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TC Droidcast Episode 29: Lollipop’s Adoption Lag, Google Glass’s Second Act | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | This week, Darrell Etherington, Greg Kumparak and Kyle Russell opine about , and whether Google can ever solve that particular problem. are also on the agenda, as well as the , how modular phones might scare away buyers on the casual end of the spectrum, and what modularity really means for consumer choice. Next we... |
Twitter Copies Instagram With New Adjustable Photo Filters | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Over-filtering can obliterate the beauty of your photos or make them look cliché. So to give you more nuanced control, Twitter for and today replaced its clumsy photo filter grid with a much simpler Instagram-style row of . Each filter can be double-tapped to reveal an intensity slider so you can lay that sepia ef... |
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Valve Takes On Twitch With Steam Broadcasting | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | There’s a new entrant in the already-competitive online game-streaming space. Game developer, publisher and retailer just announced the beta version of , a tool for watching your friends play from within the company’s popular game store and community hub. Steam has long offered the ability to see when your friends a... |
Stripe Raises Another $70 Million, Doubling Its Valuation To $3.5 Billion | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Ultra-hot payments startup has brought on $70 million in new funding that will double its valuation less than a year after its last raise. The round, which was , brings the total amount Stripe has raised to . With the new financing, Thrive Capital joins Stripe’s list of investors, which also includes Sequoia, Gener... |
FCC Commish Alleges That Netflix Is Working To “Effectively Secure” An Internet Fast Lane For Its Content | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | FCC Commissioner sent to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today, alleging that the online video provider was working to “effectively secure” Internet “fast lanes” for its content. Netflix has been a . As such, Pai’s comments are somewhat embarrassing. If Netflix is in fact building ways to advantage its content over that... |
How To Hire When Everyone Wants To Found Their Own Startup | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Back before founding a company was cool, it was a lot easier to get a lot of smart people in a room. Rock stars were hireable because they weren’t forging their own paths. That led to powerhouse teams like the seen below. Alongside the future founders of LinkedIn, YouTube and Yelp at PayPal was , now of Khosla Ventur... |
Android 5.0 Currently Runs On Fewer Than 0.1% Of Handsets | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Google’s is currently running on fewer than 0.1 percent of handsets, according to . The new software, code-named ‘Lollipop,’ was made generally available November 12. Carriers are currently rolling Lollipop out to consumers, according to their own schedule. The limited uptake of Android’s fifth version so far unders... |
AWS Simplifies EC2 Reserved Instance Pricing | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Amazon Web Services is making some major changes to how it charges for — a move that seems to be at least partially motivated by the changes Google earlier this year. As Amazon , developers can still pay upfront for the full term of the instance (either one or three years), but in addition to this, they can also p... |
Status Automatically Tells Your Friends What You’re Up To And If Your Phone Is Dead | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Your phone is dead. Or you’re driving. Or you’re in a meeting. Your girlfriend/boyfriend/lover-person is trying to call you. You didn’t pick up, so now they’re assuming you’re either ignoring them or dead. Your phone knows better — hell, with all of the sensors and data crammed in that thing, it probably knows wha... |
The Father Of The Powersquid Launches A Bluetooth-Enabled Carbon Fiber Drone | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Chris Hawker, the creator of the , and some of his buddies at Trident Design have created a new flying drone, the The Flyer is an ultralight airplane that flies under its own power and controlled via Bluetooth. A tiny camera streams the flight to your phone. “We built this because after years of focusing on practica... |
Twitter Releases New Suite Of Anti-Harassment Tools, Promises Faster Response Times For Dealing With Abuse | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Twitter this morning has a new set of anti-harassment tools that make it easier for users to flag abuse on the network, as well as describe more specifically why they’re blocking or reporting a Twitter account. Twitter had made it fairly simple to report spam, but the new tools allow users to report a variety of trou... |
Misfit Raises $40M From Xiaomi And Others As It Eyes More Growth In China | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 2 | Wearable device maker and health and fitness platform provider Misfit has raised an additional $40 million in a Series C funding round led by GGV Capital and including Xiaomi, JD.com (online retailer with massive reach), Shunwei and existing investors, including Horizons Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund and Nor... |
