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Closing The Gaps In Mobile Health | Dan Pelino | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | As our health system transforms to be more patient-centered, evidence-based and effective, mobile technology has been conspicuously absent from daily healthcare workflow. But if we truly envision a future in which patients are at the center of our health system, it’s time for that to change. Today’s clinicians have acc... |
Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 26 | Yahoo today it’s shuttering a handful of products, including Qwiki, a mobile app Yahoo last July for $50 million, which helps users create movies from the photos and videos in their Camera Roll. Also getting the boot are , a site designed to connect users to educational content and providers, as well as , the 20-... |
With 10M Users, Israel’s Moovit Tries To Follow In Waze’s Footsteps For Mass Transit | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 21 | After to Google on the back of crowd-generated data for drivers, it feels obvious that someone should do the same thing for the world’s mass transit systems. And indeed, another company out of Waze’s home market of Israel is trying to provide real-time, crowdsourced data on public transit. Called , its from invest... |
Windows 9’s Preview May Not Touch Down Until October | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 21 | Remember that that Microsoft is hosting on September 30? It might not mark the actual release of Windows 9’s technical preview, as was long expected. According , that bit of code might not become available until October. So put your laptop down , because the wait might be longer than you expected. Component to his ... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 9 | 21 | As we reflect on the week, we give you the 11 best stories from 9/13-9/19. 1. It was announced that Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle since he founded the company in 1977, has . He is to be replaced by a co-CEO structure consisting of Mark Hurd and Safra Catz. 2. , opening trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $92.70... |
An Early Investor Offers Some Lessons From Alibaba’s Evolution | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 21 | co-founders Thomas Ng and Joel Kellman got to know Jack Ma in 1999, in the early days of when the company was just starting up in a small apartment in Hangzhou, China. Fifteen years later, firm co-founder and managing director Hany Nada can only marvel at what his partners’ investment has wrought. Although no longer... |
Don’t Let iOS 8’s Accidental Selfie Feature Ruin Your Life | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 21 | Who has already sent an accidental selfie in iOS 8’s Messages app? I did. This one: Not great. I’m late to the game when it comes to iOS 8. Many of my fellow tech journalists weaseled their way onto the beta version of the operating system, but out of laziness, or perhaps a feigned belief that I can stay away from pund... |
SoftBank Leads $6 Million Round For Ed-Tech Startup EdCast | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 21 | After with the Alibaba public offering, has returned to the early stage market, this time to lead a $6 million investment into , a new online education company launched by serial entrepreneur Karl Mehta. This is the second time SoftBank has backed one of Mehta’s startups, albeit in very different sectors. Mehta ha... |
Facebook Highlights Its 1-Billion-Video-Views-Per-Day Reach By Adding View Counts | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | To prove to advertisers and the world that it’s not just YouTube that has massive video engagement online, it now delivers 1 billion video views per day and will begin showing everyone view counts on publicly posted videos from users, Pages, and public figures. This could convince advertisers shifting TV ad spend to ... |
Shower With Friends Wins The Disrupt SF 2014 Hackathon Grand Prize, Blitz And Interactive Markdown Are Runners Up | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | Over the weekend, 132 teams worked tirelessly at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 hackathon to come up with their ingenious hacks and creations. At the end of a long night filled with Nerf guns, pizza and , the teams presented their hacks to the world on the Disrupt stage for final judging. At the end of the afternoon, ... |
The #Gamergate Question | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | Depending on how closely you follow the gaming and tech press, you may have heard of # . Those of us inside the industry have. This week it’s essentially all we’ve been able to talk about. What is it? Well the short version is that #gamergate is a reactionary movement on Twitter largely in response to what gamers perce... |
Experiment 8 – Guess It, The Hack That Wants You To Play “The Price Is Right” For Discounts When You Shop | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | The team behind Experiment 8 – Guess It has a terrible name and a simple idea: Guess the price of any product on its website correctly and get a deep discount. Come close and get a smaller one. Their vision is to gamify the shopping experience and breathe new life into the moribund model that existing daily-deal e-comm... |
TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Developers Learn To Simplify Under Pressure | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | Under the pressure that is the , one team found itself stuck. The product was too complex to complete on time. The team members were tired and depressed and ready to give up until one member of the team, software engineer Alessandro Diogo Bruckheimer, came up with an idea to simplify their goal, and the app was born.... |
Git Bounty Wants To Help Open-Source Programmers Get Paid For Bug Fixes | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | If you’re using open-source software, you’ve probably come across a bug that you want to fix but don’t have the expertise to do it yourself — and the original author isn’t all that interested in fixing it. With Git Bounty, which was dreamed up by a team of French Canadians (and one Frenchman) from Montreal at our Disru... |
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Persona’s Machine-Learning App Lets People Follow Different Sides Of Your Twitter Identity | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | Our identities are prismatic. We’re not the same person to everyone. Yet when you follow someone on Twitter, your feed overflows with a combination of their personal, professional, and social tweets. But thanks to project Persona, you can choose which dimensions of someone’s identity you want to see. Persona uses mac... |
Fantasy Bit League Wants You To Bet Bitcoin On Football | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | On stage this morning at the , Fantasy Bit League pitched its creation: A way to wager bitcoin in your fantasy football league. As it turns out, betting on fantasy football is legal in every state in the U.S. Apparently it’s considered a game of skill, and not chance. Think of it as more like poker than blackjack, i... |
FitLine Monitors Your App Usage Like A Fitness Tracker | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | If you’re the kind of person who attends hackathons on a regular basis, chances are you spend some of your time on your laptop or smartphone on activities that, in hindsight, probably aren’t actually worth your attention. Knowing its audience, a team of hackers from advertising tech firm came to the TechCrunch Disrup... |
Blitz Lets You Create Shortcuts To Your Favorite iOS Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | Presenting on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco hackathon this afternoon was the team from an iOS app called Blitz, which aims to offer Notification Screen shortcuts to specific pages and functions within your iOS apps. For example, you could save a shortcut that, when tapped, would launch Google Maps with ... |
If Switzerland Is Fucked, Then The iWatch Is, Too | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | As we approach Peak iWatch, it’s important to consider just what the new device (if it even launches) will do to the watch market as a whole. I can assure you – and this is based on a deep and nuanced understanding of the – that the jolly watchmakers of Geneva aren’t giving the iWatch a second thought. First, let’s a... |
An Energy-Saving Air Vent In The Cloud Designed By A 13-Year-Old | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | Father and daughter team Gabi and Shani Zuniga put their heads together with neighbor and long-time friend Danny Eizips to create Ventix, a home heating and cooling device controlled by the cloud. Think of it like , but one step into the future. While the Nest thermostat controls your entire home, the Arduino-based Ve... |
StudySpots Helps Students Escape The Campus Bubble | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | I wish StudySpots had been around when I was a college student. I’d spend hours hunched over books and my laptop in my dorm room or the same cubicle at the library, accumulating a layer of grime and tears as I crammed for an exam or struggled through a term paper. StudySpots, presented by a team of five young women fro... |
Venture Investors See Wave Of Tech Cash Coming From The East | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | Not to overstate the obvious, but the Alibaba IPO . The $155 billion public offering would make Alibaba one of the largest in U.S. history, but it has repercussions that extend far beyond its impact on the U.S. Stock Market. Investors like GGV Capital and DCM, which have commitments in both the U.S. and China, see the... |
iBeacon Hack Makes It More Efficient To Wait Tables | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | It’s still pretty early days for beacon tech, but practical applications for the Bluetooth trigger hardware are set for . Beacons can be embedded into all sorts of everyday objects linking them to smartphones and their users via a companion app. Here at the 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt SF hackathon two-man hack team, Ray H... |
iWatch’s Killer Feature Could Be Two-Factor Authentication For Payments | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | How will Apple make us desperate to ? By taking the risk and clumsiness out of mobile payments. Imagine if your iWatch could recognize that your iPhone is within range as a pre-payment security check. The two could then connect to a retailer’s point of sale via Near Field Communication (NFC), and a “Pay $20 to Starbuc... |
