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The New “Handmade” | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Amid of a “ ” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness. Today’s news headlines about the technology tend to focus on the extreme possibilities in being able to print objects on demand – from the terro... |
BrandYourself Upgrades Its Online Reputation Tools With A Full-Service Concierge Feature | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | is expanding its efforts to take on the big names in the online reputation market (particularly Reputation.com) with the launch of a new version of its service. The company as a fairly simple self-service tool for trying to improve your presence online, for example by creating a website and other content to push dow... |
Ziff Davis Is Buying NetShelter/InPowered’s Display Ad Business | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Digital media company and ad sales platform is expanding its network of properties even further with the purchase of display advertising business, a well-placed source has informed us. The source couldn’t share exact terms of the deal, but did reveal that InPowered, the product that NetShelter has increasingly focu... |
Google Glass Year In Review | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | It’s been a little over a year since Google started teasing something it called “Project Glass.” The futuristic, wearable computer that would change the way that you interact with the world was nothing more than a before it was . Not known for hardware and not having a current bonafide physical device that was popul... |
Hey, Hardware Hackers! There’s A WiFi-Enabled Arduino Now | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Lets say you’ve come up with a brilliant idea for some shiny new piece of hardware. You brush up your coding chops, scratch out a design, and set out to build a prototype. First, you’ll need a programmable chip to act as the brain. Because of the relatively gentle learning curve and friendly community, you go with the ... |
Google Believes Web Components Are The Future Of Web Development | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | While it was missing the skydiving antics of last year’s event, Google’s I/O keynote last week wasn’t short on product launches. In between the splashy updates to Google Maps, Search, Android and everything else Google announced, the company also briefly talked about Web Components for a few minutes. While Google’s Sun... |
An Interview With Dr. Joshua Pearce Of Printers For Peace | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | , is a researcher at who rearches open source and low-impact solutions to engineering problems. He is also the founder of the , an effort to bring together clever 3D-printed ideas that have loftier aims. You can if you submit a winning project. We asked Pearce a few questions about his goals for the project and ab... |
Leaked Memo Shows Barnes & Noble Bringing Web Browser And Email To Simple Touch eReaders In June | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | An upcoming update will bring a web browser, email and update store app to Barnes & Noble’s super affordable Nook Simple Touch line of e-readers, which will begin rolling out June 1 according to a source close to the matter who wishes to remain anonymous. The 1.5.0 update was created in response to the positive critica... |
Acrobotics Wants To Kickstart Smarter Cities With Its Smart Citizen Environment Sensors | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 19 |
There’s plenty of buzz about the concept of making our cities “smarter” — that is, loading them up with sensors and data-driven services to improve efficiency and quality of life. Hell, even Google has taken to loading up its event venues . Most of the discussion out there deals with how local governments are wo... |
How Cheap Genetic Testing Complicates Cancer Screening For Us All | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Sometimes, more medical information is a bad thing. The influential United States Preventive Services Task Force for their susceptibility to breast cancer. Why? Because the tests are imperfect: for every woman who gets tested for genes associated with onset breast cancer, even more will falsely test positive, leading... |
Android’s Design Principles And The Calculus Of The Human Pleasure Response | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Android UX and interaction design leads Helena Roeber and Rachel Garb gave a talk at Google I/O this year about the they helped create and introduced back in 2012 with the launch of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The ADP foll three simple principles, essentially “enchat, simplify and amaze,” but there’s much more to... |
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Iterations: How Tech Hedge Funds And Investment Banks Make Sense Of Apple’s Share Buybacks | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Apple has a good deal of cash. And, in the Valley, the startup ecosystem — for many reasons — wants to see Apple spend that cash. As their cash pile continued to grow as their stock price and market cap soared, Apple’s inability to provide robust software services combined with opportunities to expand their reach thr... |
