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Pinterest Launches ‘Place Pins’ To Help Pinners Plan Their Trips | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Pinterest released a new set of tools for users that would help them “explore” and share the things around them. At an event with 150 “Pinners” (and an untold number of journalists) at Pinterest HQ in San Francisco, CEO Ben Silbermann announced that the company would introduce new ways to plan trips. “We’re excited to ... |
Android App Marketplace 91 Wireless CEO Joe Wu Speaks For First Time About $1.9 Billion Acquisition By Baidu | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | After his company, Android app marketplace 91 Wireless, was acquired by search giant Baidu for $1.9 billion in the largest deal in the history of the Chinese Internet, CEO Joe Wu says he is busy with the Baidu integration and also wants to help startups by becoming an angel investor and mentor to other entrepreneurs. ... |
With $2.4M From Atlas, 500 Startups & More, Colingo’s Live Online School Aspires To Teach The World English | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Like clockwork, today brings yet another entrant into the fast-growing and noisy language learning space. Just last night we told you , which is putting a live, interactive spin on language education. This morning, joined Verbling and others in this mission — to take on tired incumbents like Rosetta Stones and tackl... |
Dropbox-Rival Box Is Raising $100M In New Funding At A $2B Valuation | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Enterprise cloud file storage firm Box is raising an additional $100 million in capital at a valuation of around $2 billion. A filing with the State of Delaware was first . We’ve heard from sources that Box is indeed raising a new round, at a $2 billion-plus valuation. The company raised $125 million in June of 2012 a... |
In Case You Thought BuzzFeed Needed More GIFs, The Site Launches A GIF Feed Sponsored By Google+ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Do you sometimes read and think, “This is great, but why is all this text getting in the way of the funny GIFs?” If so, there’s a perfect new section for you, called . It’s actually not a standard editorial page but ratherof a promotional campaign sponsored by Google+ as a way to show off , which creates GIFs. (Thi... |
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TOMS Founder Blake Mycoskie On Turning The One-For-One Charity Model Into A Platform | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | In a way, TOMS’ latest web launch turns the company into a platform — a concept that should be quite familiar to anyone in the tech sector. The TOMS Marketplace is a one-stop-shop that brings together hundreds of “socially conscious products” from 30 different companies. The idea, Mycoskie said, is to encourage peo... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Moto G’s Big Battery, Moto X Financing And Google Wallet Card | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | This week, me and Chris Velazco talk about using the Moto G for a prolonged period, Motorola trying to attract more Moto X shoppers with no-money-down deals, and Google going after shopper activity with a . We have a grand old time, and for once a mid-market phone is the talk of the town, which is actually refreshing.... |
TaskRabbit Takes Its Errands Marketplace To London For Its First Move Outside The U.S. | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | , the U.S. startup that runs a marketplace for people who need help with short-term work and errands, is hopping over the pond for its first international city launch. On Thursday, it will open for , starting with 50 Taskers ready to take on your every need in the areas of Christmas-related errands, cleaning and handy... |
Google’s Cerf Says “Privacy May Be An Anomaly”. Historically, He’s Right. | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | One of the original architects of the Internet wants to remind us that privacy is a relatively new concept. “Privacy is something which has emerged out of the urban boom coming from the industrial revolution,” Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and a lead engineer on the Army’s early 1970’s Internet prototype, ARPANE... |
Ribbon Is Building A Peer-To-Peer Payments For Consumers, No App Or Account Required | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Payments startup , which launched last year with a focus on making it easier to accept payments online across websites, blogs and social media services like Facebook and Twitter, is expanding in a new direction. The company is now working to develop a person-to-person payments service that will allow users to send mon... |
Microsoft Now Sells T-Shirts That Claim Google’s Chrome Steals Your Data | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Microsoft has t-shirts, hats, mugs, and sweatshirts that bear slogans from its Scroogled campaign that needles Google as bad on privacy. I confirmed with the company that the clothing line was released today. It’s more than cheeky. Here’s one of the offered shirts, bearing a statement that you can also get on a mug i... |