Reddit Takes Down Groups Hosting Celebrity Nudes, Walks A Blurred Line On Free Speech | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | did two things last night that, on the surface, seemed pretty contradictory. It published offering an explanation for why the site does not generally take down “morally objectionable or otherwise inappropriate” subreddits. At around the same time, Reddit took down /r/TheFappening and related subreddits, where many o... |
Shower With Friends Lets You Gamify Water Consumption | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | An engineering team from may have a good solution to California’s drought problem – just shower with friends. The team of five presented Shower with Friends at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon today, an Intel technology similar to Arduino that lets you compare your water use against that of your friends. The idea ... |
A Peek Behind The Scenes At Disrupt SF | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 7 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrG6OGfay9w] Can’t make it to ? Want to see what exactly the team is doing behind the scenes? Watch this shaky, inaugural video by our new drone, Jitterz, as she flies around the backstage area, through the presentation space, and out into the Hackathon/Start-up Alley room. It’... |
Watch The Disrupt SF Hackathon Live Stream Right Here! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 7 |
The Hackathon is nearly over, and yet it has only just begun. Hundreds of developers and tinkerers came together yesterday to kick off TC Disrupt SF with a Hackathon. Based on the way it smells here at Pier 48, these folks have worked through the night to build something awesome. Today, the presentations ... |
FishingBooker Helps You Book Fishing Trips | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | This year’s Audience Choice at Disrupt SF has a WHALE of a tale to tell you. Called , this Belgrade-based company is streamlining the process of booking fishing boats. Yes. Really. Founded by Vukan Simic and Nemanja Cerovac, the startup won a pitch-off I attended in Montenegro this year and came all the way from Serbi... |
The Disrupt SF 2014 Battlefield Finalists Are Alfred, Partpic, PatternEQ, Shipstr, Stack And Vinli | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | In our new conference venue at Pier 48, 26 battlefield competitors (and two Audience Choice winners) have pitched their hearts out onstage at these past two days. It’s been a nerve-wracking process for these founders, as they presented their business ideas to some of the most accomplished people in our industry who g... |
RezGuru By TableGrabber Helps Restaurants Take A Smarter Approach To Pricing And Reservations | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | aims to help restaurants fill their empty seats, and to that end, it’s launching a new platform today called at the Disrupt SF startup battlefield. The goal, as laid out by co-founders (and siblings) Sonia and Pawan Marwaha, is to adjust things like pricing and reservation availability in a way that maximizes revenu... |
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.09.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Benedict Evans, and Steve Gillmor. |
Up Close And Personal With The iPhone 6 And 6 Plus On Video | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | Apple’s new iPhones are now a , but perhaps you haven’t yet had a chance to get a more intimate look at them. We had an opportunity to try them out in person, and to run through all of the new hardware features and software functions they offer. Both the iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus offer unique advantages and disadvanta... |
FOVE Uses Eye Tracking To Make Virtual Reality More Immersive | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | wants to ramp up by the virtual reality experience by creating the world’s first consumer-oriented headmount display to use eye tracking. The Tokyo-based startup was founded by CEO Yuka Kojima and CTO Lochlainn Wilson and is launching today on the Disrupt SF stage. Fove’s name comes from the words “field of view” an... |
YouTurn Is Like Hyperlapse With Benefits | Jay Donovan | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | is probably wincing that I compare it to the extremely popular . In my defense, there are similarities that simply must be noted — primarily that the app creates super-fast videos of events. However, YouTurn, which is showing its concept on the floor at , has a slightly different angle, and it revolves around taking... |
Correction: Switzerland Now Has An Incredible Competitor | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | So here we are, in the hours after the , and we need to address just what the When I first saw the watch I literally thought that Jony Ive was right in regards to how – ahem – ruined the Swiss watch industry was. However, as I thought about what the Apple Watch was (and wasn’t) I’ve come to a more nuanced conclusion.... |
