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iOS 8 Won’t Be Able To Forward Texts To Your Computer For A Few Weeks After Launch | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | iOS 8 is coming! iOS 8 is coming! As announced during this week’s iPhone 6 event, iOS 8 will ship to everyone with a compatible handset come September 17th. of iOS 8 will ship then, anyway. According to a newly discovered footnote , one of its key features still needs to cook for a few more weeks. As spotted by , iO... |
Before $100 Million Raise, Square Was In Talks With Apple | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | According to a , has . The company authorized 6.4 million Series E shares, according to the document, at a per-share price of $15.46. Square has raised incredible amounts of money. The company has , has a nine-figure credit line and, now, a fresh $100 million traunch to use. The company , and it isn’t clear how m... |
California Regulator Sends Warning Letter To Uber, Lyft And Sidecar Over Shared Ride Feature | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | Shared rides are the new “it feature” among on-demand transportation services, with Uber, Lyft and Sidecar all releasing their own versions to users over the last few weeks and months. But the California regulator which oversees the industry isn’t so keen on the idea. Earlier this week the California Public Utilities C... |
The Apple Watch Is Most Interesting At The High-End | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | While we got to see a number of features and a of variations of the at this week’s event in Cupertino, there was also quite a bit of info Apple chose not to divulge despite the presence of hundreds of interested techies. The most important was probably pricing: , but we have no idea how high prices will go for the... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Free Tickets To The 2014 Future Stack Conference | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | The team at New Relic is excited to send 10 of our TechCrunch readers to the , taking place on October 8th-9th at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Enter our giveaway below, and you could join 1,000+ of your fellow data lovers next month for this 2 day event. FutureStack14 is a conference to share the inspiratio... |
A Better Look At What’s Next For Windows | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | Two important things happened this week in Windows: It that the Windows Phone branding that Microsoft has pressed for years is likely set to fade, and thanks to a large leak. The two events are linked, given that Microsoft is widely expected to better unite Windows, Windows RT, and Windows Phone. There won’t be thr... |
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Leave “Sticky Notes” On Websites With Zurf Mobile Browser | Jay Donovan | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | I’ve seen attempts before to make online shopping “social.” There have been Chrome plugins, Firefox plugins, browser overlays…I’m not sure it ever worked out. A startup called that presented from the floor at thinks differently though. I find somewhat interesting and it solves a few problems. First of all, there ... |
Kevin Rose Launches Tiiny To Take The Anxiety And Megapixels Out Of Photo Sharing | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | “If you made photos tiny and kept them tiny so they can’t be enlarged, would it reduce the anxiety around taking a photo and get people to take more photos?” Kevin Rose asks me. He’s not quite sure, but he’s going to find out with , the from his mobile laboratory North that . It lets you take a thumbnail-sized phot... |
Y Combinator Wants You (To Solve Big Problems) | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | In its last Demo Day, Y Combinator . As in, nuclear energy, health, and quantum computing–all things that are (arguably) more important than how to get food using the most . And Y Combinator isn’t done looking for companies that can have a wide social and economic impact. The incubator program just today that brea... |
Zynga, Scopely Exec Leaves To Start Mobile Studio MobLabs | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | Andy Kleinman, at Los Angeles-based gaming company Scopely and a general manager at Zynga, left the company to start a mobile products-focused studio called . Kleinman previously co-founded Vostu, a Latin American social gaming company, and later joined Three Melons, a studio that was acquired by Playdom (which was ... |
Sesame Lets You Order Themed Gift Sets From Your iPad | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | Web and mobile gifting service , which lets you browse and order themed gift sets online or from your iPhone, has now rolled out to iPad. The updated application lets you get a better feel for the gifts you’re ordering, by including “unboxing” videos that show how the gifts were packaged and what they look like in rea... |
Want To Talk About Your Startup On The Radio? Apply To The TC Radio Pitch Off On Sirius XM | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | is a thing, in case you didn’t know. And in usual TechCrunch fashion, a part of our show is dedicated exclusively to a call-in Pitch Off. Which means we need your help. If you’re an early stage startup looking to get a few more users or share your wares with the world, we’d love to have you join us. Similar to what w... |
