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Tapgram Aims To Make Messaging Easier For People Who Can’t Easily Communicate | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | There were plenty of promising startups showing off at Disrupt NY 2013’s Startup Alley (one of them even became as an audience choice), but none managed to yank on the ol’ heartstrings quite as much . Long story short, Tapgram is a social service that aims to dramatically simplify the process of communicating for pe... |
Google’s Cloud Is Eating Apple’s Lunch | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | A new front has opened in the smartphone war, and for the first time in many years, Apple is both outnumbered and outgunned. I’m not talking about the phones themselves. iOS is still better than Android, although the gap has narrowed. The next iPhone will doubtless be the best phone in the world when it’s released, as ... |
Amazon Launches Appstore and Developer Web Site In China | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | Amazon quietly launched its in a surprise move that paves the way for the rollout of Kindle devices in that country. At the same time, Amazon also debuted its (link via Google Translate), promising that they will soon have access to customers in 200 countries. A (link via Google Translate) outlined why the Amazon... |
Gillmor Gang: Glass Onion | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 5 | 4 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — well, we talked Google Glass. @scobleizer has certainly made the case for the life-altering shower-taking scenarios, but what the Gang got into was what happens next. Do we wait for the actual launch early next year, or is the die already... |
Grow First, Ads Later: Facebook’s Strategy For Desktop, Mobile, And Now Instagram | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | When you’re spreading like wildfire, why douse the flames to make a few bucks? Facebook’s willingness to wait on advertising helped its site and mobile apps grow massive, and now it’s applying the same strategy to Instagram. Wall Street is clamoring for Facebook to earn back the $700+ million it spent buying the photo ... |
Everlane CEO Michael Preysman On Keeping An Edge Amidst The Copycats [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | has built a really that uses technology to provide luxury quality apparel at much lower prices than traditional high-end designer brands. But with that success has also come copycats — particularly abroad, where Everlane has not yet expanded its business (at the moment the company is operating only in the .) So wh... |
Chris Dixon On How Tech Can Turn NYC Into A Town That Makes, Not Takes [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | So in our chat backstage, Dixon talked a bit more about how he sees the tech industry impacting the “company town” feeling of Wall Street dominating New York — and how tech is shifting the energy of the city back from a place that takes things, to a place that makes things. We also talked about Andreessen Horowitz is... |
Saturday Night Live Takes On Google Glass | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | Aaaand the Google Glass jokes have officially gone mainstream. Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update — the bit that long ago became the best reason to tune into SNL — took on Glass last night… and, well, they kind of nailed it. Starring the legendary Fred Armisen* as “Tech Correspondent” Randall Meeks, the skit tears in... |
On Rekindling A Sense Of Mystery | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | A little disconnection goes a long way. In the tangled web of digital social networks that we weave one thing is increasingly absent: a sense of mystery. We are so wrapped up in our digital social graphs there’s rarely room for gaps. Our networks offer the promise of being entangled with ever more connections — reachin... |
6 Experts on Speeding Up Data | Alex Williams | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | Speed. That’s what it’s all about these days. The problem: it’s still more effective to use FedEx than trying to squeeze a data load across a network. It’s an absurd reality when it requires a plane to move data from one place to another. It’s not necessary to move terabytes of data all day, all night. Moving hard driv... |
Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | . You can follow him on Twitter at . Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. Indeed, great things can come from this, and for many of its one billion users, Facebook isn’t just on the web — it is the web. It is where images, biographical data, and every speck of a connection to a person, pla... |
There Is In Fact A Tech-Talent Shortage And There Always Will Be | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | For America to maintain its fragile role as the most innovative nation on earth, it must perpetually attract the world’s best and brightest. There will always be trailblazing engineers who stay in their home country, leaving the United States one notch below its potential. Yet, on the heels of comprehensive immigration... |
