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Aereo Apologizes To Customers Affected By Service Outage During Golden Globes | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | Aereo, the streaming TV startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has apologized for a brief service outage tonight. The outage only lasted about an hour, but was especially unfortunate because it coincided with the Golden Globes. “Aereo experienced a partial outage in New York City tonight, which impacted a small gr... |
Rumored Windows ‘Threshold’ Update Could Recast Microsoft’s Key Platform | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | Microsoft mostly kept its head down during CES, but with its Build developer conference on the horizon and several platforms to unify, the company has a busy few months ahead of it. Recently, both and wrote on Microsoft’s future ‘Threshold’ Windows update. Threshold is not what Microsoft will release in 2014. That ... |
Dustcloud Transforms You Into a Virtual Assassin | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | As a kid who grew up on Lazer Tag and the , the idea of a compact, always-on live action RPG is very compelling. fits that bill. Created by a designer named Howard Hunt, the game uses small, gun-shaped “Dusters” that have LEDs that register hits and damage taken. You can use your Duster in street to secretly hit o... |
DuckDuckGo’s Popularity Exploded In 2013 Following The NSA/PRISM Leaks | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | See that graph up there? Thats a chart of how many queries the privacy-minded search engine has seen each day since early 2010. See that growth near the end? That’s when details of the NSA’s PRISM program first leaked. Pretty much overnight, DuckDuckGo more than doubled its traffic. I don’t think there’s a better w... |
Mophie Team Explains Why It’s Expanding From Power To Storage | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | Mophie earlier this week that it’s expanding beyond its popular with the upcoming launch of the Mophie Space Pack. Shortly after the announcement, I stopped by the Mophie booth at the Consumer Electronics Show to get a demo of the new product. The company’s PR manager Kevin Malinowski told that from Mophie’s perspe... |
Web-Based Access To Dropbox Files Is Back For 99% Of Users, But Service Interruption Nears 48 Hours | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | it has restored its core services for all users as of 4:40 PT, and it currently only has to work out a few kinks with the Dropbox photos tab. Plus, for those interested, there’s an extensive post-mortem of what exactly happened over at the . Many Dropbox users are still facing a partial outage that has been going o... |
CrunchWeek: CES, CES, And CES | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | Talk about a long week. Along with a Polar Vortex infiltration, which left much of the northeast straight up frozen, the southwest had its own invasion: . Vendors, exhibitors, buyers and members of the media ventured to sunny Las Vegas from all over the world to check out the latest gadgets and gizmos from thousand... |
What Games Are: Local Stream Gaming | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | Along with all of the furore over and their lack of oomph at CES, there were three big gaming announcements. One was the announcement of Huawaei’s hot on the heels of (albeit possibly only temporarily) about the sale of foreign consoles within its borders. I should let others talk about the whys and wherefores of... |
French Custom Travel Startup Evaneos Raises $6M To Continue Competing With European Tour Operators | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | , a French startup that competes with traditional tour operators by providing a marketplace for tailored travel experiences, has raised $6 million in Series B funding. The round is being led by XAnge Private Equity, with participation from previous investor ISAI. This brings total funding for the four year old company ... |
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SolarCooler Keeps Your Brews Icy With The Power Of The Sun, But It’ll Cost You $1K | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | Every year at CES, the Eureka Park outpost where they stick the scrappy startups is the best damn part of the whole shindig. This is where all the people with a screw loose or a decided lack of good common sense come to peddle their spaghetti-cooking robot or aroma-powered computer – or, as happened this year, their ... |
Brilliant: Someone’s Apparently Using Tinder To Collect Uber Referral Credits | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | Yesterday, a somewhat sheepish TechCrunch employee forwarded the above screenshots to our team, showing what looks like an advertisement for on dating app . The promotion offers first-time users $20 off if they sign up to Uber using a promo code. There’s only one problem: The ad wasn’t placed by Uber. Using the scre... |
Apple Gets Serious About The iPad’s Creative Power In New Ad | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiyIcz7wUH0&w=640&h=390] Apple aired a new iPad advertisement during the NFL playoff game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers today, and it’s all about creativity. It’s no secret that Apple wants to push the creative aspect of its mobile devices, which are s... |
