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Tribune Hires M-GO Boss John Batter To Run Gracenote, As Digital Head Shashi Seth Departs | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | It’s been a crazy year for video and audio metadata company Gracenote. In late December its parent company Sony announced the business would be . That deal , combining Gracenote with the new parent company’s existing Tribune Media Services metadata business. And now it has a new CEO. Six months after the acquisition ... |
Nerds Love Twitch Because There, They Can Be Heroes | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Why do so many people watch others play video games on ? Because the fans don’t look much different from the celebrities. They all play the same games. In a world of muscle-clad athletes and beautiful pop stars, on Twitch all that matters are your skills and your wits. Be funny or fast on the trigger, and you can be f... |
Microsoft Cuts The Price Of The Surface 2 By $100 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Microsoft has cut the price of its Surface 2 tablet hybrid by $100, leaving the consumer-facing device with a price tag as low as $349. That price, however, doesn’t include a keyboard attachment that is generally viewed as mandatory to use any Surface tablet. Other Surface 2 models, including the LTE-powered, higher-st... |
With Money Tight, HubSpot Looks To Tap Public Markets | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | With $7.3 million in cash on hand, and losses of $17.77 million in the first half of 2014, HubSpot has . HubSpot’s slim cash load and expanding losses — the firm had a deficit attributable to common shareholders of $16.37 million in the first six months of 2013 — are contravened by its rising revenues: HubSpot had rev... |
For The First Time, More People Will Watch MLB.tv Streams On Devices Than Desktops | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | On August 26, 2002, Major League Baseball streamed its first live MLB.tv video of a game to the web — a tiny, grainy little player that looks laughable in comparison to today’s HD streams you hold in your palm. This month, 12 years later, the MLB says that it projects that over 51 percent of its monthly live streams wi... |
Corporate Accelerators Are An Oxymoron | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Building a corporate accelerator is certainly in vogue these days. Wells Fargo and has already unveiled its first class of three participants. The program follows , providing some cash, mentoring, and networking to young startups interested in the industry. Wells Fargo is hardly the only company building programs fo... |
The Original Night Trap Programmers Want To Release A New Version Of The Campy Classic | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Night Trap was released in 1992 for the Sega CD and the horror survival title was one of the most divisive and notorious games ever made. Now the , a move that should send gamers of a certain age into a tizzy. The game was one of the first to use digital video, and told the story of a group of co-eds trapped in a hous... |
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Korean Bitcoin Exchange Korbit Raises $3M Series A | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Korean bitcoin exchange has raised $3 million in Series A funding led by SoftBank Ventures Korea and Pantera Capital, with participation from BAM Ventures, and returning investors Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., Tim Draper, Pietro Dova, and Strong Ventures. The startup told TechCrunch that it will use its Series A to impr... |
Mailbox Suffers Outage Due To ‘Unprecedented Demand’ | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | When you consider yourself a pro at something, but it’s mainly because you have a great tool to help you, what happens when that tool breaks? I got to find out this morning when Mailbox, my email client for both mobile and desktop, for some reason decided to stop working. And suddenly I was no longer a pro at handling ... |
NSA Created Search Engine Tool To Share Communication Records With Government Agencies | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | A set of classified documents on Monday shows how the (NSA) makes more than 850 billion records about various forms of communications available to other U.S. governmental agencies through a portal similar in look and feel to a traditional web search engine. The search tool, called ICREACH, provides access to all comm... |
This Lizard-Inspired Robot Does A Barrel Roll | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtLHXH1ISw] In today’s episode of “Post Featuring A Robot Doing A Barrel Roll,” we present the FlipBot, an RC car that uses the tricks used by real lizards to flip in midair. It’s essentially a car with a tail. When the FlipBot takes a sweet jump, the tail spins quickly to twis... |
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | After months of rumors suggesting that Google was prepped to snatch up Twitch, word broke this morning that Amazon had crashed the party and was about to acquire Twitch themselves. Sure enough, the Amazon/Twitch deal is done. Our sources had previously suggested that the deal would close at nearly $1 billion dollars. W... |