UPDATE: Why Retailers Must (But Won’t) Succeed In Introducing Mobile Payment Systems | Catherine Tucker | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | In the digital age, it’s critical for retailers to collect and manage customer data. This information is the key to providing personalization for any kind of shopping experience, as it allows retailers to understand customer preferences and analyze shopping histories. Smartphone payment systems like Apple Pay do not ... |
The Internet Of Things Is Not A Shiny New Toy | Marc Canter | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | The Internet of Things is the latest, greatest new buzzword du jour and every major technology company, industrial manufacturer, big retailer and health industry player has declared the IoT to be the next big thing. Each of these industries sees a way of taking advantage of tiny low-power intelligent devices or sensors... |
How NASA Opens Planetary Mission Data | Thomas Stein | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | As the tests , planetary scientists are already working with reams of data to determine what the next generation of astronauts may encounter. For the past 25 years, NASA has been working to make the data it collects from all of its planetary missions open to the public and the research community. Known as the , th... |
Hands On With The Blackberry Classic | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | It’s been a long time coming: Blackberry’s return to its roots. Rather than chasing the pack, Blackberry has brought back exactly what its fans have been wanting in a package that is usable, fun, and solid. But can it save the company? I’m a fan of the $450 Classic and will post a full review on Monday but until then... |
11 Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | From the Sony hack coverage to Instagram being valued at $35 billion, here are the top stories from 12/13-12/19. 1. Sony was hacked. . The . Obama says (and calls James Franco, James Flacco). Sony’s CEO responds by saying that . Now . 2. . 3. . 4. Sarah Perez responds to the NYT op-ed penned by screenwriter and... |
How Mobile And Social Feeds Government’s Appetite For Innovation | Anne Altman | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | Applications that simply deliver information can be useful, but government agencies are now pushing user engagement to new heights. With in the U.S. owning smartphones, citizens are continuously equipped with an Internet connection, GPS functionality and a digital camera. In fact, the mobile phone has evolved from ... |
North Korea On Sony Hack: It Wasn’t Us | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | Here is the latest twist in the ongoing : after the that North Korea was indeed behind the attack on Sony, North Korea today categorically denied having anything to do with it. According to , North Korea’s foreign ministry went as far threatening “grave consequences” and demanding a joint investigation into the all... |
India’s E-Commerce Giant Flipkart Replenishes Its War Chest With New $700M Round | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | at the end of July, and less than six months later the Indian e-commerce giant is rounding off the year with a new $700 million round. The round includes money from existing investors DST Global, GIC, ICONIQ Capital and Tiger Global, and new backers Baillie Gifford, Greenoaks Capital, Steadview Capital, T. Rowe PriceA... |
Gillmor Gang: Hackathon | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Alexia Tsotsis, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, December 19, 2014. Our end-of-year show, produced as RogenGate broke and the President held a press conference. It may have occurred to some employees at Sony that they would be better off with some form of corpora... |
Transforming The Conversation On Women In Computer Science | Alison Derbenwick Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | Barbie and Mattel made news recently in the world of computer science. While initial reaction to Mattel’sBarbie “ ” book focused on all-too-common and inaccurate stereotypes, conversation that has developed around the book is actually helping to shine the spotlight on two very important issues. Why are women misrepre... |
Stichy Makes It Easier For Groups To Curate And Share Mobile Media | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | Inc, a mobile messaging focused startup which last year raised an $800,000 seed, led by ‘ Ben Ling, to fund a series of projects, has now launched its third app — called — this one focused on sharing multimedia content within groups. Rumr’s founder is James Jerlecki, who brings a background in messaging to the busi... |
Why Is Yahoo Still So Bad At The Basics? | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 12 | 20 | I’m reluctant to cite what I’m about to cite. It’s scathing. It’s scurrilous. It’s caustic criticism that seems often overblown and, in some cases, deliberately devoid of context. It’s the ‘s , and it’s clearly an attempt to do to her what . But — and I’m linking to it because I feel like I have a dog in this fi... |
