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Dattch Lesbian Dating App Launches On Android, Expands Into New York | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | is one of the first and only mobile dating services that caters exclusively to women, just in case there are folks out there who would prefer to book a date than 20 minutes in advance. Today, goes live in New York after hitting the UK, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Florida. The app has also been released for An... |
Welcome To Extremistan! Please Check Your Career At The Door. | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 6 | 21 | Will robots and software eat all the jobs? No. Will robots and software eat job? Yes, probably. Eventually. Rejoice! …for your grandchildren. You and your kids are likely to have a pretty tough time over the next few decades. Sorry about that. Everybody who’s anybody is talking about technological unemployment, the n... |
My Startup Battlefield Story | Andy Pandharikar | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | There comes a moment in a startup’s life that changes its trajectory forever. For us, it was a phone call from Alexia Tsotsis in August 2012. was about to get selected to participate in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2012, and we were about to embark on an unbelievable journey. We didn’t win the Disrupt Cup or even... |
Mobile-Enabled Commerce Will Yield The Next $100B Startup | Patricia Nakache | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | No one can predict with perfect accuracy what technology trend will birth the next set of billion-dollar, venture-backed companies or Even more difficult is determining where the next $100B+ “super unicorn” will come from, as history tells us this rare breed of company only emerges once or twice in a decade. Yet gi... |
The Ascent Of Early-Stage Venture Capital | David Blumberg | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | Early-stage funding by angels and venture capital firms is growing in size and impact on the technology industry. Last year, U.S. venture capital firms raised 10 percent less than in 2012, but VC funds focused on early-stage investing raised $9.37 billion, a jump of 51 percent, according to DJX LP Source. In addition, ... |
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With iOS 8, The iPhone Will Become Your Digital Hub | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | At Macworld 2001, , making it the device where all of the single-purpose gadgets for things like recording movies or playing music would be managed. At this year’s WWDC event, Apple showed that the iPhone is the new hub, and your Mac, iPad, and everything in the cloud is now just an accessory. This is quite a pivot fo... |
Jimmy Wales Blasts Europe’s “Right To Be Forgotten” Ruling As A “Terrible Danger” | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has spoken out against a controversial ruling by the European Court of Justice that requires Google to consider information removal requests from individuals whose data its search engine has indexed. In comments emailed to TechCrunch, Wales described the ruling as censorship of knowledge —... |
Gillmor Gang: Apple Sauce | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. The setup: a delicious Apple muscle-flexing that to some somehow escaped the gravity of the Post Jobs era into orbit. We barely got to all the delights in the candy store — even upstarts with plenty to lose like the Box guy sat in the fro... |
Mozilla Continues To Bet On Firefox OS Even As Android Encroaches On The Low-End Market | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | is a tough project to evaluate. Mozilla’s phone operating system is meant for developing countries and first-time smartphone owners. To keep the price of the phones down, the hardware it comes on doesn’t really compare to today’s flagship phones, either. Instead of native apps, Firefox OS runs web apps written in HTML... |
Dear Clients, Please Stop: Ten Ways Founders Sabotage Themselves | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 6 | 7 | , I spend my Saturdays opining here on TechCrunch, but I spend my work weeks writing software, building apps, sites, and services for the fine startup-to-Fortune-500 clients of the software consultancy . ( !) In that time I have learned many lessons from our clients…the hard way. By which I mean: over the years I ha... |
AppCam Lets Android App Developers Capture Videos Of User Activity For A/B Testing | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | is a new SDK that allows Android developers to capture videos of user activity in their apps. The startup says AppCam is the first such service developed especially for Android, though several similar products already exist for iOS, including , , and . The Seoul-based startup, which recently received seed funding f... |
PlayStation TV Coming To US And Canada This Fall For $99 | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | At its E3 press conference, Sony just announced that the PlayStation TV game console (known as the PlayStation Vita TV abroad) is coming to the United States and Canada this fall. The PlayStation TV will come by itself for $99 (you’ll have to bring your own controller) or in a $139 bundle that comes with a DualShock Co... |
