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Tesla Will Triple Its Supercharger Coverage Area, Enabling Cross-Country Road Trips, CEO Elon Musk Says | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the D11 Conference today that the company will be tripling its supercharger coverage throughout the country. By the end of this year, Musk expects that it will cover most of the metropolitan cities, allowing electric car owners to drive coast to coast. The technology was developed because tr... |
Drupal.org Hacked, User Details Exposed And Reset | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Another day, another big site hacked. 2013 really just hasn’t been a good year for web security. This time around, the site writing the email that noone wants to write is Drupal.org, home of the popular content management platform, Drupal. Though no exact number was shared, it appears that nearly one million user accou... |
Motorola Mobility Confirms Upcoming Hero Device, The Moto X, Will Be Built In The U.S. | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Motorola has a new device coming out, which it thinks will change the game. In a discussion at the D11 Conference, Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside said the new mobile phone, called the Moto X, will be built in the United States in a factory outside Fort Worth. The facility that the new Moto X will be built in was... |
Yves Behar’s August Smart Lock Lets Users Open Doors With A Mobile App | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. Products like the show how wireless technology and mobile apps to better manage the temperature of your home. Now similar technology is being deployed by a startup called , whic... |
Husband And Wife Architects Create The Sugar Lab, A Foundry For 3D Printed Sweets | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Kyle and Liz von Hasseln aren’t your typical designers. Initially focused on architecture, the pair stumbled upon an interesting business idea when they wanted to make a special cake for a friend’s birthday: the . “It was our friend Chelsea’s birthday, and we didn’t have an oven to bake her a cake, so we decided to tr... |
500 Startups Raises $10M ‘500 Durians’ Micro Fund, Hires Khailee Ng As Venture Partner To Invest In SE Asia | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Dave McClure’s is no stranger to investing in international startups, with about 20 percent of its portfolio of companies hailing from outside the U.S. But it’s now looking to make a bigger bet, specifically in Southeast Asia, with a $10 million micro fund devoted to the region, as well as the hiring of Malaysia-base... |
Windows 8.1 To Get A Start Button Because Windows Is Dumb Without One | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Good news! Microsoft super blogger Paul Thurrott the return of the Start Button and the figurative demise of the Metro/smart tile/Start Page thing with Windows 8.1’s ability to boot right to Desktop, sidestepping the worst part of Windows 8. Best of all, as previously reported, Microsoft isn’t charging for these fixe... |
Google Apps Admins Finally Get An Android App To Manage Their Users, Services And Devices On The Go | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Google has made its for IT professionals who manage large Google Apps for Business, Education and Government deployments . But one thing it never offered these administrators was a mobile app to manage at least a subset of the Admin console’s features. Today, however, Google finally its first official Android ap... |
Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Will Translate User Aspiration Into Making Money | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann says that the startup isn’t making any money currently. However, he said the company is looking for ways to give marketers tools to help them understand what’s happening on the platform — and maybe, just maybe, make some money from them. Pinterest has a ton of employees — about 130, Silberm... |
Enterprise Collaboration Startup Bloomfire Takes On An Additional $2 Million From Silver Creek Ventures | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | , the Austin, Texas-based startup that makes cloud-based content-sharing software for enterprises, has taken on an additional $2 million from as an add-on to its $8 million Series A funding round . This brings the into Bloomfire, which was founded in 2010, to $20 million. In addition to Silver Creek, Bloomfire’s ... |
Google Admits It Spams The Hell Out Of You In New Gmail Commercial | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Got so many Google+, YouTube, Google Offers, and Zagat emails you want to scream? Google’s got you covered. No, it’s not sending you less spam. It’s organizing your spam into tabs! Google’s blatant attempt to cross-promote its bevy of services in the video for the quite possibly awesome leaves it seeming like a sketc... |
Barry Diller Says Aereo Isn’t About Charging For Something That’s Free, But About Moving TV To IP | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | Aereo investor Barry Diller says that the company isn’t about taking free, over-the-air signals and charging for them, but is instead about moving TV from a closed system to IP. At the D11 Conference today, Diller defended the company’s plans to build a more open video distribution platform. Diller said that what Aere... |
