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Squirrel Evernote Hack Creates A Personalised Newsletter From The Cool Stuff You’ve Saved To Read Later | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Another simple but neat that came out of the 24-hour Disrupt NY Hackathon earlier today was Squirrel. Created by coder duo Zainab Ebrahimi and Jabari Bell, the hack turns articles that Evernote readers have saved for reading later into a personalised newsletter. So, unlike the average email newsletter, Squirrel is po... |
Game Of Tones, The Game That Could Eventually Teach You To Play The Actual Guitar | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Hot damn, the Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon was great. Even with the hackathon over and the winner declared ( ), we keep finding more projects we want to highlight. Built in just 24 hours, is a proof-of-concept game that, with a bit of work, could teach you to play the actual guitar (versus, say, Rock Band — which, while... |
StoryKid, Created By Literature PhDs Students, Is An App That Helps Young Ones Tell Stories (And Their Parents, Too) | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Children are known for how much they love to play make-believe, and StoryKid, an app introduced today during the Disrupt Hackathon in New York, takes this and gives it a new twist by offering a series of pictures as visual cues for a child to tell a story based around them. StoryKid is aimed at children aged 2 to 5 who... |
Pay With Bits Wants To Be The Square For Bitcoin | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Considering the around peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin, it’s not surprising that one of the hackers at the Disrupt NY hackathon created an application around the currency. was to be a Square for Bitcoin. The startup essentially allows Bitcoins to be transfered between parties via their mobile phones. The idea is the ... |
The Smell Of Coders In The Morning, Or, 10:30AM At The Disrupt NYC Hackathon [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Watch the video embedded above to take a walk back in time to 10:30am Eastern Time this morning, 30 minutes before the presentations began. Bagels and coffee were the fuel of choice for our hackers, many of who were frantically putting the finishing touches on their projects and getting ready to take the stage and pr... |
Startup Common Application Wants To Make Startup Job Applications More Efficient | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Startups still have a hard time finding the right applicants for their jobs. During our Disrupt NY 2013 hackathon, engineer Bob Ren wrote a little web app that takes the Common Application for college admission as its inspiration. Just like high school students can use the to apply to multiple colleges simultaneous... |
Laser Mountain Played Laser Tag Onstage With Nerf Guns, Android Phones And A Node.js Server | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Carson Britt and Matthew Drake convinced everyone with their onstage demo of at the . They attached Android phones to the Nerf guns (that TechCrunch gave away yesterday) to recreate a laser tag game with a real-time score server. After receiving the Nerf guns, they started working right away on Laser Mountain. “We a... |
EverSlide Turns Evernote Notes Into Slideshows | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | is a basic, but potentially very useful, hack built over the weekend at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 hackathon. As you might guess by the name, the service turns your Evernote notes into slideshow presentations. And it’s crazy simple to use, too. The first line of text in your Evernote note becomes the slide’s title... |
Rambler Takes Home The Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon Grand Prize, Learn To Drive And Radical Are Runners Up | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | The past 24 hours have just flown by for the hundreds of hackers here at the Disrupt NY Hackathon, but the sun is finally up and it’s time to pass judgment on their caffeine-fueled projects. As it turns out, there’s a ton of them here — with 164 registered projects this is our biggest Hackathon yet, and each presenter ... |
Kar Nanny Helps You Track Your Kids And Cheating Spouse Using GM’s App Platform | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Thanks to GM’s new app platform, keeping track of family members, as well as learning their driving history, is easier than ever. One hack from our Disrupt NY Hackathon, called Kar Nanny, seeks to let users see where their kids are driving and get notifications if they’re being unsafe. Or you can see where your spouse ... |
Dosi.io Makes LinkedIn Stalking Better With Info From GitHub, AngelList & CrunchBase | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | is a new Chrome extension that builds a better dossier at the top of LinkedIn profiles where it helps you determine who’s worth your time. Once installed, LinkedIn stalking gets a lot more interesting, as Dosi.io displays more information about the person in question by pulling in additional data from CrunchBase, GitH... |
Gftr Wants To Stop Wasting Birthdays With Social Network Crowdsourced Gifts | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | My calendar is mostly filled with Facebook birthdays, these days, and at best those notifications will prompt me to post on someone’s wall once a year. Gftr, a project from TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013’s Hackathon, wants to use those birthdays to power more meaningful gift-giving, thanks to crowdsourcing and the one da... |
