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CrunchWeek: Amazon Takes On Square, Tech CEOs Get Dunked, BurritoCannon Comes True | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Pour yourself a nice cold spiked lemonade, and join Sarah Buhr, Alex Wilhelm, and I at the big white table to talk about Amazon that competes with Square, as TechCrunch first reported (and Square’s of its business against naysayers), big tech personalities like and dousing themselves in ice water for chari... |
How People Are Filling In When AI Can’t Do The Job | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Since Siri became a part of iOS in 2011, the idea of having a digital assistant that can help us get things done just by asking has been a central thrust of the big smartphone platform owners. Less than a year after Apple rolled out its AI companion, Google followed suit with Google Now, a service that preemptively sen... |
Unseen, An Anonymous Photo Sharing App For Colleges, Raises $2.1 Million | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | An Austin-based company called has raised $2.1 million in seed funding for its anonymous photo-sharing app , which has been trending on college campuses. Investors in the round include Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf, Indeed.com CEO Rony Kahan, CEO of Woodbolt International Doss Cunningham, and several other ang... |
FCC Extends Net Neutrality Comment Period | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | (FCC) announced Friday it would extend the net neutrality reply comment period from September 10 to September 15. The commission has already received more than 1.1 million comments, . That is the largest number of comments the FCC has ever received, with the exception of Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” in 2004... |
Tesla Extends All 85kWh Model S Drivetrain Warranties To 8 Years And Infinite Miles | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk just announced via Twitter and the that the drivetrain warranty for the 85 kWh Model S has been extended, giving it an eight-year, infinite-mile warranty to match that of the battery pack. This new warranty arrangement applies retroactively to every Model S ever produced, too, meaning ... |
The Guy Who Kickstarted Potato Salad Wasn’t Just Trolling Us All | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | It’s come to our attention that PotatoStock is a go. Zack “Danger” Brown, a Columbus, Ohio native, previously confirmed that he will put the proceeds raised from , namely founding PotatoStock, a philanthropic music festival featuring “gallons” of potato salad. The festival, which will be held on September 27 in Columb... |
Gillmor Gang Live 08.15.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. |
Kevin Rose Steps Into Part-Time Role At Google Ventures To Build A New Startup Called North | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Serial entrepreneur, investor, and overall Internet good guy is stepping down from his role of general partner at . The Digg and Revision3 founder will be moving into a part-time role at the firm, and will be using all his spare time to embark on a whole new adventure building a mobile startup called . The return t... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Amazon Register, Skully, And Summer Time-Sinks | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | This week, Amazon announced a Square competitor in the form of the , undercutting Square’s transaction fee. Meanwhile, the makers of the finally opened up the pre-order, for the fastest funded company to hit $1 million in pre-orders. But as August permits us a bit too much time for introspection, we also take a de... |
A Q&A With SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson After Selling To Samsung For $200M | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | As you might have heard, Samsung loosened up the purse strings yesterday with a , a platform that sells starter kits for entirely personalized smart home customization. For a few hundred dollars, SmartThings can help pretty much anyone get started building out a smart, connected home, with more than 100,000 different ... |
What Studying Students Teaches Us About Great Apps | Noah Lichtenstein | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | With over a million apps each in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, there’s an app — or 10 — for practically everything a consumer needs. So why is it in an ever-growing sea of competing apps, some take off like rocket ships while most fade into obscurity? The answer is magic. Magic — much like — may n... |
Uber To Test Moving Services In Atlanta, Nashville | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Earlier this summer, we saw Uber experiment with . The car service seems to be testing the waters for another service, announcing and . , UberMovers will provide free and professional moving services for up to a half hour for students in Atlanta between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday. The same moving services are av... |
Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You. | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Somewhere, somehow, maybe less than a year after I got the latest version of my iPhone, its battery would mysteriously deplete in about half a day. I wasn’t really sure why. But now I can find out. There’s a new app called out from a pair of Stanford Ph.Ds in computer science named and , who are turning some postd... |
Yahoo Acquires Ad Startup ClarityRay | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Israel-based ad startup announced on its website that it has been acquired by Yahoo. A Yahoo spokesperson sent me the following statement confirming the deal: We’ve been working on building up security capabilities and making Yahoo a safer place for users and partners. Advertising is an essential part of our business... |
