Shipments | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | The second version of the Oculus Rift VR headset is expected to , but actually getting your hands on one is going to be tough. Over 45,000 units had been pre-ordered as of the first of this month — and of those, only 10,000 are expected to actually ship in July. If you waited even to get your pre-order in, you might... |
Fly Or Die: Adobe Ink & Slide | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | The are Adobe’s first foray into the hardware world, comprising a special stylus and a digital ruler. Paired with the , users can draw and use the ruler to create perfect shapes and straight lines. The Ink, the stylus, is aluminum and feels and looks great. And if that weren’t enough, it works splendidly, too. T... |
New York Gets Another Learn To Code Academy | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 7 | 13 | New York is getting a new tech skills training academy. The twist it that the just launched academy is being created by a dev studio drawing on their existing expertise making apps for others to teach budding entrepreneurs the web development skills they’re going to need to turn their big idea into a big business. At a... |
Autobutler Raises €5.8M To Vet Garages For European Car-Owners | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | Over the last few years we’ve seen a number of startups appear that would like to bring the market power of the Internet to bear on a traditionally tough market: car repairs. We’re all too aware of the obvious issues to be solved: the lack of consistency and transparency, and the difficulty of vetting both the work of... |
Y Combinator Calls For Strict Net Neutrality Rules, Reclassification Of Broadband Under Title II | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | Early this afternoon , written by its own , calling on the FCC to abandon its current plan to pursue net neutrality regulation under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act, and instead work to manage broadband providers under Title II of the Communications Act. Classifying broadband under Title II would grant t... |
Lexalytics Acquires Semantria To Bring Sentiment Analysis To The Masses | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | Sentiment analysis is an important tool for businesses looking to get a better understanding of how their customers feel about their products. Instead of surveys that offer abstract ratings, it lets companies look at the emotions underlying how users talk about their goods or services. has offered such technology for ... |
Do You Feel Pressure Or Do You Apply Pressure? | Ben Horowitz | 2,014 | 7 | 14 |
under-appreciated law of business physics is: Another obvious but not well-understood law: If we take these two together, it is easy to see that without intervention, the larger your company becomes, the more people will complain and blame you. This seems simple enough, but CEOs often fail to understand the logic, b... |
Real Cheese From A Lab, No Cow Necessary | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | Vegans who miss the creamy taste of real cheese, rejoice! A group of biohackers from in Oakland, Calif., and in Sunnyvale, Calif., are using baker’s yeast to produce the world’s first cheese that did not originate from milk in the udder of a cow. Most vegan cheese is soy or nut-based and doesn’t taste much like chee... |
Toonimo Raises $2.5M To Liven Up Websites With Custom Cartoons | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | , a startup that says it can make websites more engaging and lucrative by adding custom animations, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in funding. The idea is that online visitors might appreciate having a cartoon character who can point out the important parts of a website and walk them through some of the ... |
Floret Is A Gamified Dating App For Virtual Romance | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | And in this week’s episode of might I introduce . Floret is a new dating app that focuses on a common problem known as the , which essentially means that elements in a group are matched based on preferences, without any two elements in the group preferring one another over their original match. Here’s the exact wor... |
ScribbleLive Acquires CoveritLive, Will Still Operate Both Brands | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | Once bitter rivals and are now family. Scribble Technologies is today announcing the acquisition of CoveritLive from Demand Media, effectively bringing two of the largest live content creation companies under one roof. The two companies have slightly different product sets, but the same aim: To empower brands and c... |
Save $9, Here Are The TechCrunch Staff’s Email Addresses | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | I hate email. But there’s one thing I hate even more: people selling my email address. Currently trending at the top of , is an email database for tech journalists — and it’s not free. After creating an account, you can pay $9 a month to get access to a curated list of email addresses of people working for publicati... |
Google, Other Leading Internet Companies Support Net Neutrality, Call For Extension To Mobile Providers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | As the initial comment period regarding the FCC’s currently proposed net neutrality rules comes to a close, the today released a strongly worded statement calling for strict net neutrality rules that would not include paid prioritization, or what many refer to as Internet “fast lanes.” The letter also supports applyi... |
Microsoft Presses Ahead With Its Cloud Strategy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | This morning at its , made a lengthy pitch to its assembled clients that the cloud isn’t the future, but rather the present. The company presented its cloud products and services as a way for partner companies to generate more revenue and land more customers. Microsoft, however, wasn’t overly boastful during its spe... |
Anonymish App Secret Has Raised Another $25M, Adds Facebook Login And Collections | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | , the app that lets users share notes with others without revealing their identity, has attracted a lot of controversy (or celebration, depending on who you are) for how it enables the spread of racy but sometimes mean or simply controversial notes about people, places and things. But it is also attracting a lot of som... |
