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Time Spent In Apps Up 21% Over Last Year | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 16 | While there may be as to how many apps people interact with over the course of a month, from mobile marketing platform Localytics out this morning shows that the time spent actually using apps is increasing. In fact, the average time people spend in their apps is up by 21% year-over-year, with music, health and fit... |
Citrix Acquires Virtual, An Android And iOS Virtualization Company | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 9 | 16 | We’re hearing from a reliable source that Citrix has acquired a little company we called . The firm, manned by an impressive set of software hackers, claimed to be able to virtualize both Android and iOS completely enough to act as an environment for bug testing and hardware emulation. : Citrix of Virtual on Wedne... |
Microsoft Brings OneNote To Android Wearables | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 16 | I suppose that wearables are the new place where cross-platform tools and services must reside. Today Microsoft . You can now OneNote from your watch. If you want to. It looks like this when in use: So now, if you want to shout at your watch in public, you can. You will look so cool. With your smartwatch. That can som... |
LittleBits Announces BitLab, An App Store For Hardware | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 16 | Have you ever wanted to build a banana piano? Or make a robotic cockroach brain out of LEGO? With LittleBits now you (potentially) can. The company has just announced something called the BitLab, a contest merged with a crowd sourced technology system that allows inventors to create new LittleBits blocks, upload them, ... |
DataFox Pushes Its Business Intelligence Service Into Beta | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 16 | Last week at Disrupt SF, pitched what it called a “predictive intelligence” service, aimed at bringing a wealth of data concerning corporations — their landmarks, hiring trends, funding and valuation — to everyone. For a deep dive into how the product works, who is on the founding team, and what it costs, . Today th... |
Envoy Brings In $1.5 Million To Kill The Lobby Sign-In Book | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 9 | 16 | When you think about things that need to be disrupted, the entryway sign-in book is probably the last thing on your mind. And yet. Having spent four years at Google and three years at Twitter as a backend engineer, started building , an iPad-based, visitor-registration system, this past November. At Twitter, Gadea wa... |
Ello Users Experience Further Downtime After DDoS Attack | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | The experienced its first major outage today, suffering a Distributed Denial of Service attack that brought it down for approximately 45 minutes. The company says that it was able to fix the issue by blocking the IP addresses responsible for the attack. However, it seems that the site is still going through some in... |
Why And How To Hire A Game Designer | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | Over the years I’ve worked for lots of studios. Some were hardcore game houses, some indies. Some worked in niche markets like casinos and some in more peripheral fields like gamification. Some were jobs, others consulting or contracting gigs. Having had such a broad range, one thing I’ve experienced a fair bit is “mis... |
Free Windows 9 For Some Isn’t Too Crazy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | At some point, speculating about what will become quickly obvious is difficult. Still, on the cusp as we are of the release of the first preview of what may be called Windows 9, it’s reasonable to take a few notes of the latest rumor cycle: ? Current that for Windows 8 and Windows XP users, the new code could be in ... |
As The Arab Spring Turns To Fall, A Lingering Hope For Peace Through Tech | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | Two decades after he served as the chief negotiator for peace talks between the then and Israel under , remains ever optimistic. Although the laid tentative groundwork for an eventual two-state solution, it was never realized. Once again, the region is only just recovering from another conflict between the Hamas... |
This Is TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM 102 Indie | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | Each week, John Biggs and I head over to the Sirius XM studios for a live radio show on Sirius XM 102 Indie: . Last week, we discussed our first weeks with the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. While I’m more partial to the iPhone 6 (or even the 5s, in terms of size), John is truly excited about the new screen real esta... |
Facebook Relaunches Atlas Ad Platform With Cross-Device Targeting And Offline Sales Tracking | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | As Advertising Week kicks off in New York City, Facebook is announcing a new version of its Atlas ad platform, which it says represents the next step in tracking ad effectiveness across devices. The company first last year, but in recent weeks both and reported that an ambitious relaunch was in the works, with th... |