The Automobile As A Consumer Mobile Frontier | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | TechCrunch I’ve never been to CES before, but it’s hard to escape the flurry of noisy tweets and headlines. One morsel that managed catch my attention centered around major automobile manufacturers announcing deals with the leading mobile operating system players, Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) and Microsoft. Now, ... |
TEO Is A Smart Padlock That You Control Via Bluetooth From Your Smartphone | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 12 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/804149834/teo-the-future-of-the-padlock-is-here width=640] Smart locks are all the rage these days, and it makes sense: using a device instead of a hardware key means you’re far less likely to lose the means to opening the lock, and you can do it remotely from anywhe... |
Sony Adds To Its Global Mobile Lineup With The Xperia T2 Ultra And Xperia E1 Android Phones | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Sony is adding two smartphones to its growing stable of devices. Meet the Xperia T2 Ultra and the Xperia E1 — both substantial updates to Sony’s 2013 models. Best yet, both are offered in dual-sim variants. These latest phones join the announced last week at CES. However, it seems Sony held these close to its chest, ... |
Yandex Adds Facebook Posts And Big Data To Its Search Results In Russia, Other Home Markets | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | and had a notable run-in last year when a team of developers from the Russian search giant created a social search app called , which Facebook , leading to . But in reality the two sides have been working together since 2010, and today comes the latest chapter in the collaboration. Yandex is launching a social se... |
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Call Marketing Company Invoca Raises $20M Round Led By Accel | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | , the call marketing company , is announcing that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding. The company has now raised more than $30 million, with the current round led by Accel Partners. Upfront Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners also participated, and Accel’s Kobie Fuller has joined the company’s board of dir... |
For More Than War: Airware Demos Its Drone Platform By Protecting Rhinos From Poachers | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | wants to prove drones have plenty of uses beyond killing people. Today the unmanned aerial vehicle hardware/software/firmware startup detailed how it’s built and deployed special drones to thwart animal poachers in Kenya, Africa. The demo could build interest for the launch of Airware’s commercial drone platform later... |
Turn’s Series E Round Further Boosts Ad-Tech Startups | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Venture investors may have turned their attention to earlier stage ad-tech companies at the right time now that big investments and could give their valuations a boost. On Monday morning, Turn announced an , which included investments by Fidelity Investments and BlackRock, in the latest sign that investors are ret... |
Esports Giant MLG Swings To An Operating Profit On Strength Of Its New Media Strategy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | In an , MLG CEO Sundance DiGiovanni stated that since the release of its recent MLG.tv service, the company has been “EBITA positive and expects to stay EBITA positive on a quarterly basis in 2014.” TechCrunch and about its success. He made it plain that the company’s new products were themselves profitable, but i... |
Izzie Lerer’s Animal-Focused News Site The Dodo Launches, Funded By Lerer Ventures | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | , a new animal-focused news site launching today, is Isabel Lerer’s initial foray into the viral news business that her father, Ken Lerer, is well-known for, having co-founded Huffington Post and serving as Chairman of BuzzFeed and Betaworks. The company is disclosing the Lerer investment today as well, with The Dodo h... |
Nest Gives Google A Head Start On The Future Of Hardware | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | CES may be finished for another year, but one of the biggest themes of the show — that anything (cars, watches, mirrors, tables, whatever) can be ‘hardware’ — is just taking off. And today’s news of underscores how Google wants to be the player at the front and center of hardware. Google’s Nest buy may the search g... |
Who Gets Rich From Google Buying Nest? Kleiner Returns 20X On $20M, Shasta Nets ~$200M | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | for cash, and that means the startup’s early investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Shasta Ventures have struck it rich. Multiple sources say Kleiner invested $20 million in Nest and got a 20X return to pull in $400 million. [Update: Meanwhile, the deal returned “almost all” of Shasta’s second $250M fund.] Nes... |