Russia’s Webex, Webinar.ru, Secures $7.3M, Just Before Sanctions Bite | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | Web-conferencing and video-conferencing software company has raised $7.3 million in a Series A funding round led by and (the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development) and also included and previous investor . On an interesting note, this is the last investment of EBRD in a Russian company because of the... |
Sciencebite Is Metasearch For Scientific Expertise | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | A great startup idea often has a chunk of science at its core. But getting the discrete worlds of industry and academe to combine is not as easy as it could be. So says Berlin-based Sciencebite, a startup co-founded by Oxford- and Cambridge-educated scientist Samson Rogers who spent 10 years working in academia and c... |
Here’s Apple Pay In Action | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | Apple has revealed its , and it features NFC and Touch ID, as many expected. The system works as fast as they joked it did on stage – which is why in our demo we ran through a number of different payment scenarios. Essentially, with the new iPhones, a user holds their phone near a payment terminal, and the payment c... |
Hands On With The Apple Watch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | is out there, and the way they’re looking to distance themselves from the crowd is by introducing a smooth, highly usable interface with unique control mechanisms, and creating a device that embraces apps and features beyond notifications, but in a way that makes sense for a small-screened device. The also cozies up... |
PatternEQ Wants To Help SaaS Companies Use Data Science To Kill Their Churn | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | This afternoon at the Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield, launched into private beta with an aim to help software as a service (SaaS) companies attack on of their chief foes: churn. Call it data science for the common man. takes in data from a startup’s various sources — MixPanel, for example — weaving the information ... |
MailTime Turns Your Email Inbox Into An SMS Chat Session | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | There has been no shortage of apps and startups looking to fundamentally change the way we communicate by email. They range from products like Mailbox, which seeks to help users reach inbox zero, to Acompli, which adds file management and scheduling directly into your inbox. But in each case, the format of the emails y... |
Microsoft Said To Be Close To Purchasing Minecraft’s Parent Company For Around $2B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | It appears that Microsoft is prepping to follow Facebook into of gaming acquisitions. The Wall Street Journal that the software giant will buy the gaming company behind the mega-hit Minecraft for around $2 billion, perhaps as early as this week. The deal, which Microsoft can well afford with its nearly $86 billion ... |
Watch All The Videos Apple Showed During Its Keynote | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | It’s been . There’s not just one but two new (and bigger) iPhones, the Apple Watch, and a new system for paying for things at physical retailers with a quick tap of your phone or watch. That was a lot to process, and Apple had to break it all down with a series of videos strung throughout its keynote. For many (includ... |
Stack’s Smart Sensor-Packed Light Bulbs Run Autonomously, No App Interactions Required | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | Over the past few years a swath of self-styled ‘smart lights’ have pushed into the market. The likes of and Kickstarter fueled . Aka connected lightbulbs that can be controlled via an app. But this is just the first wave of smart lighting — and it’s really not-so-smart, argues new lighting focused startup Stack, lau... |
Brian Chesky Talks About Just How Different The Hotel Business Is From Airbnb | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | The conversation about exactly how co-founder saw his company seemed a bit confusing during his 20 minute panel on the Disrupt SF stage this afternoon. Chesky was adamant that Airbnb is like a hotel until it isn’t. Chesky started off comparing Airbnb to eBay, saying the travel booking service was “like the eBay of ... |
Palate Is A Smart Grill That Takes The Work Out Of Cooking | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | While the standard George Foreman has long been the go-to grill for busy executives on the go, it’s time for Big George to hang up his gloves. is on the scene and launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014. This smart grill will cook almost any food perfectly based on weight, composition, and desired done-ness and can... |
Apple Accepting iTunes Donations For ‘City of Hope’ Center During October | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | Apple will be accepting donations for the during the month of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the company revealed today. The organization is a research and treatment center created to combat not only breast cancer, but also diabetes and other life-threatening diseases including lymphoma and brain ca... |
