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Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Explains The Surprising Goal Of His New Company, Jelly | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone his top-secret new startup Jelly, a mobile app that enables users to ask short questions of their social network through pictures. For instance, Stone snapped a photo of an art piece in San Francisco, asked his network what it was, and got a few dozen answers. Since this morning’s announc... |
The FLIR ONE Case Gives Your iPhone Thermal Vision | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Most of FLIR’s products to date are aimed at hunters and professionals, but this iPhone case brings an affordable smartphone-based thermal camera to the masses for the first time, the company told me at CES. The FLIR is $350, which might seem steep for a case with a built-in camera, but it’s actually around $750 cheape... |
Art Meets Tech In Former Mailbox Designer’s New Textile Project Bulan | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Sometimes when life seems too pre-ordained, you drop everything and flee in the opposite direction. That’s what designer did when her picture perfect career at Ideo stopped resonating in the way it once had. Then that’s what she did again shortly after She disappeared out of tech and dived into art. Luna, who has a ... |
Indian Startup Little Eye Labs Confirms Its Acquisition By Facebook, Deal Worth $10-$15M | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Last month, we that was planning to buy , an Indian startup that makes a software tool for analyzing the performance of Android apps. Now the Bangalore-based company has by the social media giant. A direct source told us that the deal is in the range of $10 million to $15 million. Little Eye Labs’ investors have... |
What Legal Battles? Video Upstart Aereo Lands $34M In New Funding, Plans Big U.S. Expansion | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Streaming TV startup generated quite a few headlines last year. Backed by Barry Diller and IAC, the controversial young company has become entangled in a lengthy and expensive legal battle with the major network broadcasters who want to see it shut down — a battle that’s now headed to the Supreme Court. While the st... |
Blaze Seeks To Save Cyclist Lives With A Laser Projection Bike Light | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | More and more urban commuters are embracing cycling as a way to get to and from work and around the city, and more and more cities are embracing cyclists by adding bike lanes and making commutes safer and more fun. But bicycle safety is still a huge issue in even the most bike-friendly cities. A new startup called ho... |
The Silk Road’s Libertas Is Free, To The Annoyance Of U.S. Authorities, While DoJ Mulls BTC Sell-Off | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | The Silk Road moderator Gary Davis, aka Libertas, is officially free on bail and awaiting an extradition hearing on February 13. Irish and U.S. authorities arrested Davis on December 20 in an international operation that also nabbed Silk Road moderators Andrew Jones, aka Inigo, and Peter Phillip Nash, aka SameSameButDi... |
Sentry Scientific Wants To Remake Walker Tech To Keep Seniors Safe And On The Go | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Today at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield at CES displayed new walker technology designed to keep the elderly safe, and mobile. This isn’t the usual fare here at TechCrunch, but it’s important to keep in mind that not all tech progress is represented by social apps or new servers. The team at Sentry uncovered an odd... |
Livemap Demonstrates A Motorcycle Helmet Concept With Built-In Navigation | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | , a Russian startup on-stage today at our , aims to make GPS navigation more accessible to motorcyclists in the form of a new kind of helmet. After all, CEO Andrew Artischev noted that if you’re riding a motorcycle, interacting with a GPS touchscreen interface isn’t exactly safe or convenient, and even looking at it m... |
CubeSensors Brings Health And Comfort Monitoring To The Whole Home | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | In the future, your home will know you just as well as your smartphone does. The era of the connected smart home is upon us, and that all starts with sensors. , a competitor in our CES 2014 Hardware Battlefield, is looking to help you track the health and comfort levels in your home the same way wearable fitness tracke... |
Bang & Olufsen To Take On Sonos With The $1,000 Essence Streaming System | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Bang & Olufsen’s latest household gadget aims to make controlling music as easy as turning on the lights. In fact the company hopes homeowners install its $1,000 Essence system near a common light switch. Just don’t mistake it for a Nest Thermostat. The Essence consists of two parts. The round, aluminum controller is m... |
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Yahoo Introduces New Ad Exchange And Manager, Says It Now Powers Tumblr Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Scott Burke, Yahoo’s senior vice president of advertising technology, took the stage during the company’s keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show to talk about what he said is “a new unified advertising solution.” Burke ran through the news fairly quickly, but the thrust of it seems to be that consolidating existing a... |
