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Gillmor Gang: The Other Shoe | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Benedict Evans, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — finally have a full picture of the two major mobile platforms. Google I/O certainly lived up to expectations as a checkoff of the major food groups: wearables, carables, set top boxables, and so on. Android L and iOS8 consp... |
Aereo Shutters Its TV Streaming Service… For Now | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | In less than an hour the streaming TV service will “pause” its operations. In an email sent at 9 AM Eastern Saturday, Chet Kanojia informed customers that because of the , the company would temporarily halt its operations at 11:30 Eastern as it consults with the court to plan its next steps. is encouraging its cu... |
This Week In The Digital Panopticon: Google And The Right To Be Forgotten | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | The ongoing tug of war between data capture and individual privacy in the digital sphere involves myriad threads, usually moving in different directions. Getting an overview of and a handle on developments can therefore be almost impossible. It’s as if — ironically enough — this issue itself needs to be observed within... |
Foursquare, Quora, Path: What Becomes Of The Underachievers? | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | Foursquare, Quora, Path. Each is (or was) a Valley darling; each has millions of loyal users; each has raised more than $50 million, albeit nontraditionally, and been valued at $400 million or more — and each has recently done something remarkable. Foursquare and Path pivoted, . Quora, bizarrely, joined Y Combinator. ... |
Google Shuts Down TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses It Acquired In 2011 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | , a customer feedback platform for businesses that was incubated at Y Combinator and then in 2011, is being shut down on July 31, citing “dwindling usage.” Enquiries sent to the company are receiving a brief autoreply saying that the service is no longer being maintained or supported, that it will be shut down effect... |
Microsoft Cuts The Price Of Its Now-Dated Surface Pro 2 Tablet Hybrid | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Here’s a non-surprise: Microsoft is by $100 to $200, configuration depending. When Microsoft , a device that has received stronger reviews by the media than its predecessors, we asked if it would continue to sell the Surface Pro 2. The company replied with : “Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 remain great options and wil... |
The 250 New Emoji? Here’s What They’ll Look Like | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Yesterday afternoon, the Unicode Consortium published a list of 250 new Emoji that they hope Google, Apple, Twitter and the rest will all come to embrace. Spiders! Middle fingers! “Man in business suit levitating”! The problem? Except for a tiny handful of exceptions, the list of what’s to come was just a pile of text ... |
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Is Facebook Slingshot Third Time’s A Charm Or Strike Three? | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | launched strike three against Camp Snapchat with . As with many of Facebook’s recent products , Slingshot is an already-proven idea dressed up in an expensive UI with an established distribution network of . Despite the fact that most social apps fail, it should be a home run. But it won’t be. And not because it’s ... |
T-Mobile’s CEO Is Pissed That The Amazon Phone Will Be Exclusive To AT&T | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | T-Mobile’s John Legere, ever the Un-CEO, has thrown yet another tantrum in the wake of rumors suggesting the new Amazon phone . Because he’s crazy. But he’s also right, as such exclusive deals hurt both the consumer and the industry. The WSJ broke the news this morning that , which is widely expected to be announced ... |
Virtualizing Wide Area Networks, VeloCloud Rings Up $21 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Add networking to the list of technologies that are moving to the cloud. Long the purview of networking giants like Cisco and Juniper, wide area networks can now be delivered as a service thanks to companies like , which has launched from stealth mode with $21 million in financing from some of the venture capital indu... |
Adobe Picks Up 464K Creative Cloud Subscribers In Q2, Ends With 2.3M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | After the bell today, Adobe announced its , including $1.07 billion in revenue, $0.17 per share in earnings using GAAP metrics, and $0.37 per share without. The company’s shares are up sharply in after-hours trading, spiking more than 9 percent. Critical to the company’s quarter are the 464,000 new Creative Cloud subs... |
Are Secret’s Raging Hormones A Problem Or An Opportunity? | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | I can’t recall the exact wording on the short-lived post that found its way into my personal feed on , the anonymish sharing app, the other day. But the illustrative image behind it was less easy to forget. It depicted a naked trio, consisting of a guy and two girls. Let’s just call them ‘entangled.’ The secret’s post... |
