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An E-Cig That Tells You How Much You’ve Increased Your Life Expectency With Every Puff | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Forget for just a moment that e-cigarettes contain several of the same toxic substances in regular cigarettes but in higher quantities such as carbon monoxide, heavy metals and substances used in antifreeze to cause cancer. claims to be the first connected e-cig to actually add years to your life each time you puff.... |
Watch The TechCrunch Recap Of Apple’s WWDC 2014 Announcements | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Apple’s keynote for happened Monday morning, and there was a lot to digest, both for attendees and those watching at home. Apple didn’t announce any new gadgets at this year’s event, but it did upend the world of iOS and make huge changes to OS X on the desktop, which will translate to big shifts both for developer... |
Someone Involved With Apple’s New Programming Language Swift Must Be A Firefly Fan | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Here’s a little factoid that has pretty much nothing to do with the broader significance of . But it made me smile, and it suggests that when my editor Matthew Panzarino he was right in more ways than one. So if you look at the section of discussing “simple values,” you’ll find a short code example assigning occup... |
Announcing Include, TechCrunch’s Diversity Partner Program | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | While the tech industry has to be inclusive, Hardly a week passes by without media outlets highlighting concerns about sexism, ageism or “founder profiling” in our industry. The truth is that TechCrunch will not be able to solve the or increase STEM education in inner-city schools. We can’t offer entrepreneurship ... |
Google Plans To Launch An Easy-To-Use Chrome Plug-In For Email Encryption Soon | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Google today that it will soon release a Chrome plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption for web-based email services. The plug-in is based on the email encryption standard. Google’s plan here is to make encryption easy enough to use to become widespread among mainstream users. Right now, unless you are fairl... |
Star Trek-Like Molecular Food Scanner SCiO Tops $2 Million On Kickstarter | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | , the Tel Aviv-based startup behind the handheld molecular food scanner dubbed “ ,” has now topped $2 million in crowdfunding via , with 11 days still remaining. SCiO is basically a pocket-sized spectrometer that tells you the chemical makeup of what you eat, including nutritional info like calories, carbs, sugars, an... |
Android Wear Developer Team Talks Building Apps For Moto 360 And LG G Watch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Android Wear is going to be a big part of 2014 this year, and Google helps developers acclimate to the idea of wrist-borne apps. Already, internal developers working on the project are working on software to help them demonstrate and validate concepts for apps for the platform, and they’re using the upcoming and ... |
Android Likely To Get Touch-Friendly Office Before Windows | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | #SatyasMicrosoft Earlier today, that the tablet-touch build of Office for Android will land before the touch-ready build for Windows. Yes, this is the real world. Microsoft declined to comment. Keep in mind that Microsoft building an Office suite for Android tablets . This is a timing issue. Of course, Microsoft alr... |
NSA Chief: Snowden “Probably Not” A Russian Spy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Despite Congressional bloviation, the NSA doesn’t think that Edward Snowden is a foreign spy. NSA Chief Admiral Michael Rogers , or any other country’s intelligence apparatus. “Could he have? Possibly. Do I believe that’s the case? Probably not,” said Rogers. The only surprising element of the Rogers comment is that h... |
Sam Altman Names Y Combinator’s New “Board Of Overseers” | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, has just posted a blog post announcing the at the world’s most successful accelerator. The list includes Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, Homejoy’s Adora Cheung, John and Patrick Collison of Stripe, Dropbox’s Drew Houston, longtime partner and co-founder at YC Jessica Livingston,... |
WWDC Keynote Shows Apple Means Business | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | Apple’s had a message for cloud service providers. Apple knows it has the devices inside the enterprise, whether iPhone, iPad and even Macs, and it wants more than just the hardware business. It wants everything. And it’s coming for you. That’s right, Apple wants to capture the cloud and provide the services you need... |
You Can Buy 50 Cent’s New Album With Bitcoin | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | 50 Cent’s new album , but commercially the rapper is trying to take all comers and is even accepting bitcoin as payment for the record. I went through the payment process to verify the fact. Here you go: Why do we care? Mostly that 50 Cent — an artist who has in the past that he is mainstream by definition — would i... |
