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Google Expands Its Android One Initiative To Bangladesh, Nepal And Sri Lanka | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Back in June, to improve the affordable smartphone experience in emerging markets. The project debuted in India in September, and now it is expanding to cover neighboring Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. ( last month.) that a number of devices under the Android One banner will go on sale in these three markets o... |
News Corp Buys India-Based Financial Planning Service BigDecisions.com | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Fresh from last month, News Corp has now completed its first acquisition in the country, buying financial planning service as . The service is designed to be a one-stop-shop that uses data and algorithms to help consumers in India make better financial decisions, for example related to retirement, insurance, educa... |
“The Interview” Censorship Protestors Screen Chaplin’s Hitler Parody “The Great Dictator” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | A clandestine invite to a “secret screening to protest against censorship” of did not lead to a showing of the North Korea-skewering film at the center of the Sony Pictures hack. It did raise money for free speech charity , though. Instead, attendees in London, Rome and San Francisco who were instructed to come “dre... |
The Perfect Gaming Phone | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | A sketch comedy show in the UK called used to have a farmer/bumpkin character named Jesse who would emerge from a shed to declare “This week I have been mostly” followed by something amusing. Like eating raw chickens, wearing Dolce and Gabbana, wearing no pants and so on. In that vein, this week I have been mostly en... |
Microsoft Removes All Third Party Snapchat Apps From The Windows Phone Store | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | that it would crack down on all third party apps, and now the ax has fallen on the Windows Phone app store, which no longer contains any third party apps as . The U.S. company doesn’t have an official app for Windows Phone, so that means anyone who owns a phone running the Microsoft OS can’t download a Snapchat compa... |
Crowdsales Funding Innovation By Bitcoin And Its Community | Lisa Cheng | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Bitcoin as an industry is becoming segregated by ideology, technology and application. There are different groups that argue for differing directions and methods of growing adoption. Within bitcoin today there are three distinct groups with their own definitions of what Bitcoin is. For example, bitcoin miners argue t... |
Here’s How Microsoft Described Its Newfangled Product Called “Windows” When It Went Public | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Microsoft shipped the first version of Windows on . The company went public on . That means that Microsoft pulled the trigger on its IPO mere months after Windows was first launched into the market. Until today I didn’t know that the two events occurred so close together. Given that I was roughly negative 3 or 4 at t... |
BitTorrent Tells Sony It’s Happy To Release ‘The Interview’ | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Many have called for Sony to release ‘The Interview’ online. However, Sony CEO Michael Lynton stated that there has not been a major video on demand service, “that has stepped forward and said they are willing to distribute this movie for us.” Several major movie chains pulled out of the scheduled Christmas Day releas... |
Living On Bitcoin | Contributor | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | I write for a living and sometimes people pay me in bitcoins. I’m aware that I’m being paid in a currency that hasn’t reached mainstream adoption, but I keep collecting them to see what happens. Last month, while writing a book review late in the night, I got a phone call from an unknown number. It was a guy named Cyr... |
How To Speak User | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | In homage to my TC colleague Alex Wilhelm’s recent entrepreneurial lexis magnum opus, , I present its fantastical companion: How To Speak User. Spend an above-average amount of time using digital services and the fabric of reality starts to resemble a curtain that can be pulled to and fro at will. Standing at the blee... |
The Future Of Biometric Marketing | Cavan Canavan | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | The current smartwatch and fitness device space is stagnant. The offerings and the devices are a commoditized mess with companies competing for the same consumers – with the same features. There must be more available from these devices than just tracking steps, miles walked, sleep and general activity, right? Most of ... |
How Clear Is The Future Of Google Glass? | Frank Palermo | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Some ideas are ahead of their time. There is no question that the wearables market is taking off with the proliferation of health monitors, pedometers and activity trackers like Fitbit, Jawbone, Nike Fuelband, etc. And next year the will likely make the wearable watch the next big thing. boldly predicted that com... |