As Software Trumps Hardware In The World Of Payments, VeriFone Partners With CardSpring For Card-Linked Services | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | The world of payments is being turned over by the likes of Square, PayPal, Stripe and others, which are tackling the idea of payments based on hardware terminals, and new services that focus on innovations in smartphones and tablets with functionality coming by way of software iterations. Not to be outdone, incumbents ... |
Roku Wants To Be Part Of Your Next Smart TV, Raises $60 Million To Do It | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | These days, just about any cheapo Blu-ray player or game console can stream video from Netflix or Hulu, so what’s a company that makes a slew of low-cost video streaming boxes to do to stand out from the pack? Well, if you’re Roku, the answer is you raise a ton of money and set your sights on software too. reports tha... |
Etece, A Spanish TaskRabbit, Raises €450K Series A To Expand To Four More Local Cities | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | , a Spanish TaskRabbit style startup offering an online platform for people who need a job doing but don’t have the time to do it themselves, has just closed a €450,000 Series A funding round, with investment from , and . The company, which was founded in Madrid six months ago, had previously raised €500,000 from t... |
Meet Rhett, The Reason You Should Donate Money To Charity To Hang Out With A VC [TCTV] | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 29 | How much is a dinner with SV Angel co-founder and managing partner David Lee worth? When you put it into the context of where the money will be going, the answer should be “it’s almost priceless.” Today, I got to sit down with Lee and a special new friend of TechCrunch’s that I’ll introduce in a moment. Lee is particip... |
Sina Narrows Its 1Q Loss As It Counts On Weibo-Alibaba Deal To Bolster Ad Revenue | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Despite rising costs and increasing competition from rivals like Tencent, Chinese Internet giant Sina narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $13.2 million from $13.7 million a year earlier, the company today. Sina’s net revenue increased 19 percent year-over-year to $126 million, strengthened by stronger-than-expecte... |
Yahoo Wants To Buy Everyone, Tumblr Edition | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | The first rule of being cool is not telling people you want to be cool. Yahoo , with its M&A team in full pray-and-spray acquisition mode post- hire, hitting on everything that walks, or at least has traction. I’ve heard rumors that Yahoo was trying to get into the following deals over the past couple of months: Four... |
Life-Tracking App Expereal Is Your Personal Weapon Against Cognitive Biases | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Emotions play tricks on our memories, making our recollections of events much happier or heart-wrenching than they actually were. Smartphone app seeks to cut through those cognitive traps by allowing you to rate your day on a 10-point scale and organizing that data into easy-to-read charts. The iOS app (Android and W... |
MessageMe Raises A $10M Series A Led By Greylock As It Gears Up For Money And Premium Services In Its Rich Messaging App | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | MessageMe — a messaging app that with a little Facebook thrown in — has raised another $10 million, according to an earlier today. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners; and as part of it, John Lilly, the ex-CEO of Mozilla who is now a partner at Greylock, will be joining the board of LittleInc Labs, ma... |
CrowdOptic Raises Another $1M To Build Experiences Based On Where Your Phone Is Pointing | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | , a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $1 million in funding. When I’ve spoken to the team in the past, they’ve emphasized the ways this could be used to create new types of social interactions — if people are attending a live event and pointin... |
NVIDIA’s Shield Mobile Gaming System Feels Like The Way Android Games Should Be Played | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | NVIDIA brought its new handheld gaming system to Google I/O this year and showed off a near-production device. The Shield made its debut at CES this year, surprising most since it’s a consumer handheld device from a company that generally makes internal components. But it has some neat tricks up its sleeve, including ... |
Experience A Google Maps Free Fall With Instrument’s Maps Dive At Google I/O | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | One of the most interesting product demos on display at Google I/O this year was a virtual sky diving simulation built using eight separate computers running Chrome, along with a Kinect-like motion sensor made by ASUS called the Xtion Pro. The Maps Dive experiment was created by Portland-based independent digital age... |
