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India’s World Startup Report Is Released And The Future Of Technology Looks Bright For The Country | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 19 | Wrapping your brain around technology trends here in the United States, or even just in Silicon Valley, is a chore. Figuring out the trends and who the major players are in an emerging market like India is 10 times as difficult. Bowei Gai, former LinkedIn employee by way of , has done just that under his umbrella. B... |
Study Shows Censorship On Sina Weibo Is A ‘Sophisticated’ And Very Speedy Operation | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Known as the Twitter of China, Sina Weibo is also infamous in the West for the number of high profile users who have had tweets censored, including Kai-fu Lee. The former head of Google China, who was , recently posts have been censored. Computer scientists Jed Crandall and Dan Wallach conducted a study on how quick... |
iStockphoto Founder Returns To Stock Photography With Stocksy, A Co-op That Puts Artists (And Quality) Before Profits | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | With the launch of this week, is officially taking another shot at building a digital stock photography service. His last attempt, , which he founded in 2000, has since become one of the largest resources for stock images, media and design elements on the Web. And, as a result, Livingstone has become known as one ... |
Ooyala Launches Discovery Guide For Personalized Channels, Hook Plugin For Android Mobile Video Viewing | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Video distribution platform wants to get more people watching more video on more devices. That’s its job, right? Well, ahead of NAB, the company is launching a couple of features that will help do just that. That includes a new discovery engine that its clients can use to extend the amount of time people spend watchi... |
A Leaner, Stronger, More Modest Y Combinator | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | “This is way better.” That was the prevailing sentiment at today’s Demo Day where 47 fresh startups strutted their stuff for investors. Compared to the 65 demos a year ago and tedious 75 in August, investors told me this tighter Demo Day was more manageable, the quality of the startups was higher, and it felt like th... |
Creator Rob Thomas Calls The Veronica Mars Kickstarter Campaign A Guinea Pig For Cult TV Shows | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | After the initial success of for a movie based on the TV show (with a goal of $2 million, it has currently raised $3.9 million, and there are still 17 days to go), I had a chance to interview the show’s creator Rob Thomas and his agent Julien Thuan about what’s next for the movie, as well as what the campaign’s suc... |
North Korea Cuts Off 3G Access For Foreign Visitors Just Weeks After Allowing It | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Just weeks after , North Korea has reportedly cut off mobile Internet service for short-term tourists, reports (h/t ), which spotted a notice on Koryo Tours’ . The Beijing-based company, which specializes in arranging tours to North Korea, said: “3G access is no longer available for tourists to the DPRK. Sim card... |
Russia’s Growth Leads Yuri Milner Back As Ostrovok Takes $25M From General Catalyst, Accel and Others | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | It’s often difficult to discern the mind of Yuri Milner. Despite building his investments out of Russia initially, he hasn’t invested in a startup there for over three years. What’s luring him back? No doubt the enormous growth and potential of the market there. So it’s not a huge surprise that he’s invested in one of ... |
Meet Forecast, The Web App That Has Web App Developers Drooling | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Anyone remember the last time I said “Wow! Look at how pretty this web app is!”? Because I don’t. At least, not before this morning when I saw . Warning before anyone is like “WTF? Why is TechCrunch writing about a weather app? UNSUBSCRIIIIIBE”: Yeah, Forecast is a weather app. But it’s a really, pretty weather app... |
The New Flipboard Lets You Create Your Own Mobile Magazine, Adds Search, Etsy And More | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | TechCrunch is like most other publications founded before 2011 in that our readers have gone mobile way faster than our products have. In 2010, 10 percent of our readers were reading us from mobile devices. With the launch of a mobile-friendly version of our website, as well as an increasing breadth of new native apps ... |
Amazon Web Services Launches CloudHSM, A Dedicated Hardware Security Appliance For Managing Cryptographic Keys | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Amazon just the launch of , a that provides Amazon Web Services users who need to meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security a way to do so by using a dedicated Hardware Security Module (the ‘HSM’ in CloudHSM) within the Amazon cloud. Until now, Amazon argues, the only opt... |
WordPress.com Has Imported 15M Posts In The Last 30 Days, Remains A Top Safe Haven For Nomad Bloggers | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Here’s a familiar scenario: You’ve become bored with the current blogging platform you’re on or it decides to after . What do you do with all of your posts? Sure, you could hop from one platform to the other, but you need a safe and trustworthy place to store all of your important thoughts. I spoke with Automattic’s... |