Sony Announces White PlayStation 4 As Part Of Destiny Bundle, Coming September 9 | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | After opening its press conference with a new trailer for , the new shooter from Bungie Studios, Sony announced that the game’s release would bring with it a bundle featuring a white variant of the PS4. On September 9, gamers will be able to pick up the PlayStation 4 Destiny Bundle, which will pack in a white PS4 (w... |
Hybrid Storage Provider Egnyte Turns To Google’s Cloud To House Future Customer Data | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Egnyte, a company that sells a hybrid storage solution that includes a cloud-based component, is turning to another provider to help house its growing set of customer data: Google. Why might a cloud company turn to another cloud provider to host its data? Google, through its Google Ventures arm, is , making the union ... |
Eventbrite Beefs Up Engineering To Take on Ticketmaster | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Eventbrite has been busy hiring a bunch of new and notable engineering talent of late to create what they hope will become a true platform for event discovery. The company just crossed the 200-million-tickets-sold mark and reaped over $1 billion in sales in 2013 alone. The company also rolled out advanced reserved la... |
Atrocity Exhibition | Devin Coldewey | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | It’s likely that, at the time of the horrific acts of violence in Santa Barbara, it was someone’s first instinct to go through the trail left by the murderer and save every last item. From the deluded, misogynistic ramblings on YouTube, to the posting history on Reddit and elsewhere, to the near-incoherent “manifesto... |
Now Backed By Sir Richard Branson, TransferWise Raises $25M For Cheaper Money Transfers | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | A couple of months back, European money transfer startup hit a major (PR) milestone. Its platform had processed £1 billion of customers’ money, an eight-fold increase from the previous year. At the time, Executive Chairman and co-founder Taavet Hinrikus sounded as bullish as ever. “If I look at the world right now… m... |
Inside Jobs: What It’s Like To Be The Community Director At Polyvore | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | For a consumer-facing technology startup, the people who make the biggest impact on the company’s success or failure are not the founders. They’re actually not even employed by the company at all. They’re the users — a group that’s often referred to as the “community.” What these people think, feel, and say is the real... |
Facebook Poaches PayPal President David Marcus To Run Messenger, Maybe Monetize It With Payments | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Facebook doesn’t show ads in Messenger or WhatsApp. Instead, payments could be the key to earning money on chat, especially in the developing world where ad rates are low. If that’s the strategy, Facebook just got the perfect executive to lead the charge. It’s to run its Messenger unit. Facebook hinted that Marcus wo... |
GoDaddy Files For $100M IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Today GoDaddy, the popular domain and web-services company, to go public. The company has seen quick revenue growth in recent years and massive losses measured using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The company’s 2013 revenue totaled $1.13 billion. The company lost $199.88 million during that period. ... |
Apple’s iOS 8 Includes Code For Running Apps Side-By-Side | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | One thing that had been rumored for inclusion in iOS 8 that wasn’t announced on stage was a new trick for the iPad that would let it run two apps side-by-side concurrently. The feature was at 9to5Mac as one in a series of articles revealing upcoming features of the then-secret beta, and claimed that you’d be able to ... |
Okta Scores $75M In Final Round Of Funding; Hopes To Go Public In A Couple Of Years | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Today, , a company that offers Identity as a Service that works across on-premises applications and cloud services, announced $75M in Series E funding. CEO Todd McKinnon told me he expects this to be the final round of funding prior to going public within a couple of years. The round is being lead by Sequoia Capital. ... |
SteelSeries Teams With Tobii To Track Your Eyes And Make You A Better Gamer | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | It’s not too often we see a truly novel gaming accessory; generally speaking companies are happy to slap a few stickers or a new coat of paint on existing controllers and headsets and call it a day. SteelSeries is changing that up with one of its new E3 launch devices this year – the . The Sentry packs some eye-tracki... |
Watch Sony’s PlayStation 4 E3 2014 Press Conference Here | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Last year, Sony’s E3 conference was all about the PlayStation 4. The console had yet to launch, and many gamers were eagerly waiting for the successor to the PS3. But this year, Sony shouldn’t be announcing any new console. So far, the company has sold PS4 units, but the PS3 is still the console of choice for many ga... |
