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Amazon Vs. Hachette: Fewer Middlemen Equals A Better World | Josh Breinlinger | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | By now everyone is well aware of the ongoing battle between Amazon and publisher Hachette. The thing is, we all know how this story ends; we just don’t know when it will be over. This one does not have a David vs. Goliath ending. Goliath is going to win — and that is a good thing for the world. An investor in oDesk onc... |
How The Digital Revolution Can Fix Scientific Publishing And Speed Up Discoveries | Daniel Marovitz | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing is big business. It generates $19 billion in revenue per year, the majority of which is earned by a few powerful publishers that enjoy profit margins of up to 40 percent. Inflated subscriptions sold to academic libraries keep them moving ahead because the librarians... |
Intel’s CEO Envisions A Future Where Wearables Don’t Look Like Wearables — And It’s Not That Far Away | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | Intel CEO Brian Krzanich foresees a day when a wearable is no longer seen a one-size-fits-all device that you put on your wrist. That day could be coming sooner rather than later, as Intel-based wearable products will likely be shown off in the coming weeks at . “Wearables” is still a nascent product category, but one... |
Lessons From The Sharing Economy | Raj Kapoor | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | Companies everywhere are jumping on the sharing economy trend. From sharing skills to houses to cars, the sharing economy is transforming many industries. Technology has lowered the barriers so that anyone can provide services blurring the line between “personal” and “professional.” The consumer peer-to-peer rental m... |
Cultural Realities Of Latin American Entrepreneurship | Derek Footer | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | One of the brilliant things about tech leaders and pundits in Silicon Valley is their true passion for entrepreneurship and their belief in the power of the human spirit and intellect. Surrounded by the sight of so many motivated and talented founders in the Valley itself, they assume that this optimistic sensibility c... |
Former Teacher And Current Entrepreneur Walter Duncan Offers Advice On Getting Things Done | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | In honor of we’re talking to creatives, VCs, and, in this case, entrepreneurs about what it takes to succeed. Walter Duncan is a really nice guy and dedicated “teacherpreneur” who has created a test-taking app. His start-up has taken in hundreds of thousands in funding and the accolades from teachers are never-ending... |
Five Factors In Building Giants Of The Big Data Era | Navin Chaddha | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | As we enter the second half of 2014, it would be fair to say that big data has gone mainstream, attracting , , applications, and large amounts of . Having seen many technology cycles during our 45 years in venture capital — including the birth of the PC era, the transition to client-server computing and then web-b... |
Gillmor Gang: Summertime Blues | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. This one seems more like an AA meeting for Apple addiction, as the Gang stumbles around pretending to be interested in Twitter tinkering with the Favorites model while just killing time until September 9. The reas... |
DrinkMate Is A Tiny, Plug-In Breathalyzer For Android Devices | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | Devices that plug into smartphones to augment the built-in sensors with additional smarts are continuing to make their way to market, many fueled by crowdfunding. Here’s another contender aiming to extend the capability of Android smartphones: a teeny breathalyzer called DrinkMate, currently seeking $40,000 on to mak... |
In Defense Of Square Smartwatches | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | All the smartphone hype is currently around round watches. When LG and Samsung announced their first Android Wear smartwatches earlier this year, most pundits had a heard time getting excited about them — in part because everybody was still waiting for the round Moto 360. Since then, we haven’t heard all that much abou... |
Disney Conquers Physics, Uses 3D Printing To Create Impossible Spinning Tops | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Have you ever been sitting around bored and found yourself trying to get some random household object — a battery, a pen, whatever — to spin around like a top? has taken that idea to a pretty grand extreme. Combining the power of 3D printing and some damned clever physics work, they’ve worked out a way to make just ab... |