Eucalyptus CEO Sudden OpenStack Conversion Makes More Sense In Light of HP Purchase | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | Last month Eucalyptus CEO . Yesterday , a company that itself embraced OpenStack this year in a big way. Hard to imagine the timing of Mickos’ OpenStack epiphany was a coincidence. He wrote a blog post on his company website last month, . He joked he had been an OpenStack contributor all along by be pushing it as a ... |
Chromebook Lending Library Offers Students At 12 U.S. Colleges A Free Laptop To Borrow | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | Google is teaming up with a dozen college campuses across the U.S. to to any student who wants one, in a system that lets them temporarily check out the laptops for late-night cram sessions or just finding the best animal GIFs on Imgur. The Google program features fun-colored café-style installations like the one pic... |
CStorePro Is Google Analytics For Convenience Stores | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 12 | One of the more interesting startups spotted in this year’s Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 was . The company, which likens its product to a “Google Analytics” for convenience stores, was a runner-up for the Audience’s Choice award – that is, the startup picked from the crowded tables filling the Alley, vo... |
Mobile Payments Are Finally A Reality Thanks To Apple | Robert McCarthy | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | A song lyric from “All That Jazz” comes to mind following Apple’s big announcement about mobile payments on Tuesday: “Everything old is new again.” Amid rumors and leaks surrounding the new Apple phone, operating system and peripherals, Apple clearly saw – – the looming perfect storm in mobile payments that’s been sw... |
Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | , the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has raised a hefty series A, we’re hearing. We’ve heard that Andreessen Horowitz led the round, and that Product Hunt picked up $6 million at a $22 millio... |
A Cambrian Explosion In AI Is Coming | Dag Kittlaus | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | You can call it a Virtual Personal Assistant, an Intelligent Agent, an Intelligent Interface or whatever you wish. We call it inevitable. The era of the assistant that began with Siri will eventually dominate the way people interact with mobile devices, computers, cars, wearables, appliances and every other piece of ... |
Here Are Clips From The First SiriusXM TechCrunch Radio Show | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | On Tuesday we launched our SiriusXM radio show, , from Disrupt SF. Jordan Crook and John Biggs discussed the Apple Watch and did a startup pitch-off. A few audio clips from the show can be found below. Catch next week’s show on the Indie 102 channel, airing Tuesday September 16 at 6 p.m. ET. The show also replays Tues... |
Hey Microsoft, Acquiring A Hit Game Is Stupid | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | Buying a game company is like buying an aging baseball player. You’ll need a miracle to get another hit. And while they might have plenty of fans, they probably aren’t making a lot of new ones. Mojang hit a grand slam home run with Minecraft, but that doesn’t mean , as it’s reportedly going to announce this week. Ther... |
Venture Capital Is Prime For A Reverse Gold Rush | Jack Studer | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | Considering how important proprietary deal flow has become as a tool for differentiation within venture capital, it’s surprising that more VCs aren’t shopping in the South. They simply aren’t looking at the concepts and companies coming out of Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga, and other Southern startup hu... |
PopKey’s iOS 8 Launch Will Replace Written Language With The Expressive Art Of The GIF | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | We’re on the verge of a linguistic revolution, made possible by the fact that Apple has opened up its iOS operating system to allow third-party keyboards. One of the first entrants will be , a project out of the creative studio based in Ottawa, which has created on-demand social photo printing service CanvasPop, amo... |
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Sailo Is A Marketplace Connecting Boats, Captains And Renters | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | If you think boating sounds vaguely appealing but you’ve never actually made it out on the water, a New York City startup called aims to help. It’s not the first company to allow you to rent boats from their owners. Early last year, for example, we wrote about , a . Meanwhile, , a service that takes a similar appr... |
Gillmor Gang: AppleJacked | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Benedict Evans, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, September 9, 2014. It’s three days later and I’m still going back and forth over which iPhone to buy. The preorders are sold out for 6+, tipping the scale toward the smaller bigger one. What may tip it... |
