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Keen On… So What’s The Big Deal About Big Data? [TCTV] | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | And so the book has finally been written about Big Data. This new book, – written by Oxford University professor and journalist – is definitive guide to a new age which, both authors promise, is going to revolutionize the way we live, work and think. But “we are still in the first inning” of this age, Cukier... |
Big Moment For Vine As First Wolverine Movie Footage Comes Via 6-Second “Tweaser” Instead Of Trailer | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Vine’s ready for its close-up. The first footage of new Marvel comics superhero film The Wolverine was released today through a Vine “tweaser” by director James Mangold. That’s a big departure from the modern tradition of first releasing a trailer on a film’s website, Apple’s trailer page and YouTube. Seems Hollywood... |
Why Startups Are Beating Carriers (Or The Curious Case Of The Premium SMS Horoscope Service & The Lack Of Customer Consent) | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Any startups out there seeking to build a business by setting out to confuse as many users as possible with overly complex pricing structures, while tricking those who can’t afford the full-fat service into signing up for ridiculously over-priced rubbish and then making it really hard for them to opt out? If so you’ll ... |
Google Adds Trail Maps For 100 Additional Ski Resorts To Google Maps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Winter is almost over, but that isn’t stopping Google from expanding its list of ski runs on Google Maps. Just over a month after its last update, Google today that it has added trail maps for in the U.S. and Canada to Google Maps. Today’s update includes a number of major resorts, including Oregon’s and resort... |
Twitter Holding A Mobile-Focused Platform Event April 2 To Discuss “Exciting New Features,” No Press Allowed | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Twitter has released an it’s holding April 2 on its dedicated developer website today. The event is mobile-focused, Twitter says, and will take place at Twitter HQ between 6:30 PM and 9:30 PM Pacific. Twitter says it will use the occasion to share “some exciting new features for the Twitter Platform” it has been work... |
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Twitter Verification Has More To Do With Being Good At Twitter Than With Identity | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQlY2wbZsjk&w=640&h=360] Twitter has done a great job at keeping the whole verification process a mystery. If curiosity eats away at you like it does me, you’re in luck. A new video from comedians Hari and Ashok Kondabolu, featuring Anil Dash who has around 500k followers, show... |
Looks Like Those 1M Mystery BlackBerry 10 Devices Went To A Verizon Distributor | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | BlackBerry delivered one of the world’s most mysterious press releases a short time ago when it revealed that it had sold a cool , but now it looks like some sleuthing has turned up the real client. and both report that the likely source of the order was Brightstar, an international distribution company that count... |
On-Demand Car Service Uber Finally Embraces Microsoft With A New Windows Phone App | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | I’m a little embarrassed to admit how reliant I’ve become on Uber when I’m traveling — most regular cab drivers seem to find me terribly repellant — but now the service is now is working to expand its reach even further. The folks behind the on-demand car service that Windows Phone users now have a native app of thei... |
NASDAQ’s Glitch Cost Facebook Investors ~$500M. It Will Pay Out Just $62M. IPO Elsewhere. | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | When Twitter or Dropbox go public, they should remember May 18, 2012. The SEC has approved NASDAQ’s of $62 million to investors burned when the stock exchange’s trading systems broke down during Facebook’s IPO. Total losses for investors were pegged at by the Wall Street Journal, though. The debacle should push com... |
Bait Car: How Hollywood Has Found A New Way To Make Money | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 25 | Paul (not his real name) has never seen the movie . He’s a horror buff and sometimes tries to find odd and decidedly bad flicks to watch with his wife. The Divide would have fit the bill. It made $16,700 at the box office – that amounts to about 2,100 tickets sold – and closed with $130,839 in the bank. It cost $3 mil... |
Former Google AdSense Director, Kim Malone Scott, Leaves Dropbox After Just Four Months | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | We’re hearing from those familiar with the situation that Kim Malone Scott, an ex Apple and Google employee, has left Dropbox after about four months on the job. Upon her hiring, she was described as a . At Google, she was commonly referred to as the “ ,” a name she had given herself because she placed ads on pages th... |
