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How Tencent’s Walled User List Ended Up Boosting Its Userbase | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Tencent’s social blogging site, Qzone, has active social network user base, with 600 million (and counting) users who log in more than twice a month. Besides Qzone, the Chinese Internet giant is perhaps better known for its flagship and the exploding smartphone messaging app. I spoke to Dowson Tong, president of T... |
BBC America & Twitter Announce Content-Sharing Partnership | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | BBC America has via a tweet that it will partner with Twitter to offer the “first in-Tweet branded video synced to entertainment TV series.” News of the deal comes after a few days after a report that Twitter is to host TV clips and sell advertising on the site. BBC America’s tweet didn’t offer any specific informa... |
Google’s One Today App Aims To Make Charitable Donations A More Social, And Frequent, Experience | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Today, Google quietly ushered in a new application built on top of its . The app is called , and it’s currently invite only for Android users at this time. The aim is to get people to donate $1 to different organizations, while getting the complete information about how your donation will be used up front. This is a ... |
Formation 8 Raises Its First Fund Of $448M To Plug Silicon Valley Startups Into Asian Conglomerates | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | wants to bring venture capital back to its roots: investing in solutions to hard technology problems that could change the world. It its first fund of $448 million — but with a twist. Formation 8 plans to draw on its extensive network and local offices in Asia to win its portfolio of smart enterprise and energy tech... |
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Durex’s New Long-Distance Sexy Time Fundawear Is Exactly That | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | The thought of buying underwear from the same company that makes your condoms might sound shocking at first. But don’t be so quick to judge, especially where sex is concerned, as Durex has just announced its latest innovation. . Fundawear represents the condom company’s first foray into the land of connected devices, ... |
Win The Stock Market With Crowdsourced Advice From New App Robinhood | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Most people are too scared to seriously play the stock market. Few amateurs know enough to confidently invest on their own. Luckily, launches today to put crowdsourced finance wisdom in your pocket. Track stocks, view advice on what to buy or sell from other users, share your predictions, and build a reputation. Robi... |
How Mobile Personal Assistant Donna Simplifies Your Life By Combining Design And Data | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | I’ve already told you about , the from Incredible Labs. But if you haven’t actually had a chance to play with the app yourself, it’s difficult to explain how it’s different from the growing list of smart calendar and assistant apps now on the market. The good news is I got a chance to sit down with Incredible Labs... |
Former Googlers Launch Synergyse, An Interactive In-App Training Service For Google Apps | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Today, over five million businesses are now using Google Apps to help their employees collaborate and connect via the cloud. In just a few years, the adoption of Google’s productivity suite has skyrocketed and, while small businesses have long been its core customer, adoption up the chain is increasing as well. At the ... |
Larry Page Says Google Glass Runs On Android | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Google’s CEO Larry Page revealed something during t that his company doesn’t seem to have actually spelled out before: Google Glass runs on Android. In response to a question about how much people can expect to see engagement increment with new products like Glass, he said that “obviously, Glass runs on Android, so [A... |
Microsoft Confirms Its Plans To Bring Windows 8 To Smaller Touch-Enabled Devices Soon | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | During its Q3 2013 , Microsoft’s outgoing CFO Peter Klein noted that the company plans to bring Windows 8 to smaller devices. Until now, Windows 8 was mostly geared toward desktops and larger tablets, including Microsoft’s own Surface and RT machines. With the forthcoming Windows 8 Blue, that Microsoft would enable ... |
Researchers Expect To See A $6.5 Billion Market For Home Robotics By 2017 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Sure, we have our Roombas and a few AR Drones here and there, but researchers expect that we’ll have many more – and better – robots within the next few years and that the overall market should hit $6.5 billion by 2017. According to ABI Research’s Consumer Electronics Research Service, the consumer robotics market is c... |
Larry Page Says Mobile Apps Won’t Hurt Search: ‘The Information Wants To Be Found’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | During the conference call discussing , executives were asked about how mobile will affect the company’s business — both the general usage of search, as well as Google’s revenue and profits from advertising. CEO Larry Page responded that he “always” gets asked about how the popularity of mobile apps affects Google sea... |