Watch How SmartThings Can Help Jumpstart Your Day | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | It’s CES 2014, and once again, has taken over an entire house in Las Vegas to showcase all the cool things you can do with its home automation platform. Last year, when we , the company didn’t have any actual products on the market. Well, a lot has happened since then — it’s shipped the first generation of SmartTh... |
Yahoo Courts Mainstream Audiences With Vertical Sites, Launches Yahoo Food And Yahoo Tech | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Add another news portal to the increasingly crowded world of tech news sites, and another food portal if you’re still feeling hungry. Today Yahoo officially launched , a new site that will sit alongside Yahoo News and Yahoo Business, providing news about the tech world for a mainstream audience. And it also launched a... |
Yahoo Launches News Digest, Its First App Based On Summly | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Today at its CES keynote, Yahoo announced a new product, News Digest, to help people stay “quickly informed” on the day’s big topics by sending out twice daily updates, or digests. The content is a curated “blend” of information, using several sources to create news stories. Yahoo calls the individual stories “atoms.” ... |
Twitter Will Issue First Quarterly Report As Public Company On Feb 5th, Take Questions Via Twitter | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Today, Twitter announced that it will report its fourth quarter fiscal year 2013 results on February 5th, 2014. This is the first report to be issued since the company went public last year. In an interesting move, questions will be able to be submitted via Twitter directly. “Questions submitted via Twitter, directed t... |
Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement onstage during her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired , a startup that taps the apps on your smartphone to bring up information at the moment that it’s relevant. Mayer suggested that Yahoo could use Aviate’s technology to deliver i... |
Meet ChoiceMap, A New App That Helps You Make Better Decisions | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Making complicated decisions is an emotionally fraught process and (if you are like me) the whole thing can leave you feeling paralyzed. is a new free iPhone app that helps you break down complex dilemmas into a list of priorities, rate them by how they will affect your life, and then uses an algorithm to score decis... |
WillCall’s New Bluetooth “BarTab” Feature Lets You Buy Drinks At Concerts By Saying Your Name | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 7 | ‘s plot to reimagine nightlife goes way beyond its concert ticketing app. So it’s tackling the annoyance of buying drinks, from long bar lines to fumbling for cash to forgetting your credit card. Today it , a feature within its app that lets you buy drinks at participating venues by saying your name. But how does the ... |
Airlock, Facebook’s New A/B Testing Framework, Will Help Improve User Experience On Its Mobile Apps | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | has developed a new mobile A/B testing framework, it announced today. In , engineers Ari Grant and Kang Zhang explained that when Facebook two years ago, it gave them finer control over many aspects of mobile development, but also meant losing the ability to A/B test. With Airlock, Facebook can make new updates to t... |
After A Troubled 2013, The PC Market Looks For Stability | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Today Gartner released a preliminary set of results for the global PC market in the fourth quarter of 2013, indicating that PC sales . 2013 has certainly been a historically tough year for PCs and the industry that builds and sells them. Gartner, with its fourth quarter predictions now mostly in place, estimates that ... |
Sources: Yahoo Bought Aviate For $80M | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Earlier this week, , a startup providing contextually relevant information on Android homescreens, but it didn’t say anything about the acquisition price. Now a source with knowledge of the deal tells me that the acquisition was for $80 million. My source didn’t know any of the details beyond the amount — the mix of c... |
Ifbyphone Raises Another $9M For Voice Marketing Tools | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Marketing technology company is announcing that it has raised $9 million in Series D funding. The round was led by new investor River Cities Capital Funds (a growth equity firm focused on healthcare and IT) and brings Ifbyphone’s total funding to more than $30 million. Previous backers Apex Venture Partners, Origin V... |
Google Play Services Gets Improved Mobile Ads And Multiplayer Support, Google+ Sharing And Preview Of Drive API | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Google today started the latest version of its for Android. Just like earlier updates, version 4.1 brings a number of incremental changes to the company’s service for integrating Google services into mobile apps. The rollout is currently in process and should land on all Android devices worldwide within the next fe... |