Flickr Removes Creative Commons Images From Its Wall Art Program Following Backlash | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Last month, Flickr to include images from the photo-sharing site’s professional artists as well as images licensed for commercial use through . The project was originally intended to allow photographers profit from the sale of images made into prints, but it generated controversy when users realized that Yahoo (Flic... |
Mobile Commerce Consolidation As Mozido Takes Majority Stake In CorFire | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Just days after Dutch digital commerce provider , another heavily capitalised player in the space has made an acquisition to up its game. Mozido, a mobile commerce specialist that after raising $103 million in May, has taken a majority stake in , another mobile commerce startup that focuses on point-of-sale payment... |
Are SaaS Companies Just Misunderstood? | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Depending on whom you ask, companies that sell their products on a subscription basis are either companies that are veritable giants of growth, or firms that hide their business models’ inherent weakness in the form of short-term losses that are dismissed under the guise of investment. Regardless of where you stand on ... |
A Holiday Gift Guide For Your Tech-Savvy Girlfriends | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Whether you are looking for your girlfriend, your gal pal or that special lady in your life, or a gift for yourself, these items promise to charge, inform and add some chic style for the new year. Whether you go with the pendant or bracelet, this Tory Burch styled Fitbit is a great gift for close girlfriends such as yo... |
Ending The Invisibility Of Homelessness | Kevin F. Adler | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Francisco, 6436 of our neighbors slept on the streets or in shelters. The lack of affordable, safe, and supportive housing is a scourge on society. It costs $90K to maintain a human being on the streets for a year, compared to $18K to provide supportive housing to a previously homeless person. Over the last 10 years, ... |
Neurence’s Cloud Platform Gives Wearables Eyes That Can See And Ears That Can Hear | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | U.K. startup , which has previously released two proof-of-concept apps showcasing its augmented reality tech, called and , has now launched its long term platform play: a machine learning cloud platform for object recognition which it’s hoping will underpin the next wave of search queries as computing becomes incre... |
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Google Claims 2015 Will Be A “Moment” For Surveillance Reform | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Google thinks that next year will be a big moment for surveillance reform. So much so that the company set up a on its hub asking individuals to sign something akin to a petition of sorts to “help make the Internet more secure for everyone.” Why does Google think that 2015 will be big? The company notes that “[i]n ... |
Google Rips MPAA For Allegedly Leveraging Local Government To Revive SOPA | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Corruption in the American Hollywood style is something to behold. Today, Google published a alleging that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), alongside a number of film studios, funded what was essentially opposition research about the company. The resulting material was later fed to state attorneys ge... |
Restaurant Discovery Service Zomato Acquires Italy’s Cibando | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | , the restaurant search and discovery service backed by Vy Capital, Info Edge, and Sequoia Capital, continues to be on an acquisition spree as a means to accelerate its international expansion. After recently adding a presence in Central and Eastern Europe by means of , the New Delhi-headquartered company, which now b... |
ZZ Photo Is A Photo App That Can Organize Your Snapshots By Pet | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Does your photo management solution recognize your cat? Your mom? Your dog? No, it does not. That’s why there’s . The app, built by a Ukrainian team, is essentially a shoebox for all of your photos but with a few smarts built in. It is Windows-only right now but the team is working on mobile and Mac versions of the ap... |
New Secret Is A Shameless Clone Of Yik Yak | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | . |
Still Not On Inbox By Gmail? They Just Gave All Users 10 Invites Each | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Have you somehow not gotten a chance to try Inbox, despite Google opening up the service to anyone who asked It’s okay. I understand. You can’t be sitting on Twitter looking for these sorts of things to pop up the time. You have stuff to do. Important things, like “Work”, or “Feeding the dog”, or “literally anythi... |
RebelMouse Expands Its Publisher Tools With The River, A Personalized Newsfeed | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | first launched as a way for people to aggregate their social network updates into a “social front page,” but more recently, it’s been working to give publishers social tools for their own websites and apps, through a platform called . Now it’s rolling out the latest piece of Rebel Roar — The River. If you’re on Faceb... |
