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Disrupt SF 2013 Startup Battlefield Applications Are Open And Conference Tickets Are On Sale Now | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We’re very excited to announce tickets are on sale and stealth companies can now apply for Startup Battlefield. This September 7-11, we’re bringing Disrupt back to San Francisco to welcome an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, guests and more to the stage. It mar... |
Tumblr Proves That Even Billion Dollar Companies Can Screw Up Mass Emails | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | Tumblr just can’t catch a break. Yeah, yeah, they’re getting a from Yahoo — but it’s been a torrent of criticism ever since. Porn! Know what probably won’t help? Botching the key detail of an email sent to many of your most tech-savvy users. Tumblr just sent out a big ol’ mass email to all of the users who host a ... |
Mr. China Goes To San Francisco | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | A block from the Mariposa on-ramp and in the eye-line of 90,000 cars whizzing by on 280 sits an old warehouse that was home to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt weekly, and Digg. Most of the building is gutted, and inside they are working on the “greatest enabler of hardware on the planet,” according to hea... |
Dozens Of Top E-Commerce Retailers Find It Pays To Put Customers’ Instagram Photos On Their Sites | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | The ROI of social media is something of a black box for many e-commerce companies, but New York-based startup is beginning to change that. The company, which allows brands to collect user-generated photos from services like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to display on their websites, is now offering an analytics sui... |
Unface.me Is A Gossip Girl-Style Social Service For Anonymously Trolling Your Friends | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | A Russian startup called has created a new social network inspired by the Gossip Girl TV series which lets users create an alter ego to — let’s face it — troll their friends, or even post even worst types of gossip entirely anonymously. The site connects with Facebook and Russian social network so it can pull in us... |
Facebook’s Head Of Brand Design Paul Adams Joins Customer Outreach Startup Intercom | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | , who was previously Facebook’s global head of brand design, has joined a startup called , where he will be serving as head of product design. Adams told me earlier that he wasn’t looking to leave Facebook, but he had also been advising Intercom and became excited about the opportunity. The startup, which is , offers... |
WordPress.com Maker Automattic Sells $50 Million In Secondary Offering To Tiger Global | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 24 | Automattic, the company behind publishing platform WordPress.com, has led by investment management firm Tiger Global. The sale will allow some early investors and employees to get cash in exchange for their shares, while adding another stakeholder in the company. The share offering wasn’t necessary to raise funds for... |
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Cubic Telecom Secures $5.2M To Create Devices That Roam Mobile Networks Cheaply | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | We’re all familiar with the bill shock associated with roaming abroad with our cellphones. There are plenty of players that allow you to swap out your SIM card and use cheaper traffic, including . However, that process is tedious. So Cubic has secured new funding to enable a range of tablets and notebooks to have thei... |
AngelPad’s Sixth Batch Of Startups Includes Companies Working On Drones, Storage, And More | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | , the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googler Thomas Korte, held its sixth demo day yesterday. I wasn’t there (I know, it’s super-embarrassing), but I did get to meet with Korte and partner Carine Magescas today to talk about the newest batch of companies. Magescas said that in the three years since A... |
Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | Video ad network Tremor Video has for its long-awaited public offering. The company’s shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million. Tremor Video, which runs ads on more than 500 Web sites and mobile apps, disclosed in its S-1 filing that from 2011 to 2012 its revenue increased from... |
A Vibrator Called Limon | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | No longer just an , the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called . The company is looking for backers for its “couples’ vibrator”, which just so happens to look like a pink lime-lemon hybrid. However, the Limon is no lemon or lime. It’s an ultra-powerful bullet vibrator that is controlled by how h... |
Adly Raises $2M More As It Expands Tools For Social Media Celebrity Endorsements | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | , a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional funding. The new funding came from previous backer and new investor . Adly has now raised a total of $7.5 million. The company also launched a new product this week. I... |
