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Review: The Bowers & Wilkins Z2 Airplay Speaker Is Bowm-Chicka-Wow-Wow | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | The is a perfectly suitable option for those of us looking for a sightly, powerful, and compact speaker system. Anyone who’s already invested in Bowers & Wilkins systems before, like the Zeppelin Air or the should be especially considerate of the sexy little Z2, as it will fit in seamlessly with your current set-u... |
Hey Apple, What The Next iPhone Really, | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | What the next iPhone really needs is not an , , or , or even . Or . That list is just garnish compared to the biggie: the iPhone needs a better keyboard. The iOS keyboard remains the most offensive piece of skeuomorphism across Apple’s faux realistic, lavishly textured user interface estate. (Yes, including ... |
MBAx.me Wants To Help Non-Technical Professionals Learn Key Technical Skills Online | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | It’s not often that a guest post on TechCrunch turns into a startup. Earlier this year, Googler Aditya Mahesh which addressed what skills business students should take the time to learn before they start working in tech. As he writes, he wishes he had learned certain skills before entering the workforce at Google, ... |
Dawn Of The Digilante | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | It’s hard to say with any conviction where we are in the process of, shall we say, crowd-sourcing justice. Like most things, it is a process, not something achieved, and while some question its utility, it’s no good to question its existence. Some will see the events this week in Boston as the moment digilantism (conve... |
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Fox Shuts Down Cory Doctorow’s Homeland Book In Overzealous DMCA takedown | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | that links to Cory Doctorow’s book, , are being shut down after a DMCA request by Fox. Why is Cory’s Creative Commons licensed book that is available for being attacked? It kind of sounds like it could be a copy of Homeland, the TV series, so they shut it down. Homeland is available on multiple sites, including Doc... |
Iterations: From Singapore To Silicon Valley, The Cross-Pacific Journey Of Developer-Focused Nitrous.IO | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | During the summer of 2012, while working in venture capital, one of the early-stage companies I stumbled upon was founded by a trio of guys based in Singapore. We met a few times in the Valley and quickly became friends, and I informally helped them, from time to time, navigate the waters of moving to the Valley and ... |
My Favorite Entrepreneur Story In A Long Time | Mark Suster | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that had posted on Facebook. It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. As the son of an immigrant myself, I am a sucker for an immigrant story. Moving to the U.S. with not... |
Bitcoin’s Last Mile Problem | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 21 | was (and still is) one of my favorite bloggers. Calling himself the Accordion Guy, Joey has been writing cool stuff for most of this decade, and he recently hopped on the train by posting a long how-to in the vein of . His is quite thorough in his process, but it sets an old HP all-in-one to the task, which resulti... |
Dipping Deeper Into Publishing, Kabam Launches $50M Fund To Bring Japanese Games West | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | With in just the Japanese market last month, it’s no surprise that Western game developers are looking to cherry pick more hits to bring back to West. Kabam, , is launching a $50 million fund to bring Japanese games into the West. Gaming giants like DeNA, GREE and Zynga along with mid-size developers like Pocket Ge... |
Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform Realty Mogul Is Gaining Steam, As It Wins Another Pitch Competition | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Last week, a young startup called took home top honors at a Silicon Valley pitch competition and networking event hosted by , in which eight early-stage startups showed off their wares in front of 400 investors and founders. Realty Mogul won the top prize from a pool of over 50 seed-stage companies, beating out e... |
Alibaba Group Launches Daily Deals Site Juhuasuan Overseas In Hong Kong & Taiwan | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Alibaba Group that it has launched , a combination of C2C retail platform Taobao Marketplace and group shopping site Juhuasuan, in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Juhuasuan Overseas will offer merchandise and services from selected Taobao sellers in the same daily deals format as the original , which is accessible only to cu... |
Fliple Snags Windows Phone’s Style, Brings It To iOS As A Contacts Manager | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Oh, man. If Microsoft thinks is , they’re just going to this. Fliple is a new, free contacts manager app for iOS. It’s largely inspired (cough) by Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS. It’s got the same white-on-black sans serif font. It’s got the little one-tap tiles that show a contact’s photo, only to slide away every ... |
