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‘War Correspondents’ In Mexico Address Mainstream Media Shortcomings, Use Twitter To Spread Information | Sara Inés Calderón | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | In Mexico’s drug-war-torn cities, a small number of Twitter users affected by narco violence are acting as war correspondents to the masses, providing a public-safety alert system of sorts, according to a recent research from Microsoft, called “The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Wa... |
San Quentin Prison Demo Day Gives Entrepreneurs Behind Bars A Second Chance | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | Barbed wire and armed guards aren’t your typical intro to a startup pitch event. But today, San Quentin Prison hosted demo day featuring presentations by seven inmates. The Last Mile hopes that through entrepreneurship, it can prepare convicts for employment and reduce recidivism. Considering these founders have neve... |
Google Ports Quickoffice To Chrome Using Native Client, Will Get Full Editing Features In About 3 Months | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | At its yesterday, Google didn’t just launch its new premium Chromebook. It also announced that it is porting , the mobile productivity app that brings Microsoft Office to iOS and Android to the web through and Chrome. Google acquired . As Google’s vice president of Chrome Sundar Pichai noted at yesterday’s event,... |
With $2M From Zynga Co-founder & More, Sokikom Wants To Use Social, MMO Gaming To Help Kids Learn Math | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | , a new startup that wants to help K-12 teachers motivate students to learn using games, is announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding, half of which comes in the form of a grant from the (a research branch within the U.S. Department of Education) and the other half comes in the form of angel fund... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Free Ticket To Disrupt NY Plus A New GoPro Camera #TCDisrupt | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | As you know is right around the corner. This April we will be, as they say, taking over the Big Apple. We have already announced a few of our , including Instagram’s , Sequoia Capital’s , SV Angel’s Ron Conway and David Lee, Thrillist Media Group’s Ben Lerer, Managing Director of Lerer Ventures & co-founder and fo... |
Framebench Is A Google Docs For Creative Collaboration | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | is a newly launched platform for creative collaboration, specifically aimed at those working in digital agencies and other creative design firms. There are a number of tools already available serving this industry ( , for example), but Framebench’s focus on real-time communication, collaboration and sync gives it an e... |
Facebook Wants To Make Your Voice Plan Obsolete, Adds Free Calling To Its iOS Application | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | Following , Facebook has today updated its to offer the same functionality. In the version 5.5 update, which is live now in Apple’s App Store, users in the U.S. and Canada can phone their friends directly from the right-hand sidebar within the application. You can see the voice-calling option by tapping on a friend’... |
Judge Sides With Greenlight, Blocks Apple From Holding Shareholder Vote On Proposal Over Preferred Stock | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | The “silly sideshow” around Greenlight Capital and Apple issuing preferred stock, as Apple CEO Tim Cook put it, will go on according to a . Sullivan sided with Greenlight Capital manager David Einhorn, blocking Apple from being able to proceed with a shareholder vote on whether or not the company can issue preferred s... |
Quipio, Where Instagram Meets Text Messaging | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | There’s a new formula in place, as forged by Instagram. Step A: Choose a popular, yet simple, media (like a photo, a video, a , or a text message).
Step B: Frill up said media, but with the simplest set of tools possible (filters, ).
