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Google’s Niantic Labs Will Soon Launch An eBook Spin-Off Of Its Ingress AR Game | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | This is a bit of an odd story: according to – and as first reported by to – Google’s Niantic Labs, the somewhat mysterious division of Google that is home to , the and , will soon start co-publishing a series of eBooks based on Ingress, its popular augmented reality game. A Google spokesperson confirmed to us t... |
Lawdingo, The Startup That Lets You Talk To Lawyers Instantly, Joins Y Combinator | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | , a startup that connects users with lawyers for online consultations (sometimes instantly), is announcing that it’s part of the current class of startups at . I last . You can browse lawyers on the site based on their expertise and location, and if you find one you like, you can schedule an appointment or in some ca... |
Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | Disrupt alumnus in a series of super-savvy, super-early stage acquisitions today, picking up email management app in an acquisition that we’re calling “DropMail.” We had been hearing that Mailbox was raising money, piquing the interest of Andreessen Horowitz among others, which is why today’s that the company... |
Formspring, The Pioneering ‘Ask Me Anything’ Anonymous Q&A Platform, Is Shutting Down | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | , a startup that helped pioneer the “ask me anything” format of anonymous Q&A online, is shutting down. The San Francisco company announced the news in a this afternoon. The closure of the Q&A platform will occur March 31st, and users will be able to export their data until April 15th, Formspring’s founder and CEO ... |
Facebook Fills Vacant CTO Role By Promoting Its VP Of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | Mark Zuckerberg has just made an internal announcement to Facebook naming its veteran VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer as CTO, we’ve just learned from an industry source. Facebook has since confirmed to TechCrunch that Schroepfer will take the postion previously , who left last year. Schroepfer has been at Facebook f... |
Wayin’s Scott McNealy On Making The Leap From Sun Microsystems Back Into Startups [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | We had the opportunity to sit down with McNealy this week at in Austin, Texas for a segment with TechCrunch TV, and we talked a bit about how he made the transition from corporate giant to startup and the lessons he’s learned along the way — both the serious ones, and the more humorous ones. Of course, Scott McNea... |
Airbnb Open Sources Its Chronos Scheduler, A More Flexible Cron Replacement With A Web-Based GUI | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | just announced that it has open-sourced , the company’s replacement for the standard time-based schedule that is probably familiar to everybody who has ever used a Unix-based system. Chronos runs on top of Apache’s cluster manager and allows developers to execute shell scripts at set intervals and, unlike Cron, y... |
Ask A VC: Menlo Ventures’ Shawn Carolan On Sourcing Siri, How He Wants To Solve Email Overload And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | Menlo Ventures Managing Director stopped by the studio for our Ask A VC series. Carolan, who focuses on consumer tech investments for Menlo Ventures, chatted about how he sourced the firm’s investment in Siri, which was and is the underlying technology behind the company’s “intelligent personal assistant.” Carola... |
Dear Microsoft, Samsung Isn’t Very Happy With You | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | There’s been a lot of talk lately about Samsung’s growing rift with Google. But what about Samsung and Microsoft? Samsung has indeed been moving away from Google’s native apps with their own complement of directly competing services. And their insistence to continue developing Tizen as an mobile OS over which they have... |
There Is No Such Thing As A Great Launch Event | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | If you woke up this morning wondering why Samsung is being berated on social media less than 24 hours after announcing its , might I point you and , where you can read of the magical night at Radio City Music Hall when Samsung paid Broadway actors to play out scenes using the new phone for two hours. In a word, it ... |
Dropbox Bought Mailbox Because It Wants To Be More Than A Cloud Storage Company | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | earlier today caused a Friday boom with its . The move has two layers of significance for the company, and it points to what more we will likely see in its future: In addition to Mailbox, an app designed for iOS devices, Dropbox has made a few other acquisitions that point specifically to cloud services that work on... |
FuzeBox Hires Google’s Amritansh Raghav And Skype’s Eran Shtiegman To Lead Product And Engineering | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | Video conferencing company is announcing two big hires today — Amritansh Raghav (left), former engineering director for Google Compute Engine, and Eran Shtiegman (right), a former director of product management at Skype (where he worked on social products and ads). Raghav is the company’s new chief security officer a... |