A Wearable Drone That Launches Off Your Wrist To Take Your Selfie | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VFsdPAoI1g&w=640&h=390] “Oh man, this would make a great picture. I wish there was someone else here to take our picture for us so we didn’t have to take a selfie!” Has this ever happened to you? Of course it has. You’re a human being in the 21st century who reads tech blogs. T... |
Solve Your BendGate Woes With This 3D Printed iPhone Case | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | Did your surprisingly tight pants bend your iPhone 6 Plus? Did your bony butt ruin your iPhone 6? Did you place your iPhone into a vice and bend it with pliers? 3D printing can help! This is available on and costs $19.99. The creator, Fernando Sosa, is offering the case in multiple colors including Bent Blue, Press... |
Amid Crackdowns, Protestors In Hong Kong Take To Tech To Publicize #OccupyCentral and #OccupyHK | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | Amid reports in mainland China to suppress distribution of images of student protests in Hong Kong, the hashtag #OccupyCentral has become one of the top trends on Twitter. Images like this: Mongkok, shopping area of Hong Kong. Occupy by protesters. No riot police here. — Lam Yik Fei (@LamYikFei) and this: :... |
Hubble HQ Secures £500,000 Seed Round To Match London Startups To Office Space | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | , the London property tech startup founded by Entrepreneur First alumni Tushar Agarwal and Tom Watson, together with ex-advisor to the British Prime Minister Rohan Silva, has closed £500,000 in seed funding. The round was led by Spire Ventures, the VC fund set up by Faisal Butt and ex-Dragon James Caan, while HubbleHQ ... |
The World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Will Graduate High School This Year | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | Remember the sci-fi thriller ? For those who never saw the film and/or eschewed all pop culture in the late 90’s for some reason, it was a popular movie that came out in 1997 about genetically modified human beings. Now some literally genetically modified human babies born that same year are entering their senior year... |
Apple’s Tim Cook Does Some Security Straight Talking | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Today, Apple’s Tim Cook announcing a new security page on the company’s website, publishing some fairly plain-language security talk. There’s some solid language here that is clearly designed to allay fears about the way that Apple protects user data in the wake of the . Cook’s words: We believe in telling you up fr... |
Amazon Announces New Fire Tablets, E-Ink Kindles And A Special Fire For Kids | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | new devices today with an eye on shipping them before the holiday season. The collection, which ranges from a new e-ink tablet called the Voyage to an 8.9-inch tablet that is lighter than the iPad Air and features Fire OS 4.0, an OS based on KitKat, is designed for reading, work and play. There’s also a new Kindle for... |
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Taking A Ride With The Luminox P-38 Valjoux Automatic 9461 Chronograph | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 28 | Luminox is best known for their no-nonsense three-handed quartz models with unique Tritium tubes on the hands. These amazingly bright and compact watches are popular with military and police. But what about WWII era fighter pilots? Who will build a watch for them? has their back. The Luminox P-38 Valjoux Automatic 94... |
Hampton Creek In A Management Pickle As It Seeks To Raise $50 Million In Funding | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | It hasn’t even been a full two weeks since switched from an adviser role to chief strategy officer at . However, the plant-based mayo startup has confirmed that Partovi is out. This leaves the company in a bit of a management pickle. In an odd move, Partovi switched from simply adviser to second in command to CEO an... |
ManServant Will Let You Order Around Hot Men For $125 Per Hour | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | A 6’2″, sandy blond gentleman wearing a tailored suit and tie gently bows to greet me and seat me. “Hello, I am Fabio and I will be your man servant this afternoon,” he says. His gentle, hypnotic voice wraps around me. I suddenly realize I’ve been seated and proceed to accidentally knock my sunglasses off the table. Fa... |
FCC Chairman Wheeler: Title II Is On The Table | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | In the final moments of the FCC’s public comment period on its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) concerning , there was a spike in input regarding precisely how bad regulating ISPs under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 would be. To summarize the corporate response: Oh god, please no. Please. Contrary to ... |
BuySellAds Acquires Ad Startup LaunchBit | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | , an ad startup focused on helping software-as-a-service businesses find new customers, is announcing that it has been acquired by ad platform . The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. LaunchBit co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Yin told me via email that the LaunchBit ad network will continue to operate, ... |