Step C: Make sharing to any and every social network as easy as one click. This fo... |
“Airbnb For Hostels” App WeHostels Launches Hot Trips, Including Ultra-Cheap Housing For SXSW Guests | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | Don’t have a place to stay yet at SXSW this year? No problem. As long as you don’t mind sharing a room with six (or 12) people, social travel startup has you covered. The company, which has a mobile app that allows users to find affordable housing in hostels around the world, is launching a new way to search for plac... |
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Looks Like Google Is Working On A UDP Replacement Called QUIC | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | had a very good day yesterday. Not only did the video of the Chromebook Pixel he discovered earlier this month turn out to be real, he also that Google started work on a new web protocol in Chrome called QUIC. This protocol, it seems, aims to update the (UDP), a core part of the Internet protocol suite that also... |
Flickr’s iOS App Is Still Playing Catch-Up – Here’s What It Needs | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | A about new updates to its iOS application went relatively unnoticed yesterday. The post announced a series of incremental improvements to an app which has so far barely managed to but has yet to really impress. The latest build brings a few now-standard features like the ability to save photos to your Camera Roll,... |
Director Of Product Blake Ross Is Leaving Facebook | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | Facebook Director of Product is leaving the company, he announced in a Facebook post yesterday afternoon. For those of you who weren’t reading TechCrunch in 2007, Firefox co-founder Ross and Joe Hewitt came to Facebook through its acquisition of , a web OS that was still in stealth at the time. Parakey was Facebook’... |
Drawbridge’s $14M Round Valued The Cross-Device Ad Targeting Startup At $99M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | , aiming to improve mobile and cross-device ad targeting, has raised $14 million in Series B funding. AdAge actually , but a source with knowledge of the deal told me that the story got one crucial detail wrong — the new funding actually valued Drawbridge at $99 million, more than double the $45 million that AdAge r... |
The Console Wars, Begun They Have: Microsoft May Announce New Xbox At April Event | John Biggs | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | A number of , including a new registered to Microsoft, are pointing to an Xbox event in April. While most console reveals happen at E3, as evidenced by Sony’s mystery-filled conference, Microsoft will probably announce specs and some launch titles and leave the money shot for Los Angeles in June. reported the rumor... |
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom To Join Us For Disrupt NY 2013 | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | In case you’re not vigorously refreshing our events page like we are, TechCrunch Disrupt is coming up. We’re receiving a record number of and watching the last batch pour in before the deadline on Monday. We’ve also started to announce some amazing special guests and speakers. Tickets for this year’s show can be .... |
Google I/O Registration Date Leaks, Be Ready To Sign Up On March 13 (Update: It’s Official) | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | A tipster has sent in of what appears to be a landing page announcing registration dates for Google’s massive in May. Google’s . Registration opens on March 13th at 7am PDT (10am ET). Google+ accounts and Google Wallets are required to sign up. Historically, the rush for Google I/O tickets is wild. Around 5,000 d... |
If America Was A Startup We’d All Quit | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | So I was chatting with my dad yesterday. We had a long drive home after the Department of Homeland Security . The mood was somber. We were talking about how awful America has become. We are a nation that has been split into groups that absolutely hate each other. Debt is rising, taxes are rising and freedom is being d... |
Boston-Based VC Firm And Early Twitter Investor Spark Capital Raises $450M For Fourth Fund | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | Boston-based VC firm is announcing its fourth fund this evening, raising $450 million for the firm’s biggest investment fund to date. Spark, who raised $360 million for its last fund, now has $1.4 billion under management. Partner Bijan Sabet tells us this fund was oversubscribed. Founded in 2005 by Todd Dagres, Sant... |
With Series A Funding From SoftBank Ventures Korea, SmarTots Helps Educational App Developers Localize For China | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | China is now the world’s largest smartphone marketplace, with that there will be 246 million smart devices in China by the end of this month. It’s a potentially lucrative market for app developers, but almost impossible to crack without the necessary language or cultural understanding to reach Chinese users. Educatio... |
NYPD And Apple Team Up To Stop iThing Theft In NYC | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 2 | 22 | The number of gadget-related thefts in major metropolitan areas has only continued to rise, and the number of resolved cases simply can’t keep up. However, it would appear that Apple is now working directly with the NYPD to help return iThings into the hands of their rightful owners. The an official team which will ... |
