title stringlengths 2 283 ⌀ | author stringlengths 4 41 ⌀ | year int64 2.01k 2.02k | month int64 1 12 | day int64 1 31 | content stringlengths 1 111k ⌀ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Control VR Opens The Door To Virtual Offices | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | is a startup which has created a wearable system that captures precise motion data for virtual reality applications. On its (which has raised $388,000, or more than 150% of its goal with 13 days left to go) the most intriguing use shown for its gloves and armbands is using its exact finger-digit tracking to simulate... |
Someone Made A TechCrunch Parody Site And It’s Hilarious | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | Something odd popped up in my Facebook Newsfeed over the weekend: Notice the link in this post says “Trapcrunch.com.” Someone went and launched an Onion-like imitation of . , a clear parody to TechCrunch, claims in its tagline to be, “Breaking technology news from verified sources.” The site was just 10 days ago by... |
Google Invests $50 Million In “Made With Code” Program To Get Girls Excited About CS | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | This week, Google launched a new initiative called Made With Code, aimed at getting young women excited about learning to code and close the gender gap in the tech industry. The idea behind it is to show young girls that the things they love, from apps on their smartphones to their favorite movies are made with code, a... |
A Tale Of Two Patents: Why Facebook Can’t Clone Snapchat | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | , its second attempt at an impermanent sharing app, last Tuesday. The app borrows heavily, in concept and features, from Snapchat, as well as smaller startups like Frontback and Look. Slingshot and the same photo and video recording interface–a very user friendly mechanism where you tap the main button to take a pict... |
Heartbleed Isn’t Dead Yet | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | There’s a really good reason why security researchers were so spooked by the Heartbleed bug: there’s just no silver bullet. Even if we somehow banded together to get of the world’s systems patched, a chunk of the Internet would likely be left vulnerable. Sure enough, Heartbleed beats on. (Not sure what Heartbleed i... |
The Term Sheet Mating Dance | William Hsu | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | There is no word more sacred and yet over-used than “term sheet” in the entrepreneurial circle. The pursuit of the mythical VC term sheet has blinded entrepreneurs from the real goal of building a business: revenue, customers, users, engagement and retention. Securing a term sheet is about more than money — more than... |
Why Apple Dropped Yahoo For Its Weather App In iOS 8 | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | On Friday, into the maneuvers that led to . That’s a huge loss, considering Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s efforts to Yahoo had basically been acting as a go-between all this time, repackaging data from The Weather Channel. But the Weather Channel wasn’t providing Yahoo with everything at its disposal, so its CEO David ... |
Apple Might Finally Solve Photo Storage Hell | Brenden Mulligan | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | We take a bazillion photos with our phones and digital cameras. The digital images mostly just sit, clogging up our hard drive(s). This has been a problem for as long as digital photography has existed and it’s getting worse. Camera resolutions are getting bigger and with it, the file sizes of our digital photos are gr... |
#Love: Hacking Social Isolation | Contributor | 2,014 | 6 | 22 | is a clinical psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. For professional inquiries, visit her website The evolution of technology into our everyday lives is allowing us to do things more efficiently than ever. The act of finding, experiencing and ending relationships is all now widely available ... |
Bio-Tech Startup WISErg Raises $5M To Brings Its Food Waste Recycler To California | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | , a bio-tech company that recycles discarded food into organic fertilizer while harvesting data from the scraps, announced today that it has raised a Series B round of $5 million from private investors. This brings the total WISErg has raised to $7.75 million and will allow the Redmond, Wash.-based company to expand in... |
One Month Raises $770K To Teach All Of The Coding | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | What did you accomplish in the past 30 days? If you’re a student at (Formerly One Month Rails), you could have a fully functional web application. Yesterday, the Y Combinator-backed company announced it closed a seed round of $770K to bring accelerated programming instruction to the masses. YC led the round, with part... |
Watch Our Wrap-Up Of The Google I/O Keynote And Day One | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Google’s I/O developer conference kicked off today, and the company held its keynote address to give an overview of all the news it revealed at the event. The changes included a preview of the upcoming version of for now, which brings a new design paradigm to Google’s OS that helps it work across different types of s... |