The Battlefield Hardline Closed Beta Starts Today | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | First-person shooter fans, rejoice: EA decided to surprise everyone at E3 today by announcing that the closed beta for Battlefield Hardline is available today for a limited number of gamers on the PC and the PlayStation 4. The Battlefield Hardline sign-up form is , but PS4 owners who own Battlefield 4 can navigate to ... |
Ron Conway And Chamath Palihapitiya Debate SF Housing And Google At Next Big Thing Conference | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Venture capitalists and got caught up in a shouting match toward the end of one session on inequality at the in Sausalito, Calif., today. In an answer to what he would do if he were Mayor Ed Lee, Palihapitiya said he’d resign. That was the last straw for Conway, who’d been waving his hand for comment for the last... |
New Bio-Sensor Draws Liquid Out From Under Your Skin To See If You’re Thirsty | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | As you may well know, plants (and humans) need electrolytes. Until now, however, we’ve had to trust our guts and go out and buy a bottle of Brawndo if we were feeling a little down. Fear not, however, because a new sensor will use micro needles to steal a bit of your precious bodily fluids in order to tell when you nee... |
Facebook Has Another Go At Snapchat With Slingshot | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Facebook has been promising that it would “ ” in order to better compete on mobile by breaking up the main Facebook app into mini-apps focused on specific features. Today, it’s making good on these previously stated intentions with a new photo and video-sharing app called , now available in select markets. The app is... |
The Open-Source Electronics Robot, The FirePick Delta, Could Bring Real Manufacturing To The Desktop | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Pick-and-place (PNP) machines are the robots that grab and drop tiny components onto circuit boards. Designed to make thousands of boards an hour, these super-fast machines are part of the multi-part ballet that is modern manufacturing. And they’re amazingly expensive – sometimes reaching into the millions of dollars. ... |
TechCrunch Is In Austin And Seattle This Week | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 9 | Live around or ? Come hang with TechCrunch this week. We’re in Austin on Tuesday and Seattle on Thursday where we’ll host close to a thousand attendees at each event. We’ve also lined up a dozen startups from each area to pitch at event with the hopes of winning tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt. Meetup tickets are $10 ... |
Tinder Suspends Co-Founder In Wake Of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Tinder CMO has been suspended by the company he co-founded, after it was sued for sexual harassment and sexual discrimination by its former VP of marketing Whitney Wolfe. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, makes a litany of claims against Mateen, including that he called Wolfe a “whore... |
UberX Wages War On Bay Area Taxis With 25% Price Cut | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | If Uber’s intent to put taxis out of business wasn’t clear already, the email it just sent SF Bay Area users should make it crystal. “We just dropped uberX fares by 25%, making it 45% cheaper than a taxi.” No matter how much people want hard-working cabbies to be able to support their families, uberX is now just too mu... |
FBI, CIA Join NSA In “Backdoor” Searches On Americans | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Thousands of Americans were targets of so-called “backdoor” warrantless surveillance by the NSA and other intelligence agencies last year, according to a sent to Senator Ron Wyden. The missive, written by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to the Senator in response to a question posed earlier... |
Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | A court permitted the NSA to collect information about governments in 193 countries and foreign institutions like the World Bank, according to a . issued by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2010 shows the NSA has the authority to “intercept through U.S. companies not just the communications of its oversea... |
Hack Your Brain With A Machine That Reads Minds | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Star Wars first planted the idea over 35 years ago that we could move objects with our minds. That idea is now a reality that has come a long way in the last few years. is on the cutting edge of that technology with headgear that allows you to do things, such as make a toy car whiz by or help a quadriplegic mix mus... |
With Software Eating Hardware, Silicon Valley Enters “Hard” Times | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Software’s inevitable dominance is something of an axiom in Silicon Valley, where Marc Andreessen once famously wrote that it was “ .” Software companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook are among the world’s most iconic and valuable, and new startups like Airbnb and Uber aim to transform traditional industries like... |