Gold Dealer Drops Credit Card Payments For Bitcoin | John Biggs | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | The world of gold bullion sales is often peopled by the odd and interesting. Joseph Castillo is one of the latter. The owner of , his company now only accepts for online sales, a move that has reduced fraud and improved his service. Castillo talked to about his decision, saying that “What we had to do to protect o... |
Amazon Will Buy Twitch For Over $1 Billion | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Amazon, not Google, will be the corporate host of Twitch, the popular game-streaming service. The deal, which was first reported by and confirmed by our sources, will likely be announced today. The final price tag will top $1 billion we’ve heard. Google was and that deal was generally thought to be sewn up. That Am... |
Facebook Says It’s Cracking Down On Clickbait | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | If you’re tired of headlines declaring that “you’ll never believe what happened next!”, it looks like Facebook feels your pain. The company said in that it’s trying to cut back on “click-baiting headlines”, which it defines as “a headline that encourages people to click to see more, without telling them much informat... |
Google Brings Native MS Office Editing Features To Its iOS Productivity Apps, Launches Slides For iOS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Google is on bringing support for natively editing Microsoft Office files to all of productivity apps today. The company’s iOS apps for and are getting a couple of minor new features and design updates today, but most importantly, these apps will now also be able to natively open, edit and save files from Microso... |
Facebook To Embarrass Celebs At Emmys By Making Them Shake A Big “Facebook Mentions” Tablet | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | Not content to cede the battle for TV’s second screen to Twitter, at tonight’s Emmy’s, Facebook in partnership with Access Hollywood, is unleashing something it called the “Mentions Box” on the celebs walking down the red carpet. This box is really just an oversized Facebook-branded tablet, which celebrities will shake... |
MobileIron Pops Following Positive Analyst Note | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 8 | 25 | MobileIron, a recently public tech company that still loses money, is after Deutsche Bank on its shares. The company, which focuses on mobile device management, according to the bank, should benefit from a boost stemming from companies moving off of BlackBerry. BlackBerry, a long-suffering mobile brand, could take ... |
Forget Mega-Corporations, Here’s The Mega-Network | Klint Finley | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | We live in the age of cryptocurrency heists, Chinese moon landings, eco-disasters and . Sounds like something out of a cyberpunk novel. Well, a cyberpunk novel without the brain implants, but don’t worry, . But one big cyberpunk theme that hasn’t come to pass is the rise of — those huge multinational conglomerates,... |
Tactus Raises Series B To Help Bring Its Disappearing Touchscreen Keyboard To Market | Chris Velazco | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2lm2YcYvJo&w=680&h=383] There were plenty of media darlings at last year’s CES, but few tickled people’s fancies the way that and its did. The company has spent the past few months crafting reference devices for would-be partners and gearing up to help OEMs bring that impres... |
Medallia’s Amy Pressman On Extracting Value From Investors | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | In this three-part series, we hosted , an enterprise company that offers customer experience management software, and Sequoia partner and board member Doug Leone in the studio. In this segment, co-founder and President Amy Pressman and Leone talked about how they work together at Medallia. After staying bootstrapped... |
Ask A VC: Revolution Ventures’ David Golden’s Predictions For 2014 | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | In this week’s Ask A VC, we sat down with Revolution Ventures’ David Golden to talk about the IPO market, and his predictions for 2014. Golden, who previously was the Vice Chairman and Director of JPMorgan’s global investment banking practice for technology, media and telecommunications clients, talked about whether ... |
Video Syndication Startup Vidible Raises $3.35M Round Led By Greycroft | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | , a startup connecting buyers and sellers of video content, is confirming that it has raised a $3.35 million Series A led by Greycroft Partners. The round was first revealed in in late December, but the company is only confirming the news and sharing details now. In addition to Greycroft, IDG also participated in the... |
Vine Introduces Full Profiles On The Web And TV Mode For Binge Watching | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | Today, Twitter’s Vine has for all of its users, something it has lacked until this point. It has also introduced a new TV Mode that lets you watch videos in full screen on your computer. You can view videos, browse users’ back catalogue and interact with them on the web. This includes viewing your home feed, liking, ... |
