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In Memory Of Journalist James Wright Foley | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | James Wright Foley, a 40-year-old freelance journalist, is dead, killed far from home and alone. It is a tragedy and a horror. None of us have ever had to be as brave as James Wright Foley in our efforts as journalists and none of us here can understand the cost of his sacrifice. Foley was kept captive in Syria since 2... |
Sam Altman On His Inaugural Batch Of Companies As Y Combinator’s New Head | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | “A lot of people ask what’s different this time,” said Sam Altman, who took over Y Combinator from Paul Graham at the beginning of the year. “But the main thing I’m trying to do is keep things running the same way. YC is on this unbelievable trajectory.” Today’s Demo Day marks the first batch of companies that Altman h... |
YC Demo Day Session 4: Product Hunt, Aptible, One Codex, Traction, Shout, And Others! | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | Are you excited? This year’s Y Combinator Summer Demo Day is finally coming to an end, which brings us to the best part of the day — that is, the part that includes beer and networking. And, for some of the startups here, getting checks from investors (or at least ). But before we go, here’s the last group of companie... |
YC Demo Day Session 3: UPower, Edyn, Craft Coffee, Immunity Project, And More | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | The crowd of founders, investors, and press has finished eating lunch here at Summer 2014 Demo Day (quinoa, salad, some kind of beef stew thing, soda, and beer, FYI) and we’re back in the saddle for the third of four sessions of startup pitches. We’re halfway through a historically big day as far as YC Demo Days go: ... |
Former Obama Campaign Manager To Lead Uber’s Political Crusade | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | After taking Obama to the White House in 2008, will lead ‘s campaign to bring its driving services to new cities. and campaign manager to direct the company’s global policy and political activities, communications and branding efforts. The company has reportedly been looking to hire a top political strategist since ... |
Liam Casey, AKA Mr. China, Will Join Us At Disrupt SF | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | I am personally pleased to announce that Mr. China himself, , will appear on our TechCrunch Disrupt stage to talk about the rising tide for hardware startups. Casey has spent the last two decades in Shenzhen, China where he has become the go-to supplier for almost every major hardware manufacturer on the Fortune 100. ... |
Apple’s Valuation Nears Record Highs | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | Apple’s shares closed today at $100.53, a record high, provided that you adjust the company’s former heights for its . The technology firm had a previous, adjusted closing high of $100.30. However, its record intraday high — again taking into account its split — was a skyscraping $100.72. So, Apple has traded for more... |
YC-Backed Ravti Wants To Digitize The HVAC Industry | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | co-founder walked into TechCrunch with a stack of crumpled yellow slips in his hand. “This is what the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning industry still looks like,” he said, showing me a stack of papers with unintelligible scrawl. But Rangel and his co-founder Chris Ginter want to make managing HVAC units ea... |
YC Demo Day Session 2: Helion, BitAccess, uBiome, Fixed, And More | Contributor | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | Summer 2014 Demo Day is in full swing here at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The room is packed with investors and press, the coffee is flowing, people in startup t-shirts are pitching, and a team of us TechCrunch writers are hunched over our laptops taking notes on each company that takes t... |
The noPhone, Because Smartphone Separation Anxiety Is Real | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | The other day, as I sat on the couch with a dead iPhone resting on my belly, I found myself wondering why my phone is dead. And I had a revelation: I’d rather have a dead phone within reach than be even a few feet away from it as it charges across the room. It’s pathetic, I know, but absolutely true. Enter the . The... |
The Garmin Fenix 2 Brings The Running Watch Into A Dystopian Future | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | , walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you… how do you train yourself to outrun it? I like to think you’d probably want a . I’ve used running watches since their first, bulbous balls of GPS electronics were launched in the early 2000s. Now, after mult... |
YC Demo Day Session 1: Gingko Bioworks, Bikanta, Checkr, WalkSource, ClearTax, And More | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | We’re at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the startups in the Y Combinator Summer 2014 class pitch their wares to investors and the press. There will be four sessions in total today, and we’ll be writing up a post for each. This is the largest number of startups that YC has ever had as p... |