TechCrunch’s Picks: The Top 7 Startups From Y Combinator’s W13 Demo Day | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Y Combinator was than ever this season, and the quality showed on stage. Thirty-three startups presented on the record at the incubator’s Winter 2013 Demo Day today. Picking the most promising ones was no easy task. But after a team huddle and taking input from VCs and founders, TechCrunch has chosen seven startups t... |
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Visual Identity Platform Vizify Launches Out Of Beta, Now Lets You Share Graphics Via Social Media Cards | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | The Portland-based came out of TechStars’ accelerator in 2011 with the goal of helping everyday people turn their personal data — the stuff that’s fragmented across scores of profiles, networks and websites — into one, unified visual profile. Essentially, piggybacking on the rise of digital portfolio platforms that a... |
Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 2: Meet Lollipuff, Goldbely, And More | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Demo Day, where 47 startups are taking the stage to pitch investors and press, continues to roll along. Here are short descriptions of the second group of presenting companies (the descriptions in the headlines come from the companies themselves). As we mentioned earlier, , and since many of them are presenting on an... |
Women Make Up 10% Of Founders In Y Combinator’s Current Class | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Winter 2013 is a in many ways — 47 startups are graduating at today’s event, down significantly from the and the . However, there’s one very notable aspect of YC that saw growth this time around: The percentage of founders that are female. Out of 111 founders in the Winter 2013 YC class, 12 are women — that’s ... |
The Pint-Sized ‘Fuel’ Phone Charger Is As Useful As It Is Adorable | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 26 |
Most of us have faced that sense of dread that comes when our phones lay drained and dysfunctional right when we need them the most. Sure, we could beat ourselves up for not charging them as long as we should have (or perhaps making a bad choice of phones), but that’s where this particularly cute Kickstarter pro... |
Paul Graham Says Y Combinator Is Pickier Than Ever, With ‘Hardly Any’ Bad Startups In Current Batch | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | Before the pitches kicked off at today’s Demo Day, partner Paul Graham said the incubator was stricter than ever when selecting the current batch — there are 47 companies demonstrating today, . “There are hardly any startups in this batch that are bad,” Graham said. For that reason, he claimed that it will be just a... |
Tokyo-Based Voyagin Gives Travelers A More Up-Close And Offbeat Look At Asian Cities | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | For many travelers, their sense of adventure is only limited by language barriers. With its roster of offbeat activities, however, travel site seeks to give visitors a more intimate look at five Asian countries-Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Tokyo-based startup, which launched its site last Decem... |
Dungeons & Dragons Coming To iOS Later This Year As Wizards Of The Coast Teams Up With Playdek | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 26 | A new partnership between mobile game publisher and , famed creator of Magic: The Gathering and other tabletop games will bring Dungeons & Dragons to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch later this year. Playdek will be developing officially sanctioned and licensed titles that bring various Wizards of the Coast tabletop ... |
China’s Broadband Penetration Is Increasingly Lagging Behind Developed Nations, Says MIIT’s Research Head | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | The research chief of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said (link via Google Translate) that there is still a significant gap between China’s broadband coverage and that of developed nations, and that the lag is increasing. At a panel about the future of digital technology, MIIT research chief ... |
Filing Says Glenn Beck’s Network TheBlaze Is Raising $40M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | , a set of online ventures run by conservative pundit Glenn Beck, is raising $40 million in new funding, according to . The filing states that the company has raised $1.5 million so far. It also says that TheBlaze currently has revenue between $25 million and $100 million. I emailed the company earlier this afternoon ... |
Personal Assistant App Sherpa Raises $1.6M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | , a personal assistant app that launched initially in the Spanish-speaking world, just announced that it has raised $1.7 million in funding from undisclosed angel investors. Sherpa users can speak or type their requests, and the app answers them by collecting information from around the web. The company has also partne... |