Retired Messaging Platform Just.me Reveals Chance, A New App For Random Chats | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | Mobile messaging app Just.me , pre-traction, in order to get out from under its $1.5 million in venture debt. But Just.me, founded by Keith Teare (who also co-founded TechCrunch), itself using funds from Teare’s incubator Archimedes Labs, beating out nearly two dozen other bids. Now the company is revealing its next... |
Yahoo Sports Gets iOS 7 Redesign, Awesome Gif Creation Tool For Sharing ‘Big 4’ Sports Moments | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | gets a fantastic looking redesign today for iOS 7, and gains a slick new feature called ‘Loops’. Loops allows you to skim through a game, pick a short segment and create a gif complete with effects, captions and looping to share with friends or networks. The Loop feature is powered by Yahoo’s IntoNow tech and has one ... |
BlackBerry Files Lawsuit Against Seacrest’s Typo Keyboard Startup For Infringement | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | BlackBerry has today against startup Typo Keyboards, which is backed by Ryan Seacrest. The company alleges that Typo copied BlackBerry’s patented and “iconic” keyboard design. “We are flattered by the desire to graft our keyboard onto other smartphones, but we will not tolerate such activity without fair compensatio... |
Basis Refreshes Its Fitness Tracker, Adds Improved Sleep Analytics | Chris Velazco | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | The quantified self movement has grown to the point where you could easily bedeck your limbs with thousands of dollars of tracking gadgets, and the race to measure your movement isn’t going to end any time soon. That’s why — makers of an awfully accurate, wrist-worn health gadget — has rolled out a new version of the... |
When Growth Hacking Goes Bad | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | Andreessen Horowitz-backed music lyrics and annotations Rap Genius was the latest to stray over to the darker side of so-called “growth hacking,” with its disguised as an affiliate program. Called out, exposed and now by Google, the site’s traffic has . But Rap Genius, thanks in part to that , will probably recov... |
Mobile App Marketing Costs Hit Record Highs In 2013 | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | As the app stores fill up, it’s getting ever more expensive for developers to acquire new users. The cost to acquire a loyal user, or one that opens an app three times, grew from $1.30 in 2012 to $1.62 in 2013. Meanwhile, app downloads over 2013 broke records, though the download growth has been slowing, as have poin... |
Watch Out Google, AddSearch — Like Swiftype — Wants To Stop In-Website Search From Sucking | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | The in-website search space is hotting up. Because well, let’s face it, most site search still sucks. The reason for that is that firstly search is a hard, expensive problem to crack. And secondly Google, the dominant search player offering an in-website search product, hasn’t got a huge incentive to help other website... |
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Kiwi Puts Its All-Purpose Wearable Up For Pre-Order, Aims To Be Everything To Everyone | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | We’ve spoken to the folks from before: Back in September we caught up with them at the Disrupt SF Hackathon, when they were preparing their platform and demonstrated what it could do with a . Now, Kiwi is ready to unveil its hardware, and make it available to consumers for pre-order. The is the product of its work... |
Spredfast Raises $32.5M For The “Third Wave” In Social Marketing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | Social marketing company is announcing that it has raised $32.5 million in Series D funding. The round was led by Lead Edge Capital with participation from Austin Ventures, InterWest Partners, and OpenView Partners. The company has now raised more than $60 million. Spredfast was founded back in 2008, and CEO Rod Fava... |
India May Relax E-Commerce Rules, Opening The Door Further For Amazon And Other Global Giants | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | As India prepares to reconsider the ban on foreign investments in the country’s e-commerce sector, two of the world’s biggest e-commerce companies — Amazon and eBay — are anxiously hoping to conquer what they refer to as their last frontier. India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has to share fe... |
Haloband Lets You Control Your Smartphone With A Tap On Your Wrist | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/haloband/haloband-control-your-smartphone-with-simple-wrist width=640] The rise of mobile has given me so much: 24/7 connections with friends around the world, information exactly when I need it, the ability to track my fitness and health goals. Unfortunately, it’s a... |
Iconic ZX Spectrum Home Computer Of The ’80s To Be Reborn As Retro Gaming Keyboard For iOS | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 3 | In the U.K., the iconic 8-bit home computer of the 1980s was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Few keyboards have surely been pounded as hard as the Spectrum’s rubberised complement of grey rectangles. Released in 1982, the 48K computer-in-a-keyboard was last produced in 1990. But if this (from veteran Spectrum games dev Eli... |