Philips Hue Lux Review: Smart Lighting For Less | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | If you’ve been eyeing the connected lighting series with keen interest but are also unwilling to spend the big bucks the current series demands, now’s your chance to get on board: Philips has kicked off pre-orders for the line of bulbs, including individual units and a starter kit including two bulbs and a base. Th... |
Y Combinator-Backed Traction Is A Marketplace Connecting Brands With Freelance Marketers | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | A new startup called says it’s giving brands an alternative to the traditional marketing model — instead of working with agencies, Traction has created a marketplace for finding the best marketing specialist for a given campaign. Traction is part of the current batch of startups incubated at Y Combinator, i.e., the o... |
Fly Or Die: Sex Toys | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | This episode of , focused on two different sex toys, may seem straightforward, but John and I actually learned a lot. We realized that not all sex toys are created equal, especially when you’re weighing sex toys for girls against those for boys. In this particular episode, we look at the , a blowjob machine that la... |
Steve Ballmer Steps Down From Microsoft’s Board | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | Steve Ballmer is out at Microsoft. In a , the former Microsoft CEO announced that he is stepping down from the software company’s board, effective immediately. Current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thanked Ballmer for his service to the firm, and for his “support” during his early days as CEO. The Ballmer era is over. ... |
Tom Daschle’s Son Raises Half A Million To Remake Ruck.us Into The Kickstarter Of Local Politics | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 19 | Political startup has raised half a million dollars and made a major switch from the to a local political fundraising platform. The site went through a reboot after it didn’t get the votes needed to make a social play over the last few years. It did, however, figure out a larger need in local politics – a free way f... |
MIX for Android Lets You Create And Save Custom Photo Filters | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | is the app for you if you often feel like Goldilocks when confronted with the filters in other photo-editing apps. Not only does MIX let you edit photos, but it also allows you to create custom filters, which you can then save to use again. MIX, now available for , is the latest product from Camera360, which has alre... |
Google To Open Campus For Startups In Seoul | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Google will open a new space for entrepreneurs in Seoul, the company . Called a Campus, it will include co-working spaces, programs like , , and office hours with Google employees. The Seoul location is Google’s first Campus in Asia. Google has opened similar spaces in Tel Aviv and London, and also plans new Campuse... |
Pinterest Investor Fritz Lanman Working On Two Different Companies | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Less than two years after , early Pinterest and Square investor is up to his old entrepreneurial tricks. Lanman, a former Microsoft VP who continues to make angel investments (he led the seed round of ), is trying out the model, dividing his efforts between , which is focused on wearable tech products, and , a ... |
European Travel Planner Platform, GoEuro, Pulls In Another $27M For Regional Expansion | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Berlin-based multi-mode travel planner platform has closed a $27 million Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, seven months on from topping up its seed funding with another . The new funding will be specifically targeted at market expansion and ramping up GoEuro’s rate of growth. As well as new in... |
Facebook Hosts First Hackathon For Female Veterans | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | There are dozens of hackathons in Silicon Valley every month, but on Monday Facebook hosted one with a twist. Rather than , female veterans were the only participants at the first . About 30 female veterans participated in the hackathon, pitching a variety of ideas from Bohdi therapies, an app to provide therapy to v... |
Microsoft Promises Fix For Surface Pro 3 Overheating Issue | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | The issue that is causing some Surface Pro 3 devices to restart and tell users that they are overheating is an error, according to Microsoft. The company has promised a fix in short order. Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 tablet hybrid has an Intel Core i7 processor option; Microsoft says the chip requires “[its] fan to spin ... |
PSA: HP Recalls 6 Million Laptop Cables Because They Could Start Fires | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Are you using an HP laptop? Quick — take a look at its power cord. Specifically, the part that connects from the power brick to the wall. If it says “LS-15” on it, you might need to stop using the cable and get it replaced (though, confusingly, some “LS-15”-marked cables are fine.) According to an alert from the US Co... |