Coin, Kicking Credit Cards To The Curb, Answers A Few Questions | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | electronic credit card that stores multiple cards on one Bluetooth device, made a big splash last week . Turns out, people not only want to buy more Coins but they want to know more about Coin, too. That said, the company is responding to consumer feedback, announcing a number of features that will be available in th... |
Windows Phone Now Sees 10M Transactions And 500 New Apps Daily, Has Served 3B Total Downloads | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Today , bringing two applications to Microsoft’s smartphone venture that it has long lacked. The platform tallies 10 million app transactions each day, or 300 million per month. That’s up from 9 million per day in September, and 6.66 million per day in June. According to the company, 500 new Windows Phone applications... |
Tumblr for iOS 7 Sharpens A Great Design Without Diluting It, And Brings Focus Onto Activity Stream | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Today, Tumblr is releasing its redesigned client for iPhone and iPad, bringing along a completely refreshed look and feel for iOS 7. The redesign, unlike some others to come out of Apple’s big shakeup, manages to maintain the core of what makes Tumblr so attractive to its millions of users. The new Tumblr app will look... |
The Great Instagram For Windows Phone Photo Taking Controversy Explained | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | Instagram made it onto the Windows Phone platform today as a beta and immediately, everyone lost their mind. You see, the Instagram app for Windows Phone defaults to an in-app screen that shows you the photos you have already taken. You can click on a little button to take a photo, but you are then scooted out of the a... |
After 15 Years Of Whipping The Llama’s Ass, Winamp Shuts Down | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | If you had a PC and you listened to MP3s in the late 90s, chances are you managed your playlists with . Since then, Nullsoft sold Winamp to AOL (the parent company of TechCrunch) and online music has changed quite a bit, but there was always something reassuring about the fact that Winamp was still hanging in there.... |
Google Takes You Through Middle-Earth, Providing Both An Eagle- And A Hobbit’s-Eye View | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVvMGD8LNL0&w=640&h=360] Google has launched an ambitious Chrome experiment today, in . It’s an interactive updated version of those great hand-drawn maps Tolkien included in his print edition of the works upon which these movies are based, that provides a guided tour of Middle-... |
Google Wallet Invades Your Physical One With A New Prepaid Debit Card | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 20 | For a while there a physical Google Wallet card seemed like the stuff of rumors, and then it looked like another project lost to the ages when former Wallet chief Osama Bedier (who purportedly pushed the concept) officially resigned from his post earlier this year. Larry Page’s disapproval of the card after a buggy pre... |
KlearGear Goes Into Social Media Lockdown After It Charges Customers For Posting Bad Reviews | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | KlearGear, a sort of for folks who don’t value good web design, is in trouble. The rose to prominence when they charged a customer $3,500 for posting mean social media commentary. After unleashing the righteous anger of the Internet the company has protected its and closed in response to repeated snark attacks.... |
With A Focus On International Adoption, Uber Integrates PayPal As An In-App Payments Option Via New Mobile SDKs | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Armed with from Google Ventures and TPG, is making a big change to its payments structure that could help adoption and transactions internationally. Uber is making PayPal a payments option, leveraging a new mobile SDK for both Android and iOS that the payments giant is releasing in Q1. With the PayPal integration a... |
(Mostly) Believe The Bitcoin Hype | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | According to Mt. Gox hit a high of $900 in the past few hours, something that even the frothiest of supporters will agree is ludicrous. This is a bubble and it won’t be pretty when it pops. That said, I would argue but ignores the platform’s potential as a weath transfer medium. In short, what is happening now is i... |
Instacart Eyes 10 New US Markets For 2014 While Its Relationship With Trader Joe’s Remains On Hold | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Grocery delivery service recently , marking its first expansion outside of the Bay Area. Despite self-described strong unit economics and a service that is quite popular in its home market, the company was slow to expand geographically. Before the Chicago move, if you asked Instacart why, their answer was simple: Th... |
Facebook Expands Its Definition Of Small Business Pages, Says It Now Has 25M Of Them | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Facebook is tweaking the way it counts up the small and medium businesses that have a presence on the social network. Why the change? Well, it increases the count. Dan Levy, who leads Facebook’s small and medium business team, told me there are now 25 million Facebook Pages for SMBs, and 1 million of those businesses ... |