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Scaffold Wants To Bring Financial Advice To The People Who Need It Most | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | That’s where , an app built over the past 24 hours at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Hackathon, wants to help out. Scaffold aims to be a financial advisory platform that can give actionable insights to lower income users who are particularly vulnerable to financial risk, such as people just coming out of homeless shelte... |
Hack Team’s Voice-Guided Learn To Drive App Makes Learning With Mom & Dad Less Domestically Disruptive | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 28 | Jared Zoneraich and Nick Joseph are two high school students who’ve spent the night here at the Disrupt NY 2013 coding an in-car app for learner drivers using GM’s API. The pair got a great reception on stage during their presentation for Learn to Drive — not least for the in-car dashboard app’s killer feature: a ... |
SMB Inventory Management Startup TradeGecko Partners With Xero Accounting | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Cloud-based inventory and sales management developer has announced that it is now integrated with online accounting system Xero. The Singapore-based company says that the partnership will allow its clientele of small- and medium-sized businesses to monitor financial transactions in real time. The integration links i... |
HTML5 WebSocket Developer Kaazing Raises $15M From NEA, Columbus Nova Technology Partners | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Kaazing, a provider of live Web and mobile communication and the developer of HTML5 WebSocket, has raised $15 million in funding, bringing the company’s total financing to $39 million. New investors this round include New Enterprise Associates and Columbus Nova Technology Partners, as well as existing investors. Kaazin... |
Disconnect 2 Brings More Privacy To Your Browser, Lets You Block 2K+ Sites From Tracking Your Activity Online | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | With the Era of Over-sharing and the Social Fire Hose upon us, the heft and value of privacy is changing — and, for better or worse, many argue that it’s diminishing. Perturbed by the access many companies (inconspicuously) have to our browsing history, former Googler Brian Kennish developed a Chrome Extension to addre... |
Good Morning America Says Twitter Will Make A ‘Big Announcement’ On The Show Tomorrow | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Good Morning America has that Twitter will be making a major announcement on the show tomorrow. Tomorrow on : @ will be making a BIG announcement… tune in! — Good Morning America (@GMA) So what is Twitter planning to unleash tomorrow? The most likely guess is the official launch of Twitter Music, after more than a... |
Tribeca Film Festival Narrows Down #6SecFilms Submissions To A Short List Of 40 Awesome Vines | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Less than a month ago, Tribeca Film Festival opened up a sub-competition within the festival for those of us with a knack for brevity: the Tribeca Film Festival’s #6SecFilms competition. Partnering with Twitter’s new darling and video-sharing app Vine, TFF made a call for submissions from filmmakers who’d like to use t... |
Samsung Considering DRAM Chips From SK Hynix, An Apple Supplier | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Samsung Electronics may purchase mobile memory chips from South Korean rival SK Hynix for devices including the Galaxy S, , head of Samsung’s mobile business. If the deal goes through, it will be a boon for SK Hynix, which currently counts Apple as one of its top DRAM chip customers and saw it shares slip 2.8 percent ... |
Q1 Venture Capital Spending And Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector. According to the report, U.S.-based companies raised $6 billion from 752 venture capital deals in Q1 2013, an 11% decrease in capital and a ... |
LinkedIn Updates iPhone, Android Apps With A Personalized Activity Stream, Better Navigation, And Ads | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | With the ink still drying on , continues to double down on mobile, the fastest-growing consumer service among its 200 million members. Today it’s announcing a major update to its and apps — the first big upgrade in . And, to take advantage of the traffic it’s seeing on mobile, it is also introducing ads, in the... |
Andreessen-Backed MinoMonsters Follows Rovio’s Lead, Signs Book Deal, Releases Trailer As It Plans Move Into TV, Film, Toys | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | launched in early 2011 on a mission to become the Pokémon of social games, allowing gamers to explore a world inhabited by bite-sized, furry monsters, taking them on quests and battling their friends. For this reason — and because founders at 18 and 17-years-old, respectively — the startup found some early buzz. And... |
MediaWire Mobile Helps Print Publishers Build Apps Affordably | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | There’s been a lot of excitement around the possibilities that smartphones and especially tablets offer to traditional publishers, but they also present a big challenge — the costs are often too high, said CEO Clifford Hoffer. That’s why MediaWire is launching a new product called MediaWire Mobile, which allows publi... |
