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Nextdoor Hits 10K Neighborhoods, Gets Me To Stop Running At Night | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | After I had been running at night for more than a decade, a relatively under-the-radar startup called got me to start running during the day. Almost nobody likes to exercise, and for many, overcoming the motivational hump of putting on your shoes and gym clothes can be trying on even the best of days. One evening lat... |
Report: US Patent And Trademark Office Denies Apple’s iPad Mini Trademark Application, Deemed “Merely Descriptive” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple , however, the USPTO will likely refuse Apple’s trademark filing because, the reviewer argues, “the applied-for mark merely describes a feature or characteristic of applicant’s good... |
Where Have All The Physical QWERTYs Gone? | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | It’s approaching three years since I emailed and got a reply from the late Steve Jobs. The topic of my caffeine-fueled missive that sunny day in June 2010 was the industry’s move towards touch-based interfaces and, specifically, Apple’s one-size-fits-all approach regarding the iPhone’s lack of a physical QWERTY keyboar... |
Bing Gordon’s Founder Checklist: Animal Energy, Blind Confidence, And A Toupee. | Derek Andersen | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | As an Electronic Arts’ intern eight years ago, I asked Bing Gordon then the chief creative officer and the only remaining early founding team member, a question about vision. “How can I know where the puck is going to be?” While he delivered a satisfactory response, two weeks later I received an email from Bing saying,... |
Big Data Could Cripple Facebook | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 3 | 30 | So there’s this startup called , which does big-data sentiment analysis, “pulse of the planet” stuff. I , and now they’ve got an actual product with an actual business model up and running in private beta: , “The Social Stock Trader Rankings,” which performs sentiment analysis on StockTwits data and a sampling of th... |
Did PayPal Just Clone Stripe’s API Documentation? | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? As we reported this morning, PayPal a number of new APIs and a brand new developer portal today. This also included the release of new REST APIs. One thing that —competitor Stripe’s REST API documentation looks remarkably similar. You can see from the screenshots that P... |
Netflix Stops Issuing API Keys To New Developers, Effectively Ending Its Developer Program | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Netflix just used the quiet Friday afternoon to that it is effectively ending its public developer program. Netflix will stop issuing API keys immediately and will not accept new API affiliates. The company will no longer offer a test environment for developer and its developer portal is already set to be read-only. ... |
Bang With Friends Launches Site To Help You Have Sex With Strangers At SXSW | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Hooking up at SXSW was never very hard, but it just got easier. If you’re in Austin this week and looking for that special someone to have anonymous sex with, look no further: Bang With Friends has extended its hookup app to make it available for the social media experts looking for a little love after a margarita… o... |
Flush With $80M, Desire2Learn Buys ‘Anti-Sharepoint For Students’ Platform Wiggio, Its 2nd Acquisition In 2 Months | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | , the online learning platform based out of Waterloo, Ontario in Canada that raised $80 million in , is stepping up to the M&A plate. Today, we’ve learned, and confirmed, that the company is making its second acquisition in as many months by buying , a collaboration platform for students. The companies are not disclo... |
In First 24 Hours Of 3.0 Launch, Path Made More Money Than Ever And Sent More Than 1M Messages | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | TechCrunch TV interview talked to Path founder and CEO Dave Morin today at the in Austin, Texas. You can watch that in the video embedded above, to see us discuss 3.0, whether messaging could interfere with Path’s Facebook relationship, , and more. But there were some key off-camera comments as well, in which Path... |
Facebook Beefs Up With Acqhire Of Storylane Because It’s Time To Fight Tumblr | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Facebook’s no blogging platform, but Tumblr is and it’s eating the social network’s young. If Facebook wants to host our digital lives, it needs richer sharing. That’s Storylane’s specialty, so of its team sounds like a smart staff-up. The startup’s Chief Executive Story Teller Jonathan Gheller and crew could convinc... |
Inside Google Street View: From Larry Page’s Car To The Depths Of The Grand Canyon | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | The concept of moving throughout the world freely without actually having to “physically” travel is the Holy Grail for many. Being able to explore a physical space that is thousands of miles away without having to deal with the rigors of travel seems like something out of a science fiction novel. With Street View, Goog... |