Oculus VR’s New “Crystal Cove” Prototype Is Kind Of Amazing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | has been showing off a new version of its virtual reality technology at the Consumer Electronics Show. According to Vice President of Product Nate Mitchell, the “Crystal Cove” prototype features two big improvements — positional tracking and low persistence. I have to admit that when Mitchell first said this, I star... |
It’s Never Too Early To Say Goodbye | Eric Eldon | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | “You can’t just quietly slip out the door,” I’ve been told by too many people I trust. So okay, fine, here’s this post about my departure! Since you asked, TechCrunch is in a really good place right now. The various numbers we use to measure ourselves — from traffic to revenue to some leaderboard provided by a tech new... |
And Now For Something Completely Different, Leadership Changes | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | As you may , our beloved co-editor is moving on to do other things. Clearly Eldon will leave a huge hole, and therefore we’re going to be making a couple of editorial changes to make sure TechCrunch meets 2014 staffed up for greatness. Our esteemed Senior Editor will become Managing Editor as part of these changes... |
And The Winner Of Our First Hardware Battlefield Is… CubeSensors! | Chris Velazco | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Three days go by awfully quickly, don’t they? The Consumer Electronics Show — and by extension our Hardware Battlefield — only started on Tuesday but we’ve seen no shortage of take our stage here in Las Vegas. This is the first time we’ve tried to put together a Battlefield solely for hardware startups and to be quit... |
Bioniq Health Compares Features And The Quality Of Health Trackers | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Health trackers, from pedometers to smart scales, are flooding the market and there’s no place to conveniently compare all the different competitors. is a new website to compare the features and quality of all varieties of health trackers. In the future, Bioniq hopes to give doctors the option to “prescribe” certain ... |
Pintrips Files A Motion To Dismiss Pinterest’s Trademark Suit, Says ‘Pin’ Is Too Generic | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Pins, pins everywhere! Back in October, we reported on a filed by against planning travel startup , accusing it of trademark infringement, false designation of origin, unfair competition and trademark dilution. Now Pintrips is fighting back. It has filed a motion to dismiss on two grounds: first, that the term “pi... |
Twitter Toys With Ways To Boost Engagement With ‘@AchievementBird’ Experiment | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Twitter has begun experimenting with an account, called , that will direct message you ‘achievements’ that you earn with your tweets. The account is protected but has granted follows in the past few days. Once you’re on the list, the account will occasionally send you messages about how one of your tweets has performe... |
With Revenue Now In The Millions, Piqora Prepares A “Content Management System” For The Visual Web | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | , a company that began its life as a Pinterest-centric company has over the past year expanded further into the visual web space with marketing tools for Tumblr and Instagram, as well. Today, the company is giving a peek inside its business, and announcing it’s now generating revenue in the single digit millions, wit... |
Pocket Drones Gets $50,000 In Pledges Overnight | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Hardware Battlefield entrant blew past their initial goal of $30,000 last night after launching on our stage at . The company, run by long-time friends and moderators of the , Tim Reuter, TJ Johnson, and Chance Roth, built their drones as an alternative to expensive, bulky toy drones. They are currently at $51,000 ... |
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Robin Labs Builds A Rear-View Mirror Personal Assistant For New Strategic Investor Pioneer | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | — maker of the eponynous personal assistant app — has been in the news of late because of a leaked video that shows a . While that app and their association remain the subject of “ongoing conversations,” Robin Labs has come to CES in Las Vegas with other news: it’s raised funding from electronics maker , and it’s wo... |
New Gmail Feature Allows Anyone On Google+ To Email You & Vice Versa, But Opt Out Is Provided | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Google is today a change to Gmail that will further bake in Google+ to its webmail product in a way that’s actually somewhat practical, though also potentially invasive. Going forward, you’ll now be able to directly email your Google+ contacts from Gmail, even if you don’t know their email address. And by default, an... |