In War With Publishers, Tech Companies Take Wrong Approach | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Publishers have been offered a seriously raw deal in the war over content on the internet. Linking to another site is free, and there are few revenue sharing agreements between publishers and technology companies. Supported throughout the development of the internet by leading companies like Yahoo, Google, and Facebook... |
Vidcoin Solves Buffering Issues For Mobile Video Ads | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | is an advertising technology startup focused on video ads for smartphones. The French startup makes watching video ads less painful by providing an SDK that will buffer videos before playing them so that they will instantly play. “Mobile video continues to be a challenge for one simple reason: mobile connectivity can ... |
Addr Is A Nifty iPad Ebook Reader For Those Who Miss Readmill | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | Meet , a brand new iPad app to read your ePub ebooks. In some way, Addr is very reminiscent of Readmill’s ebook reader. It’s all about importing your DRM-free ebooks and adding a social layer to take annotations and share them with your friends. But the comparison stops there as Addr is a very different take when it... |
Rakuten Buys Japanese Soccer Team Vissel Kobe, Mirroring Recent Alibaba Move | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | Asian e-commerce giant moves into soccer with new acquisition. Sounds familiar, right? in Chinese * football team Guangzhou Evergrande this summer, and now to buy , a top-flight J-League club founded in 1995. The Alibaba comparison is actually a little unfair on Rakuten, since the company already has a sports busi... |
Xiaomi Reportedly Raises $1B In New Funding At A $45B Valuation | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 21 | Xiaomi, the company that is , has reportedly raised $1 billion at a $45 billion valuation, . A Xiaomi spokesperson declined to comment. If the company is indeed now valued at $45 billion, that represents a significant increase from its previous valuation of $10 billion in August 2013, which Xiaomi director Hans Tung ... |
Mesosphere Announces First Data Center OS And $36M In Funding | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | , the commercial entity built on top of the open source project, announced some major milestones today, starting with $36M in Series B funding along with the early release of what they are calling the first data center operating system. The round was led by new investor Khosla Ventures with additional funding from An... |
Investing In Games: Broad Or Deep? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | Here’s a question for all you would-be investors in game companies: Suppose two studios approach you. Studio A has a strategy centered around making a big play on one game. It plans to take your investment and use it to make that game as best it can and find success. Studio B has a different idea. It plans to make many... |
Chat App Kakao Talk Begins Offering Opt-In Encryption Following Recent Privacy Storm | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | Daum Kakao, the behind , has introduced a new end-to-end encryption feature on the chat app following controversy around user data in recent months. The company is rolling out a new ‘Secret Chat’ mode today, which is landing on Android devices first with iOS set to follow “soon”, the company said. The new feature ... |
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Defends His Approach At The New Republic | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | The New Republic, the political magazine that was a couple of years ago, has seen in the past couple of days — from the outside, it looks like . The exodus was spurred by the departure of New Republic editor Franklin Foer and longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier, but it sounds like tension has been building fo... |
This Disk In Your Pants Tells you to Sit Up And Breathe Into Your Belly | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | Breathing and sitting up straight are two elements that engineer duo Andre Persidsky and Alex Ahlund believe are key to getting a handle on stress and wellbeing. The two life-long meditators and serial entrepreneurs came together to create , a patent-pending clip-on disk that monitors how your posture affects your bre... |
How It Feels To Ride A Real Hoverboard | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | The thin air turns thick beneath your feet. You step onto the and an invisible force compresses, condensing and coiling like a spring you cannot see. It sinks for just a split-second, slipping closer to the solid copper floor below. But before it can touch, the magnets strengthen their resolve as they near their ar... |
Uber Faces Legal Action In India Following Arrest Of Rape Suspect | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | The Uber driver involved in the rape of his passenger in New Delhi, India over the weekend has been arrested. The man is named Shiv Kumar Yadav, and he will go before a New Delhi court on Monday, according to . Madhur Verma, New Delhi police deputy commissioner, said that police will also take legal action against Ube... |