YC-Backed Neptune.io Wants To Help Network Admins Sleep By Fixing Common Issues Automatically | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Nearly every network administrator has been on night duty when their pager buzzes or they get a smartphone alert of a network issue, one they’ve fixed a hundred times before, yet still forcing them to get out of bed to deal with it. YC backed startup, wants to change that by providing automated fixes for common netwo... |
Bill Gates And Tim Cook Dump Ice On Their Heads For ALS Awareness, Challenge Elon Musk and Dr. Dre | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | Oh, you thought Bill Gates wouldn’t be up to to dump a bucket of icewater on his head for ALS awareness? You thought wrong. And because it’s Bill Gates, the video involves blowtorches and engineering. ALS, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks the brain and spinal cord. Y... |
Yo Guys, Postmates Built BurritoCannon For Me | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 15 | BurritoCannon is real, and you can use it. At least for the next few hours. Hella. After I published my yesterday calling for a new burrito-delivery service that I tentatively named BurritoCannon, I trotted over to digs after its CEO asked if I could drop by. Our offices are next door, so I slipped over to say wh... |
BuzzFeed’s Future Depends On Convincing Us Ads Aren’t Ads | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | makes the majority of its money on ads that pretend to be content, but can it keep up this charade? Or, is the Starbucks-sponsored “10 Summer Emojis That Should Definitely Exist” no charade at all, but actually the future of media that we should just smile and accept? These are the questions that popped out to me from... |
NSA Internet Metadata Program Collected More Than Was Allowed, Shared Data Too Broadly | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | A now-defunct National Security Agency (NSA) bulk collection program that collected information about online communications exceeded its authority, collected too much, and shared that information too freely, . The program collected, according to , “certain electronic communications metadata such as the ‘to,’ ‘from,’ ... |
Y Combinator Takes Public Stance Against Sexual Harassment | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | Ahead of its Demo Day next week, reminded that it has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment toward founders. “Don’t even think about doing it,” wrote. “I will find out. Y Combinator will not continue to work with you.” The post follows increasing publicity surrounding the sexual advances and discrimination... |
OnePlus Cancels Its Dumb Contest Following Uproars Of Sexism | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | If you want to get more women involved in your community, throwing the equivalent of a sketchy online beauty contest and labeling it “chivalry” probably isn’t the way to do it. Fledgling smartphone maker learned that lesson this morning. Just hours after launching a contest that encouraged women to draw the company’s... |
YC-Backed TicketLabs Helps Small Music Venues Get More Fans Through The Door | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | Over the last few years, technology has steadily worked its way into the concert-going experience. Apps make the ticket purchasing experience a simple affair, while the endless flood of social data gives promoters and bands the ability to target their marketing efforts at those most likely to enjoy their particular sty... |
Candy Crush Maker King Drops 20% After Reporting Disappointing Earnings | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | Candy . , maker and purveyor of , and was whacked by investors after detailing revenue that disappointed, and lowering its top line guidance. The company also announced a $150 million dividend. The company earned $0.59 per share on a non-GAAP basis on revenue of $594 million. Investors had expected the company to r... |
With YC Backing, PersistIQ Hopes To Remove Excel From The Outbound Sales Process | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | As with many companies, the two founders of , a startup had a problem they saw needed fixing and they decided to build a product to take care of it. In this case, they found themselves coordinating their cold-call drip marketing campaigns in an Excel spreadsheet and they thought there had to be a better way. That’s ... |
Bolt Vs. Bolt: A Speedy, New Photo Messenger Debuts Using A Familiar Name | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | There’s another Bolt on the App Store that isn’t , and it competes in the same photo messaging space. How will Instagram parent company Facebook react to this new Bolt? Even Bolt’s creator, Nick Bicanic, better known as the founder of mobile dating app , doesn’t quite know. He claims the team was just about to releas... |
Uber Strikes Back, Claiming Lyft Drivers And Employees Canceled Nearly 13,000 Rides | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | The war of words between and continues to escalate. Following allegations that its drivers and employees were that they booked on its competitor’s service, Uber issued a statement claiming Lyft is guilty of the same actions. Furthermore, Uber claims these actions were taken after Lyft’s investors urged Uber to buy ... |
Microsoft Updates Windows 8.1 And Surface Tablets | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | It’s a big day in the Windows world, with rolling out a grip of security patches, updates for tablets, and new capabilities for Windows 8.1 as part of its August update. Nine security updates are part of the package, addressing what Microsoft calls “37 unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.” The , impacting Su... |
