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Facebook’s Plan To Take On Twitter’s Stream | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | it the de facto place to discuss world events. But Facebook’s VP Of Media Partnerships believes his company has two big advantages in the battle to be the digital water cooler: audience size and real identity. It will need a lot more than that to wrestle public discussion away from Twitter, though. So Justin Osofsky t... |
Jenn Allen Retracts Michael Arrington Rape Accusations | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has reached a settlement agreement with Jenn Allen. He’s , and it says that “Allen retracts, and expresses her regret for making, the Statements.” Apparently that covers accusing Arrington of abusing and raping her. Arrington, meanwhile, has dropped his lawsuit against Allen for ... |
Snapchat Snags Facebook’s Mike Randall As Monetization VP | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | Facebook may be , but Snapchat is stealing Facebook’s employees, including a new one who could help it begin to make money. TechCrunch has learned that Snapchat has just signed the Global Director of Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developer program as its new VP Of Business And Marketing Partnerships. Following this... |
The House Of Yo | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | Yo. This is not another “Yo” post…at least not an ordinary one. You see, the team of just set up shop at its official headquarters in San Francisco. Is it elaborately decorated with snow tigers, nap rooms and a giant buffalo greeting visitors in the lobby? Does it come complete with a inside? What have the founders... |
Google Revises Glass With More RAM The Day Before I/O | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | Well, the timing is nothing if not interesting: before its I/O keynote, Google has just given the Glass hardware a small hardware upgrade. Without much fanfare, Google has quietly bumped the memory in newly shipped Glass units up from 682MB to a full 2GB. That gives Google (and Glass developers, for that matter) rou... |
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OUYA One Year Later: 840 Games, 36K Developers, And A New Console In The Works | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | OUYA was founded with the idea of creating a new, Android-based platform for building games that could be played on people’s TVs. After a , the OUYA console began shipping and went on sale in retail locations . Since launch, OUYA has continued to grow its user base, thanks to sales and distribution both in-store and ... |
Twilio Partners With Google And LiveOps To Launch A Chrome OS-Based Call Center In A Box | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | Setting up a call center is a major undertaking, and by the time it is up and running, the hardware that powers most of the phone connections is already out of date. , which has long offered the kind of APIs and services that allow companies to recreate their physical communications hardware in software, today launche... |
Oculus Acquires Carbon Design, The Team That Designed The Xbox 360 Controller | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | Since the Facebook acquisition, Oculus has already snatched up just about all of the biggest names in virtual reality. Their next move? Grabbing amazing hardware designers. Oculus has just announced that they will acquire the Seattle-based Carbon Design studio. Even if you don’t recognize the name, you’ve almost certai... |
Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Calls On Congress To End The NSA’s “Unfettered Bulk Collection Of Data” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | Earlier this morning, Microsoft executive vice president and general counsel made the case against pervasive government surveillance, arguing that reform is needed of this nation’s security apparatus. At a talk this morning, the general counsel couched his larger remarks in the historical context of general warrants,... |
Social Shopping Site Svpply To Shut Down, Nearly 2 Years After Selling To eBay | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | , the curated social shopping site meant to replicate the experience of traditional window shopping online, announced today that it will shut down on August 31. The shutdown will occur just a week short of the two year anniversary of , which occurred in September 2012. In the months immediately following the eBay dea... |
MadeSolid’s New 3D Printing Material Is Meant To Be Burned Away | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 24 | When you’re looking into what materials to use for 3D printing an object, the last thing you usually expect to hear is “this one burns really well!” , a 3D printing materials team out of Emeryville, CA, has just released a new resin specifically engineered to burn well. But why? Why would you want to burn your shiny n... |
CloudPhysics Grabs $15M In Series C Funding And Announces New Virtual Storage Predictive Analytics | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | has a vision for the data center: It wants to give sysadmins clarity and insight into possible issues that create bottlenecks in a virtualized environment, offer solutions when they happen, and help prevent issues before they even happen — all as a cloud service. And Jafco Ventures is giving the company $15 million i... |
