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Biz Stone’s New Startup Jelly Sounds Like A Home For Do-Gooders On The Go | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | that Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was working on a new mobile startup called “Jelly.” Today, has emerged that gives us a few more details as to what Jelly might focus on, but it’s still hazy on details. In the post, Biz Stone, who is co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc., says it will be for “everybody,” and w... |
The GPS-Enabled DJI Phantom Quadcopter Makes The AR.Drone Look Like A Toy | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Back in 2010, our own John Biggs rightly Parrot’s AR.Drone as ” the coolest thing [he had] seen in a long, long time.” Since then, Parrot has launched the and while it’s still a very cool gadget, quadcopters have come a very long way since 2010. Last month, the folks at , who mostly specialize in developing unmann... |
Now With 3 Million New Users, Google Reader’s Heir Apparent Feedly Relaunches On iOS & Android, Reveals How It Plans To Make Money | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | , the RSS feed-reading client that is rapidly becoming following the planned Google Reader shutdown, is today launching new versions of its Feedly Mobile client for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android phones and tablets. This update, built-in response to user feedback, is focused on improving search, productivity, ... |
Famo.us, The Framework For Fast And Beautiful HTML5 Apps, Will Be Free Thanks To “Huge Hardware Vendor Interest” | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | , the JavaScript framework designed for building crazy rich (yet super fast) interfaces in pure HTML5, is making two announcements out of the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco this morning: the framework will be free to developers thanks to a few “huge hardware vendors” taking interest, and it’s getting a phy... |
Flurry’s Latest Calls Phablets A Fad – Devices Don’t Show Disproportionally High Enough Usage To Justify Developer Support | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Flurry, an app analytics firm with a presence on some now 1 billion mobile devices, to examine the increasingly fragmented selection of hardware form factors on the market today, in an effort to better understand consumer preferences. The report concludes that people most prefer and use apps on medium-sized smartphone... |
CrunchWeek: Facebook Home Madness | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | It’s time for that very special time each week when a few of us writers gather around the TechCrunch TV cameras to shoot the breeze about the biggest and most interesting stories from the past seven days. , and joined me in the studio this week to talk about the social network’s huge mobile announcement from Th... |
Statement From Meghan Asha | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | Following about the claims against TechCrunch founder , and our request for more information as to what exactly happened, one of the key people he is of assaulting has responded. Meghan Asha has provided us with the following statement:
As we continue to look into this matter, we appreciate any parties with more... |
What Games Are: The Reviewers Are Wrong About OUYA | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | So let’s be upfront about a couple of things. First, I went to the OUYA party at GDC. Second, I also was invited to the pre-dinner beforehand. Third, OUYA gave me one of the machines at the party, along with a nice pair of wireless headphones and a bag. Fourth, I have subsequently set the machine up in our office at Ja... |
The Next Don: How VCs Plan For The Future | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | We all remember the last scene in The Godfather, where Michael Corleone is depicted as the next Don, taking over the role from his father as the figurehead of the mafioso Corleone family. As a viewer, we are partly left with a sense of relief — finally, Don Corleone’s wishes for his dynasty to carry on through his son ... |
Track The Progress Of This 3D-Printed OpenRC Truggy, A Remote Control Car Enthusiast’s Dream | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | If you’re into 3D printable stuff, or into remote-control cars, then the OpenRC Project is for you. A gentleman in Sweden named is sharing his progress on a 3D-printed Truggy, as well as sharing the recipe with the that he created. A truggy is an off-road vehicle, in case you weren’t sure. The cost of 3D printers i... |
Drones Will Deliver The Morning Paper In France | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 1 | Pimply delivery boys will need to find a new way to make money in France: the province of Auvergne . The official postal service, La Poste Group, has already been beta-testing the automated delivery service with 20 hornet-looking unmanned aerial vehicles. FedEx a vocal proponent of a drone-powered delivery service, ... |
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Clayton Christensen Talks Venture Capital, Crowd Funding, And How To Measure Your Life | Derek Andersen | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVdf5xyD8I] There are few people whose impact on entrepreneurs and business in general you hear about as frequently as Clayton Christensen. Clay’s body of work includes co-founding a publicly traded company, being a Rhodes Scholar, writing one of the most influential of our ge... |