Colorado High Schooler Invents Smart Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | Colorado has a history with gun violence so it’s only appropriate that 17-year-old Kai Kloepfer, a high school student from Boulder, would want to apply biometric user authentication to firearms. Kloepfer just won the $50,000 for his smart gun prototype. Angel investor and gun reform advocate Ron Conway became the ma... |
Technologists’ Duty Can Go Beyond For-Profit Industries | Joe Lonsdale | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | , I wrote an article explaining how our team views the concept of duty for leaders in the technology ecosystem. We believe that this duty involves looking beyond conventional startups to study complex industries and using technology to tackle the biggest problems we can find. Our belief is based on an observation that ... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | It’s been an exciting week for us here at TechCrunch with the Hackathon, Disrupt SF and Apple’s product launch all taking place within a few days. Here are 11 of our best stories from the past week (9/6-9/12). 1. Apple had a number of new product releases this week. We , the company’s highly anticipated first foray in... |
The #Gamergate Answer | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | It’s not about women. This is the most consistent answer that supporters give me in response to my article last week ( ) asking what gamergate is actually about. Much of what I receive back is angry, sure, about how wrong I am, how much TechCrunch is clearly in league with oppressors, and various insults to my professi... |
The Music Industry Is About To Change, And Apple And U2 Are Just The Beginning | Philip Inghelbrecht | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | Of all industry roller coasters, the music industry must be the wildest. The last 30 years reshaped the business in a way we never could have imagined. Music as a product changed dramatically (e.g. from LPs to MP3s) and the ups and downs in worldwide sales would make the most hardened theme park visitor queasy. Nonet... |
Twitter’s Huge Mistake | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 9 | 13 | The worst tech news I read last week was: “ .” The horrified firestorm of condemnation that erupted in response was the first time I’ve ever seen anything like unanimity on my Twitter feed. Fortunately, it seems it’s . (At least not any time soon.) But for all the entirely justified of that , , no-good, very bad i... |
Yo Still Kicking With More Than 100M Yos Sent, Roughly 15 Per Second | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | The end is nigh for the tech industry? Yo? The funding round that launched about the merits or idiocy of an app that lets you send just a single word over and over via push notification is still supporting a living, breathing and perhaps even, thriving, startup. “It’s amazing if I compare it to other companies,” said... |
TrustedCompany.com, An E-Commerce Review Site For Emerging Markets, Raises $1M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | , a review platform for e-commerce businesses in emerging markets like Southeast Asia and India, announced today that it has raised a Series A round of $1 million led by Tengelmann Ventures, with participation from 500 Startups and returning investor Asia Venture Group. The company, which launched in November 2013 and ... |
Leaked Clips Show Windows 9 In Action | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | Around two weeks out from the of the technical preview of Windows 9, videos of the upcoming operating system have hit the Internet. German has released a mess of screenshots and videos of the upcoming code over the past few days, to our benefit. A number of clips are up for watching, detailing how Windows 9 will ha... |
A Random Walk Down Hardware Alley | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | Last week at TC Disrupt I took to the aisles of Hardware Alley armed with a microphone and a full glass of cold brew, highly potent Jittery Joe’s coffee. The result is a series of pratfalls, horrible jokes, and lots and lots of interviews. I welcome you to watch as I make an absolute fool of my self while some amazin... |
Up Close With The Tissot T-Touch Solar Expert, The Perennial Hiking Watch For Geeks | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | For years the line has been Switzerland’s unique answer to the quartz hiking watch. While other manufacturers offered analog quartz pieces, Tissot has been the only company that has tried to take on the altimeter-barometer-thermometer uber watches made by Casio, Seiko and Citizen. And they’ve done a great job so far.... |
A Tale Of Two Apps | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | adopt similar ideas and designs as part of some peculiar cultural zeitgeist. But things get murkier when ideas become shared and adopted by long-time friends riffing on similar concepts. That appears to be what happened to Kevin Rose and Danny Trinh, who built separate photo-sharing apps that ended up looking eerily s... |
