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A Juicy Hands-On With The Facebook Omni-Gift Card | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | “Uh Facebook Gift Card?”, the Jamba Juice cashier said with a twang. “I don’t even know what that is.” But that didn’t stop her from ringing up my purchase with Facebook’s invasion of brick-and-mortar commerce. Facebook the card last month, and today I was one of the first to try it out. Here’s how it felt to swipe F... |
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NVIDIA Hates The Benchmark Game, But Lifts The Veil On Tegra 4 Performance Anyway | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | Flash back a month or so to CES — NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang officially pulled back the curtain on the company’s new , and called it the “world’s fastest mobile processor.” It was a hell of a claim to make, but the company did little to justify it at the time aside from pointing to its array of Cortex A15 CPU cores and ... |
Fly Or Die: Sunrise Calendar | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | A calendar is a tool created many millennia ago, a tool that is vital to our very functionality as intelligent beings. Yet, when technology has ventured far beyond a simple grid of numbers, the Calendar applications we use haven’t seemed to evolve beyond that. , a new application built by , finds a way to turn a tr... |
The Chromebook Pixel: A Beautiful Premium Laptop For Those Who Live In The Cloud (But Not For Anyone Else) | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | The is the best Chromebook ever made. As with all Chromebooks, that may mean nothing to you if you don’t like ChromeOS, but there can be little doubt that the Pixel is a beautiful piece of precision engineering that feels like a premium laptop that wouldn’t be out of place in any line-up of $1,000+ laptops. And that’... |
Backed Or Whacked: Ups And Downs In A Yo-Yo World | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | Kickstarter has seen its share of campaigns that spin out of control, but it’s a lot more impressive when spin is in control. Seeing that potential, a trio of tethered toys has recently cropped up on the site, with each appealing to different levels of rotational robustness. Here’s the spin on how they’ve turned out. ... |
HP’s Android-Powered Slate 7 Tablet Is Cheap And It Works, But Is That Really Enough? | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 24 | HP surprised more than a few people earlier tonight when it officially revealed the Slate 7, a $169 Android tablet that’s set to ship in the U.S. for $169 in April. It struck me as a safe move for HP, especially after it whiffed so profoundly with its ill-fated TouchPad. After all, people are buying plenty of Nexus 7s,... |
The Weekly Good: Embrace Wants To Give All Infants An Equal Chance For A Healthy Life | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | Disruption comes in all shapes and sizes, and benefits people of all shapes and sizes. When you think about global entrepreneurs solving hard problems, you might not think about creating hardware products that aim to save the lives of premature babies. A company called , based in India, is doing just that. It sounds l... |
Galaxy Note 8.0 Features Air View-Enhanced Flipboard App, Free Awesome Note For Android, And Other Content Perks | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | The Galaxy Note 8.0 — the newest device in Samsung’s many-sized range of tablets, unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — has just managed to trump Apple’s iPad Mini in the small tablet category with one-tenth of an inch more of screen space (more on the device in our ). At the same time, Samsung is als... |
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 Will Make Its International Debut In Q2, We Go Hands-On | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | That Samsung was tinkering with a slightly smaller Galaxy Note tablet , but consider this the final word if you still weren’t a believer. Samsung has just officially revealed that the Galaxy Note 8.0 is indeed a real product, and that it’s planning on rolling the tab out across the globe starting in Q2 2013. Though th... |
You Don’t Want An iWatch | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | Proposing that entrenched sub-cultures should try something new is dangerous. Going into guitar forums with a new idea is a prospect fraught with peril for anyone who dares move beyond the six-strings-and-a-dream mentality of guitar purists. The same goes for folks who pitch wine in a box at a vintage tasting session a... |
What Games Are: Consoles Are Sinking. Get To The Lifeboats! | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | “Sony’s PS4 is DOA. Microsoft has won.” So said a friend of mine on Facebook moments after the PS4 event broadcast all around the Internet on Wednesday. Similar sentiments abounded, such as Darrell Etherington’s . More charitable commentary about the presentation spoke of a lack of key details (such as what the machin... |
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Help Us Kickstart The Big Apple: Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield Applications Are Due Monday | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | Startup Battlefield is the heart and soul of Disrupt. It’s one of the best platforms in the world to launch your startup, and we’re looking for the very best startups to feature at Disrupt NY this April. But . They have to be submitted by February 25th at 11:59 PST. You need to get cracking. Apply . We’re already... |