Network Effect: SingTel-Owned Amobee Expands Mobile Ad Platform To Cover Its Globe, Optus And Telkomsel Holdings | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | When the pan-Asian mobile carrier paid , the thinking was that the Singapore-based SingTel could use Amobee to serve targeted ads to its 480-million mobile subscriber base across the region. Some eight months after the deal has closed, that network effect is coming into play: today Amobee is announcing that it will ... |
After Raising $8.3M, Jibe Mobile Signs MetroPCS To Its Joyn-Approved Voice, Video And Chat Cloud | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | When it comes to popular mobile apps for messaging and sharing content like Facebook and Twitter, carriers have been on the edges of the picture as data network providers rather than the developers of those services themselves. But a deal signed today between and underscores one example of how they hope to become m... |
Splitsecnd Turns Any Car Into A Connected Car, Launches Plug-In Crash Detection Device | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | Many new cars now feature an automatic crash-detection system that will call 911 for you whenever you are in a crash that is bad enough for your airbags to inflate. Adding this kind of functionality to an older car is typically very costly, but Nashville-based startup just launched an Internet-connected plugin for an... |
Outbox Pours Salt On Snail Mail By Launching Its Digitizing Service In San Francisco | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | Mail digitizing startup is launching in San Francisco today, the first step in what co-founder Will Davis says is a broader national rollout. If, like me, you find physical mail to be an annoyance, this is good news. Basically, Outbox swings by your real-world mailbox three times a week, digitizes the content, and ma... |
If My Phone Falls Down The Seat Crevice Again I’ll Lose It. Please Redesign Meatspace. | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | The physical world wasn’t built for $500 devices we need every other minute. This is never more obvious than when I strain my back and curse like a sailor because my phone has fallen into the gap beside my car or plane seat. As tech companies obsess over usability, the thoughtlessness that mars the meatspace comes into... |
The $169 Android HP Slate 7 Is Just HP’s Latest Beige Box, Only Flat | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | HP is late to the tablet game, but definitely not out. At $169, the HP Slate 7 is a sure thing. It’s a guaranteed win for HP even if it doesn’t outsell the competition. HP the Slate 7. There is nothing particularly special about it. It costs $169, has a dual-core 1.6GHz SoC, and a 16×9 display with a rather thick pla... |
Ditch The Spreadsheet. YC-Backed Meldium Controls Your Team’s Shared App Passwords For You | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | If you’ve been part of a small- or medium-sized business or organization recently, you’ve dealt with “the spreadsheet.” It’s that document that’s tacked up on the wall (or shared via email) where all the group’s important login names and passwords are kept — the team’s , , subscription, et cetera. It’s a mess to m... |
Twitter Announces App For Firefox OS | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | Twitter that Twitter for Firefox OS will be available in the Firefox Marketplace when devices powered by Mozilla’s new operating system start to ship. According to the company, Twitter for Firefox OS will be similar to its other mobile apps, with the same Home, Connect, Discover, and Me tabs, as well as search and com... |
Rich Kids Of Google Glass | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | You know, I’m sort of . Because I’ve eaten something like three sandwiches in the past three days, and every single time I’ve wondered, as I was eating, where the odd name originated. But didn’t want to take out my grubby phone during the meal to find out. I’ve also wondered whether this is a problem that Google G... |
Cleared For California Ride Sharing, UBERx Recruits More SF Drivers To Drop Wait Times And Prices | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | Let the big ride-share wars begin. It’s no big secret that Uber in an effort to compete directly with upstarts like Lyft and SideCar. After , the company announced its plans to allow unlicensed drivers to be part of its driver fleet, at least in San Francisco. Well, it’s launching its first offensive in that front... |
Shapes Of Things | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | To absolutely no surprise, the people I know are enamored of Google Glass. The world of sensor-driven big data is sure to come, just as apps have supplanted sites as the metaphor with which we frame our lives. As one who replaced music with computers, I am eager for the next phase. But while Glass forges ahead in mind ... |
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Nvidia Shows Off The Tegra 4i Reference Smartphone On Video, Delivers Impressive Mobile Gaming Performance | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c595HAUYdQ?feature=player_detailpage] Nvidia only recently introduced its Tegra 4i processor, which pairs Tegra 4 power with integrated LTE — an Nvidia first for mobile chips — into a single system-on-a-chip. The company is now on in-house developed reference smartphone hardwa... |
