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Gmail Now Protects Your Inbox From Malevolent Extensions | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | A popular service like Gmail inevitably becomes a target for hackers. Over the years, Google has made quite a few security improvements, such as requiring HTTPS connections to prevent others from getting access to your email. Today the company that it has implemented support for (CSP) to prevent cross-site scriptin... |
Facebook Starts Auto-Enhancing Photos Because Algorithms Are Better At Filters Than You | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | We’re not ace photographers, but we all take photos. Most could use a little help with light and shadow. So rather than making you manually filter them, Facebook tells me it will now auto-enhance newly uploaded photos starting today on and soon on Android. You’ll be able to adjust a slider to control just how enhance... |
Ebay Expands Local Pilot Program Offering Same-Day Delivery, In-store Pickup In Brooklyn | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | Ebay’s testing of “last-mile” delivery hasn’t been totally shelved, it seems. The company, distancing itself from its earlier eBay Now initiative, announced today that it’s expanding its eBay Local pilot program in Brooklyn with the addition of 80 small businesses that will offer scheduled and same-day delivery, as wel... |
NowThis Media Raises Another $6M To Deliver Video News Stories In Less Than A Minute | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | , which covers the news with videos that are usually around 15 or 30 seconds long, is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series C funding. NowThis was founded by Kenneth Lerer (chairman at BuzzFeed and co-founder of the Huffington Post) and Eric Hippeau (former CEO of the Huffington Post), with backing from th... |
American Re-Urbanization Drives More On-Demand Innovation | David Hirsch | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | As mobile devices become magic wands for marketplaces, matching supply and demand and making goods and services more accessible than ever before, we’re experiencing an “uberfication” of the economy. Alongside this movement to an “on-demand” economy ( by the team at Sherpa Ventures), is the equally as transformative re-... |
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After A Difficult 2014, Bitcoin Hopes For A Brighter New Year | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | Bitcoin spiked to north of $1,000 in late 2013, before starting a long decline in the current year. After some optimistic fluctuation, it has landed in a mid-$300 trading range that the virtual currency can’t seem to shake. Gone, for now it seems, are the go-go days of bitcoin heading straight north. We were but babes ... |
Aiming To Be A ‘B2B Google’ For Business Intel, Mattermark Raises $6.5M Led By Foundry Group | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | , the business intelligence site that , is today announcing that it has raised a round of $6.5 million, funding that the startup will use to build out its ambition to be a “B2B Google.” By that, it means creating structured data for people on the hunt for company information across the messy and disorganised Internet ... |
Apple Stops Online Store Sales In Russia Amid Ruble Value Drop | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | Apple has stopped selling its hardware online in Russia, owing to the currently volatile state of the Ruble, the country’s official currency. In a statement provided to , the company said that it’s taking things offline while it goes through the process of evaluating its pricing, and apologized to customers put out by... |
Instagram Adds Five New Filters | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | Today Instagram has five new filters for still images, which is the first time they’ve done such a thing in two years. The most recent filters before this, which seems odd considering they’ve been there longer than most of Instagrams users have actually been on the app, were Willow and Mayfair. Just like you’d expect... |
Online Consignment Shop For Kids’ Items Swap.com Raises $4 Million Series A | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 16 | A newer competitor in the online consignment space, , has raised $4 million in Series A funding for its e-commerce shop where parents can buy secondhand kids’ clothing, gear, books, toys, games and more. Though similar in some respects to competitors like thredUP.com, which also began by focusing on the kids’ clothing... |
Reflections On Microconsoles | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | Tis the season for reflection and I’d like to reflect on what happened to microconsoles. ( ) At the start of 2013 I wrote that it could be the , a term that gained traction for a while. Tech folks were interested in what OUYA, GamePop, GameStick, MOJO and a variety of other Android-powered open game machines at cheap ... |
The Enormous Implications Of Facebook Indexing 1 Trillion Of Our Posts | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | A whole wing of the Internet just got added to our collective conscience, like websites by Google or knowledge by Wikipedia before it. The ramifications for advertising, developers, and Facebook itself are tough to fathom. Our most vivid doppelgänger, our digital echoes can now be tracked. They don’t just say who we we... |