Airbnb Will Begin Collecting Transient Occupancy Taxes For San Francisco Bookings Next Month | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | announced today that it will soon begin collecting and remitting a 14 percent hotel occupancy fee for guest stays occurring in San Francisco. In a , Airbnb’s regional head of public policy David Owen wrote that the policy will go into effect for all bookings that take place on or after October 1 in its home city. The... |
BeautyCon Raises Seed Funding So Brands Can Say Goodbye To Hollywood… And Hello To YouTube | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Moj Mahdara has seen the future of branding and entertainment, and it’s on YouTube. The chief executive of the burgeoning media business has raised under $2 million in seed financing from entertainment and publishing heavyweights like the publisher Hearst Corp., talent lawyers Ken Hertz and Eric Greenspan, along with... |
If You Want An Android Smartwatch, Get The Moto 360 | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | on the anarcho-syndicalist commune in , fans of Android Wear and the have been moaning under the oppressive noise regarding the yet-to-be-released Apple Watch. “You’re biased,” they scream as they swipe desperately at their Google Now cards. “You never cover the real winners.” Well here I am, covering the real winn... |
Memoir Debuts A “Predictive” Photo-Sharing App For iOS 8 | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Photo-sharing application , through a combination of advanced search features and a time-capsule-like function, similar to competitor . But one of the app’s more interesting features was a way to request photos from other users. Today, thanks to iOS 8, that option has now been improved. The company calls this new f... |
Storehouse Arrives On The iPhone | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | , the -winning long-form photo-sharing service from former Apple designer Mark Kawano, has . This comes almost four months after the startup raised from SherpaVentures and seed investors True Ventures, Lerer Ventures and Designer Fund in order to expand their reach beyond the iPad. Thankfully, the jump from the iPa... |
Google’s Skybox Satellites Shoot GIFs Of Burning Man Being Built | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Google bought for , and the micro-satellite company’s most recent mission was…to . Skybox repeatedly flew its satellites over Burning Man to create GIFs of how the 70,000 person make-shift hippie city was assembled and then deconstructed over three weeks. For example, above you’ll see the whole city rise and fall, ... |
Instapaper Goes Freemium With Big iOS Redesign | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | , bringing bookmarks into the future, has just launched a big redesign of the iOS version of the app with loads of new features and a brand new business model. has always been a paid product, going for between $3 and $4 dollars on mobile and costing approximately $1/month as a subscription. Today, the company is piv... |
Easel To Shut Down Nine Months After Being Acquired By GitHub | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Back when GitHub acquired Easel, a collaborative, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get HTML web design tool, Easel’s blog post on the matter implied that it would be sticking around. “Easel continues to run as it has,” . Alas, things change. Nine months later, Easel is closing up shop. So what Easel? If you’re familiar with... |
It’s Not About Creating Another Silicon Valley But Preventing Another Motor City | Mike Ducker | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Quick. What do the iconic founders Thomas Edison (hundreds of companies), William Hewlett (HP), William Boeing (Boeing Airlines), Robert Jarvik, (Jarvik Heart), Scott McNealy and Bill Joy (Sun Microsystems), Tony Fadell (Father of the iPod and founder of Nest) and Larry Page (Google) have in common? Give up? They grew ... |
TC Cribs: Evernote’s Expertly Caffeinated California HQ | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | In today’s episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we headed over to , the company behind the beloved notetaking software. Evernote has often said that it intends to be around for at least a century, which may well be why they’ve situated themselves in a very large building that gives them tons of room to grow in the years ahead... |
500 Startups Launches Its First Two 500 Women Syndicate Companies | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | has launched FameBit and Wanderable, the first two companies out of its female founders . 500 Startups created the program to support more women founders and encourage angel investors to invest in women-led companies. The first 500 Women company, , is a platform to find, hire and work with YouTube Influencers. It ... |
Twitter’s CEO Will Respond To Whether He’s High Once He Finishes These Doritos | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Peter Thiel thinks Twitter is than 140-characters. In a today, the famous Facebook investor bashed its competitor saying “Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It’s a horribly mismanaged company—probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there.”