Temptation | Nir Eyal | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | How do products tempt us? What makes them so alluring? It is easy to assume we crave delicious food or impulsively check email because we find pleasure in the activity. But pleasure is just half the story. Temptation is more than just the promise of reward. Recent advances in neuroscience allow us to peer into the brai... |
The Philosophy Of Game Development By The Numbers | Hassan Baig | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | Mobile gaming is a huge worldwide opportunity at the moment, having clocked in at , and it is poised to grow further in the coming years. With the world’s 1 billion smartphones scheduled to almost by 2015 and games responsible for a whopping , it’s easy for anyone to do the math and see where this is going. Game de... |
Step Is A Journaling App That Helps You Make Sense Of Your Life | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | There are already plenty of journaling apps out there, but stands out as a personal data aggregator that records and helps you make sense of your life’s minutiae. As a big fan of using my iPhone to journal, I often check apps like or to see how my life has changed over the past few years and I use Facebook not ju... |
Backed Or Whacked: Bridging Worlds Without Words | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 5 | 5 | One of the hottest areas of tech right now is the Internet of Things, wherein everyday objects communicate with each other. As doorknobs and clothing learn to communicate, we can only hope that they will protect their language better than the humans who have seen English reduced to abbreviated gibberish in the face of ... |
Pentagon Clears BlackBerry, Samsung Devices For Defense Dept. Use | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | BlackBerry and Samsung devices for use on Defense Department networks. The approved devices are BlackBerry 10 smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets using the Enterprise Service 10 system and Samsung’s Android Knox. The Pentagon said earlier this week that it also expects to clear Apple devices using iOS 6 in early... |
The Trouble With Identity’s Late Arrival On Instagram | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | BeTheDancer is Alex Greenburg’s name and handle on Instagram. He’s a good friend and a , but because Instagram doesn’t require real names, I had a lot trouble using the app’s to point him out in my photos. Right now, Instagram’s 100 million users are discovering that while pseudoanonymity can be fun, it’s not always... |
Tiptop Speakers Launches On Kickstarter To Take Advantage Of Your Room’s Natural Acoustics | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | Look over to one of the upper corners of the room you’re in. What’s there? If you’re like me, probably nothing. Three Stanford product design majors are building a speaker to take advantage of the wasted space and natural acoustics of the corners of your room. The Tiptop speaker is a small pyramid that can stand alone ... |
Despite A Staff Shakeup, AOL Ventures Lives On With Co-Founder Jon Brod At The Helm | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | reported earlier today that Mike Brown Jr. and much of the team that ran AOL’s venture funding arm have formed their own VC firm — — that aims to find and fund enterprise-friendly startups. While it’s somewhat heartening to see a new firm set up shop in New York City, there’s another weighty question here that hasn’t... |
Evernote Partners With South Korean Messaging Giant KakaoTalk | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | is going after 90 million registered users by with the South Korean messaging giant that would bring Evernote integration to KakaoTalk’s mobile app. Despite boasting here in the United States, chances are you’ve never heard of KakaoTalk. The messaging app is mostly used by Korean Americans (such as myself), to c... |
Connected Kitchen Scale From Chef Sleeve Tracks Your Nutrition Bite-By-Bite | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | has been selling its iPad-protecting plastic sleeves since 2011 to keep kitchen gunk off the iPad you’re using while you cook. They also make a dishwasher-safe, non-porous chopping board with a built in iPad stand (below right), and a smaller stand in the same recycled paper composite finish. But Chef Sleeve’s grand p... |
Ironically, Smartphone Taxi Apps Blocked In NYC After Industry Groups Claim They Make It Easier To Discriminate | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | Transit trade groups pulled out the race card and managed to block smartphone taxi “e-hailing” . Associate Justice Helen E. Freedman issued an emergency injunction against smartphone taxi app companies Hailo and Uber, after hearing arguments from the several car service groups that smartphones permit drivers to disc... |
Who Is Tech’s Most Inspiring New Founder? SV Angel’s Ron Conway, David Lee, And Brian Pokorny Name Names [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | What’s fantastic is that each partner had a favorite, and they all named names — so it was pretty interesting to hear. Conway pointed to Georg Petschnigg of , the startup behind hot iPad app ; Pokorny named of ; and Lee said he has been very impressed by the co-founders of , , , and . And that wasn’t all we ... |
