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John Battelle Returns As CEO At Federated Media, Deanna Brown Steps Down | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 28 | Online advertising company just that current CEO Deanna Brown is stepping down, while founder and former CEO John Battelle will be taking on the role again. The company says that Battelle and Brown will be working together during March “to ensure a seamless transition.” as president and chief operating officer, a... |
Stitch Fix Gets $4.75M Series A To Scale Out Its Tech-Enabled Personal Shopping Service | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 28 | The round, which serves as Stitch Fix’s Series A, was co-led by and with the participation of Western Technology Investment. Stitch Fix has experienced some serious organic growth since it was founded back in February 2011, the company’s founder and CEO told me in an interview this week, which you can watch in ... |
“Killing It” Isn’t Worth It | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | It’s unfair to take a particular moment in time, slice it, and pass judgement on that particular slice. Yet that’s our precise function, as chroniclers of news, and our role in the startup community. Like many others, I read the news this week that Vegas-based ecommerce site As I read the story, I remembered intervie... |
Facebook Gifts Sales And Revenue Off To A Slow Start | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 28 | A billion-dollar business? Maybe not. Despite lofty projections for Facebook Gifts from analysts, reporters and myself, a new report picks apart public statements from the company to suggest it sold a maximum of 667,000 gifts in Q4 2012, and maybe a lot less. Sure, it’s early days, but it may take Facebook a while to b... |
Former Head Of Google China Kicked Off Sina & Tencent Weibo For Three Days | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | Kaifu Lee, former head of Google China and founder of Beijing-based startup incubator Innovation Works, (h/t ) that he has been banned from posting on Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo for three days. Lee is one of the most followed people on Sina Weibo, with more than 30 million fans (his Twitter account has a much more... |
China’s 360Buy Raises $700M Ahead Of Potential IPO, Wants To Become Stronger Alibaba Rival | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | 360Buy, the quick-delivery shopping site once described as the , announced $700 million USD in funding on Friday. While this gives the company, China’s second largest e-tailer after Alibaba, enough cash to delay its much-anticipated IPO, one of its investors, Kingdom Holding Company, a Saudi Arabia firm, focuses on co... |
JustMigrate Launches To Move Posterous Blogs To Tumblr Just As Posterous Announces Imminent End | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | Just in time for , a service has launched to bring Posterous blogs over to rival service, Tumblr. was announced the same day that Posterous unceremoniously via its blog. The service requires you to punch in your posterous URL, authorize it with Tumblr, and you’re all set. For those with multiple Tumblr blogs, granti... |
The Weekly Good: Worldreader Wants To Put A Digital Book In Every Child’s Hand | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | One of the amazing things about technology is that it opens the doors to things for less fortunate folks that many of us take for granted. Being able to sit down and read a good book is something that we do on a daily basis, but never think about all of the people out there who don’t have that luxury. With sites like A... |
Let’s (Gamify) Date(ing) And Make It Addicting In The Process | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | A few months ago I broke down and did something I swore I’d never do. Yes, that’s right. I opened a dreaded OkCupid account. [Y’all, I’m so embarrassed right now, you just don’t even know.] For many years I’ve dated successfully in real life. But curiosity got the best of me and it was enhanced by, uh, let’s call it ... |
Nexus Tablet Success And Why There’s No Time Like The Present For A Google Retail Store | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | Rumors from an “extremely reliable source” speaking to have suggested Google will start to operate its own physical retail stores starting as soon as the 2013 holiday season in the U.S. Brick-and-mortar shops from an Internet search company? , but the Goog is breaking out of its search box big time, and recent addit... |
The Pros And Cons Of A WebKit Monoculture | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | The that Opera is shutting down the development of its own browser rendering engine and moving to the open source caused quite a stir earlier this week. With WebKit powering the built-in browsers of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, it’s already the de-facto standard engine for mobile and it has the potential to do... |
Mobile Commerce On The Rise As Amazon AppStore Tops Nielsen’s List Of Fastest-Growing U.K. Android Apps | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | Google’s Android platform dominates the U.K.’s smartphone landscape, powering 54 percent of the handsets in use at the end of 2012 ( ). But what apps are U.K. Android owners spending increasing amounts of time on? Researcher Nielsen has come up with a method of measuring the fastest-growing Android apps and has just cr... |