After CEO Departure, Mobile Video Startup Viddy Cuts Staff By More Than A Third | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | It was less than a year ago that was flying high, quoting massive user growth and raising a massive $30 million round of funding from NEA, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, and Battery Ventures. Now the company is cutting back, as it seeks to regroup and figure out this mobile video thing. Viddy confirmed that it reduc... |
Apple Rejecting Apps Using Cookie-Tracking Methods, Signaling Push To Its Own Ad Identifier Technology Is Now Underway | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | Mobile app developers using a technology called “cookie tracking” (sometimes called “Safari flip-flop” or “HTML5 first party cookies”) are starting to have their apps rejected by Apple’s App Review team, we’ve heard from a few different industry sources. With this method in place, Safari is opened upon first launch in ... |
SideCar Says Three Philadelphia Drivers Caught In ‘Sting,’ But It Plans To Continue Operations | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | It sounds like ridesharing startup is facing another regulatory challenge. According to , the Philadelphia Parking Authority cited three SideCar drivers and impounded their cars in an “orchestrated sting operation.” The citation supposedly describes SideCar as an “unauthorized service provider,” which the company sa... |
YC-Backed Semantics3 Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 2 | 25 | As more merchants flock to the web to sell their products, there has been a deluge of data to be indexed by retailers who are looking to see where certain products are being sold and for how much. Parsing and extracting the value from all of this data is a huge challenge. YC-backed has created a database that aims to... |
eBay CEO John Donahoe Is Bullish On Digital Currency, And He’s Keeping Tabs On Bitcoin | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | There’s no doubt that Bitcoin is getting plenty of attention these days — we’ve seen folks like the Winklevoss Twins and throw their financial weight behind Bitcoin in a big way — but despite all that it still hasn’t been embraced by the teeming millions just yet Arguably, all it would take is the support of one big... |
YouTube Music Awards Were Chaos You’ll Never See On TV | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | Can YouTube create live content that inspires watercooler zeitgeist moments like television? Google’s giving it a shot with the YouTube Music Awards, a celebration of do-it-yourself Internet culture right now. It’s chaotic, innovative, offensive, silly, and downright weird. But one thing’s for sure. You won’t see thi... |
Pixelstick Takes Your Long Exposure Photography To A Trippy New Level | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1e0rumn9r4&w=640&h=360] Remember that night when you and your friends discovered how to “draw” with your camera’s long exposure function? You started out simple, piercing the dark with a cheap handheld flashlight as you traced a terrible rendition of your name through the air. Y... |
What Games Are: The Power Conversation | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | Seth Godin told a story a few years ago about how a research team tested whether users really perceived a difference in the quality of Google vs. Yahoo results versus what they believed. The team performed some HTML jiggery pokery so that a user could type a search into “Google” and see Yahoo results, but they still ap... |
Cambridge Audio Minx Xi Review: Give All Your Digital Audio A Big Upgrade – For A Price | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | UK-based Cambridge Audio has long made very well-regarded high-end audio equipment, but recently that’s a market that has changed considerably, thanks to the advent of digital audio and online streaming services. The company has changed, too, and one example of that change is the new Minx Xi all-in one streaming device... |
Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter’s Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | In its rush towards becoming a public company, Twitter is in danger of sacrificing focus on the altar of growth. And it’s doing it with decisions based heavily on data and testing, rather than with an overall vision. This week, Twitter that features in-line image previews, a preponderance of action buttons and new to... |
Benchmark Partner Peter Fenton On Investor Luck, Tech IPOs And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | This past week, we were lucky enough to sit down with Benchmark partner and Twitter board member backstage at TechCrunch Europe to talk about his magic touch. Of all the investors in the Valley, Fenton is one of the elite VCs who has the most number of companies that are in the process of going public or will be go... |
App Indexing, Predictive Services, And Unlocking Mobile Distribution | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | TechCrunch There is a “perfect storm” brewing in consumer mobile: Developers, companies, and investors see the explosive growth of smartphones (with no sign of slowing down), yet consumers only have so much bandwidth to interact with a small set of apps, let alone enough time in the day for another app. Consumer eyeb... |
There Are No More “Tech Issues” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 3 | Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is not a tech founder. President Barack Obama does not have a account. The failed launch of the new health insurance e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov, came as a shock to political leaders that were too steeped in government shutdowns and the machinations of t... |