Gillmor Gang: Gangnam Style | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor — went bicoastal with @stevegillmor at @borthwick’s Betaworks Studios in New York City. @scobleizer and @jtaschek held down the West Coast as it threatened to float away in Googlemania. With a touch Chromebook and a Google Glasses video... |
Here’s What To Expect From Mobile World Congress 2013, Europe’s Biggest Mobile Show | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | It’s that time of year again — mobile nerds and enthusiasts of all stripes have begun to descend upon Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, and naturally a TechCrunch contingent has set up camp in Spain to cover it all. Or, we’ll try anyway. MWC is a behemoth of a show, packed to the brim with enough phones, tablets, a... |
YC’s iCracked Is Blowing Up With A New “Uber” For iPhone Repairs Service | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | Yes, you can fix that smashed iPhone on demand now. That means no visits to the Apple store, or intensive DIY efforts. A YC alum called first unveiled its real-time, iPhone or iPad repair service back in March of last year, , and a little over a month ago, it launched officially. Think of it like an “Exec” or an “Ub... |
Huawei Prepares To Unveil Ascend P2 Smartphone — Smaller Screen Sibling To The Ascend D2 Android Phablet? | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | After unboxing , Chinese mobile maker Huawei looks to be lining up a new flagship smartphone in its Android-based Ascend P line ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show kicking off in Barcelona Monday. The company, which pushed into for the first time in Q4, has sent out invites to a press conference taking pla... |
How To Treat Your Employees | James Altucher | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | Wade had sex with Karen and now I had to fire him. She was our top designer. And he was also starting to make fun of one of my partners behind his back. He’d do that roll-the-eyes thing whenever my partner spoke. Wade had caught the disease. The disease is very contagious and it spreads to the other employees quickly a... |
The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming! | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 2 | 23 | By now you must have heard of Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army: “an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations, organizations and government agencies originate in and around [their] white tower,” the , who were themselves recently by the of the 61398. And just recently, there were ... |
The Trials And Tribulations Of A Global Startup | Klint Finley | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | The Internet makes it easy to collaborate across borders. But despite the rise of remote work and virtual teams, founders still need to travel for business sometimes. For some, travel practically becomes the job. And while data and capital now flow virtually unrestricted across borders, physical border crossing have go... |
Meet Your Doppelganger On Sodisco. A First Look At Ex-Payvment CEO Christian Taylor’s New Startup | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | Lonely? Wish you had someone to geek out with about the weird stuff you’re into? wants to find you a play date. It’s the soon-to-launch startup from Christian Taylor, ex-CEO of Facebook e-commerce platform Payvment, which just got bought by Intuit. Taylor called me up to reveal what Sodisco’s all about: analyzing you... |
The History Behind Facebook’s Graph Search | Taylor Buley | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | On Thursday , Google Maps co-inventor turned Facebook Graph Search , took to Reddit for an “ask me anything” open thread. The Danish native avoided questions about the competitive landscape for Graph Search but spilled a near complete history of its development inside Facebook. The Facebook engineer had a good time... |
TechCrunch Is Literally The Last Office In The World To Make A Harlem Shake Video | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJluPcKn6A] In an effort to show the rest of the corporate world how “cool” and “spontaneous” their jobs are, hipster office workers have been making tribute videos this week. Perhaps because we spend the most time online, the startup community is the dryest kindling to make... |
Posterous Will Shut Down On April 30th, Co-Founder Garry Tan Launches Posthaven To Save Your Sites | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | It was just a matter of time before Twitter shut the blogging platform Posterous down, after . The team had already been folded into the flock, but this means that nobody has to worry about pesky service interruptions or keeping the service’s diminishing number of users happy. The site will be shutting down on April 3... |
Ask A VC: Bain Capital Ventures’ Ajay Agarwal On How Much Capital Startups Should Raise, And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | This week’s Ask A VC show put Bain Capital Ventures’ managing director in the hot seat. Agarwal heads the firm’s We sat down with Agarwal to chat about how the firm is independent from Bain Capital, the asset management and financial services firm co-founded by Mitt Romney. Agarwal explained that Bain Capital Vent... |