Songza Launches Version 3.0 With Improved Search, Quicker Navigation, And Revamped UI | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siLVq20s3DU&w=640&h=360] , the app that matches expert-created music playlists to your mood or activity, has just released a huge update to its iOS app, streamlining the experience quite a bit and cleaning up the UI to ensure that users are getting the best music to match their m... |
Garrett Camp Distills His Uber And StumbleUpon Expertise Into New Holding Company Expa | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | The is right. As Leena wrote in her , “Operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operation.” The latest in a series of accomplished entrepreneurs wanting to lend their expertise to a new generation of companies? Serial entrepreneur , who has set... |
LinkedIn Stock Dips 10% On Slowing Growth, Even As It Beats Q1 Estimates On Sales of $324.7M; EPS $0.45 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | has just Q1 earnings of $324.7 million, up 72% year-on-year, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.45, both soundly beating analysts’ estimates (via First Call) of $317 million and EPS of $0.31; as well as LinkedIn’s own guidance from last quarter, when it said it expected between $305 million and $310 million in re... |
Heads Up! Game From Impending Shows How Branded Can Be Beautiful | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | A new game today available for iOS devices called provides an entertaining experience you could only have with a smartphone, with a simple game mechanic and a video sharing feature that means the fun can last well beyond the initial play period. The game also features a big brand tie-in, as it was made by Clear app d... |
“In The Studio,” Sutter Hill’s Sam Pullara Carves His Own Path From Technologist To Venture Capitalist | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | TechCrunch Those who know in the Valley know the name . Whether it was his time as a repeat entrepreneur and technical founder, or stints as an EIR at some of the Valley’s most premier venture capital firms, or his time as a lead technologist at two of the tech companies in the Valley (most recently at Twitter),... |
Lumu Is A Digital Light Meter For Photographers That Plugs Into Your iPhone & Tells You What Camera Settings To Use | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | Meet : a digital light meter for photographers that plugs into the iPhone’s headphone jack as a smaller and smarter replacement for traditional analogue light meters. It’s used in conjunction with Lumu’s app — being demoed in prototype here at hardware alley at Disrupt NY — to help photographers figure out the best ca... |
Is Google Getting Serious About Gaming? Noah Falstein Hired As Chief Game Designer | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | Well, what do we have here? Somewhat under the radar, Google has hired the computer games veteran Noah Falstein to the position of Chief Game Designer. Yes, that’s right, the search giant, not normally known for its games development, appears to have a major gaming project in circulation, at least something that requir... |
With A Widespread Launch Looming, Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | Mozilla was keen to talk up the 3.0 version of its Firefox OS simulator , but didn’t have much to share about when eager developers could start fiddling with it. Thankfully for HTML5 buffs, that six-week quiet period is over — the team just announced on the official that the newly updated simulator is now available ... |
Dextr, An Android Email Client For You And Your Friends | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | I hate using email. I get an average of 60 to 70 emails every day, and only one percent of them are from people I actually care about. Using email today is all about sifting through the clutter. is an app that helps you accomplish that by filtering your inbox to only include emails from your friends and family. Dextr... |
In the Wake Of Funding, Skimlinks Launches New Products To Face Off Opposition | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 5 | 2 | Last month , the platform that allows publishers full control over affiliate links and content monetization, a growth financing round led by Greycroft Partners and others, while expanding into Asia. This month it has new products to roll out, launching two major initiatives. The question is, how does it stand up to ... |
MavenSay Enjoying Sudden Popularity In Social Media-Hungry Indonesia | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | , a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans as a result. The company’s Toronto-based co-founder, Jesse Dallal, said the two-month old app got 100,000 downloads over the past fortnight. ... |
Real-Time Parking Startup ParkMe Launches An Android App | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Real-time parking startup wants to help find you parking — in real-time. The company, which originally started out on the Web, has been making a big push behind mobile apps, which is really smart, because most times when you’re looking for parking, you’re not on a PC, but you have a smartphone nearby. There was just... |
