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Meet The Next 10 Companies To Come Out Of StartX, Stanford’s Student Startup Accelerator | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Stanford’s student startup accelerator, , had its eighth demo day tonight in Palo Alto, showing off the latest class of 11 companies* to go through the program. The accelerator, which , has already had about 100 startups go through, raising $100 million along the way between them. This next batch is hoping to follow ... |
Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo Moved Into The Top 5 Global Smartphone Vendors In Q4, Says Canalys | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Canalys its final mobile phone shipment estimates, which show that although Samsung is still on top of the global smart phone market, three Chinese manufacturers-Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo-all climbed into the top five for the first time, thanks to domestic success as well as sales in overseas markets. Huawei took third ... |
CoverHound Lands $4.5M From RRE, Bullpen & Blumberg To Become The Kayak Of Online Insurance | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Car insurance is a necessary evil for all drivers. Of course, if you don’t happen to be accident prone, paying expensive monthly or annual bills is a headache and seems equivalent to setting your wallet on fire. Of course, insurance companies are great at reminding us that the world is a wild and dangerous place and th... |
Amazon To Set Up Secondhand Ebook Marketplace | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Amazon wants to sell your used ebooks. It recently to allow people to hock off their read ebooks on its marketplace. Of course, ebooks don’t suffer from wear and tear, but think of the resale process as more of a way to transfer your book licences. This is already in action in a way—users can currently “lend” out Kin... |
For A Brief, Terrible Moment, Facebook Connect Broke A Bunch Of Websites, But It Says We Can All Breathe Easy Now | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Well, that’s embarrassing. Earlier this afternoon, as covered by and , a Facebook Connect glitch caused serious problems on websites including the Huffington Post, Salon, MSNBC.com, CNN, Yelp, and others. Apparently, if you were logged into Facebook, when you visited one of those sites, you’d get redirected to Faceb... |
A New $100K Genius Grant, The Cyrus Prize, Seeks Brilliant Iranians | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Countries around the world the innovative prowess of Northern California’s Silicon Valley. According to Berkeley Professor Anna Sexanian, a tradition of cultural support groups, mainly Chinese and Indian, is one of the Valley’s most unique and lucrative traits. The “brain circulation,” as she calls it, reins in top t... |
The Valley Needs A Valleywag — Or Something | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Here’s an unpopular opinion, especially : The Valley needs a . On any given day, beneath the hype cycle of startups threatening to launch, then getting their VCs to blog/tweet about their launch threats, then pre-launching, then fueling PR/hype about their pre-launches, then putting up a special access code on select... |
Stanford Student Startup Accelerator StartX Raises Another $400,000, Bringing Total Funding To About $1.5 Million | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | , which is a , has raised another round of funding, adding $400,000 to its coffers since last December. That money comes from new investors that include Cisco, Founders Fund, AT&T, Groupon, and Founder.org, and was primarily raised by Stanford students — StartX Sr. Managing Director Jeff Mounzer and Partnerships Direc... |
Study Finds That Apple Took 72% Of All Handset Profits, Samsung Got The Rest | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | A study found that Apple took 72% of all handset profits worldwide while Samsung took 29%. While that is obviously a bit disconcerting, the thinking is that these are rounded-up numbers. What’s more troubling, however, is the fact that most other manufacturers – Nokia, BlackBerry, and HTC – are either losing money or... |
NanoSatisfi Raises $1.2M To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | For years, Peter Platzer was pretty close to a stereotypical — he was trained as a high-energy physicist, but he spent most of his professional career in finance. But he told me he’s always had an interest in space exploration, and now he’s working on an aerospace startup called , which just raised $1.2 million in s... |
Curbing The Cost Of College: Coursera Wins Approval To Offer Online Courses For Credit For Under $200 | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Last year, the buzz around the potential of online courses (particularly MOOC platforms) reached new heights, and this year is already shaping up to be the one in which online course platforms and the startups that love them, make their big push for legitimacy. To wit: The year kicked off with the news to pilot low-c... |
Microsoft-Owned Yammer Hit With Small Round Of Layoffs | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | We’re hearing from multiple sources that there was a small round of layoffs today at enterprise collaboration company Yammer. The number of people let go is around 20 staffers, according to our sources. Yammer has confirmed the layoffs. As you may know, Yammer was in July 2012 for $1.2 billion in cash. The Yammer ... |