Market Research Provider AYTM Rolls Out Its Biggest Update Yet With Bigger Panels, Video Questionnaires & More | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | , a market research firm which got its start in the demo pit at TechCrunch50 (in the pre-Disrupt days), is rolling out its biggest update ever to its service. According to CEO Lev Mazin, the company has made several improvements across all fronts, which include an expanded consumer reach, the addition of market researc... |
Intel Capital President: Disrupt Alum Expect Labs “Fits In Nicely” With Voice Plans For Ultrabook | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Intel Capital, the venture arm of Intel, boasts over 120 portfolio companies to have listed publicly on the NASDAQ alone. In celebration of that, President Arvind Sodhani rang yesterday’s closing bell, and we caught up with him to chat about the future of the Ultrabook platform, wearable computing, and advancements i... |
Google Research Releases Wikilinks Corpus With 40M Mentions And 3M Entities | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Google Research just its , a massive new data set for developers and researchers that could make it easier to add smart disambiguation and cross-referencing to their applications. The data could, for example, make it easier to find out if two web sites are talking about the same person or concept, Google says. In to... |
MakerBot Announces Its First Easy-To-Use Desktop 3D Scanner, The Digitizer | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Bre Pettis, founder of 3D-printer manufacturer MakerBot, announced their first desktop 3D scanner, the Digitizer, at a SXSWi keynote today. Pettis was coy about availability or final design but instead was focused on making a splash at the event. “We’re excited to put ourselves out there with the announcement. I have a... |
Facebook Adds More Verbs To Open Graph Actions, You Can Now ‘Do’ More Stuff Through Partner Apps | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Facebook announced a number of , joining the “watch video” and other existing ones available to developers. These include actions in the Fitness, Books and Movies & TV categories that help users better express their interaction with media and their world. Of course, they also help developers mining the Open Graph for ... |
Last Call For The Disrupt NY Extra Early Bird Discount | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | Procrastination is a hell of a drug. Don’t let it ruin your life. And, for the purpose of this post, don’t let procrastination cost you money. Today, Friday, March 8th, is the last day for the . Today is the last day that you can score tickets at a hefty discount. Today! With the extra early bird discount, the tickets... |
Dynamic Signal Launches VoiceStorm To Manage Employees’ Social Media Promotion Efforts | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | , the social marketing company led by Adify co-founder Russ Fradin, is launching a new product today called , which encourages, manages and measures employees’ efforts to promote a company on social networks. Fradin told me that VoiceStorm is functionally similar to Dynamic Signal’s existing platform, which helps comp... |
VMware CMO Rick Jackson On His Way Out, Transitioned To SVP Role | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | More changing of the guard among the leadership ranks at . CMO Rick Jackson is on his way out of the enterprise software company. He’s stepping down as CMO moving into SVP role, although he’ll remain CMO until a replacement is found. According to an internal note provided to TechCrunch, “Rick Jackson will be transitio... |
Facebook Barely Poked Snapchat, Active Usage Data Shows | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | After initially missing the boat on mobile-photo sharing and then having to turn around and plunk down nearly $1 billion for Instagram, Facebook wasn’t going to let a hot app (and potential existential threat) emerge too quickly again. Although Facebook is more than 1 billion users strong, the company still has a paran... |
Hacker Steals $12,000 Worth Of Bitcoins In Brazen DNS-Based Attack | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 8 | A brokerage, was hit by hackers who used a bit of social engineering to take control of the company’s DNS servers and ultimately funnel out $12,000 worth of Bitcoins. Hackers first took over the Bitinstant’s DNS domains and then the company’s email servers. They used these to log into another Bitcoin exchange, Vir... |
With 200K Stories Shared, Storylane Launches An iPhone Reading App | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | Last year, launched than what you’d find on other social media properties. And thanks to , you can now browse those stories when you’re on the go. The concept behind Storylane is pretty straightforward — founder Jonathan Gheller wants it to be the home for personal thoughts and stories that go deeper than a quick ... |
Successful Woman Gets Attacked For Standing Out Too Much, Again | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | There’s no aphorism that describes successful women more than “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Yet, thankfully we keep doing. As we are women who’ve worked under plenty of women, and are now on , we’ve reaped the benefits of this “doing” firsthand. It was a lot harder to be in the workforce 30, 20 or even 10... |