Messaging App Line’s Kawaii Characters Get Their Own Cartoon Series In Japan | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Line’s animated characters, which helped it become , now have their own cartoon series. The TV show, called “ ,” premiered on Tokyo TV Channel 6 last week (h/t ). “Line Town” features half-hour-long episodes and a prime 6:30PM to 7:30PM slot, and has already been picked up for syndication on BS Japan. According to As... |
FF Ventures’ John Frankel Talks Wearables, Brain Waves, And The Future Of Immigration | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | , founder and partner at , has a steady hand on the pulse of innovation. He’s invested in companies like 500px, Appy Couple, and Moveline, to name a few, and while he doesn’t see a Series A crunch on the horizon, he does see the pace of innovation rapidly heating up. After all, his firm as led seven investments in ... |
The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/63373007 w=600&h=450] On Friday, veteran journalist did a segment on Silicon Valley that gives a very different perspective than we get from most mainstream media coverage of the world-renowned , and it’s been fueling some this weekend. Called “ ,” it’s a very interesting look at the gr... |
Blink, Servo And Rust: A Good Week For Browsers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | It’s sure been an interesting week for this of us who cover browsers. Last weekend, we that Internet Explorer 11 will probably support WebGL and . Then, on Tuesday I got an email from Mozilla, asking if I had time to get on the phone with Mozilla’s CTO Brendan Eich to talk about the organization’s and the Rust lan... |
TC Makers: Inside Will Rockwell’s Steampunk Workshop | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Hidden amidst the winding pathways of Llewelyn Park, New Jersey, America’s oldest gated community, steampunk designer Will Rockwell is building a future that never was. He began his career as a TV producer but he always loved to tinker with metals, leather, and wood – the three components of good steampunk. After bui... |
The Power And Weakness That Come With Being The Default | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Facebook had its on Wednesday, and its Home launcher will soon start shipping exclusively on an . This is the social network’s first crack at being the default experience on any device. Until now, using Facebook has been a completely optional and background experience, meaning you’d have to visit its website or down... |
The App Is Not Enough: Why We Might See More Companies Try Mobile Land Grabs After Facebook Home | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | An app on a smartphone is a limited vessel, one that can provide content and information for your audience, but within bounds set out by the operating system. People still have to navigate to your app, and therefore there’s a time when they’re “in” your product or service, and a time when they’re “out” of said product ... |
Students Tackle Road Trips, Online Distraction, And More At HackPrinceton | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | It feels like college Hackathon season is in full swing, and that’s why I’ve been making it a point to drive around the Northeast and check out what all these undergrad hackers are capable of cobbling together in just 24 hours. Last Saturday I pulled over at Princeton University just in time to see 30-some sleep-depriv... |
Apple Pulls iOS App Discovery Service AppGratis From App Store | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Apple pulled discovery service and daily deal app from the App Store. So far, AppGratis is not communicating on the issue and users can only speculate about what the issue is. Sometimes, Apple pulls an app because its latest update crashes or because the app uses a private API. Then, the developer has to submit a new... |
Iterations: The Tension Between Transparency And Privacy In The Startup Ecosystem | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | TechCrunch Everyone wants more transparency. It is part of a deep, fundamental trend. In government. In the workplace. Inside large systems like health care. And, more recently, around early-stage startup metrics and investment data. The crowd wants more transparency. They want to know more about metrics, revenues, a... |
Chat Multi-Tasking, Facebook Home’s Game Changer, Could Rattle Apple And Google | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | Single-tasking has been a hallmark of mobile. But lets you chat in an overlaid drop-down window as you use Google, Yelp, Maps or any other app, bringing the productivity of the desktop to the small screen. Home’s cover feed and responsive design are nice, but you could call them . Chat multi-tasking, though, merges ... |
WikiLeaks Goes Google, Develops Searchable Database For Millions Of ‘Kissinger Cables’ | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | [tweet https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/321100916273070081] Buzzword enthusiasts would call this a “pivot”: infamous classified document release outlet, WikiLeaks, for over 1.7 million historical diplomatic cables. The “Kissinger Cables” span from 1973-1976, partly covering the leadership of controversial Secre... |