Five Out Of Six Game Of Thrones Cast Members Prefer The iPhone To Android | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | On Wednesday night, HBO took over the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for a screening of the Season 3 Premiere of Game of Thrones, giving about 600 folks a sneak peek of what’s in store for the new season. Somehow, Anthony Ha* and I were lucky enough to interview several of the cast members, and since we work fo... |
Twitter Archives Now Available In 12 More Languages, Including Japanese, Portuguese, Russian And Simplified Chinese | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | On the occasion of today, Twitter has announced that personal archives of tweets are now available for 12 more languages: [tweet https://twitter.com/twitter/status/314875925953130497] In December, when Twitter rolled out the option to , this is what they had to say about the feature: Today, we’re introducing the abi... |
The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 3: Linking Up With Real Mentors — And The Right Life Partner | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | In , posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding as well as the element of fear and how it plays into women’s career paths. In , posted yesterday, we discussed the emotion of guilt and the myth that women can “do it all.” For our roundtable, we assembled a small group of Generation Y female leaders ... |
Now Powering Finance Data For 300 Startups, Yodlee Peels Back The Curtain On New Accelerator & 4 New Incubations | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | Compared to the glut of young tech startups that have popped up in the financial services space over the last several years, is a veteran. Founded in 1999, the company got its start by developing technology to make the back-end aggregation of banking data more efficient and secure, leading to the birth of companies l... |
Exec CEO Justin Kan Talks Competition, Cleaning, And Future Plans | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | Hot on the heels of Exec’s Cleaning Service launch in NYC, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to get CEO and co-founder Justin Kan in the studio for a quick chat. We also couldn’t resist checking out the service in action, and thusly hired Execs from the company’s standalone Cleaning app to help tidy up our NYC Aol V... |
Apple’s Jony Ive Said To Now Work Closer With iOS Interface Team, Is Pushing For ‘Flat’ Design | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | Apple’s hardware design chief is now collaborating more closely with software and interface design staff, according to a new . Apple’s mobile software team now gets peeks at hardware prototypes sooner than before, the report claims, and Ive is pushing for a “flat design” in future versions of iOS. The report is well-t... |
On The Internet, Everyone Knows You’re A Dick | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | In light of the in which an offended party publicly shamed two developers at a conference for discussing dongles, I thought it would be interesting to address the problems of “lad culture” on the Internet (and, partially, the Silicon Valley/Alley societies) where wizards stay up late and make dick jokes over IRC. A c... |
AngelHack Launches A Startup Accelerator, Bringing Its Hackathon To 30+ Cities This Spring | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | has always been a little different from your average hackathon — rather than taking place in one spot over one weekend, it has become a global event that takes place in multiple stages. As a result, the projects are usually pretty polished, though not yet at the level of full-fledged startups. Now it’s taking another ... |
Zynga.com Makes Facebook Connect Optional As It Looks To Build An Independent Platform For Players And Developers | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | Last March, Zynga its ambitions to create a web and mobile platform for social games. is a for both the company’s own games as well as for third-party developers who want to leverage Zynga’s social feed and users. In September, Zynga debuted its first third-party games. And today, Zynga is rolling out a number of... |
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Facebook Adds Weather Forecasts To Events And Public Places To Show Useful Info Where People Need It | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | Facebook has come up with another way to prevent you from leaving its site. While you’re setting up an event, especially one that’s going to take place outside, it makes total sense that your potential guests would want to know what the weather conditions are for that day. Today, Facebook rolled out a project that was ... |
Apple Updates Podcasts App, Adds Custom Stations With iCloud Sync And Fixes Playback Resume Bug | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | Apple has just issued , which brings a long list of improvements to the iOS app. Among the changes are a new feature that lets users generate their own custom playlists with any podcasts they choose, with auto-updating of new episodes for each. Stations are stored in iCloud and synced across devices, and users can cho... |
“In The Studio,” Felicis’ Aydin Senkut Shares His Thesis On Frontier Markets | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | TechCrunch “In the Studio” opens the spring of 2013 by welcoming one of the best-known “super angels,” who arrived to Valley, by way of Boston, Philadelphia, and , in the mid-1990s, held early product management stints at Silicon Graphics and a little startup called Google, which ultimately catapulted his career i... |