CEO Late For Dinner | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | Last week at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, sorry, “International Festival of Creativity”, Yahoo CEO had a bit of a tough time. First, she gave an on-stage presentation that some are saying was too — telling the ad executives in attendance what they wanted to hear, without actually saying anything genuine. O... |
Google Makes Its Nest At The Center Of The Smart Home | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | down the heat.” Using Google Now, a homeowner will soon be able to talk to a Nest Learning Thermostat and complain about the heat. And that’s just the beginning. Google is turning the Nest Learning Thermostat into the hub of smart homes. With the “ ” developer program, announced today, gadgets, cars and universal remo... |
Net Neutrality Shouldn’t Be Up To The FCC, Republicans Say | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | House Republicans on Friday challenged the existing framework for how net neutrality rules are set and enforced. , the Republican members said the Federal Trade Commission, not the Federal Communications Commission, should have authority when it comes to net neutrality. Net neutrality, which requires ISPs to allow all... |
Missouri May Amend Its Constitution To Require Warrant For Digital Searches | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | A proposed state constitutional amendment could grant residents of Missouri stronger digital privacy protections. The amendment passed the state’s legislature, and will be voted on by the general electorate in August. The amendment to Missouri’s constitution would delete a current section of the document, and replace i... |
Inside Jobs: The Facilities Manager Who’s Been Google, Facebook And Now Flipboard’s Secret Weapon | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | On a perfect day for Scott Oligher, most of his coworkers will hardly notice the work he’s done at all. That’s because as the head of facilities at , Oligher is in charge of making sure everything that happens behind the scenes at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters runs smoothly. From the lights being switched on in... |
Etsy Buys French Startup A Little Market In Its Largest Acquisition So Far | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | announced today that it has acquired a French company called , a Paris-based online marketplace for handmade items. Though terms of the deal were undisclosed, Etsy says that this is its “sixth and largest acquisition to date.” A Little Market will continue to operate independently. Previous acquisitions by Etsy, whic... |
The Race To Ubiquitous, Free Cloud Storage | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | Two interesting things happened today in the realm of cloud storage: Microsoft , and Box . Both fit neatly into the current market arc relating to cloud storage: The price per gigabyte for consumers and customers is going to zero, and storage companies are looking to diversify their productivity offerings on top of t... |
Google Gets Into Domain Sales | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | So, you want to buy a domain name. Who do you go to first? GoDaddy? NameCheap? Whoever happens to have a sale going on right now? How about Google? For the past few years, anyone looking to Google to buy a domain has been met with , which proclaims that “Google itself doesn’t register or host domain names,” before rec... |
Google’s Tepid Plan To Boost Diversity At Tech Conferences | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | Less than a month after , Google is committing to increasing the number of women and minorities in tech to better reflect society at large. This week Google promised . It will also be sending 100 women to Google I/O this week who scored well in its online competition, and it has established a Through the efforts,... |
SF Sends Cease-And-Desist To Apps Selling Public Parking Spots | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | Turns out you’re not allowed to rent away public property like parking spots as if you owned them. Parking app received a , which has also asked Apple to remove it from the App Store for violating local law. Two other apps and were also warned they’d receive C&Ds. The move could set a precedent against apps that... |
Yahoo Releases Aviate Homescreen For Android To Organize Your Life | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | Yahoo has today launched a new smartphone UI experience called Aviate, which is available for Android phones (English speaking only). The idea is that the company can dip their toes in the mobile OS waters without going all-in on anything, as Yahoo works to strengthen its mobile portfolio. Here’s what the has to say:... |
Google Play Quarterly App Revenue More Than Doubled Over Past Year, Thanks To Games, Freemium Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | How well the Android app marketplace on Google Play is performing is the subject of a new report from app analytics firm App Annie, ahead of . The report indicates that the past year has been significant for Android app publishers, as Google Play apps, downloads, and revenue have all seen what the firm referred to... |