Twitter’s Kevin Weil Says The Big Advantage Of The Company’s New Keyword Targeting Is Timing | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Earlier today, Twitter . I had a brief conversation with Senior Director of Revenue Products Kevin Weil who laid out Twitter’s perspective on the announcement’s significance. “People always say that you are what you tweet,” Weil said. (Always?) At the same time, he noted that the content of those tweets haven’t been a... |
With Its Biggest Update Yet, Ness Debuts Instant, Personalized Restaurant Recommendations, Says Events, Nightlife Are Next | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | , the restaurant recommendations app that uses social data combined with machine-learning techniques to offer personalized suggestions, has released today, now focused on what it’s calling “instant recommendations.” In the earlier version, Ness relied on user-initiated searches and a setup wizard that asked users to ... |
Chinese Gaming Publisher Yodo1 Raises $5M In Round Led By Singapore’s SingTel Innov8 | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | , a Beijing-based company that works intensively with Western game developers to bring their titles to the Chinese market, raised $5 million from , the corporate venture arm of a mobile carrier. An earlier investor, Changyou Fund, also participated in the round. Yodo1 has a co-production model where they actually get... |
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A Day With Glass: First Impressions Of The Early Days Of Google’s Latest Moonshot | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | As we shared yesterday, the process to actually pay for the Glass Explorer Edition . The next step in the process is picking up your device at either the Mountain View, Los Angeles or New York City Google Campus. Of course, you can opt to have them shipped to you if you’re not in one of those areas, but what’s the fun... |
Fits.me Closes $7.2M Series A To “Aggressively Expand” Its Virtual Fitting Room Tech In Europe, Start Prepping For U.S. Push | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Try-for-size-before-you buy virtual fitting room startup has closed a €5.5 million ($7.2 million) Series A round. It’s not all new money — we the first €1.5 million tranche, back in January 2012 — but the startup has now added €4 million to complete the round. Backers include existing investor , plus new participa... |
Hands On With The Toshiba KIRAbook: Can Great Hardware Coupled With An Amazing Display Save Windows PCs? | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | With PC laptop shipments , Windows 8 machines desperately need multiple shots of adrenaline. The Toshiba KIRAbook may be just that. The KIRAbook is Toshiba’s first entrant in their newly fashioned “KIRA” line of luxury ultrabooks. At first glance, you can see that the KIRAbook is meticulously designed, and it radi... |
Facebook’s Ad Exchange Director, Former AdGrok CEO Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Hits The Road | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | “FBX was my baby that I staked everything on. We shipped it fast, scaled it up, and now the baby talks and can walk to school, but I don’t feel I need to babysit it,” says , product director of Facebook’s ad exchange who announced he’s leaving the company today. After selling his company AdGrok to Twitter, then defect... |
Join Us And Shawn Fanning For A Special Screening Of DOWNLOADED At Disrupt NY | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 17 | Napster co-founder and documentarian Alex Winter will be at next week, joining to talk about their upcoming Napster documentary . <ad> </ad> Napster’s emergence was the first time the masses were faced with the power of peer-to-peer file sharing and the Internet. There wasn’t a college campus that didn’t Napster ... |
Tint Gives Businesses An Easy Way To Bring Social Media Feeds To Their Websites, Apps And Facebook Pages | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | Last year, Tim Sae Koo, Nikhil Aitharaju, Eunice Noh and Ryo Chiba to give people a less hectic way to consume social media. The startup aggregated tweets, articles, links and more shared by influencers and celebrities on social media accounts and, by grouping those by topic, aimed to give people a snapshot of an ind... |
ICANN Says It Will Allow Chinese Top-Level Domain Names This Year, Followed By Other Languages | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | The president of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Fady Chehade that the organization will launch Chinese character options for top-level domains in the second half of this year. (A top-level domain is the part of the Web address after the dot, so the Chinese characters would replace the... |
VCs Invested $6.9B In 841 Deals In Q1 2013, Funding Up 17 Percent, Deal Activity Highest Since Dot-Com Days | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | Private company M&A and venture capital database has issued its Q1 2013 report on venture capital and deals. According to the report, VCs invested $6.9 billion across 841 deals (eclipsing a Q3 2012 high), which is the highest level since dot-com days, says CB Insight. You can find a full copy of the report . One of ... |
Confirmed: Facebook Has Acquired Osmeta, A Stealth Mobile Software Startup | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | While is building out a bolder role in mobile in the form of , it looks like it is also continuing to make acquisitions that will help bolster that strategy overall. We have learned that in the lead-up to the launch last week, the social network appears to have quietly picked up , a Mountain View-based mobile softw... |