BlackBerry On The Defensive, Says BB10 And PlayBook Getting Approved By The DoD In April | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | has now issued a statement confirming that its relationship is still on with the Department of Defense — for its sake hopefully closing the loop on the story that started with that the DoD would be dumping its deal with the troubled Canadian handset maker, once a mainstay of business users, who are now migrating to ... |
Online Gaming Company Bigpoint Appoints New CEO In The Face Of Industry “Transition” | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | , the European free-to-play online gaming company that has seen shareholders invest around since 2002, is finally announcing a new CEO. Khaled Helioui, formerly Bigpoint’s Chief Games Officer, is taking over the role, some four months after founder Heiko Hubertz announced he would be stepping down. The change comes a... |
With Users In Over 83 Countries, Social Discovery Platform At The Pool Wants To Be The Anti-Facebook | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | , the Los Angeles-based social discovery platform, is today rolling out a big re-design that sees the startup becoming laser-focused on creating the “anti-Facebook” social network for young people. , Facebook said that it is at risk of losing young users to other services that are similar to or act “as a substitute fo... |
Community Site Topix Sees 40 Percent Year-Over-Year Traffic Growth As Political Focus Pays Off | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | , a site for locally focused online discussion that first launched in 2004, has seen significant traffic growth in the past year. According to CEO Chris Tolles, that’s because of the big bet that the site made on political coverage and discussion. Traffic grew 40 percent between December 2011 and December 2012, the com... |
Facebook’s Riskiest Bet Yet. Can It Uproot A Billion People’s Behavior? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | “Fortune Favors The Bold” reads a 20-foot-tall poster in the room where Facebook unveiled its . It’s possibly the most looked-at page on the Internet, and if we don’t like the changes, traffic and ad revenue could plummet. Despite a slow rollout where it will watch for our reactions and make tweaks, Facebook’s never p... |
Mobile Rewards Startup Kiip Launches Its Second $100K ‘Build Fund’ With Sponsorship From Pepsi | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 21 | A year ago, ran for independent developers, offering $100,000 in prizes. Founder and CEO Brian Wong told me recently that the fund was supposed to be a one-off promotion, but this year, enough developers asked if he was going to do it again that, indeed, he’s doing it again. Just like the first fund, Wong is lookin... |
Join Us In Austin At #SXSWi Office Hours On Sunday, March 10 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | We love talking with start-ups but sometimes we don’t have time to sit down with everyone. That’s why we started TC Office Hours. It’s a chance to meet a few TC editors and pitch your business, ask questions or advice, or just stand in awe of our majestic presence. We’ll be visiting SXSWi this week and we want to talk ... |
The Philips Hue Is The Perfect Minecraft Accessory To Track The Day/Night Cycle | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cz5XcM_pdw”] It’s hard to find a compelling use case for the Philips Hue. But and hacked the wireless LED lightbulbs to be in sync with the day/night cycle in Minecraft. It creates an immersive setup and is actually useful as creepers start appearing at nighttime. In Minecr... |
Pandora’s Long-Time CEO Joe Kennedy Abruptly Steps Down, Just As It Starts Making Money On Mobile | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | for the streaming music service, Pandora has announced that its long-time CEO and President, Joe Kennedy, will be stepping down. In a statement this afternoon, Pandora said that he will “continue in his current role until his successor is named.” Kennedy, who has been at the helm of the streaming music service since J... |
Fly Or Die: Google Chromebook Pixel | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | Google’s new is a curious device. While its beautiful, seamless hardware nearly justifies its $1,299 price tag, the Chrome OS (which only offers access to a limited pool of third-party apps and Google products, plus the Internet) does not. In the specs department, both John and I are impressed. The Pixel has a 12.8... |
Does Spotify Need A Web Player? (Of Course It Does) | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | News broke out today that Spotify would be making a beta version of its web player available to all of its users in the UK, with the promise that a full release would come later this year. I’m not complaining that I’ll soon be able to access Spotify through my browser. But why is Spotify, well established streaming mus... |
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The SXSW Transportation Wars Are On, As Uber And SideCar Launch Free Ride Sharing In Austin | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | It looks like transportation around Austin during SXSW might not be as painful as it has been in years past. Increased competition in the ride-share market means that getting around will be a whole lot easier, as conference goers won’t have to sit around and wait for a taxi. Not just that, but transportation could be f... |
