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This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Moto X, Locks, And Austin | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | TechCrunch is in Austin this week for some excellent pitch-offs and BBQ. We also learned of the new Moto X, a secret phone that could change Motorola’s fortunes, the , and the new iPod. It’s one of our only live shows done with three members of the team in the same room and features Jordan Crook, Matt Burns, and John ... |
Connecting Offline Shopping With E-Commerce, Curebit Partners With Bonobos On New “Retail Referrals” Program | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | , an e-commerce startup that has built its business around optimizing and tracking word-of-mouth referrals for customers like Bonobos, Restaurant.com, Jawbone, True & Co., and others, is now stepping into the world of offline brick-and-mortar commerce with a new solution it’s calling “Retail Referrals.” This new in-sto... |
Aiming To Make You More Productive, Focus@Will Launches A Music App For iOS | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | I’ve always been impressed by people who can listen to music while they write. I mean, I’ll do it every once in a while, especially when is being particularly distracting, but in general I’ve found that music just slows me down. Well, there’a startup called aiming to solve that problem, and today it’s following the... |
Amazon Updates Route 53 DNS Service To Make Hosting High-Availability Sites On EC2 Easier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Thanks to an to its , Amazon now makes it a bit easier to host sites that need high availability in multiple AWS regions. Route 53 has been offering since February, but that wasn’t really an option if your application was also running behind Amazon’s (ELB) service. ELB allows you to traffic across EC2 instance... |
Two Years After TweetDeck Acquisition, Founder Iain Dodsworth Leaves Twitter | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth that he’s leaving Twitter. In his tweet, Dodsworth said that it’s been , and “now feels like a perfect time to start something new.” Dodsworth’s departure comes as Twitter’s vision for TweetDeck does seem to be shifting. A few months ago, the iPhone, Android, and AIR versions. There... |
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The Transit App Nabs 35K Downloads In 72 Hours, Blows Past Google Maps In Canadian App Store After Going Free | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | The , the app that provides real-time transit information on iOS, enjoyed a boost back when Apple cut transit out of its own Maps app during the switch from Google to its own in-house navigation and mapping service. Earlier this week, the app went completely free and offered some great updates, including real-time est... |
Lyft Hits The East Coast With A Launch In Boston, Its First Big Post-Funding Expansion City | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Last week, peer-to-peer ride-sharing startup announced that it had raked in a huge amount of new funding, . Along with that funding, the company said it would be looking to aggressively expand its peer-to-peer ride service with launches across the country and even globally. The first new market to bear the fruits of... |
LightUp Helps Kids Learn Electronics With Augmented Reality | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 31 | Understanding electronics is tricky. Electricity is invisible, the components are cryptic, and the concepts are hard to grasp. That’s where LightUp comes in. This is an AR-based system for teaching electronics by allowing kids to build little projects and “see” what the components are doing using augmented reality. The... |
StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off in Palo Alto this evening. The non-profit StartX program, which was , aims to provide Stanford students with entrepreneurial ambitions the tools and connections they need to bridge the gap between dreaming of a concept and... |
With $200K In New Funding, Photo-Centric Rental App RadPad Comes To Austin | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | is one of those startups that comes from a founder’s real-world experience — specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and Myspace) said that he was trying to find a new apartment in Los Angeles, and he was frustrated to discover that the process is still more complicated and painful that it ... |
Apple’s New Product Strategy | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Apple appears to be on a kick of delivering product refreshes to punctuate its major release cycle, with changes to devices and tweaked versions that go beyond what it has done in terms of spec refreshes in the past. It looks like we could see a new era of light changes in direction to cater to market trends and optimi... |
SoftBank Capital Raises $50M To Invest Exclusively In New York Startups | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Good news, everyone! Well, everyone who’s trying to raise capital in New York, at least. , the investment arm of Japanese mega-carrier Softbank Corp., has just announced that they’ve raised $50 million that they plan to invest entirely into early-stage New York startups. This new New York fund will be headed by SoftBa... |