To Mini Or To Air, That Is The iPad Question | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Pop quiz, hot shot. You walk into an Apple Store to buy the new iPad. But there are two new iPads. The iPad Air and the new iPad mini. You can only buy one. What do you do? The new retina iPad mini is great. It’s everything you loved about the first iPad mini, but upgraded in the two most important ways: a sharper scr... |
Engadget Makeover Folds In ‘All The Best Things’ About Gdgt As It Fields More Mainstream Readers | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | In just the past couple years, I’ve noticed something: My colleague , who shoots and edits video for TechCrunch TV, has increasingly become one of the most popular people in any room he enters. Anywhere we go on the days we shoot video, whether it’s a startup office or just a pub to grab some lunch, wants to strike ... |
Dropbox Could Be A Bargain At An $8 Billion Valuation | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | According , cloud file storage firm Dropbox is looking to raise an additional $250 million at a valuation of around $8 billion. The news comes on the heels of Pinterest’s massive $225 million round that valued it at $3.8 billion, and endless hype that Snapchat is raising some god-tier amount of money at a valuation of... |
Developers Port 1,000 Unity Apps To The Windows Store, Windows Phone Store In First Four Months | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Today Microsoft announced that there are more than 1,000 games in its Windows Store and Windows Phone Store . On July 22nd this year, Unity off of its support for the platforms. Therefore, in the ensuing 17 weeks, developers have released Unity-based games at a pace of around 58.8 per week, or 8.4 per day. That’s a ... |
Google Pays $17 Million Settlement Over ‘No Harm’ Browser Privacy Violations | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Google to pay $17 million to 37 states for circumventing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser in 2011. Safari blocked tracking cookies by default, but Google overrode the settings. Stanford researchers , leading to a nationwide investigation. New York’s Attorney General wrote an , announcing “nearly $900K fro... |
Less Than A Year Post-Pivot, Payments Platform Spreedly Raises Additional $500K | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Payments platform , which offers customers a credit card vault in the cloud that works with , has just raised an additional $500,000 in seed funding from Emerge.be, bringing its total raise to date to just under a million. The funding comes not even a year after Spreedly’s pivot from a digital subscriptions service i... |
NFL, MLB Threaten To Ditch Broadcast If Aereo Wins In Court | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | In the never-ending court battle between and major network broadcasters seeking to have Aereo shut down, the NFL and MLB are chiming in on the matter. , the MLB and NFL are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against Aereo, threatening to move their programming from free broadcast channels to paid cable networks li... |
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Salesforce Reports FQ3 Revenue of $1.08B And EPS Of $0.09, In Line With Investor Expectations | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Today after the closing bell Salesforce reported its fiscal third quarter 2014 , with revenue of $1.08 billion and earnings per share of $0.09. Investors the firm to earn $0.09 on revenue of $1.06 billion. The company fell more than 3% in regular trading. In after hours, Salesforce is up almost 1%. The company is ri... |
Al Jazeera America’s Bet On Serious News Only Snags 13,000 Daily Viewers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Earlier today, that the newly launched Al Jazeera American cable news channel has very low ratings. For its first few months, the channel has averaged around 13,000 viewers. That’s low, but not zero. The kicker is that the predecessor to what people now call AJAM, Current TV, had a larger average audience of, wait fo... |
Microsoft Research Builds Office Remote, A Tool To Control PC Docs With Your Windows Phone | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Good morning, super troopers. Out fresh this week is a neat little app from Microsoft Research that turns your Windows Phone into a remote to control Office documents on your PC. Dubbed Office Remote (natch), the app lets you run presentations on screen, or on a projector, say, from your smartphone, so that you can wan... |
Amazon Japan Launches Instant Video Service | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Amazon Japan has , with more than 26,000 imported and local films and TV shows for streaming or download. Amazon’s decision to enter the online video market in Japan is interesting for two reasons. For starters, it is entering an already crowded marketplace with several major local competitors. It’s also another sign ... |
Bitcoin $645? Yeah, That’s Totally Reasonable | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency on everyone’s mind, is booming in value. Currently trading around $645 per coin, it has never been worth more, or generated more headlines that I can recall. The two are likely connected. If you can remember April, , spiking to around $275 per coin on the Mt.Gox market. It then fell to the ... |