Swipely Expands Its Credit Card-Based Loyalty System With Reputation Monitoring And Campaign Tracking | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | , a startup that allows local businesses to manage customer loyalty programs using credit card purchase data, is announcing new features, so those businesses can measure the impact that their online efforts have on in-store sales. First, there’s a new capability called Campaign Insights. Founder and CEO Angus Davis sai... |
Help Kick Path’s Butt (And Support Teach For America) | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | Some of us in tech are self-taught geniuses who never needed school — but that’s mostly not the case, and you know it. Great teachers in math, science, reading and other core areas have helped this generation of tech leaders get the skills they needed to succeed, and those teachers are busy training the next generation... |
Blippy Team Launches Tophatter iPhone App With Surprisingly Fun Live Auctions | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | The team behind startup Blippy has started . After pivoting from Blippy to another e-commerce project, it has pivoted again and is now working on a live auction website called , and it . Like Blippy, Tophatter is a social shopping product. The vision, according to CEO Ashvin Kumar and COO Andrew Blachman, is to br... |
SmartAsset Expands Its Home-Buying Tools With Mortgage Advice And Neighborhood Data | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | , a Y Combinator-incubated startup that built tools to help you answer tough financial questions, is expanding its offerings today with features for choosing the right neighborhood and the right mortgage. Founder and CEO Michael Carrvin said that there are four broad stages to the home-buying process. The company’s f... |
YC-Backed Kippt, An “Evernote For The Web”, Lures Developers With New API, App Gallery | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | , which lets you collect and share content from across the web, is The two-person startup has relied on outside developers to have a mobile presence on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Kippt just returned to San Francisco from Helsinki, almost a year after graduating from Y Combinator’s summer batch. “An API is not onl... |
Hiring Developers? Codassium Combines Collaborative Code Editing And Video Chat Into One Web App | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | As just about any startup in the world could tell you, hiring good developers is one helluva process. First you’ve gotta find the rare developer who isn’t already drowning in job offers. Then you’ve gotta sit down and chat ’em up to make sure they’ll be a good fit for your team. Then you’ve gotta make sure they can a... |
Glass Explorer Edition To Ship Within The Next Month, Google Confirms | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | Today during Google Venture’s , Google told us that it hopes to get the into the hands of developers “within the next month.” The exact date for when Google plans to ship the first publicly available versions of Glass remains unknown, but Google has now confirmed to us that it is now very close to shipping the $1,50... |
Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins And Andreessen Horowitz Team Up As “Glass Collective” To Invest In Google Glass Ecosystem | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | Today, Google Ventures announced a partnership with two of the biggest technology venture capital firms in the world, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, on what they’re calling the “ .” While this isn’t a fund, the three firms will be sharing seed investment dealflow for entrepreneurs and developers who are worki... |
IRS Doesn’t Deny Snooping Emails Without A Warrant | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | The whether its Criminal Tax Division rummages through suspected tax dodgers’ emails without a warrant. In to the American Civil Liberties Union request for its privacy policy, the IRS dumped 247 records, revealing that the agency definitely believed it could access emails without a warrant before a court deemed th... |
Sendicate Takes Its Email Newsletter Service Out Of Beta, Launches An API | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | , a startup aiming to make it easy for businesses to create beautiful email newsletters, is moving out of beta testing today with the launch of version 1.0. In addition to removing the beta label, the company is launching an API, so that other products can integrate with the Sendicate service. When , it was pitched as... |
Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | If it gets it, Google wants to turn .search into a “dotless domain,” the company told ICANN a few days ago. Last year, Google applied to manage the .app, .blog, .cloud and .search generic top-level domain (gTLD) names as part of a major expansion of the domain-name system. ICANN, which is managing this expansion, hasn’... |
Well, That Was Fast: Twitter Already Shut Down Ribbon’s Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | This morning, on Twitter.com, allowing users to click a button directly within a tweet in order to make a purchase without having to leave the Twitter.com website. However, it appears that Twitter has already shut this feature down – almost immediately after its public debut. Ribbon Co-founder Hany Rashwan has confir... |
