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Facebook Now Lets You Rate Movies, TV, And Books To Turn Graph Search Into A GoodReads For Everything | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | For the first time, Facebook users can now give star ratings to movies, TV shows, and books. That data could help Facebook show more relevant content and results in news feed and Graph Search. The feature comes alongside Facebook’s announcement that it’s finished rolling out that show what apps you use. Sections let ... |
Nokia’s Smart Devices Chief On Instagram, Android, Phablets & The Continued Lack Of A 41MP PureView Lumia | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | Nokia has added another device to its burgeoning Lumia portfolio of smartphones today, with the introduction of the : a sleek, PureView-branded handset that will be its first flagship on T-Mobile U.S. At today’s London launch, Nokia executive VP of smart devices, Jo Harlow, sat down with TechCrunch to field a few ques... |
Loop Makes It Easy To Conduct Real-Time Surveys Via iPad | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | co-founder and CEO Rajit Marwah argued that “surveys and reviews are everywhere” — but they’re often ignored or delayed. With his new startup, on the other hand, Marwah said he’s giving businesses a way to create and conduct those surveys easily and quickly. When a business downloads , they can use one of the app’s s... |
Open Garden Gets Google Glass To Connect To Its Mesh Network, Asks Google To Make It Available To All | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | , the San Francisco-based startup that allows Android, Windows and Mac users to create mesh networks between their devices to share Internet connections, today announced that it has managed to get Google Glass to connect to its network. This matters because Glass users typically need a tethering plan to connect to the ... |
Rushmore.fm Wants To Fix The Music Industry, Ex-Virgin Group Online Boss Named As CEO | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | , a new London-based startup founded by , is de-cloaking somewhat today with what sounds like the rather lofty but noble mission to fix the music industry. Described as a “music ecosystem”, the (currently) invite-only site initially consists of a Wikipedia-like music resource where you’re encouraged to contribute and ... |
Urban Storage Startup Boxbee Is Opening For Business In The San Francisco Bay Area | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 14 | Have a lot of stuff? Don’t have a lot of space to store that stuff? Don’t know how you’d get yourself organized enough to keep track of it, even if you did have the space? No worries. Urban storage startup has the solution to all your too-much-stuff-having problems. The idea behind Boxbee is simple: You put stuff in ... |
Samsung Galaxy S4 Shipments Hit 10 Million One Month After Release | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Samsung’s Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company its latest milestone today j since its international launch on April 26. According to Samsung, this is the fastest ever sell rate for any of its smartphones. The latest entry in the Galaxy series–meant as Samsung’s iPhone c... |
OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof After Settling Patent Lawsuit | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | , which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has of for an undisclosed amount. News of the acquisition comes one day after a lawsuit filed by OtterBox against LifeProof for patent infringement was . OtterBox told the North Carolina Business Report that the acquisition was not related to the laws... |
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Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future? | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon something thought-provoking: What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian. I happened to be sitting in a movie theater waiting for to start, so I tried to come up with a good counter-example. It’... |
Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us. Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited feature to protect accounts, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and he’s got a patent to prove it. “But they won’t even verify my Twitter account?!”, he says. The pate... |
LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui’s Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Fresh from , has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the . TechCrunch has found out, and confirmed, that the social network has aqui-hired , the social polling startup founded by Omar Hamoui — the man who set up, ran and then mobile ad company AdMob to Google for $750 million. All staff from Maybe, exce... |
GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platform | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | , a Pittsburgh-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Giftly had raised about $2.8 million from investors including Baseline Ventures, SoftTech VC,... |