Obamacare Removes Barriers For Women, Latino Entrepreneurs | Sara Inés Calderón | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | Two months ago Luz Rivas walked away from her job to work full-time on her startup, . As the founder and executive director of the group that is teaching girls about engineering and technology, Rivas had to solve for many variables as she transitioned to her dream job. Health insurance was at the top of the list. On O... |
Why Startups Hire Their Own Lawyers | Daniel Doktori | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | Airbnb challenged local hotel zoning laws, Uber took on taxi licensing requirements, and Pinterest built a business around posting copyrighted images. Startup companies that simply follow the rules risk getting left behind. The right lawyer can mean the difference between pushing the envelope and breaking the law. Many... |
Silicon Valley Lost, And Found | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | Silicon Valley is a place that is just as much about people reinventing themselves as it is about people reinventing industries. As a new year turns, it’s time to go through that silly (but actually necessary) exercise of pausing to reflect. In a world of endless e-mail and distractions, it’s hard to remember where we ... |
Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs [Update: Confirmed] | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup , maker of , sources tell me. [Update 1/5/2014 9:15am PST: Apple confirms the acquisition.] The startup was founded and run solely by John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineering PhD from the University Of Melbourne who invented a way to make the iPhone’s cam... |
BitSpin, Developers Of The Timely Alarm Clock For Android, Join Google | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | While details about the deal are quite sparse, it seems that Google has quietly acquired (acquihired?) Bitspin, the Zurich-based team behind the Android alarm clock Timely. Best known for its design, Timely found a rather nice balance between beauty and simplicity. It’s flagship feature was its quick set alarm, which a... |
Google Puts Rap Genius Back Atop Searches, Favoring Smart Results Over Holding A Grudge | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | Google apparently cares more about giving the best search results than punishing spammers to its high rankings for searches after it was 10 days ago. What looked like a death sentence for Rap Genius’ traffic has turned into a slap on the wrist. what it did wrong, and how it ditched the spammy links to get back in ... |
Zynga Links Up With BitPay For A Bitcoin Payment Test In FarmVille 2, CityVille And Other Web Games | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | Gaming giant has started to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment option for those buying tokens for virtual goods on the web versions of FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille, CoasterVille, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows and CityVille. It makes Zynga the first major gaming company to accept Bitcoin. Zynga posted t... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: CES! CES? CES! | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | This week on the TC Gadgets Podcast join the entire Away Team as we huddle around the old mic and get wacky. Next week we’ll be at CES – the biggest electronics show in the whole wide world – and we decided to talk about what we can expect, what we remember, and what we’re doing. Join all of us, won’t you?
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Publish And Perish? What To Do With That Book Inside Of You | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | When people tell me they have a book inside of them — which actually happens quite a lot, probably because I’ve been fortunate enough to have had a (traditionally) published — I always want to ask: “Have you considered surgery?” As George Orwell famously said: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like ... |
Gillmor Gang: Competitive Blocking | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 1 | 4 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — ring in the New Year in celebration of surviving yet another crisis in the venture capital community. The concern is that acquihires represent the capitulation of innovation in service of the big getting bigger. As cloud computing lowers ... |
Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Taiwan’s will not allow the installation of Bitcoin ATMs in the country because it believes Bitcoins are not a currency and should therefore not be accepted by individuals or banks as payment, said FSC chairman Tseng Ming-chung. Tseng Ming-chung’s statement was (link via Google Translate), Taiwan’s state-run news s... |
Metawatch Aims For The High End With New Smartwatches By A Former Vertu Designer | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Metawatch, one of the first working smartwatches that interfaced directly with Android and iOS cellphones, has announced plans to expand their line with the new Meta. Designed by former / designer Frank Nuovo, the new pieces have stainless steel hardware enclosing a rectangular watch body and bold black face. The pie... |
Belkin Shows Off WeMo Slow Cooker, Light Bulbs And Maker DIY Kit | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Belkin’s connected home efforts are moving forward at a rapid clip, and its line has a number of new products on display at CES 2014 this year. There’s a connected lightbulb set similar to Philips Hue, a connected slow cooker for lazy cuisine, and the WeMo Maker, which allows enterprising users to make any existing D... |