Firespotter Labs Becomes Switch, Providing A Cloud-Based Phone System For Google Apps | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | Unified communications has long been touted as the future, but being able to provide access to all of one’s calls and messages on multiple devices is an idea that has just barely come to fruition. Now, the folks at Firespotter Labs think they’ve built a solution — a cloud-based platform for enterprise communications ca... |
Vinod Khosla Doesn’t Like Eggs, But He Loves Machine Learning | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 9 | Today at Disrupt SF, TechCrunch founder and alum Michael Arrington interviewed venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in a conversation that covered a number of topics including egg substitutes, animal cruelty, city design, Uber, the usefulness of most members of the professional investing community — and one of Khosla’s newe... |
YC’s Altman Thinks Reddit’s Community Ownership Experiment Could Be A Model | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | The thought of using crypto-currencies to back shares of a company first crossed Y Combinator head Sam Altman’s mind about two years ago. “It was an idle thought that popped into my head,” he said. “It was not until Reddit reached out to me about fundraising that I thought about it again.” So when he decided to , it w... |
Here’s How Windows 10 Will Make Your Mouse And Fingers Get Along | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_O-LrGL-YQ&feature=youtu.be Earlier today during its event in San Francisco, Microsoft played a video detailing how its coming Windows 10 operating system will handle a fusion of touch, and more traditional mouse-based input. I filmed a bootleg copy, but Microsoft just published a more ... |
A Messaging Giant Goes Public In Korea And DCM Reaps The Rewards | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | As the mobile messaging company Kakao Corp. on the Korean stock exchange, a world away, on Sand Hill Road, the partners at venture capital firm are probably getting ready to do some celebrating of their own. Three years after its initial investment in Kakao, the venture firm will be able to harvest the fruits of it... |
ERA Demo Day Has Something For Everyone From Truckers To Teens | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | The unveiled their latest cohort today in New York, with companies launching services for everyone from chief executives on the go to college kids looking for the meaning behind their messages to a subscription based perfume service to give women and men new scents to make great memories. Behind the glass and steel w... |
Go To TechCrunch Disrupt Europe: London For Free #TCDisrupt | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to London this October, and to celebrate we’re giving away a free pair of tickets to the main event. All you have to do is fill out the entry form and come up with the best caption for this photo of Kyle wearing Google Glass. We’ll select the winning entry, and the winner will be notified b... |
Tony Hsieh Steps Down From Vegas Downtown Project | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | , the CEO and founder of Zappos has stepped down from his leadership role at the Las Vegas Downtown Project, . Hsieh created the massive $350 million project to revitalize several city acres east of Las Vegas Boulevard and convert the area into a tech hub. Hsieh’s announcement comes right on the heels of a massive 30 ... |
TC Cribs: Ticketfly, Where Meetings Morph Into Impromptu Jam Sessions | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | In this episode of Cribs, we headed over to , the startup that runs a ticketing platform for all kinds of live events. As you can see in the video embedded above, going to visit Ticketfly HQ is kind of an event in itself. The place is decorated with nods to all sorts of famous venues, from the Louvre to the erstwhile ... |
Make Bold Statements With Biz Stone’s Goofy New App “Super” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | After trying to with his Q&A app , Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is back with a more light-hearted product called . I just stumbled into the unannounced beta of Super, which lets you share statements starting with “The Best”, “The Worst”, “I Wish”, “Check Out”, “Don’t Ever”, or a few other prompts. You can sign your... |
The iPhone 6 Plus Is Great For Gamers | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | While I hate the word “phablet,” there’s no denying that it’s helpful to have a term for what is becoming a unique category, separate from the smartphones and tablets that came before them. Not always the most convenient in one hand on the go and not as suited to content consumption as a tablet when at home, bigger p... |
Arduino Is Building A Sub-$1000 3D Printer | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | There is a shortage of teams working on low-cost 3D printers. Kickstarter is absolutely overflowing with them. But, as many of those teams quickly realize, shipping hardware is . A challenger approaches! Arduino, the company best known for building and shipping the absurd number of microcontrollers that power a D... |