Bitcoin And The End Of Money | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | A commentator on Bloomberg, Princeton student , writes that Bitcoin is an “existential threat to the modern liberal state,” a line that can be read in two ways. One reading of his op-ed suggests we are all in danger and that the inability to tax and track will result in a thriving black market and reduced fiscal con... |
Homegrown Developers, Localization Breathe Life Into South Asian Gaming | Hassan Baig | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | It’s an open secret that the social gaming industry is no longer the cornucopia of opportunities it used to be. Rising CPAs, falling k-factors, plateuing ARPUs and channel saturation all have made life difficult for the typical gaming studio devoid of a big network of users or a deep warchest of advertising money. But ... |
Backed Or Whacked: The Battle Of The Bands | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 4 | 7 | . Crowdfunding sites have become a breeding ground for smart watches and even a fair number of . But assuming one opts in for such a portable time-telling conveyance, that usually leaves a second wrist available for product targeting. For those willing to band together, a range of both inventive and connected wristban... |
Google Adds Non-Profit Information To Knowledge Graph, Gives Them A Boost With Google+ Follow Buttons | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Some people believe that Google’s practices when it comes to search are mystical and unfair — or sometimes — but what the company wants to do is surface the most important information for you when you perform a task on its most important product. With the last year, Google started showing information on the right-h... |
Foursquare’s Upcoming iOS Release Is A Pivotal Moment For The Company, As In It’s “Now Or Never” | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | We all know the Foursquare story quite well: The app , and a fair amount of people have been using it to check-in ever since. The company is releasing a new version of its , which will put those 3.5 billion check-ins in the forefront with search and explore functionality. It’s a move that we saw coming ever since the... |
The Facebook Phone Consensus From 7 Reviews: An Impressive First Try For $99 | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Why trust one reviewer to tell you what phone to buy? Better to get a consensus, and across reviews by seven leading publications the verdict is that the HTC First features a stylish yet casual design, efficient messaging, reliable battery, and an addictive feed-reading experience. But its “apperating system” is confus... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Ask a VC is back this week with Index Ventures’ partner . You can submit questions for Rimer either in the comments or , and we’ll ask them during the show. Rimer, who is focused on investing in infrastructure software and services, joined Index Ventures in 2002 and helped established the firm’s London office. He’s l... |
Medium Adds Collaboration Tools To Its Publishing Platform, Allowing People To Add Notes To Your Posts | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Today, Ev Williams’ , added some tools to bring people together while they’re writing. The collaboration tools are similar to what you’d find in Google Docs, but the key is to work on something to share publicly, together. The service isn’t open to the public yet, but it’s a beautiful set of tools to help you write ab... |
Adobe Launches Primetime To Facilitate TV Everywhere Services, Signs Up Comcast & NBC Sports As Customers | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Adobe has changed the way it sells technology used to enable high-quality streaming services from TV networks and other video providers. With the launch of Adobe Primetime — previously know as Project Primetime — the technology company is providing a suite of tools for video delivery. And it has signed up a couple of b... |
Mobile Video Views Up 300% In 2012, With Tablets Driving The Charge With A 360% Increase | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Adobe has released its Digital Video Benchmark for the U.S. for 2012, wherein the team shows what it learned monitoring video performance throughout the year across digital platforms. The study compiles data from Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, scoring viewing habits and also monitoring ad performance. 2012 saw a ma... |
As It Focuses On Profitability, Tumblr Lays Off Team Behind Editorial Initiative Storyboard | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Tumblr has let go of the three person behind , an experimental initiative to highlight users and organizations on the blogging platform, less than one year after the project went live. In a , Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp said “what we’ve accomplished with Storyboard has run its course for now, and our editorial... |
An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Facebook Phone | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | “This is not a Facebook Phone.” Yeah, whatever. The HTC First is the first phone that has Facebook partnering up with an OEM to bake an Android pie with Facebook Home filling, so I’m calling it the Facebook Phone. There will be more. This is just the first. And guess what? It’s really good. Sitting through the Facebook... |