YouTube Launches New Comments Management Tool | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | YouTube today a new tool for managing comments on its site that gives video creators a for all the comments their videos receive. When YouTube made the , it also added a number of new tools for managing these comments. With this change, however, it also took away the ability to manage comments from the YouTube I... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Storm Ventures’ Jason Lemkin | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | This week, we are hosting Storm Ventures’ in the TechCrunch TV studios for our Ask A VC show. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Lemkin serves as managing director at Storm Ventures, a $500 million early-stage, enterprise-focused VC fund, which has ... |
Putting Square’s $5B Valuation Into Context | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Square’s growth has been a story of sustained momentum. Rising from a payment-processing run rate of $1 billion in the middle of 2011, Square is now expected to process some $30 billion this calendar year. As Square’s payment processing run rate has grown — bolstering its revenue in near lockstep — so too has its valua... |
Bringrr Is A Car Charger That Shouts When You Forget Your Stuff | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | I’m a pretty patient person, but there’s one thing that makes me go all ragey: driving away from home only to realize I forgot to put something important in my car. That U-turn? It feels like defeat. If I’m already running late when I notice my mistake, prepare to learn some new swear words. Bringrr is a gadget for p... |
Twitter Rolls Out New Web Design That Aligns With Mobile Interfaces | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Twitter is rolling out a on the web today that eliminates the pop-up compose window and brings its look more in line with its mobile apps. We’ve been of this design for some time now, but this particular one appears to be the test bucket that got the best reaction from users. It looks, in some ways, a lot like the ... |
Charter Offers $61.3 Billion In Cash And Stock To Acquire Time Warner Cable | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | If you were worried about the consolidation of ISPs, telcos, and media companies, this should make you uncomfortable: Charter Communications has bid a massive $61.3 billion for Time Warner Cable. According , this would be the third-largest deal since 2009. The total buyout would consist of $83 in cash for each Time Wa... |
New Food Grade Filament Heralds An Era Of 3D-Printed Sporks | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Huzzah! A has created a new food-grade polypropylene filament for 3D printers that is food safe and washable. Most current 3D printing filaments, while not exactly poisonous, can react in negative ways to moisture and acids, resulting in some nasty stuff. For example, you could use this to print anything from a plate... |
Nest Says Customer Data From Devices Will Only Be Used For Nest Products And Services | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Nest says that it’s not going to just hand over its customer data to – in a blog post sent to TechCrunch penned by Nest founder Tony Fadell, a question and answer section at the end contains the following: Will Nest customer data be shared with Google? Our privacy policy clearly limits the use of customer information... |
Google Is Buying Connected Device Company Nest For $3.2B In Cash | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Google is acquiring connected device company Nest for $3.2 billion. Google sent out an email to employees noting the acquisition today and later issued a press . In the release, Google noted that Nest has been offering its best-selling thermostat since 2011 and recently began offering the Protect smoke alarm, which ne... |
YC Startups Now Have A Combined Valuation Of $14.4B, With 14 Valued At Or Sold For $100M Or More | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | It’s time to play the Y Combinator valuation game again. YC founder Paul Graham on the early-stage startup accelerator, saying that companies who have passed through the program now have a combined valuation of $14.4 billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion. The last time Graham announced Y Combinator... |
Zuckerberg Calls Snapchat A “Privacy Phenomenon” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook’s innovated by creating a place where people could share what wasn’t shared before, which is also why he thinks Snapchat is important. Today in a low-profile talk at Stanford alongside discussions of the NSA and venture capital’s shortcomings, Zuckerberg said “Snapchat is a super interes... |
Rex Gives Your Robot A Brain | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 13 | Thanks to microcontrollers and mini computers it’s become far easier to build intelligent robots. But, until recently, you’ve had to jury-rig most of your off-the-shelf components to work in unison. That’s why Rex, a new “robot brain” is so important. Like Hardware Battlefield finalist , Rex offers one important part ... |