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Westboro Baptist Church Protesting SF Tech Workers This Afternoon | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | The Westboro Baptist Church, the group known for its hate-filled picketing outside the funerals of soldiers and those who died of AIDS, has found a new target – the tech industry. The group plans to picket pretty much every major tech company in Silicon Valley from Facebook to Reddit this afternoon. In what looks to be... |
I’ve Become The Embarrassing Parent With The Camcorder | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | Everyone had a dad, mom or uncle who was addicted to the VHS camcorder. Large and hoisted on a shoulder, it captured every birthday party and canoe trip on its massive tape. Our family’s official cameraman was Uncle Brian. Some 15 years and several rolls of duct tape later, he finally let the old machine rest and enlis... |
Uber Is About To Launch An API | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | wins when you hit the “Request A Ride” button, so shouldn’t it try to put that button everywhere? It seemed like a smart plan, so I did some digging and now sources confirm to me that Uber plans to launch an API soon. Google Maps was just the start. While it’s not clear what the exact functionality will be, the Uber A... |
OnePlus Uses A Sexist Contest To Sell Its New Phone | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | In this week’s episode of totally batshit crazy things some brands do to get attention, (the maker of a new smartphone called ) is kindly offering a bump on the waiting list for women who are willing to enter . Because I literally can’t bring myself to describe a contest that is so demeaning towards women and gener... |
The Das Keyboard 4 Is The Hacker’s Choice | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | One of the defining images of the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s and 90s was William Gibson’s cyberspace decks. Although never explicitly described, they seemed to be something like a self-contained keyboard with electrode leads hanging off and a sometimes unmarked keyboard that hackers used to jack into the Matrix. I... |
Sony Teases A Virtual Couch Mode For PS4 Multiplayer – Even If Your Friend Doesn’t Own The Game | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | announced some features of its upcoming system software 2.0 for update, and one of those called is definitely something to get excited about for console owners – especially those interested in trying out games without paying up for them, or in playing with friends with vastly different software libraries. The Shar... |
Let’s Get Over Ourselfies | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | It just became even easier . is set to launch a new app just for selfies. Its key feature? It doesn’t make a shutter sound, so no one will notice when you’re surreptitiously snapping a closeup of yourself. The messaging company’s latest app, called B612, only uses the front-facing camera on your phone and “makes the... |
The Glov Will Make You The Inspector Gadget Of Sex Toys | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | You know that part in the movie where they geeky librarian takes off their glasses, shakes out their hair, and instantly becomes super hot? I haven’t personally tried out the (as it just launched for pre-order on Indiegogo), but I can only assume that it’s a bit like that: It looks awkward at first, but it feels real... |
Imgur Joins Chorus Of Tech Companies Calling For Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | , the popular photo-sharing service, today with the FCC concerning net neutrality, arguing against paid prioritization and in favor of Title II reclassification of ISPs as utilities. To see a non-ISP technology company speak in that manner isn’t surprising. But Imgur’s comments are worth noting for their candor, as w... |
Sony Has Sold 10M PlayStation 4 Consoles To Consumers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 12 | just announced at Gamescom 2014 that its latest console, the has sold 10 million units since it launched last year. That’s 10 million PS4s sold through to consumers, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO Jim Ryan explained on stage at the company’s keynote at Gamescom, not just 10 million units shipped the way hard... |
Humin, The App That Organizes Phone Contacts By How You Know Them, Is Now In The App Store | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | , the app that aims to replace your iPhone contacts app is now in the App Store. Will.i.am, Richard Branson and creator Peter Vesterbacka were all part of the private beta launch a few months back. The app is now ready for everyone with an iPhone today. hooks into your phone, Facebook and LinkedIn contacts and combin... |
Microsoft’s CEO Dares Google, Amazon Execs In Ice Bucket Challenge | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | The current meme of dumping really cold water on your head to raise awareness for ALS is . Today, Microsoft’s CEO the winning team from his company’s internal hackathon to pour a large amount of chilly dihydrogen monoxide onto his expecting pate. Then, Nadella challenged Google and Amazon CEOs and to do the sam... |
Mark Zuckerberg Dumps Ice On Himself For ALS Awareness, Passes The Challenge Onto Bill Gates | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Snark all you want about this wonderfully goofy trend of dumping ice water on your head to raise ALS awareness, but here’s the deal: it’s working. Donations to the ALS Association Plus we get to see people like dump friggin’ ice on their heads.