Uber Slashes UberX Fares In 16 Markets To Make It The Cheapest Car Service Available Anywhere | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Riding just got a lot cheaper — at least for most customers using its low-cost UberX option. That’s because Uber has for its on-demand car service in a majority of U.S. cities where it’s available, in some cases by more than 20 percent. The goal for Uber is not just to make its service more attractive than the co... |
Overstock.com Partners With Coinbase And Starts Accepting Bitcoins As Payment | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Have a wallet with several bitcoins and shopping for a new patio set or maybe several lamps? Overstock.com is ready to take those volatile bitcoins off your hands. No word on Dogecoins, though. Overstock.com struck a deal with Coinbase, a sort of PayPal for Bitcoin, to handle the processing. Just today, Overstock.com a... |
The Alternative Commerce Recipe | Contributor | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Alternative Commerce is a piece of cake, right? After all, while big box retailers are suffering, fun things like “the Internet” and “mobile phones” make it easier to sell stuff to customers without the expense of stores and make a bunch of money. Just ask WebVan, Kozmo, eToys.com, or Pets.com. Okay maybe it isn’t ... |
Sunrise Calendar Stops Sending iCloud Credentials Back To Their Servers | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | The increasingly popular Sunrise calendar app faced a bit of a brouhaha last week, after a couple of well-respected developers (namely, Neven Mrgan and Instapaper creator Marco Arment) pointed out that the application asked the user to punch in their iCloud credentials with little indication of what happened to them ne... |
Yahoo Could Do Search Because It Needs The Money | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Yahoo could be getting back into the search game. Its long-suffering deal with Microsoft has underperformed, making that the company is working on building new search products hardly surprising. As a , the Bing search deal is of growing importance to Yahoo. For the nine months ending last September 30, 30 percent of... |
Ask A VC: Manatt’s Peter Csathy On The New Golden Age Of Content | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Manatt Digital Media Ventures’ Peter Csathy joined us in the studio to talk about the return of content, his firm’s investment strategy and more. One of the topics Csathy and I talked about was the renaissance moment for content, whether that be video, long-form, or social content.... |
Gametime Aims To Provide The Best Mobile Experience For Last-Minute Sports Ticketing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 9 | Online ticketing services are moving onto mobile, but Brad Griffith, CEO of a startup called , says the experience still isn’t good enough. For example, Griffith (whose previous startup Zappedy was ) recalled using the mobile app from “a current leader in the space” to purchase baseball tickets recently, but he didn’... |
Airbnb Is Testing Out An Affordable Cleaning Service For Hosts In San Francisco | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Peer-to-peer lodgings marketplace has been focused on finding ways that it can help its hosts improve the quality of experience for guests that stay in their homes. As part of this effort, the company is trialing a low-cost cleaning service for some hosts on the platform. According to an email sent to a host in the S... |
Apple Said To Be Focusing On Health With iOS 8 And iWatch, Following Exec Meeting With FDA | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Apple’s plans for iOS 8 focus on redefining health tracking via mobile devices, according to a new report from , which has a terrific track record when it comes to rumors it has sourced itself. The report details a new marquee application coming in iOS 8 called “Healthbook” that monitors all aspects of health, fitness... |
Euro Secondhand Marketplace Vinted Raises $27M To Take On The Salvation Army | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Fresh financing from and for the Vilnius-based startup comes after Accel invested $6.6 million into the company just over a year ago to port it from a web-based application to a service primarily for mobile devices… and bring its service to the U.S. Vinted launched in the U.S. in September 2013, after five years sp... |
Coupons.com Files For $100M IPO On The NYSE, Trading As Coup | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | The march of the 2014 initial public offerings commences, with the latest one of the oldest brands on the internet. Coupons.com has for an IPO on the NYSE, trading under the name COUP, and raising $100 million. Goldman, Sachs & Co., Allen & Company LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch and RBC Capital Markets are listed as the un... |
Keen On… Hacking Gender: How Women In Silicon Valley Can Become Jane Bond | Andrew Keen | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Despite incremental improvements, the gender bias issue in Silicon Valley remains an important one — and one that could benefit from special attention. Earlier this month, Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston announced that the Silicon Valley startup incubator would be putting on a conference especially to female foun... |