Facebook Voice Calling Now Available To All US Users Thanks To Today’s Android Rollout | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Now the Facebook can really start to replace your phone. Today Facebook rolled out its free VoIP voice calling feature to US users of Home and its Android Messenger app. That means even less reason to open your standard “phone” app, and more data for Facebook about who you care about the most. Now all iOS and Android u... |
Chris Dixon To Speak At Disrupt NY, As A VC | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Chris Dixon is back in New York quite a bit, he tells me, even though he recently got a place in San Francisco as part of his new job as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He’ll be at the week after next, for example, to talk about his big transition from life as a founder and angel investor to his new job at a top ve... |
IBM’s Q1 2013 Misses On Revenue Of $23.4B, EPS Of $3.00, As Service Revenue Suffers | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | IBM announced its , reporting net revenues of $23.4 billion and earnings per share of $3.00. EPS was an improvement over last year’s numbers (of 8 percent), while revenue was down 5 percent, or 3 percent adjusting for currency. Flat software revenue and down service revenue is what led to the overall shortfall in term... |
Once Again, YouTube Prevails In Viacom Case | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | YouTube has once again in the long-running copyright case that the companies have spent the last several years fighting. This marks the second time U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton has taken YouTube’s side in the case, agreeing that the streaming video provider was protected by “safe harbor” provisions of the Digita... |
Google Reports Mixed Q1 2013 Earnings: Revenue Up 31 Percent To $14B, Net Income Of $3.35B, Beats EPS Estimates | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | Google’s last two earnings releases were made even more notable than usual because of the unexpected events that preceded them, but today’s release of the company’s was as almost as straightforward as it used to be. For this past quarter, the search giant reported revenues of $14 billion (that’s up 31% from Q1 2012)... |
Larry Page: Google’s Focus On Constant Iteration Will Shift Toward Big Bets Like Google Fiber And Glass | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 18 | During today’s , CEO Larry Page gave us a rundown on exactly what the company has been up to in this quarter, as well as some insight into how he’s currently running the company. Page , and since then has started bringing all of the company’s services together, under the umbrella of helping people get access to infor... |
Wonderville Launches An Interactive Content Library And Virtual Classroom Network For Kids | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | Last July, a group of veteran executives from eToys, eBay, Sesame Street, Discovery and Disney to create a souped-up Khan Academy for kids. But rather than a straightforward port, the learning platform, called , aimed to expand on Khan’s approach to the “flipped classroom” by aggregating educational content from a v... |
Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon Team Wants To Build A WebRTC-Based Pandora For Exercise | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | The Disrupt NY 2013 has been underway for a few hours now and we’re already seeing a bunch of cool projects. Team Geem is building what it calls a “Pandora for Exercise.” The service, which will hopefully be ready in time to be demoed tomorrow, will create exercise programs that are tailored for the individual user. ... |
Backed Or Whacked: Fund These Undies | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | The mere mention of those particular articles of clothing that protect our private bits from coming into contact with our clothing (or perhaps vice versa) has long been enough to drive children into hysterics. As adults, the decision to abstain from them invokes the belligerence of a commando operation. Despite the cho... |
Meet Some Hackers And Their Promising Projects At The Disrupt NY Hackathon | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | It’s only been about six hours since our Disrupt NY Hackathon officially began, and we’re starting to see our intrepid hackers hit their stride. Granted, some of them are a little farther along than others — Darrell found one guy who made an for physically testing apps and devices — but there’s still plenty of time t... |
Saturday Night At The Disrupt NY Hackathon Includes Pizza, Beer, And Dodgeball | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | It’s after 1am on a Saturday night in Manhattan, and there are still hundreds of people at our . The dedication of the attendees trying to build a cool product in less than 24 hours is both impressive and slightly disturbing. To capture some of the energy, Drew Olanoff and I took a walk around the venue at around 11... |
Skip Google+ Sharing And Tweet Photos Directly From Google Glass With GlassTweet | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | We’re on the ground in New York City at the Disrupt Hackathon and there are a lot of interesting things being created. Since I’m walking around wearing Google Glass, I’ve obviously been looking for teams building apps for it. I met up with , Twilio’s Developer Evangelist, and he built a quick and dirty app called , w... |