Google Loses Key Maps Engineering Director Raj Shah To Microsoft’s Online Services Division | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Microsoft just made a key hire that could help it re-energize its . , who was previously heading up Google’s worldwide maps operations as the Engineering Director for Maps, will join Microsoft’s Online Services Division where he will likely work on Bing Maps and its related products. Microsoft confirmed to us that Sh... |
SuperCalendar Aims To Fix Your Scheduling Woes With A Mix Of Tech And ‘Superhuman’ Power | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | These are excuses that you may have given recently for missing meetings with people, either for work or for personal outings. Even though every major tech company in the world, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, has tried to tackle scheduling, the reality is that the options suck. Even , while beautifully design... |
GumGum’s New ‘Canvas’ Ad Unit Takes Over Publisher Images | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | In-image advertising company has launched a bigger, more attention-grabbing ad unit — one that it says is the industry’s first in-image takeover. The company is calling the new unit the Canvas, and it’s launching the first ads with digital agency Moxie as part of a campaign promoting The Rocket Mascara from L’Oreal’s... |
How Adzerk Made It Big (With Reddit’s Help) | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | When James Avery of met Alexis Ohanian in New York at an online advertising conference last year, he was ready. He had been angling to work with Reddit, the popular sharing site Ohanian had co-founded, for two years. After a brief exchange, Ohanian introduced Avery to the programming team in a few short months the de... |
Fan TV Is A Next-Generation Set-Top Box For Live TV, DVR, VOD, And Streaming Services Like Netflix | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Video discovery startup Fanhattan is getting ready to change the way that viewers watch TV, with a new streaming set-top box that combines all of the best parts of TV, DVR, and VOD, while also giving users access to all their favorite streaming services. It’s rebranding as Fan and showing off an innovative new take on ... |
SuccessFactors Founder And SAP Exec Lars Dalgaard Joins Andreessen Horowitz As General Partner | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Andreessen Horowitz is boosting its investing team today with the addition of SuccessFactors Founder and SAP exec as general partner. Dalgaard founded human capital management software giant SuccessFactors, which was acquired for a whopping in 2011. As A16Z founder Ben Horowitz writes in blog post announcing Dalgaar... |
Tumblr Brings More Ads To Users’ Dashboards, Rearranges Buttons & Teens Freak Out | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | A month after Tumblr into its native mobile applications, the company is today bringing those same brand advertisements to its web dashboard. Launch partners for these new “Sponsored Web Posts,” as they’re called, include Viacom, Ford Motor Company, Universal Pictures, Capital One, AT&T, Denny’s and Purina. Tumblr us... |
The Double Robotics iPad-Equipped Teleconferencing Robot Is Shipping | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | It’s impossible to be in two places at once. But , a , has finally made that possible. The company has begun shipping units of the Double to customers who pre-ordered and coughed up the $2,000 to get one. In fact, the first hundred are already safely in the homes and lives of their new owners. By September, the compa... |
Edukart Raises $500K To Bring Better Online Education To India And The Developing World | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Launched in late 2011 by Stanford grad and ex-Facebooker Ishan Gupta and Indian Institute of Management grad Mayank Gupta, Delhi-based is on a mission to bring online education to India and the developing world. Today, the startup announced that it has raised $500K in seed capital from a handful of institutional and ... |
Twitter’s Mobile Crash Reporting Tool Crashlytics Arrives On Android | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | As promised at the time of , mobile crash reporting tool has not stopped development. In February, to all for free, and today the company released the long-awaited solution for Android devices with the . Twitter’s Android engineers have been beta testing the new product, which offers a similar feature set to the i... |
Grouper Talks Competition, Partnerships, And Why Group Dates Offer Built-In Credibility | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | has been around since 2011, breaking into the world of online dating by forcing a group situation. The service matches you with singles you may enjoy canoodling with, but asks that each party bring two of their friends for a group date-style situation. But the past year has brought a fierce new round of competitors ... |
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Google Makes Its First Renewable Energy Investment In Africa, Puts $12M Toward South African Solar Plant | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Google today that it is investing $12 million in a 96 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in South Africa. This marks Google’s first renewable energy investment in Africa and its overall renewable energy investment. Once it’s completed, Google says, the , which is situated in the Northern Cape province of South Afri... |