Encoding.com’s Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Platform Video URLs | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to and then have that content accessible on any device. Now it’s providing a way to monetize those videos, thanks to an integration with ad delivery platorm FreeWheel. The idea behind Vid.ly is that Encoding.com d... |
Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | After scores of accounts were potentially a few months ago, Twitter today through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web. Unfortunately, it may not help shared accounts like big brands and news agencies where multiple people need to be able to log in and out but only one phone number can get... |
Twitter Introduces Charts By Genre And Popularity For Its #Music Service | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | We’ve confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company . The charts are broken up into a few areas: the familiar genre breakdown, as well as some categories like “Superstars” and “Unearthed” that appear to be built based on current Twitte... |
Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Another step for in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring , a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency. Jared Verdi, one of the co-founders of Thumb Labs along with Rich Kern, tells TechCrunch that financial terms of th... |
We Want YOU To Be The New TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | The competition at our Disrupt events is like a mini startup school. The dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training process end up with solid presentation skills, hard-earned pitching prowess and newfound courage. And also, lots of public visibility, which is great for getting users, hiring to... |
Google X Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | After previously investing in the company, Google has now acquired , a green energy startup that is currently . The acquisition was first reported in Brad Stone’s , and judging from Stone’s story, the team will join Google X. Google invested in the Alameda, Calif.-based company in 2006 and another $5 million in ... |
Join CrunchGov’s Town Hall With @CoryBooker On Immigration For #iNewark Right Now | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | are bringing attention to the need for immigration reform in a 36-hour social media marathon, . It’s an issue we know our readers care about, so we’re thrilled to give you the opportunity to join , full-time mayor of Newark, , and one of The , Cory Booker, in a rousing town hall. Mayor Booker and I will be answeri... |
Deeplink.me Lets Mobile Users Navigate Through A “Web” Of Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Have you ever wished that you could navigate through the apps on the phone as easy as clicking links on the web? Such a thing may now become a real possibility thanks to a new service from , called . In a nutshell, it’s a bit.ly for mobile app deep linking – meaning not necessarily just linking to the app itself, but... |
HTC Can’t Stanch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil Prevails | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it’s bound to look like curtains to outside observers. That appears to be the case at HTC, which is losing a lot of senior execs according to multiple reports tod... |
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Made For The World. Built And Designed In China. | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | For years, the iPhone has carried a small etching on the back that says ‘Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.’ It’s fueled the stereotype that China is the world’s factory, but hasn’t had a flexible enough education system to produce R&D talent that can also design world-class products for a global aud... |
Photo App Piictu To Join Betaworks Company Kandu, Will Shut Down On May 31st | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Another photo sharing app bites the dust? Or is something with promise getting another chance? Either way you look at it, betaworks is adding more technology and team members to its arsenal, as photo sharing app that the team will “join forces” with a betaworks company that has yet to launch. , yet never really took ... |
Amazon Wants To Build A Bio-Dome Three Blocks From An Actual, Normal Park | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 5 | 22 | Amazon has reportedly submitted plans for a new futuristic headquarters in Seattle that combines a skyscraper and a tri-sphere, bio-dome-like structure. According to the plans, the structure will be able to hold various forms of plant life and become a place where employees can “work and socialize in a more natural, pa... |
Yanked From The Cloud: Why Connectify Unplugged Its Switchboard Campaign | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | , a Philadelphia-based software company obsessed with making the Internet faster and using Kickstarter to do so, this week pulled the plug on Switchboard, its most recent connectivity campaign. Alex Gizis, Connectify’s CEO, said his backers wanted it that way. Connectify is no stranger to Kickstarter. When the company ... |
