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Korean Bitcoin Exchange Korbit Raises $400K From Angels, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | As Bitcoin trading and use spreads through medium-sized countries, local exchanges, wallets and processors are popping up left and right. South Korea’s is one of the latest and it’s picking up $400,000 in funding from angels including Tim Draper, AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, SV Angel’s David Lee and SecondMa... |
LoveList For iPhone Is A Simple Product Scanner For Pinterest | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Why bother with a gift registry or wish list, when you can just pin favorite products to a Pinterest board? With newly launched iPhone app , you can do just that, even when you’re out shopping in the real world. The app lets you quickly expand your Pinterest collections with products you find on store shelves, simply ... |
Buyhandpicked Applies Mechanical Turk Model To Personal Shopping | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Shopping online can be a tedious affair, characterised by bottomless trawling of search engine results and price comparison websites to try to locate whatever finicky thing you really need this time. Shopping requirements can also get pretty specific — a pair of blackout curtains with a 70+ inch drop, say, or a toaster... |
WobL Smartphone Stand And Alarm App For iPhone Ensure You’ll Snooze Forever | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/428724973/wobl-iphone-stand-and-alarm-clock-app width=640] I have an iPhone, and like most adult humans I imagine, I use that as my alarm clock in place of one of those quaint old-fashioned pieces of dedicated hardware we used to use. But it’s not always ideal: you c... |
Libratone Loop Review: The AirPlay Speaker That Looks As Good As It Sounds | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | For AirPlay speakers, there’s a lot of choice out there. Often that can result in the feeling that there are essentially a lot of people sticking to an easy formula and churning out virtually interchangeable devices, but Libratone is a speaker-maker that makes AirPlay sound ware that stands out, and the new Loop is no ... |
Why Travel Startup Hopper, Founded in 2007, Took So Long To “Launch” | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | CEO Frederic Lalonde is bemused by the coverage of his travel startup’s “launch,” which supposedly took place this past week, according to news stories. The company, reportedly in stealth for six years, had just now opened its doors, . Not quite, says Lalonde. “The site, Hopper.com, has been live since early last s... |
Kim Dotcom’s Baboom Looks Like A Modern-Day Myspace | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | Kim Dotcom of Megaupload fame (or, rather, ) and has today offered a sneak peek of his latest project, music service , which was previously known as Megabox. The site is scheduled to open its doors in late 2014, but this “soft launch” serves as a way for users to check out the service in advance, while also samplin... |
Investors Drop Big Money On Dropbox So It Can Beat Box | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | between $250 million and $400 million at a $10 billion valuation according to the and . Why? Because Dropbox has spent the last year rebuilding its product to make it work for businesses, and now it’s time to sell that product. How? Because a source says Dropbox has been doing well and felt it had the buzz behind i... |
The Tablet Is The New General Purpose Computer | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | Apple’s demonstrates that tablets have general purpose computing strengths that have never been exhibited by laptops. Laptops have had decades in the spotlight as our portable computers of choice and were on their way to eradicating desktop machines before tablets came along. But they’ve never managed to exhibit the ... |
How To Get An MBA From Eminem | James Altucher | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | In 2002 I was driving to a hedge fund manager’s house to hopefully raise money from him. I was two hours late. This was pre-GPS and I had no cell phone. I was totally lost. I kept playing over and over again “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. I was afraid this was my one shot and I was blowing it. I was even crying in my car. ... |
Up Close With Play-i’s Bo, The Lovable Xylophone-Playing Robot | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | When we last met charming robots Bo and Yana they were busy pounding out tunes on a little colorful Xylophone and raising $1.4 million in crowdfunding cash. Now, however, they’re very nearly ready to ship and are doing some really impressive things that will help kids learn programming while having fun. You can thi... |
Messaging Giant WhatsApp, Now With 430M Users, Has No Plans For Disappearing Photos | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 20 | , an early mover in the messaging app space, has racked up 430 million active users to date. But despite the influx of new competition from the likes of Line, WeChat, KakaoTalk and Snapchat, WhatsApp says it will be sticking to its guns: avoiding advertising; staying away from “gimmicks” like disappearing photos and ga... |