Finding The Elusive Big Wisdom In Big Data | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | You probably already know ‘Big Data’ is top of mind heading into 2015. How could you not? You are hearing about it constantly from vendors and journalists alike (guilty as charged). And you know what that hype says, right? Big data is going to provide all the answers, make your companies run more efficiently and help y... |
Pinterest Will Open Promoted Pins To All Advertisers Following Success Of Beta Program | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | After years of questions about how it will make revenue, Pinterest’s roadmap to monetization is becoming more clear. The company , which it made to certain brands eight months ago, has performed “just as good and sometimes better than organic Pins,” and it will make the program available to all advertisers on Januar... |
Twitter’s Engineers Currently Fixing Widespread Sign-In Issue [Update: Fixed] | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | Update: Twitter says the . If you have had trouble using Twitter or third-party apps over the past couple of hours, fear not—the microblogging service is . The company that its engineers are working to fix an issue that has affected the ability of somer users to sign into the service online and through its mobile si... |
How Keeping Quiet Saved Our Startup $225K | Steli Efti | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | Most startup founders don’t think of themselves as master negotiators and struggle to come up with the right things to say in crucial moments. These moments are the perfect time to exercise one of sales’ most valuable tricks: silence. It’s hard to embrace silence during negotiations due to the level of fearlessness a... |
Russian Startup Livemap Lands $300K Grant For Its Motorcycle Helmet With Built-In Navigation | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | As we’re coming up on the next Consumer Electronics Show, I got from one of the companies that — Russian startup . The Livemap team is working to create motorcycle helmets with voice control and GPS navigation directly in your field of vision — so while you’re riding, you can see directions in your helmet display ... |
‘The Interview’ Is Now Available On iTunes For $14.99 | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | If you didn’t catch ‘The Interview’ when earlier this week, and aren’t , then you may be interested to hear that the controversial flick has landed on iTunes today. Apple customers in the US and Canada can now via Apple’s digital media store, a move that at least extends the devices that you can watch it on to iOS... |
‘The Interview’ Nets $15 Million In Online Sales During Opening Four Days | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | Sony has revealed that The Interview has earned $15 million in consumer spending via rentals and purchases across online platforms in its first four days of online availability. A source with knowledge of the matter confirms that the overwhelming majority of these sales occurred through Google Play and YouTube Movies, ... |
Cybersecurity Hindsight And A Look Ahead At 2015 | Yoav Leitersdorf | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | This year we witnessed a series of high-profile security breaches, from the aftermath of the and fiascos, to a number of attacks on other national retailers, including , and . Then there was the massive breach at , which compromised personal information of more than 83 million households and businesses, and fi... |
How Many Millions Should I Take From My Startup? | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | * Company Builder, I congratulate you on developing your startup to the level where venture capitalists are willing to offer you obscene valuations with no hope of access to your board of directors. I understand getting to 100,000 users these days can be challenging, and I congratulate you on your tenacity to reach thi... |
Good Riddance To Social Search | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 28 | Remember how not too long ago the future of search — at least according to the big search engines — was social search? Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find any mention of social search on Google or Bing (let alone Yahoo Search). Let’s be thankful for that because social search was an ill-begotten idea to begin with. Th... |
AnandTech Sells To Publisher Purch To Grow Its Tech And Hardware Reviews Site | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | AnandTech, the brilliantly super techie blog founded by , has left the independent media club* after its sale to Purch, the publishing company behind fellow tech sites . AnandTech made its name as an authority for in-depth hardware reviews, but branched out into mobile, software and general tech news over the years... |