Princeton Review Founder’s Startup Noodle Acquires Lore To Build An Education Marketplace Around Search | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 15 | Last summer, we , a startup co-founded and led by John Katzman, perhaps better known as a co-founder of The Princeton Review and 2U (formerly 2tor). The startup is on a mission to bring a Netflix-style recommendation engine to the fragmented and noisy world of education. Not unlike Google, Noodle Education wants to or... |
Tudou Founder Gary Wang To Launch ‘Pixar Of China,’ Looks To San Francisco And LA For Talent | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | Gary Wang, the founder of China’s largest online video site , now plans to launch a Beijing-based animated film studio that on April 1. Wang says he has already secured “tens of millions of dollars” in funding from an undisclosed international group of investors–and he’s looking to staff his studio with experts from ... |
Western Digital Contributes To SSD Maker Skyera’s $51M Series B | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | Enterprise solid-state storage system maker Skyera that it received funding from Western Digital as part of its $51 million Series B round of financing. The two companies say the investment is an extension of a strategic relationship that includes joint technology development. The money will be used to scale Skyera’... |
Google Scoops Up Neural Networks Startup DNNresearch To Boost Its Voice And Image Search Tech | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | Well, Google’s M&A strategy is nothing if not diverse in focus. In November, . Last month, Google , buying eCommerce startup Channel Intelligence. Today, Google dug into the Computer Science department at The University of Toronto to acquire , a young startup founded by professor Geoffrey Hinton and two of his grad ... |
Microsoft Is Currently Experiencing Hotmail, Outlook And SkyDrive Service Disruptions | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | As we reported last month, Microsoft decided to . That migration process might not be going so well, as users have flooded sites like Twitter with to the tune of three hours. Its migration approach was to be a slow one, with the move being optional at first. Regardless of the reason, three hours is a long time to no... |
Leap Motion’s Michael Buckwald Lays Out His Vision For Gesture-Based Computer Interaction | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the team and try out their upcoming gesture-based controller. We’ve been writing about the company for a while now, but this was a chance to see the technology in-person, and to use it with existing apps. Thankfully, my own feeble attempts t... |
To Boost Music Subs, Deezer Turns On Affiliate Deals, Gaming APIs, And (Ahead Of Spotify) 3rd Party Apps On Mobile | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | Music streaming may not be , but that’s not stopping music streaming hopefuls from trying. The latest development comes from , which is announcing a series of new services based around its APIs to drive more users to its service. They include an affiliate marketing program; more social and gaming integration; and the... |
Alleged Promo Video Heralds Google Now’s Eventual Debut On iOS Devices | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | It’s not an uncommon sight to see pundits and fanboys pit iOS’s Siri against Google’s mobile combination of Voice Search and Google Now, but persistent reports maintain that Google has been working to bring its contextually aware Google Now service to iOS devices. Thanks to a obtained by , though, those reports may ... |
Everything We Know About The Galaxy S IV | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | In 48 hours, the Galaxy S IV will stop being a set of unconfirmed photos and videos from Chinese forums and be a real, official phone. A new generation. And while some mystery still remains over processor particulars, special eye-tracking software, and perhaps a hint of NFC-style , we have a pretty good outline of wha... |
Highlight Brings Location-Based Ice Pops To SXSW | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | This is the for location-based/social/mobile/photo app , but the company has come a long way since March 2012. Last year to market the app there were just a couple of guys — the founders — telling people about the service. This year Highlight is doing a little bit more: renting an ice cream truck and cruising ar... |
Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz And Will Arnett On Taking Their Show To Netflix | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | One of the big events coming up for comedy fans this spring will be the , which will after a long hiatus. While in Austin for SXSW Interactive, Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and star Will Arnett took a few minutes out of their busy, busy, extremely important lives to answer a few questions about the s... |
Acer Ups The C7 Chromebook’s RAM, Battery Life And, Sadly, Price | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | The a bit more powerful. With the RAM doubled to 4GB, the latest flavor of Acer’s inexpensive but still tasty Chromebook should be able to handle a few more simultaneous tasks. Plus, the new model ships with a 6 cell battery able to last 6 hours rather than the 4 cell found in the original. Too bad Acer couldn’t mana... |