Withings Wants To Wake You Up Right And Provide True Sleep Tracking With The Aura | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | At CES 2014, was showing off the latest product in its lineup of home health tracking connected gadgets, the Aura. The Aura looks vaguely like a submarine’s periscope, but it lives on your nightstand, connects to a sensor pad that goes under your mattress, and provides super sophisticated sleep tracking along with in... |
Healthcare.gov Has Trouble Recognizing New Babies | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | More embarrassing problems for Healthcare.gov. The Associate Press that the beleaguered healthcare website can’t yet update a consumers’ plan in the event that they give birth to a bureaucracy wrecking bundle of joy. And, it’s not just newborns: the ability to update a plan with a divorce, changed income, a death in ... |
Roku Moves Beyond The Box, Partnering With Hisense And TCL To Introduce Roku TVs | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Who would have thought that streaming set-top box manufacturer would actually introduce a TV before Apple? Well, it looks likely that’s going to happen, thanks to partnerships with Hisense and TCL that will make Roku’s streaming video platform available directly on a new generation of smart TVs launching later this y... |
Orbotix Announces The $99 Sphero 2B, A New Super-Fast, Programmable Robot | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Sphero, as the name implies, was a robotic sphere. Now , the makers of this beloved ball, have decided to elongate the it into a tube (a cylinder, really), drop the price to $99, and make one of the funnest little toys I’ve ever seen. If the original was Eve, their new produce, 2B, is Wall-E. This scrappy device is ... |
Parrot Shows Off New MiniDrone And Leaping Sumo Rolling Bot | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | French Bluetooth company turned drone-maker Parrot has some new hardware for CES 2014, including two brand new smartphone-controlled bots. One is the rolling, jumping Sumo and the other is the MiniDrone, a super small version of its popular AR Drone that flies, rolls and hugs the ceiling and the walls. The MiniDrone is... |
CrunchWeek 2013 In Review, Part 2: Twitter’s Big IPO, And Tech’s Rising Stars | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | We published the first installment of our year-end look back, in which Ryan Lawler, Leena Rao and I discussed the rise of Bitcoin and the NSA’s privacy violations, — you can check that out . In today’s episode, we talked about Twitter’s and the tech companies that are poised to take off in 2014. |
Facebook Without The Cool Kids | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | It’s not just an attractive advertising demographic that Facebook is losing as in a sullen search of what’s cool. Facebook the cool kids may well be taking a substantial knock to the accuracy of its data, too. A study of Facebook use among 16-to-18-year-olds in eight EU countries Facebook is “dead and buried” to t... |
Mysterious Computer Chip Crop Circle Is An Nvidia CES Publicity Stunt [Update: Confirmed] | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | An intricate recently cut into a field two hours south of San Francisco baffled onlookers and spawned crackpot theories that aliens were responsible, but sources tell me it was created by Nvidia to publicize a big CES announcement. [Update: Nvidia confirms.] The design looks like Nvidia’s Tegra 4 chip, and though we ... |
What Games Are: Why All The Clones? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Why are there so many cloned video games? The answer is simple. Whether you call it cloning, copying or fast following, a common perception in the industry is that the market moves in genres and it’s a safer bet to get in on a genre rather than strike out. Just as many technology companies do, lots of game makers watch... |
DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision Makes Aerial Photography Easy | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | The advent of affordable quadcopters has made aerial photography accessible for almost anybody. Getting really good results still often takes a bit more than just attaching a GoPro to a quadcopter. A few months ago, I looked at the and that was already a lot of fun to fly, though the images you could get from an unmo... |
Evernote CEO’s Mea Culpa — Plans To Address App Stability, Plus A Hiring Blitz | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Evernote CEO Phil Libin to the scathing criticism of the company made by former TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid. A post which ended up making headlines recently. Libin says new versions of all the apps are planned, targeting note editing, navigation, search, sync and collaboration. He says the company has already s... |
A Passive Yet Potentially Aggressive Mobile App Strategy | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | TechCrunch Today in mobile, hold the promise of native re-engagement tools. Just as it’s hard to even get others to discover and download your app, it’s equally hard to get them to re-engage with your app. Where else could these notifications go to make sure we see them? Email is the next best channel, and with deep-... |