Community Will Get Its Sixth Season… On Yahoo. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Look out, Netflix: Yahoo just played a card that probably should’ve been yours*. They’re bringing back . After its sudden cancellation crushed fans back in May, whispers started going around that Community would turn to the web for its sixth season. Sure enough, Yahoo, series creator Dan Harmon and star Joel McHale ha... |
High-Skill Immigration Reform Is Dead This Year – Again | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | High-skill immigration reform . The Senate managed to pass a around a year ago that went precisely nowhere in the House. When the new year kicked off, there was some optimism that we could get something done. Misplaced optimism, really. With this Congress, having a positive outlook is something akin to masochism. Pr... |
Two Senators Upbraid The Intelligence Community For Insufficient Disclosure | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Consider Senators Al Franken and Dean Heller unimpressed. Today the two Senators, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, released statements disparaging a from the U.S. intelligence community that broke down its activities in . The view of , that the report is progress, but not nearly enough, is roughly what I’... |
Christensen Vs. Lepore: A Matter Of Fact | Thomas Thurston | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Nothing gets keyboards clicking like a good controversy. Recently Jill Lepore, a history professor at Harvard, accusing another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, of being a quack. Lepore didn’t use that word, but she may as well have. Christensen is a business school professor renowned for his “Disruption The... |
Litecoin Slumps As Bitcoin Recovers Some Of Its Former Luster | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | During the height of the , Litecoin soared, late in the year. Since then, mostly tracking Bitcoin, Litecoin’s value has faded. Today, you can buy a Litecoin for just under $9. That cryptocurrencies are dealing with post-bubble excesses is hardly news. What’s more interesting is that Litecoin, which largely followed ... |
LinkedIn VP Of Product David Hahn Joins Greylock As Entrepreneur-In-Residence | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Greylock Partners today , bringing longtime LinkedIn exec David Hahn onto the team. At the venture firm, Hahn will be focused on what’s happening in healthcare and education technology, with the long-term goal of entering one of those sectors. With the move, Hahn joins LinkedIn co-founder and Executive Chairman Reid ... |
Twitter Confirms Acquisition Of Mobile Ad Retargeting Startup TapCommerce | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Twitter just announced that it’s acquiring mobile ad startup TapCommerce. about the acquisition earlier this afternoon, reporting that the deal price was $100 million. (Twitter declined to provide a price). TapCommerce helps mobile businesses retarget their ads, i.e., target ads based on previous user activity — somet... |
Irish Pub Only Accepts Job Applications Through Snapchat | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | At one pub in Ireland, applying for a staff position is actually a snap. Sober Lane, is only accepting applications through Snapchat, the app that allows users to send impermanent pictures and videos to their friends. The pub’s owner, Ernest Cantillon, tells me he has already received about 2,000 Snapchats since he s... |
HODOR! | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | Stop. the. presses. , the that lets you send a “Yo” to your friends and nothing more, has a new rival. (Or perhaps a more appropriate word would be “parody.”) Introducing . As the name implies, this recently launched app offers a different spin on the Yo concept by letting you virtually shout “HODOR!” to your frien... |
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Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | , the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Data... |
Forget.me Puts Out Early Data On What Europeans Want To Vanish From Google | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | An online service called , to quickly capitalize on a from late May that requires Google to process requests by private individuals to de-index outdated or irrelevant personal information, has put out some early data on the kind of requests individual Europeans are submitting via its (for now) free service. Forget... |
CoreOS Raises $8M Series A Round, Launches Managed Linux As A Service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 30 | a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today that it has a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on investments by Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. This comes after a previous investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital last yea... |
Apple’s Maps Are Still Lost | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | Apple, during WWDC last week, delivered some significant updates across various parts of its business. It released, among other things, some (and a new ) to developers; a renewed, more aggressive effort in ; and some changes across its mobile and desktop operating systems to make them a with the primary way that w... |