Dinner Lab Raises $2.1 Million For Its Modern-Day Supper Club | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 3 | , an exclusive supper club that lets up-and-coming chefs test their recipes by preparing multi-course meals for a private audience, has just raised its first outside funding. The previously bootstrapped New Orleans-based company has scored $2.1 million in a seed round led by Dr. John B. Elstrott, the Chairman of the Bo... |
Alibaba Buys 50% Stake In Leading Chinese Soccer Team Guangzhou Evergrande | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma announced today at a press conference that the company will buy a 50% stake in Guangzhou Evergrande Football Club, one of China’s top soccer teams. The deal’s value was not disclosed, but it is reportedly worth 1.2 billion yuan ($192 million), according to , the official Chinese state ne... |
WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton Talks About Not Getting “Swallowed By The Borg” At StartX | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6PbymjXsto] In his first ever, at tonight’s event, co-founder Brian Acton talked about the company’s big “F” word (focus), how people in the U.S. just didn’t get the service when it first launched five years ago, and, of course, its (Acton said that WhatsApp will not be “... |
Microsoft Announces This Year’s Imagine Cup Finalists, With Satya Nadella As VIP Judge | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | For the last 11 years, Microsoft has been running its worldwide student software competition, and every year, it invites the best teams to the world finals. Last year’s event was in St. Petersburg, Russia, for example. This time around, the finals will take in Microsoft’s backyard in Seattle from July 29 to August 2 ... |
Radio Shack Teams Up With PCH International To Create A Retail Pipeline For Hardware Startups | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Electronics retailer Radio Shack is teaming up with hardware manufacturer and accelerator PCH International to bring 6 square-foot “Powered by PCH” retail spaces to stores in the United States. This area will feature hardware startups that work directly with PCH’s accelerator, , to bring their products to retail after... |
CyberX Gets $2M Seed Funding To Bring Better Security To The Industrial Internet | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | , a software security startup that launched last year out of the accelerator, has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners with participation from Shaul Shani’s Swarth Group, Leon Recanati’s GlenRock, and angel investor Gigi Levy-Weiss. Co-founded by two veterans of the Israeli ... |
Apple’s New iPhone Ad Stars A Bunch Of Health Gadgets That Are Not An iWatch | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Somewhere in my basement I have a Presidential Fitness Award signed by George H.W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think I had to do 50 pushups or something to qualify — it’s a good thing that I took the test before smartphones existed, because that really put a crimp in my overall fitness state. But, as they’re esse... |
NSA-Mocking Easter Egg Found In Google’s New Email Encryption Plug-In | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Google recently made waves by introducing the framework for a through a coming plug-in for its Chrome browser. TechCrunch of the problem that Google is taking on, and that it seemed like a worthy task. However, Google left a little easter egg that is more than funny. Here’s the joke ( , ): The “SSL added and rem... |
Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others Call On The Senate To Strengthen NSA Reform | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | At the roughly one-year anniversary of the NSA leaks, , a group backed by a number of notable tech companies, is publishing a letter demanding the Senate strengthen the NSA reform bill that . According to the letter, in the coming weeks, the upper chamber of Congress has the “opportunity to demonstrate leadership and... |
Swift, Apple’s New Programming Language, Has Been In Development For Nearly Four Years | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | At its WWDC event on Monday, Apple made waves among the iOS and Mac developer communities with the announcement of designed from the ground up by the company’s developer tools team. The language itself builds upon the compiler, runtime, and libraries that Apple developers use with Objective-C today, which means that ... |
After Antitrust Suit, Bazaarvoice Sells PowerReviews To Review Site Viewpoints For $30M | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Bazaarvoice just announced that it’s selling PowerReviews for $30 million in cash. The news comes after , followed by an antitrust suit in which the US Department of Justice argued that by bringing together two major consumer review sites in one company, the acquisition would reduce competition. The suit ended with .... |