Chatting Is Great, But GroupMe’s Mobile Apps Now Let Users Split Payments, Too | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | While the folks at GroupMe have spent some time exploring , they certainly haven’t given up on refining the formula that made them in the first place. Earlier today, GroupMe pushed out a that add some curious (and tremendously thoughtful) features to the company’s iOS and Android apps. As you’d expect these update... |
Pandora Shares Jump 18% After Better-Than-Expected Earnings, Mobile Revenue Up 111% To $80.3M | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | Veteran streaming radio platform released its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it saw its fiscal 2013 revenue of $427.1 million, representing a 56 percent year-over-year increase, and fourth quarter revenue of $125.1 million, an increase of 54 percent year-over-year. In turn, mobile revenue for the fourth quar... |
The Snapchat Lawsuit, Or How To Lose Your Best Friend Over $70 Million | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | One week ago, Reggie Brown alleging that he is a co-founder of , a red-hot impermanent photo messaging app, and is entitled to an original one-third ownership stake along with co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy. What’s at stake? Snapchat won “Fastest Rising Startup” at the and recently at a $70 million va... |
We Built This SimCity On A Shaky Foundation Of DRM | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | EA’s anticipated SimCity launch has officially become a cavalcade of fail. Amazon is in the face of massive negative buyer feedback, with the electronic title managing to accrue an overall rating of one star on the retailer’s site. This comes after EA disabled certain features to try to ease launch woes, and after it... |
Google And MPEG LA Sign Licensing Agreement Covering Google’s VP8 Video Codec, Clearing The Way For Wider Adoption | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | Google’s , which the company acquired from On2 Technologies, is an open standard and covered by a free patent license. That, however, didn’t stop MPEG LA, the guardians of the H.264 patent and license, from looking into creating a patent pool in 2011 and potentially suing Google for patent infringement upon its compet... |
“In The Studio,” FLOODGATE’S Mike Maples Maintains An Outsider Mindset Despite His Valley Successes | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | TechCrunch “In the Studio” welcomes a co-founder of a company which went public, a native Texan who studied engineering in Silicon Valley and business on the east coast, and who, upon returning to the Valley to begin investing, encountered a different path than he originally anticipated. By now, everyone in the Val... |
More Data Showing iOS, Especially The iPhone, Still Killing It In The Enterprise, At Android’s Expense | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | Apple’s iOS is consolidating its grip on the enterprise market and taking share from Android, according to customer data from enterprise file sharing and hybrid cloud storage company , which offers cloud back-up and storage services for a , from large corporates with thousands of seats to SMEs with just a handful. Of... |
Hands-On With The New Facebook And Its Boredom-Killing Feeds [TCTV] | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 7 | There’s always something else to browse on the redesigned Facebook unveiled today. Instead of churning through the main feed until you hit reruns and leave, Facebook hopes to keep you switching between Photos, Music, and All Friends feeds so you stick around. The design previewed at Facebook’s HQ today was actually s... |
Backed Or Whacked: Pursuits Of Pet Peeves | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Our furry friends are often labelled our faithful companions, but their loyalty can often come at a price. We humans must accept the responsibility of their care and tolerance for some of their less-savory traits, such as the bouquet of their breath, the piling of their pelage, or the proliferation of their poop. To ea... |
Attention Bikers! Chaotic Moon Has Built A Video-Powered Black Box For Your Dome | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | One of the cool things about going to a crazy tech event like SXSW Interactive in a different city is being able to meet with local entrepreneurs and check out the things that they’re working on. Yesterday, I got the chance to visit the offices of Chaotic Moon, a software and app development firm in Austin. The comp... |
Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley On Whether Hot Apps Can Still Be Born At SXSW [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | So it was great to take some time with Foursquare’s founder and CEO Dennis Crowley in Austin at to talk about the past, present, and future of launching apps at the conference. In the video embedded above, watch Crowley discuss whether SXSW or not as the springboard for hit apps in the way that it was for , wha... |
As It Hits 3M Users After 6 Months, hoppr Checks-In Its Bid To Be India’s Foursquare | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | While Foursquare has been concentrating on smartphones for some year now, much of the rest of the world has remained on a feature phone (though that of course is changing). So the opportunity to do location-based services has been limited – though not impossible. It has always been possible to triangulate a phones’ rou... |