With iOS 8, Apple Stands Ready To Ramp Up Consumer Purchasing Power | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | Apple’s various additions to iOS 8 mean we’re going to see a big shift come September, in terms of what’s available to both consumers and developers, but the group that should be most excited might be marketers and others trying to get users buying things on and with their devices. A few of the new features in iOS 8 ma... |
Logistics Company aCommerce Raises $10.7M Series A To Serve Southeast Asia’s Booming E-Commerce Market | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | , a regional end-to-end e-commerce logistics and service provider for Southeast Asia, has closed a Series A funding round of $10.7 million. According to the company, this is the largest Series A for a Thailand-based startup and one of the largest Series A rounds in Southeast Asia to date. The funding was organized by f... |
Let’s Talk About Sex Baby, Because The Internet | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | Lucky for me the talk about the ‘birds and the bees’ consisted of my parents popping in Nova’s “The Miracle of Life” into our VCR and that was that. But this was long before the World Wide Web and kids had easy access to internet porn. A of thousands of parents showed that over 80% of them blamed the internet for teac... |
Facebook’s Dan Levy On Small Biz Outreach — And How He Became A Homeowner Thanks To FB Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | Facebook just began a series of small business-focused local events, and at Tuesday’s kickoff in New York, I had a chance to speak to the company’s director of small business Dan Levy. Levy had just that announced that , so our conversation was a chance to get more details on Facebook’s efforts in this area. One of ... |
#Love: Meeting My Real-Life Husband In Virtual Vegas | Contributor | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | Tinder, Match.com, Plenty of Fish, OKCupid. With dozens of Internet dating sites available today, it seems that much of the younger generation is comfortable with the concept of meeting their significant others online. But as a divorcée and mother of two, the idea of going online to meet anyone (especially my future hu... |
Picfair Raises $520K To Take On Getty With An Image Marketplace | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | Sites like and have taken the practice of sharing pictures and turning them into viral memes into something of an . But on the paid, professional side of the equation — when pictures are used for commercial purposes — there has been relatively little evolution. Now, just as music has seen a rush of companies emerg... |
Now Anyone Can Tweet Up A Storm With Dave Winer’s ‘Little Pork Chop’ | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 8 | Tweetstorms. … and yet, they don’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Ever since entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist Marc Andreessen joined Twitter and began sharing his thoughts in long, multi-Tweet segments, we’ve seen a proliferation of these so-called “tweetstorms” cropping up every few days. A small but... |
AT&T Is Offering $50K To Engineers To Make New York City Safer For Pedestrians | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | While smartphones make a whole lot of things in our lives easier, the instant access to information and constant notifications about what our friends are up to tends to be rather distracting as we go about our day. AT&T thinks that tendency might be contributing to an unfortunate statistic: in New York City, 14,845 cra... |
Windows 8.1 Scoots Past Windows 8’s Market Share | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | Windows 8.1 has finally bested its predecessor, with its market share edging higher than Windows 8’s in May, according to . In May, Windows 8.1 ended with 6.35% global desktop market share, while Windows 8 managed a slimmer 6.29%. As , that’s an aggregate gain of 0.40% for Microsoft’s new Windows 8.x platform. Here’s... |
Why Does “Just Add Gameplay” Endure? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | I could hear the sound of academics rolling their eyes from three states away. This in response to an article that appeared on VentureBeat about a . In short, attempts to gamify education through the use of roleplaying game mechanics. Students have characters, they level up based on things done in the classroom, and... |
On The Eve Of SAPPHIRE Conference, Vishal Sikka Puts SAP In The Rearview | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | It’s been , and I spoke to him a couple of days before the start of his former company’s that begins Monday in Orlando. The conference will be going on without him for the first time in 12 years, and Sikka is fine with that. Sikka sounds like a man at peace with his decision, one he says was his to make. He told me ... |
#Love: Kim Stolz On “Unfriending My Ex” | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | You may know reality TV celebrity as a contestant on America’s Next Top Model, or perhaps from MTV News, but what you might not know is that she’s spent the past few years researching many of the same topics we cover in this very column for an upcoming book called . (She also now works in finance with Citi Group.)... |