SolarCity Ends The Day Up 17.58% After It Purchases Silevo, Announces Manufacturing Plans | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Shares of SolarCity jumped 17.58 percent in regular trading today, as investors applauded its decision to solar-panel manufacturer Silevo, which had plans to build a factory in New York. SolarCity intends to build the plant and scale it to “capacity greater than 1 GW within the next two years.” The deal tipped the sc... |
There Will Not Be A Live Video Stream For The Amazon Phone Launch | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Bad news, nerds. TechCrunch just received word that Amazon will not provide a live video stream of . Thankfully we’ll have a couple of writers on-hand to live blog the action, but you won’t be able to watch Bezos’ dog-and-pony show until after the event wraps. Amazon tells us that it will post the event in its entiret... |
The CreoPop Pen Is The Easiest Way To Get Into 3D Art | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | If you’re looking to get into 3D art, the pen is the closest thing you can get to a “beginner’s option.” Unlike 3D printing, which requires creating a model in a CAD-like application and sending it to an expensive printer like those made by , CreoPop lets you create 3D objects directly from your imagination. The C... |
Three Senators Decry The House’s NSA Bill, Citing “Watered Down” Reform | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | A trio of Senators wrote an and decrying the bill that passed the House recently as insufficient for the protection of the privacy of U.S. citizens. The Senators, , and , come from both parties. Senator Wyden is known as the senator that James Clapper , regarding government surveillance. The editorial is punch... |
OnLive Is Now Streaming Top-Tier Games To The Wikipad Gaming Tablet | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Remember OnLive? Despite a , the company lives on, and in March it launched its new . Today, it’s partnering with , to deliver full AAA PC gaming to the tablet. OnLive already offers this to any Android device with access to Google Play via its app, but the version for Wikipad is optimized, with special support for ... |
eBay Launches “eBay Valet,” An iPhone App That Does The Selling For You | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | eBay today is expanding its lesser-known service to mobile with the launch of a new app called , which promises to let eBay do the selling for you. That is, it takes every step of the selling process — from determining an item’s value to listing it online to shipping it when sold — and handles it for you. Like its w... |
LinkedIn-Owned Email Widget Rapportive Is About To Get Less Useful | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | All good things must come to an end. , the fantastically helpful email widget that jazzed up your Gmail sidebar with rich contact information pulled from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and more, is getting its first big revamp following in 2012. And frankly, it’s not all good news. If you’re unfamiliar with Rapportive... |
Dropbox, Box Competition Heats Up As Companies Buy Early-Stage Startups On Same Day | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | When two closely competing companies make purchases on the same day, it’s probably fair to say that it’s not a coincidence. Such was the case yesterday when and purchased early stage startups only hours apart. In fact, the cloud startups with similar names have been on mini buying sprees of late, fighting to fill i... |
Amazon’s Top-Secret Gadget Lab Is Building Plenty, But A Thinner Kindle Could Be The Coolest | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Amazon is apparently working away on a lot more besides the upcoming smartphone with the 3D interface at its Lab126 hardware R&D facility. A new details some of the work that went into creating the new smartphone, as well as a few other efforts, including a speech-controlled Bluetooth speaker, a Square-killing credit... |
Qplay Is An iPad App For Binge-Watching The Internet | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | While the seemingly infinite video options on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and elsewhere provide plenty of content, there’s definitely a effect when it’s time to pick the next thing to watch. is an iPad app that looks to reduce that stress of choice by turning videos from around the web into “Qs,” channels of content from... |
ChatCenter Is A Global, Secure Chat System That Lets Anyone Drop You A Line | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | of chat apps out there. From WhatsApp to Viber to Skype, you can’t walk a mile in Palo Alto without tripping over an emoji. That said, , a new service from TechCrunch co-founder Keith Teare and two engineers, Alex Komarov and Sergey Zhukov, is an interesting addition to the glut. To use it you simply register an iden... |
Estimote, Knoll Partner To Bring iBeacons Into Office Space Planning | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | has today announced a partnership with Knoll to bring its platform to the office space planning company. , a Disrupt and YC alum, offers a platform for developers to easily integrate iBeacon tech into existing apps and services, and at NeoCon 2014 (a trade conference for interior design) Knoll debuted one of the fi... |