Samsung To Open Retail Boutiques In 1,400 Best Buy Stores | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Samsung has thrown down another gauntlet in its battle with Apple. This time, the Korean electronics giant is going head-to-head with Apple stores by opening retail boutiques, called ‘Samsung Experience Shops,’ in 1,400 Best Buy locations by the beginning of June. Stores will start operating in all of Best Buy’s big-bo... |
Huawei Says Security Concerns Will Hinder U.S. Growth, But It Still Expects Traction In Europe And Asia | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Huawei, the world’s second largest telecom gear marker after Ericsson, said that its U.S. growth will be hindered this year by U.S. security concerns. But Bob Cai, the Chinese company’s vice president in charge of wireless-network marketing, told that Huawei still expects its key wireless-network business to gain gro... |
BlackBerry’s Peculiar BBM Music Service Slated To Shut Down On June 2 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | BBM Music, I hardly knew ye (seriously, I never got the chance to play with it). In an email sent out to the service’s users earlier tonight, BlackBerry announced that it was officially pulling the plug on its curious on , though the email admits the date is “subject to change.” I say “curious” because BBM Music is ... |
LinkMe Is An LED Smart Bracelet That Displays Scrolling Lines Of Text | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | is an LED smart bracelet that connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth and displays SMS and social media updates in text that scrolls across your wrist. Smartwatches and smart bracelets promise convenience – it’s easier to glance at a device on your wrist than it is to dig out your buzzing smartphone from your tightl... |
Zeel Relaunches As The Uber For Massage With New On-Demand, Mobile Booking Service | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | to bring the model to alternative healthcare providers. In other words, just as ZocDoc makes it easy to search for doctors based on specialty, proximity and insurance coverage and book appointments directly, Zeel aimed to do the same for the other half of the market: From massage therapists and personal trainers to ... |
Fancy Some Three-Dimensional Wellness? Recipe Kit Service HelloFresh Partners With Weight Loss App Noom | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Arguably, eating healthily takes both motivation time. And in what’s being billed as “a world first, three-dimensional wellness experience” (presumably with a straight face), the recipe kit subscription service is partnering with weight loss coaching app to tackle the problem from both ends. Available first in th... |
What The Facebook Phone Actually Means | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Ambient intimacy, accelerated social life, thawed relations between Google and Facebook, and an iPhone that looks impersonal by comparison. These are just a few of the short-term ripple effects of the Facebook “Phone” project to be unveiled April 4th. In this video, I recap leaked intel from my sources and , show ph... |
Skype And Dropbox Fix Redirect Security Hole That Could’ve Hacked Your Facebook | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Nir Goldshlager just saved your identity. One of the world’s top white hat security researchers, Goldshlager this week helped Skype and Dropbox fix a critical security flaw that could have let hackers take control of their users’ Facebook accounts. Tomorrow will detail how he found the exploit, but he gave TechCrunch ... |
The Idiocy Of The Social Animal | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | As we move closer to the launch of the ( ) Facebook phone, let’s examine just what the social network and its ilk have created. Millions of us use these new tools to joke, flirt and share memories, but just as many of us use these tools much to our disadvantage. In some ways, however, that is making things better for a... |
Seagate Ships World’s First 4TB HD With Four 1TB Platters | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | will be shipping a 4TB hard drive that has the distinction of being the world’s first to include a 1TB per platter design. This basically means that each spinning disk in the hard drive has a capacity of 1TB, and that there are four of them. It’s not everyday that you can claim to that have something that’s the “worl... |
Owen Thomas Joins ReadWrite As Editor-in-Chief, Says He Will Take The Site ‘Back To Our Roots’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | just announced that Owen Thomas, previously the West Coast Editor at , has joined (a tech blog that ) as editor-in-chief. I that Thomas (who’s an old boss of mine — he was executive editor at VentureBeat back when I was the assistant editor) was in talks for the position, though all that Say representatives woul... |
Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Just 154 Days After Acquiring It | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Pour one out for the tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney has dissolved the classic video game development company. Beginning today, Disney will continue to license out the LucasArts p... |