Ahead Of SXSW, Ride-Sharing Startup SideCar Prepares For Fight With Austin Authorities | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | By all accounts, next week’s SXSW Interactive conference should be huge for ride-sharing startup . The company will be partnering with a number of the biggest names in tech to provide free rides to and from parties being thrown during the event as a way to introduce the service to people who don’t live in San Francisc... |
Yahoo Does Some Spring Cleaning: Shuts Down Avatars, App Search, Sports IQ, Clues, Updates API And Its BlackBerry App | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | Yahoo, which is now officially a , just a Google-like spring cleaning campaign. Just like Larry Page shutting down a number of under-performing Google properties when he took over from Eric Schmidt, Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer is also in the process of shutting down a number of smaller Yahoo properties. Accordin... |
Google Explains How Search Works, Complete With Live Spam Slideshow | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | Google today updated its , its homepage for all things search, with a handful of educational and interactive features that explain in layman’s terms . Did you know the web had over 30 trillion pages, by the way? Or that Google supports over 100 billion searches every month? Or that Google’s index is over 100 million ... |
The Mophie Juice Pack Air For iPhone 5 Drops iTunes Syncing, But Still Saves You When You Need More Power | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | Mophie caused a bit of a double-take by introducing not one but two rechargeable external battery cases for the iPhone 5 within a few days of each other. The offers a sleeker body, but the , announced later, offers more stamina. I’ve been testing the latter for nearly a week now, and it lives up to Mophie’s good repu... |
Backed By Reed Hastings & More, Gobstopper Launches Its E-Reading Platform For Schools To Help Rethink Humanities Education | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | As the founder of two public charter prep schools, an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at NewSchools Ventures and a former English teacher, Jason Singer is familiar with the starring role that technology is increasingly playing in the classroom. However, while the push to improve STEM education is alive and well, there’s a ... |
Judge Cuts $450M From Apple’s $1B Damages Decision Against Samsung, Orders Second Trial | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | Apple’s landmark has been partially vacated by presiding judge Lucy Koh, . The judge has orders just north of $450 million be struck from the $1 billion total, an amount which relates to 14 Samsung products involved in the case, pending a new trial to determine appropriate damages for those specific devices. Koh sai... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Nest And Free Ticket To Disrupt NY #TCDisrupt | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | TechCrunch is right around the corner! We have already announced many influential speakers, including Kevin Systrom of Instagram, Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway of SV Angel, Kevin Ryan of Gilt Groupe and will be announcing many more soon. You can view the whole list of speakers and special guests we have... |
Google Muscles Further Into Paid Discovery Of Apps With New Focus On Click-To-Download Mobile Ads | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | The app stores are overrun, and there’s little way to get noticed until you break into the charts. So Google just announced it’s making it easier to buy an AdWords unit called mobile ads that lead directly to iTunes and Google Play. With a similar design to Facebook’s app ads, Google is reaching out its hand for a cu... |
Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | today issued its to the Securities And Exchange Commission. These kinds of forms have a lot of that is reused again and again — often, companies just change the relevant revenue numbers and leave everything else the same for years (come to think of it, isn’t that the former Yahoo CEO made for the ?) But with ... |
Shasta Ventures Doubles Down On Enterprise Software Experience With New Hires | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | is doubling down on enterprise software experience with the additions of Zenprise CEO Jayaram Bhat as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Issac Roth as Venture Advisor at the early-stage venture firm. As the company tells us, this is a move to grow Shasta’s enterprise software, cloud and SaaS practice. New EIR Jaya... |
Germany Passes New Internet Copyright Law After Watering It Down To Spare Google From Having To Pay | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | The German Bundestag passed an addendum to the country’s copyright laws , the so-called “Leistungsschutzrecht,” that allows publishers to charge aggregators and search engines for the content they index and re-publish on their sites and in their apps. An would have meant that Google, Google News and other aggregator... |
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Defense Distributed Prints An AR-15 Receiver That Has Fired More Than 600 Rounds | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tAW72Y_XPF4] , a group run primarily by gunsmith Cody Wilson, has released a video of an AR-15 with a 3D-printed lower receiver firing off over 600 rounds, a unique feat in the realm of 3D-printed parts. The part, , worked nearly perfectly while firing 6... |