Yahoo Board Has Approved A $1.1 Billion Cash Deal For Tumblr, WSJ Reports | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | The that the rumored $1.1 billion cash acquisition deal for social blogging site Tumblr has been approved by Yahoo’s board of directors. The Tumblr acquisition was , with a price tag reportedly north of $1 billion, which appears to be accurate if the WSJ’s sources are correct. Tumblr would continue to be run as a se... |
Illinois Library Embraces Crowdfunding To Bring Its Patrons A 3D Printer (And A Giant Hulk Statue) | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Retooling the traditional public library for a more technically savvy populace is no small feat, especially when library budgets across the U.S. have been gutted these past few years. That sad state of events has forced some libraries to take matters into their own hands. Consider the case of the in Northlake, Illin... |
Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to ) might put them in deeper hot water when he hands over a reported 100,000 emails and documents to the British Revenue & Customs (HRMC) services. Barney Jones, a former Googler who was at the company between 2004 a... |
Bio-Hackers, Get Ready | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | When I speak to technical founders, they often look back with fondness to days of tinkering with a Commodore 64 or Hypercard. But perhaps tomorrow’s founders will experiment with a very different kind of code — the genetic code that underlies how everything from one-celled organisms to humans develop and behave. A pai... |
YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 19 | turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are. Remember, the company , the same year that Michael Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, and Lance Armstrong was winning his seventh Tours De France, and Arrested Development was still on the air. A lot has ... |
Samsung Briefly Posts Galaxy S4 Mini On Its Apps Site, Adding New Credence To A Summer Release | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | Samsung has yet to officially confirm the Galaxy S4 mini, but the smartphone’s earlier today backs up rumors of a summer launch. The listing was (link via Google Translate) before it was removed. The Galaxy S4 mini appeared with the model number GT-I9195 as part of a line-up of Samsung smartphones on the company... |
Fitocracy Users Come For The Gamification, But Stay For The Community | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | It’s no surprise that fitness gamification network is thriving — the company recently announced that it had surpassed and has signed deals with personalities like the . But the company recently received its latest honor as one of Time Inc’s 10 NYC Startups to Watch. We took the opportunity to speak to co-found... |
Paul Graham: 37 Y Combinator Companies Have Valuations Of Or Sold For At Least $40M | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham about the valuations of YC startups. As of now, Graham says that 37 Y Combinator companies, out of 511 startups, have valuations of or sold for at least $40 million. Currently the total valuation for the 511 startups is $11.5 billion, as Graham writes My first thought when readi... |
Any.DO Integrates Kiip’s Reward System To Make Completing To-Do Lists A Daily, And Fun, Habit | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | If your’e a to-do list junkie, then you’ve probably already heard about . The leader in the space to dive deeper into the personal productivity space. One of the things that Any.DO has done to keep its approach fresh is integrate Kiip’s reward platform, which will give you stuff when you complete a to-do list. It’s ... |
Comic XKCD Nails Google Glass Critics (Especially Congress) | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | . Some fears are justified since, as a culture, we don’t have a pristine history of social etiquette always catching up to technology (see: ). But, , this doesn’t absolve us of the right to say something intelligent and offer a reasonable path forward as we inevitably march towards heads-up display technology in some... |
Google Glass: What’s With All The Hate? | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | isn’t even on sale yet and there is already a noticeable backlash against Google’s first experiment in wearable computing. It’s odd to see a product that was greeted with so much hype a year ago endure the love-hate cycle so quickly – even though there are only a few thousand units in the wild. Sure, we’ve to popula... |
New ‘Arrested Development’ Pulls Off The Geekiest Gag Ever, Confuses Much Of The Internet | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | New Arrested Development is here! Have you heard? I could probably fall back on an “Unless you’ve been living under a rock..” joke here, but I’m pretty sure they’ve got WiFi under rocks now. Rock people are quite well informed these days. Anyway — if you’re just catching the first few episodes of the new season: Yeah, ... |
Facebook Home And Windows Phone Are Making The Same Apps-Related Misstep | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | . Or it would be, if it had ever actually lived. I’m not going to pronounce it dead quite yet – there is a chance Zuck & Co. can revive it, with the right kind of updates and by dialling back the experience so it’s not such an absolute mobile takeover. As just a lockscreen widget, say, it might actually be pretty popul... |