Men’s Fashion Site JackThreads Is Blowing Up On Mobile, Which Accounts For Over 30 Percent Of Traffic And Revenue | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | , the Thrillist-owned men’s shopping community, is seeing some insane mobile growth and conversion rates. But it has also found something surprising: some of its customers have been discovering the company for the first time on mobile. They never shopped the site on the web. The company isn’t even sure yet who these pe... |
Y Combinator-Backed Goldbely Launches To Bring Gourmet Cuisine To Food Explorers All Over The Country | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | Foodies are always looking for something new and unique to try, but so much of what we eat is dictated by the local flavor of the areas we live in. Well one startup seeking to provide new experiences to those folks is , which aims to make interesting foods available to anyone who might want to try them. The startup, w... |
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Prodded By Activist Hedge Fund, Apple Evaluates Plan To Return Cash To Shareholders Through Preferred Stock Issue | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | said this afternoon it is of issuing preferred stock as part of its ongoing effort to return $45 billion to its shareholders . The evaluation is apparently in response to , a hedge fund led by that currently holds some 1.3 million shares of Apple stock. Greenlight has been very to give more of its cash back to... |
Video Of 3D Printed Gun Magazine Shows Off Deadly High-Capacity ‘Wiki Weapon’ | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | A new video showcasing the future of weapons was released on YouTube today: a enterprising 24-year-old gun enthusiast manufactured his own high-capacity 30-round gun magazine using a 3D printer. Hoping to spread the amateur design of more “Wiki Weapons”, the rebellious 24-year-old designer nicknamed the blueprints of t... |
LinkedIn Blows Past Expectations; Revenue Soars 81 Percent To $304M, Net Income Up 66 Percent To $11.5M | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | The business-focused networking site of record, , rode a wave of growth through 2012, turning itself into a Wall Street darling in the process. The race to win the professional networking market isn’t really “a race” anymore, as LinkedIn dominates online networking for the world’s working professionals, now . Oh, and... |
BlackBerry Confirms It Won’t Launch BB10 Devices In Japan | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 7 | BlackBerry may have been much of the past few months criss-crossing the globe in an effort to drum up developer support for BlackBerry 10, but it turns out that there’s at least one market where the company has essentially given up. According to a recent report from the , the Waterloo-based company would not bring Blac... |
What Games Are: Why The Xbox’s $5 Problem Is Great For OUYA | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | Game developers, publishers and platform holders regularly argue the toss on the appropriate pricing of games. They struggle with questions of whether being too expensive cuts off oxygen to new players, or whether being too cheap means they become devalued. In a free-to-play era especially, this question grows even mor... |
X-Wing Squadron Seeks $11M On Kickstarter For Measured Response To Funding Of Intergalactic Weapon | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | The , with £224,596 pledged out of total £20,000,000 goal, but its construction won’t go unopposed. Rebel forces have rallied to crowdfund a means to oppose Imperial tyranny, in the form of an trained to use it to take down any moon-sized space stations that may end up floating around in the void. The project’s crea... |
Apple And Google Still Lead WebKit Development, But More Smaller Companies Contributing | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | Apple and Google still represent the bulk of reviewed commits contributing to the ongoing development of WebKit, the open source web browser engine that powers Safari and Chrome, among others. Google accounts for the bulk of commits, having overtaken Apple in that regard (though Apple still does much more with fewer ... |
Microsoft’s 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At MS Online Store Just Hours After Launch | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | Microsoft’s $999 128GB Surface Pro has sold out in the online Microsoft Store in the U.S. (via ), just a few hours after going on sale today, February 9. The 64GB version is still available as of this writing, and the Surface Pro is still likely in stock at physical retail locations like Best Buy, where it also went o... |
Meet Kirsty Nathoo, Y Combinator’s Secret Financial And Operational Weapon | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | The back office is an unglamorous but crucial part of any venture firm. At Y Combinator, which has grown its seed-stage fund and incubator quickly in recent years, it also has to move at the pace of a young startup. The person who has made that happen is Kirsty Nathoo, a UK transplant with an accounting background. She... |