How Siri’s Founders Could Have Built The Next Google | Dan Kaplan | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | It always breaks my heart a little when the startups with the most radiant potential hit their troughs of disillusionment and then cash out to a deep-pocketed buyer. This is not because I begrudge the founders of these startups the personal wealth or success that comes with their exits. Indeed, the wallets of everyon... |
Online Anonymity Will Soon Be The Only Kind We Have | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 8 | 30 | Anonymity: it’s all the rage– , –and it’s rage-inducing. A Brazilian court has that Secret must be removed from app stores there, and existing installs must be remotely wiped. The UK’s House of Lords has essentially of online anonymity. As usual, judges and politicians don’t understand technology. Anonymity can us... |
When Payment Processing Becomes A Commodity | Christoffer O. Hernæs | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | One of the big subjects of discussion in the banking industry earlier this year was the publication of the , stating that millennials view banks as irrelevant and placing traditional retail banking at the highest risk of disruption compared to other B2C industries. confirms this and draws a parallel to the challen... |
Female Entrepreneurs Want To Inspire Young Girls With Miss Possible | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Looking around their engineering classes at the University of Illinois, and noticed something was missing — other girls. And so like good engineers, they set out to solve that problem. The recent graduate and college senior invented , a doll and accompanying app aiming to spark an interest in math and science amon... |
Tech Companies Praise The President For Speaking Out In Favor Of Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | President Barack Obama spoke in favor of net neutrality this week, pushing back against the idea of paid prioritization, which many call Internet “fast lanes.” Following the president’s comments, a number of technology companies joined cultural and privacy groups in praising the American leader. The corporations and or... |
Middle Schoolers Learn About Startups By Launching Their Own | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | In the tech world, we’re used to seeing young entrepreneurs, from to . But not this young. A group of four middle schoolers from Torrance, California, spent their summer vacation building , a simple game inspired by . Their parents wanted them to learn what it was like to be part of a startup, from designing and d... |
Stellar, Uber, And The Rise Of Computational Trust | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | How do you feel about letting strangers into your home? Our homes act as a kind of sanctuary from the outside world, a highly personal and exclusive refuge. They should be safe. While it is a commonplace in cultures throughout the world to be gracious hosts to guests, such warmth rarely extends to complete strangers at... |
Taking A Wait-And-See Approach With Disruptive Innovations | Matt Marx | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | There’s been quite the brouhaha lately about disruptive innovation. On one side is Harvard Prof. Clay Christensen (author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) and his long-prevailing theory about how disruptive innovation drives incumbents out of the market. On the other side is Jill Lepore and her attack of Christensen’s theor... |
CrunchWeek: Carpooling With Lyft And Uber, Twitch Cracks Down On Copyright, Foursquare’s New App | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Today, Alex Wilhelm, Ryan Lawler, and I gathered around the big white table to talk about the new carpooling offerings from and (and the PR tactics that went along with their respective announcements), Twitch on copyrighted music amid the ongoing that it’s in acquisition talks with Google, and Foursquare’s . |
FCC Chairman Dismisses Verizon’s Defense Of Throttling High-Bandwidth Customers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Verizon that it would start throttling the 4G data speeds of customers on unlimited data plans who are among the top 5 percent of their users when it comes to consumption of mobile data, and were “connected to cell sites experiencing heavy demand.” The wasn’t too pleased. The commission stating that “‘reasonable ... |
An Interview With Josh Garza, CEO Of GAW Miners, On His $1 Million Purchase Of BTC.com | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | On Monday GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza announced the purchase of . , which now points to a landing page, is to be a beachhead on the war to make bitcoin a household name and, like sex.com before it, the purchase garnered a lot of attention. But why BTC.com? And why $1 million? I spoke with Garza about his purchase.