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Brian Pokorny Returns To SV Angel As A General Partner After Airbnb Talent Deal | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Brian Pokorny, who led photo-sharing service Daily Booth and Batch into a talent acquisition by Airbnb, is returning to SV Angel as a general partner. He has a long history with the firm. He’s been a strategic partner of SV Angel since 2009, before he left to be CEO of DailyBooth. He has also worked with Ron Conway on ... |
Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome And Chrome OS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Google just that it is forking and launching this fork as . As Google , Blink is “an inclusive open source community” and “a new rendering engine based on WebKit” that will, over time, “naturally evolve in different directions.” Blink, Google says, will be all about speed and simplicity. It will soon make its way... |
Another Bitcoin Wallet Service, Instawallet, Suffers Attack, Shuts Down Until Further Notice | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | Bitcoin’s wild surge in value has made it even more of an attractive target for hackers. Another until it changes its security architecture. The crypto-currency, which currently trades at $129.90 to the dollar, has risen by almost fourfold in the last month, as and a banking crisis in Cyprus helped send Bitcoin’s v... |
After Being Acquired By Google, Shipping Service Bufferbox Is Preparing A Bay Area Launch | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 3 | , the Y Combinator company based in Canada that aimed to fix all of the issues that we have with receiving packages, has started to tease out a San Francisco Bay Area launch. Google acquired the company with little or no discussion about the future plans for the product. It’s clear that this could be a huge part of G... |
Samsung Expects 1Q2013 Earnings Of $7.7B, Up 53% Thanks To Smartphone Sales | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | Samsung that it expects to post first quarter operating profit of about 8.7 trillion won ($7.7 billion USD), up 53 percent from the 5.7 trillion won operating profit it earned a year earlier. The South Korean tech giant also said that its sales likely rose to between 51 trillion won and 53 trillion won from 45.3 tril... |
Couldn’t Make It To SXSW? Now You Can Learn About Google Glass And The Mirror API On YouTube | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWmGX55a40&w=640&h=360] I’d wager that most of you reading this didn’t make it out to Austin for SXSW, and even fewer of you still have ever gotten some hands-on time with Google’s ambitious Glass project. On the off chance that you’ve been spending these past few weeks agonizin... |
Ultra-Hot Secret Sharing App Whisper Raises $3 Million From Lightspeed, Trinity, And Others | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | If you haven’t heard of yet, get ready to. It’s the latest social app to capture the attention of a huge — and growing — audience of users, as well as the attention of a group of investors. So far, the startup has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and others. At the heart of Whisp... |
Android Launchers Are A Small Market, Can Facebook Home Change That? | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | Facebook is getting into the “Android launcher” market, the company has confirmed, thanks to its new Facebook Home application . The app, as , is new software that integrates the Facebook experience deeply into the Android operating system. But Android launchers today aren’t a very large market, relative to the rea... |
Myntra Buys Fitiquette, A Disrupt Finalist With A Virtual Fitting Room, As India’s Online Fashion Market Heats Up | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | , a developer of virtual fitting room technology and a , has been acquired by , one of the big fashion and lifestyle e-commerce companies in India. Myntra plans to put San-Francisco-based Fitiquette, led by CEO/co-founder Andy Pandharikar, at the center of a new innovation lab in the city, which also will be led by ... |
Venmo Touch Will Help Chicago’s Braintree Bump Mobile Transactions Past $2 Billion A Year | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | , a payments gateway that’s backed by Accel Partners and NEA, sounds like it has effectively doubled the volume of mobile transactions it sees per year to $2 billion. It now touts 40 million credit card accounts in its vault. How does that compare to competitors? eBay, which operates Paypal, and that it expects to ge... |
After Ditching The Groupon Model, Zozi Lands $10M To Build Out Its Marketplace For Celebrity-Guided Adventures | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | launched to become the go-to destination for those looking for an (affordable) excuse to take break from the daily grind by offering daily deals on a wide range of local adventures — everything from cocktail classes in Atlanta to kayaking in San Francisco Bay. However, after fighting it out in the crowded daily deal... |
