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A Most Dangerous Machine | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | News Feed has decided that I like gruesome murders. Actually, senseless deaths and gruesome murders. I’m not exactly sure when the problem started, but I imagine it was around the time of one of the now too-common stories of mass shootings like Sandy Hook. Or at least, that’s what I like to tell myself – that surely, I... |
Wearable Fashion Toy Linkitz Teaches Girls How To Program | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | MIT PhD is using socializing and accessorizing to get get girls interested in programming. Neel’s invention, , is a wearable electronic toy that allows kids to rearrange, take apart and snap together electronic blocks that blink and buzz to change their behavior. This teaches them programming in a fun way, says Neel... |
Your Long Wait For TechCrunch-Branded Paper Cups Is Over | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | A parent company isn’t all that different from a real parent. They feed you, and give you money. They give you advice (sometimes more strictly than others). And, yes, they embarrass you. Speaking of, today our proud parent company , with vast experience in the online business, has launched an online storefront for... |
Unlocking Your Cell Phone Is Still Illegal, But Probably Not For Long | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | Unlocking your smart phone to run on a different carrier, without your carrier’s permission. It seems completely innocuous, right? Something you’d do with a spare bit of time on your weekend just to see if you could. Surprise! It’s illegal. And we’re not talking jay-walking-when-no-one-is-looking illegal, either —thank... |
Homejoy Expands Beyond Cleaning With Beta Test Of Home Services | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | When raised its last December, the company did so with a plan to to its customers. It’s starting to make good on that plan, with the launch of a beta test for other home services. In an email sent out to some Homejoy users (text below), the company invites customers to book and try out some of the new home servic... |
Google Docs Makes Collaborative Editing Easier For Word Users | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | At its I/O developer conference earlier this month, announced a major update to its suite of productivity apps, including Docs, Sheets and Slides. The main feature there was the integration of , which now makes editing native documents online easier. Today, Google recapped some of those updates , but it also thre... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple’s iWatch Patent, The MBA Sticker Ad, And The Defender | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | As the summer presses onward, so do we. A massive Apple patent surfaced this week, giving us our most at the company’s focus for the much-rumored iWatch. And speaking of Apple, the company recently released an showing off MacBook Air notebooks covered in stickers. Plus, we discovered a fun , a portable, all-in-on... |
Greats Brand Sneakers Are Off To The Races Following $1.5M Funding Round | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | , aspiring to be the Warby Parker of mens’ footwear, has revealed that the company broke $100,000 in sales in June, with a projected $1.6 million run rate for the year. Following a , the shoe brand will, for the first time, have three different models of their shoes available at once. Historically, the brand has sold ... |
Bose Picks A Patent Fight With Beats Over Noise-Cancelling Headphones | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | has sued soon-to-be- -owned over patents it holds related to noise-cancelling headphones, according to a new . The new suit means that Apple has a brand new patent battleground, should the Beats acquisition go through as planned, in addition to its ongoing litigation with and others. The full complaint is listed on ... |
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JustReachOut Helps Startups Write Better Email Pitches | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | If there’s one thing we know about at TechCrunch, it’s that doing PR is hard for startups. We get our fair share of bad pitches to our general tips line every day, and we get lots of pitches sent to us individually that just aren’t a good fit. We always tell startups to figure out who the best writer for a given topic ... |
How Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Stacks Up A Month Later | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | tablet/PC hybrid, and it’s a departure from their first- and second-generation versions of the Surface line, with an all-new design and a bigger, better display. The device is basically the perfect partner for Windows 8 and the Modern Windows UI, but your appreciation of this device (or lack thereof) will depend hea... |
Lyft Strikes A Deal To Launch Service In New York City, But Pauses Operations In Buffalo And Rochester | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | On-demand ride startup has come to a bit of a resolution in the city and state of New York that will allow it to begin offering service in the city after two weeks of discussions with regulators there. But in striking a deal that will make it available in all five boroughs of the Big Apple, Lyft has agreed to pause i... |