Facebook Sees Increase In Parse Signups, Tells Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | Despite developers grumbling that they would ditch Parse’s mobile app backend service now that it’s been bought by Facebook, CEO Ilya Suhkar tells me signups spiked 9.4x and fewer clients are leaving than before. Meanwhile, to calm fears about Facebook spying on Parse developer data, the company issued the statement ... |
The Best Eyeglasses At The Hackathon | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | We decided to feature nerd fashion at this year’s hackathon at Disrupt NY, and what better statement is there these days than eyeglasses? Obligatory Google Glass sighting aside, these hackers definitely had noteworthy eyewear. We’ve showcased some of our favorites below. Ali Wanberg’s glasses hail from . Phil Thomas D... |
From Idea To Development, A Few Hours In At The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | The hacking has begun. As I write this, participants of the have been working for about six hours on what they are going to show us onstage tomorrow. We talked with a few of them to see how motivated they are. Full of energy, most of them are still enthusiastic about the long and (mostly) sleepless night ahead of t... |
CrunchWeek: Galaxy S4’s Mixed Reviews, Betaworks Buys Instapaper, Valleywag’s Comeback | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | At the moment we’re in New York City for next week, and the weather here is pretty amazing — so , and I decided to film this episode in Manhattan’s . Watch the video embedded above to hear us discuss the , Betaworks’ , and how we all feel about . |
Disrupt NY Hackathon Hardware Find: Robots! | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | The floor at is filled mostly with people working on software projects, but there were also some interesting hardware endeavors underway. One in particular caught my eye: a robot built from open-source components build to help anyone subject their app or device to strenuous, physical testing in a non-simulated enviro... |
Draw Something With Strangers On A Train: Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon Duo Building Visual Ice-Breaker App For Galaxy Note | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | The has kicked off and here’s one of the new hacker team pairings hoping to claim tomorrow’s prize after a long night of coding. Michal Shaffer, left, from New York and Peter Ma, right from San Francisco — met at the event and are now collaborating on a proximity art app that will be using Samsung’s API and the Galax... |
The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon Is On And Poppin’ | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | And so it begins. Another season has come and gone, and with it comes yet another TechCrunch Disrupt NY, complete with Hackathon. Sure, Disrupt doesn’t technically start until Monday, but the Hackathon is the fuel on the fire of the Disruptive flame, and it starts right now. Of all the Disrupt Hackathons that have ev... |
Gillmor Gang: Watertown | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — note the intersection of social and mainstream medias as the events in Boston unfolded in real time. What has been framed as a competition became something more, as Twitter streams, scanner apps, and local news streams meshe... |
Synergist Founder Hopes To Raise $25K Using The Company’s Own Crowdfunding Platform | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | Sites like Kickstarter have been used to crowdfund a wide range of projects, but I don’t think they’ve ever done what is attempting today — they’ve never crowdfunded themselves. The site was founded by 17-year-old Jared Kleinert, who described as a mix of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding for social enterprises (i.e.,... |
Economies Of Scale As A Service | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 4 | 27 | Don’t look now, but something remarkable is happening. Instagram had twelve employees when it was purchased for $700 million; all of its actual computing power was outsourced to Amazon Web Services. Mighty has only , but there are more than 35 ARM-based chips out there. They do no manufacturing; instead they licen... |
Newspaper-Backed Wanderful Media Revamps Its Local Deal Service Find&Save | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | , a startup , announced today that it’s launching a dramatically improved version of its Find&Save service. The company’s vision is to create the online version of the deal- and coupon-filled circulars that are delivered with newspapers and in the mail. The first version of Find&Save seemed to take that idea quite lit... |
Twitter’s Music App Launch Reportedly Set For Friday, But Coachella Could Prove Too Chaotic For Marketing | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Twitter Music will reportedly launch on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Earlier today, music discovery service We Are Hunted that it had been acquired by Twitter, while Ryan Seacrest tweeted that he’d been playing around with Twitter’s new music app. AllThingsD says that Twitter’s standalone music ... |
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Electronic Arts Cuts Jobs At Montreal Studio Less Than Two Weeks After CEO’s Resignation | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Electronic Arts is laying off staffers at its Montreal office in another round of job cuts. The news comes less than two weeks after CEO John Riccitiello resigned, citing the company’s financial underperformance. EA declined to tell how many jobs are being affected, but reports that the layoffs will affect about 17... |