Fans Create A 3D-Printable Version Of Cyvasse, The Game Of Thrones Boardgame | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | Take off your silken cloak and get your dragon eggs ready because Cyvasse, the game that characters play in George R. R. Martin’s series is now 3D-printable. Created by Arian Croft of and his friend Nate Stephens, the game uses most of Martin’s rules mentioned in the books as well as interpolations taken from perio... |
Electric Car Tech Company Better Place Hits The Deadpool, As The Greentech Shakeout Continues | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | , the Tel Aviv- and based electric car battery technology company that’s raised more than funding since its 2007 inception, that it has filed a court motion to dissolve and liquidate the company after attempts to raise more funds fizzled. The impending bankruptcy was first reported by . The official announcement f... |
Iterations: How ESPN Thinks About The Future Of Its Product And Technologies | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | Ryan Spoon (left), SVP of Product; and Aaron LaBerge, SVP of Technology, ESPN. After spending time in the comforts of the Valley as a founder, operator, and venture capitalist, my friend Ryan Spoon headed east — to Bristol, Conn., of all places — to follow the intersection of his passion: technology and sports. And h... |
What Is Hulu Really Worth? | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | Hulu is on the block again, as its corporate parents (and content partners) are taking bids for the streaming video site. According to , there are now , including pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable; private equity firms KKR, Guggenheim Digital, The Chernin Group, and Silverlake Partners (along with talent... |
Anatomy Of An Undisclosed Investment Or Exit | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | Spend time with a VC and they’ll inevitably tell you about a startup they’ve invested in that has a “great story.” In fact, this line is repeated so often I’ve occasionally posited that VCs invest in and sell stories not companies. Likewise, read any number of articles offering entrepreneurs free and usually unsolicite... |
iPad Video Ad Volumes Explode 10x in A Year, Due To Surpass PC Usage Inside 2 Years | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 5 | 26 | If there’s one thing we know about the explosion in the use of tablets like the iPad, it’s that people have been increasingly using them to consume video content. However, hard data on this has come in only dribs and drabs. Now a video platform that works with major publishers has released data that shows just how big ... |
All I’ve Heard From My Family Since The Acquisition News Began | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | Tumblr’s Rachel Fershleiser who read TechCrunch. And Tumblr founder thinks it’s the So do we. We originally thought this email was a missive from Karp’s family to Karp. Thank you for setting us straight. How silly is ? They confuse emails to with emails to — Scott Kidder (@skidder) via , Image |
Qihoo 360 Partners With Alibaba To Grab Market Share Away From Chinese Search Giant Baidu | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | China’s e-commerce giant and have teamed up to launch , an online shopping search engine that rivals similar products by , China’s biggest search engine. Qihoo’s new relationship with Alibaba is noteworthy because Alibaba dominates China’s $190 billion e-commerce market through two of its portals, Taobao and Tmal... |
Echelon 2013 Will Bring Together Asia-Pacific’s Top Startups In June | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | Now in its fourth year, will spotlight 52 of the Asia Pacific region’s most promising startups from June 4 to 5 in Singapore. The event will also feature more than 50 speakers and judges, including 500 Startups’ Dave McClure and Sahil Lavingia, who raised $8.1 million for his startup when he was just 20 years old, ... |
Snow Fail: The New York Times And Its Misunderstanding Of Copyright | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | You remember , don’t you? It was that awesome interactive reporting piece by The New York Times that everyone talked about for a week. It was called “ .” It was praised as a way for The New York Times to and their . Or to . It even ! (Oh yeah, .) The New York Times spent months and had an entire team working on ... |
Cultural Learnings Of Silicon Valley For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Ukraine | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 21 |
Like you and a lot of other people in the Valley, I read on the Valley, because nothing is funnier than , technology elite who download all day and all night — all on our separate phones reserved for daytime and nighttime. It makes you feel like you’re part of a community instead of a tiny speck of dust in the vast... |
The Saturday Evening Post Finally Comes To iOS, With Help From Yudu | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | has a prominent spot in the history of American magazines. It’s where artist Norman Rockwell made a name for himself, and it has published classic American authors like Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But if you had no idea that it was still around, you’re not alone — the magazine’s technology director Steve ... |
OK Go’s Damian Kulash Explains Why His Band Built Its Own Mobile Game | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | OK Go (the band behind hit music videos like “ ” and “ ) for iOS and Android earlier this month. You can play the game, titled , with one of your friends or with a randomly chosen player. (If you sign up now, you can also participate in a temporary promotion where people are randomly selected to play with a band m... |