Google Glass Goes On Sale Outside The US | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | Ahead of Google’s , which kicks off this Wednesday, Mountain View has opened up sales of its augmented reality wearable goggles, , to people outside the US. This follows Glass being opened up to anyone in the U.S. to buy, not just , . But this is the wearable’s first international foray. Specifically Brits with a... |
BrightSky Labs Will Make It Easy To Share Videos From Your GoPro | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | People love their GoPros. In 2013 alone, the company sold nearly 4 million of its durable, portable video cameras. And those cameras have been used to capture millions upon millions of videos, including everything from drones to action sports. There’s just one problem: Most people don’t have the patience to sort throug... |
Invention Machine Quirky Spins Out “Wink,” A New Business Focused On The Connected Home | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | New York-based “ ” , a company which turns crowdsourced ideas into real-world products you can buy like this popular , these connected and , and even is now venturing further into the “smart home” space with the spin-out of a separate company it’s calling “Wink.” The new business will focus on developing a platf... |
A Little Startup Called Cruise From The Socialcam, Twitch Founders Is Tackling Self-Driving Cars Too | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | From mobile-social video apps to self-driving cars? , one of the founders behind Justin.tv, Socialcam and Twitch, is getting back to his undergraduate research roots in autonomous vehicles with a new self-driving car startup called . He’s recruited a team of engineers and roboticists from MIT. The kicker here, though,... |
Google I/O 2014 Preview: The Developer Conference Has A Design And Wearables Focus This Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | If you’re gearing up for , you might be wondering what the company will be doing with its full two-day event, which kicks off Wednesday. Google’s focus this year is expanding to include more information and value for the gamut of app and software makers. That means speaking not just to developers but also to designers... |
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Patreon Raises $15 Million Series A, Revamps Site To Focus More On Content | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 23 | Patreon, a subscription-based funding site for artists, has just raised $15 million in a Series A from , , , and a bevy of other tech entrepreneurs. There were 17 angel investors and VCs in all who contributed to this series, with of Index Ventures leading the round. Patreon founders Jack Conte and Sam Yam tell ... |
Non-Profit Stupid Cancer’s Support App Instapeer Is Seeking Funds On Indiegogo | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | [vimeo 92144760 w=500 h=281] When Matthew Zachary was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 21 and told he had just six months to live, one of the hardest things to cope with was loneliness. Then a college senior and concert pianist, Zachary had to abandon his plans to go to graduate school and study writing for film and ... |
The Mission’s Digital Divide And Why Fixing It Matters | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | Between and the regular anti-eviction and Google Bus protests that roll through Guerrero and 18th Street, the Mission District is the epicenter of San Francisco’s Gentrifi-pocalypse. Just last week, a developer bought a shuttered auto repair shop in the neighborhood . So whatever these condos ultimately end up selli... |
I Hath Seen The Future Of Video Games! | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | The is often difficult to parse. On the one hand new title and platform revelations engender an enormous buzz around all things video game, a buzz that’s hard to ignore. Old or new, innocent or jaded, something always comes out of E3 that catches your eye, some reason to fall in love all over again. And you’ll see th... |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Described As Less Hands-On, More Interested In Broad Implications With iWatch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | Apple CEO Tim Cook is the subject of a new profile in the today, and the profile includes plenty of background information about the executive and his commitment to human rights and environmental issues. But it also contained some information about the rumored iWatch project, how it’s being put together behind the sc... |
#Love: My ‘Friends’ Don’t ‘Like’ Me | Contributor | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | author of a new book called , which focuses on social media’s influence on our personal relationships. Stolz is a bit of a social media celebrity after stints on America’s Next Top Model and years of work for MTV News as a broadcast reporter. These days she trades with Citi Group and is in the midst of promoting her ... |
Former BuzzFeed COO Jon Steinberg Joins Daily Mail | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | Jon Steinberg, former COO and current advisor at BuzzFeed, has landed at the Daily Mail heading up American operations for the UK-based mega news site, according to . Steinberg had previously worked four years at BuzzFeed, where he led the site alongside Jonah Peretti. He was the fifteenth employee and has helped grow... |