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Dustin Moskovitz And Cari Tuna Launch Site For Their Philanthropic Foundation, Good Ventures | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | We’ve heard a little bit about Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s new foundation, , specifically a company that its investment arm . Today we’ve learned a lot more, specifically about its non-profit endeavours, as the site for Good Ventures has been launched, and it discusses exactly what the foundation... |
Dropbox Revamps Its Desktop Clients With A New Menu And A Bigger Focus On Sharing | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | The cloud storage buffs at have spent quite a bit of time optimizing the service for mobile devices (and , naturally), but the Dropbox desktop client looks and works much the same way it did a few years ago. Well, that’s not the case anymore — the company has just on a 2.0 update for its desktop clients that adds ... |
The Oatmeal Thinks It’s Time To Put LolCats To Sleep [TCTV] | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | Matthew Inman is sick of memes about bacon and kitties. Better known as web comic artist , Inman gave TechCrunch the lowdown on what’s funny, what’s not, and how he finds inspiration. In this video interview he shoots off his thoughts on 4Chan and The Harlem Shake. When asked about LolCats, he bluntly replied, “Tire... |
Google Launches “Help For Hacked Sites” To Teach Site Owners How To Recover Their Hacked Sites | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | No site is fully immune to getting hacked, but there are some obvious things every site owner can do to make it a bit harder for hackers to break into a web server and add rogue links or take over a site completely. Today, Google its new “ ” series to how to avoid getting hacked in the first place – and how to reco... |
Cobook 2.0 Arrives, Bringing An Auto-Updating, Universal Address Book To iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | , a Mac contact management app that , is today launching version 2.0 of its service which introduces a new feature called “Livecards.” This feature does what everyone wants address books to do these days – their contacts with the most current information. It’s bizarre that in this day and age, we’re still struggling... |
Google Now’s “Topics” Feature Looked Handy – Too Bad Google Shut It Down | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | Google recently killed a newly discovered feature called Google Now Topics, which apparently wasn’t quite ready for primetime. The feature appeared to be a useful, if perhaps a little creepy, means of revisiting your past web searches performed using Google Search through a visual, Google Now-like interface. “Topics” w... |
New York City’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot On Bringing Innovation Into Government [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 12 | So it was great to have the opportunity to talk to Haot about her job and her latest projects while she was in Austin, Texas this past week for . She told us she’s focused on encouraging tech adoption and development not only within NYC’s government and public services, but also in the city in general, with initiati... |
Winners & Losers: Supercell’s Clash of Clans Tripled Its U.S. Marketshare, Report Shows | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | , the title , has doubled its marketshare among U.S. iPhone users over the last six months, according to Onavo, an app tracking company that can actually see active usage. The data is part of a monthly report Onavo does in marketshare — which is defined as the percentage of U.S. iPhone users who open an app at lea... |
Twitter Launches Its First Official App For Windows 8 And RT | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Twitter just its . It’s been a long time coming, but the new app does seem to do the platform justice, with a number of Windows 8-centric features, including support for the Windows 8 Share and Search charms, snap view (so you can park the app on the side of the screen), live tiles and notifications. The Discover ta... |
Yet More Leaked Samsung Galaxy S IV Pics Appear Hours Before Launch | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | The Samsung Galaxy S IV will be in just a few hours, but another crop of leaked photos featuring the device has , a few days after a another batch of pics The handset in the photo has a high-gloss, textured plastic casing (though it already shows hairline cracks in the leaked pics) and the same metallic-looking ban... |
Xi3’s David Politis Says Piston Will Combine The Best Features Of PCs And Consoles | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | recently for Piston, the company’s gaming-optimized personal computer. I actually had a chance to speak to the company’s chief marketing officer David Politis over the weekend at South by Southwest Interactive, where he described the device as a combination of the best aspects of PCs and gaming consoles: Consoles ... |
The Google Reader Shutdown Is Yet Another Nail In Feedburner’s Coffin | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | How long until Google shuts down ? The company just that it is . That’s a sad day for all of us who still regularly use it, but its demise was probably inevitable. Reader had been lingering in a stasis for months (maybe even years) now, especially since Google in favor of focusing on Google+ and barely dedicated ... |