What Happens When Google Wants To Buy A Google Ventures Portfolio Company? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | was unique in the respect that one of Nest’s four board members, , was a partner at the corporate VC arm of the acquirer, Google Ventures. The other investor board member, , was a partner at a KPCB, the Silicon Valley venture firm helmed by , who was on the board of the acquirer, Google. The last two board spots we... |
ArtCorgi Streamlines The Art Commissioning Process With Its New Marketplace | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | All startups have origin stories of some sort, but for , it’s both about the beginning of the company and the engagement of its co-founders. That’s right, it’s a startup run by an engaged team of Malcolm (CEO) and Simone (COO) Collins. You can , but the gist of it is that he commissioned 21 pieces from 18 artists via... |
Rocket Internet-Backed Fashion Site Zalora To Launch Marketplace In Asia | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | , a fashion e-commerce site that has raised $238 million from investors such as Rocket Internet and Access Industries, plans to in South East Asia early this year. The new model will help Zalora build a leaner e-commerce model without having to own any inventory. For Rocket Internet, the with other companies in the... |
With $1.2M From Greylock, Yuri Milner And 500 Startups, First Opinion Lets You Text A Doctor Anytime | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | As mobile networks and digital communication tools improve, there’s a huge opportunity to re-imagine the calcified old world of healthcare. Some services the house call back to the healthcare market, by way of mobile devices and video chat, for example. While the opportunities in mobile health are exploding thanks t... |
Senator Al Franken Condemns Today’s Net Neutrality Ruling | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | On the heels of today’s ruling , aggressively condemned the decision, arguing that it would lead to an unleveling of the economic playing field, tilting the marketplace against small businesses that he represents. Advocates for an open Internet have expressed open discontent with the ruling. TechCrunch’s own Greg Fe... |
Tesla Surges On Strength Of Fourth-Quarter Car Deliveries | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | On news that the company delivered 6,900 Model S cars in the fourth quarter, Tesla’s shares spiked 15.74 percent in regular trading, and another 3.56 percent in after-hours trading. The 6,900 delivery figure was around 20 percent more than the company had expected, according , indicating that Tesla’s luxury brand has ... |
The Pegasus Touch Laser SLA Is A Sexy Printer That Can Build Your Hi-Res Dreams | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | If you know me you know I like two things: sausage and . While I primarily use FDM printers like at home, I do love the quality and coherence of SLA – stereolithographic – machines. This new one, the , is similar to the in that it uses an inexpensive UV-cured resin to build surprisingly detailed models using lase... |
ff Venture Capital Raises $52M Across Two Funds, With One Focused On New York State | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | ff Venture Capital announced in this morning that it has closed its third fund — or rather, two funds, ff Rose and its “sister fund” ff Rose Innovate. The firm had been open about the fact that it was raising a fund, . Together, the funds total $52 million, a little bit more than the $50 million that ffvc said it wa... |
Here’s What Steam’s New Virtual Reality Interface Looks Like | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | , Valve announced that they were working on a new interface for Steam, custom-tailored for virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift. Unless you’re a super-ultra-mega early adopter and have a Rift nearby , it can be kind of hard to picture what such an interface might look like. Here’s how it looks: [youtube=http:/... |
Rethinking Windows And Apple Device Volume | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | Horace Dediu of does good work. Yesterday he published a entitled “When Apple reached parity with Windows,” which immediately caused readers to lose their minds. Dediu set up a very specific analytical perspective: Windows-based PCs compared to Apple’s more diverse lineup of tablets, phones, mobile computing device... |
Youmiam Is A Soundcloud For Recipes Coming Out Of France | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | French startup released a new version of its recipe sharing website and just announced that it has raised $410,000 (€300,000) from angel investors Patrick Robin ( ), Thierry Petit ( ) and Denis Chavanis (former managing director of Nestlé Waters). Youmiam makes it easy to browse, create and share recipes online. It’s... |
Horizon Shoots All Of Your Videos In Landscape, No Matter How You Hold Your Phone | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | You just shot what might be the world’s funniest video ever. You’re going to be a friggin’ YouTube . You’re totally going to hang out with Ellen. you shot the video in portrait mode. Whoops! Now the entire Internet thinks you’re dumb. Horizon is an iOS app that auto-magically ensures that your videos are shot in lan... |