With $1.12 Million From Battery And Others, Vaunte Aims To Define The Next Era Of Luxury E-Commerce | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | As great as the web is, I still haven’t been able to kick my habit for buying fashion and lifestyle magazines off the newsstand. One of the things I love the most about monthly glossies are features like and , in which notable people reveal the exact products that they actually buy and use (celebrity chef David ... |
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Report: Google Could Soon Face New FTC Antitrust Probe Into Its Display Ads Business | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | Bloomberg today that Google could face a new U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust probe into its . As Bloomberg’s Brian Womack and Sara Forden , the FCC is looking into whether Google used its strong position in this market to “illegally curb competition.” The investigators, the report also notes, want to ... |
Laptop Week Review: The Toshiba Kirabook | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 23 |
Toshiba isn’t exactly known for churning out attractive, high-end notebooks, which is why the company’s new Kirabook is such an oddity. It’s a handsome little thing if you’re into very (and I mean very) understated designs, though I imagine at least a few people will think the Kirabook looks downright dull. The... |
Laptop Week Review: Lenovo Yoga 13 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | Convertibles were all the rage back in the 1950s (thanks to tailfins and the Corvette) and in the early 2000s (thanks to Microsoft and Sony). In the 2000s, however, we saw convertibles in the form of laptops that could twist and turn themselves into tablets. The result, usually, was a not-very-good-laptop folded into a... |
Pandora Stock Jumps As Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $128.5M; Mobile Ad Revenue Hits Record High | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | Pandora has had a busy quarter. In March, the social radio company saw its , leaving the board to scramble to find a replacement. On the bright side, Kennedy’s exit, while likely a result of stress, followed relatively good times for Pandora. And it’s continued to push forward since. Pandora launched an , surpassed ... |
On-Demand Delivery Startup Postmates Is Preparing For Launch In New York City | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | is looking to expand its business and make mobile, on-demand deliveries a widespread thing throughout cities around the country — that we already know. The company has been operating in San Francisco for a while, and about three months ago. But where will it land next? All signs point to New York City. Postmates has... |
Google Starts Using Computer Vision To Let You Search Your Google+ Photos | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | Google almost completely revamped the Google+ last week, but somehow the company didn’t get around to announcing one of the coolest photo-related features in its repertoire yet: Google now uses to let you search your own photos for things like sunsets, food and flowers. I also tried terms like “cars,” “beach” and “... |
Homeland Security Reportedly Warns 3D-Printed Guns Are “Impossible” To Contain | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | A new bulletin from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns that lethal, undetectable 3D-printed firearms may be “impossible” to contain, Fox News reports After a Texas law student for the world’s first fully printable gun, the files have allegedly been downloaded more than 100,000 times, from the U.S. State... |
Lambda Labs Is Launching A Facial Recognition API For Google Glass | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | , an early-stage startup out of San Francisco, is preparing to release for developers working on Google Glass apps. The API will be available to interested developers within a week, company co-founder Stephen Balaban says. The move comes on the heels of a Congressional inquiry into Google’s new wearable technology, wh... |
With Metrics Up Since Acquisition, Parse Could Get Developers Integrating Facebook And Buying Ads | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | After being , the mobile back-end service Parse has been busy integrating itself into the company, as well as launching new services like . The service has built tools to help developers focus on the front-end of their product, while handling all of the messy back-end things like cross-platform compatibility and test... |
Box Buys French File Storage App Folders To Help Rebuild Its Mobile Apps | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | It was just two weeks ago that fast-growing enterprise cloud storage company, Box, went out and and Y Combinator grad, Crocodoc. Apparently Aaron Levie sees what Yahoo is doing and he wants to show that Box is ready to do a little acquiring of its own. Today, Box followed up with its second acquisition in as many we... |
Google Adds Notification Center And Rich Notifications To Chrome Beta 28, Will Work Even When The Browser Is Closed | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | This isn’t exactly the launch of Google Now for the desktop, which many of us have been patiently waiting for, but Google today that it is bringing a richer notifications experience to Chrome, starting with the . This definitely feels like it brings Google Now yet another step closer to the desktop. These new notifi... |