Producteev’s Social Task Manager Now Free And Enterprise-Ready As It Preps For Full Jive Integration Later This Year | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | In November, Bay Area cloud-based, collaborative task manager, , to boost its social business platform. Going forward, as Alex wrote at the time, Salesforce.com and Jive will increasingly butt heads as they compete for mindshare in the enterprise. With Producteev’s multi-platform task-management system, which allows... |
TC Cribs: Inside Fab’s NYC Headquarters, Where High Fashion And Hot Design Become Fun | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_kdJqBDy0 Welcome to a brand new episode of , the TechCrunch TV series that goes straight into the heart of the action at the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what it’s really like for the people who work there. For this edition we headed out on the road to the New York City h... |
Ditto Turns To Indiegogo For Help Battling Patent Lawsuits (Including One From 1-800-Contacts) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | , a startup that helps users virtually try on different pairs of eyeglasses, has launched to help fight a big threat — the company says it’s being sued by 1-800-CONTACTS and another company called Lennon Imaging Technology. Ditto’s technology allows users to create webcam recordings of their faces, which they then us... |
New Xbox Fails To Excite Investors As Microsoft, AMD Stocks Stays Flat While Sony Shoots Up 9% | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | Wall Street apparently wanted something more revolutionary out of the that launched today, as is down 0.66 percent. In turn, investors on news of a potential spin off, pushed shares up 9 percent, coincidentally just after Microsoft announced its answer to the Sony Playstation. today touted features including live... |
PopExpert Online Video Education Marketplace Raises $2M In Seed Funding From Learn Capital And Others | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | As edtech startups continue to challenge the current state of higher education, and various niche startups focus on educating people through digital means, yet another company is getting a boost when it comes to helping people learn. , a learning marketplace that lets students connect with experts in one-on-one video c... |
Xbox One Makes The Console Gaming Experience Less Lonely | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | Gaming has evolved from single-player to head-to-head to massively multiplayer, but it’s also retreated from public arcades to isolated homes. Today’s launch of the makes the whole console experience social, not just the gaming itself. You’ll still be battling other humans, but how you communicate with them and choos... |
Laptop Week Review: The 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | If I could only have one MacBook (which is usually the case for your average laptop-buyer), this is the one I’d pick without hesitation. Fewer issues than its 15-inch cousin, which pioneered the Retina line, combined with a much lighter design with a smaller desktop footprint for a display that can still give you crazy... |
Sen. Rand Paul Is Mostly Right In Defending Apple’s Obligation To Minimize Taxes | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | “It’s absurd for Congress to vilify businesses like Apple for wanting to minimize their tax code just like every other American rightly does,” uber-Libertarian Senator Rand Paul, lashing out at his Senate colleagues for ‘dragging’ Apple CEO Tim Cook in to defend his company’s tax policies. On the eve of Cook’s much-h... |
Microsoft Confirms That The Xbox One Will Come With An Incredibly Sensitive New Kinect | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | The was just unveiled at Microsoft’s Redmond campus and, true to multiple reports that circulated before the official reveal, the new console will indeed come with a Kinect. And what a Kinect it is! The rumors of a vastly improved Kinect sensor array were right on the money — this next-generation model is capable of ... |
The New Xbox One Live Features Add Advanced Social Gaming Features That Could Lead To True MMORPG Experiences | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | While we don’t have all of the details on the new Xbox Live features announced at today’s Xbox One launch, it’s clear that Microsoft is going all-in when it comes to social and multiplayer gaming. First, they are upping the number of dedicated servers for online play from 15,000 to 300,000 and nearly all of your conten... |
Xbox One Instant Switching Turns The Console Into A Voice-Powered Set Top Box With Live TV Integration | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 21 | Now leading the pack in gaming consoles, Microsoft’s future growth lies outside the gaming sphere. We’ll surely see tons of games at E3 in a few weeks, but at the big reveal of the Xbox One, the company chose to focus on non-gaming features, such as media streaming and Skype conversations. But what makes streaming and ... |
Google Maps Said To Be Getting A Facelift That Could Appear At Google I/O | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Google’s bound to pull back the curtain on some goodies at its annual I/O conference next week (though it’s being characteristically quiet about the whole thing), but could a redesigned version of Google Maps be one of them? That’s what the folks at the (completely unofficial) blog hint at — they’ve come into possess... |