Mailbox’s Virtual Queue Succeeds In The Waiting Game Where Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity Stumbles | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | Mailbox, the email inbox management app for iPhone that was , currently has around 700,000 users queuing up for access, at the time of this writing. That’s according to the in-app counter that many of us have been staring at on and off for days now, which tells you how many people there are still ahead of you in line ... |
Gillmor Gang: Snow Kidding | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — take advantage of the East Coast blizzard to toast some marshmallows on the fire. First up is the Series A drought and impact of the cloud on startup funding. Next, the big pivot to Spoilerland, aka Binge TV. House of Car... |
Kickstarter: The Coastliner Automatic Watch Is Brimming With Understated Retro Appeal | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 9 |
Kickstarter occasionally has a watch project, but they’re relatively rare, and even when one does pop up, it usually isn’t impressive enough to turn my head. , a project going on right now, is definitely a noteworthy exception. From independent graphic designer-turned-watchmaker Tim Hadleigh working out of the ... |
10 Great Ideas Someone Should Invent | James Altucher | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | This article might change your life or make you rich. It’s time to save the world. There’s a lot of bad news out there. Rising unemployment, soldiers being replaced in their jobs by drones that kill babies, a new housing crisis that will end all housing crises, who is the real father of Kim Kardashian’s child, and on a... |
Google Asks “Why Fly Private When You Can Fly Private – Out Of Your Own $82M Airport?” | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | Google’s executives could soon be enjoying their own private airport space ahead of winging their way to various far-flung locations around the world, according to a from the Mineta San Jose International Airport (via ). Signature Flight Support, in tandem with a company called Blue City Holdings which represents Go... |
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Technical Debt Will Kill You Dead (If You Let It) | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | A project I’ve been working on launched recently. Well, re-launched. A called , which lets you send postcards with messages and pictures from your iPhone. Nifty, but sounds fairly straightforward, right? An app that shouldn’t have taken too much time to build. Unfortunately, didn’t build it; we built it. And the ... |
TechCrunch Goes To India — Bangalore Meetup On Tuesday | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 2 | 9 | I’m heading out to India (Bangalore and Delhi) to meet with tech companies. We haven’t had time to put together a formal event, but I do want to meet startups, VCs and entrepreneurs, so to that end I’ll be throwing together a Meetup – probably in a bar – in Bangalore on Tuesday. The details are: Tuesday 12 February
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Snapchat Raises $13.5M Series A Led By Benchmark, Now Sees 60M Snaps Sent Per Day | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | , the impermanent messaging app that won at the 2012 Crunchies, has finalized a $13.5 million Series A round led by Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky. According to , Snapchat is now valued between $60 and $70 million. In December, GigaOm’s Om Malik that Snapchat was raising an $8 million round from Benchmark at roughly a $5... |
SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung On Building A Startup With An International Footprint [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | SoundCloud was recognized at the last week as the “ ” of the year, so we pulled aside co-founder and CEO after he came offstage for a brief talk about how the company has grown. Watch the video embedded above to hear about how SoundCloud kept its international roots even after raising funds from Silicon Valley an... |
Ask A VC: Kleiner Perkins’ Chi-Hua Chien Talks About Mobile First, The Future Of Ecommerce And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | Kleiner Perkins’ partner was in the hot seat for this week’s Ask A VC series. Chien, who has helped led investments in Spotify, Klout, Path, Twitter, and Zaarly, among others; discussed his thoughts on and how startups should approach iOS and Android vs. mobile web. We also chatted about e-commerce and what’s nex... |
After 8 Years On The Web, Project Management Platform Basecamp Finally Launches An “Official” iOS App | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | , the project management platform developed by 37 Signals that launched in 2004, is still alive and kicking, which is something of a feat considering how many companies have come and gone in this space over the years. Plus, more recently, a slew of promising new players have entered the market, including Dustin Moskovi... |
Cooliris Expands Again With Yandex Partnership, Hits 3 Million Downloads On iOS | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | , the Kleiner Perkins-backed photo browsing and sharing startup, is again expanding its footprint in key emerging markets, this time in Russia thanks to a new partnership with Yandex. The move follows the company’s launch of a localized version in China in December, which also saw , “the Facebook of China.” “The gre... |