Ex-Googler Ben Ling Brings His Operations Experience To Khosla Ventures | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | Former Badoo COO and ex-Googler Ben Ling has joined , according to sources. Ling, who has held senior operations roles for a number of big companies in the mobile and Internet space, has been added to a growing team at Vinod Khosla’s venture firm. ( Khosla Ventures just , starting this week.) Ling most recently serv... |
Doctors 3D-Print An Emergency Airway Tube To Save A Child’s Life | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 23 | Score one for technology: Doctors 3D-printed an emergency airway tube that saved a 20-month old baby boy’s life. After imaging the boy’s faulty windpipe, doctors at the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital printed 100 tiny tubes and laser-stitched them together over the trachea (video below). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/w... |
The Constitution And The 3D Printed Plastic Pistol | Ansel Halliburton | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | By now, you have probably heard about the Liberator, designed, assembled, and test-fired by Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed. Is it legal? Last week, the State Department’s arms export office from its website. Defense Distributed complied with the takedown letter right away, despite strong language on its website... |
With Google Play For Education, Google Looks To Challenge Apple’s Dominance In The Classroom | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | , the company’s sixth annual developer conference, got officially underway in San Francisco on Wednesday, and it was an eventful day. It took the company every minute of its epic three-hour keynote to unfurl a laundry list of announcements and updates, seemingly across every product category in its arsenal — from Andro... |
Google’s Three-Hour I/O Keynote Boils Down To These Highlights And One Theme: Foundation | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Today’s three-hour-long Google I/O keynote came with plenty of announcements, but the company mostly assured us that it is focused on building frameworks that can benefit developers and consumers. We saw a more unified company that needed three hours in one session to get their message across. Breaking today’s keynote ... |
Google’s Products Are Just By-Products Of Its Quest For Tomorrow | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Google isn’t about search, apps or devices. Those are just vehicles, and there’s no destination. That’s because Larry Page’s Google is on an unending pursuit of the future, not just next quarter’s earnings. The scattershot of projects Google revealed today at had just one unifying factor: They further that pursuit, o... |
Hands On And Walkthrough With The New, Much More Beautiful Google Maps | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Google took the lid off of its at today, which is a dramatic redesign of the long-standing navigation and place-finding software across all platforms. We got a chance to go hands-on with the new Maps, which is still a beta product, with access only given out to a few select users so far. In the video above, you c... |
The App Store’s 50B Downloads Vs. Google Play’s 48B: Android Closes The Gap | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Apple had a bit of a head start when it came to mobile software sales, since it launched its App Store earlier than the Android Market — now called Google Play. The gap between the two, which was more pronounced in terms of initial downloads, has begun to close. Today both Play and the App Store announced very similar ... |
See The New Google+ Photos Experience In Action, Making Your Pics Better | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Google+ is getting a , which is rolling out to users now. Initial impressions show a work flow that makes it easier to tweak pictures quickly and even automatically, without requiring that you learn a huge amount about Photoshop or other editing software. It’s something that’s designed to be mostly a non-destructive... |
Watch Robots Fight With Lightsabers At Google I/O [TCTV] | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Meet the PR2 personal robot from While it might look like the PR2 is just for fun and games, it’s actually designed for universities. Willow Garage sells the PR2 to schools and provides the ROSS open-sourced operating system for controlling it. This way Ph.D. students don’t have to waste time building a crummy robot... |
TC Makers: 3D Printing Wizards At Shapeways Show Us Their Brand New Queens Factory | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | It’s rare to see a company that is so established yet as cutting-edge as . The company, founded in 2007 as a spin-off of Royal Philips Electronics, began as a one-off 3D printing service that offered basic plastic items for sale online. Over the years, however, the company has branched off into some amazing material... |
Google Makes Email More Interactive With Customizable Gmail Action Buttons | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Google today a small but cool update to Gmail. For emails where the developer has enabled this feature, Google will now show action buttons next to emails in your inbox that let you take actions without even opening the message. The cool thing about this, however, is that it’s open to developers, who can now use the ... |
