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The ToneWoodAmp Blows Amplified Sound Out Of Your Guitar’s Sound Hole | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 15 | Are you ready to amp up your acoustic guitar to the MAXXXX? The has got you covered. This surprisingly cool Kickstarter project is essentially a speaker that takes the sound coming from your acoustic guitar, modifies it, and then reproduces it automatically so you can hear it out of the guitar body. It’s great for ... |
Kindle For iOS Updated With Goodreads, Kindle Unlimited Integrations And More | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 15 | Amazon this morning has rolled out an updated version of its for iOS users which now offers readers a number of new features, including integration with Amazon acquisition , personalized book suggestions, and, for those who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, access to over 700,000 titles in the app, among other addition... |
With M&A In Mind, SurveyMonkey Snaps Up $250 Million More In Funding | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 12 | 15 | , the Silicon Valley company that runs an online survey and questionnaire platform, announced today that it has raised $250 million in a new round of funding. The raise was first reported by the , and was officially by the company this morning. The new money will be used at least in part to fuel more M&A transact... |
Asus ZenWatch Review | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 15 | the Android Wear fray, with a smartwatch that features a bold design, even though it opts for a rectangular face, and materials and looks that might make it the closest we’ve seen yet from the Android camp to resembling an Apple Watch. The ZenWatch is by no means a clone, however, and it very much manages to stand out... |
Doctors Can Now Successfully 3D Print A Knee Joint | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 15 | While this footage isn’t as exciting as I’d like it to be – I’d really prefer a big old gross close-up of a splayed knee joint – what it represents is pretty wonderful. Essentially, doctors at the Columbia University Medical Center have been able to print a knee meniscus using a degradable plastic scaffold and a protei... |
Lindsay Lohan’s The Price Of Fame Mobile Game Hurt My Thumb | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Lindsay Lohan’s The Price of Fame launched on both Android and iOS this week, adding LiLo to the short list of celebrities with their own, branded mobile game. It was a featured game at launch, jumping to No. 10 in games in the App Store. , it’s currently now at No. 400 in U.S. game app ranks. Wild first day fluctua... |
This Guy Took 4 Leafblowers And A Skateboard Deck And Turned Them Into A Wonderfully Goofy Hoverboard | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Want the experience of a kinda-sorta-hover-board, but don’t have ? Fret not! As Texan Ryan Craven proves, you can pull off something of a similar vein with four gutted leafblowers, a sheet of plywood, and some gorilla tape. The disclaimers here are the same as the rest of the “hoverboards” of 2014: it’s neat, but it’s... |
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | This week’s tech news saw President Obama coding, the launch of the Samsung Gear VR, and Instagram surpassing Twitter in users. We give you our best articles from the week (12/6-12/12). , writing a few lines of Javascript as part of the Hour Of Code, an event that encourages students to try just one hour of programmi... |
Alienware Alpha Review: A Gaming PC In A Tiny Package | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | For a long time, if you wanted to get into PC gaming and experience the highest quality models, textures, and shaders that developers could come up with, you had to buy an overpriced gaming rig from someone like Alienware, a more affordable PC from a shady OEM, or build a machine yourself. It was easier and cheaper t... |
Ginger.io Launches A Plan To Engage Low-Income Utahns Suffering From Depression | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Behavior health analytics startup has announced the launch of , a care management platform designed to help low-income Utah residents suffering from mental health issues. Utah in depression and . Doctors prescribe antidepressants in the Beehive state at in the U.S. Speculation as to whether that’s because of Mor... |
CrunchWeek: IPOs Heat Up, Celebrities In Gaming, And VR Goes Mobile | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Besides knowing the weekend is only about ten hours away, the best part of waking up on a Friday is knowing there will be another episode of CrunchWeek to watch. This week, , and chatted about , game developers , and the big news from and in the VR space. If you just can’t get enough enough of TechCruncher... |
The Founder’s Guide To Email Security | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | of the breach unfolding in slow motion before us, we are reminded that operational security – OpSec – is absolutely key at any company. Whether or not you traffic in high-value data, the expectation that your servers are secure enough and that your data is worthless is foolhardy. You will be compromised and it will ... |