As App Store Optimization Heats Up, MobileDevHQ Goes Free, Launches API | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | A company helping mobile developers optimize their app store listings for better discoverability, , is this week making its basic set of tools free for app marketers while branching out further into the enterprise, with the debut of an API. The API will provide the service’s high-end customers with programmatic access... |
Chrome 32 Launches With Tab Indicators For Sound And Video, Improved Malware Blocking & New Win8 Metro Design | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | Google today the latest stable version of its . Version 32 many of the features that recently arrived in the beta channel, including improved malware blocking and tab indicators for when a site is playing sound, accessing the webcam and sending video to your . Google uses a speaker icon, blue rectangle and red do... |
Motorola’s Moto G Gets A Google Play Edition, Still $179 And $199 Unlocked | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | Google essentially makes the Moto G as it is – they own Motorola’s handset business, and both the Moto X and Moto G were designed and built under Google’s parental supervision. But that hasn’t stopped Google from creating a Play Edition Moto G. The Play Edition strips out the few non-stock elements of Android that were... |
Twitter Can Now Target Ads Based On Email Addresses And User IDs | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | Twitter just announced some new capabilities in its , and it sounds like the company is enabling some pretty specific targeting. In a blog post, Revenue Product Manager Kelton Lynn describes the additions as new ways to create Tailored Audiences, either using a customer relationship management database (something that... |
Dear Verizon, You Don’t Own The Internet—No One Does | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | If Ford built a private toll highway that only allowed Mustangs, Americans would be outraged. Infrastructure is the bloodstream of an economy; if powerful established players controlled roads, telephone lines, and Internet cables, they could favor the highest bidder at the expense of the savvy entrepreneur, choking off... |
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Jelly Sees 100K Questions In First Week Says RJMetrics, Of Which 25% Received Answers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | Jelly, the that’s designed to help people crowdsource answers to any question they may have, has been on the market for around a week now and we’re seeing the first numbers about its usage so far. , which analyzes engagement data and traffic for a number of startups including Fab, Frank & Oak, Threadless and others, ... |
OpenSesame Lands $8M To Become The iTunes Of Corporate Training Content | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 14 | With new technologies making it easier than ever before to share and distribute quality learning content, businesses are rushing to take advantage. Plus, with the pace that technology changes these days, companies want to help keep their employees up to speed and familiar with the latest version of Salesforce, Excel or... |
Singapore Online Grocer RedMart Raises $5.4M From Investors Including Facebook Co-founder | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | , an online grocery service based in Singapore, announced today that it has closed a $5.4 million bridge round led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin; founders Steve Melhuish and Jani Rautiainen; Meng Weng Wong, the co-founder of incubator ; Wee Teng Wen, founder of ; and . The round was oversubscribed and bri... |
Renew OnDemand Provider ServiceSource Acquires Scout Analytics For $32M | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | , which provides recurring revenue management software for businesses like Renew OnDemand, announced today that it has acquired , a Seattle-based provider of predictive analytics for subscription businesses. The terms of the deal were $32 million in cash. In a statement, ServiceSource says that these verticals “roughl... |
Eyeing International Growth, Stripe Raises $80M From Founders Fund, Khosla And Sequoia At A $1.75B Valuation | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | The payments industry has a new billion dollar company. Online payments company is announcing more than $80 million in Series C funding, at a $1.75 billion valuation. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led the round with new investor Khosla (Keith Rabois) and existing investor Sequoia joining, with Allen & Co. also contribu... |
Ominous Text Message Sent To Government Protestors In Ukraine | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | [tweet https://twitter.com/obk/status/425399304438554625] Someone is broadcasting creepy messages to defuse violent protests against the Ukrainian government. “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance,” is a text being sent to protesters, near the Parliament building. Protesters are,... |
