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Pebble Watchface SDK Now Available, Let’s See What This Smart Watch Can Do | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | Pebble has officially , after promising to deliver it during the second week of April. This qualifies, if only just, and arrives alongside firmware update version 1.1 for PebbleOS. The new software update for the hardware brings support for custom watch faces built using the SDK, as well as new options for disabling b... |
Instructure Launches App Center To Let Teachers, Students Install Third-Party Apps Across Learning Platforms | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 12 | Props are owed to companies like and for being early movers in the educational software space, particularly in helping catalyze innovation in learning management systems (LMS). The problem is, of course, they got their start over a decade ago, and haven’t always elicited raving reviews from students and schools. B... |
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Backed Or Whacked: Get Together With The Band | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | Last week, Backed or Whacked look at a trio of wristbands that can hold a buck, make a bun and prevent a burn all without any assistance from a successful mobile app platform. But as a host of digital fitness products has shown, the usually limited interfaces of fashion accessories can be boosted by pairing them with s... |
Now That We Have All These Devices, It’s Time For Them To Truly Work Together | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | Cross-platform is the buzzword of all the big tech companies now. During every , like clockwork, CEO Larry Page dedicates considerable time discussing the company’s focus on making sure users have a seamless experience and equal access to services as they switch between devices. In general, that’s already a reality if... |
Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption Alone | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | There’s a gold rush going on these days, or a Bitcoin rush, at least. Driven by the , more and more people are learning about and becoming interested in the currency. While they could just buy Bitcoins at the current market rate, others are looking to try their luck at mining Bitcoins. And like prospectors who travele... |
What Games Are: The Shady Side Of Games | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | There’s a reason why games and organized crime have often gone hand in hand. The thrill of the win, of achieving – often with money attached – has long proved a lure that society felt the need to control, like a drug. Games of chance, Poker, horse racing, sports betting and many others brought quixotic pleasures to man... |
CrunchWeek: Bitcoin Mania, Foursquare Gets A Cash Infusion, And VCs Rally Around Google Glass | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | This time, , and I talked about the relentless (and tumultuous) rise of , Foursquare finally closing on the funding round we’d been with its , and three superpower VCs teaming up to launch the (and that that came along with it.) |
Revel Body Is A Crowdfunded Personal Massager | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | Do you suffer from “sore elbows, wrists and hands from having to hold small and awkward shapes?” Have you found that “products are confusing to impossible to control?” Do you know what a phthalates is and are you embarrassed by the packaging of your favorite personal massager products? Has got a product for you. This... |
Warby Parker Opens Retail Store In NYC, With Boston Up Next, Beats Google & Amazon To The Offline Punch | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | Hip online eyewear startup Warby Parker has, over the last two years, been partnering with boutiques to open “stores-within-stores,” or small Warby Parker showrooms, where customers could try on their eyeglasses in 3-D. These showrooms popped up in L.A., Nashville, San Francisco and many others. Today Warby Parker in... |
Gillmor Gang: Speculation, Music, Death | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | The Gillmor Gang — Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — spared no expense to bring you the finest in up-to-date tech commentary. In other words, we tore into Twitter Music, ignored Facebook Home, dissected the internals of AirPlay, and cashed our Bitcoin checks. Our attention is a zero sum game... |
Hailo, SideCar, And The New York Taxi And Limousine Commission To Discuss The Future Of Transportation At Disrupt NY 2013 | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | In the coming weeks, the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission is expected to enter into its first trial of taxi e-hail apps. That’ll allow startups like that help users find nearby cabs through their mobile phones, without having to hail them from the street. At the same time, competition is coming from services li... |