Google Launches Helpouts, Paid Video Chats With Experts To Address Whatever Is Bothering You Right Now | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | , Google’s fusion of Google+ Hangouts, Google Wallet, and its identity tools is now live. A ‘Helpout’ is a Hangout-like video chat, but instead of speaking with a friend, you are connected to a purported expert in whatever it is that you need help with. The tagline that Google has come up with for Helpouts is “real hel... |
Lady Gaga Splits From Manager And Rising Tech Investor Troy Carter | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | has been making a name for himself in tech thanks to investments in Uber, Spotify, and Dropbox, but his biggest tie to the music industry has just been severed. Lady Gaga has split from Carter, who has managed her since 2007, according to multiple sources of . The separation could shake his status as he raises a ne... |
Dropbox Snatches Up Sold, The Service That Simplifies Selling Online, To Help It Build A New Mystery Commerce Product | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | launched early this year with a plan to help remove some of the frustration from selling online. before moving , Sold aimed to help busy people avoid the hassle of eBay and Craigslist and simplify e-commerce by taking the whole process out of their hands. Today, just seven months removed from launch, the Sold team ... |
Hands On With The Afinia H-Series 3D Printer, A Rugged Printing Rig For Home And School | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | In the kennel of 3D printers, I’d equate the oddly-shaped and homegrown printers to lovable mutts. The is a golden retriever, ready to please. And the $1,599 Afinia H-Series is a solid, scrappy Jack Russell terrier, willing to get dirty and able to take on all comers. The H-Series looks like it was built by the sam... |
Hired.com Looks To Destroy Recruiting Invoices With New Subscription-Like Billing | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Hired.com, , is looking to challenge the way that traditional recruiting agencies charge their startup clients. Technical recruiting in the Valley is often done by boutique agencies or headhunters with long rolodexes, histories and networks among local developers. Often, if they’re successful in getting a candidate, t... |
Apple Expands ‘Made In USA’ Efforts With Sapphire Glass Plant, Manufacturing Deal In Arizona | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Apple has plans to build a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will extend its ‘Made in The USA’ efforts beyond the Mac Pro and other silicon facilities it maintains in Texas. The news came via a release from both the and the company , which will produce sapphire material. The multi-year agreement, which was reporte... |
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Eric Schmidt Joins The New Advisory Board At Cloud Rendering Company OTOY | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | , a company for running games and other applications in the browser, is announcing , including Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt. “Six years ago, , I predicted that 90 percent of computing would eventually reside in the web based cloud,” Schmidt said in an emailed statement. “OTOY has created a ... |
Twitter Could Price IPO Well Above New $23-$25 Range, After Strong Private Market Interest | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Twitter could price its IPO well it set earlier today, according to CEO Tim Sullivan. The pricing range was . Though he’s providing no guarantees, Sullivan says that there has been strong interest in the private market for Twitter shares over the past few months, which indicates that Twitter could price as high a... |
Microsoft Azure Now Lets You Import/Export Data By Shipping Hard Drives | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Microsoft today a large update to its Azure cloud computing platform that introduces features like WebSocket support, segmented customer push notifications, support and a new billing alert service. The one feature that will likely get the most attention, however, is that developers can now sign up for a preview ver... |
Cloud Printing & Shipping Service Lob Raises $2.4 Million Seed Round | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | This summer, the Y Combinator-backed startup a new developer API which lets companies easily integrate printing and shipping services into their applications. Today, the company is announcing $2.4 million in seed funding from various YC partners and angel investors. Participating in the round were Kevin Hale, Dalto... |
Local Delivery Startup Postmates Introduces Uber-Like Blitz Pricing During High Demand | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Local delivery startup has been growing fast, which is a good problem to have. That is, unless demand is completely outstripping supply. With that in mind, the company is taking a big step toward regulating demand with the implementation of a new Uber-like Surge Pricing program called “Blitz.” Postmates is now in thr... |
MediaSpike Raises $5.2M To Bring More Product Placement To Mobile And Social Games | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | , which runs a marketplace for in-game product placement, is announcing that it has raised $5.2 million in Series A funding. The round was led by CMEA Capital, with the participation of existing investors 500 Startups, Google Ventures, and Raptor Capital. New backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Inspovation Ventures, a... |