Aiming To Dominate Mobile Ad Attribution, HasOffers Raises $9.4M Round Led By Accel | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | , a startup that helps mobile app developers see which ad efforts are actually paying off, is announcing that it has raised a $9.4 million round of funding led by . The company was founded in 2009 — the product that it initially built, and the one that’s still highlighted on , is a system that helps ad networks and a... |
Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | , the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups). And that description certainly fits , a startup that wants to move the world from animal-based foods by creating alternatives that are genuinely tastier, healthier... |
Google Checkout Nixed In Favor of Google Wallet | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Google Checkout is being sunsetted as the company focuses on shaping Google Wallet into a viable PayPal rival. Google Commerce today that Google Checkouts will be retired on November 20. Google suggests that merchants who do not have their own payment processing transition to , or , which are offering discounted... |
With Site Ai, Automated Insights Provides A Cliffs Notes Version Of Your Web Analytics | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | , a startup that translates raw data into plain English, is launching a new product that could make analytics data a lot more accessible. The new product, called , pulls data from existing systems (it started with Google Analytics and Clicky, and the company is currently taking votes on which service to integrate nex... |
BeatDeck’s Free Analytics Show Musicians Who Their Fans Are | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from , a Y Combinator analytics company launching today. BeatDeck plans to license this data to labels and music stores to help them sign and recommend... |
Yahoo’s Unwatchable Live Stream Proves Its Next Acquisition Should Be A Proper Video Platform | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | It’s easy to forget that Yahoo has had a long on-again-off-again love affair with online video. Remember , which kicked off the Mark Cuban Era? But you might not remember that, because other online video platforms long ago left Yahoo in the proverbial dust. Today, and Tumblr acquisition announcements, we were given ... |
Yahoo Drops Flickr Pro To Compete With Facebook, Still Offers Two Paid Tiers For Ad Haters And Power Users | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 20 |
The bookend to — a major refresh of its photo sharing site Flickr — will see the company drop its Flickr Pro pricing tiers as part of a bid to compete better with Facebook/Instagram and the rest of the crowded market in the online photo space. But it is not getting rid of paid tiers altogether: it’s keeping an ad-fr... |
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Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | The is . Smack-dab in the middle of , Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren’t related to Tumblr as much as Flickr, the photo-sharing database and social network acquired by Yahoo in March of 2005 for $35 million. Today, Flickr gets a huge revamp including ... |
Flickr Announces One Free Terabyte Of Storage Space Per User, Officially Beating Everyone | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering one full terabyte for users, enough storage space to hold whole swathes of the world’s photos. The service is offering this benefit in addition to its full resolution photo storage service. While the average user will probably not touch the outer limits of this stora... |
Yahoo Sets Up Shop In Times Square For Its 500 New York Employees (But Not The Tumblr Team) | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Today has been quite a roller coaster ride for Yahoo — the company put days of reports and rumors to rest this morning when it confirmed that it would acquire the , and now CEO Marissa Mayer has confirmed that Yahoo’s New York employees will now be moving. They’ll all soon be working right around the corner from Time... |
Inside Microsoft’s ‘Geek 2 Chic’ Fashion Show, Where Tech Types Strike A Pose For Charity [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | These models weren’t the types you’d see at fashion shows in New York or Milan: took 26 “geeks” from the local tech community and gave them full makeovers to take to the catwalk in front of a live audience. It was a fun opportunity to watch people get a little out of their element and have some fun, and of course i... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we have Mayfield Fund Managing Director in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Chaddha is a serial entrepreneur turned VC, and founded vXTtreme while at Stanford, which was ... |
AngelPad-Backed DroneDeploy Wants To Help You Manage Your Legion Of Drones | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | The valley has a bit of a thing for drones lately — have you noticed? Airware, which builds brains for , just raised $10.7M. Longtime Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson on his DIY drone company, having raised $5 million. Even Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson what he’d do with a drone of his own. Later this week... |