Khosla Ventures Is Raising A Fresh $400 Million Fund For Seed Investments | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | Mega VC firm is raising a new $400 million seed fund as it looks to enter the new year with gusto. showing that the organization, founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla in 2004, is offering but yet to sell the allocation for its new ‘Seed C’ fund. Aside from its high-profile founder, the U.S. organizati... |
TeachPitch Helps Educators Around The World Share Learning Resources | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | Creating lesson plans, learning about teaching methods, and finding new educational material are all part of a normal workday for teachers, but it can be difficult because most educators have extremely tight schedules. wants to help by bringing teachers around the world closer together so they can find and share the ... |
Santa’s Robotic Elf Sings A Merry Tune | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2naQbWa-Sv8] This holiday season it’s important to remember the true meaning of Christmas: the slow encroachment of robots upon human existence and the expectation of the enslavement of Homo sapiens by 2050. To that end we present a pair of jolly robotic hands that pick up candy... |
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US Officials Believe North Korea Was Involved In Sony Hacks | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | U.S. officials say they believe that North Korea’s government was involved in the large-scale hack of Sony servers, which led to the leak of troves of Sony data from emails to unreleased projects, according to the . Federal cyber-security sources say that there is evidence indicating that the hack was routed through c... |
Sony Pictures Employees Now Working In An Office “From Ten Years Ago” | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | for everyone,” she said. She was upbeat, optimistic, even after finding out her bank account information had been traded on a black market website. She was worried her identity had also leaked. She imagined her private information on some forum somewhere and shuddered. She had a right to be concerned. She works for So... |
We Tried Zombie-Survival Game Dying Light On The Oculus Rift | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | Last week, I got an early look at first-person zombie-survival game , which arrives on PC and consoles in January. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill demo, however — , the studio behind the game, let me play on an Oculus Rift connected to a maxed out gaming rig. It’s hard to describe what the Oculus Rift does for you... |
Microsoft Employee Pens The Worst/Best Corporate Blog Post Of All Time | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | Recently a Microsoft employee published a on the company’s Office blog. The missive, under the name of Tim Carroll, a “senior product manager on the Office 365 team,” is perhaps the worst and best corporate blog post of all time. A Microsoft spokesperson informed TechCrunch that “the blog post was not properly vetted... |
Sony Officially Cancels ‘The Interview’ Release Following Hacker Threats | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | Following threats from hackers responsible for , the entertainment studio has made the official decision to cancel The Interview, which was set to be released on Christmas Day. In a (below), the company said that it was “deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie” and “extremely di... |
Waging A War For Talent | Josh Bear | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | We live and work in an age of mass competition and where the ability to land top talent can have as much of an impact on the success of the company as the product line itself. As companies of various shapes and sizes jockey for position in a constantly shifting tech market, there is a subtle, yet intense battle wagin... |
StudyPool Provides A Marketplace For On-Demand Tutoring | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | , a 500 Startups batch company that connects students and tutors, is yet another company that takes the template for building a marketplace from Uber and Airbnb and applies it to another area where there’s usually a lot of friction involved in each transaction. StudyPool co-founders Richard Werbe and Jimmy Zhong have b... |
Uber Responds To Concerns With Promises To Invest More In Customer Safety | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | After facing scrutiny in multiple markets over questions of passenger safety, global transportation service Uber said it is reviewing some of its business practices and is working to make improvements. In a today the company detailed its road map for ensuring customer safety in the 260 markets that it operates in. Th... |
Dating Platform Zoosk Ditches IPO Plan As Founders Exit Leadership Roles | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | , the online dating platform that has been around since 2007, has today announced changes to leadership, with CFO Kelly Steckelberg taking over as CEO. She will be replacing co-founder Shayan Zadeh, who is becoming a member of the board, and his co-founder Alex Mehr (currently president) will also be moving into a boar... |