Run On High-Skilled Visas Maxes Out Quota In Just 5 Days | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | Americans will have to hope that a lottery can bring in more talented immigrants. After just 5 days, , two-months faster than last year. Now, eager immigrants will have to submit to a lottery for a chance to work in the U.S. High-skilled immigration reform is a top priority for the nation’s technology sector. Nearly a... |
It’s Not Just You, Twitter’s Latest Android Update Doesn’t Let You Access Your Profile Or DMs On The “Me” Tab | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | Twitter rolled out sweeping this week, mostly to support the , but unfortunately, those who are using the service on Android aren’t so happy. The app has always been a bit buggy on the Android platform, but the issues that are being reported are more than just a little problematic. Users have experienced not being a... |
Gillmor Gang: Fork You | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — spent a too-quick hour on Facebook Home, Twitter’s new deep linking Cards, and the jousting over Webkit. Individually, these developments represent interesting strategy for the major notification platforms of Google, Apple,... |
We Want To See You At Disrupt, East Coast, And Early Bird Tickets Are Nearly Gone | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | As East Coast Editor of TechCrunch I don’t get much respect. “What’s out in New York?” they ask. “No start-ups, that’s for sure. Foursquare? Meh. It’s all bankers and boredom.” I’ll tell you what’s out in New York and along the entire East Coast: some amazing entrepreneurs with some amazing ideas. That’s why I’d like t... |
California Court Bans Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | In California, drivers can for using their GPS while driving. Extending the state’s current ban on texting while driving, an appellate court in California v. Spriggs argued that the “distraction would be present whether the wireless telephone was being used as a telephone, a GPS navigator a clock or a device for send... |
Check In, Flame Out: How To Save Foursquare | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | This hasn’t been a great year for Foursquare. “Check-ins are no longer what they used to be,” as Ingrid Lunden last month. There seems to be a general consensus that “Foursquare keeps resembling Yelp more and more…” but that comparison , especially since there’s little doubt that Yelp has much greater public mindsha... |
Filipino Social Good Startups Win At IdeaSpace Competition | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | The results are in for Filipino accelerator IdeaSpace’s startup competition, and the top ten picks have a heavy focus on social projects. A glance at the list reveals a strong emphasis on environmental and health-related projects, especially those that will likely benefit the developing nation’s poorer regions. When th... |
Where The Free Software Movement Went Wrong (And How To Fix It) | Klint Finley | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | The biggest change I’ve seen in the tech industry in the past decade isn’t social media, cloud computing, big data, consumerization or even mobile. It’s the mainstream acceptance of open source. Even 10 years ago open source was controversial. Back then “open vs. proprietary” arguments would still erupt at meetings and... |
Verizon Reportedly Preparing $100B Bid For Vodafone’s Verizon Wireless Stake | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Verizon Communications is preparing a $100 billion cash and stock bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from Vodafone Group, . Verizon’s board is expected to discuss the potential buyout next week ahead of its annual shareholder meeting. Verizon Communications and UK-based Vodafone formed Verizon Wireless as a... |
Latam Local Services Marketplace Startup GetNinjas Raises $3M Series A To Get More Nimble By Getting More Developers | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 6 | , a local services marketplace startup based in São Paulo, Brazil has closed a $3 million Series A round backed by new investor , with existing investors and also participating. The latter both invested in GetNinjas’ 2011 seed round, which raised a total of $700,000. GetNinjas’ offers an online platform for a dive... |
Baidu’s Video Site iQiyi Reportedly Buys PPStream To Intensify Rivalry With Youku Tudou | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Shanghai-based video streaming platform PPStream (link via Google Translate) been purchased by iQiyi, the online video unit of Internet search giant Baidu, for around $350 million to $400 million. A Baidu spokesman would not confirm the reports, which have been circulating in Chinese media since the end of last month... |
@BillClinton Officially Joins Twitter, Ditches @PrezBillyJeff | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | [tweet https://twitter.com/gov/status/327267946944688128] The 42nd President of the United States and the man with the most endearing lip bite in the world, William Jefferson Clinton, has officially jumped into the 21st century by joining Twitter. The Prez has already racked up more than 200,000 followers in roughly 30... |
Marc Andreessen Speaks At She++ Conference [Video] | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, spoke at the she++ conference last Saturday, discussing women in tech, his favorite new technology, and his thoughts on startup culture. The video is above and you can . You can also find and at the conference shows a key part of its recruit... |