Putting Smartphone Zombies In Their Place | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | City planners are charged with designing cities for residents, from developing spaces for popular activities to balancing the needs of different constituencies. For planners in Chongqing, China, one of those constituencies are people absorbed in their smartphones, who have come into conflict with another group, often c... |
Places Is A Sharing Platform That Puts Privacy First | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 9 | 14 | is a privacy-centric startup that’s building a secure Dropbox-style platform for file sharing and messaging — but one that has end-to-end, client-side encryption built in. It’s currently launched in early alpha and is inviting people to sign up for a forthcoming beta at . (The to Windows and Mac OS users.) Dropbox ... |
Ray Ozzie’s New Venture Talko Launches An App For Collaborative Voice Communications | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | After two-and-a-half years, former Microsoft chief architect Ray Ozzie and his team are finally ready to reveal what they’ve been working on. Called , their new mobile app is designed to change the way consumers and enterprises collaborate with each other through a mix of live and asynchronous voice communications. Wh... |
ZEFR Has Acquired Social Advertising Startup Engodo | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | Video monetization platform could be looking to extend its advertising reach beyond YouTube with its acquisition of social advertising startup . Last week ZEFR entered into a purchase agreement with the Salt Lake City, Utah-based startup in what appears to be a cash-and-stock deal, according to an . A person with k... |
Lyft Acquires Shared Ride Startup Hitch To Bolster Its Lyft Line Service | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | Shared rides are becoming all the rage, with new transportation companies all offering their users a way to lower fares while splitting their commute with a stranger. One of the first services to focus on that capability was a startup called , which before Lyft Line, before UberPool and before Sidecar Shared Rides. ... |
The Reinvention Of Medicine: Dr. Algorithm V0-7 And Beyond | Vinod Khosla | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | The “practice of medicine” developed through tradition, and the experiential evolution of best practices with small-scale medical research studies can be substantially improved through the “science of medicine” with statistically better-validated data and conclusions. Much of the current practice is driven by conclusio... |
Draper Nexus Holds $30 Million First Close For Its Latest U.S.-Japan Fund | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | The cross-border Japanese-U.S. venture capital fund has raised $30 million for its $100 million second fund in the latest sign that the former affiliate funds in the DFJ Global Network are growing up. A little over a year ago, changing the payment scheme and flattening the management structure so that the main DFJ ... |
Mobile Rewards Startup Lootsie Hires Steve Cho As Its First COO | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | , a startup that allows advertisers to present mobile app users with special rewards, announced today that it has hired its first chief operating officer, . Cho previously worked in sales at IBM, and he was most recently vice president of business development at Kiip — which is pretty much in the same business as Loot... |
AppNexus Raises $25M From Ad Giant WPP | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | Ad tech company announced today that it has raised an additional $25 million in funding from ad holding company WPP. As part of the deal, AppNexus is also acquiring Open AdStream, the ad-serving technology from WPP’s Xaxis. “Open AdStream has been one of the most effective and trusted ad serving platforms in the worl... |
This Robot Tastes Better Than A Wine Critic | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | Robots might be unseating the cherry job of wine critics soon. Researchers in Denmark have created an artificial tongue to find out whether expensive wine actually tastes any better than the cheap stuff. The research, first published in , claims that an optical nanosensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) can d... |
Amazon Looking To The Wisdom Of Crowds To Find New Authors | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | According to a Kindle Direct Publishing forum user, Amazon is quietly rolling out a way to find diamonds in the proverbial publishing rough. The unnamed project would bring a crowd approach to the acquisition of new titles using a voting system that ranks new books based on crowd favorites. The have received an email... |
Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | Aviary just announced that it has been acquired by Adobe. Aviary offers a software development kit to developers who want to add photo-editing capabilities to their apps. Aviary has also created apps of its own, which it says have been downloaded 100 million times, as well as . At the beginning of this year, Aviary an... |