For Your Diary — The Best European Events For Startups In 2014 | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | I’d been to enough tech startup conferences in Europe over the previous few years to work out which ones appeared to be most significant. Europe being the disjointed bunch of countries that it is has too many to mention. That ended up being a post . Update: This is now available as a and (thanks to for that. ... |
Parlor Tricks | Devin Coldewey | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | CES looms, as it frequently does, and soon we will all be awash in the deluge; the annual international carnival of gadgetry shows no sign of slowing. But beyond this yearly cycle, a longer pattern is about to reach an inflection point. Mainstream technology is not exactly a paragon of ingenuity. The advances that tric... |
Square And Griffin Debut An Integrated Merchant Case And Holder For iPhones And Readers, Will Create More Accessories For Sellers | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | Last year, , a piece of hardware that turns a merchant’s iPad into a card-swiping register. The idea was to provide a simple and elegant way to allow merchants to accept Square for credit card processing and swiping via their iPad. In news announced today at CES, Square is extending this ease of use to iPhone users ... |
Toy Startup Roam And Wander Receives New Funding, Prepares To Expand Its U.S. Retail Presence | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | , the Hong Kong and Taipei-based children’s entertainment startup that , is preparing to expand its retail operations into the U.S. just six months after its first plush toy, TuTu, was . Roam & Wander is interesting not just because of its business model, which combines iOS games with real stickers that kids can get ... |
Holy Tech Batman! — Can The European Commission Be A Startup Super Hero? | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 1 | 5 | What is to be done with Europe? As The New York Times , there are not enough people in Europe qualified to fill all the technology jobs available. At the same time, Europe is not producing really big platforms to take on the global players. Too much of European technology has been caught up producing client-driven bus... |
European Trademark Office Says Pinterest Doesn’t Own ‘Pinterest’ – Social News Startup Premium Interest Does | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Pinterest raised a $225 million round in to help fuel its international expansion, but a recent ruling in Europe could prove to be a hiccup in that strategy. The U.S.-based social networking site has lost a challenge it made to claim the Pinterest trademark in the region, with a European trademark court ruling in fav... |
The ACLU Will Appeal Court Decision Declaring The NSA’s Phone Metadata Program Legal | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | In an expected move, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that it would appeal the dismissal of its case relating to the National Security Agency’s telephony metadata program. Recently, US District Judge William Pauley III ruled that the program . The case in question, was set back by Judge Pauley III who inv... |
Uber’s Denial Of Liability In Girl’s Death Raises Accident Accountability Questions | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | A six-year old girl named Sophia Liu was tragically killed last night when an SUV driver confirmed to be struck her in a San Francisco crosswalk. Uber has essentially denied liability, noting in a statement that “this tragedy did not involve a vehicle or provider doing a trip on the Uber system”. Uber’s insurance doe... |
Robocoin, The Bitcoin ATM, Is Heading To Hong Kong And Taiwan | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | The first shipping bitcoin ATM, , is landing in Hong Kong and Taiwan as the company expands its reach this January. They are planning further releases in Europe, Canada, and the US but, given Asia’s clout in the BTC markets, this is definitely an interesting development. The first Robocoin landed in Vancouver where it... |
Snapchat Says It’s Improving Its App, Service To Prevent Future User Data Leaks | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Snapchat has released an about the recent leak of 4.6M usernames and phone numbers from its servers. The post blames what it says was ‘abuse’ of its API on the leak, but acknowledges that the way that it stores the information made it possible for a database of numbers to be used to sniff out usernames and match them... |
Report: NSA Trying To Build A Quantum Computer To Crack Encryption | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | The National Security Agency wants to build a futuristic super computer that can break most types of encryption, to documents obtained from Edward Snowden by the Washington Post. No reason to worry yet, however, as the Agency is not even close to figuring out how to build the space-age technology necessary to crack m... |
SighES | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Another year, another CES. And, as , this is going to be a weird one. Nothing – and I mean nothing – has leaked out of the deep mountain hordes of Sony, LG, and Samsung and there is no overarching concept or topic that everyone is pushing. It’s as if the big guys are now just going through the motions. And they are. ... |