ALS, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a fatal neurodegenerati... |
Apple Bans Two Nasty Chemicals From Being Used In iPhone Factories | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Much as we’d all like to think otherwise, the production of smartphones generally isn’t very eco-friendly. From the mining of rare earth metals to the myriad hazardous chemicals involved to the crazy emissions involved in shipping these things around the world, there’s enough nastiness involved to make Captain Planet s... |
Intuit Acquires ItDuzzit, An IFTTT-Style Service For Businesses To Connect Cloud Apps | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | More acquisitions for as it continues to build out its cloud services platform for small and medium businesses. It has bought — a Chicago-based startup that provides tools for businesses to integrate different web and mobile apps with each other: think IFTTT for enterprises. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, bu... |
Cisco To Trim 8% Of Its Global Workforce After Reporting Modest Earnings Beat | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Today Cisco its fiscal fourth quarter 2014 results, including revenue of $12.36 billion in revenue, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.55. Investors had expected $0.53 in profit per share in revenue of $12.14 billion in revenue. Despite besting expectations, Cisco’s quarter was lackluster. The company’s revenue fe... |
Spiral Hopes To Nail Location-Based Communities | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | A new app called could change the way we connect with the people and places around us. The idea is pretty straightforward: users see a news feed of posts near them, and can add their own updates and comment on other people’s posts. Users can adjust their geographic filters to see posts from a larger or smaller radius... |
Pour Your Pellets Into The Sculptify David For Some 3D Printing | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Most home 3D printing systems use a few basic tools to build objects. First you have a build plate and an extruder. A motor pulls plastic filament through a heated nozzle and squeezes it out, slowly but surely creating layer after layer until you have a 3D-printed Pokemon knock-off. But specialized filament is comparat... |
Fresh Off Of Raising $30M, BitPay Staffs Up In San Francisco With Visa, PayPal Alums | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Three months after raising a round of capital, has staffed up its San Francisco contingent with a few hires that are worth noting. Currently, BitPay has 40,000 merchants signed onto its service, which helps companies of all stripes accept payment for their goods and services in bitcoin. , formerly of , which handl... |
Yep, Activision Is Bringing Back Sierra (And Kings Quest!) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Just a quick update for last week at the idea of bringing back the legendary gaming brand that is Sierra: It’s happening. Details are still pretty light, but Activision made the revival official at the Gamescom conference this week. It’s an interesting move. Many of the people behind the titles that Sierra is best ... |
The End (Of Hardware Alley Submissions) Is Nigh | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | We need you at Hardware Alley. But we’re about to shut down submissions. You need to get cracking. We want you there. So maybe get a ticket? Or ask me for a free one if you’re bootstrapping? Either way, let’s do this thing. Remember: It’s a great time. You get to meet great founders and VCs, and I’d love to meet you. H... |
Dash’s Smart Driving App Arrives On iPhone | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | The smart driving assistant that made its debut has launched on iPhone answering one of the most frequently heard requests from its users. The , which is backed by Techstars New York, connects to any ODB-II dongle that you can get for your car (most cars made since 1996 should have one that’s easily accessible) pro... |
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Incubated: Inside Matter.VC’s Structured Approach To Helping Media Startups | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | A few years ago, a startup accelerator called launched with some funding from The Knight Foundation and KQED. Since then, the San Francisco-based accelerator has been working to help usher in the next generation of media-focused startups. takes a different approach from many incubators out there in that it has a f... |
Facebook Now Tells Advertisers When Ads Lead To Purchases Across Devices | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Facebook announced today that it will be giving advertisers a new report showing how often ads drive users to buy the advertised product on a different device. The company says that to gather cross-device conversion data, it’s combining information gathered by the Facebook Conversion Pixel (which tracks desktop web con... |