Google Reader’s Death Is Proof That RSS Always Suffered From Lack Of Consumer Appeal | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | The idea of RSS was one that never quite gripped with normal Internet users. Sure, for us geeks who absolutely love consuming as much information as possible, RSS is a wonderland. When Google launched Reader in 2005, I can remember surfing to all of my favorite sites and looking for that little RSS logo, clicking on it... |
Ahead Of PayPal And Square, Intuit Rolls Out Mobile Payments In Europe, Starting First In The UK | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | The mobile payment market in Europe continues to get more crowded, with the latest wave of entrants coming from across the pond to join a number of homegrown startups targeting the millions of businesses in the region that still do not accept credit card payments. Today, Intuit opened up its mobile device-based card pa... |
Google Closes The Book On Google Reader On July 1, Seven Other Products Also Get The Chop | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Google just plans to shut down eight of its services as part of what it’s calling an ongoing spring cleaning effort. Some of them are pretty arcane, but among TechCrunch writers, anyway, we’re pretty bummed to see that Google Reader will be shut down on July 1. “We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make ... |
GoogleReaderpocalypse. For Real This Time. | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Don’t be evil? If that’s the unofficial Google motto, then the company has failed to deliver today. Among the products Google (read: kill off), beloved feed-reading service Google Reader is now on the chopping block. “*$%#” wrote at least one TechCrunch staffer upon hearing the news. “What will feed my Reeder app,?” ... |
Twitter Appoints Adam Messinger As Chief Technology Officer, A Role Left Vacant Since 2011 | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Twitter is preparing itself to be a company taken seriously. More importantly, it wants to be one that is a darling in the public marketplace. Today, that the company has appointed Adam Messinger as CTO, a position that has since . This would make Messinger Twitter’s second CTO. Messinger spent over a year at Twit... |
Google Pulls Ad-Blocking Apps From Play Store For Violating Developer Distribution Agreement | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | More than a few developers have worked to make web browsing and app use in Android as clean and ad-free as possible, but it seems their efforts haven’t made them any fans at Google. That displeasure was made clear today when a number of developers who have created and maintain ad-blocker apps found their wares from t... |
Days Of Wonder Turns To Crowdfunding To Produce Small World 2 For Tablets | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Any geek worth his fedora and duster will know the name Days of Wonder immediately. The company makes some of the best boardgames around ( needs to win an Emmy) and Small World is probably the best fantasy game I’ve played in a long time. Now you can take part in an effort to bring to a tablet near you. Small World ... |
Pebble Teardown Reveals A 120MHz Chip, Lots Of Glue | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | The smart watch is one of the most ephemeral pieces of hardware I’ve seen in a while. The watch is amazingly light and yet contains enough computing power to run a solid notifications system and, once development ramps up, any number of interesting apps. How do we know? tore that thing to pieces just now and found ... |
MakieLab’s iPad App For 3D-Printing Your Own Dolls Has 70K Designed In First Week | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Growing up, I pretty much had the standard dolls and toys everyone did — Trolls, Barbies and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures. But with the advent of 3D printing, kids today have access to something truly special: their very own custom-made toys. A U.K.-based startup called is making a bet that the rise of... |
PayPal Here Takes On Square Register With New iPad Payments App | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | After its in-store mobile payments technology PayPal Here in the U.K. two weeks ago, the payments giant is announcing another set of news around the product: an iPad app. Not only is this the first iPad app for PayPal Here, but it’s actually the company’s first native app for the tablet ever. Last year, PayPal launch... |
Facebook’s About Page Redesign Is A Graph Search Data Grab | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Years ago Facebook made a wildly successful data grab by putting About details at the top of the profile. Now with its ‘s “Suggested” sections, Facebook could fill out Graph Search by making it easy to select and show off where you’ve been, what you Like, and what you’ve watched, read, and listened to. And Facebook do... |
Andy Rubin Says He’s “An Entrepreneur At Heart” In Message To Android Partners About Changing Role | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | Google’s Larry Page today announced in a blog post that former Android chief Andy Rubin would be stepping down from that position and moving on to something else within the company to be . Now, The Wall Street Journal has from Rubin describing his pride in Android and his reasons for taking a new role. The email is ... |