After Launching #Music, Kevin Thau Becomes Latest Employee To Leave Twitter For Biz Stone’s Jelly | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Less than one week after Twitter Music’s launch, Kevin Thau, the man responsible for the standalone app, is leaving the company to become COO of Jelly, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s mysterious, mobile-focused startup, . Thau will be the second high profile Twitter employee to join Jelly: a couple days ago, . In addi... |
Taking A Spin With Joyride, Which Aims To Liven Up Your Commute With Its Android App | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Last month, a startup called came out of stealth mode and announced that it has . Since the company is building a platform for creating entertaining drivetime experiences, we decided that the best place to see the Joyride app in action was on the road. Co-founder and CEO Jeff Chen described Joyride as an attempt t... |
BlackJet, The Uber Of Private Jets, Releases Its iPhone App | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Want to book a private jet but are away from your keyboard? No worries! ‘s got you covered! The startup, which hopes to make non-commercial flights more efficient and less expensive for the high-powered jet set, for instantly booking private jets. BlackJet, which was , publicly launched in February. At launch it co... |
Facebook Stops Forcing You To Tell Friends When You Claim An Offer | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Facebook’s gotten into trouble over the years for auto-sharing e-commerce activity. Determined to avoid another Beacon fiasco or scare people away from Offers they don’t want to tell friends about, Facebook now lets you choose to privately claim an offer rather than automatically share the news to friends. Facebook tel... |
Soluto Brings Web-Based PC Management To Small Business, Ranks The Best Windows Laptops For SMBs (It’s A Mac) | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Over the last few years, Israeli IT startup has morphed from simply being PC software that helps users run diagnostics on their hard drives, to a web-based platform that aims to turn you into a one-person Help Desk. In other words, Soluto now allows anyone to offer remote tech support and run diagnostics, whether tha... |
Dropcam Updates iOS Apps With Location Based Control And Time Scheduling | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | is updating their iOS apps today with two new features their users have been clamoring for: location awareness and in-app time scheduling. is a high definition plug-and-play security camera that has gotten some well deserved praise for its simplistic design and easy installation. Once your Dropcam is plugged into a p... |
After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | In December, , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. AngelList also partnered with to create an investment vehicle for these investments. The company is announcing that, since December, it h... |
Google Tests Search Without Instant Previews, Moves Sharing Tool, Cached And Similar Pages To New Drop-Down Menu (Updated) | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Back in 2010, Google to provide users with a quick way to get a graphic preview of a webpage before you click on the actual link. Now, as first spotted by Alex Chitu from the , it looks like Google is thinking about removing this feature and replacing it with a new drop-down menu. : a Instant Preview is probably n... |
Zynga Plans To Accelerate Its Launch Cycle, Says New Games Won’t Offset Declines In Q2 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Zynga hasn’t been releasing as many new titles in recent months, but things are about to pick up again, executives said during today’s conference call discussing . In fact, they said they’re launching a big new title later today — Draw Something 2. Chief Operations Officer David Ko said that there’s been “a little bit ... |
Photo Sharing App Pictorious Adds Branded Photo Challenges And Photo Showdown | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | is a photo sharing startup that is faced with the unenviable task of crawling its way out of gigantic shadow. Today they’re releasing a bevy of updates to their iOS app, which will hopefully help it mount a better challenge against the photo sharing juggernaut. Pictorious distinguishes itself as more than just an il... |
Google’s Got A Problem. Search Ads Aren’t Just For Search Engines Anymore | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | The juggernaut that is search advertising grew so popular and lucrative because it offered businesses the ability to reach and persuade people with true purchase intent. But now keyword targeting is available on Twitter and Facebook, which could loosen Google’s stranglehold on ads that convince us what to buy. A solid ... |
Yahoo! Japan Injects $20M Into Softbank Capital’s Early-Stage Technology Fund ’10 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Today , the NY-based venture arm of Japan’s largest wireless provider Softbank Corp., has strengthened its ties to Japan even further, announcing that will be injecting $20 million into SoftBank’s early-stage Technology Fund ’10. The $20 million investment and partnership will help U.S. startups at any point in thei... |
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley To Join Us At Disrupt NY | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley has had a helluva April. The company a $41 million debt round from Silver Lake Partners and Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, O’Reilly AlphaTech and Union Square Ventures, and released a revamped iOS app. Yahoo M&A has been sniffing around. In an effort to foster promising web growth, ... |
