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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online Now Lets Developers Add Unlimited Stakeholders For Free | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 27 | Microsoft says it now has over 1.5 million users on , its hosted application lifecycle management service. Today, it is a new (and free) license for the service that makes it easier for developers to add extra stakeholders to a project who don’t need full access to the code but need to keep up to date with a project... |
MB&F Mixes Up Sci-Fi Canon With A New High-Tech Music Box | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 27 | Watchmaker MB&F aka Maximilian Büsser & Friends is well known for its dedication to the sci-fi cause. Many of the watches – some costing over $100,000 – are reminiscent of robots, steampunk engines, and alien heads. Now, however, you and yours can own a handmade music box that looks like a weird USS Enterprise and play... |
Honest Co., Jessica Alba’s E-Commerce Startup, Has Raised A $70M Series C | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 27 | , an e-commerce startup co-founded by actress Jessica Alba that makes and sells eco-friendly personal care products, has raised $70 million in a series C funding round, the company yesterday. The new round was led by funds affiliated with private investment management firm Wellington Management Company with the parti... |
Apple May Reveal A Wearable Alongside New iPhones In September | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 27 | Apple should have a very busy schedule for its (yet-to-be-confirmed) event on September 9: Re/code is now reporting that it will . The report from John Paczkowski says that Apple’s wearable will incorporate HealthKit, the upcoming software found in iOS 8 that adds fitness and health tracking features to its mobile pla... |
VMware Vets Get $4.5M In Series A To Launch Private Cloud Management Platform | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | Back in 2009 I saw a talk by then VMware CTO , now a partner at , who described a private Amazon Web Services-like environment where users could provision services with the same ease they do in the public cloud. It was the first time I heard the term “private cloud.” A group of ex-VMware veterans have gotten together... |
Tech Companies, ACLU Voice Support For Facebook In Data Search Warrant Case | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | A group of tech giants and civil liberties groups voiced their support on Friday for as it continues its legal battle to return private data collected in a set of bulk search warrants to its users and prevent future searches. Facebook that a New York court forced the company to turn over personal data for almost 40... |
Apple’s Next iPad Could Sport Anti-Reflective Coating For Easier Daylight Use | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | has a new that has just gone into production, according to a new report from . The next Apple tablet will reportedly will reportedly come in both 9.7-inch (iPad Air) and 7.9-inch (iPad mini) flavors, per the news network’s sources, and will be equipped with a new anti-reflective coating that should make it easier to... |
Collective Health Wants To Replace The Health Insurance Industry With A Software Program | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | “Did you know you can actually negotiate and get a better deal at the doctor’s office if you offer to pay up front?” co-founder and CEO of asks. He’d broken his foot and had to go to the doctor for an MRI that would have cost him $3,700, with a $1,500 deductible. Instead it cost just $600 in cash that day. He says th... |
The Road To Disrupt: A Look At Ansa, The Off-The-Record Messaging App | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | On this week’s installment of the video series, we meet our final Startup Battlefield company, . Built for more utility that that , Ansa enables users to to have more control over their text, voice, photo and video communications. ‘s founder designed the product to function the same way people already communica... |
Australian Telco Telstra Acquires Video Distribution Startup Ooyala | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | Streaming video distribution and monetization platform is being acquired by Australian telco , which will invest $270 million to reach a 98 percent ownership stake in the company. This is up from the 23 percent it owned through a previous investment round. According to the that just dropped, Ooyala will be operated... |
Snapchat Is Now The #3 Social App Among Millennials | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | is now the third most popular social app among millennials, according to a recent , which finds that Snapchat has 32.9% penetration on these young users’ mobile phones, trailing only Instagram (43.1%) and Facebook (75.6%). That means the app is more popular than Twitter, Pinterest, Vine, Google+ or Tumblr among the m... |
Now Launching Out Of Y Combinator, Theorem Aims To Be The Priceline For Fashion | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | At first, what does sounds like what a lot of other companies do: It’s an online marketplace for well-made, higher-end clothing and accessories. But comes with a very interesting twist: The price of each item is up for negotiation. Buying something on Theorem hearkens to the kind of give-and-take that’s been practi... |