Grow Your Own Apartment With Just The Wave Of Your Hand | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | MIT’s aims to solve the space issue for many urban renters in New York and San Francisco who often must sacrifice space for cost. A 200 square-foot modular unit expands to a full 840 square-foot apartment with the wave of a hand. Think of it like an apartment in a box that responds to Wii-like hand gestures. While si... |
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The iPhone-Controlled Visiobike Will Take You For A Ride | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Zoom zoom! A Croatian company wants to put your butt onto a new kind of bike, a sort of electric/mechanical hybrid that uses battery assist to help you up the hills and includes an automatic transmission system that ensures you rarely have to use the battery. Called the , the $5,303 bike is made of carbon fiber and ha... |
Amazon Will Announce A New Device On June 18, Likely Their 3D Eye-Tracking Phone | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Back , we broke the word that Amazon was working on a new smartphone …with a bit of a twist. Using multiple cameras to track your eyes and head, it featured a 3D interface that changed according to how you were looking at it, we were told. Amazon has just tweeted about its plans to host a press event on June 18 — and ... |
Low-Cost Hardware Merchant Monoprice Now Offers A $1,199 3D Printer | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Monoprice, everyone’s favorite source for cheap $20-foot HDMI cables and other stuff that you don’t feel like going to Best Buy for, has just announced the availability of a new 3D printer, a that looks to be based on the original MakerBot Replicator. The $1,199 printer comes with two spools of PLA filament and has a... |
Meet The Judges For The TechCrunch Pitch-Off In Austin | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | Howdy, y’all. As a Texan myself, I’m thrilled to announce the judges for our going down next week at Palm on 6th St. (BTW, tickets to the Austin Meetup are still available but are running out quickly so grab one before it’s too late). We’ve selected about a dozen companies to participate (emails went out this morni... |
Shut Up And Take My Money For The Cards Against Humanity: Tech Edition | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | You’ve played , right? The so-called party game for horrible people? Well, and it’s about the best thing ever. It’s just not available for purchase — yet. The premise is of course the same: Use the white cards to complete the sentence on the black cards. But this time around, the theme of the black cards is decidedl... |
SportsQuest Wants To Be QuizUp For Sport, With A Few Twists | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | is a challenge-style game that was released last September and has created a lot of buzz around its social model. The massive take-up it achieved demonstrated that there was a market for competitive, real-time quiz apps. A few new apps have tried to replicate this, but not many in vertical subjects. , by Cuju Media, ... |
Chic By Choice Is A European Take On RentTheRunway | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | has made a splash as a way for women to literally rent high fashion. Now a new startup hopes it can reproduce that success with a similar model, which has a new take on the idea, with the goal of bringing a large variety of luxury rentals to all major markets in Europe. With , you hire designer dresses curated by bou... |
Profitero Raises $8M From Polaris Partners To Scale E-Commerce Intelligence | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | , a SaaS provider of online insights and e-commerce intelligence for retailers and brands, has raised $8 million from Polaris Partners. It will use the funds to double its 40-strong engineering team and expand its presence in North America and abroad. Profitero says it want so be the “Nielsen for online global retailer... |
Hardware Hackers: I Want To See Your Battlefield Applications | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 6 | 4 | The past few Disrupts have been amazing for fans of hardware. From to , we’ve had some amazing startups appearing on stage alongside the software makers of the world and it’s clear that hardware is where it’s at. That’s why I need you to submit your hardware project to . It’s a great platform, a great way to grab a... |
Mixify Launches Clubcast To Bring Daft Punk To Your House | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Daft Punk , but startup company has launched a new service, called and raised initial capital to bring DJs from around the world to your club or event. Mixify began as a live streaming service for electronic dance music in late 2012. The company developed relationships with 15,000 different electronic DJs to strea... |
Meet The Judges For The Seattle TC Pitch-Off (And Get Tickets!) | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | In one week, TechCrunch will . Matt will climb the Space Needle. I’ll sip a latte at the original Starbucks. Maybe we’ll squeeze in a stroll around Pike Place Market. And still, none of it will compare to the magic of the going down on June 12 at 6 p.m. We’ll have good drinks, good conversation, and some awesome sta... |