Second Life Founder Raises $2.4M For New Stealth Startup, High Fidelity | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | a new startup from Second Life founder has raised $2.4 million out of a $3.4 million round, according to a new Listed in the filing are Rosedale, Freddy Heiberger, and Ryan Karpf (Heiberger and Karpf and ex- Linden Lab staffers, and co-founders of Rosedale’s last startup Coffee and Power). There aren’t too many de... |
Facebook Isn’t Forking Android, They’re Spooning With It | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | Facebook is , , not working on a phone. The first rule of tech news : when a company says they’re doing something, it’s as sure a sign as you can get that they will eventually do . “Today we’re finally gonna talk about that Facebook Phone…,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said only slightly in jest to kick off to... |
Google Launches Drive App Data Folders, Lets Developers Safely Store Configuration Files And Other Data | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | If you’re a developer building web or mobile apps that use Google Drive for storing information, you’ve probably found that users really can’t be trusted not to delete or move that data. Once the user does that, the app experience won’t be so great and the data that the app needs to run isn’t there to use. Today, Googl... |
Google Says Facebook Home Demonstrates Android’s Openness, Framing Apple As Restrictive | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | Google’s statement on Facebook’s was short and sweet, but very telling, so let’s dissect it a little bit. As we noted earlier, Facebook because of its flexibility. Basically it’s easy to customize. Other platforms, not so much. Zuckerberg even mentioned that Windows Phone might be a bit easier to work with, calling... |
Facebook Home Boots Google Search Off The Homescreen On Most Android Phones | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | Shortly after this morning’s Facebook Home announcement, I had the opportunity to chat with Tom Allison, Facebook’s Engineering Manager for Android. We discussed his favorite parts of Home, how much they had to change the underlying OS (read: not much), and the biggest challenges they faced during Home’s development. O... |
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The Inspiring Tenacity Of Roger Ebert’s Last Words | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | [tweet https://twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/319316948045422593] Only a day before legendary film critic Roger Ebert passed away, he tweeted a final farewell at the , promising to pioneer new digital projects, in addition to a hefty schedule of movie reviews. At the ripe age of 70 and the cheery survivor of salivary... |
Film Critic Roger Ebert Dead At 70 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | In the annals of criticism it is often the case that a writer is cursed in life and forgotten in death. For Roger Ebert, voluminous historian of the cinema and its most astute critic, neither of these was the case. Ebert, along with his counterpoint, Gene Siskel, defined the modern movie review and brought the figurati... |
Facebook’s Gokul Rajaram, Google’s Neal Mohan, And Twitter’s Kevin Weil Will Discuss The Ad Landscape At Disrupt NY | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | I’m happy to announce that I’ll be discussing the latest trends in digital advertising with representatives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter at the end of April during TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. My goal for the panel is to give attendees from both Madison Avenue and the startup world an overview of the latest pr... |
SFO Serves Cease-And-Desist Letters To Keep Ride-Sharing Companies From Operating At The Airport | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | Last week, InstantCab announced to the world that it had , asking it to stop picking up and dropping off passengers there. Well, apparently it wasn’t alone, as other new transportation startups had also received the same notice last month. SideCar, for instance, confirmed that it received a cease-and-desist letter in ... |
Indiegogo Suffers DDOS Aimed At YourAnonymousNews Campaign | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 4 | When there is no central authority, who has the authority to sell t-shirts? That question came to a head over the past few days when announced it planned to for Anonymous news. The project, called YAN, is described thus: A noble cause, to be sure. The result, however, is that Indiegogo was hit by a DDOS attack of u... |
Nokia’s Verizon-Bound Lumia 928 Spotted In Leaked Images Ahead Of Launch | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | It’s been a long time coming, but Verizon Wireless customers should soon have another high-end Windows Phone 8 device to lust after. After the handset was spotted both in both the FCC’s and Verizon’s systems, noted leaker has come through yet again with a new image of the upcoming Nokia Lumia 928 (formerly known as t... |
Google Fiber’s Next Stop Could Be Austin, Texas | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | Back in early 2011, Austin, Texas lost to Kansas City, Kansas for the distinction of being the first city in the United States to get wired up with Google’s high-speed Fiber internet service despite to catch the search giant’s eye. While the average tech-savvy Austinite has probably forgotten that campaign, it looks ... |