Silbert’s Bitcoin Opportunity Fund Drops $250K On India-Based Unocoin | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | Despite some early moves that raised questions about Bitcoin’s legality in the country, the Indian market and its sheer size is still enticing to investors. Barry Silbert, a longtime Bitcoin enthusiast and founder of SecondMarket, just invested $250,000 in . The company, which handles trading, merchant processing and ... |
Four Of The Best Investors In The Game Will Talk Trends At Disrupt SF | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | We’ve had a lot of exciting guests cross our Disrupt stage — there was the time we had the , and is becoming a regular fixture, not to mention repeat appearances from and and . But perhaps more exciting than anything is our investor panel, which pulls together some of the most in-the-know investors in the world... |
Glowing Plant Is One Of Y Combinator’s Very First Biotech Startups | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | Long known for backing software plays, is starting to dip its toes into biotech. In its latest batch is a new synthetic biology startup called that blew away Kickstarter funding goals last year with . aims are to build functional plants for the home that could repel insects or work as air fresheners. The inspirati... |
Bitcoin Slips As US Consumer Finance Agency Warns Of Cryptocurrency Risks | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | ? Today the (CFPB) issued a that the cryptocurrency poses to early adopters. The list is somewhat decent in its content, though I suspect the bitcoin faithful will find its tone to be overly negative. That same contingent will likely also find it encouraging that the CFPB is paying bitcoin any mind at all. The CFPB... |
YC-Backed Rigetti Computing Raises $2.5M To Create Commercial Quantum Systems | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | Once confined to research labs and science fiction, quantum computing is finally reaching a point where researchers aren’t simply trying to find out what’s possible, but looking at how they can actually work the technology into commercial hardware. , a member of the current Y Combinator batch, wants to be one of the co... |
BeachMint Gets Lucky In Joint Venture With Conde Nast | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | E-commerce platform announced it will take over all operations for today. The takeover is part of a newly formed joint venture between BeachMint and magazine publishing giant . Called The Lucky Group, it will be led by BeachMint’s as CEO with Lucky’s editor in chief and the magazine’s senior VP, . A partnershi... |
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The FCC To Host Net Neutrality Round Tables | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) four “ ” to discuss a number of topics that relate to . The six sessions start with basic questions regarding the brass tacks of net neutrality itself, moving into the more technical aspects of the idea. The economics of broadband, a related topic, will also be discussed. ... |
Google Invests In $300M Submarine Cable To Improve Connection Between Japan And The US | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | today that it is joining a consortium of five other companies to build and operate , a new trans-Pacific cable system that will connect Japan to the west coast of the U.S. with initial speeds of up to 60 Tb/s. Other members of the consortium include China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit,... |
Parenthoods Debuts A Mobile Social Network Just For Moms And Dads | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | Becoming a parent is an amazing, life-changing experience, but it can also be one that’s isolating and lonely – especially if your pre-baby social activities involved spur-of-the moment invites, happy hours, and nights out on the town. , a new Y Combinator-backed mobile platform, wants to help with the social isolatio... |
One Diary Wants To Make Your Calendar Smarter | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | is (another) attempt to make your calendar smarter. But, unlike something like Sunrise, which just landed a led by , the UK startup isn’t trying to be a calendar app to replace your existing one, but is focusing instead on being the middleware between you and your calendar of choice. In its current consumer-facing ... |
Parrot Jumping Sumo And Rolling Spider Review: Mini Bots Best For Drone Newcomers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 11 | to expand the reach of its consumer drone products with two new gadgets now available to buy, the . The names are slightly silly, just like the products themselves, which give you a taste of the full drone experience at a fraction of the price, and which are probably best for kids new to the world of smartphone-contr... |
Clever Launches New Instant Log In Feature | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | When adults are struggling to remember all of their passwords, how can second graders? After , wants to help instructors teach more and worry about resetting students’ forgotten passwords less. The education technology company recently launched a feature that will allow students to use a single sign on to all of the ... |