The Rise Of The Hedge Fund Startup Investor (Again) | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | The first question I thought of when I read that San Francisco hedge fund Coatue Management was the backer of funding was which VC firm lost the deal. My second question was why take money from a hedge fund? In the past two years or so, you have seen more hedge funds dabbling in tech investing. As one venture investo... |
Announcing ‘Major Changes’: The Government Vs. The Private Sector | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | The Internet is collectively experiencing disappointment over President Obama’s big National Security Agency . Instead of announcing a sweeping end to the bulk surveillance of our entire digital lives, the President charged authorities to investigate how incremental privacy protections could be enacted. For our reader... |
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Amazon Patents “Anticipatory” Shipping — To Start Sending Stuff Before You’ve Bought It | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | Amazon’s plans for are so last year. The ecommerce juggernaut is purportedly working on something far more dystopian: pre-shipment. Amazon has filed a for a shipping system designed to cut delivery times by predicting what buyers are going to buy before they buy it — and shipping products in their general direction... |
The Techno-Militarization Of America | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | Remember last year? Edward Snowden! NSA! Shock! Horror! Dismay! Looking back I’m amazed we all seemed so surprised. Over the last decade, pretty much every arm of American authority invoked “homeland security” as an excuse to acquire boatloads of new technology, and used it to help expand their power and authority to u... |
Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo Is Reborn As Mobile News App Inside | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Jason Calacanis is getting back into the news business with a new app called , which highlights and summarizes the top news stories. Although Calacanis has been involved in several startups and startup events (including the TechCrunch50 conferences, prior to ), he may still be best known as the founder of Silicon All... |
Why Silicon Valley Can’t Find Europe | Contributor | 2,014 | 1 | 18 | . Go to Europe these days – to Berlin, London, Helsinki – drop in on any of the regional tech confabs and you will quickly see that the European startup scene is in the most bustling, vibrant shape it’s ever been. The potential is everywhere, and the energy is undeniable. Then you return Stateside, in my case to Palo... |
Strategy Analytics: 1.7B Mobile Handsets Shipped In 2013, 990M Of Them Smartphones | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | If you needed an indicator of just how much the mobile market today is a smartphone market, look no further than the figures put out early today by Strategy Analytics. The researchers estimate that overall mobile phone shipments , with smartphones accounting for — or 990 million, to be exact. While the wider mobile ... |
Tom Perkins Presents GOP Boilerplate As Solution To Wage Inequality | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | In a over the weekend, legendary venture capitalist Tom Perkins compared what he sees as a “ ” to , the series of coordinated attacks against the Jews during Nazi Germany. Today on , Perkins apologized for using the word “Kristallnacht,” saying that he regretted the reference, but said he stands by the broader mess... |
Global Smartphone Shipments Top 1 Billion For The First Time Thanks To Cheap Android Devices, Says IDC | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | The global smartphone market shipped one billion units in a single year for the first time, with Samsung as the leading vendor, according to a new report by research firm IDC’s . Neither fact will come as a surprise if you follow quarterly reports about the mobile market. In fact, with similar figures, though its rep... |
Twitter Mobile Update Bubbles Trending Events To The Top Of The Timeline, Adds Photo Editing | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Twitter has just released an (coming soon to iOS) that brings new photo editing tools to the service, which are likely meant to make it easier to share photos direct and keep people out of competitive apps like Instagram. The second change adds a significant element of event discovery and real-time trend monitoring t... |
Apple’s Mixed 1st Quarter In Charts | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Apple’s December quarter was a mixed bag. If you just read the , revenue has never been so high thanks to continued growth in iPhone and iPad sales. But analysts expected more, and net profit is flat. Who is to blame? Probably . It wasn’t the market share machine that everyone expected. Selling more than 50 million i... |
CEO Tim Cook Says Touch ID Was Part Of Apple’s Thinking Around Mobile Payments | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Apple CEO Tim Cook actually discussed mobile payments directly on the company’s earnings call today, saying that it’s an area that has “intrigued” the company and that mobile payments actually figured in the company’s thinking around Touch ID. There’s been a considerable amount of discussion around Apple’s potential ex... |