Nike+ FuelBand App Now Available On Android | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 17 | Nike has made the companion app for its FuelBand and FuelBand SE activity tracking wristbands available to , two years after it first introduced the hardware and its apps for iOS devices. The companion app provides access to NikeFuel score information and history, and makes it so that your Android device can connect t... |
Alibaba Acquires UCWeb, Maker Of China’s Most Popular Mobile Browser | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | , already an investor in , will buy all remaining shares of the web browser and search company. The two firms announced the merger, one of the most significant among Chinese Internet companies to date, earlier today. UCWeb will join UC Mobile, one of Alibaba’s business unit as Alibaba preps for its U.S. IPO. Though Al... |
Index Ventures Raises New $550M Early-Stage Fund For Europe, The US And Israel | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | has announced a new early-stage, €400 million ($550 million) fund aimed at tech startups in Europe, US and Israel. This is its seventh early-stage fund and part of a total €3 billion ($4 billion) raised by Index since its inception. The fund will invest from seed and early stage, scaling up to €15 million depending on... |
Lady Gaga’s Backplane Pivots To Let You Build And Monetize Your Own Social Network | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Why should Facebook or Ning earn the money if you bring the audience? wants to put that cash in your pocket. That’s why it’s pivoting from building social networks for big brands and celebrities into an open platform where anyone can coordinate people, charge subscriptions and even sell ads. The goal is to put the po... |
CliMate Is The Cutest Bluetooth-Enabled Environment Tracker Ever | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 10 |
I am obsessed with my dehumidifier. I live in a city where the average relative humidity hovers around 80% for most of the year and it’s a constant battle to keep my things–camera equipment, leather bags, houseplants I want to keep fungus–protected from the elements, even when I’m indoors. Unfortunately, if the ... |
Amobee Buys Adconion For $235M And Kontera For $150M In Consolidation Play | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Another day, and another two big acquisitions in the digital advertising industry. , a mobile ad company , is to build out its position in the wider digital ads space: It’s gobbling up and , for $235 million and $150 million, respectively. Amobee notes that the consideration payable for Adconion Direct North Ame... |
Oculus VR Has Hired Jason Rubin, A Naughty Dog Co-Founder, To Lead First-Party Game Development | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Oculus VR that it has hired to lead first-party game development. This comes less than a week after the company announced that it has to lead the creation of a platform for selling virtual-reality experiences. Best known for his work as co-founder at , Rubin served as director on every title in both the and ... |
TC Cribs: Feeling Like A Kid Again At FiftyThree’s Creative NYC HQ | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that goes behind the doors of tech companies to see what it’s like inside for the lucky ducks who work there. Today’s episode brings us to the New York City headquarters of . FiftyThree, which is behind the for the iPad, is for making beautifully designed mobile produc... |
President Obama Hits Up The Youths On Tumblr | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | The President took to Tumblr today, answering users’ questions on topics relating to education. It was another example of the President using alternative mediums to attract the attention of young Americans. Notably, and infamously to some, the President answered to promote Healthcare.gov. That effort . The President... |
Pyne Offers A Simple Way To Poll Everyone (Or Just Your Friends) | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | “Oh jeez, another Q&A app.” That was my knee-jerk reaction when I heard about a new startup called , which has created what it says is an app that allows users to “poll the world.” But then co-founder Tony Peccatiello gave me a demo, and I have to admit that it was appealingly quick, simple and fun. As explained to me... |
Venture Capital Keeps Austin Startups Flush | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Austin investors may not be keeping the city weird, but they’re sure keeping its startup scene humming. Like the rest of the country, venture capitalists in the Capital City are riding a wave of exits to big new numbers in startups financed and capital committed over the past few quarters. , there’s no better time to ... |
Lowercase Capital Is Raising A New $25M Fund, Led By Matt Mazzeo | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | is raising another $25 million, we’re hearing. This is notable for a couple of reasons: Due to , Lowercase Capital’s very first fund — a modest $8.5 million raised in 2010 — has seen its value increase by more than 100x, which is perhaps historic in early-stage seed funds. Lowercase’s second fund, “Spur,” has also don... |