Months After Taking On A New Name And Biz Model, The Mobile Majority Reports A $50M Revenue Run Rate | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Six months ago, mobile advertising startup PaeDae to , adjusted its business model, and raised some extra money. Now founder and CEO Rob Emrich is saying that the move has paid off, with the company hitting a $50 million revenue run rate in November. When last year, it had built a mobile rewards network and was loo... |
Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users To “Upgrade” To Firefox | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | If you’re visiting today, chances are you’ll see an “Upgrade to the new Firefox” in the top-right corner of your browser window. The prompt also appears if you’re using Internet Explorer, Opera and even the new Yandex browser. However, the prompt is missing from Safari, which will surely prompt a new round of s... |
Chasm.io (Formerly Wahooly) Merges With Social Marketing App Loot | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Remember Wahooly? We wrote about the startup a couple of years ago, describing it as ” because it allowed users to gain startup equity in exchange for promoting the company on social media. Since then, Wahooly joined the AngelPad accelerator, , and shifted focus to reciprocal sharing (“I’ll tweet your link if you twe... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Cheap New 3D Printers And Pizzas | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | I’m just going to admit it. We were kind of a mess on the podcast this morning. But the show must go on. The is not only the most annoyingly letter-cased name of any product ever (let alone a 3D printer), but it also costs just $799. Biggs is . Meanwhile, still continues to fascinate us (ish) and the IoT movem... |
All Eyes On Box As Tech IPOs Roar Back To Life | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | The success of the this week may have created a moment in the market that Box, a company that has long wanted to go public itself, could use to get its long-delayed flotation done at last. I’m totally kidding about the “could” bit there, of course. This is precisely what Box has been waiting for since it first filed ... |
Palantir Raises $50 Million Of Reported $400 Million Round | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | , the big data company that’s one of the Valley’s most valuable, having secured clients like the NSA, FBI and CIA early on before building up its private-sector customer base, has raised another $50 million, according to . The round is still ongoing, however, and may total $400 million when complete. In early November... |
Android Wear Gets Experimental Offline Step Counting | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Android Wear is a platform in progress, as evidenced by Google’s continual updates, bringing features like and more big changes in periodic updates. One that also arrived in a recent software change is support for offline step tracking, meaning you can still log activity with your device even when it’s not in communi... |
Inkl Wants To Be ‘Spotify For News’ | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Australian startup is hoping to fix journalism’s strained business models with a ‘Spotify for news’ model that ditches the unwelcoming and irritating single publication paywall in favor of aggregated news content from multiple publishers which users access ad-free for a small (10c) per article fee. Or gain unlimite... |
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Mobile Ad Firms Spotted Serving Up Malware Posing As Google Play Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | Malware creators have historically found creative ways to distribute their malicious wares across PC networks, and now they’ve turned their attention to mobile. In 2013, for example, there were a few high-profile cases where security firms like and discovered how malware was being distributed through rogue mobile ad... |
Stop Being Afraid Of Negative Reviews | Tim Handorf | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | In 2008 I was working at BigMachines, a B2B software company in the sales automation space. That year we made the controversial decision to invite prospective clients to our annual user conference. Traditionally, we didn’t invite prospects. We knew some of our customers weren’t 100 percent happy with the product, and... |
Analysts Claim Teens Still Prefer Print Books | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | In a flawed bit of analysis, are claiming that e-book adoption is slow among teens, an interesting finding if it were actually true. “While 20% of teens [are] purchasing e-books, 25% of 30–44 year olds and 23% of 18–29 year olds buy digital copies,” said . Unfortunately the breakdown stops there. Obviously teens don... |
TV’s Disruption On Display As Netflix And Amazon Go Head-To-Head At Golden Globes | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | More proof that good television doesn’t have to be developed by traditional industry players: Amazon has now its first Golden Globe nominations for the Amazon Prime Instant Video original show , which follows the story of a family dealing with the late-in-life revelation that the family’s patriarch (Jeffrey Tambor) ... |