Nintendo May Go Mobile This Year (But Not In The Way We’d All Like) | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | OMG! Mario on iOS! Not! According to a brief in Japan’s Nikkei (translated by ), Nintendo will announce plans to use Android and iOS as marketing vehicles, allowing Link, Mario, and the various and sundry Pokemen to appear on mobile devices to promote the company’s games. on the iPhone this ain’t. Nintendo will annou... |
Flickr’s Upside-Down “About” Page Was Actually A Clever Job Ad | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Some Flickr users noticed the company’s “About” page was upside-down yesterday. Yes, literally upside-down. And yes, we checked, . As it turns out, yes, Flickr’s upside-downness was on purpose. Yahoo confirmed to us today that the “mistake” was actually an easter egg meant to celebrate Australia Day (Jan. 26). “We cha... |
Apple Says International Took 64% Of Revenues In Q1, Led By Growth In China And Japan | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Apple CEO Tim Cook today admitted that in its home market of North America, “we did not do as well…our business contracted year over year.” But to counterbalance that, the iPhone maker is pushing its international business. In the company’s Q1 2014 earnings, , Apple says that international markets accounted for 64% of... |
Despite Multi-Year MSFT Surface Deal, Nearly All NFL Teams Use iPads As Playbooks, Says Apple | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | On today’s Q1 earnings call, Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer bragged that “nearly all NFL teams use iPads as playbooks.” This wouldn’t necessarily be interesting, except for the fact that Microsoft has a to provide players, coaches and other personnel with a Surface tablet. Of course, NFL teams have been using the iPad... |
Apple Pays Out $2 Billion To Developers In Q1 2014 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | One number in indicates significant year over year growth, and it’s a number that’s vital to the continued success of the platform – the company announced that it paid out $2 billion to developers during its fiscal Q1 2014, which is a record number and also between three and four times what it paid devs during the sa... |
Dark Sky Is Ready To Be The Default Weather App On Your iPhone’s Homescreen | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | , easily one of the better weather applications on iOS, rolled out an update today that expands its focus beyond rain predictions to become a more comprehensive weather app which offers both 24-hour and 7-day forecasts, global maps, and more. The app was also rewritten from scratch for iOS 7, the company notes. For tho... |
Five Months After Launch, iOS 7 Has Been Installed On 80% Of Compatible Devices | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | With one of Androids’ few shortcomings being the uncertainty that any given device might get the next big update, Apple just to mention their iOS update numbers. During their earnings call this morning, the company shined a bit of light on just how many devices have been updated to iOS 7 at this point. The grand tota... |
Despite Record Sales Quarter, Apple’s iPhone 5c Likely Wasn’t Key To Growth | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Apple’s , and they also mark the company’s ability to ship as many smartphones as Samsung, which was previously the only company in the world to move over 50 million units in a single quarter back in 2012. But the number represents only 3 million more devices sold than in the same quarter last year, or around 7 percen... |
Police Using 3D Scanners For Panoramic Crime Scene Analysis | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Police in Roswell, NM are now using 3D scanners to virtually map crime scenes, allowing investigators, jurors, judges, and lawyers to inspect the environment from any angle with a 3D, panoramic image. The Roswell Police Department is just one of many police departments currently using ‘s 3D imaging hardware to analyze... |
Department Of Justice Will Allow Big Tech Companies To Disclose Detailed Numbers Of Surveillance Requests | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | released more details on the requests it receives from government surveillance agencies after the Department Of Justice releaxed limits on disclosures. Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and LinkedIn today to disclose more details on the data requests and orders they receive from the Foreign Intelligence Sur... |
Apple’s 51M iPhones, 26M iPads And 4.8M Macs In Q1 2014 Set A Record, But Growth Slows | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Analysts had predicted that Apple would have a strong day with hardware this quarter, anticipating between 54 and 56 million iPhones shipped according , as well as around 25 million iPads and 4.6 million Macs. The showed Apple missing on iPhones with 51 million moved, but beating expectations for the rest slightly w... |
Apple’s Mixed Q1 2014 With $57.6B Revenue, $13.1B Profit And $14.50 EPS | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | Apple has just its fiscal Q1 2014 earnings, reporting $57.6 billion in revenue, $13.1 billion in net profit representing $14.50 per share. Compared to the , it corresponds to a growth of 5.7 percent in revenue, and 5 percent in EPS, with net profit flat year over year. Apple sold 51 million iPhones, 26 million iPads... |