Apple Plans To Shut Down Beats Music | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | Apple will discontinue the streaming music service Beats Music it acquired in May, according to five sources, including several prominent employees at Apple and Beats. Many engineers from Beats Music have already been moved off the product and onto other projects at Apple, including iTunes. It’s not clear when exactly ... |
Tiggly, An iPad Learning Toy For Babies And Toddlers, Raises Series A | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | , an educational app designed for iPad’s youngest users – babies! (oh, and toddlers, too) – has raised a Series A round of funding led by Habermaass GmbH, a Germany-based early play and learning company, and owners of the toy brand , which is now entering the U.S. edtech market. Though the startup won’t disclose the s... |
When The Funding Bubble Bursts It Doesn’t Have To Mean Disaster | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 22 |
~Talking Heads, One law of economic physics always holds true: what goes up must come down. Last week, my pal , not in the form of snow of course, but metaphorically. He was reacting to that many startups were burning through cash at an alarming rate and it’s not sustainable. They’re both right of course, the bub... |
Up Close With The Biggest Joystick In The World (That We Know Of) | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | A member of the , Michelangelo Guarise, was at the Maker Faire in New York this weekend with a special treat: something that appears to be one of the biggest working joysticks in the world. Built by the Udoo team, the massive stick and two Frisbee buttons allowed children of all ages to play emulated games on a litt... |
MakerBot’s Bre Pettis Launches Bold Machines, A Workshop For 3D-Printed Stuff | John Biggs | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | After a slightly surprising move away from a managerial role at MakerBot, former CEO Bre Pettis has finally announced what he’s working on: Bold Machines, an “Innovation Workshop” for MakerBot parent company Stratasys. Designed to be a creative skunkworks for the 3D printing company, Bold Machines will design cool 3D p... |
Goat Simulator Is A Gloriously Weird Tribute To The Old ‘Tony Hawk’ Games | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | While the free section of Apple’s App Store can sometimes , some weird stuff occasionally finds a way to take off on the paid charts, as well. The latest such oddity is , a game that gives you a small town to wreak havoc in as the titular farm animal. While it generally takes a lot of great content (or an emotional t... |
The FCC Hasn’t Decided How It Will Enforce Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | This morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated in a that it is “reviewing” a number of legal methods concerning how to enforce new net neutrality rules. The implication is plain: No choice has been made. The FCC claims that it is “looking ahead” to more round tables that could help shed light on w... |
New $15M Global XPrize Focuses On Bringing Basic Literacy to 250M Children Globally | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | , a nonprofit that runs competitions to stimulate technologists toward building products that improve humankind, is dipping its toes into basic education. They’re launching that is looking for a free, open-source and scalable software solution that will enable children to teach themselves basic reading, writing and a... |
Launcher Adds Shortcuts To Favorite Apps And Common Actions To iOS 8’s Notification Center | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | A new iOS application called is taking advantage of iOS 8’s expanded feature set in a unique way. With the updated version of Apple’s mobile operating system, developers can now create interactive widgets that sit in iOS 8’s Notifications Center. But currently, most apps that have rolled out widget support are offeri... |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Tech Companies Should Accept No Compromises On Climate Change Issues | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 22 | Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres today at to discuss Apple’s concerns when it comes to climate change, and what the company is doing to address the situation. Cook summed up his company’s efforts by saying that Apple needs to be “one of... |
Apple Apologizes For iPhone Update Bug And Releases New iOS 8.0.2 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Apple has moved quickly to release iOS 8.0.2, the update of zapping cellular reception on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices. It also includes all the , including a fix for the HealthKit bug that held up release of compatible Health apps in iOS 8. It also addresses a problem whereby third-party keyboards wouldn’t stick whe... |
MasteryConnect Collects $15.2 Million So Teachers Can Teach To Students And Not To Tests | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | has raised $15.2 million to further market its software that it hopes will help enable educators to teach to their students, and not teach their students how to take tests. “We’ve created a platform that lets teachers identify a student’s level of understanding against any set of standards, in real-time,” says chief e... |