Justin.TV To Kill Off Its Built-In Video Archiving System | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | Justin.tv, the webcam streaming service that birthed (and is now arguably dwarfed by) videogame streaming site Twitch, is killing off one of its core features today. As of June 8th, Justin.tv will no longer let hosts record their streams for viewers to catch later — and as of the same day, all previously recorded strea... |
The Bill Gates-Inspired Galactic Cap Will Protect Your Wang-Dang-Doodle | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | As TechCrunch’s resident sex weirdo, I figured I might as well cover the Galactic Cap, a mini-condom that adheres the tip of the Fair Pink Vicar and allows you to visit Ye Olde Shoppe Of Curiosities without fear of issue. The project went live . How does it work? Well, it’s a two-part process. An adhesive goes onto th... |
MOG Is Dead, Corpse Now Points To Its Acquirer Beats | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | After 9 years in the game, its streaming music service and now directs users to Beats, which for …and which was itself acquired by Apple this week. After providing subscribers a pro-rated refund and a 60-day free trial of Beats, the MOG concluded its delayed sunsetting schedule last night by scuttling its web stre... |
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested Years After Conviction | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | Peter Sunde, the co-founder of the BitTorrent file-sharing website , has been arrested in Southern Sweden. reports that Sunde’s arrest followed several years on the run following an earlier conviction for Pirate Bay-related copyright violations — although Sunde has remained visible and active within the tech scene ov... |
Secret Launches In China With A ‘Secret’ Partner, Adds Language Preferences As It Blows Up In Russia | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | Anonymous social sharing app opened up to new users around the globe a few weeks ago, becoming available pretty much everywhere except China. The company corrected that this weekend, introducing an app for Chinese users with the help of a large partner that it’s keeping a secret. “China is a special market, and one c... |
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YellowSchedule Raises €600K So That You Never Miss A Therapist Appointment Again | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | Dublin and Limerick-based , which offers an online service to help therapists and clinics manage appointments and client records, has raised €600,000 from various angel investors, along with the taxpayer-funded Enterprise Ireland. Specifically, the angel investors participating are Sean Riddell and Jennifer Riddell, ... |
A Brief History Of Tinder | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | null |
Smile: Your Selfie Is A Mugshot For The NSA | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | The is undoubtedly making the NSA’s job easier by producing a mountain of tagged online data to feed its facial recognition algorithms. A report in , based on documents from 2011 obtained by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the US security agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grow... |
Productivity And The Education Delusion | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | There is a constant tension about education in labor economics these days. On one hand, . Workers with college degrees, or even just some university-level courses, are significantly more likely to have a job and to be paid better, as well. This is borne out by , which showed a decrease of unemployment for college gra... |
Apple’s New Approach To iCloud Is Good News For Everyone | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | At its WWDC keynote earlier this week, Apple announced that lets app creators tap into Apple’s iCloud so that they can more easily work cloud components into their mobile apps. As , it was one of several signs during the keynote that Apple finally “gets” the cloud. But it’s also a sign that Apple is taking the conce... |
MotionSavvy Is A Tablet App That Understands Sign Language | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | There are plenty of things to take for granted in this life, and the ability to hear is one does. But not the team at . MotionSavvy, which emerged from , is building a tablet case that leverages the power of in order to translate American Sign Language into English and vice versa. The entire is deaf. The Motion... |
Science On The Edge (Of Tomorrow) | Contributor | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | Editor’s note: There are plenty of reviews available for those of you looking for advice on whether or not the new military sci-fi flick “ ” is worth seeing in theaters. This is not one of those reviews. My purpose in screening the film — and in getting an inside perspective from the film’s director, — was to peer i... |