Few Winners In Anonymous Social Networking, And Secret’s Not One Of Them | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Is anonymous social networking a flash-in-the-pan trend? A winner-take-all category? Which of the anonymous social networking apps around today are still thriving, and which are practically dead? These questions come to mind today as one of the leading companies in the “anonymous social” category, Secret, , borrowing ... |
Jawbone UP3 Likely Won’t Ship In Time For Christmas After All | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | If you had plans to tuck a Jawbone UP3 under the tree for someone this year, it’s probably time to start thinking about something else. When Jawbone first to release a new fitness tracker, the company wouldn’t give us an exact date — only that it was coming “later this year.” Turns out even might be a stretch. Acco... |
Duet Makes Your iPad A No-Compromise Display For Your Mac | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | iPad-as-secondary-display apps have been around almost as long as the iPad, but most who used them once have seldom used them since. These things mostly work over Wi-Fi, and work poorly over Wi-Fi at that, with unwatchable video performance, choppy animation and tons of lag, even in the best of circumstances. from ... |
This Little USB Necklace Hacks Your Computer In No Time Flat | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Quick! The bad guy/super villain has left the room! Plug in a mysterious device that’ll hack up their computer while an on-screen progress bar ticks forward to convey to the audience that things are working! It’s a classic scene from basically every spy movie in history. In this case, however, that mystery device is re... |
Sony SmartWatch 3 Review | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Sony’s new Android Wear-powered SmartWatch 3 bucks a trend of the company releasing devices that use their own wearable platform, opting instead to jump on the bandwagon that includes a host of other Android wearable OEMs. It ends up being a big benefit, when you compare this device against previous SmartWatch models, ... |
Xbox One To Get Pandora, Vevo, Popcornflix And More Apps This Week | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | Microsoft might have said that they’re done — but that doesn’t mean they can’t release a few new toys in the form of apps. The company has just announced five new apps that should be available to Xbox One owners just in time for Christmas. 2014 was already a pretty solid year for Xbox One apps, with the addition of t... |
VHX Introduces An iPhone App And Library So You Can View Your Whole Video Collection In One Place | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 18 | has been working hard to make it easier for independent content owners to sell their videos online. And now it’s working to make it easier for consumers to find and enjoy the content that they’ve bought off the platform, with the introduction of a video library that stores all their purchases in one place, along with ... |
Aereo To Be Pieced Out And Auctioned Off To The Highest Bidder | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Lest you held any lingering hope in your heart of hearts that Aereo would somehow rise from the grave, let them be gone. The courts have just given the greenlight for the company to be pieced apart and its parts sold to the highest bidder. Aereo was a startup that captured over-the-air cable TV and allowed users to wat... |
The Top 10 Pricing Mistakes Companies Are Making | Per Sjofors | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Price strategy is emerging as a critical path for companies to increase their competitive advantage and bottom line. Many companies have spent years achieving gains through cost cutting, outsourcing, process re-engineering and adoption of innovative technologies. However, the incremental benefits from these important... |
What 2015 Has In Store For Native Ads, TV And Email | Jonathan Sills | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Succeeding as a modern, high-tech marketer means adapting to accelerating changes in technology — whether that’s leveraging Facebook’s newest features, segmenting customers with even more granularity or finding a new platform for viral distribution before the rest of the business world takes notice. While some market... |
Crowdfunding Startups Are Looking To Refashion The Business Of Fashion | Dennis Mitzner | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Crowdfunding is enabling new fashion startups to fight against the industry norm of manufacturing in Asia, bringing production closer to home thanks to lower minimum orders, willing local manufacturers and the trend of unique, customized clothing. Fashion startups such as , and use the crowd to provide an altern... |
Who’s Behind The Internet Outages In North Korea, Anyway? | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | North Korea blamed the U.S. and called President Obama a “monkey” today when the country’s Internet and mobile network went down for the third time this week. However, it’s still not clear who’s behind the Internet outages. “Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,” said the Nat... |