Andreessen Goes On Tweet Storm About Burn Rates, Says To Worry | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | In one of his famous “tweet storms,” from Andreessen Horowitz went to town on . He was reacting to from last week –and Andreessen is worried too. He sees companies overspending, especially on fancy buildings and big staffs that make them look successful, but are just basically paper facades. And Andreessen expects ... |
The Oatmeal Launches Another Crowdfunding Campaign To Build The Tesla Museum, One Brick At A Time | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | The Oatmeal (aka Matthew Inman, aka “that artist who makes web comics that take over your Facebook feed every few weeks”) is at it again. He to build a museum for the late inventor. He sweet talked Elon Musk into kicking in . Now he needs to build the thing. To raise the remaining funds for the actual construction, ... |
Komoot Launches In The U.S. So You Can Enjoy A Guided Trip Through The Great Outdoors | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | For about four years now, Europeans trekking in the wilderness have had access to an app that ensured they would always be able to find their way in the woods as long as they had a mobile phone… and had downloaded . Now those of us in the U.S. can get the same benefits; the company has just launched its app for iOS an... |
Media Veteran Fred Seibert Ties Up With Betaworks To Create Video Technology Incubator Thirty Labs | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Fred Seibert just won’t slow down. After living what he counts as , the 63-year old veteran of cable and online programming is working on a new project to incubate ideas and products that he hopes will — once again — change the way people think about and consume video content. Seibert’s new company is called , and wa... |
#GamerGate – An Issue With Two Sides | Allum Bokhari | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Nearly a month after it began, GamerGate is a fire that refuses to go out. The hashtag campaign has opened up a chasm between the gaming press and their audience. Currently standing at close to a million tweets ( ), shows no signs of stopping. A related tag, , has cleared 120,000. But what lies behind it? Why did ... |
Y Combinator-Backed Clara Labs Getting Funding From Sequoia Capital | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Y Combinator-backed virtual assistant startup might be getting an infusion of cash, rumored to be in the $3-4 million range from Sequoia Capital. Co-founder of Clara Labs, Maran Nelson, doesn’t want to talk about that just yet and neither does Sequoia. However, a tweet sent from the Information’s Eric Newcomer on Sep... |
3D Printing With Sand Using The Power Of The Sun | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | “So what are you doing this weekend, Markus?” “Oh, you know. Heading out to the desert and harnessing the to make a 3D printer that can print objects . You?” “… catching up on Breaking Bad.” You know the kid in your old neighborhood that spent his spare time frying ants with a magnifying glass? This is like that — e... |
Amazon’s Goodreads App Finally Gets A Makeover | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | , the social network for book lovers, has at last seen its first major update since . This week, Goodreads rolled out a significant redesign on iOS (coming soon to Android) – something regular Goodreads users have wanted for some time. Now, instead of having you land on an outdated, grid-like homescreen when the app i... |
Ballmer To Purge His Sportsball Team Of Those Evil Apple Things | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, and new owner of some sort of sports team, is still pretty serious about hardware. In an , Ballmer indicated that his team, the one he paid $2 billion for, won’t use Apple tech. Nope. It’s Microsoft all the way down: “Most of the Clippers on are Windows, some of the players and ... |
Ello, Ello? New ‘No Ads’ Social Network Ello Is Blowing Up Right Now | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | In March a new social network launched promising the opposite business model to Facebook, i.e. not selling ads based on user data and instead relying on, perhaps, paid premium features to keep going. then sunk without a trace until, in the last 24-48 hours or so, activity on the site completely blew up. And this is a... |
Apple Says iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Bending Complaints Number Less Than 10 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Apple has responded to the various reports of , saying that it’s “extremely rare,” and that in fact, only nine people out of all the customers that bought devices thus far have complained. That would presumably mean nine out of the well over 10 million that have sold thus far. Apple noted to TechCrunch that under norm... |
Instagram Lets You #Selfielapse By Adding Front-Facing Camera Option To Hyperlapse | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Instagram’s first update to its timelapse app will let you create mini-travelogues of your face hurtling through the world. Hyperlapse now lets you capture timelapses with the front-facing camera to create what Instagram calls a #Selfielapse. The app also now supports iPhone 6 and 6 Plus screen sizes. Instagram tells... |