Stanford Professors Want To Teach You How To Scale Your Business Without Screwing It Up | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | After eight years of studying best practices for expanding a business, a pair of Stanford professors are scaling up the size of their classroom with their . Huggy Rao and Robert Sutton, the authors of will bring the lessons they learned from their research to the virtual classroom. When their five-week, free MOOC lau... |
Multi-Factor Analysis Of Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 Class | Matt Oguz | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | In my previous article, I wrote about how helps avoid decision biases such as availability — anchoring or the famous “herd mentality.” The merits of the theories behind this approach go back to the 1950’s. But based on the feedback our team received, we felt encouraged to share a sample analysis with everyone to ex... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | Before we take off for the long weekend, check out the best stories from the past week (8/23-8/29). As a bonus, check out this . To wrap things up, take a look at our gallery on the . Enjoy the long weekend, and be sure to look over the if you plan on attending. |
The Revival Of Semiconductor Funding | Ilgiz Akhmetshin | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | Over the past few years the semiconductor funding ecosystem experienced a downturn. According to the GSA survey, there were only five Series A semiconductor funding rounds and 10 exits in 2010 in North America, Europe and Israel. Most of the VCs who invested in semiconductors shifted their focus to software startups ... |
Someone 3D Printed A Castle In His Backyard And It’s Awesome | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | I now know what I want for my birthday. Using customized 3D printing technology, a castle in his backyard. It took him two years from conception to completion. The result is incredible: Better than that image is a clip from his website, showing how the construction process worked: According to Rudenko, building the... |
ThemeBoard Will Let Designers Share Custom Keyboards On iOS 8 | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | Since the at this year’s WWDC, implementations come from developers preparing solutions aiming to make the typing experience more convenient on the iPhone. Taphive’s is something else — it’s a keyboard that mostly acts like Apple’s, but you can customize it with designs from the community. When Apple releases i... |
Vice Media Confirms That It’s Selling A Stake To A&E Networks At A $2.5B Valuation | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | Vice Media has agreed to sell a 10 percent stake to A&E Networks. The $250 million investment values the company at $2.5 billion. The news was (warning: paywall), and a Vice spokerson confirmed both the deal and the valuation. I’ve also emailed an A&E spokesperson for comment and will update if I hear back. The news ... |
Niall Is Making Luxury Watches In Kansas City | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | When you think of Kansas City a few things come to mind: barbecue, blues, and Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, the first Frenchman to settle the area and his excellent treatise “Exact Description of Louisiana, of Its Harbors, Lands and Rivers, and Names of the Indian Tribes That Occupy It, and the Commerce and A... |
Yep, BuzzFeed Is Building A Games Team | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | If you like BuzzFeed’s quizzes and interactive projects like , congratulations, you’re probably going to be seeing more of them. If you think they’re all annoying gimmicks, well, uh, you’re going to be seeing more of them anyway. That’s because the site is building up a games team of its own. Vice President of Product... |
White House Reboots Its Tech Staff | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | A number of moves this week: The White House announced its intention for Danny Marti to be its new piracy guru, departing national CTO Todd Park will return to Silicon Valley, but keep working for the government, Google X’s Megan Smith is said to be a top contender for the nation’s CTO role, and former FCC Chairman Jul... |
Predictive First: How A New Era Of Apps Will Change The Game | Vik Singh | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | Over the past several decades, enterprise technology has consistently followed a trail that’s been blazed by top consumer tech brands. This has certainly been true of delivery models – first there were software CDs, then the cloud, and now all kinds of mobile apps. In tandem with this shift, the way we build applicat... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.29.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
An Interview With Max Gurvits, Boy VC | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | . Based in Bulgaria, the peripatetic VC is almost everywhere, showing up at events around the world and scouting out some amazing ideas. I talked to him about how he became a VC at a comparatively young age and what it takes to make it in investing for our .