Core Gaming On Tablets Gets A $11.6M Mega-Boost In Super Evil Megacorp’s New Round | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Just as it seemed like iOS and Android gaming was getting mature and maybe a tad boring, veteran game developer Bo Daly amassed a super evil mega-team of super evil mega-game developers to build a new startup called . They just snagged former EA executive Kristian Segerstrale (pictured below) as their new chief operat... |
This Is The Face Tracking Tech Powering Amazon’s New 3D Smartphone | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Rumor has it – and we’ve confirmed – that Amazon will launch its first smartphone on June 18. The device will be unique in the marketplace thanks to its ability to deliver 3D effects courtesy of four front-mounted IR cameras. What wasn’t known is how Amazon planned to scan our faces to handle the UI elements. TechCrunc... |
It’s The Security, Stupid! | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | On Tuesday, Google of the current state of encryption in email, revealing that some leading providers like Comcast and France’s Orange encrypted nearly none of the email that approached its servers. The news this week seemed to confirm many of our worst fears about the state of security on the Internet (as it does mo... |
Tinder Just Replaced The Pick-Up Line With Selfies | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | “So hey, do you live around here?” could be replaced by silly selfies if takes off. The swiping part of was always fun, akin to spotting potential lovers across the bar. The problem was ending up with a bunch of matches on Tinder or someone making “come hither” eyes at you in real life, but having nothing to say to... |
Sherlybox Creates A Network Storage System On Your Desk | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Personal cloud-like storage solutions are all the rage these days, what with the NSA reading our love letters and all, so desktop-based hard drives with some cloud smarts are a great way to get Dropbox-like performance with your own hardware. That’s where comes in. Sherlybox, created by the makers of software solutio... |
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Google Will Now Warn You When A Site’s Mobile Version Is Broken And Dumb | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | We’ve all been there. You take out your phone to Google something. You click the first result. It starts loading the page you wanted… bam! You’re kicked to the homepage of the site. More often than not, this is because the site you were trying to visit implemented its “mobile-friendly” version in a dumb way. Rather t... |
AR Startup Daqri Hires Ex-Raytheon Exec Andy Lowery As It Expands Sales To Industrial Clients | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Augmented reality startup sees a big opportunity for its “4D” technology to be used by . To lead the charge into engineering and manufacturing businesses, the company has hired former Raytheon executive Andy Lowery as president. Daqri was originally founded to provide brands, agencies, and media companies with tools... |
Triblio Raises $3.4M For A Data-Driven Approach To Content Marketing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | , a startup that says it’s bringing “science to the art of content marketing,” is announcing that it has raised $3.4 million in seed funding. Content marketing startups (i.e. the ones that help companies produce blog posts, videos, and other content that can indirectly promote their brand) have announced some big round... |
Philips Shows Off How You’ll Be Able To Control Your Hue Lights From Notification Center In iOS 8 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Philips Hue is already a pretty effective and easy way of setting up a connected home lighting system, but it can be even easier thanks to changes Apple made in iOS 8. The update lets third-party developers put “widgets” in the Today view of notification center, which means you can do more than just check the weather a... |
One Year Later, SFO Still Refuses To Meet With Uber, Lyft And Sidecar To Discuss Dispute | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Uber, Lyft and Sidecar sent a letter to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee last week asking him to intervene in the ongoing dispute over the right to pick up passengers at the San Francisco International Airport. We’ve reached out a couple of times to the mayor’s office for comment on this. , but one thing is clear — , there... |
Modio Lets Kids Make 3D Printable Monsters On Their iPads | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | I’ve seen a lot of design programs ostensibly marketed at kids, but none are as cool as . Created by Hilmar Gunnarsson, an Icelandic entrepreneur, the system allows you to build Lego-like creatures that snap together and can be printed in multiple colors. Why is this so cool? Because each part sticks together like mag... |