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Plans To Sell 3.2M Company Shares Over The Next Year, 42% Of His Stake In Google | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt, the company , plans to sell about 3.2 million of the Class A common stock he currently owns through a stock trading plan, which would reduce his share in the company by about 42 percent. At Google’s , this transaction would be worth about $2.5 billion. According to the filing... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Brand New Lytro Camera And Free Ticket To Disrupt NY #TCDisrupt | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | , one of our biggest events of the year, is well on its way! We have already which special guests and speakers will be joining us this April, but that’s only the beginning. We have so many exciting guests and speakers to announce, special after-party details to share, startups to meet with, and other surprises up our... |
GAIN Fitness’ New ‘Marketplace’ Brings The World’s Top Personal Trainers To Your iPhone | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | So we figured that it’s a good time to with , the startup that aims to bring workouts from personal trainers right to your iPhone or iPad. GAIN Fitness just issued some nice updates and launched a that will bring a new trainer to GAIN each month. GAIN has a really cool business model of being a platform, not ju... |
Y Combinator Opens Applications For New Class, As Total Funding For Alums Reaches $1.5B, Or $3.18M Each | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | founder Paul Graham that the accelerator’s 464 startup graduates (prior to its current batch) have raised an average of $3.18 million in funding each, which means YC’s companies have landed a total of just under $1.5 billion. In context, , YC had launched 380 companies, which had raised just over $1 billion in tota... |
Shortwave Aims To Spur Video Conversations By Launching A Reddit-Style iPhone App | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | I’ve seen some unsuccessful attempts to build tools for video comments and discussions (including ), so I was a little skeptical when I first heard about a startup called . But then co-founder Aditya Avadhanula showed me the team’s new iPhone app, and I have to admit that I’m impressed. The idea, Avadhanula said, is ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 02.08.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | – Danny Sullivan, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
HTC’s Flagship M7 Smartphone May Just Be Called The HTC One | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | Let’s face it: HTC may have its hopes pinned on its not-so-secretive M7 smartphone, but sooner or later the company is going to have to drop the codename and let it fly under another banner. As it turns out, that new name may be more familiar than expected — prolific leaker noted on Twitter just a little while ago th... |
The Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Case For iPad Mini Successfully Balances Size And Performance | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | Logitech had a definite winner on its hands with the Ultrathin Keyboard Case for iPad, a Bluetooth keyboard that attaches via magnets built into the iPad, protecting the screen and adding only minimal thickness. Now, there’s a successor designed for the iPad mini that comes in an appropriately shrunken down package. Of... |
Twitter Allows You To View Your Profile In LOLcats In Preparation For 2014 IPO | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | In an obvious move to position the company towards a planned 2014 IPO, Twitter has today translation capabilities for its user profiles. The translation of the sometimes obtuse service into the tired but still kind of funny LOLcats meme is meant to serve as a stepping stone in the startup’s efforts to eventually plea... |
Stripe Releases Library To Help Developers Build Sleeker Credit Card Forms; Now Processing Millions In Payments Per Day | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | Simple online payments company , library of code for building credit card forms, validating input, and formatting numbers. It’s basically a library that helps developers build better payment forms, regardless of whether they are using Stripe or another payments platform. For background, Stripe is a developer-friendl... |
Crash Debuts An Online And Mobile Guide To Local Tourist Attractions | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | Crashworks, a new Idealab-backed travel startup, is today coming out of its semi-stealth mode with a fun mobile application called and for unique, crowdsourced tourist attractions. The difference between what Crash offers compared with more robust travel guides, is that it’s not focused on recommending hotels, tran... |
It’s Time To Buy Grandma An LCD E-Reader Because She’ll Be Able To Read More | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | A at Johannes Gutenberg University found that readers older than 60 benefit markedly from the backlit screen of many ereader tablets despite their perceived dislike of the platform. While younger folks exhibited no difference in reading on multiple devices, seniors were able to concentrate more completely using a tab... |
Fashion GPS Breaks Into The Notoriously Tech-Averse Fashion Industry Just In Time For Fashion Week | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 8 | As you may well know from Twitter (or the inordinate amount of heels clacking through a snowy New York this morning), Fashion Week is underway. It’s like the Superbowl for designers, retailers, and everyone in between. But the fashion industry is ancient, and is thus quite averse to new technology of any kind. However,... |