On The Michael Arrington Accusations | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | We normally don’t cover criminal accusations against individuals without police reports or other documents filed, or significant evidence like But we’re making an exception. TechCrunch founder is facing accusations involving physical threats, assault and rape. Given his relationship with us this past year, and th... |
I Kind Of Love These “Exit Traffic Ads” That Show Up When You Leave A Site | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | “Wow, that was a cool ad” is not something I say often. But I was recently browsing a Star Wars Wikia site, and when I clicked an external link it popped up a half-screen interstitial for 15 seconds before redirecting me to my destination. Instead of cluttering its site with more ads, Wookiepedia let me bounce around... |
The Obvious Corp. Takes Backseat As Ev Williams, Biz Stone, And Jason Goldman Shift Focus To Individual Startups | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | The , the startup and investment vehicle headed up by Twitter co-founders , , and former Twitter exec that has become an umbrella company of sorts to a number of buzzy startups including , , and , is shifting gears, according to a written today by Williams. What exactly is happening comes across as a bit va... |
Heroku Launches 2X Dynos With 1GB Of RAM For Increased Concurrency, More Memory-Intensive Applications | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | Cloud application platform is coming off a streak of bad news after it was accused of its customers about how some aspects of its service worked and potentially costing its users in the process. Today, Heroku is putting the spotlight back on features again, with the , which, in some ways, will also help alleviat... |
Facebook Offers Clarification On Home And Privacy Before Full Android Invasion | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | Just a day after announcing a new , the company has issued a . Though many seem excited to see Facebook take baby steps toward a full-fledged operating system, some are also concerned that using Facebook as a portal to your smartphone could become risky given all the information Facebook already collects on us. ex... |
Ask A VC: MkII Ventures’ Ron Palmeri On The Rise Of Company Builders And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series. We chatted about the rise of , or “studios,” in the technology and VC world. Palmeri was one of the first participants in this movement while he was a managing director at Minor Ventures (GrandCentral (now Google Voice), OpenDNS and Scout Labs (acquir... |
Goodbye Ugly Forums! Moot Is A Flexible And Modern Platform For Online Discussion (And It’s Free) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | , a startup offering a new take on commenting and forums, is launching today after three and a half years of development with the goal of bringing these key pieces of Internet discussion into the modern era. Unlike many of the options for online discussion that exist today, Moot is designed to be very flexible and cust... |
Gillmor Gang Live 04.05.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | – John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. |
Readability Launches Top Reads, An Online Magazine Aggregating The Platform’s Most-Read Content | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | Reading app once butted heads with Apple on , but more recently its friction points have been in competition with apps like , , , and , who all present consumers with ways of aggregating and making it easier to read the vast sea of content available online. Now Readability, which has 5 million monthly active use... |
DoorJamz Is A Doorbell With Custom Tones You Can Control With Your Smartphone | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqRxabNynBo] I have two problems with doorbells. First, they sound incredibly annoying. Secondly, there isn’t an easy way to turn them off. DoorJamz provides a solution for both of these problems. It’s still a doorbell, but instead of the consistently infuriating “ding-dong”, you... |
PETMAN Is A Humanoid Robot That Could Probably Walk Big Dog | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tFrjrgBV8K0] PETMAN is a humanoid robot made by Boston Dynamics. BD also created Big Dog, the quadrupedal, that haunts our dreams. This robot, shown here gussied up in a hazmat suit and gas mask, however, is far scarier. While I doubt he can do much rig... |
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This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Facebook Phone AKA The FF | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | This week on the we talk about bold moves by Verizon and T-Mobile and the Facebook Fone and Facebook Home. This week we welcome Darrell “Patents” Etherington to our soundstage and I’ve removed quite a bit of the messy static. We invite you to enjoy our weekly podcasts every Friday at 3pm Eastern and noon Pacific.