What Games Are: The “Beyond Games” Mirage | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | Here are : 2012 also marked the Xbox’s biggest year for entertainment and games usage. Users enjoyed more than 18 billion hours of entertainment in 2012, with entertainment app usage growing 57 percent year over year globally. Last year in the United States, Xbox LIVE Gold members averaged 87 hours per month on Xbox, ... |
Fresh Stats On Social Networks: Pinterest Catches Up With Twitter, Digital Divide Shrinks | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | I find statistics absolutely delicious. Pew research on what slice of Americans are addicted to all of the various social networks as of December 2012. There are a few big business and cultural implications. , with 15 percent and 16 percent of adult U.S. Internet users on each network, respectively. Pinterest, which ... |
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Fly Your Flag — Let’s See Some European Country Pavilions At Disrupt In New York | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtDaNoHGdqM] This year we want to make it very, very obvious that TechCrunch events are open to all. In the past we’ve had startups appear from everywhere from Tokyo to Russia to Ghana, Africa. And this year we want to see a great turn-out from Europe, so we’re specifically invit... |
Iterations: How Founders Can Fight Through The Great Fragmentation Of Talent | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | TechCrunch The #1 request I hear when talking to founders in San Francisco is: “We are hiring engineers. Know any?” We all know this is a big issue that’s only getting worse, and so do most of the investors. But, I’m now starting to hear this so often, I’m beginning to worry that all the conventional tactics simply w... |
Google May Open A String Of Retail Stores, But What Does It Hope To Gain? | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | Microsoft and Apple already have their own physical retail stores, but thus far Google has managed to resist that particular temptation If a recent report from is to be believed though, that may not be the case much longer. According to a single “extremely reliable source,” Google will erect its own standalone stores ... |
CrunchWeek: Elon Musk Vs. NYT, The Uber For Private Jets, Zynga Settles With EA, Everyone Harlem Shakes | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | In this edition, , and I (our usual host was working out of town this past week) got together to discuss very publicly for his electric car company Tesla after the published a less than flattering (and perhaps less than ) , the , the company that aims to be the , Zynga’s with its gaming nemesis Elect... |
There’s Already An Apple In The Games Industry: The Games Industry | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | Apple entering the games space has been a topic of discussion for a long time. Some people think they already made their move and it’s still playing out. Some people think they are yet to drop the bomb. Most oversimplify the issue. There’s a funny thing, though, about the way proponents of Apple (I say this without den... |
Backed Or Whacked: The Eyes Have It | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 2 | 17 | In , I discussed watches, one of the mixes of fashion and function that many wear every day. Another example of such a combination is eyewear, where crowdfunding endeavors have taken approaches that range from high art to high volume in pursuit of recreational glasses. As multiple testimonials attest in its campaign ... |
The Top Mobile Games Are Grossing More Than 4X What They Were A Year Ago, GREE’s Dharni Says | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | After a couple early stumbles in building out a mobile gaming platform in the West, GREE did a bit of a pivot with its San Francisco office over the last year. , the office is now entirely geared toward building first-party games. It’s a turnabout for the $3.5 billion Japanese gaming company, which built its business ... |
Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Called By Lawmakers To Defend Higher Prices In Australia | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | Three American companies-Apple, Microsoft and Adobe-have been by the Australian Parliament to explain why they charge higher prices Down Under than in other countries. The three companies were called by the House Committee On Infrastructure And Communications to appear as part of regarding the disparity in tech pri... |
Visual How-To App Snapguide Passes 1M Uniques, Snaps Up YouTube Designer, And Gears Up For Growth | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | Daniel Raffel says that when he started work on the app that eventually became the how-to platform , people advised him to make a “food guide” app (he has worked as a chef so might naturally gravitate to that vertical). He resisted, possibly because he had a bigger ambition in mind: “My goal is to inspire people to ma... |
Menlo’s Shervin Pishevar And Goldman’s Scott Stanford Leave Their Day Jobs To Do Something Really Vague, By Design | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford have left their day jobs to build a new venture called Sherpa. The creation of the firm, which was , is designed around a new model for building and creating companies through a mix and match of strategic corporate partnerships ... |