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Your Lost Android Phone Can Now Call You | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Did you know that Android has a built-in mechanism for locating or locking your lost phone? Google hasn’t done the best job marketing it, but it’s actually been baked right in since the release of Android 4.4*. Today that feature gets even better, thanks to the addition of a trick that seems so obviously great in hinds... |
Scott Stanford, Shervin Pishevar And Tina Sharkey Will Join Us At Disrupt SF 2014 | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | A year-and-a-half ago, Menlo Ventures partner and Goldman Sachs banker decided to quit their day jobs and . That firm, , has since to invest in early-stage startups. Next month they’ll be joining us on the Disrupt SF stage, along with SherpaFoundry CEO , to talk about how the new venture is going so far. Pisheva... |
TurboRoo Wants You To Come To Hardware Alley | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | want to see you in San Francisco for Disrupt SF 2014, our annual celebration of all things startup. It’s a great time. You get to meet great founders and VCs, and I’d love to meet you. Hardware is my favorite thing in the world and you’re some of my favorite people. What is ? It’s a celebration of hardware startups (... |
Judge Rejects Comically Low $324.5M Settlement To Tech Workers Who Were Cheated Out Of Fair Wages | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | The between Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe and tens of thousands of their workers has been rejected by Judge Lucy Koh. The Judge “falls below the range of reasonableness.” When the proposed agreement broke, TechCrunch “paltry and an embarrassment.” Judge Koh’s decision is the right choice. The case involves agree... |
Vine Competitor Groopie Lets Vloggers Create TV-Style Shows Together | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | YouTube stars are more popular among today’s U.S. teens than Hollywood celebs, . Hoping to capitalize on this trend, a new social video network called has just launched on iPhone, allowing the next generation of vloggers to record video shows with friends, which may include both scripted and unscripted content. The ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Food And Sex | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | As the end of summer sends people on vacation and essentially stops time as we know it, a couple good distractions for this slow time include food and sex. That said, we take a look at the before awkwardly chatting about the new and . We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , , ... |
Is Activision Trying To Revive Its Legendary (But Long Dead) Gaming Brand, Sierra? | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Just a quick heads-up for everyone else who spent far too much of their youth tapping around and to friends that they hadn’t used a walkthrough: Sierra Entertainment seems to be prepping for some sort of comeback, after shutting the doors back in 2008. Word of the potential revival comes from the company’s , which... |
TurboRoo, The Chihuahua With No Front Legs, Can Walk Again Thanks To 3D Printing | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Is there any cute animal 3D printing can’t save? Just look at TurboRoo, a tiny Chihuahua born without front legs, who has been given a new “leash” on life thanks to a and a 3D designer from . , president of 3dyn, saw and designed a small wheeled cart, estimating the size from . He printed the model in bright oran... |
Weave Adds Groups And Events To Its ‘Tinder For Networking’ App | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 8 | Professional networking app wants to help professionals find others that they’d like to meet with, through a double opt-in selection process. Now it’s making it easier for users going to events or part of professional organizations to find one another with a new feature being added to the app. takes the model of s... |
CrunchWeek: Andrew Mason’s New App, Diversity In Tech, And Twitter’s Big Quarter | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | It’s a warm, relaxed Friday, making it the perfect moment for an episode of CrunchWeek. This week , , and sat to discuss the biggest news from the week. What happened? Former Groupon CEO touched down, an interesting sat amidst a cadre of predecessors, and Twitter’s drove the company’s shares higher. As a sm... |
Microsoft May Be Readying A New Service Called Sway | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | A day after news that , it has emerged that has registered some domain names that use the term CDN — pointing either to Redmond also readying some kind of new CDN service, or possibly a service that will be based around a CDN. Jamie Zoch at Dot Weekly has that Microsoft has registered the Sway.com domain, along wi... |