After Being Hit With A Cease And Desist, Car-Sharing Startup RelayRides Suspends Rentals In New York | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | It’s becoming increasingly commonplace for startups in the so-called “sharing economy” to take heat from regulators who seek to hold them to the same business standards as incumbent businesses. The latest company to come under fire from regulators is peer-to-peer car-sharing startup , which received a cease-and-desist... |
Twitter Archiving Service TweetBackup Hits The Deadpool As Owner Backupify Focuses More On Enterprise | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. — the Cambridge, MA cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services — is shutting down , a company originally founded in Sweden that Backupify in 2010 for an undisclosed amount. Tweetbackup has posted a note about the closure on , as well ... |
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Indoor Mapping Startup Meridian Adds Notification Zones To Their Strategy | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Indoor mapping software startup , continues to evolve their product strategy with a recent update to . Called , the company’s newest update to their indoor mapping platform — and is the key word here — allows geo-fence style app push notifications to be scheduled, by drawing polygons on location maps. When custome... |
Death By A Thousand Cuts? Google Wallet’s Plan To Take On PayPal Leverages Chrome, Android, Google+, Gmail & More | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements from today’s Google I/O developer conference is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online payment giants, such as PayPal. It plans to do so with a revamped checkout process for the web, mobile web, within mobile applications run... |
Google Maps API Gets A Visual Refresh, Available For Opt-In Today, Coming To Most Sites In August | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | At its I/O developer conference, Google today a new Maps API for mobile developers, updates to Maps for Android and iOS and a completely refreshed Google Maps experience on the desktop. After the main keynote, however, Google also announced a for sites that use its . The refreshed look, with new base map tiles, de... |
Google Folds Wallet Support Into Gmail So You Can Send Money As Attachments | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Phew. Google just spent three hours or so showing off new developer tools, APIs, service overhauls, and the occasional gadget, but not everything the search giant rolled out today got a turn under the spotlights at the Moscone Center. Case in point: according to a post on the official , Google Wallet support has been ... |
Larry Page Wants Earth To Have A Mad Scientist Island | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 15 | Larry Page thinks we are, as a population, too negative. Especially the tech community. It’s a topic that he tackled a few times during his surprise Q&A after this morning’s Google I/O keynote, and it actually ended up being one of my favorite bits from the entire three hour presentation. The solution? Amongst other th... |
Samsung To Launch 5G By 2020, Hits Speeds Of 1Gbps In Tests | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | has developed core technology that will allow it to deliver high-speed 5G wireless data connections to consumers by 2020, the company . The system allows data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks. 5G mobile communications technology is the next generation of 4G LTE networks tech an... |
Another Trailer Pops Up On Vine As Marvel Teases New TV Series “Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.” | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | Though it’s but a baby in the app world, Vine is already making brands, advertisers, and especially media industry members chomp at the bit for some 6-second looping action. The latest to join the herd is Marvel, who a six-second teaser trailer for its upcoming “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” TV series. For those who were ... |
Bought My Mother’s Day Flowers With Affirm, And Here’s What It Was Like | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | My parents have yet to receive their Christmas gift. Because they are skiers, I bought them last December, and because of some issue with either the ZIP code or security code on my credit card, my charge keeps getting rejected. I have tried five different cards. I have called AmEx. I’m about to call Chase since I j... |
Video News Specialist Wochit Raises $4.75 Million From Redpoint, Cedar Fund, And Greycroft | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | Video is becoming an increasingly important part of news coverage online. But it’s also expensive and time-consuming to produce, and many publishers don’t have the resources to create them on their own. A startup called is changing the economics around video production for breaking news, and has raised $4.75 million ... |