Netflix Spends $2B Per Year On Content, Primarily On Licensing Movies And TV Shows | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Following up on their strong quarterly earnings report , Netflix has just released a big ol’ mission statement document to their investor relations site, and it’s jam packed with all sorts of great lil’ details. For example: you know how every Netflix customer’s first complaint is that there’s just not enough stream... |
Amid A Challenging Mobile Transition, Zynga’s Revenues Decline 18% To $264M | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | Zynga’s revenues for the first quarter of 2013 declined 18% year-over-year to $264 million as the company is in the midst of doing a big pivot onto mobile platforms. The company swung to a profit from a year ago though, with net income of $4 million. Last year, , Zynga earned $321 million in revenue. Analysts had ... |
Just Sing It Raises $1M For Its iPhone Karaoke App, With Users Recording 500K Songs In Two Weeks | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 24 | The makers of have announced that they raised $1 million in funding. I when it launched earlier this month. At the time, CEO Alec Andronikov told me that his vision is to create a truly addictive social experience — users don’t just share karaoke performances, they actually play a game where they have to guess what... |
Microsoft Inks Patent Deal With ZTE, A Week After Reaching A Similar Agreement With Foxconn | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | Microsoft has a patent deal with ZTE that covers all Android and Chrome devices manufactured by the Chinese firm. This latest agreement comes a week after Microsoft scored a major coup by striking with Taiwanese smartphone maker Hon Hai, which owns Foxconn. Microsoft did not disclose the terms of its deal with ZTE, ... |
Nokia Puts WhatsApp Hard Key On $72 Asha 210 For Asia, Africa; Qwerty S40 Handset Gets Facebook Button In Europe, Latam | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | Nokia has announced another handset in its Series 40-based Asha portfolio of low end mobiles which compete with the budget end of Android and cheap BlackBerrys. The 2G-plus-Wi-Fi Asha 210, due to ship before the end of Q2, packs a physical Qwerty keyboard and comes painted in Nokia’s now trademark eye-popping colours (... |
Reliance Communications Partners With Twitter To Offer Free, Unlimited Access To The Service In India | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | For those in the United States and other locations that are lucky enough to be able to purchase huge data packages for their smartphones, thinking about deciding to “tweet or not to tweet” based on the cost that it could incur is a foreign concept, pun intended. For cell customers in India, it’s a very real situation, ... |
Swype Finally Rolls Out Of Beta, Hits The Google Play Store For $0.99 | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | Way back in March of 2010, Swype launched a super private Beta of its then totally mind-blowing (and now often imitated) swipe-to-type Android keyboard. While they’ve since shipped it out-of-the-box on dozens of handsets, opened the Beta to pretty much anyone, and , they’ve never gotten around to ditching that Beta ta... |
Adobe Updates Its Social Marketing Tools To Predict The Popularity Of Your Facebook Post | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | Adobe is announcing new predictive capabilities for — capabilities that should be particularly helpful to marketers wondering why some social media posts take off while others fall flat. Bill Ingram, vice president for Adobe Analytics and Adobe Social, walked me through the new features earlier today in advance of th... |
Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: The S Stands For Super, Not Simple | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | The Galaxy S4 has an easy mode, and more importantly, the Galaxy S4 an easy mode. This necessity is a double-edged sword. It means that the technology built into Samsung’s latest generation smartphone does things you’ve never seen before, and maybe couldn’t even imagine. However, really that technology isn’t as sim... |
Twitter Is Testing Two-Factor Authentication Internally, And It Can’t Come Soon Enough | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | In what was a , one Associated Press hack and a false tweet about the White House sent the stock market into a momentary free fall. Twitter hopes to stop intrusions like that in the future by introducing a two-factor authentication process, . When this offering will be available to users is unknown. The company has b... |
HTC One Review: The Competition Is Fierce, But HTC’s New Flagship Rises To The Challenge | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | that HTC knows how to put together a nice phone. Despite the quality of its wares though, HTC spent most of 2012 releasing disappointing earnings statements and being outflanked by much larger rivals — what’s a company to do in a situation like that? The answer, according to CEO Peter Chou, was to double down on innov... |
The BlackBerry Q10 Is A QWERTY Keyboard Smartphone Comeback Worth Waiting For | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | The BlackBerry Q10 is, some might say, the BlackBerry OS 10 device that the company should have led with, ahead of its . That’s because it sports a hardware QWERTY keyboard, something that has become a unique distinction among top-tier smartphones these days. BlackBerry tells me they wanted to nail the all-touch exper... |