iPhone 5s Owners Gobbling “Unprecedented” Levels Of Data, Study Finds | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Users of flagship smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone 5s and Samsung’s Galaxy S4 are continuing to suck down more data than their tablet-wielding counterparts, according to a large-scale survey of mobile data consumption in 2013 conducted by JDSU (which last year , the company that previously ran the annual survey). , ... |
VMWare’s $1.5B AirWatch Buy All About The Mobile Workplace | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | In the latest salvo in the battle to reshape the architecture by which business works “AirWatch provides real, important value now. They’re right there when an enterprise says we need to get this stuff [i.e. data and applications] under our control,” said Richard Wells, a managing director with the technology focused ... |
Microsoft Earnings Preview: The Surface Question | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Tomorrow afternoon Microsoft will report its fiscal second-quarter financial performance, detailing how it fared during the critical holiday season. The company is working to revamp its key operating system, become an OEM, and grow its mobile presence. That confluence of efforts makes tomorrow’s report quite important.... |
Microsoft Gives Its Office Web Apps A New, Flatter Look | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Microsoft is giving its a new look today, it seems. While the company hasn’t done all that much to promote its Office Web Apps lately, they are pretty capable online versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote that are free for anyone to use. Today, the company is giving all of these apps a user interface overhau... |
Google’s Knowledge Graph Now Being Used To Enhance Individual Search Results | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Google’s is getting baked into actual search results, the company is announcing today. In a on its official Search Blog, Google explains how you’re now able to learn more about the topics you’re searching for by clicking names that appear next to a given link in your search results. These additional, informational ... |
Mixpanel Aims To Help Developers Deliver Targeted Messages Through New In-App Notifications | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Mobile analytics company is unveiling a feature today that co-founder Suhail Doshi said will give developers a new way to communicate with their users. Mixpanel customers will now be able to deliver “ ” to their users — Doshi compared them to push notifications (an area where ), except delivered when a user is actua... |
Marissa Mayer Won CES | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | What’s that old saying? Software will eat the world? That was never more evident than at . Now that the dust has settled, the Gorkana Group has released a social insight report for the event, and one thing is instantly clear: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer won the show. Based on Twitter mentions alone, Mayer dominated other ... |
Glyph “Personal Theater” Goggles Beat $250K Kickstarter Goal In Four Hours | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | four hours for the , a head-mounted “personal theater” from , to reach its $250,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. Unlike the Oculus Rift’s focus on virtual reality, or Google Glass which forces a heads-up display into every facet of life, the Glyph is a media-centric device. For now, it offers a nice pair of high-end... |
Netflix Downplays Court’s Net Neutrality Decision, Says Internet Providers Unlikely To Act | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | In the that accompanied , Netflix addresses that was seen as a threat to net neutrality. That decision could potentially be a problem for Netflix, because it could provide legal justification for Internet providers to reduce the speed at which Netflix video content is delivered unless the company pays the provider... |
SeaMicro’s Andrew Feldman On Pulling The Thread In Entrepreneurship | Contributor | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | I’ve been lucky to host many great founders here on “ ” to date, but this particular video discussion with , a cofounder and CEO of (which was eventually acquired by ) struck a different tone than those past. Feldman, who attended university here in the Valley, has quietly developed a remarkable career working on... |
Polish 3D Printer Zortrax Sells 5,000 Units To Dell | John Biggs | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | It may seem like small potatoes, but Polish 3D printer manufacturer has chalked a 5,000 unit order from Dell. This is the first I’ve heard of a mass order of home 3D-printing equipment and it means a real boon for the budding Olsztyn-based company. “Dell kept in touch with us when we were still in the middle of our K... |
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Pinterest Is Testing A Personalized Home Page Based On Your Interests | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Pinterest is introducing a new way to browse its site with the addition of a category called “Personalized for You.” This new section is essentially a version of Pinterest based entirely on your interests. For example, a fashion-focused Pinterest user might see categories like boots, jackets, dresses, or jewelry on thi... |