Internet Pioneer Dwight Merriman To Speak At Disrupt NY This Month | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | We’re very pleased to announce that Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CTO of DoubleClick and now the co-founder of hot New York startup , will be joining us onstage at Disrupt NY this month. He’s been at the forefront of Internet advertising and engineering for the past two decades and is an icon of New York ... |
Bitcoin Suffers A Correction Amid Apparent DDOS Attacks On Some Exchanges | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | Bitcoin is undergoing a classic correction after quintupling in price over the past 30 days. The currency, which was trading as high as $265 earlier today on Mt. Gox, plummeted and . We’ve reached out to one of the biggest exchanges, Mt. Gox, to see what happened. But another San Francisco-based exchange called TradeH... |
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Movile Helps Users Get Connected With Apps To Find And Share Access To Free Mobile Hotspots | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 10 | Mobile content company Movile has over the last several years distributed content and applications for a primarily Latin American audience. But what happens when a mobile user isn’t connected to a wireless data network? To help solve this problem, Movile has introduced a pair of applications that will help users connec... |
Simplee Combines Mint.com And PayPal To Bring Medical Bill Payment, Management To Your Smartphone | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | The mobile health market is growing like a weed these days. , there are 31,000 health and medical-related apps on the market today. In fact, over the last year, the number of health apps jumped 120 percent, and hundreds of apps now hit stores every month. Yet, in spite of this exponential growth, the mobile health spa... |
Y Combinator’s Paul Graham Takes His First Ever Board Seat With Healthcare Crowdfunding Non-Profit Watsi | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is a father figure to countless startups he’s helped accelerate, but had never taken a board of directors seat until now. Today he he’s accepted board seat with Watsi, a site that lets people donate money to pay the medical bills of needy people. Watsi came out of this season’s Winter... |
Little Eye Labs Does Mobile App Crash Testing (Before The Day Of The Big Launch) | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | There are a plethora of options for mobile app crash testing, like Crashlytics, Crittercism and Bugsense. But what about before the day of the big launch? A startup out of called is looking to handle crash testing before developers go into post-production. They just launched an app and crash testing service within ... |
iPad Still Dominates Tablet Ads With iPad Mini Gaining, Velti Finds | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Mobile advertising firm has released its monthly report on advertising impressions across its network. The iPad is far and away the leader when it comes to the tablet market, and is gradually chipping away share from the iPhone in terms of overall dominance among mobile ads. The iPad mini remains a much smaller facto... |
Facebook Forces You To Smile When You’re Unhappy (Update: Smile Turned Upside Down) | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | “Success Theater” means only sharing an idealized version of yourself where you’re always happy. Now a bug in Facebook’s is taking that concept way too literally. Select that you’re “Unhappy” and Facebook adds a smiley face to your post instead of a frown emoticon. [ : Facebook apparently saw this and has since fixed... |
True Ventures Confirms Investment In Second Life Founder Philip Rosedale’s New Startup High Fidelity | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Earlier this month, we wrote that , the virtual world startup led by Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, had , according to . However, we didn’t know who had actually made the investment — until today. Tony Conrad of True Ventures just that his firm led High Fidelity’s Series A, and that Google Ventures and vario... |
Ask A VC: Google Ventures’ Karim Faris On Why Enterprise Security Is Red Hot And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Google Ventures’ general partner joined us in the studio this week for Ask A VC, where we put VCs in the hot seat. Faris, who focuses on the enterprise and e-commerce investments for the firm, talked specifically about the opportunity in the enterprise security space and why we are seeing a growing number of startu... |
Announcing Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley And Hardware Alley Companies | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Startup Alley is the loud and boisterous marketplace of Disrupt. Young companies, huddled around cocktail tables demoing their wares, are vying for attention and a spot on the Disrupt stage. All of these startups are amazing and at Disrupt NY later this month. We have startups covering nearly every category, includin... |
This Week With The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Google Glass, Ubuntu, And Vibrating Undies | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | This week on the we talk about Google Glass, the Galaxy S4, and the magic of Ubuntu laptops. This time we’re joined by Matt Burns, Jordan Crook, Greg Kumparak, and a pair of underwear that vibrates in Australia. Enjoy!