A Dell Was Gotten, Dude | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | The year was 2004. I had just graduated college and my old Gateway mini tower PC was on its last legs. I was about to move out to California to begin my life. My parents asked what I wanted as a present before I left. But they already knew the answer. Dude, I was getting a Dell. I went online and customized the hell ou... |
The Future Of Fractional Ownership | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | Over the last several years, the idea of collaborative consumption has really taken off. Thanks to startups like Airbnb, Getaround, Taskrabbit and others, people are making more efficient use of their assets or time. The idea that anyone with an extra room to share, or a car they barely use, or spare time or skills tha... |
Apple Reportedly Developing A Curved Glass Smart Watch | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | Both and have reported that Apple is currently developing a smart watch. According to anonymous sources, the company is experimenting with “wristwatch-like devices made of curved glass” that would operate on Apple’s iOS platform in its Cupertino headquarters. The New York Times report says that Apple’s watch would ... |
Moda Operandi Lets You Buy Fashion Week Looks, Now | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | Have you ever been at a runway show and been irritated that you can’t purchase a look from the collection right then and there? Oh. You haven’t? Well, then you probably haven’t heard of , and that’s your misfortune. There are and then there are 1 percent problems. , a fashion retail site co-founded by of Vogu... |
A Walk Through Downtown Las Vegas, Where A New Generation Of Startups Is Taking Root [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | When many people think of Vegas, they think of the casino- and tourist-filled area known as . But the Downtown Project, which is headed up by Zappos CEO , is focused on bringing new life to what’s also known as “ ,” an urban area that’s rich with history (it used to be the playground for the likes of ) but is now ... |
The Five Ways Users Organize Their Apps And What App Designers Can Learn From This | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | A reveals the five main ways people are organizing the applications on their smartphones. Despite the somewhat esoteric focus of a study like this, the resulting analysis has a broader impact on our digital lives. The content found in mobile app stores is growing at an exponential rate. There are over 800,000 iOS app... |
Silence For Android Automatically Hushes Your Phone (And Helps You Save Face) | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | We’ve all been there — you’re right in the middle of a sensitive situation and just a moment later you’re scrambling to find your ringing phone and shut it off like an ape groping for a particularly pesky nit. Alternately, I’ve missed more than my fair share of phone calls just because I forgot to turn silent mode . Su... |
Looking For A Valentine’s Gift With A Literary Touch? Coliloquy Is Offering Personalized Erotica | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | You’ve only got four days left until Valentine’s Day, and if you’re scrambling for gift ideas, e-book startup has an unusual promotion. Be warned, though: It is, in the words of co-founder and CEO Lisa Rutherford, “very explicit and very dirty.” That’s right. Coliloquy is offering free, personalized erotic short stor... |
Scroogled: Why So Negative, Microsoft? | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | The sure makes it look as if Microsoft had a pretty good week, but while its hardware division is out celebrating, the web division seems to be hell-bent on adding fire to its war with Google. Just after the Surface Pro review embargo expired earlier this week – and Microsoft got to bask in far more praise than it go... |
Iterations: SnapChat’s Success Challenges Many Silicon Valley Assumptions | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | TechCrunch Yesterday, it was — raised a big round of funding. By now, everyone also knows that SnapChat is a new communication medium, a phenomena reflecting a desire for , and the fastest-growing consumer app out there . As I was drafting this post last night, Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers mentioned the se... |
Fly Or Die: BlackBerry Z10 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | The running the new BB10 operating system is a pivotal phone for the company formerly known as RIM. It’s BlackBerry’s flagship all-touch device, and while it has fine specs and cool features, the phone may not be enough to save the beleaguered Waterloo-based company. To be clear, the BlackBerry Z10 is not a bad ph... |
The Weekly Good: This Analytics Company Wants To Help Put An End To Human Trafficking | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | Random acts of kindness and good come from many different sources, some of them being from the last place you thought you’d find it. One such source is a New York City based analytics company called . What business have trying to put an end to ? I wasn’t sure, but it’s quite clear that the team has decided to make ... |