13 Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Travis Bernard | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | From Xbox Live being down on Christmas to the worst tech stocks of the year, here are the top stories from 12/20-12/26. Gamers who received new consoles for Christmas found themselves unable to connect and play with friends. On what might be the biggest gaming day of the year, . as a rental or purchase on Christma... |
Tech’s Year Of Missed Political Gains | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | The technology sector had a rough year in Washington. In the face of growing political spending, increasing economic might and , tech got nearly nothing it wanted in 2014. NSA , as did copyright reform, and patent reform. Immigration reform? . And the recent election who were allied with the tech industry on certa... |
On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | posted on his website, Paul Graham, the co-founder and former head of YCombinator, . Writing with an intensity that is unusual in his writing, Graham argued that “The US has less than 5% of the world’s population. Which means if the qualities that make someone a great programmer are evenly distributed, 95% of great p... |
After Alleged Rape In New Delhi, Uber Lays Out Additional Safety Measures In India | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Following an incident in which one of its drivers in New Delhi, ride-hailing company has announced . Those precautions were announced ahead of a hearing that the local Transport Department will be having on Monday to determine whether Uber and other mobile transportation services should be allowed to operate there... |
Walmart’s New Site Allows Consumers To Exchange Unwanted Gift Cards For Walmart e-Cards | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Walmart has teamed up with the gift card exchange website CardCash to launch a new where consumers can exchange their unwanted gift cards – many of which were likely received over the holidays – for a Walmart card instead. The site went live on Christmas day and is offering up to 97 percent of the value of the origin... |
When Will Your Phone Replace Your Keys And Wallet? | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | When I leave my home, I check that I have three things: keys, wallet, phone. How long will it be until the first two are obsolete? My wallet has only three things I actually need: credit cards, cash, ID. Any American with an iPhone 6 has already obsoleted credit cards, courtesy of Apple Pay. Any Kenyan, , etc. with a ... |
Healthcare Predictions For 2015 | Julie Papanek | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Next year will be big for healthcare. We felt small tremors in 2014 of the seismic changes underway. In 2015, I predict five changes to the core of the U.S. healthcare system: insurance, pharmaceuticals, supplies, medical services and payments. Let’s take a look at each of these trends, what they mean for the healthc... |
Google Translate Adds 10 More Languages, Including Burmese | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Google’s translation tool is constantly adding new languages, but its , the official language of Myanmar, as well as Malayalam, one of India’s six classical languages with 38 million speakers. The latter is especially significant because it ties into Google’s efforts to get more Indian users onto its services. Earlier... |
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YouTube Gets A Built-In GIF Creator | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Remember back in November of last year when I for making GIFs from videos? Some called me crazy. Many, however, agreed completely. It seems YouTube agreed, too. YouTube is now quietly rolling out its own GIF maker. It doesn’t seem to be enabled on all videos just yet, but it’s definitely there for some. Take, for exa... |
Anonymous Leaked A Massive List Of Passwords And Credit Card Numbers | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 12 | 27 | Following through on , a Twitter account claiming affiliation with Anonymous released a list of what it says are usernames and passwords for 13,000 accounts on Amazon, PlayStation, XBox Live, Hulu Plus, Walmart and other retail and entertainment services. The hack additionally included credit card numbers, security co... |
Oculus Acquires A Hand-Tracking Company And An Augmented Reality Company | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Will the Oculus Rift someday bring your hands into virtual reality? That seems to be a direction they’re moving in, based on some acquisitions they just made. This morning, Oculus quietly disclosed a pair of acquisitions: Nimble VR, and 13th Lab. Nimble VR is a hand-tracking, skeletal detection camera built almost enti... |
Netflix Fires Back At FCC Commish Pai’s Allegation That It Is Building Internet Fast Lanes For Its Own Content | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | After initially declining to comment, Netflix has responded to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai’s letter alleging that the company was working to “effectively secure” online fast lanes for its content through deployment of its own caching technology. Netflix, unsurprisingly, doesn’t buy the argument. The company claims that... |