Square Cash Will Let You Send Money To Your Friends By Email | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Square’s not just for businesses apparently, as an invite-only page for a product called “Square Cash” has popped up. Not many details are known about it, but we’ve reached out to the company for comment. A Square representative sent us the following statement on Square Cash: “We’re excited to share Square Cash with o... |
Welcome To Laptop Week | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Laptops are the new desktops. While you can buy a solid tower PC for about $500, this price represents how little manufacturers care about the desktop world. Barring a few huge gaming rigs, laptops are where it’s at. We have been arguably remiss in avoiding formal laptop reviews and so we’re trying to remedy that with ... |
Laptop Week Review: The Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition With Ubuntu | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | Dude, you got a Linux-powered Dell! In all the years I’ve reviewed laptops I’ve never been as pleasantly surprised by an Ultrabook as I was with the Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition. This ultrathin, ultralight SSD laptop originally came in Windows flavor but, much to my surprise, I far prefer the Ubuntu edition of this d... |
Last Call For Pitch Applications To The Austin Meetup + Pitch-Off. Also, Get Tickets Here! | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 20 | 10 days, people! in just ten days from now, with our legendary Meetup + Pitch-off series. The magic started in New York this year, with a hugely successful pitch-off, an amazing turn-out and lots of fun memories. So we’re heading out on the open road with the event, which includes a networking meetup as well as a 60... |
David Karp’s Dilemma | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | As the Tumblr/Yahoo deal continues to be , and the world gears up for is being announced Monday morning, Tumblr founder is probably having a very interesting weekend. It’s likely, in between multiple discussions with his board members and Marissa Mayer, that he’ll take a break, like a walk or something, to gather h... |
Backed Or Whacked: Reading And Writing Through Crowdfunding | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | An ancient and once-sacred bond between author and audience, reading and writing have become but two more tasks along with a multitude of other things that we do on a host of digital devices — watcing videos, listening to music, playing games, and really anything . Still, there are some for whom the intimate act of in... |
Mark Suster Talks Founder CEOs, The Acqui-Hire Frenzy, And Much More [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | So when we heard that Suster was in San Francisco for a couple of days, we asked him to come by TechCrunch TV to talk a bit more at length about all that’s been going on. And while he warned us that he was a bit tired due to a late night visiting with industry folks here in the Bay Area the evening before we met, he ... |
Hell No, Tumblr Users Won’t Go To Yahoo! | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | We’ve all by now heard about how Yahoo is trying to get some “ ” with a supposed $1 billion purchase of hip blogging platform , but it may be a moot point if Tumblr’s users fail to stick around post-sale. and may be trying to make a move ahead of Yahoo, Tumblr may be , and (despite that) may not be afraid to play ... |
The Evolution Of Hacker News | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway. Startup incubators had been a highly visible part of the dot-com crash, and Silicon Valley was still skeptical of the concept nearly a decade later. So YC set out to be somethi... |
What Games Are: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Xbox? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | One of the memories that sticks with me most about the launch of the Xbox 360 was a silly analogy about inhaling. I can’t remember who said it, but the general idea was that it had a concave body to convey breathing in, perhaps a precursor to exclaiming joy. It was as daft as it sounds, but for a while there the 360 wa... |
CrunchWeek: Google I/O Madness And Square’s New iPad Hardware For Merchants | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | It’s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days. , (clad in his Google Glass), and I discussed all things Google I/O, including Google+’s and the latest Google Glass apps and more. We also chatted about Square’s new hard... |
I/Overload? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | Did Google’s conference succeed? It launched dozens of products and services in its but did the world understand them? I saw some of the smartest journalists in technology struggling to handle the information density. But what’s the alternative? Break it up across multiple days, or even multiple conferences? Google’s... |
How Hike, India’s Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The Big Boys | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its five million registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – , and some 600 billion in and outbound messages... |