Study: High-Skilled Immigrants Are Neither Better Nor Brighter Than U.S. Workers | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | While America’s political and business elite to ease high-skilled immigration laws, a new study argues that foreign workers aren’t necessarily better or brighter. “The immigrant workers, especially those who first came to the United States as foreign students, are in general of no higher talent than the Americans, as... |
Ustream Cuts Workforce By 6 Percent, Hires Two VPs From Ooyala As It Focuses On Pro Sales | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | Live video service just announced “a small restructuring” of the workforce that will result in cutting approximately 6 percent of the current team. The company said the restructuring, along with the hiring of two new vice presidents, is an attempt to focus on sales of its Pro Broadcasting products and to move toward ... |
HitBliss, The Pandora Of Ads, Will Pay You To Watch Commercials | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | We’ve been bombarded by advertisers for so long it’s rare we even remember this, but advertising is still valuable. , a new service launching into beta, is looking to put the control back in the hands of consumers, opting in to the notion that content sellers and advertisers shouldn’t even be in communication. “After a... |
YouTube Lays Easter Egg In Tribute To Harlem Shake Meme | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | In one of Google’s funnier Easter Eggs, users have a fun surprise awaiting them on YouTube. Conducting a YouTube search for “do the Harlem shake” initiates a UI-style Harlem Shake on the world’s biggest video sharing platform. The dance starts with the YouTube logo doing the classic back-and-forth seen in the beginning... |
Pitching App Ideas? AppGyver Delivers Mobile App Prototypes In Minutes, No Technical Know-How Needed | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 1 | Although there are a ton of DIY app builders out there, the majority of them are either designed for those with a little bit of coding know-how, or involve drag-and-drop components that are used to create a basic app or mobile website. A new startup called AppGyver (rhymes with !) is different. It’s a mobile app , no... |
The ‘Bay Lights’ Creator Leo Villareal On Where Tech Meets Art [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | It’s clearly a work of art first and foremost, but there is a lot of technology at play here too. The 25,000 LED lights that are attached to the 1.8 mile western span of the Bay Bridge are all individually programmed with software algorithms that create a generative sequence making it so that the patterns never occur... |
Trulia Launches Trulia Suggests, A Recommendation Engine For Real Estate | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | , the popular real estate search engine, just launched the beta of Trulia Suggests, a personalized real estate recommendation engine. The typical search experience on virtually every online real estate site involves telling the service how much you want to pay, how many bedrooms and bathrooms you need and what location... |
Facebook Is Looking For Office Space In Cambridge, Close To Its Harvard Roots | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | According to a , Facebook appears to be looking for office space in Cambridge, Massachusetts — home to Harvard and the dorm room where Mark Zuckerberg started the social network. It would be an appropriate place for Facebook to set up a space to attract talent, as well as revel in some nostalgia. Sources have told the... |
The Truth About Google Glass | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8UjcqCx1Bvg#!] There’s very little to be said about this viral video except that it’s a cute rendition of what will happen for maybe the first two weeks after is launched. In fact, I suspect it will almost be impossible to get away with this stuff once G... |
Urban Storage Startup Boxbee Wins Best New Startup Prize At Launch, Zillabyte Takes Enterprise With Its ‘Pandora For Leads’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | , a startup that’s looking to make urban storage (not of the digital variety) less of a pain in the ass, just won the best new startup award at in San Francisco. The winner was chosen by a jury from the 50-plus startups that demonstrated on-stage at Launch over the past three days. The conference included a bevy of c... |
EQuala Launches On iOS And Android To Bring More Context And Control To Social Music Discovery | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | Over the last decade, the rise of mobile technology and the maturation of the Web as distribution and consumption channels has had a devastating effect on the music industry, among others. Yet, on the bright side, more recently these technologies have produced a litany of new ways to discover great music, empowering bo... |
Korean Startup Accelerator SparkLabs Hosts Its First Demo Day, Adds Tom Peters To Advisory Board | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | Korean startup accelerator hosted its first Demo Day in Seoul today with five of the six companies in the inagural class it back in November (one company, online gaming studio , is developing a game that is currently in stealth mode, so it did not present today). SparkLabs also announced that it will expand into h... |