Ubertesters Makes Beta Testing Mobile Apps Easier, Will Offer Crowdsourced On-Demand Testers Soon | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | When it comes to testing mobile apps, most developers today rely on or to get their betas in the hands of testers. , a relatively new player in this business, challenges these incumbents with a more comprehensive testing solution that offers a wider range of tools for distributing new builds and reporting bugs. It... |
Viddy Rebrands As Supernova, Launches New Slo-Mo Video And Anonymous Group Messaging Apps | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | It’s been a tough year for Viddy. After seeing huge growth on the back of Facebook Open Graph, it — only to reverse course over the following months when the social traffic it was receiving started to sputter out. What followed was a series of , , and as the company tried to re-focus on doing what it did best: bu... |
Apple’s Tim Cook Is Right, Anti-Gay Policies Hurt The Economy | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | The elusive CEO of the richest company in the world, Apple’s Tim Cook, has taken a rare step into the spotlight to urge Congress to ban sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace. In a , Cook argues that passing the is not only a moral imperative, but sound economic policy: “Those who have suffered discrimin... |
The Three Reasons Twitter Didn’t Sell To Facebook | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tried to acquire Twitter not once but twice, through official channels and via co-founder Jack Dorsey. The details of the efforts are revealed in Nick Bilton’s new book . I’ll have a full review of the book soon, but I found one passage in particular worth noting. It was late October of 2008... |
AetherPal, Software That Lets Mobile Carriers Remotely Support Your Smartphone, Grabs $6M Series A | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | In a world where consumers are just now beginning to understand how little privacy they have online and on their various connected devices, a company like , whose pre-loaded software allows mobile carriers remote access to your smartphone may initially give you pause. But for AetherPal, its purposes are not surveillan... |
Jeff Bezos’ Wife And Co-Workers Call Out Brad Stone’s Amazon Book As Inaccurate…On Amazon | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Amazon was one of the first retail websites to allow negative reviews of the products that they sold to appear right in the listing. This revolutionary practice which has been mimicked earth-wide at this point was one item focused on in Brad Stone’s recent book . The book, which I found very , was released last mont... |
Hasty Rebrands As Zesty, Launches In San Francisco To Convert Your Local Chinese Joint Into A Healthy Delivery Option | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 4 | Back in June, we to , a new player in the burgeoning on-demand food-delivery market. What set it apart from startups like Postmates, as well as major incumbents like Seamless and Grubhub, is a commitment to serving up only healthy options for its hungry customers. But back then the mobile-first healthy food service ... |
Watch Google’s Eric Schmidt Call NSA Spying “Outrageous” and “Perhaps Illegal” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 4 |
Google’s Eric Schmidt didn’t pull any punches in a about the National Security Agency, which supposedly . “It’s really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true. The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its... |
With An Eye For International Growth, Twitter Sharpens Its Focus In India | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | One of the persistent themes in pre-IPO Twitter’s filings is that the company has more users outside of the U.S., but when it comes to making money, that shifts drastically — an issue problematic enough that Twitter spells it out in the prospectus as a warning about its business. Today, however, the company — a sig... |
Microsoft’s Hardware Team Went Through Nearly 200 Controller Designs For Its New Xbox One Console | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox One console is the company’s vision for living room entertainment for the next half decade. Today at GigaOm’s Roadmap conference in San Francisco, Carl Ledbetter, who led the industrial design of the console, discussed how it came to fruition. The design of the new console, according to Led... |
Ahead Of Its Public Debut Wednesday, Wix Prices IPO At $16.50 Per Share, With Valuation Near $800M | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | IPO season is in full swing, with , , , and representing just a few of the names to file or begin trading in recent weeks. Of course, the main attraction this season is Twitter and its long-awaited public offering, which finally rolls into town November 6th. Twitter isn’t the only company slated to join the list... |
Twitter Book Offers Singular, But Fascinating Narrative Of Invention | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | The distillation of one human life into a few hundred pages is a task herculean enough to trip up even seasoned biographers. Expanding that to include four co-founders and a company with as explosive a history as Twitter’s is begging for disaster. A new book called , from New York Times reporter Nick Bilton attempts t... |
TV Discovery Startup i.TV Acquires GetGlue In Second-Screen App Mashup | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Provo, Utah-based video discovery startup has acquired , we’ve learned, as consolidation in the market for second-screen or companion TV apps continues. The acquisition, which is expected to be announced soon, marks a bit of an inglorious exit for GetGlue, which had raised $24 million since being founded and had an ... |