iPad Mini With Retina Display Review: The Best Tablet On The Market | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | mini for 2013 introduces by far the most oft-requested feature that was missing from the original version: a high resolution Retina display for ultra-sharp rendering of text and images. Apple has added that screen without introducing trade-offs in terms of battery life, size (substantial ones anyway) and portability, ... |
Deeplink.me Brings Twitter Card Support To Mobile Developers Without A Web Presence | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 18 | , an open initiative which encourages app developers to embrace deep linking – that is, linking directly to content inside an application from anywhere on the web or mobile – is today for Twitter Cards. This means app developers who don’t currently have a web presence are now able to take advantage of Twitter’s abili... |
MetaPack Gets $33M From Index To Help Businesses Beat Amazon In The Delivery Dept | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | We’re entering the peak season for shopping, and along with it a big rush on e-commerce services and getting packages before the 25th. Timely news, then, that , a London-based provider of delivery management technology, is picking up a round of £20 million ($33 million). The funds will be used to take MetaPack interna... |
Search Data Points To Stronger Launch For Surface 2 Than Its Predecessor | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | The Surface 2 appears to be easily besting the consumer interest that its predecessor, the Surface RT, engendered during its release in late 2012. In fact, the Surface 2 is now the most-searched-for, single device among the larger Microsoft line of tablet hybrids. Here is the Google Trends for Search data regarding the... |
Gaming’s Next Revolution Will Be Live Streamed, And The PS4 Has A Nice Lead | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | This holiday season, only one of the two major next-gen consoles will feature an out-of-the-box game-streaming solution: Sony’s PlayStation 4. And that streaming feature taps into some powerful trends that should act as an ambassador for the hardware and Sony’s online network. If you’re not familiar with the feature, i... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: We Give Thanks To BBM, Custom ROMs, And… Yoga? | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Holiday weeks tend to be a little quiet, but there’s always going on in the world of Android to dig into. This time around, though, Darrell and I roped in Daniel Bader and our very own Natasha Lomas to liven things up before it goes quiet for a few days. And I daresay we pulled it off nicely. Oh, but you want detai... |
23andMe CEO Responds To Customers, Calls The FDA “An Important Partner” | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | After releasing a brief statement when the FDA’s decision to block the sale of 23andMe’s home DNA testing kits was made public, the company’s CEO Anne Wojcicki has sent a letter to her customers further explaining their position relative to the ban and the government agency that oversees and regulates medical devices a... |
Obamacare’s Online Enrollment For Small Biz Delayed | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | In an era of Google Glass, Siri, and Snapchat, small businesses will still have to enroll for some new health insurance plans by paper or phone. The White House admitted that on-going problems with the federal e-commerce website, healthcare.gov, the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Exchange until Nov 2014... |
Keen On… The Future of Money: Kickstarter and the Bitcoin Climax | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Having over $37,000 on Kickstarter to make a TV show about the future of money, knows a thing or two about both social and financial value. “I ate my own dogfood,” she explained why she used Kickstarter – which she intriguingly describes as an “ATM to tap our social capital” – to finance a pilot for her TV show. ... |
Microsoft Publishes Sexist Form Letter To Help Dudes Convince Women To Let Them Buy An Xbox One | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Today Microsoft released a essentially created for men to send to women, encouraging their partners to let them buy an Xbox One console, as the new device will be great for both of them. The letter, which can be customized slightly, is incredibly bad, playing to ridiculous male and female gender stereotypes. It presu... |
Facebook Testing A ‘Save For Later’ Feature, Chasing That Engagement Carrot | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Facebook is looking at implementing an Instapaper- or Pocket-like “Save for Later” feature, according to . There’s no offline access at the moment, however, so it seems more like a way to try to drive better engagement and click-through rates for stuff shared by users on the network than anything else. The implementat... |
Betaworks Is Closing On $20 Million, Its First Raise In Over Three Years | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | New York City-based technology studio, , home to Digg, Instapaper, Dots, Bitly, Chartbeat, and many other products and services, is raising $20 million in new capital – news that betaworks CEO John Borthwick last Friday, in case you missed it. The company is raising $10 million in fresh capital, while the other $10 ... |