LinkedIn, On The Lookout For More Stickiness, Adds Channels With Curated Content On LinkedIn Today | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | , now at 225 million users, continues to introduce more features to its site to keep people returning to it and staying there for longer. Today it’s the turn of , its social news page, which is getting a new feature called . Channels is rolling out starting today to English-speaking users. LinkedIn says that it plans... |
Backed By Rapper Nas, Urban Culture-Focused Media Company Mass Appeal Raises $1.2M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | , a joint venture that’s both reviving the Brooklyn-based, graffiti-focused magazine of the same name and also moving into online content, is announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in funding. It’s backed by a mix of traditional firms and figures from the hip hop world. The rapper, ( ) Nas that he had invested a ... |
Yahoo Wants To Touch People’s Lives “Every Day”, And Is Developing For Google Glass | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | What is Yahoo? Marissa Mayer just laid out the company’s identity and future at . The key words she repeated over and over was “Every Day”. That’s when Yahoo wants you to use it, and it’s why it’s now developing for Google Glass, , and relaunching products like Yahoo Weather she’s sees as part of your “daily dozen” a... |
Dots, Betaworks’ New Super Addictive iOS Game, Nabs 1 Million Downloads In One Week | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Dots, a game week out of betaworks, has reached over 1 million downloads in just one week of availability. According to a blog post, the app hit number 1 in eight countries, and went into the top five in another fifteen countries. Right now, in fact, you’ll find Dots as the number three free app behind Hardest Game E... |
TC Cribs: A Trek Through DotCloud, An Urban Jungle For Plotting World Domination | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | DotCloud’s office is smack in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco, but when you step inside it feels like you’re in the middle of a jungle — albeit a very well-connected jungle with desks, computers, and intensely-focused programmers. That’s because DotCloud has decorated its office with dozens of p... |
Adobe’s David Wadhwani On Subscriptions, Behance, Hardware And Piracy | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Earlier today, I had a chance to sit down with Adobe’s , the senior vice president and general manager for Digital Media and public face of Creative Cloud at the company’s MAX conference in Los Angeles this week. Adobe announced a number of product updates this week, but the most important and wide-reaching announceme... |
BitTorrent Steps Up Monetization Efforts By Taking Its (Potentially Paywalled) Content Bundles Into Alpha | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | is taking a new step today in its efforts to help creators make money (and make money itself) — it’s releasing a new content packaging format called the BitTorrent Bundle in alpha mode. The company has already been working with different creators to launch promotional bundles. For example, author packaged chapters o... |
Facebook Must Make Home A Layer Atop Your Widgets And Homescreen, Not A Replacement | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | “Where did my Android go?” is the common refrain of . We want the widgets and old homescreen we’ve meticulously curated. That’s why Facebook needs to preserve and offer quick access to the phone we’re used to if it’s going to make Home a hit. Facebook’s reading the reviews too, so bet on the early Home updates to make... |
Security Firm: “Syria Has Largely Disappeared From The Internet” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | [tweet https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/331874800748359681] War-torn Syria is reportedly experiencing massive Internet outages. Both and security firm Cloudflare are reporting near zero levels of traffic out of the area. This isn’t the first time the beleaguered nation has experienced Internet issues. Back in 20... |
Facebook Arrives On Google Glass Thanks To Unofficial Photo Sharing App | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | As the days go by and developers get their hands on Glass, the basic apps that we need to survive in the wild and share our photos are popping up. Today, is available for those who want to post the moments captured with Glass to the social network. It’s the first third-party app that allows you The setup is similar ... |
Nest Acquires MyEnergy To Boost Its Home Energy Management Tools | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Nest proved that energy monitoring can be tantalizing. And it’s about to get even better. The company just announced that it has acquired to further enhance its suite of monitoring tools. Terms of deal were not released. Originally called Earth Aid, the startup as one of the first energy monitoring solutions. Simil... |
Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green Says Windows RT’s Slow Start Is A Consumer Education Problem | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Microsoft’s Corporate VP for Windows Julie Larson-Green was at , and she was put on the spot when asked by interviewer and WIRED Senior Editor Michael V. Copeland about the apparently sluggish start for Windows RT. RT’s failure is a consumer education problem, according to Larson-Green, since it’s very different from ... |