Gillmor Gang Live 01.31.14 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Have you found us on Facebook yet? facebook.com/GillmorGang |
BrightFunnel Raises Funding To Build Smarter Marketing Predictions | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Marketing startup is announcing that it has raised a small “advisory round” of slightly less than $1 million from some big-name investors. Co-founder and CEO served most recently as the vice president of marketing at PowerReviews (which was ). In that role, and in other jobs as a marketing executive, Hossain said ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Facebook Paper, Lenovo-Moto, Carbon 3D Printing, And Coffee! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Looking for a way to get through Friday? Here you go. Facebook launched a news reader app called . (Teens will love it.) And Google , which made earnings week interesting. And, in the land of startups, we explore a new and a Keurig Coffee machine. So you can print yourself a cup-holder, which will store your fresh ... |
Obama Says Intelligence Director Who Fibbed To Congress “Should Have Been More Careful” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | President Obama embattled Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who is accused of lying to Congress about the existence of the National Security Agency’s spying program. “I think that Jim Clapper himself would acknowledge, and has acknowledged, that he should have been more careful about how he responded,”... |
Aereo Sells Out Of Capacity In NYC | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | , a TV streaming service looking to change the way we consume media, has just sold out of capacity in New York City. Founder and CEO Chet Kanojia confirmed the news . The company launched in with NYC as a pilot market, and has since expanded to 11 markets total. The service, much to the chagrin of major network broa... |
Vector Capital Makes Controlling Investment In CollabNet Developer Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | is one of the leading agile development platforms in the enterprise and the company behind the version control software. It has millions of users on its platform, which launched back in 1999. Today, Vector Capital is making a controlling investment in the company as part of a concurrent equity round that includes an... |
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Previous TechCrunch Battlefield Contestants Have Raised $2.4 Billion. Ready To Apply? | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | TechCrunch’s Battlefield is a proven springboard for startups destined for great things. Fact. We ran the data and we’ll take you through it below. But before we get to that, we’re announcing that it’s time for the next Battlefield at , May 5-7. The application deadline is February 20, 2014. TechCrunch writers and ed... |
Ouya Updates Hardware With $129 16GB Console, 8GB Edition Remains At $99 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Ouya’s original hardware featured just 8GB of storage onboard, but a temporary Limited Edition all-white version launched during the holidays doubled that to 16GB. Now, the game console startup is making that a permanent feature of its newest hardware, an that also offers better Wi-Fi connectivity and a “refined” con... |
Investor Reaction To Microsoft’s Rumored CEO Choice: We’re Fine With That | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Yesterday in after-hours trading, Microsoft picked up a minor gain. The trading period was interesting as news that Microsoft’s board as its next CEO had broken. This morning, the company’s stock has risen more than 2 percent in a generally down market day. Investors appear at least blasé with the CEO choice. If Micr... |
BTC China Starts Accepting Deposits In Chinese Yuan Again | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | , the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has started allowing users to purchase the digital currency with Chinese yuan again. This is significant because BTC China stopped accepting deposits in renminbi last month after the People’s Bank of China issued a memo warning national financial institutions not to trade in bitc... |
To Counter Investor Signaling, YC Partners Can No Longer Be The First Money Into The Incubator’s Startups | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | has long allowed its partners to invest their own personal money in the incubator’s startups — often times partners put money into these startups before institutional investors and angels have a look. Unfortunately, whether a partner (or partners) put money into a YC company started to become a signal to outside inves... |
Inq Mobile, One Of The First Facebook Phone Makers, Shuts Down | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Inq Mobile, one of , announced that it has shut down with a message on its site (h/t ). In a statement, the U.K.-based, -backed company said: We want to thank all the customers and employees that have engaged with Inq’s products and experiences over the years. Inq’s software services Material and SO.HO will be close... |
Twine Canvas Is Like Tinder But Based On Personality, Not Sex Appeal | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 31 | Don’t judge a book by its cover. Beauty is only skin deep. It’s what’s on the inside that counts. These are the mantras of millions of young singles , or potentially procreate. But mobile app developer has released a new dating app, called Twine Canvas (??), that may be just the ticket. The , which just went live y... |