CrunchWeek: Yahoo’s $1.1B Tumblr Purchase, Lyft’s Big Raise, And Microsoft’s Xbox One | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | It’s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days. , , and I chatted about Yahoo’s of Tumblr (and that the company is eyeing a purchase of Hulu); Lyft’s from Andreessen Horowitz and the big reveal of Microsoft’s . Tune i... |
Misfit Wearables Drops Android Support For Its Shine Activity Tracker Ahead Of Summer Launch | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek from , you may want to get your money back. According to a recent update posted to , the Founders Fund-backed company has decided to drop Android support from the final version in a bid to better focus on polishing the experience for iOS use... |
Will The Xbox One Rule The Living Room? Price Will Determine The Size Of Its Kingdom | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | The , but its price has yet to be revealed by Microsoft. Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it’s likely to help determine whether the “home entertainment system,” as Microsoft is characterizing it, becomes the category-bust... |
What Games Are: Xbox One Is Microsoft’s Spruce Goose | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | During the 1940s Howard Hughes spent millions developing and building a plane with the largest wingspan in history and a huge carrying capacity. The was meant to solve a problem of moving troops and material for the second world war effort, but by the time it was tested, the war was already over and the plane’s engin... |
Gillmor Gang: Parlor Games & Metaphones | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — neatly sidestepped the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition and segued into the wonderful world of messaging. As Facebook Home settles into a cot at the homeless shelter, Google is revving up for an all-out assault on the service suite.... |
Reminder: Google Buzz Is Still Dead, Your Data Will Be Moved To Drive, And They Thank You For Using It | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | , the social service that Google launched way back in 2010 and then killed in 2011, reminded former users that their data still lives in and will be moved over to your Google Drive accounts in July. That’s lovely. The email describes exactly what will happen with your data, which won’t count against your Drive storage ... |
The New “Handmade” (Part Two) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | Although 3D printing technology has existed for some time, it’s only now beginning to cross over into mainstream awareness, thanks to increasingly affordable access to the printers themselves, as well as attention-grabbing headlines about and . While less eye-catching, perhaps, the innovation is also powering a new ... |
CrunchWeek: Facebook’s Q4 Mobile Madness, BlackBerry’s Star-Studded Makeover, And All Things Crunchies | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | This week, and I were very happy to be joined by our New York-based colleague to discuss Facebook’s in its latest quarterly earnings , RIM and BlackBerry’s toward a real (complete with a ), and all the fun we had at the . Check it all out in the video embedded above. |
Is The FBI Dumb, Evil, Or Just Incompetent? | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 5 | 25 | Your government is worried. The world is “going dark.” Once upon a time, telephones were the only way to talk to someone far away, and the authorities could wiretap any phone they wanted. Nowadays, though, suspects might be communicating via Facebook, Google Hangouts, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Skype, Viber. , inevitably: “T... |
Qihoo’s iOS Apps Reportedly Removed For Violating Apple’s Rules | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | According to multiple sources cited in a report (link via Google Translate, h/t ), Apple removed all of Qihoo’s apps from its App store last week for violating its terms of service. Qihoo last week that it did not know the reason for the removals, which took place on January 26. In fact, the QQ Tech article claims... |
Line Doubled Users Every Day In Hong Kong Last Week | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | Japanese messaging app Line has just reported that new users in Hong Kong have been doubling each day for the past week since January 29. The app, which is the dominant messenger of choice in Japan, launched its on December 12, and looks like it’s riding a huge wave of momentum in Asia, ranking first on the free app ... |
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The Weekly Good: Random Acts Of Kindness With #GiveMondays | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | What if you found a blue envelope outside and it had a few dollars in it that you could use on whatever you like, say a coffee on Monday? This is a possibility with a new initiative that took off in London and is starting to spread itself throughout the world. is a community of anonymous givers who thought that it wou... |