Nokia Controls 90% Of The Windows Phone Market, As Its Lumia 520 Continues To Impress | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Ahead of the formal transfer of Nokia’s hardware business to Microsoft in exchange for a few dollars, a new report out today details how dominant the Finnish handset company is in the Windows Phone market. According to , Nokia now controls 90 percent of the Windows Phone market. That’s to say that 9 out of 10 Windows ... |
Paygarden’s Platform Lets You Finally Redeem Those Unused Gift Cards For Good And More | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | After , former Y Combinator partner Aaron Iba is at work launching his next project. After getting frustrated with all of the unused gift cards he would rack up over the holidays, he started Paygarden. It’s a way for businesses that the original gift card provider to accept the cards as an alternative form of paymen... |
Live Nation Buys Mobile Startup Meexo, Courtesy Of Acquisition Marketplace Exitround | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Live music giant is announcing today that it has acquired , a startup that in 2011. The companies connected through , a website that . Co-founder and CEO Jacob Mullins (a former colleague of mine from my time at VentureBeat) told me that , but this is the first time he’s been given permission to . The financia... |
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Meet Omakase, The Charity That Wants To End The Tech Industry’s Giving Problem | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | The tech industry is one of the in the economy today. It’s where lots of jobs are being created and lots of money is being made. But there’s one notable area in which the tech sector lags in comparison to other well-performing industries: Philanthropy. The average salary of Silicon Valley tech professionals is . So... |
Clumsy Ninja Took A While To Get Here, But It’s A Terrific Demonstration Of The A7’s Power | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | An app that was demoed at Apple’s iPhone 5s launch just got its official release last week, and despite the wait, proves a solid game that really demonstrates the power of Apple’s new A7 processor. It’s part virtual pet, part RPG, part tech demonstration, but it turns out that’s a very addictive combination. I played... |
Microsoft Brings Xbox Video To The Web Ahead Of Windows Phone, Forgets HD Playback | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Happy pre-fat day, Super Troopers. Today Microsoft brought , meaning that if you use the service on your Xbox or Windows 8.1 device, you can access your content on other machines. The downside? There is no HD playback, which will disappoint many. The easy rebuttal to that is that people who use Xbox Video likely have ... |
Twitter Surveys Users On Live TV Viewing, Second Screen Habits As It Pulls Thread On Television Features | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | Twitter fielded a survey to a subset of its users yesterday about their live TV viewing habits. The survey began by asking age and gender info, then asked whether a user had watched live TV on Monday night. Judging from chatter on Twitter, the survey ended if you didn’t say you watched any live TV. But, if you did, the... |
Report: NSA Considered Revealing Porn Habits To Discredit Radicals | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 27 | I feel like when people freak out about the unknown threat of mass government surveillance, they’re secretly worried a clandestine agent will reveal their naughty web-surfing habits to friends and family. Today, that fear was revealed. At least for suspected terrorists. The Huffington Post* on new top-secret document... |
“It’s Just A Big iPod Touch” | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Over the weekend, I got two emails from my mother. The most interesting aspect of them was the sign-off at the bottom: “Sent from my iPad”. This stood out to me for two reasons: First, I’ve now been using the iPad Air for the past couple of weeks, and thinking a lot about the state of the product. Second, this is my mo... |
Messaging App Line Now Brings In Nearly $100M A Quarter, But No Official Word On An IPO | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | , the messaging app that blew up in Japan over the past two-and-a-half years, is in revenue a quarter. The app, , said it brought in 9.9 billion yen ($99.9 million) in net sales for the quarter ending in September. Overall revenues, which include the amount that Line has to pay out to the app stores and developers, ... |
CustomInk Nabs $40 Million In Funding From Revolution Growth, Adds Ted Leonsis To Its Board | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Custom apparel company just raised a whole lot of money, bringing on $40 million from , the investment fund from Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, and Donn Davis. Along with the funding, Leonsis will join the company’s board as it seeks to expand and go after new opportunities. This isn’t your usual tech startup funding stor... |