Flight Deals Platform GetGoing Takes On Kayak With Souped Up Search Engine For Cheaper Flights | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | The price of airfare is an ongoing point of frustration for travelers, especially considering that it feels like airlines find every conceivable opportunity to shake you down for a few more bucks. Many startups and businesses have come and gone trying to find a way to give leisure travelers access to cheaper airfare, a... |
After Years Of Government Scrutiny Over Security Concerns, Huawei Says It’s Quitting The U.S. [UPDATE] | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | Huawei, the world’s second-largest supplier of network gear by revenue, is pulling out of the U.S. after it sales efforts have been repeatedly stymied due to concerns over national security. According to , executive vice president Eric Xu said at the company’s annual analyst summit yesterday that Huawei “is not intere... |
Indonesian Newsstand App Scoop Closes $2.4M Series B | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | just announced that it has raised $2.42 million (S$3 million) in a Series B round of funding. The Indonesian company is registered and headquartered in Singapore, and this round of funding has come from Indonesia’s largest media group, Kompas Gramedia. The company’s main product is a digital newsstand app called . Th... |
GroupTalent Wants To Hack Tech Hiring In SF And NYC By Fighting Job Spam, Focusing On The “Try Before You Buy” Model | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | launched in December of 2011 to offer solace to the many startups struggling to find top technical talent. Some might stand opposed to this ongoing while others will call it a full-blown war. Whatever you call it, startups today are hard-pressed to lure top developers and engineers away from the mighty perks and sir... |
Through Dirt-Cheap Genetic Testing, Counsyl Is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | Jen Baumgartel opted for in-vitro fertilization after learning from a Counsyl test that she and her husband were carriers for the severest form of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. For cynics who say that Silicon Valley has become too mired in photo-sharing apps and addictive games, take a 15-minute drive to South San Franci... |
Pathmapp Launches An A/B Testing Platform For Native iOS Apps To Let Developers Optimize, Configure In Real Time | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | A/B testing has long been a fundamental part of developing applications and products for the Web, and, with the explosion of smartphones, developers are naturally eager to use the process to test new designs and updates for mobile apps. The problem is that, traditionally, this has been tricky to manage, especially on i... |
In A Win For E-Hail Services, Judge Clears The Way For Mobile Taxi Apps To Launch In NYC | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | New York City is one step closer to having regulator-approved e-hail apps, thanks to the end of litigation against the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission. That’s because a judge today dismissed a controversial lawsuit filed by the black car industry against the regulator. The lawsuit, which was designed to block th... |
The BeagleBone Black Is A New Single-Board Computer That Can Brew Beer | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | While the is great for educating kids about computing, can it brew a mean beer? The can. Trevor Hubbard, an engineer at Texas Instruments, uses the new, next-gen board to control heat exchangers and monitors to handle beer temperature remotely. The board itself is quite cool. It runs a AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 pro... |
Apple Q2 ’13 Intl Sales 56% Of Total Revenues; Cook Defensive On China: “Best Quarter Ever” At $8.8B | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | today posted that beat estimates at $43.6 billion in sales, which illustrates that, while the Americas — led by the U.S. — remains the company’s single biggest market, Asia, led by sales in China, continues to show the strongest growth amidst weakened demand at home and in Europe. Overall, international revenues out... |
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Hypes The Fall, Downplays The Summer On New Hardware | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t generally talk too specifically about upcoming product plans, but he went out of his way to put an unusually fine point on when to expect new products than he usually does. Cook kicked off today’s Apple earnings call talking about how Apple is looking forward to exciting product news in the f... |
TC Cribs: Inside LinkedIn, The Professional Social Network With A Surprisingly Casual HQ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 23 | It’s time for a brand spankin’ new edition of , the TechCrunch TV series where we snoop around inside the employee-only sections of the tech industry’s hottest companies. Just like Walt Whitman, the tech industry , and we try to represent it all in Cribs. That means that in addition to touring bootstrapped , we also... |
Details Of Immigration Bill Revealed, More High-Skilled Visas And Employer Fees | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | of the highly anticipated comprehensive immigration reform bill have leaked ahead of its introduction to Congress on Tuesday (April 16). Most of the technology industry will be pleased that it nearly doubles the number of high-skilled visas (H1-B), from the 65,000 to 110,000, with a maximum of 185,000 in the future. H... |