Superbowl Ad Confirms BlackBerry 10 Can’t Turn Trucks Into Rubber Duckies | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | BlackBerry 10’s first Superbowl commercial squeaked in right before a delayed the game for 34 minutes. Instead of focusing on what the new OS can do, however, the 30-second spot showed what it do: trigger spontaneous combustion, make users disappear in a puff of colorful smoke and then magically reappear out of man... |
Speech Tech Company Vestec Says Hello To $1.5M From MModal Founder | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | Speech technology company Vestec that it has landed $1.5 million in funding from V. Raman Kumar, the founder and former CEO of MModal, a provider of clinical transcription services and clinical documentation workflow solutions. Kumar has also joined Vestec’s board of directors as vice chairman and will oversee the de... |
Apple Debuts New AppStore.com Vanity URLs For Developers During Super Bowl | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s a new product for App Store developers – short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand public appearance at the end of the ad for the new Star Trek movie, which pointed viewers to Appstore.com/StarTrekApp instead of, perhaps, Face... |
StormFly Wants To Childproof Your Computer With Its Ubuntu-Booting USB Bracelet | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | When I was but a wee lad, I hosed my share of family computers simply because I wanted to help out — once I tried to free up space on a 6GB hard drive by deleting anything larger than 1MB. You can imagine how well that played out. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the founders of went through something similar, be... |
Maybe Those Chromebooks Weren’t Such A Crazy Idea After All | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | When Google launched its Linux-based in early 2010 and its Chromebook , most pundits didn’t quite agree with our own MG Siegler’s premise that Google had dropped a “ .” A few years later, it sure doesn’t look like Microsoft has much to fear from . But despite its slow start, it looks as if the Chrome OS momentum ... |
Ravens Fans Are 14% More Likely To Fumble Their Smartphones During The Super Bowl Than 49ers Fans | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and the anticipation is palpable. I can’t speak for Baltimore, but on my recent trip to San Francisco, I realized I had never seen such a large congregation of people all wearing a single team’s merchandise. But all the excitement of the big game, combined with quite a bit of alcohol, actually m... |
Tagwhat Aims To Become The Go-To App For Local Deals With Social Media Aggregation And A New Design | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | is a mobile startup trying to present users with content that’s relevant to their location — descriptions of nearby points of interest, , and now, with the latest app update, with local deals and events. The deals are pulled from Facebook and other social networks, and then recommended to users based on the time and ... |
After Seducing 1M Little Monsters For Lady Gaga, Backplane Expands To Spawn More Fan Clubs | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | Geeking out about your favorite things can be embarrassing or annoying on the big social networks. But Lady Gaga’s tech team proved with her Little Monsters site that fans want an online home. Now it’s branching out to create communities for 10 more bands and brands, starting with Conde Nast and Guns’N’Roses. Backpla... |
Craigslist Finally Gets More (P)Interesting, Adds Photo Grid View For Visual Browsing | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | Craigslist has taken another baby step forward to improve the usability of its retro-tastic web interface — adding a photo grid view to certain types of listings that allows site users to visually browse categories so they can quickly scan listings for items of interest. The new grid view feature (seen below) lets user... |
Iterations: The Spectre Of Inorganic Distribution | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | TechCrunch Distribution is a hell of a drug. In a product-obsessed town, it’s distribution that often proves , and when a person or platform can tap into it, they oftentimes move quickly to lock-in those advantages. However, not all distribution is created equal. In today’s technology landscape, while thousands of s... |
In Europe Etsy Sees Opportunity, Says Caroline Drucker [TCTV] | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | Last year , the marketplace for hand crafted goods, was with 22 million members in nearly 200 countries and had passed the $895 million mark for sales in 2012 (compared to $525 million for all of 2011). By the end of the year, over 100 million items had been sold in Etsy’s history. And as she explains in this vide... |
Backed Or Whacked: Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Laziness | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 2 | 3 | Last week’s Backed or Whacked covered light-related products that could be controlled by a smartphone. Beyond making their way in the dark, though, modern humans have many other basic needs — maintaining well-being, feeling secure, and enforcing as much control over their domain as possible while exerting as little eff... |