Beyond The Bitcoin Bubble | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | A few months ago, while visiting a hacker friend’s magnificent new San Francisco loft, he gestured to a little alcove stuffed with server racks and said: “And over there are the Bitcoin mines.” I smiled and nodded, thinking, Andy, if you’re reading this, I apologize. Is it ever, and how. Over the last few weeks the hy... |
Facebook’s Latest Home Commercial Is Just The Right Amount Of Weird | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 13 | During the Facebook Home launch event, Zuck premiered the company’s first commercial for the product. Complete with half-naked dudes stuffed into luggage compartments, surprise drag queens, and an unintentionally spooky child, it was… pretty bad. One guy in the audience behind me whispered “ “, faces were palmed, and ... |
Alipay Launches Sound Wave Mobile Payments System In Beijing Subway | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | Alipay has launched a new payment system in the Beijing subway that uses sound waves to connect smartphones with vending machines. The sound wave payment system was and (link via Google Translate) generated by a smartphone to carry digital information to another device. Initially used for smartphone-to-smartphone t... |
Microsoft Reportedly Preparing To Jump On The Smartwatch Bandwagon | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | , , , and are all reportedly working on wrist-worn computing devices behind closed doors, and it seems like that little club of big companies may soon get another member. If a new report from the is to be believed, Microsoft has been in touch with an undisclosed number of suppliers who have apparently been tasked... |
Baidu, Hillhouse & GGV Reportedly Invest $57M In Qunar As The Chinese Travel Site Weathers A Boycott | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | Baidu, Hillhouse Capital, and GGV Capital have invested a total of $57 million in Chinese travel site Qunar, according to a report by (link via Google Translate). The news comes as Qunar weathers a boycott by third-party service providers triggered by a change in its operational and pricing policies. that Qunar mig... |
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Savvy SoCal Students Bring Their Take On Laser Tag To Kickstarter | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | I was fortunate enough to spend a solid chunk of my adolescence strapped into an ill-fitting vest and shooting lasers at friends of mine, but a group of technically minded youngsters and their mentors in southern California didn’t just want to laser tag. No, the crew at San Diego-based wanted to whip up a (slight... |
Napster.fm Is An Open Source Social Music Player That Can Be Hosted By Anyone In Case Of Shutdown | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | Anyone who has had a computer and a connection to the Internet in 1999 quickly knew what it felt like to find any song that you wanted, and then listen to it almost immediately. Well, the immediate part wasn’t true, since you had to download the MP3s, which usually took quite a bit of time on a dialup connection. Since... |
CodeNow Brings Its Programming Class For Underrepresented Teens To NYC | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | , a nonprofit program that teaches coding basics to high schoolers, with an emphasis on reaching girls, ethnic minorities, and other underrepresented groups, is in the middle of a significant expansion. After launching in Washington, D.C., in 2011, the program has now launched in New York City and is currently holding ... |
The VC World Returns to Its Operating Roots | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | “You can’t go into Compton to rehabilitate gang members if you haven’t been a Crip.” — Ben Horowitz, co-founder of fast-rising venture outfit Andreessen Horowitz. Twenty years ago, the typical VC looked like a traditional banker, complete with an MBA and a background in finance. But a Wall Street background is becoming... |
Report: To Settle With EU Regulators, Google Proposes To Link To 3 Competitors Every Time It Links To Itself | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | Google’s search results in Europe could soon look a bit different if a number of new reports about the company’s settlement with the European Union’s competition commission are correct. After a three-year investigation into its potentially anti-competitive practices, Google submitted its proposal for an agreement with ... |
Jomi’s Smart Water Bottle Sleeve-Plus-App Wants To Track & Chart Your Liquid Intake To Make You Drink More | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | Move over . Estonian startup is cooking up a pair of smart devices that will remind people to drink water. Or at least whatever liquid/poison of choice you put in your water bottle. The aim, says the startup, is to encourage healthy behaviour and counteract the mild dehydration we are all apparently afflicted with... |
Iterations: How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | TechCrunch There isn’t just a bubble in the Bitcoin economy, there’s a bubble in the number of posts about Bitcoin. I’ll pile on, even after this week’s mini-crash, but with a twist. A few weeks ago, I on what I thought about Bitcoin, but the over-arching feeling I had was that I couldn’t put my finger on what coul... |