Xoom Closes Its First Day On The NASDAQ At $25.49 Per Share, Up 59 Percent From IPO Price | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | A number of Silicon Valley investors are starting the long weekend with a smile. That’s thanks to , the online money transfer technology and services company, which made a very successful debut today on the NASDAQ stock market. The company’s zoomed (sorry, I had to do it) up a full 59 percent from its $16 per share... |
KISSmetrics Makes Its First Acquisition — Open Source Startup SourceNinja | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | Analytics company has acquired , a startup offering to help companies manage security flaws in their open source libraries. KISSmetrics co-founder and head of product Hiten Shah made it sound like a pretty standard talent acquisition. Shah’s company won’t be using the Source Ninja technology, but it’s bringing on th... |
Congresswoman Proposes Ban On Armed Drones In U.S., Regulating Surveillance | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | With the looming threat of faceless drones buzzing around American cities, congress has proposed banning armed drones and regulating their use for law enforcement surveillance. The Preserving American Privacy Act introduced by U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren ( : A) would require warrants for unmanned aircraft systems to collect ... |
Google Introduces SyncFileSystem API For Chrome To Let HTML5 Apps Sync Your Offline Data Between Devices | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | One nifty is that web apps can store data locally on your computer and have it available even when you are offline. Google today a new API for Chrome, the , that offers an app-private sandboxed file storage system, similar to what’s already in the . The interesting new feature here is that this data is also autom... |
Thanks For The 15-Minute Break, WordPress | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | As you might have noticed, TechCrunch went down entirely (thanks to WordPress VIP), sporting a fun “502” error. If you’re not sure what that means, here’s the skinny on why you might see a 502 error: The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in the... |
Dreaded Auto-Play Video Ads Could Be Coming To Facebook, VP Confirms | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | TV commercials that automatically play could soon hit Facebook’s news feed. This week Facebook VP of Business David Fischer admitted auto-play video ads might be distracting, but said “I believe there are ways we could do it.” Fischer said during his Stanford Future Of Media Conference keynote that he admired YouTube’s... |
If A Social Network Falls In A Forest… | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | Google+ experienced an this morning, and almost no one noticed. . . Someone posted it to Hacker News. . Google+, reportedly the in history (or fastest-growing “ ” ever), and reportedly , experiences an outage, and nothing hits . Google+, where , goes down, but Twitter users (and ) only have , not frantic q... |
Zynga And EA Settle Legal Battle Over ‘Unmistakable Copy’ Of The Sims And ‘Anti-Competitive’ Practices | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | , Zynga and EA have settled their legal dispute over the former’s alleged copying of EA’s popular game “The Sims.” It was clear to many that once Zynga started teasing “The Ville,” it took some major elements from EA’s classic. A source has told TechCrunch that no money has exchanged hands as part of the settlement. At... |
Why Mozilla Matters And Won’t Switch To WebKit | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | Earlier this week, Opera that it would stop working on its own Presto layout engine and switch to WebKit. It’s obvious that the open source WebKit engine currently has a lot of momentum behind it, with Google, Apple and now Opera backing it. As Mozilla’s CTO Brendan Eich however, don’t expect Mozilla to switch engine... |
Ubuntu Mobile Developer Preview Will Grace The Galaxy Nexus And Nexus 4 On February 21 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | After and briefly , Canonical’s mobile-friendly version of Ubuntu will soon be available for the truly curious to muck around with. Starting on February 21, developers will be able to load the build onto their Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 4 — on the off-chance that you’re attending MWC like we are, Canonical will be on han... |
Congrats Ingrid, On Your One-Year Anniversary At Techmeme | Jack McKenna | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | began in February of 2012, after an extensive career at paidContent.org and regular freelance work for publications such as the Financial Times. Today, she celebrates her one-year anniversary with . Ingrid is passionate about all new technology, but has specific interest in mobile, digital media, advertising. Her... |
Roelof Botha, David Lee And Ron Conway To Speak At Disrupt NY 2013 | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 15 | It’s the most wonderful time of year… because is getting closer! We’re now wrapping things up behind the scenes, and the show is shaping up to be our best ever — we know, we know, we always say that. Today we’re honored to be announcing three more luminaries who will take the much-vaunted Disrupt stage in late April.... |