Now With More Than 1.5B Page Views A Month, Secret Sharing App Whisper Launches On Android | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Secret sharing app has seen tremendous growth since launching last fall. But until recently, it’s only been available on iOS. With a launch on store this week, Whisper is going to be available to a whole bunch of new users, particularly in its key demographic of young adults aged 18-24. Whisper, in case you don’t k... |
For Real, Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is Releasing An Album Of Motivational Music | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Andrew Mason must be some kind of spirit animal of optimism. We assumed he was kidding when had recorded “a seven song album of motivational business music”. Just three months ago the founder and CEO got . But we’ve just confirmed with him that his album “Hardly Workin'” is for real. Hold on to your ear holes, start... |
Why CrunchGov Is Endorsing Eric Garcetti For Mayor Of LA | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | “Los Angeles is an underachieving city,” wrote the in its . “The candidate with the most potential to rise to the occasion and lead Los Angeles out of its current malaise and into a more sustainable and confident future is Eric Garcetti.” An overwhelming number of startup founders seem to agree that Garcetti is the ... |
Google Says All 2,000 Glass Explorers Have Been Invited To Pick Up Their Device | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Today, Steve Lee of the Google X and Glass Team, announced that as of last week, all 2,000 developers who signed up for the Glass Explorer program at last year’s I/O conference have now from Google’s offices in Mountain View, New York City or Los Angeles. Of course, not everyone has to actually pay the $1,500 to get ... |
Leap Motion Talks New Beta, We Go Hands On With Motion-Controlled Google Earth | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Leap Motion was showing off its still for computers at Google I/O 2013. The demo unit allowed you to use the controller to navigate Google Earth, and the functionality felt ready for prime time to me, as this was the first time I’d ever used the Leap Motion. The controls seemed intuitive, and within a few minutes I... |
How Google Took Street View For A Dive | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Google’s underwater last September, but Google’s program actually began six years ago, when one of the founders of Keyhole (which, after being acquired by Google, later became Google Earth), was inspired to also look into mapping the ocean. For several years now Google has been mapping the oceans, but bringing Stre... |
Here Are The Commands You Need To Gain Root Access To Your Google Glass | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | There has been a lot of talk about rooting your Glass device, or if it’s even possible. Well, it is. During a Hacking Google Glass session today, the team shared the steps to go through to gain root access for your Glass device. Only the Fastboot tool for UNIX works, but there have been issues with using the OS X one. ... |
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Check Out Facebook’s Nerdy Library Of Its Research Papers | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | If subjects like “XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data” get you all worked up, you’ll dig the , which collects scientific papers written by Facebook employees and researchers. Ranging from hardcore engineering to the sociology of social networks, the library puts Facebook’s open-sourced knowledge all in ... |
Y Combinator Adds Four Part-Time Partners, Including Groupon’s Andrew Mason (Who’s Also Starting A New Company) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Y Combinator’s Paul Graham revealed a bunch of personnel news in . Let’s see if I’ve got everything: The incubator has added one full-time partner (Wufoo’s Kevin Hale) and four part-time partners (Socialcam’s Michel Seibel, Hipmunk’s Steve Huffman, imeem and App.net’s Dalton Caldwell and Groupon’s Andrew Mason). Curre... |
Jen Lamere, The 18-Year-Old Developer Trying To Save Us From TV Spoilers On Twitter, Scores An Internship There | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | Participating in hackathons is nothing new in certain parts of the world, especially Silicon Valley. Once in a blue moon, a small team of people creates something exciting that generates buzz, potentially . One developer took on 80 competitors at a hackathon called “ ” and won with a solution to save you from reading ... |
PSA: The Original Karateka Is Now Available For iOS And Android | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | I remember waking up 6am, going downstairs, and firing up my Atari 800XL. The disk labeled inserted, the drive would grunt a few dozen times and the screen would flash. Suddenly, with barely any warning, the opening titles would appear and then the music would start – six notes to signal a game that was menacing in i... |
Here’s A Weekend Project For First-Time Tinkerers: Turn Your Converse Into A DIY Light Show | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 16 | The weekend isn’t upon us just yet, but here’s a little project to tuck away for when the Sunday doldrums set in — the New York-based tinkerers/part suppliers at Adafruit Industries have worked up a way to give your old pair of Chuck Taylors a . The process is pretty straightforward — with about $21 in specialized par... |