CrunchWeek: Twitter’s Purchase Of Bluefin, Perfecting Email With Mailbox, AOL, About.me And GDGT | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | It’s time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the week’s most interesting stories. In this edition, , and I discuss in its biggest purchase to date; the , the email management app from the folks at Orchestra; and from... |
Reminder: The Disrupt NY Pitch-Off/Meetup Is On Tuesday | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 10 | It’s been a few months since our last NYC meet-up and, in an effort to find some of the best startups in New York for Disrupt this year, we’re planning a . The winner will get free tickets and a spot in Startup Alley at the event. One runner-up gets two free tickets to the event. is being held on April 27 – May 1, 2... |
Test Prep Giant Kaplan Launches A New EdTech Accelerator In NYC, With TechStars Providing The Bankroll | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | With early-stage capital , it’s a good time to start an education business. (Even if investors are still wary about doling out larger rounds, but ssshhh on that bit.) Of course, when it comes to education, many entrepreneurs are still green. It’s not as easy as it may seem to learn the landscape and understand how bes... |
EE, Three, BT, Vodafone, O2 All Win 4G Spectrum In The UK, But £2.3B In Bids Falls Short Of The £3.5B Expected | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has just the winners of the UK spectrum auctions for 4G spectrum on the low-frequency 800MHz band, used for LTE and other mobile broadband services. The list is an attempt at playing fair: it includes fixed line incumbent BT; major mobile carriers Vodafone, Telefonica/O2, and E... |
Yota To Mass Produce E-ink Phone In Singapore | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Russian phone maker Yota Devices will start making its first in Singapore. The company has signed with Hi-P, a manufacturer in the country, to have it mass-produce the devices. Yota’s COO, Lau Geckler, told us that he is also in Singapore to help set up Yota’s Asian sales office and the company’s second R&D facility.... |
Ingredient Subscription Service Blue Apron Raises $3M To Help You Cook Fresh Meals | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | , a startup that aims to help you cook new foods while taking a lot of the inconvenience and waste out of the process, announced today that it has raised a $3 million Series A. The company delivers fresh ingredients and instructions for up to three meals a week, for $9.99 per person per meal. When , it was only availa... |
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BrightBytes Grabs $750K To Help Schools Measure The Real Impact Of Technology On Student Learning | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | has been on a mission to “improve the way the world learns through data” — and, in turn, to help schools solve their technological woes. To do that, the San Francisco-based learning analytics startup provides schools with the tools and services they need to be able to more effectively measure the impact of technology ... |
Samsung, LG Display Feud Winding Down As LG Drops Sales Ban Request Against Galaxy Note 10.1 | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | The War of the Korean Tech Giants: Battle Display is approaching a detente. LG Display has dropped its request for a domestic sales ban on rival Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1, . The world’s two top display makers (Samsung is in the number one spot) have been by slapping each other with lawsuits since September. LG had s... |
Today We Hit Peak Hack (Or So I Hope) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Can we talk about how ridiculous today was? It feels like we’ve reached some kind of turning point. As a cultural idea, when hacking becomes a tool for , it has well and truly left the domain of . I am, of course, referring to the time on their own Twitter accounts. And then Denny’s posted a little joke of its own ... |
Sina Shares Rise 6% After Hours On Q4 Earnings As It Promotes Former Cisco VP To CTO & Co-President | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Despite investors’ concerns over a slowing online advertising market in China, Sina managed to that exceeded analysts’ expectations, though its earnings fell 74 percent from a year earlier. Investors were encouraged by Sina’s results, however, and . Sina’s stock price has dropped 13.4 percent since the beginning of t... |
With $1.4M In Tow, Celly Launches On iOS To Let Anyone Create An Instant Mobile Social Network | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Once upon a time, the pinnacle of social networking was the ability to connect with former classmates and share what your cat had for breakfast. Today, the requirements for social networking have evolved and are more immediate. We need social networks to quickly connect us with the classrooms, businesses, hospitals, ra... |
Qwiki’s New Storytelling iPhone App Was Downloaded 125K Times In Six Days | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Startup launched a little more than a week ago, and it now says that the app was downloaded 125,000 times in the first six days, with 27,000 Qwikis created. A Qwiki is a slideshow-style video automatically assembled from a user’s photos, videos, and music. It still shows the company’s roots as a multimedia search e... |