Food Discovery App Burpple Now Available On Android | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | Burpple, the social discovery app that seeks to connect food lovers from around the world, just released their in public beta. Their iOS app was in December 2011. The app now boosts users from 140 countries and 4,000 cities who have shared 300,000 “food moments,” including photos of dishes consumed and check-ins at... |
On-Demand Taxi Startup Hailo Raises $30M From USV And Others, Including Strategic Funding From KDDI To Launch In Tokyo | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | On-demand taxi service Hailo is looking east. After successful launches in cities throughout Europe and North America, the startup is intent on bringing its e-hail application to Tokyo. To do so, the company has created a Japanese subsidiary, and it’s raised some strategic funding from Japanese telco KDDI, in addition ... |
Huawei & Microsoft Team Up To Launch Exclusive Windows Smartphone in Africa | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | Chinese telecoms giant Huawei a Windows smartphone tailored for and exclusively available in Africa. The device, a customized version of the , was created in partnership with Microsoft as part of its new initiative. Prices have not yet been announced, but Gustavo Fuchs, director of the Microsoft Windows Phone divi... |
Maynard Webb On ‘Rebooting’ Your Career By Relying On Yourself, Not Your Employer [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | And Webb just added another role to his resume — author — to help other people better forge their own successful work lives. Along with Carlye Adler, Webb has written a book released last week called , in which he talks about the tools needed to build a successful career in the modern age, and how it’s different now... |
Baidu’s Q4 Report Shows Growth Is Still Slow Despite Higher Profits | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | Baidu’s presented a mixed bag for the company known as the “Google of China.” Though its profit jumped by 36 percent in the quarter because of an increase in advertising spending, its 41.6 percent year-on-year revenue growth was the slowest since 2009, . Most of Baidu’s revenue comes from search-engine advertising.... |
Jawbone Acquires Mobile Health Startup Massive Health In Big Talent Acquisition | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | Hosain Rahman’s Jawbone may have first made a name for itself because of its line of high-performance Bluetooth headsets, but these days it has taken on a healthier image thanks to its more recent forays into activity tracking with the UP wristband. As it turns out, Jawbone is far from done tinkering with the UP experi... |
Two Makers Come Together To Make A Robotic Hand For A Boy In South Africa | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kB53-D_N8Uc] Two makers on opposite ends of the globe, Ivan Owen in Bellingham, Washington and Richard Van As in South Africa, teamed up to build a custom . The best part? They built it for Liam, a five-year-old South African boy who was born without fing... |
AOL In Talks To Buy Gdgt, The Consumer Electronics Review Site Started By Former Engadget Founders | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | I’m hearing that (pronounced ‘gadget’), the consumer electronics review site founded by co-founder and former editor-in-chief , is in late-stage acquisition talks with . Sources tell me that a deal appears to be nearing closure in a matter of days. I’ve reached out both to gdgt and to executives at AOL for co... |
Business-Focused Ad Startup Bizo Reports $22M In Revenue For 2012 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | , a startup that helps advertisers reach a business audience, says that it brought in $22 million in revenue in 2012, and that its annualized run rate at the end of the year was $30 million. The company , and it has raised a total of $20 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Venrock, Crosslink Capital, and others. T... |
Tomorrow’s 10th Annual “Safer Internet Day” Now Involves Over 100 Countries, And Google Is Ready | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | Tomorrow is the 10th annual “Safer Internet Day” celebration in more than 100 countries on six continents. The idea is that you’re supposed to take a step back and think about how you can do a better job of keeping your private information more secure and keep yourself and your loved ones safe while surfing the web. Go... |
Facebook Graph Search Didn’t Break Your Privacy Settings, It Only Feels Like That | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | ! This kind of email has been rolling into TechCrunch’s tip line since the of the new, and still-in-beta, search service from Facebook. The reveals are somewhat tantalizing – ! (Yes, we’ve been having fun with this here). But despite what it looks like, Facebook hasn’t actually violated your privacy. It only fee... |