Food Startups Are Riding A VC Gravy Train | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Investments in food-related startups, from delivery services to new restaurant chains to new types of foods and additives, have raised unprecedented amounts of cash in the most recent quarter, as investors dug in to the food business. Food companies raised $89 million in the second quarter of this year alone and have r... |
Fantastic Indie Puzzler VVVVVV Is Coming To iOS And Android This Thursday | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | If you haven’t gotten around to playing through in all of its wonderfully frustrating indie puzzler glory, first of all: shame! Second: You’ll be able to play it on your phone soon, so now you have no excuse. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, watch this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxuacwotoQw&... |
CarHero Brings The Oil Change And Car Wash To You | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Cars need to have their oil changed every 5,000 miles or so. Fact. But it’s a hassle. wants to make it less of a hassle by performing the routine service wherever the car is parked at home or the office. The company just launched in the Dallas area with the hope of scaling nationwide. The idea is simple: Using CarHer... |
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Dropbox For Business Acquires MobileSpan To Make Bring-Your-Own-Device More Secure | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Dropbox has just , a startup that helps enterprise employees access corporate firewalled content securely. MobileSpan will shut down at the end of 2014, and active development will cease immediately. Dropbox has spent the last year-and-a-half concentrating on . MobileSpan’s knowledge of the bring-your-own-device worl... |
How Max Levchin Plans To Reinvent Consumer Finance Again, With His New Company Affirm | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Max Levchin is one of the founders of PayPal, a company that made it easier for consumers to transfer funds to one another and provided an easy-to-install payment processor for businesses. Now he’s seeking to once again reinvent consumer finance as CEO of his new company . Affirm was founded out of Levchin’s , and ... |
Amazon Said To Start Selling Babysitting And Other Home Services Later This Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Amazon wants to be your one-stop shop for everything – including trades and services, according to a new report by . The company is looking at debuting sales of things like babysitting, handymen services, painters, haircuts, home repair and more. The move would extend Amazon’s range of competitors to sites like Angie’... |
Amazon Now Lets You Buy Any Kindle On A Payment Plan Without A Credit Check | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Those interested in buying an Amazon e-reader or tablet can now pay in a series of five equal monthly payments instead of one lump sum at checkout. According to the (shown below), this payment plan doesn’t require a credit check and doesn’t add anything to the price of the gadget, making it a pretty sweet deal for ... |
Opera Is Buying Mobile Video Ad Network AdColony, Sources Say | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | Opera Software is making another acquisition to build out its mobile advertising business: It has either purchased or is close to purchasing mobile video advertising startup AdColony, according to sources with knowledge of the companies. We’ve contacted both companies asking for comment. Opera spokespeople in the U.S. ... |
Roost Takes On Twitter, RSS With A Platform For Web-Based Push Notifications | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 10 | A new Y Combinator-backed startup called wants to succeed where RSS readers perhaps failed with the introduction of a new service that lets consumers subscribe to websites using browser-based push notifications. However, unlike a browser plug-in system such as , for example, Roost is based on an upcoming standard fo... |
The Bay Lights, The LED Art Project Backed By Big Tech Names, Kicks Off $1.2M Crowdfunding Campaign | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Just over a year ago, a large scale art project turned the Bay Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Area structure that’s historically been the plainer sister to the famed Golden Gate Bridge, into a glittering destination in its own right. But as iconic as the Bay Lights have quickly become, it turns out that they’re not s... |
House Of Representatives Passes Amendment To Cut Off Funding For NSA’s “Backdoor” Searches | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | The House of Representatives has passed by a landslide an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that will cut off funding to National Security Agency’s “backdoor” surveillance. The act, which places limits on how the NSA can gain access to communication, including email, online browsing, and chat histories, stil... |
Light Chaser, The Animation Studio That Wants To Be “China’s Pixar,” Raises $20M From GGV Capital | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | , the animation studio that aspires to be China’s Pixar, announced today that it has raised $20 million in series B funding led by GGV Capital, with participation from Hillhouse Capital and returning investor IDG. The company was launched in March 2013 by Tudou founder Gary Wang after , creating China’s biggest strea... |