LTE Nexus 9 Available Now At T-Mobile For $600, Coming To Google Play Soon | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 12 | T-Mobile is the first in the world to offer an HTC Nexus 9 with LTE, with the tablet up for sale today via T-Mobile’s online store. It’ll cost you $24.99 or over 24 months, with $0 up front, or $599.76 all told – Just $120 more than the 32 GB Wi-Fi only version. The LTE version has the same specs otherwise, boasting An... |
The Realm Of Venture Circa 2014 | Steve Vassallo | 2,014 | 12 | 13 |
Today’s venture capital landscape has never been more complex, and it will never again be this simple. It’s hard for entrepreneurs to navigate and VCs to differentiate. And while many believe increased competition has driven valuations up, that simply doesn’t tell the full story. It’s time to set aside the Battle ... |
What Artificial Intelligence Is Not | Rob Smith | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | Artificial Intelligence has been in the media a lot lately. So much so that it’s only a matter of time before it graduates to meaningless buzz word status like “big data” and “cloud.” Usually I would be a big supporter. Being in the AI space, any attention to our often overlooked industry is welcome. But there seems ... |
With 3D Printing, Medical Devices Are Cool Again | Dr. Michael Patton | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | The recent and human implantation of a 3D-printed vertebra at Peking University in China captured the public’s imagination. I read the news (and its quick spread) as evidence that medical devices are, dare I say, cool again. I’ve never seen a flood of interest as we have enjoyed recently. This is a great thing; I lov... |
This Art Project Turns The World’s Tweets Into A Clock | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | Don’t look at the clock. Do you know what time it is? Twitter sure as heck does. Turns out, people to tweet about the time. So why not turn the Twitter firehose into a massive, crowdsourced clock? That’s the thinking behind . Built by Dutch tech-meets-art studio for an ongoing exhibit at the , the clock pulls a d... |
Facebook Dumps Bing, Will Introduce Its Own Search Tool | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | It seems that Facebook quietly removed Bing as its primary search provider over the weekend, announcing plans to debut its own search tool on Monday, according to . The report says that Facebook’s new search tool will give users the ability to filter through old comments and other information from friends. Facebook ha... |
Gillmor Gang: Enterprise Edition | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Bruce Richardson, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, December 12, 2014 in Menlo Park, California at the Salesforce Analyst Summit 2014. Analysts and Salesforce executives discussed the Summit’s theme of Continuous Transformation for 2020. @stevegillmor, @jtaschek, @... |
Blinq Tells You If Your Dating Matches Are In The Bar | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | Shove over . Swiss startup has come up with a new twist on the dating app. The startup is incorporating beacon proximity technology into the mix so singles can do more meeting IRL and less swiping — thanks to select venues being kitted out with Blinq’s Estimote iBeacons. These work with an in app feature called Inst... |
The Strength Of A Transparent Startup | Joshua McClure | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | If you ask a member of the business-tech community about the benefits of closed systems versus their open counterparts, one word that will almost certainly come up is “security.” There’s been a long-held belief in the tech industry that closed systems are more difficult to corrupt and, therefore, more secure than sys... |
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FoundationDB And The New NoSQL | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 12 | 13 | Databases are the spine of the tech industry: unsung, invisible, but critical–and beyond disastrous when they break or are deformed. This makes database people cautious. For years, only the Big Three–Oracle, IBM’s DB2, and (maybe) SQL Server–were serious options. Then the open-source alternatives–MySQL, PostgreSQL–beca... |
Girls Who Code Expands To Get More Young Women In Computer Science Majors | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | The computer science gender gap struggle in Silicon Valley is real. A mere 17 percent of tech workers are women. It’s 15 percent at . Similar stats can be found at most of the larger tech companies. is trying to reverse those digits with an announcement of a major expansion in partnerships today. The non-profit orga... |
Nokia’s Here Will Power Maps For Baidu Outside China To Cater To China’s ‘Globetrotters’ | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | Search giant Baidu has made no secret of its by way of mobile services. Now it’s struck a deal with Nokia that could help it with that by serving domestic users abroad. Nokia’s mapping and navigation business Here says that it will now , specifically aiming the service at the large number of Chinese “globetrotters” ... |