Facebook Home And The Promise Of Android | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | If you’re an iPhone user, you might be feeling a little left behind, because Facebook , by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the “next version of Facebook.” In fact, you might be feeling this way if you’re an Android user, too. For now, can even run Home ( ) — notably missing from the lineup is Google’s Nexus 4, the latest... |
As Berlin Awaits Its Big Tech Exit, Satirical Tumblr Blogs Spawn About The Hype | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | The about the Berlin tech startup scene has this , but as 2013 ebbs into spring, many are asking the same question: When will the hype turn into real results? As many of my contacts said to me on a recent visit: what we need in Berlin for all this hype to be real is a big exit. The most recent evidence that Berlin... |
Exit Q&A — Demotix Founder Turi Munthe Gives His Advice On How To Build A Startup | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | Demotix to Bill Gates’ Corbis, the second biggest picture library in the world, in November 2012. On the way, since their in January 2009, they built a community of about 40,000 people in every corner of the globe, providing them with a platform to tell stories that nobody else could – or often would – cover. They... |
Songza Raised $3.8M According To SEC Filing, Amazon Still In The Frame As An Investor | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | , a free streaming music service that has expert-made playlists and runs on the web and various touch screen platforms, raised $3.8 million, . While Amazon has long been an “unconfirmed” investor listed on AngelList, it its investment in the earlier Aime St vehicle into Songza. In late 2011 the startup closed what w... |
Knights Of Glory Claims To Be The First Arabic MMO To Launch On The iPhone | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | While world of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games has ballooned in the last few years, the content available to people who’d rather not play a character from Western-inspired troops beating the crap out of some vague Eastern enemy has been somewhat limited. Culture is important, right? Which is why ‘ ‘ – a sort o... |
Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 14 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xOCurBYI_gY] Programmer and CMU PhD created a function to “beat” NES games by watching the score. When the computer did things that raised the score it would learn how to reproduce them again and again, resulting, ultimately, in what amounts to a Super M... |
Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | We’re hearing from multiple sources that design-focused retail site is raising a new round of funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company has previously raised $171 million in funding and we’re hearing it seeks to raise more than $100 million in this round. At Fab’s last round of financing, the company was worth a... |
Education Giant Pearson Continues Digital Push, Acquires Flipped Classroom Managers, Learning Catalytics | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | Educational publishing giant, , has lately been making a push to snatch up (and incubate) promising young EdTech startups and concepts to help it compete in an increasingly tech-influenced educational landscape. Last May, , the maker and marketer of IT and digital literacy products, for $140 million, followed by the ... |
Singaporean Tech Media Platform e27 Expands Offerings With Resource ‘Bundles’ Aimed At Startups | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | Singapore-based is moving beyond its roots as a tech media and events platform with its latest offering , or product and service packages geared at founding teams in Southeast Asia. Companies with services featured in Bundles include Facebook, Airbnb, Freelancer, WP Engine, 99designs, Zendesk, Google Apps, and Shutt... |
Psy’s “Gentleman” Hits New YouTube Record With 38M Views In One Day | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | “Gangnam Style” was the first video , a milestone it reached last December. Though arguably less catchy, Psy’s followup video “Gentleman,” a unique blend of pounding beats and fart jokes , is now also breaking records on YouTube. The that “Gentleman” has set the record for the most views ever in a single day with o... |
Want To Raise A Million Bucks? Here’s What You’ll Need | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | So, you’ve built yourself a nice little product. Maybe you’ve raised a small friends-and-family round; maybe you’re still bootstrappin’ on your own. Either way, now you’re looking to raise at least a million dollars to help with the next steps. While there’s no perfect formula for stuff like this, these stats from Ange... |
Translation Platform Gengo Raises $12M Funding Round Led By Intel Capital | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | , an increasingly popular online translation service that uses a network of more than 7,500 pre-screened and rated translators to provide high-quality translations in 33 languages, announced that it has raised a $12 million funding round. The round was led by , with participation from , , and , as well as returni... |