Snapdeal, One Of India’s Leading E-commerce Sites, Acquires Wishpicker To Deliver Better Product Recommendations | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | , one of India’s largest e-commerce businesses, has acquired , a tech platform that uses machine learning to deliver recommendations for gift purchases. The deal’s financial terms were undisclosed. The company says this is the fifth acquisition it has made so far. Back in April, the company, whose competitors include ... |
With $2.2M In Funding, VideoAmp Helps TV Advertisers Reach More Eyeballs Online | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | is the latest startup trying to move TV ad dollars online. The startup is officially launching today, and it’s also announcing that it has $2.2 million in funding from Anthem Venture Partners, Simon Equity Partners, Third Wave Capital, Wavemaker Partners, and ZenShin Capital. Co-founder and CEO Ross McCray is disgusti... |
In Public Q&A, Zuckerberg Says Facebook Wants Diverse Expression But Won’t Launch A Dislike Button | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | In currently being , Zuckerberg discussed how Facebook won’t add a dislike button but wants to give more nuance to how people share emotions and reactions other than approval, and explained how he doesn’t think connecting with friends is a waste of time. The 30-year old CEO, clad in his gray t-shirt uniform, said Fa... |
YouTube Is Testing An Autoplay Feature That Streams Suggested Videos Automatically | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | , always on the lookout for ways to keep people watching more videos and staying on its site longer, is testing out a new feature that could prove to be a honeypot (or major annoyance!) for casual visitors: video autoplays, where once the video you came to watch ends, instead of defaulting to the usual grid of suggeste... |
Lending Club’s IPO Pops 56% In Its First Day, Sets Stage For Hortonworks And New Relic Offerings | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Lending Club had a strong debut in the public markets today, popping 56 percent from its $15 IPO price to more than $23 per share. As , the company’s offering was “the largest IPO for a U.S.-based tech company” thus far this calendar year. The company’s IPO sets the stage for tomorrow’s flotations of and . New Reli... |
Amazon’s Connected Speaker Echo Now Has An iOS App | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | When last month, which plays music, news, radio and more as well as respond to commands and queries via its included virtual assistant technology, it also came with a dedicated mobile app for configurations and other settings. The app was initially available only for Amazon’s Fire OS and Android, but not iOS. Inste... |
Adobe Acquires Stock Content Marketplace Fotolia For $800M In Cash | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Adobe today that it has acquired , a popular marketplace for stock photography and video, for approximately $800 million in cash. The idea is to integrate the service into and make it easier for Creative Cloud members to use (and purchase) the over 34 million images and videos in the company’s portfolio. “The acqu... |
Xiaomi Confirms It Has Suspended Sales In India Due To A Court Ruling | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Chinese phone maker Xiaomi has confirmed that it has stopped selling devices in India after the New Delhi high court placed an injunction on its business this week. Xiaomi VP of International Hugo Barra revealed the temporary pause in India, which is triggered by , via . Initially, Xiaomi told media it had not receiv... |
Microsoft To Unveil The Consumer Side Of Windows 10 On January 21 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Following the release of an earlier this winter, Microsoft will further takes the wraps off of its next operating system on January 21 of next year. The company has repeatedly claimed that what is has released of Windows 10 far has been a small fraction of its larger size. This event, which won’t release the final pr... |
Perks Don’t Work | Sophie Kitson | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | In Silicon Valley and across the technology industry, there is a real risk of commoditizing engineers. What does that mean? Literally treating engineers like a commodity to be “bought” instead of thinking about the reasons they love to go to work. As the war for talent continues to heat up, hot startups and businesse... |
Convoy! The Fueloyal Is A Smart Fuel Cap For Truckers | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Breaker breaker 10-4 good buddy. We got on your tail coming up off the exit. This robotic fuel cap essentially keeps track of the fuel poured into your vehicle independently of the truck itself and lets fleet owners ensure they no one is stealing the fuel poured into their 18-wheelers. Called the iCap 1000, the syste... |
Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrations | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | In October, we spotted that which was available for download on Google Play. Now, according to new reports from , Amazon’s flagship application’s listing is no longer available via search from within Google Play, though its is still live. Additionally, there’s now a newly launched application called which look... |