Rethinking Video Journalism, NowThisNews Blitzkriegs SXSW With Coverage And A 6-Second Pitch Competition | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | The TV news soundbite is about to get a lot shorter. , a New York-based startup that’s looking to reinvent video journalism for the Facebook and smartphone era, on its mobile app plus a six-second startup pitch competition using Twitter’s Vine. While we haven’t really covered the company before, . They’ve assembled ... |
RelayRides Founder Shelby Clark Steps Down From Day-To-Day Role, Will Remain On The Board | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | founder and chief community officer Shelby Clark announced today that he is leaving his day-to-day role with the company, but will remain on its board of directors. The move comes as RelayRides has added and promoted a bunch of executives with more operational experience, and as Clark is looking to get back into found... |
Now 18M Users Strong, Edmodo Makes Its First Acquisition In Root-1 To Become The App Market For Education | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | After spending years working as technicians at public schools, Jeff O’Hara and Nicolas Borg launched in 2008 to address what they had come to see as a huge gap in the teacher-student relationship: The need for a better, safer way for teachers to connect and communicate with their students. However, with the launch of... |
What’s All The Fuss About? Up Close With The Dish Hopper With Slingbox, The Device That Caused CNET To Implode | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | About a month ago, if you’ll remember, the very fabric of the Internet journalism game was rent asunder when , refused to let it write about the Dish Hopper with Slingbox, a DVR with a system to view your shows remotely built in. More important, however, is the Hopper’s ability to “hop” past commercials in prime-time ... |
To Earn Trust, Facebook Could Declare News Feed Changes Like Google PageRank | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | Too much bad press and too many confused users. That’s what Facebook got from silently tinkering with the news feed. BiltonGate was the last straw. Signs now point to Facebook starting to notify the public of news feed algorithm changes the way Google does for PageRank. Combined with education, Facebook could use trans... |
David Sacks Says He Has No Plans To Leave Microsoft, Endorses Marissa Mayer’s Work-From-Home Ban | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | founder David Sacks just left the stage at the conference in San Francisco, where he talked about his future at Microsoft and also weighed in on some hot tech topics, including . As someone with a startup background (he was chief operating officer at PayPal, founded Geni.com, and is an active angel investor), you m... |
I’m Glad I Was An Unpaid Blogger | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | I was an unpaid blogger and I’m proud of that. After following the recent back and forth between an and The Atlantic over the depressingly low pay of freelance writers, I thought I’d explore what it meant to me to work for, essentially, free. Corporate health insurance and a moderate savings account are new additions... |
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Joins Facebook’s Board, Adding Another Woman Alongside Sandberg | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | today added a new member to its board of directors, , M.D. Dr. Desmond-Hellman currently serves as the chancellor of the . Prior to at UCSF in 2009, Desmond-Hellmann served as president of product development at biotech giant , where she worked for 14 years. She completed her clinical training at UCSF and is boar... |
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Update For Twitter’s iOS, Android Apps And Mobile Site Includes Top Tweets From The Past And Better Web Browsing | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | Twitter has updated its iOS and Android apps today, as well as its mobile site, to include more interesting content to keep you tapping and exploring as you perform searches. As we noted last month, Twitter has started to . Today, that experience will become more prevalent in Twitter’s mobile experience. In addition t... |
The Lumio Lamp Looks Like The Most Beautiful Book You’ve Never Read | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | Sometimes the best projects are the simplest ones. is a lamp masquerading as a beautiful hardcover book with a wooden finish. To turn the lamp on, you open it up. To turn it off, you close. It’s equal parts simplicity and ingenuity. Lumio came into being when architect and designer Max Gunawan was trying to design ... |
Fresh Off White House Petition Success, Activists Launch Copyright Reform Campaign | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | Grassroots digital activists are looking for a new another sweet, sweet hit of political success. After lobbying the White House with 100,000 petitions to overturn a law related to cell phone carrier choice, fiery young activist Sina Khanifar is demanding broader copyright reform. And, this time, he’s bringing friend... |