Microsoft Updates The Surface Pro 3 Ahead Of Its Release Tomorrow | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Tomorrow is launch day in Canada and the U.S. for , and to make sure the device has as smooth a launch as possible, Microsoft has released a set of updates for the tablet-hybrid. The updates include a slurry of performance boosts, as well as a fix for a power button issue that was annoying some. If you have a review d... |
Adobe’s Ink And Slide For The iPad Are Useful, But Expensive, Additions To An Artist’s Workflow | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | With of the , Adobe has made its first foray into the realm of hardware gadgets. The company describes the pair of gadgets as a “ Pen and Digital Ruler.” In my time with the Ink and Slide, I’ve found that it works quite well in concert with , one of the company’s latest apps designed specifically for the iPad. The... |
Google Donates Mod_Spdy To The Apache Foundation | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | With , Google brought its SPDY protocol, which by now forms the basis of the next version of HTTP, to the popular and open-source web server . That move undoubtedly helped popularize (pronounced “SPeeDY”), which is now supported by most popular web servers and browsers. With those goals achieved, Google today t... |
The Next Fitbits Uncovered: Heart-Rate Sensors, GPS Info, Atmospheric Tracking, And Smartphone Notifications | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | The Fitbit product line is looking a little stale especially after . But that’s seemingly about to change with the addition of several upcoming, and upgraded, models including a fitness tracker with a heart rate sensor. Meet the Fitbit Surge, Fitbit Charge and the PurePulse. I had a lengthy discussion with Fitbit CEO ... |
BlackBerry In Talks With Drake For BlackBerry Classic Launch Promotion | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | BlackBerry pre-announced (the announce before the real announce) a new phone today called the . But they’re apparently enlisting some serious talent to help push their upcoming BlackBerry Classic, the other new smartphone the company is bringing to market later this year, with a November projected launch date: Drake i... |
Gasp: Twitter GIFs Aren’t Actually GIFs | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | What’s in a format? Does that which we call a GIF by any other name invoke just as many lols? Just yesterday, Twitter . But there’s a catch! What Twitter ends up showing you isn’t actually a GIF at all. EVERYBODY PAAANIIIIIIC. Note: don’t actually panic. This isn’t a bad thing. Quite the contrary. As noticed by the fo... |
Apple’s Maps’ New “City Tours” Feature Uncovered In iOS 8 Betas | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | An officially announced but yet-to-seen feature in Apple’s new operating system iOS called “City Tours,” by an enterprising developer who managed to capture a video of what this 3D “Flyover” technology will look like, when it goes live. The feature, which lets you view a city from above, zooming in and panning around... |
Google Acquires mDialog To Improve DoubleClick’s Video Advertising | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Google today announced that it has acquired video advertising company . In , the company said that it will “work with the mDialog team to incorporate their technology and expertise into our DoubleClick product suite,” helping publishers on DoubleClick (which ) monetize their video content. The company pointed to , ... |
Box Said To Move Forward With Its Debut As The Tech IPO Market Perks Up | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Box, a cloud storage and file management company, . Box , and then didn’t hit go on, its offering in the time frame that the market initially expected. A deterioration in market sentiment and the led to a general slowdown in the IPO pipeline. We’re still waiting for the company to file an update to its S-1 document... |
Apple’s Smartwatch Said To Debut In October With A 2.5-Inch Screen And Wireless Charging | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Apple will reportedly launch its smartwatch as early as October, after kicking off production in July, according to a new report from . The smartwatch will have a 2.5-inch screen, according to the news organization’s sources, which will arch up from the band and be “slightly rectangular,” and it’ll feature touchscreen... |
Google’s New Web Starter Kit Is A Boilerplate For Multi-Screen Web Development | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | For a long time now, Google has offered developers a set of what it believes are . Today it is going beyond just providing this information by the , a boilerplate kit similar to that includes templates and tooling for getting multi-screen web apps up and running quickly. Google says the templates are optimized fo... |
Yo, Virginia, There Is A Cult Of Disruption | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Disruption. From frenzied investment pitches on Sand Hill Road to the name of the top conference for startups in Silicon Valley (i.e. ), that word has become synonymous with everything and everyone creating innovation today. Yet, the communal rhetorical choice is quite peculiar. When you deeply think about it, disrupt... |