Amazon Reportedly Sets June 7 Launch For Kindle Devices In China | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | After , Amazon Kindle e-readers and tablets will reportedly be available for sale in China on June 7. E-readers like the Paperwhite and Kindle Fire tablets will be sold on Amazon China’s website, as well as Tesco stores operated by retail conglomerate Suning. Amazon Kindle kiosks have already been spotted in a Beijing... |
Trulia Adds New Maps To Visualize U.S. Rental Prices, Earthquake And Flood Risks | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | For a while, it looked like , the online marketplace for homebuyers, sellers, renters and real estate professionals, was going to cede much of its ground to Zillow, Redfin and other newcomers. Lately, however, the company has been making a bit of a comeback, with a , and . The company also recently finalized a ... |
Dear Andy Dunn | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | What? You thought that groups of people didn’t open you up to some criticism yourself? You know what they say about people who (even when one of them is ostensibly .) Now, don’t get me wrong. It’s healthy to criticize those with unchecked power. A handful of technology venture capitalists are indeed in a relativ... |
Insight Venture Partners Raises A Whopping $2.57 Billion For Next Fund | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | , a New York-based growth fund that’s backed Tumblr and Twitter, just raised $2.57 billion in what is likely one of the largest raises for a venture fund ever. This is their eighth fund since managing director Jeff Horing co-founded the firm out of business school in 1995. In their most recent fund before this, they h... |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Advocates For Tax Reform, Even Though It Might Pay A Little Bit More | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Apple CEO Tim Cook says he wants comprehensive reform of the corporate tax code in the U.S., even if it means that the company would pay a little bit more in the process. Today in a keynote conversation at the , Cook talked about his testimony before Congress and his suggestions for dealing with certain tax issues. La... |
CEO Tim Cook Says Apple Has More Game-Changing Products Ahead | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company will continue to innovate and has more game-changing products ahead. Today in a keynote conversation at the , Cook said the same people who brought you the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and maybe even the Mac will have new products coming soon. Two weeks ahead of Apple’s own , speculati... |
Heading To Yahoo! And No! I Can’t Do Anything About The Exclamation Mark! | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Today, I have to say goodbye to my current home, TechCrunch. I’ve not only gotten the opportunity to work with this amazing team as a writer and Community Director, but I’ve been able to enjoy it as a reader . I’ll continue to be a reader. Thus, with every goodbye comes a hello. I’m proud to announce that in the next ... |
Nostalgia, Activate! Earthworm Jim’s Creator Turns To Kickstarter For His Gaming Comeback | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Between Disney axing and Monkey Island’s creator waxing on about the sequel , the last few months have been a pretty big kick to the gaming crowd’s feels. Here’s some feel-good medicine: the creator of 90’s nostalgia-factory is getting back into gaming, and he’s turning to Kickstarter to make his new game happen. ... |
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar And CTO Richard Tom Re-Emerge To Build A Stealth Startup In L.A. | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and CTO Richard Tom are working on a new stealth startup, according to sources. While details of their plans are still a little fuzzy, the two have secured office space in Los Angeles and are actively hiring engineers for their new startup. Kilar, of course, spent the last several years buil... |
Despite Strong Early Numbers, Netflix Stock Drops After “Arrested Development” Debut; Parents Also Angry Over Lost Kids Shows | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Maybe Netflix’s original content isn’t quite ready yet, after all. Today, a spate of bad news for the streaming service: its “Arrested Development” reboot failed to impress TV critics, and shares fell 5 percent as a result this morning. Meanwhile, angry parents are giving Netflix hell for its decision to drop popular k... |
Google+ App For iOS Updated With New Automatic Photo Features, Hashtags And In-Stream Google Offer Posts | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Google unleashed a slew of updates to its Google+ social networking service at I/O earlier this month, and now a bunch of those new features are making it to the . The update follows , which arrived last week, and brings tons of new things to the version on Apple mobile devices, including , hashtags that curate relat... |
Quora Grew More Than 3X Across All Metrics In The Past Year | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | famously doesn’t share its growth numbers. Due to this furtiveness, many people speculate that it is not growing. On Quora even: is a Quora question that smacked me in the face right as I opened the site to research this article. The first answer to the question brings up Quora investor refutation of such short-te... |