Happy Birthday, D&D | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 27 | On January 26, 1974 the world changed. A panoply of creatures popped into existence – Owlbears lumbered out of the woods while Bullettes snuffled out of caves, blinking in the sunlight. Adventurers donned metal plate armor and led their ambling pack horses into darkened dungeons. Traps sprung, capturing teams of dwarve... |
Neiman Marcus Breach Could Be Part Of Larger Holiday Cyberattack On U.S. Retailers | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | In the weeks following Thanksgiving, of a massive attack and data hack, which reportedly affected as many as 110 million people and exposed an array of personal data, including names, addresses and credit card information. beginning to notify customers that it, too, has been hacked, it seems that we may just be o... |
MeMINI Is A Wearable Camera That Let’s You Save Video Clips Minutes After Cool Stuff Happened | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | Meet meMINI, a wearable videocamera that’s currently seeking $50,000 in crowdfunding on to help you save the best bits of your daily life for posterity without having to record everything and then edit the footage for highlights. Wearable life logging cameras are nothing new, even if the idea of walking around with a... |
I’ve Seen The Future Of Health Tech And It’s Going To Improve Your Life In 2014 | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | I just returned from the most exciting Consumer Electronics Show I’ve ever covered. Thanks to extraordinary demand for gadgets that make us healthier, stronger, and smarter, the technology industry is putting some serious brain power behind the next generation of wearable health devices. Over the next year, a torrent o... |
A Gentle Buzz To Improve Your Posture And, Soon, Yoga Poses | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | Bad posture is collectively turning the desk-chained workforce into a mass of hunchbacks. is a magnetic shirt pin that delivers gentle buzzing nudge whenever it senses poor posture. It’s a reminder “to keep your shoulders back and down and your head lifted,” explains Lumoback Founder, Monisha Perkash. Because Lum... |
Toshiba’s 5-in-1 Computing Device Concept Looks Like What Windows 8 Is Meant For | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | One of the best parts of CES are the devices that companies show off that are more or less conceptual, and may or may not ever even get made. One such gadget is the Toshiba 5-in-1 tablet, notebook, media player, drawing slate, etc. It’s sleek looking in pre-production solid aluminum, and also has a lot of potential a... |
Gillmor Gang: Kick the Can | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — digest the complete lack of CES news and the consolidation of the aggregation newsletters. Jason Calicanis’ Launch newsletter went pay-only today, as tech news and events appear to be in a maturing phase. With new sites appearing from All-Th... |
Ad ‘Experiments’ Come To Delicious As It Updates Social Bookmarking API With Authentication, Rate Limits | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | , the veteran bookmarking site that last year released a , is moving into its next phase of growth: the company has a new version of its API that gives it more security and control over data that is passed through the platform; and it is going to begin to run advertising alongside content on the site. The news under... |
Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow. | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | Let’s talk about , but first let’s talk about the late great , who 13 years ago wrote a classic essay about modern English* entitled “ ,” which, realistically, is better than anything I will ever write, so I should maybe just point you to it and end this post here. But I won’t. Not least because I strongly suspect th... |
Keen On 2014: Apple, Apple & Apple | Andrew Keen | 2,014 | 1 | 11 | Having 2013 with me, Robert Scoble now turns his Google Glass enabled eyes forward to 2014. What, I asked him, are going to be the really big deals in 2014? Apple, Apple and Apple, Scoble predicts. Firstly, there’s going to be what Scoble calls a “war of wearables” between Apple’s iWatch and Google Glass in the nex... |
BrightFarms Reaps $4.9M Series B To Expand Its Urban Greenhouse Network | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | , which builds greenhouses in urban areas, announced that it has raised $4.9 million in Series B funding from NGEN Partners, Emil Capital Partners, BrightFarms founder Ted Caplow, and others. Its latest round brings the total BrightFarms . The startup is interesting because it sits at the intersection of two trends: c... |
Nintendo: It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This. | MG Siegler | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Who am I kidding? I love to say that. But while I’m happy about being correct, I’m sad for Nintendo. I love Nintendo. I really do. And so it pains me to see them in . But I come bearing gifts. Rather than being the millionth person to advise them to move their games to smartphones, I thought I’d offer another alternat... |
Lenovo’s Motorola Mobility Buy Is Partly About The Chance To Own The Enterprise Mobile Market | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Lenovo’s ThinkPad is the brand of choice when it comes to enterprise notebooks – Dell has a strong footing still, to be sure, but , followed by HP and then Dell. The gives them a chance to parlay that success in the traditional computing world into the booming enterprise hotspot of mobile tech. In an interview with ... |