Garmin Goes For A Biathlon With The Multifaceted Forerunner 15 | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | time runner, GPS watches are as beloved to me as a nice pair of trainers. I ran my first (and last) marathon with a Garmin watch that looked like a giant candy bar that had melted onto my wrist and have used their watches for years. That’s why I was interested in their latest offering, the Forerunner 15, a small, en... |
The Platform Wars | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | keynote this year, : Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and Google Drive for cloud storage; WhatsApp, Snapchat and BBM for messaging; Skype and your cell phone for calls; Google for search; and so on. Hell, Apple even took on Surprising? Not really. The competitive surface area that major technology companies share is inexorabl... |
Developers Can Now Pre-Order The New Kinect For Windows Sensor For $199 | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Today, Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows team that developers can from the Microsoft Store for $199 and receive it in July, “a few months ahead of general availability of sensors and the SDK.” The sensor, which is the same one that’s come with every Xbox One sold so far, is available for pre-order in limited quantitie... |
Netflix Error Blames Verizon For Playback Issues, Verizon Responds With Legal Threats | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | This one could get messy. Yesterday afternoon, on a message that some Netflix/Verizon customers were seeing which pinned potential video quality issues on Verizon’s network being “crowded.” Verizon, as you might expect, was none too happy to hear about this — and now they’re threatening legal action. The core of Veriz... |
Test Driving The ‘Drone Selfie’ With Photojojo’s New Rental Program (Video) | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | That is, until now. This week , the popular photography newsletter and online store, launched its that lets people “borrow the weirdest, funnest, newest and most rare photo-making stuff on the planet.” It’s a pretty cool program: A flying drone with a GoPro camera attached to it goes for , a Digital Bolex that t... |
Edyn Is A Gardening Monitor That Sends Moisture, Temperature Data Back To The Cloud | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | The Internet of Things is coming to a garden near you. Last fall, made the finals at TechCrunch Disrupt with a soil monitor that continuously sends data on moisture and temperature back to the cloud. It was co-founded by a Princeton grad and soil scientist named , who had worked with hundreds of Kenyan farmers to in... |
Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 5 | Dropbox has swallowed up another early stage startup, this one a stealthy company called which was developing a tool that allowed you to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension, to be followed by both iOS and Android applications. None of the products were publicly available, as the company had only... |
Intel Bets On Surface Pro 3-Like “2-In-1” Devices | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Today at the Computex event in Taiwan, Intel unveiled a reference design ‘2-in-1’ device, raising the profile of tablet-hybrids. The chip maker, increasingly betting on mobile in the face of a immiserated personal computer market, wants to grow its market share in the tablet industry. The idea of a ‘2-in-1’ — hereafter... |
Hong Kong Incubator NEST Launches An Equity Crowdfunding Platform For Startups | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Ask Hong Kong startup founders about the challenges facing their ecosystem and you are likely to hear one answer over and over again: the lack of funding opportunities. Because Hong Kong’s startup industry is so new, companies are still seen as risky investments and many high-worth individuals turn to the property and ... |
The Coolest iOS 8 Features Apple Didn’t Talk About Today | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Apple gave us a lot to digest at today’s WWDC event, including big announcements about , , and a new programming language called . But even with two hours to present, Apple still couldn’t fit everything in. The company mentions dozens of new features to be released when iOS 8 hits this fall. While some of the featur... |
Too Lazy To Watch The WWDC 2014 Keynote? Check Out This Song Instead | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVSq2nAnJ6I&w=640&h=360] Are you too pressed for time to ? Or just occupied lovingly stroking your Nexus 7? Don’t worry–musician has got you covered with a catchy song that pithily sums up all of the most important points from the speech, from to Senior Vice President of So... |
Yahoo Wins Another Apple Design Award For News Digest App | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Every year, Apple awards a series of apps its coveted Apple Design Award. These apps represent what Apple feels are the best qualities of the platform. Among the big winners in these ADAs is Yahoo’s News Digest app. That marks the second win in so many years for Yahoo. The awards themselves are a slick, aluminum cube w... |