In Legal Dispute With People+, CrunchBase Admits It May Need To Learn More About Creative Commons | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Our colleagues at CrunchBase found themselves in the spotlight this morning when about their legal dispute with a startup called Pro Populi over its app . Now the CrunchBase team has responded , making the case for why it was going after People+ and also acknowledging that it may have more to learn about how it can... |
Inside Jobs: How Pinterest’s Top Engineering Exec Really Works | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | We in the tech press are great at covering what it’s like to be a startup founder. But the world does not live by entrepreneurs alone. One big reason that companies are so keen to tout is because new money enables them to hire more staff — the people who build stuff, who make things happen, who really make the tech i... |
Apple Employs ‘Warrant Canary’ To Warn Users Of Future Compliance With Patriot Act Info Requests | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act is one of the of US law. Section 215 of the act allows for court orders, which can be made secret, to allow the government to collect data that relevant to a government investigation. The big exception most take to the section is that it than a ‘probable cause’ warrant. Under S... |
PCH International’s Highway 1 Is Looking For A Few Good Hardware Startups | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | , an incubator/accelerator run by Brady Forrest and underwritten by electronics powerhouse PCH International, is beginning its Spring Applications process and will close applications after TC’s Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas. “Our goal remains the same: to teach startups how to be hardware companies,” said Forrest. ... |
Founder Stories: MongoDB’s Dwight Merriman On His Own Style Of Serial Entrepreneurship | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | There are founders, and then there are founders. is a rare breed of founder. A serial entrepreneur who has helped co-found and lead companies such as , , , and . And, as if that weren’t enough, his latest endeavor could be just as big, if not bigger, than the ones before it. Merriman is one of the main brains b... |
Apple Files With U.S. Government For More Information Request Transparency As It Releases First Report | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Today, Apple has released its first , detailing exact numbers of account information and data requests internationally. The report highlights how restrictive the rules are for Apple in the US, as only ranges of 1,000 are represented there. In conjunction with this report, Apple has joined other companies like Dropbox,... |
Digg Gives Videos Prime Placement With New Digg Video Site | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | , a service devoted to helping users find and share the most interesting content around the web, has now more formally expanded into video, the company announced today. With the launch of , Digg will break out the most popular video content found online, giving it its own high-level section on Digg.com. On the new sit... |
Corporate Venture Investors Starting To Look A Lot More Like Private VCs | Mark Lennon | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Corporate venture capital has always been dubiously titled ‘dumb money’, supposedly less interested in and only willing to make bets on strategically aligned startups. CVC investing, however, has grown significantly over the past few years and many leading tech companies are diversifying their investments by operatin... |
New App Lets You Unlock Your Mac By Knocking On Your iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Can your mobile phone become a replacement for manually typing in a password? That’s the promise of a new application called , launching today, which uses an iPhone paired with a Mac desktop or laptop computer to log you in to your locked machine. The system takes advantage of the newer low-energy Bluetooth technology... |
Don’t Compare The Brazilian Spying Case To The NSA’s Mass Surveillance Efforts | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Earlier today a Brazilian newspaper that ABIN, the top intelligence agency in that country, has employed low-tech spying techniques on foreign diplomats. This is sticky for the country as it has been intensely critical of the NSA and its practices of mass surveillance the world around. If the NSA is spying, and ABIN ... |
FoxNews.com Seemingly Hacked (Or Someone Just Screwed Up Big Time) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Whoops! Looks like someone found their way into FoxNews.com’s CMS (or an intern pushed an old test page live.) While it’s still not 100% clear what happened here, our tips inbox just went ablaze as people rushed to point out that something… strange was going on over at FoxNews.com. “Weeeeeeeee,” pronounced the headline... |
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Google+ Adds Restricted Communities In An Effort To Court Business Users | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Many businesses have now adopted tools like Yammer or Podio, but Google+ also wants a piece of this social enterprise action. While Google’s social network started courting enterprise users by adding and a number of other business features, it’s going by launching restricted communities. This adds an extra layer ... |