DailyWorth Raises Additional $1 Million For Series A | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | , an online community for financially minded women, is adding $1 million to their existing Series A round of funding. The money comes sixteen months after DailyWorth . This additional influx of investments was led by DFJ Gotham, while additional investors include Gabriel Investments, 500 Startups, Robinhood Ventures, ... |
What Not To Do In Your Startup Promo Video | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQ1V9OGwKc&w=560&h=315] Thanks to my job, I get to see a lot of stupid bullshit. Most gets filtered out, but every now and then something just rises up that is so ridiculously stupid, it’s just begging to be called out. That’s the case with this promotional video from the kind f... |
Web App Tutorial Tool Kera Heads For The Deadpool | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | When launched out of Toronto last year, its goal was to “teach the world how to use software.” Alas, Kera has taught its last lesson. In a on its blog, the company has announced that they’ll be shuttering their products in one month. For the unfamiliar, Kera provided tools that allowed web app developers to quickly... |
3 Awesome And Inspiring Inventions From The White House Science Fair | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | I love that POTUS has invited these scholars here and treating them like NCAA Champs!!! — LeVar Burton (@levarburton) Some of the nation’s young brainiacs were honored today at the White House Science Fair. Every spring, the White House invites children to show off life-changing innovations that have mostly been con... |
Twitter #Music Catches Emerging Artist Frances Cone By Surprise, Calls It A “Meet And Greet” For Bands And Fans | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | When , it wasn’t a surprise at all to those following tech stories, since for months. However, it was a surprise to the , which is popping up in the “emerging artists” section of the app. In a world where we focus so much on “big stars,” especially ones with millions of followers on Twitter, it’s important to remem... |
Meet The Greenest Home In America | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | In the surrounding hills of Silicon Valley stands the impressive the “Greenest house in America.” The home is also the brainchild and abode of Foundation Capital partner and longtime VC and his wife, Linda Yates. We were lucky enough to be invited into their home to hear about why and how they built the most sustai... |
Nest Labs Teams Up With Regional Power Providers For New Energy-Saving Services And Rebates | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | The has already gone through a hardware revision or two and found its way onto plenty of physical and virtual store shelves, but parent company Nest Labs is eager to get it into even more households in short order. The Palo Alto company has just announced that it has teamed up with energy providers from across the cou... |
Netflix Says Fewer Than 8,000 People ‘Gamed’ Its Free Trials To Watch House Of Cards | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | Netflix , and the company saw another period of strong growth, adding more than 3 million streaming members, bringing its total to 36 million. Domestically, Netflix saw 2 million new streaming members, which was relatively equal compared to last quarter and up from 1.74 million in Q1 last year. Helping Netflix along i... |
Netflix Beats Analyst Estimates, With 29.2 Million US Subscribers And $1 Billion In Q1 Revenue | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | Netflix reported , including revenues of $1.02 billion during the first three months of the year. The company also announced that it added 2 million domestic in the quarter, bringing the total number of subscribers to 29.2 million. The results represent a positive response to Kevin Spacey-led political thriller House ... |
Limor Fried AKA Ladyada Will Join Us To Talk Hardware On The Disrupt Stage | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | We often give short shrift to hardware at Disrupt mostly because investors are afraid to look at companies that can’t pivot without trashing 30 days of inventory. No longer. AKA will join me on stage to talk about what it takes to build a profitable, cool, and amazingly popular hardware company out of a dorm room. ... |
Powerhouse Facebook Ad Platform Nanigans Raises $5.8M Series A.1 For Predictive Modeling R&D | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | Do you target kids with cheap ads or more expensive adults? has just raised a $5.85 million “Series A.1” from Avalon Ventures to build SaaS technology that predicts which audiences earn advertisers more money. With revenue up 6x in 18 months, Nanigans hopes to keep up with Facebook’s progress by pouring its funding in... |