‘51%’ Fears Rattle The Bitcoin Community | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | In January, there was worry in the bitcoin community regarding GHash, a mining pool. It controlled a rising share of the total bitcoin computational power used to mine the cryptocurrency — it’s share was creeping towards the 50% mark. Here’s a sample of in January, when GHash was at a still-distant 42%: “[That percen... |
Meet The Pitch-Off Winners Of The Austin And Seattle Meetups | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | , exhilarating week hunting down the coolest new startups in Austin and Seattle, I’m proud to announce the winners of our recent TechCrunch Pitch-offs. They triumphed through a sixty-second pitch, stood up against a barrage of questions from local venture capitalists and TechCrunch editors, and most importantly, impre... |
That Time McDonald’s Launched A Digital Incubator in Silicon Valley | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | The fast food joint with over 300 billion served just opened shop in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The twist is they’re making digital products, not hamburgers. The company’s tech hub at 658 Market Street has already hired a few engineers from PayPal, Facebook, AOL and Yahoo – and they’re looking to hire at... |
After Moving East, AngelPad Tries To Bridge The SF And NYC Tech Worlds | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | Back in April, accelerator held a demo day at the San Francisco bar and restaurant 25 Lusk. The choice of location masked a big change — even though the accelerator was founded four years ago in San Francisco, and even though it still has offices there, AngelPad partners Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas have actual... |
Gillmor Gang: Apple Jack | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 15 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Benedict Evans, and Steve Gillmor — bask in the continued reverberations of Apple’s stunning reveal last week at WWDC. Many of us in the Apple Polishing business (I’m an unrepentant fanboy) remain enthralled by the details of iOS 8 and its growing impact on OS/X Yosem... |
Following COO Resignation, Twitter’s Head Of Media Chloe Sladden Departs | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Following , Twitter’s Vice President of Media Chloe Sladden has also announced her departure. “Now it’s time for my next chapter. #staytuned #thankyou #sleep,” . The news was , as well as a about supposed changes at Twitter’s media team. Isaac said the team be will now be reporting to the marketing and communicat... |
AdColony Says There Is No Deal With Opera | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Mobile video ad company AdColony published this afternoon denying a TechCrunch report that . “There is no deal with Opera Software,” wrote CEO Will Kassoy. At the same time, he doesn’t deny (or confirm) that the two companies were in negotiations: “By strategy and in honor of our fiscal responsibility to our custome... |
Samsung Aims To Reinvigorate Its Tablet Line With The New Galaxy Tab S | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Samsung has announced a new tablet family that presents a marked departure from the parade of mostly forgettable slates that the company has been pumping out the past few years. The company unveiled the Galaxy Tab S line of devices at a special event in NYC today. Available in July, the Tab S comes in both 8.4 ($399) a... |
Former Microsoft Employee Involved In Windows 8 Leaks Given 3-Month Sentence | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | After , former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo will pay a $100 fine and serve three months in prison for stealing trade secrets. His case picked up wide notice not due to the nature of the crime — trade leaks happen every day — but instead in terms of how he was caught. Kibkalo leaked code to a French blogger, and Mic... |
Intel Rises 5.5% After-Hours On Raised Q2 And Full-Year Revenue Expectations | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | After ending regular trading all but flat today, on the strength of for its second quarter and full-year revenue, and a slight change to its gross margin. For the second quarter, Intel expects revenue of $13.7 billion, plus or minus $300 million. This is greater than its prior expectation of $13 billion, plus or mi... |
Just Tell Me What To Buy | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Yesterday, tech and culture website The Verge revived This Is My Next, a brand that the core team had used to transition away from their places at Engadget into their new home at Vox Media. It’s not a new site, but instead a new vertical or type of post that tries to give a concise, authoritative answer to people wonde... |
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Facebook Messenger Adds Tap-And-Hold Video Sharing, Another Snapchat Feature | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Why tell with text when you can show with video? Facebook Messenger is diving deeper into visual communication with a new option to instantly record and send short videos, similar to Snapchat. The feature comes to today and is rolling out to . Messenger in April, but now you can tap and hold the camera button to f... |