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong On Giving Stock To Users: “We Have A Crazy Plan.” | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | One of the defining ironies of the social networking IPOs over the last decade is that the financial returns have been concentrated among so few when the value has been created by so many. But current Reddit CEO Yishan Wong wants to change that. When Wong served as an early director at Facebook for five years, crypto-c... |
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Suffering From #GapGate | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | Another day, another -Gate. This time the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the latest phablet to enamor the Android crowd, has been reported shipping with a thin gap between the screen and the walls of the case. The issue, reported on in South Korea, seems to affect a small number of devices. According to the piece, two pieces... |
Noice Lets You Send Emoji With Sounds To Friends’ Phones | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | Yes, my friends, there is an app more annoying than . If having your phone randomly shout “Yo!” at you (or “ !,” if you preferred the spin-offs) drove you batty, wait until you get ahold of this: , an app that lets you communicate using only emoji and sounds. Really! OK, OK, I kid. Noice is actually kind of fun, in a... |
Doublie Spices Up Your Selfies With Homemade Stickers And Celebrities | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | Your photos are boring. can fix that. The app lets you add any of 10,000 stickers and celebrity cut-outs to your pics so you can fake a selfie with Beyoncé, get a kiss from Obama, or have Miley twerking in the background. You can even make your own stickers of your face or anything else, paste them to a photo, and sh... |
Tune In To TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM 102 Indie Tonight | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | It’s Tuesday again, which means that TechCrunch is jumping off of the internet (kind of) and into your ears tonight at 6pm ET/3pm PT. on Sirius XM 102 Indie is this whole new thing we’re doing, and today’s show is set to be our best yet. We’ll be joined by musician, film maker and entrepreneur , and then we’ll head i... |
Lots Of Pictures Of Windows 10 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | I suck at taking photos, but, here we are. Here’s a bunch more pictures of Windows 10 in action at the Microsoft event that took place earlier in San Francisco today. Also: Featuring me making accidental duck face, and of Ars Technica singing the song of his people. [gallery ids="1064220,1064221,1064222,1064223,10642... |
Watch Jeff Goldblum’s GE Link Spot, The Smartest Smart Home Ad Ever | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIY7ushchU] Hey, who here gets excited about smart lightbulbs? Probably four of you raised your hands, and two of them were me. GE has taken a different approach to selling its new Link connected bulbs, eschewing sales pitches of convenience and connectivity in favor of trottin... |
Apple’s OS X Yosemite Reaches GM Status, Nears Consumer Launch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 30 | Apple’s OS X Yosemite operating system is arriving soon, and the fact that the developer preview just reached Golden Master status, alongside a , means we probably don’t have long to wait. Last year, Apple released its Mavericks GM build about three weeks before it released the update to the Mac App Store for everyone... |
CloudAlloy Makes Docs In The Cloud More Secure By Breaking Them Into Pieces | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | One of the key issues facing companies when they put their content in the cloud is security, but what if you could send your documents to the cloud without security concerns? , a company displaying at the this week, breaks your documents into pieces, spreading them across the cloud services and putting them back tog... |
Teleport’s Experiment In Nomadic Work Starts With $2.5M And A Tool For The SF Bay Area | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Teleport, the startup that’s building infrastructure to help nomadic workers seamlessly move from place to place, from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Seedcamp, and angel investors including Scott and Cyan Banister and Fortumo founder Rain Rannu. They’ve called themselves the “search engine for digital nomads,” and th... |
Valor Water Analytics Helps Water Utilities Stay Afloat As Customers Conserve | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | As more Americans become aware of the need to conserve water for environmental reasons, or due to drought-related water use restrictions, the water utilities have found themselves struggling to stay financially sound as they begin to sell less water to their customers. is a company moving into this largely ignored se... |
Donde Aims To Make Online Product Search Far Less Frustrating | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Today’s audience choice for TC’s Startup Battlefield — plucked from the packed exhibition floor of Silicon Alley to pitch on the Disrupt SF 2014 main stage — is , a Silicon Valley and Israel based ecommerce startup that wants to make it easier for shoppers to search for items based on how they look. Co-founder Liat Za... |