Seagate Ships An 8 Terabyte Hard Drive, Perfect For All Of Your Totally Legal And Not Pirated Stuff | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Around a decade ago, I spent a few days piecing together a 1TB networked storage device. It wrecked my then-teenage savings, but I didn’t care; with 1TB under my command, I was the coolest kid on the block (there… weren’t a lot of kids on my block.) Today, Seagate is announcing a hard drive with 8x the capacity of my l... |
Hands-On With Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New Video Creation App | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Instagram has just launched a brand new standalone app , which focuses entirely on mobile video creation. The app dead simple, but is actually doing a lot in the background. When you first open , you’ll go through a very quick tutorial and are then sent straight into a full-screen camera. The button on the bottom... |
This Is Not The iPhone 6. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34T80iLYojk&w=640&h=360] But it the hardest I’ve laughed all month. Everything from the over-done splash animation at the beginning with its blaring techno track, to the “teardown”, to that glorious hair/beard combo hit: it’s perfect. [Made by Chicago improv group ] |
VR Gives Game Developers A Chance To Take Streaming Time From Twitch | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Yesterday for $970 million. I argued that for the foreseeable future, it seemed like Amazon’s efforts in the gaming space line up well with Twitch’s goals and that Amazon has to turn the site into a money-maker going forward. While I think that Twitch is probably going to be a win for Amazon, justifying the fact tha... |
As Samsung Falters, An Opening For Startups | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | In the smash-hit movie , Korea’s naval hero Admiral Yi-Sun Sin defends Korea from an invading Japanese imperial navy, single-handedly using his ship to hold off their advance in a treacherous current that today is considered one of the great naval battles of all time. The movie may be historical with its gruesome depi... |
Snapchat Raising A New Round From KPCB At A $10B Valuation | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | The rumors are flying around vanishing messaging app Snapchat, . These rumors hold that Microsoft and Snapchat are in acquisition talks, though we can’t really grok why they would be, other than that the situation would make a great plot point in the inevitable Snapchat movie (“The Sexting Network”?). According to peop... |
Facebook Hires The Team From WaveGroup Sound, An Audio Production Company | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | : VentureBeat has with Facebook that this was not an acquisition, but it has hired the team behind audio production company WaveGroup Sound. The headline has been changed to reflect this. Original story with more background below. Facebook has made an interesting acquisition, having picked up , an audio production c... |
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Hands-On With Bublcam’s Spherical Video Camera | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | The is a video camera that can capture a sphere of content with its four high-def sensors. We first covered it when its creators looking to raise $100,000 to bring the gadget to market. After raising more than three times that, the team behind it has spent nine months tweaking the camera to prepare it for launch ... |
Uber Gave Contractors Burner Phones And Credit Cards To Create Fake Lyft Accounts And Recruit Drivers | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Earlier this month, Lyft and Uber got into a over shady recruitment processes and anticompetitive tactics used in the literal “street fight” over drivers in markets that the two compete in. Based on a today, Uber’s recruiting tactics included the systematic use of contractors to request rides and try to lure away t... |
Someone Keeps Sending Us Fake Tips About Path | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Someone very desperately wants TechCrunch to write about Path. Over the past few weeks, we’ve received over half a dozen tips about layoffs, visitors from China in the office, an Alibaba “partnership,” potential acquirers and more. The funny thing is, none of these things seem to be true. For starters, the company outr... |
Google Adds 152 Patents To Its Non-Assertion Pledge | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Back in 2013, Google its plans to not sue anybody who had implemented open-source versions of its MapReduce algorithm. Since then, the company has what it calls its “ ” to a number of other patents. Today it is its largest expansion of this program to date, with the addition of 152 additional patents. This brings... |
A 12.9″ iPad Could Make 2015 The Year iOS Breaks The Mobile Mold | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | A new Apple iPad is in development, according to , with a 12.9-inch display that adds around 3 inches to the size of the iPad Air in terms of diagonal screen dimensions. Such a device would be a lot larger than Apple’s current top tablet overall, and is apparently already gearing up for a production run starting in th... |