Amazon Prime Music Is Actually About Selling More Physical Goods | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | We are entering the age of the omnibundle, where companies “give away” services to get you to buy what actually makes them money. Take to its $99 a year Prime club. The goal is to lure more people into Prime because its free two-day shipping encourages more impulse purchases of physical good, which is where Amazon ma... |
Happiness Is A Cyber Gun – How We Can “Do Something” About Mass Shootings With Technology | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | We incessantly discuss gun control, argue on social media, and try to grasp why this keeps happening — why our children continue to get shot in what seems like a weekly occurrence. And yet, even with that could solve several issues here, gun culture . There’s currently a gun floating around out there and in the U... |
Taking BMW’s Electric Car Sharing Program DriveNow For A Spin Around SF | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | But it turns out BMW has been in the car sharing space for a couple of years now, with a small but growing program called . DriveNow, which is active in five German cities and the San Francisco Bay Area, lets people rent electric BMWs by the minute. I thought it was an interesting and somewhat unexpected initiative... |
Trusper Adds Music, Movies, And Books As It Partners With Focus Features | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | The tip-sharing social networking mobile app has rolled out a music, movies, and books category and a feature that lets users purchase suggested content in-app, as it begins to experiment with paid, brand-related tips on its service. Trusper is working with Focus Features to promote “ “, the latest film from former “S... |
Twitter Rises 3.5% In Down Market As COO Exits | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Rumors of an at Twitter became a reality today as the company’s COO Ali Rowghani . In a down market, Twitter rose 3.5 percent in regular trading, and is up a fraction after-hours. The major indexes slipped more than 0.6 percent apiece. Given the general dearth of news surrounding Twitter at the moment, it is not ove... |
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Outlines New Cybersecurity Paradigm Led By Private Sector | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Earlier today, outlined his agency’s plans to address to the American Enterprise Institute. Wheeler’s approach would see the private sector, not the FCC, take the leading role in addressing new cyber security threats, leaving his agency to monitor and guide, stepping in only if a market-based approach fails to adeq... |
Tile, The Lost-Item Tracker With Millions In Crowdfunding, Was Worth The Wait | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | The first thing you’ll notice about , the crowdfunded lost-item finder that attaches to bags, keys, bikes and more, is that it’s big. I mean, I know the company provided the device’s specs beforehand, but it’s still a surprise to see this large white square — bigger than a Wheat Thin and slightly smaller than a matchb... |
CoinVox Brings Bitcoin Donations To Politicians | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Sending a isn’t that hard – if you know what you’re doing. But since the Federal Election Commission OKed the use of bitcoin by political action committees, things have gotten a little hairy. , a service created by Christopher David, is looking to smooth the path from your bitcoin wallet to your favorite politician’... |
5app Raises $5.1M Seed Round For Its BYOD Enterprise App Store And Builder | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | As the BYOD wave continues to wash over the enterprise market, different companies are taking different approaches to having their employees use their own phones and tablets for work. Many clamp down completely on this practice, but others take a slightly more inclusive approach. London-based , which today announced t... |
Outsource Your Bitcoin Mining To HashPlex, Which Just Raised A Seed Round | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Are too many Bitcoin mining rigs making your office or home unspeakably hot or noisy? You can just outsource it to someone else. Or at least that’s the premise behind , a cryptocurrency-miner hosting company that just raised $400,000 from investors including SecondMarket co-founder Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Opportunity ... |
The Vessyl Is A Smart Cup That Knows Your Body | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | Have you ever tried to lose weight, taking every precaution to cut down on red meat and cheese and bread and really get healthy, and yet still don’t lose a pound? Oftentimes, liquids are the culprit. They’re the most ignored source of calories, mostly because it’s hard to measure out the exact caloric value of every be... |
PayPal Launches PassPort To Lure More International Sales From Merchants | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | and its owner have been through a few tough rounds in the ring these last few months, facing calls from Carl Ichan to (finished for now), a with a departing, annoyed employee, and getting its . Today, however, comes news of a tamer sort for the company: it is rolling out a new site called , aimed at merchants ... |