IsItYou Promises To Make Face Authentication Actually Work | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Facial recognition as a form of authentication, like many of the technologies that have bubbled into reality in the past few years, is something that Sci-Fi has been promising for decades. Alas, it’s… not always very good. Android’s face-based unlock mode, for example, tends to be fun for a few minutes before it just g... |
Rallyteam Helps Companies Foster And Retain Talent | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Many businesses these days struggle to retain their employees — and especially the millennials who are now entering the workforce. Instead of just a stable paycheck, many now look for a bit more in their jobs, and the companies that can offer that are the ones that will keep their best employees for longer. , which ... |
CoinSafe May Have Solved The Bitcoin Transaction Speed Problem | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Bitcoin transactions aren’t actually instant. Because each transfer requires a number of confirmations via the mining process, some moves can take minutes or even half an hour. , however, may have created a solution that can process BTC transactions in seconds. CoinSafe, a company founded by Michael Flaxman and Tom ... |
Property Partner Secures Seed Cash For Its Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | A new startup that lets users invest as £50 in the booming buy-to-let housing market in the UK has launched with £1.25m seed funding led by Octopus Investments. The investment round in also includes participation from a number of high profile European funds and investors. These include venture accelerator Seedcamp; B... |
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SOP Notify Launches A Waze For Power In Emerging Markets | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Before they selected their first office in Abuja, Nigeria, the team behind power monitoring and outage alert provider thought they’d done thorough due diligence. They’d been to the space three times and were assured that they’d have a consistent source of power to do their work. As soon as they signed the lease and m... |
StudyRoom Lets College Students Join Online Study Groups, Book Tutors | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Launching publicly on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage this afternoon is a company called , which aims to take student study groups and tutoring online, and make them more social. The company has already been running trials of its program in six universities, starting this spring, and now claims to reach 40,000 students... |
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QuickFire TV Helps Broadcasters Get The News Out Faster | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | QuickFire’s speed is the result of the startup building a complete stack for its service, including custom hardware and software designed specifically to reduce transcoding times. Each rack in the servers that make up its hardware platform (which the company calls T-Video) contains a custom motherboard built to accom... |
Allre Lets You Buy And Sell Your House Online Without A Real Estate Agent | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | The Internet has disintermediated almost every business that used to rely on brokers — except for the real estate industry. There, we still pay huge fees to agents who often do very little for their money and aren’t necessarily on our side. , which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 today, wants to bring the... |
Mark Cuban Explains The Four Parts Of An Ideal Investment Pitch | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | “I’m very transparent with my companies,” Mark said. “You should know the companies I’ve invested in, why I invested in those companies and how your company is going to be great.” He noted that in Silicon Valley, young companies often view getting fundings as the “end-all, be-all.” Mark explains that he is more inter... |
Peter Thiel Tweets | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Peter Thiel could have tweeted about his early investment in Facebook, his loathe for Uber or the future of anti-aging. Instead, the Libertarian billionaire carefully chose the stage at Disrupt SF to send out his first ever tweet about his new book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” Thiel’s ... |
Beartooth Keeps You Connected With Your Friends When The Cell Network Can’t | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | I can’t imagine that there’s anyone reading who hasn’t been in this situation: you’re at a conference, or a concert, or some other big event where you’re surrounded by way, too many people. Your cell phone’s signal meter that everything is okay… and yet, nothing actually works. The Beartooth smartphone case, laun... |
Athla’s Velocity Mimics $1,200 Radar Equipment For The Price Of A Fancy Coffee | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | We’ve all seen the speed of a pitch in baseball recorded, either in person or on TV, and most have probably seen the radar gun used to clock the ball’s velocity. That tech is expensive, however, with systems ranging to around $1,200 to measure the speed of smashes, hits and kicks in sports ranging from baseball, to ten... |