Google’s Sundar Pichai Says Google Play Music All Access Is Coming To iOS In A Few Weeks | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Google has made a number of its apps and services available on multiple devices. Sundar Pichai, Google’s SVP of Android, Chrome, and Apps, announced at the D11 Conference that there’s another service that’ll soon be available on iOS: the service. Google’s answer to iTunes and Spotify was previously only available on ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 05.30.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Telly Releases Android Tablet App As It Approaches 70K Likes Per Week On Google’s Mobile OS | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 30 | Video discovery service is launching its social video app on Android tablets today, a key step for the company as Google’s mobile OS becomes more important to its overall strategy and audience. Android engagement is growing quickly, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively, with Likes per week growing at a rapid pa... |
Nokia’s Smarterphone Buy Yields First Fruit: $99 Touchscreen Asha 501 Polishes S40 With Fastlane View For Recent Apps, Contacts | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | Nokia has given its Series 40-based range of touchscreen Asha smartphones another push to try to keep up with the low end reach of Google’s Android platform today. The mobile maker has announced a new addition to the range — the Asha 501 (pictured left & below) — which also ushers in a new version of the Asha touch UI ... |
Running With Friends, Zynga’s Entry In The Endless Runner Genre, Launches Globally | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | If you’re a fan of endless runner games like Temple Run, starting today you’ll get your chance to do more than — you can take on your friends, too, with Zynga’s new title Running With Friends. That’s the basic distinction that Travis Boatman, Zynga’s senior vice president of mobile, offered when describing the game t... |
Sogou Is Reportedly Being Courted By Baidu, Qihoo 360 And Tencent For An Acquisition | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | Chinese Internet companies , and are reportedly competing to purchase , ‘s search business. Sina Tech’s report (link via Google Translate) and Sogou CEO Wang Xiaoquan has already taken to his Sina Weibo account to but it’s worth noting that rumors of two recent acquisitions– and Alibaba’s –both turned out to ... |
AT&T’s Year-Old Nokia Lumia 900 Finally Gets A Taste Of Windows Phone 7.8 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | AT&T customers who took the plunge on Nokia’s Lumia 900 have had to sit idly by and watch Windows Phone 8 supercede the software loaded on their own devices, but they’ll soon be able to experience at least part of what WP8 brings to the table. Nokia announced earlier today that the Windows Phone 7.8 update is now avai... |
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we’ve obtained. In this plan, Microsoft would redeem preferred units in Nook Media, which also includes a college book divisio... |
Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | is a new documentary about Google’s plan to scan all of the world’s books, which triggered an . The hair-raising film sees Google import millions of copyrighted works, get sued, lose, but almost get a literature monopoly in the process. It’s scary, informative, and worth watching if you recognize its biased portrayal... |
Google Translate For Android Can Now Interpret 16 Additional Languages By Camera, Adds Phrasebook Support | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | One of the coolest features of the app is that you can just point your camera at a text, tap the word you want to translate and get a translation back. , this feature supports 16 additional languages. Those are Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Lat... |
Microsoft: Google Doesn’t Get Business Productivity Tools | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | When it comes to productivity apps, Office is still clearly the market leader, and Microsoft is now also quickly iterating on its online apps for Office. When it comes to its competition with Google’s online productivity apps, though, it’s hard to figure out if Microsoft is feeling superior or threatened (or a bit of b... |
Trump-Gasmic Crowdfunding Platform Plagiarizes From Indiegogo | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | While I wish not to throw any more fuel into the fiery fever dream that is Donald Trump, it is important to note the distinct similarities between his recent press release and the wording from an Indiegogo page describing his new platform, . The : While Indiegogo’s says: Perhaps the Trumpeter crowdsourced his talki... |
Amazon’s Quidsi Gets Its Own Version Of Prime, With New Membership Program “Familyhood Plus” | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | , the Amazon-owned parent company to a collection of single-word, e-commerce domains, including Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, Yoyo.com, and , is today launching a new membership program called . The program offers consumers free two-day shipping with no minimum purchases and other exclusive deals. Prior to today, Q... |