Samsung Launches Strategy And Innovation Center, Will Invest $1.1 Billion On Innovation Through Two Funds | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | Samsung is already becoming one of the big heavy hitters in tech, but it’s looking to make more investments to ensure its place as the so-called “ ” alongside Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The company announced today that it is committing to investments in new technology, with the launch of its new Samsung Strat... |
The Orp Smart Horn AKA The Smorn Is Cooler Than It Sounds | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | JK all the way. Actually, the is a bike horn built by Tory Orzeck of Portland, a former GE Plastics and Nike designer who, after a run in with a few nasty cars, decided to build a “hearable” horn in a small, rechargeable package. The Smorn can blast trucks as they pass or, using the Wail Tail trigger, you can move th... |
Football Is A Very Rough Sport — The MC10 CheckLight Wants To Help Keep High-Impact Hits In Check | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | A company called is looking to help stop those neurological injuries before they start. The company, which focuses on products, has developed a device along with Reebok called the , a very lightweight skull cap that fits under a helmet and gauges the severity of an impact. When an athlete has a hit that may nece... |
Swartz’s Girlfriend Shares Intimate Details Of His Last Days, Explains ‘Why Aaron Died’ | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | , the girlfriend of , explained why she thinks he committed suicide. After revealing intimate details of his seemingly chipper, curious lifestyle, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman argues that “I believe Aaron’s death was caused by exhaustion, by fear, and by uncertainty. I believe that Aaron’s death was caused by a persec... |
City-Focused News App Spun Partners With A+E, AskMen, The Awl, And Others | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | , a mobile app pulling together news stories relevant to your city, is announcing several content deals with well-known publishers, including A+E Networks, AskMen, Gothamist, Untapped Cities, The Awl Network, CultureMap, and “dozens” more. These deals are another way to make sure the app has plenty of locally relevant ... |
Biased Review | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | It’s a sad, sad day when companies start reviewing their own products. Today is a sad, sad day. Nokia has just posted their review of the Lumia 620 budget Windows phone to the . And guess what! Author Adam Fraser had only good things to say about the little mid-range Lumia. He just so happens to be a “Writer and Rep... |
TechCrunch NY Is Holding Office Hours To Find The Big Apple’s Best Startups | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 4 | Wanted: An entrepreneur or team of rivals who want to stand on stage to present their project to thousands of investors and members of the media. Sounds like you? You’re in luck. TechCrunch is holding Office Hours this week to scope out some potential Disrupt Battlefield and Startup Alley participants. These things usu... |
FoodPanda, Rocket Internet’s Answer To GrubHub And Delivery Hero, Now Delivering Food In 23 Countries And Raising Money | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | , a Rocket Internet-backed online platform for aggregating and delivering food from take-out restaurants, is today announcing that it has expanded to 12 more emerging markets, taking the total number of countries that it covers to 23. The company is also in the process of raising money to help fuel the growth, essentia... |
News Of A National ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Network Was A Media Fabrication | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | America got bamboozled yesterday, courtesy of an unintentional media fabrication: the government . A somewhat confusing feature in about a few loosely connected government initiatives about greater access to faster Wi-Fi got twisted into a story about a plan to create a so-called “Super Wi-Fi” network. What ensued l... |
4G Will Make Up Just 10 Percent Of Global Connections in 2017 | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | It looks like just 10 percent of mobile data traffic will be based on 4G networks in 2017, according to Cisco Systems’ . It’s significant growth from the extent of today’s 4G deployments, which make up just 1 percent of global connections. But with devices like the iPhone 5 becoming common in larger economies, we ma... |
As An Asian American, Have I Ever Experienced Racism In The Tech Industry, Even If It’s Usually Subtle And Non-Malicious? | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | , : . |
MediaTek Anticipates Slow Q1, But Still Confident About Its Fattening Chunk of China’s Smartphone Market | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | reported lower-than-expected revenue in its fourth quarter, but the Taiwanese handset chip maker says its still poised to stand strong against rivals like Qualcomm. The company, which was founded in 1997 and entered the mobile phone business in 2004, has grown rapidly on the back of its reference designs, which are pu... |