A Big Deal For The Middle East, Daily Deals Site Cobone Acquired By Tiger Global Management | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | After months of speculation that its backer Jabbar Internet Group were shopping around for a sale, the leading Middle Eastern daily deals site has been acquired by investment firm . The size of the deal remains undisclosed, though my understanding is that the figure of $40 million that’s been touted building up to t... |
What Games Are: The PC’s Struggle To App-Up Continues | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Oh Sim City 5, . Right about now, when the media should be filling up with tall tales of virtual skyscrapers and cooperation between players on a grand scale, your life must be miserable. Between server crashes, Amazon suspending sales and reviews comparing the experience of attempting to activate you to paying “ ,” i... |
“The US Is A Country Of Explorers” Says Elon Musk As He Plans For A Texas-Based Spaceport | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Wired’s Chris Anderson interviewed Mega-Entrepreneur Elon Musk about his many projects, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Throughout their fairly technical and detailed conversation, Elon when into detail about the rigors of launching rockets and dealing with bad press about cars. Part of the reason he is here in Tex... |
Elon Musk Says His Only Regret In NYT Controversy Was Not Rebutting The Rebuttal | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | During this afternoon’s keynote interview at South by Southwest Interactive, Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk briefly addressed about a negative article by writer John Broder, which Musk said was “false.” Asked if he would do anything differently, Musk said there was just one thing — he would have posted “the rebuttal... |
With 26.5M Daily Users, Denmark’s Kiloo Pioneers New Ways of Producing Mobile Games | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | One of the sleeper hits on the charts over the last year has been a tiny game out of Denmark called Subway Surfers. It’s a runner game like Imangi’s Temple Run that has a character named Jake riding train tracks and dodging trains. That single title has helped and , the studio it co-produced the game with, reach 26.... |
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Testing Technology To Make Rockets Reusable | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Elon Musk’s SpaceX is getting closer to having technology which could dramatically lower the cost of space travel. In a keynote speech at SXSW Interactive, Musk demonstrated tech that could be used to make rockets reusable. During the interview, Musk showed off a couple of videos demonstrating how the technology works... |
EA Apologizes For SimCity Disaster, Says It Was “Dumb” And Offers Free Game To Players | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Electronic Arts’ was easily the most anticipated game of the season, but its launch was an because the DRM solution Electronic Arts and Maxis dreamt up means users have to always be online if they want to play. Sadly, EA’s servers weren’t up to the task and most players were either unable to connect or got kicked o... |
If It Gets Them, Google May Open .Search, .App, .Blog And .Cloud gTLDs To The Public | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | If Google is awarded the right to manage the domain registrations for .search, .app, .blog and .cloud, there is now a that it won’t just use them for its own services and will open them up for non-Google properties, too. Last year, when opened up the first phase of the registration process for new generic top-level... |
Can’t Afford To Stay At The Driskill? Here’s What $60 A Night Gets You At The Firehouse Hostel | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Every year, the tens of thousands of SXSW attendees who descend upon Austin cause a huge crunch on accommodations. If you’re lucky, you might be able to book a hotel months in advance. If not, you can maybe find an affordable Airbnb a few miles away. This year, a few lucky attendees were able to score digs in a great... |
Forget Google Glass, Google Debuts ‘Talking Shoe’ Concept At SXSWi, Wants More Social, Motivational Everyday Objects | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Meet Google’s “talking shoe,” which aims to translate movement data in witty messages to users and their friends. The concept apparel, showcased at the search giant’s swanky SXSW Interactive headquarters, is part of a – “Art, Copy, Code” – which aims to breathe a social, life-like experience into everyday objects. “I... |
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How To Make A Million Dollars With A Hot Dog Cart | James Altucher | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | My wife, Claudia was upset with me. She said, “I didn’t shower! I haven’t left the house. I’m having coffee in the afternoon. I feel like And quite frankly, she looked sort of disgusting while she was saying this to me at 3 in the afternoon. “You realize that everything you say to me right now is potential material f... |