Partpic Makes It Easier To Find Repair Parts For Your Whozits, Whatsits, And More | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Are your thingamobs broken? Did the knob fall off of your widget? has you covered. The company, which is launching at the TC Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, was created to allow consumers to snap a picture of a replacement part and immediately receive a part number and order page in return. [youtube=https://www... |
On The Record With Max Levchin | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Earlier today I sat down with at Disrupt SF 2014 to talk about what he’s building at the moment, and to get his take on the current technology market. Max is best known for his work at PayPal and his second firm, a gaming company called Slide. PayPal sold to eBay, and Google picked up Slide. Now, Max is building ,... |
How Peter Thiel Knows If A Startup Is Crazy Smart, Or Just Crazy | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | Can see the future? You’d be forgiven for thinking so considering he invested early in Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Stripe. His strategy with Founders Fund and Mithril Capital is to fund ideas that sound crazy to most people, but have the potential to radically change the world. Exponential innovation > linear i... |
Mashr Resurrects A Tinder Experiment To Make You A Matchmaker | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | In May 2013, Tinder introduced Matchmaker, a way for users of the popular dating app to introduce their Facebook friends to each other. “Right now introductions are a very difficult process,” Tinder Ceo Sean Rad . “They’re slow, they’re socially awkward. This is socially a acceptable environment for you to make introd... |
How To Present A Successful Hackathon Demo | Brandon Kessler | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | It’s sad to stay up for three days building something awesome only to bomb the demo presentation. It’s no surprise it happens: you’re exhausted and racing to finish your project, with little time to plan your words, and only a few minutes to say them. So here’s some advice on how to give a great hackathon presentatio... |
Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Invests $70 Million In Healthcare Group DXY | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | Chinese Internet giant has invested $70 million in (also known as Ting Ting Group), which claims to be the largest online healthcare service community in China. In return, Tencent will receive a minority equity stake in DXY. As points out, Tencent’s investment in a healthcare company is in-line with its competiti... |
FreeCharge, Which Gives Users Coupons For Charging Their Mobile Plans, Raises $33M Series B | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | , an India-based online platform that lets user earn coupons when they add money to their prepaid mobile phone plans or pay utility bills online, has raised a $33 million Series B from returning investor Sequoia Capital, as well as Sofina, and RuNet. The money will be used for marketing and to build FreeCharge’s offlin... |
Vinli Promises To Bring Autos Into The Smartphone Age | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 9 | 8 | With Vinli, cars are about to get apps. And not just cars made in the future. The system works with nearly any car made after 1996 and is compatible with Android and iOS devices. The company just launched on the Disrupt SF 2014 stage and announced that the Vinli device is available for pre-order. Vinli plugs into a c... |
LinkedIn Is Quietly Retiring Network Visualization Tool InMaps | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | A little autumn cleaning underway at . The company is quietly retiring InMaps, a tool that let you map out how your LinkedIn network looks. A notice on the notes that today, September 1, is the last day for you to use it, and that it is being discontinued so that LinkedIn “can focus on developing new ways to visuali... |
When Does Uber Become Cheaper Than Owning A Car? | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | Thanks to the proliferation of local transportation services like Uber, we’re entering a world in which people have less reason to drive everywhere they need to go. But at what point will it become less expensive to rely on someone else to drive you around rather than driving yourself? In a , HomeHero founder does t... |
Windows XP’s Market Share Fell By Less Than 1% In August | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | Microsoft concluded support for Windows XP in April. Despite that fact, a large chunk of the global PC market still runs the operating system. And with more than 20 percent share, Windows XP’s piece of the global PC pie isn’t declining very quickly. According to , Windows XP’s global desktop market share fell from 24.... |
Where You Are Is Who You Are Even If It Is China | Paul Rosenzweig | 2,014 | 9 | 1 | Where your cloud data is stored is, increasingly, critical to determining who controls it. Though many around the globe have become concerned about data storage in the United States, there are worse alternatives. Imagine, for example, if your personal data were stored on a cloud server in China, a nation-state actor ... |
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