Google Analytics Adds Speed Suggestions Report | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | Google loves fast websites, and for a long time now, its tool has been an easy way to surface potential speed bumps in a site’s design and setup. This tool, however, always lived in a relatively obscure area of Google’s Developer site, so to give it a bit more exposure, Google has now . There, Analytics users can no... |
Competitive Ruling Will Bring New Generation Of Swiss-Made Smartwatches | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | The Swatch Group has long been the primary movement supplier to the majority of Swiss (and non-Swiss) watch manufacturers. These movements — essentially the guts of the watch — have powered 60 percent of the world’s watches in the past decade. That’s about to end. , the Swiss competition commission, has required Swatch... |
The TechCrunch Boston Pitch-Off Is A Week Away | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 5 | It’s been a long time coming but the TechCrunch Boston Pitch-Off is almost here. We’ve picked 20 start-ups to compete on stage and the judges are ready to rock. Now all we need is you. Tickets cost $5 and that includes some booze and lots of time to network and speak to TechCrunch editors. It’s important to hunt us dow... |
Chippy Is A Fish & Chip Shop Simulator For iOS That Puts The Fun Into Deep-Fat Frying | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | Simulation video games are often purposefully, gloriously mundane. But they can also make the quotidian highly entertaining. And that’s certainly true of this U.K.-made example of the genre. Meet: , a fish & chip shop simulator game for iOS that’s plenty of fun to play — partly because its subject matter is so spectac... |
Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups | Aileen Lee | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Why do investors seem to care about “billion dollar exits”? Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies. Plus, traditional venture funds have grown in si... |
Delta And JetBlue Now Let You Use Your Gadgets During Taxi, Takeoff And Landing | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | It’s been a long time since flying was fun (unless you are reading this on the of a 747, of course). This week, however, things got a bit more bearable thanks to the that airlines can now allow their passengers to keep their gadgets on – in airplane mode – during taxi, takeoff and landing. The first two airlines to... |
Gillmor Gang: Dynamic Clusters | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — move further and further toward the Golden Age of Push Notification. What some see as a fragmented sea of apps, others see as a ripe opportunity to unify notifications as the successor to email, social streaming to the core... |
Dear Google, What’s Wrong With You? | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | Dear Google: What’s wrong? I ask because last weekend, while in San Francisco, I asked Google Maps for “hot chocolate mission” — and was promptly directed to an ARCO station in Fremont, 40 miles away. Similarly, last month I searched for “coffee” while in the Embarcadero Center, one of the denser coffee hotspots in Ame... |
Women 2.0, A Media Company Built Around Female Entrepreneurship, Gears Up For Las Vegas | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | Over the past few years, has become one of the most reliable places to find stories from female entrepreneurs, successful and otherwise. It has also, according to co-founder and CEO Shaherose Charania, become a profitable business. That’s particularly surprising since the Women 2.0 site doesn’t run any advertising. N... |
Snowden Is Not Going To Work At VKontakte | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | Despite having a very public job offer handed to him , Edward Snowden will not be joining Russian social networking website (VK), its founder Pavel Durov has confirmed to TechCrunch. Contrary to that Snowden’s lawyer announced Snowden’s employment at VK yesterday, Durov writes that and rumors are untrue. In fact,... |
Meet Mobile Incubator Tandem’s New Class Of Startups — Or Rather, Two Thirds Of It | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Mobile startup accelerator is unveiling its fall 2013 class of three startups, who will each receive mentorship, office space, and $200,000 in funding. Co-founder Doug Renert (pictured) told me that Tandem will start accepting larger class sizes next year, following the raising of its third fund (which, according to ... |
11 Or 12 Things I Learned About Life From Day Trading Millions Of Dollars | James Altucher | 2,013 | 11 | 2 | I was a day trader for many years, and it almost killed me. I made money by making profits on my own money and also taking a percentage of the profits for the people I traded for. I traded up to $40 million or $50 million a day at my peak. I did this from 2001 to 2004. I learned about day trading but I also learned a l... |
Umeng, The “Flurry of China”, Confirms Its Acquisition By Alibaba | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Umeng, the analytics provider that has collected data from 180,000 apps and 590 million active devices throughout China, confirmed that it was acquired by Alibaba. The company is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese e-commerce giant, which is reportedly on its way toward Linda Jiang, who heads business deve... |
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