Square Cash 2.0 Adds Free Money Transfer By Text Message, Payment Notes And More | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 26 | Square has a out for its Cash app that lets users send cash by text, greatly improving the versatility of the mobile payment app. The update also improves the user interface for sending, reducing steps and increasing speed, and offers a host of new features like putting notes on payments and a new reward system that ... |
Federal Court Shuts Down Aereo’s Attempt At A Comeback | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | In an eleventh hour attempt to save its business following the Supreme Court’s , Aereo changed its tune and claimed to be a cable provider . But the Second Circuit Court Of Appeals isn’t hearing it. The Washington Post that the the company’s request to reconsider the case, classifying the streaming service as a cabl... |
There Is One New Book On Amazon Every Five Minutes | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | In an interesting post, writer estimated the total number of books on Amazon – about 3.4 million at last count (a number that could include apps as well) and then figured out how many books were added in a day. Nougat noticed that the number rose by 12 books in an hour, which suggests that one new book is added ever... |
Unscaling The Trillion-Dollar Power Industry | Hemant Taneja | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | Throughout the history of the power industry, the answer to all of our problems has been to “get bigger.” Due to economies of scale, utilities have concentrated on building larger and larger power plants to increase efficiency and improve profitability. That’s why we still receive the vast majority of our power the way... |
Movie Theaters May Be Getting More Interactive, Thanks To Audience Entertainment’s SDK | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | You may soon be doing more twisting, turning, and jumping around when you go to the movies, if startup succeeds in launching a new type of in-theater interactivity. The company’s technology basically allows audiences to play together, usually as part of an ad campaign. Imagine standing up with everyone else in the ro... |
PonoMusic Raises More Than $6M In Equity Crowdfunding In One Week | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | became the on Kickstarter back in April, when it raised $6.2 million on a goal of $800,000. The project now has raked in an additional $6 million in equity funding from a campaign. Pono Music is building a music download service and physical music player that is set to launch in a few months. The project focuses ... |
Salesforce Beats In Its Fiscal Q2 With Revenue Of $1.32B, EPS OF $0.13 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | After the bell, Salesforce its fiscal second quarter financial results, including revenue of $1.32 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.13. The company beat estimates in the fiscal 2015 quarter, as investors had expected it to earn $0.12 per share — excluding certain costs — on revenue of $1.29 billion. In i... |
This Robot Butler Tried To Get Me Drunk | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | The little android, outfitted with a fancy collar and racing stripes, brings small items from the front desk of the Aloft hotel, to the rooms of customers. The cute R2 can handle elevators on its own, and scoots along at around one to two miles per hour. The Botlr is the first of its fleet, and is still in testing. W... |
Facebook Rolls Out Analytics For App Links | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | Today, Facebook is for , its initiative to in partnership with Parse (which it ) and . The data available is still rather simple, but it’s a first step to convincing developers that they should use it to send traffic between apps. Developers using Facebook’s new analytics tools can see when they send someone to ... |
Product Hunt Briefly Banned From Reddit, Reinstated | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | : A Reddit spokesperson sent over the following statement, which notes that a ban placed on Product Hunt links was the temporary result of startups posting Product Hunt links, not the responsibility of the site itself: “There was some recent suspicious activity that caused ProductHunt to be temporarily banned from redd... |
Achieving Anonymity Online Remains Difficult Despite Evolving Privacy Tools | Tomás Touceda | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | Some things are best kept secret. But when it comes to your online activities, can you ever truly conceal your identity? A variety of tools and best practices can help you achieve some level of privacy when surfing the web, but it is nearly impossible to ensure that your online activities remain completely anonymous.... |
Pandora, Indiegogo Release Employee Diversity Reports | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | Both and released diversity reports today that highlight an absence of African-American employees. The companies join a bandwagon of tech brands that have been releasing similar reports throughout the summer. At Pandora, approximately 3 percent of its 1,300 or so employees are African-American/black and 4 percent a... |