Stanford’s NovoEd Brings Collaboration And Group Learning To MOOCs To Help Fight Attrition | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | What is it with Stanford professors and Massive Open Online Courses (a.k.a. MOOCs)? For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, two of the three most popular MOOCs — and — were both founded by Stanford professors. Then there’s Class2Go, an open-source MOOC platform created by a team of Stanford engineers and... |
Twitter Reportedly In Talks With Viacom And NBCUniversal For Content-Sharing Deal | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Twitter is nearing an agreement with Viacom to host TV clips and sell advertising on the site, . It is also reportedly discussing a content partnership with Comcast’s NBCUniversal, and one or more of the deals could be reached by mid-May. According to sources cited in the article, the partnerships would let Twitter st... |
Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission Investigating Samsung For Online Attacks Against HTC | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission that Samsung paid students to attack rival HTC’s smartphones online. The South Korean tech giant could potentially face a fine of up to NTD $25 million ($835,000 USD) if the charges of false advertising are upheld. Samsung’s Taiwanese agent allegedly hired students to write online artic... |
Google Releases Glass Specs: Full Day Battery Life, 5MP Camera, 720p Video, 16GB Flash Memory & Bone Conduction Transducer | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | The news about Google Glass just keeps coming today. After announcing that Glass is and releasing the , Google has now also posted the full spec sheet for the Glass hardware. There are no major surprises here, but it’s nice to finally get to see what those users who will be able to buy the Explorer editions will get... |
Google’s Glass Companion App For Android And Web-Based Setup Wizard Are Now Live | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | After a about Google Glass today, the company has now released some of the final pieces for the Glass launch: and a web-based . The companion app, which was first spotted by , will work on Android devices that run version 4.0.3+ of the operating system, enables Glass to handle SMS messages and also provides locat... |
Dropmysite Upgrades As It Moves Into Enterprise Market | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | has beefed up its site backup product with new features, as it pushes harder into the enterprise market. Its product now includes features like incremental backups, public key authentication and PostgreSQL database support, it said. Backups start at 10Gb for $19.99. The Singaporean company was started in September 201... |
Spotify Makes Its First Moves Into Asia Via Singapore, Hong Kong And Malaysia; Latin America Via Mexico; And Four More In Europe [Update] | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Music streaming service has finally come to Asia. Today, it that it would be launching in the cities of Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Its premium service, priced at $9.99 per month in the US, will also be a little cheaper in the region, with Malaysians getting the lowest price. : after turning on Asia, Spotif... |
Google’s BufferBox Installs Its First U.S. Pick-Up Station At A Coffee Shop In The Heart Of San Francisco | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | At the beginning of the month, we broke the news that , was . Today, it’s clear that this wasn’t just a plan, as its co-founder proudly shared the first U.S. BufferBox location, the in San Francisco. It’s no surprise that BufferBox will be setting up these shipment lockers in places that get high traffic, as it’s... |
GSF India, Which Aims To Be The “TechStars Of The Emerging World,” Partners With MIT | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | , a new accelerator with hubs across several cities in India, is adding another global partnership to its roster. The incubator, , is linking up with MIT to bring founders and mentors from Boston back to India and to send local entrepreneurs back on an exchange. India’s top technical universities have long been a sour... |
Google Releases Glass Mirror API Developer Guides And Details Best Practices, API Remains In Limited Preview | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Earlier today, Google that it is about to ship its first Google Glass units and just in time for them to arrive, Google has now also posted the . Access to the API itself, it’s worth noting, is still in limited preview and only developers who have access to the Glass hardware will be able to work with the API. Every... |
How To Use Facebook To Check On Boston Friends Without Taxing Phone Lines | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | People around the world are hoping their friends in Boston are safe after . But calling and texting friends can clog phone lines, hindering response crews. Facebook offers an alternative. By Graph Searching or viewing the , you can pull up friends who live there, see if they’ve said they’re safe, ask if they haven’... |
Netflix Moves To Samsung ARM-Based Chromebooks, Thanks To Premium Video Extensions In HTML5 | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Thanks to the availability of a couple of premium video extensions that it’s been helping to develop along with other members, Netflix today is announcing support for HTML5 playback on Samsung ARM-based Chromebooks. According to an entry on the , the development of Media Source Extensions (MSE), Encrypted Media Exte... |