Disney Joins The Private Social Networking Craze With New Photo & Video Sharing App Called “Story” | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | The latest to join the cadre of startups offering tools for more private sharing outside of Facebook’s massive footprint is not, in fact, another startup, but rather another media giant: Disney. Citing its “rich heritage in storytelling,” , best known for games, sites, and virtual worlds like “Where’s My Water?,” “Tem... |
Wacom’s Cintiq 13HD Is A Whole Lot Of Drawing Tablet Packed Into A Smart Little Package | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | If you’re a graphics professional, you know . The company consistently puts out the best in digital art tablets, and over the past year has announced and released a variety of improvements to its top-end Cintiq gear. The is the most portable of the line, which features displays built-in to a highly accurate pressure... |
Pomplamoose’s Jack Conte Creates A Subscription-Based Funding Site For Artists | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mZ02alEkbLw#!] Jack Conte is an who became an Internet sensation and now, thanks to , he’s an Internet entrepreneur. Patreon is a fundraising site that is a bit different than your run of the mill Kickstarters or . Instead of collecting one lump sum fo... |
Groupon’s Q1 Results: Beats With $601.4 Million In Revenue, Stock Up 11% In After-Hours Trading | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | just reported for its first financial quarter of 2013. The company, which is still looking for a new CEO after the in February, posted a $0.01 loss per share but says its non-GAAP EPS, excluding stock-based compensations, was $0.03. Its revenue was significantly higher than expected with $601.4 million in sales, c... |
Beyond Verbal Gets A $2.8M Seed Round To Develop Voice Recognition That Decodes Emotions | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | With the introduction of Siri on the iPhone 4S in 2011, voice recognition, not exactly a new innovation, suddenly took center stage with consumers. But before that, and especially since then, there has been a rush of developments to meet the demand for ever better, more responsive technology across smartphones, tablets... |
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There Was A ‘Glass’ Before Google Came Along, And It Was Used In Antarctica In 2001 | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | Whether you think is something you’d wind up using one day, you have to admit that the technology is impressive. Packed inside of the pair of specs is a computer running Android, camera and all of the wireless capabilities you’d need. The idea of wearable computers is nothing new, and a team that explored Antarctica ... |
Identified Looks To Solve Social Media’s Dirty Data Problem For Recruiters With Help From Former LinkedIn Data Gurus | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | Today, Identified has unveiled its patent-pending, artificial intelligence technology which aims to organize the masses of disparate, incoherent professional data that lives in our social media profiles in order to identify new insights into the job market. Essentially, Identified co-founders Brendan Wallace and Adey... |
Slow Sales Of Facebook’s Phone? AT&T Drops Price On HTC First From $99 to $0.99 | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 8 | Facebook may be trying to sweeten the deal to get Home into more hands, or AT&T and HTC might just want their money. But for some reason, the Facebook Phone aka the on contract less than a month after its debut. Considering it comes with unbloated stock Android and a speedy LTE connection, that could be a bargain. Fa... |
Readying For An IPO, Peer-To-Peer Lending Marketplace Lending Club Raises $125M From Google And Others At $1.6B Valuation | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Peer-to-peer lending platform is announcing a huge new investor today: Google. Google and existing investor Foundation Capital have put $125 million in Lending Club, which was valued at $1.55 billion in the round. As part of this investment Google will take an observer seat on the Lending Club Board alongside existin... |
Survey Finds UK Startups Upbeat On Growth And Revenues, Downbeat On Fundraising | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Startups in the UK are upbeat about the future and usually more profitable (comparatively) than their US counterparts (which tend to focus on growth over revenues). But they find raising Series A money difficult, with 90% of entrepreneurs saying the UK fundraising environment is “challenging”. Those are the findings of... |
The FitBark Pet Activity Monitor Is A Reasonable Device For Pet Owners | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | I don’t want to awaken the ire of any committed pet owners — because I think you can do whatever you want with your pets (and your money) — but I would be lying if I said I didn’t cringe a little bit when I hear about extreme pet products and services like doggie treadmills, pet psychiatrists or pet fitness centers and... |