Wacom’s New Stylus Series Offers A Digital Pen For Every Scribbler, Sketcher And Note-Taker | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Wacom has a series of new stylus devices for tablets and smartphones that it’s launching today, including three new Bamboo devices and a new Intuos version, with two aimed specifically at the iPad with special Bluetooth-powered pressure sensitivity abilities. Two offer a better nib, with one adding an ink pen on the ... |
Amazon Rolls Out A YouTube-Like “Video Shorts” Section On Instant Video | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 7 | 25 | ‘s has traditionally been thought of as both a rival to and , in terms of offering movies and TV shows for rent, purchase or for free streaming via the company’s Amazon Prime membership program. But you might want to add to that list of would-be competitors, as Amazon has now introduced a new section to Instant ... |
With Intercom’s New In-App Messenger, Businesses Can Get Smarter About Talking To Customers | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | When to join customer communication startup , he told me the goal was to help businesses becoeme more personable and intimate when communicating with customers. With the recent launch of the new version of Intercom’s in-app messenger, it sounds like the company has taken a big step in that direction. The launch come... |
Microsoft Will Mass-Produce Its Big-Ass Touchscreens | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Remember the ? Microsoft isn’t done making huge slabs of touch-capable screen, it turns out. The company’s announced this week that Microsoft intends to “mass-produce” its Perceptive Pixel (PPI) displays, which are touch-enabled and can stretch to up to 82 inches in size. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley , which Microsoft con... |
A Letter To Jennifer Lawrence | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Dear Jennifer Lawrence, You and I don’t know each other, but I work in tech news and, as such, have read and of what happened to you and a group of other women who work in Hollywood over the long weekend. While it is not exactly clear how your privacy was violated and your property was stolen, there is apparently an... |
Jared Leto Dishes On His Favorite Tech Investment | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | TechCrunch caught up with actor and singer today backstage at BoxWorks, the annual confab focused on Box’s enterprise file storage service. Leto had just taken part in the event’s keynote, which stretched north of two hours. Why would Leto, who won an academy award in 2013 for his performance in “Dallas Buyers Club... |
Yes, Google Will Now (Probably) Replace Your Nexus 5 If You Bust The Screen | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Did you drop your shiny new(ish) Nexus 5 and wreck the screen? Don’t panic! Google has tweaked its stance on accidental damage a bit, and will now (probably) replace the handset for free — but there are a few catches. Word going around the rumor mill was that Google had suddenly instated a new policy regarding replacem... |
An Inside Look At The Development Of Samsung’s Gear VR At Oculus With CEO Brendan Iribe | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | key platform partner behind , having co-developed the hardware and having built the and first party demonstration apps entirely in-house. The company’s foray into mobile may be newly revealed, but it began not long after the original Oculus Rift hardware was introduced to the world at CES in 2013. “We generated all... |
Fox Sports Go To Stream 101 NFL Games Online And On Tablets This Season | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Once upon a time, it was rare to see sports streamed online, but that’s no longer true. As more and more audiences are turning to their laptops, mobile phones and tablets to watch streams of their favorite sports teams, broadcasters are increasingly making those matches available on those devices. The latest is Fox Spo... |
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Amazon Invites Children’s Book Authors To Kindle Direct Publishing, Rolls Out Kids’ Book Creator Software | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Amazon announced this afternoon that it will be expanding its Kindle Direct Publishing business to support the needs of children’s books authors through a new program it’s calling “ .” Along with the program, which is aimed at helping authors prepare, publish and distribute books in the Kindle Store, Amazon is also rel... |
Attend TechCrunch Disrupt For Free #TCDisrupt | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Haven’t been picked for our giveaway contest yet? Don’t fret, dear reader. We’re giving away yet another ticket to Disrupt. This contest starts now and ends in one hour at 4 PM Pacific. All you have to do is enter to win. You can earn extra entries to the contest by sharing the giveaway link with friends and following ... |