Zaarly Shutters Its Reverse Craigslist Marketplace, Goes All In On Virtual Storefronts As Co-Founder Exits | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | When Arrington first introduced the world , my first thought was “a fast, mobile way for me to request booze delivery on demand? Sign me up.” But my second and third and so on were: “Wait, why should I trust a stranger to do the job and actually show up? Isn’t this akin to a marketplace specializing in herding cats? D... |
Bring On The Platform Wars! | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 3 | 9 | Writing software used to be so simple. A giant pain in the ass, mind you, but simple. You were a Microsoft developer, with binders full of Visual Studio CDs; you were a Java developer; you used the ; or you worked with something proprietary from IBM or SAP or the like. Nowadays, though, while the tools and technologie... |
Twitter Announces “Twttr” — Will Start Charging $5 A Month If You Want To Tweet Using Vowels | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | Vowels aren’t really necessary in today’s digital age, are they? Twitter doesn’t think so, as it including its free model called “Twttr.” You can only tweet without vowels though. Want the vowels back? Pony up $5 a month. Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me. Luckily, Twitter really cares about its users and will off... |
Rocket Internet-Backed Zalora Denies That It Is Shutting Down Taiwan Operations [Updated] | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | UPDATE: A spokesman from Zalora Taiwan said: To better serve Taiwan on its business operations model, the company has decided to conduct a review to make changes – From April, we are shifting part of Taiwan’s operations to our regional headquarters in Singapore. During this migration period, our company will temporari... |
The Weekly Good: KULA Helps You Turn Loyalty Points, Rewards And Miles Into Charitable Donations | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | [ ] It seems like every time we make purchases online or in a store, we’re collecting some sort of points or rewards. For the most part, those points go unused, mostly because the companies who give them out don’t do a great job of explaining what you can actually do with them. You know the drill, you purchase a video... |
Google Introduces “Gmail Blue” — It’s Completely Blue, Because Brown Was a “Disaster” | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | The Google April Fool’s train continues with the announcement of “ .” Yes, it’s a version of Google’s email service where everything is the color blue. The , and the , but I’d actually use this product if it existed, especially since it took six years to “develop the technology.” Can you imagine something like this a... |
Ambitious Startups Could Signal The Coming Of A Second Space Age | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | In late March, the American Geophysical Union announced that the Voyager I space probe became the first man-made object to leave our solar system. Just a few hours later though, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shot down that claim noting that the tell-tale sign of hitting interstellar space (a “change in the direction... |
What Does A Ghost Smell Like? Google Nose. | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | Google is shutting down ? Good riddance! There hasn’t been a video worth watching since Paula Abdul’s anyway. With the announcement of their newest project, Google is making it clear that they know where the future of online entertainment really is: smells. Meet Google Nose. With , you’ll be able to stop and smel... |
The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | Michael Shapiro isn’t the sort of person I’d expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He’s a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he’s been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated — in other words, he seems to be on pretty g... |
All Quiet On The Western Front: Gaming M&A May Be In A Lull As A New Generation Grows Up | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | When you step off the elevator into new downtown San Francisco office, a guy in military fatigues has you sign an NDA. After you do (I didn’t), a receptionist with a lot of piercings takes your name, while The White Panda’s “Foolish Monsters” blares in the background. Kixeye has whale harpoons stapled to its office w... |
Facebook’s Android Homescreen Could Expose Apple’s Inflexibility | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | The mainstream has had little reason to care that Android gives developers much more customization freedom than iOS. But if Facebook’s is a hit, the stubbornness of Apple’s closed mobile platform could be framed as a drawback after years of its cohesive design and ease being seen as assets. Cheapness and handset/carr... |
What Games Are: My Three GDC Themes | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | The was, as expected, a whirlwind. Folks from all across the games industry and associated media came together, ate, drank, talked, queued, played, partied and even danced with wild abandon, and everyone’s takeaways from the event were different. GDC is so big that nobody is able to objectively summarize what it is, ... |
Eventbrite’s Julia And Kevin Hartz On Building A Business As A Couple, And More [Video] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdM3dJr7TFA]
We all know that co-founders with a longstanding personal bond have a better chance of building a successful company than co-founders who don’t share a strong friendship. But what about when that bond between two co-founders is a bit deeper, as a romantic relationsh... |