Hands On With Apple’s CarPlay In The Ferrari FF | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Something I will never have is a Ferrari FF, a four-seater supercar that costs more than my life and all my worldly possessions combined are worth. But the car is notable not just for its beautiful matte paint job, super high price tag and precision engineering – it’ll also be among the first cars to ship with Apple’... |
Hang Local Helps You Hang Out More With Friends IRL | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | creator Allen Romero is a self-proclaimed “social mother fucker” whose main goal is to get people off their phones and connect them in the real world. Ironically, he created an app for that. It’s likely that at least half a dozen of your friends are down to grab a bite to eat or head out into the city for a fun night ... |
iOS 7 Changed iOS, But iOS 8 Changes Computing | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Apple showed off a lot of new stuff today, so much so that it’s actually hard to process. But from a macro perspective, one thing is clear: iOS 8 actually represents much more of a shift than did iOS 7 last year, despite the fact that the visual changes in iOS 7 threw users and Apple-watchers for a loop. As a result, i... |
Apple’s WWDC Delivers Developer Fanservice | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Apple’s WWDC keynote this morning laid out some welcome consumer-facing features coming to iOS and OS X. But the biggest announcements by far were the ones in which Apple delivered developers a wish list of items that nailed every major pain point in the ecosystem. This afternoon, Apple expanded on its offerings for de... |
Apple iOS 8 SDK Gives Developers Access To Faster 3D Graphics, Touch ID And More | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | With the launch of iOS 8, Apple today released a number of new developer tools for its mobile operating system. The new iOS SDK, which Apple CEO Tim Cook called “the biggest release since the launch of the App Store,” includes over and changes. One thing developers will love about this release — besides the new — is... |
Apple Gets More Explicit About Bitcoin Apps | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Late last year, a series of app removals hit bitcoin wallets, causing folks in the industry to panic over Apple’s stance on the “virtual currency.” When that happened, I wrote a piece about exactly how Apple felt about bitcoin, as the company wasn’t talking publicly. In the piece, I : Bitcoin is not illegal, but it is... |
Inside Jobs: What Exactly Does It Mean To Be A ‘Solutions Architect’? | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Some jobs have names that make it pretty easy to understand what they do: Airplane pilot, waitress, doctor, shoe salesman. But in today’s tech industry, there are a lot of job titles that are far from self-explanatory. In this episode of , I sat down with , who has one of those mysterious-sounding jobs as a “Solution... |
Missed The WWDC 2014 Keynote? Here’s The Complete Video | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | The entire WWDC 2014 keynote for your viewing pleasure. Watch Apple’s executives roll out the latest and greatest from Cupertino — and even call one of Apple’s newest employee, Dr. Dre. The keynote address kicks off with a video tribute to app developers. Tim Cook first strolls out at the 5:06 mark to greet the crowd... |
Home Deco Site Houzz Raises $150M At A $2.3B Post-Money Valuation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Looks like home-remodelling and design site is upsizing. Filings that the startup made at the end of May in Delaware, uncovered by the folks at , indicate that it is raising a Series D round of $150 million, at a post-money valuation of just over $2.3 billion on a fully-diluted basis. What’s striking is that the doc... |
All The News From WWDC 2014 | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | OS X and iOS world at its 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference, lifting the curtain on OS X Yosemite, iOS 8 and more, including the ability to allow iPhones to make calls through a Mac. What follows is TechCrunch’s complete coverage of the announcements including hands-on reports with the upcoming OS X and iOS feature... |
Google+ Stories, Automated Travelogues Built With Your Own Photos And Videos, Arrives On iOS | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | In the middle of Apple’s big announcement, which includes a revamped iOS Photos application among , Google quietly rolled out an update to its own iOS “photos” application, also known as Google+. The company has now released Google+ Stories for iOS, the new multimedia, scrapbooking-like feature which automatically com... |
Marin Software Buys Social Retargeting Co. Perfect Audience For $23M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | Ad tech company , which went , has made its first acquisition: it’s acquired , a specialist in display and social network retargeting, for $22.8 million, with $5.4 million of that in cash and the rest in common stock. The deal closed officially today. Marin Software already offers a platform for advertisers to run c... |