Facebook Phone Review: “HTC First” Decorates Home With Extra Alerts But A Shabby Camera | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | After years of rumors, the Facebook Phone aka the finally launches April 12th for $99 on AT&T. It’s light and supple, plus comes with a suped-up version of pre-installed that pipes in non-Facebook notifications, but the 5MP Camera is a let down. If you’re highly social, want a mid-range handset, crave email alerts,... |
Google’s Bufferbox Move To The Bay Area Didn’t Surprise Swapbox, Which Remains Focused On Scaling | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Who knew that package delivery would become a hot space, especially when it involves installation of physical lockers? Last week, we uncovered that Google’s recent acquisition, the San Francisco Bay Area with its shipping service. Of course, after being acquired, nobody knew what would become of Bufferbox, so another... |
Badgeville Names Former Cast Iron Exec Ken Comée As Its New CEO | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Gamification startup just announced that it has appointed Ken Comée as its new CEO. Co-founder and outgoing CEO Kris Duggan will become the company’s chief strategy officer, and he will also remain on the Badgeville board. Comée was formerly the CEO of Cast Iron Systems, a cloud company that was acquired by IBM, and ... |
eBay Hires A VP Of Data To Focus On Personalization Across The Marketplace And Other Properties | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | We know that eBay has been to its marketplace and other products and properties but today the company is brining in new leadership to direct this efforts. Zoher Karu, who was formerly Vice President of Marketing Analytics and Insight at retailer Sears, will be joining the company as its first Vice President of Custom... |
TechCrunch Is Coming To Austin, Seattle, San Diego, And Boston | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | TechCrunch is rolling into Texas, Washington, California and Massachusetts this year for our patented Meetup+Pitch Off events, parties dedicated to exposing the coolest startups in your home town. We want you to attend. Here’s what’s up: Austin is happening on . at a location that will be announced shortly. The is... |
FuzeBox Adds 50K New Enterprise Subscribers In Q1 2013, Debuts Improved iPad Client | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | San Francisco-based virtual meeting player has had some impressive success to kick-off 2013, posting a 200 percent rise in demand for its product in the initial quarter of the year, with 50,000 new subscribers added in just a few short months. The company also now counts 30 percent of the Fortune 500 among its client... |
Microsoft’s Latest “Scroogled” Ads Attack Sharing Of Information That Google Developers Need To Process Transactions | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Today, Microsoft has by way of its “Scroogled” campaigns. This time, the complaints are about how Google handles users’ data when they purchase an application from Google Play. have targeted both Gmail and search over ads and privacy. In the two videos below, Microsoft uses animations and words to walk you through “... |
Vudu Headquarters Robbed, Hard Drives With Private Customer Data Stolen | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | There’s been a break-in! And this time, it’s a physical, real-world break-in — not the digital variety we’ve grown so accustomed to hearing about lately. Vudu, the video streaming service acquired by Walmart in 2010, has just sent an email to customers letting them know of a break-in that occurred in their Santa Clara,... |
Developer Community Coderwall Launches Pitchbox, A New Recruiting Service | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | Y Combinator-backed started out as , but it has been moving into recruiting — first by and now with the launch of a new service called . It’s a separate site from Coderwall, where developers describe the salary and work they’d want from their dream jobs. Then Pitchbox uses a combination of human curation and auto... |
Social Commerce / Photo Sharing Network Lockerz Launching Ador, A New Fashion Site | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | Looks like , the social commerce and photo sharing service, may be moving on to yet another chapter in its life. After , , and earlier this year, the company is now launching a new fashion site, . A tipster tells us that Lockerz is shutting down altogether and relaunching, but as of right now, the Lockerz site ... |
Alibaba Group’s New Stake In Sina Weibo May Help Its Nascent Smartphone OS Gain Traction Against Android & iOS | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | gives Alibaba Group several perks, including an inroad into social media and access to the microblogging platform’s data. Not only that, but its new 18 percent stake in Sina Weibo may also give Alibaba Group a leg-up as it seeks to promote its own smartphone operating system Alibaba Mobile OS (AMOS) as a rival to Andro... |
Walk The Floor With Us At TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013’s Startup Alley | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, there was a brand new batch of startups on display in Startup Alley, and we hit the floor this morning to check them out. There was a healthy mix, including the Italian pavilion as well as a number of mobile and media startups and companies concerning themselves with privacy. W... |