Apple Tops Japan’s Handset Market For The First Time, Says Counterpoint Research | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | Thanks to its complicated regulatory structure and the continuing popularity of web-enabled feature phones, Japan’s mobile market is difficult for foreign companies to penetrate. But Apple has finally managed to work its way to the top, according to (h/t ). Apple took a 16 percent market share in Q4 2012 and 15 perc... |
Sen. Marco Rubio’s Winning Twitter Response To His Awkward #Waterbreak Meme | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | [tweet https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/301541124890320896] Up-and-coming Republican Senator Marco Rubio was facing the onslaught of a full-fledged Twitter meme after he awkwardly took a sip of water during his State of the Union response. During the time-honored opposition rebuttal to the President’s speech, ... |
Language Learning Startup BliuBliu Wins The TechChill Baltics Competition | Natasha Starkell | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | New startup conference for the ‘Baltic Rim’ took place again this year in Riga, Latvia. Following in the footsteps of the online infographics tool (from Latvia), the winner of the event this year is . This Lithuanian startup is working on a better way to learn foreign languages, which is an especially big challen... |
CEO Marissa Mayer Says Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Is Underperforming | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | Yahoo’s search deal with Microsoft is underperforming, CEO Marissa Mayer said at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. The deal has not delivered the market share gains or revenue boost that was expected, Mayer said. Yahoo and Microsoft as part of an effort to challenge Go... |
“This Year, Apple Will Start Making Macs In America Again” – Obama | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | [tweet https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/301518987005677568] President Obama gave a huge shout-out to Apple during his State of the Union address tonight, using the company as an example of how manufacturers are once again seeing value in making things in America: “This year, Apple will start making Macs in America... |
Obama Announces Plan To Make Education More Focused On Tech Skills | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | [tweet https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/301522787158355968] During the State of the Union, President Obama has announced a plan to make the American education system more focused on tech skills. While there weren’t many details in the short declaration, Obama cited New York’s P-Tech high-school as a model. is a ... |
Yet Another Buzz-Generating Report Surfaces About Apple’s Smart Watch | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | The third report in a week has surfaced about the Apple smart watch. Bloomberg a story citing two unnamed sources who say that the company has a team of about 100 product designers working on a “wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the computing tasks now handled by the iPhone and iPad.” It comes just a fe... |
Al Gore Says The Internet Will End Government Corruption. Great. But What About All Those Ads? | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | On his current visit to San Francisco, today former United States Vice President swung through local PBS radio affiliate KQED for an on the program . It was an interesting and wide-ranging conversation, as Krasny’s interviews often tend to be. But one part in particular was especially interesting from a TechCrunc... |
Netflix Original Series House Of Cards Is Its Most Watched Program | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | At the D: Dive Into Media conference, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said that the company’s political thriller House of Cards has been the most-watched piece of content on the site a few weeks after its release. Not only is that true in the company’s home market of the U.S., but it’s true across all region... |
Arrested Development’s Will Arnett: Netflix Allows The Creative Community To Do What It Does Best | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | On a panel discussion at D: Dive Into Media with Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, comedian Will Arnett praised the freedom that the streaming provider is giving creatives building its new slate of original programming. Netflix is “allowing the creative community... |
“Is She Ignoring My Sext?” Ephemeral Messaging Apps Leave You Hanging | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | There’s nothing more terrifying than thinking you crossed the line by sending a risqué photo. Worrying that the person you sent a goofy Snapchat or Facebook Poke to thinks you’re an idiot is no fun either. Did they even actually see your self-destructing photo? Ephemeral messaging has a feedback problem. The of the w... |
Click Through This List To See If It Mentions You, To Feed Your Ego | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | Okay so maybe made “LinkedIn’s Top 1% most viewed profiles for 2012.” But are you on “Forbes 450 under 30”? Or “TIME’s 100 best randomly assorted names of people, with a few from Silicon Valley”? Well, you’re probably also not on this list of either but you might want to check, just in case. I mean, you probably de... |