MobileIron Pops 17% In Public Debut | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 12 | This morning the public markets welcomed MobileIron to the NASDAQ, sending its shares up 17.67 percent at the time of writing. MobileIron is a mobile-IT provider for large corporations. MobileIron’s IPO was viewed by some as a proxy for the larger technology markets, given its quickly expanding revenue in its most rece... |
Survival Of The Digital Fittest | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | In just under two weeks from now at Google I/O, Google wearable fitness functionality that Apple at WWDC. Next year at WWDC, Apple wearable fitness functionality that Google at I/O. Jokes aside, the competition between Google and Apple to “own” wearable health has reached -level proportions. After Apple announ... |
Court Orders Department Of Justice To Privately Produce Secret Surveillance Court Documents | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | Today, of the ordered that the Department of Justice relating to five Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) decisions. The documents won’t be released to the public, but the decision grants the Judge the ability to review in private the material that the government doesn’t want released. The Electr... |
Behind The Scenes Of The Daily Show’s Devastating Google Glass Segment | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | The Daily Show’s Jason Jones that highlighted so-called “discrimination” against Google Glass wearers. And I was the butt of a lot of its jokes. The show invited me on after of San Francisco. I won’t spoil the segment, so be sure to watch it before scrolling further: Rather than respond to the show’s criticisms of ... |
Building Code To Break Poverty In Bangladesh | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | Teaching people in the third world how to code seems to be a that may just help to break the world-wide poverty cycle. Danish-based microfinancing operation is starting to do just that with a test group of 100 Bangladeshis. “Nine out of 10 coders on sites like oDesk suck,” says CodersTrust co-founder Ferdinand Kjae... |
Ubisoft Shows That The Video Game Industry Needs To Work On Its Priorities | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | The video game industry, like the tech industry at large, has a poor history of welcoming women into its culture. That’s not exactly an original sentiment, but it’s something that can’t be said too often. This was recently demonstrated by the uproar this week over Ubisoft eschewing the option for gamers to play as a wo... |
A BMW Can Now Control A GoPro Camera Because Why Not | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | As a result of a new partnership between GoPro and BMW, it’s never been easier to record your hoonage antics. Select late-model BMW cars will soon be able to control GoPro cameras directly from the dash. Just click record on the dash of the car and the connected GoPro cameras click to life. Starting in July, the owner ... |
Bitcoin’s Price And The Public Interest | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | When bitcoin’s price skyrockets, the printing presses kick into high gear. And when Bitcoin collapses, a new crop of stories go out. Something interesting is happening at the moment, however, as we have recently seen a decoupling of bitcoin’s price and the public interest. In short, bitcoin’s recent rally hasn’t been m... |
CrunchWeek: Twitter’s Leadership Shuffles, Amazon’s New Music App, And Leena’s Last Day | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | In today’s episode, Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler and I talked about the latest C-level shuffles at Twitter with the departures and VP of media , and Amazon launching its new (and the rumors that a is up next.) We also popped a bottle of bubbly to toast to my dear friend and CrunchWeek cohost Leena Rao, who is depart... |
Yelp, Zillow And Groupon Rise In Wake Of OpenTable Acquisition Announcement | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | The bounced a number of companies’ share prices today, including a 3.91 percent rise for Groupon, and a 2.39 percent bump for Zillow. Yelp, however, shot north 13.79 percent. Investors seem to be betting that, in the wake of the OpenTable deal — executed at a more than 40 percent premium — other companies that are lo... |
Netflix Will Shut Down Public API Support For Third-Party Developers On November 14 | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | Netflix is getting a lot stingier with the way that third-party developers can use its content, announcing that it will stop supporting its public API by the end of the year. In a letter to API partners, Netflix VP of Edge Engineering Daniel Jacobson announced that it would retire the public API program effective Novem... |
Gillmor Gang Live 6.13.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Benedict Evans, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. . Also |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: E3, Vessyl, And Parrot Mini Drones | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | This week, , and designer Yves Behar (and friends) unveiled . All in all, it’s been a hugely successful week for gadgets. So sit back, relax, and enjoy, because we discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , , , and . Have a good Friday, everybody!