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Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon On How Entrepreneurs Can Keep Creativity Alive [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | And according to Gordon, that’s not as unusual in this world as people might think. In a chat this week at in Austin, Texas, he said that tech entrepreneurship is actually a naturally very creative endeavor in itself — and offered some insight for how entrepreneurs can overcome bouts of the proverbial “writer’s blo... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With MkII Ventures’ Ron Palmeri | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 13 | After a brief hiatus for SXSW, Ask A VC is back this week with . As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guest either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Over the past few years there’s been a , or “studios,” in the technology and VC world. Palmeri was one of the first participant... |
Samsung Now Has 3 CEOs With The Addition Of J.K. Shin And Boo-keun Yoon | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Samsung Electronics today that it has appointed Boo-keun Yoon and J.K. Shin as co-CEOs following its annual shareholders meeting. That means the Korean tech giant now has three CEOs: Oh-Hyun Kwon will continue on as CEO and chairman of Samsung’s board of directors. Yoon will stay in his current role of overseeing Sam... |
IronPearl Is Systematizing The Secrets That Have Helped Startups Like Wanelo, Lyft And Goodreads Grow | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | If you build it, they will come, right? Not exactly. Growth is actually a lot more complicated than that. Getting users to discover your product, and then stick to it, is more of a rigorous science that uses lots of multivariate testing and traffic funnels. A pair of longtime investors and entrepreneurs, and , are... |
Nearly 35% Of Android Apps In China Secretly Steal User Data, Another Sign Of Google’s Lack Of Control | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Earlier this week, the Data Center of China Internet (DCCI) (h/t ) that showed nearly 35 percent of the Android apps it surveyed were secretly stealing user data unrelated to the app’s functionality. The DCCI, a research institute, looked at 1,400 apps downloaded from different app markets and found that 66.9 percen... |
Samsung Unveils A Bluetooth Wireless Gaming Controller For The Galaxy S 4 | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Samsung is releasing a bombardment of accessories along with their Galaxy S 4, one of which is a fully functional, boda-fide wireless gaming controller. The oval shaped controller is a great deal smaller and lighter than the Xbox and Playstation controllers you’re used to gripping. It has a plastic build, and it’s so l... |
Samsung Taps Mobeam To Bring Beamable Barcodes To The Galaxy S 4, Could Wallet Integration Be Next? | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Samsung talked up the Galaxy S 4’s features with a bit of Broadway flair here at Radio City Music Hall, but there still are some neat additions to the device that didn’t get a moment in the spotlight. The Korean electronics giant, for instance, tapped a San Francisco company called to bring its novel approach to displa... |
Samsung Launches The Galaxy S 4 With A Baffling, Overproduced Broadway-Style Show | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | I’m watching of in New York, and I cannot stop laughing. In theory, illustrating different features of your new phone using real-world scenarios isn’t a terrible idea. And if you must hold your event at Radio City Music Hall, why not get theatrical? But what’s impressive here is how the skits are both terribly writ... |
Samsung Debuts S View Cover For Galaxy S 4 With Integrated Display Window | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Samsung didn’t just unveil a new flagship smartphone today, it also introduced a cover accessory for that device with unique features. The S View cover has an integrated pass-through window for the main display, which can provide at-a-glance access to basic info such as call display, SMS, current battery status and tim... |
Samsung Launches New Version Of S Health, Complete With S Band Step Tracking Wristband | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Samsung’s S Band and updated S Health apps are new features added to the Galaxy S 4. The updated S Health app improves upon the S Health design that debuted in the Galaxy S III. It takes advantage of a new built-in pedometer for tracking steps, as well as ambient temperature and humidity, and the app also tracks food n... |
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Beats The Best With 5-inch, 1080p Display, 1.9GHz Processor, Gesture Controls And A Q2 2013 Release | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | As if it could be any other way, the Samsung Galaxy S 4 is Samsung’s, and perhaps even Android’s, best phone yet. In fact, it very well may be the best smartphone on the market, period. We’ve been through months of speculation, hype, rumors, and leaks, but the truth is out, and the Galaxy S 4 still has much more up i... |