Google Cleared By Australia’s High Court In Landmark AdWords Case | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | Google in Australia on Wednesday when the country’s High Court ruled that the Internet behemoth did not violate fair trade law by allowing companies to purchase AdWords containing their competitor’s names. Five judges of Australia’s High Court ruled unanimously in favor of Google, overturning a previous ruling from t... |
Fly Or Die: Microsoft Surface Pro | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | The gap between a full-fledged PC and a touchscreen tablet has finally found a bridge in the Microsoft Surface Pro. The Windows 8 device will be available for purchase on February 9, but we got a sneak peek with the Surface Pro and took it for a test spin in the Fly Or Die studios. So what’s the verdict? Well, both... |
The Microsoft Surface Pro Proves That The PC Is Back | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | I come bearing glad tidings. After decades of OEM malaise, a constant parroting of the speeds and feeds mantra, and an aesthetic that was formulated in the back room of a dingy Staples office supply store, the PC is really back. In short, the Surface Pro is so good that it could drive Windows 8 adoption with enough for... |
Twitter Confirms Purchase Of Bluefin Labs To Boost TV Analytics And Advertising Services | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | On the heels of around around this past weekend’s Super Bowl football championship, Twitter today that it has purchased , a social TV analytics service. The deal had been reported first yesterday by . Terms of the deal have not been disclosed but BI notes that it’s Twitter’s biggest acquisition to date. The acqui... |
Apple Calls For New Siri UI Engineer, Suggests Digital Assistant Could Soon Grace The Desktop | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | With all the time, , and Apple has offered up on the altar of Siri, it’s only a logical next step to see the virtual personal assistant migrate over to Mac OS X. The question is not if, but when? And we may be getting closer, as Apple has looking for a Siri UI Engineer with a few hints at OS X integration. This is... |
Stack Exchange Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Launches Forums Startup Discourse, With Funding From First Round, Greylock, And SV Angel | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | , co-founder of Q&A network , that he’s launching a new startup called , which offers an open source platform for running discussion forums. The full name of the company is actually Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc., and its goal is indeed to improve the quality of online discussion. However, Atwood writes... |
Microsoft Surface: From Idea To Pro | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | When it comes to designing new hardware, most companies are pretty quiet about the design process. Microsoft, with its , is taking a far more open approach than many other companies. Just a few days ahead of the launch of the Intel-powered Surface Pro, I got a chance to sit down with Ralf Groene, Microsoft’s Director ... |
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Zynga Q4 Highlights: 72M Users On Mobile, Lots of Midcore, Real-Money Is On Track | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | Now that , here are the highlights from the earnings call. Zynga shares are up about 13 percent since yesterday’s close on the results. – . Zynga now has 72 million monthly active users on mobile platforms, which is about one-quarter of the company’s total. CEO Mark Pincus said on the call that more game teams in th... |
More Change At AOL: Photosharing App Hipster.com Is Shutting Down February 16 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | Another change afoot at AOL today: Hipster.com, a hyperlocal photosharing app AOL acquired in , is shutting down as of February 16. Registered users are being sent emails (a copy, sent to us by a reader, is embedded below) telling them that they will need to save any postcards — Hipster’s term for posted images — by t... |
Zynga To Shut Down Three More Games (Including CityVille 2), Promises Slower Launch Cycle In 2013 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | During this afternoon’s fourth-quarter earnings call, Zynga announced three more game shutdowns — CityVille 2, Party Friends, and The Friend Game. The most notable closure was probably CityVille 2, since it was the sequel to what was once Zynga’s biggest hit. However, . COO David Ko blamed some of CityVille 2’s failur... |
Zillow Debuts Digs, A Pinterest-Like Photo Sharing And Inspiration Platform For Home Decor And Remodeling | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | Pinterest is a mecca for users to share home decor pictures they love, or to post their own remodeling efforts within their apartment or home. has also become a go-to destination to share and find remodeling ideas and inspiration. So it makes sense for, Zillow, the online sales and rental marketplace for homes and ap... |