Philz Coffee Raises Eight-Figure Round From Summit, Angels, As Specialty Coffee Market Heats Up | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | I’ve found that when people visit San Francisco, it’s not unusual to hear them ask something like: “No seriously, is there a coffee shop on every block in this city?” Yes, San Francisco likes coffee. So do a lot of cities. Busy people thrive on coffee, especially in the tech industry. In fact, some would even say that ... |
New York Startup Scene Shines At TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | The champagne bottles are empty. The startups are packing up. TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 is a wrap, and it was a hell of a show. Enigma won the Startup Battlefield, taking home $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup. Ryan Lawler’s Urban Transportation panel was somehow more rowdy than Josh Constine’s talk with Rap Genius. Ashton ... |
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Is… Enigma! | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. This year’s crop of Disrupt NY Battlefield startups has been one of our strongest yet, but out of the 30 that entered the fray only seven would go on to the final round. HealthyOut, Enigma, Floored, Glide, HAN:DLE, SupplyShift, and Zenefits emerged from the pack as our seven fina... |
David Karp: Ten Out Of Ten Of The Biggest Hollywood Studios Now Advertise On Tumblr | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Tumblr founder and Sequoia partner (and Tumblr investor) took the stage to talk to TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington about how the blogging platform’s plans to take over the world. After a conversation about the merits of building a startup in New York City versus Silicon Valley, th... |
Big Brands Want Ads On Instagram, But Facebook Is Focused On Growth For Now | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Facebook says that there are no plans for now to add advertising to Instagram, even though advertisers are approaching them, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today during the . Adding ads could end up stunting Instagram’s rapid growth. He said, more than once during the call, that Instagram is currently growing at a faster ra... |
Angel Investor, Spotify Fixer Shakil Khan Launches Coindesk, A Bitcoin Resource | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Shakil Khan, an angel investor and advisor to Spotify, just launched , a Bitcoin resource and news site, Khan says Coindesk was a project he conceived of about four weeks ago, around when Bitcoin was surging to an all-time high. It’s now trading at around $124.38, or about half as much as it was trading at a few we... |
Yahoo Acquires 4M-User ‘To Do’ App Astrid, Is Now In A Holding Pattern For 90 Days | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | “Happier, healthier, more productive.” That was the goal of mobile app , and now Yahoo is taking up the mission as it’s just the social productivity platform. Co-founded by a former Palantir engineer, Tim Su, AngelPad-backed Astrid says that it has four million users, who as of logged 30 million plans on the platf... |
Take The H.E.L.M. 2.0 Is A Competition Designed To Encourage Startups To Move To NYC | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | is a competition from the that is designed to encourage tech startups and other fledgling companies to move their offices to lower Manhattan. They’re accepting applications today, and eventually the applicant pool will be narrowed down to 20 finalists that will compete for one of four grand prizes of $250,000 to a... |
App Install Ads Earned Facebook “Real Revenue” And Helped 3800 Developers Drive 25M Downloads | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Facebook app install ads were the star of call today. Sheryl Sandberg said 3800 developers used the ads to drive over 25 million installs. 40% of the top 100 iOS and Android app developers bought these ads in the last week of Q1 alone. Mark Zuckerberg meanwhile said, “We’re starting to see real revenue from selling ... |
Taking A Different Tack, Nimbuzz Chat Startup Partners With Pakistan Operator Mobilink | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Recently we’ve seen a lot of news articles about the potential for chat apps to take over the role of SMS. Analysts Informa recently published research suggesting that 2012 was the tipping point, with nearly 19 billion messages sent globally over chat apps daily, versus 17.6 billion SMS messages. In 2014 some 21 billio... |
Snapzoom Gives You A Smartphone Camera Mount That Turns Binoculars Into A Super Zoom Lens | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | A lot of people don’t carry cameras anymore, now that they have smartphones. But that means that you could miss opportunities to capture great moments, especially when you’re missing out on the great optical zoom available on some more expensive or specialized dedicated camera devices. That’s what hopes to fix with i... |
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Apple’s iOS 7 Will Ship On Time For A Preview Release In June And Full Launch In September, Report Says | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Apple’s iOS 7 will arrive “on time,” according to a couple of well-placed sources following a report from this morning that suggests it was risking delays in the face of major software changes. Apple blogger and noted gave one of his famous one-word confirms today on his blog, agreeing with a source which told th... |