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Apple Introduces CloudKit, An ‘Effectively Free’ Toolkit For Making Cloud Apps | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | While Apple has a reputation for building beautiful hardware and powerful software, recent forays into the cloud, including MobileMe, iCloud, and Siri, have been found wanting by many. At today’s WWDC event, Apple demonstrated that it’s making significant headway on the cloud front with the announcement of , advanced ... |
Apple Opens Up Touch ID To All Apps | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | If you ever thought that the future creeps up on you slowly — and then all at once — behold Touch ID for all apps. Announced today as a side feature of , the Touch ID recognition you’ve come to know and love in the 5s will now extend beyond helping you more quickly unlock your iPhone and download apps from iTunes to h... |
Apple Launches Swift, A New Programming Language For Writing iOS And OS X Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 2 | At its today, Apple surprised all of the developers in the audience by launching a new programming language called . This new language seems to be poised to replace Objective-C as the main programming language on Apple’s platforms. Swift will use the same LLVM compiler and runtime as Apple’s Objective-C implementati... |
This Glove Makes You Beethoven | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | “Have you ever seen the Matrix?” Thad Starner excitedly asks me over the phone. “There’s that scene where they need to fly a helicopter and Trinity just says, “hang on” and then uploads the instructions to her brain. That’s the future of what I’m doing.” What started as a wearable experiment for the could possibly ma... |
Tech Founders Talk About Why The New ‘Entrepreneur Barbie’ Matters | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | The impact of Barbie on young girls’ self-image and aspirations has been a controversial topic for decades. But this week, Mattel, the toy company that makes Barbie, took a small step in a positive direction with the official launch of as its latest “career of the year” doll for 2014. In a lot of ways, on the surfa... |
Google and Nest Acquire Dropcam For $555 Million | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Remember those rumors that Google was looking to acquire the plug-and-play security camera company, Dropcam? Yep. It just happened. Just months after being acquired themselves, the now Google-owned Nest has just announced that they’ve acquired Dropcam. We’re digging for more details on the deal now, but have confirme... |
NSA Reform Gathers Momentum In Congress After Late-Night Vote | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | After a somewhat desultory year of little to no change, reform of the United States surveillance state appears to have finally found momentum. Recently the USA FREEDOM Act was , and two funding amendments that would have cut monies for forced backdoors and certain government searches . Last night, however, the House ... |
SpaceX Is About To Fire Another Massive Rocket Into Space — Watch Live! (Update: Mission Aborted) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | It’s Friday, with about 2 hours left in the West Coast work day. Are you working? Like working? Probably not. So let’s watch freaking rockets get shot into space instead! After a bunch of delays, SpaceX is scheduled to launch six satellites into the skies for ORBCOMM, a company that helps companies use satellites for... |
Apple’s iWatch Could Be The Next Big Sports Fashion Accessory | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Sports sells gatorade, and sports sells sneakers, and sports sells clothing and hats and TV trays and bottle openers and anything that has enough surface area to hold a logo. But can sports sell the concept of the smartwatch? That’s what Apple might find out beginning in October, the rumored launch date of the iWatch, ... |
Satellogic Aims To Launch A Constellation Of Small Imaging Satellites Around Earth | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | is an Argentinian startup that it just had its third successful satellite launch. The company was founded by CEO , who previously founded Core Security Technologies and came up with the vision for Satellogic while attending in 2010. Describing existing satellite technology as “archaic,” Kargieman said he wants to... |
Gillmor Gang Live 06.20.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | – Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Hack Yo | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Turns out the app that has totally changed my life and in the US App Store this week comes with a few simple tricks to make it to No time for individual yo-ing? No problem! Here’s how to send a mass “Yo” to everyone you “Yo.” 1. Just scroll to the bottom of your friends list and hit the “+” icon.