Integral Ad Science Raises $30M, August Capital-Led Round To Find High Quality Ad Impressions | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | , a company that evaluates the quality of ad placements, has raised $30 million in Series D funding. The funding was and has been confirmed by CEO Scott Knoll, who said the round was led by August Capital (with existing investors Atlas Venture and Pelion Venture Partners participating). August’s Eric Carlborg is join... |
Groupon’s $260M Acquisition Of Ticket Monster From LivingSocial Has Closed | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Today Groupon announced that its purchase of the Korean ticket and ecommerce company Ticket Monster has closed. A states that on “January 2, 2014, the Company and Groupon Trailblazer completed its previously reported acquisition of LS Korea.” As the same filing notes, LS Korea, or LivingSocial Korea, was the holding ... |
CBS Will Live Stream The AFC’s Playoff Games | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Today CBS announced that it will of the American Football Conference’s playoffs online. If you are a football fan without a television, this is good news. According to CBS, the championship game for the conference, two “divisional round games” and a wildcard game will be streamed. The content will be centered, unsurp... |
Shopify Revamps Its iOS App With A Focus On Payments And Store Management | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Ottawa-based ecommerce player Shopify introduced a totally , with a new core concept that focuses on helping merchants do more to manage and run their stores from their devices. And in keeping with their new strategy post-gigantic raise, the company is looking to help both online and offline retailers in one package w... |
Apple’s New Mac Pro Uses 74% Less Aluminum, 68% Less Power And 84% Lighter Packaging | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Apple has today released its for its new Mac Pro machine, which details some fairly large savings on power and raw materials. The new device also earns a gold rating from the EPEAT, but that isn’t too surprising as Apple has ‘ . Despite that retooling, however, the new Mac Pro still puts up some impressive gains in e... |
Gillmor Gang Live 01.02.14 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. find our realtime live chat here http://friendfeed.com/realtime-network/47b84c58/gillmor-gang-recording-live-today-1pm-pt. “Like” us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Science Finds Novice Drivers And Handhelds Don’t Mix On The Road | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | We basically all knew this, but science just confirmed that , to accidents. The study, conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, watched drivers as they texted, tweeted, and got into accidents. They found that as young drivers spent a few... |
Developer Spams Google Play With Ripoffs Of Well-Known Apps…Again | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | It’s not uncommon to search the Google Play app store and find a number of knock-off or “fake” apps aiming to trick unsuspecting searchers into downloading them over the real thing – especially when the app in question isn’t yet available on Android. But one developer went out of his or her way over New Year’s to fil... |
BlackBerry Executive Culling Continues As Alicia Keys Hits The Chopping Block | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | BlackBerry continues to tighten its purse strings, and even top executives and global recording stars aren’t safe – and if you’re both, you’re screwed. Alicia Keys will depart her role as “global creative director” for the smartphone, software and services provider as of January 30th, . New CEO (who has dropped the “i... |
Hands-On With Coin, The Electronic Credit Card That Hopes To Declutter Your Wallet | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | There are a number of startups seeking to make our financial lives better, whether it be Simple helping users set budgets and goals or BillGuard to make them aware of fraudulent charges that show up on their credit cards. Then there’s , which wants to create a sort of “one card to rule them all” solution to the prob... |
Join Us For Hardware Battlefield Where Martha Stewart And Our Other Celebrity Judges Will Pick The Best Hardware Startup Of The Year | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | Tune in Sunday for our live coverage of CES and then later, on Tuesday, where you can see 15 great hardware startups compete head to head for a top prize of $50,000 and recognition as one of the top hardware startups of 2014. This project has been months in the making and there will be plenty of fun and surprises – a... |
Happy Email Overload Day! Some Tips To Reach Inbox Zero With Your Sanity Intact | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 2 | January 2nd is unofficially Email Overload Day, a productivity black hole born from the temptress crutch of overzealous vacation responders. You will get through this. You are strong. To help you cope, we’ll arm you with an arsenal of helpful email tips, so that you can achieve inbox zero by the end of the day without ... |