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The Breathometer Will Ensure You Don’t Drive (Or Do Video Interviews) While Drunk | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | There’s a new handy little device for people who like to drink but want to be safe about it. The , which is currently for sale through a campaign on Indiegogo, was built to use the processing power of your mobile phone to provide an affordable way to allow users to check their blood alcohol content. And I got to tak... |
Drawbridge Partners With TRUSTe To Let Consumers Opt Out Of Its Cross-Device Ad Targeting | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | Mobile ad startup offers technology that — something that’s pretty appealing to advertisers, but could also have significant privacy implications. Drawbridge is announcing today that it’s partnering with privacy management company so that people who see Drawbridge-served ads can opt out of the targeting. We hear ... |
Giveaway: New Relic Has Four Free Disrupt NY Tickets Plus Free RC Helicopters #Nerdlife | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | Disrupt NY is less than a month away. Tickets are still available at the early bird discount, but only for one more week. Or you can save some cash and win a ticket here thanks to our partner New Relic. Fresh off of raising $80 million at a near-billion dollar valuation and announcing its mobile app monitoring offering... |
Sneak Peek: Babblr Readies A Real-Time Chat Client For Tumblr | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 5 | If is , then may be just the thing that its users are clamoring for: It’s an integrated chat client for the platform that lets you communicate with your Tumblr friends and followers and organize your community into groups. The idea, now in beta, comes from a few folks who currently work at e-commerce company . ... |
Music Video Company VEVO Learns Dutch, Launches In The Netherlands | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | just became available in a whole new market, as its streaming music video service was today. The launch will make more than 75,000 music videos available to Dutch viewers, and brings the total number of countries that it operates in to 11. The Netherlands launch comes as VEVO has been expanding availability worldwid... |
With Over 6,000 Courses Now Live, Udemy Brings Its Learning Marketplace To iOS To Let You Study On The Go | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | launched in 2010 to help students of all ages continue their education through video-based, online courses — and in turn, give teachers (and experts) a way to make a buck by sharing their knowledge with the masses. Capitalizing on the growing interest and buzz around online learning and MOOC platforms pioneered by sit... |
Opinions Differ Widely On The Effectiveness of Apple’s Apology In China | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Tim Cook’s apology to Apple’s Chinese customers has divided observers, some of whom claim that the public mea culpa might undermine the Cupertino company by giving credence to government criticism. Cook’s letter was (link via Google Translate) on the Chinese Apple Web site on Monday after two weeks of heated attacks ... |
LocalSqr Announces Partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue On Employee Healthy Eating Program | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | is an app that aims to encourage healthy eating by promoting locally grown food. The app locates farmers markets and other organic produce suppliers in your vicinity, and if you end up shopping at one of these locations often, it rewards you with a special discount you can redeem from the vendors there. It’s a little ... |
Twitter Introducing New Card Types, Mobile App Installs And Deep Linking, At Developer Meetup | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Well, it looks like the developer meetup over at Twitter is underway, and information is making its way out over Twitter about it. It sounds like the company is unveiling some new types, which are its way of displaying embedded content within tweets, and it’s all about mobile apps. Tomorrow, the Cards will be release... |
Rovio Taps Brightcove To Stream Toons Into All Its Angry Birds Apps | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | If you’re a big Angry Birds fan — and really, WHO ISN’T — then you’ve probably noticed that there’s no longer just games available in the franchise apps. Rovio, the studio behind the most popular iOS app of all time, is now extending beyond gaming to also , or Toons. And those Toons are, unsurprisingly, being distribu... |
Simple.TV Raises $5.7 Million From New World Ventures To Move Beyond Its DVR Box | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | There is no shortage of hardware devices looking to change the way people watch TV. But most of those devices serve to stream services like Netflix or Hulu into people’s living rooms. In that respect, is a bit of an outlier, as it performs all the usual functions as a DVR, but it can then stream video that it capture... |
Aereo CEO Explains How Recent Court Win Further Validates Partnership Opportunities | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Aereo has been making waves of late, in its with network broadcasters over the legality of Aereo’s live streaming/DVR system that brings HD video content to any of your devices for a pay-as-you-go option or monthly subscription cost. Plus, that Aereo may be in talks with major ISPs and TV providers like Dish, D... |