India’s Flipkart In Merger Talks With Fashion Retailer Myntra, As Common Investors Push For Consolidation | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Two of India’s biggest e-commerce retailers — and — are apparently in talks to merge, a proposal being pushed by their common investors Accel Partners and Tiger Global. that Flipkart has already approached Myntra, and a decision on whether to go with the merger would be taken in two weeks. Flipkart has been looki... |
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Facebook Trades North Of $60 For The First Time | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | In after-hours trading today, investors rewarded Facebook with a rising share price after it reported . The company reported that it earned $0.31 per share, and had revenue in the quarter of $2.59 billion. As reported earlier, the analyst set had predicted that Facebook would earn $0.27 on revenue of $2.33 billion. Th... |
With $9M From Bessemer, Open Textbook Pioneer Flat World Looks For New Life In Personalized Learning | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | When first emerged back in 2007, the company was on a mission to overturn the textbook industry, and the staid world of educational publishing along with it. One of the pioneers in the movement to bring more affordable, “open” educational content to college students, Flat World has since grown into one of the largest... |
With 1M Reviews Logged, Consumr Brings Price Comparison, Personalization And Refined Scoring To Its “Yelp For Products” | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Today, with more product information and data on consumer goods living on the Web than ever before, launched in 2011 to give average Joes like you and me a better way to make sense of that data and find the best products. In an effort to become the Rotten Tomatoes or Yelp of consumer products, a platform and mobile... |
U.S. Justice Dept Joins The Target Credit Card Data Breach Investigation | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | The investigation behind Target’s data breach, which affected 40 million customers and is one of the largest hacking incidents in retail history, just intensified. The he hunt for the perpetrator, which already includes the FBI and the Secret Service, which usually oversees the federal government’s credit card fraud c... |
Nest Team Will Become Google’s Core Hardware Group | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Google Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. While many speculated that Google would release phones after it bought Motorola in 2011, it didn’t happen — Motorola remained a partner like other Android OEMs. Recently, Google Nest, and TechCrunch has learned that Google has big plans for the team behind the connected ... |
Intel Will Shut Down AppUp PC App Store On March 11, Apps Will Stop Working By May 15, 2015 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | So much for Intel’s bid to get hip with our app-filled times: the company is shutting down its consumer-facing , its app store for Windows-based PC apps. “The world’s largest app store that nobody’s ever heard of,” in the of AppUp boss Peter Biddle, a description that in hindsight may have been tempting fate. The se... |
Tech Investors Buy Themselves Some Blue Bottle Coffee | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | After all the VC deals that get done at Blue Bottle Coffee, it’s only fitting that be one of them. The tony coffee brewery $25.7 million series B investment, completed at its flagship store in Oakland, earlier today. The investment was led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the same Morgan Stanley adviser behi... |
Sabertron, For All Your Foam Swordplay Needs | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | LARPers rejoice! A new project, called , will allow you and your fellow followers of the great goddess of the Whispering Eye to fight to the death using wirelessly connected foam swords. The swords, which cost $99 for a two-weapon set, have rings of colored lights around the hilt that note when you’ve been hit by ot... |
Zuck Is Finally Ready To Fight Snapchat | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | In the since Evan Spiegel , the Facebook CEO sent a very clear signal to competitors. “Our vision is to create a set of products that let our users share with any audience they want,” said Zuck. “Not everyone wants to share with all of their friends at once. A lot of the new growth we see is from giving people power... |
Amazon Wants To Include Peer-to-Peer Payments In Its “Real World” PayPal Competitor | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Earlier today, the published a report on how Amazon is building a Kindle-based point-of-sale payments service for local merchants using technology it picked up via its Gopago acquisition –something we actually . In fact, this looks like just part of what Amazon has in mind. The e-commerce giant is also developing a ... |
GoDaddy Admits Hacker’s Social Engineering Led It To Divulge Info In @N Twitter Account Hack | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | An update in the @N account hacking case has just come through from GoDaddy, one of the companies involved in the somewhat convoluted social engineering case. The company admits that one of its employees was ‘socially engineered’ into giving out additional information which allowed a hacker to gain access to Naoki Hir... |