US Promises EU Citizens Stronger Data Privacy Rights | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | The Obama administration has committed to pass legislation granting European Union citizens some of the same privacy rights as Americans in U.S. courts, . The U.S. has completed negotiations on an agreement that will grant EU citizens the right to seek reparation in U.S. courts if personal data their home countries sh... |
Hands On With Google’s Incredibly Clever Cardboard Virtual Reality Headset | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Each year at I/O, Google gives all of the developers in the audience a gift. Some years it’s a tablet. Some years it’s a laptop. This year? It was a piece of cardboard. Yeah, yeah, , too — but that cardboard! Once you tear the seal on Google’s lil’ slab of cardboard, it becomes clear that this is no mere corrugated fi... |
NSA Denies Any Record Of Snowden Emailing Superiors About Concerns | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) query, the NSA today informed that it could not locate email pursuant to his request for “any and all emails written by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in which Mr. Snowden contacted agency officials through email to raise concerns about NSA programs.” Snowden, ... |
Investments Decline As Education Technology Grows Up | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | for summer, but the nation’s education-focused technology startups are still hitting the books, drumming up new business and new investments to capitalize on overwhelming demand for innovation from primary and secondary schools and colleges. New government initiatives are underway nationally — where education spending... |
Facebook Diversity Report Shows It’s 69% Male, 57% White, Charts Compare It To Google And More | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Facebook just released its t, and here’s our chart comparing it to Google, Yahoo, and LinkedIn. While you could conclude that Facebook is a bit more diverse than Google and a bit less than the others, for being heavily skewed male, white and asian. Facebook comes in at 69% male worldwide, while in the US it’s 57% wh... |
Aereo Faced With Few Options After Supreme Court Loss | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Aereo, , now has to find one after its . But none of its options are looking very good. “We did try, but it’s over now,” Barry Diller, one of Aereo’s top investors, . Despite Diller’s call of death, some believe the TV streaming service may have a few options left to pursue. Aereo’s CEO and founder, Chet Kanojia, has ... |
All The News From Google I/O 2014 | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Google I/O is in full swing and the company just dropped a cluster bomb of news at its annual keynote. During the two and a half hour event, Google announced major changes to Android, announced Android TV, revealed key Android Wear details and it was even interrupted twice by protesters. All of the action can be found ... |
Hands On With The Samsung Gear Live, Its $199 Smartwatch Shipping July 7 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Samsung has a new Android Wear device that it didn’t really make too much of a fuss about before: The Gear Live smartwatch. It unsurprisingly resembles its brethren the Gear, Gear 2 and Gear Neo, but it doesn’t use Tizen or Android (like the first gen Gear) and it doesn’t use the same interface Samsung has been pushing... |
RelateIQ Snags Ex-Twitter VP Of Search | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | , the former vice president of search and content engineering at Twitter — who left the company in April and became an advisor — will take a job at relationship management software developer, . Belkin, who will officially join the team as Vice President of Engineering on August 4, previously worked as Twitter’s Seni... |
Google Fit Warms Up | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | has risen as part of a prodigious, that included everything but the kitchen sink ( ). Today during its annual developer conference, Google announced a platform preview , a set of APIs that will allow developers to sync data across wearables and devices. Google Product Manager Ellie Powers demonstrated Fit’s powers ... |
The Elephants In The Google I/O Room: Glass And Plus | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Google’s at its I/O conference today was filled with developer news. A new design language for Android, cross-platform concessions, watch apps, a health platform and much more was shown off. But even a stretch of presentations that had in his chair apparently wasn’t enough runway to allow a mention of two troubled ... |
Google Acquires Mobile Testing Platform Appurify, Will Keep It Open On iOS And Android | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Google just announced at I/O that it has , a startup that lets developers automate testing and optimization of their mobile apps and websites. Appurify will stay open as freemium cross-platform service but get a big boost in distribution as it becomes integrated into the Google developer tool stack. Appurify’s big val... |
Google I/O Attendees Gifted Brand-New Android Wear Smartwatches | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Get ready to be jealous, Google fans. Google I/O attendees will walk away from this week’s annual developer conference with some brand-new Android Wear-powered smartwatches. They’ll be able to choose between one of the introduced earlier today, including the Samsung Gear Live or LG G3 Android Wear. In addition, they’... |