Spoof ‘Startup’ Vooza Gets Serious About What It’s Really Up To — A New Kind Of Web Advertising | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Yesterday we saw a lot of from tech companies, with varying degrees of success. To help shake off that April Fool’s Day hangover, , the satirical “startup” that has been putting out spot-on parodies of modern tech company culture since with fake (but scarily real sounding) buzzwords like “ ,” is coming clean about... |
Zynga Shares Rise 5% In After-Hours On Real-Money Games Launch Tomorrow | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | on news that the company is launching its first real-money games in the U.K. tomorrow. The company is through a partnership with bwin.party, one of the world’s biggest real-money gaming operators. At first, the games will be downloadable or on the web, but Zynga plans to bring them to Facebook and mobile platforms l... |
TC Cribs: NerdWallet’s ‘Nerd Lair’, Where Pyramids Of Diet Coke Fuel Many A Pull-Up Competition | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | It’s unfortunate, but true: Since venture capital funding rounds often provide a straightforward time to meet and report on growing tech companies, awesome bootstrapped startups sometimes slip under our radar here at TechCrunch. Up until now, that’s been the case with , the personal money management and advisory platf... |
First Render Of HTC’s ‘Facebook Phone’ Reportedly Leaks Ahead Of Thursday Event | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | The HTC hardware that’s being prepped as the delivery mechanism for , supposedly leaked in the image above. The render, , a consistent source of pre-release Android hardware info, doesn’t look like much: it’s destined to be a mid-range device, after all, according to early leaks. The leak also suggests it’ll be calle... |
Tesla Motors Partners With Wells Fargo And US Bank To Finance Model S Electric Cars | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Today, Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors to allow consumers to finance its , thanks to a partnership with Wells Fargo and US Bank. The company says that this is a new kind of financing product that “combines the surety and comfort of ownership with all the advantages of a traditional lease.” So while this isn’t a straight-up... |
Watch ‘The Daily Show’ Clip That Sparked Twitter Ire Between Egypt’s President And The U.S. Embassy | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | [tweet https://twitter.com/EgyPresidency/status/319135360586244097] Twitter became the between the United States and Egypt, after the American embassy tweeted an episode of The Daily Show, which tore into the oppressive tactics of President Mohammed Morsi. “@USEmbassyCairo @TheDailyShow @DrBassemYoussef It’s inapprop... |
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Chrome Extension Makes Google’s April Fools Joke Real | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | If you were one of the who watched Google’s Gmail Blue video yesterday and found yourself wondering just horrible it’d be if it weren’t, you know, a joke — you’re in luck! Thrown together overnight by developer , the aptly named takes every terrible detail from the video (embedded below for good measure) and bri... |
DailyLook Gets $2.5M From GRP Partners, Rachel Zoe, And Others To Be The Web’s Go-To For Fast Fashion | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | has become a huge force in retailing, as seen by the increasing ubiquity of stores such as , , , , and the like. But while those companies are clearly dominating High Streets all over the world, their chief focus is in the brick-and-mortar realm, and the web has been an afterthought at best. A Los Angeles-based st... |
SEC Says Reed Hastings-Style Announcements On Facebook And Twitter Are Okay, If Investors Told To Look There | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Following an announcement that Netflix subscribers had passed the 1 billion hours viewed milestone, the SEC today announced that in specific circumstances, it can be . The one caveat they stipulate is that investors must be primed to watch those channels by companies if information is being released there first. The ... |
Monetization TBD … Instagram Hires Facebook’s Emily White As Director Of Business Operations | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Instagram has hired a Director of Operations, the first of what we’re assuming will be many steps to monetize the photosharing app’s explosive scale and expand on for brand partnerships. Facebook’s Director of Mobile Partnerships, , will be moving over internally to the more than 20-person team, which just surpassed... |
There’s An App For That: Mango Health Gives Rewards For Taking Your Vitamins, Medicine Every Day | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 2 | Staying true to a health or fitness regimen can be tough, but San Francisco-based . The seven-person startup just did a full launch of their app following a 16-week trial where they tracked whether regular notifications helped prescription drug takers keep on top of taking their medications every day. CEO Jason Oberfe... |
Backed Or Whacked: iPads In Good Standing | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | Backed or Whacked first explored the murky underworld of iPad wearing devices . The saw its Kickstarter campaign whacked despite a temptation-inducing . With a resounding harumph regarding Kickstarter’s unfriendliness toward sales-oriented projects, inventor Peter Kielland . Unfortunately, he also fell short there... |