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel On Email Hacks: “Our Work Has Been Violated And Exposed” | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel today released a powerful statement about privacy, a day after the latest batch of emails released in the massive exposed a number of Snapchat’s company secrets. On Tuesday afternoon, the hacker group that calls itself the “Guardians of Peace” of the email inbox of Sony Pictures CEO... |
TC Droidcast Episode 31: Pebble, ZenWatch, And Smartwatch 3 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | Join us as we chat about the Pebble gaining support for Android Wear interactive notifications, the and the Sony Smartwatch 3. We also get a little bit futurist with our thoughts on Chrome OS, how it will integrate with Android and what Google envisions for its desktop platform in the long term. This is a very specia... |
Box Will Hit $1 Billion In Revenues Before You Know It | Jason Lemkin | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | There’s probably no enterprise software company more people opine on than Box. In particular, the business model of Box. They’re spending so much, says. I like Google Drive better, says. File sharing is a commodity, says. They’re all right, on some level. But while opinions are somewhat subjective, math is math, a... |
Can BlackBerry Catch A Break? | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | BlackBerry just announced the Classic, a phone that looks warped into 2014 via 2009. While by all rights it appears to be solid QWERTY solution in a non-QWERTY world, it’s hilarious that the company announced their latest and greatest on the eve of what could be the opening of the Cuban embargo and, more important, mas... |
Inbox Messenger Raises $3.9 Million For Its Design-Focused Private Messaging App | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | A mobile messaging application called , which combines user privacy features with a minimalist design, has raised $3.9 million in seed funding, the company announced today. The investment, though higher than the average seed round, comes from a group of unnamed angel investors and is designed to help the company grow ... |
Apple’s Behind-The-Scenes For ‘The Song’ Reveals A Mix Of Old And New Tools | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77hi9SuKfiI&w=640&h=390] Apple’s has managed to pretty universally tug heartstrings, in keeping with its usual practices for this time of year, but the product story contained therein is one of a creative workflow that involves most of Apple’s current product lineup. A new beh... |
YouTube For Android Gets Offline Playback… But In India, Indonesia And Philippines Only | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Here’s something neat. for YouTube mobile users. That’s an exciting feature but there’s bad news for most TechCrunch readers: it’s only available on Android devices in India, Indonesia or the Philippines at this point. The company said the update will allow “much of [the] popular YouTube content” in these places to b... |
Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows, Windows Phone And Xbox Purchases | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase, you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games and other digital content on its Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox platforms, as . not... |
Windows 10 Hits 1.5M Testers, With 450K Using The OS “Day To Day” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 17 | Microsoft’s Windows 10 has around 450,000 users on a daily basis, according to the software company. A from the Windows team highlighted the statistic, also noting that it has collected 1.5 million testers for its preview operating system. That number . So, the pace of new signups to test Windows 10 has declined — i... |
Google+ Will Now Let Users Identify Their Gender Using Their Own Words | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Today’s been a busy one for Google — with updates to , , , , and more — but the company is also making an important change to Google+ that provides more gender identity options for LGBT users. it will begin supporting “an infinite number of ways to express gender identity” on the social network with a new ‘custom’... |
Apple Will Launch iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 With LTE Support In China This Week | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | The cellular models of the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 will launch in China this week, Apple announced today. Both models support TD-LTE and FDD-LTE, which have been rolling out in China since the end of last year, and are already The launch of both iPad models in Apple’s most important market outside the U.S. comes as... |
Google To Close Google News In Spain On December 16 In Response To New Law | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Google is saying adios to Google News in Spain, after it will close the service down in the country on December 16 in response to the impact of a new law. The company said that incoming legislation in the European country will force publishers to charge Google if and when it carries snippets of their stories in the n... |