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Court Upholds Dismissal Of $1B Lawsuit Against Facebook | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | Facebook enjoyed a legal victory today, when an earlier dismissal of a lawsuit that it called a “publicity stunt” was upheld by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The lawsuit, alleging that Facebook did not take down a page urging violence against Israel’s Jewish popu... |
The FCC Is Investigating The Netflix-Verizon Scrap | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | The FCC is investigating the fight between content companies and ISPs, which has seen Netflix that Verizon’s network is “crowded” at certain times, Verizon fire back that , and the content company respond by making a Chris Christie-esque pronouncement that the ISP is . This is one front of the wider net neutrality ... |
This DIY Game Boy Pocket Uses A Raspberry Pi To Bring You Absolute, Unending Joy | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6JuB0zOHGeg] Imagine if I told you, almost 20 years ago, that you could put every single Game Boy game (plus a bunch of others) inside of your Game Boy Pocket without having to buy or swap out cartridges. “Forsooth, what wizardry is this,” you’d say. “Tel... |
Pinterest Improves Its Search Engine Again With Smarter Place Search | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | Yep, . Following this week’s about the arrival of a feature called “Guided Search” on the web, Pinterest today says it’s now rolling out smarter “Place Search,” too. The changes being introduced will make it easier to map a Pin to a Place Board in just a few clicks on both iOS and web. This is really about making th... |
Jeff Bezos Sent Me A Book | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 13 |
Odd introduction to a TechCrunch post? Sure, but it’s also not every day that Jeff Bezos sends you a copy of his favorite childhood book — — to hype Amazon’s next major event. Mr. Pine lives in the world’s most boring suburb (though to be honest, most of them are boring anyway…). To make his house stand... |
Apple Is Taking Action Against Fake Ratings On The App Store | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | App developers know that having good ratings and reviews means more users will be wiling to download their app. And thanks to , it will help their app be better discovered via the App Store’s Top Charts as well. Because of this, some — okay, many — developers manipulate their apps’ positions by posting fake ratings an... |
Fab.com’s David Lapter Joins MakeSpace As CFO | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | , the NY-based startup that thinks of itself as a Dropbox for physical objects, has recently announced that it secured Fab.com CFO as new Chief Financial Officer, and SVP of Business Operations. Lapter is a serial startup CFO, and most recently comes from Fab.com where he joined in 2011. At the time, the ecommerce pl... |
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Priceline’s Swallowing Of OpenTable For $2.6B Investigated For Being Too Low | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 13 | Travel behemoth Priceline this morning that it planned to gobble up restaurant booking service OpenTable for in cash, news that sent OpenTable’s by nearly 50 percent to over $104 per share. But, a little like a belch after a big meal, swiftly on the heels of that news comes another development: Former SEC attorne... |
We Need To Talk About Depression | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | Building a startup is like climbing a mountain and being told you’ll only get the gear you need–harnesses, helmets, bottled oxygen–as you struggle toward the peak. Long hours away from family, responsibility to investors and users, and the fear of failure are extremely stressful and they sometimes coalesce into somethi... |
Tech Giants Join Microsoft In Calling For US Gov To End Use Of Warrants To Demand Overseas Data | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | Microsoft’s case to prevent the United States government from using search warrants to demand data that is not stored in the United States has picked up a number of high-profile backers, including the , , and, recently, Apple and Cisco. The final two filed a , which details their protest of the practice. Microsoft l... |
Yo Facebook, Ban Links With Fake Video Play Buttons | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | Oh, cute cat video? Let me watch that for a second in the News Feed. Click the play button. NOPE. It was a lie. Just a static image of a play button designed to dupe me into clicking out to some crappy website. Feed reading, interrupted. User experience, injured. Likelihood I’ll click legitimate videos in the future, d... |