WeedMaps Partners With Uber So You Don’t 420BlazeIt And Drive | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Dude, where’s my car? Back in the garage because you took an rather than driving high. At least that’s the idea behind leading service and Colorado pot shop The Clinic partnering with Uber. Each time a new rider enters the , Uber will donate $5 to multiple sclerosis research though the end of year. The campaign ... |
AuditFile Raises $3M To Offer Task Management For Accountants | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Few jobs require more boring drudgery than what accountants have to deal with on a daily basis when performing an audit — they literally spend their time making sure that numbers in one column reflect what numbers in a bunch of other columns should add up to. Beyond the nature of the work, the actual process for verify... |
Snowden Reveals NSA Intervention In Syria, Hacking Program Compelled Him To Leak Documents | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Many in the media have conjectured that supporters of were responsible for a series of Internet outages in Syria in 2012. But National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden asserts at least one was caused by the U.S. government. Snowden went public with this claim for the first time in a recent interview... |
YC-Backed VizeraLabs Projects New Materials Onto Any Surface | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Let’s say you’re at a furniture store and see a couch you like. It has the number of seats you need for your living room and the cushions are comfortable. But the model in the store is cotton, and that just won’t do — you wanted leather. How are you supposed to know if you like how it looks in person? At stores with Y ... |
Greenhouse Raises $7.5M To Engineer How Startups Recruit…Engineers | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 13 | Uber, Pinterest, Snapchat and BuzzFeed all share a not-so-secret weapon in the talent wars: . The recruitment optimization SaaS turns hiring into a science, and guides them through where to source job candidates, what to ask interviews, how to score responses. Now has raised a $7.5 million series A led by to sell t... |
Alfvén & Didrikson Invests In Cloud-Based Workforce Management Software Quinyx | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Just a few months back, Planday $3.75 million from Nordic VC Creandum. And today another European company in the workforce management software space has picked up fresh capital. , headquartered in Stockholm, has received backing from Alfvén & Didrikson. The round, which adds to the previous $1.5 million raised by th... |
Facebook’s $400M-$500M Acquisition Of Video Ad Tech Startup LiveRail Is Now Official | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | closed today, a source told me, and Facebook confirms to me the deal is now official. Facebook announced the buy without disclosing a price back on July 6th, but . Regulators apparently had no issue with Facebook buying , which help brands that want to buy online video ads to target their spots and place them with ... |
CloudFlare’s CEO On Expanding In Key Markets Like China And Brazil | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | As Web security startup grows internationally, it plans to take a slow and steady approach to dealing with the challenges of expanding in key markets like China and Brazil. In a discussion with TechCrunch senior editor Jonathan Shieber this week at TechCrunch Beijing (organized with ), CloudFlare co-founder and CEO ... |
Sam Lessin Is Leaving Facebook | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Facebook VP of product management Sam Lessin just announced he’s leaving the social network. The announcement came as a post on Lessin’s personal Facebook page saying, “Esteemed colleagues, it is with quite mixed emotions that I write to say that August 29th will be my last day at Facebook.” Lessin was when his compa... |
ScriptRock Scores $8.7M In Funding According To SEC Filing | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | IT DevOps monitoring company ScriptRock has recently received 8.7 maillion in venture funding, according to an is listed as a director, which usually indicates that his firm led the round. ATP Innovations hasn’t replied to a request for comment, nor has ScriptRock replied to multiple attempts to contact them to con... |
Apple’s Sapphire iPhone Costs Could Be Lower Than Expected | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Apple’s plan is to work synthetic sapphire into pricier next-generation iPhone models, , provided they can get enough supply. While some analysts quoted expect this to potentially increase the consumer price of iPhone hardware, I’d be very skeptical of next-gen smartphones from Apple carrying retail costs higher than ... |