Comcast Posts Solid Q4 2012 Earnings, Will Acquire GE’s Stake In NBCUniversal For $16.7B | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | Comcast is already the country’s largest cable television provider, but its entertainment ambitions don’t end there — the company that it will spend $16.7 billion to purchase General Electric’s stake in NBCUniversal. To top it off, Comcast will also shell out an additional $1.4 billion to purchase CNBC’s headquarters... |
Two Hackers Build A Way To Pay For Your Pizza With Bitcoins | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | While the question remains whether or not you should be eating Domino’s pizza at all, a clever service now allows you to pay for your pie with Bitcoins. The service is far from an official Domino’s app and is instead a gateway or broker between the world of pizza and the world of popular virtual currencies. The site, ... |
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Trulia Beats Analysts With Record Q4 Revenue, But Posts Bigger-Than-Expected Net Loss | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | In its second earnings report as a public company, online real estate site saw both higher revenue and a bigger loss than analysts had estimated. The company saw revenue of $20.6 million and a net loss of $1.59 million for the quarter ending on December 31. That’s a (non-GAAP) loss of 3 cents per share. Revenue is up... |
Fear Not, Surface Fans, More 128GB Surface Pros Should Be On Store Shelves By Saturday | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | Microsoft launched its curious Surface Pro hybrid earlier this week, but it turns out that actually trying to buy one was a bit more problematic than people had hoped. Folks looking to get their hands on one of the 128GB models had it especially rough — the $999 device sold out in Microsoft’s online store and some of t... |
With MWC Nearing, More Evidence Of A Nokia Tablet Emerges | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | A tablet is the missing piece of Nokia’s mobile strategy. So far the company about its plans, but more evidence of a Nokia tablet at Pakistan Nokia event. For a brief moment, the stage’s screen showed a tablet, likely a 7-inch, alongside a Nokia 620 and a large desktop screen, possibly demonstrating a Surface Pro-i... |
Fitbit’s Updated Android App Packs Wireless Sync Support For Samsung’s Galaxy S III and Note II | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | Nike may not be planning to release an Android companion app for its , but rival Fitbit is eager to make sure that health-conscious Droid owners are well taken care of. To that end, the company pushed out a new version of its Fitbit Android app that finally brings Bluetooth 4.0 sync support to Samsung’s Galaxy S III a... |
Facebook Employees Do The “Harlem Shake” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXC85PNVms4&w=640&h=360] Multiple Facebook employees just shared of a bunch of Facebookers doing the dance at their HQ. Supposedly some of the Instagram team and COO participated, but I can’t spot them (oh, but please try best to). I wonder if Zuck is the Smiley Face lemo... |
Unlike Netflix Subscribers, HBO Viewers Aren’t Binge Viewers | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 12 | At the D: Dive Into Media conference over the last few days, we’ve heard a lot of executives discuss the big paradigm shift of binge-watching being brought about thanks to Netflix and DVRs. But not everyone loves to watch TV that way. According to HBO President and COO Eric Kessler, binge viewing is an edge case for it... |
Instagram Seeks To Dismiss Class Action Lawsuit Over Policy Changes | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Instagram a federal court on Wednesday to throw out a class action lawsuit filed by users upset over the photo-sharing app’s changes to its terms of service. The lawsuit was in December by an Instagram user who accused it of breach of contract, among other claims. As many people will recall (because the controversy... |
YouTube Opens A Production Space In Tokyo To Help Creators Make Better Videos | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Over the past few years, YouTube has been dramatically increasing the resources that it provides to the creative community that uploads videos on its platform. Starting with the acquisition of Next New Networks back in TK, the company has been investing in providing tools, equipment, funding, and guidance to its legion... |
Apple Will Release Fix For iOS 6.1 Microsoft Exchange Bug | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Apple for a bug that causes excess activity on Microsoft Exchange accounts after users accept an exception to a recurring calendar event, and will make it available in an upcoming software update. The bug is troublesome enough that some corporate IT departments have blocked their own devices from their Exchange server... |
Singapore Media Outlet e27 Gets $615K To Expand Into Southeast Asia | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Singaporean media outfit, , has raised about US$615,000 (S$760,000) through a funding round with investors in the region, and plans to expand into Southeast Asia. The round was raised with B Dash Ventures from Japan, Pinehurst Advisors in Taiwan, Ardent Capital in Thailand and Dan Neary in Singapore. e27 has been arou... |