With Box, ESPN And Square On Board, Entelo Takes Its Recruiting Platform Mobile With A “Tinder For Talent Search” | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Entelo to join a new generation of startups attempting to leverage technology to help companies address the age-old struggle with finding and recruiting great candidates, particularly engineers. To do so, has developed software that aims to help companies, HR departments and recruiters use alternative means and dat... |
Beats Will Shut Down MOG Music April 15; MOG Founder Joins Stealth Mobile Startup Chosen | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | As Beats Music turns up the volume on its (which is in the App Store), it is calling it a day on , the streaming service its parent Beats Electronics reportedly for $10-15 million, and which forms the backbone of Beats Music: it will on April 15. At the same time, some news about David Hyman, MOG’s founder who... |
Life Graphy Is A Simple But Refreshing New Take On To-Do List Apps | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | There are so many to-do list apps now that instead of figuring out the differences between all of them, it might seem like a better use of time to just go back to pen and paper (or the ). But iOS app lends a refreshing new twist to task management. It lets you visualize how many things you manage to complete over the... |
Asia Pacific PC Shipments Fell 10% In 2013, IDC Says | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | PC shipments in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) fell by 10% in 2013 to 108 million units, marking the region’s first ever double digit decline in recent years, according to IDC. While Lenovo retained its top spot with around 24.9% market share in the region, it still reported a decline in annual growth by 9.5%. HP was t... |
Namo Media Brings More Flexibility To Native Mobile Ads, Announces Former Facebook VP Badros As Advisor | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote about , the native ad startup , so I caught up with Cselle today and he told me that the startup just launched an important new feature for publishers. Basically, Namo now allows publishers to easily adjust the placement of ads in their streams of content. Cselle showed me a... |
Google’s “High Handed” Bus Memo | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Like the last time people as a solution to a socioeconomic problem, the tech busing in San Francisco has become a topic. The Google buses, described as “spaceships” containing “alien overlords” Rebecca Solnit, have become potent symbols for income inequality within the city. Beyond the transportation issues, they ar... |
The Syrian Electronic Army Compromises Microsoft’s Office Blog In New Round Of Digital Shenanigans | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | The Syrian Electronic Army isn’t much a fan of Microsoft it seems. After compromising Microsoft social accounts, and one of its blogs, the group today defaced the company’s Office Blog, directly following a redesign of the property. As , the Syrian Electronic Army had previously promised continued embarrassing shenani... |
Parsing HP’s Decision To Push Windows 7 More Than A Year Into The Windows 8 Era | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Citing popular demand, HP is running Windows 7 over Windows 8 on its online store, a simple slight to Microsoft’s nascent Windows 8.x platform. (Update: The ever excellent Ed Bott has on what HP is not doing — running scared back into Windows 7’s arms — but more that it is refocusing its marketing notes. It’s worth... |
HBO Doesn’t Care If You Share Your HBO Go Account… For Now. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | The Internets are ablaze this morning after comments from HBO’s CEO about users sharing their HBO Go accounts. According to most reports out there today, the company couldn’t care less who you share your account with. Share your account with everyone! Free love forever! Hurray! The catch: that’s… not quite what he’s s... |
LG’s Curved Display G Flex Smartphone Will Go Up For AT&T Pre-Order On January 24 | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Curved displays are officially a thing. The LG G Flex, , is going to be starting this Friday, January 24. Sprint pulled the trigger last week, announcing that the phone would be available for pre-order on January 31, but AT&T has obviously beaten the yellow carrier to the punch by a week. Still, AT&T never mentioned... |
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Remeasuring Yahoo’s Alibaba Goldmine | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Let’s go back in time. In 2005, Yahoo Alibaba for $1 billion. The move would later all but save the American company. While Yahoo, under the leadership of its yet-new CEO Marissa Mayer has shown fresh dynamism, and has rebuilt its reputation in the technology market as its mobile push has matured, the company’s core ... |
3plet Brings The Album Experience Back To Digital Music | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Some people , and there are still some hipsters left who , but for most of us, music now comes in the form of DRM-free MP3s or whatever streaming format Spotify uses. This has meant the end of reading liner notes, printed lyrics as part of the CD booklet and all of the artwork that was often part of the whole album p... |
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