Online Fitness Startup Wello Launches Group Workouts, Enabling 3-5 Users To Work Out Together | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Last summer, online fitness provider to provide personalized instruction to users via two-way video conferencing. The platform allows users to easily create time to exercise based on their own schedules, all from the comfort of their own homes. Now, Wello users will be able to take group classes with trainers, allo... |
Demand Media Says It Will ‘Explore’ Split Into Two Separate Companies | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | In today’s , (which operates sites including eHow.com and Livestrong.com, and which has been criticized for being a “content farm”) says it’s considering a plan to split into two publicly traded companies, one focused on content and one focused on website registration. In the earnings press release, chairman and CEO... |
‘State’ Opinion Network Defines You By What You Think, Not How Famous You Are | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | wants to democratize opinion sharing, and make Twitter and Wikipedia looks like elitist popularity contests. Led by Jawbone founder Alexander Asseily, State has raised $14 million and will launch later this year. Today it revealed details to TechCrunch about its strategy and investors, plus the first screenshots of it... |
Codecademy Partners With Twitter, Evernote, Box, And Others To Offer A Suite Of New API Lessons | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | It’s a great time to be a programmer right now, for many reasons — one of which is the wide variety of open application programming interfaces (APIs) that are available that allow developers to build applications with sophisticated features more quickly and easily than ever. , the startup that aims to teach people eve... |
MTV Twitter “Hack” Prank Was A Risky Ploy For Attention | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | MTV has officially acknowledged that early reports of their hacked Twitter account was, in fact, a prank. An hour ago, MTV’s twitter account began tweeting naughty comments about musicians (screen shots below) and media outlets into reporting the prank. A spokesman for MTV tells TechCrunch in an email “the hack was p... |
Microsoft Says Outlook.com Gained More Than 1.5M New Users In The 12 Hours After Last Night’s Official Launch | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Last night, Microsoft that it was taking its new webmail service and starting to transition its huge Hotmail user base over to the new interface and platform. That transition is scheduled to last until the end of the summer, when the old Hotmail interface will be retired and the currently optional upgrade will be... |
Vine Is Hiring Engineers In NYC, Including One Android Developer | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Vine has just a few new positions for the NY-based engineering team, as by co-founder Colin Kroll. As it would appear, there are to work alongside the three-man team currently developing for Vine. Notably, one of the positions is for an Android developer, which could mean that we’ll see the video-sharing app on G... |
From An Office Hours Meeting To Crowd Favorite In The Disrupt Battlefield, Buyou Tells All | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | It’s not often that a 20-minute Office Hours session with TC Staffers turns into a spot on the Disrupt Battlefield stage, but for , it just so happens to be the case. The virtual mall app, founded in May 2012, is about as straightforward as possible. You download the Buyou app from the App Store, and you’re instantl... |
Twitter Is Testing A New Advertising Card For Lead Generation | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 19 | Twitter is testing a new ad unit that gives direct marketers a way to generate leads directly from tweets. You can see an example of the unit in promoting Twitter’s small business guide. Not only is there a small image promoting the guide, but if you’re logged in, it also shows a “Get it now” button. When you hit the... |
TechCrunch Writer Update, Sat 02/16 – Fri 02/22 | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | They also provide updates on notable news within the organization, like new hires, new roles, and important upcoming events and goals — that sort of thing. This was my response to our fearless leaders’ last update, reprinted by request.) Hey TechCrunch edit team, Here’s my breakdown for the week (2/16-2/22): Total mea... |
China Plans To Expand 4M Broadband Coverage To 70% Of Its Internet Users | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) minister Miao Wei (link via Google Translate) that the Chinese government plans to increase the number of households with broadband access, with more than 70 percent of China’s Internet users getting 4M broadband service by the end of 2013. The initiative... |
Computer Science Education Had A Good Day In America | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | America’s elite institutions came out in full force for computer science education. First, the House of Representatives voted to update its traditional students to include a . Then, to top off the day, the nation’s leading geeks, from Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates, to encourage young programmers. For now, the cong... |
Adobe Debuts Photoshop Touch For Phones, Bringing The Full Power Of The Tablet Version To Your Pocket | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | Adobe’s mobile Photoshop strategy has so far kept more heavyweight editing capabilities to tablets with , and left the iPhone with Photoshop Express. But today the company has officially released Photoshop Touch for iPhone and Android smartphones, which inherits virtually all of the functionality of the more powerful ... |