Gurvits: I co-founded an online legal services company in H... |
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YC’s BillForward Wants To Change The Way You’re Charged For Subscriptions | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | Amazon Prime, Netflix, utilities, the New York Times, HBO Go, the gym… When you stop and think about all the subscriptions you have, the list probably is a bit longer than you thought. But even as more subscription services become available, from ride shares to , it seems companies still offer customers limited subscr... |
CrunchWeek: Twitch’s $1B Sale, Snapchat’s $10B Valuation, Uber’s Operation SLOG | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | Ryan Lawler, Alex Wilhelm, and I got together to talk about Twitch’s to Amazon, Snapchat’s latest funding round that gives the company a whopping , and the latest in the epic battle between Uber and Lyft, the driver recruitment strategy. You’ll also notice we have beers in hand. This is to toast to the last epis... |
T-Mobile’s 7th “Uncarrier” Announcement Will Happen On September 10th | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | It’s that time again! T-Mobile is prepping to make yet another announcement in their “Uncarrier” series, just a few weeks . The company has just sent out invites for their seventh “Uncarrier” event, each of which has been intended to shake up some industry practice or another and coax potential customers into hopping ... |
Nintendo Announces The “New Nintendo 3DS” | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | First released in 2011, the Nintendo 3DS has been re-released both as the bigger 3DS XL and as the the cheaper, kid-friendly 2DS. In video update, Nintendo announced the “New Nintendo 3DS,” an update to the platform that’s somewhere between a minor update and a full-fledged follow-up. The most obvious changes are imm... |
Snapchat Steps On Twitter’s Toes, Lets You Follow Remote Events Live | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 29 | has just updated its app with a brand new Live section that will incorporate Our Story into everyone’s feed, regardless of location. is a Snapchat product that lets users contribute snaps to a single Story (or, thread of snaps) from a single event. The product first launched back at Electronic Daisy Carnival, and t... |
Three Trends That Will Make A Difference In Mobile Payments | Alberto Jimenez | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | In the summer of 2008, I was in Paris delivering a mobile payments presentation to the CEO of a French bank. At the end of the meeting, he asked me when we would see more than 50 percent of retail payments transactions in developed markets go through mobile. With unbending confidence, I responded that within the next f... |
Turn Any YouTube Video Into A GIF By Just Adding “GIF” To The URL | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | Want to turn something on YouTube into a GIF, but don’t want to futz with downloading third-party apps or digging around for an online converter? Here’s a handy, easy to remember trick: just add “GIF” to the beginning of the URL. After “www.” and before “youtube.com” Like so: .