Speculation Of A Nexus Q Replacement Swirls After An Unannounced Google Media Streamer Hits The FCC | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | Google is prepping… . An announced Google media streamer was recently found in the FCC’s . Details are nearly nonexistent as most are held under a confidentiality agreement for the next 45 days. However, the documents released to the public call the device several times a “media player” and that it features WiFi conn... |
Gillmor Gang: Live From Betaday | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | This Gillmor Gang was recorded live at betaday, the betaworks annual gathering in New York. The Gillmor Gang included John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Douglas Rushkoff, Paul Davison, and Steve Gillmor. Enjoy. @stevegillmor, @Borthwick, @scobleizer, @rushkoff, @pdavison The Gillmor Gang is produced and directed by Tina ... |
The Time Has Come For Chrome In The Home | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | I’ve spent the last two weeks wandering around London, Paris, and Istanbul (not Constantinople.) As an experiment, I left my trusty MacBook Pro behind and brought only the $199 Chromebook on which I type this. And to my considerable surprise it has served admirably. So admirably, in fact, that I believe ChromeOS is onl... |
Google Faces Another Antitrust Probe As Canadian Agency Prepares Formal Investigation | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 18 | Google is facing another competition investigation, according to the . The has informed Mountain View of its plans to launch a formal investigation of its Canadian operations. It has not yet requested any information or documents from Google but has informed the search giant of its intention to launch a probe. The B... |
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BuzzFeed Partners With CNN And YouTube To Create Online Video Channel | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Social news site and meme aggregator is partnering with CNN and YouTube to create a new online-video channel called “CNN BuzzFeed” that will be unveiled later today. Chief operating officer Jon Steinberg that BuzzFeed plans to invest a low “eight-digit sum” over two years in the video platform. The YouTube channel ... |
With New Study And Marketing Campaign, Microsoft Puts Renewed Emphasis On Its Social Tools For The Enterprise | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Microsoft’s always featured a core set of social tools, but with , as well as the ongoing integration of and Skype, the folks over in Redmond are clearly ready to push social as the next major cornerstone of their enterprise offerings. Today, Microsoft is launching a to help companies understand how social can ... |
Video Discovery Service Matcha Disappears, Co-Founder Promises ‘Something Better’ In The Future | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | You might remember . The company provided a and focused on helping users find interesting movies and TV shows online based on their own preferences, as well as those of their friends on various social networks. Well, over the last few days, the website has gone dark, and those who have downloaded the mobile app re... |
Coinbase Leads Charge In Bitcoin’s Consumerization | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Because why do anything other than try out hot technologies on Memorial Day, I just bought some Bitcoin. I might finally play and maybe an ear later this afternoon. I would not have bought my .1 ($13.17) in Bitcoin if it weren’t for a startup called , which is “one of the places that looked less sketchy,” accordin... |
Open Source Blogging Platform WordPress Turns Ten, And Its Community Gets To Blow The Candles Out | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Ten years ago today, , the open source blogging software, was born. It’s amazing to think that it’s been that long, but considering it had all of the elements that other startups and projects have tried to emulate over the past 10 years, then it makes sense. When speaking with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, you’d t... |
Public Lab’s Crowdfunded Infragram Cameras Let People See Plants In A Different Light | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 27 |
There’s no shortage of novel Kickstarter projects that aim to change how we think about the environment, but here’s one that could literally change how we look at it. created by the civic science-minded folks at puts low-cost infrared cameras into people’s hands so they can better understand the health of th... |
Ooga Labs Takes A Ground-Up Approach To Generate Growth And Network Effects For Startups | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | One of the biggest challenges many entreprenuers face is finding the right technical partner when building a company. Some startups can have a single leader, but more often than not, there is a balanced team behind every successful business. Ooga Labs founders and began their partnership when Currier moved Emode, t... |