Facebook Earnings Graphs Shows Shift To Mobile May Be Depressing Domestic Ad Revenue Per User | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | It appears that as people switch from the desktop where Facebook shows multiple ads per page to mobile, Facebook is less per user in its most important markets. While helped total revenue increase, in the US and Canada Facebook earned $2.85 on ads per user (ads ARPU) in Q1, down from $3.30 in the holiday Q4 2012,... |
A Walk Through Hardware Alley At TC Disrupt | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Dogs, drones, and digital controllers, oh my! This year’s Disrupt conference in New York was full of amazing webs services and software, but Hardware Alley brought out the best in hardware startups and showed the world that hardware is finally serious business. Darrell Etherington and I wandered the halls of Hardware... |
Yelp Cuts Losses In Q1 To $4.8M, Sees Revenue Jump 68% To $46M And Record 102M Monthly Uniques On Web, 10M Mobile | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Yelp, the local online business and restaurant guide that first launched in the U.S. in 2004 and now lives in 21 countries and 12 languages, and has more than 100 million monthly unique visitors as of January this year, this morning. On the heels of bringing its review data to Kiwis and continuing its international e... |
About 30% of Facebook’s Advertising Revenue, Or $375M, Came From Mobile Platforms | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 1 | Almost one-third of Facebook’s advertising revenue is now coming from mobile platforms, according to the company’s latest earnings release. About $375 million of Facebook’s $1.25 billion in advertising revenue came from products like the company’s new mobile app install ads. That’s up from last quarter, when Facebook ... |
thePlatform Simplifies Event Streaming By Adding Live Video To Its Content Distribution Platform | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Viewers are asking for more live streaming video, and surprisingly, broadcasters are willing to give it to them. Gone are the days where live events need to be watched on the TV, because I mean, who watches TV anymore? When I watch the game, I’m gonna do so on a seven-inch tablet in the privacy of my bathroom, because ... |
Microsoft Says It Has Sold More Than 100M Windows 8 Licenses, 250M App Downloads In Last 6 Months, Blue Coming “Later This Year” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | By most accounts, isn’t all that popular, but , the company has now sold more than 100 million copies of the latest version of its desktop operating system. In January, the last time Microsoft provided updated numbers for Windows 8, the company said that it had . Windows 8 users are also getting used to using the W... |
Nokia Appoints A New Lead In China As It Seeks To Reverse Its Declining Sales In That Country | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Nokia’s newly-appointed general manager of China, Erik Bertman, has plenty of experience in emerging markets, but it’s unclear if he’ll be able to reverse the Finnish company’s rapid loss of market share in the world’s largest smartphone market. Bertman will takeover the position on June 1. He succeeds Gustavo Eichelma... |
In Praise Of Slow Hardware | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | In all the discussions I’ve had with hardware makers about their products, one thing is becoming clear: in the end, the cheap part is never cheap. Take a look at this for example. A maker, , had recently funded a that used a simple array of LEDs to display the time in QR code. He ordered the parts from an online s... |
Tumblr’s Teenaged, Double-Edged Sword | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | “ “: A telling from a teenaged girl on the blogging platform turned social networking site Tumblr, in a chain of re-postings that had her pondering Tumblr’s impact on her life twenty years from now, when her passing, immature thoughts become fodder for a discussion among her boss and colleagues at some imagined futur... |
ATG Founders Aim To Turn Company-Building Into A Science With Their New ‘Venture Foundry’ Redstar | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Jeet Singh and Joe Chung have already had a nice exit, taking their enterprise software company Art Technology Group public (it was for $1 billion back in 2010). Now they’re hoping to turn the act of building successful startups into a “repeatable process,” through their new firm . Singh and Chung, along with their ... |
Riding A New Transparency Wave In Science, Academia.Edu Lets Researchers Share Their Raw Data | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | It wasn’t until widely respected economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff shared the Excel files behind their influential paper on the relationship between government debt and economic growth, that a very basic and consequential spreadsheet error was discovered. Suddenly, a conclusion that policy makers around the... |