Google Music Could Get Touchy-Feely If It Does Acquire Moody Playlist App Songza | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | “Google Play Music All-Access”. That tongue-twisting name says a lot about how well Google understands humans. It’s also why the that Google is in talks to buy for $15 million seems like a smart move. While Google Music has playlists, they’re generic, static, and totally unorganized. Songza lets you say what you’re... |
Apple’s Home Automation Success Rests With Hardware Evangelism | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | At its WWDC conference this week, Apple unveiled a scaffolding of sorts that allows developers to control smart home devices like light switches, thermostats, garage doors and more. This is called HomeKit, and it promises to be flexible and powerful — but its success will lie in hardware adoption. HomeKit is, at its he... |
TrendKite Raises $3.2M For PR Analytics, Recruits Dachis Group’s Erik Huddleston As CEO | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | , a startup promising to help brands and agencies measure the effectiveness of their PR efforts, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding. It’s also announcing that it has a new CEO — Erik Huddleston, former CTO and executive vice president of product at social monitoring company Dachis Group. Huddleston told me tha... |
We Search More On Apps, Less On Google Now | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | We’re using apps on our smartphones and tablets much more to look things up now, according to a out from eMarketer. That means a serious drop in ad revenue for many of the major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo. According to the report, Google mobile ads saw a dramatic 17 percent drop in revenue from 2012. The s... |
CrunchWeek: Uber’s $17B Valuation, Houzz Raises $150M, Apple’s Big WWDC News | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | At least one of those things proved good fodder for this week’s episode of . In the video embedded above, watch Leena Rao, Kyle Russell and I gather around the big roundtable to talk about Uber’s new $1.2 billion funding round that puts the company at , Houzz’s new $150 million raise at , and the big takeaways fro... |
Want To Attend Google I/O? We Have 15 Registration Codes To Give Out | Elin Blesener | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | Happy Friday, friends. In case you missed out on being able to attend taking place on June 25-26 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, don’t fret. We have 15 registration codes to give away to 15 people, which will allow them to buy previously sold out Google i/o tickets for $900. The giveaway starts no... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: WWDC, iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, And WWDC! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | Apple might have skimped on hardware announcements, but the improvements to Apple’s desktop and mobile software are plenty. iOS 8 offers badass messaging, new camera software, and of course, Continuity, which lets you leave one task and pick it up from device to device. Meanwhile, OS X Yosemite offers a “dark mode”!! ... |
Talkz Thinks Talking Stickers Will Be The Next Big Thing For Mobile Messaging Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | Sticker packs and emoji have become a go-to means for mobile messaging companies to generate revenue from what are otherwise free applications. Today, one such service, a called , is introducing a new way to upgrade the sticker experience in a way that leverages the speech background of Talkz founder and CEO Heath Ah... |
Apple Acquires Spotsetter, A Social Search Engine For Places | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | , a social search engine using big data to offer personalized recommendations as to places to go, has been quietly snapped up by Apple, TechCrunch has learned. The technology, which involves layering social data on top of a maps interface could be used to beef up Apple Maps with features competitor Google lacks. The de... |
Happy Birthday, Tetris | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | Tetris is much more fun than current games. Today, we celebrate Tetris’ 30th birthday. I’m sure all of you already know Tetris, its catchy , and the frustration of seeing bricks pile up on the screen. Invented in 1984 by Alexei Pajitnov in the Soviet Union, the game became extremely popular when Nintendo released it o... |
Announcing The Startups Pitching At The Austin And Seattle Meetups | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle next week. We’ll be in on Tuesday and on Thursday. There are still a few tickets available for each event, too. They’re only $10. Snag one or three before they’re gone. At each meetup, a group of the area’s finest undiscovered startups will pitch to a panel of judges, Tech... |
ISPs Create Fake Grassroots Groups To Fight Net Neutrality | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | Right on cue, the big corporations who stand to lose the most from the treatment of Internet connectivity as a public utility are allegedly creating “grassroots” organizations that are really fronts for expensive lobbying operations. For example, one organization, Broadband for America, is funded almost entirely by the... |