ZipDial Has Turned 400M Missed Calls Into Moneymaking Connections | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | During my trip to India, one of the most interesting companies that I met with was . In a really cool home-turned-office in Bangalore, a team of brilliant people have turned a phenomenon that is unique to the country into a booming business. That phenomenon is missed calls. While that might not sound like big business... |
Malaysian Investment Firm Catcha Sets Aside $150M For Asean Startups | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | Catcha Group, a Malaysia-based investment firm has announced it will invest up to $150 million in Asean-based online businesses over the next five years. The funds will come both from the top as well as through the Catcha Group’s subsidiaries. The Asean region refers to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore a... |
Kids Love The Apple Store So Much They Pee On The Seats | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 6 | Don’t ever sit on the black balls at the kids table in Apple retail stores, recommends supposed former employee and . It seems that as 370 million people visit an Apple Store each year, a few of the kids are leaving something behind when they go. Though we can’t verify if he really worked there, Mister_Rabbit writes: ... |
Filipino Accelerator IdeaSpace Picks Country’s Top 20 Tech Startups | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | Many of the brighter ideas coming out of tech startups in the Philippines are health-related, with a heavy slant on mobile technologies. Filipino incubator, just whittled a list of 700 entries from startups down to just 20. These 20 will eventually be halved further. IdeaSpace is offering 10 slots to startups to get ... |
ZTE Is Betting On China’s Nascent 4G Network To Bolster Its Flagging Profitability | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | ZTE is honing in on increased investment in 4G networks by China’s major telecom operators as it struggles to catch up with domestic rival Huawei Technologies, . ZTE and Huawei are expected to compete for most 4G network contracts with China’s three major carriers (China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom) becaus... |
Scenes From Penn State’s Startup Week Hackathon | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | [slideshow include=”784354,784356,784355,784352,784353,784357,784358″] For the past week or so I’ve been hanging out at Penn State University for its second annual , an educational get-together of startup founders and entrepreneurs spearheaded by Weebly CEO (and Penn State alum) David Rusenko. The idea is simple enough... |
Presefy Lets You Control Presentations With Your Phone, No Software Required | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | Powerpoint presentations. Not once in the history of humanity has someone said “Oh man, I LOVE giving Powerpoint presentations” non-sarcastically. Really, I looked it up. , a four-man team out of Finland, is making presenting a whole lot less painful by harnessing the power of the Interwebs to do away with some of the ... |
The Social Web Will Help Protect Us From Another Dot-Com Fizzle | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | You’ve all heard stories about the infamous dot-com bubble burst of the early aughts. It wasn’t pretty, a lot of people lost a lot of money – and their livelihoods to boot. There will always be talk of whether we are close, or ever could get close, to a again. I spent some time with an early employee of everything-yo... |
Fly Or Die: Albumatic | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | In a land where entrepreneurs are struggling desperately to integrate location into the worldwide photo-sharing phenomenon, may have swooped in just in time. Ventures like Color and others have tried and failed, and not for lack of funding, to let users enjoy location-based events by sharing photos with each other... |
What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back? | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google is likely for a good reason: relatively few people used it, with less using it over time. , and all that. But that doesn’t mean this move isn’t a mistake for a couple reasons... |
Y Combinator-Backed Prizeo Helps Celebrities Tap Their Fans For Charity Fundraising | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | is a startup aiming to channel celebrities’ social media influence into funding for charity. Co-founders Bryan Baum and Leo Seigal are familiar with the fundraising world, having co-founded a student philanthropy organization while at Oxford. (That’s also where they met their co-founder and CTO Andrej Pancik.) They sa... |
AWS Reveals In Job Listing It’s Launching “A New Business,” Looks To Be Pushing Deeper Into Mobile | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | Amazon Web Services believes wholeheartedly that the cloud is the future. And not just the cloud, but the AWS public cloud. As a result, and has been making some aggressive moves to fluster the incumbents and stalwarts, like Microsoft. The strategy has been to continue offering more and more services, beating its oppo... |
Michael Dell May Lose Control Of PC Maker After Two Competing Buyout Bids Emerge | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | Dell’s board is looking at two surprise takeover bids from Blackstone Group and billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, citing sources close to the discussion. A special committee is deciding whether either proposal would trump an existing . The new bids mean that Michael Dell could potentially lose control of the... |