These Guys 3D Printed Their Own ‘Force Awakens’ Lightsaber (And You Can Too) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | Have you seen the new Star Wars trailer? Do you, , see all sorts of design flaws in that oh-so-medieval lightsaber they revealed? If you want one of your own to test your theories, you wait until Disney starts slingin’ them on the shelves for $50 a pop. Or you could bust out the 3D printer and get to swingin’ today.... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | This week’s tech news saw the latest from from Uber, Spotify and the tech IPO market. TechCrunch also covered the Sony Pictures hack, the girls who used code to light the White House Christmas trees and Tinder’s new competitor. Here are our best stories from this week (11/29-12/5). Uber announced it raised another 1... |
Fashion And Tech Companies Merge Online And Offline Sales | Stephanie W. Chan | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | With and physical retail down 11%, it’s no wonder retailers large and small are increasingly living online. An alternative to simply shuttering the windows, though, is to experiment with new technologies to integrate the showroom, the storefront, and the web. in November, fashion and tech entrepreneurs and experts ... |
Apple Is Figuring Out How To Sell An Archetype | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | Around the time of the iPhone 5’s release, I started thinking of Apple as an archetype factory. By removing extraneous detail and ornamentation, they were trimming down their devices to a definitive essence. They were making conscious decisions to spend money and man hours to improve technology in invisible, rather tha... |
Rumor: Ektron Deal Could Include Merger With European CMS Vendor EpiServer [Updated] | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | As though the story we have been following over the last week hasn’t been convoluted enough, we started hearing rumors yesterday that the deal actually includes another component. The company could be merging with Stockholm-based Web-content management vendor as part of the deal. The story, if it turns out to be ac... |
Texting Turns 22 | Nic Denholm | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | ago, 22-year-old Neil Papworth sent the first ever short message service (SMS). His fifteen-character missive – ‘merry christmas’ – was sent to colleague Richard Jarvis on December 3, 1992. This act was considered important enough to mark the occasion with a party but not important enough to invite its author. The tru... |
Comcast Makes It More And More Difficult To Opt-Out Of Internet Sharing | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | As we learned back in , Comcast has decided to turn every cable router on its network into a public wi-fi access point. While this may sound like a good idea – free Internet for all Comcast subscribers everywhere is the goal – the reality clashes with the Internet user’s sense of freedom and control. And, unfortunatel... |
Samsung Ventures Leads $17M Round In Lithium-Polymer Battery Maker Seeo | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | , a Hayward, California-based company that makes lithium-polymer batteries, has closed a $17M round led by new investor Samsung Ventures, the investment arm of Samsung Group. Existing investors Khosla Ventures and GSR Ventures also participated. This brings the total Seeo has raised so far to $40.6 million. Seeo’s rech... |
Report: Iran Developing System To ID Any Internet User | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 7 | The government of Iran is no stranger to using its power to in its country, blocking millions of websites when they have run counter to religious or political beliefs. Now it sounds like it plans to take that another step further: engineers are developing a system to identify any individual in the country who goes onl... |
Apple Begins Selling Bose Products Again Two Months After Pulling Them | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Apple has begun audio products from Bose again, as . The return comes nearly two months after it pulled the range for unknown reasons. It was never clear why Apple cut Bose out, but it is likely to be related to , the audio company that , in July over noise-cancelling headphones. The two sides , ending the need f... |
[Update] Turning Unwanted Goods Into New Sales, Optoro Raises $50 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | [Update: Through his own investment fund, Generation Investment Management, former Vice President and KPCB Green Growth Fund partner Al Gore added $10 million to the company’s funding as of early Wednesday morning.] Optoro has raised $50 million to expand its business turning unwanted items into new sales for businesse... |
With $16M In Funding, Helium Wants To Provide The Connective Tissue For The Internet Of Things | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Over the next few years, we’ll see a torrent of new devices emerge that are connected to the Internet and each other through a wide range of different wireless networking protocols. As a result, there’s a race on, not just to get those devices connected, but also to provide the network infrastructure necessary to manag... |
HashiCorp Announces New DevOps Management Tool And $10M In Funding | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | The funding was led by Mayfield with participation from GGV Capital and True Ventures. The company’s roots go back to the college days of co-founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar at the University of Washington. They began with a big idea to create what they called a cockpit for building, deploying and managing ... |