Uber Offers Free Rides During Sydney Hostage Crisis After Surge Pricing Backlash | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | After prices (with prices starting at about $100 AUD) during the , Uber has backed away from its surge pricing policy and is now offering free rides out of Sydney’s central business district (CBD). Uber’s surge pricing feature kicks in during times of high demand and is designed to encourage more drivers to get on t... |
Taiwan Startup iFit Raises $3M Series A To Expand Into China And Southeast Asia | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | , an online fitness and weight loss community based in Taiwan, has raised a $3 million Series A led by Cherubic Ventures, with investors including Yuan-jin Capital, Sino Strategy Group, Alan Chien, and Ming-zhe Ou, the former general manager of Lenovo Taiwan. The company says it will use its Series A to expand its onli... |
Hands-On With The 3DRobotics Iris+ Drone | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | The is the one that got away. Literally. I’ve flown my fair share of drones lately — everywhere from over empty football fields and beaches to small rivers. They all came back unharmed. But not the . It’s the first drone I tested that simply flew away from me. To be fair, chances are I got something wrong when that ... |
An Open Letter To Tim Cook About Game Censorship | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | Tim, I’m a huge fan of Apple’s products including my new iPhone 6 Plus. It’s gorgeous. I’m even more of a fan of what Apple has done for games in the last half decade. Prior to the App Store, selling games to the mass market was an expensive and difficult mess of approvals by powers-that-be, often at massive disadvanta... |
Xiaomi Furthers Its Smart Home Ambition With $200M Investment In Appliance Maker Midea | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | last week, and now the Chinese company is putting hard cash behind its smart home push after investing over $200 million in home appliance firm . Xiaomi Inc., one of the Chinese firm’s group of technology companies, bought a 1.29 percent share of — Midea’s Shenzhen-listed parent company — for RMB1.266 billion, that... |
Real-Time Disaster Relief | Sharla Stone | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | The Philippines last week topped international headlines as a typhoon ripped through the island nation, claiming dozens of lives and leaving a swath of destruction. The story has a ring of familiarity. Typhoon Hagupit (locally referred to as Ruby) followed a path dangerously similar to that taken last year by the inf... |
Car Buying Platform Carwow Secures £4.6M Series A To Step On The Gas | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | Just ten months after a £1.3 million seed round, UK car buying platform has made another fundraising pitstop. The London-based company has raised a £4.6 million Series A round, led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Episode 1 Ventures, and Samos Investments. All three VCs are previous backers of Carwow, ... |
Iowa Launches An App For Your Drivers License | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | We take our phones with us pretty much everywhere these days. This gave the Iowa Department of Transportation an idea – put the state drivers license on an app. The app will hold all the same information found on a plastic license. State government authorities such as police and airport security will accept these digi... |
Update: Unicorns Vs. Dragons | John Backus | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | VC firms shared specific information about their percentage ownership at exit, which was higher than we assumed. As a result we added dragon exits for Greylock, Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins. Everywhere I look I see a unicorn. Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee wrote a brilliant, here on TechCrunch one year ago calle... |
‘The Love Of Sports’ Wants To Connect Mobile Sportsball Lovers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | TechCrunch recently sat down with to pick over his mobile app, ‘ .’ The application, recently launched, wants to connect sports fans on the go. Its premise is that if you are the social sort of sports-adjacent human, you most likely want to hang out with your friends at the game, or at the bar watching game. Anothe... |
TC GameCast Episode 2: Storytelling In Game Of Thrones And Dragon Age | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | Last week on the TechCrunch GameCast, , , and discussed storytelling in gaming, using recent releases as lenses to look at different approaches in vogue today. We mainly focused on Telltale Games’s and Bioware’s What about the first episode of the former made Ed quit less than 30 minutes in? What could compel D... |
Spanish Newspapers Want Google News Back | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | The Internet is like a delicate rainforest ecosystem. You remove one player and the rest suffer and die. That happened in Spain this week when The Spanish government is requiring the company to pay Spanish news providers every time their content appears on the site. The search giant will shut down Google News there i... |
The Invasion Of Wearables In The Workforce | Chris Bruce | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | Wearables have hit the market like a hailstorm. From watches to glasses, headgear to belts, to all assortments of chips and sensors built into clothes and accessories, this market doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. In fact, wearables are estimated to be more than a $70 billion market by 2024, according to ... |