Fandalism’s Philip Kaplan Launches DistroKid, An Affordable Way To Upload Music To Stores Like iTunes | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Earlier this year, Philip Kaplan expanded , his social network for musicians, , which allows musicians to bring their songs and albums to iTunes and elsewhere. Today he’s spinning out the distribution service as a separate site, which he’s calling . Kaplan, who previously founded or co-founded the blog FuckedCompany... |
Photo Editing Platform Aviary, Now With 50M Monthly Active Users, Goes Global With New Japan Office | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | , the that has become a developer darling through its straightforward ability to integrate into iOS, Android, Windows Phone and HTML5 apps, has crossed a major milestone — and is aiming for even more growth. Today the company is announcing that more than 50 million people used Aviary in the past month, giving it an e... |
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Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With General Atlantic’s Brett Rochkind | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | On this week’s Ask a VC show, we have General Atlantic 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. Rochkind leads General Atlantic’s Palo Alto office, where he is co-head of the firm’s global Internet & T... |
The Zortrax Is A 3D Printer From The Polish Motherland | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Zortrax! Drukarko moja! Ty jesteś jak zdrowie. The Zortrax (yeah, really) M200 is a $1,899 3D printer made in Poland that will be shipped internationally by a team of crack Polish engineers and designers. It has a 7×8 inch build plate and can print objects of up to 488 cubic inches. It prints ABS and Nylon and has a sp... |
Google Play Still Missing Top App Titles From iOS, Many Of Which Are Games | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Many of today’s tech companies and startups are . The problem stems from a lack of in-house talent, fewer Android-owning beta testers, technical hurdles, fragmentation issues, potential for revenue and more. And yet, there’s this general perception that when it comes to the size and scope of the two competing app stor... |
Keen On … Antitrust: Why Startup Entrepreneurs Should Fear Google | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Nobody can accuse , the Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer, of being intrinsically anti-Google. After all, it was Reback, back in the 90s, who spearheaded the U.S. government’s efforts to sue Google’s nemesis Microsoft – an enormously consequental event for the tech industry that made it possible for start-up entrepr... |
Adobe Acqui-hires Creative Consultancy Ideacodes, Names Co-Founders As Creative Directors Of Creative Cloud | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 28 | Adobe just that it has acqui-hired , a San Francisco-based creative consultancy that specializes in “the design and user experience of smart application, digital product and networked communities.” Ideacodes’ co-founders Emily Chang and Max Kielser will join Adobe as creative directors of Creative Cloud. The terms o... |
Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Tumblr employees feel that Yahoo’s $1.1 billion offer is “too low” and view it as “only a first offer,” according to sources close to acquisition talks. Yahoo may have to increase the offer to close the deal. An acquisition by some tech giant is likely in the cards for Tumblr, though, as sources say the company only h... |
Grubless? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge [Confirmed] | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, production and distribution systems. As interest in food tech balloon... |
Google Now Introduces Mark Up Tools For Select Partners To Flag Flights, Hotel Stays And Reservations In Emails | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Google made a regarding how it’s pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has begun extending mark up tools for emails from select partners, which help highlight flight schedules, hotel bookings and various types of reservations, to... |
HTC Pledges To Pump Up ‘One’ Production While Samsung’s New Flagship Ships Like Crazy | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Oh HTC. You’ve produced one of the (seriously, just look at all these reviews), but you’ve faced more than your share of challenges when it came to actually pumping your top-tier One smartphone. As it happens, that may all soon change. reported earlier today that HTC is preparing to pump out more of its wonderful One... |
Uber Prepares For Another Fight With DC Regulators | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Just about six months ago, Uber won a big battle with D.C. regulators to have its on-demand car service approved for operation within the nation’s capital. But could severely hamper the company’s ability to offer low-cost services in the district. Last December, the D.C. City Council voted to approve a legal framewor... |
Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘With Friends’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Zynga has apparently told the makers of the dating website that they need to change the site’s name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga’s trademarks. CupidWithFriends was built by the startup Apartment 7 (which also released the dating apps and ). The site , allowing users to build and edit dating profiles f... |
Firefox 23 Lands In Aurora Channel: Kills Blink Element, Introduces Slew Of New Dev Tools | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | today bumped up , the pre-beta release channel of the popular browser, to version 23. With this, it is introducing a number of new tools for developers that will now slowly make their way into the stable release channel over the next few months. Sadly (or maybe not), this is also the first version of Firefox that doe... |
Gmail And The Stock Android Email App Combined Have Over 100M Mobile Users | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Google’s Vikram Aggarwal, a software engineer working on the Android platform, revealed today that Gmail and Email, the native Android client that still ships on Android devices as well, now has a combined user base of more than 100 million across the Android install base. It’s an interesting stat, because although Gma... |
Apple Boots Bang With Friends From The App Store | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Uh oh. Less than ten days after on the iOS App Store, Apple has seemingly changed its mind and given it the boot. As I noted in the post at the time, I was actually a bit surprised to see Apple green light this one to begin with. The guys behind the app tried to chaste things up a bit for Apple, changing the name for... |
Ask A VC: Accel Partners’ Rich Wong On Whether You Can Build A Great Tech Company Outside Silicon Valley | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | This week, we hosted Accel Partners’ in the studio for our Ask A VC show. Wong, who has invested in Angry Birds (Rovio), Dealer.com, Mobilespaces, Atlassian, MoPub, talked about where he sees the next wave of disruption in mobile technologies. He believes mobile security is a huge opportunity mobile, especially at ... |
Facebook’s Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | $FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it’s made important progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights. It’s running out of people to sign up in the developed world, but with this growth and no serious compet... |
Don’t Let Your Company’s Scale Tip Your Bathroom Scale | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Any programmer or blogger knows that when you work on the Internet, on a computer, it’s easy to gain weight. Tech office pantries are stocked with Red Bull, candy, chips and even things you wouldn’t think were too unhealthy, like protein bars. Protein bars are basically injections of sugar. That’s why they taste like a... |
Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | One of the more interesting projects to emerge from hackathon is called , a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based company behind the now just four-week-old service, has already caught the attention of local investors, as well as Eve... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: All Google I/O, All The Time | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Google’s major developer conference, , went down this week. Was it a bit of a letdown? Probably. Did cool stuff still come out of the event? Eh? Maybe? We discuss these topics and more this week on the TC Gadgets podcast. In fact, we even had Frederic Lardinois join as a guest, along with John Biggs, Matt Burns, Jorda... |
Amidst Tumblr Acquisition Rumors, Yahoo To Hold Product Event With Marissa Mayer On Monday | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear of late, snapping up apps and mobile startups like they’re going out of style. Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, MileWise, Loki Studios have all been acquired in the last month-and-a-half, while Yahoo simultaneously made a play . With that falling through, rumors have begun to swirl that ... |
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Google+ App For Android Quietly Switched To WebP Image Format A Month And A Half Ago, Saves 50% Bandwidth | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | About a month and a half ago, Google switched to its own in its , the company revealed at its in San Francisco today. This, Stephen Konig, a Google product manager who focuses on WebP and Chrome Remote desktop, and Make the Web Fast team member and Chrome developer advocate Ilya Grigorik said in today’s presentati... |
Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Google held a session today at about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing. Not surprisingly, the big growth is coming with in-app purchases, though Google’s recently launched subscription model is also makin... |
Behind The Scenes Of The Big Google Maps Redesign And Its Technical Challenges | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | Google unveiled its completely on the web at I/O 2013, and at a panel dedicated to the new Maps experience, Maps User Experience Design Lead Jonah Jones and Engineering Director for Maps on the web Yatin Chawathe took us through what went into creating Maps and the engineering effort behind the considerable change se... |