Google Play For Education Goes Beyond Tablets, Now Available For Chromebooks, Too | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Last November, Google , a portal for teachers and schools to more easily buy Android apps, books and educational YouTube video, and distribute them to their students. At the time, the program was solely focused on tablets, but starting today, the team also launched support for Chromebooks. With the revamped Google Pla... |
Hands On With The LG G Watch, Shipping July 7 For $229 U.S. | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Today at developer conference, Android Wear was a central topic of discussion. The LG G Watch was one of the devices on display, and it’s going live for pre-order at around 4:30 p.m. PT today. The Android-powered wearable device is set to retail for $229 and ship to buyers starting July 7, but I got a chance to use i... |
Google’s Redesigned Drive Focuses On Speed, Office Compatibility And Security | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Google today its a major redesign today and with it, it is also bringing a number of new features to its Docs, Sheets and Slides productivity apps on mobile and the desktop. Maybe most importantly, Google has now built ‘s technology, which the company almost exactly two years ago, right into its productivity app... |
Getting More Women Into Tech Is Going To Be Awkward | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | Big tech companies are pushing hard to get the word out about their efforts to be more inclusive for women, people of color, and other minority groups. We recently covered , including sending “at least one person each” to upcoming tech conferences via a new scholarship program and committing $50 million over three yea... |
After School Is The Latest Anonymous App Resulting In Student Cyberbullying And School Threats | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | : The app is for downloading on the App Store. Meet , an anonymous Whisper-like app that hit the App Store in October 2014. And of course it’s causing issues in countless schools like and did before it. After School allows users to post anonymous messages that only other students at their school can see. It’s no... |
Gangnam Style Has Been Viewed So Many Times It Broke YouTube’s Code | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | Whoops! Just a fun bit of trivia for the coders out there: PSY’s Gangnam Style has been viewed so many times that it broke YouTube’s view counter, making it the very first video to break the reaches of a 32-bit integer. Not sure what the hell that means? Just know that when you’re coding, you often have to consider y... |
Prenetics Raises $2.65M To Bring Safe, Accurate DNA-Based Prenatal Testing To Asia | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | You don’t often hear of five-year-old companies raising multi-million dollar seed rounds, but that’s exactly what’s happened in Hong Kong today where biotech firm closed $2.65 million for its next-generation prenatal DNA testing. Prenetics has also got itself a new CEO: Danny Yeung, who led Groupon’s East Asia busine... |
Uber Hires A Mobile Team In Amsterdam To Staff A New Mobile Dev Shop In The City | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | In between , and , and denying it will , ’s global expansion continues. To spearhead its mobile growth, Uber is setting up a mobile development shop in Amsterdam, led by one of its earliest employees and staffed by a set of new hires: a team of Dutch developers who that have served as advisors to the company si... |
Saavn Partners With Twitter To Bring Tweet-Powered Radio To Its Streaming Service | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | India-focused music service is upping its social game after it partnered with Twitter to introduce a tweet-powered radio station for its users. The company serves up “millions” of Indian music tracks and international hits, offering a Spotify-style choice of an ad-supported free version or a subscription-based, ad-fr... |
Rumor: Web Content Management Firm Ektron Sold To Private Equity Company [Updated] | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | A source told TechCrunch this week that , a web content management firm based in Nashua, NH has been sold to an unnamed private equity firm for around $48M plus taking on $50M in debt. The source said the actual cash exchanged in the deal would only be in the $30M range, which is pretty low for an established enterpri... |
SoftBank Invests $250M In GrabTaxi, Uber’s Archrival In Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | Not content with and as part of to startups in India, Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has now turned its attention to Southeast Asia and sunk $250 million into , Uber’s major rival in the region. Neither party has confirmed what the deal values GrabTaxi at, but the company’s valuation is likely to exceed the $1 ... |
London’s Mayor And Six Tech Investors Launch $133M Fund For City’s Startups | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | A new venture capital fund for startups has been launched by the mayor of London, aiming to boost . The new will be supported by £25 million from the mayor’s office and up to £60 million from six private-sector partners, so £85 million or $133 million in total. Applications for funding will open on 4th December, but... |