Timberman Is The New Flappy Bird | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | Gamers looking for a new way to spend time waiting in line or on a commute should go check out , the latest indie game to take the App Store by storm. According to , the game has made its way to the top five apps overall in more than 20 countries and is the most-downloaded game in eight countries as of yesterday. Tim... |
Google Brings Ingress Location-Based Game To iPhone And iPad | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | has brought its with a launch of the app for iPhone and iPad released late yesterday. The app has been available for two years now, and has managed to accumulate over four million downloads on Android. Google’s is likely hoping to be able to boost usage by expanding its offering to the iOS cloud, because even the ... |
With $1 Million In Funding, Sr.Pago Is Ready To Serve Mexico’s Unbanked | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 14 | More than half of the Mexican population doesn’t have a bank account. Due to the length of time it takes to set one up, as well as taxes that consumers have to pay monthly, approximately 75 million Mexicans remain unbanked. But a startup called wants to change that with its mobile point-of-sale system that includes a... |
The Pressures Driving Adaptive Re-Use and Silicon Valley’s Strange Reverse Commute | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | Given Google’s and , I wanted to point out a few things. San Francisco is now at record employment levels . Commercial rents are . Even though , most of the space coming online in next two years is already pre-leased to tenants like , and (see below). The city is about to run into a nearly two-decade old law... |
This Temporary Tattoo Can Unlock Your Phone | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | I’d think this was just a clever April Fools’ joke, if it weren’t the middle of July. has teamed up with a company called to make a temporary tattoo that can unlock a smartphone, no PIN required. Slap it on your skin, hold your phone up to it, and bam — phone unlocked. Who needs gestural passwords or face recognitio... |
Hands On With The Amazon Fire Phone | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | Announced , the Amazon Fire Phone is the company’s first attempt at mobile hardware. Like its cousins in the Kindle Fire line of tablets, it runs a fork of Android and gives you quick access to everything in Amazon’s large (and growing) content library. The device itself has a premium feel that’s competitive with fl... |
PayPal Expands Its Working Capital Service To UK, Switches From Loans To Cash Advances | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | As payments platforms look for more ways to grow their margins and usage among businesses, they continue to push into a wider and deeper range of financial services. In one of the latest moves, eBay’s is expanding its service to the UK. This is its first market for PayPal’s lending platform outside of the U.S., whe... |
Open Labs Launches Stagelight 2.0, Signs Deals With Lenovo, Dell, Microsoft And Guitar Center | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | Tons of news from today. The Linkin Park- and Timbaland-backed production software for amateur musicians for the PC now comes preloaded on Lenovo and Dell laptops, tablets and computers. Additionally, has signed distribution agreements with , and . The company also just released its 2.0 version software today, ... |
POP Gets $700K To Make Prototyping Apps Easy, Releases Second Version | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | , an app that lets developers quickly turn paper sketches into prototypes for mobile apps, has raised an angel round of $700,000 from , , (which POP participated in last year) , and other investors. , which launched for iPhone first, also released a new version that can be used to create apps for iPads, Android de... |
Inside Shutterstock’s Fourth Annual Hackathon | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | Here’s a weird confession: Until last week, I’d never been to a company hackathon. Obviously, I’ve been to hackathons, including the ones TechCrunch hosts before our Disrupt conference. But I’ve never made it to one of those company-wide events that as a way to develop new ideas and stay connected to their startup ro... |
Apple Faces Class-Action Lawsuit In California Over Alleged Labor Violations Affecting 20K Employees | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | While today reported its , another group seized the moment to push out another bit of Apple-related news. The company is being sued in a class-action suit over a series of alleged violations of the California Labor Code, including the “timely” granting of meal and rest breaks as well as final paychecks. The case pot... |
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen To Talk Philanthropy, Open-Source Education At Disrupt SF 2014 | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | is the founder and president of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation, a private operating foundation that functions as a philanthropic innovation lab. The foundation’s mission is to inspire, educate and empower people to give in a way that matters more. Arrillaga-Andreessen is trying to radically change the way w... |
InMobi’s New Suite For Game Developers Sports Voxel’s Playable Ads | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | Independent ad network is to take advantage of gamers’ emotional states to produce high click-through rates on advertisements in their games. Along with tools for including interstitials that look like part of the game experience and ads that give you gameplay bonuses for watching videos, the company’s SDK now inclu... |
Apple Has Paid $20 Billion To iOS Devs, Half Of It In The Past Year | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | A quick update for those keeping track of how well the iOS developer money train is chugging along: As of its earnings call this morning, has paid out over $20 billion to iOS developers. More surprising than the overall amount, however, is the rate at which the money is coming in. Of the $20 billion paid out since the... |