Google’s Global Impact Challenge Will Award $3M To 4 UK Social Entrepreneurs, With Tim Berners-Lee And Richard Branson Among The Judges | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | , the world’s largest search engine and one of the most powerful tech companies around, is now using its muscle to search for something new: social entrepreneurs. Today, the company is announcing the , a new prize that will award £2 million ($3 million) between four non-profit startups based in the UK that are using t... |
Is There Still Hope For Google’s Disappeared Android@Home And Nexus Q? | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | , Google’s Vic Gundotra keynoted the company’s 2011 I/O developer conference, and one of the big surprises of the day was the launch of Android@Home, Google’s attempt to corner the home-automation market. At the keynote, Google also showed the first prototype of what would later become the “social streaming media pla... |
Wacom Cintiq 22HD Vs. Modbook Pro: Screen Real Estate Takes On Portability For The Digital Artist | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | Tablets are everywhere these days thanks to the iPad, but they lack a certain finesse necessary for fine digital arts work. That’s where longtime players like and still excel. Recently, I’ve had both a Wacom Cintiq 22HD and a new Modbook Pro in the studio for testing, and both have proven immensely handy for digita... |
West Virginia Lawmaker Seeks To Ban Drivers From Wearing Head Mounted Displays Like Google Glass | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | I don’t see a problem with this. In short, a West Virginia lawmaker wants to outlaw the wearing of head-mounted displays while driving in his state. The devices would join other banned electronic communication devices like cell phones. The bill, while perhaps a bit laughable at first, is logical and smart. It makes a l... |
This Is Not A Smartwatch | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | Confession: I have a few storage boxes in my loft that contain old, but barely used, gadgets. Stowed away, still in their boxes, as if waiting for the right time to be brought out like unloved Christmas decorations. Ignoring the generations of well-used feature phones also put in storage (thanks to the data locked up i... |
The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable: Full Video And Transcript | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | The idea behind this was that while there has been a lot of about the book and the being born out of it, much of it has come from established women in Sandberg’s generation and above. While that’s been valuable, we at TechCrunch wanted to find a different perspective. So we pulled together a small group of Gener... |
How Facebook Could Fix Its Forgettable New Features | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 24 | At least Facebook didn’t break anything, but the extra feeds and search box it recently launched have yet to drastically improve my experience. The homepage redesign is pretty, but I keep forgetting the Photos and Music feeds exist since they’re buried in the sidebar. And Graph Search is great when I need it, but I rar... |
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August Capital’s David Hornik On How To Find ‘Smart Money’ For Your Startup [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | We had the pleasure of spending some time talking to Hornik earlier this month at the festival in Austin, Texas about what it means to find the proverbial “smart money” and how entrepreneurs can go about doing it. Watch the video embedded above to hear about that, why he disagrees with on whether , the founder p... |
Backed Or Whacked: Baubles For Your Bike – Part 2 | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | Last week’s Backed or Whacked looked at a trio of small, easily attached bicycle accessories that could beef up your ride’s horn, assist in toting shopping bags, or add more secure footing to your pedals. This week’s column looks at some larger accoutrements that can help bicyclists with their burdens. Unfortunately,... |
Bloomberg: ‘We’re Going To Have More Visibility And Less Privacy,’ Drones And Surveillance Coming | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | “We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a surprisingly candid interview about the future of the surveillance state in the Big Apple. While admitting that increased surveillance was “scary” and that governments will have to be thou... |
(Web) Castles Made Of Sand | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | If there is one sliver lining in the Google Reader that has the blogosphere (OK fine, the blogosphere), it’s the fact that Google offers a way for Reader users to export their RSS subscriptions using its service. Actually, Google Takeout lets users of most major Google services remove their data from the Google ... |
My Phone And I Are Never Getting Out Of Bed | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | Our beds used to be finite. A limited range of activities took place there. We’d sleep, or try to, make love, eat, and maybe read a paperback. But we could only hide from the world for so long. The nagging puppet strings of our desire to learn and experience would pull taught. Eventually we had to rise. Then we found s... |