Encouraging Female Engineers Is Key To Facebook’s Recruitment Strategy | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein , making Facebook by far the most represented company at . Their public remarks and comments shed light on Facebook’s aggressive strategy to recruit talented engineers to join their “deep bench” — the company’s greatest ass... |
Marc Andreessen: The World Would Be Much Better If We Had 50 More Silicon Valleys | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of , delivered a keynote speech at the today, sharing what technology is exciting him right now, what he thinks about current startup culture, and how Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In, affected his view of Silicon Valley. Andreessen described Google Glass as “potentiall... |
Andreessen, Schroepfer, Others Rally For More Women In CS At She++ Conference | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | Marc Andreessen and Mike Schroepfer delivered keynote addresses today at the she++ conference, sharing their thoughts on women in technology and growing the pool of talented engineers. and , two Stanford juniors who study Symbolic Systems and CS, respectively, in January 2012 as a Stanford community for women in te... |
CrunchWeek: Facebook’s Weird Home Commercial; Our Experiences With Google Glass, And Fibermania | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | The weekend is here, and so is another episode of , the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers sit down for some real talk about the stories that dominated the tech world over the past seven days. This week, , and I talked about featuring a screaming goat, our (which was released to developers this week... |
Newly Discovered Android Malware Was Downloaded Millions Of Times | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | Security firm has detailed a clever new bit of Android Malware lurking in the Google Play store. The good news: unless you’re downloading questionable Russian clone apps, you’re probably not affected. The bad news: that hasn’t kept it from being downloaded a few million times. The new malware, fittingly dubbed “BadNe... |
CBS Twitter Accounts Hacked, Tweeting Suspicious Links | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | [tweet https://twitter.com/CBSMatt/status/325693879804362754] At least 3 CBS-affiliated , apparently by a rabid conspiracy theorist who wants the world to believe that President Obama is aiding Al-Qaeda. Accounts for , and @ have all been hacked, some tweeting suspicious links (don’t click on them). Screenshots be... |
Watch A Drone Visit College Football To Give Coaches Better Perspective | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | [tweet https://twitter.com/TennesseeBeat/statuses/324905773811519489] University of Tennessee coach Butch Jones wanted to get an eagle-eye view of his players but apparently didn’t have the resources to spend it on the kinds of expensive, cable-suspended Skycam equipment used by broadcasters. Instead, , in what — or... |
Gillmor Gang Live 04.20.13 | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. |
Gillmor Gang: Kaleidoscope Eyes | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — picture themselves in a boat on a river, as the first wave of Google Glass hits the network, aka Scoble’s forehead. @scobleizer promises to never take off this thing, and even the hyperbole doesn’t refute the central notion. As was evide... |
Vine, The App That Eats Your Precious Memories | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | No app has ever broken my heart quite like , Twitter’s six-second animation maker. You capture a scene, then pocket your phone while you think of a witty way to describe it. But when you open it a few minutes later or the app randomly crashes, it’s gone. That moment, that memory, deleted. I still love Vine, but I’ll n... |
OK Glass, RIP Privacy: The Democratization Of Surveillance | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 4 | 20 | How’s this for synchronicity: Google Glass on the same week that , 3DRobotics unveiled their , and and pored over surveillance photos trying to crowdsource the identity of the Boston bombers. Cameras on phones. Cameras on drones. Cameras on glasses. Cameras atop , in ATMs, on the , on , up . Modern cars log... |
Concert Window, The Netflix For Live Concerts, Gives Fans A New, Mobile-Friendly Venue On The Web | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Back in February, , a new startup backed by Silicon Valley veterans that’s on a mission to create a scalable platform for broadcasting live concerts, from arenas to small clubs, backed by a library of recorded shows, profiles and music info. Of course, a platform for live concerts isn’t exactly a new idea. In fact, it... |
Blackstone Reportedly Withdraws Bid For Dell, Citing “Deteriorating” Business | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Blackstone has reportedly withdrawn its bid for Dell, leaving the way open for founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake to buy out the company, . Blackstone and activist investor Carl Icahn for Dell on March 22, the last day of the “go-shop” period to solicit competing offers for Dell after Michael Dell and Silver Lake m... |
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