Incubated: Media Camp Helps Startups Get Connected With Hollywood Decision-Makers | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | A few years ago, a couple of execs at Turner Broadcasting decided they wanted to find a way to better help startups looking to create media-focused products. And so, they created an incubator called to guide those companies to success. Launched at SXSW 2012, Media Camp was founded to identify interesting startups a... |
Facebook Is Down On Web And Mobile [Update: It’s Coming Back After 20 Minutes] | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Is Facebook Down? Why yes it is. [Update: Err, was. As of 1pm PST, service has returned to the US, Germany, and other places after a roughly 20 outage, though some users are still having trouble accessing the service.] Users reported the social network went down on web and mobile in the US as well as the UK, Germany, T... |
Raspberry Pi Gets A Better Browser | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | [vimeo 104919646 w=500 h=375] For most of the English-speaking world, Raspberry Pi getting a new, improved web browser is a blip at best. But for a few elite hackers and educators, it’s a blessing. For years, RaspPi users have suffered from a fairly janky browser that is built into the stock version of Raspbian Linux. ... |
Haven Keeps Your Doors Locked Without Keys | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Here’s a clever solution to keeping your door locked: It’s called and it attaches to the floor and the doorframe. To open your door, you simply disengage the floor attachment and open it normally. There are no locks to pick or deadbolts to crack, simply because you don’t need to use those to keep the door closed. Cre... |
Intel Debuts The MICA, A Fashionable Smart Bracelet Designed By Opening Ceremonies | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Intel is about the idea of making computers that don’t look like computers, namely in the wearables space. Instead of latching a mini smartphone screen onto a wrist band, the technology company wants to be the brains behind the operation, not the looks. That said, Intel has partnered with Opening Ceremonies to bring ... |
Twitter Taps HackerOne To Launch Its Bug Bounty Program | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Following that have shook confidence in many online services, Twitter today the that will pay security researchers for responsibly reporting threats through , a bug bounty program provider. will pay a minimum of $140 per threat reported on Twitter.com, ads.twitter, mobile Twitter, TweetDeck, apps.twitter, and i... |
La Revedere: Groupon Shuts Down Service In Romania | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | international business today got a little bit smaller — , to be exact. The company has decided to wind down its operation in Romania, effective today, after it failed to find enough traction in the market. The news was sent out in an email to its merchant partners in the country signed by EMEA VP Luke Massery, which ... |
Biographer Walter Isaacson And Medium CEO Ev Williams To Speak At Disrupt SF | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | We’re excited to announce that author Walter Isaacson and entrepreneur Ev Williams will be joining us onstage at Disrupt SF next week. Well technically, anyone who paid attention to knew they were going to be taking the stage, but now we can tell you a little more about what they’ll discuss. Isaacson is probably best... |
Box Pushes Its Office 365 Integration Into Beta | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | This morning at its BoxWorks event, cloud storage and file management company Box announced that its integration into Office 365 in beta. The company also indicated that it is working to extend its integration into Office 365’s online tools, and, if possible, to Office for iPad. On stage at the conference, Box CEO ... |
Jared Leto Is Surprise Guest At BoxWorks, Talks Digital Transformation | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 3 | Musician and actor Jared Leto stopped by BoxWorks today and talked digital transformation in the entertainment industry, and in the ultimate act of sharing, he passed around his Oscar so people could take pictures with it. Leto has been in the music and movie industry for a long time and as he pointed out, back in the ... |
The All New Moto X Arrives Later This Month For $499.99 Unlocked | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Motorola is updating its flagship Moto X, and it’s an improvement that makes one of the best deals in mobile even better, even if it doesn’t completely revolutionize what came before. The original Moto X was one of the best phones last year, and despite a change in the company’s ownership from Google to Lenovo, this ne... |
The New Moto G Offers A Bigger Screen And Removable Storage At $179.99 Unlocked | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Along with a new , Motorola is taking the wraps off its new Moto G today, and the new version of its affordable smartphone continues to be one of the best values in modern mobile devices. Motorola’s new mid-range phone offers a larger 5-inch display with 1280×720 resolution for 294 ppi pixel density, a Qualcomm Snapdr... |