The Ressence Type 3 Is The Liquid-Filled Watch Of The Future | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | Because I like sharing cool watches with you guys I decided to share this cool watch with you guys. It’s called the Ressence Type 3 and it’s actually a liquid-filled mechanical watch with a nearly featureless face. Each of those dials – registers in the parlance – look like they are seamlessly embedded in the face surf... |
Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns Now Let Advertisers Highlight Their Google+ Follower Count, Get Improved In-App Targeting | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 4 | 22 | Google+ is finding its way into every Google product, and AdWords is no exception. Starting , AdWords advertisers can easily in their . On average, Google says, ads with these follower counts have “a 5-10% higher click-through rate” than regular ads. The company, it seems, tested these new ads with the help of a nu... |
Hon Hai Looks Toward Indonesia’s Promising Economy As Apple’s Growth Slows | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Hon Hai is planning to diversify its business away from producing Apple devices by signing an agreement with Indonesia to make and sell handsets in that country, . A Hon Hai spokesman said that the company, which derives about 60 to 70 percent of its revenue from manufacturing work for Apple, hopes to sign the agreeme... |
Baidu’s 1Q Earnings Of $328.9M Misses Analysts’ Estimates As Its R&D Costs Soar | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Baidu double-digit percentage revenue growth in 1Q2013–but its earnings still missed analysts’ expectations as the Chinese search giant’s costs soared. Baidu’s 1Q2013 net income increased 8.5 percent to $328.9 million (2.043 billion RMB), short of the $354.9 million (2.19 billion yuan) expected by analysts polled by ... |
Parse Isn’t An OS, But It Is Facebook’s Answer To Android And iOS | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Facebook doesn’t own a mobile operating system, and that’s a problem. Developers don’t need Facebook to build apps, and it doesn’t get a 30 percent cut of payments. But today , and while it’s not an OS, it’s the next best thing. The mobile-backend-as-a-service could keep Facebook top-of-mind for developers when they p... |
Twitter Settles With PeopleBrowsr, Gives The Company Firehose Access Until The End Of The Year | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | The saga of PeopleBrowsr vs. Twitter appears to have come to a close, . Last November, PeopleBrowsr took Twitter to court after the company had informed them that they’d be This was a move happening with nearly all third-party developers, but PeopleBrowsr contested that its four-year long relationship with Twitter c... |
Classic Note For iOS Is Bringing Blocky Back | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | In case you can’t wait for Jony Ive to give iOS a complete revamp, there’s , an app that will bring back a bit of the Woz-Jobs magic in fully 128K glory. The app includes a note taker and calculator stuffed into a package that harkens back to the days of the original Macintosh. Created by , the app costs $3.99 an is ... |
Backed By Travel Veterans, Superfly Launches A “Mailbox For Travel” As It Shifts From Metasearch Into Big Data | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Superfly in 2010 with plans to become the Mint.com of travel, or more specifically, for your rewards and frequent flier miles and travel spending. Following Kayak’s lead, over time, the startup added metasearch capabilities, integrating rewards and points into the flight booking process. Its approach attracted ex-Kay... |
Here’s EA’s Internal Memo On The Layoffs Today | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | EA, the game maker in the midst of a big transition from the console era of gaming to the free-to-play world, . The company did not disclose the size of the layoffs, but several other outlets are reporting either hundreds of layoffs or figures that are as high as 10 percent. The downsizing, which comes on the earlie... |
The New York Times Releases Its Headline-Reading Google Glass App | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Google’s ambitious Glass display is still a ways off from its public release, but it looks like those newly minted Glass Explorers now have something else to do besides taking first-person photos. The New York Times just pulled back the curtain on its own , which makes it the first installable third-party app availabl... |
Pinterest Tweaks Its New Look, Improves Search And Brings Features Like Pinned From And Mentions Back | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | While Pinterest is , it decided to listen to some feedback along the way and . Since the site relies heavily, or completely, on its users pinning things to boards like crazy, some features that were dropped from the new design were re-added due to popular demand. One of the features that caused the community to clamm... |
This Hublot LaFerrari Watch Looks Perfect For Cobra Commander | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | While I’m not a big fan of ostentatious watches that cost too much and are aimed at buyers with more money than sense (in short, most of the Hublot line) I will give this odd-looking watch a moment of reflection. It is the MP-05 LaFerrari, a tourbillon watch with a 50-day power reserve, a number almost unheard of in th... |