Green Building Technology You’ll Never See But Can Experience Now | Parker White | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | Picture an office that cleans up after itself, improves indoor air quality with nanotech-formulated paint, and responds to sunlight by magically adjusting window tint, all while fighting climate change. Then imagine entering your workspace to find your desk light on and the temperature just as you like it. These innova... |
Homejoy Says It Will “Pause” Operations In Canada | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | Home cleaning startup plans to halt operations in Canada within a couple of weeks, though the company says this is only temporary. We were recently tipped off about the move, and a spokesperson confirmed it, saying that Homejoy will be focusing on growth in other markets for now. It throughout this year. At the sam... |
Eye-Fi Mobi Delivers Photos From Your Camera To The Cloud | One Lap | Rob Coneybeer | 2,014 | 12 | 14 | The rise of smartphone cameras decimated the entry-level digital camera market. In contrast, sales of DSLR and other high-end cameras have thrived. High-end cameras provide interchangeable lenses and have the raw performance demanded by serious photographers but, unlike the quality cameras being built in to nearly ev... |
South Korea’s Daum Kakao To Launch $90M Investment Fund | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | , one of South Korea’s largest Internet companies and the owner of messaging app Kakao Talk, announced today that it plans to launch an 100 billion won (about $90.8 million) investment fund. Called K Venture Group, the fund will focus on startups in and out of Korea. The company that the fund’s goal is to help lessen ... |
Samsung Releases Look At Me, An App For Kids With Autism | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Over the past few years, technology has given educators and the parents of autistic children tools they could never have imagined before. Mobile apps and games , while can potentially teach them how to cope in different social situations. Many of these tools are created by independent developers, but as , large com... |
Smart Calendar Tempo Adds iOS 8 Widget And End Of Day Notifications, Plans Android App In 2015 | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | , the smart calendar for iOS borne from the same organization as Siri, has become the latest app to take advantage of features in iOS 8 as it aims to become your phone-based personal assistant. now includes a smart widget that brings an overview of key notifications and information to the homescreen. The idea here is ... |
After Google Files Suit, Mississippi’s AG Calls For “Cooler Heads” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | The between Google and the state of Mississippi has reached what could be its conclusion. It seems that Google will win its battle against a wide-ranging subpoena filed by a state employee, which it thinks exceeds the jurisdiction of the filing party. The MPAA did not get the Stop Online Piracy Act through Congress. ... |
LG’s New Wi-Fi Speakers Automatically Play Music When Your Phone Is Near | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | It’s CES time already. Yes, the Consumer Electronics Show isn’t here , but the first product launch . , including three speakers and three sound bars with some twists. The new products have many of the usual features, including Bluetooth connectivity and a Sonos-like option to connect to devices using your home Wi-F... |
Built In Brooklyn: Farmigo Brings Local Produce To Schools, Offices, And Homes | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Food startup is a San Francisco transplant — like me. The company was initially based on the West Coast, and it still has team members there (as well as in Tel Aviv, Israel). But two years ago, Farmigo’s headquarters, as well as its founder and CEO Benzi Ronen, moved across the country to Brooklyn, giving us an unu... |
Devialet’s Hi-Tech “Phantom” Implosion Stereo Sounds Better Than Speakers 20X Its Size | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | You need a big sub-woofer for big bass, right? Wrong. After 10 years of research, French acoustic engineers as Devialet just unveiled a giant step forward in audio that’s just one foot long. is a petite, spherical, all-in-one amplifier and speaker that delivers what audiophiles think may be the best sound in the worl... |
What Basketball Would Be Like If We All Had Portal Guns | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | You know those basketball trick shot videos that were all the rage not long ago? The ones where a flock o’ fauxhawks make 47,000 attempts at some ridiculously complex basketball shot, then upload the one where it actually works and everyone goes nuts? This is like that, but with science. And by science, I mean 100% fic... |
Everplans Raises New Cash To Expand Its End-Of-Life Planning Services | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | , the online service that helps people plan for the only certainty in life besides taxes, has raised new cash to bring to market a product for financial advisers and service providers in the new year. “We launched the product to consumers and we started to get calls from financial advisers, and insurers,” says Everplan... |