Arrington Presents Evidence In Letter Claiming Abuse Allegations Were False | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | TechCrunch founder has made good on to reveal more detail in his case against accuser Jenn Allen, and from his lawyer presenting his side of the story. The document, which presents some heavy stuff, asks that Jenn Allen retract or Arrington will continue with planned legal action. The letter counters Allen’s t... |
After 7 Years & 50K Storefronts Created, Shopify Launches Major Redesign To Simplify Online Store-Building | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | that the online retail market will grow to $370 billion over the next four years, up from $231 billion this year — a 10 percent compound annual growth rate. In other words, the message is clear: The eCommerce juggernaut ain’t slowing down any time soon. In 2013, every business needs some kind of online presence; the p... |
Medium’s Collaboration Tools Also Act As Its First-Ever Invite System | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | As we reported on Tuesday, publishing platform Medium , allowing your friends to add notes to your pre- and post-published articles. It’s a nice way of getting feedback when you want it, especially if it would have been helpful before sharing your thoughts with the world. One thing that the company left out, though, w... |
Chief Product Officer And Early Engineer Jim Patterson To Leave Microsoft-Owned Yammer | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Earlier today, we heard that Yammer’s Chief Product Officer Jim Patterson, was planning to depart the company. We’ve confirmed with Yammer that Patterson is indeed leaving Microsoft-owned Yammer. Patterson was an early member of the engineering team at Yammer and served as a director of engineering prior to leading the... |
With Profitable Operations And 100K Stores On Its Platform, Retail Tech Startup Erply Shifts Into High Gear | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | , the company that makes cloud-based and point of sale and inventory management software for retailers, is up against big competition: Microsoft, Oracle, and RetailPro are just some of the behemoths in the same space. But three years , Erply tells us it is still in the game and seeing encouraging growth — and has hi... |
Twitter’s Music App Is Real, Beta Testing Confirmed Along With “We Are Hunted” Acquisition | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Today, music discovery service We Are Hunted for , that it had been acquired by Twitter. Both We Are Hunted and Twitter are staying mum about what the team will be doing. And now we know that Twitter is working on a standalone music since Ryan Seacrest of “American Idol” just reported that he’s playing around with i... |
eBay-Backed E-Commerce Software Company ChannelAdvisor Files For $86M IPO | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | The latest technology company to join the IPO bandwagon is e-commerce optimization company . The filed with the SEC today, indicates that ChannelAdvisor could raise as much as $86.25 million in an offering (but this is a placeholder amount). ChannelAdvisor provides cloud-based e-commerce software that allows retaile... |
Flipboard Adds 3 Million Users Since Launch Of Personalized Magazines, Over 500,000 Magazines Created To Date | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Mobile magazine revealed today that over half a million personalized magazines have been created on its platform since . During this time, the company also added 3 million new users to its service, bringing its total user base to now 53 million. In late March, for its users to something else besides search, discov... |
Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Bitcoin’s record highs and the ensuring surge in hacking attempts and thefts may be . However, beneath the chaos, Silicon Valley’s best-known venture firms are finally starting to make real bets around the crypto-currency. The price of a single bitcoin had more than quintupled to $265 amid a banking crisis in Cyprus a... |
Sqwiggle Makes Working Remotely Less Lonely, More Awesome | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Hey ! Check this one out. is browser-based group video chat built with work-from-homers in mind. It’s got the office-like immediacy that Skype lacks, but without the noise of a Google Hangout. I’m kind of in love with it. As someone who puts words on the Internet for a living, I’ve been lucky enough to spend most of ... |
eBay’s PayPal Acquires IronPearl To Fuel Growth Beyond 123M Users | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | About a month ago, , led by Stan Chudnovsky and James Currier. They were growth hackers before the word “growth hacker” even existed. In fact, they don’t even really like the word “growth hacker.” For years, Chudnovsky had been advising companies like Goodreads, Path, Wanelo, Poshmark, Lyft and Highlight on how to acq... |
Creative Market Previews Its API For A Digital Asset Marketplace With Photoshop Extension | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | , the online store for creative digital assets, including graphics, themes, templates and fonts, this week introduced a new Photoshop extension that’s designed to preview the power of its upcoming API. Creative Market already offers a central web-based store that acts almost like an Amazon for digital creative professi... |