Sound Might Be The Key To Touching Objects In Virtual Reality | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | The key to a sense of touch in VR might be sound, ironically – a team working out of the University of Bristol in the UK (via ) have worked out an improved version of haptic tech that can use high-frequency sound emitters to mimic the effect of touching a physical object, without any physical object present. Researche... |
Barry Diller Says Tinder Succeeded Because IAC Left Its Founders Alone | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | IAC Chairman Barry Diller talked about dating app Tinder while onstage today at Business Insider’s Ignition conference, but surprisingly, he didn’t directly address the company’s biggest piece of recent news — the fact that . Here’s how Diller tells the Tinder story: IAC created “this little incubation group” ( ) a fe... |
Google Inbox Team Promises Support For Google Apps Accounts, Says User Demand Sped Up Efforts | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | Every single time I write about Google Inbox, I see the same two comments on repeat: a good chunk of readers saying “Meh. Tried Inbox, wasn’t into it,” and another good chunk saying “If only it worked with my custom Gmail domain!” If you’re in the latter camp: good news! The Google Inbox team promised today that suppor... |
Other Ways To Fund Your Business Dream | Kristopher B. Jones | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | For any startup, finding appropriate capital can be a matter of business survival. Nowadays, everyone is aflutter about the sexiest capital-raising tool on the block: crowdfunding. According to a recent crowdfunding raises a whopping $2 million per day, an equivalent of $87,000 per hour. Slap up a video, write a de... |
Anagog Raises $1M To Help Drivers Find Street Parking With Real-Time, Crowdsourced Data | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | One of the best decisions I ever made was to get rid of my car. The thing that really drove me over the edge? The constant search for parking, particularly in big cities, and the parking tickets that can pile up as a result. Israeli startup is trying to tackle that problem with real-time crowdsourced data. The compan... |
SuperDuino Is A Tiny Arduino Board With A Built-in Touchscreen | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | Another day, another Arduino project. This time it’s something called , a tiny touchscreen powered by a coin cell battery and backed up by a tiny Arduino-Like processor. The kit can be used to build smartwatches and other mini devices and costs about $25 for the entire system. You can add microSD readers, Bluetooth, a... |
Find Out What You Listened To Most On Spotify This Past Year | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | While the rest of the world is rocking to Ed Sheeran and his Top 40 friends, I’m mostly picking up dreamy indie pop the likes of Purity Ring and Bear Hands. Ignore the fact that you may have never heard of Bear Hands for a second (but trust me, they’re good). Spotify told me what I like most in its individualized . Th... |
London’s Containerville Is A Startup Office Built Out Of…. Shipping Containers | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | We’ve seen some pretty weird startup spaces in our time, but not often in shipping containers. , which has just launched in London, is an unusual take on startup offices. Some 30 shipping containers have been arranged over two floors, “up-cycled” into modern work spaces, just by the Regents Canal. Each container can... |
Microsoft Makes Its Audience Polling Service Bing Pulse Available To Anyone | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | Microsoft is expanding its audience polling tool today — Josh Gottheimer, general manager of corporate strategy, told me that it’s moving from a model of one-off partnerships to self-service. So basically anyone can now use Bing Pulse at their events and meetings. While there are a number of polling and visualizing p... |
Landbay Secures $2.35M From Omni For Its Buy-To-Let P2P Lending Platform | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | We covered the of in April and it’s since gone on to bring the peer-to-peer lending model to buy-to-rent mortgages, among a raft of other competitors piling into this space. The idea is that it offers lenders more attractive returns compared to banks. It’s now raised £1.5 million (USD$2.35 million) from an altern... |
Former Justin.TV And Parse CEOs Join Y Combinator As Partners | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | Last month, former Pixar CFO Ali Rowghani joined Y Combinator . This month, YC is adding not one, not two, but new names to their partner/part-time partner rosters. (pictured above), former CEO of Justin.tv and Socialcam, is shifting from part-time partner to full time. According to an interview , Seibel will focus... |
null | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 25 | null |