Mobile Messaging Apps: A Primer | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | The global mobile messaging app space is the new social battleground. Startups that would have had little chance of unseating Facebook’s dominance on the web are attacking Zuckerberg’s empire by refocusing social networking around the mobile phone contacts book. Enter your phone number, and these apps already know who ... |
What Games Are: There Is No Iron Throne Of Games Anymore | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | As I am a medium-sized geek, I find myself thinking of the famous Cersei Lannister quote: “ ” This is essentially how the games industry has behaved for the longest time. It has a history of generational prize fights, of kings and contenders and pride going before a fall. It was a place where previous winners became ... |
Quickoffice In The Browser: The Reason Why Microsoft Is Suddenly So Scared Of Google’s Productivity Tools | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | We’re just a few days away from the start of , the search giant’s annual developer conference, and while we actually know very little about what Google plans to announce during its massive, three-hour keynote on Wednesday, there is something brewing in Mountain View that has Microsoft’s Office division . Over the cou... |
SideCar’s Sunil Paul On Working With (And Battling) Regulators | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | co-founder and CEO Sunil Paul was part of what may have been at our Disrupt NY conference earlier this month. Sharing the stage with Hailo CEO Jay Bregman (I’ll be posting an interview with Bregman later) and NY TLC Deputy Commissioner Ashwini Chhabra, Paul positioned his ridesharing startup as an organization sta... |
Google Must Not Like Sports, As Google Now Will Crash When You Try To Add Or Remove Teams From The Sports Card | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | Google Now is a great feature for Android users, and now . The idea is that the more you use Google products, the more it learns about you and the better information it can spit at you proactively. However, if you try to interact with Google Now, specifically on which sports teams you’d like to follow, the app will cr... |
Crowdsourcing An Alternate Name For ‘Ride Sharing’ | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | It’s been about a year since and entered our lives, bringing the idea of a peer-to-peer marketplace for urban transportation to San Francisco. Since then, they’ve expanded to other cities, providing a way for passengers to open up their mobile phones and find rides from other regular people who have time and a car ... |
Nokia Teases New Lumia’s Camera In Prime Time TV Ad, Ahead Of “See What’s Next” London Event On Tuesday | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | Nokia has run a TV advert teasing a new Lumia device it’s widely expected to unveil at an event in London on Tuesday. The advert ran during a prime time evening slot on Channel 4, during a screening of The Inbetweeners movie. The teaser advert focused on the camera of an unnamed new Lumia smartphone, with close up shot... |
If You Can’t Afford $605K For Coffee With Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey’s Charity Auction Is At $5K With Four Days Left | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | It’s nice to see people in a power position in the valley give up their time for charitable causes. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, recently offered up his time for probably , to benefit . The current top bid is a whopping $605K, and the auction ends in two days if you’ve got the cash to donate. If the “Cook Experience” is a ... |
Google To Take On Apple’s Game Center Soon, Leaks Suggest | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | Games dominate the mobile app ecosystem. Seriously. It’s easy to forget that as we all search for the next big, hype-worthy app of the moment, but it’s the truth. Eight out of the ten most purchased apps last year were games. Nine of the ten highest grossing apps in the App Store last year, all games. Combine this with... |
Iterations: Snoopify, The Greatest Mobile Photobombing App Of All Time | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | TechCrunch . “What are the cool new apps you’ve seen lately?” To this oft heard question, lately, there have been lots of answers. So, mobile is indeed exciting and moving fast. And, just recently, a fun new app came out that instantly captured my attention — no, it’s not from a Stanford dropout or from the “innovat... |
You Can’t Have It Both Ways | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | Gun control is control of all guns. This tautology, in a developed society, is non-negotiable. If guns can exist in our country, then gun plans can exist, and, although I’m firmly on the side of draconian control over most weapons, I find the move to ban Defense Distributed’s plans for their unconscionable. Guns exis... |
Blinkbuggy Wants To Reinvent The “Baby Book” For Parents To Capture Memories Online | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | For generations in the past, parents have carefully put together “baby books” that capture the first years of a baby’s life in photos, hand prints and more. My mother created one for me, and it’s something that I treasure. But in the world’s digital age, the photos and memories of our babies are captured most often on ... |