LinkedIn Acquires Pulse For $90M In Stock And Cash | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | LinkedIn today that it has acquired , the popular newsreader for the web and mobile. The transaction, LinkedIn , is valued at approximately $90 million in a combination of about 90 percent stock and 10 percent cash. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2013. Today’s announcement doesn’t com... |
Like A CarWoo For Used Cars, AutoRef Raises $850K Seed Round | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | Pittsburgh-based startup , which is something like a CarWoo for used vehicles, has raised $850,000 in seed funding. The round was led by an interesting, strategic investor: Deutsche Telekom, which owns the large European online car marketplace, AutoScout24. T-Venture, the venture arm of Deutsche Telekom, led the fundi... |
“In The Studio,” SoftTech’s Charles Hudson Has Game When It Comes To Gaming | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 4 | 11 | TechCrunch “In The Studio” rolls on this week by welcoming a long-time Valley operator, founder, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now general partner at one of the first “super angel” funds. , now a partner with , has sat on in the startup world. With stints as an operator at Google, as an investor with I... |
LinkedIn Reaches 1M Users In Singapore, Or 20% Of The Country’s Population | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | LinkedIn has in Singapore, or 20 percent of its 5 million population, since the service’s launch there in 2011, the professional networking site announced today. This milestone means that about 70 percent of Singapore’s labor force and students now have accounts on the Web site, according to the company. Singapore is... |
Former Groupon COO And Yahoo Exec Rob Solomon Joins Accel As Venture Partner | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | Accel Partners is making a big talent announcement today, with former Groupon COO and Yahoo exec joining the firm as a venture partner. Solomon as Accel-backed Groupon’s President and COO. As AllThingsD Solomon left the deals company in 2011. Prior to his time at Groupon, Solomon was a venture partner at Technolo... |
Microsoft Launches Preview Of Skype For Outlook.com | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | Microsoft that it is launching a preview of Skype for Outlook.com starting in the UK. The service will be made available in the U.S. and Germany in the coming weeks before it is rolled out to the rest of the world. With the rollout of Skype for Web, the VoIP service joins Microsoft’s suite of online tools, including ... |
Park Tag Wants To Make It Easier To Find Your Next Parking Space By Creating A Space-Swapping Community | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | Finding a parking space right next to your favourite café can seem like playing the lottery, but wants to change all that. The startup, which is exhibiting at Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, wants to make parking social so it’s easier to find your next space. The lets users invite their neighbours and colleagues to for... |
Koupah Does Tablet-Based Point-Of-Sale, But Also Zaps Credit Card Transaction Fees | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley company is a fresh take on the tablet-based point-of-sale space, which is growing in popularity among SMBs that want a solution that’s flexible, extensible and less expensive than legacy POS-specific hardware systems. Koupah takes the model a step further by offsetting some or... |
Virtusize Brings Its Virtual Fitting Solution To The UK, Signs Deal With Fashion Retailer ASOS | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | There are an abundance of startups trying to solve the problem of how to “try on” clothes online, with a range of different approaches and technology — a competition we’ve likened to a space race where nobody has yet landed on the moon. Today, launches its virtual fitting solution in the UK via a partnership with A... |
Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | It’s only a matter of time before Twitter releases its own Google Glass app, as Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr dropped the hint that the company was looking into building one during . A tweet from an official Twitter Glass app has been spotted, interestingly enough by the gentleman who brought you the first . The user t... |
MallWeGo Is A Social Shopping And Gaming Platform To Make Buying Stuff More Fun | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | is a New York-based startup launching at the Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley today with a social, gaming shopping experience for web and mobile. The company has built a virtual world for socialising with friends in avatar form, which looks like a simplified Second Life or The Sims, but the kicker is it’s built for shopp... |
Yahoo’s Deal To Buy A $200M Stake In Dailymotion From Orange Scuppered By French Government | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | It looks like lightning has struck on the towers of . Yahoo’s bid to take a $200 million majority stake in the video site — known as the ‘YouTube of France’ — by buying a stake from carrier France Telecom/Orange has been killed by the French government, which decided that it didn’t want a U.S. company to take a contro... |