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Enlists Reddit Users To Rebrand Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | Today in a video and , asked Reddit users to help come up with new branding for net neutrality. The term ‘net neutrality,’ while useful, is being misused by some, according the Congresswoman. A new phrase — or word, perhaps — could clear the air, and help the average person grok just what it is we in tech are talkin... |
Instagram Starts Offering Essential Ad Tools At Last | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | Facebook-owned Instagram is making itself more advertising-friendly today with the rollout of a suite of business tools aimed at brands which offer insights and analytics related to their use of the image-sharing network. Included in the suite are tools that show a business’s reach and impressions, as well as engagemen... |
Restaurant Discovery Service Zomato Eats Its Way Into Central And Eastern Europe With Two Acquisitions | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | , the restaurant search and discovery service that’s raised a in VC, is making good on its promise to continue expanding to more countries beyond its origins in India. The 2008-founded company — which counts Yelp, IAC-owned , Priceline-acquired , and as competitors — is adding a presence in Central and Eastern Eu... |
Camu Is A Beautiful, All-In-One Camera App, Photo Editor And Mobile Messenger | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | A new mobile application called , launching today, is designed to serve as a lightweight replacement to the iPhone’s default camera app while also offering the ability for users to edit and share photos more easily after the fact, without having to switch between other applications. The app somewhat competes with long... |
Swift Navigation Raises $2.6 Million For Its Ultra-Precise GPS System | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | GPS technology is everywhere nowadays — it’s built into phones, cars, and an increasing number of industrial devices. But to date, GPS hasn’t been very precise. Conventional GPS modules have an accuracy range of about 15 feet, which is good enough for guiding you to a location but not the best if you’re building unmann... |
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Estimote Wants To Pioneer ‘Nearables’ With New Stickers Beacon Hardware | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRS8qRYXCQ&w=1236&h=695] The Internet of Things gets a lot of hype, but its rollout is slow and it will take a long time for consumers to upgrade existing, non-connected devices that still work fine into something that can communicate with computing gadgets like smartphones. ... |
Game Developer Gumi, A Sega And Line Partner, Enters North America With Four New Studios | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | The North America digital game market is , but it’s proven tough to navigate for high-profile companies like Candy Crush maker and . But Japanese gaming company is undeterred. It announced today that it will open four new game studios to make content specifically for the North American market. The gaming studio, ... |
Android Device Ecosystem: More Diverse Than Ever | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 21 | Growing Android fragmentation — or device diversity if you prefer — has been visualized in a by crowdsourced cell phone signal startup , which has surveyed 682,000 devices to build its at Google’s mobile OS ecosystem. While OpenSignal’s recorded just under 4,000 different Android devices using its software over ... |
Yahoo To Strengthen Email Encryption | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | will join in providing users of its email service with end-to-end encryption, helping to keep the private communications of people protected from the prying eyes of governments and hackers alike. The company made the announcement on stage at the Black Hat security conference earlier today. According to Yahoo chief i... |
‘Survivor’ Creator Conrad Riggs Hired To Produce A ‘House Of Cards’ For Amazon Prime | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | To fight Netflix, Prime Instant Video needs must-see TV you can’t get anywhere else. That’s why a source confirms that Amazon has hired , co-creator of Survivor and The Apprentice, “to make their House Of Cards.” credited “House of Cards” with providing “a halo effect on our entire service” that included . Amazon ... |
Hired Now Helps Tech Companies Find Executives | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | , a startup working to make recruiting more efficient, has expanded to include a category for VPs of engineering and chief technical officers (CTOs). Engineering Management is now the company’s fifth vertical. Mickiewicz notes that while the new category will naturally be smaller than the original engineering vertical,... |
These Are Our Favorite Startups From The DreamIt NY Demo Day | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | This week, we met that graduated from DreamIt’s NY Demo Day. We have the scoop on all of them , from the shoppable Pinterest to an ID scanning app to a real-time CRM app for all businesses. But we also decided to take a lap around the room to get a closer look at some of our favorites. : Launched as a beta last No... |