500 Startups Mexico City Comes North Of The Border With A Mountain View Demo Day | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | Today, Dave McClure’s 500 Startups showed off some of its Latin America flavor. Just a day before its 500 Startups Accelerator Demo Day, the venture firm previewed some of the companies it has incubated in Mexico. Today in Mountain View, Calif., 500 Startups Mexico City held its first demo day since the venture fund me... |
BiteScore Tells You How Many (Or Few) Rat Droppings There Are In Your Salad | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | As an inveterate chow hound I like to know if the restaurant I’m about to visit has a) a working bathroom b) PBR c) any health violations. While the first two are deal-breakers – it’s not a dinner without the smooth taste of the Ribb – I’m often very lax when it comes to health violations. Not many others are. BiteScor... |
Zynga’s Pincus Says FarmVille Has Passed $1B In Total Player Purchases | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 5 | The launch of FarmVille 2 was one of the big highlights of Zynga’s past year, but CEO Mark Pincus said its predecessor FarmVille crossed major milestone too, having reached $1 billion in total player bookings. Seeing an old game reach cross the $1 billion mark may not tell us much about Zynga’s future or current financ... |
Every Other Tech Angle You Need For Super Bowl XLVII | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | Millions of people across the U.S. are preparing their jerseys, face paint and horrific nachos. Yes, football fans rejoice, the big game finally kicks off tomorrow in New Orleans — that is, Super Bowl XLVII, between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Franciso 49ers. The Super Bowl is always one of the biggest media event... |
What Games Are: Should Sony Move Beyond PlayStation? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | So then. February 20th. New York City. . This, it seems, is what the content of a viral video aired this week by Sony promises. Slowly we saw the signature four shapes of the PS controller slide into view while spark trails coursed over their frames. The intended message (presumably) was cometh the hour, cometh the Pl... |
Facebook Ramps Up News Discovery Battle Against Apps Like Flipboard With “Articles Related To” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with “Articles Related To…”. This special feed story shows you popular links that lead to content mentioning Pages you Like. It could be the next step in Facebook’s master plan to take on ap... |
Peter Thiel On His ‘Super-Futuristic’ Focus And The Chess Strategy Founders Should Know [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | I think Thiel is one of the most fascinating and forward-thinking people in technology today — and the business world overall — so I was really pleased to get the chance to talk with him backstage for a few minutes just after he collected his award. We touched on a few topics in our short chat, including his “super-f... |
Pair, The Mobile App For Two, Buys UK’s Cupple And Rebrands As Couple | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | , the Y Combinator-backed mobile app studio behind the couples app Pair, is doubling down (literally) on its business ambitions: The company today is announcing that it has bought , a UK-based rival mobile app for two people only, and, to mark the change, has rebranded itself as . Financial terms of the deal were not... |
The Art Of Science | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | Like many great startup ideas, the formation of L.A.-based incubator, investment firm, and accelerator had its origins at a dinner. In 2007, Peter Pham and Mike Jones found themselves working in L.A., having recently sold companies to and , respectively. The duo, who were friends, started to organize dinners, call... |
Gillmor Gang: Give Me Your Pants | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — is recorded live in the style of a jazz date, where the group improvises around the themes of the day or week. As we prepare to start, I usually try and get voice levels while at the same time trying to “save it for the show... |
MySpace Squandered the Only Thing It Had Left | Brenden Mulligan | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | MySpace. Or is it Myspace. Or is it My______. I’m not sure. Truth is, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that MySpace has made increasingly bad decisions for too many years to every hope that they’ll become relevant again. Their latest bad decision shows how detached they are from the little value they still offer the ... |
Google’s Schmidt: ‘Twitter Can No More Produce Analysis Than A Monkey Can Type Out A Work of Shakespeare’ | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 2 | Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s upcoming book, , isn’t pulling any punches. From the “irrelevance” of anonymity to some juicy thoughts on Twitter, the some thought-provoking quotes from the book slated to be released in April. Without more context, we don’t know if this means he means it’s impossible to compose s... |
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