This Is Satya Nadella’s Twitter Account | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | After , we’re finally reaching a climax: It’s most likely going , though everyone except Larry Page wants it to be Google’s (kidding). While we don’t know for sure whether Nadella will be the future CEO of Microsoft, we do know that is his long abandoned Twitter account. With exclamation-heavy quips about tech li... |
Salesfusion Acquires Marketing Analytics Platform LoopFuse | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Marketing automation platform has purchased , an analytics platform that helps clients find promising new leads, for an undisclosed price. The acquisition comes two weeks after , bringing its total funding . As , there has been a lot of M&A activity in the CRM space recently. For example, Salesforce.com recently ... |
Founder Stories: Kakul Srivastava On How Tomfoolery Will Make Our Work More Social And Fun | Contributor | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | To hear break it down, it appears the answer is “yes.” Srivastava and her team at (which just this week was ) are on a mission to create fun and social software for people at work, based on the belief that our work and personal lives are intertwined. To that end, her company built software for workers to be more... |
Amazon Prime Could See $20 To $40 Price Hike | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Amazon Prime might be getting more expensive. The retailer revealed during its quarterly earnings conference call that it might jack up the price of the yearly subscription by up to 50%. Prime currently costs $79 a year. It’s the best service a person could buy. Free two-day shipping on most everything Amazon sells? I ... |
Implisit Raises $3.3M For Self-Learning Service That Predicts Next Steps For Sales People | Alex Williams | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | has raised $3.3 million from for its self-learning platform that mines CRM data to help sales people close more deals and cut manual data entry. The service connects email, calendars and the contact information in the CRM platform, said Co-Founder Gilad Raichshtain. It offers follow-up steps for a prospective deal, ... |
Clinkle Gets Hacked Before It Even Launches | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | is the hottest app around to have done mostly nothing. The stealth payments service, which has raised , has yet to publicly launch. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be hacked. Today, a guest user posted a list of 33 usernames, user IDs, profile photos, and phone numbers . Based on the data provided, it seems as though... |
Barry Sternlicht, Former CEO Of Hotel Giant Starwood, Invests In HotelTonight | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Last-minute hotel booking startup just announced that it has landed a personal investment from Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Capital Group and former chairman and CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. Sternlicht, who has been described as the “ ,” is also joining HotelTonight as a strategic adviser. “He... |
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Microsoft’s Next CEO Reportedly Will Be Its Cloud Boss Satya Nadella, Gates Could Be Replaced On Board | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | After a search that stretched for months, that Microsoft will select internal candidate Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella is known for his work with cloud computing at Microsoft and deep technical knowledge. The company kicked off its hunt for a new head last year when long-time CEO Steve Ballmer announced that ... |
Amazon Sheds 10% In After-Hours Trading, Erasing $19B In Market Cap | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | After reporting both a , Amazon fell 10.32 percent in after-hours trading. The company had ended the day at $403.01 and is now trading at $361.41. As a company, Amazon is valued by investors on the strength or weakness of its revenue growth. Amazon’s current share count is . At a per-share loss of $41.60 so far today... |
Zynga Lays Off 314 Employees, Or 15% Of Its Workforce | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | , Zynga is also laying off about 15 percent of its workforce, or about 314 employees. This is part of a cost-reduction plan that is supposed to generate $33 million to $35 million in savings this year, excluding a $15 million to $17 million restructuring charge. In an interview today, CEO Don Mattrick said these jobs w... |
Amazon’s Stock Price Stumbles After Hours On Revenue, Earnings Miss And Weak Guidance | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Today after the market close Amazon , including revenue of $25.59 billion, and earnings per share of $0.51. The company has operating income of $510 million in the period, up 26 percent year over year. The street Amazon to report revenue of $26.06 billion, and earn $0.66 per share. Put another way, in a quarter of s... |