Apple’s Problem Isn’t Skeuomorphism, It’s Services | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | So iOS 7, , is going to do away with much of the skeuomorphic design that has crept into the operating system and its utilities. Jony Ive, rumor has it, has done away with all the textures and real-world analogs in iOS 7 and has switched to a flat design instead. Good for him, but if that’s all that is new in iOS 7, A... |
Nextpeer, Which Has Added Multiplayer Mode To 1,000 Mobile Games, Comes to Android | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M07BmBYFw1g&w=560&h=315] , the , is . Although the platform launched about two years ago, it , growing to 1,000 live games from 100 back in January. They’ve also 10X-ed the number of monthly active users in the network, reaching 8 million from 800,000 at the beginning of the ... |
Minecraft Creator’s New Game ‘Scrolls’ Gets A Trailer, Arrives June 3 In Beta | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdZpx2vyCm0?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Mojang, the creative force behind Minecraft, is releasing its next title to the public a week from today on June 3rd. The new game, called is a digital collectible card game, similar in concept to Magic: The Gathering, and theref... |
Ticketea Raises $4 Million To Beat Ticketmaster And Eventbrite At The Spanish Box Office | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Spanish startup , the leading DIY ticketing platform in Spain, has raised $4 million in a Series B round of funding. The investment is being led by newly-established Spanish VC , and will be used by the company to consolidate its position in Spain through new m-commerce products, as well as for international expansio... |
The Mood Ring Gets Its Quantified-Self Update With The W/Me Wristband | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | A lot of the gadgets that help people monitor and track their physical health focus on providing feedback related to physical activity for use with tracking workout data and energy expenditure during the day. Now, a new band wants to leverage similar data sources, but with the goal of providing a more holistic pictur... |
Breaking: Company Study Shows That Company Is Totally In the Right Business | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | I have some really big news, you guys! It turns out that if you ask people whether they want to leave their wallets at home, 83 percent of them will say yes! And sometimes, people won’t have cash with them, so they can’t make a purchase — in fact, that’s what happened to a whopping 75 percent of Canadians! What a crazy... |
New Workout App For Pebble Shows Why Your Wrist Might Be The New Hot Spot For Mobile Devs | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | A by Toronto-based developer and entrepreneur Alex Kennberg uses the Pebble to take users through a standard 7-minute workout (made popular through media coverage at outlets including the ), and does so using only the tech on your wrist. It’s a great example of where standalone smart watch app development could take ... |
Next On Deck For Khan Academy: Better Diagnostics And Internationalization | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Even though Sal Khan is now running a platform that serves 6 million students and people a month, he’s still churning out a couple videos a week. What’s been most recently on deck? World War I. To make a video, Khan says he’ll front-load several books worth of reading on everything from the Armistice Day to the sinkin... |
Expect Facebook To Turbocharge ‘Notes’ Into A True Tumblr Competitor | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Facebook used to have a blogging feature called . It still does, but it got buried by the Timeline redesign and widely forgotten. Facebook needs to overhaul Notes, and signs say a refresh may already be in the works. It could help people express themselves, make Notes a legitimate competitor to Tumblr, and soften the ... |
60+ Investors Band Together To Form BitAngels, The First Multi-City Angel Network & Incubator For Bitcoin Startups | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | Nobody’s quite sure when (and if) Bitcoin will go mainstream, but plenty of investors and entrepreneurs have begun to place their bets. The snowball is off and rolling. why venture capitalists are loving this emerging market, just in the last two months, we’ve seen the Bitcoin, its own “Digital Currency Fund,” Sa... |
Turn The Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Into A Low-Cost Laptop With This Atrix Dock Hack | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 27 | The / is being used by hardware hackers to power all sorts of creative projects. Including, in the above instance, a Raspberry Pi powered laptop, created by developer — principally by tying in the Motorola Atrix laptop dock. Which surely must be the coolest use of that piece of kit to date. The smartphone that th... |
Backed Or Whacked: Give PC A Chance | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | These days, it seems that anything that whiffs of the traditional PC has all the market appeal of a month-old banana. Microsoft and its hardware cohorts are trying to fight back against the image of the staid tower and notebook with touch-enabled, all-in-one computers, clickety-covered tablets and convertible notebooks... |