The Blackberry Classic Is A Noble Throwback To The QWERTY Era | John Biggs | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | “Hey Ya” is playing on your Archos Jukebox as you take the train into work in the near dark. At your hip is strapped a Blackberry 7200, one of the first color smartphones in the world. Your belt buzzes – it’s an email from your boss. You tap out a response without thinking, your fingers sliding along the angled keys l... |
Who Do You Want To Give A Crunchies Award To Next Year? | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | It’s the holiday season, and in the spirit of giving, the Crunchies Monkey made a visit to the TechCrunch office during our annual holiday party. He celebrated the year by exchanging gifts with a few of our TechCrunch staffers, handing out invitations to the in the process. Nominations for the awards are , but soo... |
Twitter Users Can Now Track Tweet Impressions, Engagement Numbers Right In The iOS App | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Twitter has once again expanded access to its analytics data, today introducing the ability to view your “tweet activity” on mobile. In the latest version of Twitter’s iOS application, a new feature allows users to tap on a “View Analytics Details” option from any tweet’s detail page in order to see data related to tha... |
Twitter Rallies On CEO Rumors, Positive Analyst Attention | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Twitter had a strong day in the market, spiking more than 4 percent in midday trading before ending the day up a slightly more modest 3.67 percent. The company’s shares benefited from a that included a $44 per-share price target. The company’s shares closed the day at $38.44 per share. More dramatically, SunTrust’s ... |
Datanyze Acquires LeadLedger, A Sales Tool That Tracks Tech Product Market Share | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Sales startup is announcing its first acquisition — it’s buying a similar service, . On a broad level, Datanyze and LeadLedger basically promise customers the same thing — they’re trying to help salespeople find new leads, particularly by tracking which websites are using competitors’ products, as well as overall ma... |
A Gift Guide For Those Impossible To Shop For People | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Everyone has someone on their list that is impossible to shop for. They have everything. In those times, it’s probably safe to give a nice bottle of whiskey. Or any of the items on the following list. There is no way they have everything listed below, but in case they do, default to the whiskey. That’s truly a gift tha... |
Google Updates Gov Data Request Stats, Notes Decline In Takedown Demands | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Google provides the world with bi-annual, year-ago looks into which countries’ governments requested data on its users, in what quantity, and how many content takedown demands it received from the same entities. Because the search company , their value is slightly muted. It would be more fun, of course, to have real-t... |
Influencer Marketing Is Killing Santa | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | It’s the final week of the Christmas season, and the holiday shopping advertisements are flowing through my inbox faster than startup pitches. While endorsements from celebrities occasionally show up, there is one uber-influencer that seems to appear more than any other. Jolly St. Nick, the rotund and red-clothed Santa... |
Facebook’s Money-Making Solution To App Discovery? A Whole Feed Of Install Ads | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | Finding a good app can be like looking for a needle in a truck stop bathroom. Apple and Google aren’t doing much to help you sift through their messy app stores. Facebook has tried to step up, but sometimes you don’t care about your friends and just want a new mobile toy to play with. So Facebook is taking haters’ wors... |
Withings Activité Fitness Tracking Watch Review | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | seemed on a fairly straightforward path throughout the course of its initial development – from the step counter, to the fitness band, to the smartwatch. But the wrist has long been a home for a more refined and storied piece of tech: The wristwatch. And while smartwatches attempt to reimagine that gadget for a modern... |
Hollywood’s Streaming Nemesis Popcorn Time Gets A VPN, But You’ll Have To Pay For It | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | Christmas is a time for family, which by extension makes it a period for sitting back and watching a lot of movies and TV. Maybe that’s why . That controversial flick will set you back $6 to rent or $12 to buy ( ), but the folks at Popcorn Time believe you should be able to watch what you like for free — and now they’... |
Viewers Worldwide Are Torrenting ‘The Interview’ Despite U.S.-Only Release | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | Yesterday, Sony through Google Play, YouTube Movies, and Xbox Video. Unfortunately, the film was restricted to the U.S. only, so viewers in other countries either had to celebrate Christmas with a or run off to a torrent site. Not surprisingly, many decided to illegally download the film. , “The Interview” has bee... |