Skout Launches Fuse, An Ephemeral Messaging App That Makes Group Chats Explode | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Call it engagement hacking. But mobile developer teams from the one that built Facebook Slingshot to that guy behind the app ‘Yo’ app are tinkering with unconventional ways of making people interact. With ephemerality and anonymity, it’s getting weirder. Maybe a little more conceptual. Maybe a little nonsensical. It’s ... |
Meh | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | It seemed . So mindless. And yet, creating this has, for me, been a journey. A journey from the Poke to the Like, as I was saying only the other day to my co-founder, Roi. But today, I can reveal to you the new app I’m working on and am poised to leave TechCrunch for: . Yes, Meh may leave you scratching your head. Or... |
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Kima Invests In Pakistan-Based Startup Behind Groopic Photo App | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | The world just got that little bit smaller. The Pakistan-based startup behind , an iOs and Android app that ‘ ’ has secured an investment from . Kima is a seed stage capital firm with headquarters in Paris, France, and is known to . , which made Groopic, is an alumni of , Pakistan’s government-backed tech incubat... |
Facebook Search Warrant Disclosure Reveals Scope of Government Requests | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Facebook announced Thursday it’s been pushing back against a bulk set of search warrants requesting private data from its user accounts since last summer. , the social media network announced a court in New York requested personal data for 381 users, including photos and private messages. The company argued the request... |
Review Trackers Raises $2M Series A Round To Help Businesses Better Manage Their Online Reputation | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | , a Chicago-based service that helps businesses aggregate and manage online reviews about them, today announced that it has raised a $2 million funding round for a wide range of Midwest-based investors. The round was led by Milwaukee’s CSA Partners with participation from , and angel investor . As the company’s fou... |
The Day I Measured My Heart Rate Through My Butt | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 19 | Of all the weird science fiction projects that the future would bring us, the last I expected to see was a seat cushion that would be able to measure your heart beat through your derriere. And yet, the future is here (or nearly here), thanks to a new “smart seat cushion” called . The main idea behind the Darma cushion... |
Globby Helps Small Shops Take Advantage Of Southeast Asia’s Booming E-Commerce Market | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Mobile penetration is , and still growing, and the increase in mobile devices also fuels a . The problem for many vendors, however, is how to bring their brick-and-mortar stores online. A Singapore-based startup named (short for Global Blaze Solutions) wants to be the e-commerce platform of choice for Southeast Asi... |
Samsung’s Gear Live Android Wear Smartwatch First Impressions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | The Gear Live is Samsung’s first kick at the Android Wear can, and like the other hardware in this category, it offers Android Wear basically as Google intended it. Software wise, there’s almost nothing to distinguish these devices – which means it’s all down to hardware design for Wear makers to make their mark. Sam... |
Android TV First Look Video And Hands On Impressions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Android TV is one of the myriad new things that Google announced this year at I/O, and the from Google’s previous effort with Google TV, a project announced in 2010 and updated continually since but that still hasn’t managed to become a significant part of Google’s lineup. Google is looking to change all that with ... |
Android Auto First Look Video With Google Automotive Chief Andrew Brenner | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Google is about to make your smartphone the powerhouse behind your in-car infotainment system, with , a new feature it’s introducing to Android devices that replaces your built-in car navigation and media system with a version of Android designed specifically for vehicular display systems. The effort is very much re... |
YouTube’s New Creator Tools Include Donations, Fan-Submitted Subtitles, And A Mobile Creator Studio App | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | YouTube is by far the largest platform for online video viewership in the world. But frankly, it wouldn’t be anything without its creators. That’s why in a keynote today at Vidcon, the company announced a wide range of new tools for the people that upload videos to the platform, all in the hopes that it will allow them... |
Two US Government Agencies Are Working Together To Lower The Cost Of Installing Wi-Fi In Schools | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | The FCC that it $1 billion in 2015 to help bring in-school Wi-Fi to 10 million students who currently lack the technology. Today, the agency announced a with the U.S. General Services Administration that will allow participating schools to secure better rates on the hardware they need to install WiFi than they co... |