New York City Turns Out For The First Day Of Disrupt NY 2013 | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | The first day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY is a wrap. The morning started with a fireside chat with Chris Dixon and Eric Eldon where the Andreessen Horowitz partner and how 3D printing could . TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington took the stage next with Benchmark’s . Gurley also revealed that he s . A rather shocking ... |
Glide Rolls Out The Beta Version Of Its Video Messaging Android App At Disrupt NY | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | The first day of Disrupt NY 2013 is nearing its end, but we can’t end things without giving our Audience Choice winner a chance to present in front of our judges. Today, the Israel-based folks behind the video messaging app (not to be confused with Battlefield contestant ) have been voted our first Audience Choice B... |
Meritful Launches A Student CRM Platform To Help Recruiters Keep Tabs On Campus Talent | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | College recruiting is becoming increasingly competitive. Companies have begun to realize that top graduates not only bring a lot of talent and energy to the table, but they also tend to cost less than more experienced prospects. But in order to successfully woo those fortunate enough to have their pick, businesses need... |
Handle Is A Priority Engine And Task Management App For Your Inbox | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | partner Shawn Carolan searched for over five years to find an investment tackling the problem of email overload. , who led investments in Apple-acquired Siri among others, personally faced his own productivity challenges, and after not being able to find a startup that addressed all the problems he felt needed to be ... |
Major League Baseball Brings Archives, Highlights And Live Streaming Games To YouTube (But Not In The U.S.) | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | Major League Baseball has always been very strict about its content appearing on YouTube and other video streaming sites. Peruse YouTube for highlights from your favorite players and teams, and you’ll find it nearly impossible to find quality footage. As soon as a clip from a game goes up on YouTube, it’s taken down. U... |
AppArchitect Lets Anyone Build iOS Apps, No Coding Or Templates Necessary | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | Easy app creation, outside of the land of Ruby and Python, has become a huge phenomenon in the last year. And the latest company to join the fold, , is launching straight from our Disrupt NY stage. AppArchitect lets you build custom iPhone and iPad apps using a simple drag-and-drop interface. That’s right — you need ze... |
Yahoo Announces New Ad Formats: Mobile-Friendly Native Ads And A Big ‘Billboard’ On Its Front Page | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | Yahoo is hoping to bring in more advertiser dollars with two new units that it’s announcing today as part of the . Vice President of Product and Media Mike Kerns pitched the new formats as the flip side to the that the company rolled out in February. Now that Yahoo has improved its consumer experience (or at least o... |
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Apple’s Jony Ive Said To Be Bringing The Flat Design Fad To iOS 7 With Visual Overhaul | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | iOS 7 is probably right around the corner, at least as a preview coming at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference in June, and it looks like it might be the most exciting change to Apple’s mobile OS we’ve seen in a long time, at least on the surface. iOS 7 will get a flat visual look, which is all the rage these days... |
Fashion-Focused Startups Stylit And Black Tag Offer Free, Personal Shoppers For Both Women & Men | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | E-commerce is booming, but shopping for clothing online can still be a challenge. Unlike many consumer products, clothing is personal and often needs to be tried on for fit. Plus, there are numerous options available via the web, so sometimes it’s tough to even know where to begin with an online shopping expedition. Tw... |
Bidzy Launches As An E-Commerce Platform At Disrupt NY For Local Services Firms To Grab New Customers, One Last-Minute Bid At A Time | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 29 | , a new platform for connecting local services businesses with customers who need the service they offer in the next few hours, is launching at today. Like the best ideas, Bidzy’s premise is simple: allow the customer to specify exactly what they want and the amount they are willing to pay and then let the individual... |
China’s E-Commerce Market Grew To $190B In 2012, Driven By Mobile Users and Social Media, Says CNNIC | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | China’s e-commerce market racked up a whopping 1.3 trillion RMB ($190 billion USD) worth of transactions in 2012, according to (linked article is in Chinese), an increase of 66.5 percent over 2011’s total. Last year, 242 million Internet users purchased goods online, and e-commerce transactions accounted for 6.1 per... |
Huawei & ZTE Under Scrutiny Again, This Time By The European Commission For Unfair Competition | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Another round of headaches for Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE–after previously facing scrutiny over security concerns in the U.S., the two companies are now being targeted by the European Commission. The European Union’s executive body is seeking to investigate Huawei and ZTE for undercutting European ... |