And when Twitter employee Jason Goldman ribbed... |
Xpire’s App Makes All Your Social Media “Ephemeral” | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Dallas-based computer science college student wants to make social media more private. With help from his brother and financial backing from Mark Cuban, he recently released an iOS application called that lets users share “self-destructing” posts on Facebook, Twitter and, now Tumblr, as well as use a variety of too... |
Minuum’s iOS 8 Keyboard Lets You See A Lot More Screen As You Type | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 17 | Apple’s new relaxation of the ban on third-party keyboards means there’s now a plethora in the store, but a couple stand out. I wrote about Fleksy earlier, but Toronto startup , and their approach is unique. The team’s goal was to engineer a usable, one-line keyboard, and that’s what they’ve delivered on iOS, albeit w... |
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 Is…Alfred! | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | After three days and incredible pitches from our 26 Battlefield companies (plus two Audience Choice winners), it’s now time to name the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 Battlefield champion. This year’s finalists included Alfred, Partpic, PatternEQ, Shipstr, Stack And Vinli – all amazing startups. But there can only be one w... |
Apple Just Uploaded A U2 Album To Your iPhone And iPad — And Seriously, WTF | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Seriously. Go look. Depending on your iCloud setting, U2’s latest album might be sitting in the Music app, ready to play. Otherwise, the album is most likely still shown, available to download from iCloud from your iPhone, iPad, or iTunes app. Worse yet, it’s rather difficult to rid your phone and iTunes account of the... |
AngelList Talks Late-Stage Funding Syndicates, Global Expansion And A New Fund Ecosystem As The Angels Take Disrupt | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | is expanding globally and launching new vehicles for accredited investors to back what amounts to for the top deals on the platform. That’s the latest from AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and angel investor Gil Penchina from the stage of Disrupt SF 2014 as the angels who, along with CrunchFund investor (and Tech... |
A Run Through The Chinese Pavilion At TechCrunch Disrupt SF | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | At the Chinese pavilion we ran through those on show: Ogora helps developers add VOIP voice calls to their apps with one line of code. Sensoro is an iBeacon startup which senses the surrounding environment. An image recognition startup that can also recognise objects exhibited, allowing you to search on keywords on t... |
Looop, An Online Learning Platform For Employees, Raises $2M To Enter The UK | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Online learning startups are aplenty right now — from heavily-funded U.S-based MOOCS, such as and , to more thrifty European players like and — there’s no doubt the edtech space is heating up. Now another startup is throwing its learning wares into the virtual classroom. Australia’s provides a mobile-friendly ... |
Cloudike Provides White Label Cloud Storage For Carriers Like LG | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Services like , , and are so ubiquitous in the U.S. that it’s easy to forget there are many markets around the world where personal cloud storage is still relatively novel. , which is part of ASD Technologies and based in Korea, Russia, and San Jose, California, wants to grab those users by offering white-label cl... |
Executives At Disrupt Say The Future Of Healthcare Depends On Testing, Sensing And Communication | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | From on Monday to a panel of esteemed startup chief executives on Wednesday, the discussion around healthcare at this year’s Disrupt has been about the ways in which new diagnostic and communication tools are transforming delivery and accessibility for patients. “Healthcare is something that’s been done to us,” Livon... |
Bitcoin Wallet And Platform Coinbase Opens To Europe | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | In a really big deal for San Francisco-based Coinbase, one of the world’s leading Bitcoin wallets and merchant processing platforms, the startup is opening its doors to European customers in 13 countries. This will be its long-awaited first foray outside of the U.S. The company is one of the biggest Bitcoin wallets in... |
Minder Controls Your Content Location and Duration | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | The long tail theory states when you put something out on the Internet, it lives forever. For some, that means it comes back to bite you long after you posted it, but for content creators like marketers, artists and writers, they may simply lose control of how and where their content gets displayed. That’s where , a c... |
Microsoft Makes Scaling WordPress On Azure Easier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Almost of all sites on the web today run (including TechCrunch), but it’s not the easiest content management system to scale up for high-traffic sites. A bit of basic caching goes a long way, but to run a very large site — or to manage a huge visitor spike from Reddit and similar services — you need a bit more than... |