Just Go Change Your Twitter Password Now | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | , it was hacked and 250K accounts were affected, so they received emails from the company to change their password. This is not the first time this has happened, but this time it was a real hack, rather than a . Way to start off our weekends, Twitter. Who knows if you’ll even get the email from Twitter about it, I kno... |
Twitter Sends Out Emails To 250K Users Who ‘May’ Have Been Compromised, Says Hack Was Not Related To Yesterday’s Outage | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | is sending out emails to 250,000 users it says may have had their accounts as the site experienced “unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data.” Twitter tells TechCrunch that this is “not related” to the the site saw yesterday. The text of the email is belo... |
Ask A VC: Foundation Capital’s Anamitra Banerji Talks About Twitter Ads, Becoming A VC And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | For this week’s Ask A VC episode, we sat down with Foundation Capital’s newest partner , who was just promoted from entrepreneur in residence to investment partner at the firm. We chatted about Banerji’s decision to become a VC vs. founding a startup, and how being an entrepreneur in residence helped him come to tha... |
The Crunchies 2012 Are Over, But You Can Relive The Magic Right Here | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | Last night’s Sixth Annual Crunchies Awards show was nothing short of a huge success. With big names like Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, Ron Conway, and Mayor Ed Lee in attendance, and equally huge companies like Google, Square and Instagram in the house, one wouldn’t expect anything else. But Crunchies tickets can b... |
Gillmor Gang Live 02.01.13. (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | – Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Google Says 2,000 Schools Now Use Chromebooks, 2x As Many As Just 3 Months Ago | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | Google continues its push to bring its web-centric into schools, and it looks as if the fact that Google is in this project for the long haul is starting to pay off. According to Google, . That, by itself, isn’t a massive number, but what’s important to note is that there are now twice as many schools that use Chrom... |
CrowdFlower Adds Skill Tests To Find The Right Crowdsourced Labor | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | , a startup that helps businesses manage crowdsourced labor , is looking to expand the types of jobs it can tackle with the launch of new Skill Tests — which, as you probably guessed, are online tests used to measure workers’ proficiency in various skills. Until now, anyone doing work on CrowdFlower had been able to a... |
YC-Backed Swish Makes Selling Simpler For Inventors And Creators | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | It’s never been easier for would-be inventors to take a harebrained concept and turn it into an actual, sellable product, but the process of getting those products to the masses could still use a little work. Sure, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have laid the groundwork for a revolution in how these ... |
As Mobile Devs Get More Sophisticated, Flurry Adds Crash, User Acquisition Analytics | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | San Francisco’s initially got its reach through offering a basic package of analytics that more than 95,000 different developers snapped up. But as the iOS and Android ecosystems have matured, app makers are getting more sophisticated. The biggest ones often juggle 30 to 40 ad networks and marketing channels, and ne... |
Facebook Turns Photo Tag Suggestions Back On In The US — Will Users Like It This Time? | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | With a simple , Facebook yesterday announced it had re-enabled its photo Tag Suggestions feature in the US after the feature was temporarily suspended last year, supposedly to allow for some “technical improvements”. The feature means users can use the facial recognition capability of Tag Suggestions to help them “ea... |
Cruel Irony: Egypt’s Morsi Announces Protester Crackdown Over Twitter | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | [tweet https://twitter.com/bencnn/status/297399035482996737 align=’center’] In an ironic twist of fate, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has threatened military force against thousands of student protesters through one of the very mediums used to liberate the country in 2011: Twitter. “Security forces will deal with th... |
Gigya Says Its Social Tools Reach 1.5B Users Each Month, Making ‘Tens Of Millions’ In Annual Sales | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | “Social infrastructure” provider released some data this morning that highlights its growth over the past year. The biggest number? The 1.5 billion unique users reached by Gigya’s tools each month, up from . To have that kind of reach, Gigya presumably needs big clients, and the company says new customers added last... |