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‘Airbnb For Bikes’ Startup Spinlister Returns From The Deadpool, Now With New Management | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | If you’re a big fan of bikes and Airbnb-type sharing economy startups like me, you might have been disappointed to learn that , the peer-to-peer bike rental startup, was shut down a few months ago. The service, which launched in New York City last spring, had just opened up to the general public a few months before be... |
Is Our Addiction To Tragedy On Social Media Inspiring Violence? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | If terrorism requires an audience, then the recent mainstream adoption of social media may be giving violent actors a bigger stage than ever before. There are many reasons people lash out at the world, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest that becoming the center of attention could be a factor pushing some to... |
Yahoo Will Shut Down Upcoming, Deals, SMS Alerts, Kids, Some Of Mail To Focus On Apps You’ll Use Daily | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Yahoo has just a change in strategy designed to prep it for the mobile age and let it concentrate on core products like the Mail and Weather apps it launched yesterday. Soon, it will shut down Upcoming, Deal, SMS Alerts, Yahoo Kids, Yahoo! Mail and Messenger feature phone (J2ME) apps, and some older versions of Yahoo!... |
Everyone Is Literally Crazy | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Everyone has their moments of insanity. The Internet has made that painfully obvious, as our moments of abstracted, often context-less, craziness are haphazardly posted and then, in some cases, amplified for all to see. Because of this dynamic, we’re also given endless opportunities to deconstruct the way in which some... |
Apkudo Wants To Handle Android Fragmentation So Carriers And Developers Don’t Have To | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Baltimore-based is debuting its “Apkudo Approved” program this week, extending its existing work with making sure that Android apps and devices perform well for consumers. The company has positioned itself in a growth market, to act as a layer both between developers and devices, and between devices and carriers, to ... |
Mobile Accelerator Tandem Doubles Partner Team With Rohit Bhagat And John Ellis, Announces New Startups | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Doug Renert told me yesterday that his firm , which backs early-stage mobile startups, is about to expand in a big way. The first step is bringing in more people, starting with two new partners that Tandem is announcing today — Rohit Bhagat, formerly chairman of Asia Pacific for investment firm BlackRock, and John Ell... |
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Scapegoating Internet Conspiracy Theorists Won’t Fix The Media’s Hype Machine | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | [tweet https://twitter.com/LukeRussert/status/325142594571083776] [tweet https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/325143862853115904] Reporters have a nasty addiction to a particularly potent drug: the attention that comes from getting a scoop. Last night, during the live manhunt of the Boston marathon bombing suspects, we... |
Bing Questions Study That Claimed It Delivers 5x More Malware Than Google, Says It Blocks 94% Of Clicks To Malicious Sites | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | Last week, a by German antivirus testing company claimed that Microsoft’s delivered “five times as many websites containing malware as Google.” Unsurprisingly, Microsoft does not agree with these findings and today, the company a full rebuttal of AV-Test’s study. The researchers, Bing argues, used its API to ex... |
Love Home Swap, The Members Club For Swapping Houses, Gets Into Rentals | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 19 | , a U.K.-based startup that appeals to homeowners that want to trade their places, is getting into proper rentals. The company, which launched about a year and a half ago, was operating on a member subscription model. People would pay to get access to a network of homeowners that were open to swapping residences across... |
StackMob Builds Parse App Importer For Refugee Developers Fleeing Facebook’s New Acquisition | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Some developers got very angry and threatened to leave mobile app backend platform when it was . Hoping to capitalize, competitor has since that makes it easy for devs to import their Parse apps. It’s a cutthroat game, this game of tech. When the Parse acquisition was announced, disgruntled developers flocked to ... |
Suitey Is A Software Powered Real Estate Brokerage For New York City Apartments And Homes | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | At first sight, looks like nothing more than a run-of-the-mill real estate website. But while sites like and merely provide a listing of available properties from a large assortment of brokerages and owners, all the properties on Suitey are being directly offered by Suitey itself. That’s because is a fully fled... |