[Update] Allscripts Ex-CEO Glen Tullman Launches Livongo Health At Disrupt, Backed By General Catalyst | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | [Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to indicate that Glenn Tullman was the former chief executive of Allscripts, not its founder as was previously indicated.] Diabetes affects 29.1 million people in the U.S. — including the son of former chief executive Glen Tullman. When Tullman was looking to launch his next... |
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Disrupt Alum Edyn, Maker of a Smart Garden Sensor, Scores Distribution Through Home Depot | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Edyn, which a year ago with a slightly jankier cubical prototype of a Internet-connected garden sensor, is and a partnership to sell them in Home Depot next spring. The startup’s system, which comes with a soil sensor that can tell you pH, humidity, temperature, soil nutrition and moisture and an automated water v... |
Canviz Lets You Put Animated GIFs On Your Wall | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Boring old pictures are, without a doubt, boring. That’s why there’s . Designed by artists to allow them to share animated photographs and graphics, Canviz is a “museum grade” screen for your wall. Writes the creator, MM Waters: The canvas connects to your phone and allows you to upload almost any animated photo (or r... |
Twitter To Raise Up To $1.5B In Debt Offering | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Twitter wants more cash. The company announced two $650 million debt offerings today, each with a potential $100 increase provided that the sales are oversubscribed. Assuming full tip, including the $100 million boosters, Twitter will raise up to $1.5 billion with the two offerings. Half the debt will be due in 2019,... |
T-Mobile Pledges To Enable Wi-Fi Calling On Every Phone It Sells | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Over the past year and a half or so, T-Mobile has made announcement after announcement in what they’ve dubbed the “Un-carrier” series. Each announcement brings some change that’s meant to rid T-Mobile of some common wireless industry pain point — things like early termination fees, or the absurd costs of international ... |
Net Neutrality Foes And Advocates Rush To Control The Narrative As The FCC’s Comment Period Nears Its End | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | As the second comment period for the current net neutrality notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) approaches its end, the issue is heating back up. When the first comment period wrapped up, the FCC received so much input from Americans that its site crashed. The , as was the second, to account for the days is lost to t... |
How Tinder Transformed Dating, According To Its CEO | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Do you really know yourself if you’ve never had your heart broken? Tinder is often labeled a hookup app, but its In the video, Rad also discusses why Tinder won’t monetize by letting people pay to be shown to more potential matches like other dating services. Tinder doesn’t plan to spin off apps for different demogr... |
Path Will Build An Apple Watch App, But Dave Morin Won’t Talk About Those Acquisition Rumors | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Mobile social networking app was founded four years ago to help users connect and communicate with the people closest to them. But the startup is looking to branch into launching new apps and experiences, including building something for Apple’s upcoming wearable device. At Disrupt SF today, Morin admitted that he wa... |
Forget the Apple Watch, Think Drones In The Enterprise | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Yesterday we heard about and I wrote an article suggesting But just to show how fast the technology news cycle moves, today at Aaron Levie, CEO at Box participating on a panel about drones, made a business case for the use of drones in an enterprise context, making Watches yesterday’s news (literally). While Levie... |
Microsoft Held In Contempt As It Battles A Domestic Search Warrant Demanding Overseas Data | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 10 | Microsoft has been held in contempt of court after failing to comply with a warrant, following a rejection of a request for appeal on July 31st. The case stems from a United States government search warrant for data stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland. Microsoft . The United States government disagrees. Microsoft ... |
The Big Picture On Digital Receipts | Mark Johnson | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | What’s happening with digital receipts? The answer to that is a lot. The last five years or so have seen an explosion of ideas surrounding the capture, management and storage of digital receipts. There has been a mad rush by startups and merchants trying to capitalise on the enthusiasm typically generated by a new and ... |