Facebook Takes A Stand With Free Access To Women’s Rights Info In Africa | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | No one should be denied understanding of their human rights just because they can’t afford a mobile data plan. Now women in Zambia won’t be, as Facebook and gives them free Internet connection for accessing women’s rights resources like MAMA (Mobile Alliance For Maternal Action), WRAPP (Women’s Rights App), and Fact... |
Eaze Promises Pot Delivery Anywhere In San Francisco | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | Several states are starting to ease up on marijuana use, or even outright legalizing it (Colorado, Washington State). Now, a new SF-based startup, , promises delivery right to your door in less than 10 minutes. This is a real conversation I had with a friend I roped in to test the service: Me to friend over text about... |
Y Combinator Mixes In Smoothie Startup LivBlends | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | It really didn’t make sense to me why let a smoothie delivery service go through his startup incubator. Were the Fresh Mint Immunity and Cafe Mocha Energizer flavors delicious? Yes. But I scratched my head at how the next Jamba Juice had anything to do with tech. The two young founders of , and went into how m... |
137 Ventures Co-Founder Kathy Chan Becomes An Operating Partner At Khosla | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | , the secondary investment firm that recently raised (naturally) a $137 million second fund, is announcing that co-founder and partner is stepping back from her full-time role at the firm, although she will continue to be involved as a advisor. Chan will be spending most of her time at — a spokesperson for Khosla c... |
Flappy Bird Returns As A Multiplayer Game… But Only For Amazon’s Fire TV | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | NOBODY PANIC! FLAPPY BIRD IS BACK. Kind of. Back in February, developer pulled his game from the store, citing his guilt for making what he considered an “addictive product”. He later promised that the game , but with a few tweaks. It’d intentionally be “less addictive”, and would have a new multiplayer element adde... |
12 Years After Its Debut On Hacked Xboxes, XBMC Changes Its Name To Kodi | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | Back in 2002, a small group of developers whipped together an app that was meant to turn a hacked Xbox into a full-fledged media player, capable of playing all sorts of video and music content that the Xbox couldn’t handle out of the box. Reasonably, they dubbed the project “Xbox Media Player”. They’ve spent the last d... |
Looks Like HTC Is Building A Windows Phone Version Of Their Best Android Phone | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | Word around the ol’ rumor mill was that was working on a version of their flagship HTC One (M8) that ran Windows Phone instead of Android. Sure enough, an (as ) seems to confirm it. Thats certainly the face of the HTC One, and that’s most certainly Windows Phone. The name of the image itself is even “HTC_M8_Window... |
Google+ Photos Could Soon Become A Standalone Service Outside Of Google+ | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | It looks like it’s time for some good old at Google. First, Hangouts started to take its earlier this week and today, that the company is also planning to separate from Google+. That rumor has swirled around for a while and it really wouldn’t come as a major surprise if Google decided that the time to take this... |
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Unlocking Your Cell Phone In The U.S. Is Officially Legal Again | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | For the past 2 years, unlocking your cell phone without your carrier’s permission has, for absolutely ridiculous reasons, been illegal in the United States. Not anymore! As we covered at , the US Congress and were both in agreement that unlocking a cell phone should be an illegal act (punishable by up to 5 years i... |
Internet Companies Berate Microsoft’s Recent Loss In Email Privacy Case | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | Yesterday challenging to command access to data stored abroad. The case, in which U.S. authorities demanded email content of stored on servers in Ireland, has attracted considerable attention in the technology industry. Apple and Cisco filed , among others. Microsoft has vowed to appeal. , senior executive vice... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Xiaomi, Sony, And 3D Printers | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | This week, we took a hard look at , as well as the new . And as usual, we’re still fascinated with the . We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , , , and . Have a good Friday, everybody!