The Moto Hint Aims To Make You Feel Like You’re Living The Future From The Movie ‘Her’ | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Motorola has taken it upon itself to give us the future the movie promised us – or at least one key ingredient in the future. The new Moto Hint is a single wireless earbud that comes in a variety of designs, and while it isn’t quite as invisible as the headset showcased in , it is designed to give its wearer the abi... |
Apple Will Add Extra Security Measures To iCloud, Says Tim Cook | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Apple has added extra security measures to iCloud, including alerts if someone tries to change your account password, download iCloud files to a new device, or a log a new device onto an account. Users can then change their passwords immediately or notify Apple security. The alerts will start in two weeks, CEO Tim Cook... |
You Can Stand Under My Umbrella Here | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | As a staunch introvert who prefers wide swaths of personal space, I find the idea behind frightening, yet strangely compelling. The creators of the project, which is , want to “bring strangers together on rainy days” with a Bluetooth light that attaches to the top of your umbrella and an app alerting people that you... |
The Road To Disrupt: The Final Steps | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | In the final videos of the Road To Disrupt series, all of the Startup Battlefield teams from Disrupt SF 2013 find out the results of the competition. This is it for the 30 startups involved with Startup Battlefield. It’s all on the line and the companies are about to see who will take home $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup. ... |
The Moto 360 Smartwatch Is Finally Here, Available Today For $249.99 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | The Moto 360 has been unveiled previously, and is arguably the most anticipated smartwatch, owing partly to its attractive round face. The wearable is finally landing, complete with heart rate monitor, in both black and gray metal finishes, with retail availability kicking off today at noon EST from Motorola.com, Bes... |
Disrupt SF Hackathon – More Prizes Than You Can Hack A Stick At | Jeffery Bennett | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | We’re fewer than 48 hours away from the start of the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon. To make your experience even better, we’ve partnered with some wonderful companies that have agreed to pony up some great prizes for best use of their systems. Clover, one of the fastest growing point of sale systems in the World has ... |
Firefox Beta Gets Built-In WebRTC Video Calls On Desktop, Chromecast And Roku Video Casting On Android | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | is launching the latest batch of updates to the channels for desktop and Android today. While there weren’t all that many exciting changes in the last few releases, today’s updates include a couple of interesting new user-facing tools. : , you can now test the browser’s new “send to device” video casting feature th... |
Nasty Gal Lays Off Up To 10 Percent Of Its Workforce | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Several sources confirm has laid off up to 27 employees in the last week. “Business is down dramatically and leadership has been in panic mode for months,” according to one source. #GIRLBOSS author and CEO Sophia Amoruso that the company is making some “strategic changes.” The L.A. shopping startup let go over 20 ... |
Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis Will Move To Create Innovation Lab Using Stratasys Tools | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Bre Pettis, CEO of , is stepping down to create a co-branded /Makerbot “innovation lab” where he will use 3D printers to work with artists, designers, and makers. Makerbot President Jenny Lawton will move into the CEO position and Pettis will be on the Makerbot board of directors. Wrote Stratasys CEO David Reis: The ... |
KnCMiner Raises $14 Million To Take Bitcoin Mining To The Moon | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Swedish maker of miners, , has announced a $14 million Series A to help build out new mining chips along with hosted mining services. Founded by Sam Cole and Andreas Kenner, the company raised with GP Bullhound advising. led the round. “The funding will enable KnCMiner to expand its mining operations and ability t... |
FCC Chairman Calls For Stronger Broadband Competition, Especially For High-Speed Connections | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | In a speech this morning, discussed the state of American broadband, arguing that there is a lack of competition in the market, especially in terms of truly fast connections. Broadband, as it is currently defined by the FCC, is a connection of at least 4 Mbps. That’s too slow, according to Wheeler, who noted that his... |
New Box Security Features Give Companies Far Greater Control Over Documents | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | made its name being a user-focused company. Ease of use took priority over everything else, and while they’ve achieved a huge user base in this fashion, a big criticism of the company has been on the security side. It was never secure enough for some IT pros. A series of announcements today at the should go a long w... |