Facebook’s iPhone Culture Builds An Overzealous Home On Android | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | Facebook didn’t realize just how important widgets, docks, and app folders were to Android users, and that leaving them out of Home was a huge mistake. That’s because some of the Facebookers who built and tested Home normally carry iPhones, I’ve confirmed. Lack of “droidfooding” has left Facebook scrambling to add thes... |
Google Quietly Kills SMS Search, Closing One Way Of Connecting With Mobile Users Who Don’t Have Data Plans | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | is well known for its regular bouts of spring cleaning when it kills off a number of products in , but it also sometimes makes quick changes in between the bigger announcements. One of those has now hit its portfolio of SMS-based products aimed at users of lower end devices: Google has quietly closed down SMS Search.... |
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Why Zuckerberg’s Lobby Is Collapsing Like A | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 12 | At this very moment, Mark Zuckerberg’s political lobby, FWD.us, is probably taken aback at how reviled it has become, both from the public and . After all, there are , including Facebook’s own Political Action Committee, which routinely offer Republican candidates campaign cash for political favor. So, why, after d... |
Cyber Security Startup Lucent Sky’s CLEAR Makes Securing Web Sites A Breeze | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | One of the most nervewracking and tedious parts of developing a Web site is making sure that it is safe from data theft and other security breaches. Taipei-based startup ‘s mission is to make cyber security easier for developers. The company says its software CLEAR is the first commercially available program for autom... |
Pixel People Hits $700K In Three Months After Distributing With Chillingo | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | , an iOS game, has raked in $700,000 over 2 million downloads in the span of three months, said the game’s maker, Lambdamu. The key to their success, according to a company spokesperson, was a distribution deal with Chillingo. The small Singaporean company has ten employees and has been around since 2009. This is its f... |
Dots | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | I’m addicted to . It’s ‘ new game. 389. That’s my high score. No power-ups. I’m pretty proud of it. The game consumes my time. I no longer browse reddit during my “private times”; I play Dots. Dots is simple. It’s elegant. The game has restored my faith in mobile game development. But more importantly, it’s fucking a... |
MC Frontalot Brings Us Eine Kleine Nerdcore | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMgsAD3D948&feature=youtu.be] TechCrunch favorite and filmmaker have created a video for “I’ll Form The Head,” a rap song about a Voltron-esque group of heroes fighting a worm monster in their rhino robotic vehicles. Each one wants to form the head, and they explain their re... |
Fundraising Trouble At Kids Clothing Startup Wittlebee Leads Sean Percival To Give Up CEO Role | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Co-founder Sean Percival is walking away from his CEO position at the children’s subscription clothing startup after it had trouble raising a Series A. Amidst a tough fundraising climate for e-commerce startups, Sean says he thinks Wittlebee will continue operating but it’s up to the board of directors. No replacemen... |
Our Favorite Startups From China-Based Hardware Accelerator Haxlr8r’s Second Demo Day | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Hardware is becoming a big deal, and now it’s easier than ever to start building your hardware startup, thanks to the proliferation of crowdfunding and easier access to materials. One particular startup incubator, called , is looking to accelerate that trend, with a program that . Today in San Francisco, Haxlr8r ... |
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Google Launches Version 1.1 Of Its Go Programming Language, Promises Noticeable Performance Boost | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Google today of its open source . It’s been since Google launched version 1.0 of Go. The language, which puts an emphasis on concurrency and speed, has seen three maintenance releases since then, but the team has been conservative with bumping up its version numbers. This new version, however, the Go team writes, ... |
Wednesday Night’s Human Matchmakers And Coaches Take Some Of The Work Out Of Online Dating | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | If existing dating websites aren’t working for you (or you’re too busy to try them out), you can get help from paid matchmakers and dating coaches on the just-launched service . According to the startup, users connect their Facebook accounts and are then given three recommendations. (You can see a mock-up of a recomme... |
P2P Currency Exchange TransferWise Raises $6M Led By Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, With Participation From SV Angel, Others | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Here’s some encouraging news for the European startup scene, and London in particular. , the online currency exchange that uses the crowd to undercut traditional money transfer services, has announced that it’s closed a $6 million series A round led by Peter Thiel’s — the first investment in Europe by the PayPal co-... |