ToyTalk Raises $15 Million In Series C Round Led By Khosla Ventures | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | , the kids entertainment applications startup founded by former Pixar execs has raised $15 million in a Series C round of financing led by . Former investors , , and join this latest round, putting the total raised at $30 million. Khosla partner Samir Kaul joins the company board, which includes David Sze and Ad... |
Restaurant Reservation Service Reserve Launches In San Francisco | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | , a mobile app that makes it easy to find reservations at top restaurants, that it’s now available in San Francisco. The service, which , came out of Expa, the “startup studio” created by Uber and StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp. CEO Greg Hong said that just as Uber made personal drivers more accessible to a bro... |
SF And LA District Attorneys File Civil Suit Against Uber For Making ‘False Or Misleading Statements’ | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | The district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles counties have filed suit against Uber for claims that the company made “false and misleading statements” to consumers, while also engaging in business practices that violate California Law. At the same time, those authorities announced a settlement with Uber compe... |
The Happy Home Company Aims To Take The Headache Out Of Home Maintenance | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | I’ve never owned a home. That’s mostly because I make a journalist’s salary while living in one of . But also, I really like the fact that I can call my landlord or superintendent whenever something breaks, because it’s their responsibility. Apparently, I’m not the only one who feels this way. Doug Ludlow, formerly CE... |
Twitch Is Acquiring GoodGame To Make Pro Partnerships More Appealing | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Video-game-streaming service that it will acquire , a full-service agency dedicated to serving the needs to pro-gamers and brands looking to be involved in the eSports industry. GoodGame has built a business over the last 10 years by sponsoring its own competitive esports teams, connecting brands with popular thir... |
If You’re Running Windows 10 You May Have To Reinstall Office | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Microsoft’s , one of the most prominent members of the Windows 10 team, announced today that a security update to the current build of the operating system will not install if a user has Office already installed. Instead, users of build 9879 of Windows 10, if they want to install the security fix, may have to uninstal... |
Trustev Uses Fraud Detection Software To Crack Down On Internet Trolls | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Spending time on the Internet, you’re bound to occasionally see comments left from anonymous or semi-anonymous users leaving toxic, vulgar messages that add nothing to the overall discussion. Whether looking at the comments on a YouTube video or your favorite news blog, you find the same people spewing hate with little... |
CoolChip Technologies Is Redesigning The Humble Computer Fan | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | If there’s one part of a PC that doesn’t get enough love, it’s the fan. These small plastic spinning pieces cost almost nothing and keep hundreds or thousands of dollars of advanced technology from cooking itself. The only time anyone talks about a computer’s fans is when we notice them doing their jobs. “I can’t go on... |
eBay’s New iPad App Design Hints At Its E-Commerce Future | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | is revamping for the consumer times we live in, starting with a out in the App Store today. According to the e-commerce company, the mobile experience, particularly in the tablet market, is rapidly becoming the preferred way to shop globally. Over 30 percent of US shoppers and 50 percent of users globally are using ... |
Ralph Baer, The Grandfather Of Gaming, Dead At 92 | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | On weekends, my basement could be considered a shrine and church to Ralph Baer. It is there that my children congregate and play video games for hours, a pastime now as familiar as gathering around an open flame was to our early forbears. Ralph Baer, who died on December 6 at the age of 92, lit a thousand digital fires... |
Microsoft Azure Government Comes Out Of Preview | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Microsoft today that its cloud computing service for federal, state, local and tribal U.S. governments is now generally available after of being in preview. This means the service is now open to all U.S. government customers. There are no more preview programs and the service is also now open for all workloads. B... |
Trapit And Addvocate Merge For A Content Marketing Team Up | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Two not-terribly-similar startups, and , today that they’re merging. Trapit co-founder and CEO Gary Griffiths will now serve as CEO of the combined company, which has the unwieldy name Addvocate-Trapit. Griffith told me they put off coming up with a more streamlined name “until we’re fully integrated on the produc... |