So, for example, you’d turn: into: and... |
Gillmor Gang: What’s That Sound | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — struggle with the news and raw emotions of the death of Robin Williams and the Ferguson upheaval. The intersection of social and mainstream media is no longer the big story it once seemed to be. Instead, the speed with which ... |
No Rest For The Innovators | Alan Trefler | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | If you are in the software business, you have to be cringing at the satirical portrayal of the industry in today’s entertainment media. In HBO’s “VEEP,” Julia Dreyfus’ character Selina Meyer makes a trip to Silicon Valley to court the support of fictional software giant Clovis, run by a 26-year old wunderkind Craig J... |
Bridging The STEM Talent Gap Is Not About Degrees, But Skill Sets | Tony Portela | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | In 2013, there were 2.5 times as many entry-level, STEM-related job postings as there were STEM graduates, according to a study by . The new STEM index shows that student aptitude for and interest in STEM increased just 4 percent between 2000 and 2010, while data from the show the number of STEM jobs grew 20 perc... |
Yes, Rapportive Is All #$%@ed Up Right Now | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | It was bad enough that LinkedIn the incredibly useful Gmail widget maker , which offers a lightweight CRM tool that shows your contacts’ social accounts and recent updates, that made the thing popular in the first place. But now, they’ve somehow managed to make the widget even worse. As in, it If you’ve still bee... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | From the ice bucket challenge to a nuclear fusion startup, here are our best stories from the week of 8/9 to 8/15. In other news, . If you didn’t hear about OnePlus’ sexist contest, . Also, did you know that ? To wrap things up, check out this video from the madmen at Harvard. They . Until next time… |
Plasticity Labs Raises $2.1M To Boost Employee Morale | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | , a company that uses data analytics to measure workplace morale, announced that it has raised $2.1 million led by Fibernetics Ventures. The funds will be used for sales and development. Plasticity was founded in 2012, three years after co-founder and CEO Jim Moss, a former professional lacrosse player for Colorado Mam... |
Tencent, Baidu And Wanda Form $814M Joint Venture To Take On Alibaba | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Chinese Internet giants and are teaming up with conglomerate to form an RMB 5 billion (about $814 million) e-commerce joint venture in a bid to challenge Alibaba’s dominance. Wanda, a real estate and movie theater chain group, will hold a 70 percent stake, while Tencent and Baidu will each hold 15 percent. The co... |
Do Software Engineers Get Enough Respect? | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 8 | 16 | “For software engineers, life must seem like it keeps getting better,” CNet. Glassdoor agrees: our median salary is now , and in San Francisco. (Which actually seems low to me.) And predicts that demand for our talents is . So what is one to make of , as a class, we are downtrodden, disrespected, and disenfran... |
Cocktails, Wireless Power And The Giant Disrupt Battlefield Stage | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield is always an adventure, even with months of preparation. From last-minute hardware issues to the occasional tear, you never know what can happen when you combine cocktails, wireless power and a massive audience. In our Road To Disrupt series, we’ve a few of our S... |
Google Challenges Amazon For Drone Supremacy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Need a tube of toothpaste, but don’t want to wait? Google wants to drone that to you, the Mountain View-based technology giant . Google follows Amazon in announcing that it is building consumer delivery-facing drone technology. Amazon that it is working to build drones that can deliver small parcels to shoppers. The... |
Google Chrome For Mac Will Finally Go 64-Bit, Improving Speed And Decreasing Memory Usage | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Just about every Mac you’d see in operation nowadays has a 64-bit CPU tucked inside. Apple started making the switch from 32-bit to 64-bit nearly a decade ago, after all. And yet, Chrome has always stubbornly insisted on running at 32-bit on OS X. That’ll change soon. Two days after declaring the Windows’ version of 64... |
Google Launches Guest Mode For Chrome Beta | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Google is a new feature in the channel for Windows, Mac and Linux today that will make it easier — and safer — to let others use your computer. Typically, when you give your laptop to somebody else, it’s pretty trivial for the other person to access your personal data, too. Now, the Chrome beta features a guest mod... |
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Burning Man Founders Admit The Festival Has Jumped The Shark But That’s Okay | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | The stories of billionaires flying into Burning Man on private jets with hired sherpas, body guards turning people away from VIP art cars and private glamp camps going for $25K in dues seems to be on everyone’s lips at the annual festival in the desert. While this is not the norm, it’s a reality and it has many asking ... |