Hulu To Appoint Andy Forssell As Acting CEO Following Jason Kilar Departure | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | will take over the position of CEO at online video company later this month, following the of the company’s current chief executive which will occur . The succession plan was announced today in an internal memo from Kilar to Hulu staffers that was subsequently made public on . Forssell has worked at Hulu since... |
Join Us Live Right Now For Our Samsung Galaxy S 4 Reveal Event Live Blog | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Samsung is launching its Galaxy S 4 device (better known as the worst kept secret of all time) in New York today at a special event. The event is , but we’re also there covering the action, and will bring you updates live right here as the show progresses. |
Watch The Galaxy S 4 Live Video Stream Right Here! | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXILsX7_QI The Galaxy S 4 is upon us and this is the official Samsung webcast. Of course you can follow along with our liveblog, or, if it floats your boat, watch the live video stream embedded here. The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is hardly a secret at this point. Most everything has leaked ea... |
Hashtags On Facebook Would Open Up Exploration And Discovery Way More Than Graph Search | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | The hashtag (#), which is a hallmark of Twitter’s userbase wanting to categorize content, is rumored to become a part of Facebook’s . , but not much is known about how far along the social network is with it. While the hashtag isn’t a concept owned entirely by Twitter, the company has helped to make them popular with... |
LeVar Burton On How Interstellar Human Travel Could Become A Reality [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | As a member of the of the , Burton is a champion of the idea that we can make human interstellar travel capabilities a reality within the next century. We had the chance to catch up with Burton this week at in Austin, Texas and talk to him about 100 Year Starship, which he discussed . It was also great to be b... |
Google Translate Now Lets You Build A Personalized Phrasebook | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | just a cool new feature that allows you to easily create a personalized phrasebook with the phrases and sentences you want to memorize and/or find yourself translating repeatedly. As the Google Translate team notes in today’s announcement, the idea here is to allow you to jumpstart the process of committing the tran... |
Meet JumpSeat, The Airbnb For Private Jets | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | So the market for private jet startups sure is heating up!* So far, we’ve written about and , both of which are seeking to become a kind of “Uber for private flights.” So it probably comes as no surprise that there’s someone out there with a kind of Airbnb, peer-to-peer offering to make private flights cheaper for e... |
Facebook Hires The Team At Design Firm Hot Studio To Build Tools For Brands | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | , a design firm based in San Francisco and New York City, just that its team will be joining Facebook. Facebook has , writing: We began working with Hot Studio on a few projects several months ago. Immediately, we recognized the synergy between our teams and their remarkable talents. Hot Studio has a sixteen-year ... |
Reuters Editor Indicted For Conspiring With Hacker Group, Anonymous | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Thomson Reuter’s Deputy Editor of Social Media, Matthew Keys, for allegedly conspiring with hacktivist group, “Anonymous.” to the Department of Justice, “Keys provided members of the hacker group Anonymous with log-in credentials for a computer server belonging to KTXL FOX 40’s corporate parent, the Tribune Company... |
Agawi Partners With NVIDIA To Deliver Ready-To-Stream Gaming Architecture To ISPs And Telcos | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Game streaming might be a common feature of ISP packages for bundled Internet, if has anything to say about it. The cloud gaming startup has outlasted rival OnLive, which still exists in , and to power its , and now it wants to give ISPs and carrier networks a chance to regain their place as providers of content.... |
Facebook May Launch Hashtags To Open Graph Searches Of Related Posts, But There Are Privacy Questions | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 14 | Facebook already has tagging for people, Pages, and location, and could soon allow users to tag their posts with hashtags so they could be more easily indexed and surfaced by Graph Search. A source told TechCrunch that Facebook was working on the project, and soon after reported similar news. However, this feature ma... |
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Want To See Pictures Of Twitter’s Office Visitors? Meet @Twisitor | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | There are Twitter accounts for almost everything these days. Some people I know have accounts set up for , then there are , , drones and so on. The company itself has a fun account called , which was a project built during one of Twitter’s quarterly hackweeks. There’s a camera in the lobby of Twitter’s new San Fra... |
The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 4: Are We Our Own Worst Enemies? | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Welcome back for the last segment of our roundtable discussion of COO new book In , posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding as well as the element of fear and how it plays into women’s career paths. In , posted Wednesday, we discussed the emotion of guilt and the myth that women can “do i... |