Microsoft Confirms It Will Offer Users Their First Taste Of Windows Blue In Late June | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Windows 8 launched to mixed reviews just over half a year ago, and Microsoft has dutifully pushed out nearly 740 tweaks and updates over the intervening months. Even so, rumblings of a sizable update (codenamed “Windows Blue”) have been making the rounds for months now, and we’ve finally got a firm idea of when to expe... |
Google+ Hangouts On Air Now Process Videos During Recording, Allowing For Live Rewind And Immediate Publishing | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Google+ Hangouts allow for groups of friends or colleagues have an intimate face-to-face conversation, but of the service allows you to broadcast to the masses. The President Of The United States Of America has , but anyone can set up their own. Today, the Hangouts team has introduced some new functionality that mak... |
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Developing For Android Is Much Easier Now, Animoca Claims | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Software quality assurance testing on Android devices is far easier than it was just a year ago, at least according to one of Asia’s largest mobile app developers, . The Hong Kong company has produced over 300 apps since it started two years ago, and just shot past 150 million downloads collectively. It produces mainl... |
Google Forms Finally Become Useful Thanks To Properly Formatted Date And Time Fields | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Google Docs, now Drive, have always had an option to create forms that would drop data right into a spreadsheet. This is super handy until you tried to do something like…collect date and time information. For whatever reason, those structured fields were never an option with Forms, but the team has today. The product... |
Google Reminds iOS Developers That They Can Easily Integrate Chrome With Their Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | Google just developers that they can use Chrome as the default browser for their apps and easily switch back and forth between app and browser. With , Google says, developers can open links in Chrome and once the page has loaded, Chrome will show a link back to the original app in the top left corner of the screen. ... |
File Transfer And Sync Service Pi.pe Launches Pi.pe Prints, Offering Photo Printing Options For Over A Dozen Cloud Services | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 7 | , the file transfer and synchronization service which emerged from San Francisco-based , has previously served as one of the only serious utilities to move photos and other media files between all the various cloud services. Since its launch a little over a year ago, Pi.pe’s focus has been primarily on backup and shar... |
Confirmed: Alibaba Group Takes $294M, 28% Stake In China’s Navigation/Location Services Specialist AutoNavi, As It Gets Down To Business On Mobile | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | is now the largest single shareholder in , a Beijing-based maker of electronic navigation tools and location-based services. The Chinese Internet giant has formed a strategic alliance with AutoNavi, on the back of a $294 million investment. This gives it a 28% stake in the navigation company, which is China’s large... |
Carl Icahn and Southeastern Propose Alternative Offer To Michael Dell’s Buyout | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | Dell shareholders Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have teamed up to propose an alternative offer to founder Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal. According to correspondence , Icahn and Southeastern say they would give Dell shareholders the option to continue holding stock in the company an... |
As Tech Giants Scramble For Talent, It’s Buy Or Die | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | The writing’s on the wall. Mobile is the future, and it requires different skills than the web. Entrepreneurship is more fetishized than ever, making standard hiring tough. The result is days like today where , , , and all bought startups, and and were reported to be in talks for major acquisitions. Big is a s... |
Desire2Learn’s New Learning Suite Aims To Predict Success, Change How Students Navigate Their Academic Career | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | is a 10-plus year old Canadian company that makes learning software — a learning management system to be precise — and here’s why, in spite of that description, it shouldn’t bore you to sleep. In a space that’s traditionally been controlled by bigs like Blackboard and Moodle, Desire2Learn has quietly managed to carve ... |
Deal Management Startup CapLinked Adds New Investors (And $500K) To Its Series A | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | , a startup offering workspaces for managing business deals, announced today that it has closed a $2.1 million Series A. The company previously said that it from FF Angel (the seed-stage fund operated by Founders Fund), Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, and others, so this is basically a $500,000 addition. The new inves... |