Meeting The Challenges In Mobile Health Innovation | Sumit Mehra | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | S Preventing disease is the Holy Grail of modern medicine. Many diseases plaguing society today are chronic and brought on by lifestyle choices; others have their roots in genetic or environmental factors. Either way, the ability of the healthcare community to prevent disease is heavily influenced by information. Gath... |
Yahoo Aviate Can Now Search For Apps, Contacts And The Web – Without Launching A Browser | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 12 | 22 | , the mobile homescreen application Yahoo acquired at the beginning of the year, has today received a notable update that will allow Android smartphone owners to search for contacts or apps installed on their device, or search across the web, all from a single interface. The web search is powered by Yahoo, the company ... |
In Holiday Document Dump, NSA Declassifies Compliance Errors | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | The National Security Agency (NSA) on Christmas Eve that detail its own admitted failures to always operate inside the orbit of the law. The reports spanned a 12 year period, from 2001 to 2013. According to the agency, Executive Order 12333 — a controversial Regan-era law — “requires” the NSA to detail and report “in... |
The Future Of Wearable Technology Is In The Enterprise (At Least For Now) | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | The first iteration of Google Glass was a flop with consumers ( ), , and even boosters bemoan the state of the current wearable market for consumers. Amid all the gloom there’s one trillion dollar bright-spot for the wearable marketplace. From the voice activated communication and logistics devices , to the software ... |
Being A Leader Sometimes Means Finding The Willingness And Courage To Be Led | Drew Austin | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | A popular post on by an early-stage startup founder triggered over 100 responses and more than 150,000 views — myself included. In the post, the founder (who remained anonymous) asked the community for the following advice: “I manage a young startup company in the valley. My only employee is great but he is also a ... |
Hackers Take Credit For PlayStation Network And Xbox Live Outages On Christmas | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | Gamers who received new consoles for Christmas might find themselves unable to connect and play with friends, thanks to a coordinated attack by hackers who claim to have taken down the two largest gaming networks. On what might be the biggest gaming day of the year, a hacker group called Lizard Squad is claiming respon... |
Bitcoin, Burning Man And The Gifting Economy | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | Bitcoin was , but that hasn’t stopped non-profits from asking for them anyway. Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Khan Academy and now even will take those bitcoins off your hands in the form of a tax-deductible donation. While this won’t get you a golden ticket into the actual festival, gifting something wi... |
Careful With That Drone Now | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | So you got a drone for Christmas (or an unmanned flying vehicle, as the FAA likes to call it, or a quadcopter, if you prefer). That’s awesome. But don’t just head into your backyard and try to fly it without any preparation (unless it’s one of those , of course). As we , the FAA would like you to follow a couple of c... |
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YC-backed Blocknom wants to become the ‘Coinbase Earn of Southeast Asia’ | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | , a crypto-earning platform in Y Combinator’s current batch, has aspirations to become the “Coinbase Earn for Southeast Asia.” Today the company announced it has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator, Number Capital and Magic Fund. Blocknom’s co-founders, Fransiskus Raymond and Ghuniyu Fattah Rozaq say ... |
Facebook’s ‘Year In Review’ Feature Will Chronicle Your 2014, Good Or Bad | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | Facebook has again unleashed its , automatically compiling some of the most-liked photos from your feeds over 2014 and puts them into a neat little timeline. When you sign into Facebook, you’ll see an advertisement to check out your Year In Review, customize it, and share it with your friends. If you’re still having t... |
4 basic elements required for running production OSS smoothly | Shaun O’Meara | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | source software (OSS) has exploded, and many companies are using it as the cornerstone of their infrastructure. When buying commercial vendor-supported software, you can expect the vendor to be in charge of the products’ upgrades, maintenance, integration and support. By going the OSS route, this is no longer the case... |
The Enterprise In 2015 | Alison Wagonfeld | 2,014 | 12 | 25 | At Emergence Capital, we have had the opportunity to invest in visionaries such as Marc Benioff, Aaron Levie and David Sacks who have built major enterprise cloud applications that have formed the basis of the next generation of business software around the world. As we look out to 2015, we are excited to invest in w... |