Nintendo’s Mario Kart DLC Is The Best (And Also The Worst) | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | has seen better times. Back in June, the company despite tripling sales of its flagship console, the Wii U. The numbers were bad, but look even worse when looking back with context: if Nintendo sold the Wii U at the same rate as the previous quarter for a year, it would only sell about 2 million units. since its l... |
Hacking The Bottom Line | Andre Durand | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Where is your data, and how quickly can you safely reach it? These questions are top of mind now that cloud and mobile apps like Dropbox, Google Apps and iCloud, as well as mobile banking apps pervade our everyday lives at home and at work. By 2020, there will be an estimated per person. And as more devices — from ba... |
Prepare For The Smartwatch Assault | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Consumer electronic companies are giddy. They can’t help themselves. They have a new thing. A new gadget. A new widget to sell to you. After years of notebooks, tablets and boring slabs of metal and glass, Samsung, LG, Motorola and all the rest finally have a chance to build something different: The smartwatch. This is... |
Singld Out, A DNA-Based Dating Service, Can Match You With Dates Who Will Smell Sexy | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | There are dozens, if not hundreds, of services out there to help you find someone you might like to have sex with. But there are very few that are run solely by two female founders, and even fewer that use “biological compatibility” as a criteria for matching two users. Meet , a platform built for busy folks who are l... |
Google Stops Showing Authorship In Search Results | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Google today announced that it has the names of authors in its search results. The company first started showing authorship on its search results pages a few years ago. At first, this was a pretty complicated process (I remember a Google engineer walking me through it back then), but over time, it got pretty easy and... |
CalPal Adds Messaging To Your Calendar To Simplify Making Plans With Friends | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Making plans with friends can be like herding cats. Finding out who’s available when and trying to get everyone to agree on a place to meet at a certain time is one of the most problematic issues facing this current generation. Unfortunately, most of today’s messaging and calendaring options are insufficiently prepared... |
Downtown Launches Mobile Payment App In Palo Alto | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | wants to change the way you order and pay for food, starting with its launch today at the Palo Alto’s Although it’s easy to make online purchases or order food on your phone for delivery, the way you pay for a meal when you’re inside a restaurant has relatively stayed the same. But that launched today, allows you... |
Findster’s GPS Tracker Locates Missing Kids Or Pets, Without A Monthly Fee | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | There are a of gadgets, , that allow parents to geo-locate their children – or let puppy parents track down a wandering Fido – but many of these either fall short of the task at hand by relying on Bluetooth alone, or require a monthly fee, like or the , for instance. A new gadget now in the works called d... |
Instagram Is Down (Update: Back up!) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Don’t worry, it’s not just you. For the second time this year, Instagram is down hard. At least on my end, it’s down. You might be able to get to Instagram.com, but the app has been rendered mostly useless. Seems it’s been that way for about an hour. Looks like the web version is at least partly back online, but the... |
Tips From The Startup Fundraising Playbook | Nathan Beckord | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | I’ve been considering raising a seed round for my startup . So, to get my head in the game, I’ve been chatting up various startup friends who have recently been in the market for capital. Here are a few of the best tips for running an efficient fundraising round. I’m a big fan of , and whenever I need to build a da... |
Windows Phone Picks Up Domestic Support As Its International Numbers Plateau | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Good news for Microsoft: HTC’s new One (M8) Windows Phone handset will land on largest carriers in the United States. Bad news for Microsoft: According , Windows Phone’s market share in China has eroded to less than a single point. It’s a country where Microsoft has into adapting its Cortana digital assistant to t... |
A Chat With Jack Conte, Musician And Entrepreneur | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | Jack Conte is a busy guy. He and his partner, Nataly Dawn, are on tour with , a band that rivals only OK Go in their dedication to weird and wacky video production and Conte is also co-founder of , a way to pay artists for their work. This interview, part of our series, is aimed at getting to the bottom of what it ... |