Ask A VC: NEA’s Pete Sonsini On The Next Disruptive Startup In The Enterprise | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | This week, NEA’s joined us in the studio for Ask A VC. Sonsini joined NEA in 2005 and is the co-head of the firm’s enterprise software practice group, focusing on early-stage investments in the space. His investments include Xensource (acquired by Citrix Systems) and Teracent (acquired by Google). He is currently o... |
Samsung May Launch A Rugged Galaxy S4 This Summer, Could Counter New Moto Phones | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Samsung is working on a dust-proof and water-proof Galaxy S4, which will essentially resemble the S4 but with environmental superpowers, says the . The paper also reported that Samsung is launching its next-generation Galaxy tablet in June, as well as a compact S4 at “just” 4.3-inches in size (this still seems large to... |
More Google Glass Specs Revealed As Android Tinkerers Look For Ways To Root It | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Google felt it appropriate to highlight some of Glass’ specs earlier this week, but there’s much more to the company’s wearable display than just the . In case you were hankering for a taste of what else makes Google Glass tick, Android developer (and Glass Explorer) spent some time tinkering with his preview unit an... |
Swifto Raises $2.5M From Benchmark To Be The Uber For Dog Walking | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | a startup that wants to be the Uber for dog walking, has raised $2.5 million from Benchmark Capital. We’re told that the funding round previously closed but the startup didn’t want to announce to the public for fear of attracting competitors. The marketplace connects dog owners with vetted and screened walkers. But be... |
After Eight Years On Facebook’s Board, Jim Breyer Exits To Focus On His New Harvard Board Seat | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Venture capitalist is on Facebook’s board in June, which he’s held since April 2005. The split is amicable and stems from his desire to concentrate on his new seat on the Harvard University Corporation Board. Breyer joined the Facebook board after his venture firm Accel became one of Facebook’s earliest investors, ... |
Monaeo Tracks Company Employees For Location Based Tax Information To Prevent Needless Auditing | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | According to Anupam Singhal, cofounder of , two out of three Fortune 500 companies get audited every year. And although there are surely several companies that get audited simply because they were unable to pay their taxes, most of the time it’s simply due an unfortunate case of miscalculation. What Monaeo offers is a... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: The Q10 Vs. The One And The Fitbit Flex | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | This week on the we talk about the Blackberry Q10, The HTC One, and the Fitbit Flex. This time we’re joined by Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, Chris Velazco, and a tiny thinger that won’t fit into the bracelet. Enjoy!
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The Tesla Model S’ Battery Is Now Covered By A Nearly Unconditional Warranty | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Without proper care batteries can wither and die like a delicate tulip roasting in the bright sun from an unseasonably warm spring day — a fact made exponentially worse when the battery in your $60k vehicle no longer functions properly. With that in mind, Tesla an impressive new warranty for the Model S battery pack.... |
AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Firing Staff Who Are Live-Tweeting The Bloodbath | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | While there’s still few details and no official announcement, AOL is shutting down its AOL Music news properties and is firing their employees, according to tweets from the official AOL Music site Spinner’s account and some staff. Poor performance due to competition from independent bloggers may be to blame. However, r... |
GateGuru Relaunches With New Ways To Streamline Your Travel Experience | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Founded by Dan Gellert and Jeff Arena, Time Warner Ventures and Yahoo! alums respectively, is second behind TripIt in terms of users and downloads. The app helps you build itineraries with simple input methods including selecting flights by number or even emailing itineraries into the program. Once you’ve set up your... |
A User’s Guide To Disrupt NY 2013 | Joey Hinson | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Disrupt is two days away… and we’ve put together an array of awesomeness with our partners to make your event experience better. We’ve done a little pivot with our app for Disrupt NY. We’ve invited to be our partner this year. This web app brings a whole new universe of networking capabilities to the Disrupt communi... |
Google’s Neal Mohan On The Keys To Bringing Brand Advertisers Online | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Neal Mohan, Google’s vice president of display advertising, said that his “top priority” for 2013 is to bring brand advertising online in a big way. I interviewed Mohan as part of the preparation for , where we’ll discuss the ad landscape with Gokul Rajaram, Facebook’s product director for ads, and Kevin Weil, Twitter... |