Twitch On Defense After Abrupt Changes To Its Content Policies Anger Users | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | Until recently, could do no wrong. The streaming service, to cater to the burgeoning gaming and e-sports industries, , and , and was tipped to be . Recently the company announced and that mutes stored video content when it detects third-party music. The company’s moves were impactful and poorly announced. ... |
Russian Hackers Probably Have Your Passwords. Now What? | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | By now you’ve seen that a security firm found a Russian hacking ring had pilfered 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses. Like many people, your first question is probably whether or not you were included in that dragnet. , the Milwaukee-based security firm that uncov... |
Square Will Now Pay Hackers For Reporting Bugs Responsibly | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | If you consider yourself something of a white hat hacker, listen up: you’ve got a new service to poke at without fear of getting hauled into court, and it’s a big one. Last night at the BlackHat security conference, ‘s resident hacker announced that the company would be launching a bug bounty program soon. This morn... |
Disrupt Winner Vurb Raises $8 Million To Steal Mobile Search From Google | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | The conundrum of mobile is you either use one convenient app that is mediocre at doing many things, or you have to discover and hop between a flotilla of single-purpose apps. wants to solve this for mobile search by aggregating utility from top third-party apps so you can make decisions rather than click links. Today... |
EyeEm Partners With Foursquare And The Huffington Post For Latest Photography Challenges | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | Photo-sharing service is announcing today that it is partnering with and to get photos taken by its users in front of more people with the introduction of two new competitions in its iOS and Android apps. The competitions are part of ’s “Missions,” where members of the community can submit photos around certain ... |
Pyrus Shows What Productivity Apps Will Look Like On Android Wear | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | The first few months after a new platform opens for developers are always exciting to watch. For every category of apps, assumptions about how things work have to be tested and new ways of doing things become standard practices. The simplicity of Google’s about what functions actually need to make the jump, which is ... |
Intuit Acquires UK-Based Payroll Service PaySuite | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | Continuing on its acquisition roll this year, has added cloud payroll service PaySuite to its roster. Intuit and in May. It also this July. The merger was jointly announced on both the and today as well as in a tweet sent out from Intuit Quickbooks UK: Today we’re welcoming @PaySuite to the Intuit QuickBooks... |
iCracked Goes Global With Its iPhone Trade-In And Repair Services | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | Four years after its launch, is taking its wildly successful iPhone trade-in and services business worldwide with plans to open offices in London and Berlin in the next few months. The company has been on a tear since launched the business with his high school friend, Anthony Martin, and Leslee Lambert in 2010. , w... |
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Apple Sets Up A Special Section On Its Online Store For Beats Gear | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | isn’t wasting time putting the brand to good use after its acquisition of the streaming music and audio hardware maker – the Mac maker now has a dedicated section of its online store, both on the web and via its iOS app, that’s . The new section is divided into headphones, in-ear headphones, speakers and accessori... |
Wikipedia Picks Up $140,000 In Bitcoin Donations In One Week | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | In late July, announced that it would . In its first week of accepting bitcoin, Wikipedia racked up $140,000 in new funds, , the service that powers its cryptocurrency influx. , a publication that tracks bitcoin and other alternative, digital currencies as suggesting “the staying power of digital currency donation... |
Google Launches A Preview SDK For Its Fitness And Health Tracking Service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | Earlier this year, at its IO developer conference, , its service for bringing health and fitness tracking to the Android ecosystem. It’s essentially Google’s version of Apple’s and will launch with the release of Android L later this year. Today, however, the company the for Fit so that developers can now star... |
Zillow Expands Its Mortgage Services With Mobile Pre-Approvals | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | Unless you are buying a house , you pretty much have to have a mortgage pre-approval letter from your bank before you even start house hunting. That’s typically something you would go to the bank for, but a number of mortgage services now also allow you to go through this process online. Online real estate site has ... |