Forget Mistletoe Drones, These Inventory Drones Are Where It’s At | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | Let have its scuttling crab-like robots that can move entire shelves – a German company is working on an inventory management system that will fly around warehouses and confirm whether items are in stock. The has created a sort of mobile antenna that can move through a warehouse and ping RFID tags (or read barcodes... |
Postmates Is Launching An API To Let Third-Party Sellers Offer Local Delivery | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | On-demand delivery startup is expected to announce the release of an API tomorrow that will enable third-party sellers and apps to offer local delivery via its couriers. Once adopted, the API could drive a lot more volume for the company, as it potentially introduces Postmates to a large group of new customers throug... |
Using Moleskine’s New Smart Notebook Is Like Magic | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 9 | We covered Moleskine’s launch of its new , but after using one in practice, the tech has clearly merited another look. You can see a live trial of the entire process above, which takes under two minutes and offers up an editable .SVG file pretty much the same as those you’ll get from a $2,000+ digital display and dr... |
Twitter’s ‘While You Were Away’ Recap Feature Is Rolling Out To Many Users | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Back in November, to boost user engagement, and one of those features — a ‘While you were away’ recap of tweets you may have missed — appears to be rolling out to significant numbers of users. It is not live for all at this point, but the fact that it is rolling out to large numbers of Twitter’s userbase suggests tha... |
All Of Samsung’s New Smart TVs Will Run Its Tizen Operating System | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | In its latest attempt to make the operating system happen, Samsung that all of its smart televisions will include a -based platform in 2015. In theory, this means that the new smart TVs will be able to sync with other Samsung devices that use Tizen, the company’s own open-source operating system. For example, they c... |
Snapchat Has Raised $485 Million More From 23 Investors, At Valuation Of Up To $20B | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Back in the day, we reported that messaging app Snapchat* in a round led by Kleiner Perkins. And then the WSJ reported that it was $20 million, which left us wondering why a growth round would be so small in terms of total principle. Well, it turns out it’s not. Snapchat has raised a much bigger amount: Nearly $500 m... |
7 Venture Capitalists Predict What Will Happen In 2015 | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | From cloud wars to the certainty that there will be hacks, venture capitalists believe that 2015 will be a year of tumult and (in public markets anyway) triumph for the startup world. Here are the visions that the general partners, managing directors and partners from firms such as , , , and have when they gaze int... |
Comcast Customer Spends Four Hours Canceling His Account | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1re1OgcQgdU] A Comcast user named Mike posted a portion of a four-hour call with the company to cancel his account. The resulting back and forth — full of long, pregnant pauses and corporate rigamarole — isn’t nearly as exciting as : Mike’s story is about patience, perseverance... |
A Look Back At 2014 | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | year in startup news. In fact, we wrote more than 13,000 articles here on TechCrunch. That’s why we are giving you a handy TL;DR guide to remind you of all the big news from the past year. Xiaomi Mi Pad and an iPad Mini Retina [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoKguSdy4Y&w=640&h=360] |
This Cybersecurity Medicine Might Be Tough To Swallow | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Imagine you’re the CEO of a thriving company and you’ve been horrified by the news of the Sony hack, the Target breach and the litany of security issues that have plagued big companies in recent years. You swear you’re going to do whatever’s necessary to make sure it won’t happen to your company. But do you realize wha... |
How We Celebrate New Year’s Eve On Social Media Around The World | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | From Smartphone selfie sticks to pyrotechnics, this is how we digitally ring in 2015 around the world: https://twitter.com/BestEarthPix/status/550379174985498626
https://twitter.com/BEAUTIFULPlCS/status/550381078654226433 HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!! — Hardwell (@HARDWELL) https://twitter.com/BestEarthPix/status/5503... |
Ten Ways The World Changed In 2014 | David Hirsch | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | 1) Companies are leveraging data in order to serve people with relevant content, commerce, and ads based on situations and locations. In content, a good example of this is the rise of companies like and , serving relevant content to users based on what they’re currently reading. In commerce, look no further than w... |