Gillmor Gang: It’s Alright, Bob | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — convened with Gillmor in Boston and the Gang in California. We took another cut at the Google Reader damage, with @dannysullivan hating on notifications and @scobleizer hating on Android’s notifications. Did I say I told him so? Yes I ... |
The Windows Store Crosses 50,000 Available Apps For Windows 8 And Windows RT | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | It’s been said that there aren’t many apps available for Windows 8. I’ve said that . But that’s not entirely true. , there are now more than 50,000 apps available for Windows 8 and Windows RT, effectively making me a liar. The site aggregates applications available to the Windows Store. If it’s available on the Windo... |
Steve Wozniak, Speaking To The Denver Apple Pi Club In 1984, On College Pranks, Building The Apple I & II, And The Apple Pledge Of Allegiance | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vPssItXt4R4″] “I pledge allegiance to the logo of corporate marketing in Cupertino. And to the computers for which it stands: One notion, under Jobs, indispensable, for hardware and software for all.” Steve Wozniak, to the Denver Apple Pi Computer Club in... |
The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Smartwatches, Apple On The Defensive, And The Nook HD+ | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | We’re back! After a long hiatus, we’ve started up the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast, our weekly review of everything hardware. We’ll be talking about hardware startups, flagship gadgets, and the wild and wooly worlds of Apple, Samsung, HTC, and all the rest. Featuring the TC Gadgets team, this weekly audio podcast will br... |
U.S. Senate Approves Proposed Internet Sales Tax | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | An Internet sales tax is inching its way closer to being the law of the land: The U.S. Senate supported , 75-to-24, for a law that would allow states to collect taxes from Internet retailers. If enacted as is, it would allow states to levy taxes on some online retail purchases from businesses with over $1 million in g... |
“The Business Of Literature Is Blowing Shit Up” | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 3 | 23 | If you love books–heck, if you even ’em–run, don’t walk, and read this by Richard Nash on their past, present and future. It’s long. Don’t be frightened. But even if the Internet has shredded your attention span, at least scroll down to its epic final paragraph. Go on. I’ll wait. It’s been a rotten decade for book ... |
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Facebook Brings Down The Hammer Again: Cuts Off MessageMe’s Access To Its Social Graph | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | , , is confronting Facebook’s touchiness around access to its social graph. The app’s integration with Facebook stopped functioning earlier today (see left), the result of the company’s decision to cut MessageMe off from its “Find Friends” functionality, according to sources familiar with decision. MessageMe CEO Arjun... |
See, Uber — This Is What Happens When You Cannibalize Yourself | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | Uber drivers are pissed off. But that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise… At least not to anyone who’s been paying attention. A group of UberBLACK drivers in San Francisco this evening, protesting the company’s business practices. Among other things, the group had complaints over the lack of health insurance or st... |
UpWest Labs’ Fourth Batch Of Israeli Startups Look To Go Big In The U.S. By Taking The B2B Approach | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | a startup accelerator with the intent to expose Silicon Valley to the next generation of hot Israeli tech companies — and vice versa. While Israel has long been a hotbed for innovation and is home to the R&D labs of many of the world’s biggest tech companies, the founders saw an opportunity to create a more fluid conn... |
Google Acquires Web Application Server Talaria To Enhance Its Cloud Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | , a company that a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google. The Talaria team will become part of the Google Cloud Platform team. For the most part, the Palo Alto-based company was flying under the radar until now. The company was ... |
Uber Drivers Gather Outside SF Office To Protest Dismissals, Payment System, Lack Of Input | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | A group of current and former black car drivers gathered outside the startup’s San Francisco headquarters to protest what they said was unfair treatment by the company. When I arrived at around 5:45pm, a group of 30 or so were chanting, “No respect, no Uber!” every time someone left the building. The person leading t... |
Carrier App Stores Suck, So Japan’s KDDI Did Something Different And Is Pulling In $250M A Year For Apps | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | When Apple launched its app store about five years ago, . It disintermediated carriers from what would become a lucrative revenue stream, one that’s brought Apple more than $11 billion in gross revenue ( ).- In the old feature phone world, developers used to have to beg and plead with the carriers for pre-install deal... |
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