Bislr Launches Tools To Build Marketing-Optimized Websites, Raises $3.5M From Tim Draper And Others | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | , a startup that’s officially launching today, was built to solve one of the problems that CEO Michael Sharkey said that he himself faced in his past startups — the need to quickly build a website that integrates the different applications that marketers use. So Bislr integrates with existing marketing automation (MA) ... |
So Yeah, There’s Gonna Be A Vince Vaughn And Owen Wilson Movie About Life As A Google Intern | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DjuGlVknQ]
Geographically Hollywood is away from Silicon Valley, but it seems like the two are getting closer and closer in metaphorical ways. The latest example of this is , the new buddy movie starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson that’s set to premiere this upcoming summ... |
U.S. District Court Dismisses Suit In Facebook IPO, Says Company Disclosed Risks | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | A U.S. District Court in New York dismissed a shareholder lawsuit that claimed Facebook executives including Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg didn’t disclose enough about risks to the company’s advertising business as consumers shifted to mobile devices. In a separate Facebook-related case against NASDAQ, the sa... |
Opera Sings The Final Song With Its Rendering Engine, Decides To Shift To WebKit | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Opera is that company that everyone knows about but never really stopped to understand why it is so important. The Norway-based company has always been an , and calling out the big guys for injustices put upon web developers and Internet surfers. It’s not a sexy position to be in, but Opera has always stood its grou... |
Scout Can Wirelessly Protect Your Groovy, Wood-Panelled Bachelor Pad | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | is a wireless security system that starts at $120 and is completely removable. The handsomely-designed units can protect windows and doors in your home and you can program reactions to various events including and up to calling the police. I’ve seen a come and go over the years and this one, at least, has that qua... |
Google Countersues UK Telco BT Over Patent Infringement In Its Conferencing and IP Quality Of Service Products | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | today stepped up its battle to protect its patents, with the latest target a countersuit against , the UK incumbent telecoms carrier, along with , which resells some of BT’s services. The suit relates to four patents that Google says are being infringed by enterprise services that BT runs over its IP network, specif... |
Zillow Q4 Beats Analysts With $34.3M Revenue, Mobile Visits Topped 50% Of Dec. Total | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Real estate site came in ahead of analyst estimates in its just-released , with $34.3 million in revenue and net income of $0.5 million. The revenue number is a record for the company, and it’s also up 73 percent year-over-year. Of the total, $26.8 million came from the marketplace and $7.5 million came from display... |
Google Now For Android Integrates Rotten Tomatoes Reviews, Fandango Tickets And Zillow Real Estate Listings | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Google just a few more features to on Android 4.1+. Starting today, Android users will be able to see information from even more third-party services on Google Now, including movie ratings from , tickets you have purchased on and, if Google realizes you are looking for real estate, listings from . Google has be... |
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YC-Backed Pixelapse Brings GitHub-Style Sharing & Version Control To Your Design Projects | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Sharing and keeping tabs on code is relatively simple for coders thanks to GitHub and the like, but developers aren’t the only folks who could benefit from services like that. Designers could also use a smarter way to manage their projects, and that’s exactly the sort of niche that San Francisco-based is aiming to fi... |
And That’s A Wrap! Last Night’s NYC TC Disrupt Pitch-Off Was A Blast | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Last night was the official in NYC, where three lucky startups won tickets to the Disrupt NY conference in April, one of which will get a spot on the Startup Alley floor. Over 20 companies competed, and over 800 attendees showed up to partake in the night of beer, pizza, and tech talk. Each pitch-off company was gi... |
Brad Feld Is Looking For Founders To Live And Work Rent-Free In His New Kansas City ‘Fiberhouse’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | , the Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur and early stage investor, is well known for new tech and entrepreneurial ecosystems in areas outside of the well-trodden Silicon Valley region. The most recent place on which he’s set his sights? Kansas City. The Kansas City metropolitan area (which spans both ) is of cou... |
HP Reportedly Working On Android Smartphones And Tablets, Despite webOS Failures | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | HP is looking into getting back into the mobile hardware game, according to a new report from which the is being confirmed from their own sources. HP famously bought webOS and then brought a tablet to market based on that Palm-developed platform, the TouchPad, which ended up being a dismal failure that the company s... |