Netflix Helps You Trick Kids Into Thinking Midnight Came Early With An On-Demand Countdown | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Netflix, with a nod and wink to weary parents everywhere, has introduced a clever way to trick the kids into thinking New Year’s Eve came early. The service is offering featuring DreamWorks’ animated characters – King Julien and friends – which parents can call up any time they choose. The idea is to offer families a... |
YC-Backed Omniref Is Rap Genius For Code | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | While the open source movement has made getting up and running with a software project incredibly easy for those who know what to look for, the reality is that not every project can be updated to support the latest versions of the code they’re built on. Over time, this means that you see thousands of projects running o... |
2015 Is Shaping Up To Be The Key Year For Venture Capital | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Eye-popping is the only word that comes close to describing the numbers we saw this year from venture finance. , with companies like of the launch of its enterprise social product. in October, and just yesterday, Instacart announced that . Even if these valuations were frightening, we could at least find solace i... |
How To Find The Right YouTube Influencers For Your Brand | Polina Haryacha | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Earned media is stealing the show. According to Nielsen, say they trust peer recommendations above all other sources of advertising. According to McKinsey and Deloitte, marketing-inspired word-of-mouth generates more than of paid advertising, while people referred by loyal customers have a . So what does earned ... |
On Comcast? Buy Your Own Modem. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Is your New Year’s resolution to save money? Here. Comcast just raised their , because apparently charging you too much for a modem costs more than it used to. If you’re on Comcast and don’t own your modem, you’re throwing away roughly $120 a year for no reason. I did a quick survey amongst my peers (that is, whoever ... |
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CrunchWeek’s 2014 In Review: Hacks Aplenty, Mega Money, Tech’s Stars Under Scrutiny | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | It was a year of many huge security breaches, from and to the infamous , , and . It was also a year of huge amounts of money, from Facebook’s $19 billion , to Uber’s . And it was a year of tech leaders being held more accountable for their words and deeds, from to . So Alex Wilhelm, Ryan Lawler, and I gat... |
Snapchat’s New Year’s Eve “Our Story” Will Be Its Biggest Yet | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | Snapchat is preparing to launch its biggest “Our Story” feature yet this New Year’s Eve, documenting worldwide celebrations using curated user photos and videos from cities like New York, Dubai, St. Petersburg, Russia and more. The company says it expects to process hundreds of hours of footage to create this New Year’... |
Now With 12 Million Users, Timehop Adds Twitter Vet Jason Goldman To Its Board | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | It’s been a very busy few months for . The app, which provides users with a personal “today in history” memo by surfacing their photos and social networking posts from this day one year ago or more, is closing out the year with more than 12 million registered users, half of whom, some 6 million, open the app every sin... |
Tech To Save You From Your Drunk Self On New Year’s Eve | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | The safest thing you could possibly do on New Year’s Eve is not drink, not go out, not do anything. You’re probably going to go out, anyway. You’re probably going to go to some party and you’re probably going to drink. A lot. You’ll dance terribly. You’ll tell someone that you love them. This person is someone you do n... |
Microsoft’s Windows Store Sees 110% Download Growth From A Year Ago | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | According to the company, Microsoft has seen a 110 percent rise in the number of app downloads on the Windows Store in the last year. The increase, by the firm’s own , is built on the back of 30 percent more active users in the same period, and has led to a more than doubling of “gross sales” for developers. It isn’... |
Fighting Distractions Should Be Top Resolution For 2015 | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 31 | BING the head of Sony Pictures is talking about CLICK my friend just uploaded a photo to Face BING the wreckage of the AirAsia flight PLOP Danny, are you around for dinner? We are thinking DING Try out the new version of our app CLICK the weather today will be PING Danny, we have a brilliant idea for a startup and we a... |
Uber Suspends Its Uber Pop Ride-Sharing Service In Spain Following A Court Ruling | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Uber has suspended Uber Pop in Spain, , after it received confirmation of a court ruling that bans its ride-sharing service in the country. Uber Pop, a European version of Uber X that uses everyday vehicles and provides bill-splitting options for passengers, arrived in Spain in April, and it has been under pressure fo... |