Sendwithus Raises $2.3M To Help Marketers Optimize Their Emails | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Email marketing startup is announcing that it has raised $2.3 million in additional seed funding. This is one of those funding announcements that comes months after the deal itself. Co-founder Matt Harris told me that the company, which was incubated by Y Combinator, raised its initial seed funding “right before Y Co... |
SurveyMonkey Makes Its First Investment, Leads Mobile App CRM Solution Provider Apptentive’s $5.3M Series A | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | , a company that allow developers to engage an app’s users, communicate directly, request reviews and more, has now closed on $5.3 million in Series A funding. In an unusual turn, the new funding round was led in part by SurveyMonkey, and will see Damon Cronkey,VP of Corporate Development and Strategy for SurveyMonke... |
SK Planet Launches Wayfare In App Stores To Take Penpalling To Your Mobile Device | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | If you’re looking for something more from your online or mobile social media than hot-or-not left and right swiping, the SK Planet, the media and messaging subsidiary of Korea’s telecom giant SK Telecom, has just launched a new app called in and app stores to bring penpalling to social media. Developed by a young... |
Niantic Labs Announces User-Generated Missions In Ingress | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Niantic Labs’ latest update to , its augmented reality game, to the game on Android and iOS and lets players create quests for their friends or strangers using a browser-based mission creator. Not everybody will be allowed to create content right away with the new update. Niantic Labs is rolling the feature out slow... |
Disrupt In London To Showcase New Google Ventures Europe Partners | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | The second and will see the outing of the Google Ventures team in Europe. There’s still time to grab a ticket . Earlier this year Google announced it was launching a branch of its venture capital investment arm in London. Google Ventures Europe will have an initial fund of $100 million to invest in “the best ideas... |
Price-Tracking Service Nifti Switches Gears, Launches Social Polling App Cinch | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | Pricing tracking and alerts service is testing the waters with a new application called (no, not Klout’s , but very close.) In fact, Nifti’s new app is practically a variation on Klout’s earlier arrival, as Klout’s Cinch is about asking for recommendations and Nifti’s Cinch is about asking for opinions. That is, i... |
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Mohiomap Turns Evernote, Google Drive, And Dropbox Accounts Into Mind Maps | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | Like many other people, I use as an information dump. Despite my best efforts to keep things organized with multiple notebooks and tags, my account has become almost as unwieldy as an overstuffed filing cabinet, with stacks of PDFs, web clippings, and notes going back years. That’s why I was intrigued by , a web app... |
The Seven Constants Of Game Design, Part Three | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | This is the third in a three-part series of posts about the fundamentals of game design, in particular the seven immutable factors (I term them “constants”) that both limit and empower gameplay. The constants are universal and transcend factors such as platform, and they contribute to how games manage to be fun, to imp... |
Thai Fashion Site WearYouWant Scoops Up $1.5M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | Thailand should be a e-commerce company’s dream—it has a high mobile penetration rate ( ) and social media networks are particularly popular there. But e-commerce companies in Thailand still face the challenges like low credit card usage and limited logistics networks. , a fashion retail site, has raised $1.5 million... |
Tinder Is Going To The Dogs With NYC Puppy Rescue Project | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgy1vATA7w&w=560&h=315] There are a lot of dogs on lately. Like, actual dogs. East Village-based animal rescue organization , long with creative agency internship program at have whipped up a few doggy dating profiles for rescue dogs in the New York City area. One pup ‘l... |
This Extension Gives You A New GIF Every Single Time You Open A Tab | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | Hey, you! Don’t you wish you had distractions in your day? Wouldn’t it be great if you could get distracted by something literally every time you opened a new browser tab? No? Oh. Well. Uh. Check this out anyway. is a Chrome browser extension that brings more GIFs into your life. Every time you open a new browser t... |
Video Claims To Show Off The Live Folders Feature Coming In Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | Component to first update — Update 1, of course — are Live Folders, which will allow users of Microsoft’s smartphone platform to group applications on the main screen of their handsets, saving space. It’s part of a . Microsoft has only released screenshots to date. A , uploaded by Windows Phone Lovers, shows off a ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 08.03.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | – Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang on Facebook |