Pinterest Launches Japanese Version 18 Months After Rakuten Investment | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | The is now live as the site ramps up its global expansion. The launch comes became an investor in Pinterest. For the first time ever, with Japanese Pinterest, Rakuten login is available on a non-Rakuten product. Japanese users can log onto the site using , its version of which gives access to Rakuten’s online st... |
Microsoft’s Windows Store Averaged 1.7M Daily Downloads In October, Up Nearly 40% From June | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | According to information Microsoft provides to developers, the Windows Store marketplace for applications on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 racked up roughly 1.7 million daily downloads, both free and paid, in October, a 38.56% increase since June. Microsoft’s dataset, located on the company’s developer portal, indicates th... |
Apple, The Hyperion Ion Cannon And Why Future iPhones Could Have A Sapphire Screen | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Late last week we published a piece about to manufacture sapphire crystal, and why it might want to own over $570M worth of that production up front. Today, by connecting a few more dots, we can piece together how it could overcome the pricing and production volume barriers in order to use the material in smartphone ... |
The PUC Crowdfunding Project Comes To A Close, Bringing MIDI To All The Things | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | The is a clever little device that converts older MIDI systems into wireless powerhouses, allowing you to connect to iPads and the like with one small disc of electronics. Zivix, the maker of the , is closing their . The company has been working on unique musical devices for the iPad for most of the year and are ve... |
Microsoft Didn’t Get Its Math Wrong In That Excel Billboard | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Scandal! Intrigue! Can Excel actually add? Yesterday, AppleInsider that Microsoft appears to have made a calculation error in a billboard touting the fact that its Surface tablets ship with the Office productivity set of applications. A math typo in Excel while shouting that Excel is bundled with your new hardware? T... |
Nathan Richardson Departs AOL, ‘770 Live’ Program Put On Hold | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Nathan Richardson, who (the company’s live video initiative) just a few months ago, has departed, . A spokesperson for AOL, which owns TechCrunch, declined to comment on the status of individual employees, but he confirmed another aspect of the Politico report, that the 770 Live From AOL program (not the broader liv... |
This Is Apple’s New Mothership Of An HQ | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | The most realistic and detailed images yet of Apple’s new spaceship headquarters have just been published in an awesome piece on . The latest images of the 2.8 million square-foot campus show an expansive cafeteria, an underground parking garage, and a subterranean auditorium where forthcoming Apple products will be u... |
Confirmed: Fab COO To Exit As Company Looks To Winnow Down ‘Top Heavy’ Management Structure | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | , the design-oriented e-commerce site, is indeed seeing the departure of its chief operating officer , a person with knowledge of the situation has confirmed to TechCrunch. Ferreira will be transitioning out of her role at the company in the coming weeks, and is slated to depart at the end of the calendar year. Word o... |
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Humble Bundle Goes Head To Head Against Steam With The New Humble Store | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Slowly but surely, is expanding its offering to cover all your indie gaming needs. After the indie bundles and the smaller , the startup just opened the . As the name suggests, the new store allows you to purchase individual games just like you would on or — but there’s a twist. There are only nine games curren... |
Print-On-Demand Network Print.io Debuts Hellopics, A Shutterfly Alternative That Competes On Price And Selection | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Bootstrapped startup has been quietly serving as the print supplier for a number of larger companies for a year now, including (now “Twenty20”), and others. But today the company is breaking out on its own with a new consumer-facing application called , which will serve as both a testbed and demo for what Print.... |
American Express Teams Up With Mightybell To Connect Small Businesses With Each Other Locally | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | While there are plenty of opportunities for small businesses and merchants to advertise, market and even sell online, there aren’t many platforms that allow them to actually communicate with each other by neighborhood and share best practices. the platform that allows communities to learn and share together in groups... |
itBit Raises $3.25 Million To Launch A New Global Bitcoin Exchange For Institutional Investors | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | There are a today, but a new startup called hopes to legitimize the market by providing bank-like security and compliance. This newest Bitcoin exchange has raised $3.25 million in a funding round co-led by Canaan Partners and RRE Ventures, with participation from Liberty City Ventures, as well angel investors s... |