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Social TV Startup Dijit Buys Miso To Re-Define The Second Screen | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | When rumors come true! Two weeks ago we reported on a tip that social TV startup Dijit, maker of the NextGuide iPad app, was in the process of . The deal took a little bit longer than we expected to actually get done, but the companies are announcing this morning that the tie-up is complete. Through the deal, Dijit wi... |
Apple Takes 3 Of Top 5 Spots In U.S. Mobile Phone Sales For Q4 2012, Says NPD | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | Apple has managed to nab three of the top 5 spots for the top-selling mobile phones in the U.S. during Q4 2012 according to the , with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 ranking first, third and fourth, respectively. Apple also retained the crown for best-selling overall smartphone maker, accounting for 39 percent o... |
The Next Frontier For Google Maps Is Personalization | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | just won Best Mobile App at the 2012 and , Google’s director of Google Maps for mobile talked to our own Colleen Taylor after accepting the award. In the interview, Graf noted that it was a unique opportunity for him and his team to start from scratch. Looking ahead, Graf stressed that the next frontier for maps wi... |
InfoArmy Retreats After Crowdsourced Research Business Goes Through The Floor. All Reports Now Free | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | — a startup built on the “Data 2.0” concept of crowdsourced competitive intelligence — has today sent out a letter, printed in full below, to its researchers informing them that it is pulling the plug on its current business model after failing to find enough sales for the research reports, and being unable to sustain... |
Gravity Fully Launches Its Content Personalization Tools, Making Them Available To Any Publisher | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | A little more than three years after , personalization startup is doing a big launch today, opening up its suite of APIs so that they’re available to any publisher who wants to use them. Founded by a trio of former Myspace executives, Gravity has created an “interest graph” mapping different topics, which it then us... |
With $2.3M From Vint Cerf & More, Tech Pioneer Judy Estrin Unveils EvntLive, The Web’s New Interactive Concert Hall | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | You may not be familiar with her name, but has quietly become one of Silicon Valley’s most successful serial entrepreneurs and executives. She began her career working with Vint Cerf’s research group at Stanford University — the same one that played a central role in the development of the Internet. Since the early ’... |
Online Radio Service TuneIn Launches Its Redesigned Web Presence | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | is a massively popular online radio service with more than 40 million monthly active listeners, according to its own data. The reason for its success is mostly due to its popular mobile apps and not necessarily because of its cool website. Until today, TuneIn’s web presence was functional but looked somewhat outdated.... |
Bebo Shareholders File Motion To Remove CEO, Have A Receiver Take Control of Embattled Company | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Here’s yet another sad turn in the story of one of social networking’s also-rans. Bebo, the early U.K.-based social network that and , may see its go. The company’s shareholders, who include the original co-founder Michael Birch, filed a motion today in California superior court to have a receiver appointed for th... |
Sesame, The Newly-Launched Mobile Gifting App For iPhone, Becomes An Online Store | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 1 | Question: when does your mobile app also need a web experience? Answer: when the app is essentially an e-commerce shop. , the recently launched mobile gifting app from , a company known for its mobile photo postcard and greeting card applications, is now web-friendly with the debut of the . Like its app-based counte... |
NTT DoCoMo Announces $109M Venture Fund, As Well As An Investment In 500 Startups | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading mobile operator, that it will invest in 500 Startups as it prepares to launch a 10 billion JPY ($109 million USD) venture fund in late February. The accelerator program will focus on the development of new businesses for smartphones and tablets. DoCoMo’s investment in 500 Startups is part ... |
Netflix Promises To Make Its Open Source Cloud Management Tools More Portable | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Over the last several years, Netflix has put a lot of work into building a cloud-based architecture off of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its video streaming and DVD rental services. Then the company announced that it was going to open source those same tools and make them . Ever since, Netflix has been slowly makin... |
Nav App Waze Says 36M Users Shared 900M Reports, While 65K Users Made 500M Map Edits | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | At the beginning of this year, social GPS app was the . Had the linkup happened, it would have been a rare case of the Cupertino company acquiring a startup. But, as it turns out, there wasn’t a deal, even though Waze is a data partner for Apple’s mapping software. January might not have started out with as huge a b... |