[Update] Lending Club IPO Shows The Profit Potential For Financial Technology Investments | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | on the New York Stock Exchange is more than just the largest IPO for a U.S.-based tech company this year, it’s also planting the flag for an entire ecosystem of startup companies engaged in overturning the ways in which the world deals with money. “This is not some narrow addressable market, it’s trillions of dollars ... |
DCM Is Raising Another $100 Million Fund To Make Investments In Android-Based Startups | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | It looks like global venture firm plans to make more bets on Android apps, with another fund that seems to be devoted to investing in startups that develop for the mobile OS. According to an , it’s seeking to raise $100 million for A-Fund II, the aiming to take advantage of innovation in the Android ecosystem. The... |
Moov Fitness Tracker Lands On Android | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | , the fitness tracker that raised this October, now supports . The idea behind Moov is pretty simple: Rather than counting your steps and giving some illusion of progress in physical fitness, Moov uses a combination of hardware and software to improve your form based on the training you’re doing. If you cycle, swim,... |
Built In Brooklyn: Tattly Works With Artists And Designers To Create Sweet-Looking Temporary Tattoos | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Thanks to , the Dumbo-based startup featured in our latest episode of , you can adorn your skin with temporary tattoos created by professional artists and designers. Founder and CEO Tina Roth Eisenberg told me that she was inspired to create the company when her daughter returned home with temporary tattoos that Ei... |
Flurry Finds That Apple Devices And Phablets Scored Big On Christmas | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Flurry has released its . Each year, the holiday sees the highest number of device activations and app installations as people open presents, and last week was no exception. What is interesting is that 51.3 percent of new devices activated were made by Apple, compared to 17.7 percent for Samsung, and 5.8 percent for N... |
Designers Are Ditching The Mouse For The “Flow” 3D Motion Touch Controller | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Sliders suck. “Little too far to the left. Ugh. Little too far to the right. ARRHGH!!!” The mouse can be a frustrating controller for Photoshop, Final Cut, AutoCAD or even Spotify. But a new input device called lets you play your computer like an instrument, with infinite dexterity through feeling rather than sight... |
Stormy For iOS Makes Posting Tweetstorms Easier (Sorry!) | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 11 | Love ’em or hate ’em, but tweetstorms are still a thing. So there may as well be an app for that! A newly launched, exceedingly simple iOS application called lets you compose your thoughts as a series of tweets in advance of your Twitter tweetstorming efforts, allowing you the time to craft just the right phrases a... |
Microsoft Is Rumored To Be Building A New Browser That Is Not Internet Explorer | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Remember when ? Microsoft might, if ZDNet’s recent report that the software company is bears out. According to Foley, Spartan is “new” and “isn’t [Internet Explorer].” Her post notes that it could be set free inside of the Windows 10 release schedule. In short, Microsoft may be building a speedy, simpler browser t... |
Google X’s Astro Teller Says Wearables Still Need A Killer App | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Back in November, I had a chance to visit Google’s Mountain View headquarters to chat with Astro Teller, the head of Google X’s so-called “moonshot” projects, about the past, present, and future of wearables. I opened the interview with a blunt question: “Which do you want to talk about first, the wrist or glasses?” He... |
Latest Snowden Revelations Expose Scope Of NSA Interceptions | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Over the weekend, about the NSA’s ability to crack encrypted forms of communication, exposing the agency’s routine interception of SSL/TLS, which are used by web servers to transmit sensitive information. The report also exposed the fact that the agency has the ability to decrypt a virtual private network. But perhap... |
From Internet To Internets | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Over the past few days, through its Great Firewall. Earlier this month, for every single snippet of a news article the company uses with Google News. , and also convinced Facebook to . Earlier this year, France passed a law, , that would ban free shipping from online retailers to allow independent booksellers to... |
Biz2Credit Gets $250 Million Commitment | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | Lending startups are en vogue this year, with and planting the flag for the industry in public markets (and offering healthy returns to investors). But there’s a crop of other lenders and service providers waiting in the wings, like , which just received a $250 million commitment from investment firm Direct Lendin... |