Zype Helps Video Publishers Look Beyond YouTube By Building Their Own Sites And Apps | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Video startup its online video platform today, which it says can help publishers grow and monetize their audiences. To be clear, it’s not trying to compete with YouTube or other video players like BrightCove. Yes, it has created a video player of its own, but the main focus is on helping companies build an online p... |
New “Shingled” Hard Drives Hold Terabytes For Pennies A Gig | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | While the last time most of us thought of shingles was when we were itchy in eighth grade, Seagate has been thinking of them as a way to store data. Called Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Drives, Seagate’s new drives can store 8 terabytes of data for about 3 cents a gigabyte. The catch? These are great back-up drives... |
The Estimable @LiquidSnute On The Future Of Starcraft And Being A Pro Gamer | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | At , I got the chance to catch up , a Starcraft professional gamer who has become well-known in the past year for his in-game skills. Snute plays for Team Liquid, perhaps the best-known Starcraft team that isn’t based in Korea, the country that remains the central hub of the game. The Starcraft world is currently o... |
Google’s YouTube App For Android Updated With Material Design, Adds Search Filters | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Slowly but surely, Google is updating each of its own Android applications to fit in with Android’s new “Material Design” motif. The latest one to get the makeover treatment: YouTube. Wondering what the heck “Material Design” is? The short version: it’s Android’s new look, and it’s one that Google wants to be as univer... |
Box Files Third-Quarter S-1 Update Amid Improving IPO Climate | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | filed its third quarter S-1 update today, almost nine months after they originally filed the document required for an initial public offering. This time the numbers look a bit better, but there were still enough negatives to continue to raise some red flags. Still, given the improving IPO climate in Silicon Valley, Bo... |
Chef’d Uses Crowdfunding To Roll Out Recipe-And-Ingredient Delivery Service For Gourmet Meals | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | is the latest startup promising to deliver the tools (and by tools I mean recipes and ingredients) you need to cook delicious meals at home. We’ve like and (which announced recently that it’s ), plus even newer competitors like (well, newer if you ). What all those companies have in common is their focus on ... |
Sidecar Follows The Competition, Starts Charging A $1 “RideSafe” Fee | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Last year, Uber introduced a “Safe Rides” fee that added a $1 charge to uberX fares. This fee, they said, was meant to help them cover the cost of background checks, vehicle screenings, and “the development of safety features.” When Lyft introduced a similar fee, they dubbed it “the trust and safety fee.” And now Sidec... |
The Effect Of HubSpot’s CRM Launch On Salesforce | Serge Salager | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | After several years of relatively stagnant waters, what was a dull CRM landscape dominated by one player is heating up dramatically. Salesforce officially put its $3.5 billion market acquisitions building blocks together on a “Marketing Cloud” at last month’s event. It also announced its entry into and targeting a ... |
TC Droidcast Episode 30: Cardboard VR, How Do You Wear Your Android Wear | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | This week, Google dropped so many updates today that we couldn’t help but talk about them, including new , and an that supports custom watchfaces (officially, whereas before they were everywhere but not built using any kind of proper API). Darrell Etherington, Kyle Russell and Greg Kumparak also tackle the LG G Watc... |
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Happn Attracts $8 Million To Roll Out Its Tinder-Like App Globally | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | French dating app just raised an $8 million Series A round from and , as well as business angels, such as Fabrice Grinda. As a reminder, Happn uses your phone’s location to show you potential matches. Every time you cross someone’s path, this person’s profile will be added to the top of your feed. Then, you can li... |
The Uno Noteband Doesn’t Waste Time With Notifications | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | The is a $99 wearable designed for those who want the convenience of getting notifications on their wrists but don’t want to spend a bunch of time fiddling with a two-inch screen when they’ve got a perfectly good smartphone in their pocket. Like the Pebble smartwatch, the Uno Noteband syncs up with your phone, bringi... |
Here’s What Happens When Thousands Of Gamers Pack A Sports Arena To Watch Esports | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | At an event in San Jose this weekend, TechCrunch went full esports. The confab, the Intel Extreme Master digital tournament, saw professional players from around the world duke it out in League of Legends and Starcraft 2, two of the most popular video games around. The event was more than just a tournament, however, ... |