Hunter Walk Leaves Google After 9 Years To Start VC Firm With Satya Patel Called Homebrew | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Earlier today, that well-known Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk and former Googler Satya Patel would be starting a new VC firm called Homebrew. What wasn’t known was whether Walk would be leaving Google to pursue Homebrew full time, but he has confirmed that to be the case. The last time we spoke with Walk, he was passio... |
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Here Are 10 Standout Companies From The Fifth 500 Startups Demo Day | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Early-stage VC fund today held the first of for the graduating from its . It was a fun event, with 32 high-energy founders pitching their companies to a room full of investors and tech press. All of the companies were compelling in their own ways, covering a wide range of technologies, geographies, and sectors —... |
Google Launches ‘Enhanced Campaigns’ To Manage Cross-Device Campaigns In AdWords | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Google is rolling out a new AdWords system over the next few weeks called , which it’s pitching as a better way to advertise across multiple devices. As described in and a conversation that I had with a Google spokesperson, the goal here is both to simplify the campaign process and make campaigns more about reaching... |
OUYA Reveals New Games For The Platform, Including Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Adventure And The Cave | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Our own Romain Dillet noted the regrettable Android-based home gaming console just yesterday. Today, as if in answer, OUYA founder and CEO Julie Uhrman spoke at DICE to announce some new launch partners for the Kickstarter-funded project. The newly announced titles include (another Kickstarter success from gaming l... |
The First Ubuntu Smartphones Will Debut In October | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Ubuntu’s certainly has some panache, which has prompted more than a few nerds (myself included) to become enamored with it. Thankfully, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has just recently given us a clearer idea of when to expect it — he told the Wall Street Journal that the first Ubuntu-powered smartphone would se... |
AngelList’s Naval Ravikant Says The Future Of VC Is In Smaller Funding Rounds | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | In an on-stage conversation today with at event, co-founder gave data-driven insights on the current state of venture capital. In short, he’s forecasting a world with more startups, more bootstrapping, ‘shrinking’ funding rounds, and a boost in cross-border investing. AngelList is seeing that the much-buzzed-ab... |
Layoffs And A Shut-Down For NM Incite, The Nielsen-McKinsey Venture That Works With Twitter On Social TV Ratings [Updated] | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Here’s a surprise follow-up to the news this week of of a social media analytics firm Bluefin Labs. — a social analytics JV between Nielsen and McKinsey that forms part of service — has started to lay off most of its employees, and we’ve even heard that NM Incite will be shut down altogether by the end of this mont... |
500 Startups Is Setting Up Shop In China, Adding Beijing-Based Venture Partner Rui Ma | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | is already focused heavily on investing overseas, with partners looking at startups in markets like Mexico, Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia. Now you can add China to the list, as the firm just hired a venture partner to focus on that region. will be joining 500 Startups as its first venture partner in Beijing, w... |
Tumblr Adds Real-Time Notifications To Its Dashboard And It Feels A Lot Like Facebook’s Ticker | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Today on its staff blog, Tumblr shared that it is rolling out real-time notifications to people’s dashboards, so that you can have even more cat- and fashion-related content thrown in your face. It’s a smart move and surprising that it took so long. The thing that has kept Tumblr from being seen as a blogging platform ... |
With 300 Kiosks In 20 States, Device Recycler EcoATM Secures $40M In Debt Financing To Go Nationwide | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | You know those mobile devices that everyone keeps raving about? Turns out it’s a huge business. Shocker, I know. that about 1.6 billion mobile phones shipped in 2012. What’s more, , the tablet market grew by 75 percent in the fourth quarter to 46.2 million units, with total shipments hitting 114.6 million in 2012. W... |
Joe Green Steps Down As President Of NationBuilder, Joins Andreessen Horowitz As EIR | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Today, we’ve learned that Joe Green, co-founder of and NationBuilder, will be stepping down as president from the latter. Green, who is also an investor and advisor to Asana, will be joining Andreessen Horowitz as as an entrepreneur in residence. He also mentioned that he has some things in the works and will share t... |
George Lucas Files To Sell Off His 2 Percent Stake In Disney For Nearly $2 Billion | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 6 | Just four months after announcing the sale of production company to in a , , the screenwriter and director best known for the series, has made a move toward cashing out — big time. In a regulatory document filed today with the , Disney disclosed that George Lucas’ personal trust has registered for the ability... |