Google Introduces Portable Native Client, Makes It Easier For Developers To Add C And C++ Code To Their Web Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | – a technology that allows developers to run native compiled C and C++ code as part of their web apps – has long been a part of Google Chrome. Even though other browser vendors haven’t adopted it yet, Google is clearly putting quite a few resources behind this technology and at I/O this year, it announced (or PNaCl,... |
With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 17 | and , the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through , are part of the who have taken a . Last month, it was revealed that they personally , a stake worth the equivalent of some $11 million. And now, the Winklevosse... |
Mystery Motorola Phone Passes Through The FCC, Looks Just Like Early X Phone Leaks | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | Here’s a little noodle-scratcher for you fellow mobile hardware nerds to ponder this evening. This little Motorola Mobility beauty, brandishing the model number XT1058, recently and left the customary paper trail in its wake. All right, maybe calling it a beauty is a bit of a stretch, but here’s the kicker: The rudime... |
Norway’s Crown Prince And Princess Talk Startups And Try Out The Oculus Rift | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and his wife Princess Mette-Marit were in Silicon Valley this week, and I asked them about their hopes to bring more startups and innovation to their home country. I interviewed Haakon and Mette-Marit at Norway’s , a co-working space in Palo Alto for Norwegian startups looking to enter t... |
QFPay, The Square of China, Is Processing Close To $400M Per Year | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | ‘s card reader admittedly looks a bit clunkier than its U.S. or European equivalents Square or iZettle. It looks like a wonky, old calculator. But that’s because Chinese consumers don’t trust merchants easily and a basic phonejack reader without a keypad makes them nervous, says COO Tim Lee. He says consumers are worri... |
Sina Weibo Will Monetize Through E-Commerce, Not Ads, Alibaba CTO Jian Says | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | One interesting thing to watch is how social networking platforms mature divergently as businesses around the world. Sina Weibo, the public microblogging platform that has had a huge impact on online discourse in China, is veering down a path toward e-commerce and transactions after Alibaba took a stake worth $586 mill... |
Mark Zuckerberg’s Lobby Unravelling As Musk And Sacks Leave | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | The technology industry’s newest high-powered political lobby, FWD.us, is unraveling just a month after it launched, as two of its biggest partners, Tesla’s Elon Musk and Yammer’s David Sacks, . Begun with a reported $20 million of Mark Zuckerberg’s own money, and rare op-ed by the politically shy Facebook founder, FW... |
Through The Looking Glass: What You’ll See Through Google’s Lens | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | I’ve spent a little over three weeks with Google Glass, and I’ve noted that the utility aspect of the device is strong, but the fun isn’t there yet. It , before it had the App Store. In this video, we discuss some of the quick assumptions about Glass, warranted or otherwise, and give you a look through the eyes of ... |
Formlabs Prepares To Ship The Super Sexy Form One 3D Printer | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | [vimeo http://vimeo.com/65413433] The boy geniuses of Formlabs, David Cranor, Maxim Lobovsky, and Natan Linder have posted a video detailing their Form One 3D printer, one of the most well-put-together 3D printing devices we’ve seen in a while. The Form One uses a form of stereolithography that prints the objects “upsi... |
Twilio Is Raising A Series D Of Around $50M | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | I’d been hearing whispers as of late that Twilio is meeting with VCs to raise another round, and I just got the good word from a very, very solid source. I’m told that Twilio is in the process of raising a Series D, with a goal of raising around $50 million. The talks are still rather early on. In fact, when I first g... |
Yahoo’s Acqui-Hire Spree Continues With Mobile Gaming Startup Loki Studios | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | Yahoo has just been gobbling up startups. In the last week or so, it has announced the acquisition of , , and . In fact, , Yahoo said that it has “added 22 entrepreneurs to our growing mobile team,” thanks to the three aforementioned companies — plus a mobile gaming startup called . I’ve reached out to both Yahoo ... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: DAS KEYBOARD! DAS AMAZON PHONE! DAS SNAPCHAT! | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | This week on the we talk about Snapchat, DAS Keyboard, and the wild Amazon phone. This time we’re joined by Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, Greg Kumparak, and Jordan Crook as Michelle Tanner. Enjoy! These are the and Jordan was talking about during the podcast.