Monday In Tech And Hip-Hop: Sheryl Sandberg Joins RapGenius, Everyone’s Obsessed With Snoop’s New App | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Mondays aren’t always smile-inducing, but today two news stories cropped up that were pretty fun — and showed the increasing crossover between the worlds of technology and hip-hop. First, Facebook COO signed up for a verified profile on “hip-hop Wikipedia” to help to her best-selling business book . Her annot... |
PriceHub Wants To Tell You How Much Your Car Is Really Worth, With Data To Prove It | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | How much is your car worth? It’s an easy enough question to answer. Punch in the details at , hit submit, and bam — question answered, ego stoked (or not.) But how do know how much it’s worth? For the most part, even the tried-and-true sources like the ol’ Blue Book are kind of a black box. wants to make the proces... |
Senate OKs Internet Sales Tax With Overwhelming Bipartisan Support [Update] | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | The United States Senate a tax on Internet sales today, voting 69-27 in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act. The outcome was expected after a similar non-biding passed the Senate with roughly the same number of votes, despite extraordinary opposition from eBay and other major Internet organizations. As we’ve writ... |
Protesters Smash Google Shuttle Bus Piñata In Fight Against Rent Increases [Video] | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Sick of high-paid tech employees driving up rent prices, protestors in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood held a “Anti-Gentrification Block Party” and beat on a Google bus piñata before cops broke up the crowd. The area has long been home to artists and Mexican-American families, but they’re being forced out as tech... |
Since Photos Are Boring Without Filters, Glassagram Will Spice Up Your Google Glass Pics | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Thanks to Instagram, we rarely see photos taken from camera phones without some type of filter on it. Even Twitter’s photo service uses Aviary to drop an earthy overlay or black-and-white treatment onto your digital masterpiece. Google Glass users aren’t going to be left out of this craze thanks to an app aptly named ... |
Adobe’s Hardware Experiments Are More Than Just Hobbies: Hands-On With Project Context | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | At its in Los Angeles today, Adobe showed quite a few products that will soon be available to its customers, but it also a number of hardware experiments, including Project Context, a totally re-imagined way for creating magazine layouts, as well as an advanced stylus and a ruler for touchscreens. After the keynot... |
An Anti-Abuse Ad With A Secret Message Only Children Can See | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | In order to discreetly reach abused children, one aid organization designed a clever billboard that for people shorter than 4’5″. The secret is a precisely serrated surface, a , that reflects light differently to those looking from above and below a specified height. Shorter people (children) see the following messa... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Freestyle Capital’s Dave Samuel And Redpoint’s Chris Moore | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | After a brief hiatus for TechCrunch Disrupt, Ask A VC is back this week with two all-star guests in the investing world. First up we have Freestyle Capital’s . Later in the week, Redpoint Partner will be joining us in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or ... |
The Onion’s Suspected Twitter Hack Reveals The Syrian Electronic Army’s Morbid Humor | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | The Syrian Electronic Army has apparently hacked The Onion’s twitter account, exposing the groups seriously morbid sense of “humor”. “UN retracts report of Syrian chemical weapon use: “Lab tests confirm it is Jihadi body odor”, went one tweet. We’ve seen , and given that The Onion is a satirical news site, it was hard... |
Adobe’s Flash Professional Gets Improved Support For HTML5 Publishing, Real-Time Mobile Testing And A New Code Editor | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Flash may be dead, but Adobe’s has already gone beyond just being a Flash tool and it’s getting a major update today. The new version, Adobe says, has been “rebuilt from the ground up to be faster, modular, extensible, reliable, more focused and more efficient than before.” That’s quite a promise, but new version doe... |
Samsung Has Acquired MOVL To Build Out Better Multiscreen Mobile And TV Apps | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Over the last few years, Samsung has been working hard on building technology to improve the communication between its connected TVs and mobile devices, whether they be iOS or Android phones or tablets. Well, the company has acquired , a startup that should provide even more help in that category. MOVL is the maker of... |
About.com’s New CEO On How To Stay Relevant | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 6 | Even with 84 million uniques each month, About.com tends to fly under the radar. But there is change afoot from the New York Times last year, most notably the appointment of Neil Vogel as CEO. We brought in Vogel, as well as Chief Strategy Officer Scott Kim (who also served as interim CEO for the past few months), ... |