T-Shirt Crowdfunding Site TeePublic Funds 22 Designs In Its First Week | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Apparently, starting one popular T-shirt website wasn’t enough for Josh Abramson. Last week Abramson, who previously co-founded the jokey T-shirt retailer , launched , which is basically a Kickstarter for T-shirts. Users can pledge to buy designs that they like, and if a shirt gets at least 30 people to fund it, then... |
Ask A VC: Comcast Ventures’ Michael Yang On What’s Next In Digital Healthcare And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | In this week’s Ask A VC, Comcast Ventures’ Managing Director sat in the hot seat to talk about his passion for digital healthcare, and much more. During the show, Yang actually demoed wearable health tracking device BodyMedia. Comcast led a investment in the health care startup last year. We also chatted about ho... |
Backed By Kickstarter And Full Of Tech Cameos, ‘The Startup Kids’ Movie Debuts On iTunes | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | But two young Icelandic entrepreneurs found a silver lining in the situation. With an absence of traditional job prospects, the two young women decided shortly after the 2008 economy crash to start — and it turned out to be a big success. After that, they were motivated to spread the word about entrepreneurship t... |
Google Reader Who? Feedly Became Top News App On iPhone, iPad & Android This Week; New App Now Awaiting Approval | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Where are the users headed following news of Google Reader’s shutdown? To , it seems. We it had passed half a million new users, but more importantly, Feedly is now winning on mobile, too. According to new U.S. App Store and Google Play data, Feedly is leaving competitors like NewsBlur and Reeder far behind. Even th... |
Thanks To Poor Holiday Sales, B&N Will Give Away A Free Nook Simple Touch With Every Purchase Of A Nook HD+ | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | There’s been nothing but bad news coming from Barnes & Noble lately, and it seems as though the company has decided to resort to the desperate measure of giving away Nooks for free. Reuters is reporting that customers who purchase the $269 Nook HD+ will receive a $79 Simple Touch free of charge as a limited offer. It’s... |
One Notion Under Jobs: Newly Unearthed Videos Show 1984 Steve Wozniak Speaking On Pranks, Probation, And Apple’s Early Days | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Damn it, Internet. I had things I needed to do this afternoon. So much for that. A VHS recording of a 1984 Apple enthusiast meetup was recently rediscovered, and it had at least one very special gem tucked inside: footage of a 34-year old Steve Wozniak giving a speech on just about everything you’d want to see 34-year ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 03.22.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | – Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
TC Makers: A Walk Through Adafruit Industries With Limor Fried | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Since we started Makers I’ve made it a priority to try to visit , the amazing Manhattan-based electronics shop run by Limor Fried. Fried started her company out of her dorm room at MIT, building cool electronics kits for her friends. She slowly expanded into other hobbyist realms including Arduino add-ons, how-to bo... |
Ride-Sharing Startup SideCar Opens For Business In Washington, D.C. | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Residents of our nation’s capital will now get to see what ride-sharing is all about, as San Francisco-based startup announced today that it is making its service available Washington, D.C. The launch there marks the ninth market that SideCar has launched in, as the company is aggressively expanding across the countr... |
Heyzap Introduces Ads To Its Mobile Gaming Network | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | , a Y Combinator-incubated social platform for mobile games, is releasing a software development kit today allowing developers and publishers to introduce Heyzap ads to their games. Basically, it’s turning Heyzap’s social network into an ad network too. Developers can use it to make more money, or to promote their game... |
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Albumatic Photo Sharing App Is Raising $4.5 Million, Says SEC Filing | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | , the latest venture photo-sharing from Devon Gundry and Vine investor Adam Ludwin, is raising a $4.5 million round in funding, according to a . Adam Ludwin, co-founder and principal at , , and RRE managing partner Stuart Ellman are all named in the filing. The app . According to the , a total of ten unnamed inves... |
Apple Adds In-App Purchase Notice To Free Apps With Paid Upgrades, Could Curb Accidental Spending | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Apple has to the way it shows that free apps that have in-app purchases, the Guardian noted today. The new notice appears under the price bar and the app icon in app listings on iTunes on the desktop, though it doesn’t yet appear in the mobile App Store or on the web-based iTunes application pages. The change comes af... |