Seoul’s Sprouting Startup Scene | Sebastien Park | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | A couple of years ago, a compared cities like Berlin, Tel Aviv, and London to get at what made startups successful. There wasn’t enough data to compare Asia at the time, but there’s one city in the region that’s quietly been developing into another important tech hub: Seoul. When you first think of South Korea, you... |
Google’s Push Past Search | Peter Yared | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | As a recent analysis indicated, Google’s traditional search is as well as it did on the desktop web. Sifting through organic search results on a mobile device is a sub-optimal experience, especially when compared to the push notifications and personalized streams of cards that have made mobile apps from Facebook, T... |
Gillmor Gang Live 06.14.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Benedict Evans, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording has concluded for today. . Also |
Sand Hill Road’s Consiglieres: August Capital | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | book “Give and Take,” Adam Grant argues that the fourth ingredient to success — aside from hard work, luck and talent — is the ability to connect with people. After 10 years of research, he chose Sand Hill Road’s David Hornik as a prime example to prove his case that good guys can finish on top. If venture is a long g... |
Portland Gets One Step Closer To Getting Google Fiber | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | In a few years time, when you come to , chances are that you will be able to subscribe to Google Fiber. Earlier this week, the city in allowing Google to expand its gigabit fiber network to “fiberhoods” in the city by approving a franchise agreement with the company. Google plans to invest over $300 million in this ... |
Nutmeg Is The Answer To Your Sad, Gif-Free Existence | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | Because I love you, I’ve interrupted my regularly scheduled Saturday morning programming to bring you this breaking news update: THERE IS A NEW APP IN THE APP STORE THAT MAKES SENDING GIFS IN TEXT MESSAGES SUPER EASY! It’s called Nutmeg, and it brings an experience similar to Giphy to mobile. When you first open the ap... |
Pirate Radio, YouTubers And Video Games | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | , , , , . These and many more represent the new frontier of gaming media. They are episodic, usually comedic, shows. YouTubing (and similar through services like Twitch) has been gaining momentum for a while, but this year it seems to have broken through into the wider consciousness. Some channels have attained en... |
The Only Tragedy Of This War Is That One Day It Will End | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 6 | 14 | Did you know that the book publishing industry is at war with itself? No, wait, you’re a TechCrunch reader, wrong question. Did you know that the book publishing industry still exists? …This is kind of an awkward time for those of us who love both books and technology. It’s almost like you can’t cheer for both. This we... |
The Ring Of Fire: Of Pirates, Popcorn Time And Dynamic Pricing | Razmig Hovaghimian | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | At 36,007 feet up in the air, somewhere between Alaska and Russia, with the Aleutian Islands someplace below us, my child and I are sharing a blissful moment. My one-year-old is sleeping peacefully and I finally have an opportunity to catch up on Game of Thrones. I’m four episodes behind, and I need to what happene... |
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A16z Invests $90 Million In Tanium, An Enterprise Systems Management Startup | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | on Twitter. The firm is investing $90 million in , an enterprise security and system management startup which lets IT control an entire network using natural language in a search engine-like interface. Here’s how Andreessen Horowitz board partner Steven Sinofsky describes the software in a : Orion popped open his la... |
Bing Looks Abroad | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | Microsoft is working to expand Bing’s international footprint. A , , speaks plainly: “Bing is embarking on the most ambitious geographic and product expansion in its history.” Well then. Microsoft hasn’t taken down the listing, so it’s likely not too concerned about having its plans aired publicly. What this signifie... |
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