Instacart’s head of talent just left to join Pear VC; here’s his take on the market | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that the former head of payments at Instacart recently the grocery delivery outfit for a new adventure. As it happens, Matthew Birnbaum, Instacart’s head of talent acquisition for the past four years, is also out the door, having quietly joined the venture firm last month. Wha... |
A staid MWC wraps up amid a lull in mobile excitement | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | last week about how it was going to be a weird MWC. By “weird,” I mean beyond the usual way that everything is weird all the time now. In addition to being the second time the show has been held during a global pandemic, the smartphone industry has undergone some big changes. Here’s a quick bullet list from the last a... |
How a simple security bug became a university campus ‘master key’ | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | couldn’t get his university’s mobile student ID app to reliably work, he sought to find a workaround. The app is fairly important, since it allows him and every other student at his university to pay for meals, get into events and even unlock doors to dorm rooms, labs and other facilities across campus. The app is cal... |
MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | Last year, genealogy service MyHeritage after introducing that allowed users to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. TikTok users posted videos reacting to the technology, called “Deep Nostalgia,” as they brought back relatives they never got to meet or those whose loss they still grieved. To date, more... |
3 views on the Epic-Bandcamp deal | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | our bingo board of potential mergers and acquisitions for 2022*, we can’t say we anticipated that Fortnite-maker and Apple antagonist Epic Games would , a music marketplace where any musician can sell their music and keep 82% of the profits. After the acquisition, Bandcamp says it will continue to operate as an indep... |
TikTok’s affect on teens will be investigated by state attorneys | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | A group of state attorneys general today that they will investigate TikTok’s connection with negative mental and physical health outcomes among children and teens. This investigation will analyze how TikTok can harm young users, and whether or not TikTok knew about those harms in advance. The bipartisan group of atto... |
Volvo is testing wireless EV charging tech in Sweden | Kris Holt | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | will put a wireless EV charging system through its paces as part of a program to test alternative charging options. A small fleet of electric Volvo XC40 Recharge cars will be used as taxis in Gothenburg, Sweden in a three-year pilot. The cars are equipped with a wireless charging system from Momentum Dynamics. Chargin... |
Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 3, 2022. We have the latest from how the technology world is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a review of the Theranos show, notes from New Zealand venture capital and more. But first, some programming notes: Our city spotlight series is back, and . Ther... |
Twitch will ban streamers who frequently share misinformation | Kris Holt | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | has updated its misinformation policies and who frequently share falsehoods. Under the new rules, the platform will block “harmful misinformation superspreaders who persistently share misinformation on or off of Twitch,” as first reported. “Every day, people come together on Twitch to build communities that celebr... |
Netflix’s interactive ‘Trivia Quest’ will be far less creepy than ‘Bandersnatch’ | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | Netflix is doubling down on interactive content today as it announces “Trivia Quest,” an animated quiz series that will debut on April 1. Daniel Calin and Vin Rubino of Sunday Sauce Productions developed a series of episodes that will come out every day in April, quizzing viewers with 24 questions per day. It’s no coin... |
Russia halts rocket engine sales to US, suggests flying to space on ‘their broomsticks’ | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | As part of the escalating tensions between Russia and the U.S. (to say nothing of the rest of the world), Roscosmos has that the country will cease all shipments of rocket engines to the States. As the agency’s head Dmitry Rogozin on a state news broadcast: “Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don’... |
Putting the autonomous cart before the robotic horse | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 3 | fresh off hosting with Jonathan Hurst of Agility Robotics and Bruce Leak of Playground Global. I’ll be posting more about the session later this week, but in the meantime, it’s got me thinking about carts, horses and the inherent ordering system therein. Specifically, how important is it that a robotics startup have... |
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