CrunchFund Is Raising $40M For Its Second Fund, According To Filing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | , the early-stage investment firm that’s basically one giant conflict-of-interest statement for TechCrunch, is raising $40 million for a second fund, . I’ve emailed partners Michael Arrington and Patrick Gallagher for confirmation, and I’ll update this post if I hear back. (CrunchFund’s third partner, TechCrunch alum ... |
Google Q4 ’13 Beats With $16.86B Revenue, Misses With EPS Of $12.01 Because Of Motorola Weakness | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Google just its Q4 earnings report and the results are mostly in line with Wall Street expectations, though it missed on earnings per share due to larger than expected losses at Motorola, which doubled from the year-ago-quarter. Over the last three months, the company reported revenue of $16.86 billion and $3.37 bill... |
Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | The details are a bit sparse right now, but Yahoo has just disclosed by way that they’ve detected what they’re calling a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts”. Yahoo didn’t disclose how many accounts were affected, but we’ve asked for clarification and will update the post accordingl... |
Telenav Buys Skobbler For $24M To Power An OpenStreetMap Challenge To Google Maps | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Last summer we heard that German startup was , in the wake of Google’s purchase of Waze. Today Skobbler has achieved that exit — albeit not — selling to , maker of the , in a deal worth just shy of $24 million. The acquisition, which closed on January 29, saw Telenav shelling out $19.2 million in cash to buy Sko... |
Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M, Signaling A New Tack For The Gaming Giant | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games that had been thoroughly funnel-tested. But now that founding CEO Mark Pincus has stepped aside and let Xbox executive ... |
Equidate Launches A Secondary Market For Early Startup Employees To Sell Shares | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | It was once a rare practice, but employees are now finding more ways to unload vested shares in their startups along the way. While employers have typically tried to control these sales, a new marketplace called is opening up that will let employees sell equity with or without the startup’s consent (although Equidate... |
Google Pleased With Hardware And Nexus Performance; Talks Nest, Glass And Other Wearables | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 30 | call doesn’t feature CEO Larry Page this time around, which is a disappointment in terms of product discussion. But Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora discussed briefly hardware during the call, flagging the search giant’s growing satisfaction with the Nexus line and with the Nexus 5 in particular. Arora said that Go... |
Announcing The Finalists For Hardware Battlefield: Atlas Wearables, Blaze, CubeSensors, And Owlet Baby Care | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | After two days of presentations, hours of judging, and 14 demos, we’re excited to announce the finalists for the inaugural Hardware Battlefield: , , , and . The winner will be decided tomorrow afternoon and awarded a $50,000 check and a robot-topped trophy. Fourteen companies participated in our first Hardware Batt... |
CAN Capital Raises $33M From Meritech And Accel To Loan Small Businesses Working Capital | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | , a company that gives small businesses access to credit and working capital and helps solve this problem, has raised $33 million in funding co-led by Meritech Capital Partners and existing investor Accel Partners, with participation from Ribbit and QED Investors. Accel previously led a $30 million round in CAN Capital... |
Android’s Rise To Platform Dominance In One Graph | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | With Android landing on all-in-one computers and Windows extending its reach deeper into the mobile world, the platform world is tightening into three key teams: iOS and OS X, Windows, and Android. Chrome OS, BlackBerry, and the other minor players have derivative unit volume, and can therefore be discounted in our lar... |
After Arriving On Android, Glooko Lands $7M From Samsung & More To Bring Predictive Diabetes Care Global | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | The proliferation of connected devices, coupled with rapid advances in data analytics and sensor technology, has fundamentally changed the way people interact with and manage their health. Thanks to smartphones and a new generation of smart, wearable gadgets, it’s now easier than ever before to monitor and and analyze ... |
Faraday’s Stylish New Bicycle Will Change How You Think About E-Bikes | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | Urban commuters are getting more and more comfortable with the idea of biking around, but in places like San Francisco, that can be a drag. Electronic bicycles have emerged to help people get where they’re going, even in incredibly hilly environments. But many e-bikes are ugly, due to huge motors and battery packs th... |