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50M Matches Strong, Hot Mobile Dating App Tinder Is Ready To Go Global, And Move Beyond Flirting | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | Digital dating is nothing to scoff at; it’s a big business, and it’s changed a lot of lives — mostly for the better. Yet, while dating has seen enormous progress during the Digital Era, there’s still a lot garbage out there, and the space is still mostly dominated by a handful of old names. A gaggle of dating sites and... |
Google Now’s “Topics” Page Returns And Shows You How Much Google Knows About You, But It Only Works On Android | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | A few weeks ago, Google made a “Google Now” topics page available on the web and then took it down again. The page showed a list of topics Google believed you were interested in, based on your search history. Now this feature is back, but it’s a bit different from the leaked page. A few days ago, it seems, the compan... |
Ask A VC: Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer On The Future Of Ecommerce And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | On this week’s Ask A VC episode, Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer joined us in the studio. Rimer has been in the venture industry for over 11 years so he had plenty to share on how VC has changed, and the differences in the venture world in Europe and the U.S. Rimer, who has led the firm’s investments in Etsy, Nast... |
Laptop Week Review: Samsung 700T Fly Or Die | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | In lieu of a formal review, Matt Burns and I sat down to take a look at the , a convertible tablet that has a small button on the keyboard that pops out the Windows 8 tablet that forms the brains of the machine. The device is a bit chintzy – more pressed metal and injected plastic than I like to see on a laptop – bu... |
Gillmor Gang Live 05.24.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Microsoft And Google Bury The Hatchet To Work On A Windows Phone YouTube App With Ads | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | Once a upon a time, Microsoft saw fit to put together a YouTube app for Windows Phone and it was actually pretty great — it let users download videos straight from the app and there was nary an ad to be found. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Google wasn’t too pleased: after all, the features that made the app so appea... |
Google Needs To Bring Emerging Markets Online To Grow Its Business Opportunities In The Next 10 years | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | The that Google is participating in discussions with emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and Africa about setting up wireless network infrastructure in cities and towns. A source told the WSJ that: “The wireless networks would be available to dwellers outside of major cities where wired Internet connections aren’... |
Gmail For Android Could Soon Get A Navigation Drawer | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | The folks over on must have spent some of their time rewatching I/O videos. While they were doing that, they spotted a potential leak during the “ ” session. In it, it seems, Google quietly leaked screenshots of what looks to be a revamped interface for the Gmail app. If this turns out to be a real product, and the p... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: So Many Laptops, But Only One Xbox | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | Thank that it’s Friday, AMIRITE? You know what that means right? Friday is day, and boy do we have a show for you! In this episode, John Biggs, Matt Burns and Darrell Etherington discuss Microsoft’s , complete with voice commands, a brand new Kinect, a , and the best specs yet. Plus, is coming to a close, so th... |
Laptop Week Review: Google Chromebook Pixel | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | Features: The Chromebook Pixel is the Chromebook I’d pick as my personal Chromebook – if money was no option, and if I felt I really needed a Chromebook. It’s an impressive beast, like a Bird of Paradise, but in the end a trained falcon would be a way better winged thing to own, since it could catch you some wild game,... |
Erply Raises $2.15 Million Series B Led By Redpoint For iPad-Oriented Retail Software Tech | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | , the startup that makes iPad-oriented and cloud-based point of sale and inventory management software for retailers, has raised $2.15 million in new funding, co-founder CEO tells TechCrunch. The round, which is Erply’s , was led by with the participation of and Dave McClure’s . This brings the total venture ca... |
Amazon Launches App Engagement Reports, Allowing Appstore Developers To Track App Usage & Revenue | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | Continuing to grow its suite of services aimed at mobile app developers, Amazon today announced App Engagement Reports, free app usage reports that are now a part of the company’s . The reports are designed for Amazon Appstore developers in need of information about app performance and revenue. Specifically, the repor... |
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