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Last summer, New York-based hybrid investor / incubator / holding company thing Betaworks and , hoping to bring back some of its mojo in the process. Nine months later, Betaworks has , this time bringing Marco Arment’s popular story-saving app Instapaper into the fold. In an email, Betaworks founder and CEO John Bo... |
Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Facebook , marking its entry into a : paid tools and services for developing mobile apps. The company is buying the mobile-backend-as-a-service startup (yes, the industry acronym is mBaaS) in a deal that we’ve heard is worth $85 million. [Update: And we’re hearing that excludes retention.] Neither company is commenti... |
Group Led By Google Wants More Speed On The Web, Releases Nginx PageSpeed Module In Beta | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Google really cares about the web being faster. In 2010 it led a group of contributors in releasing a module for Apache web servers called PageSpeed. Today, the same group has released a version for , an alternative to Apache, which is also open source and used by massively trafficked sites like Netflix, Hulu, Pintere... |
Take An Early Look At Routehappy, The Travel Site That Highlights The Flights You’ll Actually Enjoy | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | is about to launch a new way for travelers to search for flights — and TechCrunch readers can actually take a look now. The idea, as explained to me by co-founder and CEO Robert Albert, is to move beyond the focus on price and schedule that you find on every other flight search site. Sure, those things are important, ... |
The Hero Eco A2B Metro Electric Bike Is A City Commuter’s Dreamcycle | John Biggs | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | As a man who spends most of his time in his attic, it’s nice to hit the open roads, feel a little wind in your hair, and run over crack vials as you motor through downtown Manhattan. That’s exactly what I did yesterday as when I tried to ride a Hero Eco A2B Metro electric bike from Bay Ridge to our offices on Broadwa... |
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Mailbox Is Working On An iPad App, With Desktop And Android Clients “On The Roadmap” | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Given the fairly nutballs hype surrounding the launch of Mailbox for iPhone (and its ), you could probably assume that they’d bring the app to other devices and platforms — and you’d be right if you did. The company recently started letting users know of their upcoming projects: an iPad app is in the works, with Andro... |
Leap Motion Controller Ship Date Delayed Until July 22, Due To A Need For A Larger, Longer Beta Test | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Leap Motion has just announced that its 3D gesture controller hardware ship date will be delayed, from for general retail availability to July 27. The delay was caused by a need for more testing from the Leap Motion beta testing community, and an expansion of that group with additional members, according to Leap Moti... |
Amazon Just Beats Estimates As Q1 Sales Rise 22 Percent To $16B, While Net Income Drops 37 Percent To $82M | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 4 | 25 | Last quarter, Amazon, which has been a freight train and Wall Street darling over the last year, surprised analysts . Expectations were high considering the holiday shopping season, but Amazon saw net income drop 45 percent to $97 million in Q4, compared to $177 million in 2011, although on the bright side, net sales ... |
Silicon Valley And The Reinvention Of Food | Klint Finley | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | Fake meats have been around for years, but a new crop of Bay Area startups backed by tech investors think they can make meat substitutes good enough to compete with the real deal. — backed by Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone via their company — created an eerily accurate chicken substitute, for example.... |
With Over 15M Sites Built, Weebly Launches New Planner And Mobile Editor, Brings Website Creation Service To Android | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | In this day and age, if you own a small business, you need a web (and mobile) presence. It’s just the way it is. Some might opt just to go for a social media approach, a Twitter account and a Facebook page, but the likelihood is that you want something a little more flexible, high-quality and something that gives you m... |
Roelof Botha On Why Sequoia Isn’t Giving Its Billion-Dollar Companies IPO Pressure [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | So when we had the opportunity to sit down with Sequoia’s backstage at this week, we asked him what his perspective is on this trend and why Sequoia is so patient regarding the IPO route. We also talked about where the PayPal Mafia for the current generation of techies might be forming, how “brain drains” can le... |