Flash Sales Site SportPursuit Hires Former UK Adidas And Reebok MD As Chief Sales Officer | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | The UK’s , a 1 million member-strong flash sales site for sports and outdoor gear, appears to have made somewhat of a hiring coup. It’s recruited Kath Smith, ex UK managing director for both Adidas and Rebook. She joins the London-based startup as Chief Sales Officer, charged with helping SportPursuit expand the numbe... |
Announcing The Full Agenda For TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 | Susan Hobbs | 2,014 | 8 | 28 | San Francisco September 6-10 at its new home at Pier 48, and we’re excited to announce the full agenda. The event will span five days and feature industry titans, noted thought leaders and experienced entrepreneurs. General admission tickets are . Luminaries like Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Laura Arrillaga-Andreess... |
Vintage Home Decor Marketplace Chairish Collects $4M In Series A Funding | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | , the online marketplace that lets people buy and sell used home decor items, has raised $4 million in a new round of funding. The funding, which was announced last week and is led by and , is the startup’s Series A round and brings its total investment to more than $7 million. The San Francisco-based Chairish by... |
Nudge Is A Dashboard For All Your Fitness Wearables And Apps | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | Despite not being a particularly fitness-obsessed person, I’ve fallen for the fitness tracking trend. My main fitness tracker is a , but I also keep turned on and occasionally use . The hassle of keeping on top of all my fitness scores is why I was interested in trying out , which is currently raising a $1.3 milli... |
Mobile’s “One Game Wonder” Problem | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | One of the best from goes: Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up! Game de... |
Looking Ahead To Windows 9 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | A preview of Windows 9 will be made available in either September or October, . That timeline keeps ‘Threshold’ — Windows 9’s codename — out into the public market as a finished product likely in early 2015. The Windows 8 era isn’t merely closing, it’s racing to an end. Last weekend I posited that as Windows 9 appears... |
Best Buy Briefly Lists The Moto 360 Smart Watch For $249 | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | Best Buy may have inadvertently revealed pricing for the Moto 360 smart watch, set to be unveiled at a press event in early September. The big box retailer for the smart watch on their website, which had a full list of specs as well as a $249 price tag. The page was removed shortly after appearing. Luckily, the folk... |
Reversible USB Could Be iPhone 6’s Biggest Little New Feature | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | When the iPhone 6 arrives, likely in September at Apple’s upcoming special event, a lot of people will be looking for a larger screen as the core feature to get excited about. But one change that could actually have more of an impact in terms of daily use could be a new, rumored reversible USB-to-Lightning cable that h... |
Getting My Brain Back | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | I can’t do it anymore. This has been a summer of social media. I’ve used it endlessly, made plans on it, chatted, read it religiously, and watched countless friends and friends of friends go on vacation. I’ve played a game of whack-a-mole with LinkedIn invitations and I’ve streamlined my automatic Tweeting systems. I’v... |
For A Little While, I Felt Like The Richest Man In Lyft-Ville | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | Here’s a fun way to start your weekend: Getting a message from Lyft about the fact that you have $1,275 worth of free ride credits. No, that’s not a typo, and yes, that’s really a message that I got on Friday evening. Now technically, I knew about those credits already, because after of Lyft’s launch in New York, I w... |
Data Shows Which UK VCs Have Been The Most Active In The Last 5 Years | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | It was only at the end of last month that showing that fundraising by European startups was emerging from the bad old days of 2001. Dow Jones VentureSource reported that they’d raised more than $2.8 billion from VCs in the second quarter of 2014. That data also showed the UK was the country to beat in Europe, since c... |
Truth Lets You Send Anonymous Texts | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | With and raising millions of dollars to build anonymous services, all kinds of apps are popping up that let you share things without attaching your identity. While most of the apps emerging try to build a community by letting you scroll through streams of anonymous messages, some developers are creating apps that l... |
Sympler Offers An Easy Way To Create Fun, Music-Centric Videos | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | Co-founders Ben Jenkins and Alexander Kane swung by the TechCrunch office recently to show off , their new video app for iOS. Asked why the world needs yet another app for creating videos on your iPhone, Jenkins argued that “the ones that are out there aren’t really helping people do it.” Specifically, apps like Vin... |
Algorithms Are Replacing Unions As The Champions of Workers | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | is perhaps the single largest factor underpinning human happiness, and that quality is largely determined by one’s job. It should be no wonder then that so many activists and politicians have made improving work a key element of their advocacy for generations. The history of America is, in many ways, the history of wo... |