eBay Squeaks Out A Win In Q4, With Revenue Of $4.5B And $0.81 EPS | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | eBay reported , including revenue of $4.5 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.81. The company’s revenue was up 13 percent from the same quarter last year, while its earnings per share rose 16 percent. It’s a fairly temperate showing from eBay, as analysts have been eBay to report a 16 percent profit increa... |
Netflix Beats Analyst Expectations With 2.3M New Domestic Subscribers, Earnings Of 79 Cents A Share | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Netflix just announced its , with the company beating analyst expectations. For the last three months, Netflix reported earnings of 79 cents per share on revenues of $1.175 billion. Earnings were well above analyst expectations of 65 cents a share, while revenues were slightly above the $1.16 billion Wall Street forec... |
How T-Mobile’s New Mobile Banking Service Compares With Simple And Amex Serve | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | T-Mobile today its intentions to get into the business of providing banking services to its wireless customers, and any others who want an alternative to traditional banking accounts. The will compete with, and also potentially boost, other, less-known mobile banking services, like those provided by a banking start... |
Nokia Earnings Preview: The Lumia Question | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 1 | 22 | Nokia will report its fourth-quarter 2013 earnings tomorrow, a seminal moment for the company as the figures will represent the last full period in which it will own the hardware assets that it is selling to Microsoft. It also matters as Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phone sales in the quarter will provide a report card of sor... |
Data As A Company’s Secret Weapon | Contributor | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | This year, we’re going to see data go from an opaque, untapped, and mystifying asset to a hyper competitive, I-can’t-believe-you-don’t-use-it weapon for businesses. I don’t mean big data; I mean data of any size: big, medium, and small. In fact, it’s not about the amount of data, it’s about the kind of data you have (a... |
The Secrets To Snapchat’s Success: Connectivity, Easy Media Creation, And Ephemerality | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | CEO Evan Spiegel has been known to be pretty surreptitious when it comes to sharing secrets about how the company works, but today he provided a little more transparency around its mission and how it thinks about the communications that users send through the app. At the , he gave a fascinating keynote speech ( ), br... |
CrunchWeek: Netflix Earnings, Stripe’s Big Raise, And Snowden’s Live Q&A | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most fascinating stories of the past seven days in tech. In this week’s episode, Ryan Lawler, Alex Wilhelm and I talked about Netflix’s and the company’s on net neutrality, payments compan... |
App.net Launches Backer, A Bitcoin-Friendly Crowdfunding Engine For Individual Software Features | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | As the popularity of crowdfunding grows ever larger, an interesting new trend has started popping up: developers, curious if a new feature is worth adding to their products, are asking interested customers to chip in to cover the costs of development. In other words: if you want a feature, put your money where your m... |
Overseeding Will Be Key To Strong Venture Returns | Contributor | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | The story is one we’ve heard before: plucky startup sails through seed fundraising, unfurls its wings, then and shatters into pieces. The numbers speak for themselves. There were 65 percent more seed-stage deals in 2013 than in 2012 flat – 7.5 percent fewer dollars, 7 percent more deals. But the forgotten winners... |
Achievement Unlocked: The SF Class War Reaches Godwin’s Law | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | Yes, . In a letter to the Wall Street Journal published this morning, with the surprising title “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?,” the compared Nazi Germany’s war on the Jews to “the progressive war on the American one percent.” Before going too much further, let’s get this one little thing out of the way: Nothing... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: 20 Anki DRIVE Starter Kits And Free Ticket to The Crunchies | Elin Blesener | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | The team over at Anki is so thrilled about being a Crunchie Award finalist for that they’ve decided to show their appreciation to our readers by spreading the Anki love and giving away (each valued at $199.95) to 20 lucky people. One lucky person will also receive a free ticket to the (valued at $120). This is ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 01.25.14 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. “Like” us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Most Americans Are Unaware Of [Insert Issue Here] | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | Let’s face it: a disturbingly large portion of the American electorate are not-so- about their world. As of 2008, 30% still maintain that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and 18% think the sun revolves around the earth. So, when our friends in the press about how most Americans had heard “n... |