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Senior Citizens Are The Latest Group To Protest Tech Commuters | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency more than tripled fees for tech buses from $1 to $3.55 per stop today. The Agency says the increase is to . However, this fee increase is not a solution to collective activist groups who would like to stop the shuttle buses from using Muni stops altogether. Multiple gr... |
MakerBot Launches A European Branch | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | wants to take over the world, but you can’t take over the world without leaving home base. This morning, MakerBot announced that they’re formally launching a European arm of their company. It’s called… wait for it… MakerBot Europe. Rather than start from scratch, MakerBot acquired the assets of one of their largest Eu... |
Facebook Is Down For Many | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | appears to be down right now . If you load the website, you will get an error like the one you can see below. The website has been down for around 10 minutes now. Similarly, you get a network error in the mobile apps and your content won’t refresh. Some TechCrunch writers could load the website, but when they clicked... |
Here’s One Of The First Useful Android Wear Smartwatch Apps | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | I have a and really like getting notifications on my wrist. It’s useful to see if it’s an important notification without having to look at your phone every time it buzzes. So that’s why I didn’t see why I should get a heavier watch with a barely acceptable battery life, like the . But ‘s new smartwatch app showcase... |
Phantom Brings Self-Destructing Photos To Facebook, Twitter And More | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | A new mobile application called is offering a way to post personal photos and videos to blogs and social media sites, like Facebook or Twitter, which “self-destruct” like they do in Snapchat, while also offering controls that limit the number of people who can view the content, and more. The idea to allow for ephemer... |
JukeDeck Creates Music, Automatic For The People | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 1 | George Orwell once wrote about “an instrument known as a versificator” which composed words for songs without any human intervention. Heaven knows we are probably close to that with any Justin Bieber song these days, but the music sometimes still requires a human touch. But not any more, if new startup has anything to... |
Clear Ear’s Products Are Safe Alternatives To Cotton Swabs | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | Ear wax might not seem like a big deal, but for people who are hard of hearing or have issues with their middle ear, a build up of the substance can seriously impact their quality of life. Many people use cotton swabs to clean ear wax, but that can cause irritation and push wax deeper into ears, leading to blockages an... |
When Wearable Health Trackers Meet Your Doctor | Ben Heubl | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | How interested is your doctor in health data that you’ve tracked yourself? Wearable health and fitness devices are now hugely popular, and they certainly appeal to people who want to tot up their paces. But many people who have invested in trackers like the , bracelet, or the want to know: Can this data be used to... |
JustPark Releases iOS App, Secures Funding From Index Ventures | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | Founded in 2006 when was just 23 years old, ParkatmyHouse seemed ever so slightly crazy at the time. Who would rent out their unused private drive way or church car park over the Internet? It turned out plenty of people would, and long before smartphone apps came along to make the whole process simpler, Eskinazi was ... |
Lessig’s MAYDAY Reports Donations From Tech Magnates To Get Money Out Of Politics | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | The self-proclaimed has . The organization recently of donors that gave more than $10,000, including some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest players who gave the committee millions. One of the tech sector’s most active political donors, Sean Parker, topped the list with a donation of $500,000. Prior to his MAYDAY donat... |
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood And The Viral “Oops” | Nir Eyal | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | Recently, I started looking into the explosively popular new game . The game has ranked at or near the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store charts for the most downloaded free game. say the app could gross $200 million annually and net Kardashian a of the game’s profits. My line of work is researching what makes some pro... |
Pinterest Rolls Out Messaging So Pinners Can Have Conversations Around Shared Pins | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | today is a new way users can communicate, collaborate and share with one another. With the launch of a new messaging feature, users will be able to keep discussions going on Pinterest around their favorite Pins without having to leave the site or apps. Last spring, launched its , which enabled users to share inte... |
The GOP Is Using Support For Uber As A Fundraising Pitch | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | The GOP is cool, guys, and they want you to know it. Out today from the Republican party is a in support of Uber. The petition is predictably partisan, blaming “liberal government bureaucrats” alongside “taxi unions” for “setting up roadblocks” and “issuing strangling regulations” to the detriment of Uber. Cities, ac... |