Tumblr’s David Karp Gets Down To Business At TechCrunch Disrupt NY | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Ch – ch – ch- changes! The six-year-old media startup is going through quite a few right now, namely focusing on in its product efforts — enabling a promoted post feature in addition to launching mobile ads. The company is for a “Sheryl Sandberg-type” COO, amidst a series of and layoffs. Business Insider conf... |
These Guys Are Selling Their Private Photo-Sharing App Divvy From The Back Of A VW Bus | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Bootstrapping founders, Jeremy Greenfield and Kayvon Olomi, have taken a non-traditional route to marketing their new photo aggregation and sharing application, . They’ve hopped into a 1973 VW camper bus and are on a cross-country road trip to tour colleges around the U.S., in an attempt to get the word out about the ... |
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Even After Hacks And Bombings, Privacy Advocates Have Big Week In Congress | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | In light of the AP’s and a vicious domestic bombing, Americans have not let fear derail privacy legislation. Just this week, the Senate advanced an anti-email snooping law and the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is reportedly on its way to the grave. It appears that the burden of p... |
Travel Startup AnyRoad Tries To Provide Anything But Your Typical Travel Tour | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Two years ago, I had a terrible experience at the Great Wall when I visited its most popular corridor in Badaling. Trapped between tens of thousands of local tourists for miles upon miles one scorchingly humid August day, I eventually managed to get off by riding a roller coaster down the Great Wall that ended up in a ... |
Designer Builds 3D-Printed Headphones That Use No Manufactured Parts | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | [vimeo http://vimeo.com/63043066#] If the whole of human knowledge were to be wiped out tomorrow, how would you recreate the consumer electronics industry so you can jam out to some rockin’ tunes? Why you’d build these unique 3D-printed headphones. Except for some twists of wire, these cans consist of thin pieces of pr... |
Eric Schmidt Is Right, Using Google Glass Is Weird — Here’s My Experience | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 4 | 26 | Google Chairman Eric Schmidt he finds having to talk to Google Glass out loud to control the interface “the weirdest thing” and that there are going to be “places where Google Glass are inappropriate.” My own experience of trying out the device, even briefly, confirmed to me that this product simply will not become a... |
Google Now, Donna, Sherpa, And The Rise Of The Smart Personal Assistant App | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | Mobile personal assistant apps are all the rage these days. First there was Google Now for Android, but over the last several weeks we’ve seen a whole bunch of new apps pop up — apps like , , and — all of which seek to make our lives easier by simplifying how we organize our meetings, travel, and other personal i... |
Smack Attack Makes Sweet Music By Connecting Your Car’s Steering Wheel And Your iPhone | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | My car’s steering wheel has taken a beating because of the all the lousy drum fills I’ve banged out on it over the years, and at least one entrepreneur thinks that experience could use a little bit of improvement. Gregor Hanuschak (who, in a previous life, worked for NASA) has put together a Kickstarter project for the... |
Facebook Home Hits 500K Downloads In Five Days, Pales In Comparison To Instagram’s Android Shift | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | It would appear that Facebook Home has just surpassed 500k downloads on Google Play since launching on the platform on April 16. The app’s Google Play listing notes the milestone, and confirmed on Twitter. Facebook Home isn’t so much of an app as a user interface for the phone, putting Facebook smack dab in the ce... |
How Will We Define A “Good” Google Glass Experience? | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | Google Glass is getting closer and closer to becoming a shipping product. It’s already making its way out to early “Explorer” program pre-launch testers, and we’ll almost definitely see a lot more from Glass at Google I/O in mid-May. Drew already , and provided some useful insight about how it operates, and how it mig... |
For Developers, Google Glass Looks To Be A Fascinating But Slightly Limited Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | Last week, Google finally the and other necessary documents that will allow developers to write apps for . In some respects, the so-called Mirror API may have been to developers who were expecting to run full-blown augmented-reality apps, but even in its current form, it will allow developers to create new exper... |
Rhapsody Wasn’t Happy, So Open Source Music Service Napster.fm Changes Its Name To Peer.fm | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | Last week, to music services such as Rdio and Spotify, called Napster.fm. The name alone got our attention, and after using it, there were a few features that were reminiscent of its predecessor, which made it even cooler. Today, the service is changing its name to to steer clear of legal issues, since and , or ... |
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