Nokia Pulls Away Its Name From Its Mapping And Navigation Services, Rebrands As “HERE” To Push More Cross-Platform Business | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | is taking one more step to push its mapping and devices services as a standalone business. Today, the company announced during the handset maker’s press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it would be rebranding all of its Nokia-branded mapping and navigation services as “HERE” going forward. The... |
Nokia Expands Its Windows Phones To More Price Points With $180 Entry Level Lumia 520 And $330 Mid-Range Lumia 720 | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | Nokia has just announced two new Lumia smartphones at its Mobile World Congress press conference – broadening its Windows Phone 8 portfolio to five devices and filling in some of the pricing gaps in the mid and lower end of the range. The two 3G newcomers to the Lumia line are the Lumia 720, which slots into the portfo... |
Foreigners To North Korea To Get Uncensored 3G | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | Foreign visitors going to will be able to receive uncensored 3G data starting March 1. Koryolink, a joint venture between Egyptian company Orascom Telecom Holding and North Korean state-owned Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC), has set up a 3G service for visitors into the country. The service, whic... |
The Nokia 301 Is An $85 Feature Phone With Smartphone-Style Camera Tricks To Nip At Android’s Low End | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | Nokia has unwrapped a new handset — not a fancy smartphone but a : The Nokia 301 (pictured left) is an $85 mobile that doesn’t have a touchscreen or a QWERTY keyboard but does pack HSPA (aka 3.5G) and includes some enhanced camera features. It also supports YouTube streaming video via Nokia’s cloud Xpress browser for ... |
Kantar Worldpanel: Android And Verizon Back On Top In U.S. Smartphone Sales, Android At Nearly 50% Of Sales | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | , the WPP firm that analyses how well smartphones are selling with consumers (not shipping to sales channels) across key worldwide markets, has picked the week of a major mobile show in Europe, , to shift some of the focus back to the U.S. Today the firm released numbers on smartphone sales for the 12 weeks to the end... |
MasterCard’s PayPass Wallet Services Evolve Into MasterPass, Will Open To Canadian And Australian Users First | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | It was just this past May that MasterCard expanded its stake in the digital payments arena with its PayPass Wallet Services, and it’s already getting a bit of an overhaul. Today, MasterCard has announced that PayPass Wallet Services is graduating from its production trial with a new name — — and a slightly broader ap... |
Meet ownCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox | Scott Merrill | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot more. ownCloud was started three years ago when Frank Karlitschek wanted a free software alternative to proprietary solutions. In ... |
Samsung To Debut Its New Galaxy S In New York On March 14 As Rivalry With Apple Heats Up | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | It appears that Samsung has once again joined a growing list of companies that have decided not to release their flagship devices at Mobile World Congress. that the South Korean electronics giant said it will launch its new Galaxy S smartphone on March 14 in New York after requests from U.S. carriers. We’ve emailed ... |
Network Infrastructure Company BTI Systems Raises $10M From Bain Capital And Others | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | Enterprise network infrastructure company has raised $10 million in new capital led by Bain Capital Ventures and existing investors BDC, Covington Capital and GrowthWorks. The company has raised more than $33 million since 2011. BTI Systems’ network infrastructure allows carriers and content providers to capitalize o... |
LG Plans To Sell 40M Smartphones This Year As It Prepares Optimus G Pro Launch | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | LG Electronics, which lost market share to Huawei and ZTE last year, aims to sell 40 million smartphones this year as part of its strategy to move away from basic handsets, , the head of its mobile-communications division, before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. If the South Korean company hits its goal, this m... |
My Calendar Has Gotten Smarter In Really Dumb Ways | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | When I travel to the East Coast, I sometimes feel like I’m living in a time warp, as my iPhone and Google Calendar keep notifying me about meetings that had happened three hours earlier. I’ve already mentioned this problem on TechCrunch, , where I blamed the issue on “my apparently idiosyncratic way of dealing with ti... |
Developers Lead When It Comes To The Future Of iOS User Interface Design | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | Apple hasn’t done much to change the way iOS works at its core, in terms of navigating within and between apps and the home screen. In fact, iOS is maybe the mobile OS that has remained the most fundamentally the same since its introduction, at least among those that are still in active use. But while Apple hasn’t been... |
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