SchoolMint Takes $2.2 Million To Make School Enrollment Easier | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | Startups have raised millions of dollars to improve every aspect of the classroom experience, but now there’s one focused on making it easier to actually enroll kids in schools. San Francisco-based , a new company backed with $2.2 million in financing from investors like New School Ventures Fund, Runa Capital, and Cro... |
Bitcoin Slips Back Under $400 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | After a steady decline from former, mid-year highs, bitcoin is now back under the $400 mark. The cryptocurrency hit that mark in April, at which point that the stuff was off 60 percent from its record highs. The price of bitcoin recovered. And then it un-recovered. Same question as before: “What next centennial mark ... |
Super Early Data Suggests iPhone 6 Is Outselling 6 Plus By A Lot | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | What’s going to sell better — the big ol’ iPhone 6, or the iPhone 6 Plus? The data is really, REALLY early (the phone has only been on the shelves for about 18 hours at this point, after all) — but so far, the 6 seems to be outpacing the 6 Plus by quite a bit. That chart below comes from MixPanel, who is . If you’re... |
The $300 Headband That Gamifies Your Moment Of Zen | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | The brain-training headband promises to help you reduce stress and anxiety in just three minutes a day. I went with our TechCrunch TV crew to chat with Muse co-founder and CEO Ariel Garten and to try out the tech…which turned into my own, personal calmness competition. I ended up surprising Garten with a much calmer-... |
Rumor: Oculus Will Unveil A Handheld Virtual Reality Controller [Update: Not Yet, But Coming] | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | ‘ headset lets you look around virtual reality but requires integrations with unofficial controllers to move an avatar, fire weapons, or input other commands. But at tomorrow’s , sources say Oculus is expected to unveil an official controller or controller industry standard to make it easier for developers to build mo... |
Verizon Will Be Getting iPhone 6-Friendly Wi-Fi Calling In 2015 | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 19 |
A quick update for those trying to figure out which carriers will/won’t support the iPhone 6’s Wi-Fi calling feature anytime soon: T-Mobile . AT&T . Now Verizon is pledging to support it next year, too. Word of the new feature comes from Verizon CFO Fran Shammo who mentioned it at a conference this morning — but not... |
A Unique Fingertip Sensor Helps Robots Touch The World Around Them | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | , too. That’s why MIT researchers have added a touch-force sensor to the robotic , allowing him to register gentle caresses, tender hand-holding, and the sense the he is loved and in love. Okay, not really. But now Baxter, a robot used in manufacturing and to perform repetitive tasks, can carry out those tasks with a ... |
CrunchWeek: Alibaba’s IPO, Minecraft, And Sarah Gets A ManServant | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | Happy Friday, everyone, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek. This time around the table, TechCrunch’s , and myself discussed , Microsoft , and why Sarah had . We’ll be back next Friday for more. But perhaps with less gingham. |
NYSE Traders Weigh In On Alibaba’s IPO | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | We were on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this morning for Alibaba’s debut. The Chinese e-commerce company had the biggest initial public offering ever for a U.S.-listed company, and its share price jumped another 36 percent when . (After approaching $100, at $93.89.) In the hours leading up to the start... |
Alibaba Spikes, Yahoo Sags | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | Alibaba’s IPO . The company’s shares soared more than 38 percent in regular trading, pushing the valuation of the Chinese e-commerce company north of $225 billion. The success of the offering, however, did not bolster Yahoo, whose stock fell during midday trading, dipping under the $40 mark before partially recovering... |
Netflix Is Finally Coming To Linux Without The Need For Hacky Tricks | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | While Google Analytics might suggest our Linux-lovin’ audience isn’t all that huge, If you’re sitting in the itty-bitty overlapping sliver on the Venn diagram of “People who use Ubuntu” and “People who can’t figure out how to use and other trickery to make Netflix work on Ubuntu” — good news! Netflix is likely (fina... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: LogMeIn Rescue + 1 Year Mobile License | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | For all you technicians out there, the team at LogMeIn wants to give one of our readers a license to its . Rescue is a cloud-based application that empowers customer service agents to offer premium levels of remote support to people and the devices they use, no matter where you are. The winner will get a full license ... |