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Pulls An Oprah, Gives Every Employee An iPad Mini | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | Technology is a wonderful thing, especially when your employer hooks you up with gadgets for free. Today, we’ve learned that LinkedIn has decided to give all of its employees an iPad mini. This reminds us of Oprah Winfrey giving things to her audience and exclaiming “You get an iPad, you get an iPad!” A spokesperson fr... |
TV Maker Loewe Shares Jump 45 Percent After Apple Buyout Rumors | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 2 | 13 | German luxury brand experienced a roller coaster day. A trader “Apple supposedly wants to bid 4 euros a share for Loewe,” which sent up as much as 44.5 percent to 3.93 compared to yesterday’s closing price of 2.72. The German stock exchange closed today with Loewe shares trading at 3.35, representing a one-day in... |
Meteor Crash Reportedly Injured Over 100 People In Russia | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | Fragments of a meteor reportedly crash landed in Russia, causing an explosion that injured over 100 people. Amateur video of the meteor streaking across the sky (below) have gone viral and the Interior minister has confirmed that 102 people had called for medical assistance, “mostly for treatment of injuries from glass... |
Heroku Admits To Performance Degradation Over The Past 3 Years After Criticism From Rap Genius | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | , the popular cloud application platform, may not be quite as fast today as it was three years ago. Yesterday, ‘ James Somers , posted a , arguing that Heroku had quietly changed the way it distributes tasks from Ruby on Rails apps across the Amazon EC2 machines it makes available to its users at some point in the la... |
After Revealing Shift To WebKit, Opera Will Buy Mobile Video Optimization Provider Skyfire Labs For $155 Million | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | Opera Software is buying mobile video optimization and cloud solutions provider Skyfire Labs for about $155 million in cash and stock, the Oslo-based company announced today. The news comes a few days after Opera revealed that it plans to transition its Web browsers to WebKit to increase competitiveness on Android and ... |
The Fall TV Lineup May Include Apple Dominating Gaming | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | What I’m about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And that’s fine. Because in a few years, I’ll be right and you’ll look silly. While everyone is focused on the next generation video game consoles from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft — the latter two of which should be coming later this year — Apple is ... |
While Tesla Dukes It Out With The Times, SpaceX Gets The Go-Ahead For Next ISS Supply Mission | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | Tesla Motors has been getting plenty of attention lately because of its with writer John Broder, but that only helped to drown out news concerning founder Elon Musk’s transport-related venture. earlier today that SpaceX’s Dragon capsule would be sent into low Earth orbit for a second supply run to the Internatio... |
Cyber Attacks Against Journalists Are On The Rise, Says Advocacy Group | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | More journalists are now the target of cyber attacks, . CPJ deputy director Robert Mahoney said cyber attacks on individuals and news organizations have increased notably over the past few years and that the practice serves as easy and inexpensive censorship. In a press conference with reporters, Mahoney cited the rec... |
Court Throws Out Shareholder Lawsuit Accusing Netflix Of Issuing Misleading Guidance | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | Netflix succeeded in getting a shareholder lawsuit dismissed that had accused the company of inflating its share price by concealing rising costs, even as insiders like CEO Reed Hastings were selling millions of dollars in stock, . The lawsuit was filed in January 2012 by shareholders led by the Arkansas Teacher Retir... |
Obama’s Quotable Google+ Hangout: Zuckerberg, Drones And Being ‘Chill’ | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | President Obama just concluded a group interview with a handful of bloggers on Google+. The 40-minute follow-up to the State of the Union covered a broad range of new issues: drones, Mark Zuckerberg, patent trolls, immigrant gay rights, gun control, the distribution of wealth, and even why the president is so “chill.” ... |
You Think You Know What You Want Out Of Twitter Search, But It’s Not What You Really Need | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | Twitter and search sound like two peas in a pod, but it’s actually not the marriage made in heaven that you’d think it is. When you think of search, you think of a search engine, like Google, where the world’s information is seemingly at your fingertips. You feel confident that when you Google something, you won’t miss... |