First Google Glass Devices Are Coming Off The Production Line Now, Will Ship In Batches | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Google just notified everybody on the waiting list that it is “seeing the first few devices come off the production line right now.” Google says it wants to start shipping the devices as soon as possible and doesn’t want to wait until it has produced enough to fully satisfy demand. Because of this, Glass will ship ou... |
Denver Post Highlights Social Media Coverage (And Storify) In Its Pulitzer Win | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and among the winners was for its coverage of the Aurora, Colo., shootings last summer – coverage in which Twitter and Facebook (and to a lesser extent, Storify) played a big role. At this point, it’s so obvious that it seems almost silly to note that social media plays a rol... |
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Vtok Aims To Bring Google Voice And Video Chat To iOS | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Anyone who has a Gmail or Google Apps account and a number of contacts using either service will probably be able to attest to the convenience of using the as a way to connect with friends and family. But while Android has most of the plugin’s features built-in, unfortunately there’s no good way to get the same nativ... |
BitTorrent’s Surf Extension Now In Beta; Use Chrome Or Firefox Like A Desktop Client For Downloading | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | BitTorrent, the content sharing and distribution network with 170 million monthly active users and 85 petabytes of content, continues to roll out more tools for artists and consumers to turn to the service for all their music, video and needs. Today BitTorrent is turning its attention to the mechanics of downloading.... |
TC Makers: A Return To The Textile Economy At Durham’s Spoonflower | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Making custom fabric has long been the domain of the big guys. Trying anything new, whether it was having a swatch of cool fabric made or printing a custom logo on some slip covers, has required minimum investments of a few thousand dollars and lots of waiting. solved that. Founded by entrepreneurs Gart Davis and S... |
Dropbox Overhauls Chooser As Platform Adds “Tens of Thousands” Of Developers Each Week | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | , which is courting developers to make it easier for consumers to add and use files wherever they want, just overhauled its “Chooser” feature. , it was designed to make it easy for developers to build in an “attach from Dropbox feature” instead of having to create one from scratch. Adding Dropbox’s Chooser to an app in... |
Google: Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased 30% Over The Last 12 Months | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 15 | Mobile browsing got significantly faster over the last 12 months, according to , and the average page load times on mobile are now comparable to desktop page load times. On mobile, web pages now load about 30 percent faster than a year ago, but when it comes to desktops, Google only found some very minor speed-ups. Th... |
T-Mobile Crows About First Day iPhone 5 Sales, But The Carrier’s Future Is Still Unclear | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | T-Mobile finally began earlier today, and it seems as though all that pent-up consumer tension has resulted in some promising sales for the carrier. “Today has been gangbusters for T-Mobile,” CMO Mike Sievert noted to earlier today. Naturally, Sievert wouldn’t discuss just how many iPhones were moved during the cour... |
Here’s How To Get Facebook Home Running On Nearly Any Android Device | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | In case you happened to miss the furor earlier today (or yesterday, depending on your timezone), Facebook officially pushed its Facebook Home launcher for owners of a select few devices to muck around with. Early impressions seem to run the gamut, but unless you had the right hardware you were plumb out of luck if you... |
Excerpts From Laurene Powell Jobs’ First Interview Since The Death Of Steve Jobs | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | In the first interview since her husband’s death, Laurene Powell Jobs dedicated her sizable platform to advancing immigration reform, while remaining notably tight-lipped about the private life of the late Steve Jobs. We’ve included highlights (with context) from her interview with host Brian Williams. BRIAN WILLIAMS... |
Schmap Takes A Deeper Dive Into Twitter Audience Data With Demographics Pro | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | already through its product, but today it launched a new, upgraded service called — CEO Paul Hallett described the concept as “Nielsen for Twitter.” Nielsen does its own social media analysis, and it last fall, but that was focused on measuring the social media impact of TV shows. Demographics Pro is much broad... |
Code In Twitter Music’s Placeholder Page Shows Web Interface, Track Purchasing, Charts And Service Integrations | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | Since we have nothing much to go on other than a for Twitter #music, some folks did within the on the , and certain features and integrations became apparent. We’ve reached out to Twitter to confirm what we’ve seen, and we’ll update our story once we hear back. Until then, here’s what can be taken from the stylin... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Facebook Phone (Again) And Bitcoin | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | This week on the we talk about the launch of Facebook Fone and my own horrible attempts at becoming a bitcoin billionaire. We invite you to enjoy our weekly podcasts every Friday at 3pm Eastern and noon Pacific.