Easy Drum Machine App Keezy Lets You Tap To Record, Tap Again To Play | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | With , making music doesn’t require a lot of work, know-how, or talent. This dead-simple drum machine app lets you hold down one of its eight buttons to record a sound with your device’s microphone, and tap that button again to play it. “Beatbox with your fingers” on the free new iOS to create fun little jingles, ha... |
Senator McCain Calls For The Resignation Or Firing Of the NSA’s General Alexander | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Sen. John McCain is a stalwart of the Senate, a former candidate for president, prisoner of war and fighter pilot. As such, his voice is among the most prominent of the American Congress, and when he speaks, foreign powers listen in order to get a feel of the wind of our political climate. So his words matter. Sen. McC... |
Email Productivity Startup Yesware Makes Its First Acquisition, Buys San Francisco-Based File-Sharing Service Attachments.me | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | , an email productivity startup for salespeople, which just this fall raised an additional , has made its first acquisition. The company is acquiring the email file-sharing startup , which is also officially as of today. The entire five-person team from Attachments.me is joining Boston-based Yesware, but will remai... |
On Xbox One, SkyDrive Will Put On A Show With Your Stored Videos And Photos | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | Today that SkyDrive, its online file storage product, will display user photo and video content onto their televisions via the new Xbox One console in a more attractive fashion than on the preceding Xbox 360 devices. SkyDrive already has a presence on the Xbox ecosystem, with an application that did allow for the vie... |
Stackdriver Adds Automation Tools And Endpoint Checks To Its AWS Monitoring Solution | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 11 | , a monitoring service for Amazon Web Services, is adding a number of to its platform today. Instead of just getting alerts when there are issues, users can now also decided how to fix these without having to manually start and stop servers. In addition, Stackdriver is also today the ability to monitor endpoints li... |
How To Sell Your Business And Make And Lose Millions | James Altucher | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | First I totally gave up. I thought there was no way to sell my web services business. It started when I was in the offices of Loud Records, run by Steve Rifkind. My company, Reset, was doing websites for the Wu-Tang Clan and other Loud artists. It was 1997. Ol’ Dirty Bastard would call me on the phone sometimes. Mobb D... |
Gillmor Gang Live 11.29.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
IronSource Announces KudosKits, Allowing App Users To Show Their Appreciation With Money | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Israeli company has come up with a new way for developers to ask their users for money or other forms of support. Chief Design Officer Dan Greenberg told me that the product, called the , evolved from an experiment conducted with the iOS app , which was initially developed by Fried Cookie and distributed by IronSou... |
Agent Makes Your Smartphone A Little Bit Smarter | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | You can’t teach an old phone new tricks. Hah! Just kidding. Of course you can. This isn’t 1998. Agent is an app that aims to make your Android smartphone just a little bit smarter, using all of your phone’s sensors to detect what you’re up to and tweak your settings automatically. Driving? It’ll automatically respond t... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: PS4, Xbox One, And The Sense 3D Scanner | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers. What are you thankful for? My list is short, but sweet: I’m thankful for you guys, gaming consoles, and 3d scanners. This week, on a very grateful episode of the TechCrunch Gadgets podcast, we look into the differences between the and the , the latest generations of console gaming... |
Kiind Launches An API For Its Digital Gift Card Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Just in time for the holidays, virtual gift card service today announced that it now offers an API, which will allow third-party vendors to hook right into its services and to create gift cards from their own systems. The company also today said that it has added Nike and Apple’s iTunes as gift card options to its st... |
Google’s Android 4.4 Update Seems To Hurt Video Playback Performance On Nexus 7 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Google’s Android 4.4 KitKat update is rolling out to Nexus devices globally, and I was eager to get it on my Nexus 7 tablet. Turns out, it’s possible I should’ve left well enough alone. Immediately after updating (via official, OTA channels), I noticed performance seemed to suffer, and now a study conducted by Finnish ... |
Record-Breaking Black Friday Online Spending Up 19 Percent; Mobile Sales Surge 43 Percent | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | After a in e-commerce spending, Black Friday online sales were up close to 20 percent in 2013 over the same period last year. IBM says that by their counts, sales are record-breaking. The data, from IBM’s Benchmark real-time reporting unit, covers 800 online retailers and millions of transactions. For the day, the av... |