Akimbo Lands $850K From Rackspace Co-founder & Others To Bring Prepaid Debit Cards Into The Social, Mobile Era | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | With the proliferation of smartphones, we’re now able to use these mobile, mini computers to do just about everything we would do on our desktop while on the go. Yet, in spite of this evolution, mobile payments seems to be lagging behind. We use our phones to capture pictures and video, and share them instantaneously, ... |
Facebook Kills Social Roulette, The App With A 1/6 Chance Of Deleting Your Facebook Account | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | If you want a digital detox, you’re going to have to pull the trigger yourself. is an app that would delete one in six users’ Facebook account data, but its founder confirms it’s been blocked by Facebook so it no longer functions. While there’s no specific policy prohibiting apps from deleting your data, Social Roule... |
Q&A Pioneer Formspring Says It’s Been ‘Saved’ From The Deadpool, Is Now Under New Management | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | , the pioneering Q&A site that allowed people to invite other internet users to “ask me anything” anonymously, is apparently back from the brink. In a and a , Formspring announced that it has been “saved” and is now “under new management.” Great news friends, Formspring has been saved and is now under new managemen... |
Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Placed In Solitary Confinement For Tweeting From Prison | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer has been placed in “administrative segregation,” prison shorthand for solitary confinement for “investigative purposes.” Supporters believe he was locked down and given no Internet access because of his ability to send Tweets to a third party who relayed them on his . Auernheimer has not sent... |
Google Commemorates The 37th Anniversary Of Atari’s Breakout With Image Search Easter Egg | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | If you’re an old-school gaming nerd, then you might remember a little game released by Atari called Breakout. The idea was simple: just hit a ball around and break things. Don’t let the ball get past you, or you lose. It was heavily influenced by Pong. The game’s . Whether it was in or May of that year, Google has d... |
3D Printing Is The Future, But What Kind Of Future? | Chris Nesi | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | The crescendo of media reports about the advent of a DIY has caused an understandable uproar. In the wake of so many high-profile, mass-casualty incidents involving firearms — and a lot of impotent rage by our elected officials — it seems counterintuitive that, as we circle the wagons around the idea of passing ratio... |
LanguageTwin: A New Way For Language Students To Practice What They’ve Learned | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Learning a language is never easy. One thing that’s usually missing in the way students learn a new language is the ability to use their new skills while talking to a native speaker. , a startup I met at the in Corvallis, Ore., last week, aims to do just that. The service brings together language learners for peer-t... |
The Austin TC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Go-Town On May 30: Get Tickets Here! | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Who’s ready to party, ya’ll? That’s right. It’s finally happening. The is officially underway, starting with the beautiful, historical and sometimes rowdy city of Austin. We want to see who has the chops to represent the great state of Texas in our 60-second pitch-off competition. Tickets are $5, and are available .... |
Twitter Acquires Big Data Visualization Startup Lucky Sort, Service To Shutter In Months Ahead | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | , a Portland, Oregon-based startup behind a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch that helped to discover patterns in live data streams, has been acquired by Twitter. Terms of the deal were not immediately available, but the company has via its website that it will be shuttering its service in the com... |
Google I/O 2013: What’s On Tap For Nexus Smartphone And Tablet Hardware | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | Google’s big annual developer conference kicks off on Wednesday, and while , we’ve also seen reports that suggest the Nexus line of Google-branded hardware won’t go completely untouched. The rumors suggest that we won’t see a brand new Nexus phone at Google I/O this year, but what we could see instead is a . In fact,... |
Daft Punk Fights Piracy With Convenience, Streams Entire “Random Access Memories” Album Days Before Release | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 13 | After weeks of teasing, endless itty-bitty leaks, and about a zillion radio plays of they’d released so far, the of Daft Punk’s new has just hit iTunes, days before the official release. The catch: it’s streaming only right now. You can find the . Hit the “View in iTunes” button, then just tap the “Listen Now” b... |
China’s SeedAsia Opens For Business, An Online Equity Crowdfunding Platform For Startups Across Asia | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | , an equity crowd-funding site based in China, has just launched. The company is offering stakes in selected early-stage startups to people. “It’s kind of a hybrid between Kickstarter and private investment,” said co-founder . The startups to be listed would have ideally gone through some some sort of incubation progr... |