Facebook’s Plot To Conquer Mobile: Shatter Itself Into Pieces | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | don’t cut it on mobile. Packing in too many features creates apps that seem bloated and slow. Perhaps more than any company, Facebook has struggled to adapt its busy website to the small screen. But through a talk with Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and its Messenger team in November, a strategy to make the social net... |
Google Keeps Motorola’s Advanced Technology Group, Home Of The Modular Phone And Password Tattoo | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Google has just let us in on another tidbit about the deal it has built with : It keeps the high-tech Q division-type stuff being developed at Motorola’s Advanced Technology Group. That means the Ara modular smartphone concept, as well as sensors you swallow and passwords you tattoo on your skin. The Advanced Tech tea... |
Larry Page Thanks The Motorola Team And CEO Dennis Woodside In Internal Memo | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Google just took to the wires and to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. TechCrunch obtained the following internal Google memo that outlines the reason for the sale and plan going forward. Towards the end of the memo, Larry Page thanks the Motorola team and states the obvious that he is confident that Lenovo can drive the Mot... |
Google Keeps ‘Vast Majority’ Of Motorola Mobility Patents In Sale To Lenovo | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | Motorola Mobility is being sold to Lenovo, in a deal worth $2.91B. Google is divesting itself of the handset division it purchased for $12.5B in 2011, but it will keep some of the assets — including patents. “Google will maintain ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, including curren... |
Tim Cook Celebrates China Mobile’s iPhone Launch | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | The iPhone is finally available for sale in China Mobile stores after Apple with the carrier, the world’s largest by subscriber number. In a sign of how important the partnership is to Apple, CEO Tim Cook showed up at the China Mobile launch today to meet customers, pose for pictures, and autograph iPhones. Having fu... |
Digg Is Experimenting With Original Content | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | is currently testing a system which would see the viral news aggregator running its own original content on the Digg.com homepage, the company confirms to us today. This would be a new direction for the betaworks-backed service, which has historically collected the most interesting stories from around the web on its s... |
Google Redesigns Stock Quotes Widget, Removes Links To Competitors | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 29 | have long been a staple on Google’s search results pages and date back to the search engine’s earliest days. Since its launch, the stock quotes widget has gone through a few iterations and today, it looks like the company has launched . There are no new features here as far as I can see. The new widget has a slightly... |
Confirmed: Yahoo’s Editor-In-Chief Is Out | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Effective tomorrow, Yahoo’s Editor-In-Chief is out at the company. A Yahoo spokesperson confirmed the news with TechCrunch following of his exit. Yahoo is currently undergoing a period of executive turbulence, with today’s news coming on the heels of the yesterday’s firing of its chief operating officer. While the ... |
Google’s New Smart Contact Lens Is Old News For Microsoft | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Google today announced its , but it’s not the first by a long shot (or even a ). Other companies have long been working on smart lenses — including Microsoft Research, which unveiled a similar project in 2011 in collaboration with someone who now works for Google X. Babak Parviz used to be a professor at the Universi... |
Zynga Drops 12% In Regular Trading On External Warnings About Its Coming Earnings | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Social gaming firm Zynga today plunged 12 percent in regular trading, following a , which indicated that the market’s fourth-quarter consensus may be too optimistic. Shares fell by 49 cents to end the day at $3.54. Also today, UBS on Zynga’s stock from hold to sell, indicating deteriorating confidence in the company... |
Meet The Malware That Took Down Target | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | The inimitable has found some interesting details about the massive credit card breach that exposed millions of pieces of customer data over the holidays. The hackers used a specific form of malware dedicated to grabbing sensitive data out of hardened point of sale terminals. Shortly after news of the Target attack... |
Google Unveils Smart Contact Lens That Lets Diabetics Measure Their Glucose Levels | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | This isn’t Google Glass in a contact lens, but it may just be Google’s first step in this direction. The company’s Google X lab just teased on its blog that is meant to help diabetics measure their glucose levels. The company says it is currently testing prototypes of this contact lens that use a tiny wireless chip a... |