Bikanta’s Tiny Diamonds Find Cancer Before It Spreads | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | -backed biotech company wants to find and stop cancer at its source by inserting tiny, fluorescent diamonds inside your body. The brainchild of Dr. Ambika Bumb, who holds a PhD in biomedical engineering from Oxford, these nanodiamonds can detect molecular abnormalities at a much earlier stage, essentially stopping ca... |
Beauty Data Startup Poshly Scores $1.5 Million | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | A New York-headquartered data company focused on the beauty industry, , has closed on a $1.5 million seed round of funding, which will largely be used to grow its engineering team in San Francisco. The funding was led by Frontier Equities VC, and included Astia Angels, CPEG Ventures, WI Harper Group, and other private... |
The World Of Everything-As-A-Service | Tom Blomfield | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | Over the last few years, it’s become dramatically more simple and capital-efficient to launch and grow Internet businesses. In particular, “X-as-a-Service” providers help startups get off the ground with only a few hundred dollars. Amazon and provide on-demand servers that scale to meet hosting requirements, and ... |
Microsoft’s Surface And The Fine Line Between Investment And Loss | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 7 | There’s been quite a bit of on ‘s line of tablet-hybrids published recently. The Surface project loses money. Understanding the magnitude of those deficits is important. The analysis led to the Verge’s Tom Warren asking the somewhat provocative question of whether , a product line that improved throughout its life... |
T-Mobile Is Testing An App That Unlocks Your Smartphone With A Single Button | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | The good news: is playing with the idea of letting you unlock your phone (so that it can run on other carriers) with a single click. Hurray! No more convincing customer service to help you, or digging through endless forums for a tutorial that may turn your phone into a fancy paper weight. The not-so-good news: they’... |
Men Initiating Change Is An Important Step Toward Eradicating Tech’s Bro Culture | Telle Whitney | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | The conversation about women in tech is shifting as technology companies begin to hold themselves accountable. Recent moves, such as , , and releasing their employee diversity numbers, show an intensified commitment to making real change for women technologists, but the sentiment is not industry-wide. We often ... |
The Poet, Scientist, Journalist, Boxer Approach To Entrepreneurship | Zachary Hanson | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | One of the great challenges for startups is figuring out where to start. Entrepreneurs believe that unless they build something now, their idea will become outdated or stolen by their competitor. However, that thought process is akin to running a marathon with one month of training. Yes, it can be done, but you run t... |
Timista Wants To Be Your Pocket Concierge | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | There’s no shortage of startups making apps to help you find something to do in select cities. Apps like last minute event planner . Or YC-backed if you’re after local nightlife events. Or, for tourists wanting to book excursions and tours on their city break, there’s . But what if you want to chain together a sequ... |
Gillmor Gang: More of the Same | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — split down the middle on the latest app trend known as unbundling. Foursquare begat Swarm, Facebook produced Messenger, and Yo popped out a beta with non-disclosed super powers. Tying it altogether was the seamless fabric of n... |
For The Love Of Open Mapping Data | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | It’s been exactly ten years since the launch of , the largest crowd-sourced mapping project on the Internet. The project was founded by when he was still a student. It took a few years for the idea of to catch on, but today, it’s among the most heavily used sources for mapping data and the project is still going s... |
Who’s Doing Common-Sense Reasoning And Why It Matters | Catherine Havasi | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | Imagine for a moment that you run into a friend on the street after you return from a vacation in Mexico. “How was your vacation?” your friend asks. “It was wonderful. We’re so happy with the trip,” you reply. “It wasn’t too humid, though the water was a bit cold.” No surprises there, right? You and your friend both kn... |
Getting Orwell Wrong | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | I was ready to come to defense (and I will, eventually). In their , they made some excellent points. They inflamed our passions, gave us historical context for our discontent, and then quoted none other than George Orwell on the disruptive nature of paperbacks and the need for evil publishers to crack down on upstar... |