Vogogo Raises $8.5 Million To Bring Crypto Payments To The US, EU | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | isn’t a new company. The payments processor has been around for about 13 years and is currently processing $75 million in payments in the last 10 months from their . Now they’ve raised $8.5 million to help bring their expertise in payments and cryptocurrency to the U.S. Cormark Securities Inc. led the round which inc... |
Path’s Dave Morin Will Hit Up Disrupt SF 2014 To Talk About How Social Has Changed | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | As August sets in and the tech world goes on vacation, it signals the return of the best part of every year: TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014. This is the big show, folks. This is the main stage. And luckily, we’ll have a true star of the tech world up on our stage in the form of Path founder . built Path as a way to funda... |
OneDrive Touches Down For Amazon’s Fire Devices | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | . |
Three Ways For Retailers To Survive The Amazon Fire Crusade | John Haro | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | On July 25 Amazon its , which , software that instantly recognizes products you can directly purchase on Amazon. Hot on the heels of this announcement was the news that Amazon , Amazon Wallet, which will allow users to save gift cards to their devices. For traditional retailers, Amazon has long been the 800-pound ... |
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Incubated: Capital Factory Leverages Austin’s Startup Scene To Lead Companies To Success | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | Austin-based is one of the jewels of the city’s startup scene, offering up an accelerator program and space for community events and workshops. The accelerator has a flexible, rolling application process that allows startups to join and use its coworking space for generally as long as they need. was founded five ye... |
Google Acquires Directr, An App For Shooting Short Films On Your Phone | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | Directr, an app that we’ve a since its launch back in 2012, has just been snatched up by . In an age of ultra-brief videos, Directr existed to help users and businesses shoot videos that were a bit longer than your average Vine — think ads, or promo clips, or family holiday videos. Terms of the deal weren’t disclo... |
New Study Shows The Decline Of Startups And America’s Geriatric Economy | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | A few months ago, : “Can Google ever be beat?” The query was less about Google itself, and more a question about the potential of startups to disrupt the largest companies in our economy. Do we have the talent and capital infrastructure needed for nascent companies to grow and compete against mature incumbents? I argue... |
Facebook Data Privacy Class Action Now Oversubscribed | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | A civil class action lawsuit being brought against on privacy grounds by campaigner Max Schrems has hit its current maximum of 25,000 participants less than a week after the action was announced. The class action was submitted to a Vienna, Austria court last Thursday and attracted over the weekend. It’s now hit i... |
Why The Gmail Scan That Led To A Man’s Arrest For Child Porn Was Not A Privacy Violation | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | No one will argue against the outcome of a case which , after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect’s Gmail account. But the nature of how the discovery came about led some to questions about the methodologies used behind the scenes. Was Google actively scanning Gmail for ille... |
SocialTables, A Collaborative Event-Planning Service, Raises $8 Million Series A | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | DC-based has announced its latest raise, an $8 million Series A round led by with joining. previously raised $1.6 million to help streamline event planning with collaborative tools. Founded by a programmer and event-planner, we’ve been following this company since when I was impressed by their clever seatin... |
Unclouded App Lets You See What’s Eating Up Your Cloud Storage | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | Back when the PC was king, a number of software programs were available that would let you analyze your hard drive utilization, allowing you to delete and relocate files in order to free up more storage space. But now that we’ve moved to using cloud services, where overuse isn’t just an annoyance, but incurs additional... |
Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To Quit | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | News broke today that is offering employees in China a Lumia 630 device to leave the company voluntarily. Microsoft’s mass layoffs are not going over smoothly in China. Reports of protest with workers reacting in anger about the that will eventually . When Microsoft purchased most of hardware assets, it acquir... |
Yahoo Snags Netflix Exec To Be Its CIO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 6 | this morning that it has hired formerly of , to take on its chief information officer role, along with the title of senior vice president of infrastructure. Kail’s background in video is fitting, given Yahoo’s . Yahoo also to be its chief information security officer. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer that Kail will s... |