Xiaomi Confirms It Raised $1.1B At $45B Valuation | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | , the fast-growing Chinese hardware company best known for its low-cost smartphones, that has raised $1.1 billion in new funding at a valuation of $45 billion. In a Facebook post, Xiaomi co-founder and president Bin Lin said the round was raised from investors including All-Stars Investment, DST, GIC, Hopu Fund, and ... |
Gmail Now Even More Inaccessible In China | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 29 | China has , including Gmail, this year. Now Gmail users are blocked from a workaround that allowed them to access their emails through third-party services. Previously, people could still download messages through apps like Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook, which use POP, SMAP, and IMAP. Now have also have been bloc... |
Chinese Search Engine Baidu Confirms Strategic Investment In Uber, Will Add Ride Requests | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | It’s official: Chinese Internet giant Baidu has that it is Uber’s latest investor, as . Baidu’s mobile search and maps apps will also integrate Uber “request a ride” buttons. The companies did not disclose the amount of the investment. Bloomberg that Baidu had taken the entire $600 million surplus that Uber built ... |
Snapchat Plans Music Feature, Acquired QR Scan.me For $50M And Vergence Eyeglass Cam For $15M | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | from the Sony Pictures hack have uncovered several acquisitions made by Snapchat, as well as plans for a music feature and meetings to discuss partnerships with Twitter. According to emails between Snapchat, Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, and Snapchat board member Mitch Lasky, Snapchat bought a QR scanning and... |
Pay TV Disruption Doesn’t End With Unbundling | Albert Lai | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | Which would you rather do: pay for all available content or only the content you consume? At first blush, this would seem like a simple cost issue: why not cancel your cable subscription in favor of , or – or all three? Instead of spending $70 a month for content you don’t watch, you could spend under $10 on just ... |
Google Takes Play Music’s Songza-Powered Playlists Abroad, First Stop UK | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | With catalogues of unlimited music on streaming services so extensive these days that we never quite know what to listen to first, playlists have become one of the key ways that music fans use services like Soundcloud. So to compete better against the likes of Spotify, Rdio, Deezer and the rest, as well as lure more pe... |
Twitch COO Kevin Lin On The Importance Of Live Stadium Events For E-Sports | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | As TechCrunch went , we managed to snag a quick interview with COO Kevin Lin. We chatted about the importance of pro gaming events at large stadiums given the fact that Twitch’s League of Legends audience is competitive with major news networks. Lin says they’re something the players and fans both want: Players ge... |
Employee Data Breach The Worst Part Of Sony Hack | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | The . It’s taught us to send corporate email as if everyone is reading those emails. It’s taught us that people in Hollywood are as people in any other industry (and ). And it’s taught us that Channing Tatum . The one lesson that’s the hardest to stomach is that you may be doing to protect yourself online, but y... |
Sony Hackers Threaten “9/11-Style” Attack On Movie Theaters | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | A threatening message from the Guardians of Peace, the group responsible for hacking into and releasing more than a terabyte of Sony’s internal data so far, is alleging an attack on movie theaters that plan to screen Seth Rogen and James Franco’s movie “The Interview.” “The world will be full of fear,” the message, fir... |
Expect A Gentler Valleywag In 2015 | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | “If I had my druthers, I’d write about AI, and supercomputers, and fusion energy. I don’t really care about who’s fucking whom,” new editor Dan Lyons tells me, signaling a tone shift for the tech tabloid. “Even when I did the fake Steve stuff, I had a rule that I never wanted to write about Steve’s family or his wife... |
A Wave Crests: Silicon Valley, Postsecondary Education And A Half-Trillion Dollars | Shawn Drost | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | It’s easy to forget that these are early days for the Internet. We still have different ideas on what it is or how it should work. The web is governed by an iterative improvement process that moves faster than any other invention in human history. Ed tech is no exception. I’d like to direct your attention to an inter... |
Zenefits Fires Back At Utah | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | is taking the ruling to stop offering free services to task. Utah Insurance Commissioner issued a ruling last month that would from giving away its cloud-based HR software for free, claiming this was a violation of Utah law and unfair to local insurance brokers. Zenefits offers the management of hiring, firing, a... |
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