Sweeten, A Match-Making Platform For Homeowners And Renovators, Launches Out Of Beta | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | We’ve seen services like Angie’s List and provide greater transparency around booking contractors and designers for home renovation and repair work, but that doesn’t mean there is no room for improvement in the space. , which just launched out of beta, has already done more than $100 million worth of renovation proje... |
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple, Moto 360, And Amazon | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | This week, you might have noticed that Apple introduced a few new products. That said, we’re getting to know the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Meanwhile, we’ve actually grown more attached to the Moto 360 than expected, and are in the process of learning about Amazon’s newest gear. We discuss all this and more on this week’s ep... |
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Amazon Attempts To Upend The Television Ratings System – No, Really | Jay Chandrasekhar | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | On January 26, 1979, “The Dukes of Hazzard” television show premiered on CBS on the East Coast. The show was poorly reviewed and, worse still, the TV ratings were just okay. As the legend goes, the president of CBS, who was in New York that night, saw the show for the first time and was appalled by its lack of qualit... |
Sf.citi Tries To Recruit Tech Companies To “Adopt” SF’s Public Schools | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | One of the issues with leaning on a high-tech economic growth strategy in a region where there is incredibly constricted space and housing stock like in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is making sure that the benefits of a boom spread to everyone. California’s public school system is of the country’s state education... |
UK Engineers 3D Print Their Own Raspberry Pi Laptop | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | Is there anything a robotic system for the extrusion of plastic in to solid forms over time can’t do? We present to you today the , a Raspberry Pi-based laptop that is completely 3D-printed and lasts hours on a single charge. The kit, which will launch as a Kickstarter soon, offers a 13.3-inch screen and a little keyb... |
Kickstarter Updates Terms Of Use Section Related To Failed Projects | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 19 | Popular crowdfunding destination updated its today to clarify what specifically needs to happen if a project runs into trouble and creators are unable to deliver. The terms changes come on the heels of which state how online retailers now have to abide by a 30-day shipping requirement, or refund customers payment... |
Aileen Lee’s Cowboy Ventures Is Raising A $55 Million Second Fund | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Cowboy Ventures, the early-stage investment firm led by Aileen Lee, is in the midst of raising its second fund. According to an , the firm is seeking to raise $55 million — which is up from the $40 million it sought the first time around. Lee along with partner Noah Lichtenstein after spending the previous 13 with K... |
A Petite Woman’s Experience With The iPhone 6 | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Being easily excited by newfangled gadetry, I waited with glee for Apple to announce the iPhone 6. However, it was not without trepidation. In spite of my eagerness for a new device, I feared the new iPhone would be significantly larger than the previous iterations and for good reason: I’m a delicate 5’2″. Electronics ... |
Bring Your Robot To Hardware Alley In London Next Month | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Your robot deserves to roam free. That’s why you should bring him/her/it to Hardware Alley at ! The alley, which runs during the last day of Disrupt, features all of my favorite startups – the hardware ones – in glorious technicolor. What is ? It’s a celebration of hardware startups (and other cool gear makers) that ... |
With Plans of Investing $100M Next Year, Israel’s OurCrowd Forges Its Own Path in Equity Crowdfunding | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | In the fast-emerging space of equity crowdfunding, Silicon Valley insiders are pretty familiar with players like AngelList. But there’s actually a startup crowdfunding site out of Israel with a veteran team that has a good deal of momentum as well. , which is run by serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist , has put... |
New Cash May Make Wish The Next $1B Unicorn | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | , we’re hearing from multiple sources that the mobile and online shopping startup is galloping towards “unicorn” status with talks to raise roughly $100 million at a valuation of around $1 billion. Apparently, people like to shop on their mobile devices. Just to refresh your memory, the San Francisco-based Wish was l... |