Google Brings Museums To Mobile Users, Armchair Travelers With New Technology Platform | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Google today it’s making a platform available to museums that enables them to build mobile applications that take advantage of Google technology, including Street View and YouTube, to bring their exhibits to anyone with a smartphone. Through partnerships between museums worldwide and the Google Cultural Institute, th... |
Xiaomi Ready To Talk Patents With Ericsson After Sales Ban In India | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | Chinese phone company has said it is ready to open talks with Ericsson after a temporary ban was slapped on its smartphone business in India following its first patent spat. Indian authorities have mounted a credible bid to own the tech news cycle this week. Fresh from and , the city’s high court issued an injunct... |
CrunchWeek: Fallout From The Sony Hack | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Acquisition leaks, embarrassing emails, threats, theaters refuse to show The Interview, FBI’s confirmation that the hack came from North Korea, a response from the White House: There has been so much coming out of the Sony breach that this week we felt it necessary to devote our entire show to discussing everything t... |
Google+ Can Now Automatically Make Your Videos Look Better | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | For almost two years now, Google has been automatically enhancing the photos you upload to Google+; starting today it will do , too. It won’t do this automatically, though. Instead, whenever Google now thinks it can improve a video you upload, a banner will appear in the Google+ web app that asks you if you want to pr... |
Sony’s CEO Michael Lynton: “We Have Not Given In.” | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Sony CEO Michael Lynton blamed theaters for the studio’s decision to pull out from the scheduled theatrical release of The Interview this Christmas. He told that Sony had no other choice after a slew of theaters decided not to show the film. President Obama called the entertainment company out earlier today for not c... |
Carnival’s Mobile Marketing Platform Gets More Automated | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | When someone tells me that they’re introducing “trigger messaging” to their product, well, it’s not the most thrilling start to a conversation. But hey, mention automated FaceTime calls from One Direction, and suddenly I’m onboard. (Not that I’m a huge One Direction fan or anything. It’s not weird that I think this sou... |
After Sony, Every Startup Should Prepare For War | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | The battle between Sony and what may be at its end, but the war for the security of the enterprise is just getting started. Companies have been rapidly transitioning their legacy systems to modern IT technology like cloud services, hoping to save money and improve performance in an increasingly competitive world. And... |
Intuit Buys UK’s Acrede To Expand Its Global Payroll Services | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 10 | has quietly made another acquisition today to expand its accounting and back office management business, this time focusing on payroll. , a Jersey, UK-based provider of global, cross-border and cloud-based payroll services, is joining Inuit; and its CEO and founder, Karen Paterson, is being named Intuit’s director of... |
Reddit Announces RedditNotes, A Way To Share Equity With Readers | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Reddit, the world’s favorite repository for funny and/or pornographic images (and wide-ranging discussions on almost any topic), has announced a RedditNotes initiative, a method to give equity to the site’s readers using a lottery method. The 950,000 notes will be given away at random to folks who have been on the site... |
Apple Responds To BBC Panorama’s Portrayal Of Supplier Conditions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Apple was the subject of a , which presented as part of its findings various instances where suppliers of the Mac maker violated Apple’s own stated standards for its partners. The breaches reported by the BBC included problems at Pegatron factories outside Shanghai, as well as issues at the bottom level of the supply ... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.19.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Alexia Tsotsis, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. |
Facebook Has So Much To Announce, Its f8 Conference Expands To 2 Days In SF March 25-26 2015 | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Facebook has more news to share at than can fit in a single day, so it’s adding a second for its developer conference now slated for at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Registration for the first two-day f8 will open in early 2015, but developers hoping to attend can of when they can vy for tickets. Facebook ex... |