EA’s Digital EVP, Playfish Co-Founder Kristian Segerstrale Departs | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | , the EA executive who was in charge of leading the company into a games-as-a-service era, has just left the company. CEO John Riccitiello just announced it in an internal memo and said that EA COO Peter Moore is taking on his responsibilities. Segerstrale , a social games developer that he co-founded with a high sch... |
Pinterest For Products Wanelo Raises At North Of $100M | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | You wouldn’t think that a would be one of the hottest Series A deals of the quarter, but it was. , a site that allows you to bookmark items that you like and, this is crucial, allows you to buy those items via direct links from the site, has been the prettiest girl at the party for the past month or two while it comp... |
Inside ‘Cook Taste Eat,’ The Startup From Celebrity Chef Michael Mina That Wants To Be The Web’s Foodie Destination | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | Celebrity chef has certainly conquered the world of cuisine. Through his , he operates more than a dozen high end restaurants around the world, with his namesake eateries in San Francisco and Las Vegas regularly earning . But now he is setting out to conquer a different realm: The web. Along with his co-founder... |
Squeeze Virtual Reality With The Upverter + YC Hardware Hackathon-Winning Cyborg Glove [Video] | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | What if you could actually grasp the sword you pick up in a video game, or if surgeons could feel their robots hit bone? That’s the promise of the , which won this weekend’s Upverter + Y Combinator . Watch as we demo the Frankenstein-meets-Nintendo contraption that lets you touch objects in virtual reality. Duct ta... |
Budding Service Management App Mhelpdesk Hits 5K Customers | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | is fielding a message to small businesses: help us help you. Headaches can ensue when businesses use separate applications to manage the daunting inflow and outflow of service tickets, scheduling and billing. With little to no communication between those applications, a lot can fall through the cracks. That’s where Mh... |
How Bad Did Analytics Bugs Fool Facebook Pages? Reach Looked Down 14% When It Wasn’t | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | Months of mysterious Insights bugs duped Facebook Page owners into thinking their reach was plummeting. The median Page’s analytics showed it reached 14.39 percent fewer people than it actually did, according to early data and graphs from , a Facebook analytics startup that gave us the first look. The bugs may have ca... |
Orange Throws Its Weight Behind Tizen OS, With Phones Launching In France In Q3 — Other Markets In 2014 | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | All the mobile OS underdogs are coming out to play at this year’s Mobile World Congress — from Firefox OS, to Ubuntu and Jolla’s Sailfish — rushing in to fill the void left by . Now it’s Tizen’s turn. At an event in Barcelona this evening has officially launched Tizen 2.0, according to , showing off a developer han... |
BlackBerry Launches BBM Money Pilot In Indonesia | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | BlackBerry may be launching a new platform in certain markets to try to win back users, but it’s focusing on service additions in other places where the BlackBerry install base remains strong. Today it’s officially launching in Indonesia, in partnership with PermataBank and Monitise to bring real-time mobile payments... |
The Super-Slim Xperia Tablet Z Feels Like Sony’s Finest Tablet Yet | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | After Sony released a string of curious Android tablets that failed to catch on, the company had no choice but to go back to the drawing table and try something different. That something different wound up being the , easily one of its most conventional designs yet — a choice that may end up paying off nicely. Now tha... |
Tech Analytics Startup Synapsify Nabs $600K Seed Round Led By ICG Ventures | Michael Seo | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | Tech analytics startup announced a whopping $600,000 in seed money today from a cluster of investors that includes , Fortify Ventures, and Middleland Capital. It’s just another part of the ongoing narrative that’s seen the value of data analysis rise over the past several months. After all, last year we found that ... |
Calling All Startups, Get Ready For TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | For the fourth year in a row, TechCrunch Disrupt will take over the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, and we’re bringing the hottest startups and best minds in the industry with us. Block off September 7-11 on your calendar, because you’re not going to want to miss . The Disrupt Hackathon kicks everything off the... |
Onswipe Data Suggests Kindle Fire Maintained Its Holiday Traffic Bump, While Nexus 7 Shed Share | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | Last year, noticed that despite considerable growth for the Kindle Fire during its first holiday sales season, interest seemed to drop off pretty quickly a month or so after all the gifts were unwrapped. This year, it wanted to see if the same held true for two leading Android-based tablet platforms, to see if it cou... |