Instart Logic Raises $17M From Andreessen Horowitz And Greylock To Improve Web And Mobile App Performance | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | , a company that provides a cloud-based service for web publishers to improve site performance over both mobile and Wi-Fi networks, has raised $17 million in Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tenaya Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $26 million. Man... |
Google Ventures-Backed Messaging Startup, Just.me, Launches iOS App In 155 Countries/32 Languages, Aiming To Rattle Social’s Cage | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Following its at the end of January, , the mobile messaging startup from , co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at incubator , has , available initially for iPhones and iPod Touch. Just.me had planned on an earlier release of the app but said today it held back so it could launch at to garner more attention. As... |
HackerEarth Screens Developer Candidates For Startups Through Programming Challenges | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | The hunt for great engineering talent is global. It’s not just in Silicon Valley that the competition is so fierce that or It’s true in India too, where multi-nationals and emerging startups headhunt for the best engineers. , a startup out of the , is looking to make the process of assessing technical talent easie... |
HealthKeep Launches An Anonymous Social Network To Let You Share And Track Health Information | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Services over the last year as a way to let anyone with questions about their health connect with real, licensed physicians online and avoid the pain of waiting in line at the doctor’s office. While HealthTap and others are building up their health information databases to let people quickly find answers to a variety... |
Japan’s KDDI Closes Their Twilio Clone, Partners With Twilio Instead | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Back in April of 2012, KDDI Web Communications (part of KDDI, Japan’s second largest telecoms company) launched . Meant to allow developers to build services that ran over phone lines (like, say, a basic call center), it was sort of like a less-awesome Twilio. One year later, the company is shuttering boundio and repl... |
Heyzap Launches An AppData-Like Leaderboard For Mobile Games With User Counts | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | While Apple’s app store and Google Play have long had leaderboards for the most downloaded and lucrative apps, there hasn’t been that much transparency around engagement after the download. , a Union Square Ventures-backed startup that runs a mobile gaming network, has stepped in and decided to build one. The startup, ... |
Facebook Tests Its First Graph Search Ads, But They Aren’t Targeted To Your Queries | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Investors hope Facebook will eventually sell lucrative demand-fulfillment search ads, but it’s starting conservatively. Today it begins a small test of its first ads on Graph Search, but they’re not targeted to your search queries. Instead, they use standard Facebook targeting and retargeting, look like its sidebar ads... |
Last GroupSpaces Founder Calls It A Day After 7 Years, Departs To Build Stripe In The UK | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Tonight there came a moment that you might call the end of an era in the U.K. tech startup scene. One of the first of the ‘new wave’ of startups from the mid-2000s lost its last founder, as Andy Young (pictured left), co-founder of the group management startup , he was leaving to join the payments startup Stripe to ... |
Live On 17 Campuses, Endorse.me Launches A Private Platform To Let Students & Employers Connect, Share Confidential Info | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | It’s a tough job market out there for college job applicants, and students are looking for anything that can help them stand out from the crowd. While an increasing number of students look to apply to jobs online, the information that might give students a shot at improving their candidacy and landing a job isn’t somet... |
Snapchat Experiences Spammy Growing Pains After Passing 150M Snaps Sent Per Day | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Picture-messaging sensation Snapchat seems to experiencing some growing pains. CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel said today that over flow through the auto-destructing photo-sharing service, but as the service gets bigger and gains more attention, the worst parts of the Internet are sure to follow. According to , some... |
Tallygram, OkCupid’s Foray Into Friend Finding On Facebook, Hits The Deadpool | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | , a Facebook-based friend-finding app created by dating site , has shut down, saying that the community never grew large enough to sustain the site. Tallygram, which originally billed itself as “ ,” first opened for business in . Now the site, in a note to existing users (below), is referring to itself as an “experim... |