Hackers And Spambots Are Going After Your Fridges and Smart TVs Now | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | There are plenty of good reasons you might want an Internet-enabled smart refrigerator. Your friends will constantly tell you that you’re from the future! You could check how much milk is left You can… uh… tweet from it when every other more-suitable gadget in your house is dead? But there’s also a good reason to w... |
Microsoft Sold 908,000 Xbox One Consoles In The US In December, Besting The PS4 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | According to NPD numbers , 908,000 Xbox One consoles were sold in the United States in December. Microsoft had previously reported that its new console had sold 1 million units in its first day of availability globally, and 3 million through the end of 2013. The console, which launched November 22nd, has seen lower ag... |
Dyson’s Latest Vacuums Ditch Not Only The Bag But Also The Filter Maintenance | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | I hate vacuuming but I actually like using my Dyson, and the UK company has a few new models it’s unveiling today. For the U.S. market, there’s the , which is a handheld cordless stick vac that bumps up the suction, and for the UK, there are new Cinetic models of three of its canister vacuums that do away with the sole... |
Twitter Also Considered PayPal For Its Square-Market Competitor | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | , now a listed company with more public accountability for how it makes money, has put the bulk of its chips down on generating revenue from advertising. But another area it appears to be exploring is commerce — using its platform not just to help spread the word about brands, but to help people buy from them, too. Ear... |
Thanks To Ads, Rdio Now Offers Free Streaming On The Web | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Not to be outdone by Spotify, Beats or Pandora, Rdio is now free through its website. Mobile users still have to pay if they want access to the full Rdio experience. Users will also have to pay if they want an ad-free experience — because that’s how Rdio is making its service free. As the announcement says, “Free liste... |
Intel Beats Q4 Revenue Forecasts With Top Line Of $13.8B, Misses On Profit With EPS Of $0.51 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Today Intel reported its fourth-quarter earnings, including revenue of $13.83 billion and earnings per share of $0.51. Investors Intel to earn $0.52 per share on revenue of $13.72 billion. In regular trading, Intel eased under a percent. In after hours trading following its mixed earnings Intel is down several percen... |
Ogle Outfits And Share Your Unique Style With WearToday | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Fashion might not save the world, but it can be a creative outlet that gives you the confidence to improve your life. That’s the ethos behind , built by veteran Facebook product designer and eccentric dresser Alexandre Roche. Launching today on iOS in invite-only beta, WearToday lets you photograph your current outfit... |
Housecall App Pulls Up The Long-Tail Of Services From Appliance Repair To Plumbing | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | In the wake of and , there are still plenty of other startups doing home services on-demand from your mobile phone. , out of San Diego, is a startup that handles the long-tail of services like electrical or swimming pool work and carpet cleanings. The team came out of Qualcomm Labs, where CEO Ian Heidt had been wor... |
BrandProject Aims To Apply The Betaworks Model To Consumer Products And Goods | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | A new seed-stage investment fund and ‘company creation’ startup called launched today, with offices in Toronto and New York, and a team of founders who, between them, have a boatload of experience building, shipping and marketing consumer hardware and software for some of the biggest brands on the planet. The five-pe... |
YesGraph Simplifies The Process Of Using Referrals To Hire The Best Candidates | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | For companies that want to scale up personnel fast, hiring can be a big problem. Conventional wisdom says that the best candidates typically get referrals from existing employees within the company, but those referrals can be tough to come by has a solution for finding top talent, by highlighting people that employee... |
The NSA Collects Hundreds Of Millions Of Global SMS Messages Every Day | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Another day, another NSA story involving dragnet surveillance of global communications. Out this morning in is news of Dishfire, an NSA program that collects nearly 200 million text messages each day. The program is notable for its scale, and what the Guardian quotes as its “untargeted” nature. It is not collecting t... |
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Hinge Hits SF With Its App For Finding True Love, Not Just Hookups | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | Tinder is great if you care about looks, not personality. But if you want a simple dating app that matches you based on interests, education, and profession, there’s . Today it launches in San Francisco. In city of quirky and sometimes socially awkward people, Hinge’s focus on brains and background over beauty could h... |