Microsoft Confirms Decision To Kill The Surface Mini | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | Remember the Surface Mini, a device that got axed at the last minute? gave it a shout out in its . The company noted in its hardware section that its “[c]urrent year cost of revenue included Surface inventory adjustments resulting from our transition to newer generation devices and a decision to not ship a new form ... |
Microsoft Sold 5.8M Lumia Handsets In Its FQ4, But That’s A Partial-Quarter Sales Figure | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | Today in its , reported that it sold 5.8 million Windows Phone-based Lumia handsets. Last year, in the second calendar quarter — Microsoft’s then fiscal fourth quarter, welcome to the world of finance — sold 7.4 million Lumia handsets. However, Lumia sales didn’t fall 22 percent as those figures appear to indicate.... |
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TC Cribs: A Trip To BarkBox HQ, Where Dogs Rule | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | We definitely dig dog-friendly companies here at , so when we were in New York City recently, we swung by for a tour of an office where pooches are definitely welcome: , the startup known for its monthly subscription service of treats and toys for dogs and other pet-related ventures. Once we got inside, the Bark & ... |
Apple Sold 35.2M iPhones, 13.3M iPads And 4.4M Macs In Q3 2014 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | has released its latest , and the hardware story is one that you might have heard before: For the most part, the company sold more devices year-over-year, with the notable exception of the iPad, which continues to see slight declines as it did . By the numbers, Apple sold 35.20 million iPhones, 13.27 million iPads, ... |
Yik Yak Gets A Much-Needed Makeover | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | It’s been about three months since anonymous messaging app raised their first major round of funding , and already the app has released a major update. The app, which has traditionally been incredibly ugly (just being honest), now has a slick new design with a much-refined user experience. For those of you who haven... |
LinkedIn Will Acquire Business Marketing Company Bizo For $175M | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | just that it has reached an agreement to acquire , a company that helps advertisers reach businesses and professionals. LinkedIn says the deal is worth around $175 million — 90 percent cash and 10 percent stock. back in 2008. It raised a total of $20 million in venture funding (at least as of ) from investors inc... |
China Drove Big iPhone And iPad Sales For Apple During Q3 2014 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | ‘s earnings are out, and there’s a narrative contained therein of the emerging importance of China and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries in general – the company revealed that iPhone sales are up 55 percent year over year in the BRIC nations, and Chinese iPhone sales are up 48 percent, with the iPad sa... |
Apple’s Mixed Q3 2014 With $37.4B Revenue, $7.7B Profit And $1.28 EPS | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 7 | 22 | has just its fiscal Q3 2014 earnings, reporting $37.4 billion in revenue, $7.7 billion in net profit representing $1.28 per share. Compared to the , it corresponds to a growth of 5.9 percent in revenue, and 19.6 percent in EPS (adjusted for the ). ‘s consensus among analysts was for Apple to report earnings of $1.... |
Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | TechCrunch has learned that has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought , a startup based out of Boise, Idaho, that developed big data-style book analytics services. : Apple has confirmed our report of the acquisition. The company te... |
This Site Lets You Check If A Hotel’s WiFi Sucks Before It’s Too Late | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | There are lots of things that review sites should rank hotels on, but don’t. Is it known for bed bugs? Is the “heated pool” only heated during summer when the sun is out? How many ghosts live there? How fast is the WiFi? This site won’t help you with all of those, but it help you with that last one. Bad WiFi might as... |
Amazon’s Bet On Exclusive Games To Make Its Fire Gadgets More Enticing | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | Fire Phone is out today, and while it’s got that set it apart from your run-of-the-mill Android phone, it doesn’t seem like it will appeal to While some may be swayed by solid hardware or gimmicky features, the ecosystem of apps and content plays a big part in deciding which gadget to buy for most people. The does... |
Automattic Experiments With Selfies App For Android | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | A couple of days ago, an acquaintance on Twitter pointed out the website for , a new social app from , best known as the company behind . I found it odd that the app was out in the wild and hadn’t received any press coverage, but according to the , that was the point: to see what would happen if they just put it ou... |
You Can Now Command The Tesla You Probably Don’t Have With The Smartwatch You Probably Don’t Have | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9BaP9JXCY?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Do you have a ? Do you also have an Wear smartwatch? Do you wish they worked better together? Don’t worry! Solving the #1 problem of Batmans everywhere, these guys have figured out how to let you control a Tesla Model S through ... |
CrunchWeek: Facebook’s Big Earnings Win, Life On The D-List, And Uber’s Summer Moves | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | Let’s face it: We’re right smack in the middle of summer, at the time of year when tech news slows to a crawl. But that didn’t stop us from filming a wildly entertaining episode of CrunchWeek, because when the tech news gods give us lemons, we make lemonade. The big news of the week was with this week. Other than... |
Google Wants To Improve Its Translations Through Crowdsourcing | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | Over the years, has gotten significantly better at giving its users (relatively) legible translations for most commonly used languages. It’s still far off from being perfect, though, and today a new initiative that aims to get more input from its users to improve its translations. The , which is now open for every... |
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