NVIDIA Sues Samsung and Qualcomm, Tries To Get Samsung Galaxy Devices Blocked From The U.S. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Ready for another big patent battle? NVIDIA has just filed patent lawsuits against both Samsung and Qualcomm, claiming the companies are infringing upon its graphics chip patents. The end goal? To block the shipment of Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets until Samsung coughs up patent licensing fees. In a on the matter,... |
Facebook Slingshots Itself In The Face By Making Reply-To-Unlock Optional | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Many thought Facebook’s ephemeral app was pointless, but now it’s not even special. It’s just another pokey Snapchat clone. As of , Slingshot’s core mechanic, the requirement that friends first reply with a photo or video to unlock what you sent them, can now be turned off by the sender. That means people can just b... |
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DataStax Lands $106M In Series E Funding | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | , the commercial face of the open source Apache Cassandra database, announced $106M in Series E Funding, bringing their total to date to over $190M in funding. Today’s round was led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers with additional investors including ClearBridge, Cross Creek and Wasatch, PremjiInvest and Comcast V... |
Bridj Raises $4M, Hires Former Chicago & DC Transport Head Gabe Klein To Reinvent Your Commute | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | There are a number of startups trying to change the way passengers get around urban environments. Most notably, companies like Uber and Lyft have drastically increased the ease of hiring a car to take them where they need to go, while also lowering the cost. But there’s only so much those companies can do in reducing c... |
Snapchat Pushes You To Watch Friends’ Stories | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | are a huge hit, with the photos and videos you post to your profile now more popular than Snap messages. But they’re still easy to forget about since they’re pull and not push — they aren’t sent to friends directly and don’t generate alerts. You had to seek them out. Until now. Snapchat confirms to me it’s started “so... |
Apple’s NFC Payments Play Could Make Its Wearable A Computing Friction Killer | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 4 | Apple could be gearing up to make its so-called ‘iWatch’ a payment device powered by NFC, according to a new report from the . But including near-field communications tech in the iWatch (and the iPhone 6, too, if the report is correct) will open the door for much more than just payments, and could make the wearable an... |
Apple Dominating Shipping Capacity Out Of China With New iPhones | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | According to several sources, Apple has already begun flexing its supply chain muscles by shipping so many units of upcoming devices from its manufacturing facilities to sales outlets that it is causing delays for other manufacturers. Apple shipments via major concerns like FedEx and UPS are said to be ‘incredibly high... |
Catering Startup Cater2.me Says It Has Served 5M Meals | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | It’s been more than two years since about , a service that connects local food vendors with companies in need of catering. Sounds like the startup has been busy since then — co-founder Zach Yungst told me that it has now served 5 million meals total, and that it’s launching in four new cities, bringing the total to ... |
EyeEm Challenges Flickr For Providing New Media With Relevant Images | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Unless you don’t mind stealing other people’s work, using Flickr to find images available via the Creative Commons license is the easiest way to source pictures for blogging. While services like are available, I’ve personally never spent a dime for an image in an article I’ve written — it’s always been easier to do a... |
Hands On With The Moto 360, The First Round Smart Watch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | As we approach Peak Smartwatch at the Apple event next week, manufacturers are racing to offer product to those who might not want to bow down to Cupertino in the coming months. The latest contender is the Moto 360, a steel and leather beauty that launched today alongside the new Motorola X. Although I’ve been duly i... |
TC Cribs: Lending Club’s Hole-In-One San Francisco HQ | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Welcome to another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that gets nosy and tours the inside of tech companies’ offices. This time, we headed over to , the startup that’s built an online marketplace for financial lending. Lending Club is a company that straddles the worlds of tech and banking, and that duality is... |