Offshore 3D Printed Gun Blueprint Protector Kim Dotcom Reportedly Deleting Files [Updated] | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | 3D printed guns are reportedly even too scary for the infamous free-information hacker, . After the U.S. State Department demanded that the designer of the world’s first fully printable gun , New Zealand-based Dotcom committed to keeping them safely online in his offshore legal safehaven. “I think it’s a serious thre... |
CrunchWeek: The ‘Bang With Friends’ Buzz, Yahoo’s Acqui-hire Shopping Spree, Klout Gets Into Q&A | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | This week, , and I talked about the of the delightfully direct “dating” app (and its apparent privacy ), the shopping spree of (headed up by Yahoo, which snapped up ), and getting it into the Q&A space. |
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Clever Party Playlist App Anthm Evolves Into Jukio After Legal Woes | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | After a legal kerfuffle with the band Rush’s management company (no, seriously), the team at saw their social playlist app get unceremoniously booted from Apple’s App Store. So what’s a down-on-their-luck team of app creators to do? Why, give the app a bunch of new features, a mild facelift, and a new name — — befor... |
Gillmor Gang: Windows Too Late | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — broke from the gate and never let up in a barnburner of a show about the post-Jobs era. Will Google assume the mantle of leadership from an aging Apple, or is this just an evolutionary step along the stream of innovation tri... |
Email, Still A Sonofabitch | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | Just about two years ago, I went off the deep end. I had come home early from an event in an effort to do something responsible: email. I was on the road and knew the situation would be dire (since I had not been checking my email all day). I was wrong. It was a . It may as well have been Inbox Trillion. There was I... |
Facebook Home Is Losing Steam In The Charts…Fast | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | , the app which CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted as the “next version of Facebook,” has not been an immediate hit. Its Google Play rankings have been dropping steadily after the launch buzz wore off, according to new data from top app store analytics firms. Despite having an active user base of over a billion on the social n... |
Home Console Gaming May Suffer Death By A Thousand Cuts, Rather Than A Major Revolution | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | The Ouya is making its way out to backers even now (though my shipping notification still hasn’t arrived. Grrr.) and judging by early impressions, it’s to take down behemoths like Sony and Microsoft. The $99, Android powered console still isn’t fully formed exactly, but it’s doubtful that between now and it’ll take... |
America’s Carriers Are Terrible. It’s Probably Your Fault. | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | A few days ago I landed in England and, expecting little, slipped an old UK SIM card into my phone. I’d bought it when living in London five years ago, and hadn’t used it in more than a year. But to my amazement it was still active — as was the money I’d added to its pay-as-you-go account 16 months earlier…and then I r... |
From The Garage To 200 Employees In 3 Years: How Nest Thermostats Were Born | Derek Andersen | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a91yknBJxM] I remember when the press hit about Nest Labs. The guys behind the iPod/iPhone were taking on thermostats everywhere! A collective “huh?” went through the industry. It felt like the tech version of the Avengers got together to build an office park, not save the wor... |
Video Ad Startup TubeMogul Raises $10M For Its Asia Expansion, Opens Beijing Office | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Video ad startup has the $10 million second tranche of its Series C funding, which it will use to expand in Asia. The funding is led by SingTel Innov8, the venture capital arm of SingTel Group. The branding-focused video marketing company is eager to tap into the Asian market, where it says video ads available for... |
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Got Into The Electric Car Business Because No One Else Would | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Tesla founder Elon Musk said that he got into the electric car business after it became clear that no one else was going to build an electric car. In a keynote discussion at the D11 Conference, Musk admitted that getting into the electric car business is probably “one of the stupidest things you could do,” or it might ... |
Asian Price Comparison Site Save 22 Gets Angel Round Of “Mid Six Figures” | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 5 | 11 | Singaporean price comparison startup just got an investment of “mid six figures” in Singapore dollars, according to co-founder, . S$500,000 translates to about US$400,000, as a reference. The three-year-old startup indexes prices of goods and displays a price comparison. Its mobile app also allows you to scan a barc... |
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