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Instagram Hits 100 Million Monthly Users 28 Months After Launch | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | From just two guys at rented desks to a $715 million sale to Facebook, a second wind on Android and a mess of privacy scares, Instagram today 100 million people use it every month to share the way they see the world. The startup hedged its bets by being acquired just as it expanded beyond iOS, but despite what it cou... |
Former Lolapps Engineers Launch Rollbar, An Error-Tracking Platform For Developers That Has A Sense Of History | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | (formerly Ratchet.io), an error tracking product for developers, is launching its product out of a beta today, following nine months of private testing. Founded by former Lolapps engineers and inspired by tools they once relied on internally, the new company is backed by a small, “pre-seed” round of funding ($250,000+... |
The Chromebook Pixel Is The Most Brilliant Laptop You’ll Never Buy | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 2 | 26 | “Wait. That’s a touchscreen?!” That wasn’t the first thought that popped into my head when I started to use the Chromebook Pixel — it was about the tenth. But that’s only because it seemed impossible that a screen this nice could be a touchscreen. Of course, being that nice, comes with a price. I dove into using the Ch... |
Zendesk Hacking Affects Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter Users | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Customer service software provider Zendesk that affects users of Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. Zendesk said that the hacker downloaded email addresses of users who have contacted those three websites for support, as well as support email subject lines. Tumblr and Twitter have notified affected users (see below), whi... |
BoxTV Aims To Be The ‘Netflix Of India’ And A Bollywood Discovery Platform For Overseas Audiences | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | , Times Internet’s online streaming video service, doesn’t just want to become the Netflix of India–it also sees itself as an Indian film discovery platform for viewers in other countries. It is now available for all viewers after its limited launch in September. Like , , BoxTV, makes finding content easy, even for p... |
Foxconn Hiring Freeze May Be Because Of Robots, Not Slack iPhone 5 Demand | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Apple’s after investors worried that a hiring freeze at Foxconn’s China plants is related to slowing iPhone 5 sales. Foxconn at its factories in Zhengzhou and Shenzhen and it also reportedly postponed the construction of a new factory. Though this may point to slackening demand for the iPhone 5, it could also mean ... |
PayrollHero Gets $1 Million In Seed Funding For Dev Efforts In Asia | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | When we , it was aiming to change the way small-business timekeeping is done in Asia. With a $1 million seed round from 500Startups, LX Ventures, Futura, and others, it looks like they may do just that. The app allows businesses to manage scheduling, attendance, and payroll using a cloud-based solution. It’s headqua... |
RedBus Continues To Dominate In India, But That’s Not What Makes Them Special | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | As I start my trip in India along with Dave McClure’s “ ,” I am reading about all of the startups in India that are used to proving that the country is making inroads and is relevant. It’s a story that I’m very familiar with in emerging markets: a group of VCs and entrepreneurs that want to prove that India is worthy o... |
FastPay Has Provided Digital Media Companies With $100M In Credit | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | recently announced that it has placed $100 million in credit with digital media companies. That’s $100 million used to deal with the common cash flow challenge in the ad business, where it can take 60 days or more to get paid by the advertiser. That can be a problem if, for example, you need to pay the publisher in 30... |
The Best Platform For Online Discussion Doesn’t Exist Yet | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Blog commenting systems are bizarre, broken and dated. TechCrunch recently switched from Facebook Comments to Livefyre – a change that, for the record, I had no say in. I’m not sure I see value. I don’t agree with some of , which almost makes it sound like this site, and all its authors, missed the trolling days of Te... |
Orange Ramps Up Own-Brand Range With 3 More Android Handsets, And Its First LTE Device, Has Sights On Windows Phone | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Perhaps aware of the tsunami of news that will hit during , we are seeing an increasing amount of news releases coming out before the actual event. has already told us about one device — an — and now it is following that up with three more, own-branded, Android handsets aimed squarely at the middle market of smart... |