Kidaptive’s Latest App Learner Mosaic Puts A Preschool Teacher In Parents’ Pockets | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | , the , has now released a new app designed just for parents. Called “ ,” the app offers parents personalized insights into how well their child is progressing based on their behavior and activity within Kidaptive’s applications, and soon, within other third-party applications that tie into the platform, as well. The ... |
SoftBank Invests $7M In MIT-based Clean-Tech Startup Altaeros Energies | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Another day, another funding from SoftBank. This time the corporation, one of Japan’s leading telecoms, has , which is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and makes airborne wind turbines. SoftBank’s investment in Altaeros is tiny compared to its recent pouring of hundreds of millions of dollars into ,... |
After School Is Back On The App Store, But With Changes To Curb Cyberbullying | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | is back. The anonymous message board application returned to the App Store several hours after it . The app is still marketed to students and allows for the anonymous posting of messages. But an Apple spokesperson tells me that the developer made changes . The app now has a and users can flag content. Apple told t... |
Say Media Buys Out Investors As It Exits The Media Business And Focuses On Its Publishing Platform | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | After four years of operating a portfolio of digital magazines, is saying goodbye to its media business. The company is also saying goodbye to its investors, buying them out as it seeks to reinvent itself as a product-focused business focusing on what it believes is a next-generation publishing platform. The move is ... |
Watch A Tech Blogger Play Against Charli XCX In Just Dance 2015 | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | The wonderful stopped by TechCrunch HQ this morning for a quick interview and a round of Just Dance 2015. We chatted about how her use of social media has evolved since she started promoting her music on MySpace as a teenager in the mid-2000s. Charli says she basically lives through her apps, balancing her time bet... |
Platform Or Publisher? Whatever You Call It, It’s The Future Of Media | Tobi Bauckhage | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | There has been a sea change in the way content today is being created, distributed and consumed. The distinction between publishers and platforms online has never been more uncertain. This ambiguity has only been compounded by the emergence of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as new content distribution p... |
Gearing Up For The Future Of Connected Workout Clothes With Athos | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | According to my pants, I’m letting my left leg do most of the work. I already suspected this, but now, thanks to an app and some bluetooth-enabled fabric of the future from , I can prove it. Athos is a Silicon Valley startup with a new kind of “smart” workout clothing line that aims to improve your performance and pre... |
Here’s How Much Money Microsoft Lost Per Day On The Nook Deal | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | A deal from nowhere, which went nowhere, Microsoft’s partnership with Barnes & Noble’s Nook with the bookseller kicking the software firm a chunk of cash and shares. The indicates that Microsoft will sell “all of its $300 million convertible Series A preferred limited liability company interest” in exchange for “an... |
Viewbix Raises $3M To Wrap Video Ads Inside Interactive Players | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Video ad startup is announcing that it has raised $3 million in additional funding. The company basically wraps videos in a custom player, so if you’re an advertiser, the player can include your branding, as well as the ability to collect contact information and more. You can see , including a Cuisinart YouTube vide... |
Facebook Relaunches Slingshot As A Snapchat Stories-Style Lifecasting App | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Reply to unlock didn’t work. Neither did dropping the requirement and just letting people freely send photos and videos to each other. So today Facebook took yet another swipe at Snapchat with the for and . Now you follow people like on Twitter, but you can still privately message. If you pull down the camera, you... |
Google Gets Thousands Of Girls To Program The White House Christmas Tree Lights | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | The is getting a tech twist this year. Over 300,000 people, mostly young girls, participated in Google’s campaign to program the way the lights will dance on the 56 official White House Christmas trees during this evening’s lighting ceremony. We don’t know what exactly 300,000 different lighting programs will look l... |
The Problem With The Internet Of Things | Dan Conlon | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Lightbulbs, washing machines, thermostats, fridges and locks. If you believe the Internet Of Things salespeople, over the next 10 years, everything in your home is set to become connected. Imagine a world where you could turn on your porch light from the office or unlock your door for a visitor, all from a smartphone... |