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Designer Nicholas Felton Leaves Facebook After Pioneering Timeline Overhaul | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | Nicholas Felton, who came to fame as quantified through data, is leaving Facebook almost two years after being acq-hired to work on projects like Timeline. His early work, which compiled data on things like all the songs he had listened to or everywhere he had been in a single year into a “Feltron Annual Report,” b... |
Where In The World Are The 1.2M Raspberry Pi Microcomputers? Mostly In The West — But Pi Founders Want More Spread This Year | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | One to 1.2 million have shipped since the device’s launch just over a year ago but where in the world are they located? While it’s impossible to say exactly where* each Pi has ended up, the vast majority of the devices sold to-date have shipped to developed nations — including the U.S. and the U.K. But the potential ... |
Dish Network Chairman Said To Be Seeking A Merger With T-Mobile USA | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | Say what you will about Dish Network, but the Colorado company’s brass has some moxie. The satellite media service provider has been trying for years now to link up with notable national wireless carrier to help operate a mobile service to sell alongside its current offerings, and according to a recent report from , D... |
Ask A VC: Javelin Venture Partners’ Noah Doyle On The Next Innovations In Mapping And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | In this week’s Ask A VC show, Javelin Venture Partners’ Managing Director sat down to talk with us about why he started a venture firm, where the next innovations in mapping are coming from and more. Doyle has extensive experience in the online mapping world—he directed the enterprise product line for Google’s geos... |
Hey, Hardware Makers: No One In The World Wants Videos That Auto-Pause When We Look Away | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | This week, that Microsoft is purportedly working on a feature for the next Xbox that can automatically pause videos when it detects that your eyes are no longer on the screen. Just weeks ago, Samsung for the Galaxy S4. No. No, No, No, No. No one in the world wants this. Okay, fine. people want this. Advertisers a... |
Hackers Point Large Botnet At WordPress Sites To Steal Admin Passwords And Gain Server Access | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | If you’re running a WordPress site, now would be a good time to ensure you are using very strong passwords and to your username is not “admin.” According to reports from and , there is currently a significant attack being launched at WordPress blogs across the Internet. For the most part, this is a brute-force t... |
Y Combinator Grad ReelSurfer Gets A Makeover, Now Lets You Clip & Share Any ESPN Or New York Times Video | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | Y Combinator grad is an instant video editor, born out of its founders frustration of trying to find clips, quotes and scenes from their favorite movies on YouTube and other video sites. The process is probably familiar to you: Search for clip, don’t find it; if you do find it, it’s part of a larger clip, so you have... |
Gillmor Gang Live 04.12.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | – Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. |
Bake Sale 2.0: PledgeCents Launches A Crowdfunding Platform To Help Underfunded Schools Raise Money | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | With the passage of the JOBS Act, the Crowdfunding Era began and since then these fund-raising platforms have been sprouting in every vertical — even education. Just two weeks ago, we , which “gives alumni a platform by which they can invest in innovative projects created by students at their alma mater.” Today, we ha... |
Travis Kalanick Says ‘It Doesn’t Bother Me’ If Ridesharing Takes Customers From Uber’s Other Services | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | CEO Travis Kalanick just wrapped up a press phone call where he discussed that the company released earlier this morning. The apper stated that Uber would be rolling out ridesharing services in cities where it had received “tacit approval” in the sense that regulators didn’t crack down on other services. To kick thi... |
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