Squarespace Adds Commerce System For A High-Class Blogging/Sales Experience | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | knows from fancy. They make dead-simple websites for people who require a high level of design and elegance and, unlike, say, our website, a lot of Squarespace sites are surprisingly beautiful. Now those same designers who use the site for their private blogs can sell their wares right from their sites. The service, c... |
Facebook Blocks Perverts From Graph Searching For Kids | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | Facebook has coded some special rules into to make sure shady adults can’t stalk minors. Today that searches that could identify kids under 18 by age or location won’t return any results for strange adults. Facebook mentioned at the launch that there were special protections for minors, but in advance of a wider ... |
Big Plans For CrunchBase | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | CrunchBase has grown like a tree in a quiet corner of the yard and left to do its thing. Six years in, our free and editable industry database gets 1.5 million unique visitors a month and has had 90,000 users create 105,000 companies and 140,000 individual profiles. It’s proven to be one of the most successful produc... |
Blackjet, The Uber For Private Jet Travel, Appoints Shervin Pishevar As Its Chairman | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | As we reported , , the startup that aims to be the “ ” by letting people book relatively lower priced private jet travel through web and mobile apps, today extended its service to two new cities: . But TechCrunch has learned that today also brought big news for Blackjet on a more behind-the-scenes level. has be... |
Everest, An Epic App For Achieving Your Dreams | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | What if there were an app that could make you healthier, smarter and happier? That could turn your dreams into reality by breaking them into manageable steps and reminding you to take them? wants to be that app. Backed by visionary investor Peter Thiel, Everest helps you tackle goals by combining inspiration, organiz... |
Fandrop Debuts A Digg-Like Service For Viral Media, Hacks Its Way To Over 1 Million Pageviews Monthly | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | , a new content sharing site started by a group of growth hackers, is debuting today to help you find out what’s trending across the web. The site surfaces things like tweets and Facebook posts, YouTube videos, images from sites like imgur, articles, web pages, and more. In some ways, it’s similar to other social netwo... |
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Tamagotchi Comes To Android, But After All These Years I’m No Better At Caring For Virtual Pets | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB9ZYYFgi4?feature=player_embedded] Namco Bandai has released a new . The acronym standards for “love is fun everywhere,” which is arguable depending on which stage of love you’re in, and which probably accounts for its February 14 release date. But is Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. itsel... |
Digital Content Organizer Clipix Goes Beyond Bookmarks, Adds New Features To Save And Organize Email | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | , a bookmarking service that lets you organize links, documents, photos and videos, just announced that it is adding email to its repertoire of supported formats. Users can now forward their emails to a private Clipix address to save and organize their messages. This, the company says, will help its users “instantly bo... |
Watch President Obama’s Google+ Hangout Starting At 4:50pm ET | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | President Obama will be holding a townhall follow-up to his State of the Union speech on Google+ at 4:50pm ET today. We’ll be covering the speech in separate posts. Readers are invited to watch the “Hangout” live in the YouTube video below: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gAWHQqobvs&w=640&h=360] |
How Bubble Motion Is Winning Feature Phones As “Twitter For Voice” Hits 25 Million Users | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | It’s been a long journey for Bubble Motion, one of Singapore’s oldest startups. The company has been around since 2005 and made its name as a voice messenger app, allowing people to send voice clips to each other within text messages. Unlike with an MMS, the service requires no data. A user dials *7*, follows the phone... |
Weendy, An Extreme Sports App That Merges Crowdsourced And Actual Weather Data, Gets $240K Led By Archimedes | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 14 | It’s a little ironic that adrenalin-fuelled, sometimes dangerous extreme sports like windsurfing, kiteboarding and skiing also have a very pedestrian angle to them: it’s hard to do them when the weather isn’t quite right. There have been apps developed to try to meet that challenge by tapping into weather data provider... |
Vimessa Deadpooled, Founders Launch User Retention Service, Userfox, With $700K From Y Combinator, 500 Startups & More | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | Y Combinator-backed launched in late 2011 that allowed users to send high-def video messages to any cell number or email address. The idea was to make video messaging work on any mobile device or desktop. But, despite the early buzz around the product, rules are rules: 90 percent of startups fail. The nature of it... |
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