Yahoo Acquires, Shuts Down Luminate, An Interactive Image Platform | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Another acquisition today from Yahoo to beef up its advertising and media business. It is buying , a startup founded by LiveOps, Netscape and Yahoo alums that has created a platform for interactive, tagged images — or, as we have called it in the past, an . Terms of the deal, which was announced on , have not been d... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | On the eve of Disrupt, we reflect on the top stories from 8/30-9/5. Here are the 11 best stories from the past week. |
CrunchWeek: Samsung’s Gadgets, iCloud Hacks, And Sarah Goes To Burning Man | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Happy pre-Disrupt Friday, everyone, I hope you are well rested for next week’s fun. Today on CrunchWeek , , and sat around the white table to dig into the biggest stories of the week: , the , and, of course, . As a small note, I was wrong at the end of the show, as there will be no CrunchWeek next week. We’ll ... |
The One Where Grover Norquist And I Decompress From Burning Man | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | The Libertarian-leaning Republican leader of Americans for Tax Reform, went back to Washington, D.C. this week after his first visit to Burning Man. The two of us were able to catch up this week and – a word burners use to describe how they adjust back into life after experiencing Black Rock City. This was both ou... |
Alibaba Proposes To Go Public For As Much as $66 Per Share, Valuing The Firm At More Than $160B | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | , the Chinese e-commerce giant run by Jack Ma, has submitted F-1 paperwork to the SEC with the expectation that it will go public on September 8 under the NYSE symbol BABA. The today. 20.1 million shares will be on offer. Japanese investor Softbank currently owns 34 percent of the company while Yahoo owns 22 percent.... |
Google Starts Selling Glass ‘Explorer Edition’ On The Play Devices Store | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Google is selling the , still for $1,500, with your choice of a free frame or sunglass shade in the mix. The Glass model listed is still very much Google’s experimental product, but the descriptions in the listing make it sound more like falling into the category of an “Explorer” is now more about how many extreme spo... |
Shutterfly Brings Its Online Boutique Tiny Prints To The iPad | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Shutterfly is expanding its lineup of native iOS applications today with the launch of , a mobile version of the online stationary boutique the company for $333 million. Like its web-based counterpart, the app allows customers to create and customize stationary, cards and other gifts via a variety of personalization... |
It’s Time For VCs To Run To Their Bubble Bunkers | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | world of Silicon Valley and startups has reached crazy times. , one of the most prominent accelerators in the world, announced yesterday that The idea is that founders who join the program can ask for their equity to be returned (or a percentage of it) shortly after their Techstars batch ends if they feel that the a... |
The ATLAS Bipedal Robot Is Ready To Build Your Warehouse/Battle Station | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYSitvLW0r0] We’ve been following MIT’s , the bipedal robot, for a while now. We’ve seen the cute little guy walk, toddle, and climb over obstacles but now he can reach down, grab a heavy metal girder, and drag it around like a beast. Our little robo-monster is growing up! The ... |
Farming Startup FarmLogs Triples Market Share In Last Six Months | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Michigan-based FarmLogs is announcing today a significant milestone in the young company’s history. In just two years since its founding, the company has seen incredible growth and now counts customers in all 50 states and over $11 billion worth of crops under its management, a number that has tripled in the last six m... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.05.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. |
Millennials Are The Largest Group Of Smartphone Owners, And Adoption Is Still Growing | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Millennials, one of the largest generational groups in the U.S., on par with the Baby Boomers, are also the largest group of smartphone owners, says Nielsen in out today. And their adoption of the devices is still growing: by the second quarter of this year, 85% of those aged 18 to 24 owned a smartphone, and 86% of t... |
Attend TechCrunch Disrupt For Free #TCDisrupt | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Good news! You still have a chance to win a ticket to Disrupt San Francisco with our next giveaway. You can earn extra entries to the contest by sharing the giveaway link with friends and following our social accounts. This weekend’s contest ends on 9/7 at 11 AM PST – so you have a few more days to enter and share with... |