Pip! | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | to brand itself as such, Aol isn’t known for innovation. Part of the co-editor job here at TechCrunch is fending off some of the clunky things that our parent company does, like holding an internal Aol Disrupt, or playing a Taylor Swift parody during all hands or making us log into our TechCrunch emails with our Aol a... |
After Multiple Reports Of Cyberbullying, After School Disappears From The App Store | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Another haven for cyberbullying is gone. The app After School is no longer available in the Apple App Store. It’s unclear at this time if it was pulled by Apple or taken down by the publisher. Apple is investigating the removal of the app and the app publisher has not responded to multiple requests for comment from T... |
Nexus 9 Keyboard Folio Review | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | 9 is Google’s latest tablet running pure, unadulterated Android, and it’s a very capable piece of hardware, made better because it’s running Lollipop, which is a big step up for Android overall. Google has just begun shipping accessories, too, which give the tablet a magnetic cover with a built-in keyboard, complete... |
Why LiveRail Ditched An IPO To Sell Its Video AdTech To Facebook For ~$500M | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | profitable. We probably would have pursued an IPO. The business was accelerating”, CEO Mark Trefgarne tells me in his first interview about how his company was . Still, rather than go public, Trefgarne said his team realized that “If we work hard at Facebook, we have a real opportunity to take over the world…actual... |
Apple Stores Will Host Free Coding Workshops For Second Annual ‘Hour of Code’ | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Apple is participating in this year’s Hour of Code, the second annual worldwide event designed to help spark interest in and provide access to coding education among youth and students. Apple’s participation will involve offering free one-hour workshops at its Apple Store retail locations, during which they’ll provide ... |
null | Jonathan Friedman | 2,014 | 12 | 3 | null |
Microsoft’s Plan To Become More Diverse | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | At its annual shareholder’s meeting this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Chairman John Thompson fielded a series of questions from the Reverend Jesse Jackson concerning diversity inside the technology company. The set of queries gave Microsoft a chance to address how it approaches the issue. The first of Jackson’... |
WedPics, A Photo-Sharing App For Weddings, Raises $4.25 Million Series B | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Can a mobile, social application bloom outside the Valley or other traditional tech hotspots? Raleigh, North Carolina-based WedPics has proven it can. The company, which makes a photo and video-sharing app for wedding couples and their guests, has now closed on $4.25 million in Series B funding led by Bullpen Capital, ... |
Wonderloop Attracts Investment From One Of Africa’s Wealthiest Magnates | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Tony O. Elumelu, one of Africa’s wealthiest magnates (who recently a $100 million program to support entrepreneurship in Africa) is understood to have put an undisclosed sum into Silicon Valley-based mobile startup . Prior to this, Wonderloop had raised $500,000 in seed funding and received $100,000 from Innovation ... |
Disney Will Launch Its First Imagicademy Learning Apps On Dec. 11 | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | Disney just unveiled its digital learning initiative , which will launch on December 11. The company first mentioned Imagicademy last month, but . As outlined at a press event today in New York, it’s a suite of mobile learning apps for kids, along with an app where parents can follow along, give their kids a virtual ... |
Ektron President Fesses Up To Selling The Company To Accel-KKR | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | After denying to TechCrunch that Ektron had been sold, company president Tim McKinnon admitted in a later phone conversation that a sale had in fact happened, after a document confirming the . Earlier this week we published a story about the to an unnamed private equity firm. The firm was presumably Accel-KKR, which... |
CrunchWeek: Uber’s Massive Raise, The IPO Market And What The Hell We Listened To This Year | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Another Friday, another turn ’round the CrunchWeek table. This week, , and chewed on , the and, yes, . Spotify may lose money, but it and Uber help set the larger tone for the technology market, both private and public. Their trajectory is portent for all tech companies. Just keep your IPO price conservative... |
Zillabyte’s Funding Maps Show Startups Taking Over Your Favorite Cities | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 5 |
Everyone talks about how San Francisco has been overrun with startups, but now has taken a stab at visualizing it for you. Zillabyte’s actually a San Francisco-based startup itself. It , offering tools for developers who want to build data analysis apps. In , software engineer Nikhil Karnik talked about how ... |
Here’s What Cortana Looks Like Running In Windows 10 | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Hey, Windows users! Ever wish you could talk to Cortana (Microsoft’s Siri/Google Now-style digital assistant) on your desktop the way you can on Windows Phone? It’s coming. Long-established Windows fan site has managed to get their hands on a leaked build of Windows 10, and have coaxed a early build of Cortana into... |