PayPal Here Is Coming To The UK, Its First Mobile Payment Market In Europe, Armed With A New Way To Read Your Card | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Make way for one more player in the European mobile payments space, and a big one at that. Today, the online payments giant PayPal announced that from this summer it will be rolling out , its first foray into the European market, equipped with a new piece of hardware to accomodate the chip-based cards prevalent in thi... |
In A Play For More HTML5 Muscle, Intel Buys appMobi’s HTML5 Developer Tools, Leaving appMobi To Focus On The Cloud | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | will not be left out of the party when it comes to being central in the mobile app ecosystem. The company today acquired a set of HTML5 development tools, originally created by and used by some 150,000 developers, and has hired staff from appMobi that worked on the product to continue to maintain it. appMobi, meanwh... |
Inventory Management Startup Stitch Labs Integrates With Quickbooks Killer Xero To Simplify Accounting | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Inventory management startup knows it’s not easy being a small independent vendor. In addition to tools for tracking their inventory, those folks also need to be connected to multiple online stores, shopping carts, payment systems, shipping and fulfillment providers, and accounting tools. And so the company has spent... |
YC-Backed Padlet Brings Drag-And-Drop To Collaborative Web Site Creation | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr have done a great job of making website creation accessible to anyone, but the novice can still be a bit overwhelmed by sometimes sophisticated back-ends and CMS, especially when these platforms are built specifically to be as complex as they are simple, to expand the potential demographic... |
Grishin Robotics Invests In Boston-Based Incubator, Bolt | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Grishin Robotics, a Russian VC group dedicated to the commercialization of robotics, has dropped an unnamed sum into , a hardware incubator in Boston. Grishin’s investment is part of a $3.5 million financing package closed this week. “Since our launch in June last year and past two investments, we realised that there ... |
Memolane, The ‘Internet Time Machine,’ Announces Abrupt Shutdown As Team Joins Unnamed Company | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | , the startup that helped users archive and explore social network activity across different platforms, is shutting down. The company announced the closure in a published this afternoon. The shutdown will be quite abrupt: Memolane accounts and content are set to be deleted (the company has not specified at what ... |
Vevo Quietly Redesigns Its Homepage To Streamline Search, Navigation, And Playlist Creation | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Over the past few years, has been working hard to simplify the process by which users search for and discover new music videos on its site. With that in mind, the company today, aimed at making it easier for users to check out new music videos and to search for those they know and love. The latest update to the hom... |
Facebook Gives Graph Search To More People, Makes Those Left Out Jealous | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Five weeks after launch, Facebook gave reporters a ‘State Of Graph Search’ today at its Menlo Park HQ. It’s been rolled out from the original 100,000 users to “hundreds of thousands,” and now a news feed story is appearing to lure people’s friends to sign up for the early access wait list. This morning I noticed Facebo... |
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HP Beats Expectations With Revenue of $28.36B, $1.2B Earnings And EPS Of $0.82 For Q1 2013 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | HP just its Q1 2013 earnings report and for once, the company beat analyst expectations: revenue was once again down 6% to $28.4 billion, but still higher than most analysts expected. The company reported an income of $1.2 billion and EPS of $0.82. , HP still reported earnings of $30 billion and a net loss of $6.9 b... |
Those Rumored Google Stores Are Starting To Make A Lot Of Sense | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | When talking about Apple’s rise from near-bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world, people often credit the amazing string of products from the iMac to the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad. And rightfully so. But just as important was another piece of the puzzle that ensured said products would find ma... |
Tale Of The Tape: Chromebook Pixel Vs. Surface Pro Vs. MacBook Air | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Google hasn’t always been known for making breathtaking hardware, but today’s — arguably one of the best-looking laptops ever made, if nothing else — means that may no longer be the case. Still, you can’t be blamed for being wary of shelling out a decent chunk of money on Google’s first foray into laptops, let alone ... |
Maybe The PS4 Isn’t So Bad After All | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 21 | Although I, like many of you, suffered through Sony’s last night, I came away less concerned about the PlayStation’s future as a platform. What I saw, in short, was a company that has finally embraced the network to a degree that forces its competitors to play catch-up and, barring a horrible blunder on Sony’s part, ... |
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