EDI Is Trying To Kickstart The Classic Dive Watch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Two entrepreneurs and engineers have taken to to fund a new line of dive watches, EDI. The watches, in addition to looking just a bit like sword-hand divers of the early Blancpain era, use an EDI E-353 automatic movement with self-winding features, as well as a handsome steel case. What’s truly interesting, however, ... |
All Day Raises $2 Million To Be A Media Portal For The Twitter Generation | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Would-be media moguls take heart: with nothing more than a Twitter handle and a dream, you can raise capital to become the next or , or . All it takes is a knack for viral content, 2.15 million followers on , and a core team of (incredibly) . Then you too could be raising $2 million from investors including , a... |
This Board Lets You Give Any Arduino Project Predator-Style Heat Vision | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Up until the last few years, heat-sensing cameras — think — were a thing that pretty much only the Army and the super rich got to play with. Then FLiR figured out how to make the required sensors tiny and (relatively) cheap, and the whole idea became considerably more accessible. Hell, you can get heat vision . Now,... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: BlackBerry, Bar-Tending Robots, And Drones | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Christmas is around the corner, and thus, this podcast is especially merry. BlackBerry recently , in the BlackBerry Classic. We’re also seeing an uptick in , which leads us to wonder if there has ever really been a lot of difficulty in making yourself a drink. And . Because if you compare the market to last year, th... |
Tesla To Begin Model S Battery Swap Pilot Program Next Week | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Tesla showed off its upcoming battery swapping technology for the Model S electric vehicle last year, which would let users change out their battery rather than charging when on the road for a quick fill-up that’s speedier than actually refuelling a standard car’s gas tank. Starting next week, it’s launching the of th... |
Obama Says Sony Made A Mistake In Canceling “The Interview” Release | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Disagree with Sony’s decision to pull The Interview from theaters? So does President Barack Obama. In a statement during a press conference this afternoon, President Obama said: “I am sympathetic to the concerns that [Sony] faced. Having said all that, yes, they made a mistake. We cannot have a society where a dictator... |
Canary Home Security System Has Finally Started Shipping | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | , the $250, all-in-one home security system that caught the attention of our hearts and minds back in 2013, has finally started shipping. The device launched on Indiegogo back in July of 2013, with a goal of $100,000. By the time the campaign had ended, Canary had in pre-orders. After selling around 15,000 units, Can... |
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Facebook Messenger Shows Its New Speed With FacePile Read Receipts | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Milliseconds make a difference when it comes to chat. The less lag, the more it feels like being in the same room. But with texting, we lost the cues like nods and “mmhmm”s that tell you someone heard what you said. Today takes a leap forward on both fronts with across all its versions, and a new animation that sho... |
Canonical’s “Snappy Ubuntu” Lands On AWS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Canonical’s stripped down “ ” edition of Ubuntu Core is now available on Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform. If you’ve followed along over the last few weeks, that’s not a major surprise. Snappy first on Microsoft Azure at the beginning of this month and then arrived on Google’s Compute Engine platform earlier . ... |
Facebook Launches Separate “Stickered” For Messenger App That Lets You Paste Images On Your Photos | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | Today a new app called “Stickered” For that lets you pick a photo, resize and paste a Facebook Sticker on top, and send it to friends. “Stickers and photos are two of the most popular ways that people express themselves on Messenger. This is a fun experiment to see how people combine the two” the company tells me. ... |
Apparently The Bitcoin Bowl Is A Real Thing That’s Happening Right Now | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uA4KO2EEBU&w=560&h=315] When , I assumed it was a joke, or maybe a weird startup publicity stunt. It turns out that yes, the Bitcoin Bowl is promoting , a bitcoin-processing startup — but it’s also real college football game that’s underway as I write this on Friday evening. ... |
Thumb Typing Is Changing Our Brains | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | Smartphones are changing us, at least according to researchers at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich. It seems that as we moved from phones with buttons – BlackBerrys and even feature phones – the parts of our brain associated with the thumbs are changing thanks to increased screen typing act... |