Twitter’s Former Head Of Product, Daniel Graf, Has Left The Company | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Daniel Graf, who was just recently bumped from his role as the head of Twitter’s product team, has parted ways with the company altogether. News of his departure comes by way of a tweet from Graf: Danke team, danke ! May you succeed in your mission, society needs you! — Daniel Graf (@danielgraf) Graf previously led t... |
Instacart Is Raising North Of $100 Million At A $2 Billion Valuation | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | , the home grocery delivery service that launched back in 2012, is close to raising a massive Series C round of funding north of $100 million, according to sources. The raise will value the startup at $2 billion, or more than quadruple the $400 million valuation of its Series B financing from June. Including this round... |
Zazzle Buys Boundless Network As It Battles Teespring For Democratized E-Commerce | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Want to sell T-shirts with your face on them, or get your employees shirts with your company name? is newcomer for your business, and it just got some more ammunition. Yesterday, personalized product maker and marketplace , a startup that lets companies save money on big branded product orders. Launched way ba... |
Separating The Opportunities From The Obstacles In Open-Source Networking | Mike Cohen | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Open standards have driven the networking market since the earliest days of the Internet. While the use of open source for networking is a more recent phenomenon, it is no less important. A major industry transition to open source for software-defined networking (SDN) is under way, and users and vendors stand to benefi... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.05.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session . |
Early Uber Investors Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford Raising $250M For SherpaEverest Fund | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Early Uber investors Scott Stanford and Shervin Pishevar are looking to raise another big fund, presumably to do follow-on investments in growth companies they had previously invested in. According to an , they are seeking $250 million for the new SherpaEverest Fund. Stanford and Pishevar are probably best known for t... |
Bitsbox Debuts Monthly Coding Projects That Teach Kids To Build Simple Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | When co-founder Scott Lininger learned to code, it was on a his mom and dad bought him when he was a kid. He says he taught himself coding by copying from the book that came with the computer. Now a dad himself, Lininger wanted to offer his daughter the opportunity to experience learning to code much in the same wa... |
Hands On With Sony’s PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition Console | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Sony has a new version of its PlayStation 4 console going on sale soon, which is limited to only 12,300 units globally, and which comes in the original gray color of the first PlayStation hardware. The anniversary edition will retail for $500, which seems steep, but it also includes a stand for vertical mounting and ... |
Microsoft Releases Cortana In 4 New Countries | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | If you live in Germany, Italy, France or Spain, you can now get your Cortana on. Microsoft today that it has rolled out its virtual, digital assistant to those four new European countries for users that are part of its Windows Phone Developer Preview Program. In short, if you’re an early adopter sort in one of those ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: CarPlay, Google Glass + Intel, And Star Wars | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Friday is a beautiful thing, and this morning’s podcast celebrates that. Pioneer released a new version of its , and the WSJ reported that of the next version of Google Glass. Meanwhile, the tech world is . We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , , and . Have a good Friday, eve... |
Microsoft Rolls Out Support For Video Calling Between Skype And Lync Users | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Last year, that its consumer-facing Skype communications service and its enterprise-focused counterpart would begin to interoperate, first with IM and audio, and later expanding to support video. Today, the company says, the video integration is complete. Skype users can now video call contacts on Lync, and vice vers... |
null | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 4 | null |
Recruitment Platform Intern Avenue To Roll Out Across Europe With Vodafone | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | is a startup which matches college undergraduates/graduates searching for paid internships with employers by using a data-based scoring system. To date, around 2,000 employers and 40,000 intern applicants have registered with the service in the UK. But it’s now secured a major distribution deal with Vodafone Foundatio... |