Microsoft Brings MSN Back By Shifting Windows Phone’s Bing Apps To A New, Old Moniker | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Microsoft, in an effort to , is . You are forgiven if you forgot that , or that a number of Windows Phone and Windows apps that have little to do with search are in fact still branded under the Bing name. MSN may be on this side of risible in the sense that it is a portal, but it does retain international cachet, ... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | From #BendGate and Beats Music to South Park, here are the top stories from 9/20 to 9/26: 1. . For those unfamiliar with the “saga,” several reports suggested that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will bend when left in a pocket for a prolonged period of time. The iPhone 6 Plus in particular garnered the most attention. The iP... |
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CrunchWeek: Apple Bends, Your Startup Is Doomed, And Felicia’s Big Debut | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Hello from TechCrunch SF HQ, where we just wrapped another episode of CrunchWeek, our weekly pandemic covering the latest in technology news. The inane, the excellent, and the execrable are our usual fare. , Apple , and the burn rate of many startups was . This week and were joined by a special guest, , our re... |
What $1 Million Won’t Buy You | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | What’s the value of talent today in Silicon Valley? This year, a startup with revenues of $10 million wanted to find a new chief executive following its Series B raise and offered $450,000 in compensation (5% of revenues). Another startup, quickly growing and approaching an IPO, did a search for a CEO to lead it onto t... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.26.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | – Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. |
Microsoft Discloses New Data On Government Requests For User Information | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Microsoft today data concerning , and information about their accounts in the first half of 2014. The total number of requests, and the number of accounts impacted were similar to the six month period that concluded 2013. In total, between January and June of this year, 34,494 requests were sent to Microsoft, impact... |
Moving Beyond Same-Day Bookings, HotelTonight Launches Its 7-Day Reservation System | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | is moving beyond the same-day hotel bookings that it’s known for. that this move was in the works, but HotelTonight is confirming the news, and the updated apps offering hotel booking up to seven days in advance are scheduled to go live … now. Co-founder and CEO Sam Shank told me that HotelTonight is expanding its mo... |
Led By Pixar Alums, ToyTalk Launches Its First Paid Kids App, Begins To License Tech | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | , the makers of kids entertainment applications for iPad, has just released its first paid application with the launch of a character-driven touch and play app called . But the team may have even bigger news on the way in the form of licensing deals for its speech recognition tech with some of the best-known children’... |
If You Watch One Video Featuring An Arduino-Powered Stepper Motor Music Box Today, Make It This One | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b_o0P0isSo] Today in devices that use stepper motors to make beautiful music we present to you this that uses simple stepper motors to grind out merry tunes and a pair of servos to supply a percussion backup. The box, created by , is surprisingly simple. The Raspberry Pi con... |
Post-it Notes Get Digitized In A Clever New App From 3M | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Post-it Notes may be a product of the analog era, but they continue to stick around – literally, that is – covering walls, windows, monitor screens and more, remaining an office worker’s go-to-tool for small scribbles, quick thoughts, and ideas. Now the company behind Post-it, 3M, is hoping to port Post-it notes to the... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Bendgate, iOS 8.0.1 Bugs, And BlackBerry Passport | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the iPhone’s launch has brought with it a series of backlashes. It was discovered that Apple’s larger iPhone, the 6 Plus, may bend under direct, persistent pressure over a prolonged period of time. Turns out, it wasn’t a huge deal. However, a bug in iOS 8.0.1 t... |
Apple’s Expanded iPhone 6 Availability Draws Big Crowds | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Apple’s iPhone 6 launch maybe be its queueiest yet, according to droves of fans lining up around the world for round two of the new device’s global debut. Today, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus went on sale in over 20 new countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Nether... |
[Update] Sorry, But Could You Think Of A Worse Combination Than These Two Brands? | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | It looks like (and, by extension, us.*) As you’ve , activist investor , has sent an open letter to Marissa Mayer (Hi, potential new boss… ), imploring her to just pull the trigger already and make the corporate marriage with Tim Armstrong official (seriously, this will they, won’t they stuff is getting ridiculous.... |
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