Google Brings Dart To Runnable, Gives Developers An Easy Way To Try It | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 16 | , Google’s JavaScript competitor, launched its 1.0 version . While Google’s language has quickly caught on with developers, though, Dart has been struggling to attract them. In an effort to get more developers on board, Dart today became the first project to on one of ‘s . Runnable, which launched a few months a... |
Walmart Begins Testing Online Grocery Shopping With Local Store Pickup Option In Denver | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | the retailer’s on-demand shopping service offering home delivery of general merchandise, including in some cases, groceries, is expanding its test in the Denver market today to also include a local pick-up option. Denver area customers will now be able to order their groceries online, then pick up at a nearby store – ... |
Yahoo Has Closed The Tomfoolery Acquisition, Will Shut Down Anchor, Team To Work For Bonforte | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | We now have more details about the deal between and , an enterprise app studio co-founded by ex-Yahoo and ex-AOL alums, which and have reported is getting acquired by Yahoo. According to a source close to the deal, the acquisition has indeed now closed, and Yahoo will officially announce it as soon as this eveni... |
Yahoo Is Shutting Down IntoNow, Nearly Three Years After Acquisition | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | IntoNow — the second-screen app that Yahoo , just 12 weeks after — is being shut down by its parent company. As of last week, IntoNow was taken off the Apple App Store and Google Play, and an email sent to users as of March 31. For those who might have forgotten, IntoNow was one of the many second-screen TV apps t... |
Tech Stocks Slip On Earnings Weakness | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | It has been a difficult 24 hours for tech earnings, with Apple, Yahoo, and VMware losing ground after reporting their quarterly results. Apple, despite growing its revenue and earnings per share, reported flat net profit and an iPhone sales figure that, while higher than the year prior, . Its stock fell in after-hours... |
Google Brings Chrome Apps To Android And iOS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | Google’s offline are about to find their way to both Android and iOS. Using Apache’s well-known open-source for turning web apps into native apps, Google today launched a developer preview of for building native apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Using these tools, developers can take their existing Chrome Apps... |
Here’s Where To Watch Obama’s 2014 State Of The Union Online | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | PRISM. Net neutrality. Patent reform. The government’s hand in tech has perhaps never been stronger, and the tech matters that have arisen in the last year affect . It’s a good idea to watch the President’s State Of The Union, but if you’re someone who even remotely cares about technology, this year’s is one you sho... |
Opera 19 Brings Back Bookmarks Bar, Adds Support For More Extensions | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | When Opera’s desktop browser moved to Google’s Blink rendering engine last year, it also a number of features, including bookmark syncing and its bookmarks bar. The company brought back syncing after a short while and with today’s , it is also finally bringing back the bookmarks bar. What the browser is still missin... |
.Guru, .Bike, .Singles And 4 Other Domains Will Open For Business Tomorrow | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | If you are looking for a good domain name, your choices are about to get more interesting. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to register a .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures domain name through numerous worldwide. Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (I... |
Gillmor Gang: Turn Turn Turn | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — christen the maiden voyage, or shakeout cruise, of Newtek’s new TriCaster 860. The learning curve is intense, but the results are worth it. Hope you enjoy the show. Recorded in HD but not yet released in that format. I’d be remiss if I d... |
Cheap Laser-Sintering Printers Are Coming Thanks To The Expiration Of A Key Patent | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | Today is a big day for 3D printing: Patent is set to expire and will open up the possibility for makers to use laser sintering — shooting a laser at a layer of nylon powder — in cheaper devices, essentially opening the technology to the small maker. The patent is fairly clear on what sintering is. It describes an “ap... |
Marissa Mayer On Yahoo’s Fired COO: De Castro “Not A Fit,” No Plans To Replace Him | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 28 | Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer offered some brief comments about during today’s earnings webcast. The company announced earlier this month that De Castro, who joined Yahoo from Google in 2012, was leaving. The move that was resulting from De Castro’s difficulties turning around the ad business. (In , Yahoo said sales and... |
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