LibraTax Looks To Solve Bitcoin Tax Accounting-Related Woes | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | on taxing crypto-currency trading, it can be a bit complicated for Bitcoin enthusiasts to figure out how much capital gains and income tax they owe. Losses and gains are subject to a capital gains tax, which means you have to remember Bitcoin’s valuation at the point you bought the currency and at the point you sold i... |
Man Builds A Suit To Turn Himself Into A Human Fireworks Display, Lives | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | Ever wished you could see what it’s like to be a fireworks display? You could and fly it through the fireworks… Or, if you’re mostly bonkers, you could build a big terrifying metal suit, cross your fingers, and stand right in the middle of the action. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA46WFX7jWA&w=640&h=390... |
Gillmor Gang: WineQuake | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — woke up and fell out of bed in what was the most dramatic quake for most of us since ’89 and in my case LA in the ’70s. For the wine industry, this will have major impact, coming as it does as the Napa Valley goes to harvest w... |
Kdan Mobile’s Cloud-Based Apps Are An Alternative To Adobe Products | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | wants to fill the space between Adobe’s mobile products and Evernote by providing cloud-based creativity and productivity apps for iOS and Android, like and , that are targeted toward amateur users and students. allows users to access their content on different devices and in the near future founder CEO Kenny Su s... |
PlayStation Network Suffers DDOS Attack, Hackers Claim To Have Grounded SOE President’s Plane | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | PlayStation Network is currently experiencing mass outages for North American users, and the reason behind the downtime is a DDOS attack for which hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility. Sony says there , but the rolling outage persists in various locales, some ten hours or more after the attack began. W... |
#Love: My Biggest Digital Faux Pas | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | Our attachment to computers can play tricks on us. With the ability to navigate anywhere, order anything, calculate any math problem, and answer any question right in the palm of our hands, it would be easy to feel god-like. Infallible, even. But oh, if that were the case! While our computers, and the internet, make ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 08.24.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. at Facebook here |
Niche Founders (Plus Vine Star Robby Ayala) Talk Marketing, The Risks Of Social Media, And More | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | I recently interviewed the co-founders of social marketing startup , when they with Robby Ayala, who leads creative partnerships for the company and is also one of their resident Vine stars (with ). I first covered Niche last fall, after the company . The team has a built an online platform that connects users w... |
LG Is Already Launching A New Smartwatch – And This Time It’s Round | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1STW7LQXONo] Android Wear isn’t even a year old, but LG is already ramping up the hype cycle for its second smartwatch based on Google’s wearable software platform. The design for the new device centers around a circular face, a trick that Motorola is pioneering with its , but ... |
E-Businesses In Africa Have A Responsibility To Help Alleviate Internet Poverty | Johan Nel | 2,014 | 8 | 24 | In Soshanguve, a township just north of Pretoria in South Africa, there was a small kiosk that sold fruit, cigarettes and snacks to passersby. The owner of the kiosk had recently installed Wi-Fi and, soon after, placed tables and chairs out front. And then her customers soon began to linger. They bought more items; t... |
A Look Back At Yahoo’s Flickr Acquisition For Lessons Today | Tomio Geron | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | When Yahoo offered to buy Flickr in early 2005, co-founder and his team had a tough decision to make. There were many reasons to sell. But there were also many reasons to wait for a larger exit. Today, deals like and to Facebook, as well as to Google, can make it seem like massive exits are easy or common. But... |
Why Everyone Is Obsessed With E-Mail Newsletters Right Now | Klint Finley | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | E-mail newsletters are so hot right now. Some of the best known are by , , and . There’s a , but really the best newsletters are secret. The authors encourage readers to share the subscribe link with other people who might be interested, but request that no one share the subscribe link on social media or the open... |
Clean CRM Data Starts With A Great Mobile Experience | Andy Byrne | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | There is no doubt that Salesforce is one of the most widely used customer relationship management systems. However, the shift to BYOD is changing the game for sales and marketing, and we need an immediate infusion of technology in CRM. Data science is certainly a key piece of the puzzle. hile data science is vital t... |
Why Are PC Sales Up And Tablet Sales Down? | Peter Yared | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | When iPads first came out, they were hailed as the undoing of the PC. Finally, a cheap and reliable computing device for the average user instead of the complicated, quirky PC. After a few years of strong growth for iOS and Android tablets and a corresponding decrease in PC sales, the inverse is suddenly true: PC sal... |