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Highland Capital, Andreessen Horowitz & Others Put $1.8M Into Aviate, An Intelligent Homescreen For Android | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | Facebook is not the only company to invest in development of products that take better advantage of the Android homescreen. South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk also to release a rival Android launcher. And now, , and others have invested $1.8 million into , an ex-Googler backed intelligent homescreen for Androi... |
Facebook Is Getting Serious About Original Programming With “Facebook Live” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | “House Of Cards” proved that great, exclusive content can create loyal customers. While Facebook isn’t about to produce TV shows, it tells me that it plans to ramp up production of its original programming starting with a today at 5:15 p.m. PST. Comedian Andy Samberg will interview film director JJ Abrams and classi... |
Mobile Gaming Backend OpenKit Now Available To All Developers | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | , an open-source social platform for mobile games, is now open to all developers, according to co-founder Peter Relan. The service, first , has been in private beta since earlier this year. There are apparently 1,500 developers already testing the service. that he started OpenKit in response to the shutdown of OpenFe... |
Microsoft: Google Docs Is Not Worth The Gamble, Makes You Less Productive | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | After Bing and its campaign, Microsoft is now taking aim at Google Docs. Jake Zborowski, Microsoft’s senior product manager for Office, actually published blog posts today: one homes in on document fidelity, and the other, which includes a number of user testimonials, argues that Google Docs isn’t quite . If it ... |
Google Brings Its Cloud Messaging Push Notification Service To Chrome | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | At last year’s I/O, Google its Cloud Messaging push notification service . This week, it extended this service , which, Google says, allows Chrome apps and extension developers to wake up their apps remotely and/or send alerts to users. While mobile app developers have long been familiar with the concept of push no... |
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Bing Now Allows Users To Like And Comment On Facebook Entries Right From Its Social Sidebar | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | ‘s social sidebar, which shows relevant entries from your Facebook friends, Twitter, Klout, Quora and other services, just got . You can now like Facebook posts in the social sidebar and add their own comments. In addition you can now also see all of the existing comments on a post right in the sidebar, too. This, Mic... |
3 Graphs Explain Why There Is A Tech-Talent Shortage And Immigrants Are Needed | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | Yes, we do need high-skilled immigrants because we don’t have enough qualified workers. Contrary to a widely publicized report claiming that a tech-talent shortage is a myth, study confirms that there is a shortage and businesses need immigrants to fill the innovation vacuum. “This report matters because accurate f... |
Elevatr Is A Mobile-First Tool For Startup Business Plan Creation | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | Serial entrepreneur with too many ideas rattling around in your head? Then you’re going to like this one: a new mobile app called will help you keep track of your inspirations, as well as develop a business model, in order to turn your passing thoughts into plans actually worth pursuing some day. The beautifully desi... |
Video Discovery Startup Boxfish Launches Android App, Opens Up API For Third-Party Developers | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | Video discovery startup wants to help people find out what’s new and trending on TV, by scouring broadcast and cable networks to find out what people are talking about. After making its second-screen discovery application available for iOS, the startup has just released an Android version, and is opening up to allow ... |
Falling iPad Mini Demand Claims Show Why Watching Suppliers For Apple Success Misses The Point | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 10 | This week, a number of headlines with reports that iPad mini demand was failing based on supplier Pegatron’s earnings numbers as revealed at an investor conference. Those claims were later refuted by Pegatron CEO Jason Cheng, who argued that Bloomberg’s Tim Culpan had misquoted him to reach his conclusion about iPad ... |
Singapore’s MediaCorp Invests $40M In Luxury Online Retailer Reebonz | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | , one of Singapore’s two largest media companies, has poured $40 million into in a deal that values the designer brand flash-sales site at about $200 million. This is the first time that MediaCorp has invested in an online retailer, according to (a site that is also owned by MediaCorp). The media conglomerate hopes... |
Pinterest Launches Pins With More Info And A New Button For Mobile Apps | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Pinterest today that will help make the site more attractive to potential advertisers. The first is pins embedded with additional information about products, recipes and movies. The second is a Pin It button that is now available on nine mobile apps. The company says that its new features are a “first step toward mak... |
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