2. Now type in “... |
CrunchWeek: Amazon’s Fire Phone, Facebook’s Slingshot, And Yo | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | This week, , and sat around the round table to dig into the week’s news: Should we buy Amazon’s ? Is Slingshot ? And, of course, . Just Yo. We shoot CrunchWeek every week as a roundup of the biggest stories that have broken recently. So put on a checked shirt, and let’s get into it. |
Yo? No. | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Growing up – and excuse me for dating myself here a bit – kids were into Swatch watches, jean jackets, stirrup pants, and jelly bracelets. My sister grew up collecting something called “ ,” which I never understood. Today, kids are more technically oriented. They obsess over iPad-connected toys like , and the never-en... |
U.S. Government To Ban Drones In National Parks | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | So, you bought a drone. What are you going to do with it first? Snap some real estate photos of your house? Take a ? Crash it into a tree then try to convince the manufacturer it came like that? If your answer is “Take it to a national park”, you might want to reconsider. That’s not allowed anymore. The US Government’... |
Analytics Startup Heap Brings Its “Capture Everything” Approach To iOS Apps | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | , a startup aiming to bring a more comprehensive and flexible approach to analytics, is moving into mobile. The company first announced its iOS integration about a year ago, but at the time it was an invite-only product in beta testing. More recently, the company has removed the beta label and opened the product to a... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Amazon Fire Phone, Ink & Slide, And Slingshot | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | The podcast is packed this week, with six of us talking over each other about some of the most exciting news of the week. If you didn’t hear, Amazon launched its own smartphone called the , complete with special shopping features and 3D effects. Adobe, meanwhile, introduced the , a digital pen and ruler for artists ... |
Amazon Courts Fire Phone Developers With $15,000 In “Amazon Coins” | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | When Microsoft needed to convince developers to build mobile apps for its Windows Phone 8 platform, it took a familiar path: to do so. Amazon, however, is going a different route – at least, for now. Instead of outright paying developers to update their apps to work with its newly launched smartphone, , Amazon is of... |
So I Flew In An “Uber For Tiny Planes” | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | The first line of the email in my box read, “This is UberX for small planes.” Yet another mystery startup in my inbox. Yay! (not really). But the idea of skipping the traffic to Tahoe was attractive enough to bite on this one. So four days later I found myself 2,000 feet high in a tiny plane with founder and licens... |
Autopilot Launches CoPilot Sales Automation Tool | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Any startup worth its salt these days built a mailing list from before it even launched, but what do you do after that? How do you identify the best leads from all of those random people who signed up for your service? Fresh off its , marketing automation service today announced the launch of its , which aims to ma... |
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Microsoft Does Us A Solid By Accidentally Confirming That The Surface Mini Is Real | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Microsoft declined to comment. Earlier today, a manual published to help users dig into their new Surface Pro 3 devices of the currently Super Secret Surface Mini. Oops. Surprised? Don’t be. Microsoft had originally planned to debut the Surface Mini alongside the Surface Pro 3. I’ve heard from people with knowledge o... |
New House Majority Leader Opposes Net Neutrality, Just Like His Predecessor | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Yesterday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy . Outgoing Rep. Eric Cantor, who held the position previously, unexpectedly lost his primary earlier this month, and announced that he would resign his post in his party’s leadership shortly afterwards. Why should you care about the new House Majority? He’s been held up in the media rece... |
This Waterproof Kindle Paperwhite Is Humanity’s Greatest Achievement | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 20 | Sometimes a device comes so close to being perfect that you’d be forgiven for not realizing that with just a single tweak, it can become, in actual fact, perfect. The , as an e-reader that Amazon has crafted so well that you pretty much never need look beyond for anything better. But while a regular book ends up with ... |
T-Mobile Stops Counting Data Used With Spotify, Pandora, And Certain Other Music Services | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | T-Mobile pulled something of a “One More Thing!” this evening, with a bit of a surprise announcement tacked onto the end of . T-Mobile will no longer count data used on the “top music streaming services” (including Pandora, iTunes Radio, iHeartRadio, Slacker, Spotify, Samsung’s Milk service, and Rhapsody) against you... |
Court Rules That Non-Relevant Files Seized Under A Warrant Cannot Be Held Indefinitely | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Say the government gets a warrant for some of your data. They come to your house, image your computers, and then hold that data — even the data that isn’t pertinent to their warrant — for several years. That’s not okay, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled. This is a good ruling, as it limits the ability ... |
T-Mobile Will Give Potential Subscribers A Free One Week “Test Drive” On An iPhone 5S | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | This evening at Seattle’s Paramount Theater, T-Mobile announced another change in the way they’ll do things moving forward. Their latest move? Free trials, meant to convince potential subscribers that T-Mobile’s network is up to snuff. In a new program that they call “Test Drive”, T-Mobile is offering free trials to p... |
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