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GoPro Fetch Review: You Will Envy Your Dog’s Work/Life Balance | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7koVxnJW0OM&w=854&h=510] For you today, we have a video a little over six minutes long of a dog experiencing a happiness more pure than you or I will ever know. Please enjoy. Seriously, though, this footage caught using the new GoPro Fetch mount for canines during a holiday week... |
A User’s Guide To Disrupt SF 2014 | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,014 | 9 | 5 | Hard to believe that Disrupt SF is just around the corner! As always, TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of folks who promise to make your experience at the conference better than ever. Join us on Monday for the Official After Party at , sponsored by our friends at . , yes plural: This year, five sponsor... |
Mozbii Is A Color-Picking Stylus Just For Kids | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Now on Kickstarter, is a wonderful stylus that lets kids turn the world into their crayon box. It has already surpassed its $30,000 funding goal, with the campaign ending on Sept. 27. To be sure, there are other color-picking styluses out there, but Mozbii has several features that makes it suitable for children as y... |
Mobile Authentication Tech Startup AirSig Gets $2M From Foxconn | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | , a Taiwanese startup that makes authentication products for mobile devices, has received $2 million in investment from Foxconn Technology Group. In return, Foxconn will hold a 10 percent stake in the company, which puts AirSig’s valuation at $20 million, the company said. Air Signature, AirSig’s main product, uses the... |
Baidu Invests $10M In Mapping Software Maker IndoorAtlas | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Finnish startup , which develops indoor mapping technology that uses magnetic positioning, has received a $10 million investment from , China’s top search company. The two companies also announced that they have signed an agreement which will make Baidu the only user of IndoorAtlas’ technology in China. IndoorAtlas w... |
The Meta Watch M1 Is A Next-Gen Smartwatch That Isn’t Ugly | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | go on and on about the features, the battery life, and the fancy software, the , the latest from former Fossil engineer and designer Frank Nuovo, stands out because it’s not ugly. Designed to look more like a regular watch than any smartwatch I’ve seen so far, all of the functionality including call pick-up and con... |
Apple Should Be More Transparent About Security | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | It seems that Apple has gotten embroiled in a security scandal of one sort or another every few months. It dodged Heartbleed but was hit by the . It was called out for not that could have been used to collect data from user devices. Late last year researchers showed off a method for . A year ago a researcher of d... |
Apple’s Two Factor Authentication Doesn’t Protect iCloud Backups Or Photo Streams | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | One of the common bits of advice you’ll see people giving you is to enable two-factor authentication on your accounts — including Apple’s. That’s good advice, but it wouldn’t have protected any of these celebrities and it doesn’t protect the other accounts that are compromised by hackers that are able to obtain an Ap... |
TechCrunch Disrupt SF Starts With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick | Michael Arrington | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | , a thrice-yearly event where they drag me, the founder of TechCrunch, out like Lenin’s embalmed body to show I’m still around, is but a week away. And if anything will shock me back to life, it’ll be Travis Kalanick, the controversial CEO of the controversial startup (if a company can still be called a startup after r... |
Associated Content Founder Luke Beatty Is Now In Charge Of AOL’s Tech Blogs (Including This One) | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | So I guess . As , and confirmed by AOL, Susan Lyne is stepping down from her role as CEO of AOL’s brand group, which includes sites like Engadget, Joystiq and, yes, TechCrunch. Lyne will be taking charge of a venture fund within AOL that backs women-focused companies, while responsibility for the brand group will be ... |
Less Than 1% Of Comments Sent To The FCC Opposed Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | A of hundreds of thousands of comments submitted to the FCC by the public found that the vast majority spoke in favor of net neutrality. The group estimates that “less than 1 percent of comments were clearly opposed to net neutrality.” There is wiggle room in the data, given that some people are not clear writers, an... |
The Road To Disrupt: Bitcovery And Hammer & Chisel | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | On this week’s Road To Disrupt, we’re back with and and revisit their on-stage Startup Battlefield presentation at Disrupt SF 2013. Bitcovery aims to solve the discovery of bits, or digital content, by connecting you to friends’ collections of content. Jason Citron, founder of Hammer & Chisel, prepares to unveil t... |