Is Burning Man Just Work? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | It’s that time of year again. Summer is over for most people and has just begun for San Francisco. And this week, the city becomes emptier than a VC parking lot at 5 p.m. as many of SF’s denizens head to , a festival that celebrates human expression — importing over 70,000 people to Black Rock City, Nevada, to party. ... |
BiiSafe Buddy Is A Bluetooth Keyfob For Item-Tracking And Location Alerts | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | Forgetful folk who regularly misplace stuff are spoilt for a techie fix these days. Connected item trackers that link your valuables to your mobile phone have been crowding onto the market thick and fast, fueled by the rise of the less battery-thirsty Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity tech, and promising to put an end ... |
Buying Stuff Within A Tweet Is Reportedly Coming To Twitter Via Stripe | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | Soon you’ll be able to buy something straight from a Tweet, if the rumours come true. Tech site Re/code says sources that Twitter is working with payments startup on the launch of its ‘in-tweet’ commerce project. Twitter is reportedly planning to add buttons within tweets that say “Buy”, or similar, allowing users ... |
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HBO’s “Silicon Valley”: Behind The Squirm | Scott Adelson | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | HBO’s “ ” is more than your average breakout series that had audiences praying for a second season even as the credits on the pilot began to roll. The show has clearly hit a cultural nerve, both inside and outside the tech community. For insiders, it holds up a mirror that reflects both the attractive and ugly sides of... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week (8/22) | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | This week had our writers investigating new engineering, aerospace and NASA hires for Amazon Prime Air, self-reflecting on social media involvement and getting drunk with robots. 1. typewriter app for iPad, and it soared to the top of the iTunes App Store charts ranking first in the Productivity section, and Overall... |
Amris Acquires Social Recruitment Platform Zao | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | You’re acquired! L.A.-based , the social recruitment platform that lets employees and a company’s wider network get rewarded for making job referrals, has been bought by legacy UK e-recruitment company (owned by The Internet Corporation Limited). Terms of the deal remain , though my understanding is that Amris is a... |
San Francisco Open Exchange Aims To Be The E-Trade Of Bitcoin | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | Y Combinator-backed startup (SFOX) is an online trading platform that helps people find the best bitcoin prices at various exchanges. In other words, it would like to help you buy, sell and invest in bitcoin exchanges kinda like and investor buys and sells stock on . Co-founder Akbar Thobhani left his job at Airbnb ... |
Women In Tech: It’s Not Just A Pipeline Problem | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | Why are there ? Repeat after me, robotically, defensively: “It’s a pipeline problem!” So says , echoing many others, e.g. and . But come on, folks. We’re kidding ourselves if we pretend that’s the only obstacle here. The pipeline problem is very real; but so is the trapdoor problem. It’s true that it would be bett... |
Apple Opens Battery Replacement Program For Affected iPhone 5 Units | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | Apple has created an iPhone 5 battery replacement program after saying that it had discovered a “very small percentage” of units “may suddenly experience shorter battery life or need to be charged more frequently.” This iPhone 5 battery replacement program is the second to arrive. Late last year, Apple for iPhone ... |
German Regulator Backs Google Over Publishers, As Europe Gets Embarrassing | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 8 | 23 | German regulators will not pursue a complaint brought against Google by a group of publishers for giving users access to their news articles. A number of German publishers, including Axel Springer and Burda, brought the action under a group called VG Media to demand Google pay them for making their articles available t... |
Pokémon Will Finally Come To The iPad, As A Virtual Card Game | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Pokémon, the game franchise that I love more than most real things in the actual world, is coming to the iPad. I would weep for joy were the news not watered down somewhat by the fact that the first game arriving on Apple’s devices isn’t the actual monster collection and battling game that makes up the core franchise, ... |
Google Buys Jetpac To Give Context To Visual Searches | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Google just acquired the team behind , an app that utilizes public Instagram data to determine things like the happiest or drunkest city. Jetpac launched in 2012 as a social travel guide on iPad but later to its Instagram-driven data on its iphone app, “Jetpac City Guides.” Google will most likely use the Jetpac tea... |
The Bolstr Bag Is A Gadget Toter’s Best Friend | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | We rarely talk about bags on TC these days (except during ) but here’s a crowdfunding project that I think would be perfect for all of us multi-phone, laptop-toting nerdotrons. Call the , this U.S.-made bag is small enough to be unobtrusive and not fancy enough to rank as a true murse. Created by Cleveland native Jay... |
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