As Crowdfunding Takes Off, SEC Greenlights AngelList’s Investment Platform | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | The Securities and Exchange Commission is making way for a number of startups and online investment platforms to enable startups to crowdsource investment. Early last week, Y Combinator-backed that the agency would not pursue action against its crowdfunding platform. But it wasn’t alone: a few days later, received ... |
Happy World Backup Day! Go Backup Your Stuff! Seriously. | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | Hard drive backups are like the socks of gifts you give yourself. They’re initially about as unexciting as gifts can get, only to become the in a pinch. Got a meeting in 20 minutes and your normal sock reserve is empty? Thanks for the bag-o-socks, Uncle Steve! Your hard drive just exploded, taking the past 3 years of... |
Iterations: Calendar Frenzy, Google Now, and Apple’s “Anticipatory Computing” Problem | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | TechCrunch Now that the Mailbox to Dropbox is complete, let’s move on to the next native iOS app that everyone wants to replace: The Calendar. Yes, the calendar. Nearly every other conversation I had this past week included some chatter about all the new calendar apps (see the screenshot of my iPhone). Peeling back... |
CrunchWeek: Amazon’s Purchase Of Goodreads, YC’s Smaller Demo Day And Bitcoin Hitting $1 Billion | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | It’s time for that very special time each week when a few of us writers gather around the TechCrunch TV cameras to shoot the breeze about the biggest and most interesting stories from the past seven days. , and I sat down to discuss Amazon’s Y Combinator’s this past week and whether Bitcoin now that it is a... |
256 Shades Of Grey | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | I want a black and white computer, and I don’t want it out of sheer, wanton weirdness. I actually think it’s a good idea. Here’s why. A huge, huge proportion of the content we consume every day is text. And, for many, an equal proportion of what they work with is text — be it code, email, or published content like this... |
YouTube Announces That It Has Been An 8-Year Contest, Will Shut Down On April 1 To Determine The Winner | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0&w=640&h=360] Bad news, guys. YouTube is shutting down. The platform launched eight years ago, and some of us have gotten so distracted by YouTube videos that we’ve forgotten that the whole thing is actually a competition. Or, YouTube never actually mentioned that it w... |
Google’s Doodle Features American Labor Leader Cesar Chavez On Easter Sunday, Users Retaliate On Twitter | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | Google’s Doodles on the Google.com search page don’t frequently stir up too much controversy, but today many users are outraged by the search giant’s choice in featuring Cesar Chavez, an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist. Of course, today is also Easter, which is one of the most observed and ... |
Blunts And Dancing Dogs In Tutus: How The Sharing Economy Is Re-Humanizing Business | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 31 | I feel oddly guilty rejecting my Uber driver’s offer of a beer and a blunt. It’s 4 am. I’m drenched, hungover, and bewildered as to why I’m in a rustic garage on the outskirts of downtown Austin, watching tattooed pedicab drivers dance with a tiny dog in a pink tutu. This was not the ride home I expected. Yet, my exper... |
Backed Or Whacked: May The Funds Be With You | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | A short time ago on a crowdfunding site not very far away… There are a number of schools regarding the existence of alien intelligent races. Among those who refute that we’ve been able to detect extraterrestrials among us, there are a broad range of theories. Perhaps such beings don’t exist. Perhaps they haven’t advan... |
The Tivoli PAL BT May Be The Best-Looking, Best-Sounding Bluetooth Speaker | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | Long before the advent of the Jawbone Jambox, there was a portable speaker that was decently rugged, had tremendous battery life and amazing sound, and that was the PAL. The PAL boasted an audiophile pedigree and an auxiliary input that made it a good partner for early iPods, but the introduction of decent stereo Blue... |
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Amazon Instant Video Suffered Long, Unexplained Outage Last Night | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | At the end of last year, Netflix suffered a because Amazon’s cloud services, which Netflix uses to host most of its infrastructure, went down. At the time, Amazon’s own video services continued to function without any issues. Last night, it was Amazon’s turn to suffer from a multi-hour outage. According to a number o... |
Gillmor Gang: Spring Training | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — takes turns sizing up the new season. With Steve Ballmer running out of room and close to the warning track, we talk about who might be called up from the minors. The consensus is that Steve has 18 months to tur n things around. He’s a pro... |
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