The FBI Blames North Korea For Sony Hack | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 19 | The FBI has on the North Korean government for the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack which resulted in the theft of mass amounts of personal and commercial data, as well as the shut down of Sony Pictures work computers. A group calling itself the “Guardians of Peace” had claimed responsibility. In the FBI’s full offic... |
Build Your Own DIY Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | As we approach the doldrums of winter what could be more cheerful than hours of incessant Minecrafting with you and your loved ones? While you can easily run a server on any computer (the program requires a server app to run in conjunction with a client “game” app), why not use your newly acquired Raspberry Pi? I don’t... |
Market Corrections, Partnerships And The Sports Unicorn In 2015 | Benjamin Chen | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | This year we’ve seen major acquisitions in the connected home space, tons of chatter around #bendgate, AI entered center stage with Cortana and Amazon’s Echo, and Kim Kardashian is now available in app form. But that’s enough of looking back. Here is what I predict 2015 will bring. Over the past few years, we have se... |
TC GameCast Episode 3: Open Worlds And Picking A Gaming PC | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | This week we’ve got a very special, very delayed episode of the TechCrunch GameCast. For the first half, , , and chatted about open-world games, noting the best of side quests, getting around, and keeping things from getting too stale. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183270108″ params=”color=ff55... |
Mouthguards, Magnets And Smart Helmets Are Putting The Brakes On Traumatic Brain Injuries | Tishin Donkersley | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | On beautiful green fields around the U.S., college and professional football players are facing up to 100Gs of rapid deceleration from helmet-to-helmet collisions each week. The result? Concussions and, sometimes, permanent brain injury. Players who stay in the game post-concussion have sparked a national conversatio... |
The Drone That Could Save You From Drowning | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | Drones. They’ve earned something of a reputation for being buzzy little floating boxes of annoyance and privacy invasion, and the hordes of people unwrapping them this week into the nearest tree/power line/neighbor’s house probably won’t help. Slowly but surely, though, people are finding truly good, novel uses for t... |
What 2014 Tech Products Made The Mom Cut? | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | Anthropology is the study of humans, and little fascinates me more than watching humans interact with technology. We express such a broad range of emotions when we use our gadgets and devices, from delight at a beautiful user experience to deep anger at error screens and lost data. , except far closer to home. For the... |
Amazon’s 2014 Holiday Sees Mobile Shopping Approach 60% Of Total Volume | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | Amazon stuck with its mystery theme for this year’s , saying things like “record-breaking” and “record growth” without really talking about actual solid numbers or dollars. The company did reveal some stats that, even surrounded by an obscuring fog of relative terms, are worth paying attention to. The company signed u... |
Tesla Announces The Roadster 3.0 With A 400 Mile Range | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | Tesla isn’t done with its iconic Roadster. The company the next generation of the sport car. Chief among the updates is a new 400 mile range, which will allow drives from San Francisco to Los Angeles on a single charge. Tesla notes that it expects a 40-50% improvement on driving range between the original Roadster an... |
Bitcoin 2.0 And Tokenizing The User Experience | Lisa Cheng | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | Bitcoin is still in its early stages of market development. We are going through a slow process of realizing how data is where we will make our next evolutionary leaps in advancement. For this reason I have been working in bitcoin and on bitcoin blockchain technologies, to help realize a future where applications, ne... |
LG And Mercedes-Benz Team Up To Develop A System To Power Self-Driving Cars | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | to make the future of driving smarter and less about the drivers themselves. that the duo are jointly working on “next-generation camera systems” which they said will allow computers and algorithms to handle “some aspects” of the driving experience. that it will provide the “core components” of self-driving cars fr... |
Whose Hack Is It Anyway? | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 26 | It’s pretty clear that the Sony Pictures hack was neither an act of war or particularly belligerent. As notes, finding out who performed a hack, even one as ham-handed as this one, is difficult. Hackers with any sense use proxies and attack soft targets. But once they’ve attacked and dumped their goods, it becomes ne... |
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