As Aereo Fights A Clone, Fox Threatens To Go To Cable If Courts Continue To Rule In Aereo’s Favor | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 9 | This is a story about multiple lawsuits, a clone, and yet another tale of David vs. Goliath, except this time David and Goliath are kind of the same person. After winning in the courts against a cohort of major broadcast networks just last week, two major problems have befallen the streaming TV startup Aereo. The fir... |
Webydo Makes It Easier For Designers To Build Websites By Creating The Code For Them | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | is a cloud-based SaaS for designers who want to be able to sell their website design services without having to get their own hands dirty doing any coding or hire a developer to do it for them. The system offers a custom CMS where designers can build the website. Once they’re happy with the design, Webydo’s software ... |
Save The Mom Puts A Family-Only Social Network On Your iPhone | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | Italian company and TechCrunch Startup Alley participant at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has created an iPhone app that’s designed to bring families closer together, with social networking tools designed specifically for private use. It’s not only about being social, however, as it includes shared productivity and task... |
Judge Throws Out Craigslist’s Copyright Lawsuit, But It Can Still Sue 3Taps Over Data Use | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | A California federal judge that Craigslist can’t sue real estate listings platforms 3Taps, PadMapper, and Discover Home Network for copyright infringement. But the judgement isn’t a complete victory for the developers of 3Taps because Craigslist is still allowed to sue the startup for gaining unauthorized access to da... |
Poutsch Is An Opinion-Gathering Platform For Tracking What The World Thinks | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | Here’s a startup hoping to fill the gap left by the : French-Belgian startup , now based in New York and exhibiting here at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, has built a platform for tracking opinion data by crowdsourcing market research, which is incentivised through a free-to-use-and-browse social opinion netw... |
The 7 Disrupt NY Finalists: Enigma, Floored, Glide, Handle, HealthyOut, SupplyShift And Zenefits | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | More than 2,000 people have filled up the historic Manhattan Center with our biggest hackathon and Startup Alley yet, and a set of incisive discussions with tech leaders. Now it’s time for the battlefield finals, and we have our seven finalists picked out. But first, Ashton Kutcher, Joe Lonsdale, a big panel on trans... |
Viddy Co-Founder Chris Ovitz Lands At Mobile Gaming Startup Scopely | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | Viddy co-founder Chris Ovitz has landed at another buzzed-about Los Angeles startup, the mobile gaming platform Scopely. He used to head up business development at the mobile video startup Viddy, which shot up like a star on the Facebook platform and iOS charts only to later come back down just as dramatically. At Scop... |
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App Install Ads Could Be The Growing Cash Calf Of Facebook’s Earnings | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | How do you get hundreds of millions of people to consider downloading your app? One of the only answers is Facebook’s app install ads. With the app stores overrun and every company going mobile, app install ads are Facebook’s big chance to monetize mobile. Companies like 1-800-Flowers and Poshmark say the ads are alrea... |
ValueClick Founder Brian Coryat Raises $1.5M For Business Listings Startup ‘Local Market Launch’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | , a startup that helps companies manage the online presence of local stores, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding. The company was founded by Brian Coryat, who previously founded ValueClick, an online ad company that went public in 2000. Coryat told me that he spent much of the past decade ... |
David Tisch Is Bored With His Smartphone’s Apps | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | has made quite the name for himself as an investor based in NYC. Most notably, Tisch spent years at TechStars as the Managing Director, and has since left to co-found another investment fund called BoxGroup. We sat the man down backstage at Disrupt today to chat out his thoughts on the NY tech scene, trends he’s exc... |
Anyone Can Become A Content Curator On Woisio | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | is a Turkish company being featured at Startup Alley this year, and it’s a little like what watching television would be like if your friends took over the programming. At first glance, Woisio most closely resembles an everyday television programming lineup. There are a number of predefined channels that are organiz... |
Disrupt NY 2013 Barrels Along For A Second Day | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | And with the conclusion of the last Battlefield Startup presentation, the second day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has come to a close. The day kicked off with a talk between noted New York City venture capitalist Fred Wilson and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently became a VC himself. The two and trad... |