Manufacturing Reboots Talent Engine In A New Age Of Digital Disruption | Matt Reilly | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Whether a company makes clothing, household cleaning products, cars, healthcare or nearly anything else, it needs people with the right skills. Like other businesses, today’s manufacturers are going digital; operating in an era of change and volatility that has made flexibility critical to their success. But to be ab... |
In 2015, Software Eats The Wearable World | Kunal Agarwal | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | 2014 will be remembered as the year that wearables leapt into the Silicon Valley mainstream. Tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm have taken notice and poured money and resources into developing their own offerings. Earlier players like and announced multiple new products and a host of promisi... |
Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Raises $210 Million More | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Grocery delivery startup Instacart has raised an additional $210 million, according to an on Monday. The filing confirms a Series C funding round reported earlier this month, which . Kleiner Perkins was expected to lead the round, although no new board members are listed in the filing. The financing comes just six m... |
Matter And Form’s 3D Scanner Is Inexpensive And Promising | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | At $600, the is probably the cheapest 3D laser scanner on the market. While the system does require some tweaking to get great scans, I was quite pleased with the scanning results and, more important, thing this thing can stand up to the big boys in 3D scanning. Most 3D scanners use a turntable to rotate and scan o... |
In Cybercrime, What’s Old Is New Again | Jonathan Spruill | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Like most cases, this one started with a frantic call from a restaurant owner. The panic and uncertainty bled through the phone. He had just been notified his business suffered a payment card data breach and his acquiring bank mandated he hire an investigator to determine what happened. The on-site setup was typical ... |
The Kairos T-Band Turns Your Dumb Watch Into A Smart Watch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Another day, another wearable design. This time it’s something called the , a watch band that connects to your normal watch and enables all sorts of exciting things like step tracking and notifications. I’ve seen a few of these sorts of things over the past year – one company hid everything inside a nice leather band ... |
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What The Hell Is A Startup Anyway? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | If you regularly read technology media, and I honestly can’t recommend it, you will run into occasional references to “startups.” Many consider startups to be small companies determined to grow quickly in the hopes of becoming the next passé giant whose corporate campus costs so much to maintain that it eventually has ... |
Moment Brings Back Family Dinner Time By Sounding Alerts If You Pick Up Your Phone At The Table | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to limit screen time around the family dinner table, the mobile application can now help. The app, which previously focused on alerting smartphone owners to how much time they’ve spent staring at their phone, has introduced an update that turns Moment into more of a family app... |
United And Orbitz Sue “Hidden Cities” Flight Search Engine Skiplagged | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | and are , a small startup founded by Aktarer Zaman that helps travelers hack the airlines’ opaque pricing schemes to get by finding so-called “hidden city” fares. Airline pricing is and one of its many oddities is that when you are looking for a good price, it’s often cheaper to buy a ticket from, say, San Fra... |
Ten One Design’s Mountie Clip Is Perfect For Duet’s iPad Display App | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Your mobile two-screen setup just got a lot more perfect: Ten One Design has launched the , a two-sided clip that securely mounts an iPad, iPhone or any other mobile device to your MacBook or iMac’s bezel, while remaining small enough to slip into a jacket pocket or laptop case accessory compartment. The Mountie isn’t... |
Actually, Our Greatest Hopes Lie With Techies | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | For all the stories of 2014, few got the attention of the press like the tension between San Francisco residents and the rising tide of engineers and startup founders who started calling the city their home. Accused of as well as , these techies have been under constant criticism from locals who see these newcomers ... |
SwipeRadio Is A Faster Way To Listen To Terrestrial Radio On Your iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | On-demand music streaming services like Beats and Spotify continue to grow, but terrestrial radio also remains a popular way to listen to music on mobile via top-ranked apps like iHeartRadio (#8 in free Music apps on iTunes) and TuneIn Radio (#13). Now, newcomer has launched its own minimalistic take on radio apps wi... |
Access To Gmail Partially Restored In China | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Gmail access is partially restored in China, according to some reports . The bump in traffic follows a multi-day outage that began just after Christmas, which saw Gmail users blocked from using a workaround that allowed them to download their messages through third-party apps like Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook whic... |