Eyeing $4.5B In Sales This Year, Phone Maker Xiaomi Looks To Emulate A 340-Year-Old Chinese Medicine Company | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | Whom do the idols idolize? Lei Jun, the CEO of Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi, is arguably the face of tech entrepreneurship in China as a long-time angel investor and serial entrepreneur behind companies like Amazon-acquired Joyo.cn and the recently IPO’d YY. He’s been called the “Steve Jobs of China” in the sens... |
OpenTable For Android Gets Better Google Maps Integration, Booked Reservations To Calendar And Improved Navigation | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | If you’ve been using OpenTable to reserve tables at your favorite restaurants, the will help you discover new places to eat a little better and keep track of everything you have going on. It also got some of that lovin’. The company , noting a complete overhaul of its maps integration, fully leveraging Google Maps... |
YouTube Tiptoes Toward Paywalls With The Launch Of Channel Subscriptions, But The Ads Play On | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | While it would take you a million lifetimes to watch all the video on YouTube, the company relies on contributions from its amateur and professional partners to keep its content fresh. At the same time, its core business model revolves around providing advertisers with the ability to reach its billion-plus viewers. In ... |
State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | Well that was quick: The State Department just a week after they were posted. The Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance is forcing outspoken Second Amendment crusader Cody Wilson to remove the downloadable 3-D printer files from Defcad.org under expert laws known as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations... |
Actually, Snapchat Photos Are Just As Deleted As Any Other File You Trash | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | Though Snapchat has been in the media, the technical aspects of the service are still somewhat mysterious to the average user. A new research report from a company called is looking to shed a little light on how the service “deletes” photos you send through Snapchat. According to Decipher, Snapchat photos are renam... |
Backed With $1.4 Million, Plated Adds A Social Spin To Its Ready-To-Cook Meal Delivery Service | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | For the past several years, my New Year’s resolution has been some version of “cook more often” or “try a new recipe every week.” But it never really lasts. As much as I love the act of cooking, so much about it is a huge hassle — choosing a recipe, shopping for all the ingredients (and paying for a whole bottle of a... |
Web Clipping Service Clipboard Acquired By Salesforce For $12M, Will Be Shuttered On June 30th | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | Today is just jam-packed full of acquisition-shutdowns. Just hours ago, word broke that Yahoo! had acquired both and , with plans to discontinue both. Next up on the happy-now-sad-users-later train: Clipboard, the bookmarklet-based web clipping service . According to a notice e-mailed to its users, Clipboard has be... |
Matrix Partners Closes On Tenth Fund; Raises $450 Million For Early-Stage Investments | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | just the close of Matrix X, the venture firm’s tenth early-stage technology-focused fund. As Fortune’s Dan Primack , the firm raised $450 million for this fund. The fund will be used to make early-stage investments in consumer Internet, mobile, enterprise software and IT infrastructure. Matrix’s portfolio includes ... |
Say Media Lays Off 10 Percent Of Staff, Aims For Profitability In Second Half Of 2013 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | Matt Sanchez, co-founder and CEO of (which owns xoJane, ReadWrite, and Dogster), just told me that the company has laid off about 10 percent of . Sanchez described this as part of Say’s transformation from an ad network to “a digital media company.” The company isn’t getting out of the ad network business completely... |
Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | It’s only been a few weeks since the folks behind music-charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn’t done snapping up startups just yet. Ubalo CEO Jacob Mattingly and CTO Ian Downes announced earlier today that the folks at Twitter have agreed to acquire the sc... |
BDC Venture Capital Partners With Government-Funded Accelerators To Inject More Canada Into The U.S. Startup Scene | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | BDC Venture Capital, the leading , announced today that it would add its financial and expert support to ongoing Canadian Technology Accelerator programs being run in the U.S. by the Canadian government. The programs, spread across various major tech hubs, including Boston, Philadelphia, New York and San Francisco, gi... |
Box Acquires Crocodoc To Add HTML5 Document Converter And Sleek Content Viewing Experience To Cloud Storage Platform | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | Cloud storage company Box has acquired HTML5 document embedding service and Y Combinator alum , both companies announced in a press briefing today. Financial terms of the deal, which was a cash and stock transaction, were not disclosed; however, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie said that it was a successful exit for... |