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3DHubs Raises $4.5 Million To Make Local 3D Printing Global | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | , a 3D printer matching service, has raised a $4.5 million Series A to help bring their local 3D printing system to the world. The service, which allows you to find and order 3D prints from printers in your area, is similar to other services like and but is already available overseas. Founded by former 3D Systems e... |
Google Partners With UCSB To Build Quantum Processors For Artificial Intelligence | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Google today that it is expanding its research around quantum computing and that it has hired UC Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) — one of the most research groups in this area — to work on new quantum processors based on superconducting electronics. Researchers in Martinis’ lab were among the first to back in 2008. Googl... |
Announcing The Disrupt SF Hackathon Judges And API Workshops | Jeffery Bennett | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | We’re less than a week away from this year’s Disrupt Hackathon, and are delighted to announce the judges & API workshops. I, along with TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor, Sam O’Keefe, will be your Hackmaster and host for the weekend. In years past, our judges have served as combination of part-bloodhound, part-iron... |
Microsoft Partners Said To Test Windows 9 Ahead Of Public Release | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Microsoft is . So if you were looking forward to getting your paws on the code, you have only four weeks left to wait. That is, if you are not a key Microsoft partner. According , Microsoft is currently providing some partners with access to the operating system ahead of the public. That’s not too surprising, but it ... |
Home Depot Investigating Potentially Massive Credit Card Breach | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Did you just get your credit card replaced after the Great Target Fiasco of 2013? Don’t get too used to that new card. It’s starting to look like it’s that time again. Home Depot has confirmed that it’s investigating some “unusual activity” with regards to its customer data, and the consistently spot-on is saying tha... |
Sonos Kills The Bridge And Goes Almost Totally Wireless | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Wireless speaker company has updated its entire streaming system to allow for nearly wireless speaker connectivity. Until today, the only way to connect an entire home to the same speaker network was to use something called a Bridge, a $50 box that connected directly to your router via Ethernet. Now, however, the sys... |
Apple Denies Any Breach Of Its Systems In Celebrity Photo Leak | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Apple has released an in response to accusations that its iCloud storage system might be somehow behind the , whose victims included Jennifer Lawrence. In the statement Apple denies any breach within its systems, but does concede that celebrity accounts were compromised by attackers using standard phishing technique... |
Go To TechCrunch Disrupt For Free #TCDisrupt | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Every day this week we are giving away a ticket to Disrupt San Francisco. We’ll announce the giveaways in various locations, so make sure you follow our social accounts for tips. You can earn extra entries to the contest by sharing the giveaway link with friends and following our social accounts. Today’s contest ends o... |
The Case For Intelligent Failure To Invent The Future | Vinod Khosla | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In the past, experts with spreadsheets and econometric models or social scientists with subscale studies and linear models may have been useful. These so-called experts extrapolated from what came before, but as the rate of change has increased, looking to the past... |
Samsung Level Headphone Series Review: Galaxy Owners Only Need Apply | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 2 | Samsung is trying to add some additional cachet to its brand with a self-produced line of high-end audio accessories, dubbed “Level” by the Korean electronics giant. The Level series includes three different types of headphones, including an in-ear model, an on-ear version and an over-ear variety. The Level In, Level O... |
5 Reasons You Should Work For A Startup At Least Once | Adam Arbolino | 2,014 | 9 | 20 | They say in business you should think big. But when it comes to your career, have you considered thinking “small”? In my experience, a startup is a roller-coaster ride that can offer you incredible career experiences and teach you some invaluable life lessons. Startups can make you more efficient than you’ve ever been,... |
The State Of Investments In Europe: A Review Of The Last 5 Years | Christian Hernandez | 2,014 | 9 | 20 | A lot has been written in the last few years on the evolution of the technology ecosystem in Europe, including Christian’s own bullish stance on , Stephen’s piece on the of seed funds in the region, and articles touting and as the two local leading startup hubs. Our intent with this analysis was to use data to d... |
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