You Could Fill Up At The Pump With Apple Pay Starting Next Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Apple is working to expand the reach of Apple Pay, and its next major destination might be the gas pumps. Chevron’s official Twitter account revealed yesterday (via ) that the gas company is working to make Apple Pay available at its fill-up stations in the U.S. Pump payments are a key ingredient to making Apple Pay t... |
Mobile App Download Volumes Hit Record High In November | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Downtime from work and other responsibilities over the Thanksgiving break here in the U.S. saw consumers downloading applications in record numbers, according to a new report out this morning from mobile marketers . The firm says its “App Store Competitive Index,” which tracks the aggregate average daily download volu... |
There’s A Connected Gaming Toothbrush At CES This Year, And I Don’t Want To Go | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Sometimes a vacation is more curse then blessing – I’ve been largely away from email and Twitter for about five days now, and returning is less a breath a fresh air and more a deep inhalation of whatever was in that ancient looking Tupperware container found at the back of the fridge behind the pickled artichoke hearts... |
Ford And Life360 Partner On App To Curb Distracted Driving | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Texting or talking on the phone while driving ., according to recent data. Now is partnering with the family location services startup on a new tool which could help reduce distractions on the road. Ford is the first automaker to offer in-car use of Life360 and its new “Drive Mode” feature, which notifies friends... |
Samsung Launches Milk VR Video Service For Gear VR | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Now that it’s got a , Samsung is launching a service of its own to provide 360-degree video content so users have a reason to slip on the Gear VR on a regular basis. Taking its name from Samsung’s and , Milk VR will feature downloadable and streamable content free-of-charge to Gear VR owners. The company says that ... |
The Payments Tipping Point Will Be In 2015 | Hill Ferguson | 2,014 | 12 | 30 | Payments are finally cool. And the more than 1,500 payments startups on that believe they have cracked the code to solve a piece of the payments puzzle attest to this. Given all the noise in the tech community this year with the introduction of technologies like and , you would think that digital payments have tak... |
New Delhi Extends Ban On Uber To Cover Other Taxi Apps | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 8 | Authorities in Indian city of New Delhi have expanded a ban on Uber to cover all other taxi hailing apps in the city until they acquire relevant licenses, according to . for “misleading consumers”, having initially caught the attention of officials after on suspicion of . “All other transport/taxi service provider... |
Pebble Adds French, German And Spanish Language Options To Its Smartwatch App | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 8 | Pebble, everyone’s favorite indie smartwatch maker, looks to be preparing a European sales push after it updates that will make its smartwatch app available in French, German and Spanish. Writing last month when it support for notifications in over 90 languages, the company said its multi-lingual updates will “pave... |
Cloud Foundry Foundation Launches With Support From Over 40 Companies | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 8 | , one of the largest open-source enterprise projects around, made a bit of a splash last year. With , the Infrastructure-as-a-Service OpenStack project also has a counterpart in the Platform-as-a-Service world and that project is hoping that 2015 will be its break-through year. To get to this point, the more than 40 c... |
Portland Sues Uber | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 8 | It’s only Monday, but what a week it’s been for Uber. They’ve been , kicked out of , and now the City of Portland is suing them. Uber just launched in Portland on Friday, but the City’s Transportation Bureau is already dropping the hammer. The dispute? It’s one you’ve heard before. The city has laws for how for-hire ... |
Barack Obama Becomes The First President To Write Code | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 8 | It’s official: Obama writes code. He probably won’t be up to debating the merits of Ruby vs. Python any time soon, but the President took the time to crack out a few lines of Javascript as part of the — an event that encourages students to try just one hour of programming to see if it piques their interest. While I i... |
Telegram Claims 50M Monthly Active Users, Seems To Be Attracting Teams | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 12 | 8 | , the messaging app startup created by a team headed by Pavel Durov (who created VK.com), has hit some major numbers, . It now claims to have over 50 million monthly active users, sending 1 billion messages daily. This is after only 16 months of operation and no marketing spend. Further more, the startup has revealed ... |
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