UQ Life Is A Gaming Platform For Personalized Self Discovery, Learning, And Development | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | was founded to create a smart platform for self-discovery and personal development, and it’s designed to help kids learn through collaborative games. Today, as part of TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Battlefield, the company launched with a couple of apps for child learning and development by personalizing games to ma... |
ShipHawk Aims To Be The Only Retail Shipping Solution You Ever Need | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley audience choice for day two is , a Santa Barbara-based shipping startup that launched this week at the conference. ShipHawk, co-founded by Jeremy Bodenhamer and Aaron Freeman, is a fully-featured online shipping platform that takes care of everything from providing shipping est... |
Talkz, Because Messaging With Your Thumbs Is So 2000 And Late | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | If email is first in line for disruption, messaging has to be second. A new company launching out of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has a fresh take on our most favoritest form of communication. Talkz asks you to stop typing and start talking. Or type. Or doodle. Or share music. Really, anything you want. “We’re combining ... |
Stop Forgetting The Important Stuff From Your Meetings, Thanks To Retrace | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | It’s possible that you are an incredibly organized person who remembers everything important from your meetings, and you’re part of an incredibly organized team where every post-meeting task is communicated clearly. But … maybe not. Maybe stuff slips through the cracks. That’s where , an app that just launched at Disr... |
Mobile Enterprise Startup Workspot Lets Employees Securely Work From Whatever Device They Want | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 30 | Mobile enterprise startups are like unicorns. Nearly every VC I talk to wants to have a bet in this space, yet there really aren’t that many new candidates each year. Everyone knows that workers are bringing their own devices to work and want to use their personal tablets or phones instead of clunky, employer-mandat... |
Somo, Developer Of The Summly iOS App, Secures New Investment From MMC Ventures | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | , the UK’s largest independent mobile marketing agency, has secured a second investment round led by and participated in by existing investors. While we normally don’t bother with investments where terms are undisclosed, it’s worth noting that Somo, while it’s a large independent mobile agency, is also rapidly develo... |
Lenovo May Produce A Think-Brand Smartphone, Says ThinkPad Business Unit’s VP [UPDATE] | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | In an interview today with (link via Google Translate), Dilip Bhatia, vice president and general manager of Lenovo’s ThinkPad Business Unit, said that the Chinese tech company may build a Think-brand smartphone. If Lenovo does come out with a Think-brand smartphone (a ThinkPhone?), it would be inline with the company... |
Resume-Killing Jobs Marketplace HireArt Wants To Help You Find A Job At An Education Startup | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | If you’re not familiar with hiring platform, , they’re the startup that , courtesy of my colleague Sarah Perez. Yes, the Y Combinator-incubated startup launched in March last year to provide a new solution to an age-old problem experienced by every employer during the hiring process: Resumes are bullshit. Job candid... |
Practice Fusion Launches Doctors Appointment And Reviews Site Patient Fusion | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | “It’s absurd that people won’t go to a restaurant unless they’ve read reviews but they don’t do that for their healthcare.” That’s why top electronic medical records startup ‘s CEO Ryan Howard said his company built , a site where you can compare reviews of nearby physicians and book appointments as soon as within an... |
Now In Search Of Its Second Cohort, AcceleratorHK Wants To Boost Hong Kong’s Nascent Startup Scene | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Hong Kong’s startup scene is still in its infancy, but the founders of , the city’s first accelerator program, have high hopes that it will become one of Asia’s leading tech hubs. AcceleratorHK, which is sponsored by , is now seeking the second batch of startups from within and outside of Hong Kong for its fourteen w... |
Mosaic Prepares To Launch Another $100M Of Projects On Its Solar Crowdfunding Platform | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | , a startup allowing people to invest in solar projects, today that it has received regulatory approval for its next wave of crowdfunding efforts in California, worth a total of $100 million in investment. back in January with three projects that were fully backed in fewer than 24 hours. In total, the company says t... |
Just Six Months After Being Acquired, Twitter’s Vine Hits #1 Free Spot On Apple’s App Store | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Twitter acquired the mini-video-taking app Vine last October before it ever launched, sending everyone into a frenzy about the company . In late January, Twitter finally . Since then, it’s gone from being from the featured section due to an issue over adult content to being used in and celebrities. Today, it all ... |
Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Educational publisher is diving deeper into the world of open and social educational data: it has bought , the London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics and organizations to share research and collaborate with others via a social network. The terms of the deal have not been publicly disclosed but we... |
Twitter Pushes Android App Update To Fix The “Me” Tab Bug | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Over the weekend, we told you about an from last Wednesday. The issue centered around the “Me” tab not loading properly, just giving you a spinning wheel on a white screen. Users took to Twitter to complain about the bug, saying that they couldn’t access important features on the screen, like reading DMs and switchin... |
Tumblr Overhauls Its Android App With Path-Like Interface, Brings “Take A Photo” Back To The Desktop | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Today, Tumblr launched a new version of its . Its interface is the design you’re seeing in many apps lately, mostly Yes, Tumblr has gone with its UI. That aside, the app feels way more responsive, letting you scroll through all of the cat photos and emo shots of your pals. Its pull-down-to-refresh even got a snazzi... |
How To Mine Bitcoins | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Mining bitcoins – a process that helps manage bitcoin transactions as well as create new “wealth” – is the new Beanie Babies. Luckily for us, however, bitcoins seem to be going up in value and should maintain their value over time, unlike your mint condition Tiny the stuffed Chihuahua. But how do you get bitcoins? You ... |
Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks. App deletions hit a record high in February, with 60,000 apps removed during the course of the month – the largest round of app deletions to date. The news of... |
YC-Backed TapIn.TV Evolves Into Framebase, Aims To Make Building Video Products Less Painful | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Sometimes, the business you be building is hidden beneath the one you already are. Back in early 2012, four friends set out to build . As one of many competitors in the crowded live mobile video broadcasting space, TapIn.TV focused almost entirely on video. After months of development, they noticed something rather ... |
Report: 46% Of Social Login Users Still Choose Facebook, But Google Is Quickly Gaining Ground | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Since Google its earlier this year, social logins have suddenly become a hot topic again. According to the latest data from social login provider , Facebook continues to be the most popular identity provider for social logins, but the social network is starting to lose some ground to Google. Services like Janrain,... |
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Adknowledge Acquires SocialWeekend Labs To Add App Promotion Tools | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Online ad company just that it has acquired , a startup that built tools for developers to promote their apps, and also built its own Facebook and mobile apps (such as Birthdays+ and Photos+). It sounds like Adknowledge is most interested in the startup’s developer tools, as well as its team — the company says it ... |
Instantgram.Me Turns Your Instagram Photos Into Magnets, Calls The Whole Fridge Into Question | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | These days, you can get your Instagram photos printed onto just about anything. There are companies that print out Post-it-sized Instagrams, Instagrams on Canvas, Instagrams on wood and fiberglass, and everything in between. Today, is joining those ranks with its new Instagram magnet-making business. The service offe... |
Gentry Underwood, CEO And Co-Founder Of Mailbox, To Speak At Disrupt NY | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | Mailbox launched to much fanfare earlier this year. Heralded as “ “, iOS users virtually lined up to try the app. It was a hit. So much so that led by CEO and co-founder Gentry Underwood. And now, at the end of April, Underwood will be onstage with us at Disrupt New York. , Gentry led his team through the pivot from ... |
Report: More Than 250M Domain Names Have Now Been Registered, Almost Half Are .Com And .Net | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 8 | The total number of registered domain names passed 250 million in the last quarter of 2012, according to latest . More than 6 million domain names were registered in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total to 252 million worldwide. The basic .com domains, of course, make up the majority of registered domain n... |
Facebook In Talks To Buy Bang With Friends | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Facebook is in the process of acquiring startup , according to multiple sources, in order to make a foray into the online dating space. According to these same sources, the acquisition will be a $30 million deal in both cash and stock, as that seems to be the for gimmicky startups these days. Concerned about what th... |