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Unveils The First Results Of Its Hot New Summly Acquisition | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | In March, made a big splash in its already dazzling list of acquisitions when it , a UK-based mobile startup led by 17-year-old founder Nick D’Aloisio that summarizes long texts to make them easier to read on mobile screens. Today, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled the first official fruit of that acquisition: A 160... |
Streaming Set-Top Maker Roku Hires Logitech Exec Erik Bardman As Its New CFO | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Streaming set-top box manufacturer Roku has hired a new CFO today, bringing in an executive who had cut his teeth at Logitech and eBay. Erik Bardman, former SVP of Finance and CFO of Logitech International, is joining the company as it seeks to expand globally and also work out more deals with cable and satellite provi... |
Monkey Island’s Creator Describes The Sequel He’s Definitely, Positively Not Making (Yet) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | With the gash left by still a bit raw, this one’s either going to feel like salt in the wound or a spark of hope. Ron Gilbert, creator of LucasArts’ much-loved series, has published a list outlining the sequel he’d make if he could. The bad news: he swears up and down that he’s not making it. Yet. For those of you ... |
An End To The Aggregation Debate? Repost Makes It Easy To Embed Articles | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | A new startup called aims to make it easy for online publishers to distribute their articles via embedding — the same way I can share a video from YouTube or a document from Scribd directly in a blog post. Right now, if I saw an article that I thought TechCrunch readers would find valuable — from Repost founder and... |
Twitter Is Exploring New Ways For Android Users To Discover Tweets, Says Product VP Michael Sippey | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | Facebook boldly moved to expand its presence in the mobile space with its Android-only replacement last week (with mixed results), but it’s far from the only company who has shown interest in Google’s mobile OS as a springboard for better social connection. Speaking at the D: Dive Into Mobile, recently installed Twitte... |
Oovoo President Opens Up About Forthcoming Features As The Video Chat Sensation Crosses 75M Users | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 16 | has been on a tear of late, tripling its user base in the past year with Jay Samit at the wheel as president. We brought him into the studio to chat about Oovoo’s growth, the video chatting space and forthcoming features on the Oovoo platform. He was surprisingly forthcoming. He hinted at a feature that would let us... |
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Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei Insists His Company Is “Completely Transparent” In An Internal Email | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | An internal email written by Huawei founder Ren Zheng-fei and (link via Google Translate) sheds light on the secretive Chinese firm’s future. In it, Ren downplays his company’s reputation for opacity, which has fueled charges that Huawei, the world’s second largest maker of telecom equipment, is involved in espionage... |
Square Updates Its Register iPad App With Kitchen Tickets, Ordering Features To Better Serve Restaurants | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Square’s point-of-sale technology and is getting a big update today targeted at better serving restaurants. New features in the release include custom order modifiers and customizable kitchen tickets that allow restaurants to make taking orders and serving food more efficient. Square Register is a point-of-sale syste... |
Spotify Quietly Starts Rolling Out The Discover Tab In Its Web App, First In The UK And Nordics | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Back in , music streaming service provided an update on how it was going to double down on social recommendations to increase music listening on its platform by launching two new features, Follow and Discover. While the Follow feature, aimed at friends, started to get rolled out in and , it turns out that Spotify... |
Jarvis Is A Personal Assistant That Goes Beyond Siri To Embrace The Connected Home | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | If you’re an Iron Man fan, you already know about Jarvis, Tony Stark’s personal assistant (who’s either a human or a virtual AI, depending on how long you’ve been following the comic). Jarvis is the glue that keeps Stark’s business, personal and super hero lives running smoothly. Which is why Jarvis is a perfect name... |
Google Will Sunset The Meebo Bar On June 6 To Focus On Google+ Sign-In and Plug-Ins | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Google that it is bidding adieu to publishing tool in order to focus on projects like Google+ Sign-In and plug-ins. The Meebo Bar will be retired effective June 6. Founded in 2005, Meebo was . At that time, TechCrunch learned that its product team would use its expertise to help build publisher tools for Google+, ... |
Android Took 64% Of All Smartphone Sales Globally In Q1; Windows Phone Continues Modest Gains, Says Kantar | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Google’s mobile OS Android continues to power ahead as the world’s most popular smartphone platform, according to figures out today from , the WPP-owned market research company that tracks sales of handsets across key markets on a 12-week rolling cycle. In the nine markets surveyed by Kantar — Australia, China, France... |
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