Audience Development Startup LinkSmart Raises $5 Million From Foundry And Costanoa | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | A little less than a year ago, a little company called launched to help publishers use text links to get their readers reading more. Now it has raised $5 million in Series B funding to take its technology for growing audiences and make it more widely available. The financing was led by Foundry Group and Costanoa Vent... |
Ask A VC: Index Ventures’ Mike Volpi On What To Look For In A Board Member And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | In this week’s Ask A VC episode, we sat down with Index Ventures partner . Volpi, who makes investments in both enterprise software and consumer internet companies, serves on a number of boards, including Path, Sonos, Lookout, Hortonworks, Soundcloud, Big Switch Networks, Zuora, Foodily, and Storsimple. We asked Vol... |
With New Service, Any Device Could Run Almost Any Program From Anywhere | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | In the near future, the only difference between a smartphone, tablet, and a laptop will be the size of the screen. Hardcore gamers could play 3D intensive games in a smartphone, and Michael Bay could render “Transformers 4” from his iPad. Otoy, an LA-based software company, has discovered a way to stream any applicatio... |
Here’s What The Large Hadron Collider Looks Like Through Google Glass | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | If Google is worried about Google Glass , they probably wouldn’t be sending people rockin’ the Glass into the heart of the most gloriously nerdy thing in the world, the Large Hadron Collider. Fortunately, Google doesn’t seem to (nor should they) if their amazing little experiment gets a few knocks along the way. As ... |
We’ve Heard A Similar Reaction To Google Glass Somewhere Before | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | Google Glass is finding its way to developers and and the reaction has been, well, predictable. So far, there are those who think that Glass will absolutely , that it’s our version of the flying car. Those people are full of shit. On the other side of the coin, there are those who say that Glass will never find a pl... |
Gentry Underwood On How The Overnight Success Of Mailbox Came From Years Of Working On Orchestra | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | After being earlier this year, appeared to be an overnight success, with hundreds of thousands of users signing up to be a part of its waiting list. But the quick adoption of the app only came after the team behind it spent years developing and iterating on a productivity app called Orchestra. In a conversation b... |
Everyone! Look! Acer! | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | When was the last time you talked about Acer? Never? Me too. The company, which is the fourth largest PC maker in the world by the way, announced the this morning. It’s a mighty morphing Windows 8 portable. Like the Lenovo Yoga, it features versatile hinges that allow the computer to take different forms. The Aspire ... |
New VC Firm Happens Right Under Our Nose | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | My old boss used to say that a story is something you’d tell someone in a bar or at lunch, so I’m going to tell you guys the tale I’ve been telling people at bars and lunches. Yesterday, Aol Ventures head announced that he’d be leaving Aol to start his own VC firm, The most interesting part of this story is that B... |
Facebook’s Q1 Lobbying Spend Soars 277 Percent To $2.45M; Google Down 33 Percent | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | It’s no secret that the amount of time that tech companies are spending in Washington, D.C., is at a . And money spent on lobbying has also been reaching peaks for a number of well-known technology giants, including Facebook. In the first quarter of 2013, Facebook spent $2.45 million on lobbying efforts, a 277 percent... |
Here Is How Not To Decorate Your Office | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | Of course, the question is why anyone thought this kind of decoration would be a good idea in the first place (not surprisingly, the negative outcry was swift .) Reached via telephone today, a Lightbank spokesperson said that the initial decision to display the photos was to represent the “risk and journey of entrepr... |
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Defense Distributed Claims To Have Produced The First Fully 3D-Printable Pistol | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | While Defense Distributed, the for gun parts, has been working on a for some time now, they’ve finally announced that they’ve completed a real 3D-printed handgun called the Liberator. Made entirely out of 3D-printed ABS with the exclusion of a single nail used as the firing pin, it looks to be the fruition of mis... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt, Acer, And Hydroponics | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | This week on the we talk about , Disrupt, and . This time we’re joined by Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, Greg Kumparak, and Michael Seo as the Beaver. Enjoy!