Windows Phone, The PC Market, And Global Smartphone Shipments | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Windows Phone sales aren’t doing well. According to the , 7.4 million Windows Phone units shipped in the second quarter of 2014. That’s down from 8.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Microsoft’s smartphone platform saw its market share fall from 3.4 percent to 2.5 percent in the year period. In comparison, the lager s... |
TeVido BioDevices 3D-Prints Skin And Fat Grafts For Breast Cancer Survivors | Sara Inés Calderón | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Laura Bosworth spends most of her time talking about breasts — nipples, specifically. For the past three years as CEO of , which works with human tissue and 3D printing to create skin and fat grafts, Bosworth has been researching how these products can help breast cancer survivors. For women who survive breast cancer,... |
Beacon Is Crowdfunding Journalism In Ferguson, Missouri | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Now this is a startup crowdfunding campaign that I can get behind. , a , has started a campaign for original news coverage of . The company says that in , readers have funded reports from multiple journalists, and allowed Peter Tinti You can visit to see all of the coverage, paywall-free. As I write this, the ca... |
The Tech Behind 50 Cent’s New SMS Audio Fitness Tracking Earbuds | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | 50 Cent’s SMS Audio is holding an event in NYC tonight, but the cat’s out of the bag: the product to be unveiled is a new fitness tracking in-ear headset, which is entirely Intel inside – the technology used was originally developed by Indira Negi, an Intel engineer who created Intel’s smart earbuds reference design, w... |
YC-Backed Naytev Enhances Social Media Shares To Drive Website Traffic | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Digital publishers are increasingly reliant on content shared with social networks like Facebook and Twitter to drive readers to their sites. hopes to optimize the way content is shared by that make their way to those networks. The startup helps digital publishers increase their traffic and engagement by improving... |
SmartThings Acquired By Samsung For Around $200 Million | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Remember when we said that Samsung was looking to acquire Internet of Things company SmartThings for around $200 million? That’s another big exit for a company . Apt for their name, SmartThings builds… smart things. Light switches. Water sensors. Door locks. All packaged up and prepped to hook into their iOS/Android... |
Microsoft Debated Rebranding Internet Explorer | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | In a , the Internet Explorer team revealed that it has discussed rebranding the browser. The team made its comment in response to a question regarding the negative public image that Internet Explorer earned. It’s fair to say that Internet Explorer has improved rapidly in recent years. Its brand, however, has lagged. M... |
Square Wants You To Know Everything’s Perfectly All Right Now. We’re Fine. We’re All Fine Here Now, Thank You. How Are You? | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Square just outlining and refuting what it says are the “top 10 myths” about the payments company. In some ways, the post is like a general FAQ, saying that, yes, Square does indeed offer customer support, and no, it’s not just for small businesses. The company also addresses the reports that it delayed its IPO (some... |
Watch A Thousand Micro Robots Self-Assemble Into Wild Shapes | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1t4M2XnIhI] The madmen at Harvard have finally done it: they’ve simulated real life swarms with tiny robots, thereby bringing the coming robot apocalypse that much closer. Or maybe they just created some really cool proof-of-concept robotic self-assembly systems. Either way, wh... |
The JOBS Act Progress Report: The Number Of Tech IPOs Can Double By 2016 | Sandy Miller | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | In early January 2014, there was a widespread concern that the IPO window was going to snap shut. But the chilling IPO winter transformed into an early blossom, and the market rebounded. Recently, the soul-searching and spirited talk about the long-term health and sustainability of the IPO market has included much disc... |
Unity Will Let You Make Plugin-Free, Browser-Based Games For Free | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | , Unity announced that they’d soon allow developers to deploy Unity-based games to the web without the need for any plugins, thanks to the magic of WebGL. Unity’s WebGL announcement was pretty light on details — but with the company’s annual Unite conference coming up next week, more details are starting to trickle out... |
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Senator Calls On FCC To Hold Net Neutrality Round Tables Outside Of Washington | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 14 | Senator Patrick Leahy recently the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to host round-table discussions about net neutrality outside of Washington. The agency that it will hold a number of sessions concerning the open Internet inside of the capital. The FCC should heed the senator’s call and follow through with ... |