Hasselhoff Has Germany, Path Has France | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | As one is , I was checking rankings this a.m. just to make sure that my old mainstay app was still in spot No. 3 when Path was the in France. Now I’ve never really clicked with Path, rarely checked in with people there (it’s super awkward to name drop digitally) and have too much FOMO to stomach scrolling throu... |
Tune In At 9 AM Tomorrow For Our Live Coverage Of Google I/O 2013 | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | Tomorrow is Day 1 of Google I/O, and you know what that means: it’s keynote time! We’re rolling out to the event in force, and will be bringing you along for the ride with our up-to-the-second liveblog and coverage Remember last years keynote? It was pure, absolute madness. Skydivers! Dudes on BMX bikes jumping from r... |
Brent Brookler Shows Off Flowboard’s iPad Presentation Builder | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | is trying create the best tools for “interactive storytelling” on a tablet. And the best way to illustrate those tools is through a demo, so founder and CEO Brent Brookler stopped by the TechCrunch office today to show us the app. First, Brookler showed us the beginning of creating a presentation. He chose a templat... |
Google’s Reportedly Launching A Music-Streaming Spotify Killer At I/O This Week | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | Google is ramping up to deliver a streaming music service, which could debut as early as tomorrow at the I/O keynote, sources have told . The report has since been picked up by other publications, including The , which confirms that this is indeed the case according to its own unnamed sources, “people briefed on the ... |
A Chat With Daniel Guermeur, Founder Of Das Keyboard | John Biggs | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | I’ve been enamored with the Das Keyboard since it launched in 2005. These supremely clicky, IBM-style keyboards are some of the most rugged mechanical input devices you can buy. Their Pro model — an all-black monolith with black keys and no key markings — is the gold standard for Gibson-esque console jockeys who believ... |
Cydia Substrate Comes To Android (Cydia Store Next?) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | , a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today of all places, in the form of Cydia Substrate*, a tool for developers to build code modifications to other applications. Though Android is by its nature more open and customizable than Apple’s locked-down iO... |
BlackBerry May Be Dabbling In Phablets With A 5-Inch Z10 Refresh | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | BlackBerry’s wryly jovial CEO Thorsten Heins spent quite a bit of time talking up the new mid-range Q5 at this morning’s BlackBerry Live keynote address, but the folks in Waterloo may be working on a follow-up smartphone that’s staggeringly different from the one we saw today. According to a report from , the strugglin... |
RocketSpace Launches RocketU Developer Bootcamp With In-Person Classes For N00bs And Ninjas | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | If you can’t program, the future’s looking bleaker and bleaker. And if you can, learning to manage other code monkeys could get you promoted. provider RocketSpace’s new is a tech professional education program aimed to aid engineers no matter where they are in their career. RocketU offers rookies and programming ve... |
I/O 2013: One Google, Under Page, With Unification And Usability For All | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | This is the and there’s already been quite a bit of chatter about what the company will announce and share at the conference. One important thing to note is that there will only be one keynote this year, a mega three-hour session where Google will talk to the attendees about all of the important things that have happ... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Accel Partners’ Rich Wong | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we have Accel Partners’ 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. Wong focused on software, mobile and Internet services investments for Accel and helped lead the firm’s invest... |
Let’s Talk About That 500 Startups Video | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | By now you’ve probably seen that 500 Startups Accelerator , its sixth. And it’s got a and that is fucking awesome. You know what’s not so awesome? The video that accompanied its announcement. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKVScfsmQ-o&w=560&h=315] This video, like those which came before it, was put togethe... |
Update Your Facebook Status And Comment Using Google Glass And Your Voice With ThroughGlass | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | We recently wrote about an , but another one has come out that has a way more interesting feature, the ability to create status messages or comment on on the social network with the sound of your voice. gives you more opportunities to interact, rather than simply share. You can post a status update, then see all of t... |
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