Prescription Auditing Service Truveris Raises $12.75 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Bringing clarity to the $300 billion prescription drug payment system in the U.S., has raised $12.75 million in a new round of funding led by Canaan Partners. The New York-based company launched its first product in 2009, a system to check bills received by health insurance companies for prescription fulfillment. Tru... |
VCs Ben Horowitz And Lars Dalgaard Want To Bridge SF’s Growing Digital Divide | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Pews were packed at San Francisco’s church in the city’s Tenderloin district last night with people who wanted to hear the gospel thoughts of two of Silicon Valley’s most successful VCs, Ben Horowitz and Lars Dalgaard. The event was designed to support a $10K Crowdtilt fundraiser for the campaign put on by Glide SF... |
Why Twitter Spiked 5% Today | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Shares of technology stocks were mostly today, with the . Twitter, however, a company still down heavily from its earlier post-IPO highs, advanced 5 percent. Why? Positive external forecasts. that it thinks Twitter’s domestic user growth could best its first quarter tally, reassuring skittish investors worried t... |
Japan’s Moi Corporation Raises $5M For Mobile Live Streaming App TwitCasting | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Once upon a time, say about three or four years ago, there were all sorts of companies trying to help users live stream themselves onto the Internet. There was Livestream and Ustream and Justin.tv and others, promising users quick and painless tools for live online broadcasts — even on mobile. And then things calmed do... |
How Can Chromecast Connect To Your Friend’s Phones Without Using WiFi? Ultrasonic Sounds | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | During yesterday’s I/O keynote, Google announced a rather fantastic new feature coming to the Chromecast: soon, your friends won’t need to be connected to your WiFi to be able to send things to your TV. As long as they’re in the same room, it should just work. But how? While Google’s Rishi Chandra mentioned yesterday t... |
Hands On With The Moto 360, The First Round-Faced Android Wear Smartwatch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Motorola’s Moto 360 was ironically probably the most-coveted this year, because despite high interest it’s also the only one that wasn’t available. It’ll still be shipped out to all conference attendees when it becomes publicly available later this summer, but for now we managed to snag some hands on time and a video... |
Germany Nixing Verizon Contract Highlights Economic Impact Of US Spying | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | The German government announced it was pulling its contract with Verizon due to fears the Internet provider was allowing U.S. agencies to spy on the government’s communications, . The news highlights the negative impact controversial government surveillance programs have on American businesses abroad. Reports of the U... |
Uber Turns Gay Marriage Into A Marketing Stunt | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | In honor of Pride weekend in San Francisco, Uber is cheapening the whole concept of marriage by letting you order a . Uber will pick up you and your significant other and rush you through the legal paperwork and ceremony, all in under an hour. The company might mean well, and the experience might even be fun, but the ... |
Aereo’s Dissent | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | waiting for the Supreme Court ruling on all week. When it came down yesterday, it felt a little bit like Groundhog Day. If the Supreme Court sided with Aereo, winter would be over; if they didn’t, six more weeks of cold. Either way, I think Aereo will eventually have its own spring… but now it will take a while. So ... |
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500 Startups Files With The SEC So Dave McClure Can Talk Up His New $100M Fund | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | Dave McClure’s seed-stage investment firm is raising a big new $100 million fund. . But now, thanks to some filings with the SEC, McClure can finally talk about it. That’s because 500 Startups has filed the paperwork necessary to allow for a general solicitation exemption while fundraising. In plain English that mea... |
Loyalty And Marketing Analytics Startup CrowdTwist Raises $9M More | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | is announcing that it has raised $9 million in Series B funding. Since the company offers tools for creating online loyalty programs, co-founder and CEO Irving Fain said that a few years ago, CrowdTwist was sometimes “gravitationally lumped into the intense fervor around gamification,” but he pointed to the new fundin... |
Russia’s Skolkovo Project Back On Track | Monty Munford | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | The pace of change in Russia appears slow at the moment. Ongoing events in the suggest an inward-looking country that has no ear for global opinion and is set on acting like the angry Soviet bear that we know from the Cold War. The perception, however, can be different from reality, especially when viewed from thousand... |