OKPanda Takes In Another $1.6M For Its English Language Learning App For Asia | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 17 | , whose language learning app targets the lucrative English language learning market in Asia, especially focusing on Japan, has closed a new $1.6 million seed funding round. The new funding round was led by Resolute Ventures and includes Japanese investors East Ventures and Beenos, plus prior investors Innovation Endea... |
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BuzzFeed Raises $50 Million From Andreessen Horowitz | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | Not too many years ago, announcing major news on a Sunday evening in the middle of August would seem crazy. If it was news you wanted anyone to , anyway. News dropped tonight — a Sunday evening in the middle of August — that BuzzFeed raised $50 million dollars from . And as a shining example of just how much Twitter ... |
Saying Goodbye To Windows 8 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | We’re starting to understand what’s next for . Considering the most recent leaks involving the Charms Bar, desktop improvements, and the like, it’s becoming plain that some of what Windows 8 emphasized and introduced will be scaled back in Microsoft’s next Windows build. Windows 9, often referred to as Threshold, isn’... |
If You Think Big Data’s Big Now, Just Wait | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | We’ve been hearing a great deal about the power of Big Data over the last couple of years. The hype says that as we gather more data, we will be able to get better answers to business problems, but the data levels we have seen so far could pale in comparison to what happens when we start adding sensors to the world. Wh... |
Why The iPhone 6 Will Be The Device Of The Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | Apple is gearing up for a , and all indications are that it will be a new . The iPhone 6, as it’s being called in the press, will deliver a lot of changes over the iPhone 5s, which got relatively modest updates compared to the iPhone 5. It’s also one of the most important device launches Apple has ever had, given how... |
New Microsoft Project Turns Boring First-Person Videos Into Awesome Hyperlapses | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | There are barely any mountain bikers, climbers, skydivers or skiers left who don’t have a camera attached to their helmet. Nobody really wants to sit through an hour of video of you heading up and down the slopes, however. You could just speed those videos up, but then they become . Thanks to a new , however, you m... |
Twitter’s Small Chance To Maim Email | MG Siegler | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | There was a time, years ago, when Twitter almost killed their direct messaging product. The thought process seemed to be that it was an odd bit of cruft around an otherwise elegant, simple product. It was also undoubtedly hard to maintain and scale alongside Twitter’s other scaling issues of yesteryear. Or, at least, t... |
Michael Halbherr Steps Down As CEO Of Here, Nokia’s Location And Mapping Division | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | Yet more changes for , the Finnish wireless behemoth that was split apart earlier this year when Microsoft for $7.2 billion. Michael Halbherr, an eight-year veteran of the company, is as the CEO of , Nokia’s mapping and location services division. Here is one of the only mobile-device assets that Nokia held on to... |
#Love: Crossing The Read Line | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | Read Receipt was inconspicuous enough. It started out in our work email, with easy opt-out options, and was meant to slightly increase productivity. Today, the Read Receipt is everywhere, oftentimes as a default, poking its devilish head into all parts of our life, from the mundane to the professional to the very pers... |
Make Your Own Lonely Electric Zoo Of One Using Wavepot | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | Knob-twiddlers take note: is a cool new way to program some hot EDM beats in the privacy of your bedroom/techno cave. Designed to be a live, programmable digital audio workstation (at this point it’s more of a digital signal processor), the website lets you program music and sound the way you’d program a web page or ... |
New At Y Combinator: Startups Solving Huge Problems! | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | During today’s Demo Day, there was a notable block among the startups presenting that didn’t give off the vibe we’re used to seeing at this kind of event in Silicon Valley: companies that are addressing real issues with big, bold solutions. We’re not talking about minor problems we all have — like — but issues that... |
The Logic Of Crazy Valuations | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 8 | 10 | August is the traditional vacation month for venture capitalists, who stream out of their Sand Hill Road offices to quieter points, ostensibly to reflect on the year so far and prepare for the heavy fall fundraising season. And what a year it has been! We now have several companies valued at around $10 billion and abov... |
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