Meet HelloWorld, An Easier Way To Share Your Location With Friends | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | Three years ago, was sitting at the iconic Philz coffee shop in Palo Alto studying for her Stanford exams. She tweeted about it, wondering if any of her friends were studying nearby. A few minutes later a stranger who had seen the tweet interrupted her to pitch his company. Talking about it years later, it’s clear th... |
Sensors And Sensitivity | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | There’s only so much practical real estate on the human body for wearables — unless you’re willing to revive the . So what if everyday objects that we interact with — whether it’s by resting against them or holding onto them — were to house the sensors that keep tabs on us? Anti-wearables, if you like, given that the ... |
null | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 9 | 25 | null |
Microsoft, Samsung, And Expensive Free Software | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | In a world where Windows is cheaper than free software, things get weird. and are currently locked in a public pissing match over royalties. Samsung previously agreed to pay Microsoft for use of the software company’s intellectual property relating to the South Korean firm’s sale of Android-based devices. Samsung, l... |
Fitle Will Let You Try Clothes On A 3D Avatar Of Yourself | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | was in business school, he found he had little time to shop during regular store hours. But shopping online proved to be hard. “It’s difficult to find exactly what you want to buy,” Nouboue said. “It’s very complicated to find the right size.” That’s why he and his partner, Gaetan Rougevin-Baville, , a virtual fittin... |
Epic Reddit Prank “Cat Facts” Is Now An App That Lets You Text Troll Your Friends | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | What do you get when you combine cats and epic-level trolling? Only one of the most popular posts of all time: the hilarious “Cat Facts” prank from Reddit user “frackyou” is the eighth-most popular post on Reddit, and now it’s a mobile app you can use to automate cat facts-style pranking on your unsuspecting friends.... |
Facebook For Windows Phone Now Supports Video Uploads, Integrates With Messenger | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | Today Microsoft announced it published a new version of that adds video uploads and integration with Facebook Messenger, as well as new languages. will now link directly into the People Hub on Windows Phone for users running Windows Phone 8.1. That will bring Facebook deeper into the Windows Phone experience. Accord... |
NFL Will Let Teams Use Microsoft Surface Tablets On The Sidelines During Games | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 3 | In the first instance of tablets and mobile computing devices being used on the sidelines of NFL games, will be used by coaches and players in the upcoming season as part of a reported $400 million . The Sideline Viewing System is meant to help coaches and players study their opponents in realtime from the sideline,... |
Rhapsody Acquires SoundTracking And Exfm To Boost Music Sharing And Discovery | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | , the stalwart music streaming service with 2 million paying subscribers, , makers of “Instagram for songs” app , and , a social music discovery service that had been shut down since May. ‘s app for sharing what song you’re currently listening to with a feed of friends won’t be shut down. Instead plans to equip it... |
Leak Lets You Send Anonymous Emails | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | It’s clear that anonymity, in one way or another, is . But the folks over at have looked to the past for inspiration in this weird new world. is a web service that lets you send anonymous emails to people. Just put in a recipients’ email, choose the type of relationship you have with that person (friend, coworker... |
Inside Bitcovery, The App For Finding Your Next Favorite Book, Movie, Or Album | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | This is exactly the experience that founder and his team set out to, for lack of a better word, disrupt. In this week’s episode of the series embedded above, we get a close look at the company and its experience taking part in the Startup Battlefield competition at last year’s Disrupt San Francisco conference. ... |
Chegg Strikes Distribution Partnership With Ingram Books, Announces 15% Boost In Earnings From Digital Services | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 4 | Student textbook resale site Chegg has struck a strategic partnership with today. Said to be the world’s largest distributor of books, will acquire a significant share of Chegg’s textbook inventory in the next coming months. The partnership makes a lot of sense for . The site has been pushing more towards digital ... |
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