Snapchat’s “Our Story” Is A Genius, Collaborative Reinvention Of The Livestream | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | What does it feel like to be a massive music festival? Nothing like a glossy livestream of the mainstage. Much more like Snapchat’s , a curated channel of user submitted photos of videos from all around a big event. I was there last night at Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival, an 140,000-person dance music festival where ... |
The Story Behind Google’s Cardboard Project | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | The surprise hit of Google I/O was without a doubt . Google’s paper product — or phone-based VR viewer — made its debut during yesterday’s keynote, and today, David Coz, the project’s founder, revealed its origins. Depending on who you ask at I/O, Google went ahead with this project either because it wanted to show ... |
This Video Shows A Day In The Life Of DDOS Cyber Attacks | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | This is that’s been shared throughout the Internet purporting to show a concerted DDOS attack coming mainly from China and concentrated on United States internet servers on the day that Facebook’s service for many users worldwide. We’ve looked into this further, however, and it turns out this attack bore no relat... |
WatchESPN’s Record 1.7M Concurrent World Cup Viewers Beats The Super Bowl | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 26 | The WatchESPN app (or site, or however you access it) was the way that many Americans were watching the US vs. Germany World Cup match today. So many, in fact, that the site had issues serving all of its users in the first half. Some folks, including me, couldn’t log on until many minutes into the match. Still, that di... |
Will Google Enter The Insurance Industry? | Christoffer O. Hernæs | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | When it comes to collecting and organizing information, Google is well on its way to establishing its hegemony through the registration of 6 billion daily unique searches and indexing of over . What remains to be seen is how this information is being made universally accessible and at what price. One of the industri... |
Amazon’s Master Of Commerce Move Into The Phone Game | Alistair Goodman | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | Mobile is so 2010. So why would throw its hat into the game of phones? That’s the thing — it didn’t. The company is headed into battle in two other markets full of potential: real-world commerce and digital advertising. Amazon has focused its business almost solely on e-commerce since its launch in 1994. Twenty yea... |
Three Realities About Venture Capital | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | This week’s centered on many facets, but none got more attention than the nascent startup’s $1.2 million in venture capital funding. The reaction to this investment across the web came in several flavors. Founders complained that their own startups created far more value for society than an app that essentially acts ... |
Consumer Robotics Is Finally Ready For Prime Time | Rudina Seseri | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | The robotics revolution has been in the making for decades, but market expectations have historically outpaced technology readiness. While industrial and military sectors have adopted a number of high-priced robotics solutions, the consumer sector has lagged due to lack of technological maturity and high costs. In rece... |
Google May Buy Video Search Startup Baarzo | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | Google has been in talks to acquire video search startup , according to sources with knowledge of the company. However, those sources were less clear about whether the companies had reached a final agreement. (One suggested that the deal had closed, the other was noncommittal.) ( A third source had also said that Baa... |
Encrypted To The Last Drop | Contributor | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | Everything is for sale in the dark web marketplaces. Anonymous buyers can procure everything from prescription painkillers to exotic designer drugs. You can hire sex workers and buy weapons in the same exchange. Danger lurks around every corner and Satoshis flow like water while whales make it rain on encrypted Tor gam... |
Gillmor Gang: Pulp Friction | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — talk FirePhone and its impact on digital transactions in the material world. For starters, it’s not really a phone as much as an object recognition system that taps directly into the mainline of showteling. Just as mobile has “freed” us f... |
Webydo Bags $7M To Turn More Designs Into Hosted Websites | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | , a software as a service startup that gives web designers the tools to circumvent a more traditional website creation process by excising the need for them to do any manual coding by automatically converting their design into a hosted HTML5 website, has closed a $7 million Series B funding round. The round was led by ... |
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