Billion-Dollar M&A Club Admission Guidelines | Contributor | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | Average valuations for venture-backed M&A deals typically come in a pretty tight range. According to the (NVCA), in 2013 there were 377 total M&A exits of venture-backed companies with mean pricing of $161 million. This compares with total deal count of 499 and 488 and mean pricing of $143 million and $173 million... |
Dash’s Smart Driving App – A “Fitbit For Cars” – Arrives On Android | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | , a Techstars New York-backed startup that wants to be like a Fitbit for your car, has . The product includes a combination of a hardware device and smartphone application which offers real-time feedback on your driving, trip logs, access to vehicle diagnostics (that pesky “check engine” light, and who can fix it!), a... |
Cute Alert! Can Fuzmo Crowdfund The Build Of Its Pet Pictures Platform? | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | Talk about a minimum viable product. The co-founders of , a site that just lets you share pictures of cute pets with other enthusiasts, originally started out as a simple Instagram account, . But they clearly hit on a winner. In the last year they grew the account to 1.5 million followers, and from this have spun out... |
Failure Modes | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | This was a rich month for the . shut down. So did . And much-hyped . And even moot’s , which had 1.4 million app downloads and 400,000 monthly users. All part of , right? The , or something. It’s a truism that most startups fail. But in fact startups don’t even to fail, in the way the word is most commonly ... |
SoundCloud Raises $60 Million At A $700 Million Valuation | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 1 | 25 | recently closed a Series D round of funding led by with . The first reported the news. It has since been confirmed by and SoundCloud. Previous investors also participated in the round, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV Capital, Index Ventures and Union Square Ventures. SoundCloud’s ultimate goal i... |
Game Studio Booster Pack, Founded By Former LucasArts Employees, Raises $1.475M | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | When Disney just 154 days after acquiring it as part of their $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm last year, four members of the studio’s Singapore team were determined to stay together. So they created , a new game company that has received $1,475,000 in funding lead investor , Ariel Star Group, and . Booster Pack’s ... |
Valve Shows Off Its Polka Dot VR Headset | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Watch out, Oculus. Here comes Valve. The gaming giant recently demonstrated a prototype VR headset with impressive results. The odd-looking headset is speckled with dots that allow a table-top camera to track the device’s location. Wearers report that there are two screens on the inside, although in this prototype, n... |
Gillmor Gang Live 06.03.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | – Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. |
Apple Wants The Link Between Your Devices To Be You, Not A Shared Wi-Fi Network | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Apple has made some changes to its core inter-device sharing protocols in iOS 8, including AirPlay and AirDrop. AirDrop, the simple file sharing mechanism introduced in OS X Lion and iOS 7, now works between Macs and iOS devices; and AirPlay, the video and audio streaming protocol that plays back music and movies from ... |
Digital Ad Company MediaMath Raises Another $73.5M, Plus $105M In Debt | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | , which offers tools for ad-buying, data management, and other aspects of digital marketing, announced today that it has raised more than $175 million in additional funding, including a $73.5 million Series C and a $105 million debt facility. That’s a pretty big step up from that MediaMath raised in 2011. The new equ... |
Apple Delivers Location-Based App Suggestions On Your Lock Screen In iOS 8 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Apple has a new feature in iOS 8 that will surface app suggestions on the bottom left screen of your locked iPhone depending on your location, according to developers posting to the forums. These include apps already installed on a user’s device, but also suggestions from the App Store that haven’t yet been purchased... |
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The Metal Framework Gives iOS A Lead In Gaming For The Foreseeable Future | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Among the , three were targeted specifically at game developers: SceneKit, new functions in SpriteKit, and Metal, a new framework that opens the door for vastly better performance in higher-end games on iOS, and does it in a way that Google simply can’t respond to because of the way Android works. For those without a ... |
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