Get Reminders To Brush Your Teeth And Water The Plants With The Digital “Mother” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | Need a helpful reminder to brush your teeth, take your morning pills, or water the plants? The newly announced device, called , imbues everyday objects with the gentle nagging power of our awesome moms. Conspicuous peanut-sized trackers (“Cookies”) attach to toothbrushes, medication bottles, backpacks, water glasses a... |
AirDroids Wants To Democratize The Skies With Its Pint-Sized Pocket Drone | Chris Velazco | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | The buzz around drones is undeniable these days — as it turns out, even Martha Stewart uses one to survey her farm — but there still hasn’t been a runaway drone hit that has captured that imaginations of the masses. That’s exactly what a hardware startup called is trying to accomplish with the Pocket Drone, a (relati... |
Medypal Raises $400K In Seed Round To Help Patients Buy Affordable Healthcare In India | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | , an Indian startup that owns healthcare marketplace , has raised around $400,000 in seed funding from Unitus Seed Fund. With this funding, Medypal will help patients find trustworthy service providers who will bid against each other for their spend on medical procedures. Medypal will use a “reverse auction” method to... |
Tech Angels Cross The $1 Billion Mark In 2013 | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | Buoyed by a stronger economy, angel investors companies worldwide poured a record amount of cash into early-stage technology and life-sciences companies, according to data from . Angel investments have been climbing steadily since 2008, CrunchBase data shows, but 2013 represents a new high, with investors crossing the... |
The Fin Is A Bluetooth Ring That Turns Your Hand Into An Interface | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | Smart glasses! Smart watches! Smart… rings? While many in the tech world would agree that wearable devices are the natural next stage of computing, no one has really cracked the code. As much as we geeks love to chat about Google Glass and Pebble watches, no wearable has breached the mainstream and achieved any degree ... |
With An Eight-Figure Runrate, Oscar Doubles Down on Health Insurance Through $30M In New Funding | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | , the New York-based startup in the decidedly unsexy world of health insurance, has just picked up an additional $30 million in funding. Why? Promising numbers in the product’s first 90 days since launch. The company unveiled new health insurance exchanges where consumers can pick and choose plans in compliance with ... |
Medium Considering Raising $20 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | , clean and beautiful attempt at revamping the way people write and read online, is considering raising a venture round according to the rumor mill. We’re hearing that the company, which has been subsisting on angel money apparently, is thinking about finally taking money from VCs. One number we’ve heard tossed out i... |
Modbot Wants To Make Robotics Easier, More Modular And More Democratic | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | The DIY revolution means that people can now print their own 3D models, build their own websites and apps, and even build their own mobile devices and custom computers using things like Raspberry Pi. The team taking part in this year’s TechCrunch Battlefield at CES 2014 wants to do the same for robotics – not hobby r... |
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Yahoo News Digest Reviews Get A Boost From Yahoo Employees, Cheerleaders | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | Some folks out there really, really, really like any app that Yahoo puts out. At least, that’s the picture we get from looking at the of its Yahoo News Digest app, introduced yesterday. The app is currently flying high in the charts, and features a 4.5 star rating with 282 massively positive reviews. Taking a closer ... |
Are You There, TechCrunch? It’s Me, Jon | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | If you’re reading this, then you either have very little to do right now, or you care about the inner workings and staffing decisions here at TechCrunch. (I’m sure there could be other reasons, but let’s stick with those two). I’m hoping it’s the latter – that you care about this site and the goings-on around it. In fa... |
Twitter CEO Says He Has No Idea How Many Users Opt Out Of Ads | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | Dick Costolo, the CEO of , says that it’s easy enough for consumers to opt out of tailored ads on Twitter, but he does not know how many actually go through the process of doing so. “You can opt out of tailored ads and content,” he told an audience today. But asked how many percentage-wise have done so, he would not s... |
France Fines Google 150,000 Euro After It Refuses To Comply With Data Protection Act | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 8 | Google, a company that reported $14.89 billion in revenue , was (just over US$200,000) today by France’s digital privacy watchdog CNIL. Google was also ordered to publish a notice about the decision on google.fr within the next eight days. In early 2012, Google consolidated its multiple privacy policies into a singl... |
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