The New TV Pilot Season: Bringing YouTube Stars, Channels And Bloggers To TV Screens | Nuno Bernardo | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | Hollywood is in love with YouTube. Last year, paid $33 million for YouTube channel , Warner Bros. invested $18 million in the YouTube channel and most recently, for $500 million. At this point, many other studios are probably negotiating acquisitions of these multi-channel networks. The explanation for so much... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want to Miss This Week (8/8) | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | Here’s a recap of some of our top stories from 8/2 to 8/8. There’s been a recent surge in news about bitcoin. After opening up bitcoin donations on Wikipedia, the Wikimedia group . Last week, . This week, . There were also three articles that came out last Friday afternoon (after I wrote last week’s recap) that gaine... |
John McAfee In Crazytown | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 8 | 9 | “The press has portrayed me alternately as a mad genius or a mad psychotic genius,” began , speaking at Def Con–and why break that streak now? I must admit: when he’s crazy, he’s crazy like a fox. Ultimately, though, as insane and riveting as his tale is, what’s most interesting to me is the way he has weirdly come to... |
Microsoft Continues Its Campaign Against A US Warrant Demanding Overseas Data | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | A search warrant commanding Microsoft to turn over certain customer email data that is currently stored overseas was unfrozen late this week. The . In a statement, Microsoft said that it “will not be turning over the email and plans to appeal.” This , arguing that domestic warrants should not be able to command acces... |
JUMP Cable Is The Right Smartphone Charger For Forgetful People | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | Like many other users, the battery on my iPhone tends to die right before the end of the day. One obvious solution is to use a case like the , but I don’t like increasing the size of my phone. Another is to carry a battery charger around with me, but unfortunately, I am just too dunderheaded to remember an extra devic... |
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Startup Mentors — How Do You Filter Out The Good, The Bad And The Ugly? | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | In light of the recent brouhaha over the who had a habit of attaching himself to accelerators as a ‘mentor’, it seems an appropriate time to do a quick rundown on the kinds of things entrepreneurs need to look for in genuine potential mentor to them and their companies. Because, in case you have been hiding under a r... |
Typing Writer Turns Your iPad Into A Typewriter (And No, It Wasn’t Created By Tom Hanks) | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | A couple of weeks ago, Hanx Writer, a typewriter app from movie star Tom Hanks, . I guess there must be something in the air, because . There’s also , an app created by Stephen Elliott, founder of the literary website , along with Eli Horowitz, Chris Ying, and Russell Quinn. Elliott stopped by the TechCrunch New ... |
Investor Pavel Curda Dumped By Euro Accelerators After Sleazy Emails | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | Pavel Curda, the European Angel investor and ‘mentor’ who became the centre of a media maelstrom after at a conference, has been shunned by the tech accelerators he as working with him. Curda has now been dumped by at least three accelerators, as well as losing his role as a writer with tech blog, The Next Web. The... |
AnandTech Founder Anand Shimpi Is Heading To Apple | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | A day after , it’s come to light that veteran journalist Anand Shimpi will soon be joining Apple. The move, which was earlier today, was confirmed by the company. Shimpi spent 17 years building the site AnandTech, focusing mostly on reviews of hardware and along the way providing detailed info on products from Apple... |
This Labor Day, Reflect On Diversity And The Future | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | 2014 is the year that work became a central point of discussion in Silicon Valley. For the engineers and knowledge workers in the region, issues of diversity and inclusion finally got their turn in the limelight, forcing us to question our deeply-held views about the meritocracy of Silicon Valley. We also had to confro... |
Apple’s New Spaceship HQ Doesn’t Look Like A Spaceship Yet, But It’s Huge | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 31 | Apple’s new spaceship-style campus is one of the last things on the company’s mind right now, with the iPhone launch looming just over the horizon. However, that hasn’t stopped some curious folks from peeking around over at the construction site. YouTuber has captured video on a GoPro Hero 3+ using a Phantom 2 drone... |
AnandTech Founder Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From Writing | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | We don’t always note when fellow tech writers hang up their hats, as those posts can start to seem a bit inside baseball-y. There are times when we just can’t help it, though — some writers are just too darned important. This is gonna be one of those times. Anand Lal Shimpi, namesake founder of the much-adored hardware... |
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