SwiftGate And The Future Of Music | Philip Inghelbrecht | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | At last the dust is settling around SwiftGate. For those of you who missed (or avoided) the saga, it all began in early November when Spotify conceded, but battle lines were drawn in the press as music experts stunned by her move began questioning the company’s future. Swift quickly explained her position in an excl... |
Torque, Microsoft’s Alternative To “OK Google,” Now Works On Android Smartphones | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Microsoft this morning has released an app for Android smartphone users called that allows you to shake your phone in order to perform a voice search, similar to Google’s “OK Google.” The difference is that instead of waking up the app with a standard keyword command, it’s the shaking motion that instead does the tri... |
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Review | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | season continues with an unlikely hero: Captain Toad, the toadstool-esque stock supporting character from Super Mario games, who takes the helm for a full-fledged puzzler based on mini games from Super Mario 3D World. takes unique advantage of the Wii U’s capabilities, in addition to being just generally super fun, ... |
Facebook 202X: How It Becomes The Multitool For The Modern Totalitarian, Part 1 | Dan Kaplan | 2,014 | 12 | 5 | Maybe it’s naive, but I’d always hoped that Facebook would evolve into the Internet’s humanizing, unifying force — the one that would stretch across geographical, national, religious and racial boundaries to show us that, even when we disagree about the tactics, we all want the same things for ourselves and our child... |
Skype Co-Founder Backs Wire, A New Communications App Launching Today On iOS, Android And Mac | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Skype co-founder Janus Friis is backing a new communications app called , out now for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. The app itself is the reimagining of how a communications tool like Skype should operate had it been built today. Much of that, in Wire’s case, means under-the-hood improvements that users don’t necessarily... |
Yik Yak’s New Funding Round Confirmed As Sequoia Leads $61M Investment | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | There’s been speculation that Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak is raising again, and today that the one-year-old app, which is popular among U.S. colleges, has closed a $61 million Series B round. Yik Yak representatives confirmed that Sequoia Capital led the round, which included participation from previous investors... |
Update: Sonos Sells Off $130M In Secondary Equity To Stave Off IPO For Its Smart Speakers | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Suddenly, music is a business again. After years of wallowing in the post-Napster/iTunes era, streaming is beginning to take hold and everyone’s phone is now an iPod. So while Sonos has been in the smart home audio business since 2002, now’s the time to push for mainstream adoption. So to stay focused on its business a... |
Sen. Al Franken Questions Lyft On Its Privacy Practices | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Senator Al Franken today asking it to detail its privacy practices. Sen. Franken’s questions come in 10 parts, and hit on predictable points: which employees can access customer data; how training is structured for employees that can access that information; what “mechanisms” exist to provide oversight of worker acti... |
Tumblr Now Has ‘Buy,’ ‘Pledge,’ And ‘Get Involved’ Buttons From Etsy, Kickstarter, Artsy + Do Something | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | — the site that has — has today a test of a new feature that will give it more interactivity, and more of a social commerce spin. Users that post links from a selection of sites — , , and — will now automatically see action buttons appear in the top right corner of the posts for people to “buy”, “browse”, “p... |
TC Cribs: Pact Coffee’s London Office Is As Fresh As Its Coffee | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | is to become a daily habit for Brits, with a tech-driven startup that can deliver the freshest coffee available, shipping within seven days of roasting. Pact has also gone for super-awesome customer service, going above and beyond the call of duty, Zappos-style. Pact has raised almost $4 million in venture capital... |
Nominations For The 8th Annual Crunchies End Soon — Get Yours In Today! | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | It’s that time of year again. The will soon be upon us, but if we’re going to give out any awards, we’re going to need your help. Each year, the Crunchies brings together the best and brightest from the startup ecosystem for a night of awards and schmoozing with their peers. As last year’s host John Oliver noted so... |
Firefox Could Soon Come To iOS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | For more than a year now, Mozilla has that it wouldn’t release a version of Firefox for iOS because Apple won’t let it use its own web engine on its platform. With a , however, it looks like Mozilla’s position may be changing. At an in Portland today, the organization talked about the need to get its browser onto ... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.