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Acer Goes To A Whole New Level Of Crazy With The Aspire R7 | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | Acer just announced the Aspire R7, a strange hybrid of a desktop all-in-one, laptop, a tablet that was previously teased in . It’s honestly really, really weird. We always expected that Windows 8 would lead to some really strange convertible touchscreen devices, but the Aspire R7 is a whole new kind of crazy. The fi... |
Swatch Automates Movement Assembly, Pushing Watchmaking Into The Third Quarter Of The 20th Century | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | While I kid a bit in the headline, this is actually pretty cool: Swatch, the largest manufacturer of mechanical watch movements in the world, has created a movement that is assembled entirely using automated systems. Why is this important? The watch industry was originally gutted by the rise of cheap quartz watches, ma... |
Spotify Acquires Music Discovery App Tunigo, A Spotify-Powered Songza Competitor | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | Spotify has acquired , one of the many music apps that are powered by its API, today. The details of the deal aren’t being made public, but the startup will move its staff to either Spotify’s Stockholm or New York offices, as the talent is folded into Spotify’s larger team, Spotify confirmed via email. The Tunigo ap... |
BootstrapAccelerator Asia Wants To Bring Promising Southeast Asia Startups To Silicon Valley | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | Though Southeast Asia is one of the world’s fastest growing economies and benefits from a youthful, tech-savvy population, the region’s startup ecosystem is still in its infancy and many founders lack resources. The freshly launched BootstrapAccelerator Asia seeks to address that gap. Founded by San Francisco-based see... |
Belkin’s Thunderbolt Express Dock Is The Best Damn Thing In The World | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 3 | Thunderbolt, you were a tech with near unlimited promise when first introduced, but what have you done with all that power? Since my first Thunderbolt-equipped Mac, I’ve essentially been using the ports as straight up Mini DisplayPort replacements, and using them exclusively for powering external screens. But now the ... |
Sequoia’s Aaref Hilaly Says Messaging Apps Are A New Kind Of Social Network | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | Investor about the current wave of tech startups (comments that included a not-too-veiled dig at Snapchat), ended up fueling plenty of discussion at our Disrupt NY conference earlier this week. In fact, when I interviewed backstage, Palihapitiya’s remarks provided a springboard for Hilaly’s take on messaging apps,... |
Barley Aims To Be The Absolute Simplest Way To Create And Edit Websites | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | Sometimes the simplest product demos can be effective. Take a new web editor called . To show off the product, co-founder Colin Devroe opened me a regular old web page, then changed the wording of the page with just a few keystrokes. A small editing menu opened as he typed, but didn’t have to access an admin dashboard... |
Facebook Blocks Path’s “Find Friends” Access Following Spam Controversy | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | Facebook’s social graph went missing from yesterday’s update to ‘s smartphone app, and Facebook now confirms it has restricted Path’s API access. Path can no longer look up your Facebook friends, which prevents it from sending them invitations or suggesting you follow them. The move may be in response to Path with i... |
What Games Are: Ok Glass, Let’s Talk Games | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | It’s very much in its infant phase, the time when the design looks a bit silly and people take photos of those who have one. Yet the project is now a real (at a whopping $1500) toy. The reasonably familiar faces of the Valley tech scene are abuzz with the possibilities. Robert Scoble’s even taken showering while we... |
Napster For Pirated 3D Printing Templates? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | Buy it in a store, laser-scan it at home, upload it to the web, print it anywhere. 3D printing is poised for the mainstream, but what happens when one person’s finely hand-crafted designs can be pirated and reproduced by anyone? Will 3D-printing-piracy social networks arise? And how will manufacturers lobby to stop the... |
Salesforce Joins Datahug’s $4M Series-A, While Valley VCs Love Its ‘Who Knows Who’ Platform | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | October, , a ‘business networking automation’ startup, which is also , secured a €2.5 million Series A financing led by European VC DFJ Esprit. But it’s now adding to that pot. We’ve confirmed Salesforce has decided to join that round in an “expansion” of its Series A, which includes original investors Draper Fisher... |
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Celebrate Star Wars Day By Blinding General Grievous, Losing R2 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | Beep boop boop bee squeee! Happy May 4th aka Star Wars Day (say the date out loud and you’ll figure out why). In celebration, quite a few hardware vendors have released special gear for the day, thereby allowing you to celebrate the magic of George Lucas in proper Mandalorian fashion. First we have a charming facsimile... |
How To Go From $0 To $1,000,000 In Two Years | James Altucher | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | A few weeks ago I wrote a post about . I gave the reasons why. It wasn’t a gung-ho “you have to be an entrepreneur” article. It was more: bad shit is happening in the corporate world and bit by bit you’re going to feel the urge to quit. Correctly, many people asked, “Well, what’s next? What should I do?” I’ve begun as... |
JoyTunes Lands $1.5M, Releases New App To Help You Learn To Play Instruments Through Interactive Mobile Games | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | Founded in 2010, Israeli startup has been on a mission to become the Rosetta Stone of music — to help those looking to learn play an instrument do so by turning practice into a mobile game, activated by playing the instrument of their choice. The startup’s first app, a free iPad app called , enables wannabe rockstar... |
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