Midokura Scores $17.3M Series A To Ramp Up Its Network Virtualization Offering On A Global Scale | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Japan’s , a startup with offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Lausanne and Barcelona, today announced a $17.3 million Series A funding round, led by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, along with NTT Group’s DOCOMO Innovations, Inc., and Innovative Ventures Fund Investment, the investment arm of NEC Group. The fundin... |
TechCrunch Is Breaking Into Real-Money Gaming | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 1 |
Even though that pave the way for online gambling in the U.S., Zynga is not going to be the first to get in on it. Given how terrible the economics of running a blog are, TechCrunch has been exploring new revenue streams. They may include, but are not limited to, , Path 3.0-like stickers for Livefyre comments... |
Space Monkey Founders Show Off Their P2P Storage System, Prepare For Kickstarter Campaign | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | We’ve Google Ventures-backed before, but last week we actually got to film the peer-to-peer storage service in-action. Co-founder Clint Gordon-Carroll described the technology as “our way of disrupting the cloud” — you store your data on your own Space Monkey device, but it’s then encrypted and backed up on other... |
Why Facebook Home Is Potentially Brilliant | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Let’s say we build a phone, theoretically. We’re not! But if we did, we could get maybe 10 million people to use it. 20 million. That doesn’t move the needle for us. – With , it’s looking like Zuck was being almost completely honest. isn’t building a Facebook Phone. They’re letting HTC do it for them. But that’s s... |
Menlo Ventures Adds Playspan Founder Karl Mehta As Its Newest Partner | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | said today that , the tech entrepreneur perhaps best known for founding virtual goods monetization startup and leading it as CEO through its , has joined the Silicon Valley venture capital firm as a partner. According to Mehta’s , he stayed on at Visa as the CEO of PlaySpan for two years post-deal, leaving the co... |
With Its ‘Foodie Top 100 Restaurants’ Guide, Glam Media Is Releasing Its First Print Book | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | has built a company around digital advertising and publishing, but today it announced that it’s getting into the print business, with the release of of its Foodie Top 100 Restaurants Worldwide guide. Other online companies have released their own books and booklets, but they’re usually just a marketing gimmick rathe... |
Google’s Director Of Privacy Alma Whitten Steps Down | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | As Forbes this afternoon, , Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering, has decided to step down from her current position. Google has now confirmed this. Whitten joined Google 10 years ago and oversaw the company’s privacy policies during a tumultuous time when its Street View cars were accused of spy... |
eBay’s Comparison Shopping Site Shopping.com Rebrands As Ad Platform eBay Commerce Network | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Comparison shopping network , which was purchased by eBay back in 2005 in cash, is officially as the eBay says that the site has evolved from being a comparison shopping site to an actual commerce ad network, and this shift in title reflects that. The network aims to connect retailers with buyers across sites lik... |
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Queueing Theory Lets Any App Offer A Mailbox-Like Reservation System (Even If It’s Just For Building Buzz) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Ever since Google announced that access to its then-new email application Gmail would be invite-only at first, startup founders have been angling to reproduce that same kind of fervor for their own services. But it wasn’t until the new iOS app Mailbox launched its innovative “reservation system” that we’ve seen anythin... |
Former | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | , the former executive editor at who at the trailblazing tech publication late last year (weeks after longtime chief editor ), will announce today that he has taken on two new roles — keeping one foot in journalism, and one foot out the door. Goetz will assume an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) role at the he... |
Game Of Thrones Season 3 Premieres To Record Ratings, Piracy | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Everyone, it seems, is a Game Of Thrones fan. The fantasy series, which was spawned out of a series of novels by George R. R. Martin and adapted for HBO, just aired its third season premiere last night and a whole bunch of people were watching. The show touted its largest-ever live audience during the broadcast, which ... |
Facebook Phone Leak Points To Budget HTC Device, Homescreen App For All Androids | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Facebook’s new “Home” on Android will debut on a mediocre HTC handset codenamed “Myst” but will be available on standard Android phones, according to an autopsy of a leaked developer build of the Facebook “phone” software scored by . This and predictions from last week about what Facebook will launch at its big pres... |
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