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The Google Glass Wink Feature Is Real | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | that Google Glass may have a feature that lets you wink to take a picture. Within the , developers have discovered that the feature , but for most users of Google Glass, this feature is not an option on the front-end. However, TechCrunch has confirmed with multiple sources, who wish to remain anonymous for obvious r... |
“In The Studio,” ScaleArc’s Varun Singh Builds Database Infrastructure From India And The Valley | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 5 | 9 | TechCrunch This is the penultimate episode of “In The Studio.” The show, which features developers and entrepreneurs working on enterprise technology, will be ending. This week’s guest is , CEO and founder of , a young startup that began in India but registered as a U.S. company with designs to expand to this cou... |
Facebook Advertises That You Can Turn Off Home “If You Need Some Alone Time” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Desperate to make its homescreen replacement Home seem less invasive, Facebook is advertising that and use your HTC First or other Android phone as normal. The fact that Home replaces your widgets and app folders has been a . Facebook vows to fix that, but until then it’s reminding people they can leave Home for sto... |
Google Won’t Approve Glass Apps That Recognize People’s Faces… For Now | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | The potential creep factor of Google Glass is something that the search giant has to mitigate as best it can if it wants that kooky head-worn display to become a mass-market sensation (and even that may not be enough), but a recent announcement highlights the search giant’s commitment to, well, do no evil. Google confi... |
Science- And Tech-Focused ‘STEAM Carnival’ Hits Its Kickstarter Goal | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Looks like can add “reimagined” carnivals with “robots, fire, and lasers” to the list of things that its users have crowdfunded. Earlier today, an event called , put together by a company called , reached its $100,000 Kickstarter goal. The initials are a twist on , which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering... |
Stilly Is A One-Button GIF Maker For iPhone That’s Even Easier Than Vine | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Like GIFs? Tumblr? Got an iPhone? $2.00? Okay, good, then you’ll probably like this new app called , which is either the most ridiculous thing ever or the most fun you’re going to have all weekend. The app, in a nutshell, turns anything you capture with your iPhone’s camera into a jiggling, wiggly, color-flashing GIF.... |
Big Impact On A Small Budget: Ben’s Friends Wants To Build A Web & Mobile Support Network For Every Rare Disease | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | There’s a lot of exciting and head-turning technology out there today, and it’s changing our world in a multitude of ways, some more obvious than others — and at a fairly astounding rate. But many of these services, while making our lives more convenient or connected, aren’t necessarily helping people or having an impa... |
Ask A VC: Freestyle’s Dave Samuel On The Secrets To A Great Co-Founder Partnership And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | In this week’s Ask A VC episode, Freestyle Capital’s joined us in the studio to discuss his investment philosophies and more. Samuel also talked about how and why his co-founder relationship with Josh Felser has been so successful. The duo co-founded Spinner (acquired by AOL for $320 million), and Grouper (acquired... |
With Over 12M Users, Wish.com Hopes Its AdWords For Shopping Will Stick | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Hey kids, there’s a new personalized shopping platform in town. , ads recommendation system ContextLogic has put its ads optimization technology to good use in a wishlist-making app called . As its moniker belies, Wish allows you to view a feed of goods specifically tailored to you and add them to various lists on th... |
Twitter Just Made It Easier To Obsessively Tweak Your Profile | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | I don’t know anyone who thought the process of editing their Twitter profile was just too complex — talk about first world problems — but they’re surely out there somewhere and working themselves into a tizzy over a recent announcement made by Twitter profile engineer Patrick Ewing. , Ewing made it known that Twitter ... |
After Four Years At Twitter, Director Of Platform Ryan Sarver Will “Fly The Coop” With “No Plans But Rest” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Ryan Sarver, who joined Twitter four years ago and is currently its director of platform, announced today he’ll be leaving the company on June 28th, and has “no plans but rest.” Fittingly, he announced his departure in a series of tweets seen below. Sarver’s work over the last four years, when it comes to focusing on d... |
Despite Criticism, FWD.us Adds YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen And Web Mogul Barry Diller As Funders | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Amidst widespread , Mark Zuckerberg’s political advocacy group gained some momentum today as Steven Chen and Barry Diller have signed on as financial backers. Chen was a co-founder of YouTube, and Diller is the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp which owns About, Match, Newsweek and Vimeo. Diller and Chen, an immigra... |
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