Betaworks Kicks Off Its ‘Openbeta’ Initiative To Turn Early Product Testers Into Design Partners | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | There’s something very thrilling about getting to play with something before everyone else does (that’s at least partially why I fell in love with tech journalism), but opportunities for that sort of early access can be hard to come by unless you’ve got an in. The folks at New York-based accelerator/app foundry are l... |
HBO’s Richard Plepler Weighs In On Game Of Thrones Piracy, Says ‘Maybe’ On Broadband-Only HBO | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | When TechCrunch attended the San Francisco premiere of Season 3, we didn’t . I also had a few minutes to talk to HBO CEO Richard Plepler, when I asked him about the show’s status as . “Well, look, it’s the good news and the bad news, right?” Plepler said. “The good news is that a lot of people want to see it. O... |
72% Of Professors Who Teach Online Courses Don’t Think Their Students Deserve Credit | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | This is not a good sign for online education: 72 percent of professors who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) , even if they did well in the class. More importantly, these are the professors who voluntarily took time to teach online courses, which means the actual number of professors who discount the qua... |
Canonical Is Building A Standardized, Open-Source OS Specific To China | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 22 | Canonical announced that it will be building an Ubuntu-based open-source OS for China, in partnership with the Chinese government and members of the Chinese developer community. The joint-venture, which will produce a version of the Linux-based Ubuntu called “Ubuntu Kylin” for an April 2013 release date, is said to “... |
Pressure Increases On Michael Dell As Carl Icahn Mulls Tie-Up With Blackstone In Bid For PC Company | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Carl Icahn has he is open to a partnership with Blackstone Group in a move that could make it easier for the rival investors to overtake Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout bid for the company he founded, reports Reuters. This means Michael Dell could also potentially lose control of the PC maker he founded when he w... |
Bug Kills Facebook Comments And Like Counts Across The Web, But Fix Will Restore Them Soon | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments plugin. Luckily, all the counts and comments should be restored soon as Facebook is finalizing a fix. Everything should go back to normal, though the problem may frig... |
Fingerprints Instead Of Credit Cards? YC-Backed PayTango Aims To Make Payments Work Through Biometrics | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | As a mechanism for payment, the credit card remains just as hardy as ever. It has so far defied the threat of mobile phones, and less plausibly, QR codes, among many other forms of payment. One YC-backed startup is betting that fingerprints and other forms of biometric identification may be the payment method of the fu... |
Yelp Announces A New ‘Revenue Estimator’ For Small Businesses | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | is announcing a new feature intended to highlight and quantify the value that the listing and review site provides for small businesses. A company spokesperson told me the feature is important for two reasons. First, it helps business owners understand the impact that Yelp is already having on their revenue. Second, i... |
Crowd Surfing The Zombie Apocalypse, Or Why Spotify’s TV Ad Is So Creepy We Made A Parody | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | I love you, Spotify, but you’re freaking me out. Today you showed off your first television commercial. It’s supposed to introduce the mainstream world to the wonder of listening to almost any song ever on demand. Yet with a useful product to sell and all the emotional resonance of music to lean on, the ad comes off va... |
With $6.25M In Tow, Bina Technologies Wants To Bring Big Data Insight To Genomic Sequencing | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Once unfathomably expensive, thanks to scientific and technological advances, the cost of genome sequencing for your average Joe is dropping fast on its way to a big, historical benchmark: The $1,000 genome. We’re not quite there, but we’re getting close. This is exciting for a host of reasons, but particularly because... |
You’re Doing It Wrong, BlackBerry | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins that the company would launch a midtier device yet this year and an “exciting” new flagship device could launch around the holidays. “It [the new flagship] takes BlackBerry 10 to another level in terms of the user experience,” he said. Great! There’s a new BB10 device launching by the en... |
Internet Borked? The Amazing Jellybean Resets It All In The Right Order With One Button Press (Or Over Bluetooth) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | A few years ago, I received a panicked phone call from a friend I hadn’t heard from in months. His Internet connection was on the fritz, and he had a project due the next morning. He’d called his ISP, and they were no help. As his only friend that, as he said, “knew computers and stuff”*, I was bound by International... |
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