Uber Raises Giant $1.2 Billion Funding Round At A $17 Billion Valuation | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | On-demand ride-hailing service has confirmed today that it has raised $1.2 billion in funding from a group of mutual fund managers and venture investors that values the company at $17 billion pre-money. The company said the total raise will end up being once it’s completed a second close of strategic investors. New... |
Fortune And Money Launch New Sites And Split Off From CNN Money | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 1 | Two of Time Inc.’s business and finance publications, Fortune and Money, are getting new online homes today. You’re probably familiar with the magazines, and you’ve probably read some of their articles online. But when you did, they weren’t on a standalone Fortune or Money website — instead, they were posted to , a jo... |
Apple’s New Retail Head Angela Ahrendts Didn’t Sell $5.3M In Shares | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | No, Apple’s new head of retail Angela Ahrendts did not sell $5.3M in shares. An reported on today shows that amount being withheld for tax purposes, though some sites are reporting she sold them. If you actually read the form, you’ll note that footnote 2 clearly states that, “Shares withheld by Registrant to satisfy ... |
Hiku’s Connected Grocery Scanner Is An “Amazon Dash” For The Rest Of Us | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 6 | In April, it would begin testing a new connected hardware device called the “ ,” which lets you order groceries from AmazonFresh by either scanning a product barcode or speaking a product name into the device. But the Dash is only available in select markets where Prime Fresh operates, and customers have to be invite... |
Domobio’s QT33 Can Dramatically Improve Sleep Apnea Patients’ Quality Of Life | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | More than , a condition that affects their breathing while they are asleep. Not only does sleep apnea impact their sleep quality, but it can also increase the risk of strokes, heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and hypertension. To treat the condition without surgery, patients use continuous positive airway pres... |
Mobile Ad Startup TapSense Announces Support For Wearable Apps, Starting On Pebble | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | If you’re building apps for the Pebble smartwatch and other wearable gadgets, startup hopes to bring you into the wonderful world of mobile advertising. The company announced today that its mobile ad exchange will support wearable apps, beginning with those in the Pebble appstore. You can see a video demo of an ad be... |
People Are Going To Dress Up Like Star Wars Characters In SF Tomorrow To Protest Google | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | No one protests like San Francisco. The scene: Tomorrow, outside of Google’s I/O conference, an assemblage of protestors will dress up like Star Wars characters to decry Google and the economic impact of the technology industry. The goal, the group told TechCrunch in an email, is to highlight rising income inequality i... |
Congress Names 4 Countries To Anti-Piracy Watchlist | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | A Congressional caucus identified four nations that are failing to address high rates of digital piracy. As first , the released by the — formerly the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus — Tuesday zeroes in on China, Russia, India and Switzerland. “That’s why we started the Watch List – to alert those wh... |
Silicon Valley Moguls Push For Campaign Finance Reform | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | When it comes to big money in politics, a group of tech magnates is — or super PAC with super PAC — according to . Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman have joined forces with the super PAC , which aims to reduce the i... |
Jason Kilar’s New Startup Vessel Comes Out Of Hiding, With Backing By Greylock And Benchmark | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is finally ready to talk about what he’s been up to over the last year or so. Well, kind of. Today Kilar, along with ex-Hulu CTO Richard Tom announced that they are working on a startup called , “whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike.” Outside of that, though, th... |
ReplayLastGoal Instantly Tweets Video Of The Latest World Cup Goal | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | We interrupt our normal programming to inform you of a handy new service for those of us the World Cup in Brazil. is a Twitter bot that automatically tweets the video replay and animated GIF of the latest goal in the tournament. Handy right? There are plenty of ways to get the score fast – but this actually SHOWS y... |
TC Cribs 50th Episode: We’re Back At Scribd, The San Francisco Startup Where It All Began | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | For its 50th episode airing today, we thought we’d bring it back to the place where it all began: , the San Francisco startup that veteran TechCruncher toured in the back in January 2011. Scribd today is still in its same space, though it’s grown quite a bit — this very well might be the last video tour we get ... |
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