Aardvark Founder Max Ventilla Is Trying To Turn Education On Its Head With AltSchool | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Alice, a single mom living in Daly City, was facing major roadblocks with her public school system. Her five-year-old son was advanced enough to enter first grade instead of kindergarten. And her older son, who was about to enter third grade and had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hated sc... |
Bond, The App For Giving Gifts, Lands On The Web | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Just in time for Black Friday, is bringing its gifting platform after spending a couple of months as a native mobile app. Bond, created by Sonny Caberwal, takes all the heavy lifting out of gift giving, with a large focus on the enterprise and professional gifts. So let’s say you just finished up a big interview at... |
Is Instagram Eyeing Up @instagram.com Email Addresses For Its Users As Part Of A Messaging Service? | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Last week, Om Malik at reported that Instagram was working on a messaging feature to complement its already very-popular social photo app, now with some . Now we’ve caught wind of something that could point to a possible feature on this would-be messaging product: @instagram.com email addresses. A source who works i... |
Shinola’s Runwell Is A Solid Watch With American Pedigree, But You’ll Pay For The Homegrown Factor | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Detroit-based watchmaker is doing something pretty unique: hand-making watches in the United States, right down to the quartz movements contained within. The startup’s founding team includes some who worked for Swiss movement maker Ronda previously, and they built the company by flying in high-tech watchmaking equipm... |
Gift Guide: Be Super-Healthy On A Shoestring Budget | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Are you tired of watching expensive gadgets turn your friends into Abercrombie models? Well, my pudgy popper, we’ve got a holiday gift guide that’ll give you five more ab packs without breaking your piggy bank. It’s well-known that , so a few savvy furniture manufacturers have begun to market chic “standing desks” bol... |
Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | For many years, Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving — marked the start of the holiday shopping rush. But with many ( ) physical stores closed on Thanksgiving, a window of opportunity has emerged for e-commerce sites to push out offers and start selling a day earlier. That has proven to be big business: online sal... |
Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Walmart is about Black Friday and we’re only a couple of hours into the actual day itself. That’s because depressingly, Black Friday has somehow subsumed Thanksgiving Thursday and become the Day That Spans Many Days. Oh well; at least they sold a huge boatload of tablets. Walmart puts its one day sales of those mobil... |
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PingTune Raises $1.6M And Unleashes Messaging App Based Around Music | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | With the success of SnapChat, Line and others, who will own the next big messaging service. Now, we’re not saying it’s necessarily the next big thing, but it is interesting to us that (formerly named Tuneit) has appeared with a service which slices off a fascinating niche of the messaging space with an app for musi... |
CrunchWeek: Snapchat Turns Down $3B, The Justin Bieber-Backed Selfie App, IPOs Are Back | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | In this episode, , and I discussed Snapchat reportedly rebuffing from Facebook, the , an app for taking and sharing selfies that counts Justin Bieber as an investor, and how in a big way. |
Apple Not Impressed That Court-Appointed E-Book Compliance Monitor Made $138,432 In First Two Weeks | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 29 | Apple has issued a to the court-appointed lawyer assigned to monitor its compliance with the decision handed down in its e-book pricing fixing case back in July. The monitor was assigned by the , and has apparently been charging Apple a very high price for his services – he made $138,432 in his first two weeks on th... |
The Lean Hardware Startup: From Prototype To Production | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | If the printing press was about “anyone can read,” the web about “anyone can write,” the hardware ecosystem changed enough to say today “anyone can build.” This idea – that anyone can build – is the cornerstone of the new “lean hardware startup.” Yet, despite successes like , , and , hardware startups continue to ... |
From Static To Suggestive: Nokia’s Earthmine-Powered Vision For The Future Of Maps | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | N No surprise, then, that Nokia is revving up its engines in the location space. Notably, it’s fully integrated the digital mapping giant Navteq — which it acquired way back in 2007, but was running as an independent business up until last year. On its earnings conference call last month it also talked up the prospects... |
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