Plan B Uses Old Printer Parts To Create Detailed 3D Models | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | If you’re bored this weekend, go ahead and tear apart your old inkjet printer and grab a few pieces of aluminum. Then head over to and get cracking. His new project, called Plan B, is an open source 3D printer that lets you print solid plastic objects by binding a thin layer of plastic powder with an old printer head... |
Airbnb Hands Over Data About 124 Hosts To The NY Attorney General | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | In the latest exchange between and the NY Attorney General’s office, the peer-to-peer lodgings marketplace has agreed to hand over “unredacted, personal information” on 124 of its past and present hosts. The news follows a long-running back-and-forth between Airbnb and the Attorney General, which has been seeking to ... |
Announcing The New Convenience Economy Disrupt Panel With Blue Apron’s Matt Salzberg, Good Eggs’ Rob Spiro, And DoorDash’s Tony Xu | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Convenience is one of those problems that almost any entrepreneur can tackle, whether you are running an expansive business like WunWun’s on-demand delivery for everything, or running a specifically tailored business like . But some entrepreneurs are looking at the problem of convenience and pairing it with universal ... |
Microsoft Research Shows Off “DeLorean,” Its Tech For Building A Lag-Free Cloud Gaming Service | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | When looking to the future of gaming, few concepts get people as excited as the mythical “Netflix for gaming.” It’s a concept that we’ve seen in multiple forms, from early efforts to Serving up games from giant clusters of servers has several advantages over the traditional model of running a game on your own consol... |
For The First Time, The Majority Of Opera Software’s Revenue Came From Mobile Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | may be best known for the desktop and mobile web browser of the same name, but it’s increasingly becoming a mobile ad company, as shown in about . Opera says that for the first time, its mobile ad division Opera Mediaworks was its largest source of revenue, accounting for 51 percent of the total. Mediaworks reporte... |
Most U.S. Businesses Don’t Know They Were Caught Up In Massive Cyberattack | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Is your payment information safe? It’s hard to know, considering many companies hit by the same cyberattack don’t even know it. , more than 1,000 businesses, including and , were caught up in a breach affecting in-store cash register systems. The Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory that said millions... |
Oregon Sues Oracle | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is . The state of Oregon — my home state, go fightin’ rain and trees — is unhappy with the performance of the website that Oracle built for its Obamacare rollout. The site, frankly, didn’t work as expected. The cost of the Oracle effort? Hundreds of millions of dollars. The best... |
Mobile Verification Service Zumigo Closes $6 Million Series B Round Led By Intel Capital | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Mobile device and location verification service closed a Series B funding round led by Intel Capital on Friday, reporting it raised $6 million. Zumigo wants to take the password out of the authentication process. Using the location of your phone, Zumigo can identify whether you’ve made a financial transaction based o... |
CrunchWeek: Fusion, Ballmer Takes Flight, And Aereo’s Fight To Stay Alive | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Happy Friday everyone. It’s time for CrunchWeek. This week and sat at the round table with your to sift through , , and . It isn’t clear how much more fight Aereo may have in it. On a happier note, today’s show contains a shot of Ballmer high-fiving people so hard it appears that he is trying to knock their ... |
Deepak Chopra Backs Art Marketplace GlobeIn | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | , an online marketplace where you purchase art and handmade goods from around the world, has the backing of an unusual investor — spiritual guru Deepak Chopra. The company is announcing that it has raised $1 million in additional funding from backers including Chopra and former IBM executive Doug Maine, bringing to $... |
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This New Card Skimmer Is Almost As Thin As A Credit Card | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Good old on a new card skimmer found in Europe. How is it different? It literally fits right into the card slot of any ATM, essentially allowing unfettered access to cards as they slide through. Add in a tiny camera and you’ve got a complete card cloning system. The skimmer is powered by a simple watch battery and us... |
Tech Elites Aren’t Ruining Burning Man. They Get Their Hands Dirty, Too. | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Don’t believe the hate. While it’s a juicy narrative that rich people spoil everything the common folk hold dear, there are plenty of tech bigwigs at Burning Man that work hard to contribute and embody the event’s ideals of inclusion. And the thing is, what they do has little impact on Burning Man as a whole. Whether t... |
Salesforce Spikes 7.34% After Its FQ2 Earnings Beat Expectations | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | In the immediate period after it yesterday after the bell, Salesforce slipped around 1 percent. Today, the company closed regular trading up more than 7 percent. Salesforce is now worth $33.87 billion. The share price rise comes on the tail of Salesforce’s revenue and earnings beat — $1.32 billion and $0.13 on a non-... |
HBO’s Silicon Valley Could Go To Burning Man Next Season | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Mike Judge has never been to Burning Man, but that could change this year. We hear the creator may be going to do some research on what many believe is an essential experience for Silicon Valley insiders. One of those insiders is Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who derided Judge at the premiere of the HBO show, saying he’d neve... |
Access To User Data: If Microsoft Wins, Do Startups And Innovators Lose? | Kate Westmoreland | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | With user trust at an all-time low, keeping the FBI’s hands off foreign users’ data seems like good business sense for U.S. companies. Microsoft says it’s fighting the feds over your email, but it also happens to be fighting to support the Microsoft business model. If your business isn’t like Microsoft (and if you’re... |
Tor Exec Claims NSA Agents Supply It With Vulnerability Information | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | The , an effort to allow users to browse the Internet anonymously, thinks that it is from spies focused on finding its flaws. Tor’s alleges that the folks tasked with finding ways to break Tor, are supplying the group with the information that they uncover. Not all, of course, but according to a , Lewman claims t... |
Clones Of “Flappy Bird” Sequel “Swing Copters” Flushed From App Stores | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | The mobile app stores are dealing with the app cloning problem at last, it seems. Earlier this week, “Flappy Bird” creator Dong Nguyen released the sequel to his insanely popular, but frustrating game, which had once led to from developers hoping to cash in on the trend. With ,” the cloners quickly returned, soon fi... |
Engineers Build A 3D Printing OS For All Printers Everywhere | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | If you’ve used any 3D printers over the past year or so, you’ll notice one thing: fragmentation. A few use open source apps (which are abysmal) and many use homebrew solutions which range from amazing to “meh.” Now a group of engineers wants to create a standardized, usable OS for all 3D printers, ensuring that any tim... |
Google Acquires Gecko, Which Did Mechanical Design For The Original FitBit | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | Google has , a firm operating out of Los Gatos, Calif., to help with its Google X special projects laboratory. The acquired company has done design work for a number of high-profile clients, including Aliph (Jawbone), Dell, HP, Slingmedia, OLPC and FitBit. It did all of the mechanical design work behind the original a... |
PawTrack Is A GPS Tracker Just For Cats | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 25 |
With so many GPS pet trackers out there, is there room for yet more? The pet products industry is estimated to be and there are more than , and as long as pets keep getting lost, companies will keep figuring out ways to help frantic owners find them. One of them is , which hopes to differentiate by making a ... |
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky Will Be Our Guest At Disrupt SF 2014 | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 22 | I’m excited to announce that Brian Chesky is returning to speak at Disrupt SF. For the first several years of ‘s existence, most people didn’t know what to make of it. Fred Wilson famously , despite Paul Graham’s insistence that the than just renting out your couch to a stranger. One investor in a cafe when one o... |
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Too Big To Fail | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | It’s official: for $970 million in an all-cash deal. It’s a move that caught most of us off-guard, as the common understanding was that Google has or was going to buy the video streaming startup for somewhere around a billion dollars. But in many ways Amazon’s purchase of the company makes a lot of sense. At the very... |
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